s in madrid and max hoffmann in brussels start with mathis in barcelona what's happening go. to the right i would try to your family hole inside peek out from one column or the first lawmakers are having back into the parliament which could be an indication that the session.

studio we're also joined by our correspondent max hoffmann in brussels carson let's start with you trump has handed this back to congress what are their options now. well what trump once congress and the senate in particular to do is establish a sawed off trigger points which would prompt the united states to automatically impose sanctions if iran crosses certain red lines as for instance launching an intercontinental missile the point is that even terms advisers agree that iran is sticking to the letter of the agreement so trump is looking at the broader context and saying iran is the stabilizing the region and we cannot have this now the question is if congress really wants to do this and if they want to do this in need sixty votes in the senate republicans don't have that so there has to be a compromise between the democrats and the republicans and if that compromise is enough for trump to be happy with the new deal is questionable and also this would be you need lots of amendments to an international agreement and it's highly doubtful that the other signatories to the treaty will agr

correspondent max hoffmann in brussels welcome both so the e.u. france germany and the u.k. were also signatures to this nuclear deal in twenty fifteen naturally it is being watched very closely let's start with you kate brady in berlin what has the german government been saying about mr trump's backtracking on this deal well ahead of the speech that we just had a few moments ago our germany profusely defended this agreement of course they played an incredibly important role in those negotiations and what sealed that deal just a couple of years ago especially germany's twice former foreign minister foreign minister frank fell to steinmeyer and we heard just this afternoon for almost deafening but that's the government the german government spokesman that should the u.s. decertify the iran nuclear deal and then this would push germany to work more closely with it so the partners in that deal which of course include russia and china so we can have a listen in now to see what stephens i would have to say i don't like where we have kate let's go to you. in brussels the e.u. also