in fact as chancellor to yad vashem the central show a memorial in jerusalem stay with us john chancellor merkel is due to donate 60000000 euros from the german government to the foundation that conserves and maintains a form of death camp their purpose is to explain what happened to our vets in order to prevent it happening again. what sets you free the nazis notorious slogan live above the entrance to the auschwitz memorial. horus were committed here . now it has become an important tourist destination for visitors from around the well it's over the past 10 years visited numbers have doubled more than 2000000 people now visit auschwitz every year. it's very moving through hard not to cry and we'll see on t.v. on freedoms many many times by the 1st time that you see in the 1st time in person it's pretty reset itself is really important like a place is giving greet people kind of impression about what happened to people when true and so on but i think that we are paying too much attention to the buildings to the place itself to the general names and things like that and to small attention to wha

john. german chancellor angela merkel's ruling coalition could be in trouble that's after the center left social democrats are s.p.d. elected 2 new leaders who are critical of the chancellor social democrats form part of the government along with merkel's conservatives know about. and say they want to renegotiate their coalition deal with the conservatives to focus more on social justice and climate policy and they have not ruled out the idea of leaving the grand coalition all together earlier certainly the most important question now will they stay in the coalition with i'm glad america's conservatives they both were critical as you sat and they said that they want to renegotiate the coalition treaty the coalition deal with the conservatives the conservatives have rejected it already they said we have this deal and that's the basis for a work together so really next week's party conference of social democrats will show they want to discuss how to continue whether they want to step out of the grand coalition but certainly the prospects of a snap election or a minority government for anglo americ

is inside a meeting with world leaders and preparing for a one-on-one with german chancellor angela merkel. ainsley: johndent trump's packed day. hey, john. >> ainsley, brian, steve. good to talk to you that meeting is running a little bit long. they got off to a late start. the president will likely be in it for a few minutes more before he heads into other bilateral meeting with the german chancellor angela merkel. later on today is he going to have lunch with a small group of nato nation. a show called 2 percenter. those are the 8 other countries besides nato. 2% of their g.d.p. to military to fulfill their nato commitment. all nato nations are supposed to contribute 2% by the year 2024. germany, fen he will be meeting with angela merkel about 12:30. they commit less than 2% as done denmark and italy. yesterday in a meeting with the new canadian prime minister justin trudeau. president trump gently chided canada for spending less on military and commitment to nato. suggesting that he counts canada among the nato, quote, delinquent nations. listen here. >> delinquent i would say canada, they will be ok

quite clearly john as we saw thousands and thousands of people still streaming into it has great emotional and historical significance for many people what do you think chancellor merkel's 1st official visit to the death camp will mean for survivors as well as for the relatives of victims when of course there are very few survivors now i think most of them are in there are in their ninety's it's the camp was liberated by the soviet army in january in 1045. i think the visit is very important. of course for jews all over the world there is hardly a jew anywhere in the world who doesn't have some relative who was killed in the in the holocaust. a distant relative perhaps but certainly a relative and there is also been a rise of anti semitism. throughout the world but particularly disturbingly in europe there's been a rise of anti-semitism in the last 6 years the f.r.a. the european union's agency for fundamental human rights carried out a survey in 2013 on anti-semitism in europe and another one in 2018 and they compared their results and found the still believe that there was significant a significant rise in the dissenters so it's very important that the german chancell

germany's chancellor angela merkel is due to arrive shortly at the auschwitz birkenau memorial in poland the site was the nazi regime largest death camp during the 2nd world war this is john's 1st official visit that did obvious thomas farah joins me now from the. camp how significant is this visit by chance to mecca to the camp. i'm retired is very significant in fact this visit is being described as one of historic dimensions i'm going to work with as you said it's coming here for the 1st time she's been chancellor for 14 years and she's only the 3rd chancellor to have visited this site after him which meet and had more to call it but it's also important because i'm going to michael is going to bring a message and that message is that germany is donating $68000000.00 euros both from the federal and from regional governments for the fund for the auschwitz fund in order to preserve this site which is an incredibly important not only for poland but also for germany and for japanese culture of remembrance and we can clearly have a look at what that means in this piece that we produced. what sets you free the nazis notorious slogan looms above the entrance to the auschwitz mem

german chancellor angela merkel reflected on the challenges of achieving european reforms and the importance of compromise when she spoke with bloomberg editor-in-chief johnethwait. >> each and every one of us has different ideas where one ought to reform. that has always been the case in innco german history, and the end, france and germany have always to see if they can persuade all of vienna and european -- persuade all of the .ther european member states that is not always easy, and the way that germany argued, the way that friends argued has always been very different. france has always said or made a pact not the stability being so strictly adhered to or to rathernterpreted look more at the labor impact on the impact on jobs and be strict with a view to the financial effect that we will do so when we look at the capital market union, where we look at the budget of the european union, and all of the other 25 if i , wee britain outside of it will have to persuade them. think so. i'm always open for compromise. for example, we've been heavily criticized on the copyright laws , very much attached importance to also protect the startups and their intelle

german chancellor angela merkel reflected on the challenges of achieving european reforms and the importance of compromise when she spoke with bloomberg editor-in-chief johnethwait at the world policy forum in march. >> each and every one of us has different ideas where one ought to reform. that has always been the case in franco-german history, and in the end, france and germany have always to see if they can persuade all of vienna and -- persuade all of the other european member states. that is not always easy, and the way that the euro was created, that is the case in point. the way that germany argued, the way that friends argued has always been very different. france has always said or made a point for the stability pact not being so strictly adhered to or strictly interpreted to rather look more at the labor impact on the impact on jobs and be strict with a view to the financial effect that we will do so when we look at the capital market union, where we look at the budget of the european union, and all of the other 25 if i leave britain outside of it, we will have to persuade them. john: germany first attitude towards the european union? >> i don't