let's try. to do it. for a minute magazine. d w. this is d w news live from berlin to angela merkel starts what could be the toughest coalition talks of her career three weeks after the election she was meeting parties from the left and the 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 that his dream is to turn china into a global superpower. and in soccer news byron are back firing on all cylinders in the bundesliga under a new manager go behind this can they do the same in europe with a look ahead to their temple clash with celtic. welcome to the program thanks for joining us. in germany an exploratory round of talks about forming a coalition government have begun three years after three weeks rather after an inconclusive general election german chancellor angela merkel is seeking to forge an alliance with the greens and the business friendly f.t.p. now if success. today's talks about talks could lead to what is called and to make

a coalition the name is based on the colors associated with the party meeting and. black yellow and green for now the colors of the jamaican flag are just hot air on the banks of the reverse. but exploratory talks are underway chancellor merkel's conservative c.d.u. in the c.s.u. first met with the business friendly f.t.p. party and later with the greens the jamaica coalition would be an exotic combination that has never existed before at the national level if negotiations failed new elections could be called. for france and will be professional about this we are aware of our responsibility we will be reasonable but until the actual negotiations have started it's hard to predict what will happen between the following developing your vocals over here. members of four potential coalition parties are now trying to find common ground on several divisive topics such as

immigration they could become the most complex negotiations in decades. we talked about all the issues that are important for us the subject of immigration is important to both sides but for different reasons. perspectives. on friday the exploratory talks will continue with all four parties meeting at the same time it may be weeks before a final agreement is reached let's bring in now thomas barrow who you can see is out on the streets of berlin he has been following these talks for us and he joins us now for his as always expert analysis thomas so we hear that both the free democrats and merkel's conservatives appear to be happy with the results of their first meeting does that mean that they've made some real progress here. not necessarily in fact obviously they did say that the first talks had been constructive that they had been able to discuss

a series of issues that both parties are interested in but that does not necessarily mean that they made real progress in fact the goal of this first meeting which took place right behind me here was to try and set the ground for negotiations that everyone involved already knows will take a long time in fact one of the participants in that first meeting said that if the distance between germany and jamaica is around eight thousand kilometers jamaica referring to the colors of the jamaican flag which also represent the colors of the parties involved here if that distance is eight thousand kilometers then what they've achieved here today is only the first few meters so that just gives you an idea of how difficult it will be to try and find common ground yeah a lot of those matters are between party and also the green party that we know they're currently talking the two of those parties together what are the likely pressure points between those. well here you have here you have

a big difference between the conservative bloc on the one hand and in particular. sister party the c.s.u. of bavaria which tends to be a party on the right of the political spectrum and the environmentalist greens who tend to be on the left side of the political spectrum so obviously you can see that there are plenty of this plenty of space between the two blocs their own areas for example our migration if we're talking for example about the goal to reach two hundred thousand refugees per year or the possibility or not possibility of having family members reunited with refugees here in germany those are all issues where the c s u in particular and the greens do not see eye to eye but it's not the only issues we have differences on climate differences on on europe so in particular the conversations between the greens and the conservative bloc will be very difficult and that's something that members here have already expressed publicly so

a lot of work there still to be done as those talks are underway thomas sparrow with as always your expert analysis outside of where that meeting is taking place we think you very much for your reporting thomas. well meantime as the chance as party looks for common ground after the election its poor showing in one region has already claimed one casualty one of the cd use key figures says that he is stepping down saxony state premier stanislav tillis says that his state needs new leadership to meet future challenges this after the far right date pushed his party into second place and stayed in last month's general election it was a major embarrassment for the sitting here as saxony had long been a party stronghold. well have a look now at some other stories making news around the world police have conducted dozens of raids across germany to gather evidence against the hell's angels biker gang they seized items including motorcycles and computers the gang has been active

in germany since the early one nine hundred seventy s. some members have been implicated in crimes including selling weapons extortion and murder. the head of kenya's election commission has said that it will be difficult to guarantee that next week's presidential presidential election will be free and fair and credible while flute. blamed interference from politicians earlier a commission member quit saying that the upcoming vote would not be credible. portugal's interior minister a consonance obama this out has resigned after wildfires killed more than one hundred people in the last few months her department has been widely criticized she said that she cannot continue in the job for political and personal reasons. well china's president xi jinping has declared a new era for his country and said that it is time for china to take center stage in the world at the first session of the communist party congress in beijing she also pledged to open his country's economy further and pursue

a policy of zero tolerance against corruption during the week long congress a new politburo to run china for the next five years will be selected. it's a median on the grand scale. nearly twenty three hundred delegates representing the eighty million million members of china's communist party. and the focus of it all one man president xi jinping. she praised china's achievements during his stewardship but he said the country must not stand still. ok china has made major breakthroughs in its reform campaign where now in high gear and full steam with deepening comprehensive reforms and resolutely removing all systematic problems these reforms have been carried out in an in-depth them fundamental manner his speech may have been light on details but

she promised to continue economic reforms fight corruption and open the door to more foreign investment as part of a new era of chinese development. she also set the tone for china's role on the international stage in the coming years one focusing on economic development and environmental protection. but she also cautioned world powers against taking his warm words as a sign of weakness. china pursues an independent foreign policy of peace and respects the rights of other countries to choose their own development road china will never sue development at the expense of others interests and will never give up its legitimate rights and interests either no one should expect china to swallow anything that undermines its interests. she is widely seen as china's most powerful leaders and smiles they don't but he's still trying to rally support for a new term in office and his message to these embley was clear stay the course and

clear the way for a new era of prosperity. and bent his elin is here now on the set with us on to tell us a little bit more about how investors are reacting to the story because they certainly are right that they are running out of steam they call it investor fatigue basically they want more action from china the leader of the world's second biggest economy has cost him self as a champion of globalization but in president she's first term he disappointed many on market reform this time he opened his weeklong party congress with more pledges he vowed to protect the rights and interests of foreign investors he said all businesses registered in china will be treated equally that's not how it is now and she wants to strengthen state firms for business groups see that as a push to foster home grown companies. draping joins us now from singapore and conrad boos in from frankfurt and ray let's start with you what side say you're

seeing suggesting she could get somewhere with economic reforms in a new five year term. well but he started with a detailed report card of his achievements as for me and the first five years and he's looking ahead with details of how he's going to face the challenges that are going to face shine in the next five years so that's a positive optimistic direction that he's trying to take a lot of it a lot of mention words on china really forming in the markets as well and financial systems that particularly close attention to the exchange rate as well as its currency as well as its financial systems at the core of it all what about china's debt there are growing concerns the accumulation of credit could trigger a financial crisis. you know it's interesting china's bad spoke in a whisper of this debt mountain over the course of the last few months this year

and we've not heard much about it and what they're going to what they're going to do about it we might be relieved to hear that part of these reforms that he has mentioned does involve reforms in the fiscal systems and he recognizes that a lot of that has started with the local government debt as well which is what's causing the pileup ok so china has been talking much about that what about european car what's the take from frankfurt on chinese picked. well the fact that the chinese didn't read it or that the president there didn't really talk a lot about that is what people call here an elephant in the room because everyone here is discussing a lot about the large amount of debt in china the international monetary fund estimates that the amount of debt in relation to g.d.p. in china is that two hundred and fifty percent this would be called totally unsustainable here in europe a country with such a high debt to g.d.p.

ratio would not really find it easy to get credit on the financial markets what's positive or why this is contained in china has to do with the fact that this is mostly domestic debt i mean it is debt to chinese creditors the chinese have large amounts of holdings are in foreign currencies that's sort of muffling. the risk there and. of course this contributes to the fact that you know the risk by ratings agency this is seen relatively contained s.n.p. recently lowered the rating to a plus not very bad but the chinese at the time were not amused ok well let's leave the elephant in the room for the moment and ken foreign businesses really expect equal treatment with chinese firms all of a sudden. well what you mentioned earlier about promises that see that very well

insured fortunately a lot of top foreign investors and economists are not very optimistic about that promised even changing all of this just serious seem more of the cmos. the same story i just different versions of it i think that market openness really at the end of it is still going to be second to be. focused of reforms conrad there's no doubt the chinese economy will soon be number one but what sort of economy will it be do you think if we going to get another usa or another europe . well it looks like in terms of economies china wants to be sort of both they want a strong services sector they want a strong consumption by private households but they want to remain a big manufacturer and they want to be market leaders in terms of technology it looks like you know especially the technology part makes competition tougher in the

future for us here in europe also for the americans and also despite what the president said there in beijing today about more openness it's likely that this is continuously going to be a very much of a top down managed country and economy. and for us there in frankfurt and hang in singapore with a financial analysis on china thank you. president she's promise of an open economy sounds nice but what about nope an exchange of information internet censorship the so-called great firewall of china is a problem for critical domestic users and a lot of foreign firms and the governments threatening to crack down on v.p.n. switch tunnel data traffic abroad. name calling is a german company that provides data system consultancy to foreign firms with operations in china. the beijing government is now planning to block access to virtual private networks all v.p.n.

. encrypted connections that tunnel data traffic to a proxy server. v.p.n. scores just a few euros and have become a critical tool for secure communication between foreign based companies and their headquarters. they're also used by millions of individuals to circumvent china's censorship system. because. most of our clients are very concerned. if not horrified upon it. because of how dependent they come on v.v. ns. for lawson and. the author of interfered with b.p.'s before especially in the run up to communist party congresses but the regime had appeared wary of enforcing a complete lockdown on v.p. ends probably out of consideration for the business world but in the new year beijing will order telecoms providers to close the data tells us if this is serious this time they mean it and they'll go through with it too. many details remain

unclear. but for the european business community in beijing china's internet policy has always been troublesome. we see it as kind of sort of a tax on doing business in china and and that's not good for trying to you what you were looking at creating more productivity more efficiency in the economy certainly ensuring that companies have readily timely and stable access to information is important and it hurts foreign companies even more and there's more in store for those companies a new law on cyber security introduced even more rules to an already highly restricted technology regime certain data may now only be stored on the main one for example for foreign companies in particular the assessments and adjustments involved will be a major burden. to service alternately the cyber security law means that you're not being compliant you can get your company into serious trouble. it could

even mean the company being closed down or having to disclose all its data and no company want to start this mission we're going to get to. what is already clear is that the new law will make life difficult for smaller foreign based into the risers and prevent others from even starting up here. a full fifteen minutes of business next hour thanks so much ben and we're going to turn now to syria and the cleanup of raka is underway just a day after u.s. backed forces said that they had taken full control of what was called the capital of the self-styled caliphate of the so-called islamic state the troops made up of syrian kurds and arabs have been clearing roads and landmines small pockets of i asked militants are still thought to be holed up in the city the u.n. says that there has already been staggering loss of civilian life in iraq well over a thousand people were killed in the four month long battle for the city. and for

more i'm joined now from hamburg by sea now mohamed she is a foreign representative of the democratic federation of northern syria a defacto autonomous region of syria just north of rocca thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. what do you think of the defeat of the so-called islamic state will mean for northern syria is this a good thing or a bad thing for the prospect of peace. of course if we think about it that they that ices that control the city it is in january two thousand and fourteen and they think the nationalists of isis they enter this whole the whole city the entire city and they even paused the blare on the city and they actually lifted the last few lists. in the city for the women for the people for the children saw their day to day after one hundred thirty four days the belief

that this city is the believe which is that they call it the capital city of it it is falling now it is now but it is under the quotes all of the. forces of course it is a very happy the. exceptional day for all the people for all of the syrian people not only for this union people for all the people in the world because this a group says that they used to think that the whole the entire world in europe we witnessed what happened in valley what happened in brussels what happened in paris many attacks from. that i didn't happen for the saw in defeating the isis in this city holding it by its people and that means we will be creating a new city a new life in this city that when we are feeling the injustice we are if you think the terrorism it's only the exceptional and they for all the people in the world i

congratulate all the fighters the if i enter of the force of. might actually also hear from all of the people also in the room and amid that optimism they hear very clearly expressing there that i mean there is still a lot of work to be done because for example a lot of the i asked fighters they had fled prior to that final offensive in the city and many people have also been displaced by the fighting what do you see what can be done to help cope with those talented us. yes of course due to the fine thing in the city another one hundred thirty four days of fighting we'll see if i think. it's so up in the the city is conflict you know it's destroyed so all the people displaced people they flew away from that isis from their terrorist and they. spoke told by the book that it forces and i think these

people know that in the camps now we don't have enough rules for the people we have to bring in the other people. so we need no support for all these displaced people in. places you know people each after they need food they need to have again to to recreate the life in the city we need to have some is services like. water and so on what we thank you very much for telling us a little bit more about what you see as necessary and also the enthusiasm that you have expressed here sanaa mohamed foreign representative of the democratic federation of northern syria a de facto autonomous region of syria just north of rocca we appreciate it. well in other news today germany is marking the anniversary of one of the most

significant and difficult events in its post-war history forty years ago a prominent german businessman was murdered by members of the extreme left wing group the red army faction gang as it was also now and now the killing was part of a series of events that made a deep impact on time and society. in september nine hundred seventy seven west germany was shocked by the full force of its homegrown terrorism the left wing terror group red army faction kidnap business executive. in exchange it wanted eleven of its members freed from prison. after weeks of standoff the aria raised the stakes palestinian accomplices kidnapped tons of passenger plane during a stop in yemen they killed the pilot still german chancellor helmut schmidt refused to negotiate something he later described as the most difficult decision of

his career. after the copilot had flown the plane to the somalia capital mogadishu tonsil smith ordered a special unit to storm the plane all eighty six hostages survived. when the imprisoned r.a.f. terrorists heard the news three of them including their leaders. and was going and sitting committed suicide. the arias defeat also sealed the fate of the man the group held hostage for forty four days one day later france martine body was found in the boot of a car. that has industry executive hans martins fly all became a target of their hatred a representative of the capitalist system the r.a.f. had vowed to fight against the copilot of the abducted plane feels a strong connection with fate. when you were freed mr shier had to die. just six weeks after his ordeal was back piloting the very same

plane following his new motto. i want to fly i want to continue my life as if the hostage taking never happened and it worked. but west germany would never be the same again the question of how to handle terrorism was here to stay and probably the most important question is how do we continue to find the right balance between freedom and security under these changing circumstances. a discussion that looks set to remain on the agenda in germany as in many parts of the world. it is time now for sports news and in football by our host celtic in the champions league tonight the bavarian seem to be in crisis just a few weeks ago but the return of the club legend and coach your guests has studied the ship and now they are looking to push on with

a win against the scottish champions. you know pint this has only been back at buy in for one game but already it feels like things have returned to normal the team trained ahead of the celtic match fresh from thrashing freiburg at the weekend. five goals including this cheeky back heel from your shoe it came in and should have successful stunts are high and is his latest spell in munich now the coach is urging his players to keep up the good work. on this issue so the players put on a very good performance because. i hope that we can now build on up of formants on saturday. said but we know that celtic are a very strong and aggressive team and i can see them on shift is the mood among the players seems to have improved but the pressure is still on for brian in the champions league after a heavy defeat to p.s.g. on the last match day left them trailing the french powerhouse in group b.

. very slow but i think the pressure is always there for us of course tomorrow is an important match after a defeat in the champions league you obviously want to follow it up with a victory. and a win against celtic is a must if the hype his honeymoon is to continue. you're watching news from berlin and there's more coming up at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that's a dot com we will leave you now with images from a new exhibition of data and surreal art and billowing in italy into.

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