absolutely with me now as you can heart the foreign policy spokesman of the c.d.u. c.s.u. angle on the ackles party here in germany so mr howe let me ask you straight away is this it is this the breakthrough in german turkish relations after those very rocky tense months that we've seen so release of dentistry jealous a positive signal for the german turkish relations following up to several talks german government officials and turkish government officials had the last time we didn't pay any political price for that and we appreciate the decision of the turkish state but the reason for the crucial situation in turkey is i think the state of emergency which justice and media are to be free and independent and we have what we expect is that the turkish government is also thinking about the release of that state of emergency coming back to normal democratic and legal structures and the country and this is not yet decided the case then is just jail is now positive decided but it's not the situation is

and the coalition agreement c.d.u. c.s.u. and s.p.d. also looked into how to effectively protect european borders which is important and emphasize we also keep to the need of a joint european asylum system which will be robust against prices also have to be in a spirit of solidarity particularly as far as a fair division of refugees all over europe is concerned it is that and that ladies and gentlemen is the chapter on european migration policy which is the most satisfactory without any doubt however it's equally not in doubt that perseverance and patience will help us find a salute. which will be sustainable and in the spirit of solidarity until june this year we want to have made substantial progress on this. the second factor is the economy the competitiveness of the european union must be strengthened as i one of our central tasks particularly in times when the economy is doing well therefore it is not to be underestimated but after the difficult years of the european debt crisis we will see that people are economically doing much b

the c.d.u. c.s.u. union once a functioning state a state that's capable of acting in a reliable state part of being reliable is that the state handles the money of its citizens reasonably solid finances are the basis for their the c.d.u. c.s.u. union will stick with its clear principle no new debt no tax increases the problem frank in america is not convincing her party there in conference things like thanks for the step thank you position party if you have the other side of this potential coalition government is first of all thank you have to be thank you thank you thank you for the right choice of place for kohli thank you only thank you thank you thank the party very coming next week i'm from the social democrat thank you very much for a very thankful right thank you thank you thank heaven it was issuing the people for young for younger people basically thinking of the old party purple thinking members assuring. women in america have an answer for thank you. for them but the point i'm after reading

the c.d.u. c.s.u. union once a functioning state a state that's capable of acting in a reliable state part of being reliable is that the state handles the money of its citizens reasonably solid finances are the basis for this that the c.d.u. c.s.u. union will stick with its clear principle no new debt no tax increases the problem we're going to have our story talk convincing her party their conference this was it sort of stuff was a position talk you think of the other side of this potential coalition government a social democrat think you have to be frank thanks to the sort of work through at the polls we're told if you do everything there were three in the party vote coming next weekend from the social democrat thank you very much already tried to remove i want to have a huge issue i think people for young for younger people. basically i'm going to have you both talk to a group of three members are sure to be rooting for her government basically trying to be frank with you but i thought it was pretty

the c.d.u. c.s.u. union wants a functioning state a state that's capable of acting in a reliable state part of being reliable is that the state handles the money of its citizens reasonably solid finances are the basis for this that the c.d.u. c.s.u. union will stick with its clear principle no new debt no tax increases the public going to the macroeconomic convincing her talking there in conference which was it's funny because i wasn't talking with the others was this potential coalition government thank you very much we have to be thankful to work through it's a place where coalition really think there were three in the party vote coming next week i'm from the social democrats and the microwave very thankful right for me i want to have a condition that people for young for younger people basically thinking that the iowa caucus. if you are going. through and we were ready for her to have a basic thank you thank you been a few. democrats but the point after which the far right right here and right now w

mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending out a selfie out to a social democratic you know what's up chant saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means angela merkel will have to go ahead to form a new government and we could expect to see that in place by six months after the actual election in september if that is a no though from the social democrats then this whole deal well it all falls apart and all this negotiating has been for nothing and really the only option facing germany would be a brand new election. well if the

mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic what's up chat saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight. though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means i'm glimmer call will have to go ahead to form a new government and we could expect to see that seems place by six months after the actual election in september if that is a no though from the social democrats then this whole deal well it all falls apart and all this negotiating has been for nothing and really the only option facing germany would be a brand new election well even if that n

mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government. well elsewhere the christian social union angela merkel's sister party in bavaria their head horse often looks to be heading for the interior ministry it had been thought that mr z. hoffa would be retiring from politics but the sixty eight year old showing no sign of that as he heads into one of the main cabinet positions by the looks of it and i say by the looks of it because of this deal that's been hard fought now made out it could all fall apart it comes down to the membership of the social democrats four hundred sixty thousand members will be balloted to see if they want to go into this coalition that's a postal ballot it'll take a few weeks to collect all of the results and if that's a yes well we could see a new government headed by angela merkel in place here in germany by a step that would be six months after the general election if it's a no though well it's hard to see beyond the only other option being fresh elec

the c.d.u. c.s.u. and the s.p.d. able to make a coalition agreement. this is about agreeing on a strong government for germany. that means a strong stable government for one of the world's most important industrialized nations. one of the fits all the international and domestic challenges well. let's bring in our political correspondent hans front he is at the conservative city you had quarters here in berlin where the coalition talks are ongoing so shall sounded fairly confident there but we have seen in past several deadlines now is this going to get done today. it looks pretty likely at the moment although the leaders that have been going into these talks both from the conservative and from the social democratic side have been saying that they expect an agreement to be hammered out today sometime during the course of the evening is what most of them say but they seem fairly confident that's despite the differences that still exist some agreement will be reached today and one has to say that both parties both sides involved in this have invested a lo

mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to. to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic what's up chat saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means angela merkel will have to go ahead to form a new government and we could expect to see that in place by easter six months after the actual election in september if that is a no though from the social democrats then this whole deal well it all falls apart and all this negotiating has been for nothing and really the only option facing germany would be a brand new election. u.s. defense s

mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand. people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic whatsapp chat saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means angela merkel will have to go ahead to form a new government and we could expect to see that seems place by a step six months after the actual election in september if that is a no though from the social democrats then this whole deal well it all falls apart and all this negotiating has been for nothing and really the only option facing germany would be a brand new election. u.s. defense se

mr schultz exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government. artie's peter all over it looks at what we can expect after this long awaited deal what is this painful compromise well the social democrats they will hold on to the foreign ministry the labor ministry the justice family and environment ministries that they held in the previous go. but they will gain the very powerful german finance ministry so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic what's up chat saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means angle or merkel will have to go ahead to form a new

mr schultz exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel all the c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government artie's peter all over looks at what we can expect after this long awaited deal. what is this painful compromise well the social democrats they will hold on to the foreign ministry the labor ministry the justice family and environment ministries that they held in the previous government but they will gain the very powerful german finance ministry so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic what's up chant saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means angle or merkel will have to go ahead to fo

referendum on this coalition agreement the only options then would be a minority government of the c.d.u. c.s.u. or we would have new elections i mean the merkel doesn't want to have a minority government but there might be a chance that we will have a new cd you see as you leader leading this minority government but i think the more realistic option would be that there would be new elections all right so that would plunge this country again into a lot of uncertainty so the fate of germany's hanging in the hands of these s.p.d. members of the us let's talk europe because that mr schultz also addressed europe or in his speech a little earlier on saying that the german coalition deal means a fundamental change of direction in europe what does he mean by that well is specially since. has been finance minister there have really been these austerity measures in europe and now with the s.p.d. probably getting the finance ministry there will be sort of a turn or direction in this specially with regard to final. it's in the european union so i think this will be very very good for for the european unio

c.d.u. in the c.s.u. the two conservative parties in these talks have ruled out any sweeping changes to that health insurance system which is something that the s.p.d. are demanding so that really could be a deal breaker in these talks could be a deal breaker does that mean the grand coalition talks could still fall apart in the coalition would fail. without doubt even with the negotiations continue in tomorrow there's nothing to say that we'll see a grand coalition deal on the table of course that's a scenario where the chancellor angela merkel definitely doesn't want to see this and she'd only be left with the choice of lead in a minority government which is ruled out on several occasions or we might even see snap elections here in germany all right a lot can still happen that's political correspondent kate already thanks very much . under the thousands of groups of protesters in athens against a potential deal with neighboring macedonia over that country's official name of greece's opposed its neighbor

dummies public broadcasters are deep and pollsters asked germans how they would vote merkel's c.d.u. c.s.u. the conservative bloc would get thirty three percent the same result as in january the social democrats lose three percentage points a dramatic all time low of only eighteen percent the far right a.f.d. party gains one point of fourteen percent the pro-business f.d.p. gets ten the left party in the greens eleven percent and let's bring in ryan hunch linker to he's the head of the german polling institute in for test reinhard we have to talk about the social democrats first why are voters turning their backs on this party. well they have to back to the esprit de long time ago already last year you remember the s.p.d. want you to to win for elections for a stated we should elections in twenty seventeen they did manage to and that the federal elections last september the s.p.d. even the ready down to twenty percent so it's two two points more down the direction is important it's not going up so what do you think that means for the ongoing coalition talks between these two sides michael'

c.d.u. and the c.s.u. coming out top i mean well the child's was a popularity the slide. well it certainly has decreased already ten percent since the german election back in september but of course it is a reality that one day she will no longer be germany's chancellor but at the moment there is this reoccurring question and this is a quite important one for her party as well and who is going to replace angola moco because right now there really is no feasible alternative so even if we don't see a deal coming out of these grand coalition talks in the next couple of days we're not suddenly going to see her disappear overnight so those talks continue into this weekend a do we expect to do well the posse is involved in these grand coalition talks have set a very loose deadline for sunday evening so we could theoretically see a deal as early as sunday night but there is a couple of buffer days and we can see them also going to the wire once again and if they want to reach this goal by east as we keep pairing from negotiators of the new government then the certainly going to

c.d.u. sister party the c.s.u. right now may well be the chancellor's most powerful opponent merkel is in favor of a huge coalition of. the social democrats are in a fix right now. party leader martin short's resigned. and the s.p.d. is lower in the polls than ever germany and all of europe are asking will crew knots opposition campaign succeed. given what passed on and it will be. hours. everybody in here yeah i know my. parents didn't. yell at the beginning of another lot of day to not pauses to collect his thoughts. later he'll hit the road to try to convince more s.p.d. members to vote against the grand coalition. who notice traveling throughout germany today he's in the town of bishops time near frankfurt. lots of s.p.d. members want to have their say and there's a big crowd here today. it was tonight the leader of the party's youth organization who launched the debate. about. our election manifestos no longer sound like s.p.d. principles but a compromise tailored to a grand coalition we know we have few optio

c.d.u. who hunts for variances to posses the c.s.u. right now could not very well be the chumps most most powerful opponents merkel is in favor of a renewed coalition. the social democrats are in a fix right now. party leader martin schultz resigned earlier this month and the s. . it is lower in the polls than ever germany and all of europe are asking will cool nutz opposition campaign succeed. what's going on. every five years yeah i was. interested in this. at the beginning of another lot of day tuneups pauses to collect his thoughts. later he'll hit the road to try to convince more s.p.d. members to vote against the grand coalition. to not just traveling throughout germany today he's in the town of bishops time here frankfurt. lots of s.p.d. members want to have their say there's a big crowd here today. it was tonight the leader of the party's youth organization who launched the debate. by our election manifestos no longer sound like s.p.d. principles but a compromise tailored to a grand coalition we know we have few options if we w

c.d.u. in the c.s.u. the two conservative parties they'll be vice a. party conferences but that would mainly be vice done by delegates so it's unlikely we'll see a sudden rebellion against a grand coalition there the people that could cause the upset the social democrat party members now there's over four hundred sixty thousand of them and they all have until march the second to vote on whether they want that party the social democrats to ns into another grand coalition with conservatives so this could still all ok so march the second is the date we're looking for exactly we'll have a result march the fourth and we'll know exactly what they are speedy members want ok to break thanks very much for that well other news today in the united states the state of new york has launched a lawsuit against hollywood mogul harvey weinstein and his company alleges he and his brother robert broke the law by failing to protect employees from pervasive sexual harassment intimidation and discrimination weinstein is facing accusations of sexual misconduct from dozens of

c.d.u. and the c.s.u. put up the chancellor jointly i am the candidate and i have given the electorate my commitment for another four years but of ok so tom i have to concrete elements here on the one hand obviously on that i'm a cause own power she promised there in that interview that she wanted to be the chancellor for the next four years but on the other hand it is obviously the case of the debate or who would follow on who the new leaders of the c.d.u. would be has become an open political debate and that's something that i'm good i'm a obviously also stressed in that interview ok so much for the questions about i'm going miracles a future senator coming back to you we can't forget that both parties still have to approve this current coalition agreement and the social democrats party members will be voting on that it's not a foregone conclusion what do you expect definitely it will be critical but i think india and we will see yes vote off the s.p.d. members especially since most of the members of the

c.d.u. and the berrien c.s.u. it is not a bad area have fake elections this year so the c.s.u. has to see that they get some of their policies also in federal government for and also for america and tunnel a pony. them starts there raising their voice so she is criticized this well it's tough for both parties are you still seeing within these negotiations an internal fight in chancellor merkel c.d.u. for leadership. well i think in not really loudly maybe on the ground there's something happening that prominence that really weighs in their voices however in public everyone is still behind her back ok german voters been waiting for months for a for a government to be formed the elections were back in september german voters losing patience now they start to do however if we compare that with without a counterweight like belgium they say it's not a very long coalition negotiations also i mean the social democrats and the christian union just started to negotiate negotiate so actually the last coalition talks in two thousand and thirteen between the two parties half an even longer

c.s.u. that's the bavarian sister party of the jungle merkel's c.d.u. commenting on the negotiations nothing too substantial there yet nina what do you read of what we're seeing here today we've also had confirmation from the s.p.d. by the way they have a whatsapp group and they send updates on the coalition talks and actually a few minutes ago they posted a picture of the. major figures from the s.p.d. and saying we're very tired but well satisfied and we've got a deal and now they say they have to take it into the group of thirty five negotiators for the social democrats so i think we can talk about a fact that we do have a deal which now needs to go into the process of being approved by the entire party that's a big question of course being approved by the entire party you're saying that on the group they say there is a deal and they are satisfied. does that mean that there's the s.p.d. rank and file will sign off on it or you know i think to get those three ministries is a major success for the a speedy you've got the foreign minister the foreign mi

c.d.u. and fear that the party has sold out before cove there was no other way otherwise the coalition agreement would simply not come about says c.s.u. party leader horace d. who for yeah we would have accepted the finance ministry that was our first priority as we would have taken the foreign ministry we would have taken the ministry of social affairs but the s.p.d. insisted from the outset that it wanted those three ministries and without them they would not join the coalition because it's called many in the c.d.u. say the chancellor negotiated badly others simply call it a conservative social democrat coalition compromise. and it was we knew that the members of the social democrats they now have to approve this deal briefly what are the chances that they will say no well exactly that is the point that is the very big hurdle that implications they'll face because we're talking here of more than four hundred thousand s.p.d. members who have to give the green light to this coalition deal on this a lot of them especially among the youth wing of the social democrats are very skeptical about the prospect of another grand coalition so i

c.d.u. who has been very insistent party the c.s.u. right now that may well be most powerful opponent merkel is in favor of a reviewed coalition. the social democrats are in a fix right now.

c.d.u. moved on to the very insistent party the c.s.u. right now few notes.