this is good obvious coming to you live from berlin until america starts what could be the toughest talks about greer three weeks after the election she's meeting bodies from the left and right to try and forge a new governing coalition but does she have the authority to seal the deal also

coming up chinese president xi jinping sets out his vision for the country at the start of the communist party congress he says his dream is to turn china into a global superpower. and the ruins of raka it was the center of islamic states brutal regime now the city has fallen to u.s. backed syrian forces it's a does the loss of the city mean i guess it's finished. i don't welcome i'm understand she ma'am nearly one month after germans went to the polls chancellor angela merkel is beginning the complex task of trying to form the next governing coalition merkel's conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. group is holding talks with two potential suitors the pro-business free democrats and the green party. that's known here as the jamaica coalition because of the

colors of the parties correspond to that of the jamaican flag america's first aims to get the parties to agree to launch formal coalition talks but that could prove tricky prospective partners have major ideological differences a real number of key issues including. migration and energy policy now political corresponds dramas keeping a close eye on those talks and joins me now hi hans the just american has been talking to the free democrats this morning you just listen to a briefing of what came out of the story what do they have to say well first of all they're trying to say that everything is going for you well in other words they're trying to say that the atmosphere is good that they are talking. in a sort of businesslike manner that in some ways there is also an atmosphere of friendship almost being built that they're deciding what subjects are going to be

the most important what issues are going to be controversial and of course they're also talking about technical details when they're going to meet again and what kind of format they're going to meet again and how long this is all going to take at the moment all three parties that were involved this morning the christian democrats of angular marco sister party the christian social union from bavaria and the free democrats the market liberals all said that this first initial talk went well but they expected to take a lot more time and a lot more effort actually to bring results but john still michael is not going to be talking to the green party another potential coalition box know what are expected to be the pressure points in those talks that are going to take place in the building behind you. well exactly this is the parliamentary association it's a kind of private members club of parliamentarians see a sort of neutral ground i think you can say for all of those involved and obviously the green party they're the most left wing party involved in these talks

on in terms of these talks on the left spectrum and the furthest away from them all the big variance the christian social union they are trying to push anglo-american into a right wing more right wing policies the greens obviously have no intention of going along with that merkel at the moment is managing to keep her policies more at the center and the greens are very eager in fact to join a government so they are prepared to make concessions but obviously they too have issues such as climate change such as certain issues concerned with migration where they are not likely to budge very much so what are these two potential coalition partners are going to try and push their agenda as given all of that difficult and how is it going to be for chocked america to build a new governing coalition well it's going to be very difficult i think. you know when you're explaining that this is called the jamaica possible jamaica

coalition here so people are saying the distance between berlin and jamaica is about a thousand kilometers and they say this morning we've covered the first few metres of that so everyone here is expecting this to take a long time and possibly if we manage to get a coalition set up by christmas by the end of december that will be pretty good going hans brown thank you very much for that. turning now to china where president xi jinping says his country is facing a bright future but also severe challenges his comments came as he opened the communist party congress in beijing he also said china would become a strong power and a leader on the world stage by two thousand and fifty the meeting brings together nearly two thousand three hundred delegates in the coming days will agree on policies to guide the country over the next five years now reporter kristen shepherd is following the communist party congress and joins me now from beijing

kristen most of the talks are going to be in closed door sessions what do you think is going to be the focus of this party congress a lot of the dogs are going to be in a closed door session but we do broadly know the direction that this congress will be taking because we have heard him in the opening speech where he laid out a very ambitious vision of china it requires china to over the next few decades become a very strong power militarily economically on the global stage but he also laid out a vision where the party would be a very center of running china so this is a very ambitious idea to have a modern state that is globally active but is also in some sense is still a very traditional communist country but china is facing slowing economic growth what are viewed as the main economic challenges there and how does president xi plan to address them. orto says

a lot of different directions economically he has a huge amount of local government you have a very cumbersome space sector which has failed to modernize you have overcapacity in any industry sectors like coal and steel and many analysts believe that to deal with these are significant problems the government needs to push forward with severe gender of reform they needs to bring in more market forces to try and shun some of these older more comes and sectors into life however the scene in the speech hasn't given them much hope he largely reiterated previous promises on which have been going very slowly and said that the party who continue to play a guiding role in the economy. this of the some who say that she's in being is now the world's most powerful leader how is he viewed in china. is actually very popular in china particularly among people who think he's done

a very good job fighting corruption he's had a hugely hope of corruption campaign which has taken down about one point four million officials over the last five years this also gives him a huge amount of stature within the party he has been able to grab more power than his predecessor and recesses pre-disaster which make him one most powerful is in modern china some people compare him to even done to helping one of the. founder of the idea of opening up inform the china or perhaps even to mars and on. to suggest that in beijing thank you very much thank you u.s. backed forces in iraq are carrying out mopping up operations one day after they took the city from support islamic state they're removing land mines and clearing main roads they're expected to announce the formal liberation of the city later today assuming forces capture the former i.a.s. stronghold on tuesday after an intense four month campaign. after an

assault lasting four months they finally taste victory syrian fighters raise their flag in rocco's main square. it's almost a near the main roundabout and we haven't seen any i.s.i. tell us we haven't seen any near the stadium either i think the city will be fully cleared in the next two days. but how do i feel i'm flying look at me i'm flying and i'm so happy. jubilation on the spot known as the round up out of hell over the past three years my ass used for public beheadings and crucifixions shoring the terror that characterize the militants rain. in twenty fourteen it was here that i celebrated its push into the city rocca was declared the defacto capital of it's self styled culliford it became home to thousands of jihadists from around the world after a call by the i.r.s.

leader. to migrate to the syrian city it's thought was where they plan terror attacks across the globe this is rockers municipal stadium the militant set up a prison here torturing people who oppose their rule it's where many of the foreign jihadists were killed making a last stand after refusing an offer of safe passage. small pockets of i asked militants still thought to be holed up in the city but there's another danger to be faced in these ruins booby traps and mines the u.n. says there has already been staggering loss of civilian life and rocca well over a thousand were killed in the battle for the city with hundreds more bodies feared buried in the rubble. if we now bring you up to date with some other stories making

news around the wild a top kenyan election official has quit and fled the country just days before a rerun of the presidential vote there rosalyn a congress said that next week's election would not be free and fair last week opposition leader. pulled out of the presidential runoff citing illegalities portugal's interior minister constanza order barno d'souza has resigned from her post after wildfires killed more than one hundred people in the last few months d'souza department had been widely criticised she said she cannot continue in the job for political and personal reasons. amazon studios chief roy price has resigned following sexual harassment claims by a producer working on an amazon t.v. series the accusations come in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal rocking hollywood tris has also been accused of ignoring rosena guns claims that weinstein

and rita. here in germany president frank father steinmeyer has called on the country to do more to fight extremism he was speaking on the fortieth anniversary of the murder of a prominent german businessman by the left wing radical group the bottom line of gang here's a look back at how the group resorted to all means including violence to achieve its aims with disastrous results. in october one nine hundred seventy seven homegrown terrorists west germany. the red army faction had kidnapped business executive hunts martin. they wanted to trade him for their imprisoned leaders under a spider and. then a second front opened for palestinians hijacked a loved one's a passenger plane called the lunch hoot. they also demanded the release of r.a.f.

terrorists imprisoned in west germany. for the eighty hostages a five day odyssey began. with the. in south yemen the hostage takers killed the lufthansa pilot the copilot was forced to make one last stop mogadishu somalia the only country that would allow the hijacked plane to land. west german chancellor helmut schmidt was forced to make the most difficult decision of his political career negotiate with terrorists or storm the plane. schmidt decided to take the risk. the rescue operation took just seven minutes. three hijackers were killed one of them injured all the hostages survived.

within hours the r.a.f. terrorists at the center of this crisis and they are spada and. were found dead in their cells. a day later on smart body was found in the boot of a car. the ones who jet has become synonymous with an era of leftwing terrorism in west germany it continued to fly until two thousand and eight now forty years after it was hijacked germany is bringing the plane back. it will be given a permanent home in a museum in south germany and the morial to an important chapter in the country's post-war history. here's a recap of the top story that we're following for you nearly one month after german election unless mechelle is starting difficult talks to try and form a new government to succeed you have to bridge the divide between parties from the

left and right. and coming up ahead on the big deals china says it's open for business but investors want to see action as well as was. then physical from our business desk we'll have that story for you coming up shortly meanwhile you can almost check out our website dot com you can also follow us on twitter as well as on facebook that was in use drop the do seventy degree news for ben facility and the business news coming up shortly. nationalists are on the rise with hard to make your country great again is their slogan their focus put your nation first i am taking a trip to highlights different shades of national.