need now, i made another extensive offer to the free democrats earlier today, so that we can close the holes in the budget. and to avoid scrubbing our country into chaos, did you look at one of the tall, such recent gun owner ones, a long distance call assistance? the decision follows months of divisions within the german government over the budget and other issues. a free democratic leader and finance minister christy on lender blamed chancellor sholtes for the break up the um fortunately, we made suggestions for an economic turn around towards the country back on the path to success. folks cause so being, any god people, cuz he last bureaucracy that's taxation, mazda, subtract, magic energy, and climate policies control more control of immigration. so we like stuck on at the same time, strengthening the individual responsibility performance and encourage innovation. we use a for the suggestion, so i'm not even accepted as a basis for discussions by the social democrats or on greens. target. ok,

it's up to you. it's going finance minister christy on lender there will. max hoffman is head of news that dw, he has more on how chancellor schultz explained the breakup of steve. and the overarching argument was his responsibility towards the country. and he felt like he couldn't be in charge of that responsibility with this finance minister, which he called, among other things, by the way, disrespectful egoistic and also small minded. so you could tell, there was a lot of pent up frustration there from weeks if not months of conflict here, putting the blame squarely onto cnn or the former finance minister, of course of interest. we just heard, had a very different perspective on things, right, weeks and months of conflict leading to this breaking point. what timeline has schultz now given for the, the coming weeks and months ahead? it's weird and in the sound bite earlier. and the plan is to

have a vote of confidence in january um, what of shorts explain the rather late date that's already been criticized by the way, by opposition politicians. because he wants to introduce some laws once we get some laws passed by the end of the year. so basically, uh, get things done that he still had planned. whether this is going to be successful or not is a different story and that lands him on the 15th of january for that vote of confidence if he loses that boat, which seems extremely likely at this point. that brings us to march for early elections. and then probably a new government for germany. max, help us understand this point a little bit more if the governing coalition has essentially collapse. why would we not see new elections immediately? in this case? it's basically up to or left shows to set the date here. and as i said earlier, you know, there are opposition. politicians who say this needs to happen as fast as possible,

ideally this year. so you could have early elections as early as january, but she should forget you have christmas, you have the holidays here. that would make things a little more complicated. and you know, it's not completely impossible that there might be some calculation on behalf of or off shots and his party there that if given a little more time, they might be able to convince voters that they are well, you know, they're worth another vote in march. with those laws have a little more time for campaigning. so all of these factors might play a role here, but we don't know for sure. what if anything, can we say about the timing of this announcement following donald trump's re election? should we read anything more into them? oh, yeah, i thought about that. and uh, because beforehand, you know, a lot of people said, is trump, is elected. that might actually be an argument for this call. listen to, to get it together and try to continue. but uh,

i wouldn't worry too much into it because of the don't forget, it seems it seems so far away now. but um, 24 hours ago we uh we thought we all thought because of the polls that complet harris at a very decent shot at becoming the president's meeting. nobody knew that trump was really going to be the next president. and so putting everything in a plan like that, and the timing seems unlikely, it's much more likely that this is build up and, and the deciding factor here, among others, was the budget negotiations because the plan was to, to try to nail down a budget by next week and for 2025 and it was always clear that this was going to be a rather big obstacles because the views on what this budget should look like and what should be fine as and whatnot. we're very different within this coalition. so how did this coalition become so divided in the 1st place?

it's a long story. i took a long time and if i had to break it down in the most simple terms, you know you had problems with issues. there were 3 coalition partners in germany. you always have a coal, isn't government to get a majority in parliament. this time with 3 parties which made it more complicated because some of them, those parties were very different. for example, the left wing of the greens or the left with these left wing of the social democrats, very different from certain elements of the business friendly liberals. so they were at odds where to spend the money where to have tax cuts for whom to have tax goods. what to do about social benefits, who should profit from them? also ecological transition, very difficult. but then there was also the question of communication and form, generally speaking, because they fought in public all the time really. each time they thought they'd solve the problem, the new fight would break out a new dispute, new discussion, nothing stayed confidential, really. uh,

so everything was known about those meetings, even if they were off the record documents that were supposed to be confidential or made public even today. you know, so, so makes me get my personal bad. i find that totally irritating and also super disappointing. i have the feeling that we're already in election campaign mode, so some people are no longer interested in finding real solutions within the group, but only in positioning themselves. to me, i think that this one, i think it's an unworthy spectacle, that's happening at the moment. one working against the other with no common ground that can be established. the disagreements at the center of the collapse revolver on how to revive jeremy, slightly economy, which rank last year and barely avoided recession this year. the country continues to struggle with high energy costs and fears, competition from china, particularly in the automotive market. both can sooner and business confidence is low. and what else? germany faces a nearly 10000000000 year old gap and next year's budget. how can i get out of this

mess? that's the question. how back and lender have very different answers to callback believes targeted government spending will stimulate the economy. well, lender wants spending costs as a sauce and climate regulations. one thing everyone can agree on is that the divisions are damaging to all parties and that the collapse comes at a particularly bad time for germany. jerry and the future policies of us president elect donald trump, are expected to pose a huge challenge to european trade and security. and now germany long regarded as europe leader and international issues is distracted by domestic affairs. the ws chief political attitude, michelle a troop now has more on europe's biggest economy, being mired and political crisis. on the same day donald trump was re elected. so what was the spectacular timing? because this actually happens, the announcements by what i felt came as i was possibly standing at howard

university waiting for pamela harris and her concession speech. so quite an eventful 24 hours that leaves the united states in a very different kind of house for the future. also, europe, and suddenly germany is europe's largest economy and it's rather unbelievable that it keeps talking about how many billions are missing out of its budget. one of the richest countries in the world. and this will add more uncertainty to the weeks, months next year to come. as donald trump comes into office here in january, that will be the moment when the german chancellor actually has this vote of confidence in parliament, which he is fairly certain to do's. and it will take stephanie's president to otherwise only has a ceremonial role, to actually take that decision and fix a new elections. and that's why this is not leading immediately and very, very fast to fresh elections, to stop elections. but that's also because old ourselves clearly doesn't just want

to get a few more know us through. he also once a bit of time to talk with the current office, as indeed escalation mats from the conservatives did. he still has hopes that he can afford some kind of minority governments, some kind of corporation, despite the fact that he's been, he's been told by flourish, match the opposition, the, that, that he's simply not up for that help us understand the background of this max told us a little bit about what's been happening over the past years, especially the last few weeks and months. we saw in his speech data shorts with right after his former coalition partner. was this break abrupt or to what extent did we see it coming as it was like watching a very unhappy 3 way marriage unfold, which ton it started up beat and it turned out on the 15th of november 20 and 23. that's when dummy's constitutional court ruled the budget. those 3 parties would force together wherever you would have gone a lot of what they wanted. um,

actually something was blown out of the wall. so by reading that said, they cannot use 60000000000 for climate fund that was funding a lot of this. and ever since they've been trying to find money to finance the glue that was keeping them together that each policy was guessing products was guessing as suddenly a funding directed its way into it's most key projects. so a lot of that was climate as well. climate related, so they never really recovered from that ever since it took into this rounds of debates. compromises that were then questioned again, agreements that were the ones questioned again until we actually lived at this very point which has been described by the vice chancellor and leading figure of the greens them all by topic as the worst possible time. yes it is. but if germany wants to, again represent what it is known for stability in europe,

and then it needs a stable government. and this government hasn't been stable for very, very long time. the worst possible timing, perhaps in part because the economy and the crisis that's going on right here in germany. what does this crisis mean for the future of the german economy, at least in the near term. and the middle term there's, there's 2 arguments that they shouldn't have broken up because it needs, this is a decision is now to stabilize them. these economy, if you speak to people who are actually in the economy running companies, they are simply sick and tired of the debates. they just saw a proposal from the topic of the trade minister advice on so they sold proposal from the finance minister. they simply know what it, what will be the road ahead, what will be the tax rate? will it be more competitive with the united states, particularly as they expect to take a hit when donald trump takes over as us president. and this goes beyond

any kind of terrorist, this is donald trump, solely requesting also make is to produce more in the united states rather than in europe rather than in germany. and it's no coincidence that we saw that, that sector, the automotive companies, dips top the at, at the, in trading today. where as um, we sold tesla, which is own, so we're not, well not owned anymore, but led by a loan mosque actually, sky rockers. because these, this will be the new set of circumstances that dominates the german government and german companies will have to respond to once donald trump comes into office and they want to see some clarity on the plan. ahead by then and looking at this now they're still unlikely to get it. to w. c. political editor, michelle, a group that they're talking about that coalition break up. that unfolded 2 nights in berlin. michelle, the thank you. it's to be done in the states now where vice president,

complet harris has spoken to her supporters for the 1st time since her election defeats the republican. donald trump trump states. remarkable come back to me in the white house for a 2nd time. after surging to victory, industry of swing states, harris accepted the loss at howard university in washington, dc, where she had originally planned to hold her election watched party on tuesday. my heart is full today. my heart is full today, full of gratitude. for the trust you have placed in me full of love for our country and full of resolve. the outcome of this election is not what we wanted. not what we fought for. not what we voted for. but hear me when i say hear me when i say the lights of america's promise will always burn bright

as long as we never give up. and as long as we keep fighting, the new folks are feeling in experiencing a range of emotions. right now. i get it, but we must accept the results of this election. earlier today, i spoke with president electronics and congratulated him on his victory. i also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition, and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power d correspond. janelle do allowed was at howard university and told us more about what stood out in here. so speech of the yeah, steven. so and, and motional

a camera la harris. so took the stage at howard university. she thanked her supporters. she sang to she signed up president biden, she launched one last broadside against donald trump by referencing that peaceful transfer of power. well, that's something we know that the president elect has not always been such a fan of. but what really stood out to me was how similar for speech sounded to of a 2016 concession speech of a hillary clinton to the saying that and to donald trump, both women in their speech says, reminded their supporters of that. so the health of a constitutional democracy does not only depend on the government but to, but also on citizens, a commitment to values like the rule of law, like fairness and dignity for all. of course however, there were some differences. if you remember, hillary clinton's famous lloyd and his speech was directed at all the little girls,

she was reminding them that they were powerful, invaluable, and deserving of every opportunity for campbell at harris his parts. she directed her message, the young people saying it was okay to be disappointed, but in the end it was going to be okay. she also reminded them that they to have power. no, of course it wasn't all the young people who were present here at the concession speech today was a cross section of society. we spoke to some of them to ask about their reactions a to pamela harris has speech. here is what some of them had to say. i found it extremely moving, despite the circumstances that she is still encouraging us to continue and not give up, and also not to be afraid of what's coming. i'm so happy that i got to hear her speak today and that she sounds so optimistic outstanding, and she's remarkably galvanizing figure and she was for what do we on about 70000000 americans in the selection? and i think she should be really proud of that. i mean emotional because of the

thomas said she had for all of us, not just people in the united states, but for people around the world. and um, it just hurts a little bit that we won't have the benefit of her leadership. i also have dimension, many people were openly crying here today there was an entire range of emotions on display from grief and despair. but also as you heard there of hope and of optimism . now we know the democrats are still trying to process what was an unexpected twist in this election. did harris give, however, any suggestion where her party goes from here? i don't know that she made any really concrete suggestions, vera but what did strike me is that she took some of the features over a stump speech and also re purpose them into her concession speech. so she had the, the slide that she would always take with her on the campaign trail though,

when we fight we, when line. and this time she was saying, you know, sometimes when we fight it can take a while, but eventually we will win though i don't think she really bad thought as advice for the democrats. so i think she meant that more as a general rallying cry. but in this time of the democrats, deep identity crisis, these questions that they have to answer. who do they fight for? what do they fight for, and what will it take to win in this moment of intense loss, those questions are essential for the party. all right, that's the, the piece you know to load at howard university in the us. thanks. you know, how much meza ridge is head of the election observation mission from the organization of security and cooperation in europe. i asked him earlier for his assessment of the us election, given the concerns leading up to the vote. so i think do 1st of all for having me on this program. indeed, there will these speculations. what i can safely say is that these selections were

managed professionally. first of all, during the election day we whatever we of the it was peaceful, calm, and very effective. we did not observe a significant issues with the, with the election process. there were reports uh, obviously for some minor malfunctioning, uh, some of the, uh, some of the machinery. but other than that, so at this point, we can safely say that this was a very well managed election mass for the, the expectations we ourselves did not form expectations with their got the with regard to this election, we never do that by the methodology to be employed that would be misleading our, our efforts to add to observe. at the same time, of course, we were aware that a very last segment how i'm going to use that view as built as we're

convinced that the election process is somehow fundamentally at fault. this has never been approved in all the cool with cases about the previous election . i found these allegations as alan found it, and it seems that this was a very, very transparent and very, very clear show. okay, so just to be clear, we know that in the days before the election, there were numerous claims of voter fraud made on social media. did you observe any evidence for any of these claims? nowhere wields of we did not have any reports from our long term observers, or the short term was always employed by a parliamentary assembly at o. s. c. for any malfeasance during the during the election is not to mention direct election for we know we do not have those opposite patients. we have these obligations, but we treat them as the locations in our, in our,

by every field. thomas, the us is one big country with 50 different states, each has their own election laws and their own processes for tallying votes for counting them afterwards. how difficult does that make your job realtor better and what kinds of challenges are obviously one challenge in the united states is exactly in the back the extreme, the centralization of the jurisdictions concerning elections. this may be not very well known that there are they 1000 different jurisdictions that have a say on how actually collections are carried out of the process and the details of the process. which of course, is not very easy to to find out. first of all, however, having said that in the us, the major advantages the information relating to that is public and therefore available regularly is just a very large amount of information that we need to collect in order to make our assessment. we know that some states made very specific changes to their election

to their vote tally in processes, including in some cases requiring hand counts. what did that contribute to the overall security of the vote? if anything of, of the changes which have been made, some of them are very close to, to election are 1st of all because they might, in some cases, him back to the legal stability and expectations. our country to, to uh, actually i have commitments that have all the or religious commitments to how the united states. but as far as security is concerned, i don't think they have any major impact even had an impact. it was more on the restriction of access to access to building. did you see any differences between the electoral process in 2020, again, where there was so much skepticism. there's a lot of criticism afterwards in particular from republicans and,

and this year. well, this is a, again, one of the methodological foundations of a, i'll be election of the version that we do not compare are the across countries. we don't have can compare elections in one country to another. and we do not compare across time. exactly, you know, to not to not to formulate in advance of expectations that mind to mislead, actually, uh, the observation completely. so i cannot, i cannot come on directly on the, obviously there are trends which we sometimes are able, unable to mention because they have an impact on, on the current selection. but i am direct comparisons. we do not make we treat every election separate any so we as i'm in its own merits, not in relation to previous elections. elections over at thomas smith, rich. there is a reminder of our top stores to germany's governing coalition has collapsed after chance of the old off shots fired and finance minister controls has caught

a confidence vote in mid january and early june. elections could be held by the end of march before this crisis, germany was due to elect the new government in september 2025 plus president campbell of harris has addressed supporters with the 1st time since losing to donald trump and tuesday's elections. harris promised a smooth transition to the new administration and a peaceful handle of power your up to day for now, we will be back shortly with more headlines. in the meantime, check us out online dot com for also on youtube or the g. w. news channels introduce invalid. thanks for watching the

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