this is t w news coming to you live from berlin a prominent investigative journalist is killed in malta stuff a car want to go head repeatedly accused the maltese government of corruption she died after

a bomb exploded in her car yesterday afternoon also coming up iraqi troops celebrate their recapture of the city of kirkuk from kurdish fighters as thousands of civilians flee the city the kurds threaten to make baghdad pay a heavy price for their victory. and a dangerous journey to escape persecution thousands of new rippin jew refugees pour into bangladesh from myanmar not all of them will make it the lawn. and the champions league hits the pitch on tuesday and it is crunch time for bundesliga teams like the face porto while dortmund take all nicosia both clubs need a win to get their respective campaigns back on track. i'm terry martin good to have you with us. she was multiple. best known

investigative journalist yesterday she was killed by a car bomb death a car want to hear was known for her reports accusing the government of corruption she exposed what she said were links between government officials and secret bank accounts in panama maltese prime minister is also must cut called the murder of barbaric act he also acknowledged that she was one of his show harshest critics definitely cairo on a girlie theo's car exploded just after she had driven away from her home in master town outside boxes kept. the force of the blast flung her vehicle over a wall and into a field the journalist had filed a report with the police two weeks ago but she was receiving threats some three thousand people gathered for a vigil on monday evening to mourn her death she was an anti corruption crusader and multan is best known investigative journalist the case and stone the small my

draconian island which is home to some four hundred pairs and people family friend luke friend o. told the crowd her death would not be vain. i think definitely was not only a journalist and an absolutely fearless human being but. a fourth pillar of our democracy and that today's heinous crime was was not only against a human being against a journalist but against a pillar of everyone's democracy and i i hope that's why i know that her life is is it was definitely not for nothing and i'm sure though the torch will be carried by somebody else. sees prime minister joseph miscount who wanted to leave here accused of wrongdoing earlier this year called her killing a barbaric attack on press freedom. the journalist had revealed that the panama papers allegedly showed the prime minister's wife owned

a company in panama and that large sums of money had been moved between the company and bank accounts by john most got called early elections in june as a vote of confidence to counter the allegations he was reelected after he and his wife denied the accusations politico magazine had named. as one of twenty eight europeans who are shaping shaking and stirring europe. fears are growing of a new conflict in iraq after government forces returned the northern city of kirkuk from the kurds the government in baghdad said its forces were defending the integrity of the country after kurds voted for independence in a referendum last month baghdad said the kurds put up little resistance but other reports say there have been clashes and that the kurds are preparing to fight back . celebrations in kirkuk as iraqi forces role in.

supporters of the iraqi central government couldn't contain their joy after an intense day in which troops return key installations including an oil and gas field and a military base. cook an oil rich province claimed by both kurds and the iraqi government had been under kurdish control since iraqi forces fled an islamic state militants swept through the region in twenty fourteen. it comes three weeks after residents in the kurdistan region voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from baghdad in a controversial referendum. thousands of kurds fled the city ahead of monday's iraqi advance. assumed you were heading to where bill because the situation is getting worse for the iraqi troops have entered and there's no way we could stay in. the lineup of the kids who are terrified and we were afraid that

there would be clashes and mortars would fall on us that's what i'm worried about. prior to the retaking of kirkuk baghdad said it didn't want an armed confrontation but kurdish peshmerga leaders have said the iraqi advancement is a declaration of war. for more now let's cross over to journalist kathy she's in erbil that's in northern iraq kathy you're less than a hundred kilometers from kara cooke i understand what are you hearing about the current situation there. hi thank you for having me on this morning so as i had them made out to new audiences today the freshest i. hear it is very the more voices coming in. thousands of kids then as you. now and head anything else that clashes it seems to me for now i guess there was some initial writing back to then so. the concern that i'm hearing is not

about the clashes but about possibility of this same thing to happen you know the dispute areas in northern iraq. areas. because can't cook is not the only place to train central and. well ok so there's still potential for a more complex there kurdish forces and iraqi government troops that were supposed to be allies in the fight against islamic state at least is this alliance now in shreds. i think unfortunately now yes this alliance does not have kids in tatters and i think it's going to need some very strained you have to be going. to to try and put that together again they were allies and try to take most of her crisis and a lot of successful gracious isis is almost an out of iraq but what we're seeing in

the wake of that is that these two sides that i've trained for us both of us were victims that tend to guns on each other to try and result problems. that actually go back decades and will not result in the ice and now afterwards revert to those same problems but with more weaponry on the books so really there's a need quite strenuous to. the leaders to get around the table to avoid any more any more i don't care yes getting back to kick cook the kurdish forces there the peshmerga fought forces apparently didn't put up much resistance what do you think the chances are that the kurds will really give up their claims to care cook or could they attempt to retake the city. i don't think the parents would give up diana claims to they call it their injuries very firm. and national

nationalistic project they want to state there have been north and was very much based around her i don't think they'll get that of the least bullet but at the moment militarily and me i don't think they will be and way back in the air actually people rented out tara i feel. that i've got them so if i think. they they're wrong to push. us from. my stand now is insecurity. yes. a lot of people tensions are high i can't reach it every day i'm fifty five cents a day so there is there is the potential street level. kathy thank you so much for talking with us this morning a kathy autumn there in bill in northern iraq thank you.

so a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today but as well as opposition has accused the country's election council of rigging sunday's vote to elect governors are demanding a recount and have called for protests president nicolas maduro socialists want to majority of votes despite anger over soaring inflation and food and medicine shortage it's british prime minister theresa may has met the european commission head shown flood in brussels the two leaders called for stalled wrexham negotiations to be accelerated many in britain fear political deadlock could mean leaving the e.u. without a trade deal. and in ireland a powerful storm killed at least three people and knocked out power to tens of thousands what started as hurricane ophelia in the atlantic ocean had weakened by the time it reached ireland's shores but gusts of up to one hundred thirty kilometers an hour led authorities to ground some flights and shut schools.

you're watching t.v. news still to come it's crunch time in the champions league for bonus league sides leipsic and daughter who are both searching for their first continental wins of the season. now live to seems set on dominating the skies helena is here with news of its latest venture yes that's right terry has been barely time for the dust to settle on and if counts as acquisition of now it's set its sights even further germany's largest and on has put a bid in for another airline this time it is a talia italy's ailing flag carrier and owner of tons of british budget and on easy jet are two of the seven companies that handed in sealed envelopes yesterday in the hope of scoring parts of the italian airline. there's a new order in the skies above europe italian airline out italia which filed for

bankruptcy last may recently received another line of credit from the italian government to help it maintain operations until a new buyer is found. move tons and is offering half a billion euros for parts of the airline according to reports by italian media the german air giant is reportedly only interested in on the tally is aviation business and not its ground operations that means half of the employees of italy's largest airline could lose their jobs that's around six thousand people and that's similar to the current situation faced by the employees of insolvent airline air berlin the photons is said to only be interested in talia's long haul routes and not the short and medium ones whether anyone else is interested in those still remains to be seen as no other potential buyers have been reported to be lining up for pieces of al italia europe's largest budget airline ryanair has already withdrawn its bid for the airline the only welcome news for may be the three hundred million euros of

extra credit that it received from the italian government. and joining us now from frankfurt is yvonne back he's the head of the nominees commission that's an independent group which advises the german government on competition questions thank you very much for being with us today now and if council has put in for paul said on italia some say it's already been allowed to simply pick the best bits at the end do you agree with that assessment. your loved ones as taken part of the million but the twin cities that it's the largest ally and company in germany buying the second largest so there are a lot of competition issues arising saw what you mention is the best part they have to take as it only takes those parts where no competition issues come up well what advice did your panel give to the german government regarding the case and do you feel that they took your advice on board that it was a fair that is acting in

a fair manner yes that section issues the so says a procedural vote ok so the bill in mint insolvent sends a creator's committee took over and they decided to sell parts to the tons and other parts still in negotiation so that's ok but at an early stage the german government already expressed its interest that lufthansa should take at least part of it in and i think that's a private companies they are negotiating with each other and so it's not so drop of the government having said that it's a. is a is a good company so it's there's no harm in this that lufthansa buy some parts if it's not for competition issues so what we've seen now is said to groups in commission to investigate this merger and if there are complaints so if they're really brought into competition issues then i guess you drew a conclusion will step in well what will it mean for us the passenger. so i think we have to wait until the decision of the group commission will be made

and it's you know they have to investigate blind by line because you know if you fly from i know from from from frankfurt to london it's no eternity if to fly it or to paris instead so so they have to investigate on every line what is it is what is the competition situation there and you know is it ok is it the sense of by is evident on that line or not and otherwise they have to give up slots so the right to start and then i guess they have to give up some of the slots if you know in as a general remark you know it's a large the largest one in germany is buying the second largest that's not good for competition well of course you give recommendations regarding competition to governments i'm sure you have a sense of how this may be received by the european commission and competition authorities what do you think they're going to say about this there's a jew permission is they have a record of you know the being very careful in airline mergers and so i would expect that they're also you know take a deep look into that merger and we will see you know is this

a phase one where they you know mention their general complaints and that takes about a month and if they have more serious complaints in the interface too so we'll see whether they enter that phase two and i actually think you know there are so many lines where urban was the only competitor to lift under so i think there will be you know complaints by the true commission. him van but head of the monopolies commission here in germany thank you very much for your insights thank you. now if you use a wife internet connection let's face it most of us you could be affected by a so-called crack attack researches have discovered a major flaw in wife eye connections duct crack which could allow data being transmitted between the internet access point and your computer or mobile phone to be in to sept it now in some cases the hacker could use the vulnerability to inject malware an expert say could leave the majority of connections at risk until they

are patched so to protect protect your devices and data experts say update those devices as soon as an update he's available. twenty more business throughout the day but now we're taking a look at a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in me and on bangladesh that's right helena it's a crisis that the u.n. has has called a ethnic cleansing the united nations has now released a new aerial footage showing streams of revenge of muslims making their way to bangladesh most are on foot and are carrying their belongings the u.n. refugee agency says more than five hundred thousand revenge refugees have fled persecution in myanmar in the last five weeks they've called the crackdown ethnic cleansing in a moment we'll speak to a journalist in myanmar but mercenary and his reports on phones thousands of range of muslims fleeing persecution. trying to get to bangladesh by whatever means

possible. meanwhile five hundred kilometers away in my own capital nappy door the united nations political affairs chief jeffrey feltman met with. to try to halt the military operations and violence in northern iraq on state he's also demanding unlimited access for humanitarian support for the ranger but the toll of the exodus is rising around one hundred eighty rangers have drowned while trying to reach bangladesh on monday twelve more including six children drowned when an overcrowded boat capsized in the bay of bengal. dozens are still missing. and. when our homes were burnt out there was no place to live then we started walking towards the west there were no boats and we had to wait for more than ten days without food when we got the boat it took us along

a different route we were near an island when the boatman ran aground and then a big wave hit our boat and it capsized. more than half a million ranger have fled my own since co-ordinated range insurgent attacks more than seven weeks ago sparked a ferocious military response security forces have been accused of murdering civilians and right. the united nations has labeled it ethnic cleansing. well joining us now from yangon in myanmar is journalist david greene a david myanmar claims that ceased military operations in iraq in state where most of the riches live yet richer refugees are continuing to flee can you tell us what is going on in state. yeah a lot of the rangers who fled rakhine state recently in iraq and bangladesh are

saying that they were starving i mean keep in mind that for years many of those were in dozen or more kind i've been dependent on food from humanitarian aid groups but since late august what's the humanitarian aid groups have been shut out from delivering this aid the government is allowing the red cross to operate but it does not have the resources to reach everyone in need and many of her hands are risking their lives to get the bangla desh as your report said earlier we had a boat that capsized just yesterday and many of them died so it is a desperate situation still for many of them even if they're not coming under gunfire their villages are not being burned down many of them say they do are just running out of food and that's why they're leaving now a senior u.n. official has met the de facto leader she asked for humanitarian support to be allowed to reach the written job how likely is it that this will happen yeah that's really difficult to say farah she jeffrey feltman is certainly not the first diplomat to meet with state councilor on sunday talked about this recently but the

fact is this. does not have control over the security forces in this country that's where the real power a lot and the person in control there is the commander in chief of the military senior general men online he has been very resistant to outside pressure in fact he has accused the u.n. of aiding the wreckage of militants and accusation the u.n. denies but again you're going to have to sway him because on some suit she does not have the power here i will say that on some suchi she did announce just a few days ago that there is a new committee that she's chairing that will oversee the delivery of aid perhaps that is the be giving of an opening or perhaps that will lead to the beginning of an opening but whether or not this meeting with the u.n. pulled off their sleep is really going to change things is really difficult to say david thank you so much for talking with us that was journalist david greene about there any young going on mars. now

at least thirty six people have been killed in forest fires in portugal firefighters are battling more than five hundred fires in the north and center of the country government say the government says the fires the worst in more than decade have been caused by higher than average temperatures and the effects of a drought. many here you can hardly believe what they're seeing fi is ripping through entire forests overrunning villages and destroying everything in that paul portuguese authorities say high temperatures strong winds and extremely dry conditions have helped fan the flames. in. the central districts of colin brown and castello bronco of the woods hit areas many of the victims were caught unawares by the fires sudden a rival trapped in their homes they had no chance to xscape. it's very windy new fires a constantly being ignited and firefighters are unable to contain them. more and

more people are having to leave their villages over five thousand firefighters and so just battling the flames portugal already saw devastating fires in june which killed more than sixty people now the country finds itself facing and all that is sauce to. spain's high court has ordered two leaders of catalonia is pro independence movement jailed while they're being investigated on possible charges of sedition the national court in madrid jailed jordi sanchez and shorty creech job after questioning them and two senior law enforcement officials judges are investigating the role for play during demonstrations in barcelona last month this comes amid tensions between barcelona and madrid following catalonia is disputed independence referendum on october first. sports. some soccer action here rb leipsic are in action in the champions league group

stage later today last season the red bull backed outfit storm to a second place finish in their debut bonus league campaign but so far they've struggled to find success in europe and are bottom of their group ahead of their home game against f.c. porto. so far the red bulls haven't really had their head in europe and are bottom of their group after two games playing multiple matches a week required squad depth and coach is confident he can get the best out of his team and you this is the coaching staff have to ensure we have the fittest players in the starting eleven and those players play the leipzig way if we manage that with them or an uncomfortable opponent for every team in one shift in the game to be. on the back of an impressive win against dortmund lights are in good nick even better star striker team a van a could return after a prolonged spell on the sidelines. for his mansion phenomenon but i haven't yet

decided whether he'll starts will be on the bench the important thing is he's injury free. but he needs some time to get back to his best after such a long break from training. opponents porto are top of the portuguese league but just two points ahead of light sic in the group a first european win could see the german side overtake porto and claim second spot . well joining me in the studio for more on the on tonight's champions league games is d.w. sports is. like let's start close to home. face porto dortmund travel to cyprus in the german sides expect to win their games yeah i think this is a new chance for the door the german sides after they took a bit of a battering in the last changes the game week where dortmund all lost so have porto this match is

a must win for them after drawing to monaco and losing disappointing. us in their last match of course they're coming off a three two victory against dortmund so they'll be in high spirits but they really need to show that they can take that one as they form into the champions league and of course we have dortmund who have had even a worse start to the changes they've been lots if they've lost their games but they come up against apple well in so i press and really they should blow up well well off the park they may struggle to get out of the group but they should win this game by a few goals at least i know the game rael madrid tottenham played other night now they're in the same group as dortmund how important is that match it's huge for dortmund i mean they will be hoping that real madrid can bait spurs taught them so that they can take over that second place position and make it through to the knockout stages unfortunately spurs are coming up against the best side in the world around the trade so they'll have a bit of a struggle beating them away from home but all eyes will be on harry cain he's

england's best striker and a lot of people are saying one of the best strikers in the world but he has yet to the true self on the big stage so a couple of goals against real madrid and he may well prove those critics right thank you so much young spate from sports. well the number of places at next year's world cup in russia are quickly decreasing with twenty three of the thirty two teams already qualified later today the playoff draw for europe spinal four berths will take place in zurich the eight teams still in the running have been split into two pots with switzerland italy croatia and denmark facing either northern ireland sweden ireland or greece the play offs will take place during the international break in avenger. you're watching d.w. news still to come the food crisis in south sudan four years of civil war leave millions malnourished our reporters report from the site of an ongoing emergency

in part two of our series hunger in africa. all that and more still to come here on t.v. in its. take on the windows legal highlights. is that the real time cause effect crashes fribourg and certainly also well again in munich. but all was

well and doing was just something expressed to keep the season against drugs and home. sixty. four million people in east africa threatened by starvation what are the causes of the situation. we focus on five specific problem areas. as human journalistic project tries to find the answers why africa goes hungry our topic this week on d w news online. freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended in you. all over the world. are to a freedom freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists

and their right to express their views freely. d w dot com part of freedom. going to the w we speak your language our spanish program on you tube. only it's well informed it's open the sooner you can buy to always close to the action but i'm not hoping you'll get one before but you can get that up to the minute news and opinions the background to political developments. d.w. we bring you more than ever. welcome back you're watching t w news i'm terry martin our top story a prominent investigative journalist has been killed by a car bomb in malta. reported on maltese links to offshore tax havens and

corruption in the island nations government. now pope francis marked world food day on monday with a demand for governments to commit to ending hunger more than eight hundred million people are chronically undernourished francis told the un's food and agricultural association that hunger should not be treated as an incurable disease but as a condition that can be ended if the main causes of war and climate change are addressed. it out of the conflict how can we overcome conflicts. goodwill and dialogue a needed. you as well as a total commitment in favor of a gradual and systematic disarmament. to fight the traffic of weapons. of mass. what is the point of denouncing that because of conflict.

millions of people are victims of hunger and malnutrition seen us if we do not act effectively in the interests of peace and disarmament. all this week d w news is broadcasting a series of reports on the causes of hunger and malnutrition in africa today we're focusing on south sudan civil war has tormented the country since two thousand and thirteen following decades of conflict which led to independence from sudan more than a million children are malnourished in the country large areas are inaccessible to international aid groups are correspondents yon philip shots. are on a famine are on a famine catastrophe fuelled by war and political conflict. honey has been waiting for this moment for six weeks. she's walked

four hours from her village to the refugee camp inventive to get food to feed her family. i'm very grateful now i've got some beans next comes the children's food and the grain and oil to. the ngo that hunger hits from germany together with the u.n. world food program provides food for more than two hundred thousand people here every month one of the most difficult circumstances. there are frequent attacks which require u.n. soldiers to protect the camp. if it weren't for them we couldn't do our work here it would be too dangerous and it would be too dangerous for the people here to. the one hundred sixty thousand people who live in this camp are here mainly because of the united nations protection and here the defiant in these new.

but hanna doesn't live in the camp for the mother of four the most dangerous part of her journey is just about to begin. transporting the food to the village is very difficult but i have no choice my family has starving who are woman but if i take everything at once armed men will take it all away from me so i have to make several trips. if i have only a little bit on me then they can only take part of the food away with. the u.n. troops have almost no control over what happens outside the camps. government troops and rebels have been fighting here for years but what started as a political conflict between the president and his vice president. clee took on ethnic dimensions pitting the two largest ethnic groups the dinka and the new or against each other. even though

there's been a low in skirmishes around the bend to region looting and raping occur almost daily . most of the people here in the north of the country are farmers but with rebels repeatedly stealing their harvests very few of them continue to tend their fields. observers from the capital juba say that many of the government's own troops don't conduct themselves professionally either. pirate much is one of the few local journalists who dares criticize the government and a situation that's worsened since the government ran out of money with which to pay salaries. they don't have salary then are paid and when. he actually did it we saw in the tank. killing all repping it has nothing to do with not being paid but it has something

to do it bring down the station fabric that you know able to differentiate between an innocent civilian and saudia. with the failure of several peace agreements there's no resolution in sight instead the government to flex responsibility putting the blame on the opposition and the united nations. the minister for humanitarian affairs is seen as one of the few balanced voices inside the government he admits mistakes have been made. people into their own hands even within the government that i'm some individuals what i'm truly that wherever they are sometimes they misbehave. but this is not the policy of the government decided individuals and that's why. i don't know whether you heard that some people when i stood and i mean action taken to court because d. and the company and some of the vehicles so did end u.s. and u.n.

agencies and these people were called and brought to law. but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to where home village kind of visits her mother in the camp. and. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. for now let's bring in john philip schultz he's one of the t.w. journalists behind that report from south sudan and joins us now on the line from

lagos nigeria a young fellow first of all give us an overview if you can of the scale of the disaster in south sudan. and it's quite. valid six million people need surgeons have this is the majority of those who don't need and in many parts of the country especially in the northern regions where there's direct i think between the government troops and the rebel forces those you end can are really the only places where civilians can find many number of security outside those kind of lawlessness sort of people we talked to a lot of the women that come to the protected areas from which it took years and they say that they have even the freights to carry the food take home just for a few you damage out to their home villages because they fear being robbed or being harassed by un forces on the roads. given the dismal security situation there in south sudan you mentioned the lawlessness how effectively can international aid

agencies even operate in the country. their presence in most regions in south sudan but of course that doesn't mean that they can go to every remote village in the country. stuff done is the deadliest country in the world even for aid workers so the number of distribution sites are safe and protected distribution. limited and if you talk to aid workers they admit that of course they cannot cannot reach every single family in the country they cannot reach six million people at the same time. as always it's the weakest members of society who suffer in suffer most in these situations what's being done to protect the children caught up in this conflict. exactly the children worst affected their worst affected in the short term and also in the long term in the short term. extremely weakens do to the hundred and they often get dangerous. weapon malnutrition like.

severe forms of diarrhea there are definitely not enough doctors in the country to treat the children but i think the consequences of the launch are even worse because because of the insecurity most. close even refugee camps there are not enough facilities so basically the conflict ruf the children of the future. earlier we heard a statement from pope francis calling for more international efforts to end hunger through conflict prevention what more could the international community be doing to end the civil war in south sudan. yes actually the international community has quite a bit of influence and we have to keep in mind that suffered and it's the world's youngest nation and the united nations have a massive presence big mission in the country they came to the country from the

very beginning. but i think the most important really to to give the many frustrated young people. and this is something that cannot only be done by the international community this is also rather national government to come in and again because what we see a. lot of young people and they have no perspective and they have no alternative to carrying a gun carrying a gun and basically what they've done of their life and that's what they've learned and. if they don't get just what they will continue to do on philip thank you so much d.w.p. on philip shaw's there talking to us from lagos. us present don't trump says the total terminations of the iran nuclear deal is still a real possibility trump has left the fate of the agreement in the hands of the

u.s. congress the european union is sending its foreign policy chief frederica mulroney to washington next month to try and persuade u.s. lawmakers not to ditch the deal which margaret he says is working. the european union considers president trump's decision not to certify iran's compliance with the joint comprehensive plan of action as being in the context of an internal us process the european union encourages the united states to maintain its commitment to the disappear way and to consider the implications for the security of the united states its partners and the region before taking further steps. or polls suggest frederica marini their well germany's ambassador to the united states. spoke to t.w. is washington bureau chief carson phenomena about the iran deal is the best president trump has disavowed the iran nuclear deal he is called for

a new sanctions against iran he wants to deal renegotiated and he has even threatened to walk away from the deal if he doesn't get his way is the deal now in imminent danger of unraveling well our three european leaders have clearly said they take note of what the president has decided not to certify iran's complain of compliance but they're also concerned about its implications and they have also made clear that we will stick to the deal this is part of our national security interest it enhances our security in enhances the regional security it blocked iran's path to a nuclear weapon for the foreseeable future but they have also said that we are ready to address common grievances and if areas iran plays in the region iran as a state sponsor of terrorism the missile program that concerns us etc so we

want to address those issues as well and we will do it in the future together with the u.s. . now president trump has criticized the dia an existing form as a bad idea why is germany sticking with it in its present form this was the best deal we could have gotten it was a multilateral negotiation not only the u.s. not only the europeans but with russia with china and with iran and we got a good deal out of this and this is our opinion that it would be a mistake to walk away from the deal a mistake to try to renegotiate it no we should stick to that deal if you unravel that deal it would have very negative consequences for the region it would start a nuclear arms race probably in the region it would weaken the global

nonproliferation regime and also let's not forget what kind of signal would this send to north korea if we although iran has complied with the deal walk away from it that would be the wrong message to the world what can you do together with your european colleagues now to convince the americans of the german perspective the european perspective on this well as you have said the president has not decided to reimpose the nuclear sanctions against iran so he has not yet. unraveled the agreement and we will be in touch with the united states with the administration but also with congress because the ball now here in the u.s. is in the court of congress we will discuss with them how to move forward and we will. be very strong on our point of view that we stick to the deal but

we will explore common ground how to move forward and that's our assignment right now. that was germany's ambassador to the us pay to vittie talking to our bureau chief in washington crossing phenomena well germany social democrats meet here in berlin today to work on a strategy as they head into opposition parties picking up the pieces from its poor showing in september's general election after spending most of the past two decades in government the party looks is looking at what it what went wrong and how to bounce back there are wounds still haven't healed just three weeks ago the social democrats scored an historic election defeat it was the party's lowest buddhist talk election result in modern german history with only twenty percent of the vote lead candidate martin schulz announced he would go into opposition. we

will be true to those who voted for us by fighting for our values for tolerance for respect for social principles in the next legislative period for years in a grand coalition left germany's oldest party with a weak political profile the social democrat many festal became similar to the conservative one in many areas their comeback began with new personnel and their knowledge became head of the political group in parliament knowledges is known for a combative style and for her left wing stance. and now just three weeks after their big defeat the s.p.d. proved they can still win at the regional elections in the state of lower saxony the party came out on top for the first time in twenty years. so keep on school goodman is in stefan this victory will give us good momentum and we are thankful for the encouragement to bring them back and have a long part of reform ahead of us especially when it comes to organizational and

programmatic changes but also when it comes to stopping their annoying. for once. in order for the s.p.d. to succeed it is crucial that they enhance their social profile and develop policies that are markedly different from chancellor merkel and the c.d.u. party a shift to the left might be the key to the social democrat success. many uncertainties await the s.p.d. one of them is what lies in store for martin schulz many in the party blame him for defeat in the buddhist talk election and three state elections earlier this year. well for more on these political developments are joined in our studio by our political correspondent hans buntay hans the s.p.d. performed horribly with martin schulz as chancellor candidate in last month's a federal elections does the party still have faith in him do they believe that he's the man to turn the party around it looks like it does recriminations have

been pretty new to it he still seems to be very much respected in the prata even despite this really resolving defeat in the september elections there will be a cocktail party congress in december and a new leader or a leader will be elected everything is pointing in the direction that he will be really remain as leader that will he will be reelected on the other hand you have to say he clearly is an interim leader the party at the moment is focusing on the next general election in four years time the new most likely top candidate for that will be under a lot on to be on the others who is at the moment the leader going to be the leader of the party and in the new parliamentary group so they're all focusing in that direction because of course at that time also. very unlikely to be the conservative candidate field will be a lot more open in four years time and the social democrats are focusing on that so

the social democrats might finally field a woman as their chancellor candidate in the next election that the s.p.d. says it's planning to use its time in opposition as all parties do in these situations to try to renew itself to redefine itself how difficult will that be for the us. well you have to say that this new parliament that's just been elected is going to be a different kettle of fish it's going to be a lot more over so for us in the end it's a bit because of the presence of the far right alternative for germany party. establishment a left wing or opposition profile for the social democrats will be quite a lot easier in that kind of context the debates will be intense and i think if the party does it well then its profile will certainly be a lot more defined as a result of these debates whether moving to the left is going to be the answer obviously there are groups within the party that would oppose that but at the

moment this left wing tendency within the social democrats is is on top and it's been a lot of speculation of the years about whether the s.p.d. could form an alliance with the left party and form a juggernaut that could challenge the conservatives for for supremacy so far the s.p.d. has rejected the alliance with the left party at the federal level do you think that by the next election in two thousand and twenty one that they could get over that hurdle and come together it's a very considerable hurdle one has to say you have to look back and at the last few years in fact there has very often almost always been a majority on the left between the green party the social democrats and the left party and they have never got it together to form a coalition the reason for that is that the animosity between the left party and the social democrats is very strong has very long going back historic roots even to prewar times and more recently obviously a strong part of the left party split away from the social democrats in the

ninety's and caused part of the decline of the social democrats so there's a lot of animosity between these two parties on the left and if you look at the debate in recent months and weeks that debate has been a lot more of a city for us and a lot more bitter than debates towards the right in some sense so that's going to be a very difficult hurdle to take so we're hoping that time and a generational change will help heal those those differences hans blunt political correspondent thank you so much. all this week the w. is inviting international journalists who have been given refuge in germany to speak their minds about their host country today we hear from the t.v. reporter shocked. many. to money funneled to.

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