for talks with german leaders as america's top diplomat 1st met with a german foreign minister heikal moscow he's also due to hold talks with the chance to. visit comes 3 weeks on. after he abruptly canceled flying into germany at the very last minute differences in policy over iran and china expected to be high on the agenda. our chief political correspondent is following that story for us and she is standing in front of the chance to welcome michelle and my compu met earlier with foreign minister heikal moss what came out of that meeting. yes in fact they just concluded their press conference about half an hour's drive here from the chancellor which will be the next stop for mike pompei oh and then he apologized for having had to cancel at the last moment something which clearly was seen as a bit of a diplomatic insult here in berlin after he says he's in office after all for more than a year and what became clear is that both sides can talk to each other but also that there are major major differences when it comes to key areas of policy particularly china the approach to poor way

contentious issue for mr pompei in his visit to berlin when he spoke to his counterpart here in germany heikal mass he raised the issue of china specifically the telecommunications giant huawei and quite how appropriate it was for huawei to become involved in the phone networks and other communications networks in e.u. countries saying effectively that the united states government would have to reconsider the amount of data and intelligence it shares with the e.u. countries that seek to have more profound dealings with huawei showing that from the united states government's point of view there are still clear policy differences between itself and leading you countries to do with foreign policy. iran has hit back at accusations made by arab leaders that it's a threat to global security to iran described their condemnation as baseless and said that saudi arabia was dividing the entire region the leaders attended emergency summits in mecca saudi arabia's king solomon called for arab states to confront iran iraq however refused to sign a separate communique urging action on turn around warning tha

everything's up in the air at the moment the only thing that we know is that the german foreign minister heikal mosfet speak on the phone to my from peo and afterwards said that he had some understanding for the reasons that the strip was cancelled a chance disconsolate postponement seems surprising because after all the many bilateral issues that need to be addressed between the countries is indeed pompei it has been foreign minister for more than a year and he hasn't ever been to germany which is quite unusual because jimmy reed is an important trading partner and obviously a very important country here in the whole of europe there are many disputes between the two countries germany and the united states they don't see eye to eye on iran for instance them to continue supporting the iran atomic deal which. the american administration has counseled they are disputes about german. armaments expenditure and its role within nato there is a pipeline from russia for russian gas being built by the germans which ends up in germany and is obviously something that the united states then like at all so t

of foreign ministers of the arctic council and he was should you to meet german foreign minister heikal moscow and chancellor angela merkel the german capital. joining me now from up on i'm interested in this is our political correspondent hans brand hans evo or said to welcome a secretary of state pumping you in but when but he can fill it up with full and history about it was communicated in a very unusual way what was unusual is that there simply no information basically that was a very barren statement from the german chancellor you have pompei it was not coming there is a twitter statement that is being circulated by the u.s. embassy by the pump air spokes person saying that simply that his trip has been counseled because of other pressing matters but there's no information about what those other pressing matters might be and obviously a pump is meant to go on from berlin was when to go on from bowden to london to spend a day in london and then to greenland to spend a day in greenland it's very unclear whether those parts of the trip are going to continue or not so we're very much

that's the interesting thing here adrian that mr compo had a meeting with his german counterpart heikalmust before that meeting with angela merkel when he emerged from the 1st meeting he made reference to her way and said look if european union countries are trying to embed more deeply with huawei to get what more deeply into the telecommunications structure of their countries well that might be a bit of an issue for the united states government he said look maybe we will have to consider how much information how much intelligence we share with the countries who seek to do that the point here is that several other e.u. countries are in this situation certainly the united kingdom government was very much considering further in trenching an agreement situation with weiwei so you can see as it were this is a sort of metaphorical shot across the bows of e.u. countries because it's not the only issue that they seem to have a disagreement upon iran qual way it shows you that there is definitely considerable distance between certainly between the merkel government and the trumpet ministration

contentious issue for mr pompei in his visit to berlin when he spoke to his counterpart here in germany heikal mass he raised the issue of china and specifically the telecommunications giant huawei and quite how appropriate it was for huawei to become involved in the phone networks and other communications networks in the e.u. countries saying effectively that the united states government would have to reconsider the amount of data and intelligence it shares with e.u. countries that seek to have more profound dealings with huawei showing that from the united states government's point of view there are still clear policy differences between itself and leading you countries to do with foreign policy or on a set back and accusations made by arab leaders that it's a threat to go global security. their condemnation is baseless and said sorry arabia was dividing the entire region the leaders attended emergency summits in mecca were saudi king solomon call for arab states to confront iran iraq refused to sign a separate communique urging action on tehran warning that aggressive rhetoric could make th