this is. from berlin the deadline for a deal here in germany we are expecting more tonight on new government negotiation as political leaders have just a few more hours left to reach a deal on starting talks to form a new government will they meet the deadline and what happens if they don't also coming up thousands rally in pakistan to protest against the raping murder of an eight year old girl they want to know why the police were so slow to react to the child's abduction. also these are the ploys the army to quell violent unrest in

several cities demonstrators are protesting social inequality and price rises is the cradle of the arab spring on the verge of a crackdown. plus digging out the survivors of that devastating mudslide in southern california this woman is lucky but rescuers are still searching for others trapped or buried or swept away at least seventeen people are confirmed dead. it's good to have you with us tonight time is running l. political leaders here in germany are bracing for a long and difficult night of negotiations the german chancellor angela merkel and her conservatives and the center left s.p.d. are trying to see if they have enough common ground to enter formal coalition talks

now as the exploratory talks entered their final day the chancellor said that the stakes are high and that the far from sort. orcon there are still big hurdles to overcome. the stuff through the speaking from my party i can say we'll be as constructive as possible in our search for compromises. but of course i also were aware that we want to deliver the right kind of deal for the country and that means it's going to be a tough day. with this how to talk via. our that was the german chancellor there under the merkel let's go to our correspondent now shalott departs she is at the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place she's been covering these talks all week good evening to you show art and so our understanding is that they left the most contentious issues for last walk us

through some of the major obstacles that helps hope it's going to be for them to meet halfway as the clock is ticking. the clock is ticking and really so they left the most controversial issues for last the and the past days they agreed on a few issues such as the new immigration law for example for skilled workers to come to germany but today is the day of the contentious issues as chancellor merkel said just right now in that sound bite that you heard and one of the issues certainly migration a topic that has been very controversially discussed here in germany ever since the so-called refugee crisis of two thousand and fifteen especially the issue of family reunifications for refugees from civil war torn areas so that is an issue where the social democrats might have to sacrifice a bit and we're hearing that could be the case there is another issue of budgeting this forty five billion euros available for projects for domestic projects the

question is who is going to get that and of course the issue of europe both parties see that as a priority but the question is they want both parties want further integration of the european union but the question is how far is that financial integration going to go is what we have from what we've been hearing today though the atmosphere of the talks is good we're hearing they're quite optimistic and confident to reach a deal at some point tonight probably in the early morning hours so. we're going to be burning the midnight oil but if the if the ceiling there is. next if these talks are successful what's the roadmap for a new government. well i can tell you brant it's going to be a very long and complicated road a very stony road martin schulz the leader of the social democrats he's going to tour germany in the next week and basically campaign for the issues that they've

agreed upon in these talks and with he has to convince the social democratic delegates at a meeting at a party conference next week and then they will vote whether to start to form a coalition talks with the christian democrats at the moment it looks like the grassroots is not very much behind that they are rather against and a continuation of the grand coalition so that could be the next hurdle but even if that party convention is successful we're not seeing the end of it yet so it's going to be weeks maybe months until germany sees a new government so we've got our work cut out for us as well and especially tonight we'll be going back to you through the night show to get the latest a lot of parts there on the story for us tonight in berlin thank you on the german president. has called on political party leaders involved in those talks to reach a deal reminding them of the weight of the responsibility on their shoulders

steinmeier made the comments after welcoming members of the diplomatic corps to bellevue palace he said the three parties involved in the talks should not only think of their own agendas and political careers but keep in mind that their decision could have far reaching implications both for europe and the rest of the world. yeah and we're not talking just about politics we're talking about money daniel is here now to talk about what all this means for the mighty german economy the economy is really punchy at the moment brant but just imagine the frustration for german businesses if there were new elections less political direction means more uncertainty for those looking to invest yet the other side of the coin is rather brighter europe's economic engine that is job and saw a two point two percent growth surge and twenty seventeen a political conclusion tonight would be the cherry on the cake. for a lot of books soaring exports and

a shortage of skilled workers to handle the load germany's economy is thriving and exports are forecast to grow a further five percent this year as well a flying start for the next government which can look forward to a tax revenue bonanza so there's money there which germany's industry federation the b.d. i once used to modernize the country it wants the new government not to waste any time. we have to invest more which means public investment but also means private investment so preparing the conditions for. intent more intense private investments in the sector of digitization in this sector of public transportation. but also in different sectors starting from schools and universities he set or other problems are also waiting for an incoming government the global economy is laden with risks the b.t.r. is especially worried by the threat of trade barriers and increasing state

interventionism german companies cite china's behavior in particular. china is a very important market for our companies especially for the industrial part of our economy. on the other hand we see that china has a very strict strategic agenda. and we see an increasing influence the political party. into the individual businesses but even the u.s. and britain are becoming increasingly unpredictable trade partners the b.t.i. says it's high time for a new government to take office here to start taking the necessary decisions. i've got more business later on including how the economic crisis in venezuela is punishing livelihoods now back to thank you so long to anger across pakistan the rape and murder of an eight year old girl has shocked the country and sparked violent demonstrations two protesters have died in clashes with police and zeinab

ansari is the twelfth child to be sexually assaulted and killed in that area in just the last year and the killer tonight still at large demonstrators are accusing the police of being too slow to act. boils over the death of another little girl and investigators failure to find out who killed her. just through the tone of targeting the local police station officers opened fire and chaos ensues. protesters attempt to carry away the injured. the girl's family is over the police response to the protests. seen ups father told d.w. that he wants justice for his daughter. and that the government take steps to ensure the safety and protection of in this country. i'd also like to appeal to the army chief and the chief justice that steps be taken to avoid such tragedies

like those taken in many army counter-terrorism operations. this is a community in grief and vanished on her way to us last week. this is the last image of her alive and. holding her hand. police discovered her body on this trash heap on tuesday is believed to have been raped several times and then strangled to death her family wants a thorough investigation. the murderer be arrested alive the police shouldn't look to lift the burden from themselves by killing some innocent person and then seeing no you have justice. the high court chief justice has ordered the police to take swift action in this case but with residents furious at what they see as a failure to properly investigate previous abductions there could well be more

protests to come. in tunisia an emergency meeting is planned tomorrow between the main political parties in the country and the country's main business is now they want to find a solution to the wave of protests gripping the country the last three days have seen clashes between protesters and security forces demonstrators are angry about austerity measures and growing inequality as many as six hundred people have been arrested this week. not even threats of a clamp type could keep them away hundreds of disaffected tunisians clashed with riot police and another long night of violent unrest with both sides trading tear gas and draw x. . some coming off watch for where. i was trying to talk to one of the policemen and suddenly one of them helped me with his baton. that's been. seven years ago was the cradle of

the arab spring after a revolt against rising costs that revolution may now be history but its spirit and its cause lead zone for many in the rural heartland economic frustrations confusion go hand in hand. there was no no no no you couldn't put it this is how we had to endure these clashes after a day of work you know even our bus was attacked with tear gas. we need to find a solution for our youth politicians raised our living costs a lot don't they take a pay cut we have to suffer taking two buses to the factory to earn just one hundred euros. earlier this week one protester paid with his life and dozens more have been injured as economic hardship leaves its mark on china's. artless get a sense now of what is happening tonight on the ground in tunisia i'm joined by

correspondent sara marriage she's in the capital tunis good evening to you so we know that there's this big meeting scheduled for tomorrow or saturday i should say between the country's main political parties and the country's main business is what can we expect between now and then well as it is it will continue like it were for last week hugely the last couple of days the clashes that mainly taking place at night there's also the big demonstrations actually it's for tomorrow in different areas of the country east by the protest movement here and they see how many people will turn up and that i don't think it will calm down and absent and you know we said there's going to be this big meeting on saturday is that really been the extent of the government's reaction so far what's your sense of how the public views the governments since the tip of these to their anger.

so far it's only promising us a chat trying to calm citizens along but he asked them to be patient and promise that two thousand and eighteen the last difficult year that economy will be picking up. security forces has been cracked and now you mention six hundred eleven the rest of that is not only new it has been trouble making sense of the society organizations sense of a lot of members of protest peacefully have been arrested as well for handing out flyers or for chatting slogans on the wall and also some members of the permanent harm the left wing party have been arrested today. so people are a bit skeptical while the security crackdown and knew the world would said to me as being the birthplace of the arab spring as the example of where in transition to a stable democratic nation has worked relatively well but but what about the people

vir i mean have they been told by their their leaders about the realities of this transition how many have had their leaders been honest and said this is going to be tough it may even hurt for a while. that's exactly the problem that government's a hard disk sitting on is has been communicating resolutely where people are feeling that they lack strategy that they change policies every once in a while and run up to your son that there's no clear strategy assess how to get tunisia out of this. they are also there are more and more fears that teaches law guarantees to prevent an atrocity. structure and a national crisis that's just issued in a report and a sense today and disappear shared by many observers up to that situation you know that is a big fear around the world tonight as well that it's an easier we'll go backwards instead of going forwards correspondent sara marish on the story for us tonight

from to say thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world iran's foreign minister has met with european union powers to discuss its nuclear deal british german and french diplomats reaffirmed their support for the pact us president donald trump has explained healing's founder julian assange has become a citizen of ecuador he's been living in the country's embassy for five years to avoid arrest doors foreign minister announced the move on thursday and said that she hoped britain would recognize a songe as a diplomat and give him legal immunity a turkish court has ordered the release of two journalists from detention now that's according to local media. by were jailed along with thousands of others in the wake of a failed coup attempts in twenty sixteen. you're watching t.w. news live from berlin still to come digging on survivors more than

a dozen people are still missing in southern california after deadly mudslides tore a path of destruction through towns already hit by wild fought us. all right british prime minister to recent days often says that the country will not hold a second referendum on bricks now this after the prominent bright sit supporter nigel for ah said a second referendum be a good idea but would you believe that many politicians have called for a second poll saying that the consequences of the decision were not clear for voters at the time for our says a second vote would end the debate. or earlier we talked to our london correspondent beercan months and asked her why for raj is suddenly proposing a second referendum on whether britain should leave the e.u. is it a stunt. i think it is a bit of a stunt i think it's to keep his name in the media are not many bricks adheres

would dare to call for a second referendum because they have a lot to lose they had they won the first referendum and not many remain us are daring to call for a second referendum because so far public opinion doesn't is not very clear that they would actually win it so there is not really a lot of momentum at the moment behind a second referendum at all in the u k. and we're going to have more on that spot coming up later on the day that was our correspondent there speaking with us from london i want to go now again to business daniels' here venezuela's economic crisis deepening people or hungry they're hungry and they're hurting at the moment brant venezuela's economic collapse is grinding down on the poor and it's dragging ever more people into poverty the past year has seen inflation top two thousand six hundred percent in any other country consumers would just buy cheaper inferior

goods but for a majority of venezuelans there just aren't any alternatives. for sad sight shells have never been so empty in venezuela and it's getting worse what's the point in the government reducing the price of staple foods or none are available anyway. not it's painful to see the shelves because there isn't anything to eat i've got three things all i could get from fall asleep my heart hurt because lowering prices is not the way the government should be acting. in. this seems critical to me because honestly we're going through a very serious crisis right now. i don't know what to do because i can't get any pace ics. let me come back never seen the shelves like this there's little or you can see it juices cookies canned goods but otherwise nothing. like getting out of here man. but even if shelves were stopped decently wages barely cover the

cost of necessities every day offers fresh evidence of venezuela's bankruptcy with no foreign currency available to import food or any other basic products. and yet despite the supply crisis in venezuela some industries are doing whatever they can to struggle on and there is demand for relative luxuries like chocolate but produces have to look a brought to keep that business afloat. in her correct his apartment nutrition professor nancy silva spreads cocoa on a stone counter to make chocolate bars. they'll be sold in local shops for around fifty cents that's a week's wages here but there are still a few people able to spend that on candy outside venezuela chocolate of this quality might earn many times that so silver is focusing on france where a kilogram of chocolate could fetch around one hundred dollars. i carry my

chocolate around in two suitcases. i've been to paris three times that way. i don't even speak french but i know my product and i know who's willing to buy it i was able to sell my chocolate over the course of around a month. she could probably sell many times that have been as well as soviet style bureaucracy didn't make exploiting almost impossible for small companies to countries hyperinflation means serve been constant shortages of food and even grievance but this is offset by steady access to high quality aromatic cocoa from her family's farm in eastern venezuela. the need to think in terms of the quality of the grains variety and their yield i would say we are in the presence of the best cocoa in the world but. for now the chronic shortages

are probably the image most have a venezuela's economy. but as the chocolate maker show there are also entrepreneurs' doing their part to boost their country. to the united states now wal-mart is going to pass on the benefits of america's new tax laws to its workers for the pay rise they'll boost the starting wage from nine u.s. dollars to eleven the retail giant will also hand its most loyal staff a one time thousand dollar bonus but you'll need to be at the company twenty years to qualify all of the new benefits come up with a catch. well not is rolling out mall automated checkout technology meaning fewer employees will be needed during your shopping experience at staying in the united states now it's back over to but you know thank you we're going to california now rescue workers in that state are searching for more than a dozen people still missing after devastating mudslides and flooding hit coastal

areas this week seventeen people have died around one hundred homes have been destroyed the devastation struck early on tuesday after a winter storm drenched hill signs that had been stripped bare by wildfires last month the hills came crashing down on monta sado early on tuesday morning to make his a friend fell in just fifteen minutes that unleashed a stream of modern and said she is careening on to mt to see does whose side mansions residents describe it as an apocalyptic saying the sky lit up because some buildings have been blown up the gas mains it turns out so here's all this fire coming down i mean and a fire going up and here's all this rain coming down and you wonder what it was happening more than a day later the scale of the devastation is becoming clear this was one of the u.s.

is busiest freeways now it's a cesspool. and the city's beach too is dotted with people's cars five fighters have been searching here for those buried in the mud. and they've been searching in more to see does neighborhoods to. there are just ten thousand residents many have lost friends and neighbors. and the neighborhood is small every single name that turns up is someone's dad someone's cousins teacher and that's got to be the worst part of it all i think we're just happy for everyone that makes it a fourteen year old lauren canton is lucky to have survived five five disputed from the wreckage of a home in the month slides off the mob on wednesday they rescued three most survivors but more than a dozen others are reported missing. the winter olympics are just four weeks away and some athletes still don't know if

they'll be going to the games in pyongyang or not one of those looking to compete is nicholas chang now he competed in five alpine skiing events at the last olympics in sochi but this time around he's hoping to try his hand at a more adventurous discipline but winter olympics are just around the corner and preparation time is running out before the games begin in february. boag area nicole latch on got off hopes to compete at misty cross he's still got some work to do to secure his place but the former alpine ski has been training hard. make the move to ski cross as he believes the discipline better suits his rock and roll style but the musician couldn't get official packing for his new adventure so he took crowdfunding instead he hasn't yet reached his goal but he's sure that

he'll be able to hold his own if he qualifies them. to get into shape and i'm getting better and better. i've reached another much higher level. still there's plenty of climbing left to do it's a long way to the top if you've only ever tried your chosen event three times. he is racing against the clock and against the bank but he's determined to be the first ball garion ever to compete in the olympics this february. here's a reminder those top stories that we're following for you political leaders. to reach a deal to form a new government a chance conservatives social democrats are facing a deadline tonight. to say many issues are

still unresolved thousands of people pakistan to protest against the rape and murder of an eight year old girl they accuse the police of being too slow to disappear just. to take you through the day to stick around for them.

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