always close to the action but i'm not going to bite my port open cobol get a one big hole like a candidate for that up to the minute news and opinions of the background to political development w d w we bring you more on the way of. the state of the news coming to live from berlin on the americal begins the tough task of building a government despite suffering historic losses she says all parties have a responsibility to for must be able to coalition which will speak to former partners a social democrats but she may have to work with two parties who have little in

common and then how is she going to deal with this. is to deny it i'm sorry him but our view is we need new policies one million foreign people have been brought into this country and they are taking the president this country away from us that he have to you does not want this view you have been elected to address these policies head on. why as an immigrant i asked do you use the first news conferences or stunning election results the promise to shake up german politics. on sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us julie is election campaign was often called dull but the results are proving a tad more interesting the mass circulation daily build is even talking about a. earthquake i'll americal will say on this chance or bought her cd you and the

other big party in her outgoing coalition social democrats have both suffered historic losses and the far right a of d. is celebrating major gains of them seats in parliament for the first time america needs to form a new coalition of the forward social democrats have already rolled out a partnership saying we're going to take on a role in the opposition as chancellor is keeping our options open. if you have an exploratory talks with the d.p. and the green party but also with the s. he. does because i believe it is that germany have a strong this government i have heard them on heard what the s.p.d. position is but i believe it's important to stay in a dialogue and this was this. belief by thanksgiving so it was

a bad night for germany's conservatives and social democrats and big wins for the far right let's take a closer look now at the figures bear with me for a minute technology is tricky here we go that should pull up the results. but it doesn't but we apologize for that we're hoping to show you figures that give you closer idea of what happened last night the results were something like thirty three percent for the city you twenty percent for the s.p.d. that's the center left party the left party had here we go sometimes if you're patient things do work out the left party took nine percent the greens eight point nine percent the f.d.p. ten point seven percent and as we've been saying all day big gains for the twelve point six percent in gray you see germany's other smaller parties collectively coming in at about five percent so how have things changed since the last german

election we can take a look now at what's the same and what's different we can see that the conservatives and as p.d. both of the mainstream parties have lost major support here the left party and the greens are also up ever so slightly you see those figures in pink and green the pro-business liberal f.d.p. they're up almost six percent and the f.t. up almost eight percent this time around so remember germany is a parliamentary system none of the parties got a majority so they're going to have to form a coalition and we can have a look now at how many seats each of the parties is expected to take in the bundestag the most the c.d.u. c.s.u. about two hundred forty six yes hundred fifty three the left party sixty nine sixty seven seats for the greens eighty for the f.d.p. and ninety four for the far right i have to be. so pretty much the only coalition that's possible right now is what's being called here in germany

a jamaica coalition that's because it has the same colors as the jamaican flag it consists of the conservatives the greens and the f.t.p. the pro-business liberal party and you can see there on that graphic that would give them a majority but it's not going to be easy the greens and they have to be there who really have much in common after all one is an environmental party and one is the liberal pro-business party so how is this going to work and what does it mean for germany and the world for some answers i'm going to head over the desk now and be joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane. wonder great to have you back in the studio you have been with us all night breaking down the results as they come in we've finally got some study results to talk about and the coalition building begins now last night we heard the s.p.d. say they're not going to take part in a coalition with merril no grand coalition that gives us the f.d.p. the progress party the greens and meryl's conservatives how is that going to work

well. the chancellor essentially has to go to these two parties because as you say the s.p.d. has ruled itself out although frankly she was saying today she's going to call the s.p.d. anyway and i think that's the beginning of her bargaining tactics if she were to admit that she really has only one option here obviously the two potential partners the greens and the business friendly free democrats have a lot more leverage so i think when we're hearing some conflicting signals there about the possibility of a renewed growth grand coalition that's partly tactics how would it work well these negotiations can go on until christmas time they will take weeks and they will be very tough basically what happens each party has its party program that was put together before the election campaign to tell voters this is what we stand for this is what we want to do if we get into office they will essentially compare their programs and say where do we match up where is there some room for compromise and

what are our red lines where would we say we can't we can't move beyond these principles i think we've seen some difficulty in the areas of policy toward the european union particularly as between the free democrats and the greens greens very pro europe pro more integration the free democrats quite skeptical at least during the campaign now they may have been doing that also for tactical reasons trying to get you skeptics away from the far right party the alternative for germany and into their own fold perhaps they will modify their stance on europe but that could be a potential area of disagreement where there might be some harmony between all three of these parties is in the area of getting germany ready for the future meaning more attention to digitalisation more investment in crucial aspects of infrastructure including broadband so there is some area where they may agree but it's going to take a lot of tough negotiation on the part of all three parties and goodwill

a lot of work ahead and as you've warned us this could potentially take till christmas that's quite a while the wait. all right a.m.d. looks set to take about ninety seats in the bonus dog that's quite a blog how much power are they going to have and how will they use it first of all let's see whether they actually all sit together in one block we're hearing from compatriot who is one of the party leaders saying she's not going to be part of the overall parliamentary group she wants to go our own way and she says so precisely because the party has turned into a right wing nationalist protest party many of the voters who voted for this party were trying to send a signal to the politicians it is unclear to what degree that signal is really about legislating in all the different areas of politics or simply maintaining an absolute opposition to immigration the things that they say they want in their program are a limit on immigration they want much quicker deportation they want they do not

want to allow families of immigrants to enter the country and a whole host of other essentially anti immigration principles but it is very very unclear to what degree they are really looking to influence legislation or simply to get a platform for opposition there's a lot of interesting things to watch out for melinda crane our chief political correspondent thanks for pointing some of them out well they have to got off to a shaky start today despite their strong performance at the ballot box and one of their leaders falcon petry got the bombshell of the party's first national press conference since the election she indirectly accused other leading party members of racism she said the party had no chance of ever getting into government and that she would therefore not serve as part of the parliamentary group. the first press conference of the newly elected far right alternative for germany party was intended to be a show of unity instead it highlighted the divisions and infighting within the

party. co-chairwoman falcon petri walked out of the conference in the early stages joking everyone in the room including have fellow party members it was a striking show of disunity for a party that says it promotes dialogue. i listen too long i'm usually everything should be discussed especially when someone is in a leadership position or their decisions must be something others can anticipate. lives yeah if not before the f.d.a. had achieved something even its leadership wasn't anticipating not only did the f.t. make it into the german parliament it became the third biggest party many are calling it a seismic shift the a.f.d. lead as a promising to change the country is a bonus if this german government whichever way it is formed should dress warmly we will hunt them we will hunt mrs merkel or whoever and we will take our country and

our people back. only. so we go in. the eye of the party was founded four years ago. initially its focus was against the european union the euro and german contributions to the e.u. bailout fund for greece. in the two thousand and thirteen election the i f t fell just short of the five percent threshold needed to enter parliament. for the migration crisis in two thousand and fifteen and chancellor merkel's response changed the i f t's electoral fortunes the party jumped on the issue and managed to get a number of regional assemblies. there it's often blocked lawmaking or courted controversy with scandalous rhetoric and procedural challenges. it's likely to

carry those tactics into the federal sampling. as news of the election results spread hundreds of people converged on the f.t. headquarters to protest against the party the f.t. is dividing germans and its rise could make german politics equally fiery. our correspondent mark is out about on the streets of dresden and eastern part of germany fabiani i have did it especially well there in saxony where you are and also in other german states why do you think that is. yeah well that's true the. second biggest party in the east of germany and here in sex need even turned out to be the best party with some seven twenty seven percent that they got here in sex in the end i'm here in the capital into easton where also the. anti islam movement met every monday now it's in three years and they

were protesting against the so-called islam eyes ation of europe and germany and that is one of the reasons that all the. supporters and voters also name when they are asked why they vote for this party oh yeah they also made gains in western germany do you think it was an economic factors immigration fears what's going on there well the refugee policy of anglo-american is certainly one unifying pattern of all the voters in the east and in the west some are just concerned that germany couldn't cope with the sheer number of migrants that came to germany others are openly cinephile big and racist the economic question is interesting because when you ask a if the voters some seventy three percent of them say they're actually satisfied with their economic situation so that's not an explanation really this through other cultural explanation many of the voters like the voters for example of donald

trump in the u.s. they say that they're not satisfied with the general development of the society with multiculturalism with women rights with globalization with the modern society and they rather dream of a society that they had in the eighty's or something like that and they won these times back certainly they won't get them by voting a. ok mark there for us and dressed and thank you. well as the view from germany now let's get the view from brussels our bureau chief max hoffman joins us now max another four years for markel how is that going down in brussels we talked to you commission presidential include your group who seem to quite satisfied with the result here of course you have to point out that you agree himself as a member of the european peoples party so conservative party on the european level that's the same party as i'm going to medical herself but was important for him to say that after being in power for twelve years he thought it was quite an

achievement to be able to have this and i think he said relative victory with another four years and by this large of a margin to the next party he did point out though that he was very worried about the development with the aid of the the right wing populists coming well into the parliament at least in germany but of course that's something he's seen in many countries in the european union he's seen a strong for us in other france for example and we have to remember in some countries in the e.u. the right wing populists already are the government for example take hungrier poland ok interesting that merkel is expected to seek a coalition with the greens and the liberal free democrats who criticized french president manuel micron's ideas for europe what do you expect to happen there. yeah you know there's this tale about a minute and i call supposedly having said behind closed doors that if the f.t.p. really is part of the german government then i'm done maybe this is

a classic case of not as bad as it seems although it's probably going to be confrontational for the eurozone budget topic that's something that money we might call once you once a euro zone budget the f.t.p. has says no go for them but we've talked to a lot of liberals here in brussels from the f.d.p. who are part of the european parliament who might even be ministers in the next government and they said hang on a second let's keep in mind that the f.t.p. really is a pro european party they are for the e.u. they are for developing the new institutions trying to make this whole thing work even better and they all said to us don't worry about that this will not be a problem if there really is a coalition there will be other problems alright other problems to look forward to max hoffman there for us in brussels thanks very much you're watching news live from berlin still to come on our program a vote of a different time is underway today in iraq fast as the country's corresponding want

to take some big step towards independence more on that for you coming up on the program. but first the political uncertainty here in germany following the election as financial traders on edge ben has that story usually germany's considered an island of stability and there is some continuity following the elections without holding on to the position of course the world's most powerful woman but she now faces the tough task of building a coalition government that could take awhile the euro a german bond yields a sliding in response germany's dax is holding on to some slight gains. like the rest of the country germany's business community is trying to digest the election outcome further down the road it could have to contend with a coalition between the conservatives liberals and environmentalists the conservative c.d.u. and the liberal f.d.p. are both traditionally pro-business but the greens are much more critical for now

however business leaders are still wary over the coalition talks themselves and how challenging they're set to be regardless of the outcome but once it's guns and you know it's important for us and irrespective of the party politics is that it doesn't take too long to come through the coalition talks they'll be very difficult negotiations but they have to agree on a forward looking program so that businesses are aware which conditions will apply in the future that will be crucial. in charge and it helps that the country is operating from a position of strength record employment booming exports and healthy consumption are fueling german growth but the country has lagged behind in many areas like digitization and infrastructure spending german industry wants to see this changed and the upcoming electoral term. the business community is sending its own kind of coalition agreement for investments but three focal points investing in education

in modern infrastructure and in spaces her entrepreneurialism activity. the country lives off ideas and the work of businesses and their entrepreneurs' those are resources. analysts and to support that the economy will show up slightly weaker in the third quarter concerned over a protracted effort to build a government is one factor but overall twenty seventeen is expected to be a good year a positive forecast may help business stay optimistic. let's talk about this with andrea hang our financial correspondent in singapore conrad bosun also joins us from frankfurt and starting with you for international investors merkel remains chancellor how do they perceive that well ben that that news is supposed to be showing for the rest of the world here but in fact it is sending some ways of

what. such a political deal but it certainly is germany this is going to stand down we'll call it add ons planned for the integrity of the euro zone which will enable the effect asia as well and we also know that mccoy does not like the f.t.p. the f.t.p. could form a coalition with the government conrad how long could it take to form such a coalition where most analysts here in germany financial center frankfurt are convinced that it's going to be but growing to take much longer than last time in twenty thirty even anglo-american form the last grand coalition with the social democrats it took three months now we've got three parties involved and especially the greens and the liberal democrats have very much to send in many regards mostly the euro the liberal democrats are not friends of further and stronger integration

of the european union they don't like the idea of a common e.u. budget they don't like the idea of a common finance minister for the eurozone and. this uncertainty is reflected on the markets today the euro dollar exchange rate slumped overnight it's now trading about one cents lower than before the weekend the euro fell below one dollar nineteen again and on that issue of a finance minister for the euro zone that's exactly why my point does not get along with the f.t.p. tell me what to the greens in the f.t.p. if they're going to work within a coalition have in common. well innovation is a word that both parties use a lot it's very unlikely that the two will descend on you know questions like further. further building broadband technology here in germany or whether it comes to support to electric mobility also what both parties

understand is that education is very important and that globalisation is rather an opportunity for a country like germany instead of being a risk of course the question is where they think this opportunity can be exploited in detail. back to you what would economists like to see in terms of policy where you are that's a great question then. a lot of the time so what would a lot of economists are looking for is stability of course and especially now that the far right is in that in germany in german parliament house is going to say foreign policy i was going to say cannot be a policy i was going to happen when. the ripple hit central banks across the rest of the world and securely in asia in the developing markets so these are all the things that are weighing on these economists and not just them but everyone else is

mines in the financial markets in asia right now and raining there for us in singapore and contribution in frankfurt thank you to both of you for your analysis . and there was another vote on sunday berlin residents voted to keep the german capital's take what i would put it even after the completion of a new international hub fifty six percent of voters said yes in the non-binding referendum the city currently plans to close the table six months after the opening of them by the big international airport a grand project plagued by repeated construction and planning problems that still has no fixed opening date table supporters say even when complete the us will be too small to meet passenger demand etc things i think will both be dead before that new airport opens they keep telling us it's coming it's coming i won't hold my breath let's take a look at some other news we're around the world a new u.n. report says russia is committing grave human rights violations in crimea and says

these include arbitrary arrests torture at least one extra just all execution moscow annexed the crimean peninsula from ukraine in twenty fourteen some fifty thousand people have been forced to flee their homes on the indonesian resort island of bali amid fears a volcano could soon erupt authorities say evacuations follow a tremendous increase in seismic activity for mount gong more than a thousand people died when last erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three. japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has called snap elections meaning the country will go to the polls next month a year ahead of schedule and join wising support amid tensions with north korea is expected to order a major economic stimulus package as part of his campaign. iraqi kurds have been voting in an independence referendum that has raised tensions in the region and yes result would give kurdish leaders

a mandate to start talks on breaking away from the rest of the country our boat is taking place in the autonomous kurdistan region and some other disputed areas of iraq the government in baghdad strongly opposes this referendum as do iraq's neighbors in syria turkey and iran. it's a big day for iraq's kurds. long lines formed early in front of polling stations in the kurdish autonomous region the kurdish city of the site of a poison gas attack by saddam hussein's forces that killed thousands almost thirty years ago a symbol of why many here want independence. we support the referendum if it's in the interest of the people people not supported it will cause more wars or cause people to flee their homes we have had enough of wars and deportation we do not want more wars and destruction of our homes.

before the vote kurdish regional government president massoud barzani explained why he was pressing ahead. though that this unfortunately the state that we have right now in iraq it is a theocratic sectarian state. next door the thank you much good stuff i would like to underline that we are never ever going back to baghdad to renegotiate for us. in baghdad the iraqi prime minister body condemned the referendum. what the map of iraq is endangered by a tense of division and tearing us apart discrimination between iraqi citizens on a nationalistic or ethnic basis exposes iraq to dangers known only to god turkey's deputy prime minister big here bows dig said kurdish leaders were playing with fire

and would be the first to be burned. the un the united states and other western countries had urged kurdish leaders to postpone the referendum but they refused to back down. many kurds are expected to vote in favor of a break off but the non-binding vote is unlikely to trigger an immediate formal declaration of independence. well here's a quick reminder of our have line story this hour on the america has urged germany's political parties to help or form a stable government unable to govern along merkel's conservatives will seek talks with the social democrats who have world out entering the coalition will also start talks with a pro-business free democrats and the green party. well you can find out more about what germany's election results mean with quadriga up next on new you can hear yes discuss the country's political landscape with host peter craven and find out what

germany's election could mean for the future that's did all the news coming to live from berlin i'm sara harmon thanks for watching i'll see if they're. going to bring a special back after the german born just talk the election journalists discuss village twenty seven germany has voted. on how should we interpret the election

results what do they mean for the european union. after the german election thank you international from berlin. election victory number four. on good american remains germany's chancellor. her political career began in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the berlin wall fell and unforeseen rise to power far. from physicists to the most powerful woman in the world until america a portrait. notes of it a few going to. do and link to news from africa and the world or link to exceptional stories and discussions from on use of these eat and why website

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