A difficult ukraine heat. To be made to lessen the. European nations were set up in order to get it into the United States you know what is a strong europe for europe is. Also coming up tonight democrats who want to take back the white house faced off on live t. V. For the 1st time last night the current resident of the white house watched them said he found it boring. Boring and these are the issues of our day you got to listen otherwise people are just looking it down. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with worries about the health of the worlds most powerful woman for the 2nd time in a week german chancellor Angela Merkel was seen shaking not violently but visibly shaking. You could see the chancellor standing and holding her arms tightly at her body as she stood today next to the german president for an altar steinmeyer the Chancellors Office leaders say busy that mrs merkel was fine as she departed for the g 20 summit in japan todays episode follows a similar incident last week which was attributed to the chancellor being dehydrated. More on the health of the german chancellor george or the b. Table held by our Political Correspondents leoni friends almost and we want we want to reiterate the the authors of the chancellor said today that she is doing fine right exactly the spokesman came out afterwards and said the chance it was doing just fine and she would continue with her schedule as fans and she did indeed just half an hour later she went to the German Parliament for those wearing enough the new Justice Minister and then a couple of hours later she boarded a plane to go to japan to attend the g. 20 summit and then on sunday she will head to brussels where shes set to head to brussels for another you summit so it looks like the chance to america is really doing fine she is continuing with her schedule as one company said today you know if youre not doing well youre not going to get a plane to fly to the other side of the world as merkel did earlier today but the Media Attention it has been tremendous about the health of the german chancellor and we you know we cant see enough its understandable right she is considered to be the worlds most powerful woman and when merkel shakes the world also shakes with her doesnt it yeah exactly concern is growing here especially also in germany and say i mean also across the world people are looking to america she stands more than any other leader of the world for that stability and especially in germany i mean shes been in power for 14 years and all of my adult life has been chancellor and a machine answers self last year that she is not seeking another Political Office after her term ends in 2021. But i think the strangling today really shakes up people over germany because they anything that ignites suspicion that she might leave early if they were really puts people in a position to get to ask themselves what would germany look like after america actually steps down as chancellor yeah its good its a good point i mean the fact that people are worried about her health also forces them to be confronted with the period after the era of im going mental and how that will be Political Correspondent the only thing has done thank you. Joining other leaders in japan for the g. 20 summit which begins friday the g. 20 is supposed to be the forum where leaders talk about global problems and agree on how to solve them together but for u. S. President trump it has become an occasion for launching accusations against u. S. Allies and for holding one on one get togethers alva view from reporters as trump departed for the g. 20 he accused germany again of free loading at nato and he accused the European Union of using hefty fines to pickpocket americas high tech companies. Creatures worse than china europe is a bully but you know i come from europe we come you you come from europe ok youre one of the youre already european nations european nations were set up in order to take advantage of the United States to set up the trade in order to take advantage and they have you know they very smartly have well. And he is covering the g 20 summit force in osaka japan. The japanese presidency is desperately trying to focus on well traditional g 20 topics such as the reform of the World Trade Organization or projects to fight Climate Change but what might happen here and is that all of this is overshadowed by the big trump shoulder does not believe in multilateral institutions in fact hes coming here to have a series of bilateral meetings and one of them is highly anticipated with the chinese president on saturday as we know both countries on the edge of a full fledged trade war and the outcome of that bilateral meeting might determine the fate of world trade in the next months up or down. Up or down thats makes up of the reporting from of saugor japan or europe is worried that it could be pulled into a trade war of its own with the u. S. And you could add that to the growing fears of being dragged into a washington led war with iran its been only a week since President Trump said that he called off u. S. Airstrikes against iran with just minutes to go following tehrans downing of a u. S. Drone a new acting u. S. Defense secretary from the u. S. Market as he told his counterparts in brussels today that washington wanted to avoid conflicts but he says washington cannot tolerate any further incidents as he said he went on to say that even though the u. S. Held iran responsible for 2 attacks on tankers in the gulf of them on this month washington did not want this situation to escalate to kill is our goal is to bring iran to the negotiating table to conclude a comprehensive enduring deal that addresses Irans Nuclear program its a Ballistic Missile development of proliferation its support for terrorism and other malign activities or strategy is at its core an economic and diplomatic one again we do not seek Armed Conflict with iran but we are ready to defend u. S. Forces and interests in the region so how did that message from the new pentagon chief go down at nato heres g. W. Correspondent gary schultz and what allies were calling a bilateral issue between the u. S. And iran is now becoming an International Issue and the u. S. Has said clearly thats what it wants it believes that more pressure will bring iran to the negotiating table so that said everyone was very relieved to hear secretary esper say as you heard there that the u. S. Wants to rely on political pressure economic pressure and diplomatic pressure as secretary general again still somebody explains. I think that one Important Message is thought. Is that the United States so clearly the house stated that they dont want a war they actually said very clearly that there it is to talk with their own without preconditions and it was a message from allies so they that we support efforts to deescalate to avoid the miscalculations incidents accidents and especially that they spotted all out of control and create a really dangerous. Dangerous situation and i was just speaking with a european diplomat who told me that inside the room when secretary asked for said that they wanted more allied support they wanted more public statements against iran they may want air surveillance they may want naval escorts that there was quite a subdued response from the european allies so the United States is going to have to work very hard to prove to european allies that they should pull their support from the Nuclear Accord and give it over to the United States which is in favor of a broader agreement that would take into account the nuclear Nuclear Program of iran but also Ballistic Missiles also other provocative behavior in the region this is a very very complicated dance for both europe and the United States and were just seeing the beginning of it now with secretary espers appeal here at nato. Who will take in the migrants in the mediterranean the European Union tonight is calling on italy to find a quick resolution to would standoff with the German Organization whose migrant rescue ship has entered to tell good waters despite a ban from rome on board that ship or 42 people picked up off the coast of libya 2 weeks ago meanwhile the head of the federation of Protestant Churches here in germany has suggested that the church get involved in rescue efforts by partnering with civil organizations to send another ship to the mediterranean a realistic option to talk about that im joined here at the table now by the chairman of germanys federation of Protestant Churches. Mr. Strawman its good to have you on the program let me start by asking you why does the Protestant Church want to support search and rescue missions what were seeing right now in the mediterranean well the basic answer is pretty easy you do not let people drown period. It is a human duty and its certainly a christian duty to come to aid to people whose life is in danger and its intolerable its a moral scandal that those who have saved lives the only ones who save lives in the military and terrain and have to justify themselves are actually being criminalized instead of accusing those who fail to save lives but its let me just play devils advocate here and there are people who are going to say that you know all over the world there are people who need help people who are in trouble but theyre not getting the Media Attention that this ship is getting. Is that why youre saying that they should be helped because theyre in the spotlight well you should do both you should help these people and you should very closely look at all regions of the world to see how you can overcome poverty whole how you can overcome hunger overcome injustice both things are necessary but these people have been saved their lives have been saved and europe does not let them go to a safe haven what does that say about europe that is my question we speak about christian values in europe and then we do not let people lend who have been safe from terrible situations who have come from concentration camps in libya and who try to just have a safe place to stay what about trying to talk with the government in rome. Put pressure on them to change the policy would there be a more feasible well of course of course that is exactly what has been done and we as Protestant Churches in germany and i also personally we have of course called politics to act and i have been silent negotiations in the background in the last 2 weeks do you get the feeling that theyre listening to you the German Government does listen and the German Government has also said that they would receive for if you g. s and there are other governments there are 60 cities in germany alone we have said we will take refugees who have been saved and there are other cities in europe so that is not the problem that is the scandal that there is a place to stay for them many people want to health but the Italian Government does not let them help and they block the harbor they do not let the boat lend and that is nothing that we can tolerate europe cannot block itself against people whose life has just been saved and you were in sicily at the beginning of this month right what did you see there well i visited the sea what 3 i visited the crew the authorities did not let me go on board but i took a rubber boat so i came close anyway and i heard the stories of the crew you have to imagine that they find people in these rubber boats who are in real danger and then they take them on board and you can imagine what you see you see people. Who are in a place that smells very bad or who are injured who need medical aid who are absolutely desperate and they take them on board and then you imagine that you have these people on board and they think. They have been saved and then that you must tell them that europe does not want them to lend are you going to use your authority i mean can you confirm tonight been that some others ship will be sent in may be to take you know the migrants that are on this boat to take them in to bring them to assure to bring the maybe here to germany i mean what can you confirm tonight well there is a readiness by the government to receive refugees and so that is not the problem the problem is what happens in the mediterranean if the socalled libyan coast guard picks them up as europe wants them to do it they put them back into the camps and in those camps in deep contradiction to all christian values and also to all humanitarian values so that is not an immediate option so that is why we as churches have said we want to help and there has been a big Church Convention of 100000 people a few days ago and from that big Church Convention where many thousands of people have come together they said we must act we cannot just speak if we want to take our Christian Faith seriously so they have made a resolution and gave it to us as the church as the Institutional Church and asked us to try to bring together a Civil Society group. You know if you want to do this with the German Government being there with you this is not something that the church would be doing outside of the governments well and our what we say is it is the duty of the european governments to save lives and i have visited marine boat of the German Government 2 years ago in the Sofia Mission the saffir mission was called by the European Commission to destroy the Human Trafficking networks which i explicitly support but at the same time safe people who they find they saved many thousands of people but this is over they not they dont do. It anymore and what i say is that governments must do it but if they dont do it Civil Society must help ok bishop behind the strong chairman of germanys federation of Protestant Churches mr butters well we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and you know please come back and let us know especially what happens with this thank you thank you. Theyre all coming out of the state yes. Well health care is a basic human right and i will fight for basic right to be i think we should be the party that keeps whats working and fixes whats broken but its one simple as i sit with you in order as in except when people come to their blues country do not leave their human rights at the border would not build walls would not put kids in cages in fact we would stir and see that were you know. A lot of it is in a separated for all the american citizens out there who feel youre falling behind feel the American Dream is not working for you the immigrants didnt do that so you have a president the United States who so focused on hate and fear and division and this president literally every single day 10 minutes away from going to war one tweet away from going to war and i dont think we should conduct Foreign Policy in our bathrobe at 5 in the largest were going to get rid of the. Bathrooms at 5 in the morning those were some of the highlights from miami last night as democratic president ial candidates came face to face for the 1st time in a live debate a debate that was as you saw there he did with universal health care and the u. S. Migrant crisis on the Mexican Border looming large Elizabeth Warren cemented her status as a front runner using her plans for economic reform to score points and for the most part the candidates did not launch that all well assault on President Trump w. s correspondent alexander phenomena is in miami. I was surprised that the candidates didnt talk about it very much but i think that the reason for that was that they wanted to. You know to sell their poll is cease to talk about personal proposals they want to take their message the message just directly to the prime time audiences because many of them are still not very well known in the us so they tried to use this opportunity to really get their message out and it was a washington correspondent there alexander phenomena reporting from miami ari lets take the story to the next level and to get to new york im joined now by galen drew he is the host and producer of the 538 point. Its good to have you on the show you if people listen to your podcast or if they follow you on twitter they will know that youre a man who wants to work with data so lets use this data do we know how many people were watching last night and can we conclude from that these dimmer these democratic debates are going to make a difference at this stage. Yeah we have the data so far from who watched on the Network Service 15300000 people and that doesnt include streaming out of course in todays day a lot of people are going to be watching on you tube streaming etc so we know how many people watched on t. V. 15300000 that compares with october of 2015 the 1st democratic primary debate during the last cycle was 15 and a half 1000000 so its about comparable the reason it might be a little bit lower and not you know be more comparable to say for publicans in 2016 which was like 24000000 if you go to the middle of the summer you know its earlier in the cycle people may not be paying as much attention 15300000 is still tricky good for this early in the cycle you know whether or not the debates peoples views of the candidates are almost another issue because so many more people than that are going to end up watching soundbites and read the narratives and so on from the media after this yeah i mean you know you bring up a point its still a long way until we come to election day november 2020. Last night better or one of the candidates mentioned jerry meandering in the debate and if people know what that term means its the practice of drawing voting district lines to advantage one group over another at the ballot box now this became a huge topic in the United States today when talk about that but 1st i want you to listen to what works said last night about. New democracy that is revived because we return power to the people no pads no gerrymandering automatic and same day Voter Registration to bring in more voters and a new Voting Rights act to get rid of the barriers in a place and thats how we each have a voice in our democracy and make this economy work for everything. That is important because the Supreme Court today said that it is not the place to decide whether or not gerrymandering is constitutional or good or bad think thats a huge decision isnt it yes so for the past say 15 years were forwards have been hoping that the Supreme Court would rule that extreme partisan jamen is unconstitutional and bar state legislatures from drawing districts that strongly advantage one party over the other right now thats Standard Practice when one party gets in control they can draw districts that keep their party in power and can make it extremely difficult for an Opposition Party to take back control in the United States we have a pretty partisan environment so you can predict pretty easily how he will vote and drive your voting district so that you know youre pretty much guaranteed to win and a lot of voters a lot of americans in general this cuts across party lines dont really like the fact when you poll it is an unpopular and just in general in america theres a sense among the public that things are big you heard this on the right in 2016 youre hearing us now from the more progressive candidates they feel like the normal levers of government of democracy are not working the way that theyre supposed to and theyre upset about it and partisan journey mentoring has certainly been one of the key focuses of that this contract. And you know watching this from outside the u. S. People scratch their heads and say how can this practice even be legal to begin with we weve heard today from several commentators saying that its anything but democratic Jerry Mandurah what do you think is going to mean for tonights 2nd part of the democratic debate there in miami right show the 2nd round of debaters have the opportunity to comment on the best last night they didnt as i mention it cuts across party lines how unpopular partisan gerrymandering is and this feeling that things are right so its kind of an easy win for candidates who want to you know talk about something that probably unpopular maybe not talk about medicare for all or abolishing private insurance like last night they just want to kind of get an easy win and say you know things are rigged and the Supreme Court is making these conservative rulings that wouldnt have been the case if donald trump didnt win so you can tie and Supreme Court politics you can tie in the way that things are rigged against kind of the average voter and things like that im sure were going to hear plenty about that tonight in terms of why this is legal to begin with you know in the United States we have a Representative Democracy where people elect are elected out of districts we dont have proportional representation where if you get 30 percent of the goat you get 30 percent of the seats its winner take all to win the district you got to see its yours for 2 years and kind of thats the way it goes we have seen part of the gerrymandering and other countries but its usually not quite to the extent that we have here in the United States you know thats a very good point to make before we run out of time to ask you not a lot was said last night about russia and russia meddling in the 2016 election and we know that theres this feeling that none of what has been done since 2016 to protect the 2020 alleged what your opinion is 2020 going to be somewhat of a carbon copy of 2060. Look in terms of how the candidates are talking about russia the investigation russian interference into elections i think after the 2016 election during which Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time talking about trump and how hes corrupt his relationship with russia it says. Democrats are kind of worried that they dont have enough of an economic platform to run on so theyre focusing on that as far securing our elections only time will tell right some candidate type plan some dont but again only time will tell and more about all right gillon drink the host and producer of the 538 podcast guillens going to have you on the show we appreciate your time tonight thank you thanks a lot take care. Well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day hope to see the. Country go International Talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week. 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