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 they'd have to do this in parliament that would. stretch it to table. against president jacob zuma so that does not want to get to that he does not one humiliates jacob zuma in that way he would prefer to resign. of course prison gypsum has been resisting that. and really the question is. you know is he going to be pushed. that is an absolute last resort option or does not one have to do it that way he keeps repeating that keeps going back to trying to have further discussions to see if they can reach some ground and it seems that

that has. happened a big issue on the obviously immunity. potentially facing off for the presidency. has also been reluctant to give him bet one can understand why this is a very complex political situation christine explain to us the different centers of power here. right now has to say you've got jacob zuma in the president's. at 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 and just to give you a sense of how bad this policy struggle has has. south africa for the first time in its democracy bowed to the state of the nation address that was a speech that the president gives the country signal direction the country's taken of course people did not want to give that address opposition parties and made that very key. well there for them is also voicing their opposition to that it's also

crucial for sort of that zuma did not give that address it would signal that is too weak doesn't fact still hold the power but they also worry that this man would get on to the podium and go broke and announce things that were not in line with what the party has now decided to do and the leadership of so when we saw an announcement just a coming of a better speech had been postponed we can already tell you that zuma is power 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 there is what they call the state capture approach and that's essentially been an inquiry into the never of corruption that has really persisted in the prison to consumers to an administration. almost on

a daily basis to 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. to sign contracts and give out tenders to them some africans are looking at this man as as as corruption personified he has angered south africans and they say he is the reason that our country one has been routed by several cabinet ministers that he has allowed this culture of corruption to just sort of permeate and they're also looking at the economy this country sitting with a really rigorous tough unemployment rate is one of the most unequal societies in the world. economic growth all the investment. banks the i.m.f. warning about you know the politics of the uncertainty and how it's to tary investments those other frictions by and large what this president to go they've dealt the party of blow in the last test and that was a local government elections two years ago and that was really get into. 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. ham paint and they 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 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. and for viewers just joining us we are awaiting for an announcement from a german party leaders on the agreement today wish on a coalition government we will be bringing that to you as soon as a statement comes to us for now though we're going to move on to some sports and the winter olympics that started this friday in south korea athletes have been

arriving and john chiang ahead of the opening ceremony on friday but there is more than just sports on the agenda as international politics are once again dominating the olympics. musicians not athletes arrived at the south korean ferry port of mukoko on wednesday this one hundred forty strong north korean orchestra will perform. also in the south's capital seoul at the border and north korea's cheering squad arrived with high hopes for the upcoming games. i mean human helpful i'm glad the winter olympics will be held with a successful cooperation between north and south korea i hope that athletes from the two koreas will achieve good results in this elim pics. the political undertone of the games extends beyond the korean peninsula lawyers of fifteen russian athletes appealed to the court of arbitration for sport as they seek to be admitted to the olympics they follow thirty two russians who unsuccessfully appealed on

tuesday but the i.o.c. expects one hundred sixty eight russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag other athletes have still found time to get into the olympic mood my game is on the ice is totally different from right now and. it's like it's like you don't know in my way because i'm probably going to kill you. is hoping jokes and smiles will prevail as athletes continue to arrive ahead of the opening ceremony on friday. fredricka. in football the german cup return to last night and it was a chance for a david versus goliath ending as byron munich visit a third division putter born the last time these teams met it was in the bundesliga in two thousand and fifteen and back then byron won the six nil they were eager to let history repeat itself. there were no surprises in the david versus goliath

clash part of vaunted 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 kings the command took advantage one nil brian. come on turn provide a five minutes later robert leaven dusty with the finishing touch to nail. the bavarians were able to take their foot off the gas but that didn't stop the gulf s. yahshua kimmage with an ice cold finish their 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 time for our in robinson score brace six nil the final score. client progressing to the semifinals with the us. and tuesday's other cup clash also

featured six goals as leverkusen down bremen four two after extra time the guests took a fast two goal lead but leverkusen julien plan to level the game with the two first half goals bellow robbie and halford scored for the hosts deep into extra time to secure leverkusen their semifinal berth. now ronald koeman has been appointed as head coach of the netherlands national team he is the seventh manager in eight years for the dutch coleman 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 the upcoming world cup in russia. and returning to our top story now or germany's a biggest political groups are reaching an agreement on a coalition government and our political correspondent melinda crane is standing by

outside of the c.d.u. party headquarters that's a conservative party for us a melinda what has been going on well at the moment we're seeing a number of party leaders and ministers leaving the premises so clearly their negotiating work is now finally completely done that means they have probably been discussing who gets what minister positions that was the last open question and that presumably is what kept them there so long because the actual agreement on the coalition on the policies of the coalition was reached earlier this morning so they are leaving and we're now awaiting a statement by the party leaders who will i think take us through the main principles of the coalition agreement and also the way that the spoils have been divided up namely the ministries because that is where real changes have been made

tell us more about those changes melinda and how significant they are. well very significant for the social democrats the social democrats had made it clear from the outset that they would drive a hard bargain that they had to drive a hard bargain that's because their base the broad membership of the party has been very very skeptical about entering into another grand coalition at all there's a feeling among many social democrats that the past grand coalition together with angela merkel's conservatives led to a significant drop in support which of course we saw in september selection and that it is essentially impossible for the junior partner in a grand coalition to really make an impact so for that reason they did drive a hard bargain they have not only retained the main ministries they already held namely the foreign ministry the labor ministry and the family ministry as well as environment they have one a very very powerful ministry in addition and that is finance with wolfgang schauble of the long running conservative fund eleanor we are you i guess i'm sorry

i just jump in here but action we're hearing that chancellor merkel is speaking all come back to you in just a moment let's listen in to what she has to say bill clinton to do from this that we are trying to focus on the real needs of the people in this country but it's my firm conviction that the coalition agreement that we put together here can be exactly that it can be the basis of a good and stable government which our country needs. and not just in germany but beyond that we've got a plan for action that we believe will improve the lives of people in germany that will help soft economy. so that might remain competitive and will strengthen social cohesion in germany. our country. is a concept that means a lot to us and that our country means people young people men and women and

workers. people. who are ethnic germans or from other ethnic groups these are people who work in nursing homes in hospitals soldiers the police we are policymakers to serve them the c.d.u. this c s u and the s.p.d. have therefore put together a plan of measures and if you read through our coalition agreement and i have to admit that it's no easy matter reading it for you know aid to said from the first line to the last you will see many specific measures that we have put together with clear timeline was so that it it will be tangible to measure whether or not we have achieved what we want to achieve here. now we know that to be sure that the people in germany prosper in the future that we need to improve our infrastructure that we need to tackle the challenges of digitization and we need to be faster in achieving

the change we need to get more dynamism in many areas as well which is why we have a whole chapter called new dynamism for germany that sets out some of these key demands and things we're working towards in our coalition agreement a social market economy with its mixture of contributing and you know give and take we're going to have to adjust it we're going to have to tweak it but it will be the compass showing us the way forward. and i haven't got time to go through all of it into much detail here of course but we've really put together a big packages of national education research digitization one is a case in point that shows exactly what the prerequisites are for us to be able to learn and study and work in the years to come. we want to ensure decent work but we also want to ensure that our businesses thrive

and in the days. to come even today we've been already criticised about what we could have done more. but we've always tried to find a balance here on the one hand it is being aware of the fact that we need to distribute wealth in this country justly but on the other hand that we need to create a conducive environment for business because the sound financial state is our trademark we want to invest in traffic infrastructure and. this social sphere we want to give people more security we want to be more with domestic security in germany as well we did bated at how to manage migratory flows and integration on the one hand humanitarian issues but on the other hand managing such flows properly but i believe we found

a good package of measures for this issue too we had local authorities state assemblies present representatives regional government and this means that we've been able to look at all of the levels of government here in germany and the problems that we have on all levels and we've also got a chapter on our responsibility in the world and we've talked about what sort of connected security approach we want to have peacekeeping development cooperation and when i say a military component as well all of these things should be done tail to ensure that we have a comprehensive security approach and for this we want to create a good basis now we need to get support for the coalition agreement we're going to have a party congress is the c.d.u. where we're going to be voting on this coalition agreement and then we will slowly but surely be able to actually get to work and i want to say thank you to my

negotiating partners it wasn't an easy business. but it was a good one we've done well if you like done the damage but thank you very much ladies and gentlemen first of all i want to express my gratitude since everyone who has ensured that the coalition agreements that we have brought on to a close today were in many ways the fastest coalition negotiations of this kind that we've ever had in just over a week we have put this coalition agreement together it took an awful lot out of everyone involved and i want to thank everyone who was involved in this everyone behind the scenes as well without whom it wouldn't have been possible. we've been able to start writing down a coalition agreement here that aims at improving people's lives. you know pensioners retraining students people who don't have any perspective on the labor market as well as you know families get up like parents stuck in traffic or parents

who need childcare places full time school or to school care. who are facing major challenges and we want to be there for them a social democrats we feel responsible for them they voted for. the song and their concerns go close to our hearts and we have focused on easy to the burden on them for better and now we're expecting with an improving their lives this must be the focus of what we do a little from and all of our considerations focused on this we want social conventions which is and i believe that what we've managed to achieve here in my career move in a spirit so i hope my colleagues will forgive me here but i believe that this will has a real bears a real mark of the s p d there's

a real substance abuse to happen here and we're grateful for the kind of compromises that were sometimes quite hard for us we should democrat colleagues here and with a christian so she. knows basically we want to ensure that some fixed term work contracts are an exception and so without good reason we've reduced these we want to see parity in the health care sector as well go and pick we want to have ceased on the dirty tax cut for small companies as well. so that it's all going to cost about ten billion euros that much support for us as well we want to have a social labor market for many people who for very long time now have been seeking jobs and cannot get jobs in the normal labor market and so this social labor markets will give them back a sense of self esteem and pride that many people have lost three years our policy

serves children and families eleven billion more will be spent on better education fighting in these we're going to be supporting with this educational project our children will be supporting our schools the teachers got more social workers we're going to be spending big bucks here to improve. this will be portrayed reviews of education to close some of the gaps in education that we've had but we're also going to be strengthening families three hundred euros a year mark child's allowance here and there's also going to be a home owner's children allowance as well to help young families build their homes we're going to be working here to achieve these things we won't get it all going in one year but we're going to have eight thousand new jobs that we're going to be creating. to achieve these ends we're going to be.

increasing student loans at school and many more people will be entitled to them but we want to have a payment for trainees that's a minimum that they can't earn and i think i can safely state at this point that these were indeed to the key demands that our young social democrats have been calling for and we have set these out in our coalition agreement and the pensioners will be able to use rely on having a stable pensions in this country we've introduced a basic pension if you've paid into a pension plan your whole life long you shouldn't have to this goes to the authorities beg for money for that which was a chant we are also going to improve your patients a statutory health insurance there's we're going to have the whole health care system changed a bit and musicians who are working in virtual areas will be getting regional. support for that special

a special levy will be introduced to tape for that and that's going to improve people's lives in that regard as well as two million years on top for social housing that we're going to be spending as well we want to ensure that people can get a good home in the rural and urban areas as well turned on up with total another issue that we've really got this is key and this is one that we've been off work some kind of. looking at quite intensely and that is the traditional developing new economic structures in disadvantaged structurally disadvantaged regions we've talked about the environment. climate protection and also. european policy as well and we've really made an effort here and maybe perhaps you'll forgive me if particularly when it comes to what is section of our coalition agreement on europe that i express my gratitude to ms macklin mr z.

who first because that's what we have used in korea through what carter what we have managed to agree on about the european union and its future is a real change of course it's going to be a reset. and i believe that the german government is going to once again take on a leading role in the european union and i very much hope that this will be on the basis of close cooperation with the government in paris with the european union and we're going to make the european union i believe strong enough to cope with issues facing it around tax evasion climate policy even migratory flows that such as fair trade as well and also intercontinental. competition which affects germany too and i think we will finally take on the role that we need to take in europe. so i believe this is a new start for europe new dynamism for cheering germany and i think on the basis

of this agreement we can really improve the lives of people in this country and strengthen cohesion in our society because the greatest risk facing it is that this cohesion get eroded as you. it is evil for. ladies and gentleman of you forgiveness for the exploratory talks of late for a very good result i'm very happy with it and i'm very happy to with the result of our coalition agreement now these negotiations here if you read the one hundred seventy seven pages of this coalition agreement and hopefully many people well you'll find that it's waters we're hoping to do many good things for the people in this country. and i think we found the right response here to the difficult times that we've all been facing following the two and the election results from the twenty fourth of september by telling the electorate we've

understood and we're not going to continue with business as usual for one and that least split and polarization in our country can be overcome with the results of this coalition agreement and that's why i think what's come out of these negotiations is very impressive very positive on treif and what stands out the coalition agreement of all barriers martin so i'm not going to talk about let's wait until it's all. sorted out i need to get a good night's sleep before i respond to whether it's an s.p. di stamp on this coalition agreement or not the commons but should the government actually come about and there's a major obstacle in the way that we still have to clear we are going to have a lot of work ahead of us the parliament the german government are going to have more work than we've had in a very very long time now in lot of area so for you when we're very happy with

something we get so far postural we always say well done push to get going we say good going. quite far this time for three questions mr don't. answer let him chancellor what is your assessment of a members of a in the c.d.u. were you to have one there's one studio politician who's already said that this is the deal you it's very lucky that they managed to keep the chancellor in these negotiations and mr schultz will you continue to be party leader or will you continue with or will you give up that post to be vice chancellor as well first of all let me tell you that we've got a blighty congress head of us and we will be voting on that we've made compromises there's no doubt about it and when it comes to the distribution of the portfolios

as well but still we've got some important portfolios in the many years in which. he was in the finance ministry of course it's very hard for us to give up the finance ministry. and the same is true for the ministry of the interior and i want to thank thomas dementia at this point for all of his work in the past. but i believe there are important challenges facing us for decades now it's the first time that we've got the economics affairs ministry that's rare sometimes if you haven't got something you missed it and then once you've got it you regret what you've just lost. but what's important here is to ensure that the ministries we have you know research and development. interior defense. food and agriculture that we do the right thing with these ministries and the question of who gets what portfolios of course is

a difficult one i'm not going to deny that. it is pretty loud in the bodies of his social democrats we're going to be deliberating the coalition agreement today and in terms of the. vote members. very much hope we'll be able to convince our members that we have negotiated extremely good coalition agreement and that they are members vote on the agreement and not on personal issues. i cannot you know i'm sorry and the question about whether you're going to continue to be pretty experiment of the party every discussed all of these personal issues. and a question to madam a chance not to mr short i was around finances now we have heard that this is the most expensive coalition there's ever been on the one hand but on the other hand you're both very much interested we're all interested in europe and other issues

but if you look at the amount of money that you are spending it seems that the certain issues aren't being covered here how much money is actually available above and beyond the a forty six billion and what about the defense you know difference of defense and development i have successfully about that. was certainly. you know there was a certain amount of latitude to finance investment but also social expenditure that we believe is key for example to ensure that everyone in germany can have a decent livelihood cut the noise and to make progress here of course i can't tell you exactly how our financial development is likely to pan out that we in the c.g. . have. very much value being able to do both invest and

create a conducive economic environment for us in this field to get. economy going even and better and so the expenditure that we need to make above and beyond the forty six billion that we would be focusing on our international commitments here and i believe the for the first time as far as i'm aware anyway we found a really good solution by saying that focusing on a networked connected security. that means one year. as it were per capita just be spent on defense as well so i think we've done a good job. in the salt of political what we've studied about european policy in trying. contains an important sentence the german government is prepared to spend more money. on europe. with

lloyds essentially. the work on a must see year financial planning medium term financial planning is already well underway now this current phase is going to run out twenty twenty the next one's being planned and in the news tranche we're going to have to look at what member states it was a contribution for it backs it. and what measures need to be put in place here because i just feel there was plenty of measures that were financed by the u.k. as the twenty eight member states now we're going to be twenty seven member states and of course everyone's going to have to pay a little bit more. and when it comes to the investment budget for the eurozone this is an issue that president mcconnell has posed as well.