What is the future of the European Union . Thats what we will be talking about today. What does it mean to say European Union as a democracy deficit . Supernatural governance, is it combatable with selfgovernment . Will the british leave the eu in june . If so, what does this mean for the european project . Will germany the indispensable motor, pull back from the dream of a European Political Union . Will the cultural, political and security challenge of radical islam, both within europe and abroad, strengthen or weaken the eu. What affect does putins russia have on the politics of the eu . What does the refugee crisis mean for european political integration and the concept of an ever closer union . What is the future of the eu mean for the United States . And the Transatlantic Alliance. We will be trying to answer some of the questions this morning. We have an outstanding panel of experts with differing viewing on these ishz adiffering views e and the European Union. Im interested in
Colleagues, i think it is important to learn from what we have seen in the past. The conundrum is north korea is not easy and it will require partnership with the countries in that region and in many cases we have all landed in the same place, china really does have to take a leadership role. It is the one country that does north korea, with but it will take a partnership between the Chinese Government and the russians, japan, are korean allies, along with u. S. Leadership in order to adjust this. It is in all of our interests to deescalate tensions, to try to bring north korea into the 21st century, and the other goal i think many koreans have is the reunification. It will not be easy. It will take world leadership, it will take nations along with the u. S. In that region working together. But it can be done if we put our minds to it. We have to. There is an urgency as indicated by their recent, north Korean Nuclear test. It is compensated and the president complicated and the preside
Mosquitoborn virus. Reporter im with all the sports. The action at the australian open. Play was suspended on the main arena as the coach of star collapsed in the stands first the tunisia Prime Minister is holding an emergency Cabinet Meeting to talk about this weeks wave of protests by the unemployed. He cut short a visit to france on thursday. A nightly curfew has been in place across the country since friday. We go live to our correspondent who is in tunis capital. Tell us about this emergency Cabinet Meeting. Reporter the meeting is underway and topping the agenda is how to contain discontent and diffuse tension. We think that the government is going to come out saying or taking some concrete steps about how to contain and find thousands of jobs over the country. He said in his speech that when he took over he found about 700,000 tunisians without jobs and with the constraints of the budget he may not be able to offer jobs to all those people. It is a very delicate task for the gov
In saudi arabia on the 2nd of january including a notable shia cleric, that exacerbated relations and, of course, subsequently there was rioting, protests outside the Saudi Arabian em bay is in teheran. So relations between those countries very tense at the moment. And saudi arabia feeling very uncertain and not at all happy about the idea of this new age of [ inaudible ] between iran and the west as a whole. Jacky, thanks very much. I want to taking now to washington d. C. And speak to our correspondent there, Patty Culhane. Jacky was speaking about internationally there were various countries like israel and saudi arabia who were certainly not fans of this deal. Domestically in the u. S. Many people have criticize third degree deal with iran. Reporter republicans particularly yeah, they have said basically they have two complaints, one, they said, that the president shouldnt be making any deal with iran over its Nuclear Program while american while americans were being hemmed prisone
Desert. And Climate Change, why the u. N. Says the window of opportunity is closing. After the most expensive Midterm Campaign ever, election day is almost here. The candidates are down to the final push. The big prize tomorrow, control of the senate. If republicans take over, it will be even more difficult for president obama to get his agenda through congress. That includes Getting Senate approval for the president s judicial nominee. Tonight we begin with David Shuster. John, were told the number of early ballots now number 18 million. Republicans are trying to get a pickup in North Carolina and turn it from blue to red, democrats are trying to flip georgia and turn it to democratic blue. In georgia the percentage of earlyballots cast by African American voters now stands at 33. 1 . That is a larger share than the 2012 president ial election, and 13 points higher than the African American portion in 2010 midterms. This would appear to be good news for the democratic candidate. She a