the social democrats. but also lots of support. there are $153.00 seats total if she's like he might get $100.00. conservative. group total $62.00 realistically she could expect 30 seats maybe even. to get those votes as a 2 fold strategy number one make sure the e.u. feels respected the world is calling for you for more more engagement. and therefore we must do all our strength i came here to work with him and and i'm confident that we will. number 2. so now she's tweeting in german english and french. nevertheless it will be a close call to succeed will probably have to give the speech of her life right here in the european parliament. at the speech of her life in parliament. we understand. now written to the parliament social democrats do we know what she said. well she touched upon many of those topics where the social democrats insisted that she still needs to do some work you remember she visited the social democrats last week in in brussels but there were many questions open and the feedback from those members of the europea

onto the social democrats. lots of opposition but also lots of support from the mighty spanish delegation. there are 153 seats total. if she is lucky, she might get 100. finally, there are the conservative eurosceptics. their seat total is s 62. realistically, she could expect 30 seats, maybe even more from them. that would put her over the hump. to get those v votes, von der leyen has a strategy. make sure the eu parliament has felt respected. >> we have to draw all of our strength. i came here e to work with parliament and i'm confident we will work together. >> number two, emphasize her european side. now she is tweeting in german, english and french. nevertheleless, it will l be a e call. she will probably have to give the e speech of heher life to susucceed rightt here in t the european parliament in strasburg . brent: the speech of her life. in parliament is where max hofmann is this evening. good evening max. we understand that ursula von der leyen has written to the parliament's social democrats. do we

so what we definitely heard her do was pick up on some key issues for social democrats ranging from a europe wide unemployment reinsurance scheme it sounds a bit abstruse but it's something that the s.p.d. has been pushing for for a long time or europe wide minimum wage and a very strong emphasis on climate but it particularly on climate justice saying we need much more ambitious measures on c o 2 reduction she's talking about 55 percent by 2030 that's a significant increase of 15 percent over the current target but saying that has to be paired with social justice measures to ensure that the most vulnerable are brought along and that that definitely is certainly something that would be looking to appeal to the social democrats and for the liberals i think there was there was emphasized there on how to deal with the big digital giants and fair taxation there was an emphasis on the role of small and medium enterprises how important they are and and i think also there to some words about the importance of investment and markets in terms of getting to the climate goals so both of those wo

onto the social democrats lots of opposition but all. so lots of support from the spanish delegation there are $153.00 seats total if she's lucky might get $100.00. finally there are the conservative euro skeptics from the e.c.r. group seat total $62.00 realistically she could expect 30 seats maybe even more. and that would put her over the hump. to get those votes in has a twofold strategy number one make sure the e.u. parliament feels respected the world is calling for you know for more europe more engagement and therefore we must draw all our strength i came here to work with him and and i'm confident that we will work to. number 2 emphasize her european side so now she's tweeting in german english and french. nevertheless it will be a close call to succeed we'll probably have to give the speech of her life right here in the european parliament in strasburg. and the speech of her life in parliament. brussels bureau chief. good evening to you max we understand that has now written to the parliament's social democrats do we know what sh

also rescue at sea the migration issue at large very important to the social democrats they like that and of course the social pillar of the european union that they want to develop for example a european wide insurance if you lose your job that would have been something that might have swayed some votes among the social democrats all that mixed together with her personal story you know she's she's a woman like that we can't say that often enough she would be the 1st woman at the top of the european commission she also sprinkled in that she had a large family with 7 children probably helps when she talks about family issues and she generally had a very strong speech your own not nervous she was clear she body language was good so overall you can say this worked well for her simon young the. name popped out of a stew that didn't initially include many detect. the hand of i'm going to machall behind this what role did the german chancellor play and. getting this huge row for sure. on the line is a long time close confidant an ally of machall and clearly when it emerged that the so-calle

commitments too and they dislike that wasn't even one of the lead candidates especially the german social democrats are up in arms about the members of the democratic group in the parliament has not taken a final decision yet so i guess there are some that might. need further questions and of those who are. already. clear that they won't including you including me. so far needs to do the math will give her a hand she needs a total of $376.00 votes to be elected commission president let's just say so get all $182.00 from our own group the conservative party now it gets dicey the liberals from renewed europe who have 108 seats seemed rather positive but not completely convinced with 70 votes. to the social democrats lots of opposition but also lots of support from the spanish delegation there are $153.00 seats total if she's lucky might get $100.00. finally there are the conservative euro skeptics from the e.c.r. group c. total 62 realistically she could expect 30 seats maybe even more from them. and that would put her over the hump. to get those votes from the lion has a twofold strategy number one

the opposition was so strong especially from the from the german part of the social democrats the german delegation and in that 8 page letter she gave them quite a lot for example she said she's committed to through the social pillar of your what is called the rule of law as she said that she would be tough she also had much more ambitious goals on fighting climate change so for climate protection than the european people's party her party usually has but she still has that speech at 9 o'clock and that could make or break her and that's one of the german social democrats so against one of their fellow country woman. well it's probably also a question we need to ask who's in the studio with you because it's a different story in berlin and here in strasburg but we've talked to some of those members of the s.p.d. so the german social democrats officially they say they're they're angry because the. principals meaning that the lead candidates that were on the campaign trails for months should be the only ones available to be elected commission president here in parliament that was ignored in

and the social democrats here in germany have been vehemently opposed to the nomination of also left on the line so germany abstained formally because i'm going to not go did not want to endanger the atmosphere endanger the coalition in germany here so it's basically out of respect for the social democrats at the same time we have to say that there is a little bit of a cloud hanging over the left on the lens hood in the sense that in her defense ministry there's an inquiry a parliamentary inquiry going on about about spending in that ministry and it's not clear whether or the left on the line will survive as it were politically survive this inquiry. if the european parliament does approve underlines nomination to head the european commission what will this mean for germany well germany will certainly feel proud because as i said it's been 50 more than 50 years that there has been such a tough german politician leading the european commission leading the european union so germany's influence in the european union will be emphasized once again at the same time there's a question about

the conservative again so that satisfied size some but of course not the whole house because social democrats liberals greens in the european parliament not be very happy about this what they call a will call in negation of the democratic process that's looking at the next steps barbara if we can look back for a moment remind us how we got here was just 6 weeks ago that there were parliamentary elections in europe that everyone was following very closely we saw a further fracturing of these center parties here in europe tell us how that is. a lot as to what we are now. i mean what we saw after those european elections are good things and bad things the good thing was certainly that participation voter turnout was much larger than we have seen in the past i mean it was unusual and people really went to the polls and said we want to sort of show that we care about europe that's the 1st time in many many years and decades really that has happened so that's on the good side also on the good side is that the europeans the populists and nationalists who are constant talk about they want to tear dow

now imagine you're a social democrat and up until yesterday it looked like your lead candidate plans to moments was going to be president of the e.u. commission once of a sudden the tables turn and you have holes enough on the line being the proposal so you can imagine the social democrats are very disappointed and in the press releases we've seen so far they say that it was enough on the line is not acceptable i'm quoting here so this will be a long fight they still have 2 weeks to convince them because in 2 weeks this will be approved or not by the european parliament but it will be very very difficult because if the european parliament approves from the law and they're in a way giving up some of their credibility some of their authority because previously they insisted so much that it had to be a so-called shits in tony does what if they don't approve and i find a line next what happens then i went right back where we started. then she won't become commission president and then we are indeed back to square one and then you can say we have an institutional crisis in the european un

well the 1st round of votes was not conclusive or although the social democratic candidate from italy came very close 7 votes were missing so now they're in the 2nd round of votes if that's not conclusive they'll be a 3rd one so this might take all afternoon but we still expect the social democratic candidates to come out with a victory for the gunboats also expected in just told us next huffman for us in strasburg thank you very much. let's get around now some other stories making news around the world the united nations says an airstrike on a migrant center in libya that killed at least 44 people amounts to a war crime when 130 wounded in a attack in the capital tripoli libya's u.n. backed government has blamed the attack on the self-styled libyan national army which has denied any responsibility. demonstrators burned tires and blood. roads across israel to protest after an off duty policeman shot dead an 18 year old ethiopian israeli on sunday activists say police systematically discriminate against israel's ethiopian minority. and russia says details of a fire that killed 14 crewm

parliament there's a lot of consternation but germany social democrats what do they make of it. well they are concerned protested against this they have said that enough on the line is not somebody that any vote in europe voted for that is the whole idea of the top kind of the model that the voters that actually go to the polls and we have to remember that in the past european polls participation of voters was much higher than and then in previous times so there's a voting model seems to be fairly successful navotas went to the polls they gave their votes to certain kind of votes that have been proposed and none of those kind of this is now getting the top job that is what the social democrats here in germany and in the european parliament are protesting against and the protest is so intense that in fact germany withheld its vote when the commission in fact to decide i went when the council decided on who to propose on all of the law from the line in other words the german chancellor i'm going to market did not vote for underlined when she was nominated author of respect for her

there terry you just said that there is strong opposition especially among the social democrats that are hugely disappointed because of 2 things 1st of all they were very close to having the top job for themselves with their lead candidate or a spitz in county as it is called funds to moments and the 2nd one is that they've said all along we will only accept somebody who actually was the lead candidate spits in county dodd for one of the political groups here and so especially the german social democrats the s.p. the are dead set against the lion and i asked their boss cutter you know barley who used to be the minister of justice in germany whether she would risk an institutional crisis by voting against from the line and this is what she had to say. this is already an institutional crisis because the council obviously ignores what the parliament has stated clearly from day one from. long before the election that we are only going to vote for one of the shots and that is what the parliament and all the all the parliamentary groups have said all the time so that. the council has decid

a number of your of social democrats have also given her their blessing but the far right and the far left criticised her speech calling it a bouquet of empty promises she will need the majority of votes in a secret ballot set for this evening. joining me now is the brussels bureau chief mox he's at the european parliament in straw smoke not fond of law and pressed all the right buttons during a speech there was something for everyone how did it a dress code on their. well because indeed she did have the right triggers and she had a good way of mixing it with her personal story introduction i am a woman this is a historic chance also stressing the fact that she has 7 kids which makes are more approachable and in the end telling a story about her father this mix seemed to have worked quite well with the m e p's we talk to of course not on the far right but we are the ones that are essential here are the social democrats because they're the one to put her over the hump and the feedback we've been hearing from most allegations so far is quite positive there's one notable exception though

and the group that's clear and social democrats she probably will get them she will lose the ones. extreme rights because she said some things about migration and about nationalism that definitely will not be accepted from that side and that is good because we were afraid that she would lose the left side of the parliament and get the votes at the right and extreme right side which of course creates you know some some dependence from that groups so no she's a she's shifting more to the left even more than her own political family has ever done because she did she just did a few things that were not really the position of the p.p. . so much as we had at least this green member is keeping all their options open as to how she's going to vote and what the big issues there among the deputies is that or is it up on the line and it was not the support of the candidate for this post stance about this controversy and its implications. yes especially the greens and the social democrats were almost well hurt because they were all in regarding this lead candidate principle something that was b

are a little shaky on their position it means that she probably swayed some votes among the social democrats probably also means that the p.p. is even more firmly behind her than be before the conservatives her own party so most people we talked to here seem to think that she's going to make it ok and a matter which way you cut it though at the end of the day this is a historic vote this is the 1st time that a woman as gone up for president of the european commission she addressed that issue let's have a listen and then i'll get your reaction there after i will ensure full gender equality in my college of commissioners can t. if member states do not propose enough female commissions i will not hesitate to ask for new names since 9958. there have been 183 commissioners only 35 were women. that is less less than 20 percent we we present how awful for our hope she'll lation we want our fair share. quoting some embarrassing says to 6 there melinda is this gender card working for her or against her you think we'll know if this evening but i think it could very well for her because the party group

the social democrats. but also lots of support from the. delegation there are $153.00 seats total if she's lucky. to get 100. conservative. group seats total $62.00 realistically she could expect 30 seats maybe even more. to get those votes has a twofold strategy number one make sure the e.u. feels respected the world is calling for you for more more engagement and therefore we must draw all our strength i came here to work with him and and i'm confident that we will. emphasize her european side so now she's tweeting in german english and french. nevertheless it will be a close call to succeed probably have to give the speech of her life right here in the european parliament. let's go straight to strasburg now we're joined from there by max hoff and max thanks so much for that report following the lion has written a letter we understand courting the social democrats in the european parliament what's your message to them looking at your report it's going to be a very close vote. there you saw a mention that many social democrats thought what

having his own way of convincing those social democratic m e p's there was constant contact between the leaders in brussels and the any piece of the members of the european parliament here in strasbourg so somebody here must have said yes we think we can make that fly but it might take some time and you know if you would tell our viewers why has it been so difficult to agree on one bits and can be done. well one of the reasons is right here in the city where i am the strasberg which is where the european parliament resides because for the 1st time the 2 big parties the social democrats and the conservatives don't have a more jordi even if they vote in the same direction you need a 3rd party it's good probably to have a 4th party so right now you have a deal with the liberals which money when my call is the forceful voice of among the leaders and that's what makes it so difficult because you don't all you know it's not enough to say ok social democrats get this and the conservatives get this you also have to take into account what the liberals want what in my view in my call the fren

we haven't heard that from the germans the germans have 16 seats and i think the total of the social democratic faction in the us and the faction that political group that has members of almost all countries is 154 so from those 16 we really haven't heard anyone saying that they would vote in favor of fonda line but we've heard from many other social democrats the spanish are the biggest political group right now in the social democratic group and they are in favor as we understand even the leader of that group so the leader of the whole social democrats who haven't said the spanish is stood up and gave her standing ovations also the italians are inspected to vote in her favor we also expect the brits to vote in favor of fundal line because she made such a strong stance on on bragg's it saying here in this speech also she is ready ready to push the withdrawal date even further back if there is a if there is a good reason for that and you can imagine what would happen in parliament when she said that because you have many bright city years in there are a lot of booing but it will get her the vot

she has to convince especially the social democrats and also the greens without the votes of the social democrats she will not get a majority here in the european parliament and the social democrats are still disappointed that there the candidate plans to moments did not make it so and is now in full campaign mode on thursday she'll go to brussels to talk to the president of the e.u. council we understand she will talk to the political group of the greens on monday she's probably going to meet the social democrats one of these days as well so she still has a lot of work because if the vote on her presidency would be today she would probably fall short of the majority the 2 weeks are a lot of times she's going to try to turn things around. and hoffman in strasbourg thank you. and i'm sure some of the other stories making news around the world the german captain of the migrant rescue ships a watch 3 has been moved to a secret location because of concerns for her safety of course in order to catch his release from house arrest on tuesday honoring her detention for bringing a ship before th

the prime minister of spain who himself is a social democrat having his own way of convincing those social democratic mep's. there was a constant contact between the leaders in brussels and the mvps. we think we can make that fly but there might take some time. brent: why has it been that difficult to agree on one candidate? max: one of the reasons is right here. the city where the european parliament resides. for the first time, the first two big parties -- yoyou needd a third party. it's probably good to have a fourth one. right now, you have a deal with the liberals. that is what makes it so difficult. it's not enough to say social democrats get this and democrats get this. you have the legitimate party interests right there. the second part is you have a divide in the european union that is getting larger. what you can call nationalists or populists -- and those who are functioning more in a traditional european union way. you can see that for example this new nationalist movement blocked the social democratic leader candidate and who looked like the front runner. brent: that was max h

now the social democrats the german social democrats that is a story you know we've never heard anythingof the like because they are in a coalition with the party of. you have especially one p. ca to rina barly hugh was the minister of justice in germany she sat next to. in that coalition back in berlin and still they didn't vote for her it seems like they put themselves into a corner because they were mad that she wasn't. one of the lead candidates she wasn't on the campaign trail and it seems that there is this general feeling with the german social democrats that in the end. always wins next often and strasburg thank you. well r.c. the founder line is stepping down from her role as germany's defense minister today she'll be succeeded by. power the head of chancellor angela merkel's conservative party karrenbauer took over from merkel as head of the christian democrats at the end of last year and is widely seen as merkel's protege. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world in sudan protesters and ruling generals have signed a political document part of

rally around her as well but what about where there is more dissent among the greens on the social democrats tend to get then to vote for her to. the european people's party is definitely the easy part in all this but it was a lot of fun to lie and it will be much tougher with the greens they haven't categorically close the door we interviewed one of the senior members of the greens earlier philip numbers and he said it all depends on what she proposes for example on climate change or fighting climate change rather very difficult though will be the social democrats because they are still disappointed their lead candidate for instance to months didn't make the nomination for the commission presidency for several days it looked like he would win that race even i'm going to makeover the german chancellor had proposed to him but that it went all downhill and that's why this compromise if you want to call it that was on the line came out it appears that it was enough underlined will not try to convince the social democrats today neither the greens she will probably return to brussels next week to

especially the social democrats and socialists are going to be a very tough nut to crack because they had high hopes that they would provide the commission president and it was looking good for them for 2 or 3 days there last week their lead candidate funds to moments really seem to be in the lead for that position even i'm going to medical had laid out a plan with him at the top of the you commission but we know in the end it came their family but of course this disappointment is still palpable right here in strasbourg and if they come around it will take them a long time to come around having said that they are part of that package deal that was struck in brussels on tuesday and i can only say this there are also leaders in the european union heads of government that were present in brussels when that deal was struck that are members of the european socialist party so there must have been some contact and somebody among the social democrats must have said yes we think we can make that deal fly even if it's difficult so a lot of things can happen in 2 weeks time right now a strong op

especially the german social democrats are not convinced one of those from the s.p.d. so a german maintained he will not vote for his country woman. in spite of the fact that this would be the 1st german commission president so a lot of opposition here but the whole group so the group as a whole has not made up its mind yet they want to decide whom to vote for so for or against. next week so what does she need to do what does she need to promise to bring them onside. the difficulty is that she needs to promise different things to different groups because they have different agendas but she needs at least 3 groups of the conservatives the social democrats and the liberals who have the majority that i mentioned earlier for the social democrats it was very important to know what would happen to their spits in kind to their lead canada plans to months will he become the 1st vice president of the european commission apparently he will but there are other topics as well just to give you an example how split those groups are for example on the article 7 procedure against east

political correspondent she faced a lot of opposition from german social democrats people outside the country will find that our why were they so dead set against how well it is odd because obviously you know german politicians would be expected to support their woman in this top job even if not from the same party but the the reason those 16 s p d members of the european parliament been against it was because they felt that they had very clearly promised their votes is. that the one of the so-called spits and counted on the leading candidates either and for baber of the conservatives of france to months the the social democrat would would take this job and they even though that's not written into the european treaties they had told voters well you vote in the european elections and you'll get one of these 2 men actually it should have been men for very conservative came out as the largest the largest group in the parliament and you know so they feel that that is a principle that is the key to european union democracy and they hoped that they could sort of continue to bang that drum b

she has to convince especially the social democrats and also the greens without the votes of the social democrats she will not get a majority here in the european parliament and the social democrats are still disappointed that their the candidate plans to months did not make it so it was enough and a lion is now in full campaign mode on thursday she'll go to brussels to talk to the president of the e.u. council don't you understand she will talk to the political group of the greens on monday she's probably going to meet the social democrats one of these days as well so she still has a lot of work because if the vote on her presidency would be today she would probably fall short of the majority but 2 weeks are a lot of time she's going to try to turn things around i hope when in strasbourg thank you. and the u.n. has described an astral kind of migrant center in libya that killed at least 44 people amounting to a war crime more than 130 were wounded in the attack in the capital tripoli that is being blamed on the war mode. whose forces are advancing on the city picking up the pieces this

with the conservative president mccrum didn't want him these and europeans didn't want the social democrat friends to mend so very quickly they needed to pull out of the had name somebody was enough experience preferably a woman and also from the line came into play and that is probably a big win if all goes well for angela merkel who sort of brought her in to the considerations here we talked to the president mike from who said you know could you live with her and he obviously said yes she speaks french at least so that's one point for the can do that and others around the table particularly in eastern europe didn't have anything against her they had seen her at the nato here in brussels and she was also very always very strong as sort of pushing back against putin so they like that in her and so as she very quickly very quickly things very quickly became together and majority in large maybe even union minutes before her could very quickly be fun we'll see what the voting brings but there seems to be no dissent on her name no dissent among leaders barbara we are hearing that there is some

the winners of the night of the social democrats.w prime minister. it's a new political programme for the country — with a key ingredient from before. sine is celebrating the victory of her party. congratulations. thank you. what do you think this means? well, i hope for a new direction in denmark, of course. and in terms of integration, the ghetto plan? yeah. what she said that right now, that she's standing on that same perspective as she has done all the way through. which is? the plan will be continued. the cross—party support for the ghetto plan means it's unlikely to be stopped anytime soon. bbc, is danish immigration policy racist? no, of course not. denmark's elections, saw support for populist parties fall and the far right fail to get into parliament. but around 80% of voters chose parties which support the ghetto plan. for many of the country's immigrants concerns about their place in denmark continue to grow. hello there. july has started on a dry note for most of us, certainly a far cry from the weather we had for at lea

why are the german social democrats against one of their fellow countrywoman it seems 2 aspects basically the 1st one is a stance on principle the e.u. parliament had decreed on this system of leave candidates from the different party fractions and these leave candidates conducted real election campaigns with posters with debates with public rallies and so when they had months to work out their policy positions now the leaders of the heads of the member states simply threw that overboard with a backroom deal that puts a fund to lie in there as the main candidate for president at the commission instead of the lead candidates that the e.u. parliament had designated so the s.p.d. in general in brussels and especially the german s.p.d. members say look that's not democracy that is not right and we stand on principle but the fact is the german s.p.d. has been particularly vocal on the. point and that has to do with something else and that's domestic namely their very weak profile at the moment with in the governing coalition and also in public opinion surveys at large their numbers have fallen

and now the social democrats the german social democrats that is a story you know we've never heard anything of the like because they are in a coalition with the party of you have especially one e.p. catarina barly hugh was the minister of justice in germany she sat next to. him in that coalition back in berlin and still they didn't vote for her it seems like they put themselves into a corner because they were mad that she wasn't. one of the lead candidates she wasn't on the campaign trail and it seems that there is this general feeling with the german social democrats that in the end i'm going to medical always wins and that's all fine and stuff mark thank you. well speaking of that our slip on the line will step down from her role as germany's defense minister on wednesday and she'll be succeeded by an a gret parent power the head of chancellor angela merkel's conservative party of our took over from merkel as the head of the christian democrats at the end of last year and is widely seen as angle america's progress. committee. so let's get more on this now we are joined here in the studio

france and germany how to treat on such social democrat to france to months but czech prime minister andre babiche says his country as well as poland hungary and slovakia would not vote for this and i know we have to find a solution and we spent 21 hours yesterday saying that mr. to my mom's is not the right man to liaise between the e.u. commission and our countries of. states to brussels where we're joined. by a professional welcome barbara. easton country so opposed to france to moments. he's too much of an upstanding european democrat father because he did pursue the eastern european countries particularly poland and hungary for breaches of the rule of law they did sort of in kept passing tate their own judiciary that is something that they were sort of eliminating more or less beginning to take down their independence and that is something they're not supposed to do according to european rules until a month was really adamant to say we can't let this slide we really have to pursue this we have to go after them and force them to take this back and the european court of justice so

this is date of the news live from berlin new york fills another job with italian social democrat david voted as the parliament's new president so how will his choice affect the use direction also on the program at least 40 migrants are killed in an abstract as they sought safety in libya united nations says the attack amounts to a war crime. i mean the women's world cup gears up for more drama with the 2nd semifinal sweden take on the netherlands in an even the match contest to see who will face the united states in the final. i'm phil gal welcome to the program members of the european parliament have chosen that new president for the next 2 and a half years they elected and italian social democrat david saucily who's been an m.e.p. for 10 years the motion strasberg it completes the lengthy process of filling the e.u. stop jobs e.u. leaders have nominated candidates for 4 other posts with german defense minister on the line for commission president the european parliament must ratify that nomination before ms fonda line can be appointed and that's far from a done deal. straight to the

issue for a moment even when you look at the political press or governing coalition with the social democrats on the right now it looks more likely that she won't actually serve the full course until 2021 the social democrats of one political nervous breakdown after another the epitome of this is actually those 16 delegates members of the european parliament who are in government the social democrats right now in germany not voting for the 1st german. and the 1st woman to lead the commission in decades so a lot of internal political pressure here regional elections coming up that could actually become a breaking point i dare say actually i wouldn't put my money on it for now that that's a full house or where any of us should put our money these troubled times for now though. g.w. chief political editor thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a strong earthquake has hit greece just north of the capital athens the 5 point one magnitude tremor sent people running into the streets and disable phone and wireless connections a 2nd tremor was felt 4

i can already predict what will happen in the social democrats over it today the social democrats will just say we snatched the presidency of the european parliament one steady storm now they claim that while we are not going to hold off on the lion but then the oldest will come from outside of the association and then they will say well but we need to protect look at how many positions we got for both whole team of months for i don't know who shall reach and so we need to protect all so all soldiers sold a price for that is to agree with the deal and believe me my experience of the social newsgroups is that ultimately they fall in line thank you very much for the glum both so full of numbers here with us leaving the door slightly open at least for. depending on what she has to offer especially on the topics of climate change with that back to you in berlin and next before we let you go we do want to say that there is a vote underway in strasburg at the moment the vote for the president of the european parliament fill us in on how that is going. well the 1st round of votes was not conc

increased because the social democrats started coming around you even heard today some of the greens saying they might vote in favor of her and that's why many thought she might get over 400 votes just like her predecessor. a majority now is is much much smaller than most of us here would have expected in the late afternoon and i think i know why this happened because because of the speech it was enough on the other side that did win over basically the social democrats and maybe even some of the greens and also the liberals also alienated parts of the so-called e.c.r. group which is the right wing euro skeptical group where you for example you have the polish. law and justice party in there that many would define as right wing populist so they didn't like that and didn't come up with a consensus whether to vote for for the lion or not so everybody was free to vote in favor of. or not and it appears she lost a lot of votes on that side of the spectrum ice ice suppose that she's probably not unhappy about that given how she acted in the plenary this morning she's probably happy that sh

but it has to be said, the social democrats are under a lot of pressure.hey have failed to reorganize since the elections a couple years back. and they are struggling in the polls. we've got key regional elections coming up in eastern states at the end of this year. so, actually in a couple of months time already. so, you know, if the, the social democrats feel that they have to move to the left to restate their socialist credentials, they may feel that they can't win elections anymore inside government and they want to pull out. that would meet a premature end to the political career of angela merkel. carl: dw political correspondent simon young. thank you very much. the supreme court's of the netherlands has found the dutch state partially liable for the deaths of 350 bosnian muslims. the muslims were killed by bosnian-serb forces after being expelled from a safe haven guarded by dutch troops in 1995. the murders were part of an organized massacre that left 8000 muslim men and boys that. -- dead. reporter: it is the final decision from the supreme court

to arrange themselves with the situation when you talk to some of them especially the german social democrats are flat out rejecting. how to turn that around within 2 weeks is not very easy to say at this point but it was enough on the line once to become commission president she will need the votes of those social democrats let's take a closer look for a minute here and to fund a lion isn't washy so controversial if confirmed as european commission president the 60 year old would become one of the most powerful politicians in the e.u. but as we've already seen her nomination is not without controversy and in her current role as germany's defense minister she's also faced number of challenges. she's considered a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel funday line german defense minister christian conservative and long time politician a medical doctor and mother of 7 funder line joined medical c.d.u. party in the early ninety's she later headed the ministry of family and women before serving as minister of labor as germany's 1st female defense minister funded line aimed to revamp the arm

but i think rid of it not be sufficient because this fee is a position from the social democrats she need really needs the votes from the 2nd largest group in parliament many social democrats already said they would not vote for her because they want to keep the principle alive and they say the procedure was undemocratic the european council the heads of state and government tried to over run to over do parliament and they had not set aside that so there's a lot of resistance to overcome. but in the end maybe these deputies was for the pride just to keep the e.u. of her ration if underline does not be good in this vote then there would be a deep institutional crisis in the european union that is indeed the case bantry could tell the story for us tonight in brussels ben thank you tens of thousands of people in chile in argentina have watched the sun vanish behind the moon in a total eclipse the 2 countries were the only inhabited places on earth where the rare sight could be seen its path started in the south pacific and stretched to the south american continent 11000 kilometers away.