this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin a long goodbye from the longtime chancellor germany's angela merkel confirms this will be hunted down and that she stand down as leader of the c.d.u. party could watch take over as the head of the conservative party you take a look at the possible successor. also coming up deadly storms strike it to me feels the winds and green lashed the country killing at least five people and venice get swamped reporting record high water level clouds are really fired up

people are angry that people are going to vote. with us midterm elections just to be clear and do not push by democrats to get out the vote but what does the party stands for beyond its and deep compensation. potable welcome to you i'm. a deal for maclin announces a plan to exit germany and the world looks ahead to who by two place mcinnes said she resigned as beautiful party in december and stepped down as chancellor at the next election the move follows heavy losses for conservatives in recent state elections one thing to steer the person who succeeds joins the maccan will have big shoes to fill. an earthquake a bombshell a day of destiny there has been no shortage of dramatic descriptions for because

announcement. s. is. firstly at the coming c.d.u. posse conference in december i have decided not to run again for c.d.u. possibly into and secondly this fourth term is my last as chancellor of germany. at the election in twenty twenty one i won't run again a c.d.u. chancellor candidate nor will i run for a seat in parliament nor will i seek any other political office and invite them into and sleep in mecca has previously said that the two jobs chancellor and party leader should go together but after eighteen years heading the christian democrats she said the moment has come where she can only do one of them. back of said the disastrous result in the election has said should be seen as an opportunity for the whole government to change above all governing coalition partners christian

democrats and social democrats must cooperate better for their part the s.p.d. are also licking their wounds after a terrible outcome in sunday's regional vote their leader and not as whose future in the job has also been questioned it was clear that lessons have to be learned at the national level. here you can feel it we are absolutely determined to ensure that we can continue our break in the coalition it needs more commitment more determination to leave behind the problems of the past few months. for gun rights. opposition parties are already seizing their chance to capitalize america's weakness. we're going to get there america is giving up the wrong jobs this won't make government more stable it will merely slow the death of the coalition. for long. but the much diminished grand coalition will limp along for now with the

severely weakened chancellor at its head there could yet be a public battle for the soul of the c.d.u. . joining me now from up on i'm interested in is correspondent sparrow i welcome to almost the want to make a stew announcements stepping down a spotty leader and then as johnston two thousand and twenty one meaning for the german coalition government well especially after the election and has and previous election and above area on the previous problems within the german coalition there had been a lot of pressure so there are those who are on allies and announcement in a way making sure that pressure goes aside that there is that they can start work now and they can focus on the coalition agreement that they agreed when they obviously formed that coalition the social democrats and the conservatives on the other hand there are those who are saying that merkel is very much weakened the fact that she's leaving the party chair position weakens even further and that that

could spell new problems for the grand coalition so there are different views as to what this actually means for germany's government and tell us before we continue let's listen to what people on the streets of berlin had to say much on decisions. i think it's too private i think she's done a fantastic job but she's just lost support maybe she also doesn't feel up to doing the job like she's always insisted on doing and i'm thankful for what she's done but maybe it's time for something new. that it's all in from outside who was nora's the other day the steve you should even be the right step you can't call this government a government anymore it's only about blaming each other. particularly mrs merkel is not interested in the opinion of the people anymore therefore she should be consistent and make way for others and sign on to that's it's not. enough for someone new will take the chairpersons job mean a breath of fresh air in politics and politics. so it almost as speaker does

a good thing for fresh air in politics by some but just america remains to very much in charge till the end of for term doesn't she that is the end of the telling two thousand and twenty one exactly i read to the end of the term as two thousand and twenty one that was something that she promised a few years ago when she decided once again to be a candidate for chancellor and that's something that she has again mentioned that she wants to fulfill her term as chancellor until twenty twenty one being the last . chancellor and that's also an important step that she made because obviously there had been a lot of speculation that this could be the case but now that has become official and according to merkel that now opens the possibility for her party to think about the future. and just giving up the leadership of the c.d.u. is a big step for chancellor merkel and there are already people in the body jockeying for this coveted post as party leader before we continue this is a look at some of the men and women who could succeed america. it's been

clear since february who angle americal prefers as her eventual successor and the great comp cock and bauer a former state premier who won the post of c.d.u. general secretary with merkel's support. personally i represent a more conservative position in matters of social politics but i'm a member of the social wing of the party the general secretary acts as a moderator between the various party factions by taking on the job she has entered a power struggle with aspiring leadership candidate. he's a vocal critic of merkel one she has kept close by appointing him as health minister and her cabinet sponsors himself as a voice of conservatism on matters such as migration and national identity if. properly done cultural assimilation is an invitation to celebrate and live out our values and rituals our traditions and holidays. spawn's shot at leadership could be

hindered if another prominent candidate enters the ring the former conservative parliamentary group leader free to fish maps before her announcement one of merkel supporters put himself forward as a replacement the premier of north rhine-westphalia. once the leadership meet and. she won't seek office again after eighteen years it's important for me that we take a moment to think. not. so far three figures have put themselves forward to steer the c.d.u. ship the party will pick the winner in early december. so tell us the shape of johnson magazine last years in office will depend a lot on who takes over as sponsor leader who do you think is best placed to succeed in that post i couldn't agree with you more and rita that position is becoming more and more important on the one hundred. cotton by who is very close to merkel that could on the one hundred be a boon but at the same time it could be

a problem if the party decides to move away from angela merkel and her style of politics on the other hand you have to call critics in. math if the party decides to move in that direction then i'm going to work as chancellor in the next few years could become increasingly difficult and it could also make the work of the coalition as a whole also much more complicated so what that's why bass particular position is so important and why the party conference in december where the c.d.u. will elect its new leader is also very important in itself and in looking at the big picture germany's major parties are losing support the smaller parties are getting stronger and the fall is if the parties now represented in all of germany stayed on and let's sum up for us the change german party political landscape the party political landscape is becoming more and more fragment and there's no doubt about that but that's not only a german phenomenon it's also a phenomenon that we've seen other parts of europe and that comes on candy in hand

with the fact that traditional parties big parties like the conservatives under social democrats here in germany are losing ground and voters are professor into go to smaller parties in some occasions those parties are on the fringes of the political spectrum like the case of the far right alternative for germany thomas johnson miccolis trying to seize the initiative in silence her critics by her announcement announcements but can't she last two full parliamentary term do you think well that's the very big question there's no doubt that i'm going to call is weakened there's no doubt that her work could become much more complicated in the next few years on the other hand. conservatives yesterday by the party headquarters and i was there were mentioning that that was actually an opportunity not only for the party to restructure itself but the government as well to try and really focus on content not on the problems on the squabbles that we've seen in recent months but focus on content so again there are different views on whether i'm going to call in the one hundred could stay until twenty twenty one although that's

a clear goal and on the other whether she can be successful in implementing the policies that she promised when she formed the coalition agreement with the social democrats right thomas did the obvious political correspondent at a fundamental studios thank you very much for your assessment let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world indonesian authorities are causing underwater beacons and a sort of detectors to try and find the black box recorders of a passenger plane which crashed into the sea on monday the lion air flight lost contact with ground staff shortly after takeoff with one hundred eighty nine people on board search teams do not expect to find any survivors. a group of jewish leaders in pittsburgh have told u.s. president donald trump in an open letter that he's not welcome in the city until he fully denounces white nationalism the president and the first lady are traveling there following last week's synagogue massacre in which eleven people were killed

the jewish leaders accused of encouraging writerly extremism. this is president elect above sanaa who has promised to withdraw government advertising from media organizations he deemed to be lying well it's not a one sunday's presidential vote by a landslide despite his support for torture plans to open up the amazon rain forest to big business and derogatory comments about women gays and blacks. at least five people have died in italy as fierce winds and rains last much of the country the city of venice famous for its canals is reporting record high water levels the extreme weather which is bad of several of these since sunday is causing severe transportation disruptions and has also led to some freak accidents. red alert and. traffic partially paralyzed in liguria in italy's

northwest but weather also inching a popular holiday destination. further east st mark's square was temporarily closed submerged up to a meter and a half schools and universities have been shut flooding is not unusual in venice but the water hasn't reached this level for ten years many italian regions are on highest alert schools were closed in rome and the scene here mirrors that elsewhere in italy. firefighters and civil defense workers working around the clock a falling tree in your room killed two people and injured fifteen shipping lanes were shut down around the island of ischia of naples and off calabria at the tip of italy's boot the poor weather has practically paralyzed the country from top to bottom there was chaos at the brenner pass the main route through the alps between italy and austria a mudslide trapped six cars one person was lightly injured and the stretch of

motorway had to be closed traffic was also stopped there was also red alert in the northern italian region of so as to rule meaning there is still the possibility of major american city. turning out to the united states where the countdown has begun to the mid-term elections these are just one week away mid-term elections take place a half way between presidential elections every four yes democrats and republicans are vying for control of both houses of the u.s. congress here's what's at stake. the midterms are first and foremost about congress and they can make or break a president's agenda republican control of both houses has made trump's life relatively easy so far but if democrats split one or even both the good times may be over the entire house all four hundred thirty five seats it's up for election as it is every two years republicans currently hold two hundred thirty five over

democrats one hundred ninety three all eyes are on the thirty or so toss ups races that polling data have is too close to call. on the senate side republicans rule with the slimmest of majority fifty one of one hundred seats but polling data suggest maybe just six seats are toss ups. if the democrats win the house the senate or both they could block trump's agenda. they could investigate allegations of abuse and misconduct facing trouble in the senate democrats could reject trump appointees and they could even have the numbers to start the long and fraught process of and teaching trump. the democrats are making a big push in these midterm elections hillary clinton's bitter defeat to donald trump in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election had left the party shocked and divided correspondent my of sri to talk to democrats support us to find

out what the party stands for beyond its strong anti trump position. if there is a blue wave coming to washington it might look something like this during brett kavanaugh scum from asian hearings for the u.s. supreme. chord angry activists of all genders and colors turned up to protest in numbers this is a key strategy the democrats have been banking on make people show up and party leaders are pushing the message to restore democrats to office people especially women need to vote just let women know in america that their voices do matter that their vote the votes matter and that what they do with their time between now and november absolutely matters and how do you think democrats need to do in the midterms they often i think they will win. many democrats agree with gillibrand assessment they think voters are motivated and have just enough show up the democrats will have an easy victory the. people are really fired people are angry and people are going to vote i do hope so i think that there's

a lot that needs to be done and i think hopefully this is mobilizing people to take some action and i think that people need to get out. because the people are going to be the ones to change the tide. but it's a tale of two parties for everyone who's pushing voter turnout there are plenty wondering exactly what they're turning out for and the democrats need to rouse together and actually put together a proper candidates platforms that aren't just. the democratic party is also have to change because what it has done so far hasn't kept a lot of it's also held. men and women in power when it needs to also highlight more diverse voices and hold onto a status quo that's not going to cut it anymore because it doesn't include enough people. what do the democrats stand for this has been the question the party has been unable to answer since the last in the twenty sixteen presidential elections and while the kavanaugh confirmation hearings may have activated the democratic

voting base it also riled up republicans the only thing that is sure the democrats cannot simply be the party of not trump it's one thing to take advantage of the anti-drug mood in parts of the country but analysts say that approach needs to be paired with a solid party platform. professor jason mollycoddle merican university in washington d.c. says that if democrats merely engage with trump style of politics they were grab it they need to come up with a different strategy and i think if they end up losing and not gaining any seats regaining one or two but the republicans still have power they're going to have to think about a different strategy going into the presidential election. and trump feeling in the country didn't succeed in this case brett kavanaugh was confirmed it was a strong message the democratic party needs to give americans a reason to vote for it yon's not liking donald trump. now for some football and the german golf is known for matching powerhouse clubs from the bundesliga with

lower division teams that dream of making it big we have one such match coming up tonight mighty by munich play against fourth division the third thing house and it may not be a total walk over by him though the ad which has already knocked out second division dudamel dresden to get where they are and they're eager to put up a bit of a fight against a big club. moving house and cup dream continues they've already knocked out one huge opponent to normal to grazed in the first round and now they find themselves the center of attention once again this time ever competitive captain don you know slipknot is determined to enjoy the occasion. and some special games like against dresden when you see the pictures it's a fantastic feeling during the game i find a bit tougher to enjoy but this time i'd like to actually try and soak up the atmosphere because it was also is all going to be a nice time certainly doesn't mean however that they're just out for

a casual kick about. so you know it's wonderful on we're all out release we all want to push ourselves the limits and see what we're capable of why shouldn't we try and win. so why not indeed the stars might just a line coach and rico mohsen certainly isn't ruling out the possibility. because we need to play the game of our lives and we need to have an absolute disaster then we might just have the slimmest of chances. one problem for rooting hausen is the ground their home the heck a v and start your own is deemed too small to host a clash so it will be played in neutral neighboring brook the home side without their home advantage still these players have a chance to continue writing history in the name of their modest community club though do they can to take you. and good luck to them or does for the underdog i

don't even know we're waiting house on this i have to google that actually that's the point monica is here now and of course you can be talking about create tensions here more china and the us. no improvement inside just yet and obviously investors aren't happy. asian markets where rational today on fears that stray tensions between the u.s. and china could worsen that after a bloomberg reports said the u.s. is planning further tariffs if upcoming talks between the two sides fail markets in hong kong and shanghai were both down on the news following losses on wall street he was president storage trump is scheduled to talk trade with chinese premier shooting ping on the wings of the deep twenty summit in late november. staying with china and some you said should please in there at least those investing in the car makers and for that we cross over to the frankfurt stock

exchange. beijing considers tax cuts to support the automotive that market who stands to gain. well monica first we have to remember that we had this little rally yesterday here with a class of about two percent during the trading day i know america was one reason but yes the chinese auto more buy a sector and the chinese economy was the other reason because indeed china has announced that they will have the purchase taxes for new cars with the chinese government is hoping now to give the automobile sector and the country a new boost sales numbers have been lately dropping in the sector so now the hope is there that with lower taxes more attractive prices at the same time the sales numbers could go up again investors here were thrilled about the news shares of volkswagen. made a big jump but we have to remember that for the german carmakers china is an extremely important market daniel and of course even without extra incentives

from the china one become a car folks of course managed to post impressive quarterly results how come. you actually feels numbers are even a little bit higher than analysts expected them to be germany's biggest carmaker reported it sold eight point one million vehicles in the first nine months of this year the sales revenue rose by two point seven percent two hundred and seventy four point six billion euros lots of money all of this is happening and that is the significant part of why investors were not so sure if volkswagen would be able to meet their goals despite the difficulties the company is right now facing at the moment getting the new vehicle through the emission test that made sales numbers slumped in sept. i was talking to a investor this morning and he told me that they are optimistic that this trend is also going to continue until the end of this year ok then we leave it at this optimistic moment that's not at this hour. in frankfurt thank you so much.

germany's unemployment rate is expected to fall below five percent in october that would be the lowest level ever recorded by the federal employment agency and according to a survey among german economists less than two point two million people were unemployed that's fifty seven thousand fewer on the dole than in september the official numbers will be announced well very shortly the rock solid to labor market is likely to further boost consumer confidence and household spending in europe's biggest economy which has seen domestic demand to overtake exports as its main growth driver in recent years. talking of jobs language of course is considered to the biggest barrier for successful integration in germany migrants are required to first learn german only then they're allowed to take up a job regardless of their professional qualification and that's a problem not just for them but also for germany's labor market. walid rajiv

finally has a job again he came to germany from syria three and a half years ago he was granted asylum and started looking for work but it wasn't easy because he never received any formal training while in syria. but when i was in syria a friend of mine taught me all the theory he had a lot of experience in welding and i got a job in a company and i was able to put the theory i had learned into practice. this bit because i never received any formal training. courses available worry that too specialized they were too far away for eight months but not. without formal qualifications or certificates getting a job in germany is usually very difficult something the federal employment agency is looking to change it's come up with a new detailed test over the course of four hours it says both technical know how and practical skills. this is to mind it's very fast and very clear

and it needs job centers no longer have to rely solely on c.v. or an interview with the applicant side here you have very specific scientifically validated results tailored to a particular job yet to keep notes that's what is involved but tests are only available for a job so far ranging from chef to metal worker after passing the test wally project immediately got a job with an agency that supplies workers for the world in the industry it was the test result that convinced his new employer. by access the same sort of said mr ridge of the chief the top score and the analysis of the test result is very details so that we could see clearly that he has what it takes if he understands the materials he's working with the n.t. understands the theory he wheels while they draw jeep says the welding equipment and regulations are different in germany but after two months of training he now

feels comfortable in his new job. in a few days he'll have his first assignment working at an outside firm the job itself doesn't worry him but the german language still poses a challenge for the senior. obama but i was among and that was why it's our no doubt be tough for the union but given time and contact with others it will improve by it's important to learn the language but to anything up to more it will become more like a second native tongue for me i have to learn the language so you can participate in life here germany is like my second homeland now. it watching the daily news coming to live from berlin what coming up at the top of the alah see and.

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