say mugabe stated that he wants to die in his home country not in shorts the leader of germany social democrat party has met the country's president to see if they can break a political impasse since the election talks to form a government in germany led by chancellor angela merkel broke down over the weekend schultz has so far refused to enter the coalition talks about is under increasing pressure to do so. the forces of launched an operation to clear remaining arsal fighters out of the deserts of bordering syria troops from the iraqi army and shia popular mobilization forces are taking part in the offensive against our suffices who are hiding in a large strip of land on land and those the latest headlines stay with us my team is here is coming up next by. going to say law and going to say a quarter. so it's a salary it's not it was certainly i think a dollar. and a high living lives here almost that's just. a little minion as a bit of food and it's just that and that he asked me to give these funds did that i see. it in the length of a book but i don't have split. the link again a new color from t

an urgent meeting conservative parliamentary chair is giving an interview criticising germany's social democratic party the s.p.d. they were in a grand coalition with merkel's conservatives but had a poor showing in september's parliamentary election now they're opposed to a fresh coalition with a cd you. i just heard the statement by s.p.d. parliamentary group leader and. i believe that anyone who is unwilling to take part in this task despite the fact that they stood for election in order to assume political responsibility should remain silent at this moment. a clear message to the s.p.d. . and yes right now the s.p.d. are being completely irresponsible i already thought it was eyebrow raising after the election. they were sulking and refused to talk about policy and just went into retreat what good are new elections when they won't even take responsibility for germany now why should anyone vote for such a party. to her is to the meeting he wasn't in berlin when coalition talks collapsed he was in brussels with some of his colleagues. when we received the news where there were ten of us sat in front

the leader of germany's social democratic party martin schulze sees the country is facing a challenging period after talks to form a coalition government fell through germany is in a complicated state. the attempt by the su to use c.s.u. after the green use to build a government has failed spectacularly after weeks of negotiations well germany's role as the he use it main player is looking shaky now squabbling over coalition terms continues to leave the country without a government for now a special puddles being set up just so that parliament can keep on working but it's taking berlin's attention away from its power highest position on brussels top table that could mean opportunities for others and us or europe correspondent explains. it's not often in a game of cards that a joke beats a queen but in the game of e.u. power poker the money call may be trying to do just last and use her coal is the use de facto leader not so long ago this would have been unthinkable as uncle merkel was proclaimed foreign white as the leader of the free world. the chancellor's attention focused firmly on

most initials the leader of germany's social democrat party has met the country's president to see if they can break a political impasse since the election talks to form a government led by chancellor angela merkel broke down over the weekend she also so far refused to answer coalition talks about is under increasing pressure to do so john mccain is in berlin for us. it's been a day of meetings for the social democratic party leader martin short's first with his senior colleague the president of germany frank fattush fine meyer which was called at the request of the president basically to see whether mr shultz feels there's any possibility of being able to find a solution to the political and past that has developed since the weekend when the coalition talks between the other main parties collapsed and then there was a meeting for mr schultz with his senior party colleagues on the s.p.d. the social democrat board later in the afternoon the point to be made there is that mr schultz has been implacably opposed until now to the idea of another grand coalition with angle america's christi

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of germany social democrat party has met the country's president to see if they can break a political impasse since the election talks to form a government in germany led by chancellor angela merkel broke down over the weekend she also so far refused to enter the coalition talks spot is under increasing pressure to do side. forces of launched an operation to clear remaining always suffices out of the deserts of bordering syria troops from the rocky army and sheer popular mobilization forces attacking passive defense against ossified his who are hiding in a long strip of border land and those are the latest headlines stay with us my team is here is coming up next by the end.

the situation as daniel has travelled to model parts on this story now the leader of germany's social democratic party is under pressure to help form chancellor angela merkel's government martin schulz met the president after talks to form a new administration broke down on sunday he is under increasing pressure to start coalition negotiations with mrs merkel dominic cain reporting now from berlin. it's been a day of meetings for the social democratic party leader martin short's first with his senior colleague the president of germany frank fattush fine meyer which was called at the request of the president basically to see whether mr shultz feels there's any possibility of being able to find a solution to the political and past that has developed since the weekend when the coalition talks between the other main parties collapsed and then there was a meeting for mr schultz with his senior party colleagues on the s.p.d. the social democrat board later in the afternoon the point to be made there is that mr schultz has been implacably opposed until now to the idea of another grand coalition with angle am

most of the shows the need to germany social democrat party has met the country's president to see if they can break a political impasse since the election talks to form a government led by charles i'm going to break down the weekend she refused to answer coalition talk spouses and the increasing pressure to do so. on mccain joins us live now from but so talk us through the significance of these meetings being held. all of this to the point to make here it's been a day of meetings for mr schultz first of all with his party colleague the president of germany frank ironically a man who himself eight years ago fought and lost the general election campaign against angela merkel something mr schultz did on september the twenty fourth and there the suggestion is that the president would have been saying to mr schultz look is there no real possibility of you finding a way to talk to angular merkel about perhaps forming a government and certainly that would have been said at the following meeting mr shultz had with his senior party colleagues here in berlin at a national level talking about t

talks collapsed around coalition talks in germany the social democratic party said it is open to discussovernment led by glenn merkel. it could restore political stability. how close are we to breaking the political deadlock in germany? >> the speculation is growing that this move today, that angela merkel and opposition leader martin schulz will meet, it is pointing us toward a rerun of the government germany just had for four years. the social democrats are still very much hedging their words, but there is the overarching issue of german stability and there will be appeals to that in the days going forward. black friday, spending is very strong, off to a good start. i 5:00 p.m. yesterday, up 17% year-over-year according to adobe analytics. >> what responsive you seen from shopper so far? the fourth start to quarter, and yesterday during black friday, we saw that. it started well online and we opened our stores at 5:00. last night, in a lot of our stores, it is tracking quite well. one of our hallmarks is the ability to transact online, on a mobile device and in-store. black friday is a

party and give germany a functioning government. when no party in its history has more taking responsibility for the state than compared with the social democrats and we have taken responsibility the last time going with twenty five percent only and a coalition with the conservatives they had almost an absolute majority so nobody has to tell us anything about responsibility yet there are different ways to. have purse points ability being leading opposition party and not giving back to the rightwing party in the end the problem is one thing and the talks just have began begun and there are different possibilities i don't know why the people don't put more pressure on those four parties that have negotiated for weeks and have put on a big show and no results and i'm going to mark this response to the responsible for that but also hard to see how the greens and the liberals and i think the pressure has to be put on them because they wanted to go the government and they failed there was only. p.r. to be seen last weeks and therefore i think they are the first to take responsibility now you began by saying that you didn't feel that germany is experi

germany's president frank. later today who is by by the way a social democrat and he appealed at the weekend to all of germany's parties to think about their responsibility not only to party but also to the country so some people would seeing that as a hint to his own social democrats that they may need to come to the table. and one of the grand coalition of the third option absolutely that is the outgoing constellation and the social democrats got just over twenty percent they were they were humiliated at the postelection and they desperately want to go into authorization and renew themselves but i think it's quite possible that chancellor merkel will invite them to coalition talks and then it will be quite difficult for them to say no they say that unavailable but they may find themselves within a in a position where they will have to say no to chancellor merkel and stand there as a party not willing to take on national responsibility if you want a time of great uncertainty in germany christopher spring guide from our political desk thank you so much welcome. well there's uncertainty in zimbabwe to fight mounting pre

harding welcome to the show it's good to have you with us germany's social democrat leader marching schultz is consulting with senior members of his party at this hour the s.p.d. is under considerable pressure to join a coalition government under uncle americal and avoid fresh elections here in germany should also so far ruled out joining a new coalition but the german president met with them earlier and is believed to have pressed him to reconsider his position that's after talks collapsed over the weekend between naturals conservatives and two other parties. with me now in the studio political correspondent thomas farah thomas welcome you have been on the story all day today all day we've been waiting for a decision as far as we know the talks continue. given these are democrats going to change their minds and go in for a coalition well this just shows how difficult a decision it is for the social democrats they've rejected so far the idea of joining under them a call again a grand coalition they rejected so far any possibility of working with on their merkel they've said we want to be in the opposition this time around on the other h

years, 12 years, that have said these big parties in germany have become too similar to one another. it is difficult to distinguish between the social democratsnd merkel's party, the christian democrats. what we saw over the weekend is there's a party that looked at this potential coalition and came to the conclusion that they couldn't continue with it. if you take the leader of the free democrats at his word, and i have no reason not to, so i think this kind of soul-searching about the future might be a little overdone. now i have to think out-of-the-box. if you live here, you get used to this s consensus. over the last couple of years, leaving aside the foreign policy, the domestic agenda was minimal. ande was a kind of fatigue, the voters were wondedering, wht is governing about now? what can the various political parties offer us? maybe this explains some of the support for the far right wing. peter: i'm surprised how sanguine you all are about the situation. wordse down a list of being used by your fellow journalist to describe the crisis. gridlock, deadlock, meltdown, political limbo. matthew, you seem to be suggesting it is an opportun

harmon welcome to the show it's good to have you with us germany's social democrat leader martin schultz is consulting with senior members of his party at this hour the s.p.d. is under considerable pressure right now to join a coalition government with angela merkel and avoid fresh elections here in germany a show so far ruled joining a new coalition but the german president met with him earlier and he's believed to have pressed him to reconsider that position that's after the collapse of talks last weekend between america's conservatives and two other parties. well here with me now in the studio as did obvious political correspondent thomas farah times welcome you've been following this for us you were just outside the s.p.d. headquarters the war here where you're welcome for us here. how likely is it that the social democrats are going to go into a coalition now well it is unlikely at this point that they will go into a grand coalition i mean that's something that many members of the s.p.d. certainly do not want because they see that that was one of the biggest problems that they face in the elections of ten twenty four but that's

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social democrats the s.p.d. . germany's conservatives now say a renewed grand coalition with the social democrats is the best option the only alternatives are new elections or a minority government both options that party leaders want to avoid when there's a skeptic i am skeptical about a minority government germany is a big player in european politics we need to show stability. of the cd use parliamentary group leader for a counter called on the social democrats to live up to their political responsibility. if you have to partner up with one or even two other parties whenever you want to pass a new law in the bundestag that might turn out even more nerve wrecking than forging a new coalition that's why i suggest we build a coalition with the s.p.d. . one and asked me to a speedy but for the s.p.d. new grand coalition with the c.d.u. is far from a done deal. the s.p.d. hopes a stable government can be formed that's why we're putting forward the idea of a minority government we convinced it can work out even if it requires some courage . we need this country to take a big step forward germany cannot afford to simply carry on like this. social democrats say they won't sacrifice their campaign promises fo

also coming up the leader of germany social democrats martin shows under pressure to enter a coalition with chancellor merkel's conservatives he said he won't but some in his party reckon it's time to think again. and brags it looms again over brussels european union leaders arrive for a summit with leaders of eastern european nations but britain's departure from the e.u. is likely to dominate the agenda. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. emerson is to be sworn in as in bob boys president shortly tens of thousands of people have poured into the national sports stadium on the outskirts of the capital harare to witness the inauguration we're looking at some pictures there the president the designated president in gaga has arrived for the ceremony a big cheer from the crowd in attendance he has said his presidency will mark the start of a new political era and he's pledged full democracy for the country. christine moon is covering that story for us and she joins us now from harare with more christine we were seeing preparations there under way for the presidential inauguration today a very momentous day in the history of zimbabwe the whole country must

the grand coalition that has run germany for the past four years but now with the pressure being piled on right here by the german president on to his social democratic party colleague to reconsider their decision obviously there are many discussions within the social democratic party to decide how to respond to that and there will be a meeting of the party of the ship later this afternoon after shorter spoken to the state president to try and decide how to respond to this pressure hans given all that what can we expect from this meeting between the president and martin. well they are both social democrats and the president frank fighter for many years was germany's foreign minister in this just the outgoing government of i'm going to now call in the grand coalition such time i knows exactly what is party is would be letting itself in for if it were to enter into another grand coalition a situation where the party in the past four years has managed to put a lot of its interests push push through a lot of its program and to have it actually implemented by the government yet not to be rewarded by the voters for that all the credit for that is going to anger

and sarah harmon welcome to the show germany's social democrat leader marching scholtz as consulting with senior members of his party right now the s.p.d. is under considerable pressure to join a coalition government under a. the americans in order to avoid fresh elections here in germany also so far roll out joining in any new coalition but the german president met with them earlier and is believed to have pressed him to reconsider his position that after the collapse of talks last weekend between chancellor merkel's conservatives and two other parties. of war i'm joined now by detail is political correspondent thomas ferro he's of the social democrats headquarters thomas any news is the us now ready to join in these talks that is still unclear and that is something that s.p.d. leaders and martin schultz are discussing right now whether they should change course when it comes to their position after the elections on september twenty four where they had a very bad result a result that prompted the social democrats to announce that in the next legislative period they wanted to be in the opposition and that they refus

germany the press. didn't is due to meet the head of the social democratic party to try to break the deadlock over forming a new coalition government that's after the collapse of talks last weekend between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and two other parties now the leader of the social democrats martin chals has so far ruled out any possibility of joining a new coalition under chancellor merkel but some in his party of race questions about that stance a president from foster steinmeyer is now expected to urge him to reconsider no idea if he is political correspondent hans brandt has been following all of this for us he is outside the presidential palace where the two men are meeting hi hans good to see you there were some suggestions today hans that the s.p.d. is marching schultz might be considering or threatening to resign now what more can you tell us about that. well obviously there's a lot of pressure both on the social democratic leadership and on the shows in particular because there have been saying for weeks in fact since the night of the election in the end of september they're saying

germany political parties are rethinking their positions after the failure of coalition talks between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives the liberal free democrats and the green party now all eyes are on the social democrats praising previously ruled out forming another grand coalition under chancellor merkel for her part says she's strongly against fresh elections. in the merkel speaking political base at a party conference in northern germany voters here want to know what's going to happen next in berlin merkel says she does not want new elections and for going back to voters and telling them that they have to vote again i don't agree with that at all that's why she's now reaching out goods is that we work well together so now we need to talk about the things that didn't work and try to do them even better. but the social democrats aren't so sure one of their most senior members of the party's youth wing to take a long hard look at themselves and their party invertor it's still not clear how much of what happened is our responsibility we shouldn't let anyone put us under pressure will feel like we need to dance to anyone else's chin in. order to manders since the party's vice chairman ralph st

is going to be formed of course you have the opposition parties this is the social democratic party the alternative for germany the only position parties left of course they don't like that idea that they will be part of that possible government new government in germany where when it comes to the question what do you think they will they will form a government then even the party the followers of the s.p.d.m. they have to yes they said you know all these three parties want to form a government want to get the power to change things here in germany and somehow they will find a compromise and form a coalition that's why we have a big. big approval of the we asked the question do you think they will really be able to perform to form this coalition what fascinating stuff and i want to turn to another surprising aspect of your survey and we actually have a graph to illustrate it so i'm going to throw it up on the screen and get your take on it that's because the dramatic drop in approval for a coalition among green party supporters check this out fifty five percent of the green voters support the coalition that's

within the social democrats as to what to do i think it's likely that the president frank on my who's talking at two thirty p.m. this afternoon local time will appeal to all of germany's parties to put that the nation before the party that is something that has a tradition within the social democrats and i expect chancellor merkel to invite them to coalition talks that will then put them under an enormous amount of pressure they would have to stand up and say we are not available for that and i think that would damage them in fresh elections what we fresh elections is one option that's the most drastic option but there is another possibility which would be a minority government to do you see that as a real possibility theoretically it's a possibility it's something that germany has never had before i think that chancellor merkel will first explore the option of getting the social democrats to a negotiating table and of course the social democrats will have quite a strong negotiating position. if she does offer them coalition talks i think we're going to have to visit that option first before we come to my minority government i'm pretty sure that chancellor merkel won't want t

said that you know these big parties in germany they've become much too similar to one another it's very difficult for voters to distinguish between the s.p.d. the social democrats and miracles party the christian democrats and so forth and what we saw over the weekend with the collapse of these talks is that there's a party out there that looked at this potential coalition and came to the conclusion that they couldn't in good conscience continue on with that if you take christian winter the leader of the free democrats at his word and i have no reason not to so i think this kind of soul searching now about the future of germany's consensus driven model might be a little bit overdone it the stage. maybe sort of. now i have to think of the box because if you live here you get used to this consensus you get just this feeling of a certain muddling through actually because over the last couple of years even aside the foreign policy the domestic agenda is minimal there's very little happening and there's a kind of fatigue and also i think an intellectual could take and the voters they were wondering well what is governing about what what what kind of the various poli

germany's chancellor angela merkel is stepping up pressure on the center left social democrats to start talks on forming a new coalition government talks with other parties collapsed last week social democrats are valid to govern to opposition to september's election but now says the best option for germany and europe is to reform the grand coalition of her conservatives and the social democrats to build on god in my opinion forming a stable government after elections is an intrinsic value in and of itself and maybe all parties are considering the fact that this is important for the people for our capacity to act on the european playing field when it comes to foreign policy and when it comes to solving problems there isn't a problem. w. political correspondent thomas sparrow has been of the headquarters of the social democrats across today and we asked him whether they collapse of previous coalition talks improves the s.p.d. is bargaining position. they could be in a strong bargaining position that's correct because they can be seen as the party that then help the conservatives form a government and prevent fresh elections for example or even prevent tha

know has its own words all that minister failed to consult the other big political party the social democrats in germany's governing coalition and now relations between the social democrats and merkel's conservatives have become as politically prickly as a berlin briar patch. that paid my life it's eight has long been a controversial topic it pits the e.u. commission against citizens' rights groups the chemicals industry against all got a. critical scientists against supportive scientists now the week has become toxic to germany's acting government and it could lead to a new one in the. e.u. member states twice before fail to agree whether it's a life or say over extend its license no decision was reached because germany abstained both times. gemini social democrats environment minister wanted a band due to suspicions that the weekend there was cost in the genic animates biodiversity the agriculture minister from the conservative c.s.u. favorite continued use of. the lack of cabinet consensus meant beilin abstained on the previous votes until monday when germany suddenly voted to extend the license. i spo

social democrats frankfurter steinmeier the president was for many years germans germany's foreign minister i'm going to marcos government in the grand coalition so he knows exactly what a grand coalition means for his party one has to say that in the past four years social democratic content social democratic issues have been implemented by this government but at the same time angle america has taken all the credit for that and the social democrats themselves have done very badly in recent elections so they're very wary of entering such a situation again but for frank steinmeier the president is going to push his party colleagues to at least try and find further common ground with america in the interests of germany and then in the interest of the country if that doesn't work hands and we do see new elections in germany who will win and who will lose. it seems very unlikely that the two large parties the social democrats on the conservatives can expect any improvement of there are chances in a further election in a fresh election so if there is a move both of these parties in fact are not really interested in new elections which might mean that they're also slightly more interested in another grand coali

germany's conservative alliance and the green party. which when the conservative alliance and the social democrats these uncertain times the collapsed coalition talks loom large over the bundestag oh out of frustration there needs to be understanding for this difficult balancing act which means everyone who bears political responsibility should shift away if only partially from their election plant friends for a compromise that would benefit the majority this is neither a failing or a weakness but the parties he referred to the business friendly f.t.p. and the social democrats through the plane at each other. don't listen i think you should be very quiet today you don't take any responsibility for having long planned your excess and then you put on such a show that question irv. three years ago who could barely wait for election results so that you could cowardly throw in the towel you have a cheek to blame us for anything. the most miserable often uncertainty has arisen in a country used to stability when the acting defense minister emphasized that has long been regarded as a given. germany stands for reliability ladies and gentleman applaus

meantime also for a party to go together with a social democrats and the greens and then they would have to maturity now you want for the country a your party alternative for germany which pulled a surprising percentage in the september elections how big of an improvement exactly can you count on if another vote is called well we're seeing the polls at the very moment they're going up we we we're in now up to thirteen percent we have the third biggest party already in the parliament and our numbers are increasing so we don't we're not afraid of a new election but we don't think that's good for the country and again it will not it will not change the situation what we're in at the moment it will make it even more difficult for the us to come up with a new idea well all the uncertainties surrounding the coalition talks break down are you afraid that german people will want a more stable scenario in their full vote for established parties this time well people i think want to have a political change. we we cain't lot of support we one almost six million votes from all over on the other parties and from the nonvoters. so. this is and even though the public pressure up