Im sarah montague. The European Union in greater trouble than ever before. Its notjust because of brexit, even founding members countries like italy are unhappy about the direction its headed. The Italian Economy has always struggled within the straightjacket of the euro. And its wanted its fellow members to help share the burden of the half a million migrants who have turned up on its shores over the past three years. My guest here at the Italian Embassy in london is italys europe minister, sandro gozi. He is a passionate european. How does he think the eu should change if it to survive and win over the next generation of europeans . Sandro gozi, welcome to hardtalk. You have said that the beginning of European Disintegration has started with brexit. Is the eu disintegrating . If it remains the status quo, certainly. It must get out of the status quo. It must show there is a political reaction to the series of crises that has hit the union. Among these, the major one is certainly the
Live from studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. It is sam good morning. It is 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in florida, where the leaders of the two economic superpowers have met for the first time. Chinas Resident Xijinping is having dinner with donald trump at his resort in palm beach. They will have a Working Lunch late on friday and we arent expecting any golf, as president xi is not a player. Reuters has said that President Trump has said he expects a very great relationship with president xi in the long term. Our correspondent is in florida for us. Our correspondent is in florida for us. What have we seen and heard so farfrom them . Us. What have we seen and heard so far from them . Well, they started with some socialising. This dinner they had, the two couples and their delegations. Trump said earlier that he had been talking to president xi for a long time already and had got absolutely nothing so far. He also continued to
To the clubhouse knowing he becomes only the fourth world number one to miss a major championship. Obviously i want to play more than anything. Just sitting on the putting green, i was having a few swings and i just putting green, i was having a few swings and ijust cant putting green, i was having a few swings and i just cant swing putting green, i was having a few swings and ijust cant swing the ball. It is pouring down with rain, so ball. It is pouring down with rain, soi ball. It is pouring down with rain, so i was going to go and move the carandi so i was going to go and move the car and i slipped as i was going down the stairs. On the course at augusta national, Charley Hoffman holds a four stroke lead after the first round following a near immaculate seven under round of 65. Three time winner Phil Mickelson is one under while world number two rory mcilroy is still in the hunt for the only major hes yet to win. Jordan spieth, three over, the champion Danny Willett is won over and
The european commissioner, peter mandelson, has questioned the wisdom of publishing the cartoons, he says, publishing them again and again pours petrol on the flames. You talk about frustration with governments, now, but your whole career, basically, sounds as if its been banging your head against a brick wall. Great to see you, how are you . How do you feel, as president , that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory . Oh, gosh, yes. I understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you, am i not right . Cheers yeah to the next 20 years how come you all have water, and i have got wine . Thats terrible so go on, youve got to take us back to the first run. We want to hear, tim, your thoughts on how it all started, and what it was all like. You know, the strangest thing about starting it was that people didnt talk about the conte
Picture in terms of blame for this Chemical Weapons attack being carried out because it had not met its commitments for guaranteeing that assad destroyed all of those weapons. Also had a go at russia for the way it responded to this Chemical Weapons attack. Its explanation was that the Opposition Chemical Weapons Depot had been hit and the gas was coming from that. They said it was completely implausible and that the russians promote a false set of facts every time the regime commits an atrocity. So they are really taking on the russians very much like we saw in the Un Security Council with nikki haley. Russia very much partly blamed for this attack. Just to recap, Rex Tillerson says they feel the strike was proportionate. The us military says initial indications are that the strike has severely damaged or destroyed syrian aircraft and infrastructure. This is at the airfield near the city of homs, believed to be the base from which the Syrian Government launched that attack on khan she