evening before she made this proposal and she didn't say a word informing the foreign minister heikal mosse from the social democrats just through an s.m.s. so there's a lot of internal political stuff going on here as well for now we look ahead to that nato defense in this is meeting at the end of the week and see whether this sketchy basis for discussion will actually translate into something more concrete one way or the other we'll be hearing a lot more about this proposal mciver cliff the chief political editor thank you so much. and he watched me hate his full interview with the german defense minister on our website at the w. . now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today demonstrations in lebanon continued late into monday night even after the government approved emergency economic reforms the protests over the country's dire economic situation had gone on for days demonstrators slammed the reforms as empty promises and are calling for leaders to step down. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has failed to form a majority government plunging the cou

i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us germany's foreign minister heikal moss has called for a lasting cease fire in northern turn in syria after talks in ankara moscow and his turkish counterpart met commented on proposals to limit the conflict on syria's border have a shoulder blasted germany for criticizing turkey's offensive against kurdish militias in the region calling for more solidarity in what anchors sees as the fight against terrorism for his part the german foreign minister urged turkey to comply with international law when dealing with refugees here's the turkish foreign minister's response about suggestions. we would investigate even if it is the tiniest bit of violation allegation or complaint our president has straight orders on this matter we would investigate until the end we will not tolerate even the tiniest bit of human rights violation so that it is a state of law we are very sensitive regarding the tissues our fight is against tara. let's bring in our turkey correspondent john who's standing by in istanbul so you let tell us more about what came out