supplies for the next two winters. we are proposing common gas procurement and stricter rules for storage. because instead of outbidding each other and driving prices up, we should pull our common weight and start buying gas to gather. as your premiums not to any 27 different member states. and in addition we should use our gas storage facilities and some member states to secure the gas supplies everywhere in the gas supplies everywhere in the european union. the gas supplies everywhere in the european union. that s the eu commissioner. let s go to brussels and speak to guntram wolff director of the bruegel think tank. let s get your response to that idea. because, of course president zelensky of ukraine is urging everyone to stop buying gas and oilfrom russia, he believes that will cause the most pain economically yet
are saying they have run out of adjectives to describe how bad the situation is in that city. ed, thank you, standby. let s go to brussels with nic robertson. nic, russia says the atrocities that we re seeing in mariupol and bucha and others are forgeries. their words but the proof and evidence against them is solid. do they think they can lie their way out of this? reporter: the satellite evidence that corroborate grea the point on the round, in bucha that russian forces were in control on the 18th of march, bodies were discovered lying on the ground. in the same places when recovery teams went in after russia pulled out. the ambassador of united nations saying they have gone into ukraine as peacekeepers, not as aggressive. and he said to the gathered chamber of the united nations,
today and also we heard him already say during this day that by the 31st of october britain is going to be out of the e.u. deal or no deal so now we go where we seem to know where the journey goes because he is ready to sort of drag the country out no move no matter what and many already deplore that if he comes into office the likelihood there s going to be a hard break so it is rising by the hour bob rafelson who london alex 1st washing thank you. will get a job in reaction in just a moment 1st let s go to brussels and get the reaction from back from our bureau chief max hoffman welcome box so how is the news of cerise amaze imminent resignation being received that. we had a couple of reaction so far phil for example from him in one of my calls office so the french president who said they needed clarification quickly what the exit path
about this development as i said yesterday. it means that the crew. do. to rethink its strategy all the broken go through fifty which is a true look at the for the u.k. government. the fate of. so far over to strengthen. let s go to brussels that were overjoyed. and correspondent barbara visa welcome barbara so the decision to delay briggs it was you not a must but was that meeting because they did seem to take an awfully long time. took an awfully long time for one simple reason phil i mean these twenty seven prime ministers presidents and chancellors and every single one of them things they have very important and they finally really need to sort of hash it out talk about
president in a bid to obtain exemptions for the european union from those tariffs germany now says it expects the cherubs to go into effect but with no final word yet from the white house some still hold out hope for a last minute change of heart in washington. let s go to brussels now to our bureau chief there. max if the wave is on those cherubs they have actually already been imposed but there are a wave on them if those wave is a lifted tomorrow how is the european union likely to react. well as you just pointed out we re not there yet the last time that trump granted the exemption it was a last minute call in the u. officials here in brussels are hoping that exactly the same thing will happen and that s why there will be a last ditch effort by the commissioner in charge for him to call her counterpart in the u.s. wilbur ross and try to convince him to extend those exemptions if it doesn t work