for the. stories of both people making a difference to shaping their nation. and their continent. w.'s new multimedia series for africa. d.w. dot com africa on the move. this is the deputy news live from bergland the stakes could not be higher the next few hours could decide whether i go america over bates chancellor of germany as talks to form a new coalition government to go down to the wire. also coming up officials urged

robert mugabe of zimbabwe to step aside as the tanks remain in control of the streets the military and its backers want the nation's first and only presidents to give way to a new era plus. the pictures is so. hard . a five hundred year old masterpiece by leonardo da vinci becomes the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction so who bought this incredible painting . i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us it is a decisive day in german politics talks aimed at forming a new coalition government after september's general election have entered their final day now if these talks go. laps around the country could face new elections

german chancellor angela merkel says that she is confident that they will succeed but as we report the parties are still far apart on many key issues. four weeks of negotiations have seen the chances for a so-called jamaica coalition hover at fifty fifty one thing is clear there's still no love lost between the very parties who say they want to govern under chancellor angela merkel. talk is the day when we have to put ourselves in the shoes of the other side and ask what is important to them. on balance a lot you can achieve that kind and if we do we will also achieve a positive result at the end of these negotiations and when stephen negotiators come and go those who face the microphones are still busy placing blame and stressing their own limits notably when it comes to the right of all refugees to

have their families join them in germany. to say one thing is clear we will insist on the right of refugees with subsidiary protection to be reunited with their families in germany that's an issue of trust for us here. when i look up but other parties already fear a public backlash if thousands of migrants are allowed to bring their families to germany. because. we can't just sign things here that could fan on extremism in germany. that is why we are available for a fact oriented solution rooted in humanitarian reasoning german foreign policy appears to have become the latest casualty in the struggle to strike a deal between the four parties. we've taken a step back and now that the foreign deployment of german forces became an issue again all foreign policy issues are back on hold. while the exploratory talks for

a government coalition could be extended public patience with unlimited efforts to forge a coalition is running thin. and let's get the very latest now on the status of these talks very own charlotte potts is joining us live from berlin so charlotte just walk us through why this particular round of talks is so important. sure sara good to see you it's really a make or break moment that we have to witness tonight we have to remember it's been eight weeks since the german elections they've started the negotiations four weeks ago it's been quite a while and basically what the politicians and negotiators are saying look if we haven't found any compromises up until now we're not going to find any compromises but we might we might tonight so there is this deadline the self said deadline of the end of the exploratory talks and it looks like we are going to have some

compromises coming out of that tonight but this is only one step and then after that there will be a coalition talks where the parties will have to agree on policy proposals that they want to implement for the next four years and then form a government so it looks like it is going to take some time until germany has a new government in place that might be until christmas or even after christmas and we heard ago americal basically acknowledge how difficult these talks have been saying that there was indeed still work to be done although we have to also mention striking a bit of an optimistic tone charlie what do you make of what we have heard so far from these various participants how likely do you see an agreement. well negotiations have been extremely tough negotiators a saying it may be the toughest negotiations ever in post world war german history and if you look at the ideological differences between the parties from the greens to the business friendly f.t.p. to the bavarian conservative arm of conservatives the differences are stark on

issues especially for example on issues such as migration from what we've been hearing and i think that it is very likely that there will be some kind of compromise coming out of the talks tonight or maybe they are extending these talks into tomorrow but there will be some kind of compromise most likely because the stakes are just too high for the parties to not reach a conclusion and to let these talks fail surely just very briefly before we go if they fail what is that likely to mean for angela merkel and her party. very there could be a minority government more likely that they will call for a snap election so new elections and that would be how some negotiators have been saying really a contest for a fee for angela merkel she is a very skilled negotiator and if she lets those talks fail that would definitely weaken her position and could in the end we can have position as

a possible chancellor so the pressure again is very high to find compromises in these talks and anything is possible at this hour d.w. charlotte potts with the very latest from berlin following the german coalition talks thanks for your reporting. well elsewhere in the world reports from zimbabwe say that president robert mugabe is holding talks with the country's military and envoys from south africa the country has been plunged into uncertainties and the military seized power and put under house arrest the opposition leaders are calling on mugabe to step down after duly forty years in power and allow free and fair elections but it's still unclear how the crisis will be resolved. tanks are still in key positions on the streets of zimbabwe's capital harare a day after the military seize control of the country the streets a bustling again after many businesses shut their doors on wednesday. this issue

which is what ok people are they are now returning to their jobs. in the quiet way in a good way. everything is normal ever is normal the shops are open people are back to work everyone that is except zimbabwe's a ninety three year old ailing president robert mugabe he hasn't been seen since the military takeover but he said to be under house arrest and safe room is a flying about whether his wife grace is with him or whether she managed to flee the country before the military action grace's ambitions to succeed a husband a said to be behind the current turmoil last week mugabe sacked his vice president the army potentially saw this as paving the way for grace to take over the military's actions dari have put a stop to her hopes for some zimbabweans that is welcome news. the diversion but it's a problem is very good because you are looking for a quick news about the biggest about the sacrifice president and mr and. is tipped

to head a transitional government backed by the military an option the african union said it wouldn't support. 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. would support the legitimate zimbabwean government and in no case of goodwill we accept a forceful seizure of power. whom that power belongs to is still a one thousand question. let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world more than a dozen people have been killed by a suicide bomber at a political rally in the afghan capital kabul a so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility it is the latest in a wave of attacks in afghanistan that have killed and wounded thousands this year alone cambodia's supreme court has granted

a government request to dissolve the country's main opposition party after it was accused of conspiring to seize power critics have said that the decision is a tactic to strengthen prime minister hun sen's position ahead of elections next year an anonymous buyer has spent a record some on a work by the renaissance painter of the united to venture it's an astounding price for a painting once thought to be by one of his students previously the work had changed hands for just a few thousand dollars but i christie's in new york it was quite a different story. ladies and gentlemen we moved to their little davinci the suburbs of modern day the masterpiece probably not of christ the savior of previous in the clutches of three kings of england so you view of the world at courtrai to jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by the nacelles must a ninety minute a looking for ninety five in house christie's said the presale estimates at one

hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded ninety four i'm going to go one third out of it well i wouldn't have it one hundred ten million go get me one twenty the beating via phone just gets him going one night into his 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 it's been that you are good million two hundred million just how high could you go. at two hundred eighty million dollars we will go on maybe not. take the photograph quite the next milestone three hundred we'll give it to ninety six. i thought so. three hundred million. and even though it's one of the top.

three hundred seventy million back to france was clutch at three hundred and seventy million dollars and that was for him it is. not a service of money selling here i christie's four hundred million dollars is the bit of the piece is 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. and for more on this absolutely astounding sale we are joined now by martin kemp he is a professor in the history of art at oxford university and a leading leonardo da vinci expert thanks so much for joining us. pleasure now you have actually seen this painting up close what would you say is so special about it

and is it really worth the four hundred fifty million dollars that it fetched at auction. i would separate out the two things it's worth what someone has to pay for it which is different from the question as to whether it's a great painting on art it is very extraordinary the lion are those have a special presence i've seen connelly's are twice out of her frame and they have a kind of living presence which is very uncanny very extraordinary it's difficult for artists to do that rembrandt can do. your can do that his best but they do have that extraordinary presence and lennart also in addition to that very strange psychological effect incorporates enormous amounts of knowledge into his works of art in a way in which the followers didn't i mean he understands arctic sea understands anatomy he has an interest in what i call the science of art not just whether

it's making or an effective picture so is that when you were then looking at when when you were basically called in to verify that this painting was genuine i mean what was it specifically about this painting that allowed you to roll out that it was indeed genuine and that it wasn't painted by one of his students i should say what i'm doing what i do is i research who works whether their own privately or in public without any favor while my own the other so i'm not really setting out to authenticate things but obviously the more you find out about painting and the more it seems consistent with really low knowledge and the more it supports the the attribution i first saw it in the national gallery in london a nick penney director said we got something which i think you'd like to see so i went to see and sorest in the conservation studio and immediately there's a sense of wow this is. no don't reach that you didn't do

a lot of research. really fascinating stuff and martin we very much appreciate you joining us to tell us a little bit more about this painting your impressions of it as an expert as we mentioned to our viewers you are a professor in the history of art at oxford university and a leading leonardo da vinci expert we appreciate it but we have some breaking news just coming in before we go german industrial giant zeman says that it is slashing nearly seven thousand jobs worldwide as part of restructuring efforts around half of those job losses will be in germany we are following the latest here on more again at the top of the. pieces when i think it's really important to give a bit of time and look back to the families who make so much effort.