As the fourth round of former breaks the talks and a britains Prime Minister to resign may says any transition period out of the European Union would be capped at two years and german chancellor Angela Merkel hits the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election this time shes helping out in a vote in one of germanys states. On a warm welcome to you im on the touch. The latest moves by iraqs kurds to what selfdetermination has thrown the region into crisis more than ninety percent of people in iraqs kurdish autonomous region in the north voted in favor of independence the Iraqi Government reacted with outrage saying the referendum was illegal neighboring turkey and iran which also have good minorities have both condemned the vote. As the god celebrated iraqs Prime Minister threatened serious consequences there were euphoric scenes among iraqs kurds after the official result was announced kurdish authorities said that with a seventy three percent voter turnout the poll had been a resoundingly success. At this historic moment i want to congratulate you on the success of the referendum on the independence of kurdistan in our autonomous region and the areas outside the autonomous region which kurdistan claims. In baghdad the reaction couldnt be more different iraqs government opposes the kurdish push for statehood and has demanded an immediate an element of the vote. Iraqs government has already taken retaliatory steps threatening to halt flights in and out of the kurdish autonomous region its also demanded that those behind the vote including kurdish leader Massoud Barzani face legal consequences iraqs Prime Minister allow but he said he wanted to keep his country united without resorting to the use of force that parliament has given him a mandate to deploy the military to the kurdish territories including the Oil Rich Region around the city of kirkuk that we will impose federal authority on the whole of iraq with the force of the constitution and the force of the law this is not a threat some people have made threats and some have used force to impose their will in the disputed areas we will use all the tools provided by the constitution and the law. The measures passed by parliament also called for the closure of Foreign Diplomatic Missions in the autonomous kurdish region. Neighboring countries turkey and iran are worried that the referendum will embolden their own kurdish minorities and are applying pressure with sanctions of their own. And for the very latest to have with me john this campbell he joins me from itd be in iraqs autonomy. Region now welcome campbell of the. Muslim. Politician what do you hope to achieve with this referendum. Well i think it was and truth is i think he was wearing a shoring up Domestic Support which he did also think he was. Going to get more International Support and she didnt so its a shrewd politician i think we seem to have be having problems with that line to be i think we have to leave it there im very sorry about that we did were having kind of some issues with that line and well try and get that up for you later moving along now mystic a look at some other stories making news at this hour a u. S. Air strike in afghanistans capital kabul has claimed a number of civilian casualties Officials Say the strike missed its intended target due to what they called a missile malfunction it had been aimed at militants who launch rockets and kabul airport on wednesday shortly after the u. S. Defense secretary jim artis arrived on a visit japans Prime Minister shinzo r b has dissolved the lower house of parliament clearing the way for snap elections next month be announced the move earlier this week in a bid to capitalize on high Approval Ratings but he could face a stronger than expected challenge from a new Opposition Party launched by took your sparkler governor your local care. People in puerto rico are pressing u. S. President donald trump to send more aid more quickly the u. S. Territory has been paralyzed since Hurricane Maria kit a week ago nearly everyone and beyond and some three point four Million People are without power nearly half dont even have Running Water and fuel is also scarce. To europe non britains Prime Minister to resign may has said any transition period out of the European Union would be capped at around two years shes under pressure from politicians who support braggs it to keep the transition period a short as possible and meanwhile the fourth round of formal breaks the talks ends today with both sides posturing to promote their own interests its difficult to get to the truth of how the negotiations are really going but did the obvious yog lot of things you may have found an answer. On the face of it the bracks the talks have so far been friendly and according to the u. K. Spread secretary david davis theyve delivered concrete progress but thats not the future of his e. U. Counterpart michelle been here. To be honest im concerned. So whos telling the truth lets stop here for. And take a closer look at the nonverbal messages of the two negotiators for instance in this situation a picture of their second meeting in july i showed it to an expert in body language at the university of louvin in belgium i think by the year is more credible than davis to me if just by looking at it you see and listening to him also you see ben you constantly in a consistent message his words are often very prudent hes hesitating there are moments where hes really expressing that and his body language is also like that so for instance when bunny forgets something he doesnt try to cover it up. Really does you know i forgot in the years youre. Mr davis you get and he comes even looking here at points at some moments he comes close to fake because hes too positive too happy this is a very happy face could be an Incredible Birthday Party and were ready to roll up our sleeves and get down to work and once more. With that lets do it thank you britain wants flexibility brussels wants commitments particularly regarding money both men are so far apart but who will take the first step the feet are interesting because as they are far from the brains you cannot control them and year you can see that davis has been really pointing towards. A sign that at least on a personal level things could move forward so keep negotiating gentleman and watch your feet. And that report was by a correspondent kyung lah to sanaa joins me from brussels you know despite some levity there breaks the talks are Serious Business and it seems that the food the round of talks at the end of it the still sides remain as far apart as before thats exactly right and returned both gentlemen have so far ruled out that there is a deadlock but if you take a closer look and see at the last couple of rounds the statements have been similar so i think they havent made a sufficient progress at least although david davis for instance said there was sufficient progress on some fronts but the real problem for the u. K. And for the year after all is that time is running out. In october there is a summit coming and on that summit leaders want to decide whether there is sufficient progress in the talks in order to talk about a future relationship so the the structure of the talks is first you talk about the divorce and then about a future relationship and unless there is sufficient progress then that step cannot be made and that is real dilemma here theres only one more negotiating round a fifth round before that summit in october and you the British Foreign minister is the me has been on a huge Charm Offensive ahead of these negotiations did that have any impact on the brakes the talks do you think. At the beginning of the first of this fourth round david davis the negotiator of the u. K. Here made clear that as to reason may rule pointed out in your speech the u. K. Is ready to honor its commitments but in accordance with and in context with a new future relationship and that makes clear the key to lemma here he does not acknowledge the division the structure of the talks first about divorce secondly once that is been cleared for instance the question of a huge breaks a bill the u. K. Has to honor and then secondly the future relationship and that is the key to that is so far hampering the talks to move forward and in that respect to recent mais speech hasnt made any changes at all that got matis in brussels thank you very much for that were turning out to our top story and the independence referendum in the kurdish area of iraq which has been strongly condemned by the Iraqi Government for the very latest i have on the line journalist campbell. He joins me now from being in the town in the sky this reason well. The iraqi good leader must goodbyes and he has a reputation of being a very shrewd pilot being assurance politician what do you hope to achieve by this independence vote. Well i think he was hoping to achieve a couple of things and the first was to shore up Domestic Support for him and his party and that he certainly did but he was also hoping to win over International Support ahead of the vote which he wasnt able to do but what you need to realize about him is that hes seventy one years old hes in the thirteenth year of an eight year president ial term that was extended and expired in two thousand and fifteen so he wont be standing again in the november elections here so this was his last chance for him to pursue his lifelong dream of kurdish independence so he took a gamble and its not clear at this point yet where that gamble is paying off now he wanted International Support but at the moment hes internationally completely isolated but how much pressure does the outcome of this referendum put on the Central Government in iraq more than eighty ninety percent of the people voted in favor of independence and the turnout was over seventy percent. It did but theres no Legal Mechanism by which this referendum you know requires any steps now to be taken so you know hes been saying this whole time that hes going to take this is a mandate to go to baghdad and negotiate but theres no requirement to take part in those negotiations what weve seen is baghdad saying no thanks were not going to negotiate on this because we see this vote is unconstitutional rides campbell down the road in iraq so its an almost a good if hes in thank you very much for that update. Youre watching the news still to come jill news chancellor Angela Merkel is hitting the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election well tell you why. But first im joined by Helen Humphrey from our businesses can President Trump has unveiled his long awaited tax reform plan he most certainly has some critics say that its a little bit thin on the ground regarding details but what we do know is that it could be a boon for the wealthy for corporations what we dont know is how exactly that money will trickle down to lower income American Workers that is not yet clear but many analysts have criticized as we mentioned that lack of detail but one of the biggest changes though is a drastic tax cut for corporations so lets take a listen now to the president outlining that part of the proposed tax overhaul doing everything we can to reduce the tax for you and your family by eliminating tax loopholes we will ensure that the benefits are focused on the middle class the working men and women not the highest income earners under our framework we will dramatically cut the business tax rate so that American Companies and American Workers can be our foreign competitors and start winning again. We will reduce the Corporate Tax rate to no higher than twenty percent thats way down from thirty five and thirty. And to unpack the president s tax plan and now im joined in the studio by professor from the Free University of berlin lovely to see you this morning now this document has been billed as a framework more than a plan and hes promised relief for companies what does that mean specifically. The companies are interested in the net that theyre getting from increased sales in the future when Economic Growth brings about new sales its going to be in the first instance the net income coming to the corporation that will be important for making these Investment Decisions if youre willing to invest more if you know theres going to be more sugar if we can call the extra profits sugar if thats offered so thats the theory behind everything but corporations are not people theyre owned by people Corporate Income goes to people who own stock and. Roughly the top. Thirty percent of the population own the very overwhelming majority of stocks so one looks at that as as much a redistribution as it is an incentive for further increased investment in dayton where we know that we could see the Corporation Tax potentially go from an average of around thirty five percent down to twenty percent potentially guaranteed boon for the wealthy the middle class could or so theyd be lifted through some of these tax proposals but my question is im wondering what about lower income people and families in america right now it looks like theres going to be essentially a sop a little bit could be coming out but when you hear a doubling of the standard deduction what is happening is a merger of whats called the personal exemption with the standard deduction so from the point of view of the small. Poor family there might be a fifteen percent increase in this deduction which means a tax saving but its its peanuts compared to dropping for instance the personal tax rate for these socalled passthrough companies by the way the Trump Organization is a pass through company and that would be an income tax rate of twenty five percent what are the chances that this reform will actually be implemented. Lets just say better than i think the repeal of obamacare with the repeal of obamacare was possible to mobilize people who are directly suffer the cuts the way this is all packaged is the necessary spending cuts will come in the future so the victims if you will or those people paying the cost of this tax reform will be mobilizing yet oh and from the Free University of berlin thank you very much. In a way to frankfurt our financial correspondent quanah that was and is at the Stock Exchange conrad germanys latest Economic Outlook is out i right in thinking that the German Government can enjoy an economic tailwind when it takes off this totally and its very likely that the Political Parties that will be trying to form a new Coalition Government in the coming weeks and months in germany will also discuss a lot about tax cuts because the Budget Surplus that is expected for germany due to this strong Economic Growth is very high twenty eight billion euros this year the Budget Surplus expected for next year is thirty seven billion euros and for twenty nineteen the experts predict a Budget Surplus of up to forty four billion euros surely the Political Parties will not be able to avoid the discussion of at least giving some of this money back to the taxpayers g. D. P. Gross domestic product for germany is expected to be about two percent this year and in the coming years and this would be around about as high as growth in the United States all right thats what we like to hear con and out of prison in frankfurt thank you very much. Well ryan it hasnt pulled out of its tail spin yet in fact things have got even worse for the budget alan its announces counseling another eighteen thousand flights between november and malts this month rhianna announced it was pulling up to fifty flights a day through the end of october often it quote messed up the planning of pilot holidays even relieved passengers whose flights havent been canceled might think twice about booking ryanair in the future what started as a mere debacle has turned into a Public Relations nightmare for Founder Michael oleary at a press Conference Last Week after the first round of cancellations he admitted serious mistakes have been made but does that mean that from time to time we dont make mess ups and we do with the security of michelle i take responsibility for the mess that it is my mess up and therefore i have to clean it up. Oleary apparently has a lot more cleaning up to do than anyone guessed the new round of cancellations this winter will affect up to four hundred thousand more passengers after a meeting with shareholders a week ago one expres