Capital of israel. Yet it is a problem with the result of the european states continue to believe that the only problem i think realistic solution which of those eleven has to come out and make associations and so there has to be a couple of states. Also coming up tonight germany is moving closer to a new government but one young leader among the social democrats considers sharing power with chancellor Angela Merkel to be Something Like the kiss of death for his party. I we dont want it but we have to do it and thats the endless loop weve been in for so many years and comrades that logic must be broken. Or we begin the day with tents and the palestinians today palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met with European UnionForeign Ministers in brussels abbas is on a mission seeking more support from europe he has rejected the u. S. As a peace mediator ever since u. S. President donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel back in december but europe refuses to go that far saying that working with the u. S. Is and remains the go a while abbas is in europe u. S. Vice president mike pence is in israel the Vice President is on his first three day tour of the country to celebrate trumps move on jerusalem today inside the Israeli Parliament the knesset tense was reminded of just how much disarray and anger trumps policy has fall take a look citizens of israel. Israeli arab lawmakers interrupted the u. S. Vice presidency and they raised protest signs reading jerusalem capital of palestine they were quickly forced out of the chamber by security to a standing ovation by Prime Minister netanyahu and his cabinet. Pence went on to deliver a message about the u. S. Embassy moving to jerusalem. In the weeks ahead our administration will advance its plan to open the United States embassy in jerusalem. And that United States embassy will open before the end of next year. All right im happy to welcome back to the big table is deja burger she is the director of the American Jewish committee here in berlin teachers good to have you back on the show creatively let me just get your take on the u. S. Vice president israel what do you make of his visit it was important to move the discussion forward i think its important for the United States to show israel that you know the u. S. Stands behind israel and protests notwithstanding that President Trump is not going back on his decision image of President Trump it is Vice President pence not President Trump who is making this visit in hes going there delivering the message that hes speaking for the president there what message does that send that the u. S. President can is not there in person i mean this decision is not a small reminder decision movie the embassy to jerusalem yes the President Trump has been in israel quite recently and i think it was an important signal that shortly after the president s visit the Vice President has now come i think this is a sign of diplomatic attention at the highest level and a sign of the importance to which this administration attaches the decision about moving the u. S. Embassy into jerusalem tell of it i want to take a moment here and listen to how the palestinians see this today. And on as roy was asked today what she considers the Vice President to be for a person as well as a political figure take a look. But he says that and then there that this extremist fundamentalist look to the list of christian absolute is the geology which goes against all the beliefs and commitments of the arab and Palestinian Christians and particular and they feel that they have been betrayed by somebody who is willing. To amend this and justice using religion as a justification. To me theres a strong words fear isnt parents in many ways teacher isnt he more of a whiny rod then trump is when it comes to religion and when it comes to the middle east of course because he himself is an evangelical christian and i think that its certainly a well as the sentiments even more but jerusalem as we know is a very emotional issue for all the religion says no doubt about it and its understandable that his visit will act as a lightning rod crystallizing those emotions i think whats often forgotten now in the debate is that President Trump did not talk about final boundaries and we can say what we want one can agree with him or not but he certainly is not precluding he went out of his way and in a very good speech in fact to make clear that the United States does not intend to set boundaries which it cant that part of what it is a good point you bring up why do you think that did not come through i think because people even go back and look at his speech its only then that they realize what he did say this is it just the way he delivered the speech is that the reason that people were brought up the wrong way i think people werent listening they heard what they wanted to hear and there was a decision in their minds that he meant Something Different than what he said but thats what he said and i do believe that is what he meant jerusalem can only the final status will be a matter of negotiation and the United States and others stand behind a two state solution its the only way to go and i think any other decision would indeed be very difficult and what about the fact that Vice President pence is in israel but hes not planning to meet with the palestinians. I dont think they want to meet with him theres a lot of anger with the United States at the moment but i think that when tempers calm down the United States remains of course the major power and theres not really any getting around it so i dont think that for the moment that its possible for them to meet with with a high u. S. Official do you think you should think you should have waited a while i mean because you know this visit has already been postponed it was supposed to go earlier but you didnt because there was so much protest and violence in the region things are moving quickly and this move will come sooner than later thats what he wanted to make clear and there wasnt much more time left to wait and i think its also a message to the palestinians facts are on the ground and things are going to happen and were acknowledging that jerusalem is a fact and not a fiction and you may not agree but then lets start negotiating lets talk about the palestinians are Mahmoud Abbas was in brussels today he had talks with e. U. Foreign policy ministers as well as the e. U. Foreign policy chief to take a listen to what they both said. I want to first of all reassure president abbas and his delegation of the Firm Commitment of the European Union to the two state solution with jerusalem as shared capito of the two states. We consider the European Union a true partner and friend we therefore call on its Member States to swiftly recognize the state of palestine there is no contradiction between the recognition of palestine and the resumption of peace negotiations. Do you think what were looking at here deidre is the palestinians trying to get the e. U. To take the role of the us. I think the palestinians are pushing for a one sided diplomatic solution and its not going to work it simply isnt and yes the e. U. Has always been much friendlier to this notion of a one sided recognition of palestine that the u. S. Would not do Something Like this but i dont think that there will be International Recognition and its not a way to forge a path to peace do you think we would be talking about a much more peaceful situation if the u. S. President or even the Vice President were to say to reduce a limb is the capital of israel East Jerusalem is the capital of palestine i dont think its for the u. S. To say that i think that they really does need to be negotiations and i think were a long way away from that point and i think this is the problem president has shown repeatedly that hes not in a position at this moment to negotiate he doesnt want to negotiate and he held a very antisemitic speech just a week ago i mean its not clear that he is in a position or has the interest to really settle this into his images i want to talk to you a little bit about what your office alerted everyone to last week of your office urged the German Government to expel the Iranian Ambassador to germany on claims that iranians are spying on israels embassy a Jewish Committee garden here in berlin that they are or their planned attacks i want to show our audience here a quote from them no it was from install the director of the. Brussels office he was quoted as saying only last week the high representative fredricka marine even from the e. U. Together with the Foreign Ministers of germany france and britain one charged with the Iranian Foreign minister mr tsar if while at the very same time his agents may have been plotting the murder of jewish children and israeli diplomats in germany. I mean thats quite a strong accusation we did have been several police raids across germany but what more do you what more can you tell us about this report that iranian spies are here in this country trying to find jews to kill. What we do know is that an iranian spy has already been sentenced convicted and is now in prison for spying on the head of the German Israeli Society on hold while this was last year we now have new evidence because of this raid last week im in ten different sites in numerous german states one hundred fifty Police Officials we know that theres something afoot that theres certainly evidence we dont know the details of course the criminal officials are being closed mouth to until we hear more but there are certain indications that there were israeli and jewish targets involved this is frightening yeah i mean its very disturbing you get a reaction from the German Government on your call for the arabian ambassador to be expelled has there been any movement now there hasnt been we know that the Foreign Ministry called in the Iranian Ambassador in december in response to the final sentencing of this arena agent but that was before we knew that there were at least ten more possible agents who are being investigated and we certainly hope that the German Government takes action and takes action soon and even if we dont yet know the results of this information it cannot go on and be business as usual do you what do you think that is behind this someone you know our audience around the world looking at this one as one with the iranians since spies into germany to look for jewish targets to to you know to attack or kill whats the motivation here you know the rain ians have one of the most extensive Espionage Networks in europe its a well known fact in amongst intelligence circles i think people dont realize that the reins are looking for a way a lever to destabilize they are trying to do it not just in the mideast but its quite clear that here in the heart of europe that thats one of for them its an easy way to destabilize you dont have to have a huge terrorist attack you can have targeted attacks if you do the surveillance. And with very little effort you can of course cause a Major International incident unfortunately before it ran out of time before we let you go have you had any signs of any reassurance from the German Government that something is being done well they are under investigation where in discussions with different officials of the German Government but i do hope that this is a sign that iran is not on a path to peace for sure not and that its a Security Threat not just to the middle east but here in germany and in europe to your burger with the American Jewish committee in berlin teachers always its good to have you on the show thank you thank you. Well still to come on the day the worlds most powerful politicians and economists rubbing elbows in dava sobel get insights from how the home for you and maybe some tips as you see there about how the shovel snow will dig deep at the World Economic forum coming up in about seven minutes. Or germany is moving closer to forming a new government by a very slim margin delegates from the social Democratic Party voted yesterday to begin coalition together with the conservatives of chancellor Angela Merkel if and when they agree to govern together there will be another vote the social democrats will then be asked to give their blessing or not the pressure to hammer out a positive deal in these negotiations could not be great. A simple show of hands was not enough the margin so narrow that votes had to be counted individually in the end. Despite the relief the result is more evidence that the social democrats germanys oldest party a deeply divided. And the mud at the helm party leader martin shows he has failed to convince at this decisive moment it wasnt his speech that rallied the troops at the Party Conference instead it was three of the partys most prominent women who managed to inspire and win around enough delegates to secure the vote. There was a fully steeply from the s. P. D. Parliamentary leader existence out of the way going to negotiate and tell the other sides wheels if i cant promise you any more than that i dont know if ill get one hundred percent of what we want probably not but were going to negotiate and get small good results thats why voting yes today is worth it thank you justin sitting down thank you it was honesty. Just to be a stand in the east of the bench we didnt prepare for a possible collapse of the Coalition Talks between the other parties was a mistake and that mistake was made by us the party leadership. Oh never is a call for renewal by one of the parties most popular politicians up there and this renewal is up to us it can only come from within. There is going to pressure on shows from the youth wing of the party whose members campaigned for him and lead against a renewed coalition with merkel c. D. U. And have vowed to continue their fight. Is martin shows the boy mantra unite the party and give it the fresh impetus it will need to enter into another governing coalition. Many within the Party Beginning to doubt that. And we want to pull in our Political CorrespondentAllison Young he is outside the headquarters of the christian democrats the c. D. U. That im going to medicals party here in berlin good evening to you simon so what can we expect to come out of these talks you know the leader of the young wing of the s. P. D. He says that this coalition can only be a repeat of the past four years. Yes been well although theres been a decision by social democrats to press ahead with full Coalition Talks with conservatives were going to have to be a little bit more patient because the s. P. D. Say that they need more time to decide exactly what how theyre going to approach these talks with what Personnel Team in fact not going to come to the negotiations but also where theyre going to try and push for some more concessions because of course so many people in the social Democrat Party have said that thats what theyre looking for so tonights meeting here at c. D. U. Had quarters with martin shields of the s. P. D. And the two conservative leaders is basically just to set the agenda set the timetable for talks that we expect will begin later this week and you know weve heard that the s. P. D. Party leader martin shoulders he says that he wants to revisit all of the key issues in these formal talks which are about to begin i mean how much pressure does this put on these negotiations. Well you know there is a lot of pressure because weve seen such a Division Within the s. P. D. So many people very unhappy about the fact that being in grand coalition is essentially seen them lose support over the years in successive terms but its also they feel buried the social democrat agenda and so thats really the danger for them and that of course in a certain way strengthens Martin Schulze his hand because he can say to Angela Merkel look you know ive got my people waiting at home theyre going to be given a vote on this Coalition Deal if we put one together so if theres no red meat in there for social democrats to get behind asked to be something in terms of policy on the labor market on the Health Care System once some of these key areas that have been identified where social democrats would like to see some concessions from Angela Merkel saw it and so i mean weve got about twenty seconds left give us a date here is there any idea when we might see a new government here in germany was a few more weeks of talks brant and then as i say theyll be a vote of the s. P. D. Membership to see if they approve the deal people here are saying it could be made moments before any new grand Coalition Government is sworn in so im young on the story for us tonight here in berlin so ivan thank you very much. Lets not forget he is a democratically elected president of some most powerful nation in the world and so presence of the president of the United States. We hopefully provide him even better recently over a prospective recruit see what his missa treated to be and said we can form our old pull now is a very optimistic take on the visit of the u. S. President scheduled for later this week at the World Economic forum from the World Economic forums founder and executive chairman klaus straw on wednesday the french president of the german chancellor Angela Merkel are scheduled to deliver addresses as well will we understand that they will tackle the need for more International Cooperation they will speak on the positives of globalization and reject growing populism in the west and as we said u. S. President obama trying he speaks on friday will his address be an answer to europe well i know someone who may have the answers that our very own helen hunt for she will be giving us full coverage from davos switzerland throughout the week and what a big week it will be she joins me now eleanor good evening to you youre back in davos back in the deep freeze i got to ask you a government deal in the u. S. Today the three day shutdown is over or are they saying about that in davos. Stephanie a strange one brant because now the participation of the u. S. President seems assured on the final day on friday when u. S. President all trump will deliver the keynote closing address as a boss here in davos despite the fact that u. S. President donald trump perhaps represents the antithesis of the classic davos man or woman from everything weve seen over the past year of his presidency and one of his initial days in the white house he took the United States out of the paris climate agreement he then proceeded to tear up the t. T. P. Trade deal nafta appears to be on the ropes this speaks against everything that the devil silly stands for in terms of globalization anti protectionist sentiment that said remember that the devil salit likes hearing from power last year we saw an historic speech from a chinese president xi jinping which was welcomed by the devil salit here they wanted to hear what he had to say despite the fact that there remains some mystery over the openness of the communist countries economy so perhaps ill be listening closely to what donald trump has to say here they cant ignore the fact that he is the leader of the Worlds Largest economy the i. M. F. Christine legarde today talked about the shape of the Global Economy so tell us are we looking. These National Monetary fund seems relatively optimistic about the shape of the Global EconomyGoing Forward its revised its growth estimate for this year and for the next year upwards by zero point two percent to stand at three point nine percent who said that growth is coming from europe its coming from asia and it said that it could stand to come from the u. S. Based on the u. S. Tax reform have a glare growth could tail off that in twenty twenty two g. To the fact that then the u. S. Budget would be increased the deficit would be increased that you had a question today about growth for the interNational Monetary funds chief economist maurice obst failed to take a listen to the. Q hadnt humphrey. Is growth in itself not an outdated concept or measurement when were seeing the benefits of the last cycle filter through to fewer and fewer people. You know is g. D. P. The right way to look at welfare and. There i would argue you know certainly no but its probably better than all the other ways that have been suggested but it clearly it clearly leaves out a lot and to the extent we can improve our measurement of what the economy produces g. D. P. Certainly does leave out a lot in terms of inclusiveness in terms of that wealth filtering down we saw that office for oxfam report today showing the every second day a new billionaire filtered into the Global Economy last year and eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year remains in the hands of the one percent many of whom probably here in davos. Yeah and im sure were going to be talking about that one percent all through the week i have to ask you since weve got that beautiful scenery behind you there i know its cold but there has been lots of snow as a matter of fact if im not mistaken we have proof on video maybe we can show that instead of letting you watch my face the whole time there we go proof that you and our esteemed colleague ben to zoom in today had to get out and shovel snow just to make this report possible is that you helena. I do you might be as well who said anything about just the one percent in dallas minus three degrees more snow than weve seen in the last ten years here at the moment is that the strength. Or you know i my grandfather said a little hard work never hurt anybody tell if you burn your stripes for sure hell if theyre covering the World Economic forum fourth from davos switzerland we will be talking with you every night this week hell and looking forward to it thank you. 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