angela merkel had a huge impact on europe. w, three years since retiring from politics, she's published her memoirs. her personal take on her years in power. dr merkel, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today. we live in such turbulent times. i wonder, do you miss the power and politics? you got to know so many world leaders so well over the years. do you hd pick—up the and say to emanuel matt quinn france and talked to him about ukraine and what's going on the world? you have written your memoir, freedom, what have you been doing with your freedom from politics apart from writing? often the only woman or one of very few women at international summits, angela merkel got to know leaders the world over during her 16 years in government in china, russia, europe and the us. each relationship hold its own story. you were chancellor when donald trump came to the white house for the first time. he was furious europe, especially germany, about trade, about defence spending. he was personally critical of you. you menti

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a new member, a new memoir by the former german chancellor angela merkel is lifting the curtain on herps with donald trump and vladimir putin. the russian leader was well aware of merkel's fear of dogs since she was bitten by 1 in 1995, so putin brought one with him during a meeting with the german chancellor in 2007. in an excerpt obtained by politico excuse me, merkel writes this quote, i interpreted putin's facial expressions to mean that he was enjoying the situation. did he just want to see how a person in distress reacts? was it a small demonstration of power? i thought just i just thought, stay calm, concentrate on the photographers. it will pass. merkel says she also found her interactions with donald trump so challenging that she sought advice from pope francis on how to deal with him. in another moment shared by politico, she writes trump judged everything from the perspective of the property entrepreneur. he had been before politics. for him, all countries were in competition with each other in which the success of one was the failure of the other he did not believe that the

where he will be distinct from angela merkel's this is a much more conservative figure than angela merkelay and i will give you a summary of some of the issues he is looking to prioritize. number one's major tax reform, he wants to be a low tax chancellor, particularly for corporates. he wants to cut on the plummet benefits, pensions -- he wants to cut benefits, unemployment benefits, pensions. he wants to cut up bureaucracy and regulation. have we heard that from the german government? yes, everybody says they want to cut bureaucracy, and yet there is still a ton of bureaucracy. he's been much more restrictive on migration. this is a great difference between him and angela merkel. he hopes to cannibalize some of the vote from the extreme right and extreme left who have really been very concerned with the issue of migration. he's much harder on those sorts of issues but also wants to boost defense spending, more support for ukraine, he says there should not be all these limits we are imposing on ukraine with these missiles striking in russia. he wants to start deliveries of those taurus m

meanwhile, the former german chancellor angela merkel says that she does not regret blocking ukraine'ss it would have triggered an earlier conflict with russia. mrs merkel has been speaking to the bbc ahead of the publication of her book chronicling her 16 years in power. a senior uk minister is set to warn that russia is prepared to carry out cyber attacks on the uk and other allies in hopes of weakening support for ukraine. the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster pat mcfadden, whose role includes her spots ability for national security is due to tell members at a nato meeting on monday that the kremlin could be targeting reddish as mrs and leave millions without power. mr mcfadden will focus on the threat of russia's capacity to shut down entire power grids and warned that russia's cyber threats should not be underestimated. we will live to suzanne spaulding. she let these cybersecurity and for structure security agency. welcome to you. very good to have you with us. we were just discussing and talking about that warning from a uk minister, saying that russia could be preparing and

i mean, starting with the rhetoric and we saw the pictures of angela merkel, of course, sitting with donald trump. there's a different buy button, of course you need sort of vibes and relationship building in the sphere of international politics and of course diplomacy. and i think that's going to be easier with kimberly harris. but again, if the economy in the us continues to be stagnant, the way it has been, people are going to look at couple of harris to turn up the heat as well. and she's going to put america 1st just like donald trump will be. it's gonna be a different slogan, but it's going to be tough for us economically as well. in less than a minute. i'm totally about how trump actually might be right. it is time for europe to grow up and take responsibility for its own defense and its own defense. well, look, when i'm talking to republican voters just saying why in the world shall we be paying for a war halfway across the world. we've got our own problems. i think they have a reasonable argument they're making. so i think we do need to step up. and if donald trump were to p

time donald trump was in presidency you had emmanuel macron's mandate in france, and in germany angela merkelho was a strong figure, we had basically the collapse of the german government so it is a very different story for europe today. tom: love this morning and allergies, does europe slumped back onto the sofa and continue watching the sport on tv or get match fit for this contest? we will be speaking to the ceo of commerzbank. we have been speaking about the possible integration with italy's unicredit. banking mergers part of the agenda for european leaders. that conversation coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: commerzbank has raised its full-year outlook and plans another share buyback as it seeks to fend off an unsolicited approach by rival unicredit. the ceo said unicredit's approach so far has been quote interesting. >> whatever comes on our table, we will definitely look at it but at the moment, i do not have anything to judge. there has been no reach out on that. >> i you had any conversation with andrea orcel the last month or so? >> we had a short interaction right after the

angela merkel was at the top for many years, 16 years in total, as a chancellor.he actually origchestrated the relaugslations very well. whether it was in the interest of everybody, that is up for discussion. i guess the next german government might actually be much better also because it's easier because they need two parties to form a coalition. having said that, we are still far away from having a government. still discussing when the vote of confidence could happen and with his public appearance yesterday on tv, olof scholz didn't really do a lot to get rid of the uncertainty because he's pushing the responsibility to call for a vote of confidence to the opposition leader and his chief which is a very unusual step because normally he should take that decision. take a listen to what he said. >> translator: if everyone sees it that way, then it's not a problem for me to hold a vote of confidence before christmas. we have to think what's best. what's best for the public and parliamentary parties as they compete with one another. there are things we must be consci

pushing the germans to move away from russian energy, may be clairvoyant in pushing for that when angela merkel was ignoring him, and a leading force in the peace process in serbia and kosovo which he asked for that job from donald trump and donald trump appointed him to take on the issue and forced great economic ties between the two countries in a way we have not seen in that region for a while. ambassador o'brien was director of hostage negotiation in the state department, negotiate the release of high profile cases. >> and donald trump and ambassador o'brien remained close. thank you very much. >>> coming up, antisemitic people injuring israeli sycophants in amsterdam. >> a major investigation underway to figure out these seeds of which warner bros. could have taken place overnight in a city considered to be one of europe's most tolerant. >> we are getting new video showing the shocking and horrific antisemitic attacks on israeli sycophants . this video is disturbing. >> for the children. >> i give you money. >> free palestine . >> tensions in amsterdam have been rising, some fans of the is

i'll never forget when i took him out, the happiest person in the world was angela merkel. when ric grenell was taken out, this was the best day in angela's life. he was not your typical ambassador. he was someone who would say, this is no good, let's happening. it was actually love-hate. they really loved him but they said he's a smart one. he was wise to what they are doing. ric grenell. where is ric? thank you, ric. and a woman who ran a very good race. it was a hard race because she believes in things and she believes in them very strongly. i say you always have to stick with your beliefs. it's very tough. i told her, it's very tough. but she is a hell of woman. i knew her father, he was thankful when i put the tariffs on. he passed away but he was a great guy. his daughter is an incredible woman. tudor dixon. we miss your father, right? what a great guy he was. and a woman who drives extremely fast. won races. but she's very successful. it takes tremendous courage and strength in every thing else. i think driving those cars at 220 and 240 miles an hour, you've got to be

angela merkel became germany's chancellor in 2005 and served until 2021.came one of the world's most influential leaders. in 2006, ellen johnson -- was elected president of liberia, becoming africa's first elected female head of state. she served until 2018. in june, claudia shined down became mexico's first woman to be elected as president of that nation. she took office on october 1st. i know everyone has their first woman leader, there are many of them but this isn't even close to being an exhaustive list. since 1960, 174 women have led as heads of state or government across 87 countries. but in the united states, of course, no woman has ever held highest office. target chase smith was republican from maine, first woman to serve the united states house and senate. she was elected to congress in 1940, re-elected three times and elected to the senate in 1949. in january of 1964, market chase smith announced she would run for president. she became the first woman in this country to run in a major party primary for president but despite her 24 years of serv

angela merkel let 'em many in. >> obviously, you would start with people who are not citizens.l get that bad? >> i think if you look at a lot of these european parties, especially the more conservative parties that are starting to win elections in france and germany, this is what they're promising. i think it will get there, yes. stuart: we had the brother-in-law of one of the hostages still held by hamas. listen the what he had to say. >> any political change could bring positive results for the situation. we've been on a stalemate for so long, and president trump promised during husband campaign private meetings with families of hostages, with the family hostage forum, and publicly that he wants to see war end with the return of the hostages. i trust he will do that. stuart: the election of donald trump is a really important thing for jewish people. that's what he's saying. >> i mean, or let's not forget trump was supported by a large number of arab and muslim voters in this country too because he has a history of bringing peace to that renal. when he was president, we saw th

he was more critical of angela merkel and justin trudeau and he was of vladimir putin and kim jong-un have allies and friends and shared interests and values. you'd think we would embrace them more than people who try to undermine american foreign-policy interest all around the globe. that is what i thought was so stunning. i thought that is probably but those individuals them stunning. host: let's talk to callers and start with bob, atlanta. caller: thank you for your program. sarah, i served in the military and i'm 78 years old and i just got one question for you. you a communist? guest: absolutely not. are you, sir? caller: kamala harris is so far to the left you can even see her. host: we will get a response. guest: i get it, i have policy disagreements with kamala harris just as you do, sir. but sometimes elections are not about right or left, enters a policy. maybe it is sometimes about right or wrong. one candidate here has demonstrated his unfitness. repeatedly. the other, whatever you think of her policy positions, she strikes me as normal and honorable and i hate to say that

angela merkel was in power during the first trump regime.cks the kind of iconic leadership going into donald trump's term. dani: you can argue whether it is giorgia meloni. she and trump have a great relationship. that is part of the bid to hold a vote of confidence in december. it only moves the timeline up by a month. he will only be able to hold an election in february instead of march. we will already have a month of trump at that point. he said he is going to do a lot of the things on day one. what does it look like to have a lame-duck session in germany, potential infighting fighting with other minority parties. emory, so much for germany, 70 headwinds they will be -- annmarie: they are getting dumped on when it comes to china. potentially they will have issues when it comes to president trump. oliver crook says he just got back from brussels, everyone is saying we are ready to make a deal with donald trump. maybe ursula von der leyen is finally willing to buy even more natural gas from the united states. then oliver crook said is unit

i said to angela merkel a few years ago, angela, how many chevrolets do you have in berlin?t's fair? so they are ripping us off. the whole world is ripping us off, and we stopped it. we stopped it, and we took a lot of heat. i lost a chunk of heat over it, ok, and they were not happy about that. that was not good. but i will tell you what, we've got to be fair, you know, europe is -- we have a $300 billion deficit. why do we have a deficit like that? and we were fixing it all. and then we had a very unfortunate thing happened. i got more votes than any president, any sitting president in the history of our country. i got more votes, almost 75 million votes. that's the votes they should talk about. actually, nobody has any idea. you got these machines, you know, "it's broken, we think we might have paper ballot backup. oh, don't have a backup." they have no idea how many. i got 10 million or 12 million more votes that i got the first one. barack hussein obama, a terrible president, by the way, terrible president, terrible, the worst on trade, you know,, you know,. every he wo

to germany, and i will never forget when i took him out, the happiest person in the world was angela merkelno good what is happening. they really loved him but they said he's a smart one. ric grenell, where is ric? thank you, ric. now a woman who ran a good race, it was a hard race because she believes in him very strongly and i say you always have to stick with your beliefs. very tough. it's very tough but she's a hell of a woman who had a father i knew in the steel and thankful when we put the tariffs on and he passed away but he would be very proud of his daughter, incredible woman. tutor dixon. we miss your father. what a great guy he was. and then we have a woman who drives extremely fast. she can drive a car and very successful won races, very successful and takes tremendous courage and strength and everything else. driving those cars to 220, 240 miles an hour, you have to be brave. probably have to be a little bit crazy, you have to be a little crazy, right? [cheers and applause] >> such an honor to have you involved, such an honor, we were talking about -- i just can't believe how i

i said to angela merkel. how many chevrolets do we have in berlin? i don't believe you have any. ht about, angela. do you think that's fair? the whole world is ripping us off. and we stopped it. and we stopped it. i lost a little chunk because of it. they weren't happy for. that that was not good. but i'll tell you what, we've got to be fair. you know, europe is -- we have a $300 billion deficit with europe. why do we have a deficit like that? and we were fix it all. it was beautiful. then we had an unfortunate thing that happened. i got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country. i got more votes -- almost 75 million votes. that's the votes they talk about. that's not the votes -- nobody nose. actually nobody has any idea. you've got these machines, you know, it's broken. we think we might have paper ballot backup. we don't have the bank. they have no idea how many. they have no idea how many votes. but according to this -- the stats, i've got more votes than i got the first one. barack hughes sane obama, a terrible president. per b. the worst on trade. y

you know, kind of your bias against the woman you know, leading us or, you know, what i, as the angela merkel and in germany, i think it really is based on the performance. can that kind of person be strong and the negotiating room, you know, kind of, she, in that situation where she actually meets with these people at the highest level and where it's no where there's no for the room to escalate to somebody else. can she prevail, that this is the real test? we haven't, of course, seen her and that kind of context, you know, where she is in that sense, you know, a less predictable candidate, you know, and, and as a vice president, i mean, to be honest, she has been largely sidelined by dividing people for many years so we don't really know how she would perform at this level. we have seen her in practice settings like she would, she serve to trump, them at the back. she has been in the senate hearings where she's really real people. so once you have practice the same, she can do that the, the big question is, you know, i mean when, when you were a senator and you and you are growing somebody,

he was able to do with president trump in a way you are not able to see say with angela merkel. to him in january he said the u.s. accounted for about 50% of nato economic output during trump's term and about 75% of military spending. that is why they let him to bleed trump had a point. to this meeting, i'm not surprised they met alongside walls. january said you have to dance with whoever is on the dance floor. whoever that partners and that is who the american people elected. lisa: i want to know what this means for ukraine. margaret has been a proponent of ukraine's independence and ability to fight back. does that tempered? does that offer some sort of check to your points earlier that were spot on to donald trump's impulse to withdraw funding altogether? jonathan: we have got a lot of issues on the last five minutes and they are big issues for 2025. these are issues think that has to grapple with most of investors are waiting minutes out tomorrow as uncertainty of the incoming administration's policies because the outlook for interest rates. michael darda writing "headwinds

not many suspected he would win and its with a rough experience for some world leaders, angela merkeluences for their countries policies. and look, foreign governments they don't get to vote in american elections. they have no choice, they have to deal with the president of america. so they are all studying and comparing note and looking at what worked and what didn't work last time and the column is trying to tackle the advice that you hear is really simplistic. it is you flatter the guy and you feed him burgers anz ice cream and you give him treats and presents like gold golf clubs and the problem is you're not organizing a toddler's birthday party here, you're trying to run foreign policy with a world superpower so i set out to speak to people who had been in the room between hundreds of hours and seen what worked and what didn't work. >> so, david, i mean, there is a sense that flattery to some extent does work. all of the cabinet picks that he's laying out for example all appear on the fox news flattered donald trump, support him, i remember back at the beginning of the first tru

175 women in 88 other countries have been elected head of state, including margaret thatcher, angela merkelnow is america finally ready for its first madam president? and that's the big question, ladies. and david. i mean, this gender gap is certainly real, but how are women going to vote? and whether or not men will vote for her. >> i think it's different now because there have been so many more women elected in the last few years, into executive positions. got more governors that are women now than ever before. hillary clinton did a lot, i think, to lay the groundwork for a kamala harris presidency. and it is notable how little that she has spoken about her gender. and you don't hear it so much from voters either, unless you're asking them directly about it. you might hear, in subtle ways, but unless you're asking about her gender, voters are talking about content or what they don't like about donald trump. it doesn't seem to be as forefront, the issue she's a woman. >> and the era of backlash identity politics she has taken it as her strategy to let her actions and let her past speak for

even angela merkel came out and said there is a time and place for it and now there is time to changek come on that front. it is still a long time coming. lizzy: so you are confident that germany can regain competitiveness? do you see a willingness to implement mario draghi's report? jennifer: i think there is willingness to do something. they're not they are going to be able to implement everything he says in that report is another story. it requires a lot more spending. 800 billion euros per year, and a lot of governments are unwilling to spend. you have france, for example, trying to pass his budget. they are trying to rein in their spending. the opposite of germany, where we are trying to get them to increase their spending. a lot of difficulties on a country by country basis, but obviously what mario draghi has to say is important and i think everyone is on board with it. it is just how to get there is the big question. it's going to take a long time before we can get to agreement on that. lizzy: i want to in here where i am in the u.k.. you have been forecasting on the pound. re

and chose to portray itself as a staunch defender of a policy which was co—launched by angela merkelhancellor 0laf scholz and which angela merkel herself only yesterday described as something in need of reform. she feels it is no longer up to speed and that it should be loosened and that more debt should be taken on to do exactly that, invest in infrastructure here in germany. how does this all fit together? nina touched on it in the last half hour. you have a budget crisis in france, low growth, low confidence in the german economy. how do these stories fit together?— fit together? you are asking me? yes! — fit together? you are asking me? yes! for— fit together? you are asking me? yes! for germany - fit together? you are asking - me? yes! for germany certainly we had essentially _ me? yes! for germany certainly we had essentially a _ me? yes! for germany certainly we had essentially a government meltdown. it no longer fitted together. there were very blunt mistakes made, talking also electronic vehicles, there was a subsidy that was suddenly dropped at the end of last year leaving

it's not like 2015 when angela merkel was like, we can take everybody in now, germany and other europeanntries are saying, you know, no, we can't take it. apart from britain. britain is the one european country that's like, oh no, we still have completely open borders. and if you can get here , we'll put you up in here, we'll put you up in a really nice travelodge and if the hotel is not nice enough, honestly, your lawyer , your honestly, your lawyer, your human rights lawyer will get you upgraded to a four star hotel. >> and you'll get benefits if you watch enough youtube videos on how to game the system. >> but no, just for a bit of fairness. i mean, starmer just fairness. i mean, starmerjust last week was was saying that he was effectively joining reform, wasn't he.7 he's was effectively joining reform, wasn't he? he's he's pivoted so fully on this issue of immigration that he could be i mean, that would be a high profile crossing the floor. >> no, i mentioned it last night. >> he's beyond reform. he's where all the so—called far right conspiracy theorists were 10s ago. he says it was

a policy officially endorsed as an aspiration by emmanuel macron, the president of france, and angela merkelthe former chancellor of germany. while remainers never really wanted to admit to the public, possibly because they didn't really like the idea anyway, was that the european project wanted to go on to move europe from being a coalition of nations to being a single state. well, sir keir starmer, also famous for wanting a second referendum, now appears to be keen to drag us back into one of the eu's key federalist policies. europe's justice and home affairs wing, under the guise of smashing the gangs. at the interpol meeting yesterday in glasgow , he claimed that in glasgow, he claimed that brexit had meant the uk no longer had access to the european arrest warrant database and that he wanted this restored. but beyond an illusion, any restoration of the pre—brexit settlement will come at a cost in this case, almost certainly our return to the european arrest warrant . but european arrest warrant. but this system not only gives jurisdiction to european judges in the uk, as it would be rul

and the bbc speaks with former german chancellor angela merkel as she publishes her memoir. more than 150 flood warnings remain in place across the uk, in the aftermath of storm bert.0ne warning is of potential danger to life — in northamptonshire. there have also been yellow weather warnings in place in parts of scotland due to high winds — though the worst of those should now have passed.wales, the english west midlands, and parts of northern ireland have been worst affected. there's still disruption to travel — we'll have more on that in a moment. let's take a look at some of the images and the stories that go with them. here in northern ireland, you can see how the side of the road has been swept away. this is near ballycastle, in the glens of antrim. local residents say they fear some people have been cut off. some areas received close to a month's worth of rain injust one weekend with up to 190 millimetres falling over dartmoor, and the brecon beacons in wales. these pictures were supplied the by brecon mountain railway in merthyr tydfil showing a landslide next to the