experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from. this is the job the news coming to you live from berlin the clock ticks on a journey search for a new government as a final push gets underway chance to anglo-american warns there are still serious differences between hope and potential coalition partners and nordine could mean

fresh elections for germany also coming up officials are drawn but mcgarvie off is in bombay to step aside as tanks remain in control of the streets the ministry and its backers want the nation's first and only president to give way to a new era and a five hundred old mosque to piece by leonardo da vinci becomes the most expensive piece of art ever sold at an option a crew of four hundred and fifty million dollars so cool for this incredible painting. cut and welcome i'm going to thought she might. the count on his own for germany to form a new government chancellor angela merkel says talks have exposed serious differences between the parties but she remains optimistic about forging a coalition negotiations have entered a crucial phase with a deadline for

a deal running out tonight here's what merkel had to say before the talks. it's get off on all stars if i expect these negotiations to take several hours. i don't know how long they will take. but i hope that the will is there for us to achieve something. now metals conservatives have been locked in difficult exploratory talks with the business friendly free democrats and the environmental greens that a coalition would be unprecedented at a federal level but there is growing concern that the junior parties could walk away and trigger a snap election if their demands are not met now efforts to form a so-called jamaica coalition have run up against major political differences the list of outstanding problems is

a long one but what the main sticking points is migration with disagreement over family reunions and the deportation of failed asylum seekers the climate protection and energy are also bones of contention the greens want to rapid shut down of corn fired power plants but the c.d.u. and the f.t.p. are dead set against it and the list goes on and on and on with the party still far apart on issues like transport africa labor and defense the final negotiations are expected to be difficult and go deep into the night following the stalks which is our political correspondent rupert read of on who joins me now. on these make or break talks at the moment. well at least the set a deadline ends tonight and the all four parties know that they have to come up with some sort of an agreement that they can present the latest to morrow morning

and right now the parties are together. not very far away from here they sit together and they discuss the remaining conflict points or some of them you're already pointed out. later the afternoon the will broaden the round table all fifty negotiators will come together then and then they will have to find some solutions and this is going to be very complicated as the tensions are really high we could hear from several that the that that they are blaming each other that no that they don't want to find any compromise and one high member of the sea is you the conservative party from the various set that the green party for instance that they will be clinging to meet evil demands so this is not really reassuring so given all of this through but how likely is an agreement tonight while the pressure is very high and has already said the parties know that they have to find some agreement but on the other hand they have to see that all of these conflict points

and the main obstacles are an edgy climate protection and migration all of this has been on the table for the last three weeks now and they haven't found any agreement yet so this is going to be very very difficult and yet there's no prophecy needed to say that this is going to be a very long night so this will be a normal a long night but what rupert if the unimaginable happens and the talks fail what would that mean for america. well first of all all four parties have say to have said today failure is not an option because they all know that they would be the ones that were to blame and even the for the very unlikely event of snap elections which aren't as easy to make as one might think of for instance we have to see that the only way for a snap election would be for the for chancellor merkel to ask for a vote of confidence of no confidence in the parliament but the parliament hasn't already voted for anglo-american as chancellor yet. america is right now only

acting tonsil from the last government so this is very is not not so easy and even if they snap elections would happen in the end that would mean that the outcome wouldn't be very much different from the outcome we are seeing right now so it would mean in the end that the same people would fight each other at the negotiating negotiating table again so i think most of them know that they don't want to take the risk of a snap election rupert to be devoted to bottom entry studious thank you you know work. this article or some other stories making news around the world lebanon's former prime s'sa'id on how did he has accepted an invitation to travel from saudi arabia to paris that's according to the french foreign minister baird which had accused the saudis affording on her duty hostage following his shock resignation earlier this month. at least nine people have been killed by a suicide bomber after political rally in the afghan capital kabul so-called

islamic state has claimed responsibility is the latest in a wave of attacks in afghanistan that have killed and wounded thousands this year alone. british police have said the final death toll from the grenfell tower fire is seventy one including a stillborn baby official said investigators had pushed the boundaries of what was scientifically possible to identify the victims the blaze broke out overnight in june quickly spreading through the tower block and trapping people inside. human rights watch is accused in the million mom military of widespread rape of women and girls the rights group alleges that over the past three months me and massacure to forces of use sexual violence as a tactic of ethnic cleansing targeting the muslim minority in the country mean mass army has denied the allegations. turning out to zimbabwe which is facing an uncertain future after the military intervention earlier this week the army remains

in control of key buildings including the parliament and the state broadcaster president robert mugabe has been confined to his house as security forces patrolled the streets the opposition is calling for a transitional government but the military is next move is still not known. the army stresses this isn't a coup but with tanks and military vehicles blocking off parliament and government buildings in the capital harare it sure looks like one. and the coup is something the rest of the african union has said it will not accept. you know we in the african union are against any violent government overthrow. issued a statement saying the army should retreat and return to constitutional order. we support the legitimate zimbabwean government and in no case will we accept

a forceful seizure of power for the fate of president robert mugabe and his wife grace is unclear but they appear to be in the custody of the military who say the couple are safe the army's intervention comes after months of power wrangling over who will succeed ninety three year old mcgovern who has ruled the country since one thousand nine hundred eighty last week mugabe fired vice president emerson one ghagra he was widely viewed as the hair apparent and backed by some of the country's most powerful generals that sacking seemed to clear the path for grace mugabe to become the next in line now the military has stopped her ascent at least temporarily and an influential group of war veterans once stunts mugabe supporters themselves is calling for him to step aside completely. the robot governor so the bit core from his role as the president and first.

frustration has been growing in zimbabwe it used to be wealthy but thirty seven years of mugabe's rule have left the economy in tatters and the question of who will take over to try and repair it has now been thrown wide open. and for more i'm joined now by our correspondent a privilege was one huey he's reporting for us from harare predict what is the latest situation there be a hearing treasure aborts the gris mugabe the wife of the president is holed up with him in the presidential palace. there is information we are getting or sort of. you know pieces was no one. is true there were about fifty or what is i've been to the people that we have listed. information is that it was also going around that grace is now in the media

so this is new information that is also coming out now that he's still in the country and with the president saw it's hard to then get the right information that. just what is really happening and at this what is known about the intentions of the army and the army it was a close ally of robert mugabe do they now want to replace him or do they want to stay in power for a while. it points to a replacement i think most of the issues are standing around succession issues that have been happening in william by design to be and if you look at it. i think most of the things with fewer by how powerful that the fist lady had become because the fish lady was also demeaning. me in the army generals and even their

former liberation war fighters. with the group of fourteen there they do forty group that is also our ninety two here because what they're saying is that. they fought for the liberation war in the end now they're now discredited seem. that their liberation will fighters lead. and so i think that's why the i needed to step in and then also the i meet his ses they also have an interest in this state. to bleed to talk to what they were saying is a criminal elements that we're not. the president. and we're basically up a bit what about the opposition the movement for democratic change its leader monk morgan chang that i has just returned back into into the country and into how. yeah we have that years tend to have riding in the fist thing that you say. is

in agreement with what i mean is done and he's committing the i me to say that. was good because in the sense that. deposing he's a long time prison. privileges a muslim he in how to thank you very much for that update. now would you pay four hundred and fifty million dollars for a painting where a painting by the renaissance masterly not a da vinci well one anonymous buyer did it's an astounding price for a painting that was once thought to be by one of his students previously had changed hands for just a few thousand dollars but at christie's in new york it was a different and dramatic story. ladies and gentlemen we moved to the little richie the subject of modern day the masterpiece probably not of christ the savior

previous in the clutches of three kings of england savior of the world a core traits of jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by the renesas muster nineteen million a looking for ninety five in house christie said the presale estimates at one hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded but if i'm going to go one third over it why not instead i have it one hundred ten million dollars if we want twenty the building via phone just getting going on ninety is bit you heard it new place their place with francois in a fifth place one hundred ninety billion otto one hundred ninety million give me two hundred one night is two hundred million is that so you are good million two hundred million just how high could it go at two hundred eighty billion dollars so we'll go on maybe not. take the photograph quite the next milestone three hundred we'll give it to ninety dollars.

i thought so the three hundred million. and even though it's was in the top. three hundred seventy million back to france was clause three hundred and seventy million dollars. four hundred million the for. the not of service of money selling christie's four hundred million dollars is the bit the piss. so. with an extra fifty million commission for christie's the total price tag four hundred fifty million dollars the buyer has so far remained anonymous so we don't know if the public will ever get a chance to see the work again. joining me now is robert and he is an auctioneer order and an art expert with a gun in bag and house here in but and welcome robert that's an incredible painting

and it is by leonardo da vinci but who possibly could afford to pay so much money for a piece of art i have a i have an idea who my be to buy a of duty or not driven sheet and it was probably the gates bill gates spent in one thousand nine hundred ninety s. bill gates i would say so because he spent on the leicester codex nine hundred ninety four almost thirty two million and he is a prominent bio of very exclusive art and she has money to afford such a painting the spectacular the price is wonderful. ok it's a big it certainly has the money as you said but we still don't know it's still being described as an anonymous buyer the four hundred and fifty million dollars never has a painting fetch such a huge price what do you make of this as an auctioneer.

well it shows me that there's a lot of money on the market there's a demand for masterpieces as huge demand for pieces you can only buy it once in your lifetime and this puts it all together there were only two buyers at the end spending almost half a billion of us of story of dollars it was spectacular and there's so much market and demand for high class and teague's and fine art of course usually they spend money on modern art more surprisingly was an old master painting achieving such a huge amount of four hundred fifty million dollars amazing unbelievable stuff and there's me and i think i. made it as an auctioneer and as an art to x. what do you think this painting was really what it. that is a really good question it is oil on wood so. if you ask me from that point of view

of course it's not worth that much money but of course if you're really like. an art collector as its top you're seeking for museum quality and it was the last piece existing in private hands by leonardo da vinci on the last piece you can imagine of course your last time your last chance to buy such an artwork on the aftermarket of course it's not vote for fifty million it's worth what the payer is willing to pay for it and it's shows me that really. interesting pieces with. a long history of course and it was such a great name of united when she it attracts by all over the world that's right you don't know me it shows me people love out and and there's still a market for your have to leave it there robert and i actually and an expert great to have you on the show. but you what you did have been is coming up ahead the

world anti doping agency have back to ban on russia participating in the winter olympics are there athletes medal hopes really on ice. but first there were two hundred after one business has been germany's largest car maker has set out its route map into the future he certainly has a rate of talk and is ramping up its production all electric cars specifically in china the german car maker says it will spend ten billion euros over the next seven years to develop new eco hybrids for the chinese market the w. aims to produce one hundred thousand people by twenty twenty with pasty growing to one point five million now that compares to about four million v.w. cars sold in china last year and it comes off to china or else the world's most stringent electro mobility quotas folks are going to has been making efforts to move away from combustion engines after it admitted two years ago to cheating on

diesel emissions tests. well earlier today i spoke to our financial correspondent jeanette dumas allowed in frankfurt and i also asked her how investors were reacting to the news. well investors are certainly celebrating from this and the share price has been pushed up more than two and a half percent making making it one of the clear winners in today's trading and this positive reception of course is something that fox fan could really use it shows that it's making gains in the rather lofty goals that set one of them of course being to invest twenty billion euros and electric vehicles by twenty thirty now of course there are challenges up ahead how fast charging infrastructure in places like china catch up also is a fact that we don't know yet but at least the costs of building these so-called new energy vehicles have been dropping as more manufacturers get in on the action of course that creates economies of scale and that's something that investors are quite happy about because it increases the chances of a quicker adoption of electric vehicles so if you know more access to the chinese

market something european companies have been complaining about so does this signal a turning point. well just because of china's sheer size and importance as a market it's allowed china to dictate somewhat some stringent rules amid a quite ambitious agenda of course want to get out of petrol and vehicle vehicles petrol gas and petrol vehicles by twenty forty with quotas for electric vehicle sales being set gradually every year but this is actually a point where they listen to some of the foreign carmakers complaints at least because they had setbacks direct quote does that were due already to be rolled out next year in terms of electric vehicles to up to twenty eighteen so that's something a german car makers especially have to listen to as well and make sure that they don't like behind alright janell's for us in a frank thought good to talk to you. well sort of

a living space is in short supply in germany but building new homes is expensive alternative is modular construction is a bit like a flat pack if you like ready made elements directly to the building site. twenty two square metres of living space straight off the rack. this is one room with a bathroom the timber frame module has reinforced door jambs to ensure that nothing buckles when it's lowered into place here in the rural valley city of butter up forty five pre-fabricated modules are being stacked to form fifteen rental apartments once the wooden walls have been plastered over this won't look any different from a normal brick or concrete apartment house now it is modular constructions are absolutely equivalent to solid structures they fulfil all the d.a. and standards and all the other norms that we have to comply with. that applies especially to noise and heat insulation for the walls the electrician only has to

insert the wiring now the sockets are already fitted. in conventional construction you have to cut into the wall to install a socket to deal with the slits and then later to the floor this is ten times easier. developers want to boost modular construction they're under pressure to supply more living space quickly and cheaply modules cost a third less than normal apartments so. you save time normally can have a building ready within three months on the building site with very low construction costs of a two hundred euros per square meter. more than two thirds of the elements are prebuilt in a factory one hundred thirty kilometers away no matter what the weather windows can be fitted here and tiles laid most of the modules measure by three and a half meters which turns out to be the most economical size. if we made the

module narrower it would leave less living space per module which would raise production costs and the price per square meter for the customer. for now the workers here have to move from module to module but by twenty eighteen they'll be an assembly line which takes the module automatically from workstation to workstation just like in car production. if it's a more efficient implementation faster implementation recurring tasks which means fewer defects and we can offer more efficient performance and cheaper production. by then a complete three module apartment could be living this factory every two days serial production for new housing. lack of astronomy to know. that's right hand out now russia's hopes of making february's vigilant big still hang in the balance this off the wild anti duping agency decided not to lift its

suspension the international olympic committee we make the final decision either banning russia outright or allowing some athletes to compete under a neutral flag but that too could cause some problems here. this is sold and the world anti-doping agency's latest meeting the verdict it doesn't look good for russia the country's anti-doping body has met our water requirements to have its two years suspension lifted and it could cost them a spot at the winter games the greed of compliance for the russian until the agency has been fulfilled in many ways but there are still two issues which remain unfulfilled the main reason the refusal to publicly accept allegations of state sponsored doping. was the quote what is the sponsor doping it's the practice of doping drugs with state money drugs that are given to athletes that cannot have been the case. that's not our access to the urine samples from

suspected cheats is the second sticking point our moscow reporter doc savage has the latest on the sample controversy in. the russian unto doping agency isn't allowing sealed samples from russian efforts to be tested a test could prove that even more affluence to perform and hansen drugs there we know of so far russian president vladimir putin is under pressure but the country sports minister has already come out calling the latest decision political in character investigative reporter higher says ultimately russia may not be able to compete under its own flag. if that will happen then it has been said already by the russian government and the russians it will not go to the olympics it will be a boycott that will be a dramatic development. the international olympic committee will have the final say in december. the news has

a recap of the top stories that we're following for you zimbabwe remains under military control a day after the army seized key institutions president robert mugabe's under house arrest as official seek a peaceful solution to the army's intervention. and german chancellor angela merkel has warned there are still serious differences between a conservatives and potential coalition partners a deadline for exploratory coalition talks and stiddy if a deal cannot be reached germany could face fresh elections. don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download the after movie play all from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the one as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use a video of the after send us photos and videos of interest. that's a true me under that you might indeed have been used to have you back with you in half an hour before to seeing you that of i.

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arguably its most predict.