w. . this is d. w. news from berlin tonight the evidence for the world and donald trump to see israel says iran lying about its nuclear weapons program iran says israel is crying wolf or minister benjamin netanyahu has presented what he says is fruit that iran is continually expanding its range of nuclear capable missiles this just days before the u.s. president or decide the fate of the iran nuclear deal germany is calling for an immediate investigation into israel's allegations also coming deadly blast in

afghanistan coordinated suicide bombings leave a trail of bloodshed wreaking havoc in the capital kabul in a separate attack in the south eleven children have been killed. and could there be a transatlantic trade war at the european union says it is ready to react if the u.s. is slaps tariffs on aluminum and steel imports us. all. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with israel and what it calls an intelligence coup israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu went on primetime t.v. to present what he says is proof that iran has always law and about its nuclear weapons program tehran issuing a clear rejection saying the israeli prime minister is doing nothing but crying wolf here in europe germany is defending the nuclear deal and has called for an

immediate investigation into netanyahu is claims here is part of what the israeli prime minister said earlier today. weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these walls and here's what we've got. fifty five thousand pages. another fifty five thousand files and one hundred eighty three c.d.'s incriminating documents incriminating charts incriminating presentations incriminating blueprints incriminating photos incriminating videos and more so this is a terrible deal that should never have been concluded and in

a few days' time president trump. will decide will make his decision on what to do with the nuclear deal. i'm sure he'll do the right thing the right thing for the united states the right thing for israel. and the right thing. for the peace of the world are at let's begin the story there i'm joined here at the big table by our middle east analyst daniel berlant daniels' good to see you again yes thanks and i think the evidence presented by that yahoo was with was meant for one person and one person only today and that is double trump with you do you agree with that statement absolutely whole style of the presentation and he used the word incriminating about seven or eight times in a row there is simple. spectacular fashion at the same time unusual style of public diplomacy let's say or i wouldn't call it public diplomacy but of

diplomacy of trying to convince a foreign leader. we haven't seen that coming out of israel before and i think he's very much adapting to the style of his main addressee who is as you say don't trump what exactly did prime minister netanyahu reveal i mean do we know we were exactly he is is claiming. well he's explaining that they've discovered this is very recent news so i couldn't go into the details of not into the very few details that have come out yet but that they had discovered intelligence and spectacular intelligence school it's not that israel hadn't of the israeli intelligence agencies had acquired sensitive material out of iran before but to borrow a very unscientific image what's happening here is if somebody went to another person said you should divorce your vive because she's not faithful and then the person asked the question back what you mean she's not faithful do you have evidence that she's cheating on me and you say i know but she didn't tell you that

before you married her she worked as a prostitute so she can't be faithful and your marriage just built on lies this is exactly what's happening here most of the information that is referring to. is from before the iran deal was actually concluded is from one thousand nine hundred ninety nine to two thousand and three and that's why he says the deal is based on lies and i don't know his own intelligence agencies have contradicted netanyahu a couple of times. and so has the international atomic agency in vienna i can tell you anything about the let's say the house of stench of the intelligence is again it's not important so much what the information is about it's important what don't trump what kind of don't trump decision don't trouble take next week we can't verify the evidence and we have if we assume that it is legitimate. it's just that the iran has been playing the west all along if that is the case then how can any deal be credible with tehran i mean is that the dell that yahoo was is throwing out

there for mr trump to see absolutely and there is doubt on. many sides and there is another problem here and one of them across both went to washington to convince of course. president trump to not to the deal because it's not only that part of the european like foreign policy legacy but it's also one of the very few successful multilateral approaches and it works so far parents now the problem is trump call and merkel have both offered to donald trump to look into the deal to come up with kind of an amendment a new deal and they have therefore also gratified american unilateralism in the name of preserving multilateral decisions and this is i think a very difficult case here that's why many in europe say we have to give something to trump in order to save the deal support him in rolling back iranian influence in

the region for example but others say if we do this then we will dig deep. we will become like lose our credibility in in the middle east and also with the iranians one in two about the timing of this revelation and we heard people immediately saying that it is this information is being revealed to persuade will drop to decide a certain way i mean you can look at it that way but what about. perhaps to support a decision that's already been made. i'm not so sure if this decision has already been made it would have been much more comfortable for trump to say we will give the europeans more time to come up with a better deal he likes the term deal a lot. also to let's say rearrange his his cabinet the people around him pompei o his national security adviser bolton everybody is new in the office so maybe he could buy himself some more time trying to pressure drum than the forces hand obviously that's what he's doing and i don't know may be in

a few months time that i now would no longer be in office because he's having the shells to hit in his home at home he's involved in a big crew a corruption charges that he has been interviewed by the police several times so the situation for him is as uncomfortable as the situation is the president from washington and maybe he wants to he wants to preserve his legacy but he just there to the point of time how much of this has to do with the control of syria. and also iran's nuclear energy body today admitting that iran can now enrich uranium at a higher level than when that nuclear deal took effect and it warned president trump not to forget that when he makes his decision. that that's of that's a very ominous threat that is the iranians have said before that if come to certifies the deal president rouhani has said it for mr jaggers has said it in

a different way but they have threatened that there would be a very harsh and imminent the action but what does that mean there is it me because i cannot tell you i've always said that they've always said they don't want the bombs if they don't want the bomb didn't why why make statements like this about their ability to enrich uranium it is absolutely inconsistent and it might be a way of psychological warfare. that this supreme leader many of the political leaders of iran have have repeatedly said that the nuclear bomb is not complying with their ideology with their villages values but yes it is questionable and so there's trust on those side of the front at the moment the trust is definitely your rear of the moment is always good to have you and your insights thank you thank you . art let's take this story now to washington our correspondent course of the moment is standing by good evening to you karsten as a really the reaction from the white house to this. yeah

president trump himself today in a press conference. was prime minister netanyahu today told the international public confirm that he was always writes in his skepticism about iran and the nuclear deal otherwise there has been a rather muted reaction i guess a lot of people are just waiting to see you know how credible the evidence that mr netanyahu presented really is before making judgments but people have noted the incidents that mr pompei oh was in the middle east and the israeli prime minister went forward mates this announcement in a special appearance on israeli t.v. one interesting point i just read reports of talked to the american defense minister general mattis and apparently he met the israeli defense minister last

week on thursday and mattis apparently told reporters that he had not discussed iran with. the israeli defense minister and also apparently had not been told about this new evidence is allegedly you evidence so that's quite interesting a lot of experts just like to gallup just said has pointed out that a lot of the stuff that president prime minister netanyahu talked about is old news from the time before the iran nuclear deal was signed and also you know picking up or what daniel had mentioned was the intention of this revelation today jim pressure the u.s. president to kill the nuclear deal on may twelfth are you hearing that in washington. well i don't think donald trump really needs to be pressured because from what we heard after his meetings with french presidents marc. on german

chancellor angela merkel last week. the impression of those leaders was that president trump seems pretty determined to pull out of the iran nuclear deal so it's more like this gets done it from another justification to do just that and not so much that pressure has to be put on him because i think that's and yahoo and trump pretty much aligned their skepticism towards iran. over washington correspondent carson phenomenon the story for us tonight carson thank you in afghanistan at least twenty five people have been killed scores injured in two back to back suicide attacks in the capital kabul another blast in kandahar province to the south left eleven children dead and in a third attack in the ease the b.b.c. says that one of its afghan reporters was killed in the kabul attacks nine journalist and four police officers were among those who died the so-called islamic state group has claimed responsibility. the two suicide bombers struck in the

central shot star rock area near nato headquarters in the afghan defense ministry staggering the blasts for maximum effect. after a motorcyclist set off the first explosion another attacker embedded with journalists running to the scene detonated a second device i want to go to the enemy was posing as a camera man. he detonated his explosives among a group of journalists in the area. in the resulting explosion a number of our journalists and other people and passers by this includes nearby residents who were gathered at the scene were wounded and martyred. exactly sure one of the dead was a of peace chief photographer in kabul some three dozen journalists have died in attacks since two thousand and sixteen reporters without borders says this was the single deadliest day for journalists since the taliban were driven out of kabul in

two thousand and one. i was about ten meters away from the side of the first explosion trying to get there when the second blast happened it was very powerful when i finally got there i found many of my fellow reporters lying on the ground some of them dead already. the afghan government has pledged repeatedly to improve security in the capital but hundreds have already died in attacks since the start of this year. here's some of the stories now that are making headlines around the world a delegation from the un security council has arrived. as they investigate alleged ethnic cleansing of muslims they will meet leader aung sun suu kyi before visiting what kind state and estimated seven hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh from the area following an army crackdown thousands of people have protested in moscow against the blocking of the messaging app telegram authorities believe or begin.

walking the service earlier this month the company is refusing to share the keys to his data encryption with authorities citing privacy concerns iran has now joined russia in blocking telegram. all right now and as we ask how close are we. to a trade war and i was asked to go down to the wire doesn't. that mean a really high octane right now the countdown ease upon us from tomorrow european companies could face us terrorists to the cheers twenty five percent i'm still ten percent when it comes to allan million that is less an exemption is extended and becomes permanent that is what you need is a hoping for is what both frogs as michael and germany's medical person e.p.a. to for talks with trump last week they both came home without any assurances. behind the scenes u.s. and e.u. representatives are scrambling to find

a last minute agreement to avoid the introduction of punitive tariffs by the u.s. the americans expect concessions saying they've been unfairly treated when it comes to trade with the e.u. the munich based institute for economic research study the tariffs on five thousand products to compare the e.u. and u.s. tax each other the results there are considerably higher barriers for u.s. products entering the e.u. than vice versa on average europeans charge a five point two percent levy as opposed to just three point five by the americans u.s. beef is especially hard hit it's taxed at sixty eight percent meanwhile the u.s. charges a forty nine percent levy on european tobacco products and twenty two percent on trucks. experts suggest lowering import duties on both sides while that would reduce european customs revenue it would certainly be cheaper than starting a trade war. in the air or to think that you can fight

protectionism with protectionist policies it's like trying to tackle stupidity with stupidity. and if the conflict intensifies people could end up losing their jobs as a result with me now is adamant to an economic historian and professor at columbia university in new york thank you so being with us now president trump is tel to protectionist policies visits from both mccall and medical sales to throw out any promises regarding an exemption can we now expect to follow through and implement tariffs against european union. it's very hard to predict i think the behavior of the trumpet ministration those who've attempted to do so in recent months are generally fatal but on the basis of the evidence so far on the signs in the last couple of weeks i think we do have to expect

a escalation so say who did deadwood stays tariffs redress the trade imbalance and i mean isn't it the case that in general prices of european goodson's that could rise to states certainly france's if you have been goods will rise we've already seen increases in prices for both the new million and still just through the announcement of the tariffs whether or not this will be just a trade imbalance i think one has to be extremely skeptical trade imbalances are the result not generally individual price differentials and competitiveness issues there is a lot of macro economic imbalances in excess of demand in the united states relative to domestic supply and the converse in the euro zone where domestic demand is insufficient to meet dr potential new year as zero and the result is an imbalance which then shows up in the trade account in the balance of payments between the two sides it's not something you can fix by putting terrace in taxes on particular goods so the logic i'm understanding from you then is that these terrorists would

not be particularly an effective way to redress the trade imbalance what would be a sensible way of tackling it because it is problematic for the united states it is extremely not. well we should regard it's problematic for europe to the fact that europe the eurozone right now depends to the extent that it does on the current account surplus is an after effect of the eurozone crisis and a sign of the deep imbalances within the eurozone economy this is a two sided story and an effective policy for addressing it would work on both sides it's also it for the for given the size of the eurozone and the us economy is a global issue and the problem here is to see a rebalancing between excessive demand in the united states an inadequate demand in the eurozone so it would have to act on both sides it would require probably a fiscal tightening in the us and a fiscal loosening in the eurozone and a soon as you say to say that you realize the profound political obstacles that stand in the way of any such solution neither side i think is really seriously

interested in addressing the problem at that level very briefly trump says trade wars the good the us will read let me ask you does anyone ever win trade rules yes you can win a trade war both as an industrial sector which benefits from it the ticket of the all in the case of the united states if you're an economy which broadly speaking can supply itself with all its critical needs there are certain countries which can do better out of trade will others we should start from the assumption that all is good in the garden and that therefore any kind of deviation from that constitutes a disastrous life tools inefficiency there with serious problems in the transatlantic trade balance which need to be addressed by adam to his economic historian crestor at columbia university new york your thoughts. well served right now for an update on the situation now as at the u.s. border the hundreds of migrants from central america to very. much up

a size ten doesn't have the right when they want to cross the border tonight u.s. border officials have stopped hundreds of asylum seekers from entering the country after their heavily into the page in the rival a caravan of men women and children had made the much publicized journey from central america hoping to reach the united states and you're saying diego but the group has been left frustrated and angry after officials at the border crossing refused to process their applications president trump has previously argued against allowing the migrants to enter describing mass migration as a security threat. it has been a long ride for these asylum seekers over four thousand kilometers from many of them and now they must wait. u.s. border authorities say they're at full capacity and processing asylum claims some members of the caravan are stopped on the mexican side of the fence. i mean i'm going to turn myself in with my three children. i've heard it is possible to get

separated from our children and we're afraid of that and we wish we didn't have to go through that yet. but it's better than going back to my country to be killed i want to please them. since their journey began in late march u.s. president donald trump repeatedly ordered the caravan to turn around now over one hundred fifty migrants are camped out at the border crossing at t. want to mexico waiting for authorities to accept their asylum request. you know if you see as many american officials will not accept anybody yet and we have six children and we have a young lady in a wheelchair. and well that's a very tough situation when i as soon as it was you were. traveling in caravans it's common for migrants hoping to reach the u.s. but offer strength in numbers on the risky journey across mexico yet this year the

group of north bound buses became a flashpoint in a debate about immigration. migrants are permitted under u.s. law to cross the border to apply for asylum but in this political climate it is uncertain how many will be allowed to stay. or you want to pick up this part of the story deal with eason barrowman he is a political commentator on the nationally syndicated radio host he joins me tonight from los angeles is it is good to see you again you know you're very close to where this story is happening and immigrants arrive in the u.s. border every day so do we know who are these people and what's different about this . let's very interesting not only my close vice president mike pence is very close today as well two hours away in calexico but what is different about this group is it's an organized cura van it's an annual caravan one of the groups behind it that organizes it below scene fronted us is organizing this as you've already heard to

protect them during their travels but central america is suffering from a terrific crime wave it's like a worse zone in terms of the homicide rate so these people are scaping violent criminal gangs they're escaping a government that is not functioning or protecting them and united states has been a destination for asylum seekers for hundreds of years now and what's different here is we have a president who won an election partially based on the idea of rejecting people from central america rejecting refugees and rejecting asylum seekers. you know people around the world looking at this most of wondering why is this particular group attracting so much attention would it have been better if this group a tried to move across towards the border under the radar. well groups like that are behind it like the. scene from terrorists want to bring

attention to the fact that the united states especially under president trump let's be honest president obama did a lot of deportations as well really is rejecting our idea of the american ideal of bringing immigrants bringing asylum seekers bringing refugees here to the united states or they're trying to highlight what the trump administration is doing in our country right now and is appealing to this nationalist a protectionist right wing element in the united states which a lot of americans are buying into right now and sadly they are using imagery coming from countries like germany and hungary and isolated images like that to stir up this national sentiment nationalist sentiment in immigration sentiment and so there are groups are trying to fight that and that's what they're doing by bringing all of this attention to what is now a relatively small caravan of about one hundred eighty asylum seekers if it is there a proper discussion going on in the united states then about what

a reasonable and a proper immigration policy would look like because i can imagine few words wherever they are the world would say that the u.s. has a right every country has a right to secure its borders why aren't they why aren't americans talking about that instead of what appears to be demonizing a caravan of people who are trying to escape terrible crime. well again our our current president began his campaign by demonizing these what i call the other really appealing to you know the austrian psychologist carl jung calls you know the shadow he's reaching out to that in appealing to the other so the debate is not happening in a rational fashion here in the united states right now it's a highly emotional one president trump has already completely shut down syrian immigration the refugees from the war zone in syria under president obama in two thousand and sixteen we had fifteen thousand so far this year we've had eleven

syrian refugees it is a hyper nationalistic fear of the other that is going on and sadly i can't say that we're having a rational debate about it we have to be emotional polarized sides that are arguing about it in a group of essentially nativists refusing the idea that our country is built on the idea of accepting refugees asylum seekers and immigrants if they were going to rob it of their fortune they were out of time in suburban joining us tonight from los angeles isn't thank you thank you. i'll be back next with the day.

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