Shorts to secure a deal before the elections. How do strongman leaders been twist democracy to fit their will you could look to russia but its whaler and then there is turkey president erda ones Political Party lost control of its stamboul in municipal elections back in march it was such a shock to air to one that next month is stamboul will repeat its election tonight ill ask her to ones a key party whats the plan next time to make sure the will of the people follows the plan of the president im bringing off in berlin this is the day. Shuttle launch has been cheating has been corruption well this is clear and unambiguous and the list came from somebody who doesnt want to lose his policy so
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sudden cancellation appear really did not go down very well here in berlin this is once norbert and the share of the foreign affairs committee here in germany the german part of this is what he said today even if there were unavoidable reasons for the cancellation it unfortunately fits into the current climate in the relationship of the two governments washington in berlin belinda i mean you don t have to read between the winds there to understand that the government here in berlin has been put off by. no no of course the government did not officially express that sentiment there was simply mention made that the meeting would very soon be rescheduled but there is no question if this had only been a meeting between the foreign minister of germany and the secretary of state that might have been a different matter but he was set to meet the chancellor and the secretary of state has now been in his is position for over
hormuz that in conjunction with tensions that are ratcheting ratcheting up with iran and the secretary of state said at that time that one of the reasons the u.s. was doing that is that it had credible threats that there could be an iranian attack on u.s. forces in the area including in iraq so perhaps this is meant as a kind of demonstration of the significance of the threat but you would you heard there in washington one of the sources been able to see about. change of plans. emelin the just laid it out it was quite mysterious today. media was reporting about where on earth the secretary of state is traveling to and in fact not even as melinda said the press corps traveling with them was informed but in addition to that they were also not allowed to report it until the delegation would have left
berlin and in washington d. w. correspondent oliver salih is following the story forced from there good evening to both of you let me ask both of you have you heard from your sources today why pompei go canceled his visit to berlin linda let me start with you what have you heard. yes we have been hearing through the course of the afternoon and now also are seeing some confirmations coming in on the wires that the secretary of state and those who are traveling with him went to iraq now apparently the journalists who work company in him were told in the afternoon after the meeting with chancellor merkel was counseled that today would be going to a country that they could not name and that they could not report on the trip but as i said we are seeing some as yet unconfirmed reports that that country was in fact iraq and we can only speculate why that would be as you know the u.s. announced a couple of days ago that it is deploying an aircraft carrier to the straits of
a year he skipped the munich security conference although he was in europe at the time he has not been to germany and there s a sense here that this simply reflects what has become a very chilly relationship between the u.s. and germany and german politicians pointed out today look we need to work together it is very important that we address the geo political tensions in the world through cooperative and devers but that needs to be essentially a two way street both sides have to work at it all right personally we re out of time all integrated in washington or here in berlin oversell or correspond in washington to both of you thank you very much. let s not we continue our series on germany twenty nine the big issues our correspondent keep brady has been traveling around the country to find out what s on people s minds on the latest stage takes a look at what many people here say is