of the fall of the berlin wall the cold and former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev came together to mark the occasion. the war could never be ropes your dream our green. one germany. a free germany a proud germany that is thankfully regained its rightful place among the leading nations on the earth. when news of his death broke bush diplomatic contributions to german unity were at the forefront of many people s minds. on the sidelines of a g. twenty summit in argentina german chancellor angela merkel expressed her condolences as well as an apparent sentimentality for a different era and transatlantic relations and would call quentin s a home that cold could always rely on his ally in the white house during george h.w. bush s presidency we experienced reliability and strength in the german american
tunnel a little sunshine at the horizon where the world might become an easier place again and that s between china and the united states there will be a meeting between chinese president xi jinping saturday evening together with donald trump the u.s. president and they might just give themselves a break in that trade war that has been going on for the better part of this year at least that s what we re hearing that the signs are increasing they might find a way forward find a solution but with the american president at the moment you can never be sure. of the first g. twenty summit back in two thousand and eight it was forged in a financial crisis we know the dissolution was found in the economic story today dramatically different but some would say it s just as dangerous i m not sure i can hear you can you hear me right now i can hear you now can you hear me javier. ok i guess you can t let me ask my producer are we going to stay with them or should we give back to mil and. we ll see
world s largest hotel group says the personal data of up to half a billion guests may have been compromised in a hike of the starwood reservation database a further investigation revealed there had been on authorized access to the accounts as far back as two thousand and fourteen. who will protect the world order as we know it well these are the candidates world leaders convening at the g. twenty summit in argentina they include a crown prince suspected of ordering a murder a president who s flirting with war and the leader of a superpower who evidently is all about me me and me i broke off in berlin this is the day. i would like to you to believe does so seriously discuss three on the ship such
twenty summit in argentina a meeting of world leaders in a world that many say is suffering from a lack of leadership the first g twenty summit took place in two thousand and eight with one important mission to rescue the global economy from the biggest financial crisis in seventy years and those leaders were successful or fast forward to today the g. twenty now accounts for eighty five percent of the world economic output two thirds of the world s population you would think that by now it would be the go to form for fixing what is wrong in the world well it is anything but that huge differences on climate change global trade and even the murder of salty journalist of a saudi journalist reveal deep and growing rifts today one european union leader reminded his counterparts of exactly why they are spending the next day or two together we have written to him let s do it did us use and these is. the principle that come to we knew
european union can t force its energy providers to buy the gas over there you know i did states so the promises made by the e.u. might not be a substantial lies in the future we don t know we do know that the elegy exports from the united states to europe have increased but those dimensions aren t comparable to the gas that for example countries like germany are getting from russia it s clearly political it s something that the e.u. can give to the united states to pacify trump but to back it up it s still a long way yes very good point max thank you well he is the president to many leaders would like to spend some time with at the g. twenty summit and i m not talking about donald trump i m talking about russian president vladimir putin today. we know there will be no sideline meeting between him and u.s. president trump we also know that german chancellor angela merkel will meet with mr putin to discuss escalations tensions with ukraine no word on whether or not trump will be present