a war that he clearly doesn t want that he s made clear he doesn t want and that he takes unilateral measures to deescalate as he did recently when he called off the air strike on iran in response to activities in the persian gulf it s a thin reed on which to end one s hopes but it may be the best we have you. are with the project on middle east democracy joining us tonight from washington we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. but it would be fair to ask how can the european union make the impossible possible with iran when it cannot even make a decision on who should be in charge france and germany had reached an agreement on who should be the next european commission president but other e.u. members appear opposed to that now after a marathon 20 hour summit with no results talks were cold and we understand they will resume tomorrow here s french president emmanuel microland on these divisions
a nest there. they re they re intimidated yeah yeah it must ve been a horrible experience you are aware as we are that the united states the european union they have been very vocal about their concerns over china s growing global influence a menu we know about who way and the five g. networks story the french president microland warning about chinese investments in europe how do you explain the silence of the west concerning what is going on inside china at the moment. you know your house different reasons briefly speaking in the first one. west. doesn t want to loose they call creation and participation of the chinese government in terms of their nuclear contour tar is
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also coming up tonight morning the late u.s. president george h.w. bush german chancellor angela merkel bullet in his state funeral tomorrow she says bush was a us leader who solved german reunification coming and refused to stand in its way by listening and politically unlike host this king. george bush the one of the. little bit. we begin the day with democracies disconnects there are three glaring examples to report on tonight the first one takes us to france today the government of president microland announced that it is postponing a controversial fuel tax increase now that tax hike designed to help battle climate change sparked two weeks of protests and violence across the country by people who say their president is more concerned about the end of the world and less worried
answer it sets the tone when the president had state who is by far the most covered individual in our country and perhaps in the world is regularly hostile toward the press and says things like journalists are the enemy of the people this is unprecedented in america we ve never seen a president so overtly hostile toward the media and it has set a tone i think for people around the world in democracies and in places that are not so democratic so in turkey and syria and iran they take their cues in egypt they take their cues from america and if it s good enough for america it s certainly good enough for places that are less free to demonize journalists you know earlier today the french president emmanuel microland he addressed the u.s. congress and hugh mentioned the plague of fake news this just take a listen to