Online. The old order is history the world is reorganizing itself and the medias role these keep shifting powers the topic in focus at the Global Media Forum twenty nineteen the laboratory for the digital age. Who are we following whom do we trust to debate and shape the future at the doj a valid Global Media Forum twenty nine t. The place made for minds. This week conflict zone is at the annual security conference in munich i meet plenty of recriminations and bad blood between europe and washington my guest here is jim risch chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee how damaging is this transatlantic divide and how committed is the Trumpet Ministration to nato. Jim risch welcome to conflict zone thank you very much like to be here all the latest polls show the french germans the british now regard the us as a greater danger to their interests than china which you regard as your prime danger how much blame do you think washington should take for that. Well. Sometimes
jim risch welcome to conflict zone thank you very much like to be here all the latest polls show the french germans the british now regard the us as a greater danger to their interests than china which you regard as your prime danger how much blame do you think washington should take for that. well. sometimes events drive us in a direction that we shouldn t be driven. we. we don t feel the same way about our european friends or were more like kerry you know there are a lot of recriminations these days particularly over iran. in more regard to the round deal that europe continues to abide by sure the one that you get out of well we didn t walk out of it the president had states at that time barack obama entered
going to kill you we re going to consider that u.s. senate or europe doesn t see it that way the fact is that as a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty iran has pledged not to develop nuclear weapons ever full stop what s wrong with that well there s nothing wrong with that if they would clean up their act on everything else and would have agreed to the deal wasn t about everything else it was about this you know you can argue and they do that it wasn t a perfect deal and that it could have included other aspects in it but the deal itself pledges and they recommitted to this in the deal they suddenly j.c.b. away never ever to produce he knew what i mean why they won t stop their terrorist activities and why they won t abide by the u.n. resolutions those are things that those of us who disagreed with the agreement wanted in the agreement and if they weren t willing to do that then we should have kept the pressure up on them i ve i appreciate we have a disagreement there but nonethel
very strongly the iran issue and the fact that iran has got to behave itself and if it doesn t it s going to continue to be under the pressure that the united states is going to bring from the sanctions that we are going to maintain in place and i hope yours is i m only going to cause a great a rift with europe because i don t think so. you re on your or your attorney here is much different than what i get from the. and i meet every day. with ambassadors from europe and and they acknowledge that we have a disagreement in this regard but they re not nearly as hostile as the questions that you re asking here today really i mean fairly federica more clearly for instance the e.u. foreign policy chief said last year we cannot accept as europeans that others even our closest allies and friends determine and decide with whom we can do business
that was indeed a missed opportunity and we believe i hope you can do it i wish you all the best in the world that you can do it you respect your views of israeli view intelligence and military analysts on the suspect. among the intelligence committee and i i have to respectfully decline to comment intelligence information i m not going to have but their views on the iran deal commie guillen for instance from the head of the domestic intelligence service the shin bet he said two years after the deal. came into force while the majority of my colleagues in the israeli military and intelligence communities supported the deal once it was reached many of those who have major reservations now acknowledge it has a positive impact on israel s security must be fully maintained well that s up to them we re a sovereign nation and we are strong our lives with them we re very strong allies with them we ll we consider the nurses of the danger than you are if there is