image and using find no meaning for me that i m wearing creasing green dangerous to . make. welcome back you re watching news i m terry march and our top story the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on russia over alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election it s also signed a joint declaration with france and germany in support of britain standoff with russia over a poison attack on a former russian spy. and german chancellor angela merkel is heading to france for talks with president manuel mccomb discussions are expected to focus only on some vicious agenda with the european. russian s vote in presidential elections this coming sunday march eighteenth with vladimir putin all but guaranteed another six year term it was on that same day march eighteenth four
used much firmer language kate than chancellor angela merkel let s have a listen in to what my aunt had to say to put the quad the high school said everything makes us believe that russia is responsible for the us and others in the joint work of the british and french agencies confirms that. there s if france strongly condemns this unacceptable attack on the soil of an allied nation that they can accept evidence. so a very forceful amount while mccaughan there he also had this to say by the way said i will have the opportunity to talk about this tomorrow with chancellor merkel she s on our way to paris during her paris visit no i will announce in the coming days the measures that we intend to take kate can we expect more sanctions also from the side of france and germany at least from germany side it really depends
russia over a poison attack on a former russian spy and german chancellor angela merkel is heading to france for talks with president i m on a book called their discussions are expected to focus on my calls and issues agenda for the european union. you re watching the news coming to you from berlin and we have more in just a couple minutes the whole. movie .
leaders who have built a strong relationship since mccollum s election or expect discuss not just the british russian crisis but also the french president s ambitious agenda for the european union the call is pushing for a eurozone budget as well as greater tax harmonization and is hoping that berlin will join his campaign. german chancellor angela merkel is under pressure even with a new government the european union is keen to move forward and french president emmanuel along with the rest of europe wants to move even faster. if you want to forge a compromise at european level you need to have a strong german government in place i think that there are two real tough issues which need to be settled. paris wants a strong euro zone with its own budget and an e.u. finance minister berlin would prefer a european monetary fund in spite of the new german government finding common ground remains difficult there is pressure coming also from paris because next year
up its pace. it is kept europe waiting long enough now it s time for berlin to deliver. political correspondent kate brady is still with us kate a lot of on the call must be thrilled that chancellor merkel finally has her government in place and can. finally weigh in on the ongoing discussion about europe s future what is amenable mccollum likely to hear from the chancellor when they meet today well i think at the moment he shouldn t be expecting to hear too much of course we heard from michael elliott in the week just after she was race warren and as a german chancellor she was keen to get the ball rolling i m a quick progress in pushing through these a year reforms but of course she is also taking her new finance minister off scholtz with her today and i think this will be quite and interesting as i experiment from a call to see how schultz who is obviously a social democrat and medical