are not available to join a grand coalition without off the table one other option available to angola merkel would be to rule over a minority government most likely with the green party. but a minority government would be unstable at best and would certainly require horse trading on gargantuan proportions with the other four parties in parliament if the government was to well pass anything more than just time in the chamber it's also worth noting that this would be a first in modern german history and wouldn't exactly fit the profile of the german voters who do love stabilises so where does this leave us the other option would be we go back to the polls for fresh elections. so back to the polls we go well step forward german president frank vaulted steinmeyer it's predominantly a ceremonial role but when it comes to installing a government that's where the german presidency has executive power it will be up to mr steinmeier whether he decides that he accepts angola merkel as the head of a minority government or whether he dissolves parliament triggering elections and for the long serving lea

the day after the bundestag election in september angola merkel said that she was confident that by christmas she would have a ruling coalition government in place or fast forward through weeks of torture a sit times negotiations with the green party and the pro-business free democrats while the wheels of that coalition health fell off well and truly with christie and of the free democrats delivering the killer blow we have the other one is that we will not abandon our voters for a policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly ingrained differences between the parties on key issues such as climate change refugees and the budget saw the so-called jamaica coalition break down. just hours after coalition talks with the free democrats and the greens collapsed under merkel was turned down by another coalition suitor this time the social democrats martin schulze saying there would be no return to a grand coalition if you were on september the twenty fourth the grand coalition lost fourteen percent so it's clear we were shown the red card in view of the elect

presidency has executive power it will be up to mr steinmeier whether he decides that he accepts angola merkel as the head of a minority government or whether he dissolves parliament triggering elections and for the long serving leader mrs merkel that could well prove to be a storm she doesn't whether it's really fun for somebody has got to be responsible for that the federal chancellor created the situation she's been in power for what feels like a hundred years and now she should be asking herself maybe i have something to do with this situation. mrs merkel has failed it's time for her now to take a step back that night at the end of the merkel era began europe's biggest economy is heading into uncharted territory with current polling suggesting that a new ballot wouldn't return any results too different from what we had in september it does seem that there is no immediate solution to the current instability germany is facing and of course the implications that has for the why do european union peter all of a r.t. berlin we spoke to members from some of germany's political parties on the rec

not available to join a grand coalition is without off the table one other option available to angola merkel would be to rule over a minority government most likely with the green party. but a minority government. would be unstable at best and would certainly require horse trading on gargantuan proportions with the other four parties in parliament if the government was to well pass anything more than just time in the chamber it's also worth noting that this would be a first in modern german history and wouldn't exactly fit the profile of the german voters who do love stabilises so where does this leave us the other option would be we go back to the polls for fresh elections. that could well prove to be a storm she doesn't whether it's keep that's really fun for somebody has got to be responsible for that the federal chancellor created this situation she's been in power for what feels like one hundred years and now she should be asking ourselves maybe i have something to do with this situation. mrs merkel has failed it's time for her now to take a step back that night at the end of the merkel

together and form a government this is your duty now of all possible scenarios a new election is why angola merkel prefers why do you think that is i mean she lost many of those in the september election now that she failed to form a ruling coalition she may not get a needed a majority what is she looking that. well other her country is wondering what is moving merkel to do have politics there is no reasonable argument for everything she's done in the process especially in the last few years to yes maybe when it comes to migrant crisis we're wondering what is she doing she's not doing this to serve the country this is very clear no one really doubts it so it's very difficult to understand what she has going for what is her a and the only thing what moves here obviously is to save her own power and maybe to the country into something completely new she's the first i would say the first green chancellor we've ever had she's putting all the left together and so it would be it should be very easy for her for her personally and in the meantime also for a party to go together with a social democrats and

myself once said that a week was a long time in politics and it certainly does seem to be true for angola merkel as well seven days ago she was picking up the pieces after jamaica coalition talks broke down she said looking at the two options that would look like the only ones available to you were a minority rule or new elections that you would actually prefer new elections over ruling over a minority government well she has changed her mind on that somewhat saying that it wasn't a good idea right now to put the decision on who would govern germany back to the german people that they'd already made their minds up back in september and it was up to the politicians to try and hammer out a coalition so where are we right now two months on from the general election in germany lots of late nights lots of debates lots of of talks fail pork spending more talks on the horizon. and as it stands at the moment it looks like we could be going right back to the grand coalition that ruled germany before but you haven't people voted back in september those talks taking place in berlin on thursday i'll be back

democrats martin schulz said that yes he would take part in coalition talks with representatives of angola merkel's christine union and the german president frank walter steinmeier in berlin on thursday now when it comes to talks on a grand coalition this really represents a one hundred eighty degree turnaround from martin sure if we compare what he said today to what he said last monday or you can have for yourself. be a nice you know we're not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly in loose room after the elections and we still stand by this. guy for shut out the s.p.d. party has confirmed that i should accept the invitation from the german president to take part of the took with the chairman of the c.d.u. c.s.u. passes next thursday. while somebody with far more insight than myself once said that a week's a long time in politics and it's also proved true for chancellor angela merkel a week ago she was well picking up the tatters from failed coalition coalition talks for the jamaica coalition she said that she would prefer elections over the possibility that she was facing a ruling a min

i think they just disregard that and get down to a long term interest power calculations both angola merkel and she jinping i think do it that way so go to one. aside from the overall notion of trust. what kind of relationship do you think we might see evolve between these two leaders and also these two countries certainly one of trump's big issues has been to trade and particularly china. steele since the election campaign he has talked about possibly putting chinese punitive duties on chinese steel so far it hasn't happened but you think the last word has really been spoken no the last word has not been spoken because this is one of the topics that donald trump really seems to care about the unfairness of the all the free trade agreements that the united states has signed in the past they have none with china but there is this huge trade deficit and so this will remain a topic i'm sure but there are topics that sort of overshadow or take priority over this also i mean the u.s. at the moment has its hands full to renegotiate nafta so this will probably keep it busy but they already introdu

together and form a government this is your duty now of all possible scenarios a new election is why angola merkel prefers why do you think that is i mean she lost many of those in the september election now that she's failed to form a ruling coalition she may not get a needed a majority what is she looking that. well other her country is wondering what is moving merkel to do have politics there is no reasonable argument for everything she's done in the process especially in the last few years to yes maybe when it comes to migrant crisis we're wondering what is she doing she's not doing this to serve the country this is very clear no one really doubts it so it's very difficult to understand what she has going for what is her a and the only thing what moves here obviously is to save her own power and maybe to the country into something completely new she's the first i would say the first green chancellor we've ever had she's putting all the left together and so it would be it should be very easy for her for her personally and in the meantime also for a party to go together with a social democrats a

together and form a government this is your duty now of all possible scenarios a new election is why angola merkel prefers why do you think that is i mean she lost many of those in the september election now that she failed to form a ruling coalition she may not get a needed majority what is she looking that. well the whole country is wondering what is moving merkel to do have politics there is no reasonable argument for everything she's done in the pasta specially in the last few years to us maybe when it comes to migrant crisis we're wondering what is she doing she's not doing this to serve the country this is very clear no one really doubts it so it's very difficult to understand what she has going for what is her a and the only thing what moves there obviously is to save her own power and maybe to the country into something completely new she's the first i would say the first green chancellor we've ever had she's putting all the left together and so it would be it should be very easy for her for her personally and in the meantime also for a party to go together with a social democrats and the

together and form a government this is your duty now of all possible scenarios a new election is why angola merkel prefers why do you think that is i mean she lost many of those in september election now that she failed to form a ruling coalition she may not get a needed a majority what is she looking that. well other her country is wondering what is moving merkel to do her politics there is no reasonable argument for everything she's done in the pasta specially in the last few years to us maybe when it comes to migrant crisis we're wondering what is she doing she's not doing this to serve the country this is very clear no one really doubts it so it's very difficult to understand what she has going for what is her a and the only thing what moves here obviously is to save her own power and maybe to the country into something completely new she's the first i would say the first green chancellor we've ever had she's putting all the left together and so it would be it should be very easy for her for her personally and in the meantime also for a party to go together with a social democrats and the gree

with peter best drawn from the alternative for germany party he believes the promises made by angola merkel will be broken. there was no strategy behind it it was a complete nonsense to to leave the nuclear power you see all our neighbors are still using nuclear power this is a very clean energy this is a typical typical sign of america's policy. and that she is moving towards the whole political spectrum to left to ride and she is a one time serving the voters of the socialist and the other time the voters of the greens she has no. shape profile which are all the other chancellor of former chancellors of c.d.u. of the conservatives used to have she will definitely not to be able to fulfill the promises and now we will see. how to public will react on it. there are still six months until the hungry goes to the polls in parliamentary elections but things are already getting heated and the government's claiming the billionaire george soros is trying to interfere in the country's internal policies with soros who was born in that country is fighting back as american proponents billionaire georg

driver in and hovan who are former german intelligence officer runner up believes angola merkel has good reason to oppose the idea of snap elections in germany the criticism of. the business miracle tremendously increased you know all park you so it's quite clear why she doesn't want a new elections because there are serious considerations if this you knew would be able to achieve even those two numbers which. if if chancellor merkel would run again so new elections are quite out for us or sort of their only option for her is to try to force. the course into a grand coalition. turkey has reiterated its call for the us to stop arming kurdish y p g fighters in syria and. terrorists and follows an apparent pledge from donald trump to stop supplying weapons to the militia grouping that has played an instrumental role in driving back islamic state the we will not give weapons remarks from the us president for the first time is important but it will lose value if it's not implemented it would be deceiving the world. if washington does stop supplying weapons to the kurds it's likely to go some