not far from eccles press conference climate activists from the friday's for future movement were out on the streets. thousands took part among them the swedish student created to beg mechelle admitted the movement has pushed the german government to act more quickly on climate change she conceded more needs to be done if germany is to meet its commitments under the paris climate accord who the ovation did zealots but concerning the 2030 goals we don't know the exact details yet the experts say and i agree with them that the most efficient path to achieving those goals is to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions but we must also take into account the social impact. of the most. magical brushed off complaints from her party's coalition partners the social democrats over the election of a seller for the lion from eccles c.d.u. party. listen if you go we shouldn't be overly proud about it but we also don't need to be the only ones in europe who are grumpy about it it's all flaky. after 90 minutes the press conference came to an end with a strong signal that the chancellor hasn't given

i reject trump's comments and stand in solidarity with the congresswoman he attacked not far from eccles press conference climate activists from the friday's for future movement were out on the streets. thousands took part among them the swedish student created to invade michael admitted the movement has pushed the german government to act more quickly on climate change he conceded more needs to be done if germany's to meet its commitments under the paris climate accord. concerning the 2030 goals we don't know the exact details yet but the experts say and i agree with them that the most efficient path to achieving those goals is to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions but we must also take into account the social impact. of. mikkel brushed off complaints from her party's coalition partners the social democrats over the election of the lion from eccles c.d.u. party. business we shouldn't be overly proud about it but we also don't need to be the only ones in europe who are grumpy about it it's all flaky. after 90 minutes the press conference came to an end with a strong signal that the

are you coming away from brussels and now here to berlin let's take a look at how chance on home eccles coalition is of fairing germans satisfaction with their government remains low only 29 percent 29 percent sorry say they are satisfied with the work of chancellor merkel's coalition but 70 percent of germans are not only a slim majority of supporters of merkel's conservative bloc seem to be in favor of the government and if a general election were to be held on sunday this is how germans would vote merkel's conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. at 25 percent there marcos coalition partners the center left social democrats gaining one percent point at a 13 percent a far right party getting the same also 13 percent the business friendly f.d.p. staying at 8 percent same result for the left party getting one percentage point and the green party still in 1st place with a 26 percent. right there we have it thomas again the surge of the green party do they need to start thinking about a candidate for chancellor i think in a way they are already thinking about that they have had one key topic and obviou

her party's coalition partners the social democrats over the election of a seller for the lion from eccles c.d.u. party. business we shouldn't be overly proud about it but we also don't need to be the only ones in europe who are grumpy about it it's all flaky. after 90 minutes the press conference came to an end with a strong signal that the chancellor hasn't given up her job just yet. joining me now in the studio is verizon or he's a long time washington correspondent for the german broadcaster a.r.d. he's covered us in german politics from both sides of land sick and it's a pleasure to have you with us you were also at that press conference you got to see chancellor merkel respond to dozens of questions they want to start though with her response of trump's recent racist attacks let's go ahead and take a listen to exactly what the chancellor had to say. let me say clearly that in my view america's strength lies precisely in the fact that it's a country where people of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of america as a whole. so these are let me say comments tha