this is d w news live from berlin germany's political parties sign up for a government chancellor angela merkel joins the leader of the social democrats to seal a new coalition government into existence it brings to an end almost six months of political uncertainty and we will have full analysis that's. also coming up at least forty nine people are dead after a bangladeshi passenger plane swerved and burst into flames as it attempted to land in katmandu airport we'll hear from an eyewitness. and colombian voters back

conservative opponents of the government's peace deal with former marxist rebels and the former bar guerrillas failed to win support in their first ever election. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us germany's new government is preparing to take office after the participating parties signed a much anticipated coalition agreement the document said south the program agreed between agel america's conservative bloc and the social democrats it marks the end of almost six months of difficult negotiations that have kept germany on edge the party leaders said that their joint program would address the concerns of those germans who feel left behind. it took them six months to finally agree on this coalition all three party leaders made it clear today that they want the government

to last the full term the signed agreement is one hundred seventy seven pages long one hundred seventy seven pages of political policies for germany and also the hierarchy in a new government it's clear the leading figure is still on the american following a long run up to the new government's formation she promises things will now continue at a good clip. i think everyone feels that it's finally time to start working a new start for europe a new dynamic for germany new team work for our country this is what we have set out to accomplish for the s.p.d. social issues and development are especially important the social democrats struggled for a long time with the question of their participation in a new grand coalition. future. grand coalition in germany did not start out as a marriage for love. of

a city with the c.d.u. c.s.u. and. although they are and will remain fundamentally different parties. are still able to work constructively together and govern properly. the third coalition partner the bavarian c.s.u. calls this a grand coalition for the common people. i will mention only the key words job security with the promise of full employment basic pension maternal pension stabilization of pension levels. the opposition parties describe the coalition agreement in negative terms protesting the future government's program. that but there are major gaps in this coalition agreement especially when it comes to future challenges above all climate protection. does not feature prominently in this coalition agreement. i'm going to says merkel has once again been able to use money

as a lubricant to build up. a coalition that refuses to set the course for the renewal of this country. do it because i know there is one central idea in this coalition agreement and that is spend more money increase the state decrease freedom this could actually be the headline of this coalition agreement. on wednesday the point is taught will take the final hurdle to forming a government on the america wants to be elected chancellor for the fourth time. their choice is almost certain and then the new government will be up and running at least that's what the chancellor promised. and from our those promises let's bring in christopher spring gate who is joining us in the studio this afternoon christopher take us through what happens next well on wednesday morning parliament convenes and chancellor kohl will be up for reelection as you know the next chancellor of this country she needs to get what's called the chancellor's majority

there are seven hundred nine members of parliament she needs three hundred fifty five yes votes a coalition of incoming coalition of social democrats and conservatives as i think three hundred ninety nine so it's a formality or it should be a formality we'll see what happens on wednesday and then she's off to the german president he nominates have formally and she's back to polman where she gets sworn in so it looks like it is a done deal after all but can this coalition last for the next four years is it on solid ground where both sides say they're in it for four years i should point out though the coalition agreement has a new mechanism also to two years both sides will have a major review of the coalition agreement so that is an opportunity if it's politically opportune for either side to say we've had enough let's go back to the voters. having said that i think there's a fair chance they will survive for the next four years simply because the outgoing

government is the incoming government they've been working with each other for a number of years they trust each other there are personal relationships involved there the difference of course is that both sides both chancellor merkel's conservatives and the center left social democrats lost a lot of support at the last election so they're both looking to score victories some in the conservatives are lurching to the right some in the social democrats are looking to the left chancellor merkel has her work cut out to make sure that those centrifugal forces don't pull her coalition and it was really interesting to hear the rhetoric in fact during the press conferences when we heard these three party leaders speaking they definitely seemed to at least attempt to address that the bleeding support that we saw in the election we saw it especially hard talking about addressing the needs of ordinary people of ordinary germans but that that's what this coalition would really be about can they do it based on this plan well there is actually a very fortunate position germany is running

a huge budgets plus lots of taxation money coming in they have forty six billion euros to play with over the next four years in the throwing a lot of that money at these problems the record of the past government the outgoing government which is the same as the incoming government although some of the missed ministers are different the record of the past government is pretty good so i think there is actually a fairly good chance that they will achieve at least the minimum of success having heard the opposition though in our package of they do not seem to agree with that so we will see how it it pans out what are the main priorities going to be going forward for this coalition first of all those trade relations with the us that is a fire that needs to be put out immediately then there is europe chancellor merkel has already been talking about strength in europe she's also said she's off to see the president and when you're in mccall fairly soon so we'll see what comes from those two. he's made wide ranging proposals for european reform and of course there's the budget this country is running on an interim budget it needs full two

thousand and eighteen budget for this year that needs to be put to parliament and passed to his very own christopher spring day putting it all into perspective for us a big day in german politics today thanks here. let's turn to some other news now because russian president vladimir putin has said that britain should figure out what happened to x. five sergei screwball before blaming the poisoning on russia that's according to a media report the former double agent sixty six years old and his daughter yulia thirty three have been in the hospital in a critical condition over a week after they were found unconscious on a bench outside of a shopping center in the southern english city of salisbury earlier putin spokesperson had this to say have a listen. to her remember them remember this russian citizen who worked for one of the british intelligence agencies who recruited her in the incident took place

on british territory and therefore it has nothing to do with russia let alone the russian leadership or kim warrior it was pretty clear. and that was put in spokesperson speaking a short while ago british prime minister to resign may is set to address the house of commons later this afternoon after receiving an update on the investigation into the attack on the screen polls we will bring you more on that in later bulletins but in the meantime we'd like to get a check of some other stories making news around the world because slovakia's interior minister robert colleen has resigned from his post his departure comes amid a political crisis over the murder of an investigative journalist a junior coalition party have demanded his removal in return for ongoing support he was a key ally of slovakian prime minister robert fico. a report out today shows the flow of weapons to the middle east has more than doubled over the past five years

sweden based sifry institute says the u.s. and europe remain the main arms exports to the region this despite public and political debate over stripping weapon sales to conflict areas. and french fashion designer devon she has died at the age of ninety one he was known for his elegant designs he was in the business for more than half of a century and his most famous work was creating the little black dress and designing outfits worn by audrey have burned in some of her most famous films. to nepal now where there has been a deadly plane crash in the capital kathmandu at least forty nine people are reported to have died officials say the aircraft missing the runway burst into flames seventy one people on board the bombarding a dash eight propeller plane it was reported in route to do from dhaka and run by a us bangla airlines. and earlier and eye witness told what happened after the

aircraft crashed on landing. i think at the beginning it was very scary because i remember being in. outside of the green for almost fifteen minutes you're looking at the rate it was a lot of you know there were going to were going to a lot of people security people or just the brown stuff running to work. if you see we were not allowed to move anywhere because i mean just watched it. but yeah it was great nobody knew work. here they're given over to the wonderful boyfriend or freedom the bar or just open air so we just were just there for fifteen minutes just watching what is happening i witnessed right i carry speaking with us earlier colombia's voters have decided and in the country's congressional election on sunday they handed a victory to critics of a peace deal with former leftist rebels it was the first election for the former

farm rebel group and voters soundly rejected its radical agenda the results now raise questions over the future of the deal that ended the globalist decade long insurgency. a victory for the opponents of fark even duke a campaign heavily against a peace deal with the former rebels his democratic center party emerged as the strongest force in an election seen as a test of fox entry into colombian politics it was a catastrophic defeat for the new party which took less than one percent of the vote regardless fock will still take ten seats in the senate guaranteed to them by the peace accord many colombians would prefer to see them in jail for the decades long insurrection campaigning was marred by angry protests against their participation on. fox former commanders had hoped for an historic outcome. i think

this is going to mark a milestone we're entering the consolidation of peace it's the first time in my life that i've voted and i do it for peace. colombia's president juan manuel santos was the man who brokered the deal that ended fox decades long insurrection. is a cynic's eunice these elections are very special. this is the first time in a half a century where the far right is that instead of sabotaging the elections participating in the elections. something historic and very important for our democracy. his party polled poorly many voters felt his peace deal was too lenient on the former rebels whatever power wielded jura its insurgency has now disappeared at the ballot box. big blunder sleep the news now in german media are reporting that hamburg have fired their coach band holo boss after

just seven games in charge the former fan favorite was brought out in january to try and they'd never season two days ago he and his players were on the receiving end of a six nail dumping by league leaders byron that plunged the troubled north german side closer to publication for the first time in their history it is the sixteenth time that hamburg have changed coaches in the last ten years last week the club fired its c.e.o. and sports director. a quick reminder now of the top stories we have been following for you here germany's chancellor angela merkel has joined the leader of the social democrats to sign a new coalition government into existence it brings to an end almost six months of political uncertainty. and at least forty nine people are dead after a bangladeshi passenger planes for tens burst into flames as it attempted to land in katmandu airport seventy one people were on board the plane run by u.s. bangla airlines. the conservative party is critical of columbia's peace deal with

former leftist rebels have won the most seats in the country's congressional election but they are up to date on t.w. news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thanks for watching. the people of the world over information. to the premiums we want to express to you double your facebook and twitter are up to date and in touch.