new national elections could spell big political difficulties for the most powerful politician dominic cain has more from berlin. thursday night in leipzig and for the social democrats the hot topic is coalition across germany the party

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin place and so that here have released seven italians who are being held as suspects in the mayor of a journalist and his girlfriend tens of thousands of people mark so bratislava on friday night to remember a young crazy ak seventy arrested businessman had been named by kusiak in a report into alleged political corruption involving the italian mafia. french please sign for pal the group of environmentalists who are protesting plans to store nuclear waste that's how the two groups clashed in a field near the proposed site protesters are upset by plans to place nuclear waste five hundred meters below the ground police have already removed and activists can't close to the site which is east of paris but protesters their main defiant david chaytor has more from near the protest site. the anti nuclear demonstrators got within sight of the forest where the bunkers will be built underground five hundred meters underground to store the nuclear waste but that's as far as they

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin police in slovakia have released seven italians who are being held as suspects in the murder of a journalist and his girlfriend tens of thousands of people marched to bratislava on friday night to remember young because e ak the seven arrested businessman had been named by a crazy act in a report into alleged political corruption involving the italian mafia. got somalia is failing to protect the rights of its children according to the united nations its committee on the rights of the child says it's seriously concerned about the persistent high level of violence against children and high rates of chronic malnutrition in the central american nation david meserve reports from the country's south. the stanley cup son has a rare neurological disorder when he started to lose feeling in his legs she took him to a doctor but the cost for surgery was in the thousands of dollars and her husband earns less than five dollars a day working in the fields if it weren't for private

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin french police have repelled a group of environmentalists who are protesting against plans to store nuclear waste near a town in the north east the two groups clashed in a field near the proposed site protesters are upset by plans to place nuclear waste five hundred metres below the ground david chaytor reports from lorraine. the anti nuclear protesters found their progress blocked by the police as they approached the forest site where high level radioactive waste is sheffield to be buried in underground bunkers nuclear power supplies seventy nine percent of the energy to the french grid more than any other country in the world most of the demonstrators were wearing face masks to hide their identities but their message was clear on the lawn for him. it's a fight that needs because because nuclear waste comes from all over france from all over europe. we are just starting to go a long battle against the nuclear trash and the ward it represents. the protesters moved int

merkel let's go live now to berlin and the social democrats party headquarters our correspondent dominic. cain is there at the minute by what sort of margin did the social democrats agree to join mrs merkel in what's known as a grand coalition. martin in a pretty clear margin two thirds to one third the party members have voted what you might say decisively in favor of another grand coalition with angle americal and the point to make is that there isn't really a sense of jubilation amongst the the rank and file or indeed amongst the the leadership here of the social democrats hearing with the prime minister of the minister president of the state of hamburg so he's not got his hands in the air he's not overjoyed at this result this is because this is basically a decision of the head that the social democrats have made rather than the hearts of the people who in conferences up and down the country over the past few months have been saying they don't want another coalition with angela merkel was saying that they feel that being in government with her party is costing this party votes they feel th

elections that could spell big political difficulties for merkel the most powerful politician dominic cain has more from. thursday night in leipzig and for the social democrats the hot topic is coalition across germany the party members are deciding if they want to work with anger medical's christian democrats again. young members like benyamin are clear. because of this one. there's no grand vision in the scrum coalition and i think we can only develop as an opposition party i think it's not logical that the election losers build the new government contrast that with the views of older members like christoph yaps he's proud of his fifty years as a social democrat and says pragmatism is important i was also. a list i think i'm a realist i don't want germany to become insignificant in europe we need to contribute in a way that makes our continent grow together and we can only do that with a government here that has a stable majority certainly that's the view of the party machine reaching this point has already cost the leader martin shirts his job his designated successor and their knowledg

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cainal-jazeera berlin. french police have repelled a group of environmentalists who are protesting against plans to store nuclear waste near a town in the north east the two groups clashed in a failed nearly proposed site at last as i plan is to place nuclear waste five hundred metres below the ground david chaytor reports from lorraine the n.t. nuclear protesters found their progress blocked by the police as they approached the forest site where high level radioactive waste is shuttle to be buried in underground bunkers nuclear power supplies percent of the energy to the french grid more than any other country in the world most of the demonstrators were wearing face masks to hide their identities but their message was clear on the on for him to nuclear because if i close there it's a fight that needs to be close because nuclear waste comes from all over france from all over europe. we are just starting to go along battle against the nuclear trash and the ward it represents. the protesters

as a party in government and to put our country on the right path let's go to our correspondent dominic cain now he's joining us live from the social democrats joining the grand coalition they have done this before but this one is going to look different dominick. yes elizabeth it will look different in the sense that the social democrats will have control of more key ministries than they have done in the previous governments where they've joined forces with angela merkel as it were this time around they get the keys to the finance ministry which traditionally in german coalition government formation it's usually the largest party that gets to to take the financial decisions as it were not this time that was part of the price of the deal that i'm going to merkel agreed with the social democrats they will get the finance ministry they will get the foreign ministry so when the leaders of the social democrats like you just heard there all of shards talk about a new path for the country while they're getting control of ministries they haven't controlled for some time but of course in this pact t

party has already seen leader martin short step down dominant cain has more from. thursday night in leipzig and for the social democrats the hot topic is coalition across germany the party members are deciding if they want to work with anger merkel's christian democrats again young members like binyamin are clear. because of his tone in the. there's no grand vision in this grand coalition and i think we can only develop as an opposition party i think it's not logical that the election losers build the new government contrast that with the views of older members like christoph yaps he's proud of his fifty years as a social democrat and says pragmatism is important i was also. realist i think i'm a realist i don't want germany to become insignificant in europe we need to contribute in a way that makes our continent grow together and we can only do that with a government here that has a stable majority. certainly that's the view of the party machine reaching this point has already cost the leader martin shirts his job his designated successor and they are nihilists ha

government and to put our country on the right path but let's go live now to our correspondent dominic cain is joining us from the inside of the s.p.d. voting decisively reluctantly in favor of this grand coalition dominic what will it look like. well the point to make is that they will now be alongside angela merkel in cabinet there will be six social democrats ministers in cabinet three men three women and the important element from the social democrats point of view certainly that's what the leadership says is a take a look at the ministries that they will control now not ordinarily in german coalition government the leading party controls the finance ministry the money decisions as it were while the social democrats will control the finance ministry and the man you heard from just then is the shards well he will be the next finance minister certainly that is what the social democrats say so you get a sense there that he is saying to his party look yes we have to go go into. with christine them it's democrats again yes they have the chance to rebut look at the posts that we will control

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin french police have repelled a group of environmentalists who are protesting plans to store nuclear waste their return on the two groups clashed in the field near the proposed site but asked as upset by plans to place nuclear waste five hundred metres below the ground they said already removed and activists can't close to the site which is east of paris but protesters remain defiant david chaytor has more from there at the protest site . the anti-nuclear demonstrators got within sight of the forest where the bunkers will be built underground five hundred meters underground to store the nuclear waste but that's as far as they got the police had huge cordons across the field they used tear gas to try and dispersed and drive them back those tactics were very successful and the demonstrators in the moving back across the road down back to where they started from but this is no doubt the beginning of a whole series of protests this fight will still go on the nuclear waste

for a fourth term as chancellor on wednesday dominic cain has more from berlin. so nearly six months after the indecisive general election finally germany today sees the political parties signing the coalition agreement that will govern this country for the next three and a half years as i say there's been a period of doubt of discord both inside parties and between parties getting to this point but when there came the moment for a news conference of the three leaders of the parties to spell out what are the measures that they consider to be important this is how angular miracle addressed the world's media nothing they are yet as the oil law keyes's it towards or we can now say that the really acute euro crisis has been managed after all the member states show that growth and employment are picking up again we need to stabilize the euro states there are no differences between the questions of the banking union and the capital union and there are now new ideas for guarding an investment budget for the social democrats signing this deal in some ways is a real succe

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin. it's actually a season in russia too but with more that come in store that italy or germany president vladimir putin addressed thousands of supporters at a rally in moscow for an it actually is expected to easily win giving him a fourth term in the kremlin journal reports from the russian capital. people have turned up two weeks before the presidential election in support of just one man hoping to see him here in fact it is of course blood in me uprooted. those who want to support a president who votes for him that's payment. for vicious feature. such sports it's like a sport there is one theater and then there are a outsiders the chillun just like that said you can compare it with a sports race and here we are at the olympic stadium was the. after eighteen years in power putin is going for another six year term constitutionally possibly his last but the result isn't really much doubt there is a field of seven candidates running against him but it's more about a pic

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin and al qaeda linked group has claimed responsibility for friday's attack in became a fast as capital was the french embassy and army headquarters were targeted leaving sixteen people including eight gunmen dead nicholas hark reports. when a taxi packed with explosives drove past was fetching water raman was sorting out his stall and quander was clearing his shop none of them noticed the attackers nor did members of rick enough or so on forces who let the taxi of the attackers enter their headquarters and the subsequent explosion sent them and the country into panic at the same time another attack was underway targeting the french embassy and its cultural center french special forces were deployed after hours of fighting all the attackers were shot dead. about islam and was leamy has claimed responsibility for the attack. they say it's in retaliation for the bombing by french forces that killed one of the group's leaders in february. sorry sitting in this video on the

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin. palestine's health ministry says a farmer has been shot dead by israeli troops near the gaza border he died while working on his land close to the border fence on saturday according to the israeli military the man was approaching a restricted area and warning shots were fired into the air when the farmer did not stop soldiers shot him. still ahead here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump heightens the threat of a trade war with europe. and to putin's promises for russia during a rally with thousands of supporters ahead of the upcoming presidential election those stories after the break. welcome back look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia first of all all looking pretty good for this time of year are marty there in classic stand nine degrees tashkent was back stan my some of twelve is fine around the caspian sea but we've got this area of low pressure moving through turkey into the caucasus and that's giving some heavy rain and t

parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin it's election season in russia as well but with a more certain outcome in store president vladimir putin address thousands of supporters that valley in moscow for an election he's expected to easily when giving him a fourth term in the kremlin to hold reports from moscow. people have turned up two weeks before the presidential election in support of just one man hoping to see him here in fact it is of course blood in me uprooted is the root of those who want to support a president who votes for him that's payment. for bishop feature. stuff sports it's like a sport there is one leader and then there are a outsiders the chillun just like that said you can compare it with a sports race and here we are at the olympic stadium was the. after eighteen years in power putin is going for another six year term constitutionally possibly his last but the result isn't really even much doubt there is a field of seven candidates running against him but it's more about a picture of d

uncertainty that many in the party aren't happy to propping up another government from berlin dominic cain reports for much of the past six months since the federal election failed to find a clear winner the social democrats have appeared divided stuck between the ideological desire to oppose angle america's and the pragmatic need for germany to have a stable government on sunday the party's grass roots had their say. it. will not annoy on the eyes it's thousand two hundred thirty nine thousand six hundred four is speedy members voted yes one hundred twenty three thousand three hundred twenty nine in speedy members voted no this represents a two thirds yes vote and one third of those. this was a decision of the head not the heart many members agonized over their choice some feared how the electorate will perceive another grand coalition in the weeks leading up to the vote the party youth movement was vociferously opposed saying election losers should lick their wounds and not work with angle america but the politician who is likely to be the next finance minister welcomed sunday's result.

opposition social democrats voted in favor of entering a coalition with merkel's conservatives dominic cain has this update from berlin. now that we have the certainty that there will be another coalition government the question will be what sort of policies it will bring forward certainly from the social democrats point of view they're now going to be in control of the finance ministry and the foreign ministry that's important because when they were negotiating this deal they made europe a very key plank of policy that they wanted to see their agenda brought forward and their agenda certainly the agenda of the formally the martin chilton negotiated the deal was to see a deepening of the relationship with the e.u. and more powers given to the e.u. attic the supranational level as it were so that's one to watch out for from the christian democrats point of view well they've surrendered the finance ministry that's the ministry which decides budgets that gone but one thing the angular merkel has done is to try to renew her party in government so into the cabinet come faces and people who haven

collecting valuables stolen from victims that are now at a concentration camp during world war two dominic cain has more from berlin as a frail old man. fought to avoid jail through the courts it was a legal battle the convicted criminal would lose but by dying before his sentence could start gurning escaped punishment years earlier he'd said he was just a cog in the auschwitz machine judges ruled otherwise. gurning was stationed in the part of the camp that dealt with the valuable stolen from victims of the holocaust mountains of glasses gold teeth and many millions of dollars worth of foreign currency were taken because earnings job was to collect the cash and deliver it to his superiors in berlin at his trial several survivors were present people like he bore as a teenager she lived through auschwitz but her parents were killed there he said gurning scase must serve as a warning for future generations they have. their justice is there in the scoring philby's. all those who qualify. westerly they will be held responsible in the future. never again will they be able to just believe i am a cog