that so out of all the top stories from last week for you here on our international up next exploring the phenomenon of social withdrawal in japan thousands of people face up to the realities of life is coming up next. in europe people are taking to the streets to protest the lack of transparency in treaty negotiations such as the t.t. ip treaty with the us and the seat a treaty with canada. the use of arbitration tribunals a central and totally opaque part of these treaties is a serious threat to the future of democracies. may. tiny little block the signing of the free trade agreement with canada thanks to paul men yet it's minister president. 3.5000000 loons blocked a treaty concerning 500000000 europeans a smoothie european entity defies the great liberal euro it's truly david against goliath. all of us face that want to get us back to figure from where we differ. is good or bad for hope there's one is what we do believe that even if you know you're not if you don't. give us big. sign it just. says on as i'm going to join it is only. just run through me as it examines this you know knesset exam i was the 1st going is unfair see it up chris said don't fix it it's all there are. to attract foreign investors you're the problem is canada did would integrate the international arbitration system called dns into the treaty. the cornerstone of the system is the deterrent effect for states when a complaint is made. when a state national. this is a business it seizes property and the state then compensates for this expropriation . but if the state raises the minimum wage or passes an engine. or prohibits destructors it can affect a company's gains. this is an indirect expose creation since it's a loss of earnings. sufficient ground for suing a state before a private international arbitration tribunals. of the. reforms. are. a real scandal. this interactive. written into the sea to and other treaties opens up a real pandora's box. complaints against government measures that bother investors are likely to increase. arbitration tribunals are a massive deterrent to the state. let me. look at is this. that is this we don't seem to get. you know. is this. did you. meet up. new. hope. by example. if you know that is simply due to the sense from general do you mean was that the give us good example i'm ok again you. don't look you know don't have the consume it don't you think you know well anything decisions you want to hand you more this will be a stupid you could even if you need no token some at one example if you can. do some stronger don't move on from this is you give up on the film and i saw most of us a betrayal to the just in our desire to press on to be see how he does it. would seem to me good sniff executive visit the. air out of the range of a massive expansion of the role of rest. 2 so what happens when we introduce a couple of new traders like santa and the other big one is the trans-pacific partnership promoters are biased as have long liked to say well we already have 2 or 3000 of these trainees what's a couple more teams that combine with a c. and the pain takes us from still having a minority role in the world to be calming and stablished lobel is. why the foreign investors have their most powerful right at the international level of any private charter in the world most people think about trade they think about goods and services being a strange between countries and the investment component the investment chomped or a trade agreement is about something very different it's about establishing a special system of international protection for foreign owned. new student p. diddy's you'll see that is the seed sassoon is the. it could be a new leak over who even with the thoughts on. let it if he knows he is going to lead us there is the still missing see. do see what you know he can see and if it you bought it think it is the city people the false god what. it will exist to commit i will have all the most obsessed out of leverage on the level of the popularity. on just a simple quote. this interoperability. level was my security and i vow to live where once you know i think of the things that are going to all of our daily or last saw something for break. the vision. our little going to develop based on what you could. say on the. deficit list of new homes in economy strong confront some think that i was all alone the only facet. goodness of i think you are also not at all. in these arbitration tribunals multinationals impose their will most often in great secrecy. secrecy is not only an obstacle in forming citizens it is the keystone of the whole system allowing for the most shameful arrangements . for this is what happened in germany when the swedish multinational vattenfall a large energy producer indirectly attacked the city of hamburg in 2009. complaint against the federal state that remained secret for years and was unveiled thanks to a professor of international law marcus kind of. arbitration or secret because no one prevents the parties from the go or anything and then in the public hearing they will say whatever they say but the real negotiations will take place outside. i in 2007 vattenfall obtained a building permit for a coal fired power station in the suburbs of hamburg. following the 2008 elections and a petition the elected green party reviewed the permit. the discharge of hot water into the elbe to cool turbines threatens the aquatic fauna vattenfall would have to comply with anti pollution measures. and how did vattenfall react by immediately filing a complaint before an arbitration tribunals demanding 1400000000 euros in compensation under pressure germany secretly negotiated with wagner fall into 2011 and suddenly one day the case was closed we only know at the end that they reached the said i listen this is very important the only publicly available information is that they said that. end of the story i am marcus clay of ski scrutinize the tribunals decision. it mentions a mysterious compromise between vattenfall and hamburg signed in a local court. order. and so that's when i said well if they reached a settlement in front of the rest the court in front of them this is a piece of information that i can request and the federal government refused. but the city of hamburg sent it to. the city gave a new permit which is less restrictive than the op and that's the 2nd. button flooded one bunny button followed wanted a change in the prompt and that's what they got. as unbelievable as it may sound hundreds green party didn't impose the environmental standards that it considered just. i can just imagine the conversation that took place between the federal government of germany and the city of hamburg so the federal government said well look we signed this treaty we are bound by this internationally germany has international obligations and you have to fulfill that we can't you cannot become a break international law i mean this is also a powerful argument especially in democracies especially in countries like germany but all over the world. even germany is caught in the trap of its treaties and gives in to blackmail. in total secrecy the state signed an agreement on march 11th 2011. that same day japan suffered the worst earthquake in its history. this fukushima disaster shook the planet and especially germany. pressured by a 50 year old anti nuclear movement and following protests in 450 cities across the country until a miracle was compounds who lacked. she moved to abandon nuclear power with maturity suppose. anything ya plans and then. the bottom line. to me. in. the name. is easy kinda cannon and you. can. think you know and think that counted in the. join me everything on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to. i'm sure. i'll see if. my. kids compensate. tonight. people go. to. going to. get. me home. on the which i didn't get showed up to move this because of almost an increase in the going to be a good show. and we must. consider that. you must. first talk about 20th century socialism this is when governments may malam vast rents and then they've bailed out those mal investments and sold the economy went bankrupt versus 21st century capitalism this is one banks make malinvestment say when they go bad they bail out the malinvestment and that cycle continues until the economy goes bust and that's where our. chancellor's decision became the 13th amendment of the law on atomic energy when it was voted in 4 months later. the 7 oldest german plants were immediately closed among them those the boones bottle and crumble which also belong to the swedish multinational vattenfall. immediately vattenfall challenge the legitimacy of the nuclear law at the constitutional court of calls with the highest court of justice in germany. but as a foreign investor vattenfall can also attack germany in a private arbitration court. it had already won once it could. and would try again in may 2012. in arbitration. the child takes place in washington. in. the claimant's the federal republic of germany respondents in the interest of transparency being streamed so that the public. sentiment. greets. the arbitrator. and. defends those of germany compensation claims for a 1000000000 years. as a consequence of the 13th amendment claim of their production licenses for the criminal and. they were simply withdraw. to dispute. his right as such to face up. rather this dispute the manner in which germany has chosen to implement its decision. to protect investments in particular concerns germany's failure to pay any compensation. or protection treaties is to provide protection against expropriation. difficulty however were talked. to draw the line between expropriation all the while. and governmental measures on the other. hand there is no easy way to. make this distinction. so of course one could say about the protection that investors enjoy under the treaty is influenced how to walk the regolith it. doesn't matter if a parliament has adopted a law in the most democratic way. it can still violate international purgation stuff the state has undertaken in the international treaty. it is for each individual state to decide whether law they want to sign such treaties or germany is trying to do. is to explore the fukushima disaster. to create a narrative that would excuse its wrongdoing. you can put perfume on it but the bottom line here is that the international and to govern this dispute. germany cannot challenge the ratified treaty. but this swedish giant failed to meet its obligations. it did not repair its damaged power plants a great danger for the population. claimants now see compensation for their own business failure billions for plants which were not tarrie is all their problems but apparently in. reality a transfer me to is totally normal. are busting pipes also normal and of us are corroded barrels with radioactive waste. showing you a promotional video off the power and in that video none of the events that are listed here on the site features and plans but. both of them have been standing still. not because of focus shima not because of the moratorium not because of the 13th amendment but because of a multitude of incidents. brutal until east. defeated the. kinds of nuclear physicist from greenpeace called as an expert witness took a close look at all the plans failures. here experienced and how this is an example hypothetical that is actually saying most of the 'd well in mark. over the cadence of the defeat of. a child and he's shown the whole thing could be used in the ship so i fully clue. on this machine transform our thoughts to dollars and even move. their machine guns from other how to see. military in. any begin this is in no must say. it's going to. root or. it's a disparity because it came from a larger fee to link to me it is possible she only. named. this clue which was from call some sort of wood in the if this were in supercold. thus germany is in famine toward descriptions of fires quote unquote and pictures of corroded barrels quote unquote country but nothing to the ultimate determination as to whether in 2011 germany has admitted in. over trade but its decision to accelerate to phase out was not based on concerns over safety of the nuclear power plants but mariner on an alleged change perception of the general risk that nuclear energy poses to the general population that is all politics. that involves lawyer is sheltering behind the law behind strict legal language so as not to recognize the multi-nationals responsibility. what is very clear that this group of people or many of them have been educated in a particular way they are all educated in this particular way of looking at both international law as a sort of technical matter and at the same time thinking that giving companies as many rights and privileges will benefit the global economy so lawyers are not trained in thinking about consequences of their cases lawyers are trained in thinking about a way apply the law. there is only a french for this and the french term is the. this is what this really applies here people think in the various this case is very controversial and has generated much public debate now why is because it's an arbitration which should never have been brought under the energy charter treaty and under the exit convention. the reason for this through the amendment. actions is that correct. that is correct. if that is a public perception. how would that do legally just lit into. the investment protection. during the show and i make a number of assumptions and i don't ask you to. do anything but sure that this would be because it is almost impossible hypothetical because you're. assuming that the public is wrong and is the right role of the perception changes in the public how does that translate into legally introduce you to. and i was listening to the. opening this morning. claiming that the thirteen's and was a political decision and i've said it quite often i wonder when political has become such a dirty word. it comes from the greek political us which means relating to the people to the citizens to the state. and democracy is nothing if not political it is government off the people by the people for the people. it has to be political that's a definition and it's certainly not a dirty word. refusing any political or democratic consideration multinationals consider themselves outside politics and above the law . laws still exist. while vattenfall the trial against germany is proceeding in washington the federal constitutional court in karlsruhe where the 1st complaint was launched gives its judgement. the court declares that abandoning nuclear power conforms to the german constitution and that the companies affected will have to receive a financial compensation. to yours or mission or are women too young to. disrobe on trade schools or money a cure for one or. and there come from time to also. of us from here to in also the song i'm convinced means i'm sure suitability to industrial not tradition as foreign so who are. the legal individuals or foster mom that's involved in guns i'm not reconciled all scamming was going to move i just feel even uses funds often push the. same visa. to push the ticket on the. country giving the for. the work of. it as he said it was cured didn't spot and thus must confide in east insurance he says they spotted 5 it need to skimming the initial start so long it can also be humbled to be undone in a key concern in love as opposed to haste andy and extend the sheets given just been more 20 of them in the spotlight as the sharpness of sorts for the woman of 3 . so in a 1000000 1st impression it would all have better i don't know about a nice weeks in the if you can was seemingly out in the oil all. by again. it is up to the german government to set the amount of compensation to be validated by the bundestag. in an arbitration case it's very different. the amount of compensation is much higher and is set arbitrarily by business lawyers that with no democratic legitimacy. a considerable portion of legal costs $4.00 to $10000000.00 is to be paid primarily by the state. my uncle the kids seem completely stable boy tonight nobody will see them no proof because. i didn't. even show them to move this because i'm listening to. show mr certainly must. is not so much. of a money as she. the u.k. set sales from the e.u. on its post brooks avoids propofol to 7 years of corporation their off fears of economic storms and mutiny in scotland northern on a. peace plan the trick is violence little trumps accused of taking sides in the israel palestine conflict as the palestinian authority's cut ties on protests broke out in the west bank. as fears peak globally over the corona virus outbreak there is a reported spike in discrimination against chinese nationals.