as european commission president belgian prime minister shalmi show would be european council president taking over from donald tusk spain's for mr jones at doral has been nominated to be the top diplomat he would replace fitted ecomog illini as high representative for foreign affairs and i.m.f. chief christine lagarde has been proposed for president of the european central bank taking over from mario draghi 1st though they all need to be endorsed by the european parliament the day in baba reports from brussels. after days of wrangling it's a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel who's got the nod for what many see as the most important to you joe. germany's defense minister and a self-proclaimed federalist is the leader's nomination for the post of european commission president even if germany up staying on the commission president. their government coalition. support the whole package 1st and foremost we have chosen to women and to men for the for. the perfect gender balance. i am really happy about it after all europe as a woman child michelle the belgian prime minister is no

shalmi said in london on wednesday i'm calling the british government to reflect the consequences of its words and deeds with regard to hong kong i do hope that after his government would realize. the consequences and would refrain from further into hears from furthering to meet you in a relationship now this in response to a series of tweets and media statements over 3 days from u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt in support of the people of hong kong today he responded to those criticisms and issued catechise sions i was not supporting the violence what i was saying is the way to deal with that violence is not by repression it is by understanding the root causes of the concerns of the demonstrators that freedoms that they have had for their whole life could be about to be undermined by this new extradition will. but hunt only our comments have come in for criticism from beijing as well this is what the foreign ministry said we don't hear i have responded to mr hans eroni as remarks in hong kong for 2 straight days. expressing china's strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition i