The show. A new Prime Minister for japan tokyos parliament confirms your shahid a sukkah as successor to shinzo all day the former Health Minister says his priorities are fighting the pandemic and strengthening japans whaling and cars. And israel signs historic agreements after the white house with bahrain and the United Arab Emirates establishing diplomatic relations present trump says theyre just the 1st of many such deals to come. Im brian thomas could have you with us today European Commission president to ursula fong the lion will shortly give her 1st state of the Union Address shes expected to unveil her vision for a more ambitious. Climate deal for the block migration also expected to figure prominently final line will also outline plans to relaunch europes economy which has been hard hit by the coronavirus and denmark. Lets go live now to the abuse of Brussels Bureau chief alexander phenomena whos standing by there for us where the speech is about to begin shortly this speech alexander is being held in brussels not installs burge where the parliament sits its a signal to signal that this pandemic is still very much with us. Yes indeed we are still in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and that has of course a huge impact on the work of the European Parliament of the European Commission and all the. Union institutions and i talked to many members of the European Parliament and they told me that they were really eager to go to strasbourg they were looking forward to being there because the atmosphere there and the exchange with members of the parliament is so important to their work but even despite the efforts by the french governments to present measures Health Measures to press the European Parliament to go there that the decision was made to do it not to that 100th im sorry hundreds of the members of the parliament and their staffers travel to trust because it was considered not not the right signal right now. Under did you give us an idea were all looking forward to the speech to hear so much policy theres going to be laid out what can we expect whats an overview do you think of whats going to be in the speech. Well i think that front and center of for the alliance speech will be indeed equivalent of virus pandemic however we expect her to look back to talk about the initial struggle to cope with the situation he she would talk we expect her to talk about whats in the future how the European Union can use this Current Crisis to emerge Even Stronger and committed to fund the alliance calls Digital TransformationClimate Change and that is supposed to be a very positive speech ok looking back what policy achievements on the line point to as she lays out a path for the future of the European Union will be covering of course this speech want to remind our viewers. Right now but what about the past what has she done up until now. Well funded will of course speak about the commissions achievements she will be speaking about more than 30 initiatives that the commission has put forward and that has been agreed upon however we have to say that maybe her biggest achievement so far was her support for germanys chancellor Angela Merkel and he repeated Council President and shell michele to convince. A u. Members to give depth rising powers to block to finance their Recovery Fund that was i would say her biggest achievement so far and of course we also have to say that because of the coronavirus pandemic a commission her commission had to postpone some important proposals like the european migration package that is due to be introduced next week for example alexander thanks so much well be getting back to alexandra later after the speeches coming up live in about 10 minutes we think so will be joining us live in brussels were going to japan now where your shahid asuka has been formally elected as the countrys new Prime Ministers comes after a vote in parliament he replaces the outgoing Prime Minister shinzo. Who resigned earlier this month for Health Reasons souk is expected to see closely the policies championed by his predecessor. So what can japan and the world expect of suger the man now at the helm of the worlds biggest 3rd biggest economy heres a brief look. Yoshida sukar may look like a traditional politician in a suit but theres more to him than meets the eye. For the last 8 years he occupied the powerful position of chief cabinet secretary. As such he was diffract to number 2 there are they and a key enforcer of government policy. As part of his effort to secure the top job he vowed to stick to those policies presenting himself as a safe pair of hands at a time of upheaval when not if you are not a court. I mean women in order to overcome the crisis and give the japanese people a sense of relief and allow them to lead stable lives we need to succeed in what Prime Minister army has been implementing this is my mission through the matrix that put a good new york. Hes not seen as a flamboyant or passionate person often described instead as someone who operates behind the scenes. Hes also said to be a pragmatist rather than an idealist here with some critics lamenting what they fear could be a lack of vision on his part. But in one respect he stands out for most other japanese lawmakers he does not come from an elite political family he grew up in a rural part of the country as a son of a strawberry farmer and has now worked his way to the countrys top elected position. For the very latest lets go straight to tokyo and journalist organ for all was a danger organ suger has promised to continue his predecessors economic policies what exactly would that mean for japan. Well mr super peeved shows in other words safe hands to continue with legacy because japan is now struggling with economic and strategic challenges mr siegel said he would work on bringing the current virus under control and get the economy back on its feet he plans to form the Health System and the Health Ministry because the agencies responsible for the pandemic handling of the pandemic were very good are correct and criticized as being actually not even communicating with each other with testing and tracing problems so he wants to form that he also has plans for a new agency to coordinate this digital policy he wants to consolidate as smaller regional banks to create several larger banking corporations and also hes a big supporter of competition and he wants to cut the mobile phone rates from its current levels to open arms industry to the price competition ok reforming at all levels domestically is a big list on his hands there what about in terms of Foreign Policy japan is among those nations in the region very concerned about chinas muscle flexing what is his Foreign Policy going to look like. Well. This is one area he might miss just to go might struggle only because his expertise is in domestic politics now and he admitted that he needs to learn a lot from mr abbott in terms of diplomacy because mr on the visit its almost 80 countries during his 8 years he did a lot of personal relationships with donald trump and playing golf with them so it will take time for mr sudan to develop this kind of intimacy and with relations with south korea north korea china its going to take some time and theres also the olympics of course next year. So having said that historys to go seems to want to continue throughout his legacy because he kept mr mo to the currents minister of Foreign Affairs and so he looks like he will depend on his bureaucrats to carry on his work ok its all about stability that sort of sounding like what will he be able to deliver the kind of stability the nations looking for. Were all going to see but hes a unifier lets not forget that there were some other names as candidates in this race and none of them got the strong. Corporation and collaboration and support that mystery super achieved now of course there are some other issues with his selection being. Supported by these strong factions which is a very important thing in japanese politics but i think with the strong support from the political at least from his own party it looks like he may be able to yes even win in this one year term that hes given as what i would call a caretaker Prime Minister thanks so much for that from tokyo. The Israeli Army Says it has struck some 10 hamas military targets in the gaza strip. Missile attacks early wednesday morning come in apparently telling ation for rocket fire from that mosque controlled territory the previous evening palestinians began firing rockets over the border at the same time a ceremony was being held in washington d. C. To mark the start of diplomatic relations between israel the United Arab Emirates and bahrain u. S. President trump host of the white house ceremony placing himself in the role of International Peacemaker ahead of elections in november thank you very much please the decision by the United Arab Emirates rein to normalize ties with israel breaks decades of consensus within the arab world a peace deal with the palestinians has long been upheld as a prerequisite for establishing relations with israel. And trump and netanyahu are hopeful though that all the arab nations will follow suit creating a major shift in ties in the region. And the blessings of the peace we make today will be enormous 1st because this peace will eventually expand to include other arab states and old timidly it can and the arab israeli conflict once and for all. But the agreements do not address the core conflict between israel and the palestinians bahrains foreign minister also made it clear that it was too early to celebrate a just comprehensive and during 2 state solution to the palestinian israeli conflict will be the foundation the draw of such peace. In the palestinian territories the new agreements have been met with anger. Morning sirens sounded as several rockets fired from the gaza strip hit israeli territory. Hundreds rallied in the occupied west bank and the gaza strip. This agreement today is an agreement that betrays the palestinian cause and stubbs the Palestinian People and this rainy in agreement is a withdrawal from our of the nations of the arab unison with the new world or we say miracles normalization and this normalization is a betrayal of betrayal to the palestinian cause and pan arab ism of course the Palestinian People denounced this agreement and the palestinian leadership has made it clear that only israels withdrawal from the occupied territories can bring peace but as israel and gaza again Exchange File that seems as far away a goal as ever. Lets get the latest now from jerusalem and cramer did you tanya this breakthrough in washington d. C. Is of course being celebrated in the u. S. Where you are in israel as well but its a very different story in the palestinian territories. Yeah indeed and we saw it last night i mean with the during the ceremony with 2 rockets being fired from gaza into israel one of them intercepted and one landed and start and that made this new round of escalation overnight we still dont know whether this will grow into anything bigger or whether it will end with this but it shows actually that. Israel has signed this agreement with the u. A. E. And the declaration with behind aim that it hasnt signed agreements with its closest neighbors the palestinians now on the palestinian side there is a lot of anger and also disappointment that it has come to this but theres also a lot of concern that theres a shift in the region that nations that had until now at least publicly stated their position that they would not normalize ties with israel. And the occupation and we heard also the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas saying again last night that security in this region would only come if the Palestinian Conflict is solved talk about that shift in the region you just mentioned always see this as potentially the beginning of a new era of israel developing closer ties to the arab world moving forward. Yes definitely and it would also it is seen as a major Foreign Policy achievement for the israeli Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu those ties had been there but kind of behind the scene theyre coming together also because they want to form an alliance against iran but of course for the israeli Prime Minister he could put himself in line with. Former Prime MinisterMenachem Begin who made peace with egypt in 979 and also its been well made peace jordan in 9094 although with those countries israel had actually been at war and now these cooperation agreements are more about cooperating and different but at the same time for many israelis it also comes at a bit of an odd time because people here are preparing for a nationwide lockdown because of the severe crisis the infection rates goes up every day hospitals are turning away patients to other hospitals at the moment and i think there was a lot of criticism also directed at the Prime Minister and his government for handling this crisis so bad and i think this will take center stage once hes back home here. Thanks very much for that from. 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Were back with our main story right now thats happening in brussels this hour European Commission president on the lion is about to give her state of the union speech shes expected to outline a number of policy issues that are very important for the 440000000 citizens of the European Union the include a coronavirus Recovery Plan a new approach to moderation and new goals for. What were expecting that speech and just a few more moments with me now in the studio is Richard Walker our chief International Editor nice this year richard a fine line is expected to give a speech now at a time when the European Union is fragile we should say that certainly and one main goal is to reassure the bloc citizens that she has a solid pandemic Recovery Plan look at it look like you know well the centerpiece of this brian is the Recovery Fund which Alexander Just mentioned at the top of the show which funded line this is really pretty much the biggest achievement so far in you know less than a year in office now this fund is something thats already been agreed it was agreed back in july at a summit between all of the. Much haggling and it really is seen as something of a breakthrough and thats a breakthrough in 2 ways 1st of all in the e. U. Coming together and deciding to really kind of spend its way out of rices like this but also in the way that the money is being raised a real kind of sign of solidarity among Member States where Member States have agreed that the European Commission is going to go out and borrow this money themselves on the markets and that will be underpinned by all of the Member States that money will be guaranteed by all of the Member States this is something that hasnt happened before so i think she will be presenting that as Something Like the European Union came together to look to the future when the. Dealing with the economic fallout from the pandemic and now its time to look to the future and think about what are we going to do with that thought there is still some resistance though to taking on