region as a whole she had some rather self-critical remarks to make during her first speech to the parliament after being sworn in for another term as chancellor let's hear him. what was it my dear it is directly impacted by the situation at the same time we've not done enough to try and work out a political solution to this dispute like knowledge that if you go with either i have no illusions about the complexities of the situation but i believe that we must become more involved in resolving this dispute and germany will do that. norma miller i guess you agree that germany should do more because you wrote in your book on female diplomacy and you also referred in your opening statement to damage control but what exactly would that mean in this case what very concretely could and should germany and europe be doing i think this whole talk about the deal of the century and the ultimate deal that we've we've been hearing from washington now in regard to iran oh no no no no i'm sorry what do you mean they're don't turn

talks a lot about a lot of them you know i was referring back to our previous talk with the the israeli palestinian conflict i just wanted to add that i don't believe in the idea of you know this is the big deal the ultimate deal that that trump has been promising i think where europe can come in is you know. taking us back to two realities on the ground and making small steps more you know opting for more of an incremental approach. i sometimes use the image of a marathon at this point in time because peace doesn't seem to be around the corner i think we have to opt more for shorter runs than for the for you to kill a lot kilometer marathon meaning that you're for example could propose. a more encouraging incremental approach where rich trust where we can start rebuilding trust between the parties to the conflict that could be on the israeli side maybe

a freeze a freeze of settlements no more construction work beyond the green line whereas on the palestinian side. there could be an end to the payments to two so-called mattress families and these could be you know very initial steps that could could help rebuild trust and there is a role for europe to be played there i think shani was on as you said in your opening statement that so far you don't see europe stepping into the void what would you want to see them do well is it i think first of all the using of the term europe is misleading what's european oh what you put in for now we still have. britain there but that's not going to last for too long we have a european union that you. have a kind of midway that himself we're talking about austria czech republic hungary and romania who sent their delegates quite probably to join the americans this week with the aggravation of the embassy there part of the you are they going to be

supporting every step that that tusk or younger or mclean you're bringing what is the e.u. if you look at the dominant forces if you like or two dominant leaders and you see mccall obviously from france and you see an american here they're also quite i mean corn is very ill used young is energetic he has all these initiatives if you want to bring france in to say as much as i mean we've seen a great deal of him done in the last year that he's in office but then we see under the market is receding and sitting german foreign policy is actually about doing as less as we can we're talking about marathon they're not they're not even putting their shoes on we're talking here about a bunch of people a bandwagon and there is no clear policy for the e.u. . let me just come in on their every flavor to it because i really want to get us to iran and i think that's the perfect lead over. when you look at the run and when you look at european efforts to keep up the j c p a way on agreements that you're clear agreement which is on the the nuclear agreement i think that's just that's so much more than just putting our shoes are

right the europeans really do try to to stand up to to to the americans to some extent although that's not a position that we want to be an i mean we want to be in the in the working transatlantic partnership but here we are and we see a greenie and we see the german the the french and the british foreign minister stand up together and and trying to work out how we can how we can salvage this deal that is in our own security interest by the way we have a very short report on where things stand with iran let's just take a look at the. germany britain and france are still committed to the iran nuclear deal. their foreign ministers will work with iran to try to keep it alive. this is green when it's a wreck the in fact the security interests of europe. without this agreement there will be more in security and on certain about development center iran and the nia

and idly. to deal less economic sanctions on iran provided the iran limits its nuclear activities and allows international inspectors to verify compliance. but no president trump has restored the old sanctions or a grand threaten to impose new ones on businesses to trade with iran or when. you're going to see. the political bit that has been expressed by the remaining participants. can be translated into specific action and do see that thank you. the u.s. has stepped up the pressure on the europeans can they stand up to washington. when they claim they want to do just that they revived something called a blocking resolution a tactic that was used in regard to cuba sanctions essentially telling european

companies not to comply with new u.s. sanctions cannot possibly be effective and you talked about europe and the u.s. working together is there any possible compromise you see out there. well. what what what a pos if we come to the joss in this question the point is your if europe leaders had any sense they would have left a deal too because the only. way we can put pressure on iran to actually comply with the deal is by re imposing sanctions and then saying look we want you to do this and the other way. iran is not complying that iran is going tomic energy agency. or they say is that then reducing the amount of rain in that they were allowed to enrich but they are not complying with the deal as far as they're also the security council resolutions about the missiles are not to buy

they're not complying that there are security council resolutions about they're not allowed to supply any weapons to hezbollah or no never mind if they be only one hundred fifty thousand rockets how long do we want to stand by while one country dismisses everything and we still give them money which is basically what we're getting rid of sanctions means we're funding people who want to kill us come on we need to stop this the us has talked about trying to bring those other issues into some sort of larger package europeans were willing to talk about that where they are not that way i think we have to create a bit of a order here i think the nuclear gave the case of is a nonproliferation arms troll deal which has nothing to do with iran's regional activities which has nothing to do with missiles with human rights those are separate issues i think it is very important as you said to address these issues visibly the iranians and i do believe that the europeans also have

a role to play there because unlike the americans they have kennels they have the ways and means to talk to terror on the americans what have we had up to now with these incredible channels about we have to strengthen the reformers in iran the reformers and empower the people who are in power. people who want to eliminate israel and will building missiles which can reach europe i mean what what what back channels they already i mean let me bring shiny resinous into this place because we are very close to the end of our program here shiney trump is banking on the idea that it's possible to get a much better comprehensive deal with iran on all of these points what do you think is the likelihood of that with trump the chances are slim to none because had he wanted to improve the deal he should have stayed you know should have stayed with the negotiations and say let's try to find a way to do that but he's been very harsh i don't think you know and also looking at trump's record he's promising better deals when it comes to paris climate

agreement he's promised better deals when it came to obamacare and could socking about better health care for americans he's really good with tarnishing with existing i have been sitting finding constructive better solutions yet so let me ask you this coming back to the european move you said you want to see by.