and the e.u. stock court rules products made in israeli settlements destined for europe carry the made in israel label. i've been fizzling placed to business tesla is set to build its 1st european factory on the outskirts of berlin c.o.v. the mosque announced the plan at an awards ceremony in the german capital for the new gigafactory will produce vehicles power trains and batteries must says tesla chose germany because of the country's reputation for engineering prowess the new plant will create around $10000.00 new jobs and will be faced if the linz new home till late portion. of my colleague rob what is following this along with our financial correspondent chelsea de laney rob starting with you did anyone tell musk about that airport stuff up when it appears he does know about secrecy crux of the little joke about. he said that that construction project will have to happen a little bit quicker than the apple because it's 13 is since they started building but i'm probably going to get well that

also coming off a top e.u. court ruling on labeling products made in the israeli occupied territories sparks controversy. and animal rights activists say the chickens produce and poland's factory farms for. all over europe are overweight and sick. it's time for business on the w.b. and how you know i guess it's good to have you with us investors expected answers to some pressing questions about the future of u.s. trying to trade relations this tuesday as donald trump spoke at the economic club of new york but there were no answers during his speech trump once again attacked china instead saying the country cheated on the u.s. ever since entering the world trade organization he blamed former governments for letting this happen the u.s. president also accused the european union of setting up trade barriers he considers unfair markets went up briefly after the speech even though investors were actually hoping for trump to announce some progress in u.s. china trade talks. and our financial correspondent on wall str

and financed by the e.u. these centers are far away from the places where human and seasons and dignified accommodation is provided for the people who are in bosnia these places are places where many people are saying that they suffer than not they do not feel safe they suffer due to lack of health care of many other things so if that is international funded and eel standards and where the water about the world we're living in and about the e.u. that all these people are dreaming about so much while they're living in the dumpsters because not only will just dump them even the other centers that for me as a boston who survived the war look a lot like a concentration camp so all of that comes to the betty betty serious question and yes local governments do have or some stability but we'll has a much bigger responsibility in all that at the same time i have to add that most of the money that came to boston in a last year and a half or more are coming for the security of the nation. so at the same time when the p

conference call welcome to the program the e.u. singapore free trade agreement goes into effect today now that the long awaited bilateral deals operative the partners will begin to phase out trade barriers it is the e.u.'s 1st trade agreement with a member of the association of southeast asian nations or ozzy on a group of countries in the region that have teamed up to promote economic growth now the deal aims to eliminate most tariffs within the next 5 year exceptions are some fisheries and farm products by for trade and goods alone between the e.u. and singapore amounts to 53000000000 euros annually and it's hoped the agreement will result in a rise of up to 10 per cent in bilateral trade the european union is already singapore's most important export destination for. services and singapore is one of the largest trading partners in southeast asia now let's take a closer look at the matter with kevin heitman eye he's a foreign trade expert at the association of german chambers of industry and commerce good morning to you kevin goo

continuing problem issues as is refusing to let payments go from the e.u. budget under the fine structure after your final report is presented and the final report hasn't been presented well me proud prosecutor dropped the case against mr babich. he published an explanation of his decision half of it was blacked out what has he got to hide what has the government got to hide with this why do you offer also to nations of the public and the black half of it down to the point of that because. a superior prosecutor still lies in the outcome of the not suspicious about this. i'm believe in the independence of our judiciary i don't have any reason to question it you're not. and at the moment to disappear or to the prosecutor is now studying the files and should come up or whether he's going to reconsider the decision or. i think that it is up to prosecution and in a prosecution should have a time to decide. through their 'd internal processes about the case you're all suspicious that 2 weeks after the police are there commended charging someone asked he replaced

the problem with european is asian and the e.u. enlargement process in the west and balk and is the application of the model and we say this was a bit on both sides european officials don't apply as they did in the ninety's for example but also the western balkans leaders tried to escape when they ever day and the kind of rule that would make them follow the line now 1st of all let's agree on the terms you mentioned here a piano zation what is it specifically what values what feature make up the war of the european athens in whose image they are there is have to be remade well it's it's been set up all of the in the beginning of the ninety's and it's still like that night in $93.00 copenhagen create tyria establish are all over law functioning market economy for democracy and within democracy protection of minority rights the problem is that in the western balkans. after 2000. and especially over the past the 78 or 10 years we have of the climb better visible decline in all of these crew so the market is not functioning efficiently

also pointed out that the canada e.u. free trade deal had taken one years to complete and the more complex situation and crucial trade interests mean that a one year time frame for an e.u. u.k. deal would be doubtful. some of the other business stories we're following for you at this hour exports from israel's occupied territories to the e.u. must be clearly labeled as such that's the latest ruling by the european court of justice until now such products were identified with the made in israel tack the court says that could mislead consumers about israel's presence as an occupying power in those territories. lebanon's bank staff have gone on strike complaining of customer aggression and it's the country's unrest the lebanese banking association says it will work with all floridians to prove safe conditions for them to resume work but the union has called on staff to strike until the situation returns to normal. german flag carrier love turns us says it has agreed to arbitration with cabin staff union to full and burning t

e.u. enlargement process is actually doing. something hurting itself so the interest that the european union has on the balkans is actually working on the long ground against european union now the reason i ask you that question was because while the prospect of enlargement in practical terms is very slim many european officials are still talking about this range and in very possessive terms for example the incoming president of the european commission their sole of one that i said just the other day that if the e.u. fails to offer a european perspective to the western balkans then others and she named china russia turkey and even saudi arabia will fill the gap do you think that you can still. count on exclusivity or if you will monogamy on the head of the countries in this region i think is unfair to ask for that no i think it is but that's what i'm on no must go on wanted to express so we have to rethink the whole thing that i think that he didn't say anything more than that and this is very true if dupion union pulls itself

now the e.u. singapore free trade agreement goes into effect today now that the long awaited bilateral deal is operational the partners will begin to phase out trade. it's the e.u.'s 1st trade agreement with a member of the association of southeast asian nations or a group of countries in the in the region that have teamed up to promote economic growth the deal aims to eliminate most arrows within the next 5 years sections of some fisheries and farm products trade in goods alone between the e.u. and singapore amounts to $53000000000.00 euros a year it's hoped the agreement will result in a rise of up to 10 percent in trade the e.u.'s already singapore's most important export destination for services singapore is one of the e.u.'s latest largest trading partners in south east asia now let's take a closer look at the matter with kevin haydn he's with the association of german chambres of industry and commerce and joins us in the studio now kevin this is the 1st race of the u.s. planes with member wh

the e.u. is against capital punishment by leaving these people stateless and stripping their nationality what is that supposed to do wash their hands of the e.u. say ok that's it we have no responsibility these people lived in europe 2030 years they were radicalized here they went there but we stripped them of that we stripped them of their national wrist nationality so it's not our problem no these people are going to be put to death some of them in syria and iraq so what your needs to do is repatriate them in the name of human rights. 3 people have been injured while performing a festival in saudi arabia after being stopped by a man who rushed onto the stage the attack was filmed by a member of the audience which might find the starving to watch the 2 men and

a pretty significant power dynamic shift within that within the e.u. leadership so sort of in the void of of germany's power and in the leadership change within the commission that. was really a position to himself as as the leader of europe so i think and then that sense he's really been filling this role for several months now so it in china he's now speaking for europe if you like and the e.u. wants a level playing field but that goes both ways right. it certainly does and that hasn't really been a big part of this conversation a lot of a lot of these trade negotiations have really focused on what china can be doing to be more open to european investment to american investment but china also has some criticisms of you restrictions on investment here so over the past year the e.u. has been big on screening chinese investment in into the u.s. or into interior out and they can sometimes block mergers block company ownership so i think that hasn't really been a part of these discussions but it could be it could become part of the sessions going forward

the e.u. think of our free trade agreement goes into effect today now that the long awaited bilateral trade deal is operative the partners will begin to phase out trade barriers it is the e.u.'s 1st trade agreement with a member of the association of southeast asian nations or ozzy on a group of countries in the region that have teamed up 'd to promote economic growth of a deal aims to eliminate most terrorists within the next 5 years exceptions are some fisheries and farm products bilateral trade and goods alone between the e.u. and singapore stands at $53000000000.00 euros per year it's hoped the agreement will result in iraq of up to 10 percent in bilateral trade the e.u. is already singapore's most important export destination for services and singapore is one of the e.u.'s margin trading partners in southeast asia earlier i spoke to kevin hyde nice he's a foreign trade expert at the association of german chambers of industry and commerce and i asked him why the world's biggest single mark

the e.u. rules products made in israeli settlements just in the europe carry the made in israel label. and who calls the shots among the brics economies the hosts of this year's summit of the merging markets finds itself ceding to the financial much of the aging. inventors willing let's do business tesla is set to build its 1st european factory on the outskirts of beldin c.e.o. elon musk says tesla chose germany because of the country's reputation for engineering prowess forgetting the fact that bolin still hasn't managed to open its new airport and just as controversial the premium electric car maker has chosen to build in must say these backyard. the location couldn't have been more apt clutching his award for the tesla 3 he learned musk broke the news. that evening with the lawsuits most of you here we've decided to put. the gigafactory europe in the berlin area. the presenter was lost for words. the new factory will create 10000 new jobs but senator for economics was swift to express her d

and in the e.u. in the e.u. specifically they're looking at facebook's online marketplace citing that it is anti-competitive and is saying at facebook's online marketplace citing that it is anti-competitive and is stifling competition in the e.u. they're saying it's killing competition in the online marketplace and competition in the e.u. they're saying it's killing competition in the online marketplace and online classified space in particular so do these people have a case who are online classified space in particular so do these people have a case who. are these competitors who are complaining are they just being sore losers or do they actually have a case here these competitors who are complaining are they just being sore losers or do they actually have a case here where they do have a case on the major competitor we're talking about of course for the facebook marketplace where they do have a case on the major competitor we're talking about of course for the facebook marketplace which we're discussing here i

have she says the e.u. has a stronger economy better pay and a higher standard of living she's currently writing her dissertation and would then like to go to poland to continue study more you go out for whatever reason many people say that things are bad in batteries but why i would like to find the reasons and then decide whether i want to live here or if i prefer another country . bella ruse has historically had close links to russia but it has gradually developed a distinct national identity as indicated by the street signs which are now in belorussian instead of russian. the government's also working to improve ties with the e.u. what arianna would really welcome though is a less autocratic form of leadership in her country. and. i don't have much to do with politics i also don't want to but what's the point if it's people from the top who decide not the public. although parliamentary elections take place on sunday election posters are scarce like here at this small market place in the town of very xen

come up come up with some proposals there us and if it doesn't you i will put up a board the e.u. will put up a board has already said it will if there is a new deal there were billboards so that's why we also would like to see that. comes up with some proposals there are some currently discussed a negotiated we are open to negotiations and this things if things go badly are you seriously telling me that it's worth risking a return to the terrible violence that took place a little more than are there simply to preserve that option use mules what other options. simply the fact that the backstop is not because of protecting the single market is also a way to preserve that there is more important it is also how to preserve the friday agreement was to protect you in the czech republic you have your own problems with the e.u. don't you you're part of the visit group which is known as the kind of awkward squad with poland hungary and slovakia you don't like quotas for irregular migrants you don't like the climate change policies you refused to sign up to the used 20500 carbon goal why.

the european parliament declares a climate emergency e.u. lawmakers pile the pressure on the incoming commission president on the line to keep the would make the bloc climate neutral by 2015 also the program. china condemns the united states for meddling in its domestic affairs after president trump signs a bill supporting hong kong pro-democracy activists beijing promises from countermeasures. and if.

yes they all want to leave the e.u. and believe that only a tory government will deliver that the north of england dissolve has been. where the conservative party. rich. the more affluent people and with bread i genuinely think there's been a huge shift in people's. i do strongly believe the conservative party is going to when. the people of bishop oakland almost all agree they voted for granted and now they want their voices heard before too long if you can order by petitions in london. and syria was very striking we really try to find people that are backing labor but it was very very difficult we nobody wanted to say on camera that they going to vote labor and even in private conversations a lot of people really express their dismay of the current state of the labor party and it really goes to show that traditional education says at least in the north of england changing it was also striking very hard to share both conservative and labor voices in your report say that this election isn't just about braggs and what el

terry attorney miles out of words is standing by to plug into the recent comments out of the e.u. regarding this treating smart technology plus it used to be one of the main concerns among citizens in both the u.s. and abroad but how does each nation stack up later today rick sanchez host of the news with rick sanchez and dr john dombrowski are both on here to measure health care cost around the world we have a jam packed show today so let's get right to it. singapore and the european union announced a free trade agreement between the 2 countries that will take effect later this month a trade deal has been in the works for almost a decade and it scheduled to take effect on november 21st singapore will remove all tariffs on products that are entering the country while the e.u. will remove tariffs on 84 percent of all singapore products that are entering the e.u. within the 1st year and how the the additional 16 percent will be removed over a 3 to 5 year period singapore is the e.u.'s largest trading partner in asia southeast region with a total of bilateral trade of over $58000000.

you know sometimes the role of the e.u. commission is a little overrated of course this is the top job president of the e.u. commission is the top job in the european institutions but she can't just decide what the european union is supposed to do the final say is always with the member states and that's a different institution it's called the e.u. council so for her as she will have to find some compromise that she will have to follow the lead of the member states and if they don't want to do what she says she's going to have a hard time and you know the european union at the moment is very divided between hungary and germany or italy and france they're not all on the same page so even if she has those put top priorities it does not mean that they will be an active on top of that right here in this institution the european parliament it's gotten harder and harder to find majorities after the last elections it's very fragmented and you can see how hard it was for her even to get approved here because she was approved in jul

the german government struggles to find a way around a new e.u. in the all that stands in the way of the controversial north stream 2 gas pipeline . we talked to our political correspondent about the problem and how they hoped to solve it. also coming up 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall many say germany is still divided in terms of its economy we talk to an allergist to find out more. i want to jones evelyn good to have you with us and we begin with china where foreign trade continue to fall in october exports dropped to north point 9 percent compared to the year before while imports plunged 6.4 percent even worse trade with us is down almost 16 percent. now that's in the midst of an ongoing trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies and it's unclear if there's an end in sight one day after china announced an agreement between the 2 governments to roll back trade tariffs reports about opposition from the white house. and while i'm clearing my throat i'm happy to welcome my colleague chelsea delaney at the front for dough in frankf

to lead the e.u. as to the site all the countries at the same call home many brits and needs so late but the problem is going back to the british media this election and i was demonstrating how magnificently british mainstream media oh yeah and that conservative aspect elements and the little elements because instead of talking about 14000000 britons pizza living policy including slow 1000000 children living below the red light what is good is from a jet the conservatives and liberals talking about it's all going about the election they're talking about the wrong things here gentlemen we've run out of time here but i like how we've ended it and i agree with marcus it's the media that's failing us all not just the political class many thanks to my guests in moscow athens and in london thanks to our viewers for watching us here arche see you next time and remember prosthetist. the world is driven by a dream or a. person. dares to think. we dare to ask. to my hardest to or dashboards to care but it. dhan

see the e.u. as something positive opening up opportunities to work and study abroad so those campaigners who want to reverse bricks are trying to get as many young people to vote as possible. so i'm bored of your board of directors that we've been talking about this for 3 years now we're all dead femia underwood has more than 200000 followers on twitter and instagram he tells them that a 2nd referendum can put a stop to gretz it there 26 year old school graduate has put his career on hold to become a full time activist the things people vote for in 2016 are clearly not going to happen they expected more control over their country they're getting less they expected to be richer being made poor they expected us to move on quickly this is dragging on for 3 years like a drug for a decade nobody wants any of these things give us a choice femi has been verbally abused and has received racist comments and threats on social media because of his views on blacks it for him the general election is key only

on the e.u. delegation will now try to seize the opportunity he now heads to beijing where he hopes he can build on the shanghai goodwill with she to address taboos such as the pro-democracy protests in hong kong. these next prized coffee beans approving a stimulant for the economy of indonesian province usually makes headlines for its stricture. fame as a place for coffee tourists to visit. the best coffee in all of indonesia grows high in the mountains 1800 meters above sea level its special location gives ghio arabica strong aroma connoisseurs say it has a perfectly balanced blend of sweetness and acidity. life used to be pretty uneventful in the remote village of takur ghar in sumatra such a province now coffee shops are popping up all over the place the beverage has become so popular that the local agriculture agency is gearing up for a wave of tourists. from up and get the shot that we cooperate with the tourism agency to design a tour package which includes rafting and overnight stays we t

and in the e.u. in the e.u. specifically they're looking at facebook's online marketplace as and in the e.u. in the e.u. specifically they're looking at facebook's online marketplace citing that it is anti-competitive and is stifling competition in the e.u. citing that it is anti-competitive and as stifling competition in the e.u. there's a saying it's killing competition it engine in the market on my mother's market and all those light and lots of. space in particular so these produce all these people have a. lot of. complaint. are they just being sore losers or do they actually have a case here where they do have a case on the major combat are they just being sore losers or do they actually have a case here where they do have a case on the major competitor we're talking about of course for the facebook marketplace are discussing here is out of there we're talking about of course for the facebook marketplace which are discussing here is a craigslist especially in the u.s. but also across the e.u. so the basic c

on abated to thousands of migrants are stuck in bosnia herzegovina living in squalid conditions the e.u. and human rights groups have warned that the makeshift refugee camps are a danger food and medical care are scarce and now the threat of winter is looming and with no heating available at the camps there are worries that the cold weather will be deadly it's a path that sounds of migrants have traveled over the balkans to reach the e.u. but the croatian border is impassable for most making this the end of the road for many who have made it to bosnia herzegovina local and national authorities can't agree on a solution leaving migrants stranded and news ribble conditions and in the town of be hatched the crisis is escalating there asylum seekers are being housed on a former landfill and officials want them to stay put. at least there's a power generator in northern bosnia's boucek migrant camp so abdulla freddy can help those here charge their phones. that what you know. hundreds of men mainly from pakistan and afghanistan have been living here for the past 6 months the site used to be

united kingdom is soon to be going to draw from the e.u. and france and micro sees in this an opportunity to become the indisputed leader of this future e.u. without the u. united kingdom secondly we should not forget that a nato minus the united states and probably minus canada would mean that this would be a military alliance that would buy its weapons mainly from european buckman manufacturing or go france which use of a big weapons producer not as big as the united states or whether there's also at play the fact that without acknowledging it openly that the e.u. in reality wants to. improve its relationship with its neighbor to the east with russia and the whole rhetoric about russia being a dangerous power on the on the loose of cause us in this basically you know whatever cold war rhetoric and we know where they've been and what their truth loss but it's right in there in the 1st cold war so basically there's that at play and so we want to load it just the last point on that why do you think his contention he said that europe is facin

the focus is on one, gordon sondland, head of the e.u. he frequently updated top officials on efforts to convince ukraine to launch investigations the president was demanding. among them, energy secretary rick perry and mick mulvaney, who famously said this about trump's pressure campaign. >> we do that all the time, with foreign policy. i have news for everybody, get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> also released this weekend, a deposition from former top official, tim morrison. he told officials that sondland was operating at the request of the president. republicans trying to shift the blame for mounting trouble away from the president. >> those individuals who leaked this, this is all coming out into public has weakened that relationship. it exposed things that didn't need to be exposed. it would have been better off if this happened behind the scenes. funding would have been restored and the relationship with ukraine would be far better off than it is today. >> the president did not get the messa

ambassador to the e.u. witnesses have said the vulcan song played a key role in trump's unofficial channel to ukrainian government officials trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine unless the country investigated his democratic rival joe biden. well shiver clancy joins us live now from washington d.c. with the latest on this 1st of all she had but what does the testimony this latest testimony reveal. you know it's a funny thing barbara you wait all day for 2 transcripts and 3 suddenly turned up because actually it's slightly superseding the 2 transcripts from the depositions in october suddenly the new york times has come out with a report about gordon sundin having given extra testimony earlier earlier this week i believe it was where he sort of changed just you know but we knew earlier on in his to in his deposition he'd said oh he had no idea there was a quid pro quo all of any sort of allegation of a quid pro quo regarding. get on the ukrainians doing some sort of investigation into corr

as if stretching a pipeline across the baltic sea weren't difficult enough a new e.u. ruling makes it even harder the north stream to pipeline belongs to russian energy monolith gazprom has just the gas it will transport but a new e.u. law bans the pipelines owner from also supplying the gas with one exception if nord stream 2 had been completed early this year the law wouldn't apply it won't be finished until 2020 though so is nordstrom too over germany wants to prevent that the both the pipeline will supply it with 55000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from russia each year that's needed to guarantee german electricity supplies once coal and nuclear energy have been phased out so the government here once its own new law it states the german end of the pipeline has already been completed it merely needs connecting to the undersea stretch for berlin the pipeline as such was completed before the deadline so it doesn't fall under the new e.u. restrictions does that mean the multi-billion euro nord stream to project can be saved berlin might not get away with that as ea

it means the pipeline will not fall under new e.u. regulations next year they would forbid gas prom to supply into because it also owns it but clever berlin politicians have found a fix for the problem. to not stream to pipeline is owned by russian energy concern gazprom the gas it carries is also gas problems but a new e.u. regulation says the pipeline owner and gas provider must be different companies as of 2020 but that would apply to nord stream too which is still being built so the german government is claiming that since the pipeline is as good as done it shouldn't come under the looming legislation. the plan is for the 1200 kilometer long pipeline to transport an additional 55000000000 cubic meters of russian gas directly to germany the gas is needed to secure electricity supplies now the country is phasing out nuclear and coal power e.u. countries as well as the u.s. maintain that a 2nd gas pipeline across the baltic increases europe's dependence on russia in the u.s. there have been warnings of sanctions on european companies

but we were just watching the incoming e.u. commission president as he left london line addressing the parliament. ahead of a vote on her executive team she was speaking there in english french and her native german talking about gender equality climate change digitization migration just some of the challenges facing the european union today and there as well in strasbourg is your chief and correspondent max off when we can cross straight over to him now max as you have on the line making a call for a fresh start for europe what did he make of that speech. 1st of all it appears that you know she touched or she reached out to the different political groups and gave everyone a little bit of what they wanted to year to the left for example inclusiveness to the right competitiveness and then of course she touched upon her 3 major issues we talked about it earlier her 3 priorities that are reflected in the choices of the so-called beis executive presidents of the e.u. commission one is making europe fit for the digital age the 2nd o

have she says the e.u. has a stronger economy better pay and a higher standard of living she's currently writing her dissertation and would then like to go to poland to continue studying more you go out for ever he's in many people say that things are bad and better is why i would like to find the reasons and then decide whether i want to live here or if i prefer another country voice or should be closer to russia or the e.u. russia is putting under pressure some think it might even want to take over the country and tyrolese perhaps one reason why national identity is getting stronger here street signs are now in instead of russian the government also hopes to work out a better visa requirement deal with the e.u. arianna likes that and she hopes will become more european but it's not all praise . i don't have much to do with politics and i also don't want to but what's the point if it's people from the top who decide on it's not the public. although parliamentary elections take place on sunday election post