also on her team, ursula von der leyen, is the dennis politician —— dennis politician, very respectedn commissioner anyway. it that like everything is going to be expanded to refocus on digital. now, she's already paid ha rd ball digital. now, she's already paid hardball with the likes of amazon and others. i just hardball with the likes of amazon and others. ijust wonder, the big us tech firms in particular, what they make of this news. yeah, well i think she will be particularly scared. donald trump labelled her, ms vestager, she ordered apple to pay £13 billion in tax, trump labelled her the tax lady who hates the us. if you already has donald trump backup, the issue is here there is this huge focus from miss vestager to make sure these big tech companies who seem to have the run of everything, they dominate the stock markets, apple is $1 trillion company, making billions and billions of dollars. ms vestager has gone out of them hardball and the fa ct gone out of them hardball and the fact that this gives him more power to have more of a say within where they pay tax and their comp

we will take a look at ursula von der leyen's lineup and her ambitious european plans. plus, can skateboarding culture translate to competition at the olympics? next summer's olympics welcomes skateboarding to its glamorous but tightly regulated world. can the boys and girls and the men and women of the sport keep pace? do they even want to? ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs and the united states and around the world, welcome. we begin an washington, d.c. donald trump says he has dismissed his national security advisor john bolton. announcing this latest white house sacking on twitter, the president said he disagreed strongly with bolton on many issues. bolton is regarded as a foreign policy hot, advocating regime change, countries like syria and iran. hehe served as u.s. ambassador o the united nationsns in 2005 and 2006. trump says he will name a new security advisor next week. dw correspondent tadlo soley elias is on that story for us in the u.s. capitol. i spoke to him a short while ago and asked what prompted the u.s. president to fire his closest nati

this is ursula von der leyen, who will be taking over from the jean—claude juncker at the beginning ofations are all in place, she was just unveiling her cabinet, preparations are all in place, she wasjust unveiling her cabinet, the commissioners around her, one appointed from every eu country although the uk hasn't appointed one saying they will be out by the end of october. eye—catching for the uk is that the irish commissioner phil hogan, he will be in charge of trade negotiations. so he will be overseeing any negotiation of a trade deal with the uk and what you can read from that is that irish issues in that border it will be at the heart of that, ursula von der leyen said phil hogan will be determined but fair, the irish prime minister leo varadkar said today it isa minister leo varadkar said today it is a definite advantage to have an irish person in charge of this crucial brief for the next five yea rs. crucial brief for the next five years. other priorities we can see, two deputies at the head of the commission, one of them in charge of climate change, they've seen the votes fo

this is precisely what ursula von der leyen is preparing with the next commission and what we will bethe european commission, and the european parliament, where i belong to a group, renew europe, will be key to defining all majorities for our projects. so this is not a question of a person, even if emmanuel macron has put in a lot of input, a lot of vision on the european union's future, but this vision is shared by his counterparts throughout europe. alright. and we are ambitious for europe because we are ambitious for our citizens. nathalie loiseau, we're out of time, but i thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. good morning. we really are experiencing all flavours of autumn this week. it was rather cool and disappointing on monday, wasn't it? but tuesday made up for it. some lovely spells of sunshine for most of us — as you can see by this beautiful weather watcher picture sent in from leeds. however, today it's again a different story. we are seeing some wet and windy weather arriving, so some rain at times today and a noticeable blustery wind. and that's because of the re

this is precisely what ursula von der leyen is preparing with the next commission and what we will be commission, and the european parliament, where i belong to a group, renew europe, will be key to defining all majorities for our projects. so this is not a question of a person, even if emmanuel macron has put in a lot of input, a lot of vision on the european union's future, but this vision is shared by his counterparts throughout europe. alright. and we are ambitious for europe because we are ambitious for our citizens. nathalie loiseau, we're out of time, but i thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. hello. just wanting to bring you right up—to—date with how we see the weather panning out across the british isles for the next few days. wednesday was a slow start across southern parts. and in fact, that same weather front links back to another area of cloud and rain in the heart of the atlantic. that's an area of low pressure that started life way down across the mid—atlantic, so it's bringing mild, moisture—laden air across the british isles and feeling really quite humid. t

the incoming president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, is announcing her picks for ondent damian grammaticas in brussels. gives us the headlines on what has been announced. every european union member state nominates one commissioner. all of them from the cabinet around ursula von der leyen, the incoming president to replace jean—claude juncker. no british commissioner, the government had said they would not nominate one because they expect to be out at the end of october and it would be a distraction so no post for the uk. the other high—profile ones of note, the two other people who were vying for the topjob felt the two other people who were vying for the top job felt a bit short but have been given a very significant jobs. margrethe vestager was the liberal candidate, she gets a portfolio overseeing competition and digital. she had a similarjob in the old commission but what you read into that, the eu will take an even more muscular stance towards global competition policy, regulating companies like apple and google and that could mean sparks flying with the us.

ursula von der leyen said this week that protecting the environment is our generation's defining taskis a moral, human, and political obligation. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. nejra: annabelle droulers in hong kong, thank you so much. and number of key things in europe. aret up, finance ministers gathering in helsinki for the euro group meeting and we also get trade balance stickers for the euro area. afternoon, we get u.s. retail sales numbers for another indicator of how the u.s. economy is doing. golfy, the women's tournament tease off today and scotland. we speak to the austrian central .ank governor, robert holzmann he is also the ecb's newest governing council member. we will be hearing from him on the latest steps by outgoing president mario draghi. you will not want to miss the interview coming up right here on "bloomberg daybreak: europe." we heard there was quite a bit of pushback on mario draghi's qe announcement. when you're traveling to work, tune in bloomberg radio live on you

this is precisely what ursula von der leyen is preparing with the next commission and what we will be commission, and the european parliament, where i belong to a group, renew europe, will be key to defining all majorities for our projects. so this is not a question of a person, even if emmanuel macron has put in a lot of input, a lot of vision on the european union's future, but this vision is shared by his counterparts throughout europe. alright. and we are ambitious for europe because we are ambitious for our citizens. nathalie loiseau, we're out of time, but i thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. hello. just wanting to bring you right up—to—date with how we see the weather panning out across the british isles for the next few days. wednesday was a slow start across southern parts. and in fact, that same weather front links back to another area of cloud and rain in the heart of the atlantic. that's an area of low pressure that started life way down across the mid—atlantic, so it's bringing mild, moisture—laden air across the british isles and feeling really quite humid. t