making here this history making nomination a european politics i'm joined now by correspondent terry scholtz from the european council in brussels and our political correspondent thomas ferro he is at our parliamentary bureau here in berlin to both of you good evening terry let me start with you we have to history making nominations to women for the jobs of european commission president and president of the european central bank 1st and foremost to remind everyone why are these jobs so crucial and so coveted. the president of the european commission is the most visible person in all of the blocks of jobs not only that but the person in this position gets to decide which countries get which commission jobs so if it's are still of on the line will be handing out you know who's in charge of agriculture who's in charge of the digital agenda who's in charge of energy and for some countries these are very very crucial positions because their interests are tied up in what policy is being made for the next 5 years that this commission will preside so this is a very influential job and everybody want

conduit for the world's oil tensions in the region are running high but germany's chancellor all of scholtz has rejected the white house request saying that he does not intend to sleepwalk into an even bigger crisis. tensions are running high between the u.s. and iran so it doesn't take much to trick a conflict recently don't trump said a u.s. vessel shut down an iranian drone because he felt threatened everyone he has since turned up the pressure and is now looking for allies. straight and to work with us in the future he's already found in the british cabinet the new foreign minister on the right wants to create a european led mission but one supported by washington that would in the previous agreement with france and germany. i feel the britons are making the same mistakes they did during the iraq war it's too close to the americans we as europeans should focus on diplomacy and deescalation so we should not take part in this u.s. mission. the german foreign ministry said it has received the u.s. requests to take part in the mission but has not committed any vessels and politely declined