the social revolution and hopefully we can move too slowly. this is d.w. news live from the land uncle merkel insists her government will press on the german chancellor says she's not planning any changes to the country's governing coalition this after the surprise resignation of the leader of the social democrats a move that's punched her coalition partner into crisis.

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel's governing coalition took another bating today the later of its junior partner the social democrats an ounce to resignation leaving the future of both the party and germany's government in doubt the social democrats and merkel conservatives were once the country's 2 biggest parties lately their faint plunging in opinion polls but merkel's promise to keep on with the task of governing. it was a bad day for germany's grand coalition i'm sure your knowledge the s.p.d.m. 1st female leader in the party's 150 plus year history and now she's stepping down as its leader she held the post for just 14 months her resignation comes after her party's dismal performance in recent european parliamentary elections the s.p.d. lost almost half its seats. they did miss it even to see the results that we have

so far are extremely disappointing for the s.p.d. everyone knows that the surveys regarding our party have not been good in the last . our task was to try and work our way out of these poor survey results sadly despite all our work we didn't manage to swing things around towards the list alone doesn't surprise. the s.p.d. was once a big tent party but after years playing 2nd fiddle in chancellor angela merkel's government the social democrats have struggled to find a place for itself in a changing political spectrum new polling puts the s.p.d. at just 12 percent a distant 3rd that can spell trouble for germany's governing coalition which has struggled to get along since it formed last year serious policy differences between the s.p.d. and c.d.u. have kept them largely from lawmaking both in germany and the wider he you but the chancellor trying to keep things together until her promised final term ends in 2021 insists the work of government will go on give in the beginning we will

continue the government's work with all seriousness and we will above all do so with a great sense of responsibility. the issues we have to songs are for germany and europe and the rest of the world with this mindset we will continue working with the holes it's a lot of work to do made harder as both parties reckon with dwindling support. let's bring in our political correspondents now hans brant who's at the social democrat headquarters in berlin and here with me in the studio is our in cape brady hi kay thank you both for joining us hans i'll start with you how is the s.p.d. coping with this shock and now it's meant. well 1st of all there was a sense of shock obviously i think there were disputes going on within the party everybody knew that andrea navas was their position was threatened but nobody expected her to resign today so the party has been in the kind of damage control

scramble for the whole day there have been emergency meetings in the party headquarters here behind me all day long that will continue tomorrow morning and at the moment it seems as though the party is going to try and find a kind of interim solution to a point to some senior members of the party that don't have ambitions themselves to the major positions that are underway and all this is not all resigning from and then to find some time to consider. succession will calmly as it will in the next couple of weeks or months now kate the s.p. days the junior partner in john's langley mccool's coalition what does this mean for her government well if what self said if was to go by that it really seems that she's keen to push on with this government until the end of this term and that will of course will also be her 4th and final term as chancellor and that would go until 2021 but of course this resignation from my knowledge today has of course

sent tremors through this coalition and has yet again brought into question the credibility of this government is it still stable enough to lead to many and was even stable enough in the 1st place of course there were always concerns and criticism from both sides but particularly from the more left leaning wing of the social democrats that going into this government this governing coalition once again wouldn't give the social democrats the time and the space to redefine its profile but some that's also something which the conservative c.d.u. is also trying to do right now so a way to have to say exactly how. and of course the 2 coalition parties actually intend on a continuing forward with this very fragile coalition now honda as we just heard michael is very cane she wants to keep the government going wants to continue their work but how likely is it that the social democrats will want to continue being a part of the coalition. well there is

a very very strong faction within the social democrats that has been saying for a very long time already that being in the grand coalition. is no good for the social democrats because they lose their political profile that all the achievements that these grand coalitions to achieve all these goals if they do achieve are really given credit i think they give credit to i'm going to knock a lot of the social democrats so it was in fact on to be a novice who pushed the party into this grand coalition there were serious doubts about that when this coalition was false forms with gone no there's a big chance that that faction that wants to get out of this grand coalition will get a lot stronger and there are many commentators of expect this government not to last the year well it's not the 1st time the coalition's been in trouble it's certainly is and it wasn't so long ago we were sat here for what felt like months but it was just

a number of weeks in which this government found itself in the middle of a near crisis last summer it was put to the brink of collapse over that migration. question between that and that was a large issue to large debate between actually within the conservatives between the interior ministry minister story and the german chancellor and of course these issues seem to keep popping up time and time again which is why the credibility of this coalition keeps being brought into question well under analysis was the 1st female leader of the german social democrats and before we talk more about her decision to resign let's take a quick look back at her career. it was the high point of her career in april 20000 and to be anonymous became the head of the social democrats for the 1st time in the party's long history a woman who was at the helm as the unschooling in the we're going to make it together we are strong we will succeed that's my promise. her commitment to the.

social democrats was unwavering born into a working class family in former west germany now liz founded the 1st local s.p.d. association in a conservative district her political views have typically ranged from far left to moderate. in 1905 the newly elected socialist youth chairwoman professed her feet and karl marx. i love the transition angles the philosopher said his name will live on through the centuries and so will his work i'm certain of this. she proved her resilience both in past leadership functions and as labor minister in the previous coalition after the party's dismal showing in germany's 2017 elections it was clear she would emerge as a key player. yesterday the s.p.d. is needed i told you so you know but more bad alexion results left deep wounds in the s.p.d. after andrea analysis fought for her party to enter another governing coalition

with the center right the s.p.d. suffered heavy losses in state elections now this is hope of reenergizing the party failed to win over voters now that her own party members have lost faith in her leadership now liz has thrown in the towel after 20 years. under analysis was one of 3 leaders the us payday is headed on a 2 years but is this crisis really about her or is this a crisis of the german social democrats in general. i think one has to say it's a little bit of both clearly the social democrats are deeply and crisis they have been losing votes for years there's been a lot of infighting in the party for years. struggling to redefine their policies from the kind of traditional social democratic left wing positions which have been failing all over europe in fact if you look at france for instance the socialists there have all but disappeared but at the same time it's also

a problem that i think one can put at the door front we are not as she is a rather abrasive personality she is a political insider and she's gotten to the position that she has through moving and tactical maneuvers within the party that have so far been accepted in very successful but in recent times she's made several political mistakes and clearly power play within the party has not been successful in recent days and rather than being voted out of office in the next couple of days she seems to have decided to call it a day immediately. members of the social democrats had mixed reaction to this surprise announcement let's take a listen. i'm so i was never a fan of knowledge but the way they treated her recently they would never have done to him and $100.00 and ever since they think it is i think it's a good step towards a new start for the s.p.d. now while votes can be counted democratically and there's still room to move copies

all the emphasis and i do think it's good the s.p.d. will go wander. into. one of the women there saying that no man would have been treated the way under you know us was treated what do you say to that. yes i think there's an element of truth in that the social democratic party has been governed has been controlled by fairly old men for a long time and especially in recent days the personal attacks against andre and others even in public have become really quite sharp crack vitriolic. i think there is an element of how shall i say of anti womyn sentiment in there from from the establishment men in the party at the same time one does have to say that she does have as i say been a brace of 1st personality she doesn't always choose her words well she can use words that also. damaging to the party and to other people that she's talking about

so it's also partly her personality but i think the fact that she is a the fact that she's a woman was a was a serious part of this dispute so ok where it went to from here what happens next for the german government i think has said we're going to be some soul searching now not only on the social democrat side but also from the concept of it seems that yet another close call for the government has been avoided but that's only for now so let's see how long this can keep stable for the data kate brady and hans brown thank you both very much. several people have been injured in venice after a large 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 is famed but increasingly over crowded waterways.

the huge cruise ship led its own but it was too late for the much smaller tourist vessel to get out of the way the 13 deck opera with some 280-0000 passengers on board hit the river contests. and then pushed past it crashing into the dock. i heard this deafening noise coming closer it was the sound of the horn we were lucky because it could have been much worse i thought the ship would reach my house for the rest of it doesn't everybody care about the ambulance got here after 25 or 30 minutes but didn't do anything they stopped to watch what was happening a bit like everyone else did. medical authorities say 4 people were injured. soon after the collision protesters gathered to renew their call to ban large cruise ships from the port of venice the safety of big ships in the busy waters of

european cities has become an urgent issue after last week's danube river accident when a collision between a cruise liner and a tourist boat left 7 people dead and 21 missing. well turning to sport down the match wasn't the most exciting but the celebrations lived up to expectations they've all won football's champions league on saturday night with a 2 nil victory over english rivals tottenham and madrid their fans partied all night long on the streets of the spanish capital and the emotional celebrations continued this afternoon back home in liverpool around a 1000000 fans greeted their heroes who paraded through the streets in an open top bus right there with them of course coach the mastermind of their triumph leading his team to glory after losing 2 straight european finals with liverpool. a shock result in boxing so britain's anthony joshua lose his eye be if w b o n w b

a world heavyweight titles 2 unfancied mexican fighter andy ruis jr on saturday night in a remarkable fight at new york's madison square garden roo is junior floor josh with 4 times on route to a 7th round technical knockout is now the 1st mexican world heavyweight champion. you're watching date of the news live from berlin up next a w reporter this week from the us looking at vigilantes against migrants don't forget you can get over that us news on our website at www dot com thanks for joining us. kickoff. so how was. ours was the best. the best place for. the best goal. in this league on highlights.