Hello I'm Aaron Marshall with the b.b.c. News from says recording its ambassador to Italy for talks after what it said was a series of unfounded attacks and outrageous statements by Rome on Wednesday France warned Italy's deputy prime minister Luigi Demaio not to interfere in its internal affairs our correspondent in Paris Hugh Schofield reports on an escalating diplomatic the foreign ministry in Paris does not mince its words France it says in a statement has been the target of repeated accusations groundless attacks and outrageous declarations from the Italian government what it is referring to is a meeting that took place on Tuesday when the 5 star leader Luigi Dimaio came without telling the French government to the central French town of all dodgy and met some leaders of the n.t. System yellow vest movement pictures on his social media accounts for Mr to my you smiling in the group photograph of his text reads the winds of change have crossed the Alps for president back wrong this is a clear breach of the unwritten rule that foreign countries do not intervene in the politics of their neighbors the president of the European Council Donald Tusk as said there's no breakthrough in sight to the deadlock over Britain's exit from the European Union after meeting the British prime minister to resign may Mr Towser tweeted that talks would continue this is May is again being in Brussels where she said there was a strong desire for the u.k. To leave the European Union with a deal the European Parliament's Breck's a coordinator gave a half stat said Europe was worried about what would happen if a deal would not reached a no deal is for as not an option and it is a disaster on both sides off the channel and it is in fact irresponsible from some politicians in Britain to go for such a no deal and to be fair in fact such an ordeal the head of Instagram has vowed to remove all images of self harm from the image sharing app after an outcry over the suicide of a British teenager Molly Russell. Speaking to the b.b.c. Most area admitted that his company wasn't doing enough to police graphic images of self harm and suicide we have to accept the responsibility that we have to keep people say we have to of more quickly make more progress on all of those issues and I think we also have to be transparent about what we do and how we do it is to preserve He also said he would consider his position if such images were still found on the app in 6 months time while the Russell's parents believe the 14 year old took alone life in 2017 after viewing graphic material on the app regulators in Germany have said they will impose new restrictions on the way Facebook collects data from its uses sometimes without their knowledge the German anti trust watchdog accused the company of abusing its market dominance to gather information Facebook said it would appeal against the decision. You're listening to the latest world news from the b.b.c. 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On the members of the Lancet National Council of provinces philosophically This is our guest on the b.b.c. World Service on bench a loss for life this is going 5 past 5 here in London and just going 5 to 7 in South Africa the voice you hearing is president so rather Tyler has just begun his state where the nation will address the parliament in Cape Town Let's listen and think you know us to Miami now and one member of the are certainly here none other that Mr Julius Malema whispered and said sing it. Sing it he was challenging me to sing the song I hesitated for it was. Thinking that I would take him up on his challenge and sing I thought wise not to do so. Yesterday by accident I met Mr Julius Malema and we reached an agreement on how best a song like this could be sung we are agreed that if the e.f.-s. Wins the election. Is installed as the president of South Africa. Then he will invite me to come up stage and sing for him so that is truly moving forward thank you and by Cher accident I also met missed most of my mani. And I also recruited him to become a member of the band and we are going to form a if we're going to form a wonderful bat and when Mr Mollett Maryse president and stands here we will perform for him. It is a great or not to stand before you today to deliver the 25th Annual State of the Nation address in a free and democratic South Africa this year as a diverse people and as a united nation we were all of us South Africans celebrate one of the great has also human achievements. We are. The triumph of freedom over subjugation the triumph of democracy over a show. And the triumph of hope over the. Present we were. Of South Africa beginning his State of the Nation Address in parliament in Cape Town with a couple of gags to be honest before we got into the meat of the politics and Starr said laying out some of the key themes talking about a couple of the opposition party leaders who are also in that chamber Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters party always evidence in that chamber in their red uniforms and Berets the policy that threatens some disruption in this address or maybe. Trying to diffuse some of that ad before he gets into the meat of what he's talking about and also mentioning. He's the leader of the Democratic Alliance and those 2 will be his challenges in the presidential election later on this year is South Africa votes once again and our team in South Africa are listening to all of that speech and will bring you all of the key points that Cyril Ramaphosa makes a little later on this hour on this and give some analysis of the message that he has been putting across this is our us on the b.b.c. World Service from politics in South Africa let's go to politics in the United States we spotted the phrase green new deal as one of the top global Twitter trends at the moment let's speak to our senior with America reporter Anthony circa in Washington d.c. To explain what the green need deal and what is it also phrases been around for a couple of decades but it's really been adopted by Alexandria casu Cortez who's the young new member of Congress a Social Democrat out of New York who upset a long serving member of Congress and become a star on the progressive left and the way she defines. The Green New Deal is outlined in some some think she's put on her website and legislation she's sponsoring and that she calls it a 10 year national mobilization to address climate change a mobilization on the scale of what the United States did in World War 2 The goal would be dramatic cuts to carbon emissions the ultimate goal would be a total reliance on renewables 0 emission energy no fossil fuels and eventually no nuclear Now I said this is legislation that she's back in is more of a sense of Congress resolution this is an actual law that can be passed that's more a statement of principles and the idea is to transition the United States away from the current fossil fuel based economy and turn it into something that's renewable beyond that even talking about quality health care I guarantee job for every American affordable housing sorts of things they say would help cushion the blow from a transition such a a massive transition in the u.s. Economy is not for a deliberate act Franklin d. Reason after the Great Depression the program was cool giant. Deliberate Fry So we said it's a big conversation on social media we can see lots of people talking about how it's not conversation playing out well the people on the progressive left are embracing this the idea that this is a environmental crisis the world is facing that something big has to be done to address it they don't talk a whole lot about the cost of this they say it will be paid for by the government and taxes but they say the crisis is such that it requires thinking big like this now there are other people course who are criticizing this as unrealistic it would cost trillions and trillions of dollars there is a quote from the House speaker Nancy Pelosi who obviously is going to have a lot of say over over the direction of legislation in the House of Representatives and she said that this green. New Deal proposal is just one of several maybe many suggestions that they're going to receive she called it a green dream or whatever and she says no one really knows what it is but she appreciates their enthusiasm so she's effectively thrown a little bit of cold water on this she has put together a select committee on the climate crisis in the House of Representatives to address climate change and it's notable to say that Ocasio Cortez or the other member of Congress who is sponsoring this Ed Markey of Massachusetts neither of them are on this committee will climate change become a big issue in the 2020 presidential election we know and we've heard in the past President Trump so capacity right although in president's trumps state of the Union Address on Tuesday night he didn't make one mention of it at all however there I number a growing number of Democrats seeking to be the person who will challenge him next year for the presidency and all of them are starting to talk about climate change in this idea of a green new deal because it is popular among the progressive left among people who vote in the primaries they're being pushed to have their opinion on it and one of the reasons why because you Cortez's come out with more details on what the long term goals of it are is because she doesn't want people running for president for the Democratic nomination saying they support the Green New Deal but then putting their ideas on they want to have some sort of a framework that they can push these candidates to adopt but it is something that pretty much every candidate is going to have to address at some point because it's something that is being talked about on the progressive grassroots as an important issue for them and they have to they're going to be pressed to take a stand on whether they support these long term goals of 0 emission 0 carbon emissions doing away with the necessity of air travel by adopting high speed rail for instance a things like that is going to be a challenge for them to try to talk about this but also appeal to moderates and keep keep themselves open to support from. Independence that they'll need in the 2020 election and very briefly Anthony when it comes to President Trump people will remember and it sticks in the mind his phrase about climate change being a hoax and talking about the Chinese involvement and in his view. Does that remain his his position but that's pretty much is position he'll tweet about it every so often when there's a cold snap somewhere in the United States saying you know wish we had a little bit of global warming if he views that I think is a way of baiting the left because it's an important issue to them but he doesn't view it as something that needs to dramatically be addressed he is very much on the side of well the climate may be changing it always changes humans may or may not be contributing to it but it does not require anything that would cause upheaval in the u.s. Economy thank you very much indeed for our senior North America reporter Anthony. To. Catch up on the process of bricks it Britain leaving the European Union British prime minister to resign May has been back in Brussels today to try to seek a legally binding changes to the BRICs it withdrew agreement the agreement setting the terms under which the u.k. Will leave the European Union of course he's got to do that because the u.k. Parliament voted against that deal she spoke to reporters after meeting the president of the European Commission and. She told reporters that she was intent on getting a deal with Brussels and insisted the u.k. Would leave by the sched jewel departure date that's the 29th of March crucially president and I have agreed that talks will now start to find a way through this to find a way to get this over the line and to deliver on the concerns that parliament house so we get a majority in parliament and I'm clear that I am going to deliver Brecht's it I'm going to deliver it on time that's what I'm going to do for the British public I'll be negotiating hard in the coming days to do just that so promise to Theresa May who's been. Brussels Brussels reporter Adam Fleming is always there he of course has been following the talks we spoke to him earlier what's happened is that they're going to have a meeting next week between the British Bragg's secretary gargles even Barclay and Michel Barnier the chief negotiator on the e.u. Side and are going to talk about finding a solution to this deadlock so in the few days of the last few days or the e.u. Saying comes with some suggestions you can't reopen the deal now they're still saying the same thing but there's going to be a formal process where the 2 sides will at least talk so it's reason make and say she has got something because on the face of it it doesn't look like this any common ground until well as soon as they announce that they were going to talk again you got different emphases from the 2 sides the u.k. Was saying yes we're going to discuss the withdrawal agreement that's the legally binding divorce treaty which the u.k. Wants changed and the e.u. Said Well don't be so Casey this is just an opportunity for us the e.u. To hear what the U.K.'s ideas are so definitely differences of emphasis there and the e.u. Continues to say that the withdrawal agreement will not be reopened which is what the u.k. Wants I was really interested in though as I said as a connoisseur and a geek of the process this political declaration which is a separate document this not legally binding but sets the the some ideas for the future relationship will be the blueprint for the future relationship negotiations which will take place after Bragg's day in March the e.u. Is now dead keen to upgrade that with better language about the speed of the negotiations and I wonder Will that convince some wavering members of parliament when they see that in black and white just about the E.U.'s intentions and its desire to not use this I was backstop ever if that will convince just enough people did Donald just comment yesterday special place in Alan all of that changed anything today I don't think so because he didn't actually criticize the prime minister her South he was very careful to talk about people in the British political class but not her. Those reason may did apparently give him a bit of a telling off when she saw him face to face today the B.B.C.'s Adam Fleming and if you enjoy that geek Yury around Brock's it then d.c. Can be cast podcast wherever you get your podcast with detailed conversation around every aspect of this process let's look at what's happening from a perspective from Poland now. Is a correspondent for Polish public broadcaster t.v. Pay also in Brussels following this story thanks for taking the time to speak to us how have you seen today's events. Hello Mr Peter I'm sorry for my both but I'm still a little bit sick. So in Poland we are observing this we. Attention because of the few fact that there we have there is a big group of Polish people working and living in the u.k. So for power and questions that. Are exciting important 2nd for Poland the u.k. Is still one of the main power inside the e.u. And NATO as well so for us it is very important and from Polish point of view of course today there is no visible progress but we hope that it will be a conversation that debate will continue and that it will be some chance to find some compromise between you and you create the fight. Is how it breaks because it was there were threats to not ever and what sort of compromise do you think might be palatable to the Polish people the Polish government what do you think willing to encourage the e.u. To compromise on if anything if they believe that that's what's required and not the British to do the compromising I have not only be the chance recently but also we for European peace and I heard few versions 1st that maybe it would be possible to postpone the activation of Article 15 and it will be not the end of March but maybe join our even next year so we'll take. Time to find some solution and also to Brussels it is 1st of 3 and secondly that maybe it will be kind of a smart. Cosmetic changes in this agreement negotiated November in Brussels I think it's now. Is a cosmetic changes so changing what some of the wording said to keep the the meaning really that a substantial meaning of what has been agreed but maybe with a few. Yes to take give confidence to those who who might be critical here in the u.k. Exactly I mean some small changes but to give a chance the prime minister made to show the. Success conversation process and. The votes now for this agreement on another process I think that it is very important and I think that both sides should be rather for compromise not only Ok but also. Another 27 countries for. European Union because. Their worst scenario would be how it breaks it and we should do everything to avoid this why would that be problematic for Polish people we've heard some warnings from those who oppose. Leave the u.k. Leaving the European Union without a deal from people in Britain who see big downsides in that from a Polish point of view what's the conversation around why that would be bad. If some people are afraid that maybe they would those kind of position social position which they have reached since now that maybe it was their position in the job so much worse so what they are they afraid that they we lost our benefits. For good it yes before I let you go Dominique I must ask you about what we were talking about on the program yesterday actually the comments by Don and European Council president who is Polish former prime minister of Poland at talking about a special place and how for those who promoted Brock's it without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely. With those comments that surprised people in Poland. Not specially because i