so not only the social democrats, as of the social democrats being the party of the drum and johnson, not only the social democrats, but all other parties represented in the german parliament, are already positioning themselves on the main topics on the agenda. and one of the main topics on the agenda has been security and i firmly believe that off to this, it will be an even bigger topic for politicians to discuss. and where does the s p d find itself when it comes to security? maybe you can explain to our international viewers, the different political parties and what their position is when it comes to securing germany. well, actually security has been debates also among politicians on political parties, especially after another security incident that happened in august and the west and german city of zoning. and that was a nice attack. and that led to various but to take measures to deal with security issues. so for example, one of the concrete measures that was implemented also here in the christmas markets was for the people were not allowed to carry specific knives. so knives a

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his social democrats out round about 20 percent. the conservative senior who sees you is around 30 percent. the fall right alternative for germany is also round about 20 percent. so this is where we'll see the made, the system will do. i have to add the fall, right? delta interested to how many will not show up as any part of any coalition here in germany. because the other parties to you don't want to work to them, but look, i mean, the social democrats, yet currently at 17, depends on which both the you look at, but that those are the possibilities and the greens, that's 11 really feeling the pain of, of having been in this total with the free democrats fighting for the political life. they need to make that 5 to said special old. and that's what what else helps hodges, as finance minister with x ascendant and who decided and this was linked to that. there was a plan to actually need this co listen, but he wanted to get fired. he didn't want to be seen to be leaving this cool. listen. you mentioned the if the you've mentioned a co

and there's also have been a slight uptake for shots, his social democrats, since he effectively took the decision to sort of, uh, dissolve that unpopular a 3 policy coalition government. the policy is s b d say, you know, shows is a great campaign to the part the machine is really strong and effective. and don't forget, it isn't all about the leader in german politics is about the policies and what coalitions can ultimately may be made. it's still, it's possible i feel it's cool to end up as the leader of some kind of left leading coalition. but at the moment it looks like a big reach. okay. feeling that of the c d. you see the, you, i the moment looking like community to be that the biggest punch in the book, just talk a, tell us more about this man who could be germany's next. johnson a a fitness match is a very well known figure. range of the politics. he's been around since the 19 ninety's. he had high ambitions even back then, but he was sort of blogs and now states from east paul 5 at one angle, a miracle. and he went off into business, became a very wealthy in the financial in

impulse for shows on the social democrats. well, this was always a 3 way marriage of necessity because the majority wasn't this. it was seen as a bit of a political experiment, but it started off as a fuse to orient as coalition. then very soon they were hit with that attack by russell on ukraine. so that was that size, and then the, that's what i've sold commissions. 100000000000 years to determine these military and basically declaring a complete a new period that were in the new era and but they had it just over a year ago, their budget go blow now. so the was a by constitutional court ruling, and that left them source of money, source of, of some 18000000000 euros. and that money was never quite found. so we saw a lot of political wrangling, we saw a finance minister resisting and forgetting all about that break something that what i felt himself made. so actually came in to being in the 1st place. he's a big fan of that in principle. and it's put it bluntly, it's a 3 way code us and they only did their projects of that re

in romania is parliamentary elections. exit polls put the governor's social democrats in the lead. the vote comes a week after the 1st round of presidential elections in which a far right candidate, one, due to romania is power sharing laws. the new government will choose the prime minister who will have to work with the winter of next week's presidential run off . these elections could determine whether remaining continues. if a pro you pass or tibbetts towards isolation is yanna of a donnie is a journalist, and correspondent and executive director at the center for independent journalism in bucharest. thanks for joining us. hey, i know the 1st exit polls are showing that the governing left is the social democrats are set to win the most votes. what does this mean? well, it's a good kind of candidate to say that the they want the elections actually, they got 25 percent of the votes, while the far right parties together they've got 30 percent of the of the vote. so the social democrats of victory is no. victoria told they used to win these kind of election of the parliamentary elec

social democrats that. c it is a party called on its members to abstain in this vote, just to make sure that a accidentally, the government does not get a, you know enough votes at the supported in this confidence vote. and that actually the government now will lose the confidence vote. it will be, it will be or if the play the follow riots upon to you that is a pretty strong and the board has done well. uh, the reason also why the greens have said they're going to abstain in the vote of confidence is because there was some concern that some members of the a if the might play a trick on the shows is remaining allies and actually vote in favor of the government in this vote of confidence, and this is something that's all parties involved a want to avoid. it would send a very bad signal. if a government made up of the social democrats in the green were actually to stay in power because of the, the voted in favor of it. so this is something that all parties want to avoid. and everyone seems to really want to g

— labour party, the social democrats? ., ~ labour party, the social democrats? . ~ democrats?mocrats? yeah, i think if you look at the way the _ democrats? yeah, i think if you look at the way the numbers . look at the way the numbers might shake out for the likes of fianna fail and fine gael, fianna fail are very confident that they're somewhere around a5 it 50 says, fine gael probably accepting they're somewhere shorter at 35, 37. put them together, you're up around 82. you want your dail majority to be way above, you want it to be as big as possible. 88 is the bare minimum. it's not really workable because you're going to lose a td overboard on some vote at some point. if £31 to lose a td overboard on some vote at some point. if— vote at some point. if of got labour, if — vote at some point. if of got labour, if they _ vote at some point. if of got labour, if they come - vote at some point. if of got labour, if they come back i vote at some point. if of got l labour, if they come back with 10 seats, — labour, if they come back with 10 seats, you're _ labour, if they come ba

people that from the social democrats working class for those who maybe feel that the social democrats have drifted too much the center. i don't really reflect the mood and the attitudes and the opinions and that the needs the working class. so we have to just most thing, all of these voters off by so new if we the negative may tone message is just, everything's terrible it's, it's really bad. the only way to, to go of this whole is to vote for us the cool tennis of a party. there's never been in power, which is kind of part of like the po box or part of the challenge that they will have because they've never had to govern. so yeah, i think, i mean to, when i hear the vital is quote that a kind of reminds me of some of the things that donald trump said. so i was just in the us for a couple months covering the election day. and, you know, he's always saying it's the democrats destroying a country. he's kind of, uh, you know, what, what they would call us on a locally to this is, is kind of driving the country into the ground. and it is striking to see the power allows between the us and

the social democrats have two seats. in their own name, have seven seats so far. those smaller parties and independent candidates are essentially likely to be the kingmakers in whatever government comes next because none of those three big parties will have enough seats first of all to form a majority party on their own, but even if fianna fail and fine gael, the two big parties in government wished to form a coalition again, they will need the support of some of those smaller parties, or some of those independence as well. i am joined by someone from those smaller parties, gary gallen, you havejust smaller parties, gary gallen, you have just been elected, re—elected, congratulations for that. the social democrats really having a great weekend, it looks like you will build on your own tally, what is the reason for that? hard work, effort, not deviating from your ideas, not making false promises to cut taxation. most people have heard that before. social democrats have brought an authenticity to politics. that message is

the social democrats are currently in the third place just below 20%. and you're right.hat is one of the really good points we're seeing in the coming weeks as well. the main two would be for the conservatives to team up with the social democrat or the greens party. that could however be pretty complicated because part of the conservatives have pushed back very strongly against some of the energy policies in particular that the greens have floated. there is a pretty strong chance there from a current point of view telling from what the polls are showing now, the conservatives and the social democrats will have to come to some sort of agreement at some point in coming month if they were to form the new government. tom: ok. the update in terms of this election campaign which is well underway in germanyle joining us from berlin. thank you for the update. staying in germany with the continue sector. v.w.'s management and labour leaders are yet to reach a deal over proposed layoffs and factory closures. the union said it is prepared to vote at the end of the week potentially

and when it comes to migration of sholtes, of the social democrats on the green parties, formal open when it comes to the issue of migration. so the conservatives off top of the oppose fos full would, let's say might as does potentially when the next elections, they're going to get an easy arrived themselves is how this gentleman policy is headed for more stable, more commer waters? unfortunately, i think not looking in my christabel, i think you know, the cd was doing very well at the moment. it's pulling it around 31 percent. that's nearly twice as much as old actual it's. it's a 17 percent bots. germany is, is it is a country that is governed by coalitions. so however, well met does, if he does do well. uh, he will actually have to find a coalition partner to, to join forces with an order to govern. and this is where it's going to get very difficult. we saw an incredibly heated and impassioned debate in the going to start to get the notes of bumped was between the lead this of these main parties. they do not like each other. they do not get on, but mess will have to, to join force

because shots, as social democrats and the left leading parties, they want to see more social spending in facts to sort of cushion many, many of the, the effects of the week economy. so there's a real debate here going on between the conservatives, who want to, uh, you know, sort of listen to the strains on companies and, and, and, and regulations and so forth. and the left side of the spectrum, which as you would expect, uh once more, more generous social programs where the rubber really hits the road is in, on this question of how to pay for it all. and you know, i think this is going to, to dominate the debate here. when you've just mentioned the conservative stair, because the latest polls have the conservative cd you for being leading, but they would need to form a coalition. and so if they do end up winning, would you see a big shift in direction for germany, both domestically and internationally, or i really don't think so. to be honest, i mean, you know, germany is pretty rare to see big changes in direction. this is more kind of shades of gray. and as you say, if the next coal

we've seen that a former, a coalition partners, the social democrats, the greens and the f d. p, have agreed on some measures that they're going to vote for and the proven the parliament in that case. they would have a majority looking at tax cuts for example. but in any case, in any individual law, the remaining of government parties that are now in a minority will have to look for partners among other parties to approve individual laws. so that is going to be tricky. but we've heard also from the spokesman of all of shots uh recently that the confirmation that the government is going to stay in charge as a caretaker government. it still has the ability to govern. in fact, we'll see the chancellor shows traveling to brussels this week for a new summit with a western balkan states. so there it that germany is not a government less country right now. as things will still continue with a care taker, government, and some laws can still be approved in the parliament. so don't you will have a government, but it will be pretty much a lame duck government and a times of international

so, the alliance for the union of romanians is second to the social democrats in these exit polls, withher centrist parties, with two other far—right parties also looking as though they'll get into parliament. so, again, we should be very cautious with the exit polls — they got it wrong a week ago, and they don't include the diaspora vote, which is also very important in romanian elections. but for now, cautious optimism among the centrist parties that, despite this far—right surge, they seem to be holding on to power. yes, because this comes a week after that first round of the presidential election, in which that far—right pro—russian candidate secured a shock victory, didn't he? that's right, calin georgescu shocked romania a week ago by leading by winning with a similar turnout, also about 52—53% — that's 9.4 million votes cast altogether — and mr georgech came a shock first in that election. that's been legally challenged. there's a recount going on, even as we hold a new parliamentary election this weekend. and also, the constitutional court is due to decide tomorrow, monday, on w

the question is whether it will be the social democrats or the greens, but there is a concern that the it did in regional elections here last year. in regional elections here last ear. . . in regional elections here last ear. ., ., a ., ., ., year. yeah, and michaela, for decades. _ year. yeah, and michaela, for decades, politics _ year. yeah, and michaela, for decades, politics in _ year. yeah, and michaela, for decades, politics in germanyl year. yeah, and michaela, for- decades, politics in germany have been characterised by coalition, cooperation, compromise. how does the current stability potentially affect that?— the current stability potentially affect that? ~ ., ,. , affect that? what you describe as instability is _ affect that? what you describe as instability is really _ affect that? what you describe as instability is really a _ instability is really a fragmentation of the political landscape. and the rise of the far right alternative for germany is part of that. our system is different from the british or the american one. it is built to force the parties to have to reach

d, a would likely achieve 18 percent all the way down in the chancellor shelter says social democrats at the moment that only when a 16 percent of the vote on present shopping is called this in part of the greens are on the 14 a new party, the b, s w would make it into parliament. it's pulling other on 5 percent with the blend of left leading economic policies, consecutive migration, and russia friendly, foreign policy initiatives. the business from the liberal f t. p form, members of the gym and government wouldn't get enough votes to be represented in the bonus tag. and the left policy would fail to reach the 5 percent heads of the score to place in parliament, but could still be represented by 3 directly elected candidates. this remains unclear on a political correspondence. simon junk has been analyzing the thing as i asked him whether or not charles was already lost. phil, uh, you know, this, paul is in line with all the polls and uh, you know, the numbers are pretty bad for, uh, the, the chance of the social democrats, a way behind the conservatives. and is not surprising, given

sinn fein, the social democrats often run more — the social democrats often run more women than men and,, y., but again it's still too early to tell. . ~' . but again it's still too early to tell. ., ,, . ., to tell. thank you so much for that. as to tell. thank you so much for that- as we — to tell. thank you so much for that. as we said, _ to tell. thank you so much for that. as we said, about - to tell. thank you so much for that. as we said, about a - to tell. thank you so much for| that. as we said, about a third of the seats filled so far and counting will continue right into the and potentially early hours of the morning and on into tomorrow until all of those seats are filled and we will have all of the results here for you. ._ will have all of the results here for you. . and thank you for giving _ here for you. . and thank you for giving us _ here for you. . and thank you for giving us the _ here for you. . and thank you for giving us the breaking - here for you. . and thank you i for giving us the breaking news that gerry hutch loses out in dublin central and we have a live pa

preston says designate to the left is the social democratic much. so it's a coup with forming a new government. the top quotes had a know the previous presidential election off the far right. pro russian politician won the 1st round into them, but it's side to the evidence that russian, that an interference company probably answer the reports of the weeks of uncertainty. finally, a deal to keep the far right out of government and put the social democrat prime minister. my so to a lack of backend they say, and they spend a little fuzzy to, i know me, they missed and most so she'll luckily for the position of a prime minister of the government of romania at the same time, allow me to wish about success to the new coalition absolutely european romanian, cultural, i think they will co very well with the problems which we are now facing on. it thought that the coalition deal unites to a lack whose ruling social democrat to 122 percent of the vote with the national liberal party. and the 3rd group representing minorities united. they'll block the far righ

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it seems unlikely at the moment it could be with the social democrats and the liberal policy looked like they might not even get the 5 percent needed to stay in parliament. so that could be tricky for math in order to get over 50 to get over 50 percent in order to govern with a coalition partner. a bunch of course, you know, a few weeks is a long time in politics. anything could happen. but of course, of a job at the moment as well, the economy, a big issue, and that's going to be a big issue for whoever is the next leader. just so thank you so much for giving us the insights that grateful that you with us. it's great, serious, i said, president bustle outside has broken. his silence, abides his full from part from power and a written statement posted on social media. i said, says he never planned to abandon his country as rebel forces closed in on damascus claims he initially moved to a russian base in weston. serious continue fighting. fox says russia evacuated him off to the base, came under attack. he will say the nicest syria is nearly to is as terrace. so many of syria's my minorit

of course, that with differences also with the degree is also between the social democrats and the greens and the, the liberal democrats. but i think the major problem on the coalition was christine lynn. the ftp and that polling at the national level does not always think a trend here. do you think in terms of western nations? because it seems, if you are an incumbent who came out to the co, good years when that was that very high inflation, you looked at to richie, so not in the u. k, you look a couple of houses, the successor to joe biden. you look at macros, potty being punished in elections and now look to canada and just intruder. is there a trend to you? thank it is a 2024 was being built as a year of elections and it certainly has been on your rise. the vast majority of governments are being thrown items by their populations by their voters. i have say there's one exception. my own home country of ireland just had an election and more or less, the incumbent governments has been reelected. but what are the reasons there, for example, may be because the irish economy is doing very w

as designate to be left his social democrat marshal, would you like who would forming a new government? that's cool to know the previous election offer a fall right? pro russian politician won the 1st round in november, excited evidence that russia let it interfere, wins campaigns just totally out of the weeks of uncertainty. finally, a deal to keep the far right out of government and put the social democrat prime minister muscle to a lack of backend they say, and they spend a little fuzzy to, i know me, they missed and most cell show. luckily for the position of a prime minister of the government of romania at the same time, allow me to wish about success to the new correlation, abril, european romanian, cultural. i think they will co very well with the problems which we are now facing at. i thought that the coalition deal unites to alaska is ruling social democrat to 122 percent of the vote with the national liberal party. and the 3rd group representing minorities united. they'll block the fall, right. national groups who won the vote. but there are numerous challenges ahead. 3, but

union, probably in a coalition with the social democrats. so that's the center, right, incentive left. maybe the greens will participate and not coalition. if the polling shows thoughts necessary, i don't see any way for the at the 2 ends of power, the federal level, i just think there is absolutely no possibility of thoughts. i think you are correct, james, and not we probably will see policy in particular on things like immigration move a little bit, some of the right to accommodates and appease some of the positions about the at the is taking in the voters. but i think fundamentally, but with a much after the elections is a, is a coalition center on the sensor items, the sensor less than that will run a pro european pro. you frame a policy. nice thing will probably be more constructive and most stable than the outgoing governments of our shots. all right, let me focus a little bit more on immigration with you by some counts that may be close to 1000000 syrian nationals living in germany. already there are calls from some little makers to

he's from the social democrats. he's, you know, the kind of most, let's not rock the boat with china, person in the mix. the green, so it kind of relatively hawkish and the cd. you are kind of a little bit of a mixture i would say. so the cd you came out with a, a strategy of their own towards china last year, which had some kind of tougher language than you would hear suddenly from the social democrats made one or 2 recommendations which were pretty bureaucratic about how to handle china. but it wasn't necessarily dramatically different in terms of what the outcome would be. and that's the, one of the things that the party said in that strategy was that there should be a potty wide consensus on dealing with china. the china was such a big deal that it should not become a political football and the party should try to work towards that. so that does indicate that, you know, you might have a, a degree of continuity with a, a bit more of a shift towards a whole cuz attitude towards china. but i think the fact remains

but the social democrats, so it's basically you said no way. we're going to be against those terrace to see, to use the concept just by the way they said that they supported the task that you kind of be naive about what, you know, direct quotation or the, the accusation being made by the europeans is that chinese, the visa, distorting the market, they are subsidized, they coming, it's a, it's a sufficiently low price, isn't that for you need the tires? the big question will be what, how that position might sift once they are in government. but without doubt, it, china has a strategic role also with the arrival of north korean troops on the russian side in the ukraine rule. and let's just listen to what i mean. i know, you know, bubble got to say about that link. that was the president of the admission ones. russia is your president isn't just destroying our europe and peace order by involving north korea in his war against you. crane is also dragging in asia. i see my chinese counterpart and i discussed intensively. the sales cannot be in china

he is up multilateral is, a social democrat, that is a tricky combination when you are talking aboutal, if you were serious about avoiding tariffs, may be improving the relationship on trade, he would be a good person to send. i think there is certainly something to that. the hard thing — something to that. the hard thing with trump, republican in congress — thing with trump, republican in congress right now seeing this as we — congress right now seeing this as we speak, what trump once is not always— as we speak, what trump once is not always best articulated in terms — not always best articulated in terms of— not always best articulated in terms of policy, he wants flattery— terms of policy, he wants flattery and filthy, and sometimes he just wants political allies, we could see ourselves in a world six months from _ ourselves in a world six months from now— ourselves in a world six months from now where trump is saying trade, _ from now where trump is saying trade, in — from now where trump is saying trade, in the realm of the precedented, mr musk would like this particular favour

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the question is whether it will be the social democrats or the greens.a concern that the far-right alternative were germany could have a strong showing as well, after it did in regional elections last year. anchor: new analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heat waves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperatures. it shows the climate crisis caused an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024, and nearly half the world's countries endured at least two months of high-risk temperatures. earlier i spoke to a scientist from climate central and asked her which areas had been worst affected. >> we found that the places that are most affected by climate driven extreme heat tent to be in tropical areas, countries like barbados or trinidad, whereas the effects were somewhat less in places like europe. anchor: how easy is it to accurately obtain this data and get a real sense of how many deaths these heat waves are causing? >> that is a great question, because this is a branch of science called attribution science that has really just developed

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the greens and social democrats was not possible to get the very, very necessary reforms going and it'srmany needs reforms. it's not the case that we can just go on with business as usual. it was our responsibility to, to, to give the government a choice. to say you can do those reforms with us or we let the people in germany decide who should do those reforms. >> well, let's see what will happen. hopefully we can have another conversation as we approach the vote. we appreciate your time this morning. that was lukas kohler from the fdp. >>> coming up on the show, bitcoin touches $106,000 mark as president-elect donald trump floats new crypto plans. we'll have more details after this break. for nearly 200 years, big beverage companies have been selling us billions of single-use sugary drinks. using the same old one size fits all playbook. until now. meet cirkul, the beverage platform of the future. these fully adjustable flavor cartridges let you customize your water with the exact amount of flavor you prefer. transforming water into your favorite beverage. finally, water is your favorit

but short of a majority, social democratic leader, christian preston, delta could now become prime minister of a new coalition government and voters in lemay, near or electing a new pull him in a week after shop result in the 1st round of the presidential election. controversial 4 right populous who had been pulling in single digits. one of the most votes in that cold and anti establishment parties are expecting a strong, showing this time around to well negotiations for an international treaty to curb plastic pollution have reached a stalemate and need more time. the german says the un estimates around $20000000.00 tons of plastic waste weeks into oceans and waterways every year. treaty and tends to address this issue. but a divide remains between the countries pushing for a plastic production cap and a handful of oil producing countries who want to focus on plastic waste, dw, as environment reported. louise osborne joins us now for more luis, is it fair to say that this summit has fail to this point? yes. um, it was definitely supposed to be the case that that would be a um, a global to r

in the case social democratic party wins. it's uh, cost quite a stir in the public and it's also angry. it's price and democratic union, even the constitutional court, the price of banned him from running for that 1st, no matter if he resigned from the presidential office after the election. the whole affair kind of died out after the elections because creation, democratic union, and it's right when parts is one of the majority of the parliament, the price and democratic union often criticize milan to reach for his as they say, pro russian stance. even though gracious strongly supports ukraine in that war zoning yolanda which still however, due to his stands in some of the domestic issues and regional issues has a support of a part of the right wing voters down. you know that i'll just say it. i'm not going to a powerful storm system has affected several southern states in the united states killing at least 2 people. tornadoes, blue off rooms and above root of trees, across the se, in states of texas, louisiana, and mississipp

now, given the week polling numbers for chancellor or shelves of social democrats, my colleagues on a group, us asked our chief political correspondent whether his party had already lost those election. the moment hand is positive all polling way behind the conservatives. that's true. so 16 compacts essentially 2 percent, there is quite a big gap, but this is a very volatile situation still. and if you look at 3 things, one, if i can throw you back to 3 years ago, just a few weeks before the last elections will have shorts, was pulling at 14 percent only. and you still manage to become translating in y mainly because the others make mistakes and the tail end of the contain 2 in germany, it's all about coalition building in the end, right. so a lot will depend on how potential coalition partners will perform, especially the greens and 3, roughly one side of demons are still undecided and there is less loyalty to policies than you would have had in the past. and also you must have forget, if you look at polls, they also have to look at trends and all upsides is government coalition was

it was the social democratic policy of the current concept. when i sold to did this, always with the aim to strengthen their own government. and it's the 1st time that this is actually used in the sense it was initially designed, which is to draw the consequences from a sales government have failed coalition that no longer has the majority and to avoid instability within the parliamentary system. that's why that is the method of choice. see for what i sold to even the way full for selections, which we expect to take place in february. so if things do go is expensive and germany's parliament does declare it has no confidence in shorts. where do we go from here? we would expect an for the soul to seek an appointment with his own president who usually has the last the ceremonial role, but which becomes pivots, although particularly in these moments that's it creates potential instability. and we expect fun quite that signed by the president to then have within. so while he has 21 days to do this. but we expect this very, very shortly afterwards t