a sweet current. these events in self titled videos, challenging german wood so explains quick and easy shooting sweets. find us on t w dot com. click apply on social media. video news for learning german quotes from sliced the you're watching the daily news coming to you live from berlin. a vote for change in germany's national elections. conservative leader feverish masses that to become the countries next to chancellor for a record number of germans cast their ballots in the highest turn out since for unification. meanwhile, the social democrats and currents chancellor, all off florence and take a hammering. but they are the conservatives, most likely junior partner, any possible coalition. and the far right alternative for germany, the a f d celebrates its finished in 2nd place. it has doubled its share of the votes since

the last election. as in other news, european leaders are gathering into their in ukraine to mark the 3rd anniversary of russia's full scale invasion. and to show solidarity on the fears of dwindling commitment from the united states. the clare richardson. thank you so much for joining us. germany's voters have opted for a change of government with the official results from sundays national election. now in conservative free jewish merits as boys to become the country's next chancellor. his c d. u z su block, is that to lead a future government? most likely would the 3rd place, social democrats who led the former administration of the far right a f d took seconds play spots merits refuses to work with them. let's break down those

numbers for you. that's a conservative came out on top with 28.5 percent. the far right alternative for germany and doubled their share of the vote at 20.8 percent, making them the 2nd largest party, germany's incumbent social democrats suffered at the polls dropping over 9 percent percentage points to 16.4 percent. the green fell 3 percentage points to 11.6 percent. the left party fared better than expected with 8.7 percent of the vote. the vs w, which splintered from the left party last year only took 4.97 percent. that's just short of the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament and the business friendly f t p also fell below that 5 percent threshold, sending it crashing out of parliament. other smaller parties together took over 4 percent of the vote. we can take a look now at how election night unfolded, starting with the conservatives who took 1st place or via the said he, the cd,

you and c. s you the union lock of one this 2025 election, which ones is government? previous matches the man in the driving seat is clear winner of this election. he said to become jim and chancellor. though he still faces the tricky task of building a coalition is center right. cd, you see a few block received the most boats by a clear mileage and they were done to 50 percent. it's not the support match, won't it allow schultz will stay on this kid. it's a good chance that but his days as jim and his leader on number is s b, d policy, etc. thoughts west result. and then there are still election since the 19th century on and on for the the can also in the grounds comm raids face is a base or election results of the social democratic party talking to you on different types and stuff. i know i need to log in the alternative for jim and he thought he nearly doubled it, support the strongest, showing for a fall. right pause. he sits the 2nd world will in the post election discussion on

public t. v co lead ellis vital had her always on the lead visit power. hondas oscar fire hindsight stretched to take part in the government and on today we will support the cd. you c s. u. when there are motions that we approvals, if they go in the right direction and the well of the german people is clear, they want change when they want to coalition between the f b and the conservative system, flawless watts and toys, and thank you, vital, predicted the conservative block would not be able to form a stable government, and they, if they would in time become germany's largest party. that man said his body had a little in common with the f d box and this the, the deck on the on. so you can reach out to us as much as you like. we will not see misguided call us into this more from the green source. small dropping support, punished as old a government, which is what i think because among small apologies the last benefited from a surgeon support from younger voters. it was a campaign. dillman 19 bye fits see is about migration and russia filtering economy

. and the fear that donald trump is changing jim and his relationship with the united states treat the smith says he has a plan for all of those issues. but 1st, he needs to find out who will join him in government. and for more on that question, we can speak to our political correspondent band regard here with me in the studio today. birds, are we looking at another grand coalition here between the conservatives and the central left s p. d, as we saw in the government before this last one? yes, we are the grand coalition, the so called vent collision is the only option. the conservatives and the social democrats have a majority issue at the numbers together and visit the only options the conservatives and the greens would not have a majority. so, and i think they will start negotiations rather sooner than later. and then have a speedy process to, to come up with

a government the source democrats of cause. then the very small part of the cd. you and the chancellor would f shows from the s p d already said he will not take part in this. negotiate is that not part of the be of the government. so it should be a smooth process. i guess i talk us through some of the challenges that any possible future coalition will be facing in german government for the major challenge that is now pressing very, very much is the foreign policy decisions have to be made on the european level. and with regard to a bundled from power to deal with the so called peace negotiations with russia about ukraine. and this cannot wait. and we will see that if we page match the at the conservatively, the intellectual as the speedy chance level brought together already. now before and you government as being the goes get it didn't have it out because this is actually pressing and they also have to talk about defense issues. because as

a defense spending, the decisions do that have to be made very quickly better yesterday than today. and so just to be clear will the s p d and the concert and conservative then have enough of a share of the vote in order to pass through all of the kinds of legislation that they would need to address these challenges. they have the so called chance, so the majority of that is enough to pause ordinary laws, but they don't have the majority to change the constitution and also to reform the so called to the shouldn't. but i'm to the, the break on the public debt. and this is more complicated, they need the, the greens and also as a few votes, maybe from the left bodies, or even from the f d, the fall right parties. so this is very difficult and let's see how they manage that . they could do it also until the end of march, when they opened his talk is still able to sit and to vote. but the, this would be very unlikely that has never been done before. that an old parliament

actually is doing laws, but the bottom it is still there. now another interesting story from these elections is the rather unexpected success of the socialist left party. the link are right. we just a few weeks ago or many months ago, they were looking at maybe not even entering parliament. and now they've done much better than that. yeah, that's really the success story of the most joyous a pod yesterday night. but the link actually of the socialist because they got to 9 percent of the votes. only 4 weeks ago the poet said they would get 4 percent. so they managed to double the vote. chad, they took all of the bill in as the in the capital is a red item and the dog blue. see the because the far right has gained all the votes the surrounding. but in this is really an amazing story for them. and they come pending on some social issues and saying text the rich and give it to the poor that never happened. there was never be part of a government, but they will be,

you know, a strong opposition. maybe i'm going to start with thank you so much for breaking that all down for us. we're busy to our political correspondent to badge regard. it's one of the most astonishing statements made by incoming german chancellor features mass on election night was about his relationship with the trump administration in washington. he said that he would do every thing he quoted, to make europe independent of the united states. and of course, after president trump had sent shock waves across europe, but by pushing ahead with piece talks on ukraine with russia excluding both key of and your opinion leaders. there is what marriage said in an election program on german television. you should opportunity to play with me. the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible. so that step by step we can achieve independence from the us. um, i never thought i would have to say something like this on a television program. but after donald trump statements last week,

it is clear that the americans, at least and even for this part of the americans, this administration, all parts are largely different to the fate of a funeral fund tv. i'm very curious to see how we're heading towards the nato summit at the end of june. whether we will still be talking about in a to and its current form, or whether we will have to establish an independent european defense capability much more quickly. that is my absolute priority entered. well then yellow spots are, is a leading expert on european and international affairs is also a member of the bertelsmann foundation executive board. welcome to dw, at, to what extent do you think merits as statement signals a shift in transatlantic transatlantic relations? as well in my view, the shift comes from the united states and donald trump statements all the real shift of the relationship. because indeed, um, what do you said about nature?

what he has said about european security, and how his administration is handling russia and ukraine without europeans clearly shows that something prove the fundamentally is changing. now if the police mass is definitely the 1st german leader to put it in such blonde, clear terms, what many people analyze and, and perceive these days, and that is europe's needs to take care of our own security by ourselves. but that cannot be an abrupt process. so i would find different words to describe the situation because it's we become more independent. so that means we are engaging in a process. it's not about making a cuts and going into the nato summit of june with a ready made solution how europe can be more independent. but it's really a process of building own european defense capabilities. and so we will need cooperation, close cooperation with the united states,

at least for some time. it is interesting to hear murtz talk about nato. i mean, he says he's curious whether in a few months time will even still be talking about data in its current form. when you hear him make those remarks and you see that as questioning the defense alliance. no, i don't think he's questioning the defense alliance sort of out of his own initiative, but what he's doing, he is taking drums seriously. what other members of the west administration have said? and i also think that he is, of course, sending messages to the domestic audience in germany, where this understanding that we need to be more to do more for our own security is still not fully developed over the past 3 years. since russia has full scale invasion of ukraine started exactly 3 years ago, a lot of this happened and the german public understands but more needs to be done for security. but we have not yet sold about european security without the united

states, and the burden will have to shift far more than it's currently in the discussions to i think he's signaling very clearly to voters to yes, to people everywhere in germany that this will be necessary because we cannot rely any longer on us security guarantees as we have for decades. well, let's look across the atlanta could just for a moment, donald trump has reacted to fridge, matches election victory, and in a much friendlier way, you can say he's congratulated merits on social media as a quote, much like the united states, the people of germany got tired of the know common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration. congratulations to all many more victories to follow. so the question is, how do you read trump the reaction to merits as election victory here as well. the question is, who he whom he really means when he says election victory, of course,

pretty much math score highest and a sam's going to form the next german government. and he is the 11 last night's elections. but given the proximity of donald trump's team with the far right party in germany at the open meddling of the vice president, a j, the bass, in the german electrical campaign in favor of the far right. and finally, eli mosque, who is really tried to provide a platform to the leader of the far right. you know, that makes me wonder whether they are really looking. or donald trump is really looking at should which maps in his statement or whether he is also looking at uh the 2nd strongest party in last night's elections the fall. right. and whether this is also a congratulations to, to that party. he's not very precise. here. he doesn't mention the name as far as i know of good reasons,

but you think he's probably signaling in that direction. you've mentioned you on mosque campaigning, really not for america as conservatives, but for the far right in germany, we actually have heard comment from features math on this just yesterday. let's take a listen. you know how much of a hope i have no illusions at all about what is happening in america. if you just look at the recent interventions into germany election, come clean by mistake. you're on the muscle. this is a completely unique event. tiny body got forgotten. the interventions from the washington one, no less dramatic. i'm drastic, ultimately us outrages and then the dimensions we have seen from las com. we're under such a mess of pressure from 2 sides of the my absolute priority now is to create a unity in your i just got to know apply itself to has outrages as what's coming from moscow. let's go back to global affairs analyst, emulate schwartz are for comment on this. do you understand merits to me there that the united states is just as hostile to germany and europe as russia is?

well, i was indeed surprised that comment and the way you phrased it, and i do not think that he would put so russia and us on an equal footing with regards to both parties, relationship with europe. because russia has been fighting a bloody war on the european crunch continent in ukraine, and has put so many other states under enormous pressure, and really has an expansionist or the retiree and agenda, while the us are still europe's one of your, its most important economic partners. and all main ally within nato. but what has happened now in the elections is not exactly comparable, but to some extent the similarities because for the 1st time, really a political play of, from the united states has intervened in the german elections in several ways. strange events of speech to an international audience at the munich security

conference, 11 mosque who hosts the leader of the far right party on his platform, x and donald trump, who also several times on the line that the fall right might be a good choice for germany so that is really of new quality, but i do not think that's the like, match really things, but in all kinds of dimensions. russia and the us on the drums leadership comparable. we really have to look at what he was talking about that very moment. that is the interference interactions. so let's look again at merits, as planned for the future. he says his priority is to create unity in europe. do you think he's more of a leader who can create this kind of unity then his predecessor was off schultz. or he has shown a lot of determination and indeed gave a foreign policy and european policy speech a few weeks before the election date. and already that he was very clear. and he

was as clear last night. and he also said very important things at the munich security conference. so i think it's not only his determination, but it's really a changing geo political situation that gives a lot more urgency to a very strong european agenda. and he now coming you into office with that determination and very probably a smaller coalition problem of the social democrats who will support many of the move see you will want to make, i think you can give this to you can give your a real force also that's still in mind where in my call at the home of bronze as french president who has said similar things like this, maps that last night on the need for europe to meet more autonomous to be more able to defend itself. so i do believe there's a real chance now and a huge urgency that the 2 leaders together with whole lives and definitely other leaders bring your head. and that is not only

a question of political preference of the very likely next german chancellor. but it's really a huge urgency in europe to do so because our security situation at the moment is very fragile. but tell me why you think this might be an opening a chance because of course, these kind of promises are ones that europe and leaders have been making for years . so saying that they need to do this so that they don't always have to rely on others in crises. why do you think it should work now when it has repeatedly failed in the past? a festival, the price is most of the then it was and the perception of the severity is now more developed. so the threat that russia poses to not only for misstates of the soviet union, like like you crate and all the republic of motive out who has gained independence, but whom russia wants to bring back on to its own leadership. i mean that is already a threat,

but put in as also threats. and now you countries such as the baltics and also a scandinavian late name is such as pin land, which has a very long line border with russia has a very acute threat assessment that for the board it can be violated, that there are regular, the violations of the board are also in the sea and so on. so really the situation has changed with the us breaking away as a strong protects the of europe or even the doubt that it might. of course, in terms of the terrance, is it danger for europe? because russia may feel less due to it, if that doubts about us security guarantees for europe. and donald trump to say very clearly that he wants the united states to pay less for other people's problems. that includes european security. so we have to prepare for a situation where the united states are less present on the ground in europe,

where the financial contribution fusion of the from, of the united states to nato may be reduced. and if then also, nuclear deterrence may be questioned. we would have a huge urgency to act and a real emergency frankly, and security terms. this is why european lead us over the past week. i've gathered several times to really hash out plans how to move quickly. and right now, i don't think that will be a move on the european side to give up nato, but 2 big build a stronger european filler in nato. and in case the u. s. s. wants to, with withdrawal, which we at this point do not know, europeans would be in a better place to defend themselves. and so i think really that urgency, which is really tangible, is the reason why these us will take their responsibility seriously for european security. thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. that is

daniella. it's martha with the bertelsmann foundation. thank you for having me. on the far right alternative for germany, the a f d w. it's a vote share in sunday's elections here in germany and became the 2nd largest party with 20.8 percent according to preliminary results. this, of course, marks its shift from the fringes to a major political force despite its gains. all major parties have ruled out working with a f d. it's now set to be the largest opposition party at a press conference today at the party. leaders appraised the parties historic result and also said that voters wanted to see the a f d as part of a new government to visit ends. besides, we are prepared to take on responsibility in their chapman vices. have voted for political change. we have a strong majority for the f

d and the cdn. mia high votes is one a central right wing government? the available fish unlimited. i think you will. now it's down to the union, the conservative, whether they want to deliver that. so i think right now it looks like that won't happen for you just met. seems to be sticking to his attitude of looking, working together with the f d, which we do not think is demographic. you cannot simply exclude millions of voted. and so it's down to the union block to see how they deal with this on their own. but what we can expect is that if they do form a coalition with us today, they will not be able to implement all of the f d positions that they co pay to learn such a small ass. can you please if steve was into one, gives vent to enter correspond at matthew moore's been at the press briefing by the alternative for germany party. i see how much influence do you think that after you

can hope to have in the next government wells are going to pile on the pressure on the christian democrats who will likely lead next government as we just have from at least, vidal the candidate for chinese loved them, the alternative to frontier have many there. they're already are accusing. the christian democrats jumping on to the an acrostic of, of potentially even already saying that they're going to betray the voters, saying that they're not going to be able to deliver the promises that they need in the election campaign. especially on that very important issue for the alternative for germany. and i'm one of the number one issues which is of migration. and we had the christian democrats throughout the campaigns. and we're going to tackle have a big project. i don't know a regular regular migration on, on the measures from the p is, is that you're not going to be able to do that with a center last social democrats. and so they're just wasting in the wings for this. for this. there's potential new coalition to default, to stumble on this issue of migration. and potentially they will be able to, to offer the christian democrats by 2 volts in the bring the stock,

which would be very significant for the f b. i essentially, they're just wasting fighting that time. so with that in mind, what would you say the mood is like today and day of the account? the mood is, as you would imagine, very confident, defiant. and this was alice fido was on the, was the leading out the ground for our, for the next 4 years, and saying that this is a part you the is going in springfield is now the dominant force in eastern germany . and the masters really was what she was attacking her opponent. she was attacking the media. it was in many respects it reminded me of donald trump. she was on the attack all morning. but despite the fact that i actually have just taught their best as all ever on the should be in good mood. but she was, she was leading this, that decline. what for a kind of politics of grievance to, to send the message, her corvil and to, to the people that are attracted to our party there. unfortunately, you know that the other parties are going to block our voice from the democratic process. and so i think we've got a sense of what the message will be from the,

from the a, f d for the coming years. thank you so much for your reporting. that is date of use political correspondent, matthew war. well, it doesn't leaders from europe and canada have traveled to ukraine's capital to mark the 3rd anniversary of russia's full scale invasion. the group includes european commission president ortho, the funder lion, along with european council president, antonio costa, they will be discussing european support for to have with ukrainian president followed him years lensky, as washington has suggested ukrainian concessions when a peace deal from moscow to move for the w correspondent, carolina to moiz, reporting from the ukrainian capital give. she told me how people there are marking 3 years of war. while a lot of them are saying 3 years or 4, it's really a time to when on time to and this war, claire and so you mentioned, there are

a lot of leaders international leaders gather today here and key of the president of the european commission. yes. and she came with 21 commissioners how it's really a huge we are p n, a delegation that is here. prime minister to the former prime minister far is johnson is uh, also here. and so we can see there are a lot of european leaders. however, if we compare this to what it was a year ago during the 2nd time, the 1st 3 of this works, there were also a lot of us officials who are not here today. and that is perhaps already a symbol of where you crane is standing. right now, i'm on a global policy and they don't have the support as we know from the united states as they used to have. and that is also something that we can see today on the anniversary day. exactly. tell us more about that because of the anniversary does come out of sensitive moment. does he suggest you crane perhaps on the brink of losing the u. s. support that it has relied on up until this point. where does that leave keith well,

yes. the united states and it's important to remind our audience of that is that the support are number one and so, and if, as a step of the support of course, the, your opinion has to step in with more support. and this is what we're seeing. so many repealed leaders right now here. they also gathered in paris a couple of days ago as we know. and today, a prime ministers timer, and also a french president. my call are meeting with donald trump in the white house. so the european union, it's really trying to unite and to show a position in order to support ukraine as a unity. the big question, although is aware. so it's the money come from and how united is so european union really, and these are questions that are definitely on the table and also presidents. the lens key, of course, is still in touch with the united states. he had talked to yesterday during the press conference about a possible meeting that could take place sunday between him and president trump.

and we also know that behind a close stores, they're still negotiating about those rare earth, those valuable and natural resources that resources that ukraine is offering to the united states. thank you so much. that is currently not true more for us in t of and before we go, a quick reminder of our top stories. speed suitors in germany have oxygen for change. conservative block leader fridge merits is point to become the countries next to the chancellor with his cds. yes, you alliance taking just under 30 percent of the vote, merits rules out foraging a coalition with the far right and the far right. a f d is that to the come germany's number to party. i mean taken more than 20 percent of sundays folks. leader, at least, vidal held the f, these doubling up the boat since the last election and said that the voters, one to the conservatives, to work together with her party. we've been watching piece of news from

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