out of. this is data really news live from berlin germany social democrats move a step closer to choosing new party leaders party's members whittled down their list of candidates to 2 tames one wants to stay in government one with conservatives the others not so sure about it we talked to a young social democrat about the party's future also coming out. germany's foreign minister calls for a lasting cease fire in northern syria micromasters in ankara for talks with his turkish counterpart who dismissed as unrealistic another german proposal for an

international security zone in the region. and british police file manslaughter charges against the driver of the truck that was found carrying the bodies of 39 people investigators now say they don't know where the victims came from and are asking members of the u.k.'s vietnamese community for help. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program germany's social democrats have moved a step closer to electing new late is and a decision on what the party's direction should be is of being the junior partner to chancellor angela merkel's conservatives has seen yes paydays popularity slumped to record lows some party members believe the only way the esp a day can recover is by ending the coalition and going into opposition others support staying in the governing coalition the 2 tames of candidates that survive

the 1st round of voting by party members represents those 2 opposing sides. vote for being counted or the social democrats headquarters from the early hours of the morning. almost 430000 party members were eligible to cast ballots online or by post in the end turnout was 53 percent. there was no clear winner so 2 pairs of candidates will take part in a runoff vote all of. us can and norbert halter boyens received $440967.00 votes which corresponds to a share of 21 percent. of its intellectual it's received $40473.00 votes which corresponds to a share of 22 percent. schultz here on the left to his right and to the run off as pragmatic sober minded representatives of the status quo shorts as vice chancellor and finance minister wants to continue with the governing grand

coalition with germany's conservatives. it's good to know it's about how we can make the s.p.d. so strong that it can play its role in germany as a party that stands for fairness and justice gets their rivals take a different course sask yes and no provides a buoyancy offer an alternative vision. they've made no secret of their skepticism about continuing the grand coalition. and we need to see clearly how we intend to provide fairness in this country. we can keep rolling over to special interests that want to have a say in how things work in the north but that means we need to put the social democracy back in the s.p.d. and win back voters trust you discard. in november party members will vote on who will lead the s.p.d. which couldn't turn decide if germany's grand coalition holds on to power. for more i'm joined in the studio by an excerpt from the s.p.d.

as you swing hi and thanks for joining me eva did today you happy with the result. well i'm happy that a left wing team got to choose a runoff now was about threats of violence and just to ask in i'm not so happy that a more conservative team got the 1st place in the 1st part of the elections and also by the voters turn out it's just been quite though. we're seeing quite a split in the party between talking about the more established wing and the more left wing let's say a part of the party with the with the losers of next month's runoff election whether they be either the conservatives or the left wing side will they be able to get behind the opposing side and unite the party but i hope that this is going to be the case everyone every team that was campaigning pledged to support the winner at the end but i think it's also a question of what's a win is going to do if the conservatives when i would expect them to step forward also talk to the left wing innocence of youth and make some. give us some

propositions on where we can work together for more social democracy for being more critical or even leaving the great i think those are talks which need to happen but 1st of all i think our main goal is going to be to win for the left wing team and just our audience obviously know uncle america's conservatives and they. angela merkel is the chancellor. of the so-called grand coalition that you're talking about with the s.p.d. if your wing of the party win and then want to break up the grand coalition what does that mean for on the americal as chancellor well i'm not so sure what it means for her i mean she could always try to form a new coalition and also it's not a done deal yet that even if the left team wins that we're going to leave the great coalition because that's up to the party congress in december but i think there like many press positions that we have put forward which needs to be done the huge investments 500000000 euros investment in our infrastructure more engagement for

against climate change and more involvement a few things especially in politics so i think we're going to put forward these propositions which are left wing or left wing propositions and i don't think the conservatives like on the spot of that on top of the contract that we already have so i think most likely would be a new election but we don't really know for sure so possibly a new election in germany before the end of the year no not before the end of the year because we don't know yet what the congress is going to vote on and then there were going to be talks within is a question and we don't know what is going to do if she's going to try a minority government or if she's going to have coalition talks others parties or even maybe the conservatives are going to agree to our propositions for left wing politics which we would also like and support now the social democrats have been losing popularity across the country in a way to lections of late even with this election which was today with party

members voting the turnout was really low just about 50 percent. what is the what's the future of the s.p. is there a future for the s.p.d. in germany yes there is a future we had $23.00 regional conferences during this campaign do during this period and there was so much life and so many people showing up debating i think there's a lot going on that s.p.d. had to turn out i think was no because there was 7 teams running and some people couldn't decide so i expect to turn out to be much higher in the 1st route and also we've seen for other parties that the turnout was about the same in the 1st round so i'm expecting to get better no ok very positive thinking and i close it from the young socialist thank you. germany's foreign minister has called for a lasting cease fire in northern syria after talks in ankara mas and his turkish counterpart move shola commented on proposals to limit the conflict on syria's

border. the greeting appeared friendly enough but the tensions were evident even before german foreign minister heikal mass arrived in ankara his turkish counterpart had responded to german criticism in a tweet seeing anyone who lectures turkey has to expect an appropriate response script through shin ordinance there obviously i think serious differences between us. but partners and allies should be able to talk to one another in such a situation. and not talk about each other. the turkish foreign minister maintains that germany does not understand the security concerns facing turkey and correct considers the kurdish waikiki militia to be a terrorist organization. we expect germany as an ally and as a friend to fully support us in the fight against terrorism. both foreign ministers dismissed german defense minister and

a great crown catherine virus controversial proposal to set up a un protected securities all in northern syria. we don't have time for the theoretical right now for the people of syria the time for theoretical debates is over we have to should do it but. first germany needs to come to an agreement on this there are different opinions in the government that's democracy but i do not want to get involved masses prioritising other things above all humanitarian aid for refugees a lasting cease fire and a political solution to the conflict earlier we spoke to our correspondent in istanbul and she told us how realistic germany's proposed permanent ceasefire would be. well that does not only depend on germany of course the current ceasefire even though turkey doesn't call it a ceasefire was brokered by russia and include and it includes that russian military police and syrian regime border police are trying to make sure that

kurdish fighters are withdrawing from a designated area close to the turkish border and today present an add on threatened if this is not happening that turkey would take matters into its own hands suggesting that there could be renewed attacks off to tuesday evening. now let's turn to some other stories making news around the world iraqi officials say at least 7 protesters were killed in anti-government demonstrations on saturday police used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse crowds in baghdad and the southern town of nasiriyah more than 40 people were killed in clashes on friday. medical workers in hong kong joined a rally in the heart of the city's financial center on saturday they were demonstrating against alleged police brutality cheering more than 4 months of anti-government protests protesters are angry about what they see as a creeping chinese in interference in hong kong. in spain hundreds of thousands of

supporters of catalan independence march through the streets straits of boss alona calling for the race release of jailed separatist late is the catalan region he's saying violent protests since 9 leaders were sentenced to long prison terms this month. a russian woman jailed in the united states on spying charges has returned to moscow one day after her release from detention tina plaited guilty last december to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent for russia the russian foreign ministry says she was the victim of anti russian attitudes in the us. british police have filed charges against the driver of the truck that was found carrying the bodies of $39.00 suspected migrants on wednesday the 25 year old faces $39.00 counts of manslaughter as well as other charges meanwhile british police have backed away from initial reports that the victims were from china investigators have asked britain's vietnamese community to help identifying the

bodies. it has been a long and drawn out process recovering the $39.00 bodies from the truck where they were found. but police say that the operation has now been completed. what i can say now is that all of our victims have been recovered they are all now at broome field hospital and they will be undergoing post-mortems the whole process is forensic the recovery process was forensic up until now there had been speculation on the nationalities of the victims and police are now shedding some light on that question now we know that although we can't speculate at this time on the nationality of victims. it's clear from everybody that we are getting a large amount of engagement from the vietnamese population from communities home and abroad. since friday multiple vietnamese families have come forward fearing their relatives are among the victims and in vietnam some are looking for answers

as they have no news from their loved ones who had traveled to the u.k. . in. the news of the people who had died on their way to the u.k. in search of a new life that lost their lives instead not only the district of young tom but perhaps the whole country is in sorrow that. this is a tragedy that the whole country has to make it the forgive them paving the. police are now appealing to anyone who fears a relative maybe among the victims to come forward. and service for now and in the football reigning champions by munich have gone to the top of the bundesliga after. winning with a union berlin robert leavened scored bines decisive 2nd goal and set a new record in the process he's the 1st one to sling a player to score in each of the 1st 9 games of the season. let's take

a look at the rest of the result so far from this weekend's bundesliga games shellcode and dortmund played out a goal a stroll hoffenheim 132 away at her violin fribourg beat leipzig 21 out of own one for the 1st time this season against a little golf and leverkusen and bremen played out an exciting 2 to drool on friday months one against cologne all the rugby world cup has its 1st finalist off to england sensationally bate new zealand in a semi final in yokohama the all blacks would offending champions and favorites for the tournament but england stifled their attack to go 10 nil up by the half time england stranglehold continued after the break and they ran out at $19.00 to $7.00 winners to reach their 4th world cup final they play the winner of sunday's semi final between whiles and south africa taiwan has held its 1st pride parade since it made history in asia by legalizing gay marriage some 200000 revelers march to the capital taipei and i had plenty of reasons to celebrate all the 2000 same set 6

couples have tied the knot in taiwan since the little came into force in my. you know what news from berlin coming up next a day w. documentary about the philippines fight against islamic state insurgents on the back of the top of the hour thanks for watching. stan for you. and all. language courses. video. any tory anywhere. w. this.