and correspondent teri schultz has been covering that story for us in brussels we asked her if the new mission monitoring the u.n. embargo means that they are not going to rescue migrants at sea anymore they are saying that this will not be the focus of the mission there would not have been able to get agreement any other way and this was something that foreign policy chief very much wanted to do of course journalists asked afterwards what are you going to do when you see these people and he said you know we're leaving the you know the rules of engagement for another meeting but this is this is the risk and this is what austria and italy were saying they're saying there's going to be mission. as soon as those e.u. ships are patrolling the moderate mediterranean people fleeing libya are going to get back on their ruffs because that migration route has really decreased now so they're calling it the pull factor and that's something that's going to be watched very carefully and in fact in this agreement reached today it is said that if that happens if you start seeing migration spike again

wanted teri schultz is covering the conference for us from munich she joins us now for more in fact are you doing more than just covering the conference or actually moderating one of the panels this morning the pond pale panel you were moderating that discussion what was your biggest takeaway. karl i think the thing that struck me the most was how different this pompei a speech was from those we've seen in brussels or the comments that president trump makes about the european union you know normally they're all about america 1st america leading and in this case as you heard secretary pump aoe said we're a team and we are winning we're doing it together we're winning collectively and this is something i haven't heard from secretary of pompei opel for so it was very interesting to get the sense that he in a way is trying to talk the europeans back into wanting to be transatlantic partners after the administration has done so much to turn them away. on the other hand many european leaders have a completely different message saying the west is weakening french president emanuel was one of t

-day abuse correspondent teri schultz terry you were moderating the panel discussion this morning so what was your biggest takeaway. nic i think the biggest change this year from last year's munich security conference or even from discussions that europe and the united states have had over the last year is that the united states here today is very much playing up the transatlantic bond and saying that things are going well and that we're all on the same side and and that's that's you know really working for all of us that is not necessarily the way the europeans feel and yet you would have thought from secretary pompei of that there's not a bigger trance atlanticist to be found you know we've seen him make speeches in brussels where he absolutely blasts the european union and its policies we of course hear president trump say the european union was set up only to take down the united states so this was what europeans may find of a very refreshing tone from the secretary of state. how did the audience overall react to him saying the west was winning was there some skepticism about the

teri schultz in brussels tonight. teri, as always, thank you.n both sides of the atlantic, political taboos are being broken. we saw it today here in germany when chancellor angela merkel's conservative gdp party teamed up with the far-right afd party to elect a regional leader. before today, that kind of deal was unthinkable. in the united states, the unthinkables are multiplying. the iowa caucus debacle is an example, or consider last night's state of the union address. throughout u.s. history, presidents have used the speech to execute their role as uniter in chief, consoler in chief, president of all united states. president trump, the great disruptor, has broken that tradition. last night trump said nothing about gun violence at schools in the u.s. he did mention the rights of gun owners. and this is what happened then. take a l look. >> so long as i am president, i will always protect your second amendment right to keep and bear arms. in reaffirming our heritage as a free nation, we must remember that america has always been a frontier nat

as you always do teri schultz in brussels tonight here is always thank you . on both sides of the atlantic political taboos are being broken we saw it today here in germany when chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. party teamed up with the far right party to elect a regional leader now before today that kind of deal was unthinkable in the united states the unthinkable as well they are multiply the iowa caucus debacle it's an example or consider last night's state of the union address now throughout u.s. history presidents have used the speech to execute their role as united or in chief consoler in chief president of all united states or president the great disruptor he has broken that tradition last night trump said nothing about gun violence at schools in the us he did mention the rights of gun owners and this is what happened did take a look so long as i am president i will always protect your 2nd amendment right. and reaffirming our it as a free nation we must remember that america has always been a frontier nation now we must embrace that x. ray

i let's get more now we go to our correspondent teri schultz she's in brussels following that story for us in fact terry in brussels today u.n. foreign ministers are meeting what's on the agenda. e.u. foreign ministers have decided that the most constructive thing they can do at the moment is to offer to monitor the arms embargo the arms embargo that is is not really being observed by any parties so so they set about trying to reinvigorate a naval mission called operation sofia that was suspended earlier because it got bogged down in migration politics now italy and austria and some other states are saying they don't want ships picking up migrants trying to flee libya because there's no solution among member states on where those migrants should go so you've got this this problem bogging down the decision to monitor the arms embargo and although they had hoped they may be able to find a common position today at this meeting that doesn't look likely at all. terry i mean as we heard a senior u.n. official is calling the arms embargo or at least being forced into this in bargo a joke i mea

agreed last month had been violated 150 times over it want to take you to brussels to correspondent teri schultz who has been following the foreign ministers meeting terry says the un's deputy special envoy to libya calls the arms embargo a joke what have you foreign ministers are decided and are they going to police and he breaches of the embargo and what they were discussing today and it was not by any means certain that they would come to this agreement is to reestablish the mission that used to be known by the name of operation sophia at that time it was a dual hatted mission picking up migrants who were stranded who were drowning and also policing the u.n. arms embargo trying to stop weapons from getting into libya that was suspended because austria italy other countries said we don't want to bring these people to europe with no agreement on where to send them on and where to sort of partition out of the migrants as they waited asylum processing so now despite skepticism they have agreed to reestablish the arms embargo side of that mission now what we know so far is that they've agreed in p

once again let's get more now on the speech to give us the european perspective we're joined by teri schultz and brussels welcome terry what do you think leaders on this side of the atlantic will make of his speech and whether any new messages there i think sarah that most european leaders woke up this morning probably a bit nervous about what might have been said in the state of the union because you know no matter what was previewed or released in early transcript or what they expected him to say you never know with in the middle of the speech president trump would break out and say he decided that you know he was going to impose 25 percent tariffs on european cars or quit nato war or cut off intelligence sharing because the europeans plan to use while way in 5 g. technology he's so unpredictable that not even his closest allies can say that's not going to happen so i think the fact that europe played a very very tiny role in this speech he didn't speak much about europe at all just one mention about nato probably left european leaders relieved that they don't have to deal with messes this

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correspondent teri schultz thank you so much. our here's a check now of some of the other stories making headlines at this hour u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has praise pakistan for hosting millions of afghan refugees is on a 4 day visit to islamabad to address a conference on refugees and peacekeeping this week marks 40 years since afghan refugees 1st settle in pakistan so a court in germany has ordered tesla of the u.s. electric vehicle manufacturer to stop clearing forest lands near berlin's a build its 1st european factory the ruling comes after the state environmental office if the green light to clear $92.00 actors of woodland the plant. well rio is a world famous carnival festivities are only a week away preparations now reaching fever pitch for the spectacular somber parade there each year scores of the city's dance schools compete for the carnivals championship title but this year the parade is at the center of a bitter debate. it's a dress rehearsal for deborra. flag bearer of the monkey or a somber sch

are for more let's go to our top correspondent teri schultz she's in brussels for us terry been following this story for ministers now meeting in brussels today i mean what's on the table what what will they be discussing. well called the european union decided that its biggest contribution to the push to end the libyan conflict would be to reestablish a naval mission in the mediterranean designed to monitor the arms embargo now this came after so much optimism after that meeting in berlin where the 2 major sides turkey and russia agreed to stop shipping and weapons and then a cease fire was agreed on the ground so the e.u. said ok we'll make sure that no weapons get through that that arms embargo but what has happened is that the reestablishing this mission has remained bogged down in migration politics and we all know how tricky that is and the european union countries like austria and italy are unwilling to revive operation sophia as it's named because they say they don't want these drowning migrants to be picked up and brought to european shores and so they are unwilling to allow the

i will get the latest now we go to our correspondent teri schultz in brussels for us she's been following that story terry e.u. foreign ministers wrapping up that meeting what exactly have they decided. karl we'll hear more from you foreign policy chief joseph burrell within the next hour on just what they've agreed to they're calling it an agreement in principle and that's because this is been very complicated as you mentioned italy and austria and some other countries did not want to reestablish a migrant rescue mission in the mediterranean they want to find a way to to strictly limit this to simply enforcing the arms embargo in libya the potential arms embargo since it's not working at the moment but as we've spoken all day about this i was quite skeptical that they would come to an agreement and it appears that they have so i look forward to bringing you more details as soon as the e.u. foreign policy chief comes out and shares them with us give us more a bit more background here tara what was exactly the sticking point here i mean there had to be a unanimous agreement what was standi

s teri schultz has been covering the conference in munich her take on those comments on the state of the transatlantic alliance think the thing that struck me the most was how different this pompei of speech was from those we've seen in brussels or the comments that president trump makes about the european union you know normally they're all about america 1st america leading and in this case as you heard secretary pump aoe said we're a team and we are winning we're doing it together we're winning collectively and this is something i haven't heard from secretary pompei oh before so it was very interesting to get the sense that he in a way is trying to talk the europeans back into wanting to be transatlantic partners after the administration has done so much to turn them away. you also caught up with the german foreign minister in munich he said mcclellan's comments could prompt europe to take a critical look at its role within the transatlantic alliance as a vivid. the invitation to the strategic dialogue we believe that we 1st need to decide within europe how to meet the increased de

these teri schultz has been covering the conference in munich we asked to how she viewed my pump as comments on the state of the transatlantic alliance think the thing that struck me the most was how different this pompei of speech was from those we've seen in brussels or the comments that president trump makes about the european union you know normally they're all about america 1st america leading and in this case as you heard secretary pompei oh said we're a team and we are winning we're doing it together we're winning collectively and this is something i haven't heard from secretary pump aoe before so it was very interesting to get the sense that he in a way is trying to talk the europeans back into wanting to be transatlantic partners after the administration has done so much to turn them away. results there at the munich security conference well john has reported a drop in new coronavirus cases for the 3rd straight day beijing says the decline is evidence that the country's efforts to control the spread of the disease are working this comes after france announced the 1st fatality from t

correspondent teri schultz munich for us thank you very much. well he's not head of states he's not a diplomat and he's not a general but facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is still one of the most powerful people to take the stage in munich just hours ago he faced questions on election security saying that he was proud of the progress that facebook has made since 2016 and he repeated his previous calls for more government regulation. i think that there needs to be regulation and at least 4 areas touching our company and they are elections and political discourse around content more broadly content moderation. privacy and data portability i believe what our responsibility is is to build the operational muscle to build to proactively enforce whatever the policy is and regulations are to make sure that we can fight election interference take down content that's going to be dangerous have good auditing and controls on the data that we hold for people and businesses to make sure of that is that people can have confidence or not. but at some level i do

that was due to abuse teri schultz in munich and just a few moments ago facebook's mark zuckerberg spoke at the conference he said he was proud of the progress facebook is making on election security but worried about what he called domestic information operations targeting elections and he wants more government regulation. what should be the balance between free expression and safety where what is after what is political discourse and what's the boundary between that and political interference what to what extent we want companies to be walking down data and to what extent do we want them to be encouraging them to make it more open to encourage more innovation and competition in academic research so i believe what our responsibility is is to build the operational muscle to build a proactively enforce whatever the policy is and regulations are to make sure that we can fight election interference take down content that's going to be dangerous have good auditing and controls on the data that we hold for people and businesses to make sure of that is that people can have confidence and not.

all right i'm joined now from brussels by due to be used teri schultz terry was at the munich security conference this past weekend terri's good to see you what do you make of this european union naval mission to enforce the arms embargo i mean is it going to last and will it work we really have no idea and as you heard you foreign policy chief joseph burrell say it was very very much a surprise that by the end of the day they were able to get everyone to agree on this mission and they are having to say that it is in principle because so many things are yet known about it i mean they haven't been able to work out what they call rules of engagement and this is a really tricky thing because as you might remember operation sophia which was the predecessor of this new mission also was responsible for picking up drowning migrants that's what doomed it that's what made italy demand that the operation be suspended so this new mission is supposed to only deal with enforcing the arms embargo and it's pretty unclear what will happen if you come across a boat full of drowning people they're oblig

on the campaign trail he may not use nato as such a political hot potato as he did in the past teri schultz thank you. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world turkish authorities say that at least 23 people have died in an avalanche in turkey others are still believed to be buried under the snow the avalanche struck while a large team of rescue workers were searching for 2 people who had been hit by an earlier snow slide in eastern band problems. malawi's president peter with a rica is to appeal after the country's constitutional court an old his victory in last year's presidential election his spokesperson called monday's ruling an attempt to circumvent democracy the court said that there were great regularities in the vote in may last year. severe floods on new zealand south island have forced thousands of people to flee their homes and farms the flooding follows days of torrential rain authorities have declared a state of emergency for the region forecasters say that the weather should ease in the coming days. well china says that the number of people i

raging despite the arms embargo all right let's get you the very latest now our correspondent teri schultz is in a brussels terry i understand that the foreign ministers are wrapped up their meeting and that your foreign policy chief joseph burrell spoke to the press what did he have to say. that's right foreign policy chief burrell just wrapped up a press conference in which he said that this had been some of the most fierce debate he's ever seen it was very difficult to get this consensus at the end of the day and he admitted that he didn't think they would be able to when the discussion started today so what's been decided is that they will in principle restart this mission renamed from operation sophia with a new mission they will not be tasked specifically with picking up migrants who may get into distress in the mediterranean and that's the way they were able to bring austria and italy and some other governments on board by saying we are only going to monitor and enforce the arms embargo now that said it should be pointed out that it is a u.n. it is international law that if you see

called it great it right well the topic of west that is a central theme as you said michel and and teri schultz take a look took a look at what exactly is at stake at this munich security conference let's take a look at her report. the biggest deployment of u.s. military might to europe in a quarter century is heading this way for nato as defender 20 exercise 20000 american soldiers and 13000 pieces of equipment should give the enemies pause and allies confidence. both real already water loyal portals within the nato framework but that reinforced military framework risks being undermined by weakness on the political side increasing apathy across the alliance regarding its most fundamental values collective defense what if nato has the weapons but it doesn't have the will a recent survey by the pew research center indicates that across 16 nato countries fewer than 40 percent of respondents would want their militaries used to defend the baltic states or poland in case of an attack by russia the munich security conference has coined a new term to describe this kind of ambivalence. for those wistfu

still invested in in fighting for any kind of international cooperation he's now speaking again to teri schultz a. boy in plain cesky back into those discussions with which the organizers among other things mean. it suggests that actually there is a crisis in the relations between europe and the united states and this is reflected in the fact that europe seems not to follow your lead when you try to engage with iran when you try to redefine the relationship with china which is to go down to an task and a lot of people in this room would say you can only be achieved if europe and america work together but that does not seem to be the case there have been tariffs there have been sanctions used against allies. do you think you can master your priorities ranging from iran to china etc we doubt europe following or we don't you are being an ally the way it was when you were a cold warrior and serving in this country. so i was with secretary baker one of my predecessors who was in this job during roughly that time period he reminded me that you could go back to that time and people were saying much th