this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight he was president donald trump says a meeting with iran's president may be in the works a stunning development and it comes as the g. 7 summit in france concludes that summit was not without its problems such as trade tensions and french plans to tax take john will examine what the summit in chief if anything also coming out battling the amazon forest fires that are causing global all long term g 7 leaders say they have a plan to help but brazil's president says they're treating his country like

a colony. and the death of a towering figure in the all them of your world is former head of volkswagen has passed away at the age of 82. it's good to have you with us it is a stunning development he was president don't trump says that he might be willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani within weeks if the right conditions are met and he made the remarks today while closing out the g. 7 summit in france with french president emanuel. the 2 leaders held their talks at the summit on a host of topics including tensions over global trade. thank you. after 3 days of talks the leaders of france and the united states emerged to speak to the press and attention quickly turned to business and the trade war between the u.s.

and china u.s. president donald trump played down global concerns saying he was certain his chinese counterpart was now sincere about negotiating and he can't lose $3000000.00 jobs in a very short period of time and that's going to be magnified many times over and it's going to break down the chinese system of trade and he can't do that so when you say do you think they want to maybe they want to and maybe they don't but i think they want to make a deal i'm not sure they have a choice and i don't say that as a threat no on the topic of iran french president i'm on your mccollum said the 2 leaders had 2 things in common. we were before not there are 2 very clear things which are important to us that way ron must never have a nuclear weapon and this situation should not upset the stability of the region mccaughan denied reports that he had not informed the u.s. president before inviting iran's foreign minister to the summit on saturday in an

effort to save the 2015 year killer deal. i decided to invite as friends. minister zarif so i informed before making it i informed president front that it was my idea not to involve the united states not to see this is on behalf of you or the robot but to see our friends i think it would be a good idea to ask him to go back and try to negotiate something separately before making when pressed on whether he would be prepared to meet iran's president or honey trump indicated he would but only when the time was right if the circumstances were correct toward the right i would certainly agree to that but in the meantime. they have to be good players you understand what that means and they can't do what they were saying they're going to do because if they do that they're going to be met with really very violent force with kevin no choice yet. so despite

the hugs and handshakes it's unclear whether the g 7 host mccaughan succeeded in calming tensions between iran and the u.s. or whether the summit will ease any woes on the world's financial markets. you know lots of hugs and handshakes let's go now to your mark as i'm sure he's got a hug and a handshake or 2 for folks out there could even see you again or you've been covering this summit let's analyze what happened over the last 3 days i mean we did we saw a lot of smiles and handshakes but was any progress made on those 2 big issues iran and china. well let's start with the surprise visit and i would say the surprise positive development of the summit and that is clearly iran i think german chancellor angela merkel really put it in a nutshell here when she said what my cry is done here is he created an atmosphere where dialogue is possible now and i think that's

a good description of what's been happening michael has shown to trump that he can pursue this path of dialogue and let's put it this way at least donald trump has not contradicted now when it comes to world trade it's a little more tricky because when i started out reporting to an off days ago i started out by reporting that's donald trump had 2nd thoughts on escalating the conflict with china then the white house came around and said look at this is a misinterpretation it's not about regrets it is the president 3 correcting that he didn't slots left half are saying tougher tariffs on china and today we had news that actually the president thinks things are moving in the right direction and we're about to have a deal so let's put it this way no for the threats and no further insecurity for world trade today and again or you know everything you just said speaks to the fact that trump is as unpredictable as ever and yet in mangal mccrone he appears to be the one leader who can accurately read the u.s.

president would you agree with that. i would say my call made a real effort here to find a way to communicate with the american president and. i was trying to find a diplomatic way of moving things forward and so actually we started out by saying look we will not have a declaration of this summit so there was no pressure there was no chance for trump walking away from that declaration something that happened at the summit in canada last year but at the end of the day what he got out of donald trump with a massive charm offensive if you want is he there was a declaration oh it's only one page but at least you have a number of bullet points where leaders did agree. it's a very good way of analyzing it and we have not seen any attacks on twitter against the hosts the way we saw at the end of the last g 7 we know that the french president wrong he said at the start that this year's g.

7 would address the issue of inequality was anything achieved there. there were a number of really interesting meetings here with african leaders the french president was keen to have a broad agenda again in order to make sure he knew that there were divisive issues on iran on russia the potential of readmitting the russian president something the g. 7 largely was against and only donald trump pushed that idea but seeing that he broadened really via genda and so you have a number of tangible results for instance an aid package for these a hill area to fight terrorism support for the military and then you have the financial package for the rainforest so a number of things that have come out of this summit and that was something the french president also made clear in his speech to the french people in order to make clear you know this is a meeting that is important this is a meeting that will bring results that will make life better. all right. this

wrapping up the g. 7 summit force in france thank you would you 7 leaders in france agreed on a 20000000 dollar fund to help tackle the blazes in the amazon but brazilian president bills and he has objected to that proposal he says that the g 7 leaders are treating his country like a colony meanwhile efforts to fight the fires continue. the air is thick with smoke and it's hard to bring a few minutes we are now on the ground in the state of brown tonia which has been hardest hit by the blazes as soon as one fires under control the next one breaks out huge areas now resemble the landscape. as will fall if there are as one or 2 big fires we could deal with them better than all the small ones. money shot was

a pool since there have been widespread protests since the fires sunset on friday under international pressure brazil's president have both narrowed deployed soldiers to the region to fight the places brazil has said it will accept aid from israel and argentina but also now responded shoppy to a pledge of $20000000.00 from t 7 leaders on twitter he accuses french president among them all michael of having a colonialist attitude towards brazil. oh yeah. do you think someone gives money without wanting something in return save it or why do they have their eye on the amazon what if there was a lot of it going to get a laugh since entering office bill scenario has slashed environmental protection in the amazon and if they do open up the area to industry and economic growth through scientists have recorded about 80000 fires in brazil since the beginning of the year half of them in the amazon region around half a 1000000 hectares of forest in neighboring bolivia are also thought do have been

destroyed by boy uses the city of portobello in the brazilian state of we're donia is particularly on edge correspondent but he is a brit is there an earlier we asked him how long it may take for the fires to be put out. the firefighters see and run donya states they told us that they at least will be one moment here fighting in the different reserves indigenous reserves together with the military's so it will be a long process for them to fight all the fires here it will not disappear soon because new fire sources will appear as it was the case in the last days already so brazil is really looking towards a tough period of time the next days and weeks and i think that also more airplanes are needed to military planes already fighting the fire sources but the offer from europe and canada should be accepted at least in order to be able to fight more

rapidly than fire see in this room don't your region and the president also not are also is really important in this issue if he changes his policy and his yeah it's not ignoring anymore the threats to for the amazon then i think the fight would be much more effective and also the brazilians will take it seriously. overdone ph one of the most powerful men in the old industry has done to the age of 82. yes reportedly collapsed at a restaurant on sunday night and later died at the hospital started his career at his grandfather's although company porsche before taking over in transforming ality and then. there's was praised for reviving the company's fortunes and turning it into one of the biggest car makers in the world but he was also criticized over the evils wagon diesel of the software cheating scandal that occurred when he was head

of the company's supervisory. all right chris carter joins me now from our business desk so he was it was a huge figure in the german automotive world why real heavyweight 2 reasons one is that having n.p.a. himself said building cars is my biggest hobby he was a real car enthusiast he was an engineer incredibly involved in all the technical things so he knew what was going on when technicians were building a new parts of engines or somehow trying to improve the car's user is really into detail really into that and that certainly helped him and that is the 2nd reason and turning around the fortunes of the fox wagon company had it for 9 years until 2002 and let it out of crisis. he introduced the 4 day working week so that good idea yeah. the company was able to survive

he drastically slashed costs and later on when he was not c.e.o. anymore he was head of the supervisor reboard and from there also they made made his impact felt and you say making cars was basically in his d n a and he knew you know the minutia of putting a car together and what did that mean for the diesel gate scandal. well it's it's hard to say legally because. up until now prosecutors are still trying to figure out who knew what when what we know is that as you mentioned introduction that he was had is the proviso board when this all happened. which makes it fair to assume that that he was there when you know not just when the scandal broke but also in the in the run up to it so when all the. bad things happened he was the one that brought martin winterkorn the folks back and c.e.o. that later had to go over the deal gets to the top he was his mentor and. he later

broke with him right before. the scandal broke there are no official reasons why but there's speculation that he was unhappy with fox wagons performance in the united states where the scandal broke yeah i mean when you cut your your life you know you get the reputation of being maybe a cold blooded executive was he was he could end executives careers with as much as a smile and say you're out he once had a quote and i'm paraphrasing here saying my desire to harmony is limited. and i remember being at car shows where he would be obviously as the head of the supervisory board of mag and his table would always be packed with journalists everybody wanted to hear what he said he spilled in a very soft voice he would only speak if he spoke at all to newspaper journalists so he knew what sort of figure he was maybe he chose his words very carefully

something that seems to be a short supply did chris corbett thank you. you're watching the w. news live from berlin don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around 24 hours around the clock on our website and i think there's some business news coming up right after the break with a man named chris stick around for that. and the media attention are some of the famous naturalist and explorer. too soon will bring to click some dough from him books from 250. barking on the floor each of discovery. expedition in blood on. the water starts rising people say forcing. her.