theatres that will be gone in the next in the next twenty years most translators will probably be out of a job i mean i'm sorry for them but this will just happen this is inevitable. and so the big vote is finished now the results become and i would shortly the powerhouse of europe germany on the polls today for me to put it well is going to be behind me in the bundesliga hello and a very warm welcome to our special coverage of the german federal election from our studio here in berlin lovely afternoon it's turned out to be just a stone's throw away from the national parliament instead of michel to the

bundestag polling stations have been just closed in the last twenty seconds or so across germany a lot of it done electronically of course these days but lot of it done by post as well that could be crucial later tens of millions of voters have now decided in theory they want the country's parliament to shape up in europe to set the most powerful nation i'm kevin owen and over the coming hours we're going to be bring you everything that's going on keep you up to date with the results as they come in we're going to be getting live reaction as well from all the major parties h. q.'s also we've got our correspondents out and about as well we're going to be joined by various experts in german and european politics to get their take on the significance of this vote for the e.u. we got down your hawkins' in west berlin cover the c.d.u. peter oliver in the city center covering the f.t.p. we got polly covering the f.d.a. again all this is in jail in berlin and we've got shelley do bensky covering the

link of party we've also got representatives from the f d party coming in as well hopefully will bit later on this hour as well to give us their take on x. it looks like it's going to be a successful night for them we think it's going to be a reasonable success for my friend with merkel as well now. according to. what we can say at this. time is that the pre-election polls had i'm going down for a comfortable. fourth as german chancellor she's been in office for twelve years already of course for germany's younger population if you work that out it's in fun someone that's been in power all through their childhood they used basically they haven't known anyone else in charge of this vast and powerful country of.

the time i remember she was always there i mean i can't really remember a time when she wasn't like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before her mission a mission that has only met on us that she wanted america said so i think she was elected in two thousand and five for the first time i was like seven she's just been around forever she's always been an average she's been in power a long time there's a peace is a kind don't of us myself. i've never been an adult without governing. in two thousand and five she was elected for the first time i was only thirteen. i pierced my ear lobe. a boy from my school died in a traffic accident. in fukushima the core melted people died. i went to

mississippi for a year as an exchange student. black smoke today obama whites mccain barack obama became the first black president. studied. school back and i'm up that way. it's going to make i'm glad michael is still rather old isn't i guess well but i do have those first results their reaction to them our team of correspondents. here in berlin at the parties h.q. boyko for one is that the terms of a germany off of up we're going to get reaction from the free democratic party paper all of us there just checked and you can hear it loud and clear in berlin and we've got charlotte depends who to talk to as well reporting from the left parties h.q. and we've also got a whole couldn't tracking the developments that i'm going to merkel see the you

come the might be a slight delay with there was still on top of this as a big long queue to get in get in the press through the credit station the queues seems longer than we'd all anticipated he may be doing a selfie from outside. the take another hour to get in. anyway paulie boy pauly are there any simple and double digits predicted for the most right wing party to win seats in parliament in sixty years what's it like up there becomes right now that is going to be a big night from there for them either which why isn't calling. me to try. to sleep. there is they look. like. oh my god. i. just lost the signal there are probably. likely to be a big night for them if they do get in there with a my computer just gone down as well it'll be the first time. in part of their

fifty. in officialdom since the second world war that's going to be big news for germany and of course wider europe as well looking on very intently about what this is going to mean i'm not getting anything in my ear at the moment about whether we go back to poly or where we want to go next but with the polling stations now close the parties are preparing to give their various news conferences all of the free democratic parties for us he joins us now live and i was counting on you to be there hi hi. hi. well there was a huge cheer went up behind me when those exit polls were announced ten percent of the vote saying could be going to the free democrats that's more than double they got last time around but if you remember back in twenty thirteen they didn't get enough percentage points to able to enter the parliament they were turfed out on their rear after four years of having been in

a coalition government with angela merkel she is right now you may be able to see people have turned into quiet introspective as people focus on the t.v. and see what the latest results as they come out because the big question will be what comes next for the democrats if it is this will they take part in what's called a to make a coalition with angela merkel's christian union and the green party that's the black green and yellow of the free democrats making up a coalition that would they want to go back into coalition after it cost them their seats in the bundestag last time around but this has been a very well for campaign by the the liberal democrats they come pain very hard on business also on immigration as well we heard the. lead a christian linda come out during one of the debates and give a much tougher stance on migration immigration asylum and everything that goes with it than perhaps one would expect from a traditionally liberal party certainly a socially liberal party like the free democrats it does seem though that the

message he carried off that this whole campaign was very much on his personality all of the post as almost all of the posters i have to say not all of them almost all of them had his face on them some of them was a figure of fun throughout the election for some of the pictures they were taking of him looking more like a magazine shoot he is the man that's been leading them to this position where they find themselves at the moment and that may well be a position that sees them back in government but who is the sixty eight year old former. entrepreneur christine linda who's led the free democrats to this position .

thank. you then on the come up and this would be endlessly. but i will because my. the things i have to say it's a very strange reaction it's going on over my shoulder right now a lot of smiling faces a lot of people holding drinks but still very quiet as people are glued to these t.v. sets to see if this is the case that the free democrats as it stands at the moment will be back into parliament as i say though a lot more negotiations will certainly on the horizon if they do get this ten percent of the exit poll says because they would be a major contender to be part of a coalition with angola merkel as it sounds from the numbers just a brief glance the only two possible coalitions would either be

a recreation of the grand coalition with the social democratic party or the jamaica coalition with the free democrats where the green party and angela merkel but that is a lot of parties to try and steal a lot of different political agendas to try and stay in one direction that could be quite a complex negotiation it comes up over the coming weeks perhaps even the next month or so until the government is in place here but very happy initially the reaction here from the free democrats ten percent the exit poll says that they have gained in this year's federal election here in germany. or i prefer the update coming in from. the main studio here in berlin and got their first published breaking news projections c.d.u. c.s.u. thirty three point five percent the s. d. twenty percent. thirteen point five percent they're going to be happy with anything

in double figures i'll be happy with so if it went over forty percent over here these are only early figures at the moment because of the f.t. ten point five the greens one point five the left nine percent now there's a media conference going on at the moment i'm just hearing in my view it is could you tell me. go straight to it it's the alternative germany partners go there think it's translated. one state and the west. there is another job for us a new challenge waiting. you know things continue we are always challenge and fifteen october our current success is to be carried from berlin to the regional parliament of hanover and we want to make sure that we get into that regional parliament where there are good result thanks very much. and once again the sky over by then has been let's make it everywhere. all right well that was pretty brief bit of blue sky over verlyn it was indeed

a very sunny day today and it looks like it's been a certainly hasn't rained on the parade for the f.t. either looks like they're going to make it into the behind me look at those polls again where were they flashed up the one latest from the d. the official state broadcaster here saying you know that fact in fact we look at our own we've a collated some of this stuff as well leading the way as expected is angela merkel's christian democratic union thirty two percent day thirty two thirty point five so pretty close martin shots of the social democratic party in second with a twenty percent yet that's a group of their day as well big gains this year for the alternative for germany party as we just heard talk about blue skies going forward a lot of people think the stormy skies coming there that are going to be entering parliament for the first time and so far scoring just over thirteen percent thirteen and a half. one exit poll saying close behind the free democratic party with nine point

five percent that's seen as the most likely coalition partner for only merkel because of course nobody wants to go in coalition with the f.t. the center of germany party the left party and the greens look set to get around nine percent as well sir from talking slightly of the pictures you're seeing on the screen there i'm just slightly out of sync with them so i might not be in the rating exactly as you seeing it but i can tell you know we go but hopefully she is . the f. de camp in east berlin is going to be a good morning. let's cross them quality yes we lost you just know a lot of smiles i know those. are too big. for the german beer drum later on as the room progresses they're going to do pretty well whatever i think go away. again great thing is that the headquarters for tonight are in a nightclub so they can celebrate later on i'm sure they'll be very pleased with the results have i seen point five percent so far according to these exit polls

that is sort of the plates here with what was predicted so i'm very very pleased to have an elite speaking. we had the leader of one of the top contenders for the leadership role alexander gallant speaking earlier saying that we're going to change the country i think a lot of people will agree they might not be so pleased about it that it's the a.f.p. is a controversial nationalist hillis policy here in germany is set up back in two thousand and thirteen by a group of disgruntled economists who didn't like the eurozone bailout and then it kind of piece it out and then again traction all over again when the migrant crisis happened in two thousand and fifteen a lot of people here in germany were attracted to the policy because it criticized anglo medical policy of letting in over a million refugees into germany the policy became popular with germans on happy with the case that migration off to the migrant crisis take

a look at what some of the a deep montes policy is not. bush leashed the seashell deal indeed and the torch. who.

would like to show pulled back tied. didn't move help him down to she. was that from alice vital and you can see this sort of tough tool in this sort of rejection of political correctness this anti establishment rhetoric that has made them so popular perhaps a job and some feel they've been left behind slightly economically also their recent campaign prices were very illustrative of the type of policy that they are they were very controversial they featured started to process women in bikinis saying we'll take the teens over chris thank you very much they had pictures so take me presumably german women saying new germans well we'll make our own banks so these sorts of things have gone in support on the one hand that have made them very very much criticized by the mainstream political policies head supporters of the

party will say that they mean vilified in fact the german foreign minister called the nazis effectively but phrases like as we've seen the sort of thing wrong with the pen in the u.k. with people in school brags that in the u.s. the trump phrases like that tend to work like a red rag to a poultry and to establishment we movements like these it's difficult to sense that everyone is against change and just kind of. galvanise is more you support in a way and that's kind of been the norm in here we're seeing it continue and of itself is where predicting yeah as i said i round tends to actually in a sense they can be very pleased with this result that it's like it may be just above it said this is a big night for the a.n.c. it's a watershed they make for the party it's the first time it's going to get seats in the national parliament here in the english. it's been sidelined by all the other parties but now it's going to have a seat at the table in sight parliament politically they are still billy no mates

no one's going to team up with them but that doesn't really matter because tonight them is a huge deal the result is going to land them extra funding more influence and ultimately they're going to become one of the biggest opposition forces in jenin policy. yeah we've got maximillian cross from the do it coming soon bit later i'm sure he's not going to want to hear about the billy no mates thing is said is there will come by to have a bit later it's going to be a big night you know which way for the day isn't it some more headlines coming through those exit polls are coming through the big news i'm seeing now on the top line near the several sources confirming that the d.p. car of this grand coalition of course are going to want to go it alone and go into opposition they don't want to be part of an ongoing coalition by the sounds of it as for the f.d.a. so far their results coming in around a thirteen and a half percent. of the senior guys they missed a goal in saying we will hunt them we will hunt mrs merkel will take back our

country and our peoples are brave talk to so many going to much million cross shortly but the big news no really the yes we do you have to last is for you saying that not only that when the coalition anymore they want to go it alone maybe rebuild. their reputation some would say it's suffered over the last four years in this coalition because they've been rather hamstrung by what they could say it's been very difficult to. come. this time around a lot of people saying well hang on you're so you'll do all this no what we do for the last four years when you're in coalition with angela merkel and the way let's go around those camps. to the left party no exception of course to the excitement and the camps running high as it would be out in charlotte too but he's there for us by charlotte. do there in a nightclub maybe a few beers. raise later words were your law firm.

it's very similar situation here we were in a bar in the spirit of fairlane and lots of people very excited we've had some bands music a situation to cheer up the crowd but it does look like simply use now that they may not be in for a very celebrated remove maybe having a few beers of commiserations tonight as some of those polls suggest that they have lost a significant number of the cinch each although the seats overall it looks like overall they're up but if you look at the why deposes suggests that they could not be the full fifth largest party in the german parliament very different to the position that they've been in kevin in the last four years were actually a shill opposition against that one coalition that you see was anglo merkel's c.d.u. and martin show c s p now they held sixty four seats and it looks like they're not going to hold on to all sixty four of those seats it could be depleted for more we

will have to wait until the full results come out but people are still still trying to keep the streets here they've got the music playing and that's when they will just you know be campaigned in this election on increasing the minimum wage germany they said that they wanted to increase that because for them percent of germans they say hadn't seen a real wage increase since the nine hundred ninety s. and they laid that blame squarely. we've got a growing coalition between mongol i'm going to merkel's party and more to shoot his party now they also said that they wanted to replace nato with the legacy of security system that would include countries like russia and they said that they want to see you not just increase the minimum wage but they wanted to increase the amount of money that spent it on public things like schools and education but it seems that that message hasn't captured resonated with the flute is and also many people think he used them of being fairly unaffected as the official position over

the last four years so those could be some of the reasons that they may not have done so well in this particular recollection now there is a question about whether they could be a coalition hawk or not you've mentioned that that yes the seat yes peter leave all that a suggesting that they might want to go along themselves but if. the link i joined up with anyone in the mood the most likely to be a policy like the end speakeasy which it has some background historical links with it's also beaming people with the arts and local level though of this said no that's not palatable to other parts of germany and one of the other reasons that is being questioned do perhaps why they could move a lost out in this election is the popularity polls its leader in the buddhist recent polls showing that she was the least favorite out of anybody just in the lowest up parliamentary to him in germany and let's have

a look now at the person who's at the helm of this party. to. now we'll get to the exit polls in just a second and again they are exit polls not final thing at the moment we get a pretty good picture of where it's going to go everyone was saying in the lead up to this it was going to be a whopper night for angela merkel maybe not at the moment it looks like a record loss for the union the c.d.u. the c.s.u. . they looked to be coming in with about thirty two percent that's down about ten

percent from last time. several sources to the other big headline is several sources saying the s.p.d. that they're confirming they. are going to go into opposition they are going to go into any kind of a grand coalition as the just come out of it could be what they're going to. make a coalition maybe if that's the case that would therefore be. the blacks the yellows the greens germany's major leftist parties the greens the most likely to appeal to germany's conservative or they're going in with merkel c.d.u. all playful so right let's look at those with a graph exceptionally moscow and see how it's look in just over seventy five percent of the sixty one million eligible voters have cast their ballot according to early estimates while back in twenty thirteen at the last election the voter turnout was seventy one percent. that's up a bit discuss these latest polls talk to civilian i think yes i think we're going

to mix with encomium enough in my. million looks like it's been a good night for you and your party newly formed you've only been around a few years but you've come from nowhere to getting a seat on a number of seats in that big behind me you must be delighted by the looks of it it is it is the deepest change in german politics since the unification and the nineteen nineties will do maybe for someone who is not familiar with german conditions city. percent doesn't look very impressive but if you see that all german parties are more or less consensus consensual there is a big consensus and now you have a true opposition in against consensus that's a real change and of course we are delighted i gather just randomly from moscow there are some protests going outside your party headquarters that. raise they i don't have any pictures of that maybe you can tell me what you can repeat what you just said but i'm hearing that there are. some protests

a lot of unhappy germans maybe as you would expect outside your h.q. tonight what are you going to say to the big number of people who think your party is bad news for bad news for europe i think they should accept that democracy means that sometimes people of other opinions have to right to speak out. and they should ask them why they think so maybe they are misled by the german media or all the other parties sometimes it's better not to follow your question but to testify it and sometimes it's ok to tolerate other people with other opinions i don't have very articulately because your opinions in some cases have been you so strongly one of your representatives or your higher ranking representative said not long ago that if immigrants coming into here could be stopped they should be literally shot at other of your representatives have criticized romany's gypsies in the past. nother if you will representatives the leader of your parties turned around and

said you want to block footballers his neighbor was not very nice as it is but sometimes it's a little bit misinterpreted if you go into the interviews and you look the full interview at the full statement they look quite different but it's clear it's a good party and they have to learn to speak in a more. on them because way in a more clear way i'm not happy about this quotations either but they are not representative for the party these are cretaceous. things that are picked out by our enemies to bring us in a bad light. petrie she's been kind of moved aside to even she's criticize your party of late saying she can see why some people would say it was on palatable it's messy i mean you should have all these sorted out shortly before you get to the big city beyond me. it's the new party which has a very wide variety of opinions and they have some of them afterward it's better to stay together to criticize each other so i guess no one on there in the party is

very happy about these islamists voices. but if i see it on the overall i would say. make clear that angela merkel is somehow hillary clinton in germany and if you are right of hillary clinton was more or less fifty percent of americans then you have to vote for a fifty and we will see i guess the process of consultation nobody wants to go in coalition with you any time soon it's never going to happen so here you are kind of a lame duck here you'll have a number of people sitting there you will be in opposition but you have got to get a big job or you could you too controversial to go into there is a big this is a big mistake is that i wish him with that's a big misunderstanding because what is to see you in the esprit de bringing together it is that they have the expectation to get jobs and as long as merkel and shoots cannot guarantee jobs anymore for their party members to come into problems and they are forced to change their policy so if you have fourteen percent if d.m.

and big party is losing seats you make a lot of a lot of pressure to the party leaders of the large parties to change their politics so it's very important that you take them away jobs because that's what big guaranteed a member assume and that's the big message from today that they don't call that they don't guarantee their jobs anymore maximilian if you would stay around with us for a little bit. really appreciate it tonight because this could really big night for your party who's just to the for a second we'll see what else is happening around and about whether we can now finally go over to daniel hawkins he's in the west of the city the big cd you may have misread this wrong but it doesn't look like it's going to play the big night maybe the anger mostly the hope for it looks like she's got less votes than when she got this time four years ago did i mishear that right or wrong what is the picture this early picture with these early exit polls coming through.