as the expert advice and excellent job opportunities starts in new jersey now on korea's for germany dot com the. this is dw dues live in from berlin, early elections here in germany. and we may just have a date after the collapse of his coalition government last week. german transfer all of shoulds says that he is open to early elections next february will have more on what has to happen between now and then. also coming up is he about to become americans top diplomats, florida senator marco rubio, which reportedly president elect trump's choice to become the us secretary of state and a major court victory for the oil giant show. and it comes as the global climate conference gets underway and barcode is everybody's, you all the

library golf is good to have you with us. we start with breaking news, coming from right here in berlin, german transfer, all of schultz and the main opposition. conservatives have reportedly agreed on the date for early elections. the february 23rd pole is being prompted by the collapse of the governing coalition. last week when schultz fired his finance minister officially february elections earlier than what the chancellor was shooting for. he been hoping to hold a conference vote in parliament next january to be followed by elections in march. but bowing to political pressure, he said on national television sunday evening that he would be open to bringing the confidence vote and elections has paid for the items of our politics. it corresponded matthew more. he's following the story for matthew. so it looks like we're going to have elections now in february. it's not slight brent and finally

some clarity of the days of debates and pressure on the chancellor. and what it looks like is it looks like the parliamentary good. so, so the parties, the social democrats and the opposition, same christian democrats have agreed on this february 23rd date for germans to go to the polls. and this, rather, as i see it's, it's, it's clarity and it will offer some of the ability to jump into your opinions as the, as the kind of, as a look at germany and ask when are we going to have a new government? because as we know from last week, basically all a short just been the leader of a minority government. and so no, he will be done. and he said then he wants to have these elections in march roughly didn't quite see it like that, but it would be, the intention was march and end of march. the opposition wanted them to happen in january. so now it looks like they've reached a compromise. and that will happen in february. and so these early elections, they would follow a new confidence vote in parliament. do we know when that's confidence vote is scheduled to take place? well, according to the february 23 date,

the no confidence full would have to take place in the final week of the parliamentary setting before christmas. so the week of beginning the 16th of december, we don't know the exact date the some days we might, but it would be not we can i'm what would then happen is that cancel all the shots and lose the vote because he doesn't have a majority in parliament the president frank felt this time i ever than have 21 days to this all parliament. and then when he does that, we have 60 days to hold elections. and that brings us to february 23rd or the votes . alright matthews. standby, we're going to come back to you in just a moment. first, we want to take a closer look now with the events of last week that led to the collapse of the german coalition govern. or after 3 rocky years of government, germany is now on the path to new elections. the 3 party coalition, which formed in 2021, fell apart on november 6th. when chancellor, olaf schultz fired finance ministry coast junglin from the business friendly, free democrats who refused to approve new debt to fund the budget around this.

there is no basis on trust for further cooperation by serious government work is not possible in this way. for now, germany is being managed by a minority government sholtes and his social democrats are cleaning together with the green party headed by all but how back they'll need votes from opposition. parties to pass any further legislation the all the tasks will not become any easier. neither in the present nor in the foreseeable future, and will become more challenging for germany in particular. house for another out in the next step requires a confidence vote and the bonus tag members would vote on whether to continue supporting schultz as chancellor. a vote. he's expected to lose. schultz had hoped to delay this until early next year, saying there's still important work to do. but opposition leader freely commands from the christian democrats demanded a confidence vote as soon as possible. he is seeking to become chancellor with his

party riding high in the polls. these are father, chancellor, must know fulfilled this responsibility. and this is his responsibility to ensure that we can get a new federal government to quickly become a gun and then comes an election much earlier than september 2025 as originally planned. the poll now look, set to take place on february 23rd after agreement. between the governing s p d and the opposition conservatives for leading in the polls. in the meantime, olaf shoulds remains chancellor. now it's up to the votes to decide if you can stay or needs to move out and make way for a new chancellor. so matthew, what more can you tell us about why everything fell apart last week? well, friends, remember this was a government that was made up of 3 parties quite unusual in germany. and basically, it was the business friendly, liberal possible as to pay the greens and the social democrats and the center left . and became the agreed on a, on a platform for government. just months,

really before russia invaded ukraine and not really change the calculus. it changed all the promises that meant that the, the, the economy in germany was really, was really badly affected by that because of and the cost of the energy and ports going up. inflation was rising. and in that 1st year 2022, they agreed on quite a low, i must say they agreed on sending a 2 clean on spending big on the, on the ban. describe the german army. in 2023 came. i'm starting to another this one on the other side of the atlantic and the united states president elect trump's cabinet, is taking shape with the promise to do what trump the candidates said that he would do as trump the president. and that means getting tough on the legal immigration. trump says that he plans to named thomas hohmann, acting director of immigration and customs enforcement home. it was known as the border czar in the 1st trump administration. trump is also expected to name florida . senator marco rubio as a secretary of state. no. if confirmed rubia would become the 1st latino to serve

as americans top diplomat. a fantastic mark. oh, come on up. come on up. as donald trump campaign across the country, one of the key establishments that goes within his movement was florida senator marco rubio. i think a lot of your a lot. rubio was once considered a potential pick to be trumps, the vice president. before the president elect settled on j d vans, the son of cuban emigrants sen rubio has been a vocal critic of the have on the redeem. as well of the left is running venezuela . as the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee and a member of the foreign relations committee was in an outspoken critic of china, seeing it as an economic and security threat to the us. could the chinese government through his ownership of bi dance, could the today use take talk to controlled data on millions of users on ukraine?

rubio opposed russia's invasion, but this year he voted against a major us, a package for kids. in line with trump stated emission to untangle the us from overseas conflicts, the overall alignment between rubio and he's potential. next boss is a major turnaround from the relationship in the past. june the 20, 16 republican primary, rubio escaping about trump. he began to unmask the true nature of the front runners so far in this race. 5 days ago, we began to explain to the american people that donald trump is a con artist. but a lot can change in the political world. and in this case, by going and now bygones as the world watches to see what u. s. foreign policy will look like over the next 4 years. all right, let's go down to mike and cockburn, he's the us politics and digital democracy analyst at the european university via dream. unlike was also part of our us election night coverage. good to see you,

mike. let me just start by asking what do you make of rubio as possible us secretary of state or yeah, so it's cool to still have the ultimate site in the direction of us foreign policy . but the radio, of course, is going to be the mountain to move in the room, meeting foreign leaders, and doing the actual work of the, representing the united states and high level negotiations and kind of strategic alliances. i remember the, the, the review i, well, whoever becomes the secretary of state is also going to be in charge of managing thousands of diplomats and civil servants around the world. and i would imagine many of those people would have been fine, a consent when the election outcome came in. and i would think that they would be somewhat more relieved this morning to see that as ruby of as the name of the sky you mention particularly, you know, rather than someone from kind of outside of washington politics for example, you know, someone from the mag, oh, well, i think these people would have, would have struggled to walk under di circumstances and yes,

so this disposition is obviously really important and opens seen as the most important a cabinet that we know that rubio has had a pro, trump of typically of late. and we also know about trump's demand of total loyalty . i mean is that the most important qualification for anyone who wants to be in his cap? so i think we've long known that donald trump is willing to be pretty flexible on, on policy positions on, on various different things as long as you kind of swear and obviously loyalty to him. and i think if we look at the confirmed the pointy side of the fall, i think we can see that i strongly agree with this, this assessment. so we've got 6 confirmed positions size box plus another 2 that we kind of strongly, as you know by 6 that we've seen is being converted. i would, i think you could make an argument to all 6 of the kind of trump lawyer, so that suzy wiles has been named as the chief of staff, steven miller,

who's been named as the deputy, cheapest author policy, tom harmon as the borders of these eldon as the environmental protection agency, michael wolf's as a national security advisor, and at least the phonic as the ambassador to the united nations, one of these the board to varying degrees. i've had that policy disagreements with trump over the years, and i think the same can be said to clear the from the click that already i. so what they've done is they've decided not we will, we will put all loyalty to drunk ahead of whatever other concerns we have. and they, therefore they favored was and i had to ask you about the billionaire eli and musk . no, we don't know if he's going to have an official role in this new administration. we do know that he reported we sat in on a call with ukraine's president last week meeting. could he also play a role in u. s. foreign policy or so i think at this point the on mosque is, is going to play song kind of a role in us foreign policy,

whether or not he has an official position. so obviously he's, he's the head of spies, x which operates stalling, and did the same, this kind of technological and then global strategic importance as we see most obviously in the car. and example, uninstalling cars really been a crucial way of maintaining communication networks in the country. during the war, and so his decision making regarding installing cause already had qualified diplomatic effects. and there's been kind of discussion or suggestions about whether he would allow, continues, would allow stalling to continue to operate. and essentially he's the college, the stakeholder. and you can really apply pressure and potentially influence outcomes. he may even prefer not to have an official government role because that might kind of remove any kind of constraints or products or colors around the same, particularly when we think here it is all the cool for interest. you know,

i'm sorry, it might be the most for fuzzy to know like an unofficial government robot. yeah, that would also mean that he would not have to get approval by the us senate, which would take the politics out of it. may i ask you about trump, the candidates and trump, the president elect while he was running for office, he was very vocal and loud about almost everything. but since being re elected trump has largely been absent from the public eye. what's your read on that? so i wouldn't take too much away from that. i wouldn't, i wouldn't inspire too much that by all accounts, that has been a lot of activity at mar, lock i. we've seen a lot of important people coming and going, and he's really been busy kind of taking meetings and shaping his team. we not, you know, in 2016 and much of the conservative movement was skeptical as to whether or not trump it could really windy elections. i think there was a much looser plan put in place, and we saw kind of a huge amount of style type

a in the potentially connected to it. i think that's very different. this time, this time there was a clear plan. we saw a lot from organizations like the heritage foundation, with that project 2025 plan. and this time there was a strong expectation that trump could win. i. so what we're seeing now is, is those plans rapidly beach but incense action? but i also imagine he's also just very tired off. there was been a very intense campaign. and remember, this isn't mine. we're talking about here time. 78 earlier this yet. that's right. the oldest man elected to the office of us president. we can't forget that the political analysts, mike cooper and mike, as always, we appreciate your analysis. thank you. credit speak your good like well, ever since donald trump one last week she was election, the value of bitcoin has been going through the roof, the crypt occurring. so you hit get another all time high in monday, trading following a record breaking week. donald trump is a big supporter, and it's pledged to make the united states the world's crypto capital. a donald

trump used to be quite skeptical of bitcoin and other crypto currencies. but his tone has changed during his latest campaign for the white house. trump didn't praise crypto going as far as to buy burger sports fans and paid with big calling. trump has also recently joined the criptos, the in with his own platform with liberty financial. it was much ridiculed, but has helps trump position himself as the crypto president. what does it mean? experts are hoping for lose a regulation that have also been criticisms that the way the securities and exchange commission going off to a number of crypt type problems. and that appears to be a willing less to bring in regulation that could bring more crypto firms. and that will peroration coins and tokens into the regulatory scale. in recent days,

bitcoin has clients to over $80000.00. now with trump set to a point loyalists. so the see, there are plenty of experts suggesting the rallies far from over, including stefan you fall off coined house. we expect this bullish trend to continue for a long time about a year. he says the next level for me is $100000.00. another factor behind the rise of crypto heading into a trump presidency is 11 musk, the building, and it was close to trump. throughout the campaign at might well be part of a new administration, reports show mosque, and trump have discussed crypt policy with muskets, insights, potentially shaping trump approach to digital assets. suggesting, of course, that most views could indeed impact the regulatory trajectory of crypto in the us. as well as investors seem to keep firing up crypto, but buying in that are record high still seems to be a higher risk investment at the best. let's get you called up now and some of the

other stories that are making headlines around the world. a series of explosions has rock southern b roofs. they came less than an hour after these really army called for residents and neighborhoods in the hezbollah stronghold to leave earlier israel. struct targets in lebanon's north killing at least 8 people. israel's defense minister to his country will continue hitting, has beloved with full force police in china say 35 people are dead and dozens injured. after a man ran the car into a crowd in the southern a city of zoo high, the driver was arrested at the theme. authorities have not said whether the incidence was intentional and it came ahead of the opening of a major air show in the city. the 2nd day of the u. n's cop 29 climate conference is underway in either by john. the british prime minister, a cure storm or in the turkish president, richard poly, or the one or among those said to speak. un secretary general antonio gutierrez

said that the summit must reach a deal that does not in the poor countries empty handed as they find climate change . while it is a big court victory for the oil giant show, the company has one. it's appeal against the landmark ruling which ordered shell to drastically reduce its carbon emissions. a dutch appeals court has dismissed all claims from the 2021, finding k, stating that shell shows already on track to me. it's emissions target to all right, i'm joined now by laurie fund, a boy campaign manager at the oil change international, which is working to support a just to transition away from fossil fuels that she worked for a friends of the earth and the other ones on this case 42017220. 21 boards. can help me with this. i mean, given this set back here, will you push for further litigation against oil enjoy?

yeah, certainly. and yeah, today's brooding is clarity of set back, but it also has some strong elements that actually will help us hold big vendors going forward. the cord was very clear that not just states, but also companies including shall have legal obligation to reduce their mission, to protect human rights and fulfilled their duty of care. and it said it cannot survive and specific emission reduction obligations for show based on global emission pathways and this festival. and that's important to me is this miss familiar defense, these claims. and but the for this recognize the new investments in oil and gas fields are incompatible with climate pools. and then companies have people, responsibilities i mode to take their responsibility in this respect and the units . uh, let me ask you about what the court said. the court basically you said that shell,

yes it does. um, you know, take a lot of oil out of the ground and provide it to all kinds of companies above ground. but it said it cannot be held responsible for what companies do with that fossil fuels. so with that in mind, isn't focusing on any single company, any oil giant, isn't that going to be counterproductive to what you would like to achieve? and i don't think that's the case because all these individual oil companies invest billions every year in new oil and gas in full and toward this. recognize that these investments are incompatible with 1.5 degrees. and of course, it's also recognized that companies have a legal duty to reduce their emissions and to meet the claimant goals. so there is an opening here to challenge these continued investments in new fossil fuels. and show, for example, has over 800 new oil and gas projects in the pipeline that are all incredible,

with 1.5 degrees of the. so i do think that there is an opening here for further litigation. yeah. for the game should. i mean, do you think that chords are still the most effective venue for fighting for climate change, or does this, does this ruling show us that may be, courts are more effective? i don't think that today's ruling shows that the courts are effective on climate change. courts have has, and bill continues to have a critical role in holding actors that are not acting on the excitement prices accountable after the or send that cases and that lives. that's how the judge states accountable for not taking sufficient action on the claim of prizes. we saw a massive rising plan, which is a gauge and enrolled bite. and, and we have also seen the same after the initial shel brooding. and i think that sports will continue to play an important role here and in your strategy moving

forward. now, what's the biggest change going to be as well as i mentioned, we know that's a government's growth buys and also companies provides continue to pop up fossil fuels and with investments and tax payers. money at o. c, a or chase international. we have a long history of working to end the subsidies and the part of the routing that covers know in new investments in uh, oil and gas seems like a strong hook for future legal work on this topic. and yeah, you also just covered the negotiations that are happening. and by cool at the moment, i believe that's based on today's rooting, the rich fossil fuel producing countries and also fossil fuel lobby is get gathering. and by cool, this a next week needs to take notes and that unless they stop from propping on fossil fuels with investments and also billions of dollars in subsidies,

they might actually be held responsible thing for even though today the defense he does not win in the courts, there are some parts of the ruling that's provides really a good hooks for future litigation. so they're not let off the hook. and i think that's the, the climate community will continue to hold these actors accountable. let me, let me ask you little before we run out of time, but shows and it's commitment to low carbon solutions. i'm do you believe what she all says or do you think this is a green washing that we're watching? so we know that show only investor very almost neglect, negligible share of their money in these so called solutions in both and also bins and, and solar energy. but it also is using a lot of these investments for and so called solutions that actually only serve to extend the lifetime of fossil fuel cetera. and we know that show continues to invest these billions in new production,

which is incompatible with 1.5 degrees. so unless shell plans to face out its existing production in line with climate goals and the science tells us that this is possible and also affordable and that we don't not need these new investments. if we actually get on this $1.00 degree, it's a directory and unless shell blends a ford fence reduction, it's continues to be part of the problem and, and yeah, and it's still held to account or do you see, do you see any similarity with, with these big oil companies and with the social media platforms in the united states, you know, the lol bear is that the social media platforms are not responsible for the content that users put on that platform. in here we've got shelves saying we're not responsible for what our customers do with the fossil fuels that we provide. that has to be frustrating to or and it is. yeah,

it is frustrating. i'll admit that. i think that in the initial reading, in this case a, which was an all today, there ross, the recognition that's a show. so is responsible for the so called scope, 3 emissions and a, and in today's, a routing, the courts kind of a feedback on that's the, both the, the routing did say that's there's, there are responsibilities for companies like self when it comes to their continued investments in fossil fuels that they should take into account. and so this is not to say that a, they are not responsible for their fossil fuel activities. and it's, it's just not maybe at the point where they sell these products spot, where they even spend in their production. that we can hold them accountable. okay, lloyd fund, the board campaign manager, add oil change international lawyer. we appreciate your thought here with us and i have a feeling we'll be talking again in the future. thank you. thank you. have

a good day. you too bye. are all right, you as a reminder now of our breaking news from earlier german media, say the german transfer, our luck shows has reached an agreement with the main opposition. conservatives on a date for early elections. schultz fired his finance minister last week leading to the collapse of his 3 way governing coalition government right there. as you see, don't forget, you can always get the w news on the go. just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. there's lots of sports, business and entertainment news as well, plus lots of analysis and background from our correspondence around the globe. and this live feed that you're watching right now. it's also on there, just one click away. you're watching the w news. i'll be back at the top of the

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