ridiculous grandma there you go it's all about her new primary job join me to meet the germans on the w. . post. this is the w. news live from berlin and it is good bye for the head of germany's social democrats and they are not as is stepping down after her sense of left party fell to a historic lows in european elections and at home it's all part of a bigger political shake up here in germany raises fresh questions about the stability of the government and. also coming up the glory for liverpool as the club

wins the champions league fans of the reds go wild as their club steals the tree will get you the highlights and relive a night of celebration in madrid let them touch was played. oh. man you couldn't get in thanks so much for joining us the leader of germany social democrats is stepping down after just 14 months in the job and they are not this says she also plans to give up her seat in the german parliament and one ounce mint comes as her posse agonizes over its future following a double election defeat now this was under pressure off the german voters handed the social democrats their worst ever result in last month's european elections the s.p.d. also lost a state election and braman for the 1st time in more than 70 years senior party

members are due to meet on monday to discuss the posses future direction and alice has released a written statement about her decision. discussions in the parliamentary group and feedback from the policy have shown that i no longer have the necessary support to carry out my jussi on monday i will therefore resign as chair of the s.p.d. and on choose day i will resign as chair of the s.p.d. parliamentary group. after some analysis i'm joined in the studio by our political correspondent kate brady kate thanks for joining us. why the sudden resignation well this certainly is a direct response to those die a results that we saw just 7 days ago in the european elections of course historic lows now for the social democrats that currently the 3rd strongest party here in germany according to those e.u. election results and there's even been polls this week as well where we've seen on

the greens topping the polls here in germany and of course the s.p.d. made huge losses to the greens in there is action losing more than a 1000000 voters to them so this is very much a response to those failings now nonis was seen as a fresh hope really wasn't she for the s.p.d. someone who could bring back voters off to massive losses in the last national election what's gone wrong so quickly well there really was some hope there but at the same time she faced criticism from day one of course there were many skeptics and critics within the social democrats who had advised against going into yet another grand coalition the so-called grand coalition with angela merkel's conservatives and there was that hope that the next leader of the social democrats would move the party away from the center of germany's political spectrum and move them back towards the left to redefine the party's profile and redefine exactly what it is that they stood for and we can take a look now at

a piece here about andrea knowledge and exactly what she stood for and her political career. fund to be enormous 1st joined the social democratic party more than 20 years ago as the leader of the party's youth organization she studied german and political science in one of her very 1st interviews she told g.w. that a career in politics was not in the cards. for you but i don't want to stay in politics for the rest of my life so after being chair i want to look for a real job. and for that i need a good degree. but after finishing university 4 years later now lists rose in the ranks of the s.p.d. 1st as a parliamentarian then labor minister and ultimately party leader germany's minimum wage law 1st introduced in 2015 was one of her key achievements now as has a reputation for being outspoken after her rousing speech at an s.t.d. convention party members agree to change course and form a coalition with angela merkel's conservatives rather than enter the opposition i

think that if i were going to negotiate and get some more good results that's why voting yes today is worth it. now as was the party's 1st female leader since it was founded more than 150 years ago she was tasked with steering the s.p.d. back to its left wing roots but many are now asking if the decision to again partner with the center right c.d.u. was indeed worth it. all right we will be joined now by william green coffee political correspondent william the big question how will nala says resignation impact the governing coalition with. well is a member of parliament and she of course until today was leading the s.p.d. she was not did not have a role in the german government per se so there's no direct impact you could say on the german government but this is yet another sign of how weak i'm going to

michael's junior partner in this so-called grand coalition is it how weak it's become in the last year or 2 since the 2017 national elections here in germany that put the the the s.p.d. and the c.d.u. again together in what many said was an unhappy marriage of convenience to put a government together and these parties have just been weakening and weakening and getting lower and lower support in the polls and today's resignation announcement by andre and alex is just one more sign of trouble in the governing coalition. all right kate turning to you is there anyone who is an obvious successor to nala well one name that is already being thrown around is schultz who is currently the german finance minister and also the vice chancellor but at the same time if the s.p.d. . does now indeed one gets profile to the left as it promised before or were rather as it joined this loveless marriage as it was william mentioned with

angela merkel's conservative then he is not the man for the job and at the moment there is no of the real obvious candidate that will be interesting in the coming days to see exactly which names are put forward by her for that position as i speak the party leader but also as parliamentary group leader in the bundestag job may be william now some political analysts are saying that governing with merkel c.d.u. only damage the s.p.d. was it a mistake to enter into this grand coalition again. many would say so the s.p.d. has been weakening and losing its its main its main. party lines its main its main talking points for years of the c.d.u. a lot of s.p.d. policies over years of being a government the cd you have been implemented with the s.p.d. has been getting credit for it that's been agel americal conservative the majority ruling party in the government will remember that a year ago the government had

a very. very hard time getting finding coalition partners to form a government the s.p.d. was in a way dragged into it the president the national of the president of germany friend of steinmeyer said please do this for the good of the country please put aside your partisan bickering and the s.p.d. entered this government and now we're seeing the effect of this now with the s.p.d. again weakening in the polls and people voters struggling to see what the s.p.d. stands for and what good it is for voters to be voting for them. kate see you so people are struggling to understand what the s.p.d. stands for is this the essential problem with the s.p.d. is that why voters have just been turning away from the center i think it really is and as william mentioned for a long time has been difficult for voices now to identify exactly what it is that the s.p.d. stands for but at the same time if you think back to just a week ago as well when we saw those horrific results come out for the s.p. day straight away andrea not list who as we know now is standing down and she

highlighted the point that they missed the boat when it came to tackling the main issue in those elections which of course was climate change but that was much to the gain of the green party which was polling this week as the strongest party now in germany so it's going to be interesting to see now exactly how the s.p.d. realigns itself and how it redefines exactly what it stands for of course there has also been huge societal changes as well in recent years which has seen a decrease in traditional belief. which for a long time a big pot. base for the day and that is declined in recent years a lot of soul searching to do once again for the. right political correspondent and . parliamentary studio thanks so much. all right we're going to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now. several people have been injured in venice after a huge cruise ship rammed into

a tourist riverboat the accident took place on a busy canal in the center of the city there's been a long running debate over whether to allow cruise ships into venice iconic but increasingly overcrowded waterways. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says washington is willing to talk to iran with no preconditions speaking in switzerland he says the u.s. would still aim to rein in what he calls called iran's malign activity all the things that china has vowed to fight to the end in the escalating trade dispute with the u.s. speaking at a defense summit in singapore the country's defense minister also warned the u.s. not to meddle in the security disputes over self rule to taiwan and the contested south china sea. sports news now and liverpool have been crowned champions of european football after defeating tottenham to nell in an all english

champions league final in the brit liverpool's german coach klopp tasted european glory for the 1st time after last year's heartbreaking loss in the final the win also broke the club's drought of 6 defeats in cup finals and the match got off to a controversial start just minutes after kick off let's have a look. but dream start from liverpool fans who saw their side awarded a penalty for hard ball after just 24 seconds mohammed so lots of responsibility have smashed a powerful drive down the middle of spurs keeper hugo to reseize goal the egyptian forwards 5th goal of the european campaign putting liverpool of the driving seat after a blistering start the going to going to k.g. with neither side threatening for large parts of the game taught them only came to life later on with sunshine men waiting until the final 20 minutes to give liverpool defender something to worry about. with the game entering its final throws liverpool dealt a killer blow substitute developer regi driving home from

a tight angle the semifinal hero rising to be occasion to silver once again to nail the final score liverpool the champions of europe for a 6th time i talk about the big match i'm joined in the studio by dint of the sports reporter not corrigan not. live with full coach lost his previous 2 european final so he must be over the moon is is a happy man as you can imagine yeah it lost as you mentioned the last 2 european finals and he also lost his last 6 consecutive finals in all competitions so he was delighted let's hear what he had to say. i don't want to explain why we wanted to only want to enjoy that we wanted and all the rest is not important it's for all the people around the world in the stadium with. knowledge celebrating like crazy and. liverpool move celebrate together and have a sensational night. so happy man but how significant is this when the club is the

crucial victory for a club i would say it's a breakthrough victory even it's strange that a man has been labelled a loser that has won 2 been deleted titles with bruce and the german cup but people like this with these last 6 finals they lost people were starting to wonder if he was buckling under pressure. and those victories with dortmund are so long ago no that people were starting to mutter has he got what it takes at the top is completely shattered all those all the talk and yet time for him pop props and to build a legacy he's a champions league winner he's in the pantheon no liverpool alongside joe fagan bob paisley rafa benitez as a manager this won the european cup what you want to do now is kick on from the and try and win the premier league the elusive title that liverpool haven't won since 1990 if he does that will be a mortal now with. how hard was this the time to take as a real solid one

a real so for tottenham i think liverpool kind of expect to be relatively regularly in champions league finals and one of 6 teams. is the 1st in the revenue jump in the final a lot of fans will think maybe it's the last game as well and this seems like a once in a in a lifetime opportunity almost for them. having to squeak through against i.x. and not just to sit through an away goals maybe like their name was on the trophy so it's a real better disappointment the team didn't really torn up the carried injuries and they didn't play well and there's also a question mark over the manager might suppose it's you know sports really were a byword for incompetence when he took over. he's turned around but there's a question mark over whether he's going to stay he hasn't confirmed one way or the other so that could be a high price to pay for spars book liverpool fans will care about one joke or a huge lie on both sides and huge emotions as well thanks so much thank you. our minder of the top story we're following for you today the head of gemini social

democrats on day and not us has announced the she is stepping down after just 14 months on the job a policy has hit historic lows in european elections and that. is the 1st woman to lead the policy and it's more than 150 year history if you're watching the news live from the time i knew it was mckenna thanks so much for joining us. live. here so. don't miss our. sleep. carefully. to be nice to do good.

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