treaty to bring people back to the table to bring and foster negotiations when those concerns. ok so we re actually seeing live pictures right now of chancellor merkel approaching the. stage and we will be crossing to her as soon as she starts speaking in the meantime million we will continue with our conversation here you mentioned the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate range nuclear forces tracy. u.s. vice president mike pence is going to be speaking just off to chancellor merkel the u.s. has announced it s going to be leaving the tree see russia says it will do the same saying this is a threat to european security what is germany doing about this well germany has announced both the foreign minister and the defense minister also have on the line are we going to save german chancellor angela merkel is going to address this issue any further that they want to bring negotiations negotiations back on they don t
let s get the latest on that story now we have our correspondent dorian jones standing by in istanbul and we also have our chief political correspondent melinda great crane with us hi melinda and adoring good to see both well and let s start with you seven german still being held in turkey on political charges how likely is it that heikal mosque will be able to secure their release. well we have seen a thawing of relations between turkey and germany which had been very very tense ever since the attempted putsch against president after one two years ago and in recent months in fact several very high profile release as both a journalist and it s you and most recently a journalist translator named tolu and that particular release of mrs tolu at the end of august was viewed as a sign of a warming in relations which not coincidentally coincidentally is taking place