oh. this is deja really news live from berlin germany's foreign minister calls for a lasting cease fire in northern syria i can ask this in ankara for talks with his turkish counterpart who dismissed as unrealistic another german proposal for an international security zone in the region also coming up. germany's social democrats move a step closer to choosing new latest party members whittle down their list of candidates 2 to taint one who wants to stay in government with the anglo american conservatives the others not so short. plus was she

a spy or was she a victim or able to return home to russia after serving time in a u.s. prison for being an unregistered agent she says she's innocent and says her treatment in america was torture. i'm rebecca raters welcome to the program germany's foreign minister heiko mass has called for a lasting cease fire in northern syria has also urged turkey to comply with international law when dealing with refugees mouses in ankara for talks amid tensions over turkey's military campaign in the region. it wasn't an easy visit for heiko mass in ankara it's better to talk to each other than about each other germany's foreign minister said of the 2 countries difficult relationship in spite of serious differences. it's a close nato partner said in an attempt to set

a more positive tone but he acknowledged that in light of the agreement between turkey and russia it was time to face the new realities in syria and to protect the civilian population but with regard to the sochi agreement it is of paramount importance that we 1st ensure that the ceasefire is maintained and extended. it demanded turkey's presence in syria must not be permanent. said germany's criticism was unfair as was the criticism of the planned repatriation of refugees he said both russia and the us had accepted turkey's military operation. we will continue to ensure that refugees return to syria only voluntarily found under safe conditions but we expect the international community especially germany and the e.u. to help the president at the one made the point even more clearly he said that if europe didn't help with the return of 2000000 refugees to syria then he would have

no option but to open turkey's doors and let the people make their way to europe that over ankara believes it's operating from a position of strength germany's defense minister and a great proposal for a protected security zone wasn't under discussion. dismissed the plans as unrealistic. earlier we spoke to our correspondent yulia han in istanbul she explained just how serious turkish president wants threats are to open the borders for millions of refugees well present and one has made this threats repeatedly in the past weeks and months even he of course once to increase pressure on the europeans he wants them to support he says safe so plan a plan by the way that will be a very very expensive the estimated costs for setting up a safe zone building houses their infrastructure and so on according to turkish media reports is more than $20000000000.00 u.s. dollars. it's safe to say that turkey won't be able to come up with the money by

itself says so in the end they are likely to turn towards europe and asking them for financial aid for this project and i think that's what's behind prison edwards latest threats. germany's social democrats have moved a step closer to electing new leaders and a decision on what the party's direction should be years of being the junior partner to chancellor angela merkel's conservatives as sanely s.p. days popularity slumped to record lows some party members believe the only way b.s. payday can recover is by ending the coalition and going into opposition others support staying in the governing coalition the 2 teams of candidates that survived the 1st round of voting by party members resent represents those 2 opposing sides. both for being counted at 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 of. norbert halter boyens received $440967.00 votes which corresponds to a share of 21 percent. of clout i have it's what all 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 a governing grand coalition with germany's conservatives. now 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. their rivals take

a different course. boylan's offer an alternative vision and they've made no secret of their skepticism about continuing the grand coalition . we need to see clearly how we intend to provide fairness in this country. we can't keep rolling over to special interests that want to have a say in how things work. and that means we need to put the social democracy back in the s.p.d. and win back voters trust. 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 anika closer from the s.p.d. as you swing hi anika thanks for joining me you voted today you happy with the result well i'm happy that a left wing team got to choose a runoff now was not but that's a variance and that's guess 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 which has been quite go. ok we're seeing quite a split in the party between as you are talking about the more established we 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 the winner is going to do if the conservatives when i would expect them to step forward also talk to the left wing ears and the youth and make them. give us some propositions on where we can work together for more social democracy for being more critical or even leaving the great crawlers in 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. the chancellor. the so-called grand coalition that you're talking about with the s.p.d. if your wing of the party win and they want to break up the grand coalition what does that mean for angela merkel as chancellor. well i'm not so sure what it means for her and 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 climate 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 the guns fault is that on top of the contract that we already half 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 the coalition and we don't know what i'm 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 you know regional elections 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 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 to 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 17th 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 know ok very positive thinking and i close from the young socialist thank you. turning now to some of the 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 in the southern town of nasiriyah more than 40 people were killed in clashes on friday. after 10 days of largely peaceful protest clashes have broken out between the army and protesters in lebanon the

clashes took place in the dolly near tripoli after the army tried to move protesters who were blocking the road the protests are part of a nationwide campaign of anti-government civil disobedience. in barcelona police backed up by riot bands of charged catalan pro independence demonstrators who gathered outside police headquarters some protesters threw eggs and other projectiles at offices while others vandalized police vehicles earlier on saturday an estimated 350000 people took part in largely in a largely peaceful rally. british police have charged the driver of the truck that found it was found carrying the bodies of $39.00 suspected migrants on wednesday the 25 year old faces $39.00 counts of manslaughter police are still trying to identify the victims and are appealing to the vietnamese community at least to vietnamese families now say they fear their relatives are among the dead. a

woman who confessed to spying for russia has returned to moscow after serving more than a year in an american jail rehabilitate his case rose to prominence around the same time as the minor investigation into alleged russian meddling into the us presidential election she and russia's president vladimir putin still insists she did nothing wrong. regard for the bottle for more civil war more flowers for maria putin. you know if you think you're very much i want to be at home i need some time to adapt as. the moment i only want to be reunited with my family and thank everyone was supported to me i would not have made it without my people citizens of my country thank you very much feel it to you it's just i think she's now a free woman by her father's side with the foreign ministry watching closely. but if you watch the united states she's a convicted russian agent who confessed to infiltrating the american gun lobby in

order to gather conservative political contacts sight reading the same face he paid for so gun rights i mean it was like oh. god i mean this knowledge rush hour carol asked rush out yeah that whole thing just like the mission was to promote russia's interests among senior republicans it got her as far as direct contact with donald trump before his election as well as with one of his sons putin has said that she's innocent the foreign ministry says she was humiliated as a human being as a woman. just as a citizen of a. country we should have absolutely east yeah very friendly. on their mind yeah the only thing. she was just supporting their relationship and friendship to the people not in the country she's now been

released from prison early describing her own fight to get out of jail she said quote russians never give up. taiwan has held its 1st pride parade since it made history in asia by legalizing gay marriage some 200000 revelers marched through the capital time pay and they had plenty of reasons to celebrate more than 2000 same sex couples of times and not in taiwan since little came into force in may. well coming up after the break we'll have the highlights from saturday's windows league games including germany's biggest local dumby dortmund face off in the latest installment of one of the most hated rivalries in world football we'll have the action from that clash and all the goals from germany's top division. you're watching daily news live from berlin don't forget you can get all the headlines on our

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