merkle him across the sign the visitor's book french officials underlined there would be the last signatures. an act that literally closes the book on the animosities of the past. for more on this i'm joined now by french journalist pascal civil he is the burden correspondent for radio france international. being here today so there's been a lot of discussion looking at these two leaders michael and michael and across strong echoes of their predecessors helmut kohl and franzl michelle han yeah i think when you when you meet at that place in compiegne where two french german humiliations took place one hundred eighteen one hundred forty when you go there after the handshakes between need to honk or nineteen eighty-four and after order big big speeches for example from the former german president in france four years ago it's i mean you have all these is story you have the history of the world and you have also what your predecessors did and you have to you have to invent or i don't know new something new and maybe also to to have a look to the future reckon that's a bold new not only is to co

at three, an awkward moment for angelo merkle in france as an admirer mistakes herfor madame macron.story. notjust because his departure may embolden others to... and that one, w one a star, hugh bonneville on what brexit might —— and at one, w1a star, hugh bonneville on what brexit might mean for bbc parliament. alex partridge. westminster hall is hosting an art installation as part of celebrations to mark the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote — and to stand for parliament. as simon vaughan reports, "house of doors" was partly inspired by the paving stones of the hall itself... when you put this in a space like this, what you have is people approaching it, unsure if they've got a real person there or not, but the softness of the cloak, until you get to about level with the threshold, you do not know if there is someone that were not. ——there or not. so there is a disconcerting element that engages people a little bit more as a result. one was this painting, the little girl in the door. it was painted in 1910, they're also at the issues surrounding women's rights, acc

was new and i think one of the things about world war one that's really important is that as congo merkle pointed out multi-lateralism should not be something to frown at because multilateralism is the sort of thing that could have helped something like world war one which would've kept world war two from happening which would have kept a lot of the problems we still see today then we're still arguing about who pays for freakin nato. in reality what you have is the chance but here you had germany and austria hungary which were. on one side and france russia and great britain on the other and then you had all of these deals that they each had made that if we get into a war you'll back us up if we get a war you'll back us up the problem is all these things cross so this is why you need unilateralism you need to have everybody talking to each other this needs to not be it doesn't matter about what america needs to be great again we can't be great again if we're literally causing this huge kerfuffle everywhere we go and can't be trusted to stay on it because we really are those countries like

we see him meeting with either angela merkle of germany or france and venting and ranting on them abouttrade. world leaders teams are telling me they have no idea which way it's going to go between trump and chinese president on their trade dealings because they feel that trump is in state of mind where it can't be predicted whether he will go with some of his hard liner advisers or change the tune. they have no idea if he's going to go along even with the communique, the group statement that comes out after this. they feel like what's going on domestically contributes to that uncertainty. >> see if they will issue that joint communique. stand by. much more right after this. machine from the groundbreaking director of forrest gump. comes welcome to marwen. [ ding ] what happened to you? i got beat up, because i was different. it was a hate crime. so i created a world where i can heal. based on an inspirational true story... of a man who turned tragedy... argh! it hurts like hell! pain is a rocket fuel. ...into triumph. i have my art, i have hope. and that's something they can't take awa

german chancellor angela merkle and french president emmanuel macron were able to attend events of theirey drove. 2,000 americans are buried at the cemetery he neglected to visit. he's cast himself as strongest supporter of the military. on sunday he was absent as world leaders marched. he showed up separately at the end of the march in time to hear president macron sharply rebuke his presidency. >> patriotism is the opposite of nationalism. nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying us first. we cares about the others. we erase what a nation holds dearest. what gives it grace. an event was held because that at the base of it is where the tomb of the unknown soldier is. marine one couldn't fly. it was too rainy to get here. i'm sure circumstances like this have popped up in the past. what's usually the plan b? >> that's the issue. it doesn't appear to be plan b. the military makes the call to marine one. they are legitimate reasons not to take a helicopter up. i was on the president's trip to asia last year. we were supposed to have a surprise helicopter visit, we had to turn arou

brussels that the turmoil that you're telling us about in westminster could derail a deal that anglo merklend they desperately want to get to sunday and sign it off. thank you very much. yes there some respect for theresa may and he does talk about it often when she's there, in brussels but of course as we said many times before for the eu, no deal is better than a deal that undermines a single market in the customs union and that's why they are fighting hard on their side of the negotiation. this is the withdrawal agreement so what's in it? that's causing controversy, chris as reading in. amidst all of it but agreement remains the same it's the serious hefty document clearing a path that's prompting many resignations from the government. the most difficult part of the negotiation, has been the most controversial, of this draft text. it's about the so—called backstop, the guarantee of a last resort that there will be no return to a hard border in ireland under any circumstance. the no harder border plan will create a cambrai customs using with the eu, covering the whole of the uk. they're c