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As with any meeting of world leaders, protesters turned out in force. look at the live pictures from near the g7 summit. protesters are demanding action, from globalization to the environment and economic policy. police have yet to release figures on how many protesters were arrested on sunday. cnn european affairs commentator dominick thomas is with us to put all of this in perspective. dominick joining from berlin. boris johnson, the new role he has, he got to speak with the u.s. president and his thoughts on the trade wars at odds with mr. trump's. but they seem to mange good at the table t...

Agenda. the major question when it comes to europe, is that president trump, systemically through his attacks on nato and the european union, have been seeking to weaken that bond. and the european downon, the 27 of them, are united in seeing russia as a potential foe anded a adversary. a weaker europe is a benefit to his america-first agenda. this is something there is little consensus at the g7 when it comes to trump and the other members of this group. >> dominick thomas with perspective live for us in berl berlin. protesters back on the streets of hong kong, 24 hours after clashes broke ...

Berl berlin. we know that angela merkel called the attacks last week unacceptable. why was germany absent from this strike? >> reporter: germany is different from france and the uk. they typically tend not to become as involved with these sort of military operations. if they do become involved, it's a much more supportive role, helping with refueling and so forth. germany said they would not be taking part in any military action. but we have heard heard from chan chanceelor angela merkel saying the attacks were appropriate and limited and germany supports the actions france, the uk, and united...

International correspondent fred pleitgen with more. as i was mentioning, no claim of responsibility. the m.o., though, in keeping with attacks we've seen before. claimed by isis. >> think that i that's clear to say, claimed by isis. it isn't clear if isis is behind them. if you look at the berlin attack. amri said he was doing this as someone who was fighting for isis. so yeah, this looks like those vehicle attacks that we've seen in places like nice, places like berl berlin, in sweden as well before this. that's something the investigators are going to be looking at. >> and this is becoming ...

>> let me ask you quickly, if terms of the turkish government response, when we talk about berl berlin christmas attack, there's a lot of criticism of president and how he handled the crackdown. what criticism do you see to be level against the turkish government interms how it's handling the security problem? >> this is unprecedented wave of terrorm. it's not the best time for the turks to undertake an extraordinary purge of their military and police force. it was appropriate to go out to the people ingaengaged to take the over this july. clearly hampered their ability