political correspondent simon young and in strasburg where the vote has just taken place we have a hoffman. sort of on the line and we'll take up position as a council president in november let's see if we can have a word with max hoffman. in strasburg. a fun time line received a fax and congratulations there we have knocked off one. i'm sorry i didn't catch that question and i did not tell you what i was wondering if you were actually that i'm jus off so. much i want to say. what they what do you make of those figures. it's a listen there was a learning curve involved in those numbers last week it was really all about just getting that majority for it was enough on the line that sometimes you know it seemed a little out of reach so. you know obviously being journalist there was a bet going on who would be closest and you had a lot of the journalist at that 438-381-3823 extension 83 so very close to that absolute majority she needed 374 now the optimism in the last days on the side of. increased because the social democrats started coming around you even heard today some of the greens sayi

young here they're here to talk us through the arguments so welcome both so let's start with you max hoffman in strasburg i am told that the voting has now finished counting is underway how do you rate on the lines chances. well we just said those boxes going past us here and that's where the fate of the line is so as you said the voting is done now begins the counting so we want to know what those crucial players voted for especially the social democrats and that's why i'm talking to. you who's next to me he's the head of the italian delegation in the social democratic political group a group that was very skeptical of off on the line but has now decided to support or why because we decided to negotiate some program magic political conditions. and i think that the answer where a satisfactory so we got a lot of what we asked so i think now it is seed used to vote in favor and of course to be very vigilant for the implementation of those commitments so is not the check in black that we are giving but we will be very very much the monday in the next weeks monts if she will be elected as i thin

edifice interestingly strangely rep and it's reminiscent of the political situation here in germany max hoffman in in strasburg so. now has the job i think she doesn't start until november what does she do next. she's going to give a press conference later but i think today she might celebrate with a little sparkling water because that's her way to celebrate. because it's a close confident we can say that right david but alister he's obviously from the european people's party so the same party as. also the head of the foreign affairs committee and i guess on d.w. frequently i saw you hugging. earlier after a victory how do you feel. this was a very moving moment not only for us in a funny line but for many including myself i know it was a fun time now for nearly 20 years we started off political korea together in the regional parliament of the designs and and she's just a convincing european and she's a convinced european we all knew it would be close we all knew it would be a how to take which wouldn't be easy and now we can look forward there's a lot of work now in front of us. today coming f

and hoffman in strasbourg thank you. and i'm sure some of the other stories making news around the world the german captain of the migrant rescue ships a watch 3 has been moved to a secret location because of concerns for her safety of course in order to catch his release from house arrest on tuesday honoring her detention for bringing a ship before the migrants on board into port on the tally an island of lampedusa. u.s. airspace john boeing says it is providing $100000000.00 to help families and communities affected by 2 crashes of its 737 max airplanes the company called the some initial investment for local governments and nonprofit organizations to help families with living expenses boeing faces dozens of lawsuits a vast and killed nearly 350 people 737 matches being grounded it since march. now the u.n. has described an astronaut come to migrants and to end their b.s. that killed at least $44.00 people as amounting to a war crime more than $130.00 were wounded in the attack in the cable capital tripoli that is bein

very jam packed day today the stakes are high certainly a historic day for the european union max hoffman in brussels melinda crane here in the studio thank you so much to both of you. and of course here on news will be having full coverage of that vote a little bit later today to stay with us but 1st a quick check of some other stories making news around the world monsoon flooding in south asia is getting worse a some state on india's border with bangladesh in myanmar has been particularly hard hit 4000000 people have been displaced from their homes there in recent weeks and forecasters warn of further rain to come in many parts of eastern india bangladesh and the poverty. in puerto rico protesters have stepped up their calls for the governor of ricardo was elo to resign they're angry after the leaked text messages were fields and culture of intimidation and sodomy inside of his government. has so far refused to quit saying that it is the island's best interest for him to stay off your committee for u.s. president donald trump has doubled down on a series of racist tweets he made over th

maps hoffman is the w.'s brussels bureau chief he joins us from the european parliament welcome max 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 what german maintained he will not vote for his country woman. in 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 want to decide whom to vote for so for or against. next week so what does sh

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 hoping and his party was also hoping that he would be the one pro posed by the leaders for the commission presidency as we all know that went downhill and completely changed so the question really is despite this opposition also in your own party will fund the lion have the necessary votes in 2 weeks tim

institutions tough nut to crack there in brussels max hoffman thank you so much. now we're at least 7 people have been killed and almost 200 injured in clashes between police and protesters thousands took to the streets across the country to demand the ruling military council head power to a civilian government the demonstrations are the biggest since security forces opened fire on a protest in the capital khartoum almost a month ago killing dozens. of. these demonstrators made their way to khartoum's defense ministry to appeal to military rule as it was one of several rallies in cities across sudan protesters were eager to make their voices heard. god punish these oppressors. we want to civilian government a civilian one. some marches carried photos of family members who were among dozens killed when police broke up a peaceful sit in protest outside army headquarters in early june that violence coincided with the collapse of talks between military rulers and protest leaders about who should head a new governing body sunday's rallies marked the 1st return to the s

well earlier i spoke to the don't use max hoffman he is covering the story from strasbourg france that's news sheet of the european parliament and i asked him whether the lawmakers there will approve the european union leaders pick for commission president. the european parliament brant in the last weeks on a daily basis said that they would only approve a candidate who prior to the decision was a so-called spits in county da that's the german word that everybody uses now in the brussels and strasburg bubble it means the lead candidate for a certain party that is presented in the european parliament and there really were only 2 of those one was funds to months the social democrat that was seemed to be the front runner over the last days and the 2nd one was month it was the official candidate of the conservatives the strongest party the european people's party in the parliament and also the party of i get a makeover the german chancellor and here's the clue also the party of fund and i and which is now the official proposal of the leaders for the commission presidency self how will the eu

mass hoffman in brussels thank you. to the united kingdom now the 2 remaining candidates who become conservative party leader and therefore prime minister have faced each other in a t.v. debate for the 1st time and the biggest disagreement this is between the boris johnson and jeremy hunt came over their approaches to britain's departure from the european union mr johnson a former foreign secretary is expected to win the balance of party members if he does you know have a broad set deadline to meet of just over 3 months as a tough negotiator jeremy hunt had previously accused barsa johnson of being a coward for not meeting him in a t.v. debate earlier when the 2 finally fronted up hunter came out swinging the current foreign secretary asked johnson if you would promise to resign as prime minister if britain didn't leave the european union by the 31st of october johnson said doing that now would simply be a gift to e.u. negotiators. deliver a deal i think it's very very important not to envisage any circumstances in whic

max hoffman there in brussels and melinda crane our chief political correspondent thank you. just to quickly recap what you have been watching over the past hour and a half special coverage of germany's. underline has set out her stall in her bid to become the 1st woman president of the european commission she was keen to play up her own european court and chills saying that europe must rediscover its unity she stressed that europe should be open to a world and bracing multi-lateralism and fair trade. there was also a big appeal to the green lobby on the line said that the most pressing challenge is keeping the planet healthy she pledged a green deal from europe in her 1st 118 say. she set out ambitious goals such as making a year of the 1st climate neutral continent in the world much money $50.00 and on brags that she backed and extension to the u.k. leaving bill europe in a beyond the october 31st deadline should more time. and to keep it here on news we will be covering that vote a little bit later this afternoon but in the meantime we'd like to get you up to date with som

and that was our max hoffman they're sticking with the president elect of the european commission here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least 10 people have died after a residential building collapsed in the indian city of mumbai rescuers are looking for several others feared trapped in the rubble collapses are common during monsoon season as heavy rain weakens poorly constructed buildings the 1st ebola patient in goma a major city in the east of the democratic republic of congo has died prompting fears that the contagious disease could now take hold they are the victim was a pastor who became infected last week when visiting a town heavily hit by the outpouring. climate activists from the group extinction rebellion have blocked the entrance to a concrete factory in london they're trying to stop the construction of a road tunnel under the river thames and they've planned a week of disruption in 5 british cities trying to urge the government to take action on climate change. a united nations report shows that the number of new hiv infections ar

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my name is carl hoffman. the minute i read it i saw that there was something special here and that it was a special unusual book and it has a humor in a gentleness and a grace to it but also an unflinching honesty that work comes from only can come from someone who spent a long time in a place. i think that is the biggest thing that hit me. places like the tiny villages where i had spent a lot of time. i went in ultimately and spent month and this one village and it felt like forever. you're talking a little bit about taking back that. tell us a little bit about the language and why this one place has one language. i have already done linguistics. it was attractive to me and interesting. there's about 8 million people in the country but there's approximately 800 languages. those are different languages not different by varieties. most of them are undocumented and many of them which is about 300 of them are spoken by groups of 500 people or less. i always thought was thought that appealed to me. there is a lot

and we're going to view a question from calories from mexico and she asks you would like to know hoffman should treat to face into body with most who is in cream social 1st of all she should stop using salts and into a chance. she should just use water to wash her face and the body and after 4 weeks she will get used to it and she will be back into into the natural balance producing her own pits and then she. see whether she at all needs a cream or body notion and she should only treat these areas which are still right after 4 weeks but if i would talk to the industry which producers of the skin care products they would have a totally different to opinion on this i would say well you can buy youth with using our products well for sure they want to earn money and they want to promise you will never die if you want to buy this product which helps you to stay on forever but in reality your skin bay area is very strong you have a horn cell layer which keeps out all these products can i get all those anti aging substances into my skin with say eating them to smooth skin through nutrition inde

this point nice thank you very much for filling us in on those complicated negotiations that was max hoffman that in brussels. some of the other stories making headlines today at least 15 people have been killed in mumbai after torrential monsoon downpours caused a wall to collapse the. addition calls travel chaos in the city flooding roads and water logging train tracks whether agencies say the area was hit by at least $35.00 centimeters of rain which fell overnight into tuesday. facebook evacuated 4 buildings said its headquarters in california after a suspicious package tested positive for the nerve agent sarin 2 people are being checked for possible exposure to the top 2 compound which can be fatal doherty's have not yet positively identified the substance. and the paris fire fighters to battle the flames at notre dame cathedral in april have been honored by france's interior and defense ministers the federal spire and roof were destroyed but firefighters managed to save the bell towers and many artworks hundreds of firefighters arrived on the scene in under 10 minutes. 30 firefighters h

let's start with former cia station chief daniel hoffman. great to have you.r reader vladimir putin visiting the pope? >> an opportunity for vladimir putin to play a role on the world stage, he is seeking to light of the european union, he sees the opportunity with a country that has traditionally had better relations with russia in contrast to germany for example and i think vladimir putin sees that as an opportunity to break european efforts to maintain those sanctions. >> it others in your be anxious by this outreach? >> you should always be concerned about vladimir putin traveling overseas and making these efforts. there is an underlying bit of tension between russia and italy. they are competing for competing views of christianity. vladimir putin has held the 15th-century view that russia is the third rome, the spiritual center of christianity. i haven't seen as much press play but i wonder if those concerned about vladimir's visit might raise it. >> iran so the british ambassador to complain about what iranian's maintain is illegal seizure. is tehran jus

political correspondent excuse me our brussels bureau chief max hoffman who has the view from strasburg bear so max what will arcilla founder line being bring to the role and what will her main challenges be. well as she said in her speech by the way the way she started her speech yesterday she is a woman and she's the 1st woman to have that position by the way also the 1st german to have that position so that's already a big change and a big deal obviously also for germany but that's not the only thing the most visible thing will probably be that she promised a gender balanced commission she said in her speech if the commissioners that the different member states sent to brussels don't add up to 50 percent male and 50 percent female then she will do something about that so expect your new commission at the end of the year to have a very different look from the one we have now as for the topics she intends to to work on and the way she feels i got the opportunity to talk to her yesterday right after the election here's the interview it was an i phone and is with us today and i have a ve

press conference would you accept a euro skeptic commission and not quite answering it at all max hoffman strasberg and simon younger here in the studio both listening in to that press conference that's the news if you're just joining us on the line has been confirmed as the next president of the european commission matters are you ok we're having some technical problems with backs off from the ad so we'll come back to him that's simon young. what did we learn from it what did you learn from from that press conference that reaches professing to well i mean is that on the line starting into this job with with gusto and with verb to pick up the word angela merkel used yesterday she said she feels on an overwhelmed has got confidence and she wants a fight for the future of europe my work starts now and so on and. you know she she talked she was ours to we just heard a few of the questions there about in particular the generous rossing about. plans for her commission which is of course the 1st tricky question that she's got to face who will make up the commission we know that. what he said sh

s max hoffman is in strasbourg has been covering all these negotiations and joins us now from the european parliament where they are voting today max what to any piece there make of fonda line as the nominee to become commission president. it depends which political group you asked now the greens have flatly rejected the whole package so if things don't change dramatically in the next 2 weeks they will not vote in favor of. the conservatives will vote for it was enough on the line at least most likely many of them were not happy with the choice because they wanted their candidate during the campaign months to be able to be the nominee but that didn't happen it's going to be difficult for them to oppose fund a lie nevertheless because like i said she's from the same party and so the conservative e.p. p. would continue to provide the e.u. commission president now the key to this whole conundrum are the sole szell democrats they are extremely disappointed because up until the end it looks like they're the candidate plans to moments was going to be the choice of the leaders in brussels but tha

correspondent simon young and in strasbourg where the votes is that taking place in brussels bureau chief hoffman let's start with you max the voting finished time ago where are we at what i say sometimes about a half an hour or so ago where are we in the counting. the bell just rang here and that means all the members of the european parliament are asked to get back into the plenary so their votes have been counted and sources are telling us that funnel made it but with a small margin smaller than we expected apparently the number is 383 she needed 374 so only 9 votes margin if this really is the official result and we will find out soon that it will be very very tight does it not matter how or busy how much does it matter if the margin is a close one. it really depends on who gave her those votes the suspect i suspect what happened is that the right wing euro skeptics from the e.c.r. had said last week they would probably vote in favor of from the line pulled back their votes we know that they did not have an official recommendation for their members of the european parliament because underlyin

she's ready for this job she's up for it and she's got some ideas that's let's say we can rejoin hoffman back in strasburg. max listening into that press conference on the line and again what it what they will what did you learn from. obviously she's not being very specific yet that has 2 fold reasons 1st of all she needs to you know know who she's going to work with she needs to get up to speed on the different topics tonight is not the night to start a controversy between let's say eastern european countries and central european countries so she's being careful she just said she will work together constructively with with each head of governments because i believe she was asked by a british journalist if she preferred boris johnson or jeremy hunt as prime minister of the united kingdom so you. you can tell she's confronted right away to the e.u. environment where you have very specific and very different questions from the different countries. now simon young. very much i'm going to mak calls a protege and we are we hearing anything from the german chancellor at this stage we all feel

joining us now, fox news contributor, retired cia officer, 30 years a cia analyst, dan hoffman. fox news military analyst, colonel david hunt. let's go to you, colonel. ask you, okay, do you agree with my assessment? i've known the president 23 years. probably have interviewed him more than anybody else in media today. he is committed. there won't be boots on the ground. if he does act, he's going to win. it will be over fast. you agree with me? >> not entirely. the problem you've got with your analysis is going after the iranian nukes. they're buried deep. the problem will be to get at those bunkers, we probably have to use nuclear bunker busters which is probably unacceptable. >> sean: hold on. you're saying if the choices are nuclear armed iran and having to use very powerful weapons, what will america choose? what must the world choose? >> very powerful weapons are nuclear bunker bursters. we can't contemplate that. what we have to do is probably try the u.n. but also put more sanctions and we have to strangle iran more economically. a military strike to go after that won't

station chief daniel hoffman. to have you. >> good to be here. >> mike: what is your read of vladimir putin visiting the pope? >> an opportunity to be on the world stage. he sees an opportunity in italy of a country that traditionally had better relations with russia in contrast to germany for example. putin sees it as an opportunity to break efforts to maintain sanctions. >> mike: should others in europe be anxious by the outreach? you should always be concerned about putin traveling overseas and making the efforts. there is underlying tension between russia and italy. they are competing for competing views of christianity. putin held a 15th century view that russia is the third rome. the spiritual center of christianity. so there is that as well. i wonder if those who are concerned about his visit might raise it. >> mike: iran summoned the british ambassador to complain what iranians maintain is illegal seizure. is tehran just embarrassed? >> this is an interesting case because the british marines were seized th

nicholas von hoffman, in a column he wrote for the washington post called i got riots in new york.ily said did this film. this film is epic because there's nothing like it because she was the only one. >> there's a portion from 1970,and proud. >> at first i was very guilty. and then i realized that all of the things that are taught not only by society but by psychiatrist put you into a mold. i rejected the mold. when i rejected the mold i was happier per. >> there were independent organizations for the country, this is a unified effort on the part of somewhere between 20 and 30 organizations on the east coast. >> ♪ >>> that's from the film and proud. why was this a tipping point for the rights movement? >> it was a generational change. this is from the old school. this was to the new era that happened almost overnight after stonewall in 1969 and she cut that change inand proud from the old school, second-largest minority to gain proud, the explosion of a cultural change fromliberation. and, i feel that spirit welling up today with new entrant is in this movie. one of the marshals o

. >>> let's turn it over to evan hoffman who's with us on the phone. he was there at the gym just adjacent to the fountains mall when the explosion occurred. evan, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> you okay, first of all? >> caller: yeah. a little ringing in the ears and a little bit of a headache. it could have been a lot worse. >> did you go to seek assistance? did you go into any medical facility to make sure that your hearing, your head's okay? >> caller: no. i'll give it a day or so to see if it subsides. i mean, there was people with a lot worse than i was. my concern was after the initial explosion, you know, there was concern for my wife who was also at the gym, just making sure i was able to get my wife out safely and myself out safely. it was quite an experience. >> absolutely. and she's okay? >> caller: she is fine, yeah. yeah. she is fine. >> evan, there's always that question, what was the lead up to the event, right? and often it's difficult to remember the exact details. but because one of the hypotheses out there at the moment

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earlier, i spoke to max hoffman and i asked him whether the lawmakers will approve the eu leaders pick for commission president. max: parliament on a daily basis said they would only approve a candidate who was a lead candidate for a certain party. that is presented in the european parliament. there were only two of those. one was a social democrat who seemed to be the front runner. the second one was the official candidate of the conservatives. the european people's party in the parliament. also, the part -- party of angela merkel. also the party of ursula von der leyen which is now the official proposal of the leaders for the commission presidency. hohow will the european parliamt now deal with a candidate that has not been a lead candidate? you migight get the c conservats on your side because she is a conservatitive but the social democrats will have a much harder time. what we are hearing from them is that ursula von der leyen is not acceptable. brent: what happened if ursula von der leyen is rejected by the parliament? max: then it's back to square one. you need a double majority

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and we're going to viewer question from colorist from mexico and she asks you would like to know hoffman she should try to face into body with most who is in cream social 1st of all she should stop using salts and into a chance. she should just use water to wash her face in the body and after 4 weeks she will get you through it and she will be back into into the natural balance producing her own limits and then she. see whether she at all needs a cream or body lotion and she should only treat these areas which are still dry after 4 weeks but if i would talk to the industry which producers of the skin care products they would have a totally different to opinion on this i would say well you can buy youth with using our products well for sure they want to earn money and they want to promise you will never die and you want to buy this product which helps you to stay on forever but in reality your skin bay area is very strong you have a hormone so they are which keeps out all these products can i get all those anti-aging substances into my skin with say anything to do smooth skin through nutr

s max hoffman he was one of the 1st journalist to speak with the president elect. on the line is with us today and i have a very simple question the start of the interview are you feeling. relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. formulate the guidelines the political guidelines and to convince the parliamentarians this was not a lot of time and i made it and i'm happy right now does the majority bother you that it was only 9 votes ahead majority's majority and 2 weeks ago i didn't have at all a majority of course i understand that because the parliamentarian said we want to know more of you we want to know what your program is we want to know the details of the topics we're dealing with so it was a tough time a very intensive the most intensive in my political career i've ever had but now i'm happy and you happy with the speech you deliver the feedback you got yes because it showed my conviction and it's worth to fight for this europe and its west to tell the story of our you are united and strong how i see it for the future and so

hoffman in the european parliament in stride as a biographer now a thank you. i'm more from max and full coverage of about virt and its results in the next in about 30 minutes to 45 minutes time here on d w ahead of that we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the 1st of all a patient in goma a major city in the east of the democratic republic of congo has died prompting fears that the contagious disease could not take hold that the victim was a pastor who became infected last week when physically town heavily hit by the outbreak. at least 2 people have died after a residential building collapsed in the indian city of mumbai rescuers are looking for dozens of others feared trapped in the rubble collapses are common during monsoon season as poorly constructed buildings become weakened by the rains. protesters in puerto rico have stepped up their calls for the resignation of governor ricardo reseller they're angry after leaked text messages revealed a culture of intimidation and massage any insight his government government res

diffused chief political correspondent and to crane and we also have our brussels bureau chief max hoffman standing by at the european parliament in strasbourg and max i'd like to begin with you because funder line she's really facing an uphill battle here what does she need to do in order to get the votes that she needs. it's a balancing act sarah because if she gives too much to the right for example too many concessions to the right then she'll lose votes on the left if she gives too many concessions to the left and she'll lose votes on the right so really she can't be too concrete she can't be too vague she really has to hit that sweet spot in the middle and it's got much more complicated than in the past to do that because you need 3 parties to gain a majority here in the european parliament and she'll probably even need from 4 different parties to get a majority from the liberals from the conservatives from the social democrats and also even from the conservative euro skeptics that's why it's been so tough for her harder than for any of her predecessors that's why she's been writing

commission and our countries the fall feet on well do you see that brussels bureau chief is max hoffman he's that at the heart of the action welcome max why are these eastern european countries so close to mr timmons. well funds to mons is already a member of the european commission he is the 1st vice president and he's sort of the go to guy for infringement procedures so if a country does something wrong the commission says funds go get him he's done so for example for poland with the rule of law procedure especially for eastern european countries and so he has become a symbol in those countries for everything that in the eyes of the leaders there is wrong with the european union the watchdog from brussels who tries to change things things as they are run in those countries that's why there was such fierce opposition in eastern europe so does this appointment necessarily need unanimity. it doesn't you need a qualified majority of the qualified majority it works like this 65 percent of the population of the european union need to be represented need so that's the majority you need there

brussels' bureau chief max hoffman spoke with the commission's new president elect shortly the last night's vote. is with us today and i have a very simple question to start the interview how are you feeling. relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. formulate the guidelines the political balance and to convince the parliamentarians this was not a lot of time and i made it and i'm happy right now does the majority bother you that it was only 9 votes ahead majority's majority and 2 weeks ago i didn't have at all a majority of course i understand that because the parliamentarian said we want to know more of you we want to know what your program is we want to know the details of the topics we're dealing with so it was a tough time a very intensive the most intensive in my political career i've ever had but now i'm happy and you happy with the speech you delivered the feedback you got yes because it showed my conviction and it's worth to fight for this europe and it's best to tell the story of our europe united and strong how i see it for the future and so this w

constructively and pragmatically to achieve that we want to go live now to our brussels bureau chief rex hoffman he is standing by at the european parliament in strasbourg and i think i understand he has the newly elected president with a mass. that's right brant we do was alive on the line is with us today and i have a very simple question the start of the interview are you feeling. relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. formulate the guidelines the political guidelines and to convince the parliamentarians this was not a lot of time and i made it and i'm happy right now does the majority bother you that it was only 9 votes ahead majority's majority and 2 weeks ago i didn't have at all a majority of course i understand that because the parliamentarian said we want to know more of you we want to know what your program is we want to know the details of the topics we're dealing with so it was a tough time a very intensive the most intensive in my political career i've ever had but now i'm happy and you happy with the speech you delivered the feedback you got yes b

enough on the line has exactly one chance if she fails she can't be put up to another vote i max hoffman out reporting for you from brussels thank you very much max. i want to talk now about some of the other stories making news around the world britain's ambassador to the united states sir kim darrow has resigned days after the leak of confidential memos in which she described president donald trump's administration as quote inept on his resignation comes after the president hit back describing serkin as a pompous fool and british prime minister to some a as foolish when she backed her to put out. the united states wants to build a military alliance to save guard the strategic waters off iran and yemen the u.s. says it aims to guarantee navigation in the strait of hormuz and bedlam and that both crucial trade routes while this comes as tensions between washington and tehran escalate. the american rapper and it came a notch has carol sold a concert in saudi arabia saying she wanted to show support for women's and gay rights in the kingdom instead menasha was supposed to headline the worl

the european parliament in strasbourg correspondent max hoffman is that welcome. on the line speech as it moved the needle how do you write such chances. it appears that the needle has moved a little bit phil were talking to the different groups that were so solid beforehand it seems that she's getting more and more votes from that area take the social democrats for example you know that the german s.b.s. of the german delegation within the social democratic group has been very much against him but they appear to be more and more isolated because the spanish delegation which is the strongest delegation within the social democrats is very much in favor of one fund so we expect her to garner about 100 votes out of 154 which is much more than you would have expected a week ago take the liberals for example they're about to make a big announcement in favor of fun so she can expect a big majority of those votes as well so if you have a lot of people here saying it would be very very narrow it might still be narrow but less narrow than before some people even think that

analysis here in our studio now of the speech that has just taken place our brussels bureau chief max hoffman is standing by in strasburg and we also have melinda crane our chief political correspondent joining us here in the studio and max i'd like to begin with you because you watched the speech happening live there and you know arcilla funded she really had a lot of people to convince in the room do you think that she did so effectively. well at least she touched upon all the main points that she had to talk about she had a forceful in true saying i stand before you as the 1st nominee or 1st candidate for a 1st female candidate for the presidency of the e.u. commission she mentioned that she was a mother of 7 so she did play that card and in the end she got a little emotional telling stories about her father trying to underline to emphasize how important the e.u. was for the big matters of war and peace and how precious it is in her eyes so for those willing to listen and for those willing to take seriously what she said this was at least in my eyes a strong speech a speech where she was v