discuss who should be the commission's next president ahead of the special summit french president emmanuel mccrone said he was optimistic of a breakthrough. is convinced it's important that we come away from the summit with answers and a new team unlike last week mccrone isn't expressing any clear preferences this time if you did the one of the criteria is competent and i can name some names. migrate france to mama hold. the goal as a candidate e.u. members can agree on and one who doesn't divide many eastern european countries are opposed to the netherlands france to muds who is criticized poland and hungary for lapses in the rule of law something they haven't forgotten i'm afraid that this person is number believe the right one to food. to europe the same thing that possibly you have a feeling the buddha was much more nobody both if only in the region. it's a complicated equation to balance with all players seeking to weigh in. the a used leadership should represent interests across the block east and west gender equality and both big and small countries. probably still the site is just very imp

french president emmanuel mccrone has showcased europe's defense capabilities at this year's best steel day parade key e.u. leaders including german chancellor angela merkel join my call to watch the annual parade down the halls and they say. police in russia have detained dozens of people as the opposition rallied against its exclusion from moscow's mayoral election in september the effective candidates say they've been excluded from the vote on political grounds but city hall says they didn't gather enough signatures to be eligible for the race in the 1st place. floods and mudslides caused by heavy rain have left a trail of destruction across northeastern india killing at least a dozen people officials say the disaster has displaced at least one and a half 1000000 people in the region and many homes in the northeast a state of some are submerged. homemade rafts bring people to what's left of their flooded homes the high water rushed in overnight taking many here in northeastern india by surprise the floods have left hundreds of thousands of people homeless farmers can only try to save

chief and the french president in paris funder line and emmanuel mccrone said that they were hopeful of a productive future relationship with johnson as prime minister. there are many different difficult issues to tackle together we have challenging times ahead of us i think it is very important to build up a strong and a good working relation because we have the duty to deliver something which is good for people in europe and in the united kingdom so i'm looking forward to working with him to deal with the world i'm looking forward to working with him as soon as possible not only on the european issues and the continuation of the negotiations obviously linked to brics it but also on the international issues that make up our daily lives and on which we are closely coordinated particularly with the british and the germans whether that's the situation in iran or international security issues on this one that you don't. get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world the swedish based operator of the british flag tanker seized by a wrong last week in the strait of

on his official website posted about a phone call he had this evening with french president emmanuel mccrone in it he said the day he spoke to the french president saying that if the p. 5 plus one nations wanted to normalize their relationship with iran the best way to do that was to suspend sanctions and return to their commitments in the nuclear deal in it he also quoted president micron as saying we acknowledge that european efforts to compensate for us sanctions have not been successful and effective but we will try our best to make up for this so really all this time during european leaders have been stuck in the middle of a fight between iran and the united states this empathetic tone from the french president is exactly the kind of thing that iranian leaders here into iran will be looking for but is it enough to stop them from going forward with their plan to reduce cooperation with the 2050 nuclear deal with with just a few hours remaining before the iranian set deadline that really remains an unlikely scenario thank you very much with the latest from tehran is a mess ravi. afghan po

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and french president emmanuel mccrone has showcased europe's defense capabilities at this year's best steel day parade key e.u. leaders include german chancellor angela merkel who joined mccrone to watch the annual parade down the shops and these day. turkey is marking 3 years since a failed coup attempt against the government of president wretch of type and one but many questions linger about what actually happened were members of the country's armed forces behind the plot was a rival of arab wants an exile who turkey calls a terrorist responsible while confusion may hang over the failed coup its consequences have been far clearer. the night of july 15th 2016 was filled with chaos and violence elements of the turkish armed forces launched an operation to unseat president richard. aircraft attacked government buildings troops occupied bridges and squares as many as 300 people were killed. on the 15th of july offices told us it was a trying operation but they juked us we went out onto the streets then the police came and we learnt the reality when they detained us. forces loyal to heir

it's been 2 months since french president emmanuel mccrone promised that no more schools would close in should not have closings of schools or hospitals without mayors the called on to the end of my presidential term and it's now more than 350 rural schools are closing their doors and people in rural communities like this one a furious it's terrible that schools are closing in rural areas because for the education and well being of children small establishments are much better than big schools for kids to go all summer to learn should not be tied to if i have a place to go or not i think it is but it would be a bad decision to close those schools even if they are not in the students when i was on the. we need schools to educate the next generation with our future with our schools we can move on if the foundation of everything if these schools close there will be fewer and fewer children and families in the villages and religious will die out that's why it's very important to keep schools open to make them attractive so more families will bring their kids there to be fair the french p

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retirememet heheme, w which faces major deficits was a campaigign promie of e emmanuel macroron, stephen carrrroll is here is mccrone- emmanuel macron. stephen carroll is here. take us through what the system is and why the president wanted to c change it. reporter: there are currently 42 separate regimes under the public pension s system inin fr. alall with differerent rules. unlike other countries, france, most peoeople in france have thr public pension and not a private pension. this is a very important issue for people in this country. everyone under the current system gets a different pension depending on what your salary was when you were working and how long you worked for. one example, in the private sector, employoyees pensions are cut based on their 25 best years of earnings, and in the public sectors, it is six months of earnings. the retitirement age i is 62, at was controversial when they raised it from 60. to get your full pension, you would have had to pay into your pension for years. the retirement age has been creeping up already and is cucurrently on average about 63, as high as 67 for some people.

emmanuel acknowledged that nations had been unable to mitigate u.s. sanctions but he also warned his iranian counterpart of the consequences of weakening the deal mccroneand rouhani have agreed to a deadline of july 15th for all parties to resume talks what comes next is unclear . so far the international atomic energy agency the un's nuclear watchdog has issued 15 separate reports confirming iran's cooperation with the way when iran breached a nuclear stockpile limit last week the i.a.e.a. refrained from reporting that as a violation with this latest move that could change. everyone benefited from us adopting the the u.s. made a strategic mistake by leaving it but we will not stay in it at any cost the decision taken today is in order to preserve the j.c. but it depends on other parties now to say the deal is fragile is to perhaps understate the complicated power dynamics at play the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal in may last year reimposing unilateral sanctions crippling an economy that was experiencing a long awaited period of growth since then remain. signatories to the deal have been caught in the middle of escalating tensions betwee