Skip to main content

tv   DW News - News  Deutsche Welle  November 17, 2017 2:00pm-2:15pm CET

2:00 pm
it is a bill hands. slavery in the twenty first century. starting december second on t w. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin marathon talks about a new german government brazil in the country's capital trials on the matter remains optimistic a conservatives can strike a deal with possibly a coalition partners thus despite talks that went through the night missing the deadline for agreement to get the latest also coming up robert mugabe appears in
2:01 pm
public at the university graduation ceremony in harare he's been under house arrest since i'm if you take over in zimbabwe and is under pressure from the on the the opposition and even his own party to step down. and on very that truck of the future and it's electric that company says it will help reduce c o two emissions and boost the company's fortunes. among the thought she might get to have your company. jelly's search for a new government has gone into extra time after a stalemate at all night talks in berlin other markets conservatives want to thrash out a coalition deal with the pro-business free democrats and the greens but the bodies remain too far apart on issues including the environment and refugees now they are
2:02 pm
back at the negotiating table hoping to avoid another election. another round of difficult talks at the cd use party headquarters the negotiators are coming off a long night with very little sleep but they know for you to reach an agreement could may new elections chancellor merkel says she's determined not to let that happen. despite all the difficulties in these negotiations i am determined to form a government as mandated by germany's voters they definitely won't be easy it will definitely be hard but it's worth going into a second round of talks. by in a while so that this is. we all realize we have to make compromises everyone so far that hasn't happened enough. this is especially applies to those who declared to the outside world that they're making all sorts of concessions but from what i see rumi sit down together they're not going to get some of his. remarks
2:03 pm
clearly and germany's green party during the overnight talks zeal hoffa c.s.u. in the greens were at loggerheads on many key issues especially migration and energy policy one self-imposed deadline has now come and gone and negotiations are into other the time many expect them to extend well into the weekend. and for the very latest i'm joined by our political correspondent. and for the very latest i'm joined by our political correspondent. she's a chance on the americans cd you bought a headquarters here in berlin to put water issues still need to be designed for these talks to move forward. on the main issue i would say is the migration issue this has been on the table for the last three weeks and no progress whatsoever house been reached yet they are especially battling about on
2:04 pm
the point of family or union for refugees here they are the parties are very far apart especially the conservative see as you party on the center left green party have completely opposite opinions on how to treat the family reunion of refugees the cs you don't want to have any family reunion and the more while the greens say this is a human right for that that's what applied to any refugee whatsoever. on the body is starting to lose faith in the idea of the spillway coalition. well it depends on who you listen to and if you listen to especially representatives of the smaller parties especially of the seas you on the greens the already mentioned two parties that are longer headed in the migration issue then. one could really lose some faith here because both parties always say it is needed
2:05 pm
to find a compromise every side costs to have the will to give in a little bit but what we hear from inside is that both sides are not willing to give in even in little inch so i think the biggest. problem here for chancellor angela merkel and her c.v. hugh party is to find some sort of agreement to find some sort of a bridge both parties can walk over one major deadline has come and gone what's the timeline now. well there isn't any real timeline. all parties have agreed on that these talks can could at least take the whole weekend some even say well it could even take a little bit longer the next deadline if you want to call it that is the green party convention next saturday and one week's time there the green party actually wanted to present the outcome of the preliminary talks to the part of the
2:06 pm
membership and asked them if real coalition talks should be taken up. of course then one could say even a party convention could be rescheduled but then this would mean that forming a government would take even longer and germany already has and how to govern and for a very government for quite a time now this is something this country is simply not used to. but as you say if the i'm as well does happen in these talks do it rick john does it mean that jimmy will head for new elections. well this is one possibility and this is the possibility that most people see as the most see as the most likely we have to see that the only other possible a coalition partner for c.p.u. and sees you would be the source democrats but the source democrats have suffered a huge defeat in the last elections i already said that they wouldn't go into any form of government or coalition government with angela merkel anymore. and that
2:07 pm
they would prefer new elections of this to make a coalition as it is called is is not going to work out. but the but the big problem here is and that's what all four parties say a failure is not an optional cannot be an option or must not be an option as they all see that from a snap election they could not benefit there would be no positive outcome for them . in the end they probably would sit again at the. negotiation to table just with a little bit of different results the only one that would really benefit from this would be the alternative for germany party the far right populist party which of course would be eager to perform better in snap elections and this is something all these parties don't really want to put outside the c.d.u. party headquarters where coalition talks are going on thank you very much for that update. yes i did look at some of the stories making news around the world u.s.
2:08 pm
backed forces in iraq say they've retaken the last time in the country held by islamic state iraqi troops forced the militants from the town of robber just after five hours of fighting this leaves i assume control of only patches of rural territory in iraq's western desert along the border with syria. supporters of kid an opposition leader and police have clashed outside the capital nairobi police fired tear gas onto the crowds of demonstrators they're angry about the rerun of the presidential election which saw the incumbent president kenyatta win with ninety eight percent of the vote that bill was marred by low turnout and claims of voter intimidation the trunk administration says allow elephant hunters to bring back trophies into the u.s. from zimbabwe and zambia and this lifts a ban by former president barack obama conservationists view this ruling as
2:09 pm
a big fat back which could lead to more elephant hunting the former head of the syrian mafia told to arena has died at the age of eighty seven he was in an italian prison hospital we'd been serving twenty six life sentences leader was one of the most feared godfathers of course on awestruck crime family the nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's he's taught to have ordered more than one hundred and fifty. now the game is up that's the message from zimbabwe's influential independence war veterans to robert mugabe he's resisting pressure to resign after a military takeover but the veterans are calling for demonstrations at the weekend to demand the full revolutionary gobby quit he made his first public appearance since the army's intervention having previously been detained at home. surrounded by security robert mugabe or attends at a graduation ceremony on the outskirts of the capital harare and his presence is
2:10 pm
tradition but given that he's been under house arrest many were surprised to see him the press reported that mugabe normally travels in a luxury vehicle a school should by a large motorcade arrived in a civilian come. in a statement on state television earlier the military said he was engaging with mugabe and. it's also released photos showing mohammed meeting zimbabwe's army chief and two south african envoys who had flown in to mediate reports suggest robert mugabe is refusing to give up the presidency. the people are concerned but there's been no violence and the situation is quiet. calm winds work and it's business as usual no one is hurting anyone we just. heard today. we are.
2:11 pm
his group zimbabwe for nearly forty years analysts suggest the military takeover was to prevent me from handing power to his wife grace she has not been seen since the military takeover. joining me now from harare is human rights activist a dog what is your ancestor and rid of president mugabe step down or will he be pushed out. that there really is is the question on everyone's tongues here seeing that yesterday a deal had been struck but but now it seems that the government is backtracking on that he does have a huge trump card i can see even that he's pushed out that will huge the undermine the legitimacy of this government process and so as someone who is desperate to cling to power as we've seen over the last thirty seven years i don't think he's
2:12 pm
going to give up power very easy so it may may come to the start or it may end up being a failed coup. and that is how wanted are you as a human rights activist about this military intervention given that this army until recently supported mugabe's regime which has been accused of huge human rights violations in the past. absolutely the major concerns that we have been encouraged by. the explicit statements made by the military that that they are here to respect people's rights and certainly their conduct has has has matched that as well in general they have been quite peaceful apart from some scuffles with some some some violence involving. zanu p.f. politicians so. that has been encouraging but there are major concerns around us and i think. there are concerns as well from
2:13 pm
a political perspective that this could just simply be an internal settlement with then zanu p.f. that results in you of their interior and regime with with nothing much more than a base that now being one doc the fact vice president has a return to herat if the opposition media morgan chang and i is also back one of the chances then off to some kind of a transitional government being formed. i think that the transitional government is is is really essential is really early way out for us now the wheels of transition have begun in motion now and as i say this this this transitional this transition will not be sustainable if it's merely an internal zanu p.f. solution and it will not have any legitimacy. in the eyes of zimbabweans or in the eyes of the international community if it if it's not
2:14 pm
a real transition towards democratic consolidation where real reforms that implemented so that we can have free and fair elections so i think that that that a transitional authority is essential i think that the military and more to go but probably understand that because they have a huge legitimacy problem whether that will happen i think really really remains to be seen as this so much up in the dug out of a human rights lawyer an activist in harare thank you very much thanks very much for having me and turning away from politics and mission championship winning ferarri from two thousand and one has been filled at an auction in new york it's set a new one record for a modern era formula one car it's the set of wheels that won the german sporting legend his fourth f one crown a speech from the auction house sotheby's shows the ferrari sold for seven point five million dollars almost twice the asking price schumacher suffered
2:15 pm
a severe head injury in a skiing accident four yes hello. you're watching the news still to come going green a tesla unveils its new own electric truck more on that in our business a show coming up but monica jones. you're watching the news coming to you live from but and remember you can always check out our website does d.w. dot com but to stay with news and funny is. united against climate change. big challenges for the twenty third u.n. climate conference in bonn. how are nations working.

32 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on