posted in our country. germany is sensitive to this matter and especially its humanitarian aspect for which i would like to thank them. and germany also took responsibility at the time of the turkish germany refugee crisis and they took steps to alleviate this issue. in order to balance out protectionist measures. based system needs to be adopted so we have adopted a joint approach in this regard. to trade and security can be impacted by such measures. i expressed to the esteemed chancellor that the turkish economy is built on

strong foundations. we have taken structural steps to respond to the speculation based challenges in our economy. we are prepared for any difficulties in our economy just as we are prepared to meet any other challenges in any other respect we feel that the relations between germany and turkey are very important and we want to advance a win win scenario that. the german states approach in this respect and the messages which they are giving are importance in our respect in our opinion. there are three and a half million citizens of turkish origin in germany. their connection to their. homeland should be maintained this is something that we

want to. continue. in terms of education. people of turkish origin should be able to. of equal rights. we have an expectation to be able to carry out a more efficient fight against terrorism. we discussed this matter in a comprehensive way with the chancellor. we expressed our satisfaction in relation to the declarations made in the short term. we want our cooperation to become stronger going forward. but of course in relation to the independence of the judiciary. both countries

have to respect each other. of course this is a rights. as any country who believes in law and democracy i think this team chancellor once more my question is to both of you. there was an article that you penned prior to coming here and you just mentioned it here as well. you want germany to declare good on its movements as a terrorist organization and to receive their support in this regard what did you discuss in this regard and it is known that there are members of the good honest

organization living in germany what kind of a road map have you talked about in this regard. the from my position. has been made illegal in germany all their activities are of course illegal and we haven't discussed it today but we have discussed it in depth in the past and that is also a reflected in the actions of our police force when there are demonstrations that we take the statements of turkey very seriously but we need more material and it is not there's not as sufficient evidence to have of to give it the same status as the p k k and regarding the. extradition of people there this will be treated by the relevant authorities there are a few cases but we haven't had any really any recess in then germany

and we do not know if these people are actually in germany at present. yes just as the chancellor the esteemed chancellor has just mentioned. thousands of members of the p.k. k. are resident across germany this is a case in point as i have discussed with mr chancellor before and hundreds of members of the good honest movement are also based in germany our national intelligence organization and germany's intelligence organization and our ministries can work together. based on the confidence that we have for each other. it will make it easier for us if

in this way we hand over people who have been captured. because this should be very easy for germany since they have acknowledged that p.k. k. is a terrorist organization and we have an agreement in relation to the exchange of criminals so for the happiness of our country especially in relation to security this is a very important matter so thank you. yes from the from the. question to the chancellor if you discuss about things but president at a lot of people and i've been listening to the text present. and german chancellor angela merkel speaking to the press after the first meeting of iran's visit to

germany correspondent joan hull also listening in that that press conference i went to really isn't always easy going of relationship and to be listening to america it was a pretty frank press conference that we had especially from her she said she wants a good relationship with turkey but that is over what a democratic society looks like remain. well i i think in a sense and probably that press conference was evidence of it mrs merkel has had this meeting rather forced upon her it's not what she would have preferred to see happen a year ago her government was described by mr the one as and the mes of turkey now of course turkey in an economic crisis that's something germany is very worried about deeply exposed to turkey's economy its biggest trading partner and there are

other issues the migration crisis syria as well that really would benefit from better relations between the two so she's had to sort of grit her teeth a little bit and that comment that you referred to the common strategic there is a common strategic desire she said for good relations but as far as a free open and democratic society goes we see these things differently well that's perhaps putting it politely mr irwin in response also acknowledging that they have much in common a lot of things they can do together but basically saying look let's focus on a win win situation for the two sides but don't talk to us about judicial independence don't talk to us about democratic values let us focus on syria let us focus on migration let's restart e.u. accession talks and let's have visa free travel to the schengen zone and then we can deliver on our side of the bargain that's the balance that's being struck here it's a pretty delicate one as you say i don't think this was

a pretty particularly comfortable set of talks there to continue again as we hear on two tomorrow morning ok indeed they will tell you that for now that thanks very much for joining us there from berlin as i know to bear entirely political analyst system fessor of world history at the american university of iraq insula money and he joins us now via skype i mean what exactly does turkey want from germany here. hi laura thanks for having me on the show. president are long gone huge germany in the hopes that. turkey's as your whole or part of the berlin pointed out go to find a way to restart your session talks you. to him perhaps ensure that turks were dirty travels europe. visa free and to ease all role of the general tensions the relations as you know the past summer

has been very tough on ars relations with the united states and its oldest continuing. military and political ally in the world to ally since the dawn of the cold war kirk if you notice there's i've been close allies but you see. the my read of problems in u.s. search which is negatively affecting the turkish economy and my reading of it is that he's hoping to use. its relations with europe. its relations with german e.u. to perhaps perhaps ease the. meltdown the turkish lira for last summer and continuing to view with the risks. the turkish economy i think those are the general those are some of the most pressing issues

it's ok that this president is going to go to berlin ok and then of course the other another big se on the table was syria and we're now hearing that that will be a meeting in october between gemini taki france and russia has quite an interesting greeting there isn't that what i think we think might come out of that. perhaps. what i would expect from the meeting in october is a pledge for both turkey and russia to keep the lid. on their clients. live in the curious of thirty on our armed opposition groups in syria and those that would not want just to turkey's desires some of the extremist groups such as h.g.'s and so on and so cool and for russia to keep the lid on the syrian army and the assad regime so as not to turn in living within

a few three million civilians and those of thousands of off armed opposition groups it's one it's of the next battle ground in syria for germany this is important because if we if we remember one point you especially the summer of twenty five with literally hundreds of thousands of refugees around syria marching across the borders of east land yorkers would syria with europe and hundreds of thousands of them making their way into germany that image turning into a significant lots of political. well i remember. generally being. i think that's what that's what thirty rock and. ok bear in crayon a great great speech thanks very much for joining us there with your analysis we

watching the press conference between circus president at time out on there is next to him german chancellor angela merkel they've been speaking to media in. iran on a three day visit that first in four gives a sex president on to other news now and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu took to the u.n. general assembly stage on thursday accusing iran of having multiple secret atomic where houses close to tehran insisted the run has violated the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal has not given up on its goal of money fracturing nuclear weapons . joins us live from tehran say what's been the iranian response and his accusations. well the first bit of response from the foreign ministry spokesman cost me in a statement to local media he said that netanyahu speech and allegations against iran within that speech were false and farcical and he also pointed to the

international atomic energy agency the u.n. nuclear watchdog the real global authority on all nuclear issues and said since the nuclear deal there's been twelve separate inspections and iran has been given a clean bill of health so to speak and this is not the first time prime minister netanyahu has really used visual aids to describe how close to a nuclear weapon iran might be and so it was really the foreign minister's tweet or shortly after the netanyahu speech foreign minister zarif tweeted that may have really spelled out what many people in the room at the u.n. may have been thinking at the time of the israeli leader speech in his tweet. that the foreign minister of iran said that no arts and crafts show would really obscure or hide the fact that in the middle east israel is the only country with the allegation is a secret nuclear program and zarif also said that it's israel that is known or alleged to have an actual atomic arsenal now went on to say israel and

prime minister netanyahu should confess to that fact and open up their own country to international inspectors i suppose the big question is whether this claim of nest of this new tale wet house whether it's already ninety eight says if indeed it is true. well certainly now it will be up to the i.a.e.a. to really request iran to to open its doors to the facility in those photographs which iran has maintained over and over again it is more than open to any inspections by the i.a.e.a. they enjoy a very cooperative relationship and their keyboard points in this. nuclear deal when the deal was threatened by the trumpet ministration when the us president told from pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal the i.a.e.a. has spoken up in its capacity as the u.s. nuclear watchdog and said that iran is in compliance with the twenty fifty nuclear

deal to join a comprehensive plan of action and is complying in full with requests for inspections so really if there is anything that needs to be investigated no doubt in coming days and weeks the i.a.e.a. will be seen to get involved but really if the past is anything to go by then these allegations really aren't based in fact is what the iranians would say ok for him saying don't see what happens off the back of his accusations i'm thanks very much indeed now the united nations special envoy. the main international airport in the capital sana'a close by the civil war for more than two years could soon we opened an exclusive interview with al-jazeera mohsin gryphus said he also wanted peace talks between the histories and the government to get under way after attempts earlier this month fails it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is

and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominance and that's what we must try to get away from. i want to make an announcement about the court if i can finalize that i want to make announcements about how we can get prisoners released both sides we've made a lot of progress since geneva and i want to work with central bank of yemen and their counterparts in. payment of salaries which is crucial by the way for the humanitarian issues when even as griffiths pushes for peace talks yemen's government backed by the saudi he led coalition says it won't cooperate with the un human rights mission it accused the un of biased softer investigations released a report alleged war crimes of a travel mansel hardy's governments and investigators have turned a blind eye to violations by who's the rebels and if you as time the u.s.

senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on the fate of donald trump supreme court nominee on wednesday said it has had testimonies for almost nine hours from bet brett kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers seven men suspected of planning a major attack in the netherlands are expected to appear before a judge around four hundred heavily armed police officers conducted raids in the town of virt. mine is believed to be of iraqi descent men were legit the trying to obtain a k forty seven rifles grenades and materials the suicide vests. the watching out is there are these are all top stories german chancellor angela merkel and president one have agreed to host

a four way meeting to discuss the situation in syria's exit next month and made the announcement during a joint press conference and berlin just a few moments ago and iran's first state visit to germany since two thousand and fourteen level says leaders from russia and france will also be invited to the meeting ties between turkey and germany have been strained in recent years he's often criticized i'm chris human rights records the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen if you took a life that have all strongest us turkey has achieved enormous results when it comes to hosting three and a half million syrian refugees we discussed the subject of it lip and we want a meeting with the russian president the french president myself as well as president and we're aiming to host a meeting in october to discuss at length. president spoke about steps to make it easier for turks to visit europe and the color of the committee there are six criteria in relation to the visa liberalization and we are planning to fulfill those criteria as soon as possible the visa liberalization and the customs union

and the accession process need to be revitalized because this will benefit the european union to a certain factions should not be allowed to prevent this process germany is one of the leader countries in europe so we consider it of significant importance what they contribute to this process. yes alice has had her testimonies for nearly nine hours from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers her seem glossy force says she's one hundred percent certain brett kavanaugh assaulted her allegations that he strongly denies. and is supreme court has lifted a ban on girls and women of menstruating age entering a historic temple the court ruled that excluding women can't be seen as an essential religious practice females aged between ten and fifty have been barred

from entering the sapper ramada temple and some hindu religious figures consider administration to be impure. right now with all the headlines more news on al-jazeera that's off the inside story. china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight teen election quite the accusation and quite the reaction from china washington and beijing have been at loggerheads for much of this year from an escalating trade war to a military and a political standoff so what's behind this growing dispute this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program today with me peter w. now the u.s. president donald trump sitting at the head of the u.n. security council was always going to be interesting watch it was an opportunity he used to go off to iran and to attack those who still back the twenty fifteen iranian nuclear agreement but he saved his strongest accusations for china addressing permanent council members including france russia and the u.k. mr trump said beijing was trying to interfere in the crucial u.s. midterm elections this coming november without providing any evidence he said china did not want republicans to win the chinese foreign minister promptly rejected those claims calling them unwarranted accusations as some of what mr trump had to

say regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight teen election. coming up in november against my administration they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade and we are winning on trade we are winning at every level. tristram go to marriage or try to china has all along full of the principle of noninterference in other countries domestic affairs this is a tradition of chinese foreign policy observance that this principle has received acclaim from the international community we did not and will not interfere in any country's domestic affairs if we refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against china and we call upon other countries to also observe the purposes of the

un charter and not to interfere in other country's internal affairs let's take a closer look at this deteriorating relationship between the us and china well it all started in january with mr trump stated quotes trade war with china so far the u.s. has imposed tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods beijing has responded with similar measures china has refused a u.s. warship entry to hong kong harbor next month high level meetings between american and chinese naval officers have also been cancelled and the u.s. has called for sanctions on chinese officials accusing them of human rights abuses against the minority community. ok let's get going let's bring in our guests here on inside story joining us today from beijing i know tangan political and economic affairs analyst in philadelphia we'll be talking to joe watkins republican strategist and former white house aide to president george w.

bush and joining us on skype from hong kong pauline loom managing director of asia analytics welcome to you all i know coming to you first why is donald trump saying this well there's a lot of feeling that he's looking to divert attention both from his political problems domestically kavanaugh moeller all the lawsuits everything that's going on there when you're your attorney your. you know your people and your ministrations of turned on you and they're writing books which are very very very damaging to him yes he's looking for some way to do that this is classic drama and you figure out. another target you don't want to talk about russian involvement in the election is to start saying china is out and you know and the proof is in the putting i mean he was not able to turn to anything the ad in the. newspaper was underwritten by china daily there was no subterfuge they were just simply bringing forth their idea about what trade should be like and where they wanted to buy their

soybeans to wilkins in philadelphia if you were advising this white house administration this republican administration would you be saying to them yes beijing wants to mess with the midterm elections come november well that's certainly the path of least resistance when you have when you consider some of the other challenges that the administration is facing right now that would be a logical way to go especially given the fact that there's a trade war the president does want to remind his base especially in americans that he's the one that made good on his promise to do to redo these trade agreements with with. major countries and clearly he has done that he has created. conflict with countries that have been friends and allies for a long long time and clearly his his two hundred fifty billion dollar tariff imposition on china hasn't gone unnoticed china clearly is not happy about it

president from knows that he has a three hundred thirty five billion dollars trade gap there to to try to close and he's glad to trumpet that and he's glad of course to say that as along with his best security advisor john bolton and also his national director of intelligence dan coats have said that china along with three other countries are folks in there watching because they suspect them of meddling in the midterm elections which are not far off far off so yeah it makes sense that he would point to this and make mention of it at the u.n. yesterday pulling lou. in hong kong he says he's the first president to really china challenge china on trade is that an accurate description of his presidency and an inaccurate description of other presidencies well what is unusual about this dress it is that he seems to be campaigning all the time rather than having

being installed as president at presidential what is happening is that at the u.n. he names china but he says it's the old well try not to talk he seems to be talking essentially to his supporters spec home he is framing it as if you support me and he supports china if you don't support me then you are supporting china well the rep block of america wants to use them supported anybody america so it's a having people of the us when i see joe watkins in philadelphia there's a central contradiction or a dichotomy here isn't that he says he's the first president to challenge china on trade and yet flip that around he also says the trade wall was already up and running before he became us president it can't be both well the president is known to make comments that later on are fact checked and and but nonetheless

he is trying to underscore his his point i suppose at least by again reaffirming with his base that he's made good on his promise to start a trade war and that he isn't afraid to start one with china especially the try to close that trade deficit gap that currently exists and so he's made good on his promise he wants the base to know that again we're facing midterm elections where republicans stand a very good chance of losing control of the house of representatives and now they stand equally. big challenge on the senate side where it was an earlier suspected that they might lose control of the u.s. sent. but now republicans could possibly lose control of the united states senate as well so yes the president has to talk to the base yes to try to gin up support among republicans and americans who are going to be going to the polls in a little over a month to vote for members of the house in the senate to say guess what you like what i'm doing don't you i'm doing this in the best sense of america so that's his pitch and he's reminding the voters of that by

a by the comments he made yesterday and tangan in beijing you already mentioned the newspaper there was another ad in the des moines register that's crucial because that state has a lot of soybean trade and that's one of the the businesses in america that's being directly affected in a highly negative way because of this trade war with china putting the adverts in the des moines register is that politics or is it trade it's both and quite frankly the u.s. and we've had a long long history of doing that i mean what do you radio free europe radio free china all of these are propaganda entities that we use now in terms of donald trump he has a long history of vilifying people remember he he said he said ted cruz his father was involved in j.f.k.'s assassination but the main point you should be driving here is everyone keeps talking about china stole jobs to china is stealing ip there

are cases but i wouldn't joke can you tell me and i'll name off five six cases where you know china has stolen ip as a nation not business to business just simply what has state owned enterprises common either taken jobs or taken ip pulling in hong kong inferi in about three and a half or four weeks the u.s.s. waltz will shed chilled to sail into hong kong harbor that's where you're sitting right now it's not going to happen is that significant. yes but it should not have come as a surprise to anyone so-called this. trade well has never been just the don't listen fits who is blank wall who basically i see this as two economies in a race for political dominance technological dominance trade dominance and suddenly it's spilling over into everything else and i see the coming of not so much a cold war but the beginning of an ice age between two nations but they keep

picking on each other so no i'm not surprised that there was he wasn't going to who should be also not be surprised what concern philadelphia at the apparent don't care about the anger that's been generated because the united states is sending f. sixteen spare parts to a certain location very close to beijing that beijing does not feel comfortable about well the president is somebody who has a history of going hard against a country and a country leader and then turning around and befriending them witness of course the what happened north korea were just a little over a year ago the president was referring to the north korean leader as a little rocket man and now he's chairman kim and he's somebody with whom the president says he is happy to have a good relationship the same is true with china's president for life the president even yesterday in the midst of his comments about the trade war said that he

thought that he had a good relationship and certainly hopes to have one with china's leader so the president oftentimes uses these a trade wars and other conflicts military conflicts and disagreements as a way to bring his trading partners to the table to negotiate and don't be surprised if the president at some point. goes back to the table and has significant discussions with china and then comes to agreement with china on what is what he would consider to be a fair agreement but oftentimes they use. these conflicts is a way to bring his adversaries for the moment to the table and with him nobody's a permanent adversary and i suppose nobody's a permanent friend so the people with whom he may be fighting today could well be his for his friend tomorrow. joe you seem to be saying what we've heard before commentate to say about mr trump and can i just turn that around and put that point

to you when he said this about china allegedly wanting to or is actually meddling in the coming u.s. midterm elections even his own people were quite.