this v.w. views life from birth land political leaders in germany brace for crisis talks as questions are raised over the survival of chancellor angela merkel's government it follows the shock resignation of the of the leader of her social democratic coalition partners andrea knowledge also coming up u.s. president donald trump and his wife bonnie are had to do pay for a state visit hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out across the capitol we will ask why this trip is to buy the country plus we will

visit the city named as one survey as the most cycle friendly in the world what does old wrecked in the netherlands have going for it. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program questions are being asked here in germany about whether anglo-american coalition governments could be on the verge of collapse they come after the leader of her junior coalition partner quit on sunday andrea nala stepped down after her social democrat party's disaster is showing in the recent european elections but also after being criticized for her performance as party leader americal says that she will push ahead with the coalition but others are not so sure. after a year in the top job at the s.p.d.

andrea know this as she's standing down because she feels she can't go on. discussions in the parliamentary group and feedback from the party have shown that i no longer have the necessary support to carry out my duties on monday i will therefore resign as chair of the s.p.d. and on tuesday i will resign as chair of the s.p.d. parliamentary group nala says resignation follows a party's dismal performance in last month's european elections its worst ever showing at the polls this is the view this is 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 what's going on with mr long. yes p.d. was once a big tent party but years of playing 2nd fiddle in chancellor angela merkel's

government have left the social democrats struggling to stay relevant new polling puts the s.p.d. of just 12 percent a distant 3rd behind the greens and conservatives coalition has found it difficult to make headway since its painful formation after the 2017 german election merkel wants to see out her final term until 2021 years the end we will continue the government's work with all seriousness and we will above all do so with a great sense of responsibility for. the issues we have to solve our for germany and europe and the rest of the world with this mindset we will continue working the holes that's likely to prove no easy task is specially with both the main parties seeing their support ebbing away. let's get more now we're joined by political

correspondent simon young says time as we saw there are 3 analysis due to officially resigned later today what direction is the s.p.d. likely to take after her departure. well sara that's far from clear at this stage and the party is of course still reeling from this surprise announcement yesterday but many in the party say that what's needed is a change in policies and many feel that that really means a stronger social democrat profile i.e. a stronger sort of left wing profile and they believe that that is the only way to stop the party hemorrhaging support it has been doing in election after election but it also depends of course on who is going to be the new social democrat leader and frankly at this point who would want that difficult job but it would be up to them to decide how they can best put across the social democrat agenda possibly outside the current coalition government and the big question is ok what does this

now mean for germany because chancellor merkel other conservative leaders they're all saying that they want to keep the keep the s.p.d. on board but that simon is it too late could this resignation bring down merkel's government. well i think it could eventually end by the way the social democrat finance minister on our show just published an article coincidentally yesterday in which he was saying you know a 3rd grand coalition is not good for german democracy and you know shouldn't be contemplated and then frankly the left wing of the s.p.d. never liked the idea of this left right coalition with medicals conservatives that they've gone into in the andrea knol is really argued for and so i think it's difficult to say how it will pan out as i say a lot depends on who's the new leader the timetable at the moment looks to be that the party will probably choose

a new leader. perhaps around september and it'll be up to them as i say to decide whether they think they should get out of the coalition with merkel if they do that then it's very likely that within a few months anyway there would be new elections because the government would fall simon young emperor len thank you. so where does germany where does the s.p.d. go from here for an inside look let's bring it on a closer leader of the pearland branch of the s.p.d. is youth organization he is us thank you so much for joining us this morning was she right to resign. i think it was a consequential step of i go america. and then that is to resign because the criticism of her was really big in the last weeks and i think even though she offered to have reelections of the parliamentarian group on tuesday i think that would have not silenced the voices of criticism but i think also that the pressure

was really really high on her and there was cries unfair actually to blame her as a person for the results of the european election and she actually said when she you know announced this that the party needs to regain the trust and the respect for one another to be s.p.d. treat its leader badly. i think for some fact is what it was unfair and i think that she suffered from criticism because she was not so popular and she's a character which is not so common in politics because you know sometimes she says she's just really yeah a character you know she does things that are not really common but i think also that politics need some people who are like do unexpected things or have some comments which is i think it's nice to have people like that but i also think that she did do some stakes and i think that we need change in leadership but just one

person is not going to do the deal ultimately it was her who persuaded the parties to join marable's coalition government last year a very you know we know that your party wanted to enter the opposition for example what happens to the coalition now we really don't know what we uses the youth organization we pushed for the evaluation of the coalition at our party congress in december so i think we need to pull that forward and do that earlier this year actually if we need to our party congress already have the december we need to reelect and off the party board and we need that it relation of the grand coalition really soon because honestly it's a grand coalition if we look at the polls if you look at the results of the european elections is not a grand coalition anymore the people expect us to do more than what we're doing right now and i think it's just not we're just not going to be able to fulfill what we need to do with the conservatives what happens to the s.p.d. now because i mean your party is bleeding voters not only on the german level but

also you know generally speaking on the european level as well and especially to the green party yes that's true because the climate change is the biggest winning topic at the moment and i think the social democracy was not able to push that topic as much as we would have needed to do that and to also make it a social question the climate change like how we're going to. how are we going to finance it how we're going to do it without losing jobs so what are we going to do with the people who really musings of jobs how do we invest all this questions are on the table and social democracy well we do with doing coalitions of deals with the conservatives who are doing nothing but protecting the economy even if we need huge changes economies so i think they're on the european level on german level we need to do some changes we need to set a new agenda a call for action yet in the youth party from the youth organization of the s.p.d. i'm good thank you and. let's get

a quick check now some other stories making news around the world airplane manufacturer of boeing has now admitted that some 7 of its excuse me but some of its 737 planes could have a defective wing part the company has been under intense pressure since $2737.00 max planes crashed within months of each other killing a total of $346.00 people the model has been grounded worldwide since march. israeli security forces have clashed with muslim worshippers at the i'll ask a mosque in jerusalem hundreds of israeli citizens were allowed access to the mosque compound as the nation marked jerusalem day the anniversary of israel's occupation of the eastern part of the city in 1600. and 1000 of one thousands of opposition supporters now being that took to the streets to demand fresh elections the protesters accused the prime minister socialist party of corruption and links to organized crime western countries have appealed to the opposition to avoid

violence and to hold talks. u.s. president donald trump is due to arrive in london shortly at the beginning of a week long trip to europe it is the 1st official state visit for trump to the u.k. the president will later then head to ireland and then to france for the commemoration of the d.-day landings. now british authorities are braced for protest a visit by trump last year attracted widespread demonstrations trump has managed to ruffle feathers of london already with remarks about drugs and his endorsement of a candidate to succeed prime minister to rescind. unfurling the flag. establishing a fearsome security perimeter donald trump is coming to town many londoners have mixed feelings to say the least about the u.s. president's 1st state visit where he'll experience some of the most lavish

hospitality britain can offer. i feel like it should be a thing of the old president's do it i can and he should he should have his face his and he should be able to see the same kind as how he won but i can understand why people want to protest and why people are against him does that and. this it's . on his previous lower profile visit trump did not endear himself to his hosts with a series of offenses against protocol this time around he's already embroiled in controversy after giving an interview to a british tabloid calling the duchess of sussex megan markel nasty. in his last visit trump also criticized outgoing prime minister teresa mayes brags of decisions while saying he felt for her. i feel badly for it to resign like a very much she's a good woman she worked very hard she's very strong this time around it's

a lame duck meeting with the prime minister on her way out high on the agenda is a u.s. british trade deal after bragg's it but the task of fixing any deal will now fall on a successor and trumpets put his thumb on that scale as well and or seeing boris johnson for the role and recommending a no deal brags that if britain can't get the terms it wants. last year much effort was spent to keep the u.s. president away from the mass protests that greeted his visit. campaigners have promised a repeat. of the good and for more i'm joined here in. the studio by boris foreman welcome to you professor of political science at bard college in berlin and in london d.w. charlotte potts is standing by in charlotte i'd like to begin with you and just ask you because the we know that the president is due to arrive in the city soon what's expected. so he is going to receive the royal treatment here

today the full royal treatment that a state visit can offer trump is going to meet basically with every high ranking member of the royal family he is going to spend most of the day with the queen and that includes a luncheon at some point then a visit to westminster abbey and later on a lavish state banquet and this dinner there has been a lot of criticism of course around this visit with the big question why is britain rolling out the red carpet for trump right now so this dinner will be boycotted for example by opposition leader jeremy cole been who has already said he is not going to participate as a point of criticism towards and also for example the leader of the liberal democrats he's also not going to participate so we are also expecting huge protests here today in central london today around buckingham palace and then more. tomorrow

where we will also see the balloon the famous one from last summer the trump blimp coming back the balloon that depicted as a baby in diapers that we know from last summer ok so for us we have a controversial visit at a tumultuous time for the country not you know the prime minister stepping down in just a matter days. what does trump want to get out of this visit from his perspective i mean one thing we should say is that this this visit has been planned long time ago just after he stepped into his office you know he was invited by 3 theresa may and so this is not coming out of an interesting historical moment but it's not something that's that's sudden what does he want i mean he's already. endorsed boris johnson he knows that this is a critical moment in the history of a great britain. he thinks that boris johnson was would be more supportive than the

in a variety of policy issues to renegotiate with iran being very important priority and a couple of other issues that have been at stake and but he's trying to a remote. charlotte you know we just mentioning there that trump is indeed back in johnson as the successor to the prime minister theresa may how far does that back go 1 in the country well it is certainly not going to hurt boris johnson this backing i think there are many fans many trump fans amongst the chary leadership especially amongst those hard line breaks to tears in the tory party that are already backing boris johnson as the next leader of the conservative party and thereby as the next prime minister so usually foreign leaders have not been endorsing and meddling with domestic politics but of course with trump what used to be is not anymore so the leadership contest will start next

week after trump's visit boris johnson is the clear front runner at the moment and we could see a boris johnson prime minister by july. for us on this as a trump is also mixing. a bit of politics with business as well tell us about adding well this is nothing new i mean this is the discussions we've discussion we've been having from the start is there a potential risk if political and economic interests are too close he's bringing all of his 4 children that are still very involved that they were leading the trump organization so that tells us something and he's interested also in the trade deal i mean this has been a big debate in great britain what's going to happen once they exit the e.u. with the with or without a deal and so the u.s. as a special partner has always been moving and know that there's been a debate that has been erupting about chlorinated chicken again to be talked about but the debates were about to tip about the n.h.s.

the national health service that might be opened up to private investment from the u.s. so it's a very contentious issue and yes trump has its interests his interests promoting them as though they were the interests of great britain but it's a contentious contentious moment was farming here in the city of charlotte potts in london thank you so much to both of you. i want to get to some breaking news just coming in for you now in sudan we have explosions and machine gun fire which have been reported in the capital khartoum a group leading the protest against military rule says that the army is using force to break up the sit in outside of its headquarters thousands have been protesting there for weeks calling on the generals to hand over power to a transitional government and april the military overthrew omar al bashir after mass protests against his 30 year rule.

and will of course have more of the story as it comes and but 1st we want to tell you what's still coming up here on new way to go and we look at the radical changes made by the city of put to rest in the netherlands to encourage cycling. in. the meantime a debate is raging in venice over whether big ships should be allowed so close to the city's fragile canals it comes after a cruise liner lost control and crashed into a pier and a tourist boat at the weekend injuring several people. might. come off. the huge cruise ship bled its home 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 county. and then pushed past it crashing into the dock. there

are at least as i heard just a 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 really care about that 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.

to change including from devout catholics themselves one female theology and is urging the vatican to recognize her as a potential member of the priesthood. from above the swiss town of broken garden west of zurich looks tranquil but the situation on the ground is anything but. this theologians is taking on the roman catholic church over its ban on female clergy. i want to become a catholic priest i feel it's my calling since i was a teenager i felt a fire within me in my heart in my whole body i should be standing at the altar and be there for the people to serve them and to guard that because i'm a woman i'm not allowed to mentioned in that latin it's very difficult to. tell who's german is 28 she studied catholic theology in switzerland where she now lives she's given a number of sermons at the same nikolaus church and train dart and even though

that's not really connected to the parish priest says women need to take the initiative. as long as women hold back there won't be any progress for them in the church i don't think men will simply make way for them or thousands of women post comments on child's blog to inspire her to keep fighting she's also written lots of letters to the vatican the answer is always friendly but thank you for your commitment but the priesthood is reserved for men. i don't know why with all that i can't go to the bishop and tell him i have a calling i can't say review my case and if you think my calling is genuine then make me a priest that's not an option. to have you still got it in his spare time style likes to box she's learnt how to focus closely on her opponent and not back down the authority of a thinker that the catholic church is bigger than me it's quite a sparring partner but i'm not alone i have lots of women and men all over the

world on my side who are pushing for reforms in the church who want to give it a kick and wake it up the cubicle some cool marketing boy stops nationally won't be pulling her punches even if her opponent is far more powerful than she is. no a survey by a german insurance company has named the dutch city of as the most cycle friendly in the world authorities there have introduced a range of measures to encourage people to ride bikes some are quite surprising and it's in this report we learned that it was not always such a poster child for clean air and exercise the city. australian kylie fun dummy could not imagine life without a car in her homeland but since moving to the dutch city. she almost always writes a fine for transport that took some getting used to i'd never cycle that i tried to cycle once i didn't know what i was doing it was dangerous it was 35 degrees

a survey named as one of the best cities in the world for cyclists even bathing amsterdam new bike lanes and bridges are being added all the time some aren't even heated in the winter to keep them safe in icy conditions. and those who are new to cycling like kylie can even get an instructor. try to invest $130.00 euros per resident for its biking project in berlin it's just for euro 70. the world's biggest parking lot for bikes is being built right in the center of tract with enough room for 6000 bikes. where we've built this kind of beautiful park things people are go really go to cycle just because the facilities are there so it's it stimulates the mobility to be like this was not always the case in the 1960 s. the car was at the center of urban planning. even a canal was built in so

a freeway could be built on it. to track has been correcting the planning mistakes of the past for years now the canal is being restored there are new parks and green spaces and the city is even going a step further at this new housing development with 6000 units just one in 3 will get a parking space for a car there will be mobility management so a couple of hops where people can go for all their mobility desires cars sharing electric bikes cargo x. public transport. kylie is now in. very good company as growing numbers of people make the switch in the netherlands more than 30 percent of residents use bicycles for all their transport needs. well now to a tasty little story in the town of sirte the march in colombia about 170 kilometers north of the capital bogota locals and tourists gathered on

a sports fields to fling tomatoes at each other it's called lotto martina the event has taken place every year since 2004 at the time of the year when tomatoes are harvested similar festivals take place in spain and in the united states. are now the top stories we're following for you here and e.w. in sudan explosions and machine gunfire have been reported in the capital khartoum the group leading the protest against military rule says that the army is using force to break up the sit in outside of its had orders and political leaders in germany are bracing for crisis talks as questions are raised over the survival of chancellor angela merkel's government it follows the shock resignation of andre and alice the leader of for social democratic coalition partners and us president donald trump and his wife will lobby are on their way to the u.k.

for a state visit thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out across london to protest against the president. up next a look at living in the digital age you're watching news live from berlin and don't forget you can always get the latest on our web site that's the d w dot com and you can follow us on social media i'm sarah kelly thanks for watching.

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