violence against children. this is the news live from berlin germany is social democrats decide whether to team up once again with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives with hundreds of thousands of ballots now being counted on two leaders are optimistic that members who approve the deal so will germany finally get a new government or could this be the start of a political crisis also coming up. a star studded rally for the russian president

over one hundred thousand turned out in moscow to cheer on flatter me a putin is hoping to close to an election victory in two weeks' time. and the bigger show follows after the news the big game of the day sought doctrine travel to rb like six in the battle for the champions league places stage you just see the best of the action on all of saturday's gold. i'm glad you could join us five months after the elections here in germany the wait for a new government could finally be over members of the center left social democrats have voted on whether or not to enter a new grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives the last batch of completes of ballots have now arrived at the s.p.d.

headquarters almost half a million party members were eligible to vote and the results will be announced on sunday. the truck carrying the ballots arrived at the social democrats berlin headquarters with a police escort but no fanfare. party bigwigs made a point of staying away gathering instead of a nearby hotel to discuss how to rejuvenate the party they want to show that regardless of how the rank and file have voted they recognize the need to strengthen the party's message. of all standards we made a conscious decision to start this meeting before the votes were counted and could see if it also could see this just so and so for show that we're taking a long hard look at whether our answers are also good enough for the future. party leaders say they want the rank and file like here a nuremberg to be part of this process that's really going to go up on that you cannot confidence because i went to one of the regional conferences and i really

got the feeling from our leaders the thing understand that mistakes were made and it's time for change but i decided no one but many s.p.d. members still oppose another grand coalition and assume by the kids if we keep doing what we've been doing in a few months no one is going to ask what the s.p.d. a menace to negotiate if it just looks like everything's the same under my. until just party members to vote to still be expecting the party leadership to make sure that doesn't happen it's missed the whole thing is coakley there won't be a negative result and i don't speculate about that at all on such a nice sunny day we should only expect good news. it's said that a high percentage of the party members participated in the vote now one hundred twenty people will tabulate the results through the night under the watchful eyes of a notary public. for more on this i'm joined by political correspondent kate brady kate thanks for joining us so the counting of the ballots has begun what happens

now exactly sorry that is over the rest of the saving of a one hundred twenty volunteers down at the s.p.d. headquarters. counting all of those ballots now there were more than four hundred sixty three thousand eligible s.p.d. party members who could vote on the future of this grand coalition between the social democrats and merkel's conservatives now four years ago or nearly five years ago in fact when we were last thing on it when the s.p.d. members were left voting on a grand coalition turnout was around seventy five percent and that's expected this time to be the same if not higher and is there any indication at all from state polling numbers how this could turn out they really have no prognosis at the moment all of these ballots have been cast by post around two thousand by s.p.d. members who live abroad and they cast their ballots online now of course if tomorrow morning at nine o'clock we say yes result and then of course that will really not mean very much initial change in germany of course another grand

coalition would mean the same coalition government as we have right now but no result is what of course angela merkel especially will be fairing she would be left very much alone she'd be out of coalition partners and then would be left with just two alternatives either a minority government which she said on several occasions already that she'd like to avoid at all costs all we could still even see new elections and what would you know a surprising no vote mean for chancellor merkel's position not just locally but in europe as well well already we've started to see that this merkel era is really coming to an end and this is definitely going to be her final term in office and just a couple of weeks ago as well we saw a potential successor come into the limelight that was an eclipse. who was appointed as the secretary general of the c.d.u. that's merkel's party so already even merkel herself is taking those steps to really groom a successor. species nor successors the s.p.d.

youth wing. leading the charge to read. if this deal with chancellor merkel is conservatives why is the grand coalition so unpopular among some of these s.p.d. members well it really comes down to this. profile and identity crisis that they see that the s.p.d. is facing right now very much like many of the social democratic parties across europe but what was even worse for germany social democrats was that for two of mccall's coalition governments they've served with the. conservatives and that's really had a bad effect on their profile now merkel moved her conservatives very much to the center and by doing so she was able to poach a lot of the s.p.d. proposals so you saw the s.p.d. the social democrats doing a lot of the legwork but not really profiting from it so right now a lot of party members of the s.p.d. party members are saying let's stand back and give ourselves time to renew and

redefine our profile as a social democratic party well we wait to see what they'll decide on sunday kate brady thank you for joining us. another european nation italy is actually heading to the polls tomorrow in an unpredictable election where migration has been the biggest issue the vote gets a right wing coalition led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi against a center left alliance led by another former prime minister material resi the other main player is the anti establishment five star movement with polling pointing to no clear winner most observers expect a hung parliament. with less than a day to go until elections almost one in three italians still don't know who they'll vote for polls show that no party has a clear majority and have not decided and so can feel as if i go home. and i'm able to but they don't know lease which is their rightful floor very funny

it's the first election under italy's complicated new electoral law which has increased the chances of a hung parliament across the country parties held rallies to make their final pitches to voters former prime minister macho renzi is pushing his track record he says his democratic party took italy out of economic crisis and helped desperate migrants if it's over we are proud of having saved hundreds of thousands of human lives and not to have played on the fears of others but his party is trailing behind those who have put fear of migrants at the heart of the campaign the extreme far right falls under way of all marched in rome raising their hands in nazi style salutes and demanding an end to immigration and other far right party leader formally the northern league has increased its support across the country they're in a coalition with the party of former prime minister silvio berlusconi the eighty one year old is barred from office but he may end up playing kingmaker. in the populist

five star movement could gain the most votes though not enough to govern alone now we are going at it i just read one poll and i can say that we are just one step away from victory. one step or a few days the results of this most unpredictable election may not be known until early next week. as to have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world molly based affiliate of al qaeda has claimed responsibility for twin attacks in neighboring book enough so that left sixteen people dead and scores wounded friday the group said it carried out the assault on the french embassy and military headquarters in the capital. a jihadist gunmen were among the dead. in slovakia hundreds of people attended the funeral of the journalist young. he and his fiance were shot dead in their home. could see a cause working on

a story on italian organized crime and here before he was killed seventy tahlia nationals detained in connection with the murders have been. placed on lockdown after gunshots were heard officials say a man fatally shot himself on the north side of the complex police and medical personnel swarmed the area but president donald trump was not there at the time he spent the weekend at his mar-a lago resorts in florida. in two weeks russians head to pools for national elections now president putin faces no serious challenges and his reelection isn't in doubt but that hasn't stopped him from campaigning in the past week he's boasted of russia's military might and sought to stoke nationalist fervor in moscow over one hundred thousand gathered for a star studded rally to support their president of the city's main sports complex. tickets to see russian pop star. usually cost up to one hundred seventy europeans

but on saturday more than one hundred thousand people saw him perform for free along with a host of other russian celebrities and extravagant campaign rally for vladimir putin whose election victory is. just he's a real man a strong president a great person. rushed. he's doing so much better than in the ninety's we have putin to thank for that. we were told to come here. as well as public sector workers the audience included delegation said from chechnya and other russian federation republics apache arctic backdrop for putin's latest appearance days after he set the course for a new arms race with washington on saturday he sought to whip up nationalist fervor . if we stand together i believe we will achieve stunning victories in the coming decades of the twenty first century yes we do there yes we feel it worked out there

i the russian national anthem topped off an appearance of just seven minutes putin seems confident that's enough to secure the support of voters in two weeks' time. a massive storm system has knocked out power to more than a million homes in the eastern united states the storm known as the northeast has pounded coastal areas with massive waves and caused widespread flooding well inland residents had to deal with heavy snow at least five people have been killed by falling trees and branches and federal government offices in washington d.c. were closed for the day. a perfect storm battering the beach towns of massachusetts. here waves higher than two story buildings have flooded the coast. and left entire streets underwater. people that have been doing this longer

than i i have been doing cannot recall a time in which we have seen such widespread spread flooding across our entire east coast and into the north side of the cape winds topping eighty kilometers per hour slammed to the east coast from washington d.c. to boston around one point six million homes were left without power. at least five people including children have died by falling branches. while buffalo in upstate new york and several of the cities were hit by heavy snow fall. airlines had to cancel more than two thousand eight hundred flights bringing major airports in the northeast to a near standstill. we're just one day away from the film industries

biggest night we're talking about the oscars where films like get out lady bird and the shape of water are competing for the top awards including best picture but not every film gets such accolades so this film for example hasn't got any oscar nominations at all in fact the emerging movie was considered so terrible it's now received hollywood's most famous frown the razzie award for worst picture of twenty seventeen and that can explain that sad face well some point out it was just destiny for a movie with these guys as the main characters to get the razzie movie was awarded for residues but it wasn't the only film to receive this special on tom cruise was voted worst actor for his performance in the widely panned the mummy and worst supporting actor well thanks to mr mel gibson for his role in david's home.

don't worry we haven't forgotten the all of saturday's goals from germany's top flight a coming up after the break with matter how much is actually just standing in the wings the top match the lights in taken dark meant these two sides have been fierce rivals as the bulls and to beat last season's to find out how the game panned out on the w.'s the bundesliga right after the break. and also from the news team that will disfigure coming up shortly thank you for talking. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine with me all speak up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters w made for martin's.

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