and this is the president of the bundestag. doesn't mind the coffin was a distortion focused. on mere satin for him then that's one cause that's all because that's that has been this mask on for tidying my lips listening to this in half the first. he can get our money. zavala mia. chancellor merkel being sworn in for his fourth term saying there. i swear that i will dedicate my afterwards to the well being of the german people promote their welfare protect them from harm opcode in the sun the basic law of the morals of the federation perform my duties conscientiously and do justice to all so help me god. we have a political person a need a hossa with us here in studio as well as veteran author and journalist vanna's on who's watching this with us her studios this is been a long time coming for the chancellor as indeed we have a government after one hundred seventy one days this is the longest period it's ever taken in post-war germany to form a government and now we're seeing the third edition of a circle grand coalition between uncle mackerels conservatives and social democra

when he comes on the bundestag, he talks and uses the language, the form of language. patriotism, love of country, which lets face it, let's handed populismthe right wing introduced into the debate. the problem is that this is part of a worldwide trend. we have got russia, basically playing 19th-century power politics. we have got president trump which "america first," basically means, you know, that none of the rules binding international organizations and countries together -- we have got brexit and britain's people saying we want to take control of the country if that were possible in the 21st century. we have within europe the groups , eastern european countries, hungary, saying they want less integration. then we have the populist fear. so we are entering -- we are being dragged kicking and screaming as people who believe in a liberal world order into a much less liberal world disorder, and it is frightening, quite frankly. peter: could this be the beginning of a populist era? could it be the era of charismatic politicians, leaders not of parties but a popular mov

if there were 60% women in the bundestag, would it be different? or would it be better than what we have now. >> i would say, it would represent society. women't live in a 60% society. i think it is very important that the bundestag represent society as best he can. and at the moment could not do that. it is very male and it is very academic. argue that what the german voters have had for the last couple of months and years, with a have felt his politicians are becoming more distant and talking within themselves and within their own bubbles and that is dangerous. >> yes, and when women come into politics, they become men. act like men, they dress like men. they lose their charm, they lose their wits. they lose things which could be called women attributes. thewe have 50% women in government, who were acting like women, then it might change something. >> and merkel did. she acted like a woman. >> and there are very few women for young girls to look up to and politics. but also in businesses. people who talk about their family life. who look like hap

ok let's go back now live to the german bundestag i'm joined by our chief political editor michelle or governor michelle of what to expect to happen where you are this morning can you walk us through what's going to proceed there. well the proceedings of just start of this just going through the list of those who are going to vote we have seven hundred nine m.p.'s in the german and that means basically that there needs to be of authority of three hundred fifty five votes for german chancellor angela merkel to be voted into a fourth term in office there's a market difference to normal majorities it's actually the number of members that counts here so we firmly expect her to be reelected the so-called grand coalition of social democrats and german chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. union have forty four votes more than they would absolutely need we don't really expect much of an undercover rebellion because we of course know that the social democrats are having a very hard time to find back to the position where they would support america once again becoming chancellor

arkell's a sworn in as head of a new coalition government and i call took the oath of office from bundestag president both i'm sure you go in front of lawmakers who earlier narrowly voted to reelect her as chancellor for an operation comes after a near six month struggle to form a government local secured her fourth term after finally convincing her conservatives and the center left social democrats to come together for another grand coalition. the bonus talk vote was tighter than expected all doctor i'm going to marry the doctor i'm glad he has the necessary majority of at least three hundred fifty five votes and has been elected chancellor according to article sixty three paragraph two of the constitution if you believe. do you accept the result. yes mr president i do. thank you with that merkel was officially elected to a fourth term miss chancellor. it's her third time in a grand coalition the social democrats. it took a while for medical to win over the s.p.d. but in the end the junior partners offered their congratulations. the chancellor remains the chancellor and that's cause for ha

going live to the chancellor's speech just a few moments you see there the pictures live from the bundestag that is the president of the point of psychotherapy speaking at the moment and we'll be keeping our close eye on exactly what is happening in the bundestag listening in to the chancellor for now though we have our political course. nina has are with us here in studio to talk more about what you expect from the chancellor nina this government has its work cut out for you can definitely say that there are so many issues on the table here what is what are we going to see here from the chancellor and what can she do to keep this government out of crisis mode well first of all i think it's important to say that it may look like the same government that we've seen for the past few years because it's the same parties that are involved but of course a lot has changed since september elections and uncle americal is under pressure at home the parties don't have the same force anymore in the bundestag they have a narrow majority than they used to have so there are lots of domestic issues on the

for germany as we've seen the very year on our far right party there in the german parliament the bundestag the question is now how to respond to them and their presence here is one example. in september twenty seventeen the far right populist alternative for germany became the third largest party in germany's blondest time they claim to be the only ones who can preserve germany the rhetoric is getting tougher on all sides i mean it's not you know i won't allow any heckling. all the members sitting there from the f.t. if they were honest they did mean that they disdain this country and everything but we think it is highly regarded the world over and respected as a part of this is our owning up to our part which as a citizen of this country i am proud of and i want to shout out to you that now in germany this germany is stronger than your hatred ever will be ours. this speech by greens representative jim to me or to the just talk swiftly went viral on social media is the force of political convictions enough to stop the right wingers . to me with passion and conviction alone is not the right

without charges in a jail and was released and it was the de who demanded a debate in the german bundestag and demanded of the government that they distanced themselves from some critical remarks you gelett made about the german government and it was in this debate and the attempt was simply to set up the bundestag as the german parliament as a sense agency for journalism and in this debate. i think. as dimia who like denis you jail is a german to of german origin showed them where they get off and in no uncertain terms and i think was very good that we had a member of the green party which. traditionally have been. wary of german patriotism generally speaking really using patriotic language to show that in fact the a.f.d. the right wingers actually do hate everything that post-war germany stands for as indeed does the fantasy in france as indeed do the right wingers in poland they hate this new germany this new europe and i was i thought i thought that you know i'm not i'm not a generally speaking you're someone who tends to represent greed opinions but i thought the germans dimia made a

it's an interesting theoretical question at least if there were sixty percent women in the bundestag in the german parliament would it be different and would it be better well what we have no no i would say it would still not represent society you know because sixty percent women we don't live in a sixty percent women society i think it's very important to represent society as best as it can at the moment it's not doing that it's very male also is very academic so i would argue that i am very wise exactly so i would argue that what the german voters have for the last couple of months and years felt is that somehow politicians are becoming more distanced and they're talking within themselves within their own bubbles and that is an extremely dangerous to me and when women come into politics they became men who was it margaret thatcher she's the only man in cabinet you know they they act like made they dressed like men they lose their charm they do their wits they do i mean things which crew can be can be said are women are tributes and if women if we had fifty percent women in governme

after the bundestag vote actually was sworn in by german president. i was then came here fifteen minutes this time i offered dr praise for the new government if you come and welcome to the government it's about time. the president called for more than just repeat from actual enter new ministers. one fellow in this photo and a mere version of the old will not be enough to win back lost trust in. these of this government must prove it is new and different than. the n. tire government has now been sworn in among them the new finance minister all of charlotte's the new interior minister paul c. hoffa and the new justice minister qatari now badly one hundred seventy one days after germany's national election last september the country finally has a new government and. is again in charge. as are some of the other stories making news around the world renowned british physicist stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six his family say he passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of wednesday stephen hawking will be remembered for his grou

the bundestag vote was tighter than expected or dr. doctor i'm glad he has the necessary majority of at least three hundred fifty five votes and has been elected chancellor according to article sixty three paragraph two of the constitution your business. exam the result. yes mr president i deal. with that merkel was officially elected to a fourth term chancellor. it's her third time in a grand coalition the social democrats. it took a while for merkel to win over the s.p.d. but in the end the junior partners offered their congratulations. to the chancellor remains the chancellor and that's cause for happiness and i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. who did nothing. but at least thirty five members of merkel's coalition failed to support her in the end her margin of victory was nine votes including her own in a parliament of seven hundred nine deputies that's hardly a dream start to the latest magical government. husband. put in a first appearance at such an election and merkel's next cabi

and sunday's early bundestag on match further woes for cologne who are already sitting in the league's basement they were beaten three two at home at the hands of state cart after taking the lead and having a goal taken away by the video assistant goalkeeper t.-mo horne made a costly mistake to allow mario gomez just for his second of the game cologne are looking do. eight points adrift of safety with nine games left. in the bundestag of the week on saturday leipzig hosted dortmund in a key clash for the champions league slots the top half of the german league is so tightly bunched that a win could have done wonders for leipsic but instead had to settle for a draw. as players dortmund spader's drugger and leipzig zuroff wasn't good till one titles together in their native austria now the old friends are rivals the stakes were high but somebody should have told the visitors manuella country his slack touch let in team over now for the game's first chance on nine minutes i remember a key equal to the shot. dortmund were also a threat andre shore left lady and me she bought you i but the

political business again it will be time to get down to business michel i couldna for us at the bundestag thank you very much. and here with us in studio is nina there from politics also following this vote for us earlier today at noon if we look at the numbers here coalition has three hundred ninety nine seats her conservative bloc and the social democrats three hundred sixty four lawmakers voted for her this morning to become chancellor again what does that say to you about how united this coalition government is behind her when she needed the absolute majority and if you look at the bundestag it has seven hundred and nine members of parliament so anglo-american needed three hundred fifty five she got nine votes more than she needed and yes that is a narrow margin but also in recent recent years that we've seen similar results it's not a dramatic loss for uncle americal the share of politicians who vote against her is not dramatically different to. last time for example last time around and also i think it's interesting that for her what counts is that she was reelected in the first rou

on wednesday the bundestag will take the final hurdle to forming a government on the american wants to be elected chancellor for the fourth time. their choice is almost certain and then the new government will be up and running at least that's what the chancellor promised. well politics correspondent chris of a spring gate joins us from d.w. sa parliament the you have bundestag he had german parliament welcome christopher so the three parties have now signed now what well filled parliament convenes on wednesday morning to formally elect chancellor merkel as the next head of government she needs what's called a chanceless majority there are seven hundred nine members of parliament at the moment so she needs three hundred fifty five yes votes the coalition government that she controls has three hundred ninety nine members of parliament so it should be a formality. is this is this coalition likely to last the next four years. well the outgoing government is also the incoming government it's the same political constellation a grand coalition so many of these people have been working with e

of the seven hundred and nine members of the bundestag four hundred ninety day only five hundred are men just two hundred nineteen are women just under thirty one percent the lowest level since two thousand and two what the heck is going on i think the most shocking thing was that the. percentage of women actually slumped dropped by six percent i mean it's a significant drop in numbers and of course one of the reasons is that the f.t. the far right party and to me also much of it was germany for germany and that party became the strongest party with men in east germany we mustn't forget that as well you know they they were stronger than any of the other parties and there is another party in the bundestag which is the f.d.p. important there's only the sale you have the i think that police percentage of women even the members of the martys so no wonder there's such a few women part and that is album of the f.t. but you know everything that is of a are very very close to even of the number and the numbers of the members of the party how do you do if do you get ninety two members of parl

good question pascal let's talk about the cabinet before we talk about the bundestag everybody saying the cabinet is going to be more or less fifty fifty men and women a lot of people are acting as though that's a really big deal it's not really though is it i mean why he what is it what it's the most normal thing in the world needs shows. to be in the headlines of all the german papers was about that and showing these ladies in. bright colors on the on the front paper yeah it's it's it's it's normal and it's high time ok so that may be normal at the same time however i've got some figures nina you will have noted that. of the seven hundred and nineteen members of the bundestag four hundred ninety daily five hundred are men just two hundred nineteen are women just under thirty one percent the lowest level since two thousand and two what the heck is going on. i think the most shocking thing was that the percentage of women actually slumped dropped by six percent i mean it's a significant drop in numbers and of course one of the reasons is that the f.t. the far right party and to the bi

the walking the halls of the bundestag is like taking and journey through time this graffiti was scrawled on the walls by soviet soldiers after they won the battle for the right stock in one thousand nine hundred forty five british architect norman foster integrated them into his plan when the building was reconstructed and he left the bullet holes to. the. now corner and the delicate lobby this painting represents the reichstag fire in nine hundred thirty three the nazis used the event as a pretext to persecute their political opponents and the books of names commemorate the hundred twenty members of parliament who were murdered in the aftermath. of the next stop is the prayer room a place of quiet and reflection for the m.p.'s regardless of their faith. there's a lot more going on up on the roof of the building the glass dome is the biggest attraction for visitors to the right stock. from the top we had all the way to the bottom in the face and then we come across five thousand boxes with four thousand nine hundred ninety nine names on them a full plate and at the most there's a box for

elections in 2016, and the german government believes they are in charge of an earlier attack on the bundestagerver in 2015, a year before that. we might have russia behind this attack. brent: we know german intelligence has warned repeatedly more cyberattack could come from russia, targeting the german government. we have been warned. do we know what type of data may have gone missing? oliver: we are talking about a data network that is used by the government, by the various different ministries. the interior ministry obviously and the foreign ministry were targeted here today and the chancellory, the bundestag, and other important authorities. as you can imagine they are posting valuable and sensitive information. these people are not after money. they are after the information that is politically valuable. authorities are trying to figure out how big the damages, and their biggest fear is the whole data network of the government is concerned. brent: political correspondent oliver sallet on that cyberattack. thank you very much. the olympic committee has confirmed russia's olympic ban has be

ian zimmerman with the german parliament, the bundestag, mr. zimmerman thank you.sian president vladimir putin has used his annual state of the nation address to warn global powers that they must now reckon with russia's military might, as well as boasting of his new generation of invincible weapons. mr. putin has also pledged to cut poverty in his country in half in six years and improve the environment. he is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in elections which are due in 17 days. >> a pre-election video meant to impress and to intimidate, showing a russian missileaid to be le t peneate fenses. vladimir putin's state of the state speech was an aggressive performance, using his foreign policy to stoke his popularity. >> russia was and continues to be the greatest nuclear power, but nobody wanted to talk with us, nobody wanted to listen. well, listen now. [applause] >> the presentation also showed a nuclear-armed torpedo that analysts say could strike the u.s. west coast. all, putin said, in the name of peace. >> we are not threatening anyone and are not gng t a

on wednesday the bundestag will take the final hurdle to forming a government and the american wants to be elected chancellor for the fourth time. their choice is almost certain and then the new government will be up and running at least that's what the chancellor promised. politics correspondent chris of a spring gate joins us from d.w. zappala into the you have bundestag he had german parliament welcome christopher so the three parties have now signed now what. well filled parliament convenes on wednesday morning to formally elect chancellor merkel as the next head of government she needs what's called a chanceless majority there are seven hundred nine members of parliament at the moment so she needs three hundred fifty five yes votes the coalition government that she controls has three hundred ninety nine members of parliament so it should be a formality. is this is this coalition likely to last the next four years. well the outgoing government is also the incoming government it's the same political constellation a grand coalition so many of these people have been working with eac

after the bundestag vote actually was sworn in by german president. i was then came here fifteen ministers. of a dr praise for the new government if you come and welcome to the government it's about time. the president called for more than just repeat from actually enter new ministers. for towing a mere version of the old will not be enough to win back lost trust in. these of this government must prove it is new and different than. the n tired government has now been sworn in among them the new finance minister all of charlotte's the new interior minister the whole four and the new justice minister cutting up badly one hundred seventy one days after germany's national election last september the country finally has a new government and. is again charts. so let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world philippines president to run rico deter announce that he plans to withdraw his country from the international criminal court as follows its decision last month to investigate his drugs war which has seen thousands of suspect

but these pirates were previously named after oppression general and so it's they refocus on the bundestagas history in the last sixty is rather than from pretty well good beauty from a political disc thank you very much. cheating scandal which has shocked the cricketing but the australian cricket captain steve smith and his deputy david warner have both been banned for twelve months by their own federation these unprecedented bans come off the smith admitted to hatch a plan to change the condition of the ball in a game against south africa a practice known as ball tampering which is illegal it sparked a huge outcry in australia and the rest of the cricketing the young player who actually carried out the act cameron bancroft's has received a nine month ban joining me now from sydney is that andre leslie he's an australian journalist and a former international cricketer for germany welcome as a cricketer and australian l. said just how shocking is this cheating scandal well i have to say as a cricket ball tampering sledging intimidating umpires this sort of sharp practice is pretty commonpl

if we have now a writing majority among the german population we have the writing majority in the bundestag but we have a center left government and this center left government won't be able to conduct politics earlier which brought back those voters who voted for the of deviancy last elections bringing them back to the social democratic party or through the christian democratic union see it for this grand coalition is going to strengthen the right thing populist party called a if tea and it will achieve the opposite of what the established political parties claim to try to achieve that is to bring down the numbers voting for the fifty ever nevertheless the numbers were there and they are they have become quite powerful haven't they now or in mention that you know that they're quite a large cohort an opposition why do you think that's happened what what is it about what has changed the psyche of the german people for that many to have voted them in. well see for many years right now earth a growing number of germans have the feeling there to the germany is led in the wrong direction being e

know for sure whether they will blame for actually the early attack which took place of the german bundestag bottom and back in two thousand and fifteen that is right but this does not necessarily imply any connection of course it's likely but we don't know yet and i would be really careful pointing fingers right now so why is it so difficult to establish where this attack has come from because it's easy to miss manipulate digital traces of the malware that is used could contains a language sample from different countries that could be forged you could forge timestamps in the malware so it's rather easy for a skilled actor at least to forge the traces and we've seen this all over the place false flag operations you know as an actor operating under the guise of someone else so this identity is very like it happens all the time and briefly how was this attack different from the one in two thousand and fifteen in technical terms we don't know yet we have to see it's probably similar in the engine intrusion back to the spear phishing e-mail was used but we don't yet know how do you i mean what d

and also the alternative to germany has free has the chairmanship chairperson ship of free college bundestag committee. including the budgetary committee right and that's very important because it's and it leads us to the next question then could they have could be a have to have an effect on the survival of this grand coalition in four years i mean you know what do you think what will we be talking about this coalition in twenty twenty one we have not addressed the very important element tonight and that is the off the most of the refugee crisis. this is the challenge for the new grand coalition and for europe to find a solution for this and this will define the future of the fifty in germany of course and therefore this new grand coalition has to tackle this problem has to spend billions of euros for the integration of about a million new people sit it's not not citizens but people inside and what is america going to do that because she you know she is blamed from all sides for what people see as the debacle of the refugee crisis so is she going to step up to the plate and offer the soluti

our voices are heard you know but we have no place in a government with the other parties in the bundestag and the apartheid is it's a good this for a lot of my. things were getting lonely for the most powerful woman in the world. she had built up that reputation in more than twelve years as german chancellor. but did she still have a future as government leader. the president arranged a meeting of old adversaries during the national election campaign shorts had attacked merkel in stating fashion and c.s.u. leader host z. hoffa had criticized her stance on refugees. this far in b. toward some off and over this it was a crucial evening to conclude it was clear from the first minute on and that the party leaders because that would answer the president's call to continue talking more to summon two sets and use indoors to show that there's a migrant failure that you make a coalition has left as all of it is old over in those who are now it seems we can decide how germany is governed about whom we can decide on the shape of politics in germany and europe this is a chance as well we have to weig

have you supporters in the bundestag so that will be a top priority and of course there are lots of issues at home but i think they will have to. let you know thanks very much for the insights this morning you know. we're turning now to turkey where today is the latest court hearing for seventeen journalists who've been charged with supporting terrorism employees of the drum hurriyat as an opposition newspaper this comes amid a widespread crackdown on press freedom in turkey more than one hundred writers and reporters are behind bars though did have you correspondent julie hahn sent us this . an editorial meeting at juliet one of the few newspapers in turkey not controlled by the government. journalists here are discussing stories for the next edition many have been in trouble with the authorities because of their reporting but they are determined to keep on writing that. they that we can't get any information from government officials or state institutions they are not allowed into any of the president's press conferences they continuously try to criminalize a newspaper to the point that

i mean there is criticism that germany is not doing enough particularly since the attack on the bundestag there was a lot of effort put in germany on cyber security on i t security and defense but this to do more not enough was done maybe and there's also the human factor all of these attacks mostly also go go along with behavior of people that are not prepared and this is on top of the problems in the systems thanks so much for that of daters security correspondent fabienne fun to mark it's russia now where president vladimir putin is delivering his annual state of the nation address to parliament in moscow right now this comes ahead of the country's presidential election in less than three weeks time we're getting live pictures of his speech right now russian president is tipped to win the ballot by a large margin and today's address is expected to outline and a ray of plans in visions for his country including on domestic spending on welfare and infrastructure we'll be bringing you coverage of his speech throughout the day . now for some of the other stories making the news of this hou

and it was as we saw in our report another cyber attack in germany on the german parliament the bundestag back in two thousand and fifteen in the same group the a.p. twenty eight was believed to have been behind that attack one of the lessons learned on cyber security after that attack well there were lessons learned absolutely but as i mentioned it's really hard to keep people out but just to give you a little bit of background the twenty fifteen attacked. was discovered not by german authorities but by a but a foreign actor or intelligence partners and we were informed today were to discovered it ourselves so this is a little bit of an improvement i would say but there's much much more to do of course so as a cyber security expert what does the german government need to do to improve security because as we heard in our report one person said the appears to be a cyber war against germany yeah i would be careful with the terminology here this is standard is fear not a practice this is nothing like an armed attack or even a war so the term is a little bit misleading here what we need is be

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let's bring in our chief political editor michelle or cooper who is in the bundestag. this was a chance or so first major policy speech since she was sworn in again as chancellor last week she did spend a good deal of time focusing on migration why is that. yes it is because as she describes the situation twenty fifteen when there was a sudden mass influx of people into germany she said that that was a magnifying glass for all the problems that already exists a problem of social cohesion you could probably still hear the applause has just come to an end she is receiving applause from all the delegates here present i dare say not from the far right if the party who of course came into this parliament in september of for the first time on an anti maclin anti migration ticket she really rebuffed the very concept that the whole migration crisis crisis as it became known is really the source of problems here in germany she says there are differences social differences that preexisted and that this strain on the society here in germany all those institutions she said that th

disqualify gabriele from serving again as the foreign minister so he'll be returning to the german bundestag as a normal member of parliament ok so but aside from from personnel issues here what does this likely to mean for policy what is it likely to mean for german foreign policy what do we know about his successor who is tipped to take over the reins heikal mast. well heiko mass for the last four years has served as germany's justice minister as of course he has. absolutely no experience in foreign policy so be interesting to see how he brings these own style to the table and now he's not quite as direct as gabriele from what we've seen in the german parliament and he's more of a a shy kind of character but that could also be useful in difficult mattick occasions and of course this will be a challenging time for germany in terms of foreign policy there's a lot of pressure coming from other european countries particularly from friends of the man woman in the french president tries to push forward with these reforms and outside of the e.u. many countries now a look in to berlin to see what