this is the news live from berlin and the rights to fill the job of big european heads of government meeting brussels to discuss a replacement for a commission president. and france appears to be heading for a showdown over the issue also on the program a big surprise in german football outsiders. call that.

tell you about this little clubs big victory in the relegation play. i'm for a welcome to the program. european heads of government are meeting in brussels to negotiate their picks for the top jobs within the block's bureaucracy following last week's parliamentary elections the heads of major institutions must now be replaced including the head of the european central bank another key job up for grabs is that of commission president which is currently held by john porter yoker whose term is due to end on the 31st of october with a u. leaders disagree over who should succeed him and how about cantor should be chosen german chancellor angela merkel french president emanuel macro are at odds over the issue. to get more oil not from our brussels bureau chief in just

a moment 1st so let's take a look at what makes the job of european commission president so important well the european commission proposes legislation so the president has a powerful role in shaping laws that affect the entire a you and the president appoints the e.u. commissioners with one commission from each member state the president decides who's in charge of what which countries commission is responsible for trade migration energy and so on so let's talk a take a look at the front runners firstly is germany's manfred a very but he is the leading candidate for the largest group in the parliament that's the conservative european peoples party backed by german chancellor angela merkel and then there is france to months from me is socialists and democrats group hiding from the netherlands he's calling for more social justice in the e.u. and the moderator vest from denmark alliance of liberals and democrats gained 40

seats in last week's election and she has the backing of french president emmanuel mark wrong so lots to fight over let's go to brussels where we'll find bureau chief max hoffman who has been following the summit welcome mats so lots of disagreements among the 28. well we don't know and you know why we don't know it's because for the 1st time 28 leaders were locked in a room in their phones jam literally so they can't talk they can't leak anything this is top secret but what we gather from the arrivals so far is and that's an important point that most of the leaders support the so-called spits and process it's terribly complicated word and it just means that basically you that different groups in the e.u. parliament have their lead candidate and only one of those lead candidates gets to be the you commission president later that is well

a process that was put in doubt 5 years ago including by the german chancellor but now it seems that she's accepted it and that would mean that only one of those 2 you just mentioned plans to months and months would be about and maybe market best of all it's not entirely clear if she really is a spitz and kind of sold the candidate or not will eventually be able to become e.u. commission president so it and among so all of that and we'll we'll explain it's a decision when and how will may satisfy the needs across so many different shades of opinion. it is a very difficult difficult puzzle of probably the most difficult puzzle in politics world wide and it is by the way the biggest exercise in transnational democracy i get america the german chancellor said she would like to have a proposal by the end of june because that way it would be ready for when the european parliament the new european parliament convenes for the 1st time at the

beginning of july it could drag on well beyond that though what we know is that to satisfy those many needs a problem we need a smaller country you'll need a larger country represented you need a country from the east from the west from the south and from the north you need liberals you need social democrats in the conservatives and also you need somewhere representative of the greens because they were one of the big winners of these e.u. elections it is complicated it's like game of thrones without the sex mags hoffmann in brussels thank you. german chancellor i'm going to michael's favorite successor has found herself in the middle of a storm of a free speech on a bad campaign leads the country's center right c.d.u. party and had floated the idea of new rules to control online media comments around elections it was seen in social media circles as her response to a viral you tube video calling for a boycott against the c.d.u. and other mainstream parties. miltiades you don't vote for the c.d.c.

to see as usual b.s. mediate did this appeal in 2 videos now with more than 15000000 combined views impact the outcome of european elections in germany the correlation is almost impossible to prove they shouldn't but germany's ruling c.d.u. licking their wounds from the lashing voters gave them at the ballot box are looking for answers one explanation offered by the conservative party leader germany's free speech norms haven't kept up with how people especially younger people share and express ideas. the question when it comes to shaping public opinion is what are the rules from the analog realm and which rules should apply to the digital realm we'll tackle this discussion quite aggressively. the statement was quickly criticized as a threat to free speech even party allies push back against it. because it says god . germany's basic law which just turned 70 and was drawn up here in bonn stipulates

that everybody has the right in various forms to express their opinion and you tube is a new medium that wasn't around back then but the law would certainly have applied to it so it's not journalism it's an expression of opinion and expression of opinions are not supposed to be regulated. can't have a good deal in a follow up tweet karrenbauer called it absurd to be accused of wanting to regulate speech what is clear her party which has governed germany under chancer agel americal since 2005 has struggled with the social media platforms that have developed in that time it's a digital divide these you tube ers have bridged challenging old traditional parties to figure out how to reach new younger voters right now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world opposition groups in sudan a holding a 2 day strike to protest the slow pace of talks with the building militia council you know situations and the transfer of power to a civilian authority stole this week after the 2 sides agreed

a 3 year transition period a cabinet and a legislature. officials in mexico say a japanese man has died on the flight after swallowing nearly 250 packets of cocaine the 42 year old had been travelling from bogota in colombia to tokyo his plane made an emergency landing in northern mexico after a flight attendant spotted him convulsing. reports from britain show that knife crime is soaring across the country with nearly 300 people stabbed to death last year the problem seems to be especially acute in the capital london where numbers of ethnic minorities and gangs are disproportionately affected as victims as perpetrators as you'll see in our next report the british government has faced a lot of criticism over its response. and each day and you crime scene last night here in east london a 15 year old was stabbed to death with a knife. social worker paul mckenzie has visited many such crime scenes but

this time it really gets to him the victim was a friend of his nephew. just turned 3 watches and you see these are everywhere you see a bunch of flowers years ago and it meant something you really saw when i was there read the request. is too many to read more the only because somebody wanted to prove something to somebody else that's that's the sad thing is that life has become a point system. and now somebody somewhere say that. they know. and that person but. often it's a case of rivalry between members of gangs but innocent bystanders can also fall victim to knife crime. almost in some gang sniping someone is proof a youngster is worthy of belonging to a gang. beyond like 13 years old be the recipe not. what happens

mackenzie talks to gang members and makes videos to show how quickly things are to syria rating in some parts of london. why do you carry a 15 inch not big and scared but if you say. could i don't what someone put up with me let turner cermak killed me. ok i'm proud of on a day. every poll mckenzie feels that the government tells them take knife crime seriously enough he supports an initiative demanding that the government treat the violence as a national emergency the president you know you might imagine that this was my son i say oh he was more murdered in 2015. with much better let me play god for nighttime in the face of february this again was not through the heart. i. was in some neighborhoods and young people don't leave home without

a knife as i think they must be prepared to defend themselves jason isaak's was stabbed to death one and a half years ago he was sharing candles eldest son. now his younger children always have to come home straight from school because she fears for their lives jason was killed early in the evening while he was out with a few friends. just as were 4 friends so 5 of them and you know that some of their lives and they all were in different directions and just got call and stabs 8 times everyone that knew jess and you always hope you're christian which was nice because everyone every time we went our feet to go eyes i was i love you mom case and that's what we got that night and we did everything together really we it was a very family prayer said. jason's killer was caught he was just

17 at the time rap videos of him and his gang can be seen on the internet known as drell the style of hip hop is very popular with for she she needs. to know. when all the talk about stabbing people in the back which is what they do and jason obviously was stopped in the in the park so. the issue here is a systemic one violence is normalised now unless we start looking. the fervor of the young people we're never going to get to the bottom of these very values and the new belief systems they lead to believe there is a future you talk to some of these young people they can't see past 20 and any society that has a generation of young people that can't see past 20 and you've got it you've got to address that from above. rather than the whole mckenzie knows there aren't any

quick fixes to the situation the british government has now committed itself to investing in you can strengthening the police presence everyone that is the problem has simply become too large to ignore. it was fought on the only man in history there moving up to the top tier of german football for the 1st time and relegated straight got in the process only in pole position after drawing the 1st leg toward him still got the partisan crowd behind them the scene was set for a tense night. the humans weren't good for only 2 2nd tier clubs had won the biggest league playoff battle in the last 10 attempts but with the backing of a typically raucous home crowd and 2 away goals in their locker they would have been confident of bucking the trend but stuttgart started better and dennis elder looked like he'd scored a beauty of a free kick but the video assistant referee spotted an off site no goal no military

main at halftime despite stuttgart sweating blood for the cause the noon came into the game after the break this was the 2nd time they were foiled by the woodwork. french world cup when i. came closest to rescuing the day for stuttgart. but held on i will know the final score but unions 2 goals last week in swabian meant they had finally reached the promised land the new owner promoted to germany's top tier for the 1st time and the fans joined their heroes on the pitch to celebrate their moment in history. and find. germany a traffic place as speeding motorists has been saved by a photo bomb of a different kind of speed cameras caught this vehicle by jumping at 54 kilometers an hour in the thirty's just as a pigeon flew from the car and spread its wings obscuring the driver's identity

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