Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the European Union's resistance to Donald Trump's 'threats' and the scientists discovering what British dolphins are doing beneath the waves

The European Union's trade chief said the 27-member bloc is committed to securing a trade deal with the US based on "respect" not "threats".

It comes after US President Donald Trump threatened to slap a 50% tariff on all goods sent to the US from the EU.

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey talks to Ryan Bridge about the message, and the scientists turning their attention to dolphins. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin Gray are UK europe correspondent, given this terrible story
about the snow resort in Switzerland. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, so the bodies of five skiers have been discovered
there and Ryan this is all at the very exclusive
luxury zoomat resort, but high up from where normally skiers
would venture. The five bodies were discovered a day after
emergency services were alerted by a group of climbers ascending

(00:27):
what's called the Rivschish, a four two hundred meter peak
in the Valet Alps. They had discovered several pairs of
skis left unattended near the summit, and then using airal
and ground searches they found the bodies. The victims were
at varying altitudes on avalanche debris in high altitude areas
near the Swiss Italian border. Obviously, at the moment we

(00:51):
don't yet know the names the identities of those but
as I said, this is a luxury resort very popular
with British and other European skiers. There's been some unusual weather.
They're actually in a separate incident. On Friday night, they
were involved in a challenging mountain rescue rescuing four who
were stranded amid fog and high wins, but they thankfully

(01:13):
were all brought to safety.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
And the European Union Trump going at it again, well,
Trump going at the European Union that says over the terriffs.
Turns out the ninety day pause could just be ripped
up next week.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, all eyes I think really focused on America when
it wakes up on Monday and what Donald Trump has
to say. He's now threatening to slap a fifty percent
tariff on all goods sent to the US from the
European Union. In response, We've had a pretty robust response
from the EU Trade Commissioner Maras Sefkovich. He's saying the

(01:47):
EU US trade must be guided by mutual respect and
not threats, and that we stand ready to defend our interests.
But this will really concern the EU because it is
one of Washington's largest trading partners, sending roughly eight hundred
and ninety billion New Zealand dollars worth in goods last

(02:09):
year and buying though just sort of eight hundred billion
New Zealand dollars worth, So a big, big difference in
the discrepancy, and that is something that Donald Trump is
obviously very very angry about it.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I can see the Germans are getting quite exercised about
it this morning as well. Thank you so much for that,
Kevin Gray are UK europe Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
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