blaze has now been contained. well germany has taken over the rotating presidency of the un security council and german foreign minister heiko moscow says that berlin was keen to do its bit in supporting the council s role in addressing global peace and security for germany takes over the chair from france these two countries have promised to cooperate closely with each other. the floor to brief german foreign minister heiko musts and his french counterpart john you ve led to the young are undertaking at the security council is an experiment two countries two highly coordinated programs a display of unity underlined at a joint press conference. by linda if you don t shut down frank if two countries like germany and france sic ors for centuries can agree on sharing their
a look now at beautifully lengthy political career. by the mid nine hundred seventy s. abdelaziz bouteflika had been a member of the national liberation front the f.l.n. for two decades he played a prominent role in the fight against colonial french rule put a figure was born in morocco in one nine hundred thirty seven he got into politics early inspired by algerian revolutionary and later president wary the media and when i ll jury again the independents in one thousand nine hundred sixty two beautifully to became ministers the youth sports and tourism he went on to work for many years as foreign minister in one thousand nine hundred eighty one he was ousted from the f.l.n. and went into exile when he returned in one thousand nine hundred ninety he was again given a leading role. in one thousand nine hundred nine beautifully who was elected president to this day it remains unclear if the military had an influence on the vote he had a reputation for being
will ever make that promise. true because it keeps saying these things you know since two thousand and fourteen at the munich security conference we ve heard the same mantra over and over again we re hearing it now from heiko moscow and the question is how exactly does germany plan to do that and so i was just you know struck the skepticism is present not just internationally but here in germany as well and what has to probably happen is that there has to be a title shift in terms of education of the german public because one of the biggest barriers to germany. you know being more powerful is that it doesn t carry a big stick so it has economic might but it won t engage in military action that it won t do that because of massive political resistance in germany but the times are changing ok we ll talk about that point you just a minute but first of all christopher christopher from marshall what. to what
predicting the events of this sort. is difficult i d be surprised if a full fledged salt occurs for friday but i won t be surprised if the person next week so. i haven t seen anything yet that would stop it professor daniel serwer directs the conflict management program at johns hopkins university sir thank you for weighing in i think and meantime german foreign minister heiko moscow says berlin is working with turkey to prevent what he called a humanitarian catastrophe in syria is it live region my ass made the comments after meeting with his counterpart and president tayyip erdogan and uncorrupt also said germany is working with turkey temper relations between these two countries also on the agenda was the release of seven german citizens who were detained in turkey on political charges after the failed coup two years ago.
a medical it s describing the action is necessary and appropriate she produced that statement just hours after the attack. some politicians indeed in berlin today have been saying it was unavoidable and they support the objective of sending that message that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated by the international community now sticking with that german foreign minister heiko moscow has been speaking in berlin he says germany will help lead a new diplomatic push to end the war let s take a listen. for that storm for united nations must lead and carry the peace negotiations it s a problem. but it needs our active engagement to give a new impetus to the negotiations. so we will work together with france to create an international format of influential nations to give the political process new clout. now simon what kind of role could germany be playing in this