no, let's talk about the new rules within the european commission. the ft refers to a three—day gruelling summit where they tried to whittle down who they believe should have these key roles. it has highlighted christine and ursula. was not an easy task to these final names, was it. it was far from easy and we saw on monday in a few days before that there was what agreement amongst eu leaders on who they would want to nominate even in the end the eu is not in an easy state at the moment given there is disagreement about whether union should go. it was expected that this would not be an easy. interestingly we have seen this movement from the eu parliament to nominate their own candidate, which eu leaders yesterday

overlooked yesterday by nominating von der leyen as the candidate for the head of the european commission which is something that still needs to be approved. that is the thing and that is what the financial times highlights. it says that although there was year near unanimous support in the end for these various nominations, the european parliament will still have resistance. so it is not necessarily a smooth path at this point. no. and an interesting development given that we have seen the european parliament try to find its role in the last few years and become a stronger power in this set of institutions governing the european union. i guess it will not be easy for von der leyen to get approvalfrom be easy for von der leyen to get approval from parliament, even though one of the candidates that the parliament had suggested has

already said that his time as a candidate is over. so that may ease the transition for von der leyen. for christine lagarde moving to the ecb if her nomination as agreed upon". ecb if her nomination as agreed upon... iwas ecb if her nomination as agreed upon... i was not surprised to hear about that. the ft says that the selection of her to replace the current president is not surprising. she has been a fixture in the world of global finance since her time as french finance minister and then the head of the imf. the papers are pointed out that she does not have a central banking experience so far and previous leaders of the european central bank have all been national heads of their central banks before they got the post. the other thing we must remember is that christine

lagarde was in the middle of the negotiations with the european central bank and with the european union when it came to the bailout of portugal, greece, ireland, in the middle of the eurozone debt crisis. she had to work through all of that with angela merkel and other leaders sitting which is why mrs merkel has been saying that if you can run the imf you can run the ecb. we shall see. i would love to hear your take on this. it is quite interesting. despite the fact that the uk is leaving the eu, the language spoken at all meetings in the european —— union will be the english language, won't it? because that is the language. this article about the british council has found it has put a report out to show that the uptake of language now in options where children decide on their options for gcs thes, languages falling

dramatically and sums reports are suggesting that parents are saying well, there is no need to learn another language now because we are moving out of the european union.” find that interesting. that comes on the back of language learning being less, ifind, of the back of language learning being less, i find, of a the back of language learning being less, ifind, ofa priority the back of language learning being less, ifind, of a priority here in the uk than in continental europe and germany where i went to school where it was mandatory to learn not just english but then a second language in my case was french. you can debate if that is useful, i went to chinese —— china and learn some chinese. the fact you learn a language is beneficial, independent of whether you can use that language for worker business afterwards. culturally in the uk, you tell me and we assume that those who live in europe and other countries just think we really lazy because quite often when we travel overseas we don't often try to speak a foreign

language or what have you. is that your opinion? is that the view? she is on bbc news... everybody on europe speaks english and i guess thatis europe speaks english and i guess that is the problem. unless you are faced with a situation where you are ina faced with a situation where you are in a country where you cannot communicate because people do not speak english, you do not understand the need to learn a foreign language. let's hear some views from viewers. thomas says that a foreign language is pointless unless you live in a country where you can study and use the language daily. he had studied french but was devastated when he went to the country and could not use the language. one opinion is actually that this story is completely misleading. the this is the view of ian who says that learning languages in the uk has been declining for 20 yea rs, in the uk has been declining for 20 years, it is not necessarily because of brexit. culturally, as you say,

because english is spoken as a second language in so many countries the need for us to learn another language is not as great as it would be in your case. that as you say, when you grew up it was seen as a given that you had to learn at least a second language at school. in the end it is also about changing your mindset and outlook on the world. i would not be where i am now working foran would not be where i am now working for an american newspaper being a german in the uk if i had not been encouraged to learn english. looking at this story about nikkei. this was explained to us earlier, it is about the use of the flag on these sneakers that are coming out forjuly for. it is a special pair of trainers. what is going on? forjuly for. it is a special pair of trainers. what is going 0mm seems that nike decided that the choice of this particular flag,

which is a historic us flag... choice of this particular flag, which is a historic us flag. .. it has one was started. that it was not the right choice after criticism from colin kaepernick, a sportsman sponsored by nike. interestingly we saw the governor of arizona criticising nike for choosing to pull the products saying that political correctness is not appreciated. it underlines how difficult it is for companies these days... apparently anybody who has a pairof days... apparently anybody who has a pair of these sneakers that have been pulled back by nike, anyone who got hold of the pair can be sell them on ebay now for $2000 and make a fortune. let's move on because we are running out of time. this story is interesting, china forcing tourists to install text stealing malware at the border. what are the details? based on this report, people travelling into china,

especially into the western provinces of china had a programme installed into the phones by border officers looking at text, content, contacts and at any files that they had on their phones. it is interesting because it comes a time when chinese authorities are cracking down on the muslim population in the province. we saw reports last year of according to which there are more than i million people in the detention centres. i find it interesting that they are now as if the chinese authorities are going after foreigners as well because in the end this region is not heavily travelled. it is not a place forforeign not heavily travelled. it is not a place for foreign tourists to go to. soi place for foreign tourists to go to. so i guess it illustrates how much ofa so i guess it illustrates how much of a concern this region seems to be from a chinese perspective and, of course, human rights watchers have criticised the move is another sign of china just going to far in its

treatment of the area. let's not talk about the telepathy story. i will tweeted for those who are interested because comment nina, you are moving to new york. you will work for the wall were wall street journal in new york? yes. starting july 23 and continuing to cover corporate finance. please don't forget us here. you and your husband are doing crazy double marathons on are doing crazy double marathons on a regular basis as well. marathon one day then won the next. that is ionic. it's been made to have you with us and i hope you will come back. i am sure we will see you again. thank you to our viewers as well for your company. have a good day and i will see you soon. hello there. july has started on a dry

note for most of us, certainly a far cry from the weather we had for at least some ofjune. the met office has now released provisional rainfall statistics for the month ofjune. where you see the darker blue colours on the chart, well, those areas had around double the amount of rainfall they would normally expect during the month as a whole. but as we look ahead to the rest of this week, well, it stays dry for many of us. just a little bit of rain around across the north of the uk. now, we start off wednesday morning on a rather chilly note, some rural spots in scotland and wales down around two or three degrees, towns and cities not quite as cool as that. but, as we go through the day, most of us will see some sunshine. some patchy cloud lingering for east anglia and the south—east, but further west across england and wales, probably more sunshine than we had during tuesday. there will be more cloud into northern ireland and scotland. some rain in the far north, where it will also be quite windy. winds also picking up close to the english channel coasts and the channel islands, but in the best of the sunshine through the afternoon, temperatures topping out at 21 or 22 degrees. so it is another promising day

in prospect at wimbledon. there will be patchy cloud around, often fairly large amounts of cloud, i think, but some spells of sunshine breaking through. those temperatures up to 22 degrees in the gentle north—easterly breeze, and it's a fine end to the day across most parts of the uk. as we go through the night, it stays predominantly dry, with clear spells. always more cloud toppling into northern ireland and scotland, some rain in the northern and western isles, and not such a cool night — temperatures between 9—12 degrees. so we go on into thursday. the further south you are, that's where we'll see the best of the sunshine. more cloud for the far north of england, northern ireland and scotland, and rain making a bit more progress across the northern half of scotland. some particularly heavy bursts of rain for the western highlands, breezy here as well, and temperatures across scotland between 14—16 degrees. but further south, 25 or 26

degrees looks likely towards the south—eastern corner. now, another warm day to come in the south on friday, with some sunshine. but that cloud in the north will make a bit more progress southwards through scotland, northern england, northern ireland, taking a band of rain with it. and that band of rain is associated with a weather front, a cold front, which will continue to journey southwards as we head into the start of the weekend, and that opens the door to some cooler air spreading its way down from the north. so temperatures dipping away for all of us as we head towards the weekend, but it looks like staying predominantly dry. that's all from me for now.

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