this is deep that the abuse live from berlin and political leaders in germany brace for crisis talks as the questions are raised over the survival of chancellor angela merkel's government it follows the shock resignation of the leader of her so she will democratic coalition partners andrea and alex. also coming out u.s. president donald trump and his wife along the as to the u.k.

for state visit hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out the process the capital evil ask why his trip is dividing the country plus we'll visit the city names in the survey as the closest type of friendly in the world what does the tracks and the netherlands have going for. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program questions are being asked here in berlin about whether angela merkel's coalition government could be on the verge of collapse they come after the leader of her junior coalition partners quit on sunday i'm sorry i'm alice 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 merkel 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. this as she is 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 duty as 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 given city vivisect 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 initial.

surprise. the s.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. a 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. the issues we have to songs are 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 bring in our political correspondent hans browne to a standing by at the s.p.d. headquarters here in berlin where we know that the party's board is meeting right now to discuss who will succeed andrea knowledge but hans i mean really the big question at this hour is will the ground coalition survive. that is the big question indeed and i think it's not possible to answer that at the moment it is certainly in grave danger of collapsing this will not happen today but it is possible that it will happen before the end of the year the factors involved are especially what's going to happen in the social democratic party now that under the analysis its leader has resigned and we are now this was in fact the leader who pushed the social democrats into this grand coalition against quite a substantial resistance within her party just over 2 years ago when this government was formed and now that she is gone the question is whether this faction

within the social democratic party that pushes for leaving the grand coalition whether they will gain the upper hand we will not see today whether that is the case or not it will develop within the next few weeks or months but it's certainly a situation in which the grand coalition is in grave danger so what is the timeline then han's for seeing a new s.p.d. party leader selected. well what they are doing at the moment i think although this has not been completely confirmed yet is that they are looking for interim leaders senior leaders of the party scene and senior members of the party that don't have ambitions themselves for those top position they are scheduled to leave the party for an interim period and during this interim period the party will try to kind of find its find its feet again and discuss how the succession can be organized

it's likely to take a few weeks there are obviously things such as to determine when party congress for instance can be held then we're getting into the. summer holiday period here in germany so at the moment it's very unclear how exactly is going to develop the most likely scenario is going to be that senior leaders will take on interim leadership and after that they will decide how exactly to go forward and becomes given that lack of clarity that you just mentioned how is the atmosphere at the s.p.v. headquarters this morning. i think one has to say that in some sense the social democrats off to all this almost panic that they've had in the last couple of weeks after the disastrous election results in the european parliamentary elections that they're trying to find their feet there is some sense of i guess you could say depression but also a sense of trying to bring back some sort of calm into the party there's been a lot of infighting there's been

a lot of public criticism especially against and really on dollars on a very personal level as well and they're trying to calm the waves basically trying to find a way forward but the atmosphere here is really very very. well the press i think you should say brandt at the s.p.d.m. berlin thank you hans. so where does germany where does the s.p.d. go from here for an inside look let's bring it on to a close over leader of the berlin branch of the s.p.d. is youth organization the us thank you so much for joining us this morning was she right to resign i think it was a consequential step if i go to america to really understand 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 free elections of the parliamentarian group on tuesday i think that would have not silence the voices of criticism but i think also that's

a pressure was really really high on her and there was cries unfair actually to blame her as a person for the results also here people actually 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.v. treat its leader badly. i think for some fact is what it was unfair 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'd sit she's just really yeah that 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 and 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 we uses the youth organization we've 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 we need our party congress already given december we need to reelect and off the party board and we need that 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 good we're just not going to be able to fulfil what we need to do with 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 and what are we going to do with the people who really losing the jobs how do we invest all these questions are on the table and social democracy well we do with doing coalitions of deals with the 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. article as a thank you thank you. now we're going to head to a developing story in sudan where 2 people are reported to have been killed in the

capital khartoum as the army moved in to break up a 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 back in april the military overthrew omar al bashir after mass protests against his 30 year. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world israeli security forces have clashed with muslim worshipers at the i'll ask a mosque in jerusalem hundreds of israeli citizens were allowed to access the mosque compound as the nation wants to do so and day the anniversary of israel's occupation of the eastern part of the city in 1967. search operations have resumed in budapest for the wreck of the sightseeing boat that sank in the river danube last thursday 7 people died and 21 people are still missing presumed trapped in the boat i water levels and for underwater visibility have so far blocked divers

efforts to reach the vessel but conditions are now improving. and thousands of opposition supporters in albania took to the streets to demand fresh elections the protesters the queues the prime minister his socialist party of corruption and the 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's the 1st official state visit for trump to the u.k. president will later head to ireland and then to france for a commemoration of the d.-day landings british authorities are braced for protest a visit by trump last year attracted widespread demonstrations. that trump has managed to ruffle feathers in london already with remarks about brags that and his endorsement of a candidate to succeed. to resign may as prime minister. 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. and he should he should have his space and he should be able to see the same patterns how he won i can understand why people want to protest and why people are against him visiting. 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 just 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 may successor and trumpets put his thumb on that scale as well and or sing boris johnson for the role and recommend again no deal brags that if britain can't get the terms it wants. last year much effort was spent to keep the us president away from the mass protests that greeted his visit. campaigners have promised a repeat. and from where i'm. and 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 is 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 chum 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 and 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 trump as a baby in diapers that we know from last summer ok so 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 to have been interesting historical moment but it's not something that's that's saddam what does he want i mean he's already. endorsed

boris johnson and he knows that this is a critical moment in the history of a great britain. he thinks that. would be more supportive than in a variety of policy issues renegotiation 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 as the successor to the prime minister theresa may how far does that back go. the country well it is certainly not going to hug boris johnson this backing i think there are many fans many trump fans amongst the chary leadership especially amongst those hard line breaks a ts in the tory party that are already backing providers 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 it's also mixing. a bit of politics with this 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 are leading the trump organization still that told 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 now that there's been a debate that has been erupting about chlorinated chicken again the we talked about 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 he's promoting them as though they were the interests of great britain but it's a contentious contentious moment weisman here in the city of charlotte potts in london thank you so much to both of you. you're watching news still to come on the program way to go we will look at the radical changes made by the city of track to better lives to encourage cycling. the 1st airplane manufacturer of boeing has admitted that some of its 737 planes could have a defective wing the part the company has been under intense pressure since 2 of at

737 max planes crashed within months of each other killing a total of $346.00 people the model has been grounded worldwide since war. from cash cow to a $1000000000.00 liability boeing 737 models are back in the headlines and once again it's for the wrong reasons after the grounding of the maxxis comes the news that the current model could have to fecht of parts boeing says up to $148.00 parts could be full t. including wing components which enable pilots to reduce speed. the federal aviation administration has given the company 10 days to replace suspicious parts while boeing says the risk of a crash hasn't risen the latest revelation has dealt a further blow to its reputation and that's a ready having major economic consequences many airlines are already mulling counseling their orders that puts billions of dollars on the line. prior to the

concerns over the 737 boeing listed 4636 orders a figure that could face a steep drop. potentially enabling european competitor airbus to profit its a 320 neo both similar features and had clocked 3605 orders with an increasing number of customers losing confidence in the boeing brand the aviation giant is likely to face more turbulent times. now a debate is raging in the city of venice over whether big ships should be allowed so close to the city's fragile canal it comes after a cruise liner lost control and crashed into a pier and a tourist boat at the weekend injuring several people. 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 2 and a half 1000 passengers on board hit the river county. and then pushed past it crashing into the dock. there. 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 most of it there's a everybody cared about that the ambulance got here after 25 or 30 minutes but didn't do anything they stopped to watch for chris 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. a survey by a german insurance company has named the dutch city of or trashed 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 as we report the city was not always such a poster child for clean air and exercise. australian kylie found could not imagine life without a car in her homeland but since moving to the dutch city. she almost always rides a bike 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 surfing name to attract is one of the best cities in the world for cyclists even beating amsterdam new bike lanes and bridges are being added all the time some are

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. 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 water act with enough room for 6000 bikes. well we've built this kind of beautiful parking space where you go really going to psycho 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 filled in so a freeway could be built on it. 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 and there will be mobility management so a couple of hops people can go for all their mobility desires car sharing electric bikes cargo x. public transport. kiley 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. now the match wasn't the most exciting with the celebrations lived up to expectations liverpool won football's champions league on saturday night with a 2 nil victory over and this rivals tottenham and madrid their fans partied all lie long on the streets of the spanish capital and the emotional celebrations continued this afternoon back in liverpool around

a 1000000 fans greeted their heroes who paraded through the streets in an open air bus right there with them of course was the coach they were the mastermind of their triumph leaving his team to glory after losing 2 straight european finals with. well now to a tasty little story in the town of sort of my china in colombia about 170 kilometers north of the capital bogota locals and tourists gathered on. a sports field to fling tomatoes at each other it's called ottawa team out the event has taken place every year since 2004 at the time of year when tomatoes are harvested similar festivals take place in spain and the united states. a quick reminder of our top stories for you now 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 shop resignation of andrea analysis the leader of the

social democratic coalition partners and in sudan 2 people are reported to have been killed as the army moved in to break up the sit ins outside of its headquarters that it's been going on for weeks the protesters are calling on the generals to hand over power to a transitional government after it overthrew the sheriff and engine 30 year old. up next our science magazine tomorrow today on artificial intelligence i'm sorry kelly timberland thanks for watching have a great. kid

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