strong narrative versus north korea that some 20-something years of talks haven t done any good so kim doesn t need to talk to the united states, he needs to talk to china. that s kind of been the line the president has taken. it seems to me it s worked a little bit. all right. there s another theory out there that the president might have been referencing the widening rift between him and secretary of state rex tillerson after the nbc news report where tillerson called the president a moron during a meeting in july. you ve got senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker saying this shortly after it came out. i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. as i watch, and i can watch very closely on many occasions, you know, he ends up not being supported in the way that i would hope a secretary of state
apart and it s very difficult to say how these things will work out and what kind of government will come out in the end the whole process is likely to take a long time if it s finished by christmas people will be satisfied. lost her party lost about one million voters to the far right in the right after that electoral catastrophe she said she wanted to win them back how can she do that. well she said that she s going to do that through application of policies through new adaptive policies from the side of her party i suspect this will mean especially additional measures additional strictures in terms of refugee and immigrants immigration policy there is much talk about this coalition having to decide on some sort of immigration law for germany which the country in fact does not have at the moment something similar to a point system like the canadians have for instance something along these lines but
a new german government look like hans brandt joins us more for more on that from our parliamentary studio yeah how could a coalition with the free democrats and the greens differ from the last government . well it s already still very much up in the air the coalition talks haven t really started yet at the moment all parties involved trying to position themselves at the moment are trying to say which matters are particularly important for them refugee question is a central question in that there is of course the. sister party of america in bavaria the christian social union who have been pushing for some sort of cap on the number of refugees that can enter germany berthe the other parties involved the free democrats and the greens have said that there s no no chance of such a cap being imposed so they are the positions at the moment are still very far
rico enough support arlen s prime minister leo varadkar is announced plans to hold a referendum next year on whether to ease abortion regulations the largely catholic country is some of the world s strictest abortion laws a total ban was lifted in two thousand and thirteen to allow exceptions only when the mother s life is in danger. or here in germany on the americans christian democrats have held their first parliamentary meeting since elections on sunday machall is now preparing to build a new coalition government now her christian democrats got down to business on tuesday the center right party has its work cut out for it in finding coalition partners the most plausible option is a three way coalition with the pro-business free democrats and the left leaning greens who also met on tuesday a survey by the german public broadcaster a or d. shows a majority of germans would back such a coalition so what might
against russia. now, on top of that, the president also held a conference call with the presidents of the three baltic states, lit wan area, latvia and estonia. the leaders are concerned that the baltic states border russia, so they re concerned about the activity there. the united states has six f 15 fighter jets and there s been discussion of sending troops and f 16 fighter jets to poland. more on that, obviously, but the white house once they give us the read out of those calls, we will bring it to you. what else is potentially next? well, again, the white house is going to be releasing the read out of these calls later this afternoon. so we don t know yet what the next steps are. what we know is diplomatic talks haven t really yielded results. thanks so much.