e.u. budget they also help choose the president of the european commission the current president of course is that this man this is young claudie younger the favorite to replace him are german conservative m.e.p. a man fred vapor who will appear as if by magic very very sir there is. well worth waiting for and let's see him as a dutch politician from stimulus of the european socialists but in the countdown to next week's vote the e.u. is on its guard after the brits it shock and because of growing your of skepticism across the bloc that's before we get to the disinformation campaigns trying to influence voters with lies and half truths last year the e.u. commission set up a task force to deal with this threat but critics say its efforts may well be too little too late they don't believe teri schultz has this. whoever you are wherever you are you can get involved european union institutions have poured enormous resources in to get out the vote campaign but have they invested enough in stay out of the vote efforts in ways to prevent malicious meddling it's not like there was no warning 5 yea

e.u. commission are saying that the comic has formed a cartel by discussing industrial standards for diesel engines and petrol engines and by negotiating what kind of industry to standards they want to promote that way the e.u. commission says the car makers prevented innovation and that's how they form a cuttle now margaret vest the commission's competition chief she says that this might be stretching the notion of cartel law a little that of course this doesn't fit with the traditional description of price cartels still she says this was a cartel and that's why the card makers have to pay that fine. fines poles are also being fined also billion euros so far a german comic has had to pay big fines and settlements in the u.s. is now pay day in europe. certainly looks like it and quite obviously you know state attorneys here in germany and also other legal institutions in europe have taken much more time than the americans to find out that there actually was a legal basis for criminal charges for a damage payments for the fine payments but i also have to say you know many of the things that

e.u. commission set up a task force to deal with this threat but critics say its efforts may be too little too late d.w. teri schultz has this report whoever you are wherever you are you can get involved and european union institutions have poured enormous resources in to get out the vote campaign but have they invested enough in stay out of the vote effort in ways to prevent malicious meddling it's not like there was no warning 5 years ago the kremlin's intern. research agency in st petersburg was revealed estimated to spend more than a $1000000.00 a month pumping out anti western spin 3 years ago u.s. elections were the target of that russian troll farm yet the european commission waited until just 6 months before the european parliament elections to launch its action plan against this information we should have been doing much more kalinski spent 3 years in the european commission's struck on task force a communications unit created in 2015 to counter russian efforts to smear the e.u. now with an independent think tank kalinski says brussels is way behind expecting that we will solve th

commission. it is considered the top job within the e.u. institutions because the e.u. commission is the only one that can initiate legislation they also implement the decisions of the member states and if the european union had a government this is you know this comes closest to an actual to an actual government but make no mistake you know the real power or more of the real power still lies with the member states but it's a highly symbolic post and like i said within the e.u. institutions it's the one with the most power so when should we expect a decision there are some hints here 1st of all i get a makeover very typical said we still have a lot of time but should try to reach a conclusion until the new e.u. parliament that has to agree also on the. commission president convenes for the 1st time that will take place at the beginning of july and conveniently the heads of state and government so the european council the summit the next summit will convene at the end of june so they will try to reach an agreement right there but given the situation we have not only among

e.u. commission president. it's 9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone warfare program to the media daniel hale who was arrested on thursday served as a language analyst for the air force between 292013 in 2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance it's a ledge that injuring that time he established communication with a reporter and late provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers hale was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges related to theft retention and transmission of classified information each carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom organization reporters without borders has sharply criticized the arrest arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with

e.u. commission president. there are $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing war. from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story. a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone warfare program to the media well done neil hale who was arrested thursday served as the language on the list for the euro force between 292-013-2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance it's alleged not during the time he established communication with a reporter later provided him with documents stolen from and they say computers hail was indicted on to the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft rick tension transmission of classified information each of those carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom organization reporters withou

e.u. commission president. beijing dollars to respond to donald trump the solution to ratchet up a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing trade. just gone 4 pm this sunday here in moscow may the 11th a warm welcome to the program i mean in o'neil our top story a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone warfare program to the media . who was arrested thursday served as a language on the list for the euro force between 292-839-2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top. secret security clearance it is alleged that during the time he established communication with the reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers know he was dying to go into the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft retention transmission off plus the fight in for me and each carries a maximum penalty of 10 years i

e.u. commission have approved or not the chance for europeans to have a no the european parliament that seems to be sort of on the drawing board right now because you see the naval group the other group winning seats and are going to be coming in with maybe $22.00 you see the greens coming in with quite a lot of people so things are changing this is good for you isn't it that is indeed good for me as well so that means you think the whole constellation right now is one that you could live with having as a majority backing you. well from now on things get complicated because then no one can live without the other in order to have a working minority that sufficiently strong so the next couple of days will be a huge interests who's talking with 2 what kind of coalition can get things started so walk us through it i mean what will you do in the next days it's an open secret that you're one of the united states and canada but you are you are here in brussels people talk about you possibly being the next commission president what will your job be starting monday and tuesday who do you talk to who d

e.u. commission president. margaret divest the liberals for the greens monthly to be about father conservatives funds to moments for the social democrats younes out as conservative reference candidate and. party they are the 6 leading european candidates but hang on a minute who are they and does anyone know anything about them do you know any of them. and do you know him. any idea or. have ever seen her. having. dutchman for month to month speak some language as he once more social justice german month will be by is calling for secure europe help for example by european f.b.i. denmark's moderate best star is standing for self-confidence and women's rights left wing. is a trade unionist and this parting for social rights and human scott keller is promoting a european climate friendly future the czech republic the un's idealism favor the e.u. but once more sovereignty for individual nation states they are all committed to the european union but what are the biggest challenges what solutions do they need to offer

e.u. commission on this information welcome to the w. we hear a lot these days about to descend from asia and russia and troll farms is it just russia doing this. no not at all i mean i think it's very clear that there are a number of information operations coming and they are probably a bit was that games with extensive ones but there has been a number of incidents in which other forms shown to be active around the world in trying to sow confusion and increase the strikes in the political process and if it's just vegan if i can put it that way away at it as well as the west that it. i think it's clear that the line between information operations and is sometimes a bit hot to draw on and there are probably instances in which western governments are accepted ways that other governments might think of as interference i think what we need to give in mind is that the majority of misinformation and sometimes it is a nation are you to mistaken or to profit from international actors and this will be the case of old europe as well during the ele

also the elections what are you going to do on day one even if you really become a lot commission president of the e.u. well the 1st task is to build up a new commission of course but that's too easy that series well that's why that's why one of the bottom of the key issues is for me to perform much and that balanced a commission so to look for in the state commissions for the future and i hope that cysts out of states and out of my hands be really present at the good intent and strong evidence of a few hope that we can really come close to the next european commission a visit which about that is what i want to achieve but the most important topic is the most important topic at the beginning is that if i say it is 1st of all thing the message of the new commission the message of the new commission is please stop the crisis thinking of breck's it a migration euro crisis that's now open a new chapter of hope of positive forward looking ideas for the future to tell people to show people is a clear plan is a clear mandate what we can achieve if you work together just that is what i want to work for that p

e.u. commission job that needs to find a success it soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald to disk and chief of the european central bank mario draghi by the end of this year earlier this year the money will said he wanted to see a new written a song take place in europe well if he can reform the way directly elected positions of filled in the e.u. institutions well the us may be more akin to a revolution peter all of a burly. geo political analyst reiner roth told us he does not believe the so-called lead candidate system has lived up to expectations. in my understanding of some kind of diet or lean lead candidate system is a kind of democracy simulation because of the citizens cannot directly choose which candidate is the best option and who represents best the people's interests so it's a party issue of the parties before hand select their most appropriate what they think is most appropriate how to get and this is quite dysfunctional because even in germany we can see that the german. lead candidate for that you keep e.u. is fighting against germ

e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream that is should a better option come on the table list of better though well he's already talking like he's got the job so the future european commission on the my leadership we'll insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be i undoubtedly a european summit which will take place in june after the parliamentary elections in 2 weeks time because it's. not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find a successor soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald tusk and chief of the european central bank mario draghi by the end of this year earlier this year the money will said he wanted to see a new rene solves take place in europe well if he can reform the way directly elected positions are filled in the e.u. institutions will vast maybe more akin to a revolution peter all of our r.t. early. political analyst and raina roth told us he doesn't believe the so-called lead candidate system has lived up to expectations. in my understanding there's some kind of do

e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream is should a better option come off the table just a better though well he's already talking he's got the job so the future european commission on the my leadership will insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be ironed out to a european summit which will take place in in june after all the entry election that we've seen with this time because it's not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find a successor soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald tusk and chief of the european central bank mario draghi by the end of this year earlier this year the money will said he wanted to see a new britain a songs take place in europe well if the kid reform the. way directly elected positions are filled to the e.u. institutions while the us may be more akin to a revolution peter oliver r.t. early. geopolitics exploited peer emanuel tom and told us why he believes there's such a rift in europe over the election process right now germany is supporting more.

e.u. commission job that needs to find a success it soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald tusk and chief of the european central bank mario draghi by the end of this year earlier this year the money will said he wanted to see a new written a song take place in europe well if he can reform the way directly elected positions are filled in the e.u. institutions will vast maybe more akin to a revolution peter all of our r.t. early. geopolitics experts. told us why he believes there is such a rift right now in europe over this whole election process. germany is supporting more. spits and candied doubt process why because of modern political mother of germany is it federer soviet understand bit of a system and all saw must of the. biggest number of m e p's invent national parliament from a national delegation is a german delegation france has a different id because they have not that many. peas in your bed parliament for french people. they are more there is not defeated while moderates much more in nation state more there and they value more. european c

e.u. commission president but with the results we have so far that seems increasingly on the realist.again a little bit later. now one of the european union's most prominent jobs is also up for grabs as we heard the role of the president of the european commission john klobuchar has been doing that job for the last 5 years but he's not up for re-election so let's meet the people who are looking to replace that. he's got i would do everything to defend this year i think we as greens take the battle i would propose rather new which is scaled back we have work to do that migration is an opportunity strike we introduce the minimum wage to every member state they are all running for the e.u. commission president moderated by start off all the liberals on the greens monthly to be about all the conservatives funds to moments where the social democrats younes out a deal is conservative rep on this candidate and. it's all the party. they are the 6 leading candidates but hang on a minute who are they and does anyone know anything about them do you know any of them. and do you know him. any idea

e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream is shooting that iraq should come off the table list of the other though well he's already talking he's got the job so the future european commission on the my leadership will insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be i undoubtedly a european summit which will take place in june after all the entry elections we have to do with this time because it's. not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find a successor soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald to sgt and chief of the european central bank mario draghi by the end of this year earlier this year the money will micron said he wanted to see a new release songs take place in europe well if he can reform the way directly elected positions are filled in the e.u. institutions will thus be more akin to a revolution theater all over altie burly. several lawmakers have been injured and more hospitalized after hong kong's legislative assembly descended into chaos the ball was triggered by a meeting

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

e.u. commission now it's about her man he's from the pro e.u. european movement here in berlin thanks for joining us this morning a very big day for for the european union certainly for the parliament you know as well as we saw in a report there people simply don't know who is up for the top job at the european commission isn't this one of the fundamental problems of the european union one that nigel frosh as certainly capitalized on yeah it's a problem to be solved thing what we can do for the next year is better of cause of national parties need to do that job and to put the top candidates on the lists after they get the word out there how do they make these individuals known to the broader voting public is there a way to do that there is always a way gotos known for climate change activism of course your white there many many ways of doing that and some people especially national parties don't do the top ok when we look at the voting results for the 1st time in memory we're seeing centrist parties no longer commanding the majority in the euro

e.u. commission president. president donald trump's national security adviser john bolton has now arrived in the united arab emirates against the backdrop of tensions with iran last week mr bolton said the u.s. had deep and serious intelligence on threats posed by tehran but refused to go. into details iran says there's no prospects of any discussions with the u.s. unless donald trump recommit to the 2015 nuclear agreement he withdrew from. from tehran. in his 1st media briefing as iran's new foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi wasted no time getting to the point if the united states wants talks with iran the starting point is returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. now we won't have any negotiation is the united states and on line has always been respect for international agreements to least they could return there with. and based on delusion so we have no prospect for negotiation and invades for developments. as to offers by 3rd parties while iran's leaders are open to hearing from concerned friends mousavi

e.u. commission the n.t. trust watchdogs of the european commission saying that the comic has formed a cartel by discussing industry standards for diesel and petrol engines and that they that way agreed on what kind of industry standards they want to promote that's way the card the cartel authorities a say the comic has prevented innovation and that's how they formed a cartel now margaret vest the competition commission off the european union herself admits that this is kind of stretching it that this of course does not fit the traditional perception of a price cartel still best doctor is convinced that this was a cartel and that's why the car makers b.m.d. b.m.w. among them have to pay those significant fines so a cartel to prevent innovation is an interesting idea and of course we have to ask how are investors reacting to all of this. well stephen the share price of b.m.w. today is down slightly and if we compare the price today with where it was before you know the first rumors about those fines came about

e.u. commission presidential gload younker tried to sue the us president ready to start another trade war we've decided to strengthen our cooperation on energy you will be more terminals to import liquefied natural gas from the us currently germany is financing two new elegy terminals to receive if u.s. shipments and is said to be busy the e.u. wants to double their imports from the us by twenty twenty three the us paints this not as an economical but a political success and expanded natural gas trade will contribute to the collective strength and resilience of our nato partners thank you very much still u.s. president trumps maine grief as with the e.u. buying most of its gas from russia a fact that won't change anytime soon and twenty eighteen forty percent of the e.u.'s gas imports came from russia a similar share was imported from norway other large suppliers to the european markets are algeria and qatar the united states still ranks among others they are l. and g. numbers look higher as most gas to the e.u. is not liquefied at all but rather delivered by a pipeline that we crossed ou

e.u. commission headquarters in brussels in april hundreds of african farmers gave vent to that anger here calling for an end to e.u. milk exports to africa european milk they say is frequently adulterated and is destroying their livelihoods to be supported by senegalese politician juliet 8. we have enough problems in africa without having more public health issues added to them and then there's the problem that european policies with subsidies over production and many other things basically creating dumping african countries shouldn't have to accept this exploitation. that's right that's what he said. senegal is one of the least developed countries in the world and it's heavily dependent on the e.u. as a trading partner. under the everything but arms agreement senegal can export fish for example to e.u. countries base quota free and duty free. and this is something the e.u. wants more african nations to benefit from in future it says the agreement encourages trade and investment which will in turn help fight poverty but so far the e.u. has only one regional agreement with southern african

e.u. budget they also helped choose the president a very powerful position of the european commission the current president is this man called younger the favors to replace him are the german conservative m.e.p. mancha veba and the dutch politician timmermans of the european socialists now ahead of the vote the e.u. has made a major push to boost turnout already stung by the brics referendum bloc also faces growing euro skepticism and there are concerns about online foreign disinformation campaigns trying to confuse voters last year the e.u. commission launched a task force to step up its response to that but critics say its efforts may be too little too late whoever you are wherever you are you can get involved the european union institutions have poured enormous resources in to get out the vote campaign but have they invested enough in stay out of the vote efforts in ways to prevent malicious meddling it's not like there was no warning 5 years ago the kremlin's internet research agency in st petersburg was revealed estimated to spend more than a $1000000.00 a month pumping out anti west

e.u. commission and other top says iran largely overshadowed discussions with the e.u. in the country to stand by its commitments under the nuclear deal agreed with world powers in twenty two fifteen the u.s. withdrew from the deal a year ago and iran has now threatened to abandon it unless the other signatories provide quick relief from u.s. sanctions have a chance of i'm going to machall held a press conference at which she addressed this year. it's now even more important that europe shows a united front here we do not want an escalation but we want to keep using diplomatic to think we know our limitations but we all agree that the more united europe is the better the chance we have of using dialogue to find possible solutions. for. severe welcome so we had the german chancellor saying that she's aware of the limitations in this situation perhaps you could outline for us. well the limitations are pretty clear the problem that the european union has is that they do want to encourage trade with iran at a time when the u.s. threatened sanctions to any business that trie

e.u. commission president. the 1st trial in the u.s. against drug makers blamed for contributing to the opioid crisis has begun in the state of oklahoma the state's attorney general accuses the company johnson and johnson of greed has led to an oversupply of the drugs and fueled addiction. activists in argentina have resumed their battle to legalize abortion demonstrators rallied in the capital where politicians are presenting a bill to allow abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy a similar measure was narrowly defeated last year those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after rewind i'll have a quick summary in 25 minutes. hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm come out santa maria in the decade or so since the start of al-jazeera english back in 2006 we've broadcast hundreds of moving powerful documentaries and here on rewind we are revisiting some of the best of them and looking at how the story has moved on today where rewinding to 2012 when fault lines sebastian walker returned to iraq to assess the stat

e.u. commission and a lot of member states have been trying to do then that will be a great day for europe and that is the kind of explanation you have for the far right wing gains that are expected in this election we are living in difficult times we face globalization we face migrations these are challenging issues that where there are no simple solutions because just stopping migration will not be the answer it is a lot more complicated right so yeah complicated what are some of the other big issues that parties have been focusing on. a really big issue is the environment which is quite interesting because for instance if you look at exit polls from ireland the green party was rather surprised that they got so much support in that they came out so strongly also in denmark in germany it looks like. the parties who have been rallying for environmental change really had some resonance there there was voters so some some experts have set apart from a far right wing shift we could also see in this european election a shift to a green party who could make substantial gains access and we need

e.u. commission triggered article 7 disciplinary measures for the 1st time in its history against poland. it was on the grounds of a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law the toughest sanctions also known as the nuclear option suspend certain rights such as voting bot it requires a unanimous vote in the european council and hungry announced it would veto any sanctions that the e.u. might propose against poland. the threats proceedings against a member state is that going too far. do you think the e.u. is meddling in polish affairs. no i don't think so i haven't raised this we're trying to hold up we're part of europe. and western standards and rules should influence poland. that's something positive i think of the the what is not talking about us i think the e.u. can give us the best of everything freedom but no borders or a better standard of living actually. i i i don't care about what they did stick company to complicated for me. to just crazy for me. i find what's going on here a bit crazy when the right wing law and justice party came to power in 2015 it began introducing