The German government has demanded an explanation from the US Ambassador in Berlin after a man was arrested on suspicion of spying.
Relations between the two countries have been strained after it emerged last year that the US had bugged the phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Al Jazeera's Harry Smith reports.
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