empire. i'm phil gale a welcome to the program the politician many see is germany's next chancellor taking up her 1st job in the federal government on a grad. a.k.k. or she's widely known it places or should i found alliance defense minister and k.k. leads and going to america's christian democrat party and many political commentators think she's being groomed to take over when chancellor merkel steps down in 2021. there are both ways to spend your day as she turned 65 and when america was treated to flowers by her cabinet colleagues she treated herself to congratulating her now former defense minister was a laugh on the line on what is equally a victory for america her election as new e.u. commission president. later the german chancellor got to lift a 2nd ally to a higher political level by appointing and if they become successors c.d.u. party leader as a new defense minister quite a celebration. a.k.k. as she is known then carried out her 1st inspection of the honor guard and delivered her 1st remarks as minister. never forget that men and women that serve and fade abroad for us.

going to come back out about was moved to defense was a surprise. a big surprise phil because previously she ruled out taking on a ministerial job she said she didn't want to be in miracles cabinet she wanted to concentrate on her job as leader of the christian democrat party which she's had since the end of last year but the truth is she stumbled a little bit in that role so this gives her a new momentum and also what it will give her is some ministerial experience which she hasn't had up until now she's been the interior minister and then leader of the small german state czar land but she hasn't had a national level cabinet job and she doesn't really need that i think because the playbook sais that she should in time. and especially from the c.d.u. point of view will be the best placed person to succeed angle americal as chancellor and of course a bit of ministerial experience won't harm her at all in that effort but this is rather a challenging ministerial brief to have to cut your teeth on defense has been a difficult day here in germany what sort of challenges does a. fac

empire. changing climate optics nose mouth scientists are. usually frozen. i'm phil gail welcome to the program the european commission's next president. has promised to work for united and strong europe to work constructively and pragmatically to achieve it germany's former defense minister is the 1st woman to be elected to this top you position either she only won the vote in the european parliament by a narrow majority. uncertainty until the very last minute. the members of the european parliament knew the vote on the next commission president was going to be close but not even the candidate herself was off on the line i would have thought it was going to be that close vote the 5 votes in favor 3 shots 383. on the line secured the majority by just 9 votes a week results in the end still enough to celebrate. my message so all of you is let us work together constructively because the endevor is a united a strong year old. the former german defense minister spent the last 2 weeks building a majority trying to convince the political groups in the european parliament to support her bid. h

a man on the moon. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. fonda lion has addressed the european parliament in strasburg ah she winds up bid to become the 1st female president of the european commission and her last chance to win any peace support dr fonda line sought to deal with accusations that she's been too vague and so laid out her positions on issues including climate change gender equality migration and it. confident and smiling. yet everything is on the line for also the fonda lion who is resigning as a german defense minister and her bid to lead the u. commission. some called her address to parliament the speech of her lifetime the world is calling for more the world needs more you i believe europe should have a stronger and more united voice in the world and it needs to act fast the conservative said european unity is the antidote to the continent's biggest challenges most pressing among them climate change. this is the greatest responsibility and opportunity of our times i want europe to become the 1st climate neutral continent in the world by 2050. she celebrated her

the u.s. women's football team after its world cup. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. a court in germany has sentenced that iraqi migrant to life in prison for the ripe and murder of a 14 year old go the case prompted a public outcry because alibre shah was supposed to have been deported after his asylum application was rejected instead he was allowed to stay in germany and kill the girl last year. life imprisonment for 22 year old ali bashar the toughest sentence allowed under german law that judge said he had shown neither compassion nor re morse in may 2018 bashar raped and murdered susannah if 2 weeks went by before any trace of her was found police discovered the son of spidey next to a railway track in a hole covered with dirt and branches after they received a tip from another migrant who had been living with bashar the rejected asylum seeker and his family fled to northern iraq but he was arrested and handed over to german authorities he confessed to killing santa but denied raping her. during the trial susannah's father said he was shocked by bashar unrepentant misfor