and the 1st candidates to be called into the spotlight is nicholas schmidt. mr. smith, please join martin in the for the nicholas smith is 70 years old and comes from books from the fluids. in 5 languages, including luxembourg is the full, as he likes to be known. a 17 years old when he 1st joined the socialist work as far so far east campaigns in the 60 events across europe. and his favorite quote is from home on european commission president is that the message made. you have one minutes to address the public through this camera, the boat assembled 1st and we will then do a short question and answer section 6. go ahead. thank you. well, as a lead candidate of being social democrats, what drives me is obviously to improve living conditions and the daily living, living conditions of your being citizens. so the workers who are facing the cost of living problems, we need to give them decent wages, good working conditions, what we call quality quality jobs to women. we have to make sure that equality is applying in the work in the work labor world. we have to make su

tom: ok, nicholas schmidt, we appreciate your time, lead candidates of the party of european socialistsn eu commissioner for jobs and social rights. as we lead up to those important parliamentary elections, eu elections next week. other stories making the news today. french president emmanuel macron says they must be allowed to target missile cruise inside russia with european supplied weapons. his comments, as forces are struggling to defend the kharkiv region from russian air attacks. >> how do we explain to the ukrainians that they must protect the areas around kharkiv? if we tell them you cannot of fat -- attacked the points from where the missiles are being fired. we will tell them to deliver weapons but you cannot defend yourselves. so we are maintaining the same framework. we think we must allow them to neutralize the military sites where the missiles are being fired from, from where ukraine has been attacked from, but we cannot allow them to pursue other targets in russia. civilian or military. tom: the french president emmanuel macron. here in the u.k. labour party leader is de