well it tells us that this was very much taken seriously here indeed and that the conservative c.d.u. party is also very concerned about what will now happen over the social democrat headquarters where i understand leaders are meeting there right now to decide what the future will hold for them i think it's notable here that the german chancellor spoke on behalf of the government making quite clear she is no longer the leader of the conservative c.d.u. party. her successor they're only going to come callandar had slightly tougher words spoke for 2 minutes rather than the one minute i'm going to merkel gave this whole issue basically formulating an expectation towards the social democrats to essentially get their act together to make fast decisions on which political personnel will continue and take them further as a party but also continue within the so-called grand coalition keeping this government stable as we heard from the chancellor because she is and she says there are bigger issues to get to the future of europe and the global crises right now focused on keeping the governments stabl

conservative side a determination to continue with this so-called grand coalition between the c.d.u. party younger americans party and the social democrats if there wasn't this yet again leadership crisis within the s.p.d. we mentioned the party leader the c.d.u. party leader that is a great karen bauer she also reacted to his resignation let's take a short listen working on the assumption that the social democrats will quickly make personnel of related decisions and ensure that the grand coalition remains as capable of acting for the c.d.u. it remains clear that this is not a time for party tactics we remain committed to the grand coalition so both women they're saying that they remain committed to the grand coalition with the social democrats is that coalition in serious trouble. it could be potentially because it's simply not up to the conservative c.d.u. to decide at this very moment in time whether this coalition will continue the social democrats are yet again in another crisis we heard. she's known here. basically an expectation towards the s.p.d. to essentially get its act together

months have in store for the political landscape what we do know is that those 2 big tent parties a speedy and the c.d.u. are likely to suffer yet another slump by the voters the ballot box when those eastern states vote where the far right if he is expected to potentially become the strongest party in 2 of those states so there's more trouble in store and the big question now was strategically is this the right moment for the s.p.d. to have to switch everything to 0 and have the big soul searching out a shouldn't they just ride out yet another storm at the ballot box do you later the summer as you say i mean these impacts the c.d.u. greatly is there a possibility of internal conflict over the next choice of the s.p.d. later. well we have seen a bit of internal wrangling in the past over how far to the center how far to the left german chancellor angela merkel took the party and her days as leadership her successor. certainly is sounding a lot more conservative but if this crisis within the s.p.d. is done anything it has united once again the c.d.u. leadership between its own leader and its come column

modified politicians in a blistering tirade reso dismissive of germany's largest conservative party the c.d.u. of course they were not amused but well the party's reaction to the video really showed was most german politicians still don't know how to deal with social media does the internet is still uncharted territory for us my favorite quote by merkel what's it like in your country your politicians also still overwhelmed with the internet if you i'm going to show how city you politicians live how they like basic skills for their job how they make policies against expert opinion that they've participated in war crimes and how they're used for propaganda and misinformation against younger generations. strong words followed by an awkward aftermath the c.d.u. responded to the you tube. video with p.d.f. 11 pages long and then the party's leader called for rules for digital spaces defying the question is clear if you consider populism what rules to apply in the analog sphere and which rules apply to digital spaces. critics say this means parties supports online censorship but reso did exactly wh

lead to be able to smooth things out quickly for the social democrats things out within the party with the c.d.u. with their voters with the chairman public and voting public in general which is no small task especially as the s.p.d. has become a party that really is needs to redefine what it is what kind of space can they possibly carve out for themselves in the political landscape these days as medical's center right coalition is still trying to occupy is that of a center right area but then you have these parties like the left and the greens especially which have risen very much in the polls in the last 2 elections really eating away at the space on the left that the s.p.d. used to very very forthrightly occupies so not only is it going to have to be a new leader but some soul searching from within to say what exactly are we a party about these days. turmoil in the s.p.d. of cools really impacts the as the c.d.u. is there a possibility of internal conflicts within the c.d.u. over the next choice of the s.p.d. anita. well usually when the conservative c.d.u. watches the social democrats take t

we will certainly be hearing something along the similar similar lines to the c.d.u. party leader just now and of course this could at least have huge repercussions. for the grand coalition of course it's also worth bearing in mind that marco herself made the decision earlier this year to stand down as conservative party leader and hand those reins over to the great crime picower so right now you don't really have to particularly strong parties in the coalition anyway it's not necessarily just about the social democrats the conservatives. who are having their own issues the leader a k k a she's known here in germany has being has come under fire quite a few occasions in recent weeks for some of her decisions and how the conservatives just like the social democrats went into the european elections and failed on both sides to address that very important issue in these elections which of course was climate protection so we have to wait and see just about half an hour now to see exactly what marco plans to say this afternoon but from what we can gather so far the c.d.u. and her

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what this means for the ability to govern as part of the grand coalition with angela merkel's c.d.u. party are they going to be able to stay on government exactly this is a big question and it was open for the whole coalition and it was supposed to have a bit of a temperature taking test later this year that was written into the coalition agreement with the conservatives to see if this marriage as it were is really working out of course the social democrats were very reluctant to go into yet another coalition with. conservatives they've lost a lot of that profile they've lost a lot of key issues to the conservatives which in turn has weakened their position among voters in opinion polls and it's become difficult for voters to really see exactly what they stand for but also the same goes for conservatives as well who on having a great time of it either right now both parties both governing coalition parties as social democrats and the conservatives made huge losses in last week's european elections and a lot of those votes a 1000000 more than a 1000000 voters from both sides of that grand s

kabul earlier this month it was a senior regional politician and member of chancellor merkel's c.d.u. party and he was known for his program few g. stance the 45 year old suspect identified as stefan has been detained behind these walls for the last 10 days on tuesday he confessed to shooting saying he acted alone but germany's chief federal prosecutor doubts this. these are always thought our investigations will focus on the possibility that there were supporters accessories helpers or other perpetrators. and we will determine whether this crime was the work of a terrorist organization. or if the suspect is a member of a right wing terrorist group. danced did have contact to far right groups including one called combat 18 the armed wing of a band supremacy group blood and on or she was convicted of numerous hate crimes but 10 years ago he disappeared from the authorities radar something that hasn't yet been explained. in a parliamentary session earlier today the president of the bundestag pointed to the roots of such crimes mentioned 5 huge hits of hatred and contempt xenophobia is the bre

a man on suspicion of murdering politician vonta luka a regional official from uncle americal c.d.u. party he was found 2 weeks ago with a gunshot wound to the head in his garden in castle in central germany police investigating the killing say the suspect is a 45 year old man and though unconfirmed german media is reporting that the man is known to be from the far right. well for more on this story i'm joined now in the studio by chief political correspondent and christmas so hello to you michel what more do we know about the suspect who's been arrested and how police managed to track him down well officially we know very little but what we're also reading through those media reports which is among them germany's largest selling tabloid built size is that this man was basically found by cross-checking d.n.a. traces that were found in the clothing. and that that led to this 45 year old man who has previous serious convictions and the whole reason why there's so much reporting on this case what could be a regional criminal case really is that it's a regional politician who's known to have d

original official from uncle americal c.d.u. party he was found 2 weeks ago with a gunshot wound to the head in his garden and castle in central germany a loose investigating killing say the suspect is a 45 year old man and though unconfirmed german media is reporting that the man is known to be from the far right seen. well for more on the story i'm joined now by delhi is chief political correspondent me shanika in the shadow so what more do we know about the suspect and how police managed to track him down while the in from official information we do have on how he was tracked down is that there was d.n.a. found on the clothing about him to feel which then led to this man to whose d.n.a. was already in the database because he has several serious previous convictions and that much is fact that much is officially confirmed and what several media now independent the from each other reporting here in germany is that he is allegedly rooted in the far right scene here in germany one of the title says that that's still in the present some

expecting statements from german chancellor angela merkel and from the leader of merkel's conservative c.d.u. party that's on a date come and we'll be carrying both statements life stage stay tuned for that but 1st here in germany just like many places in the world lots of food on sale in supermarkets goes to waste but what should be done with all the food that doesn't get eaten due to stringent hygiene rules companies can't just give it away and much of it ends up being thrown out even though it's still perfectly good as one group of young people in western germany found out. searching for something to eat christiane vita and his friends and then nights picking through dumpsters they don't want to get caught some might say it's fast they call it containing. the hog and. they're amazed so much is thrown away all this food was found in just one night. removes a radical fruit and vegetables are thrown out if one orange in a bag is rotten you just wash the others and it's ok some stuff that is thrown away you don't want like meat or fish you have to look out for product recalls as well that other item

concern and i think the very fact that we saw all 3 leaders the german chancellor leader of the c.d.u. party and the leader of the parliamentary group make individual statements essentially saying pretty much the same is indication enough to see that everybody here has recognized the gravity of the situation and the potential conflict consequences for the governing coalition itself and yet they have said they were absolutely committed to the to the grand coalition with the social democrats why are they why do they seem to be clinging on to something that just isn't working that well. well the line here is that they want to do a bit of governing for a change it took more than 6 months for germany to actually have a functioning government. after this election 2017 it's nearing half time where reassessment was due anyway and the argument of the chancellor who spoke clearly as chance and not as the party political figure was that there are simply great challenges that need to be tackled in europe the most the core leadership of the european union is being decided over the next couple of weeks if

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now as the strongest party in germany which is anything but a good sign for the 2 governing parties the c.d.u. muffles conservatives they've come out today and said that they want to push forward with the so-called grand coalition and of course neither the s.p.d. nor the c.d.u. will be wanting to put that coalition on the line right now with the chance of for example fresh elections of course if the current opinion polls are anything to go by then they wouldn't be doing well at all but of course this is going to be a chance for the s.p.d. wouldn't again to go forward with some sense of renewal now. so be interesting to see if they choose. perhaps a little further to the left of the of germany's political spectrum something which country and alice have promised to do but we can have a little look back now exactly where she is and what she has done so far. sundry analysis 1st joined the social democratic party more than 20 years ago as the leader of the party's youth organization she studied german and political science in one of her very 1st interviews she told g.w. that a career in politics w

c.d.u. in the bavarian sister party the c.s.u. they all suffered huge losses the days there should democrats they lost more than a 1000000 voters to the greens and the c.d.u. the conservative c.d.u. also i'm say there are questions being asked right now how can they win these voters back this isn't a one off protest which was you know the kind of terminology we're hearing being thrown around after the general election of the federal election back in 2017 this is a growing trend there is less and less desire in germany to vote for these formally big tent parties and more centrist parties of the social democrats and the conservative c.d.u. so this still wouldn't the game a lot more soul searching to do and it will be interesting to see now how once again the s.p.d. proposes. its suggestion to tackle this and they'll win back those voters but right now it's seems that they're making the task even more difficult for themselves and already ones. political correspondent kate brady thank you for your analysis. let's get you up to speed no

them in 2nd position now the 2nd strongest party behind the green party of course both the social democrats and the conservative c.d.u. both lost over a 1000000 voters each in those elections last week it to the green party and both the conservatives and the s.p.d. have come out very quickly as well over the past week to say ok the issue that we missed here was climate change and climate protection and so we are expecting of the back of this meeting today for the for the conservatives to come out with a new plan when it comes to climate protection but we'll really have to see over these coming months now when the rest of this term really until 2021. whether the conservatives and the social democrats are going to be able to really turn things around because as things stand if germany was to go to the polls right now if these opinion polls are anything to go by then by the social democrats and the conservatives would suffer huge losses so of course amid all of this disruption of andrea nala stand down a social democrats party leader the last thing on anyone's mind especially the social democrats and the conservatives r

here in germany we have the situation that both my party the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. are committed to the top candidate but that's not always the case in the council as we have known for a long time and we will discuss this but we might not have a result today. kind of given this gift the european party's top candidates have been campaigning throughout the e.u. liberals conservatives greens and social democrats but the french president doesn't want to limit himself to these candidates when it comes to voting in a new e.u. commission president so he's risking an open dispute with germany. in my opinion it is up to france to find a solution and not get bogged down in programs to find europe's ideal leadership team. but if france doesn't stand behind the top candidate it will need support for its choice even before the summit began president mccall sought to meet with his counterparts one of them is the leader of luxembourg who says he doesn't want to commit himself to one candidate yet. i want to know what we're doing and who is doing it for us for chancellor merkel and

it and we cannot explain the rise of the queen's with out the steep decline of the to catch all parties c.d.u. and the s b d they are to some extent blocked dulness to understand to the crean i think that what 11 of one explanation is that people are fed up with the 2 government parties say experience them for 101214 years now on the 2 plans that make up i'm going to. be coalitions of the grand coalition and people are fed up with that one. the 11 part of voters turn to the greens and the other all the pot turns to the the right wing i think exactly the way we have to look kindly where the electorate is moving is going to give us an indication as you say how the greens can develop because as much as they're taking bloods if you quoted from the center left and right conservative and those sorts of arcata parties they're also letting blots to the left so what we've seen in the national election 2017 is that as much as the greens had gained votes that was a loss a couple of votes to the left especially in these metropolitan areas and in these state elections where we have a much more rural commu

party lines its main its main talking points for years of the c.d.u. a lot of s.p.d. policies over years of being a government the cd you have been implemented with the s.p.d. has been getting credit for it that's been agel americal conservative the majority ruling party in the government will remember that a year ago the government had a very. very hard time getting finding coalition partners to form a government the s.p.d. was in a way dragged into it the president the national of the president of germany friend of steinmeyer said please do this for the good of the country please put aside your partisan bickering and the s.p.d. entered this government and now we're seeing the effect of this now with the s.p.d. again weakening in the polls and people voters struggling to see what the s.p.d. stands for and what good it is for voters to be voting for them. kate see you so people are struggling to understand what the s.p.d. stands for is this the essential problem with the s.p.d. is that why voters have just been turning away from the center i think it really is and as w

luka was a senior regional politician a member of german chancellor angela merkel's conservative party the c.d.u. . the 45 year old suspect identified in germany only as stephanie he has been detained behind these walls for the last 10 days on tuesday he confessed to shooting votto luka saying he acted alone but germany's federal prosecutor doubts that's what you thought i would thought it's usually despite the suspects claim that he acted alone. our investigations will focus on the possibility that there were supporters accessories helpers or other perpetrators and we will determine whether this crime was the work of a terrorist organization. or if the suspect is a member of all right wing terrorist group. stephanie has a criminal record that includes take crimes but he wasn't on authorities radar it's not clear to what extent he had maintained contact with right wing extremist groups so. i'll say it again the investigation of this political killing is not concluded with the suspects confession. the motive for the shooting death of this politician could date back to 2015 when large groups of re

c.d.u. c.s.u. a senior party of the ruling coalition government political correspondent kate brady asked him how the guese trial is squared with the election result which would offer the hope of a more democratic. the 2nd round of the elections in istanbul was not only a decision between a candidate from the government party and a candidate from the opposite it was also a test on how strong a civil society and democratic and liberal rights and how strong is the autocratic government system of therefore i am i'm sure that there will be an impact and influence on that what is ongoing now in turkey there will be a discussion on civil rights and on the independence of justice and rule of law. not only in istanbul about all over the country and a.k.p. petition should be aware of that they should think about how to handle the situation with our being thrown away by history. the other stories making news around the world he was secretary of state mike pompei was held talks with saudi arabia's king and crab prince in jeddah the visit is part of an effort to build an international coalition against i

handed over responsibility for leading our party the c.d.u. 2 and a great company she was to continue malcolm's legacy and succeed her as chancellor in 2 years' time. the christian democrats have little to offer young people worried about climate change and that's clear from the success of this protest video by blogger reason. this video i'll show you how folks from the c.b.c. live and how they lack the basic skills to do their jobs and how they're wrecking our lives and future. video the destruction of the c.d.u. has racked up almost 15000000 views but the c.d.c. is yet to come up with a cogent response. the chancellor's current crisis management is a far cry from we can do this stands back in 2015 new parliamentary elections on the horizon in germany. talk of fresh elections lots of talk about not being able to contain the crisis has she lost her magic touch that has kept her in power for so long. while that's a very good question i don't think that she has really lost it i think many people still appreciate this woman. in the end she just managed a lot of crises and she didn't brin