party. do you feel that this choice by the weekend chancellor is the signal as a shift to the rice for merkel c.d.u. party. i think that would be overstating this this is if there's one thing she's been criticized for by conservative cuts within her own party is that she is alleged to have taken her policy more towards the center that's something the social democrats have also been complaining about so if anything this is setting a signal that conservative voices are still being heard and can occur there thank you for the us. of a place where christians believe jesus was crucified and buried has a close image a rather with israeli authorities the church of the whole east africa show its doors on sunday at caesar's are protesting legislation that would tax church assets and allow the state to seize church property they called is an unprecedented attack against christians in the holy land no word with given on how long the closure will last. chancellor angela merkel and france's president. hav

as she is known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a meanie. unincluded com combo has been state premie of the region since two thousand and eleven. victory at the state elections last year was key to merkel's win in the nationwide elections just a few months later now she gives up the strong position to help marco to set up a reform agenda within the. even this new i'm firmly convinced that germany needs some will continue to need strong political parties not political movements dominated by single persons. under great come come by was considered to be down to earth a matter of fact approach to politics is very popular her nomination as general secretary can also be seen as a way of reaching out to america's critics of those she's loyal to the party leader come combo has never been too shy to voice opinion in the past and for more let's go over to over to our political correspondent all of our salat who is standing by with the latest from berlin so all of our how have chancellor angela merkel's party members reacted to this decision. well it's

party member who was positions were so far right that he had to leave the conservative c.d.u. party is considered an a if the friendly politician himself and he is running this poll this institute who just came out with these results in fact so we have to be careful on the one hand side on the other hand if you look at other institute results then they come out pretty similar or so this is certainly also a result of the long week lasting negotiations here for for forming a new government in germany and people are simply upset with this are right all over south reporting thank you our corruption authorities are investigating a top official at the european central bank been accused. of bribery he's also governor of latvia's central bank the government's been meeting in an emergency session it has a lot on its plate one of the baltic nations because banks is accused of busting sanctions on north korea. he is top banking official from savage arriving at the country's anti-corruption agency rim savage seen here wearing a cap was questioned by authorities after they raided his offic

party headquarters that is anglo-american a party if you can hear me we can't see you yet but this is a long awaited break through what we're details can you tell us about this agreement. well the most the most controversial points in the end at the end of the negotiations over the last roughly twenty four hour. where the ones concerning labor law reform and. medical aid to reform as well as discussions about all the various ministries would be distributed between the two party blocks and these controversial points were cleared up during the night and the final agreement was reached sometime this morning i think what one can say is that the social democrats especially seem to have gotten quite a lot of mileage out of this agreement they drove a hard bargain and one can see it in the fact that they have been given two of the major ministries or maybe three of the major ministries namely the foreign ministry the finance ministry and the ministry of labor especially interesting here is that the social democrats are taking over the finance ministry which for the last forward four years wa

that's the bavarian sister party of the jungle merkel's c.d.u. commenting on the negotiations nothing too substantial there yet nina what do you read of what we're seeing here today we've also had confirmation from the s.p.d. by the way they have a whatsapp group and they send updates on the coalition talks and actually a few minutes ago they posted a picture of the. major figures from the s.p.d. and saying we're very tired but well satisfied and we've got a deal and now they say they have to take it into the group of thirty five negotiators for the social democrats so i think we can talk about a fact that we do have a deal which now needs to go into the process of being approved by the entire party that's a big question of course being approved by the entire party you're saying that on the group they say there is a deal and they are satisfied. does that mean that there's the s.p.d. rank and file will sign off on it or you know i think to get those three ministries is a major success for the a speedy you've got the foreign minister the foreign mi

party that she would like her to become its general secretary that means that she would be in charge of the party's david day operations and of places her in pole position to take over as chancellor if america steps down it's by all means a colorful choice and a good come combo of the take the position as general secretary of the cd hugh although she already has helped more important posts within the party but conservative leader uncle america wanted a party manager whom she can trust one hundred percent and on a good come come by has been close to america for many years we can once again when we have known each other for many years now and i can say that we can rely on each other even if we both have our own opinions so i think we'll have some exciting times ahead of us. the media has given come combo the nickname mini america the board a k k as she is known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a mini unincluded com combo or has been state premie of the sol region since two thousand and eleven. victory at the state elections last year was key to merkel's win in the nationwide

there outside the c.d.u. party headquarters where the coalition would be coldish partners are continuing to negotiate. well moving on to taiwan rescue efforts are underway there are a six point four magnitude earthquake killed at least four people and injured hundreds of others authorities say more than one hundred forty people are still unaccounted for it's the second major quake to hit the island nation in recent days with more aftershocks feared. this building is still standing but the lower floors are crushed beneath its weight. firefighters are searching for any and every way so they can find survivors and get them out to safety the quake hit. east coast shortly before midnight tuesday it left several buildings listing dangerously near collapse including a military hospital and this hotel where an overnight worker was rescued from inside. there was only me working the night shift i don't know what happened to the people upstairs. his son and grandson soon arrive they are overjoyed to find him alive. but

side of the cabinet picks and her own c.d.u. party is still trying to recover from the fact that merkel in those late nights ago she is handed over the key finance ministry now with un spawn and we're not hearing anybody denying this joy in her cabinet she will have somebody at the table who is on the record of could not just criticizing her but also through actually without really courtenay to with the german chancellor forced himself through votes into the upper echelons of the c.d.u. party system real competition there the social democrats we've seen really having not just lively debates it's really internal fights not something angela merkel had under control until now recently after these elections which are also seen as a kind of defeat for the christian democrats who also lost in these polls and who are now trying a very very hard indeed to get this so-called grand coalition together with the social democrats whose party grassroots will have the final vote where they would actually happen. let's go back to you and sean fo

went on through the night michael c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin the sides disagreed over labor laws and health care reform it's been more than four months since german national elections country faced the prospect of fresh elections without a coalition deal. well for the very latest let's cross over to our political correspondent hans bond who's standing by outside the c.d.u. party headquarters here in berlin where those marathon talks of been taking place hans we're getting signals that breakthrough has been achieved in the talks what can you tell us is obviously the signals have arrived here as well that come from the online edition of a very german magazine who report from inside the coalition talks saying that an agreement has been reached and especially an agreement has been reached on the distribution of the various ministries in the new government between the two parties the social democrats and the conservatives there has however been no further confirmation of this has to nobody has arrived from inside the talk

all for the very latest let's cross over to hans bond who's standing by in front of the c.d.u. party headquarters where the would be coalition partners are meeting this morning as these coalition talk. hans can you hear me think we're having troubles stop wishing on line to hans at the moment. for ok we will try to come back to hans and the latest on this coalition talks that are happening here berlin as soon as we can get the line up now to the u.s. and the debate there over the status of migrants who arrived illegally as children also known as dreamers next month the dhaka program that gives them temporary protection is due to expire as democrats republicans haven't yet agreed on how to reform migration policy about seven hundred thousand dreamers stand to lose the protection that allow them to work and study in the u.s. the issue is hotly disputed not only in congress a reporter carlina chinmoy has talked to people on both sides of the fence even on a cold day in washington d.c. activists gathered in front of the truck will tell to protest against the president's new proposa

party member who was his positions were so far right that he had to leave the conservative c.d.u. party is considered an a if the friendly politician himself and he is running this poll this institute who just came out with the with these results in fact so we have to be careful on the one hand side on the other hand if you look at other institute results then they come out pretty similar so this is certainly also a result of the long week lasting negotiations here for for forming a new government in germany and people are simply upset with this are right over salat reporting thank you all right to france to our aid workers say that thousands of migrants are sleeping rough an appalling conditions that's despite an election promise by president many on my call to curb the problem by the end of twenty seventeen on now it looks like his government may have a solution e w's the salaries reports from paris on a new immigration law that will streamline the asylum process and make it easier for authorities to deport migrants. when abraham arrived in paris last year he thought he'd finall

our political correspondent hans blunt is standing by at the c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin where those marathon talks are continuing hans any sign of progress any sign of a breakthrough. there's no sign of a breakthrough at the moment we've had a couple of people from inside the talks come out and tell us what's going on what's going on is negotiations if you want to put it as simply as that there has been no information about any breakthrough at the moment it's like you have for this process will take several hours still one has to say that last nine. there was a leak to the press of the agreement that has been reached so far this comprises more than one hundred sixty pages of detailed agreement in other words they have been going quite follow really they have achieved quite a lot already but they are reaching the sticking points the really crucial points the ones that we have been mentioned labor reform this this concerns temporary work or six term contracts in germany and the question of health care reform these are both issues that are very

all right another big obstacle there ahead of us i hands brian to standing outside of the c.d.u. party headquarters as we have a breakthrough here in berlin germany is one big step closer to getting a new government and hans i will be watching closely there behind you while waiting for a members of the negotiating parties to come out and give their statements that will come back to a little bit later thank you hans. and we have our political editor nina hasa with us here in studio to talk more about this story nina i wanted to ask you about what hans was just saying this sense of frustration among some of the social democrat party members also among some voters that there hasn't been a deal yet but also that this is not the coalition government they want to see again for some of our international viewers who might not understand that why is there such frustration i mean within the s.p.d. within the s.p.d. but also among voters who seem to believe that this is another continuation of the status quo. there is a lot of frustration people are beginning to feel that the political land

social democrats both parties need to approve the deal before the new government can be formed the c.d.u. delegates are expected to support the deal by a wide margin ahead of the convention mechelle had named picks for a potential new cabinet calling it a new start for the cd you bought half of the positions are slated to be held by women and against spawn a champion of the party's right will also be part of a cabinet he's considered a shop critic of matters refugee policy. joining me now from the city you can mention is did obvious political editor michelle of course know highly surely you have one of the people but to potentially be in. new cabinet. absolutely in fact journalists offenses so often the line joins me now and you out one example together with the chancellor of the continuation of a potential new cabinet if the social democrats agree to it german chancellor also merkel took on code one of her harshest critics within the party did she have to or did she wants to she wanted to she is free to decide and she wanted to take a very different friendship and it set off a set up of

and it includes her most prominent critic from within the c.d.u. . after weeks of speculation and rumor around the new cd you cabinet mescal says she's blending fresh faces with wise heads. it's been a moment the i instigated the at the moment i'm the only one who's passed the age of sixty all others the younger in some very much younger than this and with this team we can now tackle the challenges of the future and there are many few look in a grand coalition out will lead the ministry of economic affairs minister of defense remains under law in the new minister of agriculture or perhaps the biggest surprise is yet taking the health ministry and the a college check is responsible for education and research it was the inclusion of one of her most prominent critics an ambitious young conservative that raised eyebrows does mention byron is not the only one that makes critical comments that's fine we're here to build a better germany i believe he wants to contribute to that just like all other cabinet members. of the us now inside the tent span watched

as she's known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a mini the fifty five year old lawyer has managed to secure a conservative majority within the saar region traditionally a social democrat stronghold. a.k.k. is considered to be down to earth her matter of fact approach to politics is very popular come current powers nomination as general secretary can also be seen as a way of reaching out to americans tricks although she's loyal to the party leader come current power has never been too shy to voice her opinion in the past. every second look at some of the other stories making news around the world iran's civil aviation spokesman has said on state media that he cannot confirm the wreckage of a plane that crashed on sunday has been found but has followed earlier reports that search crews have located the crash site authorities say all sixty five people on board are presumed dead. five people have been killed in a shooting at a christian church in the city of jack in the russian republic of dagestan a twenty

at c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believe me when we can so we live in ten times what people want from the mainstream policies the conservatives on social democrats is that we form a reliable government if it gets off the population it will be for this people even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence. so i have good reason to think we're in the final stretch i'm hoping for a positive spirit to the talks and a good result for our country on this rules are on. and the leader of chancellor merkel's more conservative sister party the c.s.u. from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat then earlier in the day listen it's good for. everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore

job is unlikely that he will be able to one thing is to show that both the social democrats and the c.d.u. party of uncle americal both have a rather broad consensus that the need to be a first commitment to europe that's also the first chapter in the coalition agreement that's on the table and that will be voted on by c.d.u. delegates meeting here in berlin on monday morning and they are expected to vote for the resoundingly yes to this more question marks over how the social democrats will in the end vote on this because the grassroots get to have a vote there but on the whole there is a positive sign from this potential new government also to call in france who wants to take your forward he wants to really make headway also on the eurozone moving closer together he's likely to have more bucking now with this new government with the social democrats strengthened within that continuing potentially continuing coalition. or thank you very much the former leader of the main syrian conflict kurdish political party known as the p y d has been arrested in prague at the behest of turkey augur h

should i want to remind our viewers here in the bottom of the screen we are looking at pictures of the c.d.u. party headquarters here in berlin we're waiting for statements from the party leaders to announce officially this new coalition agreement we're waiting for that in about twelve minutes time we'll be listening to that live but in the meantime thought that looking at this entire protracted process as we said how have german politics changed over these past four months as we've seen the various parties trying to form a coalition government well externally i mean we've seen them really struggling to get a government in place first of all we saw a. it's trying to get a coalition agreement with the greens and the pro business of front business friendly liberals and that didn't work out everybody was quite shocked about that because people really counted on them forming the new government and then the german president had to step in and remind the social democrats as well as the conservatives of their responsibility to at least try to form a new government before they would call new electio

at c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believe me when we can so we live in turbulent times what people want from the mainstream policies the conservatives on social democrats is that we form a reliable government if it gets off the population it will be for this people. even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence. so i have good reason to think we're in the final stretch i'm hoping for a positive spirit to the talks and a good result for our country in this rules are law. and the leader of chancellor merkel's more conservative sister party the c.s.u. from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat than earlier in the day elizabeth before. everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anym

party base. and that was our michelle a coup for reporting there here's some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. local people welcome to teachers back to school in florida today or seventeen students and staff were killed in a mass shooting twelve days ago police officers carried out identification checks before drivers were allowed on to school grounds the suspected shooter a former student the school is facing multiple murder charges u.s. president has suffered a setback after the supreme court rejected his bid to get it to intervene in the case of the dreamers now they are the children of illegal immigrants to the united states and they've been campaigning to be allowed to stay trumpets hope that the supreme court to consider the case without its having to go through local courts first. britain's opposition leader jeremy corbyn has outlined a more flexible approach to immigration after a break said compared to that of prime minister to recent may he says that his l

congress is the c.d.u. where we're going to be voting on this coalition agreement and then we will slowly but surely be able to actually get to work and i want to say thank you to my negotiating partners it wasn't an easy business. but it was a good one we've done well if you like done the damage but thank you very much ladies and gentlemen first of all i want to express my gratitude since everyone who has ensured that the coalition agreements that we have brought on to a close today were in many ways the fastest coalition negotiations of this kind that we've ever had in just over a week we have put this coalition agreement together it took an awful lot out of everyone involved and i want to thank everyone who was involved in this everyone behind the scenes as well without whom it wouldn't have been possible. we've been able to start writing down a coalition agreement here that aims at improving people's lives. you know pensioners retraining students people who don't have any perspective on the labor market

as she's known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a mini the fifty five year old lawyer has managed to secure a conservative majority within the saar region traditionally a social democrat stronghold. a.k.k. is considered to be down to earth her matter of fact approach to politics is very popular come current powers nomination as general secretary can also be seen as a way of reaching out to americans critics although she's loyal to the party leader come convo or has never been too shy to voice her opinion in the past as give over a political correspondent to all of us and well what message is unclear sending with this decision. politician with a complicated name on a good come common ball for non german natives at least it's a very interesting move to follow here i'm going to america has received lots of criticism foam from within her own party in the refugee crisis of two thousand and fifteen and sixteen for the general move off the conservative party to the left so not everybody is very pleased right n

and overwhelming majority of c.d.u. delegates voted in favor of a new grand coalition only twenty seven of more than nine hundred delegates voted against it even so given the skepticism within the ranks of the party the american was at pains to sell the coalition agreement before the vote and when do you guys just display the slogan that we've chosen for this coalition deal makes it clear we're looking for the right answers and drawing conclusions from the election results in a new start for europe all. magical speech drew just over four minutes worth of polite applause that's comparatively little by the c.d.u. standards of recent years that could be interpreted as dissatisfaction with the chancellor and her poor showing and germany spent only action a problematical is all too aware of. that's the good news and this result is not at all what we were hoping for we all fought hard and we were all disappointed we want to do better next time so. that's been the theme of you've got this option. but many delegates fear that a

party and we haven't yet heard from martin schultz the junior coalition partner in all of this who is the leader of the center left s.p.d. party but that clip that we just played was one of a succession of exhausted looking party executives emerging from conrad house where the talks had been taking place for a full twenty four hour session through to the early morning of early dawn of weapons day and they just really wanted to get handouts frankly they were relieved for the country that a deal appears to been agreed they were dotting the i's and crossing the t's and preparing basically the paperwork to be published so that's the whole party membership can actually have a look at what they finally come to agreement on but one of the other delegates said look i just want to go home for a shower so it looks like i know america will give a formal statement once they've had the chance to freshen up but other than that it looks like everything's organized now yes and i understand paul that s.p.d. party members will vote on any final coalition deal do we have any idea what kind of deal they'

that they're in front of the c.d.u. party headquarters i'm thanking will be coming back in just a little bit. and our political editor nina is back with us here in studio and you know we heard hundreds there just talking about the social democrats and of course what a difficult process this has been for them what is going to take now to convince their party members that they need to accept this agreement so that germany can form a new government you know sumi i think what we have to do is take a step back and remind everybody why they are so reluctant to enter a new government again with conservative because i can imagine that people in the world are asking themselves the question what's the problem with and for a government you are in power you have you have a few ministries even you have as we've seen in this deal even if it's not been confirmed yet but looks like this baby's going to get major ministries at the same time the s.p.d. feels like it has lost a bit of its identity in the past grand coalitions with uncle a

c.d.u. meeting more than a thousand delegates are expected to support the deed and at the convention american had named hope picks for a potential new cabinet calling it a new start for the c.d.u. about half the positions. slated to be held by women at the hands on a new champion of the party's right will also be part of cabinet that he is considered a sharp critic of america's refugee policy. joining me now from the city you can mention is the obvious political correspondent michelle or couth now welcome michelle i know it's a delegates vote for at the convention to vote for this new coalition deal are we one step closer to getting a new government in germany. yes and we will be one step closer but it's the one step that we were expecting to go through quite easily anyway the big question is what will come out of the grassroots vote of angst party members not just delegates . behind in the c.d.u. but the grassroots of the social democrats they have time until this coming weekend to return t

c.d.u. party convention is underway conservatives will vote on the coalition agreement with the center left social democrats both parties will need to approve the deal before the new government can be formed the c.d.u. delegates are expected to support the deal by a wide margin ahead of the convention machall had named her picks for a potential new cabinet calling it a new start for the c.d.u. but half the positions are slated to be held by women and again spawn a champion of the party's right will also be part of the cabinet is considered a sharp critic of america's refugee policy. joining me now from the city convention is the the obvious political editor. michel are you have one of the people potentially being in the back of a new cabinet. absent in fact germany's defense missile was left on the line joins me now and you out one example together with the chancellor of the continuation of a potential new cabinet if the social democrats agree to it german chancellor also merkel took on boar

that your party is now shifting to the right as many suggest. the c.d.u. is for a party at the political center and joan it will remain the political party of the center in germany because elections germany a one in the center of this is exactly where we belong i'm going to merkel announced a new cabinet members yes city evening will become the new health secretary i know you had sprung for many years and now he has a chance to show what he can do as a new minister there's a lot to do in this field ok let's take a listen if we could to what the chancellor had to say about her picks. it's been a moment the i instigated the at the moment on the only one he's past the age of sixteen all of his a younger and some very much younger than this and with this team we cannot tackle the challenges of the future and there are many this feeling. ok now are the new polls personalities that the chancellor named the ones that can bring back the voters that the c.d.u. has lost to the far right if the especially the ones who say that your party has abandoned its conservativ

i go amok lizza chancellor angela merkel is a party leader she leads a c.d.u. and at some stage of course we will then have to discuss who will follow her but this is certainly not now have a case what we now need is for the next nearly four years a firm and stable government under leadership of aguilar merkel and everything else will be discussed at a later stage ok with that include policies that could bring back the disaffected c.d.u. voters who've gone to their day giving the seat policies that would give the c.d.u. more of a conservative profile. the result of the last general elections in september wasn't about what we had actually booked for that what we had expected yes we want to do better and this is exactly what we're going to do him and the x. years i think what we have to show german citizens is that we've understood their concerns that we have to deliver concrete results and then i believe that we can do better and if you look for instance of the voters we lost we lost more than a million voters to the liberals a more than one million voters to th

at c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believe me when we can so we live in turbulent times what people want from the mainstream party is the conservatives on social democrats is that we form a reliable government for the good of the population it will be for this people. even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence. so i have good reason to think we're in the final stretch i'm hoping for a positive spirit to the talks and a good result for our country this ruins a lot. and the leader of chancellor merkel's more conservative sister party the c.s.u. from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat then earlier in the day elizabeth before that everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anym

party headquarters that's chancellor merkel's party here in berlin any minute now her conservatives and the social democrats under martin schultz are set to announce plans for a new grand coalition this follows days of negotiations in which the two were deadlocked over issues like health care reform today's agreement a still faces a vote buying nearly half a million social democratic party members. and let's go back to our political correspondent hans front who is standing by for us outside of the party headquarters monitoring the story any more details on this breakthrough agreement that you can that you've been hearing. i think what we can say it's been is this certainly has been confirmed now that the agreement has been reached of what is happening at the moment is that the various leading party bodies are being informed of all the details and a few logistical things still to be solved in other words the agreement has to be put into its final written form and has to be printed out to be distributed to party members but also to the public through the press to us as it were so that's a

in there at the moment what about the other parties in germany's political landscape most specifically here the far right alternative for germany the f.t. that entered parliament for the first time now in september how have they been observing this process and how they've benefited from it yes they've most certainly benefited from it i mean we're talking about the two main parties going into another grand coalition for another four years and that has already in the past four years certainly supported the fringes or made the fringes grow the right wing populist they entered the parliament in september for the first time and they've been really soaring the debate towards the right here and you can see that in this coalition agreement does well in terms of refugees the compromises they've been they've been agreeing upon more to the right than what we would have seen maybe a year ago when the f.t. . excuse me was not in parliament so it really reflects upon the political situation here and the deal will come out as another winner in in this because in the long term a grand coalition could

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and only got the economics ministry of the lot also which the larger party the c.d.u. left the table with the least important ministries says the party's members in sex and it. what i see now in social media is difficult it will be very hard to get back on the right path there's lots of dissatisfaction in the c.d.u. and fear that the party has sold out before cove there was no other way otherwise the coalition agreement would simply not come about says c.s.u. party leader horace d. who for yeah we would have accepted the finance ministry that was our first priority as we would have taken the foreign ministry we would have taken the ministry of social affairs but the s.p.d. insisted from the outset that it wanted those three ministries and without them they would not join the coalition because it's called many in the c.d.u. say the chancellor negotiated badly others simply call it a conservative social democrat coalition compromise. and it was we knew that the members of the social democrats they now have to approve this deal briefly what are the chances that they will

party is able to say right to the brand the suspension stays for another six months and after that one thousand family members per month will be allowed to come to germany the left wing s p d is able to say look we've managed to open the door again after two years of it being shut so for our left wing supporters we're able to sell that to them it's only a thousand but it's a compassionate gesture for the far right party for example very able to go to their constituents and say look the actual right for asylum seekers to bring family members over has gone this one thousand will be on an ad hoc case by case basis so it's all about the presentation it's all about the perception but it appears that this coalition negotiation has produced a kind of fudge which all sides can sell to all of their constituents ok so the fact that they or able to come to this compromise what does this say about ongoing coalition talks. well it means that the breakthrough appears to have been made there's a self-imposed deadline of next sunday for the coalition talks to be completely concluded for all issues inc

conservative c.d.u. sister party the c.s.u. right now may well be the chancellor's most powerful opponent merkel is in favor of a huge coalition of. the social democrats are in a fix right now. party leader martin short's resigned. and the s.p.d. is lower in the polls than ever germany and all of europe are asking will crew knots opposition campaign succeed. given what passed on and it will be. hours. everybody in here yeah i know my. parents didn't. yell at the beginning of another lot of day to not pauses to collect his thoughts. later he'll hit the road to try to convince more s.p.d. members to vote against the grand coalition. who notice traveling throughout germany today he's in the town of bishops time near frankfurt. lots of s.p.d. members want to have their say and there's a big crowd here today. it was tonight the leader of the party's youth organization who launched the debate. about. our election manifestos no longer sound like s.p.d. principles but a compromise tailored to a grand coalition we know we have few optio

the c.d.u. standards of recent years that could be interpreted as dissatisfaction with the chancellor and her poor showing in germany's federal election a problematical is all too aware of. the good news and this result is not at all what we were hoping for we all fought hard and we were all disappointed we want to do better next time. mode up this option. but many delegates fear that another coalition with the s.p.d. will do little to improve the conservatives approval ratings some even stood at the entrance to urge delegates to reject the grand coalition the c.d.u. party conference has not seen this much division in years but the chancellor has moved to placate her opponents bringing in sean one of her most outspoken critics into the cabinet as health minister half of all her cabinet posts may be filled by women facing the critics will be the task of the c.d.'s future secretary general and a good time cover and bob was elected by an overwhelming majority. she promised to restore the party's pr

as a party has basically been abandoned by. the greens present themselves as a clear alternative their floor leader cuts mean getting eckard says this coalition agreement is at best a patchwork quilt had the agreement has gaps when it comes to fairness for children or nursing care and it lacks greatly on climate protections we're preparing to take a powerful opposition stance on these issues in the next few years after the matter a coalition agreement offering something for everyone to criticize. around the opposition views there some of the strongest criticism coming from the far right alternative for germany party the a.f.d. saying that merkel see the us now just an empty shell with a new grand coalition han's the f.t. will be the strongest party in parliament does the cold. deal provide faulter for the far right for the f.t. oh absolutely obviously we've just heard that they already started criticizing the con so to us and this government this potential government was still have to say obviously specially on the issues migra

the c.d.u. c.s.u. union once a functioning state a state that's capable of acting in a reliable state part of being reliable is that the state handles the money of its citizens reasonably solid finances are the basis for this that the c.d.u. c.s.u. union will stick with its clear principle no new debt no tax increases the problem we're going to have our story talk convincing her party their conference this was it sort of stuff was a position talk you think of the other side of this potential coalition government a social democrat think you have to be frank thanks to the sort of work through at the polls we're told if you do everything there were three in the party vote coming next weekend from the social democrat thank you very much already tried to remove i want to have a huge issue i think people for young for younger people. basically i'm going to have you both talk to a group of three members are sure to be rooting for her government basically trying to be frank with you but i thought it was pretty

the c.d.u. c.s.u. union wants a functioning state a state that's capable of acting in a reliable state part of being reliable is that the state handles the money of its citizens reasonably solid finances are the basis for this that the c.d.u. c.s.u. union will stick with its clear principle no new debt no tax increases the public going to the macroeconomic convincing her talking there in conference which was it's funny because i wasn't talking with the others was this potential coalition government thank you very much we have to be thankful to work through it's a place where coalition really think there were three in the party vote coming next week i'm from the social democrats and the microwave very thankful right for me i want to have a condition that people for young for younger people basically thinking that the iowa caucus. if you are going. through and we were ready for her to have a basic thank you thank you been a few. democrats but the point after which the far right right here and right now w

party has been negotiating a coalition with the social democrats germany's been without a government since the major parties lost ground to the far right in september's election. if you don't start coming it's the only song that. one can tell by now how long this will take we worked well yesterday but there are still important points that we haven't cleared up so i'm going in with goodwill but of course with a certain expectation that we will face difficult negotiations at today's meeting britain's government is introducing new rules to try to tackle money laundering the times newspaper says the measures will give the government the power to seize what it sees as suspicious assets u.k. security minister ben wallace told the paper that the government will investigate foreign nationals with more than seventy thousand dollars in assets if they can't adequately explain how they got the money london's banking and property markets propped up by hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign money investigators suspect some of that cash is illegal robert barrington is the executive director of