Corruption charges as character assassination during a televised inquiry. But was his testimony enough to counter the evidence against. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us another extension a guaranteed minimum wage and expanded Unemployment Benefits those are some of the goals from a germanys ursula fund a lion and she says shell be pursuing them if elected tomorrow as European Commission president now she made the pledges in a letter to reluctant lawmakers to succeed shell need an absolute majority. Keeping up with. Its not an easy task last week. She was on the move constantly meeting almost all the Political Groups of the e. U. Parliament. She needs to convince enough parliamentarians that shes the right woman for the Commission Presidency and that could be a problem especially with the social democrats in the European Parliament theyve called her commitments to being huge and they dislike that fund and i and wasnt even one of the lead candidates especially the german social democrats are up in arms so the members of the social Democratic Group in the European Parliament has not taken a final decision yet i guess there are some that might still consider to vote for any further questions and of those who are. Already. Clear that they want including you including me. To do the math. She needs a total of 376. 00 to be a Commission President lets just say. The conservative party. The liberals for europe who have 180 seats. Completely convinced with. The social democrats. But also lots of support from the. Delegation there are 153. 00 seats total if shes 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 im confident that we will. Emphasize her european side so now shes 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. Lets go straight to strasburg now were 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 whats your message to them looking at your report its going to be a very close vote. There you saw a mention that many social democrats thought what she offered last week when she met that Political Group in brussels was to bake so shes written an 8 page letter now which has a lot more details than before of course she can only go that far because if she gives too much to the social democrats she might lose the support of the more right wing groups like the e. C. R. That we just saw that might put her over the hump right there but one passage is very important for because social democrats were especially disappointed with what she had to say about enforcing the rule of law in countries like poland or hungary and now she reaffirms this is a very important point that she is willing to use and i quote here the full toolbox. At the disposal of the European Commission to enforce the rule of law ok will that along with Everything Else in the letter be enough to convince the social democrats who are still on the fence to vote for her tomorrow. Most likely not all of them the social democrats are a very well Diverse Group to put it this way and the germans are still up in arms we just talked to some of their delegates here it didnt look like they were willing now even after that letter to vote for. But theyre a little softer in what they said they said there a lot of the right things in there but its still too vague on top of that as you just mentioned you know they put themselves up there on the fence its going to be really hard for them to climb back down but weve heard some positive words for example from the british delegation a delegation that was expected to vote against funding lineout it seems like they might vote for her say if you really measure the temperature here seems like things are going a little more in the direction of and then last week ok measuring the temperatures are very important on a days like these but what happens tomorrow if on a line is not elected she only has one shot so if they really vote although she doesnt have a majority then thats it the heads of State Government will have to come back together over the summer and figure out who will be the next person they suggest to the European Parliament many expect that not to happen if she figures out until tomorrow i dont have the necessary votes i dont have a majority then the most likely scenario is that she pulls the vote and tries to delay it until september and gives everybody a little more time to negotiate things but that will also give more time to all the different factions to come up with different demands so shes really hoping to make it on tuesday ok well see what happens then on tuesday for now max hoffman thanks very much. Lets brief you now on some of the other stories making the news at this hour in brussels e. U. Foreign ministers are discussing how to get that red nuclear deal back on track tensions in the gulf region have of course deteriorated since President Trump pulled the u. S. Out of that deal last year around recently began breaking the limits on your anian enrichment in breach of the agreement. The head of the World Health Organization says the latest case of ebola in the democratic republic of congo is quote a possible game changer on sundays officials said the disease had spread to go a major city in the east the u. N. Says millions of dollars in aid are needed to tackle the outbreak. Nearly 300. 00 people have been arrested across france after algerian football fans took to the streets to celebrate their countrys qualification for the african nations of a cup of nations final in marsay which has a large Algerian Community police had to fire tear gas to break up the crowds. The bank of england has announced that computer pioneer alan turing will feature on britains new 50 pound note turning cracked nazi germanys secret codes and world war 2 but he was prosecuted for homosexuality and ordered to take female hormones and killed himself in 1954. While some 3000000 people are on the move in the poll northern india and bangladesh fleeing floods and water close to 100 people have been killed many more missing heavy rainfalls triggered landslides and deadly building collapses like this one in northern india. A number of soldiers were in this 4 Story Building when it collapsed. And hundreds of thousands of revenge or refugees have been affected by the monsoon rains having fled their homes during a violent military crackdown in neighboring me and more many now risk losing whatever shelter theyve managed to find in bangladesh life or row hinge refugees in coxs bazaar is difficult as it is during monsoon season it becomes outright life threatening flooding and mudslides have killed at least 10 people in the overcrowded camps and destroyed some 5000 shelters authorities limit what materials refugees can used to build here their homes are meant to be temporary making them particularly vulnerable. The rainwater enters my house im suffering a lot i dont live in a tent mine is a connected house but the middle section has been heavily damaged theres a hole in it yeah but is that. But structural damage is just one aspect of the problem more than 200 landslides have been reported in the camp since april disrupting logistics and daily activity. In the rainy season we have problems getting food. Service or children get sick. Toilets and bathroom hygiene are a problem when the kids cant get to school the School Buildings a falling into disrepair its all a big problem yes so much. The World Health Organization is warning that this could be only the beginning of a much bigger crisis. In an already unsanitary environment the flooding means there is a greater threat from water borne diseases and weather warnings suggest that downpour is likely to continue. This is deja vu news live from berlin still to come on the show europes or satellite Navigation System known as galileo has been out of Service Since friday is being positioned as a future rival to the american g. P. S. But 1st the former South African president jacob zuma has brushed off allegations of corruption at a Public Inquiry in johannesburg he said he was the target of character assassination by political enemies who wanted to push him out of power his testimony is being broadcast live on the set to continue through friday. This isnt the 1st time former South African president jacob zuma has had to answer to corruption charges but this was his 1st appearance before a high Profile Commission into crafty allegedly of his to zoom as the keys to presiding over a culture of must looting of state assets during his 9 year tenure that was before he was ousted as head of state by his ruling a. N. C. Party last year speaking uninterrupted for over 2 hours zuma dismissed the multiple graft allegations against him he claimed he was a victim of a conspiracy that has been a drive. To remove me from. It has come in different forms and thats why. Theyve been people who said it would be a way of trying to dodge things in one form without. The commission in charge of the inquiry hasnt been tasked with proving a case against anyone and zuma supporters are angry at what they say is the medias unfair portrayal of him. In the case of prison decodes zuma we have seen now avalanche of media take an avalanche of me dead child finding the president jacob zuma kills it without a fair trial they keep on telling us nonsense but they dont give us a tangible thing to take people to court to do jade visually to do jamie now he somehow does the wrong thing that he doesnt want me jade. Zuma set to face crossexamination at the inquiry which could last a week or more in that story at our website he gave you dot com now the goal to end world hunger by 2030 is the United Nations 2nd substate Sustainable Development goal but a new report says it is sliding further and further away the reasons war Climate Change and slow Economic Growth according to the uns new report more than 820000000 people are now nourished or undernourished today now thats almost 10000000. 00 more people than the year before the vast majority of them live in asia and in africa and low and even in middle Income Countries but hungry and food insecure people can be found in every corner of the world including here in europe you are food insecure when you dont have regular access to nutritious and sufficient food footing you at a greater risk of malnutrition and poor health as well the report estimates that globally more than 2000000000 people are experiencing moderate or severe Food Insecurity today thats more than one in 4 people worldwide. Lets find out more about this now im joined by roland cook hes a nutrition specialist for unicef in new york thanks very much for joining us today how concerned are you by these new findings theyre very concerned about these findings our increases in hunger and Food Insecurity observed as well as the insufficient progress being made to reduce childhood im not attrition while also seeing some paradoxically about the raids over nutrition and obesity among children of all age groups are on the rise globally ok when you look at this report are there any positive developments in an all or is it all bad news it is not all bad news by any means we have observed over the last 6 years a 10 percent decrease in the number of children who are chronically malnourished this shows that progress is possible and overall we do see inadequate progress being made to reduce other forms of monitoring while also seeing increases in world hunger ok when you when you look at the causes we looked at war Climate Change but also the report is looking at detailed slow Economic Growth as one of the main drivers of hunger including in middle Income Countries. Yes that is certainly correct and what the report show is that in those settings one very important factor our economic vulnerability is that many. Parts of the population are not able to access nutritious high quality food as well as social and Health Services so its specially in middle and high Income Countries very about the increasing inequality that we are observing ok when you look at all of these developments together what is the u. N. Saying needs to be done to turn this around everything from war Climate Change to including what we just talked about the economic a lack of Economic Growth in middle and high Income Countries you know certainly what is very important is that hunger would insecurity monitress not just remain technical issues but that that they become political ones that is we do need Strong Political commitment to tackle these issues across different sectors weve talked about the importance of reducing economic vulnerabilities but we certainly also need policies another area of how education social protection and very importantly to also transform our food systems to make healthy diet options for all parts of the population including children and adolescents more accessible affordable and even aspirational roland thank you so very much joining us from unicefs headquarters in new york today thanks very much pleasure. Well turkey is markings 3 years since a failed coup against president richard government since then many questions remain unanswered including whether top members of the military or foreign powers were involved in that coup although questions remain the consequences of that to attempt are very clear. The night of july 15th 2016 was filled with chaos and violence elements of the Turkish Armed forces launched an operation to unseat president rich. Aircraft attack government buildings troops occupied bridges and squares as many as 300 people were killed. On the 15th of july offices told us it was a trying operation but they juked us we went out onto the streets then the police came and we let the reality when they detained us. Forces loyal to heir to one put down the coup his government has since arrested tried and jailed tens of thousands of soldiers teachers journalists and other Public Servants many more have been removed from their posts they stand accused of supporting the attempted takeover or at least disloyalty to the government many more turks at home and abroad still support heir to one but thats not guaranteed to last a week currency skyrocketing inflation and high Interest Rates have shaken his grip on power relations with the west are at a low point. Then theres. An opposition figure and the next mayor of istanbul erda one held the post before he ascended to the National Stage a parallel not lost on some voters. The president was merritts well a criminal who is following the same path we will save added days. No one can say when those better times for ever once opponents may come he survived the bang of a coup attempt the whimper of everyday politics may pose the bigger challenge. The European Space agency says its galileo satellite positioning system has been down since friday he says blaming the outage on a Technical Glitch with equipment on the ground but provided no further details galileos billed as a future rival to the american g. P. S. Navigation system. Rocket launches like this one were supposed to bring the European Union more independence and security. The payload a satellite intended for the European Unions galileo Navigation System a direct competitor to the United States g. P. S. System has been crippled since friday with all 22. 00 of its satellites offline officials from the European Space agency blamed the outage on an inner and galileos ground base infrastructure industry reports indicate a glitch at an italian monitoring station is behind the disruption. Has been in the testing phase since 2016 when fully operational it should offer Navigation Services worldwide recently more companies have begun to make use of the service including many mobile phone manufacturers however an outage of this scale is a painful misstep it may delay the European Space agencys plan to make galileo fully operational by next year. We have some sports now and in tennis Novak Djokovic is the mens wimbledon champion after coming through an epic 5 said encounter with fellow titan Roger Federer the match lasting nearly 5 hours with the 5th set going to a tie break before the serbian prevailed 1312 the winner is his title at wimbledon the world number one feast on some center court grass won the match was all over it is the 16th time the 32 year old has seen round slam success. Sells more about this incredible match is a lima Hotel Marquee from didnt use work to do. What really stood out for you was an incredibly tight match how close was favre to his 6th wimbledon were incredibly close to the point where Roger Federer could see victory he could smell it he just couldnt taste it federer in the final set he had 2 points to win it but he just couldnt dig deep enough but you know somebody that could Novak Djokovic with a brilliant comeback fight and it just shows you why he is the wood number one and despite Roger Federer with the better numbers he had a better of percentage he did not drop a serve in the 1st 4 sets he had a better return game he won more breakpoints it is a joke of its with with his incredible defensive game his self belief that stole the show and we ended up with a game for the ages ok would have been if it wouldve been his 9th win right and given the federer is almost 38 years old which is old for tennis isnt it what is this was this is last wimbledon here thats the thing federer is like hes setting new standards and thats what makes him so incredible and look he may be old but if judging on that match yesterday he did not look any more tired than djokovic and again this was an extremely competitive and extremely close match it could have gone either way 0 age was definitely not the reason. Roger federer lost this match you know and weve had these conversations many times about Roger Federer whenever he loses a final you know it has to do with his age and between let me remind also review is that between 20122017 Roger Federer did a dry spell where he didnt 5 years where he didnt win any grandstand trophies but what did he do at the end of that he surprised all of us he came back he won in 2017 what is it back to back australian opens as well as wimbledon so obviously this is a missed opportunity but the tank is still full when it comes to Roger Federer and age has not slowed him down ok so we might see him back again you never know what and also the performance against the dollar that and yesterday is a testament to just how good he is you know joke about you know talk about his 16 grand slam title so federer has a record 20. Conjunctive it suppress that hard look and the tennis world will agree on this if theres one man that can surpass Roger Federer as record it is djokovic i mean he is not just incredibly talented but he also has time on his side he is 32 years young hes 32 years young he has as you just mentioned 16 grand slams just for behind larger federer and theres another factor to consider we know how human psychology works the closer you get to breaking a record you know the more you won it so im using a ball games and of course his former coach revealed yesterday after the match that Novak Djokovic doesnt just want to be one of the greatest but the greatest of all time so there you go we have motivation there and whats also really interesting is that during the presentation lodger federer was asked about his age you know him being 37 years old to which he replied that he hopes to be an inspiration to other 37 year olds and of course djokovic and it up replying and saying that you know he hopes to be one of them and that his longevity federal on jeopardy has served as an inspiration to him so conceivably we could see them matching up again yes this is a possibility yes i believe effects of such. Here in berlin a very special birthday zhao quitting the giant chinese panda has celebrated his 9th birthday it for live in soup he woke up this morning to find a cake in his enclosure but forget sugar icing let alone candles this one was made from Sweet Potatoes and red beats a special treat fit for a pan this 9th birthday. And you reminder now of our top stories at this hour the German Defense minister ursula on the line is in the final phase of her campaign to become the 1st female head of the European Commission thats the powerful executive European Parliament will vote on her appointment on tuesday. And some 100 people have been killed during heavy monsoon rains across 3 south Asian Countries those rains of triggered flooding and landslides more than 3000000 people in the fall bangladesh and india have been affected. This is deja vu up next in the news asia a quote technical snag put indias Lunar Mission on hold what does it mean for delhis a vicious plans to become the 4th nation on the surface of the metal. And more on grass in hong kong as prodemocracy activists return to the streets a report on these violent clashes inside a suburban shopping. All that and much more after the break im brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being. The feeling. 2 their music gives them strength and the glimmer of. The only Symphony Orchestra in central africa. Hardly any of the musicians have professional training. Their one being the symphonic family in which the musicians from kinshasa have found a home a. Global 3060 minutes on g. W. What secrets lie behind these moments. Find out in that immersive experience and explore the fascinating world Cultural Heritage sites. D w World Heritage 360 getting up now. 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