the bundestag president angers german lawmakers by the use of twitter during the parliamentary session. also coming up a high security facility that strikes fear in the hearts of even most hardened criminals. to the block dolphin the nation's toughest. but some of the country maybe acts. he would have held. from moscow to the world this is our two international my names you know neil welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from egypt state run media in the country say two hundred thirty five people are being killed in an attack on a mosque in the north sinai region of two hundred more are reportedly wounded. the assault took place during friday prayers the attackers are said to have arrived in four off road vehicles set off a bomb as well at the site they've been open. fire people tried to flee the country's president has called an emergency meeting to decide how to respond it's not yet known who's behind me but media say government drones have already killed fifteen people allegedly who were behind the atrocity cairo based journalist worth schefter has more security service

the experienced former finance minister and now president of the bundestag has sent a message to his fellow parliamentarians stop tweeting during bundestag sessions and they have responded and they're not happy with the police that president gadgets for tweeting iran wanted you can watch the session live but we can't sweet anything about the plenary session so if you go outside the plenary hall it will be ok our facebook and instagram fine to use with a handwritten letter be ok that makes no sense i won't lead choice blair bonds with me from the bundestag haggling is a part of parliamentary debate at esalen haggling so what you shouldn't have to go outside for that. a little understanding why twittering is banned in the bundestag transparency also includes commenting on current events for laid out his problems with tweeting in a letter to all members of the bundestag he said it was inappropriate didn't mention any other platforms by name but i think it's implied that he meant they were supposed to post things on instagram or facebook as well some of the wording raises a little smile

philip i'm told on his twenty five and new to the german parliament the bundestag a delegate for the conservative christian democrats all c.d.u. he's experiencing one of the most turbulent times in german politics chancellor i'm going to go hasn't been able to form a government the liberal free democrats pull downs of coalition talks now a fresh election is a possibility philip i'm tall would prefer a minority government so who will be in charge in violin and who's to blame for this predicament. although that worked out what are you doing. posting a short video on facebook about new elections and what the constitution has to say about that. it's a good thing to talk about right now and people are interested in. knowing the facts when discussions get emotional is helpful. that's why i made this explanatory video. germany was sent to get its first ever national coalition government of conservatives liberals and green bank coalition talks collapsed but what good is a new election would it enhanced ability of the only if new coalition plans or new policy proposals are made. but. it is of

the specter of fresh elections is overshadowing the bundestag work and you know just an uncertainty in people's eyes what will happen in three or four months are not can change. how do you go on as normal what do you do with your staff a lot of jobs that dependent on members of parliament if you mention that on my five team and my special focuses digitalisation i want to deal with the future and now all that's been put on hold. new elections within a few months or a minority government without a stable coalition both would be a first for the bundestag and for germany. well now to a touching story in israel where a one hundred two year old holocaust survivor has been reunited with a nephew that he never knew we had they discovered their family connection thinks to an online database of holocaust victims created by israel's. holocaust. it may be one of the happiest days of his long long life at the hour who petrushka has finally met the nephew he never knew existed until two weeks ago. he thought his entire family had perished in the second boat war. i'm so happy i can talk to you and se

s it all started with this letter that was written to them by bundestag president ford going show it said basically you should be concentrating on what's happening in the parliament session while you're in the parliament session you shouldn't be tweeting in terms of of transparency. is streamed live on t.v. you saying that those who are in there should be concentrating on what they're doing well it prompted a reaction from m.p. saying that the president of the bundestag should be concentrating on what he's doing as the president because they want to tweet. gadgets for tweeting iran wanted you can watch the session live but we can't tweet anything about the plenary session so if you go outside the plenary hall it will be ok for facebook and instagram fine to use with a handwritten letter p ok that makes no sense i won't lead choi blair bun tweeting from the bundestag haggling is a part of parliamentary debate at esalen heckling so what you shouldn't have to go outside for that i have little understanding why twitting is banned in the bundestag transparency also includes commenting on

he got that party back into the bundestag. .ompletely understand that is what i give him credit for. now he's at the point where he's in the center of what is happening. he now has to take on a different perspective. also, i think he's sincere about this. the sdp was a terrible coalition partner. it didn't deliver anything. it became a lobby of -- a party of lobbyists. minde back of lintner's is, i don't want to betray the voters again. peter: absolutely. i think we need to have a look -- when we talk about change, the big question is what happens next. let's have a look at the options now. >> first scenario, merkel forms a minority government with the greens or the free democrats. postwar germany has never had a minority government. the downside, a minority government would have to build majorities case-by-case. second scenario, the grand coalition. but the social democrats chairman says no. he prefers the third scenario. new elections. the downside, long uncertainty with no real prospect of the vote turning out favorably. with

the far right populist party that could be a formidable political threat there bundestag new comers and could benefit from fresh elections. new well the f.t. party has some reasonable people among its ranks somewhere c.d.u. members for many years. but the f.t. hasn't yet formed a coherent set of positions. it is important to confront them over concrete issues . there are main political competitor at least in my electoral district but there are a political threat to us. we need to show what makes us better than them through substantive debate rather than issuing sweeping condemnation. that. is one of seven hundred nine m.p.'s in germany's going to start. he's the second youngest member of parliament and that helps make him a media favorite. he uses that to champion a minority government. at the end of the day we have to accept that the authors of our basic law our constitution did not rule out a minority back to chancellor. it's like the bundestag has convened a plenary session to prepare for the upcoming weeks despite lacking a government so what happens next. well i'm glad merkel stay

as the parties to reconsider their disagreements if it isn't for time zone parties elected to the bundestag have a share juicy to serve their country i expect from all parties a willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future if you elections come i should see that's not something i'm afraid of during the election campaign i thought for a four year mandate my point of view is that new elections would be the better path . but merkel now struggling to find a way out to all of a break down the recent developments. 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 lynn 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 go

both would be a first for the bundestag and for germany.nt: you're watching "dw news," live from berlin. still to come, the plight of myanmar's rohingya muslims. amnesty international says their persecution is tantamount to apartheid. we will be talking with a human rights expert from the european parliament about their plight. time now to talk about a megamerger which u.s. president donald trump wants stopped in its tracks. daniel: that's right. people say the concern is justified but that trump might have ulterior motives. the u.s. department of justice is suing to stop at&t's proposed acquisition of time warner. the suit sets up the biggest antitrust court clash in dades over the $85 billion tie up. the u.s. government says the merger of telecom and the content creator would harm competition resulting in higher costs for customers. reporter: it is no secret that u.s. president donald trump does not like cnn. in fact, he seems to relish lashing out at the broadcast company, which he calls fake news. his most famous attack may have been a

for me but for now it's great to have this opportunity at twenty eight i mean the average age of bundestag m.p.'s is about fifty so being able to contribute at twenty eight is a real gift a great honor. but you laid the groundwork early on when you join germany's young liberals when you were only thirteen other boys that age usually spend their time in front of a computer or at a sports club what on earth drove you into their arms at thirteen dollars with a. question i did all those things too i checked out a sports club games on my computer tried out acting private tutoring i tried all sorts of things but somehow i always felt they didn't give me a chance to talk properly about the things i was really interested in and that i wasn't really being taken seriously as a young person and then thanks to internet connections that finally reached our village i discovered politics because of the forums run by the young liberal group i ended up joining could discuss politics not really grand to me i met people there who took me seriously they treated me as an equal and the enthusiasm that triggered

the specter of fresh elections is overshadowing the bundestag work on the one that we see you know just an uncertainty in people's eyes what will happen in three or four months are not can change. if you must let us know how to go on as normal what do you do with your staff a lot of jobs and dependent on members of parliament if you mention that and might have team and i special focuses digitalisation i want to deal with the future and that will last being put on hold. new elections within a few months or a minority government without a stable coalition both would be a first for the bundestag and for germany. you're watching t.w. news live from berlin still to come the plight of me and maurice were hinge or muslims amnesty international says their persecution is tantamount to apartheid we'll be talking with a human rights expert from the european parliament about their plight. all right time now to talk about a mega merger with u.s. president donald trump wants stopped in its tracks stand that's right and brant they people say that the concern is justified but that trump might have all

already completed a two state examinations in law and are a newly elected delegate of the german bundestag between the two opposing there is so many nice jobs out there why did it have to be politics. well the good thing is i learned a different profession first time a lawyer by training i might not have worked as one for a long just for a while after my second state examination but it's important to me to have a profession i trained for you never know your term in office only lasts for four years and it may well be over then but even if it is there will be other options for me but for now it's great to have this opportunity at twenty eight i mean the average age of bundestag m.p.'s is about fifty so being able to contribute at twenty eight is a real gift a great honor. but you laid the groundwork early on when you joined germany's young liberals when you were only thirteen other boys that age usually spend their time in front of a computer or at a sports club what on earth drove you into their arms at thirteen dollars with a good question i did all those things too i checked out a sports

we will not co—operate with the far left or the far right in the german bundestag. option we have. i was sad to see alternative fur deutschland become the third—strongest party in the bundestag. we must be very sure that the bundestag does not become a platform for racism and extreme nationalism. would you accept the point made by pascal lamy a few weeks ago that what we have now is an angela merkel who has emerged from the entire electoral process politically weakened, and the anti—european forces in germany have gained ground? put that together, and your opening remarks about your belief that europe can now move forward, that assertion is going to be hamstrung by a much weaker sense of angela merkel‘s leadership and germany's leadership. well, i do not agree with pascal lamy. angela merkel has been elected for a fifth time as the head of a national government. you will not find many similar cases in the western world. we knew this would be a challenging election. i am sure we will have a stable government before christmas. i would also like to point out that despi

the specter of fresh elections is overshadowing the bundestag work. with you know just an uncertainty in people's eyes what will happen in three or four months a lot can change. how do you go on as normal what do you do with your staff a lot of jobs are dependent on members of parliament if you mentioned it and might have to my special focus as digitalisation i want to deal with the future and now all that's been put on hold. new elections within a few months or a minority government without a stable coalition both would be a first for the bundestag offer to form a government with conservatives. well first of all good morning i don't think we have a state crisis we have an acting government and that works and is now the situation is a little bit complicated we have seen the failure of angle america and negotiating with the greens and the liberals and see if you and that has happened just on sunday and now we have to think about what's what's going to do and there are different possibilities yet on the other side we have had a grand coalition and this

merkel most likely with the green party as a partner there they wouldn't have a majority in the bundestag and would have to really get involved in horse trading staking trying to get individual parties on side for individual issues but that's not going to be particularly popular here in germany also hear from the greens that they aren't convinced that that could succeed the other option that would be on the table well that would be fresh elections new elections being called it's not going to look good for angela merkel if she has to do that it would be the first time it's have to happen in modern german history and the rumblings the rumors around burlington around the bundestag are that the only party that new elections would particularly help would be the anti immigration alternative for germany party as many people would go to them after seeing the world inability of a stablish parties to form a government. what we are seeing though is more and more talk about fresh elections being the only option and then this decision questions being asked of whether angela merkel would even stand in

claudia haydt was the first person to notice the attack on the bundestag.ut an e—mail which supposedly was sent by a un, united nations organisation, and this e—mail had an attachment with reports of the situation in ukraine, or supposedly it had an attachment like this. i tried to open it. i found out it didn't work and i forgot about it, only later remembered there is this problem. of course i thought it was rather serious if a computer in the bundestag might be victim of an attack by some trojan virus. then the news comes out that this is a russian linked group, fancy bear. when that news broke, what did you think? well, yes, it could be russian, it could be someone else. yes, there are a lot of clues which are pointing to russia, because a lot of the software used in the hack was already used by other confirmed russian attacks, for example in us, and actually we still don't know what kind of documents had been downloaded or uploaded in this case, to somewhere else. we don't know what happened to really sensitive papers. crookservers closed in october 10

that we conclude this is team in the minds of the things that this bundestag parliament audition can go into leading is kicked out so and i can this community still going to parliament that is you can totally immune them into some talk when these talks are going to ongoing when i mean all governments seem to be in a position of having to trust their intelligence agencies telling them the truth and that is questionable nothing will happen in terms of any self-regulation. as organizations that are secretive to complex and to walk back to his house that regulate. the german chancellor in the bundestag parliamentary control committee are officially responsible for the control of the b. and d. . only with a more comprehensive and effective control of the intelligence agencies can civil rights and privacy be properly protected. what other options are there to prevent abuse or possible illegal activities by the spies. often only intelligence insiders are left to go public reveal institutional violations and become whistleblowers get there's disparity between these individuals on the one sid

already completed a two state examinations in law and are a newly elected delegate to the german bundestag between the two of there are so many nice jobs out there why did it have to be politics. well the good thing is i learned a different profession first time a lawyer by training i might not have worked as one for a long just for a while after my second state examination but it's important to me to have a profession i trained for you never know your term in office only lasts for four years and it may well be over then but even if it is there will be other options for me but for now it's great to have this opportunity at twenty eight i mean the average age of bundestag m.p.'s is about fifty so being able to contribute at twenty eight is a real gift a great honor. but you laid the groundwork early on when you joined germany's young liberals when you were only thirteen other boys that age usually spend their time in front of a computer or at a sports club what on earth drove you into their arms at thirteen dollars with what's up with a good question i did all those things too i checked out

spoke to members from some of germany's political parties on the recent twists and turns in the bundestag and on who's to blame for the breakdown in talks . what my party has fraud from the beginning said that we are guided by a principled we have been elected because that we. did to modernize the country we entered into these negotiations with good faith and things went well in the first phase of the coalition talks we then run into difficulties and the main obstacle was. great so it's. going to. come back to the weekly merged on monday that google's parent company is working on day ranking stories from the sputnik news agency and web searches the move would make articles harder to find alphabet boss eric schmidt's comments came at a security forum in canada when he was asked about artie's use of google's ad sense service. i had a subscription for google alerts in german language and getting them every day out of ten results between five and ten every day we have sputnik news which is a russian german program no outlet and when i clicked on them they were monitoring that sense this is re

the german chancellor in the bundestag parliamentary control committee are officially responsible for the control of the b. and d. . only with a more comprehensive and effective control of the intelligence agencies can civil rights and privacy be properly protected. what other options are there to prevent abuse or possible illegal activities by the spies. often only intelligence insiders are left to go public reveal institutional violations and become whistleblowers get there's disparity between these individuals on the one side and the governments and intelligence services on the other and so the whistleblowers and activists soon find out what happens when they challenge these organizations. as a world concern or maybe scotland via given the tillage will have to go ohm's or me as us and good luck to get. this being bandied react to your own admission of being you were team whistleblower snowden fifty it's on i'm your king you but i mean she's gotten the unshed right martin so your answer to answer is it's and. and for us to follow and they are to your own barrier give eason snowden s

spoke to members from some of germany's political parties on the recent twists and turns in the bundestag and on who's to blame for the breakdown in talks . my party has fraud from the beginning said that we are guided by principles we have been elected because we met it to modernize the country we entered into these negotiations with good faith and things went well in the first phase of the coalition talks we then ran into difficulties and the main obstacle was caused by the greens my party i think would be willing to resume talks if there is a meaningful outcome well this is very surprising to me so far she has always clung to power and i thought she would have sought another negotiate a solution to this is surprised but everybody is putting this to f.t.p. but in the end to to make a coalition agree the f.t.p. the c.s.u. the c.d.u. was a very very unlikely construct a very strange construct that of course cannot work and we can see that the country isn't some turmoil here and that this is indeed that unprecedented situation we don't know if there's going to be new elections but if there

stock and reconsider their conduct all parties elected to the bundestag have a shared duty to serve their country i expect from all parties and a willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future those who seek democratically given responsibility must ensure a kuwaiti when they hold it in their hands. the german president made his statement following the fairly of coalition talks between angela merkel c.d.u. party and the free democrats the free democrats walked out of the talks because of opposing views on several key issues one stumbling block is the migrant issue in particular whether to limit the number of asylum seekers and whether to allow their family members to reunite with them peace are never has more on the unfolding crisis but the reason that those coalition talks broke down was because christie and lynn the head of the free democratic party pro business liberal party here in germany he walked out of those talks he did also give a statement on monday saying that as he does not it wasn't a decision he made lightly but as we can hear from him j

the day after the bundestag election in c. . 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 the available 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 to join a grand coalition without off the table one other option available to angela merkel would be to rule over a minority i mean president frank steinmeyer it's predominantly a ceremonial role but when it comes to installing a government that's where the german presidency has executive pow