♪ >> is it a dream ticket or a two headed monster? donald trump prepares to nominate his running mate for the whitite house. u.s. media reporting that it will be this man -- indiana governor mike pence. a seasoned politician who have to help swing the republican party behind trump. russia and germany try to smooth over their differences but it

might take more than a playing charm offensive to reassure europe. britain's new prime minister theresa may named her new cabinet, but her choice of brexit champion boris johnson as foreign minister has drawn international derision. ♪ brent: it is good to have you with us. tonight, reports in the u.s. city presumptive republican candidate for president, donald trump, has decided on his vice presidential running mate. several media outlets say that trump will nominate the indiana governor mike pence as his partner in the presidential race. unlike trump, pence is a seasoned politician with 15 years of experience in

washington. trump is due to announce his nomination officially on friday. let's bring in our u.s. correspondent richard walker. he is on the story for us tonight in washington. good evening. what more do we know about mike pence? why would trump choose him and why would he choose donald trump? richard: first of all, it is very important for us to caution that this is still not official. the official announcement will be coming tomorrow morning. we know how much donald trump likes surprises. we know how many twists and turns that have been so far. we cannot be absolutely sure this will be the man. having said that, mike pence certainly y does check an awful lot of b boxes and t there is at of media chatter about him. a lot of it will be about reassurance. he is an evangelical christian,

so reassurance to that very important voting block. some of whom have doubts and in their mind about donald trump. then as reassurance that he has experience in government, both in indiana and here in washington as a member of congress. then it is a strategic reassurance and that he comes from the midwest, a very important region and united states. trump has to win in that region to have a chance to win the white house. brent: there is a possibility that the republicans could still stop trump from becoming their presidential nominee. today, his enemies in the party get their last chance with a meeting of a powerful committee at of next week's convention. some insiders city committee could stage a dramatic rebellion against a man they do not see as a true republican. reporter: donald trump is

getting ready for the republican convention, where he is due to be offfficially voted the part's nominee for president. >> they love trump. >> they love me. reporter: butut many repubublics dodo not love trump anand this d neneither last chance to o stop themem. here i is how thingsgs standnd - trump stormed his way through the primaries. that translatetes into delegates who arare committed to votote fr him at thehe convention whwhethr they like it o or not. you could think of thenn as mini-trumps, and he has far more of them than anyone else, more than 1500. trump's main rivalals trail far bebehind. that all looks very good for trump. >> trump will get it done. reporter: but one thing could still l stand in hisis way, ands the rules committee. it is perhaps the most powerful

group in the republican party right now. a committee of 112 people who set the rules for the convention. some of its members want to stop trump, and it just a quarter of them get together, they should -- they could shake things up completely. they would be able to force a vote among all delegates on whether to set them free of those commititnts. trump's enemies hope that would trtrigger some soul-searching amonong all of thosese mini-tru. if enougugh turn againsnst trum, thee white -- the race would be blown wide open. they would switch their support to another candidate like cruz or rubio, or even potentially someone else altogether. for trump himseself, that woulde a nightmare. >> huge disaster. huge disaster. reporter: for now most observers

say the chance of that happening is small and is more likely the convention will be trump''s morning of glory. >> we will make america truly great again. reporter: then trump will have just one opponent left to view wiwith, but that is a battle tht is only just getting started. brent: let's get back to richard walker in washington. that is a great story. by the way, where did you find that imitator of donald trump? richard: we found him at a trump evening of trump's first victory back in february. he was actually called up to the stage by donald trump, we caught that on video and stayed in touch since then. he was telling us that donald

trump likes him a lot. brent: let's talk more about the chance of these rules being changed. how do you see the chances of this committee actually changing the rules and being this rebellion against trump? richard: as we mentioned in the video, most experts do say the likelihood does remain small. that committee has been meeting all day, have been various reports it could be close to an agreement. but the overall picture does look like the do not -- they do not have the crucial 25% of the votes in order to move onto the next stage, and this whole process has been hijacked by the ted cruz campaign looking ahead to 2020. this is an extraordinary year, we will not know until the final results of that can be come out, and that could happen at any point in the next two hours or perhaps friday. brent: richard, as always, thank

you very much. european and asian leaders are gathering in mongolia for a major summit of the body which is known as asem. it comprises 51 countries from the two regions plus the european union and the association of southeast asian nations. the german chancellor angela merkel was along the leaders arriving today for the two-day summit. for the host country, it is an important country to find partners to help fuel its ailing economy. germany and russia are hope -- hoping a round of bilateral talks in st. petersburg, but to say things are strained, that would be an understatement. after recent rattling of the borders of europe, moscow has seen eu sanctions against it renewed and it will take a lot a bridge building to change that.

>> his german is still up to par. on the 75th anniversary of the german invasion of the soviet union, vladimir putin visited moscow. he stressed how important peace and reconciliation are. perhaps such statements are the reason by the head of the german delegation of the dialogue is so optimistic going into the talks. >> i hope that the russian side will be due -- will do more internet few months -- in the next few months. we are shaped by the fact that we are forced to impose sanctions. i hope that will change as soon as russia's behavior changes. reporter: the annexation and 2014 and its intervention in the years -- russia has done precious little. there has been escalation o of

tensions of a kind not seen since the end of the cold war. but german chancellor angela merkel sees this as just one element of an overall strategy towards russia. >> deterrence and dialogue, solidarity to our partners and at the same time the offer of dialogue. they are not opposites, they are two sides of the same coin. reporter: the question remains, is russia even interested in talking? >> we are caught in a dilemma. the russian leadership is not really interested in dialogue and is basically looking for a deal that will allow to confirm its post soviet sphere of influence and itself perceived security intererests, which are legitimate. reporter: despite the show of unity, nato, the european union and german government disagree

over how to approach russia. the nato exercise was controversial, the same goes for the future of eu sanctions over yesterday -- over russia. brent: let's pull in our russian correspondent, he joins me from moscow. good evening to you. i have to ask, a lot of people say that this event is just a big talking shop. do we ever see any changes at the policy level coming out of this? guest: notot really, e especialy these days when the onlyly thing russssia is intererested inn an international gatherings iss to divert attention from the subject of the ukraine, which dominated the political narrative in the last couple years. in the hopope that the wesest wl eventuallyly forgive andnd forgt seems now that russia is on the

righght s side towards achieving this, or lease of achieving a reduction of western sanctions against it. it is very important for the russians to crereate alternative subjects of dialogue. that of course includes syria mimiation crisis and economic and trade organization. they did mention the annexation of crimea and they immediately rebuked -- and by the governor who said crimemea was reunited with russia a as a result of people e expressing their free will.. brent: no big surprises. what about the situation on the ground? we know ngo's are operating

under severe restrictions. our r politicianans doing anythg to help them bidides tking about their p plight? leonid: not really. russiaia adopted rather draconin ngo's back in 20101 whichch ststipulated that any ngo's must register as foreign agents. after that, thousands and thousands all across rusussia we checkeked by law enfnforcement agents, some o of them werere fd to close or suspended their activities. many were forced to register as foreign agents. asas collateral, it also -- they

deal withh environmentnt and six children, they suffered from the same kind of policy. there is no change whatsoever. brent: our moscow correspondent talking but the susummit. thank you very much. hehere's aa look at some of the other stories making headlines. the so-called islamic state is claiming it has shut down a syrian government plane. this footage purportedly show the aircraft in flames today. images have also been released allegedly showing the dead pilot. a terrorist suspect heleld in a police station and kenny has killed four police officers. demand is still holed hold up in ththe building and holding hostages. police commandos are hoping to and the standoff. in italy, to railroad officials evan placed ununder investigatin as authorities are trying to determine the cause of a fatal

plane crash earlier. two trains collided head-on killing 23 people and injuring many more. we're going to take a short rack -- short break. stick around. ♪

♪ brent: welcome back. britain's new prime minister theresa may wasted no time just hours after taking the post to begin naming new cabinet members. among them, boris johnson as the new foreign secretary. reporter: he was one of the key faces of the leave campaign and one of its most controversial.

now, boris johnson has gone from the irb brexit storm to a comment -- eye of the brexit storm to a prominent position. he has made offensive remarks about hillary clinton. she has died a blonde hair and pouty lips in a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse and a mental hospital, he wrote in a column. and he was just as scornful about donald trump. the only reason i would not go to some parts of new york is the real risk of meeting donald trump. nevertheless, the u.s. state department put on a brave face at the news of johnson's appointment. >> we will always be will to work with the british, no matter who is occupying the role of foreign secretary because of our deep, abiding special relationship with united kingdom. reporter: but the french foreign

minister was scathing in his assessment of johnson. >> you know very well what his style is. you're in the campaign he lied to the british people and now he's the one with his back against the wall. reporter: but johnson play down the criticism and said he was confident to do a good job. >> i have to say the gentleman humanist -- the gentleman you mentioned, he sent me a charming letter a couple hours ago saying how much he would look forward to working together and to deepening anglo-french relations on all sorts of areas, and as what we want to achieve. we have some incredible skills, such talent i'm absolutely certain we have people here were going to be able to forge that global identity for britain. reporter: his appointment is the biggest surprise in the prime minister's cabinet. but johnson will not be chiefly responsible for negotiating

brexit. that task falls to david davis, a conservative party veteran and a staunch eurosceptic. with years of negotiations ahead, that is a formidable response ability. brent: let's talk more about theresa may's new government. our correspondent in government -- in brussels joins us. you have to remember, boris johnson is the same horse johnson recently compared the european union with napoleon and hitler. how difficult is it going to be for him to build a bridge to europe? >> it is not the most diplomatic move if you now have to tolerate that you have to talk to king brexit when boris johnson comes into the foreign ministers meeting. there are so many common interests come i'm not surprised

that when boris johnson says brexit does not mean leaving europe, of course not because britain profit so tremendously. i think they will get their act together at the end of the day. the real problem you have is that if brexit indeed were to turn out to be a success, the eu would be in enormous trouble and they will make these negotiations as tough as they can. brent: speaking of negotiations, the new brexit secretary, he is a longtime eurosceptic comment his name is david davies. what can we expect from him? georg: he is a long serving eurosceptic, he called the head of commission a protagonist of european superstate. people in brussels to know him. the interesting thing will now

be rather than will the outcome paid where you can talk about how a vision of how great things could be, now you have to talk about the facts. he says he wants to trigger article 50 by the beginning of next year. he wants to leave by 2018 potentially after talking to all those involved, and you want to oppose controls in migration well keeping full access to the internal market. that is something that will not work with eu members and the representatives of the institutions here in brussels. that will be interesting to see how he can negotiate his way around that. brent: freedom of labor, freedom of movement, that is one of the pillars of the eu. definitely a problematic topic for the u.k. thank you very much, we'll talk with you later on tonight. time for businesses. the hottest ipo of the year is taking place and helena is here with the heat. >> certainly in terms of

monetary value. this app is likely to change soon, because it is a japanese messaging based at and is expected to raise more than $1 billion. its shares soared as much as 36% in new york on thursday in a go on sale in tokyo on friday. reporter: shares of the japanese messaging at saddleback to $41 each after initially surging to over $43 and the largest new tech stock on the market so far this year drew strong support as wall street overall pushed upwards to new records. at that level, the ipo raised $1.3 billion. allows users to make free calls, sent as messengers, and post photos and short videos as well as play games and uses mobile payment service. it is best known for letting users send each other cute cartoon stickers and is hugely popular in japan, particularly

with teenagers. it now has 218 million users worldwide and 70 million live in japan. that is small fry compared to facebook messengers 900 million subscribers. what's app serves one billion users. it has further grew into the u.s. and european markets where it is not a major player yet. helena: let's cross over to new york where our man on wall street is standing by for us. jens, are lines shares still on the up? jens: it was a successful day for line, the stocks close with an uptick of more than 25%. it is the biggest tech ipo of the year so far. the ceo of line pointed out is

not just about a messaging app, because that field is rather crowded, but they also pointed to the recent success and hype of the pokemon go game. also quite successful in the business of gaming, they obviously hope to also gained quite a bit over there in the company is now worth more than $8 billion. helena: to be fair, no ipos have looked particularly hot this year, have they? jens: if you look at it overall, companies are certainly quite hesitant to enter the market at this point. we had so many fluctuations all year long, so many uncertainties. overall so far this year, we have about half the ipos that we had at the same point last year and even less than one third of the ipos we had two years ago.

certainly, that type of market calmed down quite a bit. that said, those corporations that they go public did quit the -- did pretty well. maybe that is an incentive for other corporations to follow soon. we have companies like uber, airbnb, we're still waiting to see if those companies might try to lock on the stock markets. helena: certainly they will be ones to watch. many thanks indeed. google's advertising and shopping services are tracking -- european commission has far -- charge more antitrust charges against the company. they have accused google from stopping advertisements from its competitors. this is the third case against google in europe, the other two involved allegations that google

distorts searches. that is your business news burnout. back over to -- for now. back to brent. brent: high drama at the tour de france. stage 12 had already been shortened by six kilometers because of high winds. then the overall leader, he had to run up a stretch of the mountain after a bizarre crash. take a look. >> waiting for replacement bike, losing viable time. about 1.5 kilometers before the end, they crash into a motorbike caring a tv camera on a roadblock by spectators. his bike was destroyed. adam yates pedaled past and reached the finish line before them. illustrate total of 1.5 minutes and could have talked to sixth place overall with the jury

decided he should keep the yellow jersey. that seems fair considering he had increased his lead over his rivals for the crash. now he is 47 seconds ahead of fellow briton yates. the actual winner of stage 12 was unaffected. belgian finish ahead of his compatriot. it was truly a day to remember. brent: after a short break i will be back to take you through the day. stay with us. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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