because if you can't see it. you do something for your country but you're still the black you're talking. afro germany starting december tenth d.w. . this is t w news coming to you live from berlin a political crisis looms in germany after coalition talks collapse the head of the liberal free democrat party unexpectedly bails out of big oshie ations on forging

a new government is this the beginning of the end for chancellor angela merkel and bring you latest also on the program confusion in zimbabwe is robert mugabe digs in the beleaguered president defines pressure from his center p.f. party to step down his opponents are now threatening protests and impeachment. and poor ministers from asia and europe meet in myanmar they're expected to pressure myanmar leaders own sons to cheat on the get violence against broken ship mostly it's. hello and welcome i'm terry martin glad to have you with. exploratory talks on forming a new coalition government here in germany have collapsed the business friendly f.d.p. bailed out of negotiations saying it had failed to find common ground on key issues

with chancellor i'm going to michael's conserve little alliance and the greens backlund else she would talk with the german president later today it's not clear exactly what they'll discuss one option is to call fresh elections or talk about that and more in just a moment but first here's how the night of negotiations played out. it was for a climax of a coalition talks the head of the free democrats leaves the building to make an announcement he said his party was pulling out of the negotiations. on one little girl we were being forced to cast away our principles and everything that we've fought for over the years. we will not let down our voters by standing behind policies of which we're not at all convinced. it's it's better not to govern than to govern badly so we. could buy. probably doesn't. there was no

immediate confirmation that the talks had collapsed for some time via the party chiefs remained inside and then they came out to face the cameras led by chancellor angela merkel thanks she confirmed for talks had indeed collapsed she expressed regret and was open about the difficulties she encountered a few we've seen and heard a lot during these dogs. are very different styles of negotiating. it's in all sympathy the greens to some getting used to the free democrats resolute. but we believe that we were on the right path to securing an agreement. i think. there was disappointment over what some felt could've been and already some finger pointing for co-head of the greens

placed for blame for the failure squarely at the feet of a free democrats vines the reason we were open to an understanding up until the last second we were prepared to go the extra mile when it didn't seem possible to go any further but the other parties have to be prepared to do the same and this evening one wasn't. the collapse of the talks now puts merkel in a difficult position she could try to form a minority government if those attempts failed new elections may be the only way out of a deadlock. well for more on the deadlock we're joined in our studio now by political correspondent christopher spring christopher michaels preferred coalition partners cannot agree on the basis of reporting a government what does this mean for chancellor merkel well some observers are saying she's fighting for her political life now i think that's a little bit exaggerated she is certainly further we can remember she she had a although she won the elections in september it was

a weak performance so that already weakened her authority this. signals a further erosion of her thora her reputation as a dealmaker is damaged and you know this is unprecedented in a sense germany has never really faced this kind of political uncertainty off a federal election chris or can you tell us why these talks failed so far the f.t.p. who pulled out have only said irreconcilable differences where their policy points to we know on what points these talks failed well to areas where there was a lot of conflicts was climate policy which is very close to the hearts of the environmentalist greens of course and the other area was migration policy again something where the greens were pushing for more liberal policies while the conservatives in the pro-business liberals wanted to essentially to cap migration

those are two areas that were absolute flashpoints but i think that the key thing is actually trust. christian that now the leader of the pro-business f.t.p. apart from saying irreconcilable differences he said there was a failure to establish trust and we beginning to emerge is that the the f.t.p. actually at the beginning of yesterday sunday we're already keen on letting these talks fail they were actually were we understand fairly close to a deal. and at that point the the two key negotiators for the free democrats got up and left germany has been in political limbo now for weeks almost two months since the election everyone's wondering what's going to happen next let's take a look at some of the options now that the coalition talks have collapsed german president frank steinmeyer could have to step in the german president could

nominate angela merkel as chancellor since her party has the most seats in parliament parliamentarians would then vote on whether they want her as chancellor . president steinmeyer would then have two options he could appoint merkel the head of the minority government and that case she would have to constantly look for allies to make a majority oer the president could dissolve parliament and call new elections in two months. so christopher where do you see this heading what will happen next well all eyes are now on the german president frank. who i hasten to add is a social democrat so the the current partner of chumps angle a macro in the outgoing administration he has made it very very clear he wants to avoid fresh elections so i suspect he will be calling his former colleagues

within the social democrats and making the point to them that they also have a responsibility to the country they essentially after the election very quickly said we're going into opposition we are not available for another coalition with chancellor merkel however the pressure is now increasing on them one of chancellor merkel's allies has already gone public saying that we will be calling the social democrats to negotiations so there are other options aside from just fresh elections or a minority government many do however think that fresh elections are a real possibility here how would that work lay that out force quickly if you can well it's quite complicated first an interim chancellor would have to be elected by parliament presumably that would be chancellor merkel. then if. she decides not to have a minority government not to rule with a minority government but would prefer. going for fresh elections that would have

to be again the german president frank on my dissolving parliament and then fresh elections have to happen within sixty days so this could all still take some time chris from our political desk thank you so much you're welcome. let's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today kenya's supreme court has upheld the result of the country's repeat presidential election the court dismissed an opposition petition claiming the vote was not conducted according to the law president can the otto won the rerun vote in october with ninety eight percent of the vote the opposition boycotted poll. charles manson the u.s. cult leader behind the killing spree in one nine hundred sixty s. california has died at the age of eighty three and soon died of natural causes in a california prison he had been serving multiple life sentences for orchestrating the murder of actress sharon tate and six others in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and at least fifteen people have been killed in

a stampede near the moroccan city of s. we are reportedly while food aid was being distributed in a market media reports say all the victims were women who they campaigns are common in remote poor areas of the remark of iraq zimbabwe's embattled president robert mugabe has defied expectations but not resigning in a widely anticipated speech to the nation mugabe stressed that he was still in power despite mounting pressure on the army and his own party to step down. zimbabwe's longtime president robert mugabe addressed the nation for the first time after being sacked as p.f. party leader is expected resignation was not forthcoming merely an acknowledgement that mistakes had been made. the president of zimbabwe and as.

chief do acknowledge the issues they have drawn my attention to and do believe that these were raised in this period of honesty and deep and. for. the nation and for the welfare of our people not only did mcgarvie not announce his resignation as expected he further pledged to preside over the upcoming zanu p.f. party congress a clear slap in the face to his own party who had given him twenty four hours to resign or be impeached. zimbabwe's main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai said he was baffled by his failure to step down as were many ordinary citizens. this week the next and i know.

despite everything that he has done to be with dignity and to just walk away. and we just didn't. do that. with the confusion following mugabe speech the way forward for zimbabwe suddenly seems unclear. let's get the latest now from harare we're joined there by journalist ray. ray president mugabe has resigned the presidency what is he actually doing does he think he can still hold. yes thank you for having me i think that's the indication that we got yesterday from speech which he gave to the nation where he primarily still believes that he's in charge of affairs in charge of the country he's in charge of these ruling parties on the p.f. it's either niall always that exposes the depth of how out of touch ease with

the reality that he is isolated not only politically because under p.f. rejected him as the party leader and socially we so much he's being rolled out across the principle as well within so this is a man who seems to be very much in denial or doesn't know exactly what is happening and the extent of developments around you. stay with us for a moment we're going to listen to an excerpt from president mugabe's speech in which he talks about what he describes as the way forward. the way forward nice cannot be based on swapping. vying pleats that dry the rough short of a party party rules and procedures there has to be net region today guiding principles of our party as enshrined

in its constitution which must apply fairly and equitably you know. situations and before all named us president mugabe they're saying that it must respect party principles and procedure is he implying that the approaching zanu p.f. congress is going to decide his fate. well he is principle implying that. expects to take charge of the process of deciding who is the person that will lead the party but of course this is again defying the reality on the ground that he's been rejected by the party and he's trying to apply

a procedural approach to say we will rather prefer. following the guidelines of the party and following the rules as opposed to opposing vying trix because we do know that there are factions within and indications at the moment is that the faction which was principally aligned to use wife really has been pushed out and put out and now he's attempting you know a last minute attempt to appeal to the use of processes and guidelines to address the difficulties of the ins on the p.f. and wondered see it as a lost cause at this point. that was journalist rate include who they're speaking to us from harare zimbabwe you're watching the news still to come what now for hundreds of thousands of bridge of refugees who fled the violence in myanmar germany's foreign minister visits a refugee camp in bangladesh ahead of a major crisis meeting. and will take

a look at the weekend but this league action shaka and their start coach dominik cotto desk continued to rise up the table. and now returning to our top story that is the ending of coalition talks exploratory talks towards building a coalition government here in germany markets are reacting with us to the uncertainty here is christophe and that's right terry currency markets are quick to react to these kind of situations the euro is indeed dropping after coalition talks fail here in germany last night the prospect of new elections and europe's largest economy and the political uncertainty of brings send the euro to a two month low against the japanese yen now the european currency later paired some of its losses in asian trade with and i was expressing the hope that the collapse talks impact on the german economy would for now at least the limits. now for some more reactions let's bring in our financial correspondent conrad booze

and frankfurt conrad is a german word so how much anx potential is there for the markets. well quest of there is at least some potential for this to rattle the markets some words we shouldn't forget that the german equity market has been down for two consecutive weeks more and more people have been asking was there or was there not the potential for a year end rally and of course with more political uncertainty in berlin and certainty about the future of our government the base for such a year end rally is weakening now german economy germany's economy has been doing fairly well in recent months and years and fact does this make markets more immune against these political risks. well yes it does you know of course if i talk about this reduced possibility of

a year and rarely i should also remind everyone that the german dax the blue chip index here in frankfurt on the equity markets has been gaining around about twelve percent so far this year and this economic and the economic fundamentals for this are getting even stronger this morning the economic research institute announced that it will increase its forecast for german g.d.p. growth the forecast for economic growth here in germany this year to two point three percent that's an increase of four tenths of a percent compared to the previous forecast conrad in frankfurt thank you for your analysis. brax it britain's departure from the european union could not only see a slew of banks and companies leave the country to maintain their european operations several e.u. institutions currently based in london most certainly leave by march twenty nine

thousand when the u.k. actually brecht's it's more than twenty cities are vying to host them among them the german city of bonn milan and italy or amsterdam in the netherlands that want to host the european medicines agency with almost nine hundred employees financial hubs frankfurt dublin luxembourg paris and vienna are among those bidding for the european banking authority with its one hundred eighty workers those institutions also attract plenty of other jobs and money so their host cities organizing hundreds of conferences and events with experts from around the world together they book thirty nine thousand hotel rooms in london each year just to give you an idea no candidate cities will find out later today if their bid was successful as britain's vote to leave the e.u. will see many foreign citizens leave the country demand for english lessons has plummeted hitting those whose business it is to get people talking.

that sound marks the start of classes that ox field language school in north west london but nowadays several seats remain empty this school is experiencing hard times it's lost a third of its students since britain voted to leave the e.u. in twenty sixteen fields english classes used to be filled with students from spain and italy but the brics it vote has made many europeans no longer feel welcome in the u.k. . that they feel like. there's a second class citizenship thing happening with them you know and they've spoken to me about the not comfortable with some of decided to leave for that reason. alone three point two million foreigners living in britain are from other nations but the country's official statistics say one hundred twenty two thousand have left since the bronx a vote that's more than at any other time in the last ten years at oxford language school there's little sympathy with the decision to break with the e.u. . you need to have been so no. people think that bracks

a decision is absolutely wrong it's bad for us at our you know he said you know and it's bad for the british and i think nobody was thinking about the consequences when they were voting. and i believe if you got there a lot of particular take on bragg's it because the i think the word that is actually a really clumsy stupid mindless word and it kind of reflects it's a good reflection of what people were thinking before they voted it was clumsy and mindless you know thoughtless. school director cardwell our band has been in business for seven years he's worked hard but attendance hasn't been so low since ox field first opened i'm not optimistic about the future of this country leaving europe i have to say but in terms of our business i'm optimistic because we have to find other ways to to move on so although english schools are yet another victim of britain spread vote the hope here is that demand for the country's still sought

after language will eventually recover. pressure is growing on me on maher over the crisis terror strike kristoff foreign ministers from asia and europe are meeting in myanmar as international concern grows about the plight of the hinge of refugees from the country although the focus of the asia europe meeting is security ministers are expected to pressure host on the violent persecution of myanmar's muslim minority the top diplomat frederica marini has expressed hope that many will be allowed to return from neighboring bangladesh. well on his way to the summit germany's foreign minister visited a refugee camp in bangladesh our correspondent all of us salih sent us this report . this is the fastest growing refugee crisis worldwide seen from a bangladeshi air force helicopter almost eight hundred thousand to him to have

fled the violence in neighboring me on march many of them including thousands of children have sought refuge here at the kuta up along refugee camp. the makeshift camp is just two and a half months old and reaches as far as the eye can see humanitarian aid organizations are struggling to fight the outbreak of diseases they fear they might lose this fight as soon as the monsoon season begins. the cut of her long camp lacks most facilities there are almost no toilets and there is not enough clean drinking water the camp is massively under-funded together with an international delegation german foreign ministers visited the camp to form his own impression of the situation. i mean we just met children whose parents were murders whose villages were burnt down there was human

trafficking in even organs and souls here in huge makeshift settlements without any controls the worst things imaginable are taking place people must be given the opportunity to return. the german foreign minister says the international community has to step in he says germany would make twenty million euros in direct aid available to help improve the sanitary conditions but he stressed that the goal must be to help or hinder refugees return home. football now and in sunday's been asli action shock a host of hamburg looking to stake their claim as one of the league's top clubs hamburg meanwhile were hovering down at the wrong end of the table. shaka are having the best season in years and they haven't lost a hamburger at home since january twenty seventh fifteen minutes in gideon young

brought you haven't caught up leon down in the box penalty for the hosts franco de santo took the initiative and gave shaka an easy lead his first goal since march twenty sixth. after the break the guests had the better of the chances. hamburg seventeen year old shooting star set up aaron hunt who hit the post was on shall because. but. with ten minutes on the clock shall come we're on the attack again and it paid off the ball have gone up leon got the. shot because second. hamburg lose their fifth away game on the bounce well shaka are up to second in the table for the first time in five years. staying with the bundesliga braman where looking to grab their first win of the season over the weekend they were up against

hanover who have impressed since their return to the first division. bremen fans have gone three hundred thirty minutes without seeing a goal at their home ground stop had yet to school in the bundesliga this season but that barren run ended after thirty nine minutes. in funding the nets up to cruise played him in the book the break braman fans finally with a raise and to celebrate. kind of the start of the second half stronger but their own finishing let them down. and up to fifty five minutes braman broke on the counter and prison making no mistake his first goal in games moments like crows again. brandon fans couldn't believe their eyes three nil up. and prim and one finished yet present complacent twenty two

minutes hatchery. the game finishing full and handing the comets first win since april they call droughts banished. and just a quick reminder of our top stories here in germany talks on forming a new go government coalition have collapsed ended after the business friendly free democrats pulled out the party sided irreconcilable differences with michael's conservative alliance and the green chants of michael could now try to form a minority government or face it will act. and zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has defied pressure from his and a p.f. party to step down in a televised address he said he would preside over a party congress despite earlier being sacked as the party's chief his opponents are threatening protests and impeach. you're watching news coming to you from berlin we have more for you at the top of the next hour and don't forget to

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