Region as a whole. In short this is a model agreement that changes the trade landscape forever and this is an agreement that first and foremost benefits working people something of great importance to all three of us here today make no mistake we will stand up for our workers and fight for their families and their communities and donald its all the more reason why we need to keep working to remove the tariffs on steel and aluminum between our countries all right let me ask you what are you hearing at the g. Twenty summit about this new trade deal is it seen as a real improvement on nafta. Well not really brant most analysts that have taken a look at the agreement would conclude that it is not significantly different to the original nafta agreement maybe the only very important aspect is considering that nafta was signed in One Thousand Nine Hundred Three that it includes
a lot of digital aspects that did not exist at the time but other than that other than the concessions that it made
I say that but returns because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for girls than writing and by. Now. Back home. And social norms and informed and more dead basic rights my name is the amount of people and i work at. A low and welcome to Focus On Europe im brian Thomas Francis been shaken by the biggest protests the new years with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets against a president considered by many to be out of touch with everyday people the demonstrations
in paris turned violent with a small hard core among the protesters attacking Police Officers responded with tear gas and water cannon as the crowds tried to reach the Elysee Palace president mccalls official residence. Well its especially the new tax on Diesel Car Fuel thats bringing together a Broad Spectrum of socalled yellow Vest Protesters like. Ski they say its only a small elite who are profiting from. Priscilla is on her way to paris to organize a protest she hopes will shut down the Downtown A
incomes that are having a very hard time afford the increase in price. we are seeing an interest in people that aren t driving quite as far for their travels. this year s summer travel forecast indicated a lot fewer people driving over two hours to get to their destination, so it looks like people are kind of recalculating where they re going to go and not surprisingly, inflation is making things hard to plan. 70% of americans haven t really confirmed their summer travel plans yet. 40% saying the high price or high inflation is a contributing factor to that. patrick, on diesel, specifically, deals up at $5.58 a gallon, hitting some highs there. some companies are now laying off truck drivers because of the high price of diesel. the lack of truck drivers then feeds into the supply chain issues. the supply chain issues cycle back to the increase in prices. and we find ourselves in this cycle that everything just simply costs more. yeah, absolutely. and a lot of this cost, keep in
of the negotiating table. so, is it reasonable to assume that putin is not really yet in a position where he thinks, i have got to cut and run, i have got to make the best of my winnings and the worst of my losses? definitely not. i think he is probably pretty cross with the so called intelligence that he was given at the beginning. i mean, this is the problem with autocrats, john, you have met and interviewed loads of them in your time and people do not tell them the hard truths, they do not speak truth to power and i think with putin, he was told, by his intelligence chiefs, this will be a walkover, they will welcome you with open arms and of course that is not the case. the ukrainian army is in a far stronger position today than it was in 2014, they are running low on supplies, if those supply lines from the west are cut, they are going to be in trouble, they are running low on fuel, on diesel, on food, but the one thing they are not running low on is morale and that is something th
welcome you with open arms, and of course that is not the case. the ukrainian army is in a far stronger position today than it was in 2014. they are running low on supplies, if those supply lines from the west are cut, they are going to be in trouble, they are running low on fuel, on diesel, on food, but the one thing they are not running low on is morale and that is something that the russians do not have. a lot of them simply do not know why they are there. they have been pporly led, poorly supplied, poorly run, in terms of directions. their use of fire manoeuvre