just. 501 free glad you could join me a victory for the head of germany's governing conservatives anika to contact about i managed to head off a rebellion at her party conference yesterday warning delegates that she would resign if she did not get their full backing well that a standing ovation come caraballo took over from chancellor angela merkel as c.d.u. leader last year but the party's popularity has continued to slide under her leadership. she went all the way and took on the challenge after several attacks in the weeks to. to the c.d.u. sponte conference and a great. post the big question to her party colleagues and leipsic. many of them i know if you feel that the road i want to go down is not the road you want to follow then let us talk about that today and let those and it today here and now today. how did the 1000 delegates react with this 7 minute standing ovation continuing 190 minute speech the party leader passionately our the policy measures she wants to pursue in the future. isn't enough to be the repair service of the republican we need to become the workshop of the fu

going to humphrey glad you could join me a victory for the head of germany's governing conservatives anika it come catabolic laid down the gauntlet at her party conference yesterday warning delegates should resign if she didn't get their full backing that earned her a standing ovation come catamount took over from chancellor angela merkel as c.d.u. leader last year but new leadership has so far had no effect on the party's sliding popularity. she now has time to catch her breath and a great come cut in power at her party's conference the head of the cd you manage to see off the rebellion for leadership at least for now we have been described here at the party conference where germany could look like and i asked the party whether they wanted to go down this road together with me and the delegates confirmed this very impressively yesterday. delegates reward her passionate speech where she posed the question back me or sack me with a 7 minute standing ovation. even her most vehement critics declare their loyalty. this is to you once to send off an image of unity and present itself as the part

while the cd use nida anika that come cattle battle has been addressing party members and she started by trying to dispel doubts about her ability for the job. the earth isn't hard today we're talking about the future about the steps that are necessary so that in 10 years time germany will continue to be a successful and attractive country it's not enough to just paper over the cracks we need to be in incubate of innovation that is our goal that is what we want to achieve today all of us together. on time in the mind's eye. and in leipzig is our chief political editor now we can join her now party and it can a power is not on controversial her popularity in opinion polls has dwindled of late with that in mind how was her address there just received. she's actually still speaking right now and she's clearly mapping out that the party needs to be a lot more future oriented we just heard from her once again highlighting the point she made as defense minister saying that germany will have to take more responsibility in the future also militarily something that was received as very controv