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merkel for over twenty five years and. made takes two minutes that's helpful for the chancellor. whether uncle americal or her challenger martin short's daniel biskup has photographed them all. over in israel. on september sixteenth munich's mayor opened the first barrel of beer signaling the traditional start of the october fast the ne will bear festival is the world's biggest party drawing millions of visitors many of them wearing traditional bavarian costume. was one of france's greatest fashion designers until his death in two thousand and eight in october a new museum opened in paris showcasing many of his designs including accessories drawings and films. october thirty first the grand finale of celebrations marking the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation there were events throughout the year to remember martin luther who published his theses in fifteen seventeen british artists gilbert and george produced their own take on luther displaying works from their scapegoating series in berlin it was part of a project designed to highlight luther's reformist ideas. thank november dortch avello

party it's gearing up to oppose chancellor angela merkel's yet to be formed government they will be germany's official opposition party if angle americal enters into a coalition with the social democrats the f.t. wants to introduce a proposal to repatriate syrian refugees this will be debated in parliament but is expected to be voted against by all other parties controversially the far right party also wants to honor the german army which has been traditionally kept out of politics since the end of world war two alec helen has more from the german city of hannover. the police are expecting or several thousand protesters we saw groups of several hundred but yeah it's a party convention say oh it with a party convention is being held as the leaders were driving those protesters were running to try and block the leaders from coming they have vowed to stop the some six hundred delegates from reaching the convention center but these are far left protesters who police are taking no chances with frankly where i'm standing right now i can see far more police than i can see the protesters there are helicopters buzzing our our heads they have se

americal and social democrat leader martin shields to break the deadlock over forming a new government and they met last night at the presidential palace in berlin with discussions lasting more than two hours chancellor merkel has been trying to. put together a government since i mean election on september twenty fourth the social democrat leader martin charles had earlier ruled out forming another coalition with merkel's party but pressure is building on him to reconsider his position. and he's all over salad has been following the latest for us he joins us in studio hi oliver so martin schultz he's meeting with leaders from his party and we're expecting a statement from him in about an hour's time what do you think do you think that he's going to get the green light from his party to go into these exploratory talks as they're called now that's want to the whole country is basically a waiting for right now for this statement here of his decision really will he go ahead into these exploratory talks it's a very exciting moment in german politics i have to say and it's also an historic situation because it was the first time that the federal president of germany who's impartial had to step in on that scale an

bungle americal is now only the acting chancellor and it could be some time until she is once again the head of an elected government if it ever is the merkel era as some suspect germany's most popular politician is foreign minister sigma gabriele of the social democrats the s.p. dame with an approval rating of sixty five percent merkel has the approval of fifty four percent while s.p.d. had martin schultz gets just thirty nine bought a majority of germans say they'd welcome merkel's dying on as chancellor for weeks merkel tried to form a so-called jamaican coalition with his cd un the c s u together with the greens in the free democrats alternately without success is now only another grand coalition with the s.p. day or a minority government can prevent you elections the s.p. day is being grappling with the way that to join such a coalition again what does the public think which would be the best government at this point. forty five percent called a grand coalition of the c.d.u. c.s.u. in the s.p.d. good about fifty two percent consider it not as good or even bad for the first time a majority wants merkel to lead a minority government. the

merkel today and she urged quick progress on talks aimed at forming a new coalition government europe's largest economy has been in political deadlock ever since inconclusive elections back in september americalis now hoping that talks the central of social democrats on wednesday will lead to a rerun of a grand coalition between germany's two biggest party. the c.d.u. would like to avoid new elections so the goal is clear to figure out if another grand coalition is feasible. our standard must be what does our country need my take on is this of course we have different positions from the social democrats but i also see a whole range of issues where there's room for agreement schmidt's mencken the chancellor wants talks to proceed quickly but thoroughly and for now at least she rejects a key s.p. demand to replace germany's dual system of public and private health insurance with a single public citizens insurance for all. to see do you are not in favor of the proposed citizens insurance because we do not believe that eliminating competition would improve the system as a whole the many up soft at their party conference the s.p.d. decided to take an open approach to the possibility of working tog