health of the german chancellor angela merkel another episode of shaking today her office said that she was fine later as she headed for the g. 20 summit in japan and it is there where she will face new criticisms from u.s. president tonight the u.s. president accusing germany and the european union of pickpocketing the us economy i'm often berlin this is the day. when i think i can say very easily that we've been very good to our allies almost all countries to this world take tremendous advantage of the united states it's unbelievable we work with our allies we take care of our allies i get it massive trade deficits with our allies. to be

a difficult. global challenges to be met the lesson of growing up in the regions were set up in order to give it to the united states new york is a strong europe. also coming up tonight democrats who want to take back the white house faced off on live t.v. for the 1st time last night the current resident of the white house watched them said he found it boring. boring and these are the issues of our day you got to listen otherwise people are just looking it down. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with worries about the health of the world's most powerful woman for the 2nd time in a week german chancellor angela merkel was seen shaking not violently but visibly shaking. you could see the chancellor standing and holding her arms tightly at her

body as she stood today next to the german president walter steinmeier the chancellor's office leaders said that mrs merkel was fine as she departed for the g 20 summit in japan today's episode follows a similar incident last week which was attributed to the chancellor being dehydrated. more on the health of the german chancellor george or the b. table held by our political correspondents at the only thing. that we want to reiterate the authors of the chancellor said today that she is doing following right exactly the spokesman came out afterwards and said the chance it was doing just fine and she would continue with her schedule as planned and she did indeed just half an hour later she went to the german parliament for the swearing in of the new justice minister and then a couple of hours later she boarded a plane to go to japan to attend the g. 20 summit and then on sunday she will head to brussels where she's set to head to

brussels for another you summit so it looks like the chance that i'm going to america is really doing fine she is continuing with her schedule as one commentator said today you know if you're not doing well you're not going to get a plane to fly to the other side of the world as medical did earlier today but the media attention it has been tremendous about the health of the german chancellor and we you know we can't see enough it's understandable right she is considered to be the world's most powerful woman and when medical shakes the world also shakes with her doesn't it yeah exactly concern is growing here especially also in germany a say i mean also across the world people are looking to go she stands more than any other leader of the world for that stability and especially in germany i mean she's been in power for 14 years and all of my adult life has been chancellor and i

mean she announced her self last year that she is not seeking another political office after her term ends in 2021 but i think this trembling today really shakes up people over germany because they anything that ignites suspicion that she might leave early it's actually really puts people in a position to get to ask themselves what would germany look like after america actually steps down as chancellor yeah that's good that's a good point i mean the fact that people are worried about her health also forces them to be confronted with the period after the era of i'm going mental and how that will be political correspondent leoni from home is done thank you. americal is joining other leaders in japan for the g. 20 summit which begins friday the g. 20 is supposed to be the forum where leaders talk about global problems and agree on how to solve them together but for u.s. president it has become an occasion for launching accusations against u.s.

allies and for holding one on one get togethers alva view from reporters as departed for the g. 20 he accused germany again of free loading at nato and he accused the european union of using hefty fines to pickpocket america's high tech companies beer appears creatures worse than china europe is a bully but you know look i come from europe we come you you come from europe ok you're one of the you're the european nations european nations were set up in order to take advantage of the united states to set up a trade in order to take advantage and they have you know they very smartly have well correspondent max hall and he is covering the g. 20 summit force in osaka japan. the japanese presidency is desperately trying to focus on well traditional g 20 topics such as the reform of the world trade organization or projects to fight climate change but what might happen here

and also is that all of this is overshadowed by the big trumps old trump does not believe in multilateral institutions in fact he's coming here to have a series of bilateral meetings and one of them is highly anticipated with the chinese president on saturday as we know both countries on the edge of a full fledged trade war and the outcome of that bilateral meeting might determine the fate of world trade in the next months up or down. that's makes up of the reporting from of saugor japan or europe is worried that it could be pulled into a trade war of its own with the u.s. and you could add that to the growing fears of being dragged into a washington led war with iran it's been only a week since president trump said that he called off u.s. airstrikes against iran with just minutes to go following tehran's downing of a u.s. drone a new acting u.s. defense secretary from the u.s.

market as he told his counterparts in brussels today that washington wanted to avoid conflicts but he says washington cannot tolerate any further incidents as he said he went on to say that even though the u.s. held iran responsible for 2 attacks on tankers in the gulf of amman this month washington did not want this situation to escalate to kill is our goal is to bring iran to the negotiating table to conclude a comprehensive enduring deal that addresses iran's nuclear program it's a ballistic missile development of proliferation its support for terrorism and other malign activities or strategy is at its core an economic and diplomatic one again we do not seek armed conflict with iran but we are ready to defend u.s. forces and interests in the region so how did that message from the new pentagon chief go down that nato here's d w correspondent gary schultz and what allies were

calling a bilateral issue between the u.s. and iran is now becoming an international issue and the u.s. has said clearly that's what it wants it believes that more pressure will bring iran to the negotiating table so that said everyone was very relieved to hear secretary esper say as you heard there that the u.s. wants to rely on political pressure economic pressure and diplomatic pressure as secretary-general yet still somebody explains. i think that one important message is thought. is that the united states so clearly the house stated that they don't want a war they actually said very clearly that their it if you talk with iran without preconditions on it was a message from allies so they that we support efforts to deescalate to avoid the miscalculations incidents accidents and especially that they spotted of out of control and create a really dangerous. dangerous situation and i was just speaking with

a european diplomat who told me that inside the room when secretary esper said that they wanted more allied support they wanted more public statements against iran they may want air surveillance they may want naval escorts that there was quite a subdued response from the european allies so the united states is going to have to work very hard to prove to european allies that they should pull their support from the nuclear accord and give it over to the united states which is in favor of a broader agreement that would take into account the nuclear nuclear program of iran but also ballistic missiles also other provocative behavior in the region this is a very very complicated dance for both europe and the united states and we're just seeing the beginning of it now with secretary espers appeal here at nato. who will take in the migrants in the mediterranean the european union tonight is calling on italy to find a quick resolution to with standoff with a german organization whose migrant rescue ship has entered italian waters despite

a ban from on board that ship or 42 people picked up off the coast of libya 2 weeks ago well meanwhile the head of the federation of protestant churches here in germany has suggested that the church get involved in rescue efforts by partnering with civil organizations to send another ship to the mediterranean a realistic option to talk about that i'm joined here at the big table now by the chairman of germany's federation of protestant churches. mr. strawman it's good to have you on the program let me start by asking you why does the protestant church want to support search and rescue missions what we're seeing right now in the mediterranean well the basic answer is pretty easy you do not let people drown period. it is a human duty and it's certainly a christian duty to come to aid to people whose life is in danger and it's

intolerable it's a moral scandal that those who have saved lives the only ones who save lives in the military and terrain and have to justify themselves are actually being criminalized instead of accusing those who fail to say floods let me just play devil's advocate here there are people who are going to say that you know all over the world there are people who need help people who are in trouble but they're not getting the media attention that this ship is getting. is that why you're saying that they should be helped because they're in the spotlight well you should do both you should help these people and you should very closely look at all regions of the world to see how you can overcome poverty whole how you can overcome hunger or overcome injustice both things are necessary but these people have been saved their lives have been saved and europe does not let them go to

a safe haven what does that say about europe that is my question we speak about christian values in europe and then we do not let people lend who have been saved from terrible situations who have come from concentration camps in libya and who try to just have a safe place to stay what about trying to talk with the government in rome. put pressure on them to change the policy would there be a more feasible well of course of course that is exactly what has been done and we as protestant churches in germany and i also personally we have of course called politics to act and i have been silent negotiations in the background in the last 2 weeks do you get the feeling that they're listening to you the german government does listen and the german government has also said that they would receive for

a few g.'s and there are other governments there are 60 cities in germany alone we have said we will take refugees who have been saved and there are other cities in europe so that is not the problem that is the scandal that there is a place to stay for them many people want to health but the italian government does not let them help and they block the harbor they do not let the boat lend and that is nothing that we can tolerate europe cannot block itself against people whose life has just been saved and you were in sicily at the beginning of this month right what did you see there well i visited the see what 3 i visited the cruel the authorities did not let me go on board but i took a rubber boat so i came close anyway and i heard the stories of the crew you have

to imagine that they find people in these rubber boats who are in real danger and then they take them on board and you can imagine what you see you see people. who are in a place that smells very bad who are injured who need medical aid who are absolutely desperate and they take them on board and then you imagine that you have these people on board and they think. they have been saved and then that you must tell them that europe does not want them to lend are you going to use your authority i mean can you confirm tonight been that some others ship will be sent in may be to take the migrants that are on this boat to take them in to bring them to sure to bring them maybe here to germany i mean what can you confirm tonight well there is a readiness by the government to receive refugees and so that is not the problem the problem is what happens in the mediterranean if the so-called libyan coast

guard picks them up as europe wants them to do it they put them back into the camps and in those camps deep contradiction to all christian values and also to all human to terry and mel you so that is not an immediate option so that is why we as churches have said we want to help and there has been a big church convention of 100000 people a few days ago and from that big church convention where many thousands of people have come together they said we must act we cannot just speak if we want to take our christian faith seriously so they have made a resolution and gave it to us as the church as the institutional church and asked us to try to bring together civil society groups. yes if you want to do this with the german government being there with you this is not something that the church would be doing outside of the government's well and our what we say

is it is the duty of the european governments to save lives and i have visited marine boat of the german government 2 years ago in the sofia mission the sofia mission was called by the european commission to destroy the human trafficking networks which i explicitly support but at the same time safe people who they find they saved many thousands of people but this is over they not they don't do. it anymore and what i say is that governments must do it but if they don't do it civil society must help ok bishop behind been strong chairman of germany's federation of protestant churches mr butters the we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and you please come back and let us know especially what happens with this thank you thank you. they're all coming out of the state yes. well health care is a basic human right and i will fight for basic right to be i think we should be the

party that keeps what's working and fixes what's broken but it's one simple as i sit with you in a war as an exit when people come to their booth countries who do not leave their human rights at the border would not build walls would not put kids in cages in fact we would spare no expense if that were you know. a lot of it isn't so great is for all the american citizens out there who feel you're falling behind feel the american dream is not working for you the immigrants didn't do that so you have a president the united states who so focused on hate and fear and division and this president literally every single day 10 minutes away from going to war one tweet away from going to war and i don't think we should conduct foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5 in the hardest one to get rid of the. bathrooms at 5 in the morning those were some of the highlights from miami last night as democratic presidential

candidates came face to face for the 1st time in a live debate a debate that was a juice all their heated with universal health care and the u.s. migrant crisis on the mexican border looming large elizabeth warren cemented her status as a front runner using her plans for economic reform to score points and for the most part the candidates did not launch that all well assault on president trump w.'s correspondent alexander phenomena is in miami. i was surprised that the candidates didn't talk about it very much but i think that the reason for that was that they wanted to. you know to sell their policies to talk about personal proposals they want to take their message the message just directly to the. prime time audiences because many of them are still not very well known in the past so they tried to use this opportunity to really get their message out and it was

a washington correspondent there alexander phenomena reporting from miami ari let's take this story to the next level and take it to new york i'm joined now by galen drew he is the host and producer of the 538. it's good to have you on the show you if people listen to your podcast or if they follow you on twitter they will know that man who wants to work with data so let's use this data do we know how many people were watching last night and can we you know conclude from that day to these dimmer that these democratic debates are going to make a difference at this stage. yes we have the data so far from who watched on the networks it was 15300000 people and that doesn't include streaming out of course in today's day a lot of people are going to be watching on you tube streaming etc so we know how

many people watched on t.v. 15300000 that compares with october of 2015 the 1st democratic primary debate during the last cycle was 15 and a half 1000000 so it's about comparable the reason it might be a little bit lower and you know how to be more comparable to say for publicans in 2016 which was like 24000000 if you go to the middle of the summer you know it's earlier in the cycle people may not be paying as much attention 15300000 is still tricky good for this early in the cycle you know whether or not the debates people's views of the candidates are almost another issue because so many more people than that are going to end up watching soundbites and read the narratives and so on from the media after this yeah i mean you know you bring up a point it's still a long way until we come to election day november 2020. last night better wark one of the candidates mentioned jerry meandering in the debate and if

people know what that term means it's the practice of drawing voting district lines to advantage one group over another at the ballot box now this became a huge topic in the united states today we're going to talk about that but 1st i want you to listen to what they were said last night about. new democracy that is revived because we return power to the people no paths no gerrymandering automatic and same day voter registration to bring in more voters and a new voting rights act to get rid of the barriers in a place and that's how we each have a voice in our democracy and make this economy work for everything. that is important because the supreme court today said that it is not the place to decide whether or not gerrymandering is constitutional or good or bad think that's a huge decision isn't it yes so for the past say 15 years were former ins had been hoping that the supreme court would rule that extreme partisan

jamen is unconstitutional and bar state legislatures from drawing districts that strongly advantage one party over the other right now that standard practice when one party gets in control they can drag districts that keep their party in power and to make it extremely difficult for an opposition party to take back control in the united states we have a pretty partisan environment so you can predict pretty easily how he will vote and drive your voting district so that you know you're pretty much guaranteed to win and a lot of voters a lot of americans in general this cuts across party lines don't really like the fact when you poll it is an unpopular and just in general in america there's a sense among the public that things are big you heard this on the right in 2016 you're hearing us now from the more progressive candidates they feel like the normal levers of government of democracy are not working the way that they're supposed to and they're upset about it and partisan journey mentoring has certainly been one of the key focuses of that discontent. and you know watching this from

outside the u.s. people scratch their heads and say how can this practice even be legal to begin with we we've heard today from several commentators saying that it's anything but democratic jerry mander what do you think it's going to mean for tonight's 2nd part of the democratic debates there in miami right show the 2nd round of debaters have the opportunity to comment on the best last night they didn't as i mention it cuts across party lines how unpopular partisan gerrymandering is and this feeling that things are right so it's kind of an easy win for candidates who want to you know talk about something that probably unpopular maybe not talk about medicare for all or abolishing 5 insurance like last night they just want to kind of get an easy win and say you know things are rigged and the supreme court is making these conservative rulings that wouldn't have been the case if donald trump didn't win so you can tie it in supreme court politics you can tie in the way that

things are rigged against kind of the average voter and things like that i'm sure we're going to hear plenty about that tonight in terms of why this is legal to begin with you know in the united states we have a representative democracy where people elect are elected out of districts we don't have proportional representation where if you get 30 percent of the goat you get 30 percent of the seats it's winner take all to win the district you got to see it's yours for the 2 years and kind of that's the way it goes we have seen part of the gerrymandering and other countries but it's usually not quite to the extent that we have here in the united states yeah that's a very good point to make before we run out of time to ask you not a lot was said last night about russia and russia meddling in the 2016 election and we know that there's this feeling that none of what has been done since 2016 to protect the 2020 alleged what your opinion is 2020 going to be somewhat of a carbon copy of 2060. look it in terms of how the candidates are

talking about russia the investigation russian interference into elections i think after that you know i was in 16 election during which hillary clinton spent a lot of time talking about trump and how he's corrupt his relationship with russia or you said is. democrats are kind of worried that they don't have enough of an economic platform to run on so they're focusing on that as far securing our elections only time will tell right some candidate type plan some don't but again only time will tell and more about all right gillon to the host and producer of the 538 podcast guinn's good to have you on the show we appreciate your time tonight thank you thanks a lot take care. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day have to see into.

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