grams into my coffee mug only be told that she has to do so before. good luck. this is d. w. news live from berlin at long last the wait is over germany's new governing coalition is approved americal urges lawmakers to get to work right away she says europe needs germany's strong voice as the bloc constructs trade and security threats also coming up historic changes underfoot in china as legislators start opening the path for leader xi jinping to stay in power indefinitely. plus the

oscars best picture winner is really. pushing a book you are my director guillermo del toro fantastical cold war romance makes a splash winning for academy awards we'll have that in the whole roundup of oscar night highlights. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us german chancellor angela merkel is ready to get back to work after more than five month wait she earned the backing for a new coalition of social democrats have voted yes to another alliance with her conservatives michael will soon be sworn in for a fourth term miss chancellor speaking in berlin a little while ago she urged lawmakers to be quick about getting a government up and running. wouldn't that be but believe this and he lays the good groundwork for governing the country together just as

a night it is brutal and important that we get down to business in zero g.'s days time because without coalition agreement being we have set ourselves as a challenging program the things we want to implement focusing on improving the lives of people in germany you are right to expect not to have a government able to act six months after elections nearly they are quite right to want to see as implemented what you have planned and the political editor michelle it is near is covering this story for us and she joins us for more hi michelle and we heard chancellor merkel there saying getting down to business within a few days how quickly will we see a new government in place. well we're expecting to see anger machall elected by the parliament which is a process here and many asked german chancellor for a fourth term on the fourteenth of march that's a week on wednesday and that very same day she could see her ministers also sworn

in so the short answer is in just over a week's time germany will now have a government after more than five months of one failed attempt to form a coalition and the second one basically which leaves the current government consolation in place is now going to be renewed so we no longer machall will stay the chancellor what about the rest of her cabinet do we know yet who's going to be the foreign minister for example. well that's the big question mark after that key vote by the social democrats party base saying they want to go into government again this is a big question whether the goblin who actually do a lot of respect from all sides for his role as foreign minister will be put up again it's pretty much being ruled out by the social democrats simply because he made so many enemies during this bruising phase of internal fighting amongst the social democrats so really that's the big question mark that we do expect though wolf choice the interim leader to become finance minister and co chancellor deputy

chancellor what we do know from today on now as well is that the c.s. you are going to machall small conservative sister party in bavaria will put up or see will for its own party leader as interior minister and that germany's development minister gets will remain in office and how stable michel or do you think this new government is going to be given how long it took to bring it together. well though they have time really doesn't tell you that terribly much about it there was a necessity to really see eye to eye we have a one hundred and seventy seven page document which lays down the policies in very much detail in some points what this grand coalition has agreed on at the same time all three parties involved the social democrats americal c.d.u. and the c.s.u. sister party have already said that they want to shop in their profile while being in this government so i think we're in for some very interesting times indeed all

right looking forward to that political editor michelle a christmas thank you very much kitty now an early results show more than half of the telly and voters have backed populist and far right parties in sunday's election the centrist parties have lost significant support no faction has an outright majority and that means the country could face months of political gridlock to cobble together a coalition. he talese voters have spoken according to projections the clear loser in these parliamentary elections the establishment the country now facing political limbo years of this is that no one knows what will happen i'm pessimistic i want to leave this country but i don't know when so we'll continue voting. it's what we expected political deadlock a government is needed we can't be at the mercy of a country with no government we're in the hands of the president and the willingness of political parties to put a government together. the five star movement led by thirty one year old

luigi demaio who was the biggest single party winner on the day it's anti corruption message resonated with voters especially you need to lease impoverished south. the biggest block of its way into a right wing alliance comprised of former prime minister silvio berlusconi's forts italia and anti immigrant in euro skeptic league that grouping is followed by luigi demaio is five star movement a result making it easy to leave largest single party the ruling democratic party led by former prime minister my to your renzi and its center left coalition trialled a distant third. despite their strong showing it's unlikely that berlusconi is conservatives or five star will achieve a majority to govern. barring any surprises with the final ballot counts the country looks headed for a hung parliament this will block the main weeks of tough negotiations to hammer

out a governing coalition. now to some other stories making news around the world syrian government authorities backed by soldiers and paramilitaries and eastern ghouta have seized medical supplies headed to the besieged district that's according to the world health organization thousands of syrians many of them injured remain trapped some aid has reportedly been allowed through but a w h o officials says much of what they were carrying was taken. australian cardinal george pell one of the most senior officials at the vatican has appeared before a melbourne court for the first day of hearings into past sexual abuse allegations judges will determine over the next several weeks if there's enough evidence to put him on trial. for the first time since the vietnam war a us navy aircraft carriers paying a visit to a vietnamese port the ship has been accompanied by a destroyer and a cruiser and the top u.s. brass have met with the enemies officials as both countries work to battle china's

interests in the south china sea. china's government has pledged to deliver robust economic growth and boost military spending by more than eight percent that is the latest emerging from the annual meeting of the national people's congress but the two we gathering is likely to be overshadowed by a vote and a constitutional limits on president xi jinping zz rule the presidency itself is officially limited in powers but tradition holds that the president also occupies vital roles including communist party general secretary and head of the group that controls the nation's armed forces ending president she's term limit would reverse the system and act in one thousand nine hundred two meant to prevent a lifelong dictatorship in china. the look of a man who has every reason to feel satisfied after five years as the head of state and party dejan paying is at the peak of his powers when we are you

we will always maintain our strength and youthfulness we will always be at the service of the people be the vanguard of our times and the backbone of the people. and that always is taking on a new meaning she wants to remove the two term limits on the presidency from the constitution last fall he even managed to have his name written in the party statutes only one other chinese statesman has achieved this during his lifetime chairman mao tse tung. ji has used his power to crackdown on dissent he denied fatally ill nobel peace prize laureate lucia bo released on bail until his death president xi was the son of a high ranking party official but his father fell out of favor during mouse cultural revolution g m self was banished to the countryside where he lived in a cave and worked in the fields the cave is now

a shrine to the cult of personality around she one of the few people who still dare to criticize him publicly is political scientist would chan sooner or later he thinks she will get into trouble. so far dissatisfied chinese have claimed local authorities in particular for their problems. but the more power she gathers around himself the more people will blame him for their dissatisfaction. but for the time being no one appears ready to challenge his authority yet and no one doubts that he will succeed with his plans to abolish term limits and extend his rule over china possibly for life. now hollywood's brightest stars gather in los angeles for the ninetieth annual academy

awards on sunday the night's big winner was filmmaker to toast the shape of water which netted him to oscar for best picture and best director gary oldman picked up his first oscar for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama darkest hour and frances mcdormand took best actors for audience favorite three billboards outside missouri a little bit like all over. and did it is film buff scott rockstar stayed up late to watch the oscars scott what was their favorite moment yet my family actually is that last bit that we saw there of the clip with france with doormen who won best best actress for the billboard as a missouri i love france with them anyway she was an amazing tough tough as nails character in this but a woman who's trying to get vengeance or justice for her daughter who was brutally murdered and is accusing the police of not doing enough but what was great about it was she went up to accept the oscar and then she put it down on the stage and she addressed the entire audience there in l.a.

and said all the women who've been nominated all the categories stand up and celebrate with a really amazing role for me it was the moment of last night's oscars i think we have the clip but we want we take a look. well i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight the third parallel if you do it everybody else will come home with their own labor the few little the lid on the earth will rebuild yeah this is just great and this moment then after after she got them all stand up and celebrated them she made the point to the rest the people in the room the business people in the room who decide what films get made and where the money goes she said ok look at all these women around here and start giving them jobs so it was really hitting home a really concrete point about changing the industry and saying don't just play lip service to diversity but really implemented with with concrete measures to really

picking up on the momentum of the me to movement what about the sexual assault scandal that has really rocked hollywood how did that come up in the oscars yeah it was interesting because i remember the golden globes it was very dominant there everyone wore black in order to symbolize solidarity with the victims of sexual harassment and all the cases that have come out since the start of the need to movement back over with the hollywood producer harvey weinstein in a hundreds of cases against him this time was interesting the oscars it was addressed many times but it was a lighter tone is sort of that people think we've gone a bit further now and we can talk about concrete measures to take as opposed to being so careful about it was more almost congratulatory in some ways but i found it more it was more relaxed as in oscar's past it was interesting because jimmy kimmel who's the host of the oscars he addressed it right away but he made a joke of it which went over really well where he said all these horrible man in hollywood they should take oscar the statue of oscar as as an example the kind of man they should be maybe have a clip of that as well we take a listen. aspart is the most beloved and respected man in hollywood and there's

a very good reason why this look at. people's hands where you can see them. never says a rude word and most importantly no peanuts at all. here's how clueless hollywood is about women we made a movie called what women want and it started mel gibson. so it's got jokes aside just briefly what has actually changed i think quite a bit has changed actually you really see the calls now going beyond just the service beyond just activism and calls for activism to really concrete measures where people are saying going forward we can no longer have this completely white male dominated culture in hollywood and industry in hollywood and this is the first time i've been reporting on the hollywood for quite some time this is the first time i really believe that change will happen and this might be the last oscars where we even be talking about this as an issue maybe by next year or at least in five years time things will really have changed and this will be considered

something of the past all right our film critic scott rocks for us thank you very much scott you're watching news still to come live reports are coming from france that the european aerospace consortium air bus could cut thousands of jobs across europe. has that story coming right up and doesn't. the d.w. media center see it find it here it discovered. video and audio podcast him language courses in the d w media center that libya centered up doc.