this is c w news live from berlin germany tries to end its political stalemate and form a new governing coalition chancellor merkel says she's optimistic as talks begin but there's still plenty of room the discord would have potential partners the

social democrats look at the latest from our correspondent also coming up paris remembers the victims of the attacks three years ago that horrified the wall the killings began when gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine. and soaring to six x. ski jumper come in shot off it was looking for a historic final stage when after dominating the full tilt toward him and could the potent chase make it a sweet. time helen a home for a good to have you with us german chancellor i'm going to merkel has a box on a key talks about forming a new governing coalition to lead the country going into the negotiations the chancellor said she was optimistic macas conservatives to hold an exploratory tricks with the scent to net social day. mcgrath's previous negotiations with other

parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to include germany's refugee policies and its approach to european integration. have a listen to america on the social democrat leader martin shots had to say as those 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 would last for. we all sense that the challenges for a new federal government however it may luker be structured lie in that the new year in 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. and covering the talks for us is our

political correspondent kate brady who joins us now chancellor merkel has got a lot of work a lot of work ahead of her as these preliminary coalition talks get underway why is it so hard for the parties to find common ground. well what you have here helen has a very basic problem that two of the three parties taking part in these talks have very very different objectives so first of all you have the social democrats who immediately after september's election actually said that they would not form another grand coalition with the concept of a tip so this is obviously a massive u. turn for them and they'll be trying during these talks to convince their own delegates on party members a grand coalition is the right option for them so some of the demands that they're bringing to the table include a more liberal refugee policy actually. a tax increases for the wealthy and also reforms for germany's health insurance and then at the same time

you have the c.s.u. so that's a very and sister party to merkel c.d.u. and since the arrival of success of the far right a.f.c. in germany and their entrance into parliament in september and they've been very keen to take the conservative parliamentary group into a much more conservative direction and they're looking to implement cuts. on. corporate taxes and actually take a much tougher stance on the refugee policy so there are a lot of issues of going to be needed to overcome to be overcome if these exploratory talks have any chance of moving on to order a coalition a go see ations case is this last chance to form a stable government. well it's certainly her last chance to form a government that has a clear majority in the german parliament if these talks fail the us still two other options on the table and one of those is

a minority government but this is something that merkel has already ruled out that we quite grueling process for her you have to find a new majority for every piece of legislation and the other option of course would be new elections and that's something that both the social democrats and the conservatives aren't all that keen on as they both of both of those groups fare that would result in them losing some of those seats in parliament and at the same time to the far right if they could actually stand to make games. brady reporting for us good to talk to kate. farces remembering the victims of attacks three years ago that targeted a jewish supermarket in the offices of the satirical magazine. is a mistake on that i believe to have singled out the publication for printing cartoons of islam's prophet mohammed eleven a soft members and a policeman were killed. in

this simple ceremony french president emmanuel mccraw and paris met and a dog laid a wreath at the former offices of the city magazine charlie at. the attack on the publication was a watershed moment for france a moment felt not just by a few but by the whole society three years ago the french born islamist extremist saeed unsure if koat she stormed the offices of charlie eddo and short twelve people dead two days later another extremist stormed the supermarket killing four. the gunmen from both incidents were killed during shootouts with place. in the magazine found itself in the crosshairs of radical islamists after published images of the prophet muhammad in two thousand and twelve an act is courage by many islamic traditions the twenty fifteen attack is presumed to be in response to those cartoons it shocked france just we shall it became the rallying cry of the magazine

supporters after the shooting triggered discussions of free speech and freedom of the press charlie hebdo was also the first in a string of terrorist attacks in france over the past three years this has changed the bernie thora way i mean first of all this was an attack on the one of the very cool principle of democracy many friends here felt 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 a very lucky charlie hebdo is still in operation according to its editor the magazine pays more than one million euros every year in security costs and it's generous and this still regularly received death threats. now some of the other stories making news around the world thirty sailors are missing after an iranian

oil tanker and a cargo ship collided off the east coast of china that sank a course fire after the crash search teams have been looking for survivors or cream members from the cargo ship they rescued. thousands of pro-government supporters have again been marching in iran is the fifth successive day of rallies by supporters that the government the country's revolutionary guard has claimed that recent anti-government protests are all but over to her and says around twenty people have died in the underestimation. at. least eight people have died and many more are believed to be missing after a boat sank off the coast of libya rescue crews were able to save eighty six people from the vessel which was carrying migrants to europe. an explosion outside a subway station on the outskirts of stockholm has killed one person and injured at least one more the sixty year old man is reported to have picked up an object from

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restoration that finally istanbul's his story and stephen's church has reopened its doors the charities to the only one in the wall with an eye in frame president. gary and prime minister. attended the inauguration ceremony the church follows the bow gary an orthodox form of christianity the project's completion comes despite an often turbulent relationship between bulger and turkey. on our mind and out the top story we're following for you german chancellor angela merkel is leading a new round of talks aimed at forming a governing coalition michel's conservatives the negotiating with the center left social democrats about possibly governing together for another tub germany could see fresh elections if the talks fail. and i forget you can always get the latest news on the go just download our app from google play all the apple store that will give you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications to any breaking news you can also use that to send us photos and

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