where he says chance or uncle americal of germany told mr obama there we go that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of mr trump selection to defend a liberal international order when they parted for the final time ms merkel had a single tear in her eye she's all alone mr obama noted now. remember i remember us talking about obama passing the baton of the western liberal democracy world to merkel the baton that he had wanted to give to hillary clinton and it is that what that isabel i think it comes to show that barack obama and he says that in the book as well that maybe they just promoted empty cosmopolitan goldberg global liberal and that you know maybe they forgot about identity and that is something that voters in the u.s. at least were looking out for when it comes to angela merkel i think she summed it up last summer during the german campaign when she was in a beer tent in bavaria saying look we pretty much have to figure it out by ourselves on the european continent we don't have that partner anymore and i think in the in the segment just before hand with her

mean it's where it's a sizable amount of money an amount of investment that we're talking about uncle americal she's going to have to basically defend her position but at the same time make it isn't she going to have to make a decision do we allow our businesses to stay there or do we face economic sanctions from the u.s. so little i mean the term companies have been have remained a little bit hesitant to get involved by the in their own because of the. prospect of sanctions from the united states but i think the damage political damage is the voice guinea imagine that and that the united states is targeting european companies sanctions you're usually thank you blood to countries. authoritarian rules took there in turn turn turn around and list guilty of genocide or terrible things but they are faking german companies french companies british companies and i think i mean it is it is something we've never seen before and we just saw over the ticker here that mr bolton the national security adviser for the u.s. president has already said that european companies will have to get out of iran so th

times but uncle americal never had to carry along this kind of geo political back tonight can balance the trump threats to trade and global order against the man in charge in beijing the man who recently made himself president for life i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. the book of our talks will focus on bilateral relations. also international disputes trade for example. without will be china's out there and economic cooperation and assistance have a normal to reemerge of. the chinese that they're going. to take advantage of us on trade the way we've been taking advantage of when people want to strengthen multilateralism i can tell from marcus music is very important because it can clarity for she teresa i'm looking forward to the trip that was two of the great days of my life being in china. also coming up on the day the passing of an american literary giant will reflect on the wife and the works and obsessions of philip. lose in the do everything or lose in the ever run yes i fear it at the end of every book. or we begin today with two leaders who rely on each other economic

difficult to say on the public display of affection with uncle americal also on the same or same line and wants to show that paris and berlin are going together on the european topics but we are a few weeks away from a particularly important deadline for a real reform of the european union and the differences between paris and berlin are very deep expression only on the euro zone topic where. some proposal and believe in the conservative behind on the market are not really. willing to go alone she's not is excited about it as he is a nail of course they have this albatross around their neck the nuclear crisis will all. all of that served in to to put a brake on mek wrongs you know european union divisions if medical in the resume are able to create or to find a deterrent to avoids the us to put sanctions on foreign companies dealing with iran then maybe it will bring the europeans closer together and maybe it's a chance that they're to find a way for reforming the e.u. well you know i will have to see what happens there we know with we're dealing with the almost drop in transit when h

uncle americal is a very very difficult dilemma i find because of course on the one hand she's dealing with this deteriorating transatlantic relationship with the trumpet ministration and is she trying to pivot towards russia and make up for some of that well i don't think so because this would be a very dangerous road to take very problematic because it would convey the notion that germany in cooperation with other european powers and russia is a trying to confront in regard to the states and that would be a very big mistake to convey the impression and a certain it would be a big mistake because the substance of the addiction five to one is out of mindset political ad. alist an expert on russia thank you sir for wayne thank you. the world health organization has raised the national threat level of an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo to the very high all this after the health ministry there confirmed to eleven new cases of the virus along with the two new suspected that's on that brings the total number of reported cases to forty five well w h o's the headquarters is

uncle americal not to have attended the silk road summit.is that inch here is that we have to take up china's offer to say that this is a multilateral project because this would be a good idea in theory it's a good thing but in practice until now it is not and the challenge here is to work with china because we need china as a partner we're not going to contain china in any way we shouldn't and at the same time we have to acknowledge that china has a very strong strategy there where we have none that we don't have similar offers that we can make to emerging economies telling them we can help you to build power stations and and networks train networks in a similar way so we have to be more receptive to to their needs and come up with an alternative and only if we have an alternative and it's actually in the german coalition treaty that we need european alternative to the silk road only then can we put pressure on china to level the playing field and make it a truly multilateral and i think part of the problem is that a lot of these projects c

president donald trump but also a message of goodwill towards germany just in time for uncle americal visit to beijing on thursday. the price cut at bentley china could be imminent from june and the country reduces deemed by terrors for cars from twenty five to fifteen percent however many european and american mid-range car producers chose a different path years ago. this had a production sites in china to avoid to tariffs it's good for them that china is also reducing the duty sun car parts so even those producing inside the country will benefit. in the case of b.m.w. and dime learn the tariff cuts could boost profits for them by one billion euros china is already two worlds largest come market and its relevance is rising by twenty twenty one and treat passenger cars sold globally will hit the roads in china. producers will probably keep possibly some of the cuts onto consumers some are already looking forward to it. i wouldn't be able to buy luxury goods such as carson watches or lower prices. german chancellor angela merkel is probably happy about the improved tariff conditions ho

method led to the rise of the far right which is now in the german parliament would you say that uncle americal is partly responsible for the rise of the party well francis of strauss who is the former leader of the c.s.u. famously said that there should be no democratic party to the right of the christian democrats in germany that was really the responsibility of christian democrats in germany to ensure that they were sort of the catch all for conservative voters and it's clear that. failed in that task now whether or not she had a choice people can debate that you know presented with this massive crisis on her hands or should she have let in the refugees or not but i think whatever you think of the justice of that decision you can't deny the the negative consequences of it and across europe and the rise of populist far right parties across where they are in parliament and the language they use is certainly something we were not used to here in germany i want you to take a listen now to what the if the leader of this vita what she had to say today about the budget also about minorities that im

she has traveled to china as german chancellor eleven times but uncle americal never had to carry along this kind of geo political baggage tonight can medical balance the trump threats to trade and global order against the man in charge in beijing the man who recently made himself president for life i'm burned off in berlin this is the day.

commission has failed to respond despite the calls made by people like john called younker and uncle americal who have gone on record to urge the e.u. to achieve digital sovereignty but we see no moves in this direction. was the parliament completely wrong. i don't think so but we're using procurement systems to buy some new software it's an open competition for sorry for desktop software for office automation and for mail there is no competition i don't think it's so simple that we can just for prohibits the uses of some pride of software and then no problems anywhere no cyber attacks and no cyber incidents anything oh no no we will be happy oh i'm sorry it's already there nobody nobody here. claim this and not now not ever not even really i would like to say you're sad this no no these are the only problem we have in the european your know there are a lot of other problems but the microsoft issue is the elephant in the room which nobody wants to talk about and that is the reason why we do this film i don't think we have we have to intervene police are going to. economically shows so we have

times but uncle americal never had to carry along this kind of geo political baggage tonight can balance the trump threats to trade and global order against the man in charge in beijing the man who recently made himself president for life i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. the book of our talks will focus on bilateral relations. also international disputes back trade for example. without will be china's out there and economic cooperation and assistance have a noble cheer your motives. that china is the big one. to take advantage of us all.

she has traveled to china as german chancellor eleven times but uncle americal never had to carry alongthis kind of geo political back which tonight can balance the trump threats to trade and global order against the man in charge in beijing the man who recently made himself president for life i'm often berlin this is the day. the focus of our talks will focus on bilateral relations. also international disputes like trade for example. china's out down to economic cooperation and assistance have a novelty reemerges of. china's the big one. to take advantage of us on trade the way we've been taken advantage of until you want to strengthen multilateralism a concussion marcus music is very important because it can clary for a situation.