it's decent to tell them your smart phone. number. one. you and your friends could have to gather we can and global. this is d.w. news live from berlin germany tries to end its political impasse and form a new governing coalition chancellor merkel says she's optimistic as talks begin from migration to health care to europe there's plenty of room for discord with her

potential partners our correspondent will have the details also coming up paris remembers the victims of attacks that horrified people around the world three years ago killings began when gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine charlie mto. the other donors one hundred percent growth if that's what he was reducing the drive for a treasure i said our u.s. president donald trump again rejects accusations that his campaign colluded with moscow in the twenty sixteen presidential race as he pushes back against claims in a new tell all book. hello and welcome i'm mary in evanston it's good to have you with us. german chancellor angela merkel has embarked on key talks about forming a new governing coalition to leave the country the chancellor said she was

optimistic going into the negotiations merkel's conservatives are holding the preliminary talks with the center left social democrats after previous talks with other parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to be germany's refugee all seized and his approach to european integration. let's have a listen to what mark on the social democrat leader martin schultz had to say as talks got underway. because the c.d.u. is going into these talks with the aim of creating the conditions to form a stable government. that's because we believe that the tasks ahead for which we have the voters' mandate are enormous in terms of foreign policy challenges european challenges and also in domestic affairs. we all sensed that the challenges for a new federal government however at me luker be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here

constructively and with an open outcome. of covering the talks for us as our political correspondent rupert who joins us now for more so rupert has americal does have a lot of work ahead of her as the as these preliminary talks get going why is it so hard for the parties to find common ground. well there basically three parties sitting at the negotiating table. there is first of all the conservative flock of anglo-american ourself and within this block the smaller parts of the sea is used the more conservative and this is you party is trying to tries to. to be more tough on refugee policy is against more integration into europe and then on the other side there's the there are the social democrats and the social democrats have been very reluctant to go into this grand coalition again as this growing coalition in

the past hasn't proven them to be very helpful for them as they got the worst election results. in the past so and in the middle of these two parties is actually helps solve the chancellor and to see the you party she is the only one that really needs this grand coalition it is the only option for her to stay chancellor so does this mean that if there is no agreement is this the absolute last chance to form a stable government. in a certain way it is the last option she says she has already tried to form another coalition government together with the liberals and the green party but this has failed at the end of last year and this is the only option she has to form a coalition government with them on majority in parliament the only other option she would have would be a minority government but this is something that she already ruled out all new elections a new elections is something all parties in paghman don't really want because they

all know the only window of these new election elections would be the far right of d. party so this is very complicated in the end angler machall is doomed to success here but the other parties are rather reluctant. reporting for us there many thanks indeed. you know what now three years ago a series of terror attacks shook paris it started on january seventh when gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine charlie killing twelve people the magazine had already received threats from islamic extremists for their irreverent cartoons of the prophet mohammed the editorial team were in their morning meeting when two masked men armed with assault rifles burst into their office and opened fire among the dead the editor of charlie amdo stefan siobhan yeah and his bodyguard and one of charlie a cartoonist. and six other members of the magazine staff. the

attackers brothers saeed and cherie of quad she fled the scene and after a massive manhunt they were killed in a shootout with police well in paris the ceremonies taking place as we speak to commemorate the victims of the attack on the charlie hebdo satirical weekly and for more let's cross over now to our correspondent lisa lewis who's in paris so he says it's now been three years from the charlie ebb to attacks what's changed since then . well this has changed france in the very thorough way i mean first of all this attack was an attack on the one of the very cool principle of democracy many trends here feld i mean there are redactions that the newsroom of china do is now being guarded twenty four seventh's they are working from an armored office and have to use armored cars are being

a guarded by bodyguards all the time and they have to spend more than one million euros per year for their protection and they are saying that they're still receiving death threats over there and obviously that was a moment that changed their life forever but also for the rest of the country for other friends who are feeling that these people are actually saying well you can't say what you want to you can't express yourself freely and many people here feel that this attack was actually a watershed moment it brought war it was only in the very first of many attacks that france. wasn't it. yes absolutely there were other attacks that followed especially the ones in november twenty fifth teen where one hundred thirty people were killed in attacks across paris specially at that music hall the better and that took the whole thing to even higher lever really because the attack was at that point were not attacking the special people but there were attacking the

whole of french society actually they were tacking the french when they were having fun when they began out and people felt that everybody could become a target and even today people are still afraid that there might be new attacks it's very much a topic in the center of attention and more than nine out of ten of the french say that they think that a new terror attack in france is likely or very likely all right lisa lewis reporting for us from paris many thanks. now to some of the other stories making news around the world and saudi arabia has detained seven eleven of its princes for protesting against and to state payments of their utility bills officials say the men have been sent to a maximum security prison and are awaiting trial hundreds of as well as have stood in long lines outside supermarkets after the government ordered shops to slash

their prices authorities in caracas and force price cuts in response to spiraling hyperinflation the country's in the grip of an economic crisis with food and medicine shortages affecting millions thirty two sailors are missing after an iranian oil tanker and freight ship collided off the east coast of china the tanker caught fire after the crash rescuers are now looking for survivors crew members from the cargo ship have been rescued. donald trump has been stepping up his attacks on claims in a scathing new book about his presidency trump said the book called fire and fury it was a work of fiction and that it's also had never set foot inside the oval office speaking from the presidential country retreat camp david after meetings with republican congressional leaders. the book that questions donald trump's fitness for office seems to be doubling in its impact. to the us president himself

triumphal out of his series of early morning tweets defending his mental capacities as just smart but genius and a very stable genius at dot. at this hastily called press conference at camp david the republicans hope to talk property priorities instead came questions on those tweets and a bit everyone in washington is talking about i consider it a work of fiction and i think it's a disgrace that somebody is able to have something do something like that the libel laws are very weak in this country if they were strong it would be very helpful you wouldn't have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head but just so you know i never interviewed with him in the white house at all he was never in the oval office we didn't have an interview the book is speaking on n.b.c. the books also michael wolff said he touched on reaching access inside the u.s. center of power and white house reporters have supported his account interview

questions of a trans mental stability and nothing new they've been mounting over the course of his first year in office now it's emerged a professor of psychiatry at yale university briefed some members of congress on the president's mental health late last year she told the w y. l what we're saying that. in the office of the presidency there's a danger to national and international security we're trying to educate the public about the finding. in debility our doubts about. the need for the evaluation. as more copies of foreign fury sell trump is said to be frustrated that the issue of his mental fitness is gaining traction. some sports news now and ski jumping is prestigious for hill's tournaments has come

to a close in austria with one name on everybody's lips camile star was on touchable over the first three stages and with the overall victory almost in the bag he had a record at his sides he was hoping to become just the second man after germany's then one of old to win all four events to do it let's find out. head and shoulders above the competition reigning champion and olympic gold medalist kamlesh doc was king of the four hills again after winning the first three stages the pole was equally impressive in bischof so often he set the longest distance in the first round and held his nerve on his final jump to ensure victory again. that gave him the grand slam and kept one of the most dominant for hill's performances in a year as. it was a really good competition for me the chance wasn't perfect today but i did my best and can i say thank you for one team team colleagues team coaches because they were

they've been working so hard and i'm. after germany's best type is a coward fighter crashed out of the tournament in the third stage is countryman and that is bellinger stepped up with a strong performance to claim second place for the tournament. he was followed in third by norway's and does fine and the. former astronaut john young hailed as a pioneer by u.s. space agency nasa has died at the age of eighty seven young's trailblazing began in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. and he was part of the first manned gemini mission by the time he commanded the first space shuttle flight in one thousand nine hundred one it was his sixth travel into orbit in the meantime he'd also joined an exclusive club. oh my god look at. april nineteenth seventy two john

young and his fellow astronaut charles duke collecting rock samples from the surface of the moon. it was an achievement that they shared with only ten others adding them to the exclusive fraternity of moon walkers forty nine years later young would break new ground again. or we. start we. commanding the maiden voyage of nasa's new space shuttle program young took on a particularly risky assignment it was the first time that nasa launched people on a rocket ship that had not first been tested in space. when we launched reed really did know a lot of things and we learned a lot of things i think chris craft said it best they said when we got back he said we just got in fully smarter over his forty two year career at nasa young became the only astronaut to go into space as part of the gemini apollo and space shuttle

programs before retiring in two thousand and four he spent his last seventeen years in management focusing on safety issues john young a passed away age eighty seven at his home in houston texas. and you're watching news don't forget you can always get it up with your news on the go because download our app from google play or from the apple store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the detailing and to send us your photos and videos . and everything from all of us here in berlin and through watching. my first boss like i was a sewing machine. where i come from women are bones by this social influence even something as simple as learning how to write them.