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One step have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u. S. Power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver. Ok lets head to germany now where the s. P. D. Party convention is voted in favor of launching Coalition Talks with angle of merkels party and even though the result is what the s. P. D. Leader martin shills have been campaigning for it has been anything but an easy ride for him peter all of it joins me now live from berlin think about it all should be happy shouldnt he i mean as i understand this is what he wanted. Well he should be happy this is what he wanted but it was heart in mouth time for the leader of the social Democratic Party as he gave a one more pleading than inspirational speech to those delegates and party
Rhetoric for the Trump Administration lot of. America do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience i told brock obama the same unfortunately i dont get any response. Those who see the backing of the us will not stand the turkish nation it is our National Struggle is essentially turning on and has allies hes accused the west of providing weapons and ammunition to the Kurdish Militia he says that aside from five thousand trucks weapons and ammunition from some two thousand planes has been provided the turkish president also saying to quote that his allies are dishonest when they do not admit to the fact that they have been supplying weapons to terrorists and here of course hes referencing the Kurdish Militia known as the y p g france is calling for an urgent United Nations Security Council meeting while at the same time germany has expressed that it is extremely concerned with these developments particularly saying that the culture lated risks that could r
Developing countries respond to that at the summit . I know you met with people on the side. Yeah. There are a lot of things that i saw being discussed that relate to the president s plan. We had and most of the meetings i went to were with industry, so it was really fun. Large industries as well as small. We talked about the 111d proposal and the broad context about its sort of gamechanging nature, that its a really strong signal for the u. S. The president s presence there was clearly another strong signal. I also had discussions with oil and gas on methane commitments. There are some great opportunities to work internationally and we have the Largest Companies participating in those discussions through our climate and what is it called . Climate and clean air coalition, which is an International Sort of collaboration with dozens of countries and business sector. We talked a little bit about hfcs. There were big commitments on those as well. There was a lot of discussion over the dev