direction are really at the by the end of the day and the market is going but yes they are relieved that we didn't see a major correction or even a crash happening here at the stock exchange danielle called burn frankfurt thank you very much. but after wall street historic losses there's more on work coming konami news for the white house the u.s. straight gap surged to its highest level in nearly a decade during president donald trump's first year in office record imports triggered by strong domestic demand are the main reason according to government data released tuesday it's a sign of a healthy economy and a trend likely to continue as a mass of tax cuts will reach american pockets this year but the news poses another challenge for the trump administration that has repeatedly criticized trade imbalances with germany for example and threatened new trade restrictions as a result. consumers will not be able to shop online throughout the e.u. without being blocked or rerouted the european parliament has voted to end the

practice called geo blocking trade is now have to treat cross border shoppers in the same way as local ones and grant them access to the same prices it needs online buyers will have wider and easier access to products but the new rules do not cover digital copyrighted content such as e-books or downloadable music. now the world's first passenger drone made its in all your flight on the tuesday and solve china's one joe city all passengers need to do is to get into the cabin of the d. hung one eight four and foster this he tells you what's most fun system then takes over electrically powered drone could take a single passenger on a twenty three minute flight at one hundred kilometers per hour last year the city of dubai announced plans to cooperate with the one in developing self flying taxis to take people across the city. and ways and hear what the future

holds for south africa's jacob zuma school he has been so hard to announcement is expected today on whether south africa's president zuma will resign from office this after the zuma had been forced to cancel the save the nation address to the fears lawmakers would disrupt the speech it's an embarrassing climbdown for the leader and a sign of the intense pressure on him to step down in the wake of a string of scandals. jacob zuma future hangs in the balance there's pressure to resign mounts the opposition says zuma has no right to address the country in an annual speech that was set for this week. to close a chapter of the story that's going to future. to our economy politics and to political. seumas own party is also raising doubts about his future party members are set to discuss his fate at

a meeting next week and. important consideration is that we don't believe. should we. the president of. this week protesters have already been sending messages to the a.n.c. as the party weighs its options on zuma some are convinced his time is up. others say pounds off the president until his term ends next year. while tensions are running high in south africa the country's future is at stake let's talk more about this with christine one washes here in studio following this story for us hi christine an announcement expected today on presidents you must future what more can you tell us about this ok so. that. the president was. about. what

we know is that last night. and they had a constructive discussion we also know that. the highest decision making body they were going to have. today it was expected that they were going to before the president that was canceled a lot of speculation that last night. jacob zuma. terms possible. about what happens when he leaves the presidency what if that is not the case and he does not want to leave the presidency what options does the party have the a.n.c. will be forced to take this to parliament because as a party they cannot remove him constitutionally from the south african presidency so that have to do this in parliament and that would mean that. structured to table a motion of no confidence session with vote or impeachment proceedings against president jacob zuma. does not want to get to that he does not want to humiliate

its jacob zuma in that way he would prefer it if zuma would resign. of course prison jacob zuma has been resisting that. and really the question is. you know is he going to be pushed. that is an absolute last resort option that does not one have to do it that way he keeps repeating that he keeps going back to zuma trying to have further discussions to see if they reach some ground and it seems that bet has. happened a big issue on the table obviously immunity. potentially facing off to the presidency. has also been reluctant to give him that one can understand why this is a very complex political situation christine explain to us the different centers of power here. right now has two centers of power you've got jacob zuma in the president's house of buildings and. at the headquarters in the house and what's

happening now is sort of really wants to get to the presidency he wants to start implementing his agenda and getting that jacob zuma is in his way and just to give you a sense of how bad this policy struggle has has gotten south africa for the first time is to mock receive spode to the state of the nation address that was a speech that the president gives the country signal that direction the country's taken of course people did not want to miss that. if that address opposition parties and made that very clear loss of their freedoms also voicing their opposition to that it's also crucial for several that zuma did not give that address it would signal that so is too weak there doesn't fact still hold the power but they also worried that this man would get on to the podium and go rogue and announce things that were not in line with what the party has now decided to do and the believe to ship off so when we saw an announcement just today coming of a better speech have been postponed we can already tell you there has significantly

diminished that he doesn't have as many chips anymore christine as all of this political turmoil has been going on how are south africans the. south africans are enraged over the last couple of months or they are hearing about you know there is what they call the state capture of prose and that's essentially been an inquiry into the never of corruption that has really persisted and a prison to consumers to an administration they almost on a daily basis do you know one person who held some position in the government one of the state into prizes talking about how he received telephone calls from people close to the president how he was to sign contracts and give all tenders to them south africans are looking at this man as as as corruption personified he has anger south africans and they say he is the reason that our country one has been mooted by civil cabinet ministers and he has allowed this culture of corruption to sort of

permeate and they're also looking at the economy it's this country sitting with a really rigorous tough unemployment rate as one of the most unequal societies in the world. economic growth all the investment. banks that i am warning about you know the politics of the uncertainty and how it's to terry investments as other frictions by and large what this president to go they've dealt the party of blow in the last test and that was the new government in. two years ago and that was a really good indication of the last major strongholds in the country it was telling off the anti zuma sentiment that was now causing the party to support now this once to launch a. campaign and they've told zuma we cannot do much with you as the face of the party you need to step away from it so we'll get in charge of things so we can go to south africans and say here is the new a new man in charge we change but certainly could be

a turning point today christine we're waiting for an announcement on whether south africa's president zuma will resign from office there christine we're following the story for us thank you very much for your analysis as always this. ok let's switch gears and now to some sports and in football the german cup returned last night there was a chance for a fairy tale david versus goliath ending as byron munich visited third division potter born the last time the teams met it was in the bundesliga in two thousand and fifteen back then biron won six nil they were eager to let history repeat itself. there were no surprises in the david versus goliath clash had a bomb did have the ball in the net first but sebastian show was ruled offside after twenty minutes spying asserted their authority confusion in the box and kingsley come on took advantage one nil brian. come on turn provide a five minutes later robert leaven dusty with the finishing touch sunil.

the bavarians were able to take their foot off the gas but that didn't stop the gulf s yahshua kim ish with an aussie pool finish the game already just sided at the half time whistle after the break an unmarked car in time to leave so not enough for a simple training drill for the guests. in the dying minutes there was still trying to score a brace six nil the final score. client progressing to the semifinals with the us. well the german cup quarter finals continue tonight frankfurt and minds are set to square off in a regional derby was shall co-host paulsberg in a game between two sides looking to make up for missed opportunities this past weekend in the bundesliga. try to you know she didn't type and think you're going to. come again to disclose shoko on the guest.

will devise his own photo done and shout it could better keep using public i mean these include pads or sorry it looks like that report was in german but let's keep looking at some sports news and going out to come and has been appointed as the head coach of the netherlands a national team he's the seventh manager in eight years for the dutch come and has been out of work since being dismissed by everton last october after a poor run of form in the premier league he has been tasked with resurrecting dutch football after the once successful team failed to qualify for the last european championship and also the upcoming world cup in brush up. to the winter olympics now and a north korean orchestra has arrived in south korea and head of the games one hundred forty performers disembark from an area at the south korean port of new cold on wednesday taking advantage of a rare sanctions exemption it is the first time in sixteen years that they are visiting the country they will perform in young chang on thursday as well as in

seoul on sunday the two koreas will march under a unified flag at the opening of the games and also feel the combined women's ice hockey team. all right returning now to our top story and the two biggest political groups here in germany have reached an agreement on forming a coalition government we have our political correspondent hans brand to standing by for us. and it looks like we don't have homes with us right at the moment we're going to try to get him back in just a little bit of time but we've been talking about the social democrats at the moment and of the two sides they do have another hurdle before this coalition government a sealed any agreement must reach the blessing of a social democrat members so germany does have to wait a little bit longer before the months of political limbo are over and that could take another three weeks. until americans fate is in their hands

the four hundred sixty thousand members could block another grand coalition between conservatives and the social democrats but who are these people there are far fewer women than men two thirds of the members a male. less than ten percent of s.p.d. members around. the strength the numbers lies with those above sixty. have a university degree even more people with higher education can be found in the pro-business f.t.p. . the green party sixty eight percent of members with degrees. when the s.p.d. members vote on the grand coalition civil servants will have the most powerful voice as they represent almost half the party membership only every six member of the historically working class party is a blue collar worker. almost half of all members

a protestant one has no religious affiliation one out of four is catholic. but they all have one thing in common. they will decide whether or not could remain chancellor in a grand coalition. let's bring in our political correspondent now front standing by for us outside the city you party headquarters where the negotiators have been working through the night and up until now this breakthrough has been long awaited and you know we've heard here that the social democrats their leader martin chill's is set to become the foreign minister and vice chancellor and this is an important move for him and for his party and tell us more about this. well yes all of these are still on the level of rumors these are information this is information that's coming out of the notes negotiating circles without actually having being confirmed

in detail by anybody on the official level but i think we can assume that these in these details are correct the social democrats seem to have driven a very hard bargain in these negotiations they have gotten three of the major ministries in this new government that is likely to be formed now the foreign ministry with possibly martin shows as foreign minister the s.p.d. leader the finance ministry which is a big fish obviously and the minister of ministry of labor which is especially important for the social democrats and their voters their. their membership so they have been major concessions on the part of the christian democrats are for i'm going to malcolm's party but at the same time i want to say obviously i'm going to marco is going to stay chancellor for another couple of years or so at least so in that sense all parties seem to be satisfied with the outcome of these elections they have all i know officially confirmed that an agreement has been reached but i

have to add there has not been an official announcement that's right time so we see all the cameras behind you and we're all waiting for that announcement for someone to come outside and i tell them more about this agreement but what exactly has been holding up this agreement has so long what are what is the point that they have been wrangling about for weeks now. well one has to say that they did negotiate pretty quickly if you consider that this has been going on for just over a week and they leaked last night and agreement one hundred sixty pages or so of the agreement of points that they had agreed on already so what was left over were in fact two very controversial issues the one was the issue of health care reform which is something that the social democrats had pushed on very hard the second issue was the question of to what extent temporary contracts or a. fixed term contracts in germany worth of you allowed in future were to be controlled more carefully in future this is something that the business friendly

conservatives were very concerned about feeling that it would be anti-business damaging to business as a result they seem to have agreed on all those differences but we don't yet know exactly what the agreement consists of especially in these two controversial points and the question now is what happens next and how long will it take. well today i think in the course of the day at the latest we will get to the official announcement that this agreement has been reached we will probably also get the agreement in written form we will know exactly what has been agreed upon but the really major hurdle that's coming up now is that the social democrats have promised through their rank and file that they converge on a waiver on the author except this agreement in other words four hundred sixty thousand members of the social democratic party will in probably the next three weeks the vote by letter by mail on whether or not they accept this agreement that

is a major hurdle because it's not entirely certain that the membership will agree to this and in fact only in about three weeks time when that vote has been taken where we know for sure that the government will come into existence in the form that has been agreed to. and i did have these political correspondent hans brant waiting like we all are for a final confirmation from the negotiating parties that they're in front of the c.d.u. party headquarters i'm thanking will be coming back in just a little bit. and our political editor nina is back with us here in studio and you know we heard hundreds there just talking about the social democrats and of course what a difficult process this has been for them what is going to take now to convince their party members that they need to accept this agreement so that germany can form a new government you know sumi i think what we have to do is take a step back and remind everybody why they are so reluctant to enter a new government again with conservative because i can imagine that people in the

world are asking themselves the question what's the problem with and for a government you are in power you have you have a few ministries even you have as we've seen in this deal even if it's not been confirmed yet but looks like this baby's going to get major ministries at the same time the s.p.d. feels like it has lost a bit of its identity in the past grand coalitions with uncle americas conservatives they feel also this is being confirmed by the polls that we can see that they're losing in support and many people in germany are asking themselves what does the s.p.d. actually stand for so the s.p.d. party has called for renewal they said after the elections they didn't want to enter a government with again and the head of the s.p.d. was applauded for they spoke going into the opposition and now will he is having to convince his party base that this is a good deal and that yes we are going to enter again is that

a good deal but we don't have the agreement in front of us obviously but looking at the ministry post that we are reported to have received that the s.p.d. would get three top ministries is that the deal that he can take to his members i think what we can see already if they say is true then america has made major concessions like she said yesterday she said that it is going to be painful for you specially for the c.d.u. for her party and if this is true then the s.p.d. will get made ministries where you have the influence of a. role in the world with a foreign ministry you also have the finance ministry where you get to talk to everybody in brussels all the time remember the eurozone crisis where the finance minister talk to greece and the labor and social affairs ministry but of course s.p.d. members are saying we need a proper renewal and we also need to get policy package is more concrete policies and they have failed to deliver those for example in the issue of immigration they

have been pushed to the side by the more conservative conservative party in the varia let's take a step back and look at the them from the european perspective a lot of people waiting for germany to form a government how do you think they will see the development that we've seen today. in brussels you know the french president has been waiting for example and putting pressure also we've seen representatives in brussels putting pressure on the german government to come to an agreement so that they can move forward with their plans to reform for example of the european union the european union is in a state of tall crisis some might say and lots of people will look at the situation in germany now and say at last we've got the stable german government again and this is what could happen and this is what definitely people like the french president have been waiting for that he can actually renew the e.u. together with the grand coalition at the same time everybody is feeling that there are strong forces that are shaking up the political landscape in many european

countries and so this is all the more important for the traditional parties to say all right we may not want this deal but to get those things moving forward to for example reform the e.u. in a way that it can continue existing we have to enter into this government and a lot of people asking as we talked about earlier i mean a chance america herself how she comes out of this process now so many years in office does she have the same power that she did let's say four years ago i think anglo-american situation is severely weakened i am convinced that there are talks going on behind the scenes about who can succeed her of course on the international stage she is still seen as somebody who can convene powers from all sides and she still is a major and influential person as well but time is drawing to an end and everybody can sense that and so this is why there is this sense of almost uncertainty in germany all though we have to say we do have an acting government is not in

a state of crisis so she's lost a little bit of her political capital you're saying you know we can't forget that as all of this and these negotiations have been happening we have in now in parliament for the first time a far right political party the alternative for germany the a.f.d. how have. they come out of these negotiations stronger. well the f.d.a. didn't take pot shots of course the conservative group and the various uncle americal sister party the c.s.u. . apparently as we can see from media reports has managed to expand the interior ministry to include what they call. ministry homeland ministry and this is a term which is of course very emotional and which is being used by the if he is well here playing sort of the nationalist card and i believe that the interior ministry will try all the interior minister minister from the c.s.u. will try and win back a few voters who may have been lost to the f.t.c.

so you're saying they're already affecting political debate they are affecting political debate we are seeing that in the in the german parliament on a day to day basis whether it comes to bills being passed on the number of people who can come to germany every year this is something where germany is being influenced and all the political parties are making concessions to not lose too many people to the f.t. and if this coalition government is indeed confirmed which again we're still waiting for confirmation this far right populist party would be the biggest opposition party in german parliament i mean how significant is that it gives them some powers in the buddhist part of this type process they have the right to certain committees for example where they can be where they can. be the representative of the committee for the entire parliament so this is significant symbolically but also in terms of getting more speech time etc so

yes this is as significant as all of this has been going on and no we've been following it so closely how do you think german viewers have been seeing all this more than four months after they went to the polls one thing i think that everybody certain remind themselves off. is that it didn't take sponge commented on it it didn't take the s.p.d. long to come to an agreement it was until americans conservative she was the the head of the biggest posse after september's elections but she had lost significantly as well and so since september she's been struggling to get a partner who will want to enter a coalition government with that again is i think quite significant for role and we can position in germany certainly today a breakthrough for her and for the social democrats reaching coalition agreement our political editor with us in studio nina will be coming back to you of course during the course of the day thank you for your analysis. you're watching a day w.

we're just a reminder now of that top story if you're just joining us that germany's two biggest parties still are have struck a new deal for a government talks between chancellor merkel's conservatives and the social democrats went through the night the two sides were at odds over several issues but ensures they have a deal we are waiting for confirmation. thanks watching. the .

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this is g.w. news live from berlin a breakthrough months in the making germany's one big step closer to getting a new government we have the scenes now outside the headquarters of uncle america's party right here her conservatives and the social democrats are set to announce that they have reached an agreement to form a new grand coalition after marathon all night talks.