let's go right to proselyte our bureau chief max hoffman is standing by for us there he's been covering the vote for us max you could say it's been a pretty underwhelming result for the established parties in this vote how has that gone down in brussels. for the established parties and surprisingly that didn't go down too well for others like the greens for example and also certain right wing populist parties like from italy or the awesome will gnaw not from france they were rather enthusiastic but even those that lost seats stressed the fact they thought it was positive that voter turnout had increased by about 7 percent compared to the last european election so winners and losers as with every election this is definitely a fragmented parliament max you could say so what's going to be the kingmakers in brussels after this vote you know where the chips going to fall in the parliament. a looks like at the moment that you would need at least 3 groups to build a majority and then only if the social democrats and the conservative european peoples party continue to work together so it would

good guests to do just that and like i said phil we're looking forward to an exciting evening here max hoffman there in brussels thank you so much max cross the course of the evening as mass was saying that this is all about seats in the european parliament so let's take a look at why they seems to choose is so important. the european elections are the 2nd largest election in the world after india's each of the e.u. used 28 member states has a fixed number of parliament members or piece proportional to their population. germany has the highest number of any peace followed by france and italy. there are 751 ammi piece as of now but that number will be reduced to 705 post breaks it with some u.k. seats being redistributed. the e.u. parliament has many powers ranging from adopting and amending the e.u. laws to overseeing the 145000000000 annual budget. it's the only organ within the e.u. this directly elected by e.u. citizens that makes it the representation of the people 510000000 to be exact. so it's a huge logistical exercise let's go back to where it's all going to be happening across the eve

landscape there in brussels a picture as we said slowly becoming clearer as the night progresses max hoffman for us i will talk to a bit later max thank you. and let's get a reminder now into how tonight's elections for the european parliament are shaping up results flooding in from around the e.u. after an unprecedented voter turnout of 51 percent predictions of strong support for a populist party's appeared to have materialized in france where marina pens national rally won just over 23 percent of the vote and in poland where the ruling law and justice party is leading exit polls with more than 42 percent but concerns about climate change i have also goes to the pro e.u. greens across the bloc. all right until now we have been getting a partial vote results will be back at the top of the hour with the 1st a visual results coming in and we'll of course bring you more now since our continuing special election. stay with us. influence when it comes to young people. and not trying to be european and russian and nobody can. go to that. young activist sound working hard for the european idea. an

brussels correspondent excuse me max hoffman is standing by for us max let's actually go back to our breaking news story now with theresa may how are things looking in brussels now that there's going to be a new face trying to negotiate bragg's it with the e.u. . i'd say the priority of the european union in the last years was to have one person they could talk to in london somebody who ideally it would have had influence over what really happens in the united kingdom and would have been able to defend the position of the u.k. and really negotiate an outcome that after that would have been supported by the house of commons back in the u.k. as we all know this did not happen and over the years i would say it became increasingly clear to the leaders of the european union so for example i'm going to or am under way michael and of course the people in the e.u. commission and also in the council of the european union that the recent may was not the person that was going to be able to deliver that result so in the beginning i would say they supported her to have stability to have somebody

a lot longer than that i've even heard some say they think it'll take until the end of the year max hoffman in brussels thank you. don't least 11 people have died trying to climb the walls highest peak mount everest the season most believed to have suffered from altitude sickness caused by low levels of oxygen in the and the number of deaths being blamed on overcrowding. they came for an adventure in the remotest place on asd. queues carnage and tragedy. the man who filmed this long breathless crawl to the top of everest turned back fearing for his life it has become a death race there because there was massive traffic jam and people are pushing themselves or not even care people of doing it they do it to try to summit and they instead of summiting they kill themselves and it's turned into a bad thing and i think people should really look into it. the reason for the sneaking lines of mine into near is that the top of the world a record number of parent and a narrow window of good weather the delays made the already extreme conditions worse according to this climber who has the scars to prov

still very much shaping discourse in the campaign ahead of the vote are brussels the bureau chief max hoffman has a member of the f.t. there to speak to max please take it away. that's right so me i have. here with me a member of the a.f.c. and as he said before if he's so far had one seat in the european parliament and now they're poised to get 10 to 11 seats of a 10 to leaven seats so i think it's about time that our worldwide viewers know what what your party is about so it's going to ask you a couple quick questions and you tell me what the position is for example is because migration is a big topic for if the are you for legal ways of migration. of course the awful legal maze of migration it's not a question about only off or against it's a question of how we manage it so how many people come from direct do they come and what skills to bring with them so an american model. green card at say an american model assault from one such do you are you for the freedom of the press as we have it now in the european union of course we are that's why critical to wants just big block of public lore

s brussels bureau chief max hoffman welcome back so this decline of mainstream center left and center right parties were seen across europe is it likely to impact the makeup of the new parliament. well the real question is how are they going to find a majority for example to elect the next president of the e.u. commission and in the past it was enough to have the social democrats and the conservatives they had more than half of the seats in this european parliament that has by the way a total of $751.00 seats that's no longer the case they will need a 3rd group either the liberals that are backed by the french president not call or the greens that have had such success as we just saw in that report and now as you can imagine you know between the the greens and the right wing of the conservatives there aren't that many similarities so it's going to be much harder than in the past to find that common ground i can tell you this the groups here in brussels have already started doing that there will be technical talks this evening already in brussels and tomorrow the heads of the different

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 1st time 28 leaders were locked in a room in their phones jam literally so they can't talk they can't leak anything this is top secret but what we gather from the arrivals so far is and that's an important point that most of the leaders support the so-called spits and process it's terribly complicated word and it just means that basically you that different groups in the e.u. parliament have their lead candidate and only one of those lead candidates gets to be the you commission president later that is well a process that was put in doubt 5 years ago including by the german chancellor but now it seems that she's accepted it and that would mean that only one of those 2 you just mentioned plans to months and months would be about and maybe market best of all it's not entirely clear if she really is a spitz and kind of sold the candi

let's go right to proselyte our bureau chief max hoffman is standing by for us there he's been covering the vote for us max you could say it's been a pretty underwhelming result for the established parties in this fall how is that going down in brussels. for the established parties and surprisingly that didn't go down too well for others like the greens for example and also certain right wing populist parties like that they got from italy or that us on the law not from france they were rather enthusiastic but even those that lost seats stress the fact they thought it was positive that voter turnout had increased by about 7 percent compared to the last european election so winners and losers as with every election this is definitely a fragmented parliament max you could say so who is going to be the kingmakers in brussels after this vote you know where the chips going to fall in the parliament. a looks like at the moment that you would need at least 3 groups to build a majority and then only if the social democrats and the conservative european people's party continued to work together s

so it's a complicated picture we're hoping that brussels bureau chief max hoffman who is following at the summit in brussels for us can clear things up for us a little bit hi max good to see you so it seems like there is a lot of disagreement in the e.u. over this question. and like you said it's extremely complicated i mean we couldn't even talk about a 10th of what's going on if you think about all the different countries and interest nor self small country big countries social democrats liberals or conservatives but it's the truth from my we have right now you mentioned it is seems to be between i'm going to measure the german chancellor in a manner and i call the french president because i get a macro is supporting this process which is called and you you explain the disputes process i know it's a terrible word but it's basically. says that those only those that have been officially elite candidates for their group in the european parliament can eventually be elected to become president of the european commission and there not that many there notably monthly to the who is the head

in just a moment 1st let's go to brussels and get the reaction from back from our bureau chief max hoffman welcome box so how is the news of cerise amaze imminent resignation being received that. we had a couple of reaction so far phil for example from him in one of my calls office so the french president who said they needed clarification quickly what the exit path of the u.k. would be going forward of course that's something we've heard before and as bubble that is the in london just mentioned the crucial question here is whether whatever was negotiated in the past weeks years really has is now ready to be thrown into the trash or not and there's an old code younger the head of the u. commission already said they were not ready to renegotiate this infamous withdrawal agreement that the war supremum which is legally binding so this might be might be a fight and off the record we've heard from from some of our sources in the european council that they said you know it's a shame how much time was wasted with the british in fighting in the last months that could have been used to actually ne

o'clock that i am the last to know clare's back to brussels now while we had joined the bureau chief max hoffman the european parliament welcome max. thank you phil and of course we have the 1st earthquake of the evening you've been talking about it all along the east of the social democrats in germany have lost many many votes and of course you have members of that party here as well in fact the group leader of the european social democrats is a german from the s.p.d. and we caught up with them our reporter katherine martin swan it's a reaction to that and here's the interview. ok. we have recent numbers right now in germany there is that why do week resides on the social democrats that's of course from the german a spade a this is a big disappointment tonight. when we analyze the new will see that climate change was obviously the dominant issue in the eye of the electorate we cannot blame a will voters for that because this is an issue of utmost importance and automatically obviously did turn to the progressive camp to turn to the greens might conclude relations to a crean call aches what is t

is the money really will talk to you later thank you very much pick your brains back to you phil max hoffman in brussels thank you so much. now that so i got a roundup of other news going on in the world outside your window rebecca. u.s. president donald trump has started a state visit to japan by taking off a round of golf with prime minister. says he wants to strike a deal with japan to address what he calls a trade imbalance between the 2 countries north korea's missile tests are also likely to be on the agenda and so far the visit has mostly focused on. a heavyweight fighter in a black leather jockstrap sizing up the opposition and throwing loses out of the ring i perhaps donald trump was going to get some ideas for his next move in his trade and diplomatic negotiations from the sumo wrestlers. but in fact this was all part of a rich entertainment package that's been around or 2 with golf laid on for him by japan's shinzo abbé for the u.s. president's 4 day visit to japan. and a sushi meal with their wives too. but lying beneath the surface is the issue of trade between the 2 countries t

let's go right to proselytise our bureau chief max hoffman is standing by for us there he's been coveringthe vote for us max you could say it's been a pretty underwhelming result for the established parties in this photo how has that gone down in brussels. for the established parties and surprisingly that didn't go down too well for others like the greens for example and also certain right wing populist parties like from italy or that are somewhat normal from france they were rather enthusiastic but even those that lost seats stress the fact they thought it was positive that voter turnout had increased by about 7 percent compared to the last european election so winners and losers as with every election this is definitely a fragmented parliament max you could say so who is going to be the kingmakers in brussels after this vote you know where the chips going to fall in the parliament. a looks like at the moment that you would need at least 3 groups to build a majority and then only if the social democrats and the conservative european peoples party continue to work together so it would be

at france twenty four and i'm max hoffman brussels bureau chief of the thank you for joining us here at the heart of europe at the european parliament in brussels where there are just a couple of weeks to go down before the e.u. elections and we are handing over control so you devices so it's a valid fronts and people and our system radio station are at five rating i have to announce across the city young europeans you know i think for the first time after all it is about their future or they have the most to lose or to gain from these elections that some are already labeling as among the most crucial in recent memory so it's only fair that they get to ask most of the questions to our guests well let's see that it's part of the fight people he will be tackling the very same questions we have with us today how to commence a current from portugal with the socialist and democrats great thanks being with us and right next to her was a senator with the greens right here in belgium she also has a real job if i may say she's a professor of ecology in ghent and she might not have time to do

parties let's go right to brussels our bureau chief mike hoffman has been a roping in some of the key players there in brussels for us tonight max take it away. boy talk about key players sumi good to vist a are with me she's not only the commissioner for competition but she's also maybe the next president of the e.u. commission here is a prediction she will deny it but let me say this mr do you think that with the results we're having right now your chance of becoming the president of the 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 mino