often the last thing on our minds. invisible hands. slavery in the twenty first century. starting december second on d w. this is d w news live from berlin and all nighter in the german capital and the country's still no closer to a new government for all i'm ackles conservatives held talks into the early hours with possible partners those talks at the resume about noon time will go to our

correspondent for the very latest also coming up. a stalemate between zimbabwe's army and president robert mugabe they want him to resign and now the generals say they're arresting his allies as his own party prepares to kick him out. and tesla unveils their new truck of the future its electric company says it will help reduce c o two emissions and pose the company's fortunes. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show. well can germany put together a new government talks between all americans conservatives the free democrats and the greens to do so went on into the early hours of this morning but disagreements over a key policy saw them nesa deadline to thrash out

a deal if they do not come up with one germany will be facing new elections after a long night tired faces germany's chancellor angela merkel needs the parties in the coalition negotiations to strike a deal but her christian democrats existe party the c.s.u. the greens and the free democrats found to agree during talks that lasted into the early hours of friday morning. certainly we still have some differing opinions especially about immigration and financial policy. we've decided to use the next few days to overcome these remaining differences. and we do believe that they can be overcome. merkel had said thursday night as the deadline for agreeing on the coalition conditions now politicians say they need to

extend the stead line and continue talks over the weekend. we still believe that it's worthwhile directing all our energy to finding a solution that's good for our country but we have also realized that it's difficult. macro's negotiators have been hunting for an agreement for a month now with these coalition and tested at the federal level it seems there are more sticking points than expectant as this is nothing is agreed nothing's been decided talks will continue. failure to reach agreement could result in snap elections negotiations on all fronts are expected to resume on friday afternoon. let's bring in our political correspondent report view of all four more report what issues need to be resolved today for these talks to move forward one of the main sticking points as we've already heard in the report of course is the migration issue and the biggest problem and the biggest obstacle here is that all parties.

very different views on the whole idea especially the idea of for if the refugees should be allowed to have a family reunion the left center party greens for instance say that a family reunion is a human right for refugees and that all refugees should have the right for family reunion while the very conservative party see as you said we don't want to have any more refugees in the country and family of the union of course would contradict this goal of the sea is you so the problem is there's no really that is no way for for compromise here ok family reunion being of course i potentially hundreds of thousands of syrians would be coming over to join refugees currently in the country just make that clear for viewers now if these talks break down that means germany is headed for new elections are voters ready for that. absolutely no germans are not really used to be called back to the polls after such

a short time after the elections where you go to have to have in mind that the last elections only were in in september and all four parties also know that that the outcome of such and such a snap election wouldn't really change a thing. if we look at. the possible outcome probably wouldn't. wouldn't see any of these four parties benefit of such a snap election and the only party likely to benefit from it would be the far right populist party d. the alternative for germany so all four parties know that they are doomed to find an agreement and they know it ok you know it's very unusual for germany to be facing these type of lengthy coalition negotiations what does this all mean for chancellor on the mackerel. well. here has the problem that she only is acting chancellor in a way she is she the only power she right now has is that her government her

position as chancellor right now is the one of an acting month she hasn't been elected by german parliament by the new german parliament as new german chancellor so she doesn't have the power to make any long term decisions we could have we we were able to see this at the climate conference in boston this week where she was actually holding a speech of course climate issues and everybody was expecting the so-called climate chancellor to make some sort of announcement on how germany is going to meet its climate protection goals in two thousand and twenty and here comes. couldn't deliver just because the coalition talks were and over yet because the climate protection down in energy issues it's also one of the big obstacle to it in these talks so in the end one must say the whole this or this hanging on this this

whole. this whole part here we can see a position ok ripper be devolved following these key talks for us today here in berlin thanks very much you're welcome. while some of the negotiators took to social media to share their personal insights on the talks some demonstrated interparty unity by tweeting selfies like these two politicians from the greens and the conservative c.d.u. the headline they're published at three a.m. the mood is good others had to step out onto the balcony to take a deep breath during the talks like christiane the leader of the liberal democrats some got in a stall jerrick. a card to co-leader of the green sharing this picture saying good morning berlin last time i got home the slate was after a party then it was summer it was beautiful i walk this time the reason the coalition talks now for a look at some of the other stories making the news at this hour the former head of the syrian mafia toto arena has died at age eighty seven he was in an entirely in

a prison hospital where he's been serving twenty six consecutive life sentences i mean it was one of the most feared godfathers of the cos when i was a crime family in the seventy's and eighty's you saw two of ordered some one hundred fifty murders the trump administration says it will allow the importing of elephant body parts from zimbabwe and zambia now that reverses a ban by former president obama conservationists fear this new ruling will now lead to yet more elephant deaths. a massive fire has destroyed a retirement community in the u.s. state of pennsylvania the blaze tore through the facility in the city of westchester overnight forcing residents to evacuate saw the least twenty people were injured officials are investigating how that blaze started. negotiators in the german city of bonn are wrapping up

a united nations bonser talks on how to best implement the paris climate accord and trying to come up with an action plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions and limit global warming. as to zimbabwe now where the army has confirmed it has arrested some of president robert mugabe's allies the move comes after generals met with mugabe and reportedly urged him to step down the governor refuse the now sources within his own party the xana p.f. say they will meet to draft a resolution dismissing him as the party leader for now though mugabe remains very much in office but under house arrest. these images show robert mugabe meeting zimbabwe's army chief and two south african envoys brought in to mediate at his official residence in hieratic reports claim the long term president is refusing to step down but mugabe is under pressure to resign

zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan chang get ice at 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 the best and the nature and character of that mechanism be agreed upward by all nationalistic would. be reforms who are free and a fair and credible election to be heard. 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. grace's ambitions to succeed her husband are 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 though have put a stop to her hopes for now. the second vice president emerson or non-god why 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. this is deja vu news live from berlin still to come on the show a star striker suspended as the german bundesliga returns to action without pierre america obama young we ask what's going on at the door. first tell us here with news about what looks like a major job firings at one of germany's industrial giants talking about. brian and those job cuts have been rumored for weeks and now they have been confirmed to thousands of people around the world the set to lose their jobs most of the positions going in the company's fossil fuel division and at least two plants will be closed while hundreds of employees staged protests angry that the painful cuts

come at a time when the company's posting flourishing results from a position supported by the unions the board the board claims that the tough love to secure the future for the remaining employees the wide ranging cuts siemens workers of long feared it's a reality despite billions of euros profits the industrial giant is cutting thousands of jobs and closing plants. around the world a total of six thousand nine hundred jobs will be lost. three thousand three hundred will go in germany. two plants in eastern germany will be shut down completely others around the country hang in the balance. long i've been in this company a long time and never seen anything like this four plant closures one likely to be sold off and so many people affected it's a real body blow off the us is. the power and gas division is worst hit

struggling to cope with the upsurge in renewable energy demand for gas turbines has tumbled drastically depressing prices and profits with production no longer economically viable seaman says it will try to avoid forced returned and seize as far as possible it wants to transfer effective workers to other vacancies within the company nonetheless the engineering workers union i-g. mattel accuses siemens of breach of contract and promises massive resistance to the plans. well let's get more on that now with our financial correspondent janette do my lawn in front to see genelle and certainly some turbulent weeks ahead for his emotions so what are investors expecting. well investors are certainly expecting very difficult negotiations up ahead between management and the trade unions and first it has to be said that trade unions tend to have a lot of sway in german companies because that they make up half of the supervisory

board that off makes a strategic decisions for the company but of course investors are certainly seeing the scale of the restructure and the amount of pushback expected from the workers that mean that this could drag on for years they do know however that it's part and parcel of chief executive joe kayser his plan to streamline the company and make it smaller and more adaptable and move it away from an unwieldy call that is stock in obsolete industries the board was even saying yesterday that this decision was years in the making art will stay with us because we're going to speak to you again in a moment's time but first electric cars make a test that has been rattled by sliding profits and missed production targets lately but you know stopping the company from planning future products test the now unveiled a prototype electric big rig trucks you know mosques saying that the heavy duty vehicle can go up to eight hundred kilometers at highway speed before needing a recharge you didn't say how much the truck would cost the production is set to

begin one thousand nine hundred now musk's described electric trucks as tesla is next effort to move the economy away from fossil fuels company also presented a new two hundred thousand dollar sports car claiming it would be the fastest production car ever. right let's get our financial correspondent thoughts on this now general i mean i think it's fair to say some quite big. so considering the recent history of production issues with the model three how how confident is the market feeling about this that me. well that's certainly what observers are asking themselves is whether now is really the right time for tesla to make a big push into a new business area at a time where it's still spending a lot of money but not turning a profit just yet but as you said earlier as you said earlier now this is part of about push push to take the economy away from fossil fuels and not including

commercial vehicles and that vision would seem like a bit of an oversight but it has to be said that the customer base for a passenger cars and for trucks are very different now if businesses were to have problems with getting their ordered trucks delivered on time or problems with how the trucks themselves are run well there are set to be a lot less forgiving than say your private average motorist absolutely certainly would expect surgeon now and frank thank you well back over to brian now and those dead coalition talks right helena we're back with our top story right now germany's search for a new government the potential coalition partners have missed a deadline for agreement that despite all my talks in berlin they'll resume negotiations around lunch time as all americans conservatives the liberal f.d.p. and the greens all try to resolve disagreements over a key policy. we're joined now by going to trainings he's

a senior member of chancellor merkel's c.d.u. and a deputy interior minister thanks so much for being with us this morning what is your assessment how much room is there right now for a compromise on key issues especially on migration. migration certainly is not the only but the most difficult question that has to be solved and i think we need a few days maybe and it's also very first in the sense of how this whole thing is conducted how the format of the procedure is we have so-called expert tory talks now so we're not really into the into the real thing the real negotiation on the coalition so i think also this format contributes to the confusion a little bit that the negotiators don't know how far and how detailed they have to come out with a solution until the real negotiations and into full form can start so these are certainly times where we have to watch what happens in the next in the next days

it's sort of difficult but i think that's still a good chance that it will work ok where we're hearing from sources that it is a family family reunification bringing over the families for example from syria to join refugees currently in germany are you hearing that that is what's holding everything up. isn't mentioned that probably the most important the only point of of conflict in this in these talks because you know what we have to achieve and have to have to look for in germany is that we have to get to the to the average of what european countries do with refugees how they treat them how they able to meet with a family reunion almost all the countries of the european union only allow a family reunion for geneva convention refugees refugees except under geneva convention we ought to do this but in the last years we went a little bit further and that's certainly a very attractive points too for refugees to come especially to germany and that's something that we have to change and that's why it's also so difficult to reach an

agreement you. can you fill us in on the timeline right now when does a deal need to be in place is going to be at the end of the weekend or will it be extended past that. you know there's certainly a constitutional timeline or constitutional possibilities and options and political options constitutionally there's not really we're not really in a hurry we have time there's not a set limit. negotiation could go on theoretically for months but of course politically the people in germany expect a solution so i think that's great pressure that at least. let's say and that while ten days the real negotiations start and also a lot of pressure that they hopefully then finalized before christmas that's still a few weeks a few weeks to go and i'm still half way up to mystic that we can that we can do this but certainly there's a lot of work to do until that ok certainly reassuring to hear about the optimism but what about a plan b. what what happens if these talks don't achieve results. i don't that don't think it

makes much sense to talk about b. of course we as christian recruits were always ready to all to talk with the second biggest party in the parliament even though they're much smaller now than they used to be the social democrats the social democrats have so far always said no we're not even willing to enter into explanatory talks with the christian democrats it depends whether this position will still stand but you know i don't think it's no necessary to talk about a plane be we still are working very actively to make the play a work ok we'll see how those negotiations go this weekend going to senior member of just all of you thank you so very much for being with us thank you all european leaders are meeting in the swedish city of gothenburg today they want to hammer out a set of twenty social rights that all you member states will sign up to now they would only produce guidelines and some workers and unions are saying that will not

be enough. drums and flags from across the continent european workers have gathered in brussels to demonstrate more social protection this is a demonstration for europe and social protection there's a summit in go to work and we want all heads of government to put the basic rights for all workers into law in. europe has traditionally distinguish itself from the u.s. asia latin america and its social tendencies high taxes strong social safety nets and tightly regulated labor markets now the european commission wants in straw and these values you know what commission president has coined the european pillar of social rights. i mean at the very least we should agree on a european union of social standards. europe cannot work if the chinese it's workers. like. a central part of the initiative is the so-called work life balance proposal it would allow

a new fathers to take more time off and encourage women to enter and stay in the workforce brussels hopes that the initiative will restore faith in the european project you know we are spending more than fifty percent of the social expenditures in the world and that's basically the his on the date of the european union that's what we want we want wealth to be distributed and to be flowing to everyone and not just to the happy few and yes i do believe that this is the critical instrument to make the you know for the gain by the people today there are significant differences between member states when it comes to social protection according to the battles month justice index access to the labor market education and health services vary widely across the e.u. as does the risk of poverty. and i would argue it's actually the main risk of the stick to ration of social rights is actually that something is being declared and

you know basically nothing of this can can be enforced in courts and you know it raises big expectations among some people and you know it will achieve perhaps much less than then that from the outset the european project has been dominated by konami integration the social dimension was a mare by product of the e.u. will now make an ambitious political commitment and go to bork aiming towards a more social europe let's go to go now and derek matheson joins us from there after social summit are gay or going to give us some details about this pillar of social rights which is after all not even binding for those who sign up to it. other pillaring shrines twenty principles in rights from the field of equal opportunity equal workload working conditions fundamental working rights and so it in trying a lot of things that even member states already have everything from child

protection to unemployment financial help so a lot of things that fall into the legislation of the member states and hence as a diplomat put it to me this will be. a pillar that will be a recommendation for these member states the e.u. hopes to become here a social you're not a social union but it's a union of social standards and create a race to the top and something that the and students can monitor and find a report at the end and see which member states has improved and which one is still needs to improve ok politicians are of course trying to make the union more appealing for the public is this part of that you know and is it going to work. now the swedish prime minister said here this morning on the on a rival and he's coasting the event it's time that the e.u. makes clear that this is a project for the people and as one high ranking diplomat put it to me he said you

know that the european union is not a neoliberal project and my impression is really that this is one of those summits in a series of summits since breck's it's a since a wave of populism if you want has rocked the european vote where the european members have come to try arms with the fact that they need to come get across that this is not a european union for the economy but it is a european union that works for the people will all of that come into concrete terms will it work it's hard to say now it is a first step and again as the swedish prime minister said now we have to move the momentum to maybe achieve all of these things ok your math is for us from the social summit the u.s. holding in gothenburg thanks very much we have some sports now the german bonus league overturns after the international break with the one stahmann endorsement hoping to get back to its winning ways when they play stud guard

tonight dortmund have slipped down the table after a poor run of results they'll be visiting stood guard without their star striker pierre america bomb young me reports indicate he was suspended for turning up late to training. 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 and if you don't you know if you don't win they'll be expression and in the stuff you want to call that 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 fail. that's not for me that's the challenge to once again turn it around. and i'm sure we'll manage when does mean the shelf. 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's on the road firepower a league high twelve goal. against the league's best home defense is a stage set for a thrilling match. this is due to be a news live from berlin don't forget you can always find out more about the

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