aunt—r ii‘ul‘ei presidents and heads, noticed the violence? presidents and heads, noticed the violence ? and presidents and heads, noticed the violence? and what about the violent and peaceful protests? have they had any influence on the ability to come up any influence on the ability to come up witha any influence on the ability to come up with a general shed communique? is there a connection?|i up with a general shed communique? is there a connection? i believe the many activities of a civil society andi many activities of a civil society and i would label the peaceful demonstrations on the margins of this summit also a part of civil society engagement have contributed to knowing that when we meet here, many people out there expect us to come up with results. at the beginning of this meeting, i also said in public. on the other hand, the guests obviously also saw that. some of them have had first—hand experience of that because they were not able to leave or get to the hotels and they have watched television so you may rest assured they were familiar with what was going on. but they were also

impressed by the work of the and women, and this is why they expressly asked me to pass on the gratitude to the police forces and the security forces. translation: you mentioned the africa partnership, are there specific amounts that were agreed upon by, when, and how much money would be needed to promote this partnership. translation: it is more about the how. we have seen how traditional development aid, as for many years, we have used it as a single instrument almost exclusively, all investments were taken. there are a few countries actively investing in africa. this will not in itself bring africa

forward. it has to be the right mix of private investment, good governance, the right conditions to be in place so private business becomes interested in taking up investments, for example, legal certainty, transparency. that is what the finance minister also brought to the conference. what we also brought to the conference with africa, namely these agreements with individual african countries ought to be forged and these partnerships, where the sons have already been put in the window, if you like. so it is not a donor conference, but along the lines of trying to place the spirit of partnership into the foreground and further develop instruments to do this. the president of the world bank has said the funds for female entrepreneurs for example, in developing countries and africa will be very much benefiting from that and their 325

million euros can be put into this. obviously that will be leveraged to the tune of several billions and that can go towards helping young, female entrepreneurs. one initiative i welcome today, the united states will earmark for the world food programme, particularly for those countries that suffer from famine, south sudan, somalia and the chad la ke south sudan, somalia and the chad lake region and the number of people who are affected, that has helped. translation: madame chancellor, i would like to come back to the climate subject. there was an argument about some wording and how the americans could get their reservations into the communique. why has there been no improvement in

the communique, because are you condoning that and are the 19 others condoning that and are the 19 others condoning that? is thisjust not a major concession to the americans you are making. the british prime minister expressed the hope that the usa might return to the paris agreement. do you share that optimism? translation: at this present time, i do not share that optimism which is why we agreed on the american position and one that describes the other countries. we took this up in the communique in the passage that describes the american position. it becomes clear that this is the american position. the united states of america clearly shows they are

not in on this and there is a second and a third which shows the position of the others is clearly stated. the paris agreement is irreversible. it became very clear. unfortunately we we re became very clear. unfortunately we were not able to come to a compromise, but we have not been glossing this over, it is very clear there is the discrepancy. thank you very much madame chancellor. another question on the riots and there has been talk about anarchy and the failure of the state. it is untypical for germany, are you thinking of any consequences to prevent this happening again? i believe this police operation was planned very carefully. i think i'd told you what i think, in no uncertain terms what i think about the violence of these riots. the

summit we were able to hold, u nfortu nately summit we were able to hold, unfortunately citizens of this city have this suffer, shop owners and so on. i said we are thinking about how we can on. i said we are thinking about how we can offer redress and compensation to them as quickly as possible and with as little red tape as possible. the talks will start immediately on how to do this. this isa immediately on how to do this. this is a point, as we all know, demonstrations are still ongoing and i hope they remain peaceful. but they may well turn into riots again. but we have two, i think, back up our security, the police here. there are people here about who have no interest in making any substantial progress but but in blind fury, they destroy simply parts of their neighbourhood. so i think only the police can work against this. translation: madame chancellor, i

would like to come back to this climate question. we heard this morning this was the only sentence which was pending. it wasn't a cce pta ble which was pending. it wasn't acceptable to all and some europeans. what changed between last night and this morning that the europeans did agree to that? translation: as i said, we amended the declaration and it says very clearly that without any doubt, the united states of america, underlined very clearly that they want and then we very clearly that they want and then we state very clearly what the

european position is. it is very easy to differentiate here. we use dates in the english version and the leaders of the other 220 member states, it is clear this is not a common position, but there is a distinction, the united states america states they think this and that way. we, the other member states stated we think this and that way. so it is very clear. we worked on this until noon today and then it was clear the agreement was no longer there. perhaps you can tell us who you are? iam from perhaps you can tell us who you are? i am from the kurdish news agency. madame chancellor, you have been talking to your guests about terrorism in the middle east. anyone

who is against isis, indeed is pressure get and not participating, but they are not a state yet. are you favour or against the independence of kurdistan? lam forthe independence of kurdistan? i am for the kurdish territory being pa rt i am for the kurdish territory being part and parcel of iraq. they know this, that is the condition for our support and we say this in all of our talks with the kurds in iraq. allow me, if i be, you asked questions related to climate and energy. the concern we had was, when it is about further forms of cooperation, it is this only about renewables, about low carbon

technologies. how can we continue to cooperate, because the united states as regards gas, as regards clean coal, they want to deliver this to different countries. you might look then as if all of the others were supporting this as well. this is why we supporting this as well. this is why we clearly stated this is not the case. once you have the declaration before you, you will see that there isa before you, you will see that there is a very clear distinction there in the second, this second paragraph, it is only the position of the united states that is clearly staked out. can i come back. the question out. can i come back to the question of violence, madame chancellor? there are recriminations i would like to ask your opinion about. people are saying it was a mistake to hold this in a large city and in

a district which has been a problem for years. secondly, you as federal chancellor took this into account because of a good photo opportunity and you jeopardised the well—being of the police in so doing, what do you say to that? we have a situation where the g20 is in a way, i warded to regions and this year, to individual regions and this year, europe was the region to which this summit was awarded. we have a summit in london, which is not a small city either. we had one in cannes. we have four members in the european union, we have the g—7 meeting in italy. this is why germany, in a way

lent itself to hosting this and quite frankly, as a big economy, as a country that has always been advocating multilateralism as a country, that is interested in many developmental issues about supply chains and so on. which is what we addressed during our g—7 presidency, to see to it it is brought forward and we achieve progress on these issues in the g20 family as well, i felt it was important. secondly, we talked about the different issues and ramifications with our security and ramifications with our security and police forces, also with hamburg. i don't think we can accept hamburg. i don't think we—canaccept situation hamburg. i don't think we—canaacept situation where we say in certain a situation where we say in certain areas, you can simply cannot hold certain conferences. we have here the facilities, the police have done their best, they continue to do their best, they continue to do their best. i can only say that i

would very much wish for a very clear distinction made, i at least do this all the time between peaceful demonstrators, every right to peacefully demonstrate. it spurs us to peacefully demonstrate. it spurs us on, it encourages us to look for the right solutions, but this blind fury that was unleashed, it is something we cannot tolerate. chancellor, i wanted to assess something about your relationship with trump. i wanted to ask you about your relationship with the american president. after the last summit, you were critical and you said the europeans would have to rely on themselves henceforth. now, we saw an american president who made certain concessions. would you

say he praised your conduct here as chair of the g20? would you say the us president has learnt more about what multilateralism means and the advantages it can give? or will he just go home again and slap some more duties on steel and such things? translation: i can only take things as they come along. there are certain areas i feel we have actually achieved very good results. i don't want to hide from you it is still difficult to discuss trade issues because we took a very measured approach. the head of the world trade organisation is satisfied. he is a more independent observer than i can be as hostess of this meeting. the negotiations remain difficult, but we have been able to get satisfactory results in place. what will happen tomorrow or the day after, is not something i

can make any predictions on. i can only hope what i have said will continue to hold true that we as europeans have to take our fate into our own hands. it is good if we do that. this partnership with africa, africa is in our neighbourhood. we have to be the drivers of this commitment and engagement. we are only starting now. this remains true and also the fact we need to take a stronger interest in settling international conflicts peacefully. that remains true. there are many areas where we made clear that together we can achieve more than if we stand alone. this is the position i took and if i find the majority of people sharing that, we will continue to be successful. steele, that was difficult. i asked each and

every one to show a spirit of compromise that we have an ambitious time plan is clear to meet with august and september, but i thought this was of the essence. not postponing it or dragging it on. if we don't do this, we have the risk of bilateral retaliatory measures, which i don't think is a good thing. i hope until august we have the necessary releva nt i hope until august we have the necessary relevant information.|j have a question which follows on from that. before the summit, it was warned that there could be a trade warned that there could be a trade war opening warned that there could be a trade waropening up warned that there could be a trade war opening up between europe and the usa. to think the summit and the talks, the probability of such a thing has diminished? talks, the probability of such a thing has diminished ?|j talks, the probability of such a thing has diminished? i believe the result on the global forum is important, but august isn't that far off. there has to be a lot of work

done and steel is only one issue of the many trade issues. i think the discussion is going to continue to be difficult. what we were able to do in the framework of g20, it is reinforce the importance of rules and the trade regime. these are the steps that can be made, but this will continue to remain on the agenda. chancellor, the g20's summit in big—city is not new, we have had them in toronto, pittsburgh and london, but not with such riots. hamburg has been perhaps blamed for this and germany, because of a loss of control may be echoing the loss of control may be echoing the loss of control may be echoing the loss of control in cologne and with the

refugee crisis? i think one needs to ta ke refugee crisis? i think one needs to take each case individually. these violent riots have to be fought against. we have to have a common position on this. i think the police have done an exemplaryjob in addressing that. it is clear that violence, very bad violence has been brought here, since november but others who expressly came to write here, to the city of hamburg. obviously, we condemn this. the images are not nice at all and in many ways they are a slap in the place to peaceful demonstrators and those who want to, either from civil society, or from the world of politics, give a contribution to make this a better world. but we have two clearly show we have worked

hard, we have been able to achieve something. we have been able to assure the safety of the participants of the summit, but we have two condemn this violence as a society. but i don't think we can lump it all together and apply the same yardstick. madame chancellor, cani same yardstick. madame chancellor, can i come back to turkey. the leader wasn't at the concert but met turkish ministers and there were tensions because being able to speak or not, what happens over the summit with mr urdu one, was there any tension? we had a bilateral meeting on his request. i would say turkey showed a lot of commitment. i was very much engaged on the agenda and gave his contribution. we gave

contribution to what turkey did towards the refugees and supporting the migration agenda today, but we clearly pointed to the many differences we have. the large number of arrests, the fact that members of parliament were not allowed to visit the base. we haven't lost them over or swept them under the carpet. gentleman in the middle of the glasses, but to wait for the microphone. madame chancellor, when it comes to ukraine, we are told there will be a new range of negotiations in the

normandy format. in your talks with vladimir putin, did you feel anything was changing and is there anything was changing and is there any reason to feel optimistic a solution can be found? we help this meeting because the french president, emmanuel macron, has not beenin president, emmanuel macron, has not been in office for that long. we had a chance to meet and also i call previously before this meeting, the ukrainian president, so he doesn't get the impression as if we were talking in the absence of ukraine about issues that are important to them. we said, emmanuel macron and i. them. we said, emmanuel macron and i, would continue this process with mr putin. it is a very slow process. there is segregation and even setbacks. we didn't gloss this over. we said we wanted to find an

appointment for a telephone call, the four others with the ukrainian so we the four others with the ukrainian so we continue cystic to this format. there is other bases in any way and no other format. but we didn't gloss over the differences. madame chancellor, on president trump once again, how would you assess his contribution to the discussions, how would you describe it? there were pictures which caused a bit of confusion when ivanka trump was sitting in the room with him and other heads of state. can you explain how that occurred and what you thought about it? the delegations themselves decide should the president not be present for a meeting, who will be on over and sit in the chair. ivanka trump was part and parcel of the american delegation. that is something of a

delegations also do. it is very well known that she works at the white house and that she also is engaged in certain initiatives. the american president and his sherpa as well, actively participated in drafting the declaration. i said the negotiations on climate, after all, show there was disagreement. the 19 against the us in the sense of us having different positions, the negotiations on trade were also quite tough. it is due to the fact that right now, the united states has taken certain positions. on steel, we have an ambitious timetable and concerns that if we don't do this, we will not be able

to solve this issue in a multilateral way and with a global forum and people will result to bilateral measures and that is what nobody wanted. the us delegation and the chinese delegation and the europeans said that they were ready to a cce pt europeans said that they were ready to accept first the global forum and its activity. 50 the declaration came about and could only come about together with the united states of america, but as i said, they were tough negotiations on certain issues. man with the red tie three lines from the back. thank you madame chancellor. i am with the shanghai media in china. this topic is to the g20 itself. how do you see the future of the g20 as a powerful organisation promoting

openness, interconnectivity against the headwind of isolationism and populism? also, the chinese presidentjust had populism? also, the chinese president just had a populism? also, the chinese presidentjust had a successful state visit to germany. you are also the european leader who visits china most often. how do you characterise the relationship between china and germany under your leadership? thank you. as you know, we have a very special cooperation with china going beyond bilateral cooperation because of the fact that china was hosting the 620 of the fact that china was hosting the g20 last year. already addressed issues we felt were very important. for example, health, they included that in the statement in the declaration. we built on that so there is a clear link and this will

continue and it will be continued by argentina and beyond bilateral cooperation where we see eye to eye in many areas, but there are differences of opinion in other areas. we have a very good set of issues, where we want to discuss shaping globalisation together. we we re very shaping globalisation together. we were very much supported by china in development with africa because china knows a lot about development. they also feel it is most important for african states to develop. it was a very good cooperation, very good intensive on and we will develop on that as well. we have this in rwanda and angola. there is an this in rwanda and angola. there is c this in rwanda and angola. there is an agency for sustainable development that was founded by the germans and chinese. it may be a nucleus, a sort of first seed

foreseen to that this cooperation continues. last question from the gentleman here in the second row. chancellor, you were saying free trade was a tough subject to discuss. the high—level representatives of russia, the usa and eu were present. 0n the margins, was there any discussion of the north stream two project? not in my presence and i haven't heard anything about it. so i cannot comment on this. one further question because it was such a brief. the lady in the third row has been waiting a long time. despite what is happening, the

question is, do you think there will be any warming in relations with president putin after this meeting with the russian federation? thank you. i was delighted that on the margins of the g20 meeting, there was a first meeting between president trump and president putin. i always said that you should talk to one another and not about one another. it won't settle all conflicts, but it is a start. they have made a start. i was gratified to know they talked at some length, actually at great length and they continued their contact, so i hope and trust a steady relationship will

come out of it. there are certain problems that can only be addressed and solved by the united states and russia together. be it syria, be it disarmament issues, be in north korea. another issue that was addressed here. this league, they will absolutely need it on north korea and south korea and we stand ready to support them. they can only be to the benefit of all if there is good, candid and open dialogue and channel of communication between russia and the united states of america. thank you very much. this is ross atkins live at the g20 summit. angela merkel finishes and extended statement and press conference towards the end of this

gathering of the world's most powerful leaders. there has been a lot to digests, she covered many subjects and reflected on many subjects and reflected on many subjects and reflected on many subjects and meetings. let's be clear what we have just witnessed. it is the confirmation from angela merkel on behalf of the vast majority of the most powerful leaders in the world that on the most pressing issue the world faces, namely climate change, they are going one way and america is going another. the chancellor put it explicitly. she said, there has been no compromise in the communique, the statement put out at the end of each 620 statement put out at the end of each g20 summit. there were different sections acknowledging the difference in the american position and the position held by the other i9 and the position held by the other 19 members of this group. she said she deeply regrets america's decision to leave the paris climate deal. she's gratified to know the other members of the g20 remain committed to implementing the paris deal.