-day abuse correspondent teri schultz terry you were moderating the panel discussion this morning so what was your biggest takeaway. nic i think the biggest change this year from last year's munich security conference or even from discussions that europe and the united states have had over the last year is that the united states here today is very much playing up the transatlantic bond and saying that things are going well and that we're all on the same side and and that's that's you know really working for all of us that is not necessarily the way the europeans feel and yet you would have thought from secretary pompei of that there's not a bigger trance atlanticist to be found you know we've seen him make speeches in brussels where he absolutely blasts the european union and its policies we of course hear president trump say the european union was set up only to take down the united states so this was what europeans may find of a very refreshing tone from the secretary of state. how did the audience overall react to him saying the west was winning was there some skepticism about the

all right i'm joined now from brussels by due to be used teri schultz terry was at the munich security conference this past weekend good to see you what do you make of this european union naval mission to enforce the arms embargo i mean is it going to last and will it work we really have no idea and as you heard you foreign policy chief joseph burrell say it was very very much a surprise that by the end of the day they were able to get everyone to agree on this mission and they are having to say that it is in principle because so many things are yet known about it i mean they haven't been able to work out what they call rules of engagement and this is a really tricky thing because as you might remember operation sophia which was the predecessor of this new mission also was responsible for picking up drowning migrants that's what doomed it that's what made italy demand that the operation be suspended so this new mission is supposed to only deal with enforcing the arms embargo and it's pretty unclear what will happen if you come across a boat full of drowning people they're obligated by

let's get more now on the speech to give us the european perspective we're joined by teri schultz and brussels welcome terry what do you think leaders on this side of the atlantic will make of his speech and whether any new messages there i think sarah that most european leaders woke up this morning probably a bit nervous about what might have been said in the state of the union because you know no matter what was previewed or released in early transcript or what they expected him to say you never know with in the middle of the speech president trump would break out and say he decided that you know he was going to impose 25 percent tariffs on european cars or quit nato war or cut off intelligence sharing because the europeans plan to use while way in 5 g. technology he's so unpredictable that not even his closest allies can say that's not going to happen so i think the fact that europe played a very very tiny role in this speech he didn't speak much about europe at all just one mention about nato probably left european leaders relieved that they don't have to deal with messes this morning coming out of the

despite the arms embargo all right let's get you the very latest now our correspondent teri schultz is in a brussels terry i understand that the foreign ministers are wrapped up their meeting and that your foreign policy chief joseph burrell spoke to the press what did he have to say. that's right foreign policy chief burrell just wrapped up a press conference in which he said that this had been some of the most fierce debate he's ever seen it was very difficult to get this consensus at the end of the day and he admitted that he didn't think they would be able to when the discussion started today so what's been decided is that they will in principle restart this mission renamed from operation sophia with a new mission they will not be tasked specifically with picking up migrants who may get into distress in the mediterranean and that's the way they were able to bring austria and italy and some other governments on board by saying we are only going to monitor and enforce the arms embargo now that said it should be pointed out that it is a u.n. it is international law that if you see someone drowning in the

are for more let's go to our top correspondent teri schultz she's in brussels for us terry been following this story for ministers now meeting in brussels today i mean what's on the table what what will they be discussing. well called the european union decided that its biggest contribution to the push to end the libyan conflict would be to reestablish a naval mission in the mediterranean designed to monitor the arms embargo now this came after so much optimism after that meeting in berlin where the 2 major sides turkey and russia agreed to stop shipping and weapons and then a cease fire was agreed on the ground so the e.u. said ok we'll make sure that no weapons get through that that arms embargo but what has happened is that the reestablishing this mission has remained bogged down in migration politics and we all know how tricky that is and the european union countries like austria and italy are unwilling to revive operation sophia as it's named because they say they don't want these drowning migrants to be picked up and brought to european shores and so they are unwilling to allow the

violated 150 times over it want to take you to brussels to correspondent teri schultz who has been following the foreign ministers meeting terry says the un's deputy special envoy to libya calls the arms embargo a joke what have you foreign ministers are decided and are they going to police and he breaches of the embargo and what they were discussing today and it was not by any means certain that they would come to this agreement is to reestablish the mission that used to be known by the name of operation sophia at that time it was a dual hatted mission picking up migrants who were stranded who were drowning and also policing the u.n. arms embargo trying to stop weapons from getting into libya that was suspended because austria italy other countries said we don't want to bring these people to europe with no agreement on where to send them on and where to sort of partition out of the migrants as they waited asylum processing so now despite skepticism they have agreed to reestablish the arms embargo side of that mission now what we know so far is that they've agreed in principle which means there's probably a lot more details to

i let's get more now we go to our correspondent teri schultz she's in brussels following that story for us in fact terry in brussels today u.n. foreign ministers are meeting what's on the agenda. e.u. foreign ministers have decided that the most constructive thing they can do at the moment is to offer to monitor the arms embargo the arms embargo that is is not really being observed by any parties so so they set about trying to reinvigorate a naval mission called operation sofia that was suspended earlier because it got bogged down in migration politics now italy and austria and some other states are saying they don't want ships picking up migrants trying to flee libya because there's no solution among member states on where those migrants should go so you've got this this problem bogging down the decision to monitor the arms embargo and although they had hoped they may be able to find a common position today at this meeting that doesn't look likely at all. terry i mean as we heard a senior u.n. official is calling the arms embargo or at least being forced into this in bargo a joke i mean is anyone respe

i will get the latest now we go to our correspondent teri schultz in brussels for us she's been following that story terry e.u. foreign ministers wrapping up that meeting what exactly have they decided. karl we'll hear more from you foreign policy chief joseph burrell within the next hour on just what they've agreed to they're calling it an agreement in principle and that's because this is been very complicated as you mentioned italy and austria and some other countries did not want to reestablish a migrant rescue mission in the mediterranean they want to find a way to to strictly limit this to simply enforcing the arms embargo in libya the potential arms embargo since it's not working at the moment but as we've spoken all day about this i was quite skeptical that they would come to an agreement and it appears that they have so i look forward to bringing you more details as soon as the e.u. foreign policy chief comes out and shares them with us give us more a bit more background here tara what was exactly the sticking point here i mean there had to be a unanimous agreement what was standing in the way. it

our very own teri schultz she joins me now from brussels good evening to you terry you have covered nato for many years you have heard from demands many times on nato members you know to spend more was he able in his speech last night to say truthfully what he has always wanted to say that all nato members are paying their fair share for defense for a change. not exactly brant but what it changed this is where i'm going to have to tell you that the picture on nato spending and trump's depiction of it is actually less positive than he said i don't think that's ever happened before in our many discussions on this topic and the fact is that nato allies are spending more and the truth is that part of that is due to u.s. pressure president trump has been insistent and absolutely. serbia in his criticism of low european defense spending but it's a long way from all allies paying their fair share which is 2 percent of g.d.p. in fact while trump says accurately that the number of allies doing so has more than doubled we're not talking about 29 allies or 28. in the u.s. we're talking about 9 alli

are let's get more now we go to our correspondent teri schultz she's in brussels for us she's been following that story terry 1st of all as we heard in reports a senior u.n. official is calling this arms embargo a joke i mean is anyone respecting the rules when it comes to libya well she didn't really call the arms embargo a joke she said that the parties were treating it as one and that is in fact true although i would say that's a pretty unfortunate choice of words when you're talking about such a desperate desperate mission of some of these people who are fleeing libya you've got islamic state regrouping on the ground that said none of the parties are respecting the arms embargo despite this meeting a month ago in berlin in which everyone agreed to put more effort into that you've still got turkey arming the government you've got russia arming the warlord who's trying to take over the capital by force and so there's nothing that can be done when you've got. heavy arms embargoes such heavy arms shipments going into the country and despite a very fragile truce we hear that there are there are still skirmish