legarde became the 1st female finance minister of france an experience that french president emmanuel mccall says could benefit her as e.c.v. head. she was the finance minister at a time when it was particularly complicated as she faced the biggest financial and sovereign debt crises of the last decade. having earned credentials for shaping the french response to the financial crash she went on in 2011 to become the 1st woman to head the international monetary fund her biggest challenge in that job handling the greek debt crisis. but her career has not been without controversy in 2016 a french court convicted her of allowing the misuse of public funds legard was neither sentence nor find the i.m.f. stood by its director. on twitter legard said she was honored by the nomination to head europe's most important financial institution during the nomination period it will fall on her deputy david lipton to take over the reins at the i.m.f. . responding to news of his boss's likely departure he said his institution's loss would be the e.c.b. ease again. german economist peter joins us to talk about

trump and british prime minister theresa may german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mccall as for the place i think alexander lukashenko will be happy to host us in minsk means money we are not changing or dismissing any diplomatic formats mikey just before a month we are offering to talk. since we need to talk right now let's find out how that has gone down our correspondent nic ali joins us now from kiev where that meeting between the e.u. and the ukraine's new government is currently taking place nick open invitation extended there by president lenski is that an olive branch how serious should we take this. well that was quite something wasn't it do we need a lens is that an olive branch how serious should we take this. that was quite something wasn't it do we need to talk yes we do i think if you look beyond that headline and he certainly has a talent for the political sound but it is a lot less. extraordinary than it might seem this isn't about $1.00 to $1.00 talks he still wants western leaders to be there including president trump and he's also not giving up on all t

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also throwing her weight behind the french president emmanuel mccall is efforts to get the americans in the rain ians around the table shows that germany has lost some clout there is not a big player in resolving or at least freezing what is currently a potential standoff between the united states and iran bring that right and she was also asked about donald trump yes and this was very interesting it was a very last question and she was asked head on whether she condemned whether the comment the racist comments towards his own congresswoman let's have a look at that statement i reject trump's comments and stand in solidarity with the congresswoman he attacked. that's how brief it was and it was very straight and i think this is an interesting comment to hear from her she simply hunt reacted to it because she had been asked straight on and i think this might potentially prove a bit of a tricky point when she next deals with us and their response of a film indecisive let's talk about a hand she's on so this question many times about her health but the questions don't seem to end this 1

and british prime minister of tourism a german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mccall as for the place i think alexander lukashenko will be happy to host us in minsk that means. we are not changing or dismissing any diplomatic formats mikey just before a month that we are offering to talk. since we need to talk right around. talk about the need to talk with a correspondent nic ali who joins us now from kiev where that meeting between you and ukraine's new government is taking place good to see your next president selenski there extending an open invitation to the russian president vladimir putin what should we make of this. well i'm not sure that we'll be getting on a plane to minsk anytime soon but this video was certainly quite something we need to talk i think this is about selenski reminding his voters after all there is an apollo mission here later in the month that he is up for throwing the diplomatic protocol out the window in pursuit of peace he's willing to really go for the docs ways of communicating. given what we know about let him is who behave in the past

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presidency of the european commission she's reported to be acceptable both to the french president emmanuel mccall and german chancellor angela merkel she's from the center right. was a party in fact and they've been pushing all along for one of the bears to get that job which is seen as the jewel in the crown according to them friends timmons a dutch socialist was a front runner over the weekend but he's extremely controversial and countries like poland and hungary say the appointing him to head to the legislative body would be in their words a total catastrophe so new figures emerging over time it's not clear in fact who will get that job but it doesn't affect the other jobs because there's a lot of horse trading involving saying if we give you the commission then our figure needs to get for example the head of the european council and so on meanwhile the european parliament is saying that very wishes need to be listened to more because of the change in the dominant dynamics there since the may elections so it could take some time but possibly if there is still an impasse in the next 24 hours he

day celebrations another leader who got an invitation by the kremlin was emmanuel macron and we found out here and saw mr mccall and won't have a problem with saying hello when he comes to russia. so as you can see great vibes that that late night meeting to like when putin was with you case to resume a for the 1st time in 3 years london is set to remain an cold war mode with moscow the good news though is those who were in panic mode because of us china trade wars can breathe with relief for now we're going to continue the negotiation we agreed that i would not be putting tariffs on the $325000000000.00 that i would have the ability to put it on if i wanted i have a tremendous relationship with the president nobody else would have the deal that we were getting tens of billions of dollars from china coming in and deed the donald from xi jinping bilad worked its magic no new import tariffs for the time being and further talks to try and and the trade wars all together now everyone who is really making this planet spin angle maracle shinzo abi mohamed ben. and aired on who by the way heard for the 1st time from d

report was commissioned by french president emmanuel mccomb he's pledged to begin repatriating stolen artworks to africa within 5 years. we really hope that mccalls announcement on our report won't just be empty words but will have real consequences. it doesn't only apply to france but to many european countries. they are also invited to look at their colonial past and above all about their present relations with africa which are still shaped by colonialism in my eyes this is absolutely fundamental that. france is leading the way but what about the other former colonial powers. belgium too has a problematic legacy. the famous royal museum for central africa just outside brussels recently reopened after undergoing an extensive make over. it was long overdue. the museum features a magnificent collection of artifacts and it was long criticized for being an exhibition of colonial propaganda now it refer. the african point of view and highlights the atrocities of belgium's colonial past the museum's director general is not ruling out returning artifacts to africa. obviously i agree with prism micro when he says that it's all normal though they did per