i do traditions every day lives and language i can just come out of my lungs are gone home yeah good. liquor triggered by a d w dot com me to germany. this is d. w. news live from berlin and all nighter in the german capital and still no agreement on a new government chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats held talks into the early hours with three other parties there was hope they could find common ground

but now negotiators say they're done talking for the night. also coming up will his exit be dignified new pictures are published of zimbabwe's robert mugabe after a meeting with the military so what have they decided. on has been. told. her fired your 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 sumi so much gonna get to have you with us the four political parties trying to lay the groundwork for a new government in germany have broken off their talks chancellor merkel's conservative c.d.u. their bavarian allies the c.s.u. plus the greens and three democrats worked through the night to complete

exploratory talks on a coalition government but furley friday morning they announced they were pausing the goshen actions and would resume later on friday. let's go right to our correspondent all of our salat he's been following the talks all night long all over tell us what's been happening well this was quite a bumpy night i must say with lots of ups and downs and just a little while ago all the head of the business friendly f.t.p. party christian lintner addressed the press and said. gave us some positive signals really actually said there was a lot of progress made here tonight on a variety of contested issues but they could not make any ground on the topics of migration and finance but because there was so much progress made they eventually decided to postpone these remaining talks here for tomorrow and they will then continue talking about these issues trying to find compromises

because this is what this final stage of negotiations was about really and that statement comes in stark contrast to what one of the negotiators told me earlier in a personal conversation here tonight because he thought that under no circumstances should these talks be pushed to a later date if they don't find agreement tonight then they would never find any agreements because of the differences of the political spectrum of the parties that are involved in this constellation here tonight so this all reflects and shows really how complex these exploratory talks were here in the recent weeks the longest and most complex ones in modern german history so mixed messages they're all over and you know tests are medical herself seemed very optimistic on a thursday morning let's listen to what she had to say then that's killing them can't if we succeed in this time of great polarized nation we can accomplish

something we're going to be important for our country namely that you know one of us from a very very very different positions and never the less able to work together for the people of this country. so that was a positive outlook farrago shaders were determined to conclude the talks overnight and that hasn't happened so so what happens next right so the negotiators will come back they will just take a very few hours of sleep then we'll come back here sit together at the big table again and tackle the remaining issues that are left that is mainly migration but also finance according to the business friendly f.t.p. party and the pressure is really high as well as the stakes are the press or especially time pressure because all parties want it actually to present the findings of tonight's negotiations to their party bases and to their committees and these events were already scheduled for tomorrow they're going to be pushed back to

a later date and so the pressure is high the stakes are high as well and we'll see tomorrow where exactly new compromises can be found and if they can be found at all so negotiations set to be picked up picked up again now friday at noon is what we're hearing is it looking more likely that these talks are going to fail and what happens if they do. well we got some positive signals here tonight of course first of all but of course it's possible that they fail if they don't get the common ground they need on the remaining content contentious issues and so technically there is only one other option to form a government with this election resolved and that would include the social democrats and it would include another grand coalition but since they have ruled out cooperating again with the with angela merkel's c.d.u. party then there would only be two very unpopular options left one is

a minority government led by the biggest party which would be going to merkel c.d.u. very unstable government would resolve all of this so it's a very unlikely scenario and other than that there will be snap elections and this is as well very unlikely and very unpopular especially because the right wing a of the party might then come out even stronger than before and that would harm america because she would be weakened she might lose her party presidency as well as she might lose the chancellorship all right so they are still hoping to find agreement there all over salat following the story for us thank you all over now to some other stories making headlines around the world russia has vetoed a u.n. security council resolution to extend the probe of chemical weapons attacks in syria the mandate for the inquiry expired at midnight on thursday the u.n. has blamed the assad regime for using the nerve gas sarin and attacks in the past

and barcelona thousands of people have protested against the police for detaining two leaders of cattle on his pro independence movement the demonstrators out candles and form the shape of a ribbon which many separatists wear a symbol of solidarity the two men are being investigated for their roles and pro independence demonstrations in october. the death toll from torrential flooding in greece has risen to sixty three villages west of the capital afghans were hardest hit prime minister alexis tsipras has declared three days of national mourning locals are bracing themselves for another rain storm predicted a for the weekend. the trumpet ministrations says it will allow the importing of elephant body parts from zimbabwe and zambia that reverses a ban by former president barack obama conservationists fear this new ruling will now lead to more elephant deaths that there are new photos of

zimbabwe's president robert mugabe the first since tuesday night's military takeover the images show mugabe holding talks with the military there's also a delegation from south africa including jacob zuma who says the political situation will become clear very shortly the opposition has called on gabi to quit but reports from harare say he is refusing to stand down these images show robert mugabe meeting zimbabwe's army chief and two south african envoys brought in to mediate at his official residence in herat it reports claimed the long term president is refusing to step down but mugabe is under pressure to resign zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai said the president in power since one nine hundred eighty should go quietly in the interest of the country and elections should be called. a transitional mechanism.

and. since the nature and character of that mechanism be agreed upon by all nationalistic would. be reforms through free and a free and a group of boy election to be held. rumors have been flying about whether mugabe's wife grace is with him or whether she managed to flee the country before the military action on wednesday. greece's ambitions to succeed her husband are said to be behind the current turmoil last week mugabe is sacked his vice president the army potentially saw this is paving the way for grace to take over the military's actions though have put a stop to her hopes for now the such a vice president emerson or nun on god is tipped to head a transitional government backed by the military an option the african union said it wouldn't support it remains to be seen whether robert mugabe can hold on to his tight grip on power. lebanon's former prime minister saad hariri has accepted an

invitation to travel from saudi arabia to paris president call invited to stay for a few days but his exact arrival date has not yet been announced lebannon had accused saudi arabia of holding her very hostage following his shock resignation earlier this month saudi arabia has denied those allegations and says harry is free to travel to paris at any time. and anonymous buyer a spent a record samana work by the renaissance painter leonardo da vinci it's an astounding price for a painting once thought to be by one of his students previously the work that changed hands for just a few thousand dollars at christie's in new york it was a different story. i have thoroughly ladies and gentlemen we move to. change the subject of mourning the masterpiece fallen out of christ the savior previous in the collections of three kings of england savior of the world courtrai

to jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by the renesas muster ninety minute looking for ninety five in house christie said the presale estimates at one hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded ninety five and i gave one third over it why not instead i have it one hundred ten million go get me one twenty the bidding via phone just getting going on ninety has been you heard it you place your place with francois in a fifth place that one hundred ninety four leonardo at one hundred ninety million give me two hundred one ninety is bit two hundred million is bid at two hundred million two hundred million just how high could he go at two hundred eighty million dollars so we'll go on maybe not. don't take a photograph quite the next milestone three hundred we'll give it to ninety six.

i thought so of the three hundred million. and even though it's was in the top. three hundred seventy million back to france was plus three hundred and seventy million dollars they said it was for on him it is the way. they're not a sovereign somebody selling here i christie's four hundred million dollars is the bit the piece is sold. 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 thanks to sports and this weekend's bundesliga once dominant dortmund will be hoping to get back to winning ways when they placed a card on friday night dortmund have slipped down the table after a poor run of results and to top that off and said on thursday that their star here

emerick obama has been suspended from the squad for disciplinary reasons. go get her peer in obama young is out don't many gave no further details on why he has been disciplined and dropped from the squad obama young was hoping to end his goal drought in the game against stuttgart the striker has been a scoring slip lately no goals in his last five outings peter boss has been under pressure due to dortmund sudden decline from top of the table to third their last win in the league came back in september. on the ice that money could enter you know if you don't win they'll be expression. in the stuff if you want to call out opposing wins then yes we feel the breeze that's for sure. and over the last three weeks the winds change quickly in the post office after the last international break the first match against leipzig and that's when it began as well and we

definitely fails. that's it for me that's the challenge to once again turn it around. i'm sure we'll manage the mission from friday night could be perfect timing for dortmund to turn it around history is on their side the black and yellow won the last five matches in stuttgart but stuttgart is not a cakewalk especially when playing at home this season so far they're undefeated. dortmund on the road firepower a league high twelve goal. against the league's best home defense is a stage set for three men. and in tennis roger federer made it three wins out of three at the season ending a.t.p. finals in london federer took on a rerun of the summer's wimbledon final and once again federer came out on top this

was him from the set down the way six seven six four and six federer will play either dominant team or find the semifinal on saturday. reminder of our top story at this hour for party talks to lay the groundwork for a new coalition government here in germany a broken off for the night they are due to restart later on friday negotiators have been seeking common ground for weeks since germany's parliamentary election. thanks for watching. children like chocolate.