this is g w news live from berlin tonight after 3 days of marathon the goosey ations european union leaders have agreed on the person they would like to see as their new chief executive or so if an ally and germany's defense minister she has won the european union's backing and could now become the european commission's 1st female president but she is a compromise candidate and was certainly not the 1st choice we'll get the latest from brussels.

i bring coffee it's good to have you with us it took 3 days of marathon talks but european union leaders they have finally reached an agreement on who they would like to see as their new chief ursula found alliance germany's current defense minister and a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel she has been nominated to become the european commission president now if approved by the european parliament underlying would make history as the european union's 1st female leader well who is ursula fun the lion we begin with this report. she's considered a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel ursula funday line german defense minister christian conservative and long time politician a medical doctor and mother of 7 funder line joined merkel c.d.u.

party in the early ninety's she later headed the ministry of family and women before serving as minister of labor as germany's 1st female defense minister funded line aimed to revamp the armed forces but she's recently drawn criticism for poor management in the ranks several scandals including revelations of far right extremists in the military equipment failures and deadly military plane crashes have plate 10 year. a european at hearts fluent in both english and french as well as german funder line has long been seen as a possible successor to machall as chancellor or more recently as the next head of nato. european leaders have now agreed to choose her as the next president of the e.u. commission if the european parliament jindal says she would be the 1st woman to fill the influential post. for one of the story i want to take it too strong that is

where the european parliament is located i'm joined by our correspondent max hoffmann good evening to you max we know that the parliament still has to confirm this nomination i mean that's where the final decision is can we say for certain that ursula fund a lion will she get the approval because we know she wasn't the 1st she wasn't the 2nd choice for this position washing. the european parliament brand in the last weeks on a daily basis said that they would only approve a candidate who prior to the decision was a so-called spits in county da that's the german word that everybody uses now in the brussels and strasburg bubble it means the lead candidate for a certain party that is presented in the european parliament and there really were only 2 of those one was funds to months the social democrat that was deemed to be the front runner over the last days and the 2nd one was monthly vevo was the

official candidate of the conservatives the strongest party the european people's party in the parliament and also the party of i get a makeover the german chancellor and here's the clue also the party of fund and i and which is now the official proposal of the leaders for the commission presidencies self how will the european parliament now deal with a candidate that has not been a lead candidate you might get the conservatives on your side because it was a tough on that is a conservative but the social democrats will have a much harder time and so far what we're hearing from the social democrats is that pulls it off on the line is not acceptable all right so what happens if ursula fund a lion is rejected by the parliament. it's back to square one brant because it really means that it was for fun the line cannot be commission president you need the approval of throne and i mean that's why it's such a tricky process you need a double majority you need

a majority in the council so that is the institution where the leaders meet that's in brussels and you need the approval of the european parliament right here in strasburg otherwise you cannot become commission president now having said that the vote will be in 2 weeks most likely and that means that there is still a lot of time to work those members of the european parliament and you can also bet on pedro sanchez for example so the prime minister of spain who himself is a social democrat having his own way of convincing those social democratic m e p's there was constant contact between the leaders in brussels and the any piece of the members of the european parliament here in strasbourg so somebody here must have said yes we think we can make that fly but it might take some time and you know if you would tell our viewers why has it been so difficult to agree on one spits and candida. well one of the reasons is right here in the city where i am a survivor which is where the european parliament resides because for the 1st time

the 2 big parties the social democrats and the conservatives don't have a more jordi even if they vote in the same direction you need a 3rd party it's good probably to have a 4th party so right now you have a deal with the liberals which my call is the forceful voice of among the leaders and that's what makes it so difficult because you don't know if it's not enough to say ok social democrats get this and the conservatives get this you also have to take into account what the liberals want what in my view in my call the french president wants so that's one thing that's how you really have the legitimate party interests right there but the 2nd part is that there is a divide in the european union that is getting larger between poland hungary italy's so what you could call nationalists or populists and those who are functioning more in a traditional european union way and you can see that for example this new

nationalist movement blocked funds to moments who was the social democratic candidate and who looked like the front runner in the last days or had next open on the story for us in straw spring france genine max thank you all right let's take this story now to brussels i'm joined by our correspondent teri schultz who need to use terry let's talk about why these jobs are so busy important tell our viewers i mean what's at stake here. well the president of the european commission has a huge amount of power this person will decide which countries get which post for the next 5 years that means who's going to be in charge of the economic policy of the e.u. who's going to take ahead the digital agenda who gets agriculture those are very powerful post and each country will name a commissioner to be chosen for one of those jobs so the president of the european commission is not only the face of the executive branch but very much the dealer

who gets to decide what powers each country gets and the president of the european central bank that job obviously it has has an awful lot of influence over all the countries in the euro and that's why it was that's why there's been some criticism of the naming of madame lagarde because she hasn't been the president of a european central bank so some people have been saying does she really have the qualifications that said everyone who spoke tonight of course gave her their full confidence it is also very significant that both of these positions have been named as women it's true the german chancellor angela merkel she spoke about these nominations just a short while we take a listen to what she had to say. i think it's important to underline that we were able to decide and we create can emit it today it is important because this affects the ability of the european union to work in the future because we only have to give her a bit we all have to move but once again the european council has been able to

furnish proof of the fact that it is capable of doing so and that. given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various prime ministers i believe not to be an asset that we've been successful in doing just that fast the european council has proved its ability to take part and it's a terry there you go and the german chancellor saying that the e.u. proven its capability to take action but we know. you know the nomination for european commission president you know when the line was not the 1st choice she was not the 2nd choice she was the 3rd choice so is it really true then that the e.u. is as capable as miracle wants it to appear to be. well if if your basis for judging that is simply that they took an action sure they succeeded but if you look at the statements made by a man you mcclellan and chancellor merkel herself yesterday

a manual clone came out and said it was a huge failure that that the credibility of the e.u. is being damaged by this process both mclennan merkel themselves said it doesn't look good that we're making these decisions bringing up names in a back room it's not transparent it's you know it's not the ideal way to give our citizens confidence in the decision making of the european union so it doesn't look good yes they had to take action tomorrow the european parliament is deciding its president and that put a lot of time pressure on these leaders they definitely wanted to have their decisions made by tomorrow to leave the names open for the european parliament to name their presidents tomorrow but i wouldn't say it's a proud day for any of them no matter what they say tonight and what about the image of the european union abroad here when people look at what is going on in the in-fighting we've seen in the squabbling in the just just the past couple of days i mean what message is that sending out to the world. well it sort of reinforces this view that you know what can you do when $28.00 countries get

together with a bunch of different interests and everybody is fighting for their own candidates their own names their own sort of little piece of the pie and that's very much what it looks like here at the same time i think the names that have come out in the end of underlying is is well known abroad she's very well liked at nato where she's been you know a constant figure there as the defense minister christine legarde also has a has a good great deal of confidence from abroad i don't think so many people know just burrell as the as the foreign policy rep shall michel prime minister of a quite small country but i think the rest of the world will be satisfied with at least these 2 powerful incompetent women at the top and everyone will be relieved that the process is over at least for the next 2 weeks until the european parliament has its say. force in brussels thank you.

all right we've got some other breaking news right now a sicilian court has released the german skipper of a migrant rescue ship who had been under house arrest see what captain koroma rocket was taken into custody on sunday after forcing her boat which was carrying 40 migrants into port on the italian island of lampedusa in doing so she collided with a customs patrol boat italian interior minister mateo salvini said that he had hoped for a tougher response from the italian justice system. here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world last month was the hottest june on record in parts of europe and asia the mercury top $45.00 degrees celsius that you use copernicus climate change service says temperatures across france germany spain italy were up to 10 degrees higher than

normal in june final week russia's defense ministry says a fire on board a deep sea submersible has killed 14 crew members the vessel was surveying the seabed in waters near its base in the port of several more skin the barents sea the fire has since been extinguished the crew was apparently poisoned by a few indonesia says it was planning to return dozens of shipping containers of waste to developed countries where that waste came from that includes the u.s. france and germany customs officials said the contents included hazardous materials and that they violated important rules the country is the latest of several southeast asian nations to reject being used as a dumping grounds for international travelers. i did this in the 2nd day of wimbledon have seen the favorites return to form after a series of shocks yesterday a time champion roger. federer got through his 1st round clash but only after

losing the 1st set to turn a bit debutant harris federer's great rival rafa nadal also had a slight early wobble but the spaniard soon sell off japan's you we saw in 3 sets now women's champion and the cabin started a 2 week event in style beating fellow german tatyana maria kara also was also boosted by potential round 3 opponent maria sharapova pulling out injured and serena williams she progressed easily dispatching julia got 21 to coordinate the american is aiming to equal the record of 24 grand slam singles titles in london. hard scientists at the norwegian polar institute they have been astonished by the unusual behavior of an arctic fox now the animal may have broken all records walking more than 3 and

a half 1000 kilometers from norway to canada in just 76 days undeterred by days on sea ice and making its way across greenland the fox's journey was recorded with the help of a tracking device that researchers fitted to the animal over 2 years ago. you're watching t w news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day you could just see you didn't.

when life on the lakes which reflect the forests and on the great river was still measured in seasons instead of years fathers fathers and came back indian led that means the place where the river narrows and never set eyes on the white man.

then one day a man came ashore here whose face no one remembers but whose name no one can forget somewhere in the sean plant. and the founder of quebec city the cradle of north america and later a monument was erected in his honor. it was back in 1600 nate the shawn plan founded quebec city. that the time there was an area quite secular on the shore beneath the towering bluff.

trungpa was given a friendly reception indians had never seen a ship as big as the one on which he sailed up to some lawrence river. and they had no idea that he would found a town. in fact. a nothing more in mind than a small trading post consisting of 2 wooden cabins and the storage of the beaver skins and chill detained in exchange for worthless trinkets and other tawdry good. 80 years later a chance was built on the town square not to a dam davy twell the oldest stone church in north america.

by this time there were numerous buildings surrounding the pass plan more and more settlers had arrived from from the back became a french possession the territory which had belonged to the indians was renamed new friends and declared a crown colony of the some king. troops were sent from europe to protect the crown colony. also on board the trading ships arriving from the old world with missionaries. franciscan friars and jesuits brought christianity to quebec. the iroquois and the huron gazed in amazement at the gilded figures of saints with which the christians decorated that churches.

the baroque high altar of the us you know and convent is one of the most precious works of art in the old town the convent was founded by maggie dunn countess you know one of the 1st women to come to the new one. she saw how lives while can converting and teaching young indian girls and there is still on us a line convent school in quebec city even today.

quebec never became a big city a fact to which you know as much of its present day child the lowertown known as petition pound is a jumble of boutiques cafes and restaurants. very few collectors of ott and catch are aware that the cradle of french culture in north america stands on the site of an indian settlement.

the changing of the god of the citadel by soldiers of the 22nd regiment is a big tourist attraction that early previous as who were an elite unit so plenty of action the english attacked the french settlement time and again but never managed to take. until september the 13th 1759 that is. on that day in a battle lasting just 20 minutes back found and the crown colony of new friends ceased to exist. following their victory the english town the citadel into an even mighty a fortress as a defense against enemy attacks and uprisings in the town the french felt betrayed

by the king and the english fear that they might revolt. to leave or to stay that was the question. the people of queer back had lost more than a battle but the majority decided to remain. they placed their faith in another power which had its secret santa beneath the gleaming silver rooftops above the river the church in the seminary the jesuit college young frenchmen were trained to become priests. religion had become a weapon in the struggle for independence the english had to guarantee religious

freedom and the clergy held sway in the city high above this an orange river. the inhabitants of queer back took revenge for their military defeat in a highly unusual way to ensure the preservation of their french heritage each family had 12 to 15 children vengeance from the cradle. but the city is also a symbol of tolerance and the common european heritage of its people. the library in the old town used to be a prison today it shelves contain history books which describe how the 2 colonial powers grew together.

one year given a special mention is $867.00 and canada became an independent confederation. ready the library also contains adventure stories which depict the scam which is between settlers and indians in epic style. in the reader's mind the iroquois and huron to whom this land once belonged come to life again indeed you can imagine yourself back in the past in so many different ways. i am. the bells of holy trinity cathedral seemed to ring down to get the predominance of french sentiment. this

anglican church upholds an english. tradition and not many customs of the congress of the french have become part of everyday life in quebec. change ringing coals for military virtues strength and durrance and discipline. the almost unlimited range of china is only possible if the sequence in which the ropes are pulled is a hit too with strict decisions. in this customs in new fronts that something somewhere different kind of founder of quebec city could never have imagined. the new whole mob of the old town a hotel is a monument to the 19th century behind its doors exists a fairy tale world of luxury. for

a 100 years now shuttle foam to knock his house the rich the powerful and the beautiful in their imagination guests can mix with kings and beauty queens in this hotel the dream of wealth is still offered at affordable prices. keep back the place where the river narrows. back city in the evening when the sea of light sea raises all contra contrasts even the upheaval of its 400 year long history. in a golden glow. just

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