do something to give the baby a future without. make a donation saying a life. this is news coming to you live from the make or break talks in germany as a deadline looms for parties trying to form a new government less than forty eight hours remain for americans conservatives to strike a deal with their hope for partners the social democrats failure could trigger new elections also coming up mudslides in southern california have left at least

thirteen people dead and carved a path of destruction through coastal towns for any ravaged by wild pines. and myanmar charges two journalists with violating the country's official secrets act the pair say they were trying to reveal the truth about the military's crackdown on the wreckage of muslims. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us shrouded in mist germany's future government just like the country's parliament building this morning but political parties are nearing the end of confidential talks about forming a new coalition government leaked reports suggest angle america's conservative bloc and the social democrats have reached agreement on climate policy and migration but as for the leader must ensure its refused to comment as he headed into today's negotiations all parties have agreed to a news blackout ahead of thursday's deadline if they reach agreement by then the

next step will be entering formal coalition taught us. well for more on those coalition exploratory talks bring in our parliamentary studios here in berlin barbara based in brussels the first to you. how are the talks go and do you think that the delegates to these talks are going to be able to strike a deal by to morrow's deadline. well that's a big question i mean the deal that we're talking about would just be an agreement to actually then enter a more detailed talks in talking about actually going ahead and forming a coalition together so this is green on the very beginnings of s. uls the s.p.d. that we saw in those pictures that he said that they said he had a joint interest to make this work well no kidding i mean he was quoted last week by devon daily build saying that if this doesn't really come together his political future could be on the line so could actually the political future of german

chancellor angela merkel has been credited with this stability and germany so represents within the european union but certainly there is growing impatience here and many to actually get a government together and a brussels to has a lot of projects it would like to tackle with germany that can actually decide thing well let's go over to barbara in brussels it's been more than three months since the election barbara some say could be easter before czerny finally gets a government what impact is germany's current lack of political leadership having on only e.u. . so far the impact hasn't really been very strong because we have to see this is a big machinery and it keeps turning and clanking on the administration works on as if nothing happened however part of that is of course that no big decisions had to be made since october the talks for instance where just sort of evolved to divorce

rangelands and there was no a particular political struggle behind that everybody was pretty much on one page however that is going to change now as we have beginning to think about euro zone reforms the pet project of him on. and as mikhail said we need a government in berlin that can make decisions actively and not just sort of be a bystander and so nothing can really go on if doesn't get its stuff together relatively soon became a both camps because spending in these talks the conservatives and social democrats they were punished at the polls in september some analysts say that their losses were a direct consequence of being in the coalition with each other or of the parties running a huge political risk if they reenter that coalition. one it is a risk but it's a lot sizes one tonsil and the macro really has no other mathematical option if she

wants a majority coalition in the german in the stock and the social democrats who initially it ruled out once again going into this so-called grand coalition are entering these talks reluctantly but this is by no means popular at the posse base and that's the real crunch here whether the s.p.d. posse base will in the end vote in favor of the continuation of the current grand coalition it will have the final say on this and finally barbara if these talks in berlin fail some say that will be the end of chancellor merkel's political career is brussels prepared for such a change in berlin have something brussels will have palpitations because you have to consider terry that many people here haven't known any other german leader other than america and also people have come through so much with her the the eurozone crisis we saw the greek crisis we saw the ukraine crisis to name just

a few and so that would be the end of an era people have become accustomed to her sense to her style of government and basically there would be strong disorientation if i were to leave her post barbara basler in brussels mcculloch our whole rainstorm triggered flash floods and mudslides in southern california thousands of fled their homes and rescue crews are trying to access blocked off areas in their search for survivors it's another catastrophe for the state's coastal communities have been hit hard by natural disasters. and they were still recovering from devastating wildfires here last month and now more destruction. authorities warned residents of santa barbara to evacuate the area mother nature unleashed her fury just before dawn. it

sounded like your freight train coming down the hill you know you could hear these boulders roll and. yeah the whole house he's shaking me i panicked i mean i they were both asleep and i was in my pants and i just said there's mud in the driveway there's mud in the driveway and says our fancies grew. but. this second nightmare to hit the region in weeks last month wildfires destroyed vegetation on hillsides here leaving them susceptible to erosion and in this case mudslides rescue crews have been overwhelmed by the scale of the carnage. we had a very difficult time assessing the area and responding to many of those areas to assist those people. the only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like was it looked like a world war one battle from. the battlefield which some have narrowly escaped.

hundreds remain trapped in the debris. take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today south korea's president moon jay in has said he is willing to meet his north korean counterpart kim jong un under certain conditions or and said denuclearization of the korean peninsula would be his goal in any talks with the north is comments come a day after the first high level talks between north and south korea in two years. a tsunami threat has been lifted after a seven point six magnitude earthquake shook the caribbean on tuesday night the tremor stuck struck in the sea near the north coast of honduras officials in honduras said shaking was felt across the central american nation but there's been no reports of serious damage and french actress catherine dinner has criticized the meat to movement saying men should be free to proposition women in an open letter

published in french dinner warned of a new puritanism as a result of the recent surge of sexual harassment scandal it's. prosecutors in myanmar have charged two journalists from the reuters news agency with violating the country's official secrets act despite international condemnation of the arrests the pair had been reporting on the military crackdown in the northern rakhine state some six hundred fifty five thousand revenge of muslims have fled bobbins there into neighboring bangladesh the two journalists could face up to fourteen years in prison for what they say was an attempt to reveal the truth. journalist managed to smile as the soldiers paraded him outside the courthouse but he and colleague. but according to wild lawn they're actually in jail for trying to tell the truth about what's happening in a cane. or go over this is unacceptable i want to tell you that they are charging

us like this to stop us finding the truth their actions are wrong and unfair. and so do a bevy of our you've got you've got a few journalists ventured into wrecking state since last summer they are images of what the united nations coast the textbook ethnic cleansing going on there they showed burning writing give villages and locals fleeing the violence. the me and my army strictly controls access to right kane state it is allowed few journalists in and only under the conditions it sets the reuters journalists say they were there to report ethically and truthfully but they were arrested under the old laws on secrecy after visiting regain their families have been devastated by the arrests they convinced their loved ones in the send. every minute to get out and he told me not to worry because he didn't do anything wrong. he voted for this government so

to get i know he strongly believes that he will be released soon. i hope that also . near them get them out of your family i don't have to sit in on the jailing of the reuters journalists has caused an outcry both inside and outside me and my colleagues gathered outside court the fear among many myanmar is stepping up its crackdown on those who try to report a great humanitarian crisis. let's get the very latest now from myanmar david greene about is covering the story for d.w.i. and he joins us from gone dave the two reuters journalists we saw there in that report they're being charged under myanmar's official secrets act what more do we know about the accusations against them. yeah i mean this is a lot from one hundred twenty three one myanmar then called burma was part of british and the and legal experts in this and to basically have a very broad definition of what can be an official secret anything that's not in

the public domain through official channels could potentially be an official secret and they could face up to fourteen years in prison i mean that's what they've been charged with at this stage the door is open for the possibility of some other charges coming down the road but basically you've had strong i you know the human rights group of come out and saying that this is ridiculous abatement charge that this act is just soulless old and it is does not apply. and also the families of these two men of these two journalists say that they never even saw the documents they were called to meet with a dinner with police officers and they had not met before were handed these documents that had not looked at and then just as they walked away from dinner is when they were arrested so the families are basically saying that this was a setup ok where does this go from here can we expect to see these two journalists put on trial. yeah well this is basically the beginning of the process the next

day is january twenty third so there will be talking about bal the defense team is after bell the prosecutors have said they're against bad but they want more time to prepare why they are against bail that's what went on in the courtroom today and we may soon start seeing our witnesses. coming forward or as i should say people from the prosecution's team where they're putting up coming forward the next court date will be january twenty third we should give them i know the system here is very different than a lot of other countries typically wants cases but you know in a lot of countries you have these cases once the trial started every single day or at least every weekday that things go on continuous here it's very often words once a week or even once every other week wilkens go to trial and then they're if they're special or not don't get bail they're in prison all the time in between there's been an international else cried the u.s. embassy in myanmar the former u.s. president bill clinton the european union they're all calling for the immediate

release of the journalists is there any chance that maybe myanmar's defacto leader on so cheap could intervene on their behalf. there's certainly a chance that she's been completely silent on this case the country's president ten jaw who basically he basically follows what she wants he signed off on having these two are his office that we sign off and having these two charge on the official secrets act so right now we see nothing to believe that that would happen so far we haven't seen nothing in the case that would happen today thank you so much david greene about there talking to us from yang gong in myanmar. and before we go just reminder the top story we're following for you here today on d w news on the america's conservative block and at the social democrats are entering a decisive phase in talks about forming a new coalition in germany leaked reports suggest negotiators have reached

agreements on key sticking points such as for immigration. are watching to the e.u. new spend visit will be with you in just a moment with a full round of claims business news thanks for. the nation maggie has no children which makes her feel worthless and incomplete. in a society that expects them to be her children this is a burden many married childless women in niger suffer from.