discovery from turkey's point of view since we are talking about 320000000000 cubic meter. yours which is a significant result can see there in that tricky has been almost fully dependent on gas imports once guess will be produced that these fields it can be a source of the transformation of turkey's guest supply structure and we did discuss turkey will be able to reduce its reliance on foreign gas what is very important we drink artie's gas discovery is a defect that it came at a very good time from turkish perspective because in the upcoming years some of turkey's long term gas contracts will expire including a contract with russia's guest from for instance until last year russia was the key source of gas for turkey so now turkey will probably be able to use its new discoveries as a bargaining chip to reach more favorable contract terms when it will be of a negotiating its gas contracts for a suppliers thomas has been really good to talk to accounting across many thanks indeed for being with us thank you thank you it is my pleasure. peru's economy has shrunk by more than

and a natural gas bonanza in the black sea turkey announces its largest energy discovery ever to find has the potential to reshape the turkish economy. a michael joins us german doctors say a russian opposition politician alexina volney is in a fit state to be airlifted to berlin that's after they were allowed to see him at the hospital and where he remains in a coma the medics arrived earlier to transfer of all need to germany for treatment but russian doctors have said he's too fragile in a condition to be moved evolving supporters believe he has been poisoned because of his political activities. this is the hospital alex was taken to with a case of suspected poisoning and this is where he'll remain for now. doctors here say novelli is too sick to be moved by the ambulance that was supposed to take him to germany for treatment. regarding us transfer i think and this is what the doctors counsel decided that it's true early we have to completely stabilize the patient 1st and they also say they found no sign that novell knew it was poisoned and sure usually so far in the research that

now argue that turkey also has to have the backing of the other countries but given. constructive messages by the turkish defense minister for instance today that dialogue there is an open door for dialogue but 1st all problems must resort to come to a solution but greece acting this way it seems the military tension is going to rise but will it turn to a mother 3 conflict this is still a question mark because turkey believes that all of the e.u. doesn't completely support greece because greece is seen as a spoiled child and you know after the economic collapse of the country europe suffered financially because they had to help greece and their military wise turkey has the upper hand that's why they believe that you will not allow any conflict between the 2 nato allies but when there are 3rd parties involved especially life forms and even the u.a.e. more than the conflict the picture might change a but we haven't heard any reaction about today's tonight's approval from the greek parliament yet ok cynical see a lose in stand well with that side of the story now we've g

turkey calls greece a spoiled child who has and conditional support from the e.u. that's why and honestly you medication is necessary for dialogue your hope that only if you make statements such as we would have window rights we carry our rules we do not say we will make a mistake but we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation therefore do not get ignored by those countries act with common sense tension between the 2 neighbors speak when the turkish research vessel they or trace began carrying out suspect research in the eastern mediterranean the ship is being escorted by warships between crate and cyprus where say is a stopping for a diplomatic solution but stands ready militarily. so greece will defend in the name of law its sovereignty and its sovereign rights greece will defend its national and european borders the sovereignty and sovereign rights of europe it does not have any other choice but to do sir. turkey's foreign minister sat athens provocator steps on the disrupt style oak between the 2 countries germany revived escalation talks between senio

when it comes to turkey's systemic operations. in the. eastern mediterranean the defense minister who sarkar said that we are doing all our facilities in the in the area that is over the defined turkey has submitted its cordon it's to the u.n. 20 years ago and the latest one was back in 2019 according to the un says cielo the convention the u.n. doesn't assign you any borders it's not like continental territory or land territory or the water territory case is different so it gives you some it defined to. some definitions but it is up to the 2 countries to decide and come to a solution so actually this is a by least a problem between turkey and greece that they have to agree on a fair share of rights and resources this is what the turkish foreign minister defense minister has been saying that but he said everybody must know that if there is a threat coming from those territories against turkey we will be defending defending ourselves and we are a couple mainly what turkey has been rather it is actually its 3rd parties being involved like f

as wall but turkey says that the greece is trying to provoke turkey especially given by the help of france and the united arab emirates where turkey has been in dispute this special when it comes to libyan issue but german chancellor and america has been and mediating and trying to make it which been 2 countries we're going to see after high school must visit whether this tension can be easy or is it really going to become a real military tension in the eastern mediterranean given that there are over the 2 men the tensions in syria in libya in many of the other places in the surrounding region ronsin in kosovo bringing us that update from istanbul thanks and i'm so done is in no position to normalize relations with israel that's the message from prime minister abdullah who's hosted rare talks with the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 in khartoum on doc says the transitional government isn't mandated to make such decisions on monday during a visit to israel pump a 0 vote to promote closer ties between israel and other arab states have a morgan's life for us in sudan's capital khartoum

another issue that turkey and greece has been at loggerheads is the turkish side for you to turkey recognize the northern cyprus as an independent state and turkey claims that all those that are all resources all those resources. found discovered by the greek side the turkish side also has rights on that then those should be shared equally this is what turkey is against also another thing is about the islands the crete and maize islands for instance maize islands is a couple almost 2 kilometers far from territory an atoll that but it's 580 kilometers to the greece that's why turkey say's all those activities that greece has been conducted around manus island is illegal there should be in this these islands cannot have individual it cannot mix zones this is what turkey has been claiming but one more thing that is actually. rising the tension between the 2 countries is that if france and the u.a.e. has been backing greece in the latest tension yesterday turkey's president don made a call to greece saying that if you come up front with the pressure with the backing of some actors hinting that t

that there is a growing frustration in the face of turkey's actions in the eastern mediterranean sea and the european union of course wants to show solidarity with greece that is at loggerheads with turkey over and the g depose it's in their region so for now the european union is calling on all parties to get to the negotiating table and to solve the problem in a diplomatic way but it's also threatening to impose sanctions on turkey or turkish citizens individuals who are involved in debt measure and this is a very standing development because it shows that the european union is giving diplomacy a chance for now but it's willing to toughen it stands on turkey despite its many concerns and this despite the fact that turkey is an important partner in the region and that makes this story so very important one will be continuing to track very closely xandra thanks very much for the. so what is the greek stance on the dispute with turkey in the mediterranean our brussels correspondent barbara vaizey put that question to the greek foreign minister nikos yes. miss that you had a foreign po

shortly it seems the ball now is in turkey's court is there any indication that turkey is ready to sit down and talk. well so far after. athens and after his speech with the great comfort part there hasn't been a reaction yet yes there is a tension in this the mediterranean and asian between turkey and greece from time to time we heard constructive messages from turkish officials including president zardari the defense minister for instance a couple of days ago present that there should be a solution in this and mediterranean in which all parties can benefit from however on the turkish perspective considering that there has been a dispute between greece and turkey for decades or more than 100 years turkey believes that the main problem lays in the agency more than the eastern mediterranean because as especially about the continental shelf borders maritime zone borders the dispute between the 2 countries is based on the islands the status of the islands are critical as well and according to greece the exclusive economic each island must have an exclusive economic zone as well which woul

sorry turkey and greece egypt you have deals being done turkey libya you have the eastern med having a gas forum that is excluded turkey countries like israel egypt cyprus greece involved in that turkey really saying that it feels sidelined when it comes to any sort of profit any sort of involvement of these disputed waters so we're looking at disputed maritime borders you're looking at unresolved legal issues both sides claiming that it's there are so none of this is resolved so it's very very difficult at the moment you have a situation where you have a lot of military hardware in a very small space military ships naval vessels france is also a sense of port so i think certainly it's something that analysts will tell you it is tense they don't expect at the moment a huge escalation but certainly mistakes can happen and when the situation is so tense of asli that is a concern and stuff there's also obviously these these 2 sides greece and turkey longtime adverse series and then of course there's the cyprus issue the turkish republic of of northern cyprus already recognized by turkey

well let me begin with your last question in turkey the turkish foreign minister said that turkey has a 5th of itself saying that turkey is ready for negotiations for may. all live based on equal shares equal rights in the eastern mediterranean because turkey has been claiming that the reason is acting alone in the region and trying to bypass the rights of the turkish cyprus and northern cyprus and turkey is committed to defend turkey its rights also foreign minister that's greece is trying to define international law according to its own interests totally out of the international norms and he repeated some of the accusations but i have to underline that fully german foreign minister hartzell must speech was harsher against circular when he spoke when he have this press presser with the come to a part in athens earlier today he was softer to turkey and turkey repudiated turkish foreign minister a repeat of that turkey welcomes the mediation efforts initiated by german chancellor get america and foreign minister c'mon send german foreign minister also repeated that they are afraid of a

dollar since the beginning of 2020 people in turkey are exchanging the earlier into foreign currency such as the us dollar and the euro on a massive scale bank reserves are also due in doing so there are no charging fees for withdrawals of foreign currencies this way they hope to slow down the lyrics decline at least somewhat. our correspondent giuliani joins us now from istanbul julia the current virus crisis has surely furthering dampened hopes that the u.s. fall will be stopped any sign that it will. the president and his finance minister are trying to brush off concerns over the weakening lira saying that the fluctuations against dollar and euro are only temporary and the economy would emerge stronger many analysts however disagree they say the current pattern in the layer above all reflects a lack of credibility over our economic policy over the past 12 months we've seen foreign investors pulling out launch of a huge volume of funds from the country now add to this the current crisis in tourism tourism revenues are an important source of foreign currency for turkey but arrivals

in the turkish territory turkey believes that everybody is trying to exclude turkey from its rights in the seas surrounding the countries turkey is surrounded by seas both north west and south and especially when it comes to eastern mediterranean with turkey if it believes that there are so many players even players who doesn't have who don't have course in this the mediterranean but turkey is excluded in the game that's why turkey says it's after its fries and the main dispute between the 2 neighbor countries and nature allies are actually because of the islands because according to greece each island has individual exclusive economic zone this is what turkey is against as greece is not an island country but a continental country but apparently the tension seems to be rising but what we have understood from yesterday's was that german foreign minister was kind of. harsh during his statement in athens but. many as one of the leading countries of the e.u. trying to make the between the 2 nato allies is pursued by turkey that the e.u. is not totally for them going. to seize greece as

dollars for turkey and it constitutes at least half of turkey's current account deficit so for a country like turkey totally dependent on foreign energy supplies even though it's a short term gain it's of course the size the scale of the. resource is not enough to be a game changer but it's going to provide tricky a lever it in the black sea also a legitimate station of energy exploration in the eastern mediterranean this is how the government sees and of course this is good news for the ruling party to consolidate its electorate given a fragile economic turbulence turkey's going through the world health organization chief says he hopes the world can end the coronavirus crossness in less than 2 years that is faster than it took the spanish flu pandemic to date nearly 800000 people and infected close to 23000000 worldwide of course with more good news the word us has better chance of spreading can move fast because we have more connected mount. but at the same time we have also the technology to stop it and the knowledge to stop it so we have the disadvantage of globalization close in its

fresh from baiting me a year about allowing syrian migrants to cross from turkey into greece turkish president better typer one is now picking a fight with a you member greece over territory and middle exportation rights greece once e.u. sanctions france the said watch it's a greek and turkish vessels have already collided at sea so where will this and i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day. i mean we cannot leave any attack on our civilian vessels unanswered before using the song to the governments of the we've shown we can respond and we will do so again if needed. all. these families in these tensions are worrying it's important to deescalate and i think out for me in that instead of indulging greece and giving unconditional support the e.u. should tell athens to be reasonable in the guardedness sniffers by pursuing its policy of aggressive provocation of turkey's only paving the way for severe sanctions against it for the browns island was that france especially should avoid steps that they still like tensions on but are so much to get a bullying get nowhere of them but. als

the turkey is ready to negotiate the distribution of the disputed waters. we're ready to talk with all countries to negotiate with his hearing but nobody who to precondition for turkey this cannot happen with the preconditions that by greece. united's that greece mean through crandon it's maximalist approach when they abandon the mental approach everything i've said about let's stipulate it will happen because she says. well germany's foreign minister has been working to bring both countries to the negotiating table as well he's described any military escalation as madness for we cannot squander this chance and we expect all those who signed up to that but in process to stick to their word otherwise there is the real threats of a new round of military escalation was on foreseeable humanitarian consequences and this should be avoided at all costs the u.s. attempt to reimpose sanctions on iran is facing major push back at the united nations security council president says 13 members are against reimposing sanctions and it will take no further action united st

mass is now in athens and is due to visit turkey in the coming hours greece and turkey have announced rival military exercises near crease escalating a dispute over gas exploration and those contested waters our john throttle us as following events from athens. we did hear the greek foreign minister with his initial remarks and say that right now we can see it is so if he is behaving illegally in the eastern mediterranean that might mean stability in the region and they're searching to member states of the european union greece and of course the other one is cyprus in whose exclusive economic zone so if you has been conducting drilling in seismic tests as well know better russian opposition latest fed monitor kind of skier has told the european parliament a peaceful revolution is underway in belarus she's in exile a neighboring if you're a nia and was speaking to the european parliament's foreign affairs committee of 5 video link she also criticized the arrest of several members of the opposition council in minsk russia says german doctors must give more evidence that alexina volley w

8.8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same map claiming much of greece's waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within itself to find waters but that infringes on greece's maritime territory according to the e.u. and the un. turkey did postpone exploration last month following a truce brokered by germany but when athens signed a new maritime deal with egypt last week ankara vowed to defend its interests are looking to resume putin in hog goods image of greece's attitude in the aegean and the mediterranean is malicious we don't have to zines on anyone's rights but we won't let any country take away our rights e.u. foreign ministers are hoping to resolve the standoff through dialogue at the emergency summit greece stated that it is ready to sit on the table and discuss with their kit and all relevant parties in the region as long as all the meat dairy presence in the region is withdrawn you cannot share. discussions where you have naval vessels from the needs are there very small job growth again. although the 2 sides seem on a collisi

to 24 hours ago turkey warned greece not to test its patients and now we know what that means turkey's announced it will hold live firing exercises in the eastern mediterranean next week the latest escalation in a maritime dispute with greece over control of potential gas and oil reserves both countries have already been holding military drills near a patch of sea they both claim in addition the turkish government is extending the work of its vessel the one conducting seismic surveys of the area greece is also ratified a maritime agreement with egypt which turkey opposes so lots of escalations there. making life difficult for germany's top diplomat who's calling for an end to the exercises the e.u. tries to pull greece and turkey back from confrontation i am asked spoke at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers in berlin. we will see how things develop at the end of this month where the ships will move to and we will also work here to create the conditions for turkey and greece to solve their problems directly with each other and to do everything possible to avoid military confrontation.

turkey and france and turkey are already at loggerheads when it comes to leave issues but they're giving soft messages and turkish defense minister said that in the morning nato secretary general secretary general sort of gave a very constructive message but the messages coming from france french side are not tolerable ok simcoe c.-o. who live for us in his son beau thank you very much indeed at this crossroads of birdland predominate kin is standing by dominic turkey says it's open to dialogue but clearly not backing down if they're sending live fire drills to begin in the area next week what's the view from the european union. well remember that some parts of the european union certainly the french. don't agree with that and don't think that that what the turkish government is doing is helpful to the situation and also as we were hearing from michael moss earlier there is definitely a call from european union governments to take the tension out to take away their life drills to stop the these ships sailing into areas and performing searches for petrochemicals and that sort of thing whi

you that turkey's also. national sovereignty over into right. so don has told us secretary of state much print peo on a rare visit that it's in no position to normalize relations with israel during talks in khartoum prime minister abdullah han doc said the transitional government isn't mandated to make such decisions and upon people had voted to promote closer ties between israel and other arab states. about the russian court has jailed 2 members of the opposition coalition council for 10 days despite the government's crackdown on activists and politicians protests are taking place again in minsk opposition leaders for land attack on a skier who's in exile in lithuania is calling for more mass rallies. the father of the black americans shot several times by police says he's power lies from the waist down. 29 year old jacob blake was repeatedly shot in the back as he leaned into his car with 3 of his children inside. those are the headlines the news continues here on odyssey or after the stream. late august s

turkey calls greece a spoiled child who has and conditional support from the e.u. that's why and honestly you medication is necessary for dialogue your hope that only if you make statements such as we would have window rights we carry our rules we do not say we will make a mistake but we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation therefore do not get ignored by those countries act with common sense tension between the 2 neighbors speak when the turkish research facility or trace began carrying out suspect research in the eastern mediterranean the ship is being escorted by warships between quaid and cyprus where ses is stopping for a diplomatic solution but stands ready militarily. so greece will defend in the name of law its sovereignty and its sovereign rights greece will defend its national and european borders the sovereignty and sovereign rights of europe it does not have any other choice but to do sir. turkey's foreign minister sat athens provocator steps on the disrupt stay local between the 2 countries germany revived destination talks between senior t

well the vital for turkey turkey imports 99 percent of its natural gas and spends around $40000000000.00 a year on energy imports so this gas is seen as crucial to alleviating this chronic balance of payments problem which continues to undermine the country's lira which hit record lows again this month and on top of that given the fact that turkey imports from countries like russia and iran it is seen as a vital to energy security as well. dorian greece's territorial claims they are backed by the rest of the e.u. i mean what kind of negotiating power does ankara really have. well boy by the fact that the e.u. have made threats of a sweeping sanctions against turkey in the past and even though greece is calling for again tough measures against turkey and believed to be backed by france as well believes it has a very strong position it knows it's a vital strategic partner to europe is the gate keeper for migrants seeking to enter the e.u. countries and possibly can play a similar role in libya given its military presence there on top of the it does have allies in the e.u. countries like po

and turkey and if france is actually very high in the last couple of months that's why turkey is in a way kind of not hopeful about greece coming to the table with the conditions that turkey is saying because turkey also accuses kris for imposing preconditions to come to the table but turkey says the 1st condition is a fair distribution of fair share of the rights and resources in the sea of time will show whether greece is going to accept that but turkey turkish officials from the top level at present are don and today turkish foreign minister they said that there's some other players pointing out to the u.a.e. and france are throwing greece under device to the field to confront turkey and don warned greece yesterday that when you're in trouble those parties those players are not going to be siding with you but for turkey as i have said in the previous lies as well greece is the spoiled child of the european union receiving unconditional support from the e.u. that's why turkey is in a way distant to any kind of mediation efforts from the e.u. because turkey believes in you is siding

71 percent of the aegean sea and turkey 8.8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same mob claiming much of greece's waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within itself to find waters but that infringes on greece's maritime territory according to the e.u. and the u.n. ok let's go live to john psaropoulos in athens john talk us through what greece is position is with regard to all of this. greek so is making 2 basic demands they are saying that they would like the negotiations on maritime jurisdictions to take place on the basis of the united nations law in other words the basis of the 1st map that you showed that means that all parties must agree that the united nations convention on the law of the sea which 168 of the un's 193 members are signatories to should form a legal framework secondly they would like the talks to pick up where they left off when they petered out in march of 2016 because by that time the greek and turkish delegations had had 60 meetings during which they had made a number of informal agreements. and achieved a certain

states to turkey to bank loans being given by e.u. bank to turkish companies and individuals and they could extend to travel restrictions to individuals so the climate at the informal meeting shows that europe has finally rallied behind greece and cyprus it has largely adopted greek and separate positions to put pressure on turkey to come to the table greece wants negotiations to begin on the basis of international maritime law and should they fail it wants turkey to commit beforehand to arbitration at the international court at the hague. stephanie decker is in istanbul she says the dispute has bought up the questions for the entire region. we're no longer talking about just 2 sides here you're just talking turkey versus greece you have major international implications to this you have deals being done greece egypt you have deals being done turkey libya you have the eastern med having a gas forum that is excluded turkey countries like israel egypt cyprus greece involved in that turkey really saying that it feels sidelined when it com

and rising tensions in the mediterranean sea turkey and goes regional rival greece with its oil and gas exploration bid in contested waters. i'm told me a lot of well it's good to have you with us the announcement of a diplomatic deal between israel and the united arab emirates is receiving a cautious welcome by many but not all players in middle east politics as part of the u.s. brokered agreement is rolle must put on hold its plans to annex any further sections of the palestinian west bank the u.a.e. says that stipulation keeps alive the possibility of a 2 state solution is calling the deal a win for diplomacy in the volatile. region. by historic agreement the united arab emirates and israel 2 countries that never had any diplomatic relations until thursday's deal. and idea was very clear that israel would commit a. phone call with the united states do stopping and exceed suspending. at the same time we will be able to also announce that we will begin what will what i would call a normal relationship with israel in various various areas israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu greete

that there is a growing frustration in the face of turkey's actions in the eastern mediterranean sea and the european union of course wants to show solidarity with greece that is at loggerheads with turkey over and the g depose it's in the region so for now the european union is calling on all parties to get to the negotiating table and to solve the problem in a diplomatic way but it's also threatening to impose sanctions on turkey or turkish citizens individuals who are involved in debt measure and this is a very stunning development because it shows that the european union is giving diplomacy a chance for now but it's willing to toughen its stance on turkey despite its many concerns and this despite the fact that turkey is an important partner in the region and that makes this story so very important continuing to track very closely . thanks very much for that let's get you break down some of the other stories making news today recovery efforts underway in the southern u.s. after one of the most powerful storms there in years hurricane laura left the least 6 people dead after smash

saying because turkey also accuses kris for imposing preconditions to come to the table but turkey says the 1st condition is a fair distribution of fair share of the rights and resources in the sea of time will show whether greece is going to accept that well still ahead here although there are testing the limits of china's hydroelectric dam what some say it could collapse that story after the break. however the big story of the next couple days is probably going to be laura looks so small mean significant member but there she is make your way to the coast of texas as quite likely a category 2 hurricane there marco the pieces are lucky fell apart it's not going to happen to lower this is going to be an active storm and cause trouble all of marcos from louisiana back to almost the mexican border and that's the most active weather in the u.s. there are showers elsewhere there are still thunderstorms yes in the u.s. the potential of lighting more fires anywhere in the mountain west california generally is dry and sunny moment of course is quite hot in the south as it is in arizona was 44 i

dollars for turkey and it constitutes a police health of turkey's current account deficit so for a country like turkey totally dependent on foreign energy supplies even though it's a short term gain it's of course the size the scale of the. resource is not enough to be a game changer but it's going to provide turkey a lever it's in the black sea also a legitimate station of energy exploration in the eastern mediterranean this is how the government sees and of course this is good news for the ruling party to consolidate its electorate given a fragile economic turbulence turkey's going through. the bill a russian opposition candidate is calling for more mass protests to keep up the pressure on president bush and co so atlanta to going to sky is leading the call for the president to resign they have been demonstrations for 12 straight days including some of the biggest anti-government rallies in minsk since the fall of the u.s.s.r. to collapse gone and fled to lithuania across the border after the election which she says was rigged against her because she would know people in belarus today ar

what i could get from my sources and ankara is that turkey is supporting the ceasefire because turkey is backing germany's calls and it turkey has to stand with the international platform of course but what i understood is that turkish politicians are not hopeful about the ceasefire whether it's going to last or not because as long as sally for half door is on the negotiation table turkey believes that there will be no solution but of course what turkey and russia discusses is an important point to we heard the killer sally speaking after. sunrise and osman's of a ceasefire this is also a post of sun from the turkish perspective given that maybe russia would support a killer as an alternative later in the opposition in the coming days but of course this is a wait and see for turkey about the cease fire in the area ok sin in many things and it was sort of our correspondent there joining us live from istanbul coming up here on the news hour for you why the wife of the russian politician alexina around the who's in hospital with suspected poisoning have written a letter to the russian pr

turkey's foreign minister has been meeting with his german counterpart in ankara methot says that turkey is ready to renegotiate distribution of the disputed waters. we are ready to talk with all countries to negotiate with a sharing but nobody who to precondition for turkey this cannot happen with the preconditions that by greece. united's that greece mean through abandon its maximalist approach when they abandon the mess you lose everything i said about the stipulation to take will happen within this negotiation process. or germany's foreign minister meanwhile has been working to try and bring both countries to the negotiating table he describes the any military escalation as madness. for we cannot squander this chance and we expect all those who signed up to the world in process to stick to their word otherwise there is the real threats of a new round of military escalation was on foreseeable humanitarian consequences and this should be avoided at all costs now to belarus antigovernment protests there have resumed in the capital minsk despite a crackdown on opposition politicians and

tell me what turkey does. they have a dollar-based financial system and a lay rep -- and a lira-based financial system. how do they survive this currency collapse? turkishhe good news is houses and corporate's are relatively prepared. they hedge against even weaker lira as reflected in record high dollar deposit above $200 billion. so they are prepared. that said, there would be tremendous pain nevertheless even ata weaker lira, current levels, is going to have significant inflationary consequences at a time when 12%ation is at around 12 and likely to remain in double-digit territory, which in turn is going to keep real interest rates deeply in negative territory. this is one of the reasons why turkish lira is so vulnerable. lisa: zooming out a little bit, turkey is its own case, but i wonder how representative it is of other emerging markets that have high foreign currency exposure. this statistic really struck me, that the turkish central bank spent more to support its currency in the first six months then a

fresh from baiting the a you about allowing syrian migrants to cross from turkey into greece turkish president rather tired bored of and is now picking a fight with a human greece over territory and mineral exploitation rights greece once e.u. sanctions france and said watch it's a greek and turkish vessels have already collided at sea so where will this and i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day. we cannot leave any attack on our civilian vessels unanswered it will fox news and the government so that we shown we can respond and we would do so again if needed. but only as in these tensions are worrying it's important to deescalate. that instead of indulging greece and giving unconditional support the e.u. should tell athens to be reasonable good guardedness mature just by pursuing its policy of aggressive provocation of turkey's only paving the way for severe sanctions against it were to france islanders the fronts especially should avoid steps that escalate tensions but which unless you get it fully in gets it nowhere of all the members. also on the day german officials warn of

i think is taking it very personally and we're hearing from turkey that they're not going to back down president saying that they will not let any country take away their rights and that is referring to these maritime rights these overlapping claims so under u.n. law that turkish drilling ship is in greek waters the greek exclusive economic zone but turkey never signed that u.n. law awarding the territory to greece they believe that it's inherently unfair that due to greece's scattered job graphy they get awarded 71 percent of the aegean sea whereas turkey and you get 8 percent ok charlie thank you very much john angela there in london. now to the country with one of the fastest growing corona virus outbreaks anywhere in the world india has now reported its highest number of infections in one single day the $67000.00 new cases bring its total to nearly 2400000 official figures put the number of deaths at more than 47000 but infectious

turkey is a nato ally as is greece at the moment certainly dialogue nowhere closer and turkey has mentioned that it's going to continue military exercises northwest of cyprus until september the 11th so i think certainly that military presence in the eastern med we will continue to see tensions for a while unless there is some dialogue which at the moment doesn't seem to be happening dozens are indeed stephanie decker there reporting live from istanbul thank you for no let's bring in john psaropoulos nari he's coming to us live from just outside athens. in the sky is it doesn't matter who's they are this looks like an escalation what does it see a bit hard for the greek government prepared to go in this dispute. what's new in this particular interception of fighter jets is the location the open waters of the eastern mediterranean that is an airspace that greek and turkish fighter jets don't usually don't fight over the event itself is a daily occurrence over the aegean last year the greek air force logged more than $4000.00 violations of what it considers violations of greek airspace that's

little alice you said adam to tell us that the conflicts between turkey and greece is symptomatic of an even wider power struggle i wouldn't say it's a conflict between europe and turkey i would say it's a division inside the european union because there are countries that support turkey there are countries that are balanced between greece and turkey bird sample germany spain italy portugal these are all countries are either balance or on turkey side greece is mean backers prince france is one of the countries that is trying to lead the european union trying to take the power away from germany which has been the defacto leader of the european union over the last decade so inside the european union there's a power struggle and that power struggle inside the european union is being reflected in full display right now with what's going on in the eastern mediterranean turkey and greece are butting heads and trying to defend and protect their interests on one another. thousands of tourists have found self stranded abroad in the yet pandemic is flights are cancelled on mass but 2 japanese

states to turkey to bank loans being given by e.u. bank to turkish companies and individuals and they could extend to travel restrictions to individuals so the climate at today's informal meeting shows that europe has finally rallied behind greece and cyprus it has largely adopted greek and separate positions to put pressure on turkey to come to the table greece wants negotiations to begin on the basis of international maritime law and should they fail it wants turkey to commit or hand to arbitration at the international court at the hague the interior minister libya's un recognized government has been suspended after a shooting at a demonstration this week the government of national accords farty bashar is facing an investigation of violations against the protesters at least 6 people were abducted mothers were wounded when men in military uniforms opened fire had labeled the gunman outlawed infiltrators but later admitted to tripoli allied militia had fired at the protesters. still to come here on al-jazeera real life fights over vir

turkey. which. has been successfully farand the largest oil field and the black sea this is the biggest except aeration the biggest discovery in turkey's history. says. fattah have a vessel for accept a ration. on the law i use 25 and you have managed to start drilling into no one will feel. so and by the grace of god we managed to find $320.00 mm 1000000 cubic feet of natural gas. from. coal the day when i bet farewell to the vessel passing through the past for us. straight and by the grace of god today we. are sharing and you a big discovery and this vessel really deserves the name it cat is fatter concurrent. before that so. we. have named this as a car yes a car a field we carried our all then this says sorry except liberation measures and the initial reports said just. that this number will go higher as we will be able to fire and other hydrocarbon products now we are speaking only of part of this discovery we will be able to find more hydro carbons products within this area by the grace of god

is also threatening sanctions against turkey if no progress is made in the eastern mediterranean dispute with greets. tens of thousands of people are gathering right now a march on washington d.c. for a renewed drive against police brutality and to mount racial justice and accusations india's police were complicit in the deadly riots there earlier this year. so the european union is edging closer to imposing sanctions on better russian officials the ones it has links to electoral fraud and the violent crackdown on protesters the blocks foreign ministers of all but agreed on a list of almost 20 high ranking people haven't said exactly who yet some a huge states want president alexander lukashenko included on that list he has faced mass demonstrations ever since winning elections which critics say were raked . there was a political agreement among ministers to designate selected individuals responsible for their fraudulent elections in their rules and for the subsequent crackdown on that exist in the revolution sanction regime this is a nation shall include individuals at the high politica

union because there are countries that support turkey there are countries that are balanced between greece and turkey very simple germany spain italy portugal these are all countries are either balance or on turkey side greece is mean backers friends france is one of the countries that is trying to lead the european union trying to take power away from germany which has been the facto leader of the european union over the last decade so inside the european union there's a power struggle and that power struggle inside the european union is being reflected in full display right now with what's going on in the eastern mediterranean turkey and greece are butting heads and trying to defend and protect their interests on one another. let's take 60 seconds to go around the world in brief shinzo lobbies announce he's going to step down as japan's longest serving prime minister revealed regret not getting a peace deal with russia the states never signed an agreement to a dispute of the carolyn's fled the country since 2012 but has been battling longstanding. 19 people have been confirmed kil

law of the sea and it is calling on turkey to come to a dialogue on the basis of those laws greeks are standing by this by the book approach because they're winning by this week they've ratified maritime agreements based on u.n. law with egypt and italy they've managed to get the the european union behind them lining up sanctions that could be used against turkey next month and they are going to stick to that strategy protesters in berlin are rallying against coronavirus restrictions despise police order for the demonstration to be shut down because social distancing rules are being violated counter protests are also planned germany has recorded of 824-2000 infections from melinda mccain explains now why these protests are happening now. they say that their freedoms are infringed by being forced to wear a mask in public and public transport and enclosed spaces they say that having to observe social distancing goes directly against their fundamental freedoms the or thorough cities here say no that's not the case your storage fees believe that by these people not observing social distanc