president and 4 other top jobs were meant to have been chosen by now the cross live now to our peter oliver for more on this so peter why the impasse. well the impasse put very simply by the irish prime minister leo varadkar is the process of electing people is tougher than putting a pulp empower that was according to the irish to shock. top jobs are up for grabs these are serious positions there's a lot of thought has to go into who's going to fill these positions particularly commission president and who will take over from john claude younger also the council president current role the foreign affairs representative position which is currently filled by federico the reason it's taking well so long in order to to try and put up with solutions to filling these places is that busy the system called spics and can do that in germany in germany it means basically top down that preferred candidates it goes in these type of stages basically whoever the parties the groups within a big part of the groups within the european parliament each put forward their own preferred candidates whoever gets th

party or your correspondent peter oliver has more for you. the killing of the district presidents of castle in central germany is being treated as a politically motivated terror attack volta live was shot at close range outside of his home on the 2nd of june it's understood he had been receiving death threats in connection to his pro migrant stance a 45 year old man has been taken into custody in relation to the killing it's understood from authorities that he has a long history of connection with the far right mr live care was a member of angola merkel's christian democratic union party the chancellor says no stone will be left unturned in the investigation isn't that this is depressing news that we're hearing and naturally all these must be pursued intensively that is why it's right that the federal general prosecutor has taken charge of the investigation to uncover the background information as fast as possible i hope that we have full clarity soon to make the final assessments the suspect who is only being named is stephen as a standard p

commission president council president and for other top jobs were meant to been chosen by now auntie's peter oliver has more. well this deadlock in the european union over who will fail a number of the e.u. institutions top jobs including the european commission president and president of the european council those jobs currently held by john claude younker and donald the moment and they've been heading up talks to try and pick their replacements essentially however those talks have broken down one of the reasons that we're hearing that there's no solution so far wealth comes from leo varadkar the irish prime minister he said that it was easy of picking a pope than using the system that's used in the e.u. to pick a commission president as well as other top institution posts it's called the spits and counted method method or system basically preferred hamlet in germany is what it is it means that if you look at all of the different parliamentary groups in the european parliament whoever gets the most seats well they're just bits and candidates their preferred candidate gets looked at 1st by the e.u.

party our europe correspondent peter oliver has more this morning. the killing of the district presidents of castle in central germany is being treated as a politically motivated terror attack bolton was shot at close range outside of his home on the 2nd of june it's understood he had been receiving death threats in connection to his pro migrant stance a 45 year old man has been taken into custody in relation to that killing it's understood from authorities that he has a long history of connection with the far right mr live care was a member of christian democratic union party the chancellor says no stone will be left unturned in the investigation isn't it this is depressing news that we're hearing and naturally all these must be pursued intensively that is why it's right that the federal general prosecutor has taken charge of the investigation to uncover the background information as fast as possible i hope that we have full clarity soon to make the final assessments the suspect who is only being named as stephen b. as a standard practice in germany

as a 1000 left germany raising fears they could return on recognized our europe correspondent peter oliver as a reporter. the best estimate suggests at least a 1000 people left germany to go and join an isis and following a question from a member of the bundestag to the interior ministry it's been revealed that in 160 cases those identified as extremists have disappeared without a trace occasionally such individuals could have succeeded in escaping and disappearing in an attempt to alleviate fears of isis terrorists living among german society the federal government has said that they are convinced that it would be extremely unlikely that anyone who had traveled to join isis would be able to come back to germany and live or noticed however the m.p. that 1st raised concerns says she's not convinced considering the surest fragmented protection of the ease external borders it is particularly worrying the federal government has a pattern take a no father measures to prevent the uncontrolled reentry of isis militants 2 thirds of those who have left the country have german citizenship this prese

auntie's peter oliver takes a look at the spat. everything is not rosy in the e.u. garden when it comes to finding a replacement for john claudio e.u. commission president fact we're seeing paris berlin certainly bumping heads over this issue angela merkel she has given her full support to her man months for the p.p. candidate for the commission president job he's also a member of the german chancellor's conservative union however. the french president he's not happy with the system being used to put forward mr verver at all he says the whole system is biased in favor of the larger parties worth noting at this point mr mcbride of course represents one of the smaller parties in the european parliament his opposition to prompted the head of germany's conservative delegation to accuse the french president of being on t. german i don't see a franco german axis instead i see era vision is mr mccraw on doing everything he can to destroy european democracy well president macron says this isn't the case at all in fact he pointed to the constitution of the european union whi

nuclear power activity the remaining parties to the nuclear deal met in vienna on friday artie's peter oliver reports now from the austrian capital. tehran had described this meeting in austria as the last chance to save the 2015 nuclear deal it certainly doesn't seem like that has happened as this meeting is wrapped up but what we have seen is that they are willing all of the sides are willing to continue talks to try and salvage what is left of the deal it's really been a rocky ground since the u.s. pulled out unilaterally in 2018. as the meeting ended the iranian side described it as a step forward but certainly not the finished deal just yet iran has threatened to exceed the enriched uranium levels that would set down in the 2015 agreement it's understood that they could do that as early as saturday sunday but we are led to believe that they won't do that immediately that it would be something that would happen at a later date should they pursue with that threat the people who have been here in vienna to try and hammer out some kind of solution include representatives from the united king

nuclear power activity the remaining parties to the nuclear deal met in vienna on friday are just peter oliver reports now from the austrian capital. tehran had described this meeting in austria as the last chance to save the 2015 nuclear deal it certainly doesn't seem like that has happened as this meeting is wrapped up but what we have seen is that they are willing all of the sides are willing to continue talks to try and salvage what is left of the deal it's really been a rocky ground since the u.s. pulled out unilaterally in 2018. as the meeting ended the iranian side described it as a step forward but certainly not the finished deal just yet iran has threatened to exceed the enrich uranium levels that would set down in the 2015 agreement it's understood that they could do that as a really is such today sunday but we are led to believe that they won't do that immediately that it would be something that would happen at a later date should they pursue with that threat the people who have been here in vienna to try and hammer out some kind of solution include representatives from the united k

peter. >> good to be here, george. >> so we know that the house speak nancy pelosi spoke with president trump and asked him to call off the raids. do you see this as a true olivench from the president to democrats or do you see something more in it? >> i believe that he knows an election is coming up and, you know, 37% of americans say that they're not supporting him for re-election -- i'm sorry, only 37% are supporting him. 60% want someone new in the oval office. that's a number that has shook him up a bit, i think, and he wants to appear more reasonable to work with democrats and to win back some of the independent voters that he lost. i think this is probably the main motive. i don't see him having a change of heart like that overnight about immigrants. he's been very severe on them. asylum seekers, to mix them up with undocumented immigrants coming for economic reasons, that's two totally different things and really something that she should take note of. >> let's switch topics now. i want to talk about what's happening with iran and the united states. mr. trump saying that he is willing to talk with iran with no preconditions. he's also doubling down, th