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Various of US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel approaching lecterns  2. Wide of Obama and Merkel at lectern3. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor:\"I think that this journey, is a journey that...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Various of US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel approaching lecterns  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Obama and Merkel at lectern\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that this journey, is a journey that has a very high symbolic significance. (Especially) when we will remember the visit to the former concentration camp in Buchenwald, and it is very nice, that the American President, that Barack Obama comes to Dresden at first, a city with high symbolic significance, destroyed in WW II and then rebuilt again and which has become - in particular after the German unification - a kind of jewel for the entire country of Germany.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Obama and Merkel at lectern\u003cbr/\u003e5. Side shot of Obama and Merkel\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We need a two state solution. A jewish state of Israel and a state of Palestinians and Germany will do everything in its power to accompany this process in a constructive way and as successful as possible.\" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e8. Side shot of news conference as Obama speaks\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, United States President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Chancellor Merkel - as she mentioned - and I had a very productive discussion. We continue to work closely together to confront the global economic crisis and to restore growth and prosperity for our people.  The downturn knows no borders and it will take some time and sustained action by all of us to move forward.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. Side shot of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e12.  SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, United States President: (+includes mid shot of Merkel and Obama++)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm very pleased to see the resolution of the Opel situation here, we are (motioning to Merkel) are very sympathetic towards each other that it's not easy to help Auto companies restructure and it's not always popular, but it's also, we are convinced, the right thing to do and I'm hopeful that not only are we going to see these companies stabilise, but also that they're going to merge even stronger and more competitive.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:++INCLUDES WIDE CUTAWAY++\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have spoken to the European Union about the possibilities of working with us and helping us in managing the closure of Guantanamo. Chancellor Merkel has been very open to discussions with us. We have not asked her for hard commitments and she has not given us any hard commitments, beyond having a serious discussion about all the ways we can solve this problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Cutaway reporter\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President ++INCLUDES SEVERAL CUTAWAYS++:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You've probably seen more sustained activity on this issue in the first five months, than you would have seen in most previous administrations. The reason we are doing that is because, not only had talks ground to a halt, but there was a sense that all sides were getting so dug in and so cynical that we might reach a point where you could never get the parties back at the table. And I think given what we have done so far, we've at least created the space, the atmosphere in which talks can restart.\" \u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Obama, Merkel and others going up church steps\u003cbr/\u003e18. Group entering church\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide interior of church\u003cbr/\u003e20. Obama looking up at church ceiling\u003cbr/\u003e21. Tilt down from ceiling to wide of interior and dignitaries\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid of Obama \u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide top shot of church interior\u003cbr/\u003eUS President Barack Obama said on Friday said he and German Chancellor Merkel had agreed to continue to \"work very closely together\" to restore stability in the wake of the deep recession that has hit the US and Europe in recent months. \u003cbr/\u003eObama was speaking at a joint news conference with Merkel in the eastern German city of Dresden, following talks with the German leader.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The downturn knows no borders and it will take some time and sustained action by all of us to move forward,\" said Obama.\u003cbr/\u003eHe welcomed the negotiations being reached over troubled German carmaker Opel, General Motors Corporation main European unit.\u003cbr/\u003eGerman government officials, GM and Canadian auto parts supplier Magna hammered out an agreement in recent days to move forward with a rescue plan for Ruesselsheim, Germany-based Adam Opel GmbH.\u003cbr/\u003eOpel on Tuesday received the first 300 (m) million euro (425 million US dollar) instalment of a 1.5 (b) billion euro bridging loan granted by the government to keep the company afloat while work continues to conclude the takeover.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not easy to help auto companies restructure and it's not always popular, but it's also, we are convinced, the right thing to do and I'm hopeful that not only are we going to see these companies stabilise, but also that they're going to merge even stronger and more competitive,\" Obama told reporters on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eTouching on an issue that has strained the American-German relationship, Obama also said he didn't seek any commitments from Germany as the United States seeks to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and determines what to do with the extremist suspects held there. \u003cbr/\u003eThe United States has asked Germany to take a dozen prisoners, although German officials have said most should be resettled in America.\u003cbr/\u003eMerkel said her country is prepared to \"constructively contribute\" to US closure efforts and said she was confident of eventually reaching a \"common solution\" on the prisoners' fate.\u003cbr/\u003eObama also called Friday for a redoubled effort toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said that although the US could not \"force peace upon the parties\", America has \"at least created the space, the atmosphere, in which talks can restart.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe president announced that he was sending special envoy George J. Mitchell back to the region next week to follow up on his speech in Cairo a day earlier in which he called for both Israeli and Palestinian leaders to give ground in the conflict toward the elusive goal of peace.\u003cbr/\u003eObama said Israel must live up to commitments it made under the so-called \"Road Map\" peace outline to stop constructing settlements and that the Palestinians must control acts and statements that incite violence.\u003cbr/\u003eMerkel, for her part, promised to cooperate in her own right on this long-sought goal.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We need a two state solution. A jewish state of Israel and a state of Palestinians and Germany will do everything in its power to accompany this process in a constructive way and as successful as possible,\" she told the news conference.\u003cbr/\u003eThe two leaders spoke to reporters after meeting privately at a castle in this east Germany city that has bitter wartime memories. \u003cbr/\u003eStarting on the night of February 13, 1945, first British, then American bombers pounded the defenceless and largely non-strategic architectural gem, igniting a firestorm in which 25,000 people died - and in so doing, creating an enduring controversy.\u003cbr/\u003eObama did not address the firebombing, and was in Dresden at the invitation of Merkel, who hails from her country's East.\u003cbr/\u003eFollowing the news conference, they toured a Dresden highlight and point of pride, the Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 18th-century baroque cathedral was rebuilt at an overall cost of 215 (m) million US dollars, roughly 120 (m) million US dollars came from donations - including a sizeable amount from the United States and Britain, whose forces destroyed many German cities in defeating the Nazis.\u003cbr/\u003eLater, Obama was ready to tour the Buchenwald concentration camp, where an estimated 56-thousand people perished. \u003cbr/\u003eObama is the first US president to visit Buchenwald, and the stop was personal. \u003cbr/\u003eA great-uncle helped liberate a nearby satellite camp, Ohrdruf, in early April 1945 just days before other US Army units overran Buchenwald.\u003cbr/\u003eAccompanying Obama to the site was Elie Wiesel, a 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and Holocaust survivor, who as a boy was taken to Auschwitz, then to Buchenwald, where his father died in 1945 three months before liberation.\u003cbr/\u003eMerkel praised Obama for the visit, calling it a \"highly symbolic\". \u003cbr/\u003eFollowing the tour, Obama was 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