a result germany has an eternal responsibility to remind the world of this crime and to counter anti-semitism soon a phobia hate and violence. merkel is in israel for comprehensive talks a special relationship germany maintains with only eleven countries she met with prime minister netanyahu on wednesday and will meet him again today merkel has also promised to openly discuss her differences with israel. covering chancellor merkel's visit to israel and she joins us from jerusalem hi tony good to see you we mentioned that chance americal stopped holding consultations with netanyahu last year tell us more about why will ations broke down. well at the time we understand there have been differences over settlement issues germany has always been very critical