e.u. candidate states montenegro competition is good but is it in this case. this is business as. they usually reelected government of india has promised an easing of foreign investment rules and more infrastructure spending it wants to boost flagging growth rates and create jobs it's about time china has not leap frogged india is the world's fastest growing major economy with unemployment in ages because the economy at its highest since the 1970 s. . india's finance minister laid out her plans to double the size of the economy a campaign promise of prime minister narendra modi. pietersen rather within our capacity to reach the prize trillion you responders in the next. we need to invest heavily in infrastructure in digital economy and on job creation in small and medium forms india has been striving to modernize its economy but with unemployment at levels not seen since the early 1970 s. more needs to be done. the government's plan calls for new foreign direct investment in sectors like aviation media and insurance a cash injection for banks aims to end a credit crunch and there'

e.u. candidate state at an increasing rate and companies and besting in infrastructure. china's road and bridge corporation is building a brand new highway across montenegro from the capital pod go richard to neighboring serbia price tag 840000000 euros an entire village of construction workers has moved in from china for the project one of a series of construction contracts won by the chinese in the balkans. it's part of china's belgian road initiative or new silk road the global infrastructure project which will transport chinese goods directly to europe chinese investors are also taking over profitable businesses like slovenian kitchen appliance make it go in year which produces mostly in serbia but they're also buying up some of the struggling heavy industries left over from former yugoslavia beijing paid 45000000 euros for this ancient steel plant in cement edible rescuing 5000 jobs in what was a somewhat crisis hit region. china's multi 1000000 offer for the former state owned couple mine are to be in the eastern serbian town of bor also trump the competition coppe

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commission you know that the leaders propose a candidate and afterwards the e.u. parliament votes on that candidate so exactly what happened here today the environment within the european union has gotten much more complicated in the past no question about that especially with the right wing populist governments you have for example in hungary you have in poland that you have in italy and then with a divided parliament. so just to recap where we are at the revenue watching a special program here d.w. a news live from that we're covering what is now they can feel confident. on the line germany's defense minister has now been confirmed as the european the european union next commission president of the 733 votes cast she took 383 giving her a majority of 9 she takes a job in november i were told that she is likely to celebrate with a glass. of water simon the. political correspondent she faced a lot of opposition from german social democrats people outside the country will find that our why were they so dead set against how well it is odd because obviously you know g

e.u. nominated candidates for the top jobs and the names of these candidates were seen as a big success phone call now his strategy really has changed compare. 2 famous one speech about 2 years ago where he was laying out his strategy for the e.u. and said that he very much wanted to go to war a common fiscal policy also a euro zone budget with the euro zone government dream and that earlier this year he dropped in his demands he's now very much focusing on defense like we can see here today and on security that is he wants to reform the shang an agreement that obviously means that there are no borders within the sharing area or 2nd area but he says that china and members really need to reinforce border controls at the outside borders and also agree to on common criteria. asylum seekers so the mark on an icon is very much trying to depict him and a european leader here at this year's prestige day parade. all right that state is . reporting in paris for us thank you. u.s. vice president my hands as say that the situation at the mexican border is in crisis. as he visited to overcrowded migrant

e.u. nominated candidates for its top jobs and this was seen largely as a success for my cause so he is using this occasion to depict himself as a strong leader in europe if not the leader in europe right speaking of another leader in europe may say if i may german chancellor angela merkel is there she just spoke and gave a statement what did she say. well she gave a statement here the german embassy just a short while ago which is very short actually just said i'm very happy to be here this is a sign that we really are very well a corporation on franco germany level but also on a european level when it comes to defense now this is all very nice and well however it won't be that easy if you look at the difference of teaching approaches and when it comes to warfare actually france and germany have really different trains so france hopes to use this initiative to launch common interventions however the germans really think that this should only be a platform really to cooperate spoke to each other when it comes to existing interventions so there's really a gap in how they view the military appr

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e.u.'s new chief she's a compromise candidate e.u. leaders have been arguing for 3 days over who should fill the box most important role is also coming up police and hong kong to restore order after protesters stormed and ransacked the parliament building and china tells other countries to stay out of its affairs. and in the women's football world cup team usa gear up for their semifinal against england but are the americans already looking ahead to the final england think so on the topic is adding to the build up ahead of the game. i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us germany's defense minister or the a fund on the line is being considered for europe's top job european council president on trust is expected to ask e.u. leaders to back her as the european commission president now they've been meeting in brussels for the past 3 days to try to reach a consensus on replacing outgoing commission presidential argue it has been one of the longest e.u. summits ever but leaders say they are confident they will be able to agree o

e.u. leaders have already nominated candidates for 4 other posts the most important job is that of e.u. commission chief and the nominee is controversial it's a german defense minister it was the last funded by the european parliament has to ratify her appointment and it is not certain that they will and let's go right to strasburg our correspondent max huffman is standing by there for us hi max so we heard that there is growing opposition to was left on the line as a candidate for the say european commission president post tell us more about what you've been hearing there today. i don't know if the opposition against it was enough underlying is growing but it's pretty strong i mean she shouldn't have a problem at least that's what many from the conservative group years say to swing around that group after all it's her party the european people's party it will be much more difficult with the social democrats who are very disappointed because many of them thought they had a very good chance of installing funds to moments their lead candidate as the e.u. commission president and then also

e.u. summit finally agrees candidates for the blocks top jobs a woman is nominated for the 1st time to head the european commission. social media giants like getting ready for the 2020 us elections with facebook creating special groups to monitor hate speech and following to ban content that tries to put people off voting. or to the home office pledges to rewrite advice on transfixed nigerian women suggesting they would need wealthy lives back of the africa after working as prostitutes in the u.k. . a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nikki airing in our top story this hour vladimir putin has offered condolences to the families of 14 sailors who died in a fire on the deep sea submersible in russia's north west. bank some of the 14 nor top rank captains 2 were heroes of russia this is a big loss for the fleet on our 1st sincere condolences to the families of the deceased everything must be done to help and support them that was at his emergency meeting with the country's defense minister sergei showgirl following this truly tragic incident and that is what a

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e.u. council done a truce has now confirmed via twitter the list of candidates that e.u. leaders have nominated for these top jobs and let's get the very latest with our correspondent barbara vessel monitoring everything for us so barbara you've seen the straightest while i'm sure was a fun the lines formally nominated as the next commission president tell us about how this came about because it was just a few hours ago that we started to hear her name as a possible nominee. yeah it really went because today the leaders were really out for compromise they had sort of shot down from both sides of. this group here in the european council the 2 other candidates who were there 1st. with the conservative president mccrum didn't want him these and europeans didn't want the social democrat friends to mend so very quickly they needed to pull out of the had name somebody was enough experience preferably a woman and also from the line came into play and that is probably a big win if all goes well for angela merkel who sort of brought her in to the considerations here we talked to t

ringback european leaders have gathered in brussels for a 3rd day of efforts to agree a candidate for the e.u. stop job the 28 nation bloc is currently split over who will become the commission president eastern european nations are vehemently opposed to the dutch social democratic candidate has been backed by germany and france. china has condemned what it's calling gross interference by outside countries in hong kong's affairs following the storming of the parliament building the beijing condemned statements made by the us britain and the e.u. in support of the pro-democracy protesters who are opposing an extradition bill. dozens of people have been killed in the indian city of mumbai after terentia monsoon downpours caused the wall to collapse. the rains also course travel chaos flooding roads and motor logging train tracks weather agencies say the area was hit by at least $35.00 centimeters of rain. britain france and germany say they won't for now move to reimpose tank sions on iran after tehran announced it had a mass more enriched uranium than was permitted the un's nuclear watchdog ha

e.u. parliament had decreed on this system of leave candidates from the different party fractions and these leave candidates conducted real election campaigns with posters with debates with public rallies and so when they had months to work out their policy positions now the leaders of the heads of the member states simply threw that overboard with a backroom deal that puts a fund to lie in there as the main candidate for president at the commission instead of the lead candidates that the e.u. parliament had designated so the s.p.d. in general in brussels and especially the german s.p.d. members say look that's not democracy that is not right and we stand on principle but the fact is the german s.p.d. has been particularly vocal on the. point and that has to do with something else and that's domestic namely their very weak profile at the moment with in the governing coalition and also in public opinion surveys at large their numbers have fallen to historic lows came back up a teeny bit last weekend but not much so they're very worried about looking strong about having a distinctive profile

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you're a social democrat and up until yesterday it looked like your lead candidate plans to moments was going to be president of the e.u. commission once of a sudden the tables turn and you have holes enough on the line being the proposal so you can imagine the social democrats are very disappointed and in the press releases we've seen so far they say that it was enough on the line is not acceptable i'm quoting here so this will be a long fight they still have 2 weeks to convince them because in 2 weeks this will be approved or not by the european parliament but it will be very very difficult because if the european parliament approves from the law and they're in a way giving up some of their credibility some of their authority because previously they insisted so much that it had to be a so-called shits in tony does what if they don't approve and i find a line next what happens then i went right back where we started. then she won't become commission president and then we are indeed back to square one and then you can say we have an institutional crisis in the european union we're not there yet this is a game we've see

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e.u. leaders have nominated candidates for other posts with defense minister. as their pick for commission president. just made a 1st appearance a european parliament paid to convince members to ratify the nomination. straight to the straight to strauss but then we found that d.w.i. correspondent hoffman welcome max way is the opposition to us enough on the line coming from. the opposition is coming from all sides for example from the social democrats who are disappointed that they couldn't have their lead candidate who campaigned for them funds to in the lead for that position also from the greens but the doors opened at least with the greens who said it depends on what kind of program will fund the law and will propose but oddly enough maybe not so odd if you think about it there's also opposition in her own party the european people's party so the conservatives the reason for this is that they also had a different beat candidate monthly if they vote so that's the man who went on the campaign trail for the party beginning in last september and so he was hopin

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and spanish foreign minister josep has been put forward as the candidate for e.u. foreign policy chief the socialist would replace frederica mother rini as the e.u.'s top diplomat but the biggest hurdle in this political race has still to be cleared the european parliament has to approve the lineup and the social democrats have already set themselves against on the alliance nomination joined now by de w.'s max hoffman he's in strausberg where the european parliament is meeting today so max the ball is now in the e.u. parliament's court what do any p.s. make of the nominees they've been given for the top jobs. there terry you just said that there is strong opposition especially among the social democrats that are hugely disappointed because of 2 things 1st of all they were very close to having the top job for themselves with their lead candidate or a spitz in county as it is called funds to moments and the 2nd one is that they've said all along we will only accept somebody who actually was the lead candidate spits in county dodd for one of the political groups here

e.u. council suggesting alternative candidates from their side of politics the lead candidate from the p.p. manfred verba almost withdrew it was clear he was and he was not really going to have the numbers but now there's been that push back by the sensor right making it extremely complicated to predict either whether the next head of the commission will be from the left or the right wing or in fact who it will be. with him barbara thank you very much indeed. german foreign minister high command has warned the arrest of a german ship captain in italy could lead to considerable aggravation and calls for her immediate release correct later has appeared in a sicilian court after being detained on saturday when she dr vessel carrying dozens of migrants on the island of lampedusa 31 year old has been accused of deliberately ramming the sea watch 3 rescue vessel into a police boat it was trying to stop her from entering the port or cages noya says she intended no harm when she hit the boat self declared republic of northern cyprus says an object that hit its territory overnight appears to have b

at the moment another 28 countries that are trying to agree on a common set of candidates for the top jobs here at the e.u. if they can't agree unanimously how will this go ahead. you go ahead with a majority is there doesn't have to be unanimity to decide this although obviously many of the leaders that are in this building want to have as large majority as possible to avoid problems going forward but i mean the formalities are quite clear you need countries representing 65 percent of the euro e.u. population and at least $21.00 member states so that would be enough and but it seems like none of the consolations in the today's commanded a majority or this this qualified majority like that but they did come close german chancellor merkel made it very clear on monday she was looking for a broader majority larger support for a solution so of course unity is a goal here i understand that the national leaders are trying to balance all these political and geographical interests and achieve gender balance and appointing the new leaders but is there a risk that by doing all this they might not respect the outcom

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e.u. summit has finally agreed candidates for the blocks top jobs and the nominations are not many expected as artie's peed all over reports. 3 days later than we expected the european council that's made up of the heads of government of the 28 member states of the european union and put forward their nominations for the top jobs in the european commission now these nominations will be put to parliament they decide whether they get the job so the nominations are for commission president taking over from john claude younker on the line who's currently the german defense minister for council president to take over from donald tusk sheilds michel currently acting prime minister of belgium for high representative of foreign affairs basically the e.u.'s equivalent of a foreign minister it's currently occupied by federica mukherjee any it will if it's approved be taken over by your state bell who is currently the foreign minister of spain while christine legarde the current i.m.f. head will take over at the european central bank now if the line was put in as european commission president should b

through their fingers now one might say it's their own fault they didn't to put up candidates that were acceptable to the e.u. governments they probably should have been a bit more middle of the road a bit more sort of looking to all sides looking to particularly eastern europe for instance. they are furious and they might need a bit of time to sort of come to calm down and think about whether they want to support this or not if they don't support this we will have a big interest in situational crisis because then we're going to have a standoff between the governments and the parliament and that is something nobody really wishes for at all because that is going to be a side that will really put the fright in the citizens of europe or nobody seems to want that there in brussels for viewers or you're just joining us we're talking. by this package of nominees i should just go through them quickly find a line nominated as the president the european commission the belgian prime minister sharon michelle as the new president of the european council you mentioned christine legarde for the european central bank she's

e.u. heads of government ignored the lead candidates from the main parliamentary of blocs the so-called spits and counted out in their horse trading over top jobs. maps hoffman is the w.'s brussels bureau chief he joins us from the european parliament welcome. how do you rate the lines chances. well she's 376 votes in the european parliament and like you said she's been on a trip now for about a week meeting with all the important people and especially with the political groups the easy one of course was her own group the conservative european peoples party but today was the hard part she met with the social democrats and you can still see the sign behind me that's where we just heard the press conference of the group leader and it seems that the social democrats especially the german social democrats are not convinced one of those from the s.p.d. so a german maintained he will not vote for his country woman. and spite of the fact that this would be the 1st german commission president so a lot of opposition here but the whole group so the group as a whole has not made up its mind yet they wan

e.u. member states they decide on who they want to nominate the candidate that kind of it's then put forward to the european parliament who votes on it they can get past the nomination stage at the moment it had been suggested that there was the so-called asarco plan which would see. from the socialist side of the european the european groups put in place as the nomination now it does seem that the plan which is called that because it was come up with asarco by. leaders who were at the g 20 in japan just over the weekend the problem is though it doesn't seem to be going down too well with everybody john claude young himself who's part of the process of searching for his replacement giving much away to the press. here on the . monitors of. leadership someone to say. well certainly wasn't holding back the french president was well does it be angry at times when he spoke to the press he said it was embarrassing that they couldn't come up with a solution in the e.u. 2028 in the european council and he said that if they were in this position perhaps the whole system needed to be changed. the sign

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an unauthorized rally on saturday that were protesting against opposition candidates being barred from local elections the e.u. called on moscow to respect its own constitution constitutional and o.s.c. the rules meanwhile opposition leader alexina valley has been taken to hospital after apparently suffering suffering from an allergic reaction while in custody. and attack by boko haram militants has left 65 people dead in nigeria that's according to local officials the attack took place in a village in borno state in the north east of the country the victims were attending a funeral where they were gunned down by a gang of militants riding motor motorbikes and vans or no is the epicenter of the decades long boko haram insurgency the ongoing violence has forced huge numbers of people to flee from their homes. around 12000 displaced people live in this makeshift camp it opened just 4 months ago in marjah gouri in the northeast of nigeria. since the start of the year more than 100000 people have been forced from their homes fleeing the violence of boko haram. fatima fled 5 years ago with her husband and 2 childr

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