when i'm going to be a fun to. say. this is. from berlin tonight a nation waits first signs of a new government here in germany chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are pushing for a coalition deal that could keep them in power a long sighing germany social democrats led by this man martin shoulder after a love and days of negotiations could tonight be the night also coming up an

earthquake in taiwan kills at least two people and injures many more we'll get the latest on the rescue operation that's underway and an exclusive report from kenya where police are accused of a conspiracy to kill the poor cloaked in a promise to fight crime. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us here in germany tuesday is almost over and the country still has no word on whether or not a new government is in the works the leaders of the country's main political parties are racing against a self-imposed deadline of today to hammer out a deal to form a coalition government german chancellor angela merkel says that her conservatives are prepared to make painful compromises in order to seal an agreement so she.

democrat leader martin schultz says there was optimistic today when he promised that this will be the day that the tussauds finally reach an agreement a deal would end almost five months a record of political limbo here in germany. so let's pull in our chief political correspondent linda crane she is at the headquarters of the c.d.u. that. conservatives where the coalition talks are ongoing this evening good evening to you melinda so here we are again are we nearing the end of these talks what are you hearing i know i asked you that last night is tonight any different. tonight is different because this is basically the end of the overtime that these two parties had allocated for themselves they had initially set a buffer zone of two days and this is the end of day two or as one politician who entered this building a little while ago put it if this were soccer we would now be in minute one hundred fifteen and as you know that means way into overtime so they are down to the wire

but we've heard it could go late into the night they have accomplished an enormous amount we know that because the document that they're working from was leaked to the press a bit earlier it's one hundred sixty seven pages long and as i went through it the the areas that are marked in yellow those are the areas they haven't agreed on they are very few and far between it's really just two or three points but they apparently are facing some real obstacles on those particular points yet and what are those points in you know what melinda i mean what is what's holding everything up. well it all goes back to that s.p.d. party conference that you and i observed and commented on around two weeks ago as you remember the s.p.d. was very very reluctant to enter into coalition talks at all and they held a party conference a session essentially to get their party delegates ok on moving forward on the

basis of original initial exploratory talks they'd had with the conservatives there had been a kind of a general agreement after those exploratory talks and at that party conference the delegates said hey we have to up the ante up the ante on two of these points those two points are the two points they are hung up on here tonight and they are labor law it's very important for the s.p.d. for their base to really move against limited time contracts where there's no clear reason for the contracts to be temporary essentially this is about stability for workers a real core issue for the said social democrats the second area is also of core importance for the social democrats it's health germany has a two tier health system in which some people are insured by private insurers and others by public insurers public insurers pay lower doctors fees meaning publicly

insured patients also face off into a slower longer delays and sometimes inferior treatment the s.p.d. what's that system of what they call to class medicine to and and they're really pushing for visible gains in that area as well so those are the two areas that it has never taken this long to put a government together in in germany what about the patients of the public are they losing it. to some degree they are although one must say it's not the fault of the two parties that are negotiating here that it's taken so long in fact for these nearly five months of limbo much of it was spent attempting to reach agreement between three of germany's smaller parties and the conservatives and they didn't succeed these parties have actually achieved a pretty astonishing amount in eleven days nonetheless the general public is saying if we look at the most recent polls the majority are saying they are not enthusiastic about the prospect of yet another grand coalition our chief political

correspondent melinda crean on yet another cold wintry night here in berlin waiting for a new government melinda thank you very much. at least two people have been killed and over a hundred more injured by an earthquake in taiwan a trimmer has brought down a hotel trapping about thirty people inside several other buildings are reported to have collapsed now the magnitude six point four earthquake struck just before midnight local time it's epicenter as you see there was just north of a coastal area in the northeast of the country local media saying traffic is disrupted many households are without electricity a short time ago correspondent andrew ryan in taipei gave us this update on the extent of the damage following the quake. right now there are two main buildings that are affected one is a twelve story building that's tilted precarious lead to one side there was

a restaurant one for residents upstairs a second large building the marshall had hail also appears to be about it holds or a building the burst two floors of that building have collapsed and there are reports of at least twenty nine people in that building who are now wrapped other damage to bridges roads smaller building. and actually just a moment ago we saw more aftershocks from the earthquake i want is really well prepared to deal with sort of earthquake the president has ordered thousands of soldiers to head the ball and to help out with the rescue efforts there also rescue forces who are currently helping people get out of the building. but there is concern also about broken gas lines and water lines as well and there was correspondent andrew ryan reporting from taipei with the night a power struggle in the popular holiday spot the mall deaves has plunged this indian ocean island into a deep political crisis president abdoulaye young mean ordered the arrest of the

former president and two supreme court judges on monday yummy declared a state of emergency now the standoff between the president and the supreme court erupted when the tribunals ordered the release of imprisoned opposition leaders. judges at the supreme court found themselves on the other side of the law during the early morning raid on tuesday two were arrested including the chief justice their detention comes after they ordered the release of political dissidents and made it possible for the opposition to impeach the president. protestors rist arrest in the capital on monday their fear eous at the president for ignoring the court's ruling last week to free nine jailed opposition leaders the judges said their trials had been politically motivated. with the unrest growing the government has moved to give itself extra police powers the president

has declared a state of emergency for the next fifteen days in mali and wherever suspects of illegal activities all situated president abdoulaye i mean has ruled the maldives a largely unopposed since two thousand and thirteen but accused of corruption he fears the court's decision will strengthen dissenting voices in the country and lead to his impeachment and so yeah i mean it's trying to protect his grip on power on monday he had his own half brother arrested mamoun abdul gayoom was president for thirty years before the became a democracy in two thousand and eight now he sides with the opposition before he was taken away he recorded this message. i've done nothing wrong. i urge the people of the multi-faith to be strong and stand with us and we will win. waiting in the wings is another former president mohammed nasheed who fled the country is one of the leaders of the court

order to be freed if the ruling does get implemented he could challenge i mean for the leadership later this year. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a british court has rejected an attempt by wiki leaks founder julian assange to invalidate an arrest warrant against him the warrant stemmed from a sexual assault case in sweden that has since been dropped voiding the warrant could have paved the way for songe to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up since two thousand and twelve south african president jacob zuma has postponed his state of the nation address which was set for thursday the move could herald an attempt by members of his own party to else to him from office leaders of the ruling african national congress say that the party's executive committee will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss zuma as possible removal zimbabwe's main

opposition leader morgan tsvangirai is reportedly critically ill tonight in a south african hospital his supporters have been told to quote brace for the worst the sixty five year old disclosed two years ago that he had colon cancer. the new york stock exchange opened one percent lower today and then bounced back somewhat suggesting that relief could be on the way for equity markets. two days of dramatic losses on wall street have sparked a global selloff investors are worried that this could be the start of a new stock market crash but analysts are pointing to a healthy correction after such a long rally for stocks and the reason for the volatility is concerned this interim banks can start winding down the error of cheap money much more quickly than expected. are educating you now where in the slums of nairobi bodies of

young poor men are turning up on the streets almost every day now the men are suspected of being criminals and they've been executed by the police without charges without arrest without trial d.w. spoke to a whistleblower who reveals an underground war on crime that's believed to have claimed more than three thousand lives in the last year all look. oktober two thousand and seventeen it's been two days since my mom pry open lost her son brian one thousand years old executed by the police. state the new i totally see what what you. find lived in one of nairobi slum the police suspected him of being a thug and thief but his not that disagrees. number two out before i make final. choice was brian's friend a neighbor here in her community is where he was killed along with his three

friends. had to take him to cook lunch and then the policeman on the one who got down. there is more evidence images of brian and his dead friends published on facebook. troy says the police themselves posed the pictus to instill fear and brand the victims as criminals. filming at the city more trees for britain but it seems that the killing of brian and his friends was not an isolated incident we're told that twenty to fifty corpses arrive here every day almost all killed by the police. dr brian beach unger is an independent forensic expert he confirms that cases like brian's are part of a larger pattern. and she wants to be to buy into. into the chest. and in the chest is not

due to. it's difficult. to police repeatedly denied request for an official interview. one officer inside the system however says he's against the extrajudicial killings and wants to uncover the actions of nairobi's police he agrees to talk to as anonymously as he fears for his life. so the procedure is as a cop you're given an order you don't know where the order comes from you're told hey this is what's happening. and now it's time to shoot to kill and then you go you land within that process if you don't get the right guy you'll end up killing the wrong guy and if you get the right guy you also kill the right guy without prosecution and nobody cares. crime is rife the prisons are full and for many police the lives of those who live in the slums this until now thousands of

extrajudicial killings in kenya have been covered up and gone unreported. friend's family at his funeral they feel that he like so many other young men was stripped off to dish or process and his human rights. and it's a sad sad that bryant won't be the last young man will fall victim to nairobi's fight against crime. more news later. germany is a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this and if something henderson says we must overcome it. going where it's uncomfortable global news that matters w made for mines.