right after the commercial we will tell you why trump settled mertz in the pink bedroom where jacqueline kennedy and princess diana spent the night. let's go back. here is the main police department of the city of moscow. one call and you are trapped, go to the atm, withdraw all your money, scammers, they feel no pity and know no mercy. the operator called people: mom, dad, help, someone got into an accident, urgently need money, different fraud schemes, the result is the same, i was left with two loans of a million rubles, i transferred 100 through banks. 3.5 million. why did someone declare a hunt for russian money? from the volga to the yenisei, huge, rivers will run, dear, strong and magnanimous, russia celebrates its holiday, tell the truth, in this world there are only two of us, together. what the hell are these ghosts preventing me from sleeping again? i was a ghost, zhanya, the premiere on rkr, mom, this is probably a visitor to you, there is a suspect at work, why did you take ostrovskaya into your care, you should think about the child, about yourself, and not about ghosts, th

i think that chancellor mertz, when he needed to do was reset the relationship.relations have been fraud and the us has not named a potential ambassador to germany yet and i think it was a home run. mr mertz has no authority to negotiate anything when it comes to trade policy because that is an eu matter. but to what extent does he need a rethink or a reset of tariffs from the united states in order for his country to grow? germany has been struggling lately. he absolutely needed to have a conversation with the president about tariffs. the tariff policy of the united states is incredibly important for germany and in particular and while it is negotiated and handled at the repair and level, germany is obviously an extremely important voice in those negotiations. germany has incredible supply chains and the transatlantic and if you look at things like the bmw investment in south carolina and mercedes investment in alabama to the grocery chains, investing in the united states, many of those fluids supply chains that take goods from germany into the united states and

is prepared for the road, well, in germany itself, despite the fact that mertz has been delegated so far to defend the interests of europe in front of the big seven themselves, nato themselves, now germany has two goals: to take itself, to try to take full leadership in the eu and to control the turbulence of its economy, otherwise berlin will drag the entire european union down with it, this is what our european observer sergey kholoshevsky talks about. only 37% of germans are now happy with merz's work , while the majority - 54% - are not, and in the east of germany , support for merz is even lower. having pushed through multi-billion dollar loans for weapons in the bundestag, merz immediately tells the germans that they need to tighten their belts. speaking at the congress of german cities and municipalities, the chancellor is making a blunt decision, we can't go on living like this, we have to do something about the twenty- five billion deficit in regional budgets. we know that many of our country's problems are your problems. to put it more clearly, we need to review our goals,

my impression from your reporting this morning is that in germany, mertz is perceived as having beencessful with his trip to the oval office. and yes, you can argue he was successful. he didn't get the kind of ambush that we saw on zelensky and the south african leader in the oval office, but what exactly did he achieve here? >> well, actually, if you look at the paper, there's nothing really what he achieved. but what i think goes down here very well is that the relationship building seems to go on quite well, a lot better than with other governments. so the two leaders kind of respected each other, and it was more of a sober and perhaps also a little bit of a reserved atmosphere in the oval office. but that's actually a positive takeaway. so essentially i've been talking about this before. it's more or less three lessons learned. and i think friedrich mertz prepped that meeting quite a lot, because he can be quite a confrontational character as well. but he delivered a very reserved and very controlled oval office oval office appearance and gave donald trump roughly 90% of the spea

did not remember this, he remembered, you came, on what day did you say, well, they hurt you , and mertz, yes, you freed us from nazism, but it hurt, wait a minute, if it hurt you, then you are a nazi, no, he says, well, you are a nazi, you are a nazi, you are unpleasant it was, so he said, he says that the landing was unpleasant, merz said that you landed on june 6, we were liberated, but you... you were unpleasant, because grandfather de and mersakh did not know what to answer, grandfather died, well, i must say that now there is a counter-theme, they are now proud of their nazi, that's for sure, everything, but for merz the main thing, in my opinion, was that he was advised not to bring the matter to zelensky, to zelensky's level, because trump has already, in my opinion, this meeting of his in this office, here is the entourage of the office itself evokes in everyone, who is watching, and what will trump do there? offering him footage from a completely different country, now mercedes, so to speak, and mercedes was silent, and there i think, already on the walls are simply hung, yes t

. that germany is at war with russia, although everyone already knows this, this is what will cost mertz his seat, he now reminds everyone of hitler and this is not funny. but it seems that for today's germany, and those who sponsor the ukrainian conflict, glorifying nazism has long been the norm. on the eve of the negotiations between moscow and kiev in istanbul, berlin staged a pompous dinner for nazis from the terrorist organization azov, banned in russia. the meeting was attended by party deputies and the world. and kiev , having sold out, can no longer act independently mariyalka and konstantin sirgunin lead. zaporizhia oblast was left without power after the ukrainian strike, here is how the governor wrote, high-voltage equipment was damaged in the northwest of the region, social facilities are planned to be powered using a backup scheme in the near future, part of the kherson oblast is also without electricity, due to the fall of the ukrainian drone debris , substations in the genichesk and melitopol area were damaged, a transformer also caught fire, about 100,000 subscribers were

it's a very new ship to what we are seeing in germany, i think it will be interesting to see how mr mertz continues reacting to as well, because no direct criticism of the strikes but certainly calling on israel as well as iran to avoid anything that could escalate the situation still further. i think germany being one of israel's staunchest supporters plays a key role here, i think that will be interesting to watch over the next few days if these actions carry on. just as we are chatting, french president emmanuel macron saying he will hold a defence cabinet meeting on friday, this is after the attacks. i'm assuming there will be a fairly unified voice diplomatically across european capitals. what kind of overall impact to calls for diplomacy, calm and restraint in these moments actually make? certainly within western europe, a call for unity and from chancellor merz's statement it was clear he would act with western partners and what we are seeing from statements out of france and germany and the uk, very similar statements calling for a step back from potential escalation, calling for

france and germany after they've said russia is a major threat to europe, notably berlin's chancellor mertz insisted he is not afraid of a direct conflict with the hello there. you're watching r t international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the appropriate our top story, serbia. a student protest movement has persisted with an anti government demonstration in belgrade for a 2nd consecutive day. as after overnight clashes with the police, protesters were seen gathering in front of the main prosecutor's office. after authorities revealed that 38 people were arrested amid the violence. dozens of people have been reported injured during these classes on saturday night. the, the over 20 protesters were reportedly injured during the violence and the country's president said that those on the wrong side of the law will be prosecuted. what's the sort of you the citizens of serbia had been in during terror for months with the actions of people who took the law into their own hands, trampled on it, and acted like gods emissaries who have the right to do whatever they please. last night's anno

at least mertz hasn't yet announced plans to personally ride a german tarus missile. dr. strange style into moscow. guess that means is bruce pow, we'll have to find someone else to give him a ride over the kremlin so weekend lu, over it and for sale is on fantasy for more on this story is recovering here on archie international. be sure to visit our website, archie dot com, the the hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered. i.

france and germany after they said russia is a major threat to europe, notably berlin, she translated mertz insisted. he's not afraid of a direct conflict with one of the just about 9 p. m here in moscow, russia, and you're watching the weekly on r t international. my name's donald courter, walked into the program. we go now to serbia, where a student protest in the nation's capital descended into chaos. dozens of police officers were injured in the brawl in the countries. internal minister noted the 38 people were arrested overnight. as unruly crowds took over the streets to demand snap elections. the over 20 protesters were reportedly injured during the violence and the country's president said that those on the wrong side of the law will be prosecute. what's the sort of you the citizens of serbia had been in during terror for months with the actions of people who took the law into their own hands, trampled on it, and acted like gods emissaries who have the right to do whatever they please. last night's announcement is a direct invitation. you have the green light, it is a direct call for

anyway, mr. mertz and mr. zelinski had a very cozy meeting. actually in the berlin, mr. zelinski, the knock of your, made his way there, loving his eyes as we set on your on. and the genius of our video editor here has put together a beautiful little compilation of, of what's actually happening in on the streets of ukraine. what's actually happening in de delusional cloud, fast thing, time fantasy world, hopefully in the capital is a you are kind of guess walk. so when mr. mertsa, here's the, the, the people of the road here. and most of said, well, by the way, if you are going to send your missiles into moscow, we're going to turn it into a square park just just to let you know that certainly mr. merch isn't sending towards me. so i also had to the knock of, you know, we never said that we didn't minutes on cost. i'll do a little joke. what do i want to do now? is we're going to give you a billions to create your own soap, our bundle of off our weapon drops off of it. now, the fact that it might take what 20 years to actually build this one o

but friedrich mertz was polite, if direct about what's needed to end the war and ukraine. we are both looking for a place to stop it very soon. and to i, i told the president before we came in that he is the key person in the world can really do that. no, by putting pressure on pressure. dropping says the 2 countries must fight it out. after admitting on a tuesday call with the russian president, the food insisted he'll retaliate for you. craze. we can strike destroyed at least 13 russian bombers. mertz blames russia for prolonging the conflict and inflicting the most carnage. this is only by russian weapons begins to create. this has never happened with ukraine weapons against russian. never asks if this will spur further russia sanctions. trump was elusive when i see the moment when we're not going to make a deal with this thing, won't stop that moment. yeah, it's in my, my brain, the deadlines, the us president was also big about his call on thursday with china is leader shooting thing. we have a deal with china is you know, but we were straightening out some of the poi

are talking about the fight of good against evil, this aggressive core, led by the starmers, the mertzes, the macrons, they just want, in addition to the fact that they are fighting against us, supplying ukraine has high-precision, high-tech weapons that ukrainians cannot control, so they control them. citizens of the text.

how life itself managed everything, how... an operation to stop the gas from flowing, because of the mertz statement, let's say, we will give tauruses, then we will not give them anymore, but the military does not do that, it was precisely a throw-in to form a negative fund, the same thing about the war, which has no end there, as he said, it will last there for a very long time, why does he say this, well, it means that we still do not open the nord streams, there is a pretext not to open them, and this is, let's say, against the party that wants to get gas from germany, that is, there is such a struggle, which is reflected in these constant throws, which resembles schizophrenia, he went to bow to trump, took pictures with him, well, it is believed that he should supposedly pursue some kind of policy complementary to trump, it is clear that navrossky, let's say, like manson, yes, in this case, who is adjusting already under it, that is, they say that yes, we do not want to fight there in ukraine as, let's say, some kind of young force, but this is what trump essentially wants from them, t

not want to fight and with anyone and so on, and now it turns out, what does he want, if he supports mertzink that, uh, first of all, the work of the media has certainly been the work of the last, well, i would say 20 years, especially the german. media, which have brainwashed the citizens of germany and created an image of an enemy out of russia. this was not done overnight, it began even before president putin's famous speech in munich in 207, somewhere around the mid -2000s, as far as i can testify, somewhere around the mid-2000s, it happened. secondly, the germans and many other europeans are corrupted. that you can strike at russia with impunity with someone else's hands, but this is an illusion, and i emphasize this illusion once again, it is necessary not with words, not with warnings, not with exhortations, but with actions, and such actions , uh, unfortunately, we came very close to them, including this week, very. now they will attack, so we waited, they will tell their burghers their power, well , you know, here the measure is very important, because before we started with a con

the path of war with china, so of course, all these talking heads, the starmers, the macrons, the mertzesthey speak according to the text that they were given. remaining in russia, they said, well, not at all yes, so everything is very logical, dear friends, when the scenario of soft colonization of russia did not take place, they had to switch to a hard one, they never acted in any other way, well, but the most interesting thing is that the hard scenario went bankrupt, at least for the american customers, well, they didn’t order that... they will now have to face russia in a nuclear confrontation, they didn’t order it, that’s where trump came from, he crawled through this hole, that’s why he was put in the post of president, how it will end is unknown, it is unknown, this is still a situation with an open, open challenge and exit, but it is very serious, despite the fact that it seems to us rightly that there are clowns in power there. idiots, but this is not power, power is in another place, where you know perfectly well where dim is, that's where it is, dim, and this is a problem, yes,

but today, in the oval office, with newly minted german chancellor friedrich mertz, trump washed hisose promises. >> sometimes you. >> never forget about that. >> children fighting like crazy. they hate each other and they're fighting in a park and you try and pull them apart. they don't want to be pulled. sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart. >> is that what. >> you do when you see two children fighting like crazy? later in the discussion, trump seemed aware of the war's carnage, but germany's mertz broke in to remind him who was responsible for that. >> we get satellite pictures of the war field, and you don't even like to look at them, right? it's terrible. >> so it's. >> a bodies, arms, heads, legs all over the place. and you've never seen anything like it. it's so ridiculous. >> and this is only by russian weapons against ukraine. this had never happened with ukraine. weapons against russia? never. ukraine is only targeting military targets, not civilians, not private, not instrument, not energy infrastructure. so this is the dif

chancellor mertz is someone who has had very close ties to the us for years now, basically when he was working for blackrock and travel to the us frequently. but a lot of this meeting for the german chancellor is going to be about setting a baseline relationship with the us president. this is something that we understand they have been preparing for now and for weeks there have been some thorny policy issues also on the agenda, not least trade and tariffs. as your guests were just saying, the german chancellor will also be referring to his european counterparts on tariffs because that's where the negotiation should with us is taking place. also the war in ukraine, we know that donald trump had that long phone call with vladimir putin yesterday and the german chancellor's statement just before arriving says he doesn't expect any breakthroughs but again this is about establishing a working relationship between these two men. as we watch very closely to see how this oval office question two press conference goes and what to expect in terms of how these two men get along. thank you, i know

with apologies you will see that donald trump is in the company of the german chancellor frederick mertz and they are talking live about their relationship. let's listen in as yellow won the popular vote of all seven swing states, it is a big deal. it is pretty unusual to do that and we have a great mandate from the people and part of our mandate is we're going to have a great relationship with your country. so i just want to thank you very much for being here if you would like to say a few words. thank you first of all, mr president, for your kind invitation to come to washington, dc. i was in the building for the first time ever in 1982 when president ronald reagan was in office, so i'm very happy to be here again and to offer our close cooperation with united states of america. we are having so much in common, our history. we owe the americans a lot. we will never forget about that. and so with your german provenance i think this is a very good basis for close cooperation between america and germany. so again thank you, thank you for the hospitality and thank you for having your guest

the conflict in ukraine, because it should already be just a personal problem of putin, zelensky, mertzyeah. america should switch to more important profitable prospective issues. why? because they have emasculated europe to the ground. it is boiling in its own cauldron there , that's why - there are not enough bigger players, the bigger players are there now, and taiwan is just a point with the help of which, like give me a point, and i will turn the whole world upside down, this taiwan will be the format through which things will be done there. yulia konstantinevna, is there anything to add to this? and europe and china are that. refused according to their ideology and so on, that is, this is an old conflict, not that a conflict, this is a very old dream of the united states, to get such a wonderful colony, that is, this conflict, which not only has never died down, but it is a dream that can in no way become a reality, because they are distracted all the time, as for taiwan, here is a remarkable recent article in the sb belarus segodnya newspaper, in it the chinese ambassador to bela

i would like to draw attention to the fact that the current mertz is a different, different edition of nazism, they have a lot in common, but there are also significant differences, for example, that... the third party in germany, where the case is in the gdr on the territory of west prussia and the first party in its ratings, so it represents, it represents itself as an enemy of merz, who merz categorically wants to deprive it of the right to participate in political life there at all, despite its colossal popularity, that is, this is some special nazism of the new generation, which is associated with liberalism, with feminism, with the woc agenda, with lgbt. person it is simply for whom nazism is expressed in pure hatred of others, in a pure desire for affirmation their own this time fanatical liberal agendas, this is a special liberal globalism and liberal fascism, this is what brings merz closer to macron, who is very similar to him only from a french point of view, this is such a liberal neo-napoleon from... with starmer, who, kerr starmer, who represents the british version of th

than macron does, because even. its military potential flashes figures there 800 billion trillion mertz was removed great britain too, you mentioned the nuclear component first of all, they want to return the air force, but they don’t have a triad, they always had , like france , either a sea or an air component, then the british from the air force from... new gravity bombs b60, b-61, twelfth modification. it will work, yes, plus build six military factories there to produce a wide range of products, including artillery, armored vehicles, ammunition, build up, build several more nuclear submarines, that is, i repeat again. the colonel said that ukraine we need to help her acquire nuclear weapons, almost transfer nuclear weapons to her. you know, you can treat this differently, maybe this colonel is not himself, or you can treat it as something that is happening, such a transfer has begun, what will be russia's reaction, what will be the reaction of world public opinion, because this is a violation of everyone, this is a violation of the treaty. and other countries, that's why i would no

june and july, for germany, for an export-oriented economy, this is of course a powerful blow, here's mertz i would like to agree on something right now, but trump seemed to hint that he is not against concluding a big trade deal. but maybe just because he is in a good mood today, since the pick did not respond, then maybe they will agree with the europeans now, but considering that europe has a colossal trade surplus with america, it will of course be very difficult and hard to close it, they will not be able to buy so much energy resources additionally from the us, and american food is in large they won't buy in quantity, because it will kill, in general, the european farmers' market and the farmers there will rise again, so the situation is certainly difficult for them, and merz understands this very well, so as we see, it is not asking for trouble and is not trying. it probably cannot be realized theoretically now, yes, he has some kind of conflict with trump in this case, it may manifest itself, but i think, you know, it will be a conflict on the level of how steve ben was thrown out d

quite a lot to process from what the president said and frederick mertz there are two big threads we are watching when it comes to the u.s.'s relationship with germany. there is a july 9 deadline for them to reach a deal. the second of course are the security alliances. president trump said it was a positive step. germany has signaled an openness they said they are working together but then we heard president trump ramp up the pressure saying russia and ukraine that big story we have been following today, president trump did give us more insight into his call with president xi jinping. he said the conversation was really focused on critical minerals. they have been slow walking those rare earth minerals. it was also interesting to hear him on this other part of this conversation because he said chinese students are coming and no problem. this has been one of the sticking points. that has led china to allege that the u.s. has violated the terms of the agreement reached in geneva. vonnie: he said it was an honor to have chinese students study in the united states, didn't he? i want to

all, now europe, and not all of europe, by the way, this aggressive core, led by the starmers, the mertzesns, they just want, in addition to the fact that they they fight against us and supply us.

very questions that we are discussing today arise, and can trump now, without an oath , order the mertzexample, not to give the taurus or is this no longer... relatively impossible, that means, not to give the ukrainians the taurus, you can't forbid them to hit them with them, this is his, so to speak, pre-election rhetoric , election post-election, he talks about this, german defense minister boris pistorius, just the day before yesterday, i think, said that long-range missiles could appear in ukraine, well, appear, we understand that this euphemism means, they are probably already there, yes, but nevertheless he said, appear in ukraine already in the coming weeks, listen to boris pistorius, rustem umerov and i agreed that germany will finance the production of long-range weapons in ukraine. a significant amount of long-range weapons can be produced already this year. the first systems can be deployed in the ukrainian armed forces in a few weeks. it is necessary to translate this flirtatious deployed after june 1 the question of whether to hit or not to hit russia is no longer relevant

so, we are waiting for the meeting between donald trump and frederick mertz, it is very interesting whether the word taurus will be heard at this, at this meeting in the oval office, or whether they will talk mainly about the economy, but from the good news for friedrich merz, the british press reports that his height may suddenly help him. fredrik merz is tall, about 1.90 m, and it is reported that donald trump loves tall people, it was always difficult for him to establish contacts with zelensky and macron, who are 1.70 m, 73 m, here is merz. makes a good impression on trump, purely on how he looks, in general, like mayakovsky, you are the only one with the same height as me, colleagues, yes, high diplomatic relations, the phrase sparkled with new colors, thank you, lizavet khramtsova, was with us with the last american news. ukraine has not paid investors more than half a billion dollars, and was immediately marked as "default" by rating agencies. on what securities? a ten-day period, given the moratorium imposed by the country's government since april. donor fatigue has already set in,

nick: mertz became chancellor last month.promised to help ukraine build its own weapons and increase germany's defense spending to 5% of gross domestic products. that the same goal native -- nato defense ministers negotiated to spend 3.5% on defense, plus 1.5% on infrastructure. secretary of 10 -- of defense pete hegseth said nato members had no choice. >> we are here to continue the work president trump started, a committed to 5% defense spending across this alliance. which we think will happen. we think has to happen by the summit later this month. nick: but not all of nato's 32 countries are on board. spanish defense minister margarita roadless. >> we think we are able to accomplish this target for spain. we did 2% of gdp. nick: u.s. officials say those plans endorsed today are born from russia's be -- rebuilding its defense days for war beyond ukraine. nato hopes to be able to deploy 300,000 troops to eastern europe within six months should russia attack. the u.s. currently has 80,000 troops based in europe, and could red

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, and so on, in general, they prepared, prepared, prepared, and then look what, the mission of the mertzthe one hand simple, at the level of formulation simple, at the level of implementation of course difficult, to persuade not to abandon ukraine, well, and a little broader, not to abandon europe. eh, as the media writes, it did not work out with its task, i repeat, this is not, not my, so to speak, analysis there, not my assumption, it is the media that assesses it this way, and it is a direct consensus in the english-language, and in all other media, that... in the oval office, i don’t know, well for some reason it was supposedly produced and did not want to communicate, and the leader of the united states, if you believe the press, again, was simply obsessed with this... conversation, so, finally, yesterday this long-awaited phone, the phone conversation took place, no one noticed it because of the famous squabble, but it took place, and it is a little more important than this squabble, so to me i think, look, i just had a very good phone call with president xi zengping of china, whe

trump on ukraine, in connection with the revelations of mertz, to say in plain text what was previouslyafe to think about in the west. putin has said many times that if ukraine continues to be supplied with weapons, they will not stop. he believes that at present this is. definitely, to use it, such a system assumes the participation of western specialists in the launch of a missile, assumes a mandatory western operator, or a person who is completely equal in status, that is, has learned in western schools, military, specific management of such facilities, and what's more... to allow oneself in international affairs, especially in relation to a nuclear power, according to the press, the chancellor's decision could have been blocked by his own ministers, so does he really think that he can scare with something, impose something? paris and berlin, led by macron and merz, hysterically, together with zelensky, demand to agree to an immediate ceasefire without any preconditions, as they say, thank you for the invitation, but we have already tried this and we see right through you. be that as

time, they have now agreed to increase the ceiling in order to stimulate their own infrastructure, mertz has money, the question is the other is that trump's tariffs will simply cut out the big three by 50%, the total losses according to preliminary data are , in the event that even tariffs in a soft format will exist, approximately 1% of gdp growth rates, he will be in a recession for two quarters for sure , but trump will not be cut out by the globalists for these duties, what kind of globalists are they, who are the globalists, please explain to me, trump is a globalist , he is a globalist, he represents the development that is now building these towers in qatar, which is going to build towers built towers in saudi arabia those globalists who put pressure on trump and after which he cancelled duties with china for some period one more time one globalist put pressure on trump this person's name is the minister of finance. he ran to him said that if tomorrow you don't cancel these duties, we, he, he, he, one of the most adequate people in the environment in fact, because everyone unders

the european union consumes energy resources, with the european union now the negotiating track with mertzst beginning, therefore from this point of view the question is concluded, and the 90 days end in july, i keep you informed, that's during the time that the tariff duties were postponed, so from this point of view, as if trump is immersed in the economy, he is now dragging his, as if this is the great bill, through the senate, which, naturally, musk is playing against, by the way, recently, and musk is playing, we know why, because kill the bill, because he actually blurted out electric cars from this bill, trump, subsidizing customs duties, subsidizing the purchase of electric cars, this will hit musk very hard, first of all, tesla, as we understand, but trump also has his own tasks, because he is engaged in the internal combustion engine, he has elections next year, first of all in the state of michigan, it is important for him to support the classic manufacturers, please. president trump surprised us all again by talking on the phone for 24 hours with the leaders of russia and china

she is there principally for the visit of german chancellor frierdrich mertz this afternoon. but no question about where most of the focus is ahead of that visit, sumi. it's the travel ban, same principle, but different in some respects to the ban he brought in 2017. that is right. you have a similar reaction to the travel ban that was introduced in 2017, confusions and many questions being asked, why would the country selected for these travel ban and others left off the list? the president referred to the man in colorado, egyptian national, so why was egypt not listed with the travel ban? our correspondent gary o'donoghue has been following the back and forth on this. he has been looking at some of the reactions. what is your sense of how people are waking up to this travel ban, the first time there was one in 2017, there were protests, legal challenges, so what about now? they have done it in a more organised way because last time there were people on aeroplanes in the air who were subject to the ban and it was chaos at airports. this time they have thought about it more c

set to depart the white we can see live pictures from calgary, where the german chancellor friedrich mertz has arrived. us president donald trump is set to depart the white house soon for the first multi-lateral summit of his second term. joining me live now is our chief north america correspondent, gary o'donoghue, who's in banff, alberta for the summit. very good to have you with us, gary. so we have got three days of intense discussions and head which you will be covering. presumably, israel and iran likely to dominate? i think that is right, and i think there will be an attempt by the current leader of the g7, which is canada, which is why we are here, to try and see the various bilateral discussions that they will be having tomorrow during the next two days, whether or not there is a common position that can be reached. a lot of the countries here don't want iran to have a nuclear weapon, that is something they can agree on, but there is going to be disagreement about the detail of how to get there, the extent to which there should be de-escalation right now, restraint on israel, and

today it ramped up, especially during the meeting today between president trump and chancellor mertz.m expressed disappointment with trump and after that it escalated and now there are all sorts of personal barbs between the men. and threats to cut government contracts. musk already said he would disassemble some of the nasa spacecraft spacex is working on and he has $38 billion in government contracts and loans so there is a lot he can do now to hurt the government and this will only spiral as it does not -- there does not seem to be an offramp for the man at the moment. >> why do you think we are seeing this dispute now? reporter: one reason observers are putting out is musk is no longer in government. when he was a special government employee he was in the cabinet room for meetings, he was much more constrained. now this bill has brought out more vocal disagreement from him and he obviously feels more free to speak now than he did last week when he was still technically a member of the administration. >> what is the impact on trump and his agenda? reporter: and increasingly embarra

and i think in that sense, while mertz and from a very different personalities, very different characters, may email you would say, best friends, best bodies. but i think it's a different starting point than they last week on go at merkel, i think, merkel and trump really didn't connect. and i think that's the same that marx is going for himself. he's not on the merkel rice. let's start with some of the, let's talk about some of those scenes that you, you described them if. if the, the chance limits his team is preparing him for it from vance. i'm bush in front of the press, which topics would you be briefing the chancellor on as well. uh i think the tire, its obviously a trunk talks about um like a b, b us being ripped off by all the countries. and i think germany is a very modest one of those countries that he has in his minds when he says those things. so yes, you need to prepare with you in the role play this. you don't know whether it's a good moods, charming trump will show up or bad mood, confrontational, donald trump, will show up, and i think i would role play this and okay, abou

today in an oval office meeting with the german translator frederick mertz, president trump expressedtion with peace talks between russia and ukraine, and blamed putin and volodymyr zelenskyy for the delay, likening them to two young children who hate each other. >> sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy, they hate each other and they are fighting in a park. and you try to pull them apart, they don't want to be pulled, sometimes you are better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart. >> john: president trump did not rule out imposing sanctions on russia and ukraine to end the 39--month-old conflict. he insisted both countries are to blame. he said it takes two to tango. now to the middle east, israel says its forces recovered the remains of two american, two israeli american hostages taken during hamas' deadly october 7th attack. with the ceasefire deal with hamas and doubts getting more hostages handed over seems out of reach. to night cbs's imtiaz tyab reports from the growing struggle inside israel. >> reporter: is really protesters hold pic

now, an oval office meeting between president trump and germany's newly elected chancellor friedrich mertz set to arrive for bilateral talks, with the war in ukraine and tariffs expected to be key focuses of their discussion. this meeting, coming one day after president trump said he spoke with russia's vladimir putin, saying putin told him he plans to respond to a surprise ukrainian drone attack. let's get right to nbc news senior white house correspondent gabe gutierrez. gabe, what are we expecting to see in this meeting today? >> hello again. ana. good morning. >> look. >> the chancellor is set to arrive here in the white house, as you stated, for his first in-person meeting with president trump since taking office, he's only been in office about a month. so it should be interesting. very interesting to see how this plays out, especially since there have been some explosive meetings in the oval office over the last several months. of course, ukraine's president and south africa's leader as well, running into issues when dealing with president trump inside the oval office. but on, as you

signature that germany is at war with russia, although everyone already knows this, this is what will cost mertz his seat, he now reminds everyone of hitler and it's not funny, but it seems that for today's germany and those who sponsor the ukrainian conflict, glorifying nazism has long been the norm, on the eve of the moscow-kiev talks in istanbul , berlin hosted a pompous dinner for nazis from the azov organization, which is banned in russia. the meeting was attended by members of the merze party and the chancellor's personal assistant rudorikh kiziweter, as well as the head of the bundestag committee. hunton hofreiter is separated from european affairs, the media write, photographs. german officials, of course, did not do anything to anyone, they didn't throw anything in the social network, which means they knew who they were dealing with, the journalists summarize, ukraine won't see peace with such allies for a long time, the article says, and kiev can't act independently, having sold out. maria skrodilka and konstantin sirgunin, lead. well, now under kursk, where our fighters continue to so