all right our chief political correspondent linda crane thank you so much now france and germany are moving forward with their plan to build a joint battery cell factory for electric vehicles the two countries are asking the european commission to approve state subsidies to jump start the project and the french and german economic ministers are meeting in paris today to discuss their alliance the aim is to make europe less dependent on batteries from asian suppliers . electric cars is still something of a rarity on the streets the same goes for charging stations last year just two million electric cars were sold worldwide but that's about to change all the major come makers have announced plans to develop electric models and that means batteries without which the vehicles simply can't budge. battery production is concentrated in the hands of just a few mainly asian companies the heavyweights include china owned invision a see it supplies among others south korea's l.g. chem builds batteries for audi young die and forward china's b y d n c a t l supply homegrown produces and market le

arthur liberations there with the greens we have our chief political correspondent linda crane with us in our studio well and if we took a headline away from this vote it would be you know the green wave 20.6 percent according to the results we have so far the 2nd biggest party and there's another figure i want to look at with you that i think we can bring in here as well that is pretty indicative of how well the greens have been doing they take a look here if we have this that at the youth vote so the pick people here are voting in germany under the age of 30 they show that 35 percent of all german phone voters under $24.00 sorry have voted green and as you can see the older the voters get the less likely they are to vote for the greens so melinda these are pretty astonishing figures and also to success in general what do you make of this fascinating well climate is the generational issue isn't it and we've seen that very clearly demonstrated for the last few months as all over europe thousands of young people took to the streets every friday skipping school to protest the fact that t

chief political correspondent linda crane speaking to us thank you melinda. now to a story that's triggered a big debate about anti-semitism here in germany the government's anti-semitism commissioner made headlines recently when he warned jews against wearing traditional head coverings kept us in public because of the increasing likelihood of being attacked he was accused of giving in to anti-semitism so he's now called on all germans to work in solidarity but the debate has highlighted the very real dangers facing jews living here good to be met a jewish man in berlin who lives with that danger every day david pearl wears a skull cap and a prayer tussle as part of everyday life but when he goes outside he puts the tassel in a pocket and he hides the skull cap with a hat. david his wife and children have lived in berlin for 5 years after spending some time in israel there are many things he can't take for granted anymore he's experienced too much hostility. sometimes is a traffic jam on the street where i live and one time 3 arabic looking men got out of a c

political correspondent linda crane she's in our parliamentary studios here in berlin and in washington d. w. correspondent all over salih is following the story forced from there good evening to both of you let me ask both of you have you heard from your sources today why pump a go canceled his visit to berlin melinda let me start with you what have you heard . yes we have been hearing through the course of the afternoon and now also are seeing some confirmations coming in on the wires that the secretary of state and those who are traveling with him went to iraq now apparently the journalists who work company in him were told in the afternoon after the meeting with chancellor merkel was cancelled that they would be going to a country that they could not name and that they could not report on the trip but as i said we are seeing some as yet unconfirmed reports that that country was in fact iraq and we can only speculate why that would be as you know the u.s. announced a couple of days ago that it is deploying an aircraft carrier to the straits of hormuz that in conjunction with tensions

earlier date of chief political correspondent linda crane gave her sentiments of how serious the rift was between berlin and washington. the differences are very deep i'm not sure i would term this a rift at the moment but any one of these differences can become a. greater division just starting with the main topic on the agenda today namely iran you heard both sides saying as the report pointed out that their goals are the same the goals being to contain iran to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon and to limit iran's ability to support terrorism and terrorists elsewhere and to produce a ballistic missiles but the main difference here is so great that it's very hard to see how you bridget namely the europeans and germany amongst them want to keep the nuclear deal in place they say that is the best means of containing any threat from iran and to keep it in place they want to maintain trade with iran because they say if the us sanctions are permitted to essentially completely embargo trade with iran then iran will surely leave the nuclear deal and proceed to with its plans are or it

europe and germany in particular are playing in venezuela's crisis chief political correspondent linda crane is with us germany's foreign minister who is in latin america at the moment and he met with a group of venezuelan opposition figures about without and said that germany stands by its decision to recognize on why though as the interim president it was the task of organizing fresh elections how far is germany prepared to go to make that happen . if you mean would germany potentially support a military intervention as the us secretary of state has hinted the u.s. might consider definitely not but the foreign minister mr mouse did say yesterday after that meeting with venezuelan opposition figures that germany sees limited opportunities for dialogue to really achieve anything and therefore is looking at other options for exerting pressure now those opposition figures in bogota had asked him to press for more sanctions against people associated with the montoro regime and heiko ma said that germany definitely would take a serious look at that option together with its european partners thos

keep that option at bay you know it's a very good point argy political correspondent melinda crane as always linda thank you. south africans went to the polls today just as they did twenty five years ago when the country held its first post apartheid election memories of that first free election and memories of the broken promises that followed or they've haunted politicians and unnerved voters today president cyril ramaphosa and his ruling a.n.c. party have watched their approval ratings plummet the party is struggling to make good on promises to fight corruption and revive the economy the a.n.c. has won every election since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago this year is expected to be no different with one important exception the agency's margin of victory may be the smallest in its history this time around. well we sent our very own christine. to find out what issues matter most to voters. so i'm outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are some of the the early risers that you're seeing behind m

correspondent melinda crane as always linda thank you. south africans went to the polls today just as they did twenty five years ago when the country held its first post apartheid election memories of that first free election and memories of the broken promises that followed or they've haunted politicians and unnerved voters today president cyril ramaphosa and his ruling a.n.c. party have watched their approval ratings plummet the party is struggling to make good on promises to fight corruption and revive the economy the a.n.c. has won every election since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago this year is expected to be no different with one important exception the agency's margin of victory may be the smallest in its history this time around. well we sent our very own christine. to find out what issues matter most to voters. so i'm outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are some of the early risers that you're seeing behind me a few people