give something back you can apply them to where you got this. point when you surfers fighting against them seem to be starting january seventh on the job. this is the news live from berlin a worrying message for the german chancellor a new survey shows that most voters do not want another coalition of angela merkel's conservatives and her old social democratic partner. it makes

uncomfortable reading ahead of talks between the two parties. also coming up. the bombshell book fire and fury goes on sale in america people lining up to get their hands on the book the president didn't want them to read trump has blasted the unflattering behind the scenes portrait of his administration. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks so much for joining us forming a new government to more than three months after elections that is the challenge that is ad hand here in germany and according to a new poll the weight is weighing on the public mood a new survey by a pollster in for a test dean map makes grim grieving for chancellor angela merkel it shows that only forty five percent of germans want a repeat of a coalition with the social democrats this just as the two sides prepare for talks

. i'm the america desperately needs to deliver more than one hundred days after the federal elections she still has no government the last coalition talks fell apart and new polls show germans have no stomach for her next proposed solution another grand coalition. only five percent view a new grand coalition as very good and forty percent as good thirty four percent a grand coalition as less good and eighteen percent view it as bad. further entangling merkel's predicament her popularity has slipped in the meantime. and the longer coalition talks take the worse it gets only fifty three percent support uncle americal staying in office in october it was sixty one percent forty five percent are against her staying in office. germans have the following

attitudes about america merkel stands for political stability seventy percent agree best days as chancellor are over sixty seven percent agree and merkel's c.d.u. neglects concerns over refugees according to fifty nine percent. the german government's most important task by far is still the refugee issue even though it's less politically charged than it was a year ago. when asked if families of war refugees should be allowed to join them here in germany forty one percent said yes forty eight percent said no. and if new elections were held this sunday germans would not vote much differently than a month ago the c.d.u. c.s.u. would receive thirty three percent of the vote the s.p.d. twenty one percent the f.t. would get thirteen percent of the vote and the f.d.p. nine percent the left party would also get nine percent and the green party eleven percent subtle variations only with the conservatives and the left party.

and those survey results will no doubt be of interest to members of chancellor angela merkel sister party the c.s.u. they are gathering in bavaria for their annual winter meeting among those joining the conservative politicians as controversial and garion leader viktor orbán seen here in this video in a pink tie and see him there. now he is said to deliver a speech to delegates prime minister orbán is a long standing and vocal critic of angela merkel's refugee policy calling it a trojan horse of terrorism. for more let's bring in our political correspondent who is covering the c.s.u. party meeting welcome to you make it seems like an affront to the chancellor to invite viktor orban to this meeting why was he invited well this is you here insist that he was not invited as an affront to the german

chancellor and to migration policy we all remember the year twenty fifteen really when the hungarian refusal to really want to take in people ultimately to are going to max decision to open those borders that was hugely popular unpopular here in the area in the southernmost state that all the brunt of the many people coming here that really actually in the end performed rather well on that but doesn't really want to move on he doesn't want to have european solidarity on taking in migrants and he frankly doesn't see why should financially be punished for that so you see this you is making it clear he's sending a clear signal that to the german chancellor to berlin as a whole ahead of those crucial negotiations that could lead to actually talking about a coalition government with the social democrats for whom really one is quite a provocation as well let's dig down a little bit deeper into that message that the c.s.u. is potentially sending here because we know as you mentioned in today's attempt

number two for the chancellor break the impasse to form a government is the c.s.u. behind her. it is the c.s.u. has a very long history of having also internal we're also we just saw a power struggle here within the c.s.u. itself having serious fights among themselves and then suddenly deciding to present a united front that's what it's doing here in bavaria and that's also what it's done time and time again on those key differences with the german chancellor so still party leader horsy hoffa back all the way he says he says he wants to see a coalition government at the same time this use you is contesting regional elections here in also the c.s.u. we also saw those polls that came out today that pretty much most of germany is convinced that the sea is you has its eyes much more on those regional elections of remaining that bastion of conservative power in germany than it does on forming

a government the people sense might be right there. in the field for us there covering the c.s.u. party meeting thank you so much. let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world north and south korea have agreed to hold their first formal talks in more than two years the discussions set for tuesday will pave the way for a north korean athletes to attend the upcoming winter olympics in south korea scientists in australia say that a major outbreak of a coral eating starfish has been damaging the country's great barrier reef researchers discovered the predator crown of thorns starfish in plague proportions at the reefs southern edge last month the government has begun calling the spiky marine animal. a former peruvian president alberto fujimori has been discharged from little over a week after receiving

a pardon from current president of the country the pardon for the seventy nine year old who was convicted of human rights abuses at caused nationwide protests. a new tell all book that goes behind the scenes of donald trump's presidency has gone on sale in america despite efforts by trump's lawyer to prevent it the president has also wept into its author michael wolff after extracts were published portraying a white house steeped in intrigue and betrayal now trump says that the book is full of lies the author has been making the rounds of the breakfast t.v. shows in america here's part of what michael wolf said on n.b.c. news today i will tell you the one description that that everyone gave everyone has in common they all say he is like a child's and what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification it's all about him.

they say he's. a moron in the. there's a competition to sort of get to the bottom line here of who this man is let's remember this man does not read does not listen so he's he's like a. it's like the pinball just just just shooting off the side an exclusive interview that michael wolff did with n.b.c. news a short while ago and for more i am joined now by our washington correspondent carolina so as we just heard there carolina wolf paints a pretty damning picture of the president but at the end of the day is it to be believed because his credibility has been criticized among his peers in fact not only from the president what are we learning about him and the way that he gather information for this book. well as you

know michael walzer is a well known author and journalist here in the united states but his work has often also been drawn criticism from from from other journalists for this book was conducted about two hundred interviews over eighteen months and sarah sanders described this book from the white house yesterday as a complete fantasy and indeed some of those who are quoted in the book have come out saying they didn't say the things they're reported to have said in the book but on the same interview we just listening to her from n.b.c. michael wolff said in his defense that he works as every journalist swords and that he has recordings of his interviews he has no doubts and he also added he's not surprised at all that the president the president is reacting with the lawyer letters to do this because that is how he thinks this is the way donald trump

approaches problems and has always approached everything and indeed it is pretty extraordinary that a president tries to stop the publishing of a book but back to the source of michael wolff here sure is also he spoke to the president to the president to donald trump but then he also added whether president was aware that this was an interview i'm not sure but it was clearly on the record so it is we have we have sentences from both sides and we can say clearly if he is lying maybe arms in some parts in this book or he has really a certain written cers and record in everything and on that note everyone is going to want to hear those recordings that he says that he has currently not you mentioned a little bit about how the white house and the president have been reacting to really on overdrive right now trying to discredit this account tell us a little bit more about what they've been doing. well i don't know trump seems to

be very worried about the publishing of this book this is why the official press release coming from the white house on wednesday had this very harsh tone saying c.-span has lost its mind and also the fact that donald trump's lawyers already sent a legal notice to c.-span and shows they are taking bennett's comments in this book very serious and it is important to point out sarah that banner affairs in this book directly to a specific meeting in june two thousand and sixteen with a rational lawyer that donald trump and the people around him first deny it so this is a meeting that has played an important role also in robert miller's russia investigation so this might also have an aspect of the for sets in this investigation at least in the medium term but the comments right now is probably also damaging himself more than he is damaging donald trump because he's losing support from his main financiers incredible that the book is only coming out today we are already seeing

the ripples carolina chimay with the very latest from washington thank you so much . well apple now says that i phones and mac computers are affected by the security flaw disclosed in intel processors leaving billions of devices vulnerable to hackers and there's more disturbing news intel knew about the flaws well before they were disclosed to the public and the behavior of intel's chief executive officer before the revelation raises questions as well. intel c.e.o. brian cresent sold thirty nine million dollars in company stocks and options in november months after learning about the flaw and well before the problem was reported publicly intel says the stock sale was unrelated to the chip problem it said it planned on going public with the flaw soon and it was working in the meantime to find a fix the bug is a nightmare for the u.s. tech giant but also for consumers millions of computers and devices are affected

and one basic fix for the issue the so-called kaiser patch comes with the caviar as one of its developers explains. it might have economic impact. for cloud providers because now they with the kaiser patches they might have higher energy costs. also. for regular customers and they will also have higher energy costs because of these patches daniel groups was among those who informed intel of the design flaw in its chips he thinks intel was right not to disclose the problem immediately. i think it's a good idea to not publicly disclose this from the start because these are very c.v. attacks and non sophisticated attacker could immediately use this attack to leak sensitive data from you know mary now the whole world knows but because the kaiser patch uses more energy it slows down devices hardly an incentive to get the fix

that's why some researchers would rather change how computer chips are designed but that won't happen over night. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we have been following for you here at t w in a new survey german voters have expressed their dismay at the drawn out negotiations to form a new government less than half supporting a new coalition between conservatives and the social democrats. today news i'm sarah thanks so much for watching don't forget you can follow us on facebook and twitter us you can see. the people of the world over information. they want to

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