this is t w news live in a meeting of allies but no me saying of mine the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei and chancellor and the knuckles stressed they have the same values but they agree on little else they're wrong is the main cause of friction also coming up the skull cap traditionally won by jewish men is the focus of debate as the number of. incidents in germany rises we meet

a man who covers his cap went and then he leaves his home in. a minute it's mckinnon thank you so much for joining us. a european told by the u.s. secretary of state might compare to a strained start when he and german chancellor angela merkel failed to agree on very much a toll and they did agree that they had shed valleys but there was little meeting of minds beyond that policy towards iran is the main cause of friction between the 2 allies. it took mike pompei 0400 days to find time to visit berlin and then officials scheduled only 45 minutes for talks with chancellor angela merkel on trouble spots afghanistan and syria libya and iran. in the world is in

great turmoil above all the question of the run and how to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons the visits what not. nor did pump 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 of 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 signatories don't find a way to soften u.s. sanctions iran is primarily dependent on income from the sale of oil washington sanctions have effectively choked off that money supply. we will do our best to

enforce the american sanctions regime that is but it 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 milind a 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 rifts between washington and belin. 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 bridget 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 the us 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 moved together to establish their own payment system that would allow european companies to go around u.s. payment systems in order to keep trade with iran alive that hasn't proven very

effective to date but here's mike 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 i'm 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 a 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 recreated inside simply by friendly words about the importance of transatlantic relations all right melinda crane thank you so much. now some of the other stories making news around the world high water and fast currents in the danube hampering efforts to reach the sightseeing boat that sank in budapest 2 days ago soldiers are building a diving platform but warn it may be days before they reach the wreck 21 south korean tourists who were on the boat all still missing. police in the city of xerox say a 60 year old swiss man killed $23.00 male hostages after

a 3 hour standoff with police the nationalities of the women on yet known gun bottoms is relatively rare in switzerland whether it is this month separates the adult stricter gun control laws. and pope francis is in romania on a 3 day cross-country pilgrimage he's urged the country's political and religious leaders to work more closely together to confront society's problems upon his visit to the predominantly also the country comes 20 is off to pope john paul the 2nd visited great mania. here in germany the government's anti semitism commission has called on citizens to wear a skull cap on saturday and solidarity with a jewish neighbors it will consolidate with the day when palestinian groups demonstrate their resistance to israel's occupation of east jerusalem but just earlier this month the commission a stirred controversy by urging jews in germany to be careful about wearing

a skull cap known as a kippah in public message jewish man who feels he has to hide his cap whenever he goes out and. david perle wears a skull cap and a prayer as part of everyday life but when he goes outside he puts the tassel in a pocket and he hides the skull cap with a hat. david his wife and children have lived in berlin for 5 years after spending some time in israel there are many things you can't take for granted anymore he's experienced too much hostility for my holster sometimes is 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 who stab you today. his experience is far from unusual police to test excess so 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. for 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 for germany party. 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 culture and you

know why 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. for my kids it's totally normal to wear it and to run around in it it's very hard to explain to a 3 year old that he has the cover of darkness because someone might run up and speak 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. 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 suggestion

and you 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 difficulties has 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 even the federal president. i made a statement today and i think it is very good to see that. everybody knows that jewish life has to be protected it's very special thing to have jewish life in germany particularly after the holocaust and that we. also have to do we see the value of it as well in that respect. i quite happy of course i

wanted to have it as a as a warning for all for everybody and that jewish life is not natural if i could 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 people traditionally take to the streets to oppose zionism to oppose israel is that not a little provocative maybe to cool an old germans to wear a cape or on a day like this well i caused some confusion with that because people said one day he's warning on the other day he wants to have everybody wearing cuba but it was also. done with. with the great wish to do so to attract intent 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 as citizens that we do not accept

anti-semitism that anti-semitism has no place in germany and with a 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 it is something that comes from somewhere else that is not inherent in our culture but that's not true the key part belongs to germany and always belonged to germany into europe because it's part of the jewish culture and jewish culture is part of driven culture in an interview with the new times you conceded that the way the german government the message message delivery the gem government uses to track anti-semitism is fluid what needs to change to access besa de sac and how can you really judge the seriousness of the problem if we if we don't have reliable data well 1st of well we're going to act pretty soon next week if everything goes well the new chancellor and the minister. of the linda 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 a picture of what happens actually then to the to the anti-semitic crimes when when they are when they are reportage we need to get a better. idea of. how many cases are actually prosecuted how many perpetrators are find and what happens until now we don't have that they have us abets one of me suggestions i will make them that commission weren't up to the next sign thank you so much for joining to. thank you and i reminder of the top story that we're

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