Personally and I think you have to see this in the light of a lot coming election they wish to pivot slightly in order to turn these last 3 years of hurling insults at NATO members are putting pressure on them into a result I've got them to spend more money I've got them to take the America 1st agenda seriously and that is very useful in the run up to the election President Trump has also hit out at French plans to tax digital Giants from next month which will chiefly affect the u.s. Tech sector Mr Trump said although he didn't love companies like Facebook and Google if anyone was going to tax them it would be America not France Washington has threatened to slap an additional $2400000000.00 worth of tariffs on French luxury goods in return in retaliation for the tax from Paris his He's Cofield the French finance minister brutal a message it was not the kind of behavior when expected from the u.s. Towards one of its principal allies and he said he would be in contact with the newly installed you committed to ensure that if the u.s. Measures go into effect there is a strong European ripostes France has argued from the start that its digital services tax is not aimed specifically at u.s. Concerns like Amazon or Google even if they are the companies that will end up paying the most financial markets have been jolted after President Trump warn that a trade agreement with China might not happen until after the u.s. Presidential election next November China's currency the yuan fell in response as did European share prices Mr Trump told reporters that he had no deadline for getting a deal done and that in some ways it would be better to wait the World Meteorological Organization says average temperatures since 2010 indicate that this decade will be the hottest on record Environment Correspondent Matt MacGraw reports from Madrid. From Australia to Alaska and in many other parts the summer of 2019 so on usually high levels of heat in the northern hemisphere around 400 new temperature records were set the w.m.o. Says the key here is the long term trend over the past 30 years temperatures have risen at unprecedented rates the cause the w.m.o. Says that without doubt it's down to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities the report has been presented at the global climate conference here in Madrid to urge negotiators to show great run Bishan in their carbon cutting pledges world news from the b.b.c. 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Dollars much of Syria's liquid wealth private and public is kept in Lebanon's banks but they have imposed the tighter controls on the withdrawal of dollars and the transfer of hard currency abroad this is prompted panic and a run on the dollar in Syria which is seen the value of the Syrian pound further collapse by some 30 percent this could have devastating consequences for the Syrian economy where inflation is rising far beyond the take home pay of ordinary Syrians police in Scotland have a rested in charge of $3.00 teenage boys in connection with more than 80 hoax bomb and shooting threats against schools it's alleged the threats were telephoned to schools in Scotland England the Netherlands the United States and Canada about a year ago the 3 being held aged between $15.17 b.b.c. News. Hello I'm Reza it Bell welcome to News Hour from the b.b.c. World Service it comes to you live from our studios in central London today NATO at 70 but the alliance is looking shaky with divisions between some of its most high profile members will be hearing from its secretary general shortly that is our top story today and the new treatment derived from an anti cancer drug promise is hope for the millions of women who suffer from endometriosis it stopped becoming cyclical pain it was far enough along in the process where it was just paid all the time been told your fish really have intimate uses it's kind of a lifelong sentence in a way because it is an incurable disease there is nothing they can really do about it well let's see here what can be done about it that's coming up in 20 minutes time to stay with us what's coming up this hour we begin though with a military alliance that has endured for 7 decades the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 70th birthday in London there is much to celebrate but also much to take stock of and divisions to heal and mend depending on who you listen to or who you choose to believe the alliance is the strongest in history at c.n.n. Stoltenberg Nato's chief or brain dead that ball Mo is from the French president Emmanuel macro and then there's the Turkish president red chip type one who says he will oppose plans for the defense of the Baltic if NATO doesn't back Turkey over its fight against groups it considers terrorists you'll remember the last time the leader of leaders of NATO countries met President Trump threatened to walk away from the group unless members paid more towards the Bloc calling it obsolete Well tunes are changing and today President Trump criticized his dangerous president Macross as a suggestion that NATO has decision making structure is brain dead. He was speaking at a joint news conference in London with the NATO secretary general Mr Trump described Mr macro's comment as very nasty and very disrespectful nobody needs Larry more than friends and frankly for one of the benefits really the least is the United States would benefit the least we're healthier you're unitedly going against a common for our may or may not be for here tell you that but there are other forces are there also but I think nobody needs it more than friends and that's why when friends makes a statement like they need you know it's a very dangerous statement for them to the. President Trump speaking today along the line is nice as leads do set 2 is at today's summit Turley's you've been speaking to the secretary general. Yes indeed I've done math in this what's called the NATO wind gauges conference here in central London and I have to say Razia when that quote from President Trump came through about very very nasty it went like a bolt of electricity through all the phones of the NATO officials who were waiting here at the conference for un Stoltenberg to arrive from his breakfast with President Trump so when I sat down with that Mr Stoltenberg I said to him What did he make of this comment will mark Paul's use to make sure that. Despite differences are able to stop together over the top of it because both of us realize that it isn't our national security interests which use a phrase like that very nasty it's also need to you know call it on the top of issues one are good it has an impact on oh I don't say I love all the good fighting going to dock on the discussions I will have made here which is a more difficult you know I was so models of these 2 dots. On the I was on the phone but I was the best of luck over the recent big he was very committed to NATO presenter of the special commitment to NATO thousands of units of the diversity that is to sit down me to say who discuss these issues face to face I will say that that meeting that meeting the hopefully will find ways to also solve the issues what we see is bad and I think the biggest challenge and it's you know top of the page is correct because we have huge challenges before we go from this is closest to the in the last 6 is from the left that Mr ration is made to another bag so so we have seen all the impacts to pronounce Yeah but no but it's also doesn't change the fact that I was the Swede before so so but the thing is that while. Differences I don't have the exact to say it is rivets that made us feel. It's really receded and it's really about the role also deal with the differences because we understand to be able to get we are sailors servants and by everyone's describing this birthday party it's muted. Fractious dysfunction all your own sparking in fact while you are the law it's which is the also source of us is history because we have a need to change the story as we continue to change to continue to be more successful licensed. He says he's still on the line for us Lees How would you characterize the mood given the how defensive he sounded and what everyone else has been saying. Well it's his job to defend the NATO alliance but I have to say Razi in talking to people from different NATO members and asking about the impact there's a president might cross comment that the alliance was brain dead they say that far from being a wake up call from the French there's been a push back at a doubling down by countries like Germany who are now more pro NATO than ever and I'm against Bolton were much the start to the day with a sigh of relief that at their breakfast President Trump now says he's a bigger fan of NATO but then of course another day another Twitter so we just can't be sure these Doucette. That joining us live not NATO but policy the beginning of it anyway let's speak to Ian lesser who is vice president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and he is also here at the NATO gathering and London. N.s.a. Let's go back a little bit and just remind people how much of an achievement it is that this alliance has lost it as long as it happens. Well you know I think sector generals are absolutely right it's really extraordinary that the alliance has lasted both through periods of very striking threat during the Cold War but also to go from some decades where it wasn't so clear what the NATO purpose was and I think some of the some of the Century see today from the very sharp language is ever flexion the fact that people actually do care about where it's going in the future. So do people care about where it's going but one wonders about what the tensions a doing to this alliance not least of President McConnell said but also what President chomps beef has been all along with the other members that they do not pay their way. Well you know the truth is that what President Trump is saying is in way nothing new in multiple American administrations come to Brussels with the same critique the style was very different I mean this is much sharper it's much much more difficult language but but it's not a new story you know it has always wanted needed a more NATO NATO allies to pay more for their defense and I think something is happening on that front but you know what the McCrone comment yet to is something which is a kind of parallel problem for NATO which is that there's a political side of this not just about the fence spending incapability it's also about what allies agree or not we're going to greet on together whether it's on Syria Russia or other things and and that's where I think McCall sees the guy when he's not just him that sees the gap president Edwin has has made his position very clear and also knee threatening to pull out of any defense in the bowl takes but also buying Russian air defense systems clearly putting a strain on the alliance Well absolutely I mean that's not just a technical choice the fact that Turkey opted to buy air defense system from Russia is a deeply political act and it's understood that way and you know I would have to say the relationship between Turkey and its NATO allies is now actually at rock bottom Mr above all with the United States and this is going to be very very hard to stick . And we've got the situation in Syria is not going away anytime soon but when you say it's really hard to fix what are the who are the players that could intervene and be the the the ones who might be able to. Just at least persuade President and Iran or President charm depending on which way it's way tape Well frankly I in my view if it's a conversation to be had between the 2 present themselves they are both inclined to personalise relations in a way that is a little unusual and they literally can get on the phone a great many things out if they want to but it's very good it's very difficult when and I'm not very optimistic about that happening in less a vice president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States thanks for joining us live here at the NATO gathering in London. Well let's stay with President Trump and fronts in particular because on Monday the administration in Washington proposed the imposition of 100 percent tariff so on up to $2400000000.00 worth of French goods including champagne this is in response to France's technology tax a 3 percent tax on tech giants such as Facebook Google and Amazon on their local revenues total sales in France rather than on the profits they make Let's talk some more about this with our economics correspondent Andrew Walker joins me here in the studio how has sponsored acted to what is being proposed by Washington and well in a word badly as you might expect the following is the brutal The man has said that the United States can expect a vigorous response from France if it goes ahead with these measures at this stage the United States is just putting out a list of products to target for consultation but the odds must be that they will go ahead and implement this Mr Mann has also indicated that France is taking this up with the European Union so I think it's on stage in the fairly near future we can expect there to be a discussion among European Union trade ministers who will look at the options for retaliating and the kind of retaliation I have no doubt they will consider is something very similar to what the u.s. Is proposing to do and that is to impose additional terrorists on all American goods is there any indication what did you know did this could not have come out of the blue because when when France announced the technology tax the United States made their position every clear there has been an investigation going on for for some time in the United States which the French knew was going on so yes they are I have no doubt they they are and they're not in the least bit surprised by this conclusion President trampin his officials had made it very clear that they didn't like the the French. Proposed tax on digital services they thought it was unfair in targeting American technology Johns in going in applying to revenue rather than profits and in terms of. Being imposed in countries where the business concerned has no physical presence at all the statement The United States has put out in the last year has makes it very clear that they're very unhappy on all those counts with what the French are planning to are in fact already doing I mean what what how do you think this is going to play out because it does seem as though the United States is now fighting in terms of trade on many different fronts President Trump it is there's no question has got a very very much more muscular approach to trade policy this is not even the only front on which he is fighting with the European Union there is there is other retire your u.s. Retaliates reaction in place over subsidies to the aircraft maker and bass that was authorized by the World Trade Organization the proposals that were seen here are not but he also has of course the ongoing dispute with China and widespread action against imports of still an aluminum so there's no doubt about it President Trump sees trade policy as a way of achieving industrial objectives in the United States which most economists think could be done much better in other ways Andrew Walker thanks very much. Coming up later in today's program 2 weeks off to going missing a man has walked out of the harsh Australian desert but one of his friends remains lost. The 100 k's from many ways only in those kinds of places there's not a lot of people living out there even our fathers are having a hard time. Stay with us for that story the b.b.c. News headlines this hour the NATO secretary general says the alliance's 70th anniversary summit has got off to the best possible start but it's been marked by rousing and insults between member states the European Commission has told the Maltese government not to interfere in the investigation into the murder of a prominent journalist and scientists say the current decade is on course to become the hottest ever recorded. This is news ally from the b.b.c. In London. An American woman who says she was brought to Britain age 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew is urging the British public to stand beside her the genius Jeffrey has told b.b.c. Panorama she was trafficked for sex with the prince by the wealthy sex offender Geoffrey Epstein Prince Andrew says he can absolutely and categorically say it never happened the B.B.C.'s Darren the reports Virginia due for a formerly Virginia Roberts has already made allegations that have created a crisis for the royal family in her 1st interview for British television she describes of being trafficked to London by Jeffrey Epstein on a private jet in 2001 and then being introduced to Prince Andrew She says the introduction was made by Epstein and his then girlfriend the socialite Calais marks well at her London home she says the later went to trump and my club where generations of royals have let their hair down Prince Andrew says he has no recollection of what she describes but she says she remembers him he asked me to dance. He is the most hideous dance for I've ever seen in my life I mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me like his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere is like. Crossed out from that but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Geoffrey would expect from me she says that when they left the club delay Mox well instructed her to have sex with Prince Andrew later that evening she says she did as she was told. In an interview with the b.b.c. 2 weeks ago the Prince said he didn't recall meeting her he said he had a medical condition that meant he did not sweat on the claim he had sex with her he said he can absolutely and categorically say it never happened I asked about a photo of him with his arm around virginity Friday the Prince said he didn't recall it being taken and questioned whether it was his hand in the picture but in her b.b.c. Interview which was reported before Prince Andras virginity for a says the prince cannot be telling the truth people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses like his arm was a long. Dr I mean I'm calling b.s. On this because that's what it is he knows what happened I know what happened and there's only one of us telling the truth and I know that's me Buckingham Palace says the Duke of York emphatically denies having any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Jew Frey and that any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation but for Jenna Jew Frey says she is now calling on the British public to support or I implore the people in the. To stand beside me to help me fight this fight. This is not some s