right from good mika to hiroshima starting february third. this is d w news live from berlin nail biter of a vote with a narrow margin decisive moment kill germany as the social democrats vote to begin coalition talks with americans conserve. this and there were six hundred forty two votes three hundred sixty two people voted yes and two hundred seventy nine voted no there was one abstention as such the s.p.d.

will embark on formal coalition negotiations. and that paves the way for formal discussions on forming a new government bringing germany a step closer to ending months of political uncertainty. also coming up turkish troops rolled into northern syria mortar fire crossed the border clears the way for land forces to move in it's part of it all feds have against kurdish militia and will find out from our correspondent in december why al grows offensive is causing a controversy. and in the bundesliga hamburg says farewell to coach walker's just all and move comes after a bitter loss to fellow relegation candidates for. i met her thanks very much for joining us it has been four months since germany's parliamentary elections. tonight the country is finally one step closer to forming

a stable government the social democratic party voted to enter a formal coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives initial show of hands was too close to call so every vote of more than six hundred delegates at the party conference had to be counted individually the outcome in the end was a clear majority in favor of moving forward with negotiations is more. the vote was too close for comfort but in the end relief for the s.p.d. leadership martin childes has the green light to continue negotiations that could lead to another coalition government with angela merkel's conservatives yes p d is still in the game and there's still a chance that it will at least put its stamp on the policies of the next german government find puts in one per cent of something is more than one hundred percent of nothing so if we can do something good for people in this country if we can do

something for europe and people around us i believe and i know many have a different view but my view is we should do it. can be a part time feeling and zoltan here is. the major policy lines have already been agreed between the social democrats and conservatives the coming final round of talks will be about details but s.p.d. leaders say their approach will still be tough. we are not giving up on the s.p.d. by deciding to join me on the policy in government. in sunday's decision also means a personal reprieve for martin schulz who's standing within the s.p.d. has suffered after it had its worst result ever in a general election and schultz did a very public u. turn on the question of joining a coalition he now has to secure a final deal with miracle but win support from the s.p.d. party membership. all right well i am joined now in the studio by michele acosta

our chief political correspondent and for an analysis of how chancellor merkel is likely to do this decision parts outside of c.d.u. headquarters here and i'm going to start with you how much of a relief was this decision by the s.p.d. for american. well it huge sigh of relief that is for sure she was of course closely watching that bodes this positive outcome is something that she's very much favoring it's just one step closer on this long road to find a new german government and now still have some tough negotiations ahead but amongst the conservatives really a sigh of relief here we've been hearing congratulations to the social democrats on their willingness to try to at least try to form a new government and take up these coalition talks yet in fact. made a statement very quickly after this vote at the s.p.d. congress let's have

a listen to that before we go any further. what's important to us in these negotiations is that germany gets a stable government which is able to tackle the questions and issues of the future and find solutions for them this includes economic strengths but also the necessary changes that we need in the age of treaties ation this need to be the basis for social justice and safety and these are the central to ask for us to get our heads around. it was very paper will be the basis for negotiations a lot of questions need to be solved in questions that need to be negotiated in the turning going to require intensive discussions we are preparing in the president and executive committee of the conservative party to these negotiations and with the union the c.d.u. n.c. as you is going to sketch out our negotiation strategy tomorrow and then we will

start very quickly with the big o.c.a. sions with the search for them very party a lot of work is ahead of us but this work needs to be targeted and will be carried out intensively and a reasonable climate in spite of all the controversies and this is what this day has with the decision of the party thank you very much. all right charlotte the s.p.d. has made its move there in for these talks what's the next move for the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. . well the conservatives on meeting right behind me they have just arriving but very insistent party is meeting tomorrow we've been hearing from them that they said look we are not going to make any more concessions we are going to take the results of these exploratory talks and take them into the coalition talks but we're not going to make concessions to the social democrats so the big question here is how far are the conservatives willing to go to make the social democrats happy in

the long run so they can take up the vote with their membership base which will after the coalition talks vote on whether this new government will actually be in place or not so it's going to be some interesting weeks on this road to a new german government which if everything goes well we might see in the beginning of april so still a long time to go. the cat out of the bag there this is not a done deal the members still have to vote for this and and what she's saying you know c.d.u. and c.s.u. don't want to give an inch how tight could that decision be. well depending on what we'll actually see in the end what those democrat members will actually vote on i mean that's just remind us of why world getting so excited about this basically this didn't go over the cliff today if the social democrats hadn't really these delegates had voted in favor of continuing this process we most likely would have seen fresh elections here and me which would have just prolonged this phase of relative uncertainty basically in relation to the european union now what we're

going to see now is that both sit down at this table martin. with her c.d.u. c.s.u. partners as well and. i'm going to apple's party has the impression that they want to negotiate into more detail within the framework that they have that we're already discussed who already have a twenty eight page paper on the table here that's what the democrats voted on today well the social democrats sent a clear sign that that simply isn't going to be enough that they want to see more on the table and this is a strength and a weakness at the same time for the social democrats because it will go into this with pressure from his own party to come up with more but also being able to up the in a sense and say look you've really got to give me something or else i don't really see my members some four hundred thousand people he has to convince voting in favor of continuing a grand coalition because that's what i mean we're talking about there's all kinds of about what's standing in the way of a government but you know how soon are we going to get one you know if we don't go

to another vote if this does get to a new coalition an agreement of some kind when can we expect to actually have a government well if they manage to actually strike a deal and the members of the social democrats vote in favor of this probably around if not we're still months away from a new government here and because that would most likely need fresh elections the other option would have been a minority government where i'm going to machall is potentially elected german chancellor and then seeks majorities with different partners on different issues all the time she herself has pretty much ruled that out several times over so unless we see a complete upset i'm going to. expecting basically what's going to happen first with actions or a continuation of the coldest and horrid to charlotte one last question for you how much of a stumbling block do you for see this sort of the tenor of the outlook on these talks between the christian democrats and the christian social union they aren't necessarily going in with the same outlook. so it's going to be it's

a show of very tough negotiations and the question is how much are we killing room is there really from the results of these exploratory talks there are basically three major issues employment policies health policies and refugee policies and specific the issue of family reunification for refugees and those three topics the social democrats have already said they want to take up again and they want to see concessions from the conservatives and the conservatives odd dreading the alternative as make a lot of minority government a fresh election so i think in the end they might come to a conclusion that fits for everybody there and everyone just wants to get it out of the rain thank you very much charlotte parts and thank you as well be sure you look after her in the studio. well turkish back to fighters have reportedly entered the northwestern syrian town of a friend the attacks are part of an offensive on kurdish militias or his military

says it has so far struck more than one hundred fifty militia targets in northern syria. this turkish time is paying the price for takis offensive just across the border in syria one was killed by a rocket fired from the kurdish enclave of offering in response to the turkish military operation that despite the danger many locals remain thies yes take about operation olive branch. that martyrs live on these boys chant as they approach the tanks on to a freeing they believe the soldier is a saving turkey from insurgents the ground invasion follows days of ash strikes the turkish army has reported some initial success that's disputed by the kurdish militia that fighting. but president ratchet tie it added one promises the operation will soon be completed and he's warned that any opposition to the attack will not be tolerated. if anybody heeds their call to go on to

the streets and protest they will pay the price very heavily. this is a national struggle and in this national struggle we will crush anyone who stands against us. but in syria at least hundreds of people are protesting against the offensive after cuts helped defeat the so-called islamic state they are now calling for support from their backers in washington and moscow but so far the calls for help of foreign on death is. in the under sleeve leaders by munich had to come from behind to win for two at home today to braman the visitors had taken the lead and then pegged back to two two but. scored their second goals of the game to

extend the top to sixteen points. a mile down at the bottom hamburg have fired coach marcus gets told the move came a day after the team lost at home to bottom placed below the two nil defeat left hamburg in the relegation zone in seventeenth place is also over the team twenty sixteen they narrowly avoided being sent down last season after saturday's defeat is the all told reporters he'd given his all for the club with passion and heart is that more now on the game that ended up costing him his job. walking onto the pitch for what would be his last match his stall knew he had to have three points against cologne despite the pressure hamburger united before the game. but it was the visitors who struck first similar to rhoda finishing off the assist in the twenty seventh minute the new signing latched on to your sneak flick to beat denise dick

mile. after the break hamburg struggled in failed to find their four. in the sixty seventh minute toronto was back for more. the first breaks for the journey made two goals in a needed win for cologne. stefan luton back was all smiles the defeat subsequently did mark his gaze dos ten years. are about to go with his reminder of the top story we've been following for you germany social democrats have nearly voted in favor of starting coalition talks with i'm going to conservatives the decision brings the country one step closer to a stable government after four months of political uncertainty and since september much bigger this week. and they'll forget you can always get news on the go just

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