last month after a row about spending, which led to the chancellor sacking his finance minister christian lindnercellor scholz is speaking now ahead of that vote. we'll bring the result live to you here on bbc news. and ahead of that, we'll get more analysis on the significance of this — notjust for germany, europe's largest economy, but on the impact for the continent. we will be talking about that throughout the day. let's now bring you right up to date about what is happening in mayotte. it's taken more than a day — but the scale of the disaster brought to the french overseas territory by cyclone chido is starting to emerge — �*and the reports and the reports are horrifying. senior officials say they fear hundreds are dead — and over the next few days, as they try to reach devastated areas — they say that figure could rise to several thousand. roads have been cut, shanty towns flattened, the main airport is closed and supplies of electricity and fresh water have been cut. that's all the result of the 140 miles per hour winds which the cyclone brought to the territory over the weekend. to make

he fired the finance minister, christian lindner, leader of one of the three coalition parties. and financial issues. germany's economy, europe's largest, is expected to shrink for the second year in a row. but it's not the only european power struggling with political instability. its vote of confidence will come just ten days after the french now—former prime minister, michel barnier, lost a no—confidence vote. france's president macron is now seeking a political deal that would allow him to name a new prime minister and ensure his own country's stability. but opposition parties have rejected every suggestion he's put forward so far. here's victor goury—laffont, a politics reporter at politico. he told me what the next move could be for president macron. young, next step will be is most likely tomorrow, young, according to people close to the president, a new prime minister will be announced. we don't so far have a lot of information about who that prime minister might be, but what's most likely is that it will be someone from his sort of centre right coalition. now, what's ke

olaf schulz, the chancellor, unceremoniously firing his finance minister, christian lindner.he two massively disagreed about germany's economic future. >> the chancellor gave me an ultimatum to suspend the constitutional debt break. i couldn't do that because i would have been breaking my oath of office. >> but the divisions between governing parties go far deeper than a financial mechanism. >> all three parties contributed to why this coalition fell apart by provoking one another by publicly fighting leonie von randow is a political reporter at welt. >> she's covered the coalition since it was formed. she says the euphoria of this government ended abruptly, triggered largely by the war in ukraine. >> the government had to take on a huge debt to kind of put more money into defense and into the army and also the economy started to really stumble because we were so largely dependent on russian gas and oil. so that's kind of where it all went downhill by throwing out the liberal party in its traffic light coalition, a reference to party colors, olaf schulz was forced to call a v

government collapsed back in november when he fired his finance minister, christian lindner.he two had been bickering for some time over a financial mechanism and germany's economy. but what resulted in this was scholz leading a minority government. that meant he had very few other options left to him, apart from calling this confidence vote. what the opposition party saw, though, in schultz's weakness, was the ability to force him to make the call on having the confidence vote and the election earlier than he had originally wished. that animosity was very clear to see on the floor of the bundestag today, with all parties leveling accusations at one another. schulz took another opportunity to remind the german people that the reason this government collapsed in his mind was because the liberal partners in his coalition were not prepared to agree with his policies and timetables. the cdu, the former party of angela merkel, now led by friedrich merz and one of the front runners to be the next chancellor, also took his opportunity to blame olaf schultz. >> you are asking about c

the collapse of scholz�*s coalition government last month — after a rift with finance minister christian lindnergest economy — which shows no sign of improvement — amid rising competition from china and the threat of a trade war with the us. carsten brzeski is chief economist at ing germany in frankfurt. good morning to you. are we right, is that what's going to happen today? he will lose the vote of no—confidence and we're looking at elections early next year? looking at elections early next ear? ., . , looking at elections early next ear? ., ., , , year? you are right. this is auoin year? you are right. this is going to — year? you are right. this is going to happen. _ year? you are right. this is going to happen, the - year? you are right. this is going to happen, the six i year? you are right. this is i going to happen, the six time he appears that we had this vote of no—confidence. he has to go to the federal and up to the federal president theoretically to announce new election but this is what's going to happen so we will have lectured on the 23rd of february. lectured on the 23rd of febr