to continue the fight to research the benefits. that's the power train. making it happen. this is t w news coming to you live from berlin on to a medical under pressure as germany is plunged into political uncertainty after coalition talks collapse the german chancellor says she would prefer pressure elections over trying to lead a minority government. does this mark the end of the medical era also coming up

impeachment proceedings are set to begin today against robert mugabe with the zimbabwean president resisting calls to step aside his former friends and pose for united in their calls for him to quit. and washington threatens to scupper a mega merger between america's biggest telecom giant and a powerful content company critics say the move could be politically motivated. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us germany has been thrust into political uncertainty talks to form a new coalition government collapsed on sunday after four weeks of marathon negotiations the german president says he will meet with the leaders of all parties and press them to try once more to cut a deal meanwhile chancellor of the machall is weighing her options she says she's

ready to run for chancellor again in a new election if necessary. the german chancellor would have gladly spared herself and germany from this walk of shame but after the collapse of coalition talks it's up to the german president to decide the next step. the new government is always a difficult political. one involving struggle and disagreement but the task of forming a government is very important possibly the most important task that voters give their representatives within a democracy and this task remains. confound to shine my own plans to meet up for talks with the various parties over the next few days my refuses to accept that they are incapable of fulfilling the voters' mandate german voters don't understand why the four way talks failed they had

a task and still were not capable of coming to a compromise that is a shame this is horrible these politicians can't agree chancellor angela merkel insists that even in this phase germany remains a stable country. i'm not planning on a minority government but we will have to wait and see what happens in the next few days time the path to fresh elections is one way. but according to polls the results of new elections would find the c.d.u. their sister party the c.s.u. and the s.p.d. with about the same number of votes as last time. for the very latest let's cross over to d.w. political correspondent standing by for us at the. german m.p.'s are arriving at the parliament there but given the current current uncertainty how much can they really do. well in fact

a parliament has to sort of constitute itself after the elections it's only had one meeting so far two could to elect a parliamentary president a speaker of parliament and all officially parliament house to start building forming the kinds of committees that are a the heart of any parliament where much of the parliamentary work is being done so the major committee is going to be founded today is going to be. called to day but all other committees have to wait on to a government comes into existence and it is decided in what structure this government is going to do its work so at the moment it's. rather a kind of hiatus parliament has to come together and do its work but it can only do a kind of administration of in a sense of left overs or of daily routine things that cannot really do its political work and just to tell our viewers we're seeing some pictures there of the live pictures from the german parliament which is currently in session indeed

coalition talks have collapsed everyone sitting in that parliament right now is aware of this painfully aware there's nothing about it on the agenda for today's session though there in parliament is going to be the elephant in the room these collapse coalition. yes it is i'm sure and everyone is obviously wondering what will happen next as i said what the parliament has to discussion routine matters of keeping kind of things ticking over of keeping the state running in a sense while it is waiting parliament and the state and the german public and probably many others too in europe waiting for things to develop and for things to kind of come to some kind of fruition in germany for parliamentarians here today it's routine matters obviously we are going to be looking at the populist right wing the which will for the first time be participating in today's debates and one is wondering how they're going to figure in these debates but in the end

discussions about a coalition are not going to take place in this plenary session that's not the function of parliament uncle americal has addressed speculation about her own political future let's listen in to what she has said. like i was asked time and again during the election campaign whether i was prepared to serve germany for a full. two months have passed since then so it would be very strange just because we have a situation where the f.d.p. has decided to leave the talks to tell voters that everything i said during the campaign is no longer valid so yes i am ready to serve. his can transfer america big confident that she will remain chancellor under these conditions. well she can be confident that she will remain leader of her party all her party colleagues have said that they are very happy i'm glad that it is prepared to continue as cocktail party leader and if there should be fresh elections to stand as

a candidate for chance for the chancellorship the next question would then be how does the christian democratic union and how do the conservatives do in that election at the moment the polls seem to indicate that there will be very little change in the support for the parties and then would in fact remain the leader of the strongest party in parliament and would in effect end up being chancellor again so at the moment the prospect seems that she will be continue to be chancellor for another four years or so obviously we cannot predict results of a possible election so it's all very uncertain at the moment but at the moment there seems to be no indication that anglo american is in any way threatened everyone is wondering what happens next in germany the german president prime time or says he does not want new elections he's due to hold talks with the leaders of various parties going to put pressure on them to go back the negotiating table what do you think you'll be saying. well he would be saying to them i think in more detail what he said to the public yesterday and that is that political parties have

a mandate from the voters and the have to take this mandate seriously the mandate is a mandate to build the government to form a government and this has to be. has to be done he's going to push them in fact to do that one possibility one vague possibility is still that there could be an issue of the grand coalition the coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats which has been ruling germany for the last four years but the social democrats have raised have insisted that they are not prepared to enter into another such kodesh and i think that will be the crucial question whether the social democrats can be pushed by the president by the german state president who is a social democrat himself into participating in a new government that prospect is very dim at the moment. thank you very much political correspondent hans bonte there reporting live from the german one is to. take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today russian

president vladimir putin and his syrian counterpart bashar al assad have revealed they met yesterday insult the two leaders agreed to switch their efforts in syria from military operations to the search for a political solution to the country's civil war yes president donald trump has declared north korea a state sponsor of terrorism trump said the move to blacklist the regime again was long overdue john yang was removed from the list in two thousand and eight north korea and the u.s. or loggerheads over kim jong un's controversial nuclear program. and u.s. journalist and talk show host charlie rose has been suspended by two networks over a series of sexual misconduct allegations at least eight women have accused him of harassing or groping them rose issued a statement saying he was embarrassed and apologized for his behavior. so i'm bob ways forward vice president has urged president robert mugabe to resign

immediately this as zimbabwe's ruling party moves to begin impeachment proceedings against the ninety three year old the embattled leaders refusal to quit following a military intervention has plunged the african nation into a crisis. for decades the stude in a gobby sight no one time allies of the embattled president signed the motion to remove him as their party leader next at chimp each mint. the party is instructed be careful we have to proceed we've been pitchmen processes i gazed. as if there's not going to see to the anticipated confirmation of this sick notion from this because part of. mugabe has stunned the nation on sunday when he refused to quit and plan to hold

a weekly cabinet meeting today. meanwhile the general who led this bloodless coup said there had been contact between mcgahee and his likely successor the man he said emerson man and guy. this. service is i encouraged by new developments which include one day. the president and the form of vice president. short. for his part. he will not return to zimbabwe until his safety is guaranteed and his former boss has stepped down. the country's longest standing university for streets if students don't dare to call on a gaby to go. west that's a right but not if it's for fun why don't you listen to. more protests are planned along

a polarizing figure mugabe is now uniting far more frames on the rules against. two soccer now and two german teams are in champions league action tonight in the penultimate round of group stage matches which could prove to be decisive dortmund are looking to save their season and their match at home to tottenham this week could prove crucial for coach peter bosch with a game against fierce rivals shaka this weekend a dismal run of results of home and in europe has left the dutch coach on the brink of dismissal. eighteen t is the united states's biggest telecommunications company time warner a major producer of media content allowing both companies to merge would mean a concentration of power detrimental to consumers washington's department of justice is arguing however with president donald trump's outspoken dislike for time warner's news channel c.n.n. some also see a political twist to the story. plans by eighty n.t.v.

to purchase time warner one of the leading media companies in the u.s. we're ready controversial when they were announced in two thousand and sixteen even before he became president donald trump was already critical. a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few like trump has called c.n.n. which is owned by time warner fake news this is why plans by the department of justice to sue eighteen t. to stop its acquisition of time warner a controversial but. c.e.o. has said he will fight the u.s. government's suit in court there's been a lot of reporting and speculation whether this is all about c.n.n. and frankly i don't know but nobody should be surprised at the question keeps

coming up because we witnessed such an abrupt change in the application of and i trust law here so any agreement that results in us forfeiting control of c.n.n. whether directly or indirectly is a nonstarter the u.s. has not seen such a high profile on type trustees in decades already many are asking whether the lawsuit is about protecting consumers or political interference in america's press freedoms. before we go we leave you with some dazzling jewels that have gone on display ahead of an auction in december two rare diamonds are the top draws at the sale in some other bees in new york that sale will feature the largest round diamond ever offered at auction weighing almost one hundred eleven carats worked very big on that thing or another highlight is a fancy vivid blue diamond and it is estimated to fetch twelve to fifteen

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