refugees during the migration a crisis here in 2015 wasn t she. yes and when you one day calls legacy you will probably also have to look at the role that rules were found alive and played not only as minister of defense but also in previous positions positions as minister of labor and family minister as well she s described as someone who also helped angela merkel move towards the center of the political spectrum something that has helped angular merkel in the past but on the other hand also led to the rise of the if the the far right a danger when you look at our founding line you also have to consider that a role that she in particular defended when she was family minister and labor minister she then moved to a position as germany s minister of defense germany s 1st female minister of defense a very difficult position on their views not one genius there are not the same views if you ask different parties and different members here in germany different
frank food. international gateway to the best convention self and road and rail. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the whole world. experience outstanding shopping and dining offers triallists services. be allat guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from. french president emanuel macron has called for closer cooperation with germany on security and defense and for a more united and so over in europe he was addressing the german parliament on the country s day of remembrance not conjoin chance of the angular merkel in laying a wreath at germany s central memorial for the victims of war and oppression. yemen s who the movement has said it is halting drone and missile attacks in
steel which we consider unlawful under the terms of the w.t.r. . we re not going to let ourselves be taken for a ride we re also going to act. and want defending the g seven the german leader also took the opportunity to call for a more united europe we have to ask ourselves where we can act on line that of course means new responsibilities for europe and it especially means that we in europe need to be loyal to ourselves angular merkel has never had the easiest of relations with donald trump his decision to disrupt the g seven will only have made things worse. to bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. at least thirty four people have been killed in attacks across afghanistan health officials say at least thirteen were killed by a suicide bomber outside
a more united europe we have to ask ourselves where we can act on line that of course means new responsibilities for europe and it is specially means that we in europe need to be loyal to ourselves angular merkel has never had the easiest of relations with donald trump. his decision to disrupt the g seven only have made things worse. to discuss this further we have political correspondent thomas farrow joining us from our parliamentary studio here and berlin thomas the chancellor giving a one on one t.v. interview that s not a common event why did she get in front of the cameras after this g seven meeting your right to be it is not a common event in fact is a very rare event that i m going to hold besides to participate in one of these talk shows she only tends to do these kinds of talk shows when she feels the need to explain the german public some big political developments she did that for example at the height of the refugee crisis she did that for example when she
reprisals the chancellor didn t hold back on why germany and the e.u. should apply retaliatory tariffs. some of we have prepared our countermeasures against the tariffs that the us president placed an alum in human steel which we consider unlawful under the terms of the w.t. oh. we re not going to let ourselves be taken for a ride we re also going to act. and while defending the g seven the german leader also took the opportunity to call for a more united europe we have to ask ourselves where we can act on our own that of course means new responsibilities for europe and it is especially means that we in europe need to be loyal to ourselves angular merkel has never had the easiest of relations with donald trump. his decision to disrupt the g seven will only have