i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program pro-democracy demonstrators in hong kong has staged they have biggest anti-government rally in months and march was the 1st large scale gathering to be approved by city or 40 since august after half a year of protests activists say they want to show beijing and the world they are not giving up oh god oh god hundreds of thousands of voices with the same rallying cry 5 demands not one less those demands of the hong kong chief executive carry lamb to resign the police actions during the protests to be investigated for an amnesty for those arrest. did they also want the government to stop calling protesters rioters and they want the now shelved extradition bill that started the protests to be totally withdrawn the marches hope the size of this rally will drive home to the government that it has lost broad public support for the balancing that got me going for him is. the mangle prime minister are going to the government and our government did not listen to a 3rd of our presidents a. 53 months and i'm actually proud of the open country people we

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program the future of german chancellor angela merkel's government has been cast in doubt after her coalition partner the social democrats elected turn your leaders who are critical of the partnership norbit volta boy and sends us k.s. can have indicated that they want to say some major changes that could raise the prospect of an early election or a minority government if the coalition partners fail to reach consensus. the social democrats have cast doubt on the. future of the grand coalition but their partners in that coalition the christian democrats are attempting to shrug off any such suggestion for on a great card or it's business as usual. for the c.d.u. one thing is clear we're going to stand by this coalition on the basis of what we've already negotiated. and we want to get back down to work quickly. but the new s.p.d. leaders norbert. are critical of the political partnership they have new demands on the minimum wage pensions and the climate that they want to be met. and thus. this is not possible if this is blocked then the party conference