been struggling to grow but when the government's pushing for stronger national banks the lenders afton from formal talks towards a possible merger that would create a national champion in financial services. they're the largest banks in germany and their competitors now they want to join forces to become one strong german private bank above all because the federal government in germany wants them to be the goal a bank that can keep up with international competition both financial institutions have seen better times numerous lawsuits have had a strong impact on them after three years of losses profits have recently returned but both banks are in little compared to their international competitors if we will only merge with comments bank if it makes economic sense that's why we need a good plan. as far as the balance sheet is concerned the two banks are far from equal one point seven trillion euros a georgia bank and a half a trillion euros that commits bank together the two banks would almost catch up with the largest bank in the us j.p. morgan chase in purely mathematical terms but for

. >>> across the pond, soccer match between birmingham and afton villa.topped after a ball went out of bounds. a fan ran onto the field, and hit a player from behind. the fan was arrested. the player was able to finish the game and scored the game-winning goal in the second half. >> that happened in birmingham? >> yes. across the pond. >> dangerous stuff, yeah. >>> so as far as the raiders go, the interview that i did with bob, fantastic. he holds nothing back. and he talks about the issues that the raiders are going to have to deal with when a. b. comes to oakland. >> and that's on "game day tonight. "". >>> thank you. we'll be right back. . >>> well, i still want to know what you do with $30 million. >> he's going to find out. >> he will find out, but we never will. >>> that's it at 5:00. we'll see you back here at 6:00 for an hour news. see you at 6:00. >> quijano: no survivors. a boeing jetliner crashes in ethiopia. all 157 people on board are killed-- including eight americans. why it's raising questions about the 737 max. also tonight democrats who