0 which to the ends justify the means. to jeanne's witnesses starts december 13th on g.w. . this is news a live from berlin the european commission's incoming president wins parliament's approval for a new team and promises to make the e.u. a green superpower. or is no fun to lend has said and i'm vicious cold cuts in kabul and creating jobs but can the block's 1st female president get all member states on board also on the program. german chancellor angela merkel says europe

cannot defend itself without nato and pledges to shoulder a much bigger share of the costs by the early 21st things. i'm told me all at equal welcome to the program the european union's income and commission president has won the parliament's approval for a new team owners of the fund the land is the 1st woman to land the e.u.'s top job and she set out ambitious goals to turn the bloc into a green superpower and boost economic growth as well as those challenges she also have to deal with deep divisions among e.u. member states. resulting approval from the e.u. parliament confirming the new team of incoming commission president funda lion.

lion is the 1st ever woman commission president and her team of 26 don't differ too much in profile from the usual brussels career politicians but her ambitions are a marked change her ideas a forward thinking as is the gender balance of her team it is a team with almost all as many women as men only one woman away from gender balance. this shows. it shows we have made real progress but also that we still have to do more funded lines primary focus is on climate change at the upcoming international climate meeting in madrid this december she plans to present a european green deal which aims to make europe the 1st climate neutral continent by 2050. we do not have a moment to waste any more on fighting climate change.

the faster europe moves. the greater the advantage will be for our citizens our competitiveness and our prosperity. to get going from the line we'll have to overcome europe's internal political problems once in office this sunday she'll begin torin european capitals selling her green vision as something quote inclusive recognizing that many countries such as poland and indeed germany still rely on coal for electricity she also needs to tackle countries like hungary which aren't too keen on european values despite being member states she certainly has a big job ahead of her. and is aiming high with a vision for the european union. put those goals into perspective they are very

ambitious and i think we need to talk about 2 things in this respect the 1st the magnitude of the goals fighting climate change is probably the most ambitious goals in the history. in the history of humanity it touches upon every aspect of our life traffic what we eat just to give you 2 examples and that's why. i make sure that every piece of legislation that she crafts curbs emissions for example and fights against climate change so that's one part and even even if everything went according to plan we still cannot be sure that she succeeds but now and here's the 2nd part the environment in which she will have to operate is difficult to say the least 1st of all the different leaders in the european union so the heads of state government are divided that's one problem if you think of hungry in germany a lot of opposition france and italy same thing and then you have this right here the european parliament which is more fragmented than ever since the last european

elections this year so even if everything went according to plan it would be very very hard for her to get the legislation here with all the opposition so most likely you know it's just like that she will have to settle somewhere in the middle but her plan is to have these abuses goals because she thinks you need to be ambitious to achieve at least something now to some of the other stories making news around the world. thousands of obedience are sheltering in makeshift camps after tuesday's powerful earthquake the death toll has now risen to 30 people rescuers are still pulling survivors alive out of the rubble as the worst quake to hit the country in 3 decades. officials in the u.s. state of texas have ordered residents of 4 towns to be evacuated after a new blast at a petro chemical plant 60000 people have been told to leave 3 workers were injured

in the initial blast early on wednesday. demonstrators across colombia are holding their 2nd national strike in less than a week part of ongoing protest against president even duke is right wing government and its anticipated economic plans protesters are also demanding the country's riot police be disbanded after a young demonstrator was killed by a tear gas canister over the weekend. iraqi protesters have set fire to the iranian consulate in the southern city of najaf outrage over iranian influence in the country has been through and in widespread antigovernment protests is the 2nd time this month demonstrators have attempted to burn the consulate. our poll has agreed to moscow's demands to show the crimean peninsula as part of russia the region is currently showing us russian territory on its map and whether apps but only for users within russian borders russia sees crimea from ukraine in 2014 and later

annexed it in a referendum that kiev and its western allies say was illegal. the u.n. world food program is warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis in booking a fossil they say the situation is being driven by extremist violence the number of attacks in the country has increased significantly this year with a number of civilian deaths already 4 times the total recorded in 2018. destroyed livelihoods this is the aftermath of extremist violence that has forced these villagers in northern book enough to abandon their homes and their fields taking with them only what they can carry. when they killed my brother buddha or. i hid in a river bed and came back in the morning to save my family a problem. for the ones. i left everything behind

a bicycle no cords just the clothes i'm wearing now. a little bit. more refugees are arriving at makeshift shelters like in cairo in central book enough ah so many are malnourished in desperate need of food and medical care. some have resorted to eating leaves. this man and his family fled 200 kilometers on foot to reach. what we need now is food everything else can wait once we get the food then we will worry about clothes on. swathes of farmland have been abandoned leaving many book you know be without a means to support themselves close to 500000 people in bikinis faso have been

forced to flee. the surge an extremist violence coincided with former president luiz compliers resignation from power in a popular uprising in 2014 the current administration says complier in negotiating a deal with extremists to avoid violence in bikini. since his ouster jihad is to have rapidly expanded their influence. and. there's been a 500 percent. increase in displacement one 3rd of the nation is now a conflict area this is a catastrophe and we've got to and we've got. so far that the military has been unable to contain the extremism despite international and regional assistants. the compromised security situation makes it difficult for age to reach those who need it the most. the lives of almost half

a 1000000 bikini babies has been pushed to the brink. angela merkel says germany needs nato more today than it did during the cold war she also pledged berlin will meet the military alliances defense spending target by the early 2030 s. germany has repeatedly come under fire from u.s. president donald trump who says it's taking a free ride on other nation's military budgets but chancellor has to convince a skeptical german public that it's in their interest to spend more on the armed forces. handshake with the minister of defense. then in his speech chancellor angela merkel focused on urgent foreign policy issues and offered a spirited defense of nato that are good enough to stack up even more so than jaring the cold war maintaining a nato is very much in our interest thank you once again because as the foreign

minister said yesterday europe is not in a position to defend itself alone side i live in this business and we depend on the transatlantic alliance so we must support and assume greater responsibility for it . and she said germany is ready to spend more on defense but that if you the defense minister has drawn up a plan for germany to play a greater role in the alliance with our defense budget reaching 2 percent of g.d.p. by the early 2030 s and we are committed to that. the opposition left party strongly criticize the plan parliamentary group leader accuse the government of spending too much money on the army. give off with your policy or military spending is dangerous it's expensive and ultimately your surrendering to donald trump from. even merkel's coalition partners the social democrats criticized her defense policy

. the social democrats do not want to support this push for military dominance we want to strong position in diplomacy and in the civilian struggle against humanitarian catastrophes we think this is the better course of action and you know that's just this is. already difficult times for the german government the 1000 spending commitment could put further strain on the coalition. german footballing legend year has been named coach of bundesliga team. until the end of the season in 1900 and former germany coach takes over from the sacked and each of which has lost coaching role was that the us national team but he was fired in 2016. not even klinsmann himself saw this coming you don't he recently been brought on to the hatter board as an advisor now he finds himself

a head coach still at least the environment is a familiar one is no stranger to the club and. get a bit of history here thanks to my father who was a passionate hard to fan the 1st game i ever watched and under sligo was against the court i was 8 years old in the stands with a blue and white in my hand my son was even at the club for a couple of years as a young goalkeeper but none the less he'll have to get to know this current squad in something of a hurry patters next fixture will be a stern test they face brucia dortmund on saturday but. it won't be easy i'll be a difficult start on saturday at the olympic stadium. but we'll take the challenge and then it's all about getting points and it's as simple as that. pats are currently without a win in for you've been busy games hovering precariously above the relegation zone

performing far below their potential one time world champion klinsmann has until may to get the club back on course. the big match of the champions league group stage on wednesday saw boss alona beat dortmund 31 luis suarez lille messi and 20 all scored for bossa before jayden santo pulled one back for dortmund the winnings fossil or no will finish on top of group f. while don't moan fold to 3rd place i will need to do better next week in order to advance and finally no news bulletin can be considered complete without the latest tweet from the u.s. president and donald trump isn't one to disappoint he's posted an image of himself as the fictional boxer rocky taken from the post of one of sylvester stallone's movies trump didn't comment on the image so it's difficult to discern his intent in tweeting it. this is news live from berlin

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