germany is a major export nation and that's why trade issues were high on the agenda on friday when anglo merkel met donald trump especially u.s. import tariffs they'd have a huge implication on a variety of industry sectors including the car industry here's what's at stake for the german economy and that is seventeen german companies are sold goods to the u.s. worth almost one hundred twelve billion euros mainly cars machinery and pharmaceutical products in the opposite direction the u.s. has sold goods what about sixty one billion euros to germany mainly computer technology pharmaceutical products and vehicles now that created a trade deficit of around fifty billion euros a bone of contention between merkel that trump the lack of parity and trade will likely remain in the foreseeable future so how are investors handling the tariff uncertainty in the face of the looming may first deadline our frankfurt markets correspondent and that advisor had this to say. yeah there's kind of an interesting one because nobody is really very much. afraid we have seen a rather benign market today so it seems th

merkel, where would you put theresa may? to revive aas tried brand tradition of british -- anglo-american relations. reagan and margaret thatcher has been the key example. i would not say it has reached that example. make run has emerged as the leading interlocutor among the europeans with the u.s. which is pretty incredible. it has been a very long time since that has been the case. for the past several years it was chancellor merkel, tony blair, george h.w. bush. times been quite a long that we have seen a french leader being the leader. host: good morning. caller: i have paid of your comments. ron is a brilliant man with advanced degrees in andosophy, finance, economics. he did his masters the sis in philosophy in machiavelli and havel. president trump's vanity. and the second comment i have is the fact that merkel and macron has become the de facto leaders of the free world now, i think if we squeeze them too much, their economies are much smaller than ours. and if we squeeze them too much, we will see an even uglier form of nationalism rise in europe and that scares the -- out of me to be hones

news live from berlin merkel needs trump the german chancellor goes to washington to save the iran nuclear deal after talks at the white house and anglo-american says the deal has slowed down iran's nuclear activities are recognized it's not sufficient so what leverage does any that she have moving forward also coming up.

germany's chancellor merkel while in london at the commonwealth summit held at trade negotiations with the british government and trade will also be high on the list to discuss with anglo american when modi lands in berlin. and we have with us here in our studio she's a research fellow and poet political analyst at the global public policy institute that's a non profit think tank here in berlin grima thanks for joining us this if you look at the situation here who's more interested in trade ties is that anglo-american all under under modi that's interesting i think both of them are interested in trade ties but because of different views and so there's been a lot of momentum in germany and in relations all fleet and the two countries that started talking on issues beyond trade aligning their views and global issues now for india main reason is rex it it is trying to clean new european partners after the u.k. is exit for a long time the u.k. was the main gate way for india to reach europe and now it's looking towards germany and france germany on the other hand it's trying to diversify its partnerships in asia for a known time focused on china as the sole patna but now i