involved and especially for us in europe. given the crisis surrounding the preservation of the i and if treaty we need greater dialogue between americans europeans and russians. high level u.s. representatives such as if i could trump are also attending before arriving in munich u.s. vice president mike pence visited the former concentration camp in poland on his flight to germany he accused iran of conducting itself with quote the same semitic hatred as the nazis. at germany's chancellor angela merkel is due to speak shortly and we'll be going live to munich for that she said she wants to speak about the role of europe in the world chief political correspondent melinda crane is standing by for us in munich melinda has a new arms race between russia and nato a trade war between china and the us the munich security conference has set itself the goal of trying to create some order out of this chaos off your first day that