w. o o. o o o o o. this is b w news live from berlin a meeting of allies but no meeting of minds u.s. secretary of state's might from tehran chancellor angela merkel stress they have the same values but they agree on little else iran is the main cause of friction also coming out the skull cap traditionally worn by jewish men is the focus of debate as the number of anti semitic incidents in germany rises we meet a man who covers just kept up whenever he leaves his home and.

i mean you could as mckinnon thanks so much for joining us a european tour by the u.s. secretary of state might pompei it got off to a strange start when he and german chancellor angela merkel failed to agree on anything very much in berlin they did agree that they had shared values but there was little meeting of minds beyond that policy towards iran is the main cause of friction between the 2 allies. it took my palm peo 400 days to find time to visit berlin and then officials scheduled only 45 minutes for talks with chancellor angela merkel on trouble spots afghanistan syria libya and iran. the world is in great turmoil above all the question of the run and how to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. nor did bump ayos discussions

with germany's foreign minister bring the 2 countries closer together washington has been raising the pressure on iran well european countries struggle to save the nuclear deal iran signed 4 years ago. this is also no secret that we are pursuing different approaches towards that and. at the rate at why from our point of view instead of europe as a whole preservation of the nuclear deal increases international safety and that's important to us. but time is running out iran is threatening to stop complying with parts of the nuclear deal if europe fails to relax us sanctions by the start of july iran is primarily dependent on income from the sale of oil washington has effectively choked off that money supply we will do our best to enforce the american sanctions regime that is put been put in place all differences aside pompei o did reaffirm that germany nevertheless remains an important ally of the

u.s. . for more i'm joined by chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda both sides emphasize the importance of the german american friendship but there are a major policy differences between these 2 countries on the how deep to the rift between washington and ballin. the differences are very deep i'm not sure i would term this a rift at the moment but any one of these differences can become a. greater division just starting with the main topic on the agenda today namely iran you heard both sides saying as the report pointed out that their goals are the same the goals being to contain iran to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon and to limit iran's ability to support terrorism and terrorists elsewhere and to produce a ballistic missiles but the main difference here is so great that it's very hard

to see how you bridge it namely the europeans and germany amongst them want to keep the nuclear deal in place they say that is the best means of containing any threat from iran and to keep it in place they want to maintain trade with iran because they say if u.s. sanctions are permitted to essentially completely embargo trade with iran then iran will surely leave the nuclear deal and proceed to with its plans or its former attempts to get an atomic weapon so the europeans move together to establish their own payment system that would allow european companies to go around us payment systems in order to keep trade with iran alive that hasn't proven very effective to date but here's my pompei was saying we will only tolerate this as long as humanitarian goods exclusively are involved meaning any other trade with iran will

be sanctioned this means essentially a confrontation course between the u.s. not and not only iran but between its closest allies namely the europeans if in fact they try to keep trade with iran alive and i'm glad machall has just returned from the united states where she delivered the commencement address at harvard university and she outlined a vision that was essentially diametrically opposed to trump's approach can pump a is visit in any way help improve relations between the 2 allies. unlikely indeed we have an absolute frontal clash between 2 very different ways of seeing the world and the main difference i think our report mentioned nationalism the main difference though is unilateralism the us is clearly in key areas and other ones on the agenda today relations with china and especially with the company while way relations on the north stream gas pipeline between russia and germany again and

again the us tired take is maximum pressure whereas the german approach as outlined by chancellor merkel is multilateral cooperation try to understand the other side's perspective these are true truly diametrically opposite visions and in fact it's very hard to see how they can be recruited inside simply by friendly words about the importance of transatlantic relations all right melinda crane thank you so much . of some of the other stories making news around the world a south korean newspaper is reporting that north korea executed its nuclear on going to the united states came shop troll was a senior negotiator at the failed hanoi summit with u.s. president donald trump is not been no confirmation of that report. high water and fast currents in the danube hampering efforts to reach the sightseeing boat the sign can be to pass 2 days ago soldiers all building a diving platform but warn it's may be days before they reach the wreck 21 south

korean tourists who were on the boats are still missing. india's prime minister narendra modi has held meetings with several south asian and southeast asian leaders as poss of his effort to build economic partnerships in the region noticeably absent was pakistani prime minister imran khan relations between the 2 countries have been strained over tensions in the disputed kashmir region. of germany's and some semitism commission adult to felix klein has called on germans to wear a kippa tomorrow in solidarity with jewish people in germany now that will come side with palestinian demonstrations to mock israel's occupation of jerusalem in 1967 the earlier this month dr klein stirred controversy by urging jews in germany germany to be castle about wearing a kippah in public you met with a jewish man who hides his cap whenever he goes out in berlin. david perel

wears a skull cap and a prayer as part of everyday life but when he goes outside he puts the tonsil in a pocket and he hides the skull cap with a hot. david his wife and children have lived in berlin for 5 years after spending some time in israel there are many things he can't take for granted anymore he's experienced too much hostility for my whole city sometimes as a traffic jam on the street where i live and one time 3 arabic looking men got out of a car and they started spitting at me and harassing me saying you dirty jew stab you today. this experience is far from unusual police to test show that the number of anti-semitic crimes in germany rose from 1504 in 2017 to 1799 a year later an increase of nearly 20 percent the overwhelming majority are attributed

to far right perpetrators. the rise in anti-semitic acts as a result of the coarsening of discourse the readiness to act out in a racist way and against minorities. to hits the spot of movements like biggie. and a large part of the alternative germany. on. that all adds up to a decisive change the. people who used to hold back now say it's time to strike that's the danger. and that's why we have to act decisively and make a clear statement that we want no hate crimes. germany guarantees freedom of religion but for some expressing that religion can be dangerous. you don't feel free you don't feel look then take fish because it belongs to your. way of life that it's not just a religious symbol it's also the symbol of

a way of life. that's something david wants to be able to hand down to his own children. my kids it's hardly normal to wear it and to run around in it it's very hard to explain to a 3 year old that you have to cover it up because someone might run up and beat on him or harass him. that david would like to wear his skull cap all the time in public not just on the way into the synagogue. joining me now is felix klein the german government commission on anti semitism that klein thanks so much for joining us here at the doubly you recently warned jews in germany against wearing the skull cap pull or kippa openly which you did receive some criticism for but of course anti semitism isn't. isolated to germany so do you feel that german jews are in particular need of

protection well anti-semitism in germany is always something very special because of our historical past difficulty because the past also of course anti-semitism is on the rise everywhere in europe with my statement i want to trigger the bait about the security of the jewish institutions and the jewish community in our country and i'm quite happy actually to have succeeded in that because now you can the federal president steinmeier made a statement today and i think it is very good to see that. everybody now knows that jewish life has to be protected that it's very special thing to have jewish life in germany particularly after the holocaust and that we. also have to bear you we see the value of it so in that respect. i quite happy of course i wanted to have it as a as a warning to fall for everybody and that jewish life is not natural. in germany

after the holocaust you have also now called on germans to wear a kippa tomorrow in a sign of solidarity with jewish people on al could stay now this is a time when put people to dish and take to the streets to oppose zionism to oppose israel is that not a little provoke a says maybe to cool an old germans to wear a kipper on a day like this well i caused some confusion with that because people say one day he's warning on the other day he wants to have everybody wearing people but it was also. done with. with the great wish to do so to attract attention because i think it's a it's a great sign of solidarity with the jewish community in our country that everybody should wear. because. we have to show its citizens that we do not accept anti-semitism that anti-semitism has no place in germany and with that very visible sign we can do it the key part of course is

a symbol for that and i think it is very simple because many people in germany and in europe think that the keeper is something that comes from somewhere else that is not inherent in our culture but that's not true the keypad belongs to germany and always belonged to germany into europe because it's part of the jewish culture and jewish culture is part of german culture in an interview with the new times you conceded that the way the german government the message of the jem government uses to track anti-semitism is fluid what needs to change to access besa day and how can you really judge the seriousness of the problem if we if we don't have reliable data well 1st of all we're going to act pretty soon next week if everything goes well the chancellor and the minister president of the lindo will create a commission on anti-semitism and with that new body we will be able to discuss

all the issues into in further detail because many of the measures in place are under the jurisdiction of the land of course police judges prosecution also education so in that respect we can set up. a new structures and i think we have to get a better also. picture of what happens actually then to the to the anti-semitic crimes when when they are when they are reported we need to get a better. idea of. how many cases are actually prosecuted how many perpetrators are find and what happens until now well we don't have that the deficit that's one of the suggestions i will make of that commission weren't don't thank you so much for joining to. thank you. and the reminder of the top story we're following for you today the u.s.

secretary of state's mike compare has met with chancellor angela merkel in berlin talks were cordial but there was no meeting of minds on u.s. trade policy towards china and on relations with iran. you're watching each other news live from berlin up next business africa with one of the one of the generations i'm on your kids mackinnon thanks so much for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in the meantime with the painter shift with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journeys i have worked on the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same 14 the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption work on the phone.