and banning the burka. it is any religion, as long as you are wearing a burke.s you are wearing a burke. i suspect the volumes being turned up in israel today at every mosque. i think the call to prayer is about to get a lot louder. absolutely. the chips are down! i think i've seen this story before. to be fair to the women who are apparently according to this study, i want to be the researcher who gets to meet all they do with women, what do you think men do? we, i bet we suck in the stomach or the hair. apparently women don't eat chips in front of good—looking man. —— men. whati wa nt to good—looking man. —— men. whati want to know is, who the heck from this and to what end? —— funds this. good morning. yesterday was a funny old day. it was mild for some of us, but not that much in the way of sunshine. favoured spots were northern ireland and northern england. a beautiful weather watchers picture sent in from york, with the daffodils shining brightly. and despite the crocus in full bloom, though, down in the south—east corner, there was quite a lot of cloud ar

there was not a lot of euphoria except when she mentioned the prospect of banning burkas.ith martin schulz, people -- that was genuine. there was real excitement. it is the kind of thing that we have seen with other candidates like obama. i think that could be the secret sauce that he might have going forward, given that both parties , the potential that they have is not that different. >> i agree that he is in a strong position. supported by an enthusiastic and social democrats, without any doubt but there are some weaknesses. for example, on refugees. more valuable than gold because in their eyes, you can see a reflection of hope for this continent and so on. germany goodlar in these topics are coming up as the central topics in the campaign, then he has some problems. >> let's move on to the international stage. we have already been there, but it is a rim where angela merkel is under pressure. from presidentnt trump and president erdogan. >> angela merkel and donald trump, the senior politician of the free world and the america first populist. no handshake in the oval o

. >> the norwedgian family restaurant was fire bombed and a dutch cartoonist had to wear a burka. and he's gone into hiding. of the six people on stage two of us left. when is cair going to stand up against people who want to kill those who disagree with them? >> they say they stand up against them. and they are against killing and you should be respectful and not draw mohammed. >> in this case respectful is a bogus codeword. the only way we'll move to a real sense of freedom is if every time somebody puts a bullet in a cartoonist for drawing a cartoon of mohammed is every newspaper displays that picture. >> many won't. nbc, cnn and new york times will not run the charlie hebdon cover. >> why would you want to make them haid hate you. >> after the texas shooting some people blamed the activist. >> meanest is part of the vigor. >> hate is what it is to be human. >> polls show americans support laws that would ban hate speech. >> what is hate speech? >> if you apply hate speech, according to the things they say. the quran has hate speech. >> she group and under the quran. >> i was r

she even has come out in favor of the, quote, burka ban, some of the backlash of the immigration policies we've seen with her. germany is an essential partner in counterterrorism, in dealing with the russians, which that is going to be interesting with this administration, pushing back on crimea, ukraine, the germans are essential for afghanistan. we don't have a tremendous amount of lev ran. i don't think we're going to try to force the germans to pay more because we also don't want to begin to dissolve the nato alliance end with some of the saber-rattling coming from the russians with regard to the baltic states. so it will take time. i think you saw that. you have two people that aren't going to agree on a whole lot, but the relationship essential -- trish: he did say they have a little bit of common ground. you know, i'm telling you -- [laughter] if you didn't see this, you missed something because there were, indeed, a few little nuggets in there, and one of them was, colonel ralph peters, he said, look, we do have one thing in common, we have both been wiretapped by the obama admini