and with france right now as we saw there on a great crime karrenbauer the new defense minister was already meeting with french and and u.k. officials today to discuss exactly how a joint effort can be achieved and to move things forward and find out what's very important for germany here a difficult matic solution so not any kind of military action yet but beyond that still look you waters all around hell of what about. that international naval mission that the u.s. has been trying to put together in the strait of hormuz is there any movement on that. well there is some reason we don't know the full details and that we should point out is that talks were held today with military representatives from the united states from the u.k. in basque rain back rain of course is home to the 5th largest u.s. naval fleet in the wild so a sense that they are putting that together details are emerging on the those door those talks being held behind closed doors we can expect more details potentially on thursday and now we know that perhaps denmark code and portugal spain and sweden said that they would b

and with france right now as we saw there on a great crime karrenbauer the new defense minister was already meeting with french and u.k. officials today to discuss exactly how a joint effort can be achieved and to move things forward and find out what's very important for germany here a difficult matic solution so not any kind of military action but beyond that still look you waters all around hell of what about. that international naval mission that the u.s. has been trying to put together in the strait of hormuz is there any movement on that. well there is some reason we don't know the full details and that what we should point out is that talks were held today with military representatives from the united states from the u.k. in back rein back rain of course is home to the 5th largest u.s. naval fleet in the walls a sense that they are putting that together details are emerging on that those doors those talks have been held behind closed doors we can expect more details potentially on thursday and now we know that perhaps denmark code and portugal spain and sweden said that they would be

and with france right now as we saw there on a great crime karrenbauer the new defense minister was already meeting with french and u.k. officials today to discuss exactly how joint effort can be achieved and to move things forward and find out what's very important for germany here a different matic solution so not any kind of military action but beyond that still murky waters all around helen of what about. that international naval mission that the u.s. has been trying to put together in the strait of hormuz is there any movement on that. well there is some reason we don't know the full details and the what we should point out is that talks were held today with military representatives from the united states from the u.k. in bahrain back rain of course is home to the 5th largest u.s. naval fleet in the wall so a sense that they are putting that together details are emerging on that those door those talks have been held behind closed doors we can expect more details potentially on thursday and now we know that perhaps denmark potent portugal spain and sweden said that they would be interes

and a great crowd karrenbauer is germany's new defense minister and is tipped by some to be the next german chancellor she wants germany to boost defense spending and nato countries have pledged to spend up to 2 percent of their g.d.p. on the military 50 percent of germans favor more defense spending that's up 7 percent on last month. there was little change in the political party's popularity if germany was facing a general election now angle america's c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc would get 26 percent of the vote equal to the greens the s.p.d. is on 12 percent and the far right a a 50 is on 14 percent merkel's government popularity rating is low 2 thirds of germans are on happy with her government's performance according to the polls. well for more on the opinion survey we're joined now in the studio by much really on a caution from our political desk so a lot to talk about there in that poll out of results let's focus on just a couple of things 1st of all the way that the germans see the u.k. now that boris johnson has become prime minister their confidence in the relationship with the u.k.

and with france right now as we saw there and a great crime karrenbauer the new defense minister was already meeting with french and u.k. officials today to.