by brussels but as i've said before the u.k. is so divided the politicians who sit behind me here in parliament also divided about whether they want to leave whether they don't want to leave a soft bricks at the heart breaks it a no deal breaks it so nothing can be confirmed about what will happen perhaps yet again it will come down to brussels and to europe to decide whether they want this false as it has become to continue after the 31st of october or whether they just say that sit the u.k. just has to get out ok alex thanks very much for that i was forced why the. shake up in britain right now with brooke supported thanks very much. so just how disruptive inside the european parliament could the bracks it party be and euro skeptic parties in general making their substantial gains i'm joined by guts from holes political analyst talk more about that thanks for coming in this morning after hearing what we just heard from london how concerned are you about the the disruptive force that the bracks of party will be bringing when it

we'll be live from brussels. us president donald trump keeps up pressure on japan to cut its trade surplus with america, as he meets with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. and on the markets, asian markets made a tepid recovery monday as investors sought to shrug off a difficult week dominated by anxiety over the fractious us—china trade war. more on the markets shortly. so... the big centre—right and centre—left blocs in the european parliament have lost their combined majority in the parliament amid an increase in support for liberals, greens and nationalists. the centre—right european people's party remains the largest bloc, and is expected to form a pro—eu coalition. the liberals and greens had a good night, while nationalists were set for victory in italy and france. in britain, the newly—formed brexit party won nearly a third of the vote, with the governing conservatives beaten into fifth place. labour also suffered heavy losses. turnout across europe was the highest for 20 years. so what are

let's go to the belly of the beast itself how is brussels meaning the e.u. stomaching these election results because you can't say they were unexpected maybe a point here or maybe a point there but more or less it was expected there would be a populous would do well the right more right wing parties would do well and we have to point out in spain the left did pretty well there as well but there's certain you can't say it's a protest vote anymore the trends are there and the and the number of people that went out to vote were quite astounding considering european elections. elections are not that popular with with voters but they it was this time around so luke what is changed go ahead. while i would say they are saying much for the moment at least i mean brussels is preparing itself for designating the president of the commission and the all the presidents of the council and of parliament etc in the coming weeks so. this is a moment where of course you can reflect upon the results and these results are never as fantastically good often testicular bad as expe

thank you rebecca this is in brussels thank you. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world so in the state media say ousted president omar al bashir has been charged over his role in protesters deaths during last month's uprising beshear rules for 3 decades until mass protests led to his arrest protest leaders have announced a breakthrough agreement with the country's military rulers over a transitional power structure. antigovernment protesters in albania after 5 thrown 5 bombs and flares a riot police outside from a government building hours after the u.s. and european lawmakers restrained the centroid opposition has been staging demonstrations since february accuse the government of corruption and vote rigging and calling for elections. braces for like percent muslim man has died after being attached during anti muslim writing its 1st fatality in a violent backlash against the easter suicide bombings conducted by militant islamists his death was reported to africa which was placed under overn

let me not draw india because fun and rebecca written in brussels brussels will make a defunct a.o. get the support he was hoping for in brussels. well that's hard to say on rita without knowing exactly what might pompei or wanted from this meeting today but if we assume that he wanted the e.u. to support the u.s. in scrapping the iran nuclear deal then the answer to that is definitely no the e.u. went into that meeting into those meetings those sideline talks with pompei oh pretty united that they weren't going to back down and they've come out the other side of those meetings with exactly the same message we heard the e.u. foreign policy chief. speak a little while ago she said that the e.u. remain committed to the agreement and they really holding a united front on that and what is the european strategy to salvage the nuclear deal with iran rebecca. they haven't really given a public statement about what they're going to do but they what they are going to continue doing basically keep the status quo they want to maintain the deal they they think it's a good deal they think it's a

well i would say nothing much for the moment at least i mean brussels is preparing itself for designating the president of the commission in the all the president's council of parliament etc in the coming weeks so. this is a moment where of course you can reflect upon the results and these results are never as fantastically good often testicular bad as expected because you have 27 countries or 28 still with a britain that participated and. of the populists the so-called populists is there there now must the something must have something like 25 percent of the voting european parliament which is quite big at the less than expected maybe and the greens on the other side of the all the major whereas with the with us being the 2 traditional parties and the liberals defending just their turf the extreme left is also down at european level of course there are differences national differences but generally speaking that was expect ok well john in edinburgh i mean i do the european elitist can say well it's business as usual the elections are over we move forward i mean the people have spoken the

god, it's going to take us in brussels? god, it's going to take us at least until i think the beginning of next year. i don't think the next candidate will be in power at the beginning of november precisely because of what we were talking about, a very fragmented parliament but also openly hostile governments in italy, hungary, poland and other places which will make this process very long and difficult to watch. lots of people have told me this is just 28 national elections, there isn't anything we can call european politics. do you think the results we saw coming in last night change that analysis? ido i do think these elections have been different in the way they have been a lot of european politics because of brexit, because of security and because of other topics. both of you, thank you very much, appreciate your company. in the last two weeks, outside source has been moving all around the european union. we started of course in the uk, but from there we visited milan, warsaw, berlin, paris and finally arrived here in

during the today deanna is in brussels the e.u. parliament has invited several internet influencers to campaign on behalf of europe . well you've. covered us here in france and passion in how to i hope they'll create some nice content and post it online and maybe that we have their followers interested in europe and the upcoming election. was. coming down from how about interconnected your. network to that set. do young people take you for granted because they don't know what the all the jew replies like to find out more about that we travel to business. these young people are part of the erasmus student exchange program that come from all over europe. i become i'm from austria england i'm from muscleman i'm from belgium so from london from swabian. more than 9000000 students have taken part in the rest of us program since it began in 1000. 87. people to be all europeans are different but they're also connected and that's really beautiful to speak up there so i think it's really important to meet people from different cultures beca

we're now back in brussels d'anna soon live in is with us today. one gets into that right now i'm in the chamber where all the votes and debates take place. it's a death panel and all. the offers are you excited and passionate and i just had to show you i think it's totally cool to be in the same room where. the other politicians debate important issues and they're not under me yet i hear they make decisions that can affect people's lives often puts a little intimidating a oh yes there's so much power in this room. now she'll have followers on an important committee version on the internet copyright deal. yet and so it's not any legal affairs committee is going to vote soon on article 13 of it because the committee makes its decision there's still time for photos. so you all should i take your picture sure your 18 followers will like it for me. the hole is packed for this photo. a lot more than last week all right this is a big deal all the lobbyists are here this is a really important vote. at the start so i want to be begin by the vote on the cop

s brussels bureau chief max hoffman welcome back so this decline of mainstream center left and center right parties were seen across europe is it likely to impact the makeup of the new parliament. well the real question is how are they going to find a majority for example to elect the next president of the e.u. commission and in the past it was enough to have the social democrats and the conservatives they had more than half of the seats in this european parliament that has by the way a total of $751.00 seats that's no longer the case they will need a 3rd group either the liberals that are backed by the french president not call or the greens that have had such success as we just saw in that report and now as you can imagine you know between the the greens and the right wing of the conservatives there aren't that many similarities so it's going to be much harder than in the past to find that common ground i can tell you this the groups here in brussels have already started doing that there will be technical talks this evening already in brussels and tomorrow the heads of the different

party failed to address concerns over climate change as the green party was in a chair of seats in brussels. the nationalist party stopped the vote at a number of european countries but still falls short of a predicted such. also on the program austrian chancellor sebastian cook out opposition parties joined forces to remove him with a vote of no confidence backed by the right freedom party which caught between government with him until just last week. i'm fogle welcome to the program european passes are now jockeying for position after sunday's elections to the a huge parliament tilted the balance of power within the block and here are some of sunday's a key takeaways of voters punish traditional sense 1st parties including germany's governing coalition of conservatives and social democrats but the greens made big advances to become germany's number 2 party in france's number 3 in the european parliament but being populists also had a good night winning the votes in france the u.k. italy and poland. leader of germany's conservatives the c.d.u. at the lips of her party had failed to reach m

european leaders gather in brussels for the go see actions to fill the e.u.'s top jobs. and again i'm adrian finnegan this is a live from doha also coming up protest leaders in khartoum hope a 2 day national strike will force military leaders to a new round of talks. serbian troops are put on the cost of and police launch an operation in a serb dominated breach. the palace here a journalist must call into the hussein is sent back to jail in egypt after another investigation is launched to him it into him after just days after a pause at all of this release. european leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss who they want to fill the e use top jobs backroom negotiations have already begun to appoint the commission's president of the other heads of the e.u. institutions elections or center right and center left parties lose support and populists liberals and greens taking advantage of voter anger with the current direction of the you let's go live out of brussels also serious david chase is there so david the search is on to fill the e.u.'s top jobs. yes the job we're tal

yellow vest protestors in brussels on sunday they see the e.u. is undemocratic everybody wants to change europe the fight over which way will be played out in the parliament and on the streets. on the results come in from the 28 member countries of the of the trends are getting clear right now here is something . projections for seats in the next european parliament we see that search for the greens they look likely to take $69.00 seats in the new parliament and the liberal the pro-business all the group will be taking 102 seats now despite its heavy losses the center right european peoples party is still the single biggest group with 167 seas and if we look at the 2 right wing populist blocs here on the right of our graphic we see them at 47 seats and 73 seats respectively putting them at 120 together ok let's go live now to brussels to get some reaction from dean of use terry shall standing by for us terry for the 1st time now in 40 years the big centrist party is no longer commanding a majority in the parliament now how's that going to change

to save the deal which will you think influence brussels more. well brussels can't do much europe has tried to have this special purpose vehicle s.p.v. would allow theoretically companies to sell to continue selling all dealing with iran for services or mines but nonis taken advantage of it it doesn't work and the europeans nobody have to install it you know to answer to trajectory washington but it doesn't work so the reins like a good bit nervous everybody does iran turns to china or to iran to russia rather than europe because states you've got there is no official response from the europeans and we're really stuck into this you know the emergence of the key to it all. independent journalist who grew thank you so much for your time and joining us on the program. prosecutors in sweden have reopened an investigation into sexual assault allegations against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange swedish authorities had dropped the case in 2017 but they now say they're seeking an extradition warrant against a songe once he serves his current 15 week

sure you come today deanna is in brussels the e.u. parliament has invited several internet influencers to campaign on behalf of europe the i love you to. talk with us here in france on posh and in how to i hope they'll create some nice content and post it online and maybe that we have their followers interested in europe and the upcoming election. one. move on to help out interconnected your. facts that. do young people take the e.u. for granted because they don't know what the all the jew replies like to find out more about that we travel to the hosts. these young people are a part of the erasmus student exchange program they come from all over europe. which comes from fellow austria like england i'm from a southerner i'm from belgium a few from london from swabian. malta 9000000 students have taken part in the arrests most program since it began in 1987 . people to be all europeans are different but there are also connected and that's really beautiful and this is a drop it should i think it's really important to me from different cu

s top diplomat meeting her counterparts in brussels in an attempt to salvage the iran nuclear deal it has been and continues to be for us a key element of military federation an appreciation of the global ian in the region so we'll continue to support it as much as we can with all our instruments and all our political will this is very well known i think both in washington and in put on under the 2050 nuclear deal around agreed to let the international atomic energy agency monitor its nuclear facilities and enrich uranium only for civilian purposes in return economic sanctions on the country were lifted. the international atomic energy agency says iran has been meeting its side of the bargain but the u.s. withdrew from the deal last year and reinstated sanctions now iran is threatening to enrich its uranium closer to weapons grade levels. but if these countries return to the table within 60 days and we reach agreement on oil sales and banking then we will uphold our side of the nuclear deal him. with everything else on the table including upcoming european parliamentary elections that

ok let's go back to luke in brussels i mean it may be. a chess game it had a very interesting point in the 1st part of the program here you know of about how italy and the you know it deals with the world and how the european union deals with the world and it seems like at every single crisis point of this project somebody says sort of elite say we need to integrate more we need the united states of europe but not one single citizen of the european union is ever voted for such a proposition it's just assumed that it's the right way to go to get out of a crisis but you don't ask the people and that's why i think this election is very important here and if these parties in the parliament are not going to be allowed on committees and all that it does show is a lack of democratic commitment on the part of the elites and just going to perpetuate the frustration so many people have because as i said in the introduction this program the status quo isn't working for the average person luke after my diatribe there go ahead and brussels. so as you

moscow didn't he at the last minute why the urgent need to be in brussels today. well today we're going to see a meeting of the foreign affairs committee in the european union that means that all 28 foreign ministers all of the member states are going to be there in brussels also federica mockery who is the high representative for foreign affairs of the e.u. basically the e.u. foreign minister also going to be in the same room so he's going for a chat with them about iran they had been having this meeting anyway they were all set up to talk about libya and what was going folding in that country and how to try and find a solution to the issues there that's all got off the table because my pompei is coming in the focus is turning to iran others will be here all day with a busy agenda so we'll see julian they how and if we manage to arrange a meeting he's always welcome obviously but that i'm not precise planted at the moment as we continue to fully support the nuclear deal with iran as full implementation it has been and continues to be for us a key element of nonpr

brussels a beautiful chief. is following the summit so let's get the latest welcome max so is there still quite a lot of disagreement. because successor there is but lucky are those groups in the european parliament that have a so-called so you know a lead candidate because not all groups in the european parliament have what you just mentioned 2 of the most prominent one which is monthly to be able for the conservative funds to moments for the social democrats and so i talked with a woman who's the leader of the social democratic group in the european parliament and who has been fighting for this process all along and he seemed quite happy when i when i told him that even the german chancellor coming into this european council here supported this process with lead candidates take a listen. it's an awning process for remember 5 years ago. jump for what it's all democracy and still pinion that is widespread in the european parliament but even if she supports much that vevo so the other spits in coney dogs not your

brussels is home to a lot of people who work for the e.u. but in hamburg alone some 50000 people work in politics an administration one in 10000 europeans is an e.u. official in cologne a much higher percentage of the population is a civil servant brussel spend 6 percent of its budget on personnel germany's local council spent 25 percent. so in terms of actual figures it's not really the bureaucratic b.m.s. it's often made up to make. is the preconception more about feelings processes or even just a communication problem. i'm with the european parliament to meet danny and there's a lack of the party vote from to 3 years ago in response to the rising tide of populism and. the party is now hoping to enter the european parliament as the 1st pan-european party. of was our travels across europe we've heard lots of people say that the e.u. works well as an economic union but that it's politically disastrous do you agree. it was one of the moment i would say that at the moment it's hard to understand what exactly is happening politically on a europ

where we find brussels bureau chief welcome ochs. well they so and i'm here with david mcallister who was a member of course of the e.p. the european peoples party and also the german c.d.u. where we just saw those numbers now everybody talked about the s.p.d. and how they lost their votes but the c.d.u. also significantly lost votes compared to the last european elections why is it that all those traditional parties are having such a hard time in these elections. will of course become be happy with the result in germany we were hoping for more we were expecting more but nonetheless we are the strongest political force in germany and we have contributed to the result of the being the obviously the strongest political force in the european parliament and the positive thing about this election is despite the negative results for a party in germany is that strengthens european democracy that's reference to european parliament and is also strengthens for the space in county down process we will have to analyze the result in germany and a

the czech republic is said to be low voters care more about issues close to home than developments in brussels. and sealed with the kids after a 30 year struggle taiwan becomes the 1st place in asia to legalized same sex marriage. thanks. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us britain's prime minister has announced that she will resign as leader of her conservative party on june 7th theresa may has been under increasing pressure because of her failure to get m.p.'s to back her brags a deal which lays out the terms of the u.k.'s departure from the european union now speaking outside 10 downing street the prime minister said she had tried her best to honor the result of the brags that referendum when she resigns on the 7th her conservative party will then hold a leadership contest and some conservatives have already thrown their hats into the ring in an emotional speech to resubmit describe the role of prime minister us the honor of a lifetime. whatever our backgrounds the color of our skin or who we love we stand together and together we have a great future our politics may be under

says it wants to defend europe and brussels. its speeches are full of fear and path ellis as if our very survival is at stake. visitors let's we are the last chance for our culture for democracy which was invented in europe for humanism for enlightenment we are the last chance for european freedom i at all costs. are testing. those who are destroying europe their names are younker to mansfield's druggy mckelvey but these are the destroyer. that european idea ladies and gentleman gave. the right wing vision of the future is still rather vague and not only in germany right wing populist above all emphasize what or whom they are against if you ask them what they're for they often resort to slogans such as europe of nations. susie dunson warns against getting drawn in by what she sees as a trick. that framing of it being kind of the 10 best is my call or a no why do you sense of it being the mccomb vision of europe that is that of. any i think is very much the way that the far right are trying to write nice elections but i think tha

helping to banish the shackles of brussels. as your it might end of the alternative for germany leading a party born in the chaos of the financial crisis but who found success talking about migration equal marriage and islamic extremism unlike the others they have threatened a day exhibit a german exit from the e.u. if the block fails to change cringed when he wants what void damage will need to change of direction otherwise brags it won't be the last exit. then there is victor or ban. hungary's proudly a liberal prime minister. has combats a reputation recently and have the praise of a kindred spirit like me a little bit controversial but that's ok that's ok you've done a good job and you've kept your country safe in his youth help tear down the iron curtain now he shows off the fences here wrecked it on europe's borders he and salvini have formed a friendship of late seeing themselves as manning europe's front lines. mr salvini says that we need a new europe and i support his concept i share his view i too think that we need

i think brussels has to take that into account. >> let's look at france. it shows that macron emerged second and will he pan won what are the will he pan got future votes if he doesn't have the additional, but i think that can kron relanes remain in this is et cetera. >> thank you for joining cnbc. daniel gross for the think tank here in brussels. >>> when it comes to these european elections what we need to watch out next is the negotiations at the european parliament to see what kind of compromises will be made the second thing to watch out is the summit here tomorrow what they will say about that? >> thank you very much, sylvia the italian deputy prime minister salvini is speaking out. we are waiting for flashes to hit the wire he is set to be key. nationalists have increased their showing. >>> and away from the european parliamentary elections, coming up on the show, president trump hibts at a trade deal with joe pan. more after the break ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. applebee's n

let's go straight to brussels. adam fleming is our brussels correspondent. adam, lots of results, what is your big takeaway from the last few hours? i am looking at it from the perspective of how the institutions will change and what's happened in the european parliament tonight is the european parliament tonight is the stranglehold, the big ce ntre—left the stranglehold, the big centre—left and centre—right political groups here have had on the business of the european parliament for decades and decades has disappeared. between them the ce ntre—left has disappeared. between them the centre—left and the centre—right across europe do not have enough seats in the european parliament to control the agenda and to guarantee legislation will get through. to do that, they will have to rely on support from the greens and from the much larger liberal group now as well, which includes emmanuel macron's en marche! also the greens are including lots of greens meps in places like germany, part of something that's being called the green wave. in the next few d

off from a bureau chief in brussels. welcome both let's start with you william so we have cd you coming in 1st here in germany despite losing votes as the s.p.d. a dismal 3rd also shedding significant numbers of voters those a european parliament elections are they likely to affect the way the german government is constituted i mean it's hard to see how it won't the result of the european elections that we just saw has is just the next step in a long slow descent of these major parties here in germany and we've been talking for a long time how the c.d.u. this be known as this grand coalition the 2 traditionally largest parties in germany are not so grand anymore of losing support we saw this in the bonus tags evolve in the general election here in germany 2 years ago we're seeing it again reflected in the european election and there's a lot of pressure mounting up against them just a few days before the election we had the the so-called rate so effect this you tube or who came out and then along with many many you tube a

and for in brussels we have rebecca rich as well welcome rebecca welcome let's start in brussels with you rebecca i wanted mike pumper walk 20 gatecrashed this this this meeting in brussels and didn't get it. well it's hard to say exactly what he wanted to mean as we just heard it was a surprise visit he didn't announce it till he was getting on the aircraft to fly over his so it's not an exactly what he wants wanted but if we assume that he wanted the e.u. to join the u.s. in dropping the nuclear deal then we can safely say that he didn't get what he wanted filled the went into that meeting pretty united pretty confirms that they want to maim time they believe in the deal they want to keep it and they left that meeting with exactly the same voice say they do not want to abandon the iran nuclear deal. with the sort of taken place on a day when there are fresh tensions in the persian gulf war that we've heard them referred to in the report just talk us through what's been happening we're fried about the alleged assault on those 4 vessels in the persian gulf and while that it's not real

we are in a beautiful square in brussels. we have a couple of guests to talk about the european elections. camino mortera—martinez, senior research fellow at the centre for european reform. focuses on migration, security and criminal law. valentina pop, reports for the wall streetjournal. brexit remains an issue with prime minister theresa may having announced she will step down, the entire question of who will succeed her as preoccupying entire question of who will succeed her as preoccu pying some entire question of who will succeed her as preoccupying some of the eu leaders. but i think the main issue tomorrow when they gather here in brussels, eu leaders it will be less about her successor, and who should be top dogs, who should be in the topjobs here in the european union after the election. leaving brexit to one side, there are so many strands to these parliamentary elections, what did you react to last night as the most significant moments? everybody is talking about how turn up has gone up. that is very important in

is that change of leader going to prompt a change of heart in brussels? 0ur europe editor, katya adler, is in brussels for us. will this change anything? it does and doesn't change things. it does and doesn't change things. it doesn't change that eu leaders remain as fed up as ever with this brexit process that seems to go on and on, and a changeover in prime minister just threatens to and on, and a changeover in prime ministerjust threatens to lengthen this process further. a change that brussels believes is coming is that a new prime minister will probably wa nt to a new prime minister will probably want to come here to try to renegotiate the brexit deal, particularly that controversial backstop guarantee for the irish border. eu leaders have said today absolutely not, they will not budge. they feel they have been round that block for the last two years, and theresa may signed off on the brexit deal back in november. the concern in brussels is that if the new prime minister doesn't get his or her way, they could be tempted to use what one eu diplomat de

silence on this but did you think brussels is likely to have a preferred candidate it all may be one that they'd rather avoid in fact while i'm sure that you commission would have somebody they prefer if you gave them a list you know they could point to a name and say we would like that person better than the other one and most likely that person they would point to would not be board johnson because boris johnson is a very well known entity here and it's never gone to well he's been here in political function but he also was here as a journalist in the past and was known for his reporting on the you commission back then and of course the position he's taking at the moment saying that we will leave the european union at the end of october which is the current deadline for brags that no matter what if we have a new agreement or not so he doesn't seem to be afraid of our bags and that's not a position that you commission can like myself not to brussels thank you. teresa mayes resignation comes in the middle of elections for the european parliament which is being held across the block b

then skip to moscow at the last minute why the urgent need to be in brussels today. well it wasn't expected but he's picked the right day to change these plans at the last minute because in brussels the foreign affairs council of the european union a meeting that means that all 28 member states foreign ministers are going to be in one place in one room as well as federica mockery me the high representative for foreign affairs of the e.u. basically the e.u. foreign minister all going to be in the same place at the same time they had intended that they'd be discussing libya and what was going on in that country and how they could try and sort out the problems that libya is currently facing that's all got out of the window off the agenda and the new agenda is firmly focused on iran others although we will be here all day with a busy agenda so we'll see julian day how and if we manage to arrange a meeting he's always welcome obviously but that i'm not precise planted at the moment as we continue to fully support the nuclear deal with iran as full implementation it has be

meeting in brussels today, eu countries urged the u.s. secretary of state, mike pompeo, not to escalate tensions and britain and germany raise concerns over an accidental military conflict in an already unstable region. a year after the u.s. withdrew from net nuclear deal, u.s. foreign -- eu foreign ministers are fighting -- looking for a way to salvage it. >> the u.s. secretary of state's visit came as a surprise. mike pompeo turned up in brussels, with the message that if europeans were discussing iran, he should be there, even if he wasn't the right to. when he heard from his eu counterparts was mostly criticism. the u.s. put out of the iran nuclear deal a year ago. >> in europe, we are united in our view that this deal is vital to our security. no one wants iran to be in possession of nuclear weapons. that is the goal of this accord and that is what we have achieved so far. we will stand united for this agreement to be implemented. >> after donald trump withdrew from the deal last may, he reproduced harsh sanctions against tehran and

so my comp aoe is set for talks in brussels today what can we expect. well it's not so sure yet sumi that he set for talks he's definitely set to arrive here within the next hour or so but he was warned in advance by you side that they had a very busy schedule today and they didn't know when they'd be able to make time to speak with them that said i believe they will make time if he's if he's come all the way here and put off some other meetings to talk about iran which as you've just been discussing has become even more of attention spot both transatlantic lee and in the region itself so we would expect that secretary pompei or wants to speak with federico used foreign policy chief and the mediator of the iran nuclear deal as well as with representatives of britain france and germany the other signatories to the deal military as we mentioned earlier the pressure is on for the remaining signatories of the still to convince iran to stick to this agreement let's take a closer look at the e.u.'s top diplomat meeting her counterparts in brussels in an attem

finally against all the odds and after months of negotiations london and brussels agreed on a draft for exit deal e.u. leaders approved it but may fail to drum up enough support for the deal at home. at the last minute she was forced to call off a parliamentary vote after it became clear that she would not get the deal through . a desperate last ditch attempts to meet european leaders followed to try and get some concessions to make the deal more palatable to her critics but to no avail just as members of her own party seize the moment to challenge her leadership but may survive the vote of no confidence amongst tory m.p.'s. a fight over her deal in see. 3 times it went before parliament and 3 times it was rejected by m.p.'s. it was postponed and meant britain had to take part in the european parliament elections muster talks between the opposition labor party and made conservative government speaking a compromise of a break that broke down lunging the country back into uncertainty may's final attempt to repackage her grex a deal fails. in the end it was too much for may to survive. now

to push drag or kick britain out of the european union by any means are terry let's come to you in brussels now you might not say that people there were entirely surprised by the announcement that theresa may will step down but take us through some of the reactions we saw there are today. i don't think anyone was surprised if anything their surprise she's hung on this long and are going such a battering from her own party from her own parliament and for a large for a large part of her counterparts around europe reacted with empathy she was praised as courageous people's told her it wasn't her fault the dutch prime minister said you know the problem is that the process is bogged down the problem wasn't to resume herself at the same time they're coming out also very quickly and saying don't let the next person in line think we're going to reopen this withdraw all agreements we have a deal on the table so basically whoever the brits decide they want in power they can step up and take the deal that we're offering them it's not going to be rediscussed gen not really a sigh of relief because nobo

adam fleming in brussels. let's go to italy where the far—right league party of interior minister matteo salvini won the most votes. nuala mcgovern is in rome for us — let's speak to her now. if we can look at the share of their votes, you will see just how well matteo salvini's party is done. there are 27% on five years ago which is really quite remarkable. that is an exact inversion of how sstar and league coalition part owners have done. it willjust add to the tension in italy among the coalition. nuala mcgovern is in rome for us — let's speak to her now. matteo salvini, amount of the night? definitely, that's the way he's going to play it. i don't know if you saw with those first exit polls, just a minute or two after they were released, he was holding up a picture he tweeted of himself talking about how it was the party number one of italy. our viewers might know that he is a prolific twitter user unknown to his facebook lines and selfies throughout this campaign. some people think he's been on a pe

the news live from berlin and the rights to fill the job of big european heads of government meeting brussels to discuss a replacement for a commission president. and france appears to be heading for a showdown over the issue also on the program a big surprise in german football outsiders. call that. tell you about this little clubs big victory in the relegation play. i'm for a welcome to the program. european heads of government are meeting in brussels to negotiate their picks for the top jobs within the block's bureaucracy following last week's parliamentary elections the heads of major institutions must now be replaced including the head of the european central bank another key job up for grabs is that of commission president which is currently held by john porter yoker whose term is due to end on the 31st of october with a u. leaders disagree over who should succeed him and how about cantor should be chosen german chancellor angela merkel french president emanuel macro are at odds over the issue. to get more oil not from our brussels bureau chief in just a moment 1st so let's take a look

secretary of state council's a visit to moscow and heads to brussels instead to discuss iran's threat in its nuclear deal commitments my next stop will be russia. will also feature high on the agenda and amid growing concerns like civilian deaths from u.s. strength strikes the pentagon develops what's been dubbed the ninja it's a weapon with spinning blades and supposedly more accurate than existing technology . 1 o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching an international prosecutors in sweden have reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against wiki leaks founder julian assange swedish authorities have dropped the case back in 2017 so let's find out more now from. joins us from london any more information then from the swedish authorities point of view of why they decided to reopen this case. well yeah they wanted his extradition to sweden and of course he'd been wanting wanted for questioning in sweden over allegations of sexual assault that date back to 2010 and sweden's extradition request for him back then was what precipitated a sauna seeking refuge in lon

secretary of state cancels a visit to moscow and heads to brussels instead to discuss iran's threat to read on its nuclear deal commitments from peers next stop will be russia or tehran it will also feature high on the agenda. i mean growing concerns over civilian deaths from u.s. drone strikes to the pentagon developed what's been dubbed a mutant ninja missile it's a weapon with spinning blade mostly more accurate than existing technology. you're watching are changing national bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. prosecutors in sweden have reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against wiki leaks co-founder julian a song swedish authorities had dropped the case in 2017 we go live now to polly boycott from london with more on this development. why is this coming out now. well these allegations date back to 2010 and the investigation into them was dropped in 2017 swedish prosecutors were unable to go ahead with the investigation while a songe was essentially stuck inside london's ecuadorian embassy but when swedish prosecutors drop