correspondent teri schultz going to be do you. so we know that france's president micron he sent his top envoy to tehran today what is he hoping to achieve. well brant the goal here is really not in dispute nobody not the u.s. not europe not china or russia wants iran to get a nuclear weapon so that's not the problem here the issue is how do you restrain tehran and right now the europeans feel very much that the nuclear deal which they have stuck to which the u.s. has has withdrawn from is the best way to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon so that's what president mcclellan is trying to do he is trying to talk to iran into stopping its new initiative to enrich more uranium they are still i'm told at a reversible level and the europeans would very much like to have tehran halted at this level to return to talks to try to deescalate the tension and to certainly stop iran from moving into even further and reassuring in their own about 4.5 percent right now whereas 20 percent would be the level at which they would actually be

that was iran's foreign minister earlier today i want to talk now with our brussels correspondent teri schultz she's on the story for us from there this evening good evening to you terry has there been reaction from europe or the e.u. to the confirmation that iran is now violating the nuclear deal. yes there has been and you know brant the european union which of course was the mediator of the iran nuclear deal has wanted to wait until it got confirmation from the international atomic energy agency the i.a.e.a. that the threats iran has been making to start enriching uranium again were actually true today that that time ran out and in fact the i.a.e.a. said yes they have breached the limits allowed under the nuclear deal so the e.u. had to respond now what they're doing is remaining very calm and still talking about the sustainability of the deal they're asking iran to reverse course and they're noting it very much in carrot and not stick mode at the moment that iran stayed compliant for 14 months after the united states pulled out of the deal and it says let's go back to that status now iran

teri schultz in brussels tonight terry think you. protesters in hong kong have vowed to take to the streets again this despite the territory's leader declaring that controversial extradition bill dead protesters fear that the bill which would allow extraditions to mainland china they fear that it would erode hong kong's judicial independence chief executive carrie lamb has offered some concessions but demonstrators want the legislation to be withdrawn completely for good. a further step in the climb down by hong kong's chief executive until june kerry lamb had vowed to press ahead with the legislation then she delayed indefinitely now this. but there are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity or wariness whether the government will restart the process in a legislative council. so i reiterate here. there is no such a plan that is that. the bill to allow the extradition of suspects in criminal cases to face prosecution in mainland china triggered a series of massive protests that began in march with hundreds of thousan

brent: our coverage continues now with teri schultz we know that she was not the first choice not even the second choice. is she a good choice? teri:: she is the one name that all 28 leaders could agree on. that makes her the only choice. and the best choice. neither of the leaders that came out of the nominating process would have managed to get the other leaders. there was no other choice but to move on. that may come back to bite the leaders as they work to get parliaments approval. brent: we don't to three days to reach the point where we are right now. angela merkel spoke to reporters about this let's listen to what she had to say. >> it is important to understand that we were able to reach a unanimous decision today. it is important because it influences the ability of the eu to work in the future. we all had to compromise a bit. we had to shift our positions. the european council leaders have proven they can do so. given the different once a view in europe and among the various party groupings and prime minister's, i think we have successfully shown the european council is capab

brent: for more on this i am joined by teri schultz.e know that president macron sent an envoy to tehran today. what is he hoping to achieve? alexalex: the goal is not in dispute. the issue is how you restrain tehran and the europeans feel like the nuclear deal which they have stuck to which the u.s. has withdrawn frorom is the best way to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. that's what emmanuel macron is trying to do. he's trying to talk to iran and to stopping its new initiative. we are still told they are at a reversible level and that europeans like to have to run halted this level to deescalate attention and to stop iran from moving further into enriched uranium. 20% would be the level at which they would be pursuing a nuclear weapon. there is time of europeans say but it is getting tight. brent: what will happen if we continue to see iran violating the deal? i want you to hear what foreign minister had to say. >> we were the ones who were advocating for the nuclear deal. we got the deal than the u.s. wiwithdrew from it. it

max thank you all right let's take this story now to brussels i'm joined by our correspondent teri schultz who need to use terry let's talk about why these jobs are so busy important tell our viewers i mean what's at stake here. well the president of the european commission has a huge amount of power this person will decide which countries get which post for the next 5 years that means who's going to be in charge of the economic policy of the e.u. who's going to take ahead the digital agenda who gets agriculture those are very powerful post and each country will name a commissioner to be chosen for one of those jobs so the president of the european commission is not only the face of the executive branch but very much the dealer who gets to decide what powers each country gets and the president of the european central bank that job obviously it has has an awful lot of influence over all the countries in the euro and that's why it was that's why there's been some criticism of the naming of madame lagarde because she hasn't been the president of a european central bank so some people have bee

and our coverage continues now with the don't use teri schultz she is covering the story for us from brussels good evening to you cherie so ursula from the lion we know that she was not the 1st choice she wasn't even the 2nd choice is she a good choice. well brant the very fact that she is the name upon which all 28 leaders could agree makes are really the only choice and the best choice in fact neither of the leading 2 candidates that came out of the european parliament's nominating process would have managed to get approval of the other leaders and so there simply was no other choice but to move on to other names that's caused a lot of hard feelings and that may come back to bite the european union leaders as they still need to get parliament's approval and we know it took 3 long days to reach the point where we are right now after the summit today the german chancellor angela merkel she spoke to reporters about this nomination let's take a listen to what she said. and it's important to underline that we were able to reach out a unanimous decision today so it's important because it