this earlier she s never said that she s not going to run for another term after this or she s hinted that this will probably be it i mean what do you think i think it will be it i think the question is now she does two things where is the successor how does she build that person up and what legacy does she really want to leave and i think it s going to be europe do you think that we already know who the successor is going to be no i mean i think there s a lot of play in the system the parliamentary system could depend on who the coalition will be and we don t know who that might be things are changing volcanically under all of the parties undertow so i think there s a it s guessing game the you say all of this shows that the political parties here in germany have never been so disconnected with the voters and the level of discontent has never been so high. what do you do that. can change that i mean are we asking miracle and this new government to do to give
and europe in general to stand up to a bully and i think that if she doesn t do that it s going to weaken nato and to some extent i think that is by the way something that the united states should do immediately but we don t have time it seems to me to waste on whether or not we do with this or not this is a this is a major attack on an alliance. right that s a big open question and i think we re going to see how that plays out in the next couple of days jack chain s with the american institute for contemporary german studies we appreciate you coming in and it s good to see you have you back on the show thank you very much. the renowned british physicist stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six his family says that he passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of wednesday now hawking will be remembered for his groundbreaking work on black holes linked to einstein s theory of relativity he also worked on
because it is possible that some of them may have been what if if we know so quickly that twenty three people are suspected spies in the u.k. why are why weren t they kicked out a long time ago why are they in the country right now. ok it s a very good question in the real world of international politics every single country houses intelligence offices in its embassy we do it in the united kingdom you do it in the federal republic and the russians do it in russia the question really is if they cross the line and do things that seriously damaging to the national security of the country that they are in and when that happens a decision as to be taken to expel them i think we can expect the russians to stop expelling british diplomats any moment now so what we ve got tonight then is we but the u.k. expelling diplomats who are really spies and we ve also got
us something that superman would be able to deliver we know these things that just are possibly going to depend on events that s around here and to some extent what goes on in the rest of europe it s not just what s going on in germany but i think that there has to be a sense of enthusiasm really lit in this in this context of this new coalition white jacket or black jacket she s got a fine that s why she put some new people in the cabinet and sort of symbolize that not quite frankly i might be the reason she s wearing white today but i think the basic premise is how do you get people to become more enthusiastic stakeholders in the future not only of germany but of europe in general is a good question the answer is out there i suppose let s talk about. merkel interop but we know that she spoke with mr trump a couple of weeks ago and that was the first time that they had had any contact for five months and that is unprecedented i don t think it s happened just since kennedy was presiden
the challenge of you look a lot like what we just had which are supposed to be new and improved but where does this come from and where does it go from here and i think that she s still got to come up the coalition agreement is there but has she operationalize it is she has been called the most powerful woman in the world what do you think her title is tonight well i think she is still a person that is capable of holding europe together but obviously with less power than she had before and i think that that s something that the rest of europe has to understand because you know twelve years in office she was extremely important to keep a year of going through one crisis after another and the question is is there somebody who s going to take that crown from her and then who is that maybe somebody on the other side of the rhine yeah i mean we don t know. there are some changes that are taking place one is that we were talking about this earlier if you look at the picture she is wearing