in some of those parliamentary groups particularly in regard to the division of ministries the c.d.u. having lost some key ministries and the social democrats and the christian social union having gained but on the whole undoubtedly the politicians are relieved as well they went into more than the overtime they had allotted themselves and they were looking very weary indeed earlier all right now in a long awaited breakthrough and give us the broad strokes what do we know about this agreement. the agreement is intitled a new start for europe a new dynamic and new cohesion for germany and so one of the central questions to raise obviously would be does it live up to that rather grand title and i think the answer is in many respects it does do the job that it sets out to do as described by that title if you look at the measures that are outlined here in the area of education in the area of digitalisation where for example the parties have agreed that every german has a right to a fast broadband connection by twenty twenty five whether they live in the countryside or the city if you look at the

led government and that led to angela merkel and her c.d.u. having to seek out potential partners for forming a german government that fell by the wayside and then of course march issue he would talk. about forming another so-called one coalition this was between his party the social democrats and the c.d.u. to rule germany now in that he said that he wanted to be foreign minister and he accepted that that would be his position if that grand coalition go ahead but he gave up on that too just in the last few days saying that he wouldn't be the foreign minister that government if that government takes place now the current german foreign minister had something to say about it all at least his young daughter did she was widely quoted in the media and they had a hoot about this as apparently turning round to her father and saying you know daddy don't worry you'll have more time to spend with us talking about the fact he could be losing his post and then turned around and said well that's better than spending time with the man with the harry be it of cour

of martin shields and the c.d.u. . have very different views about how to close the gap between private health care here in germany and the statutory quasi public health care system and also there are big differences on labor law as well for example the center left s.p.d. want to see an end to fixed contracts the center right c.d.u. of angela merkel very much against ending fixed term contracts although they are prepared to compromise and prevent fixed term contracts going on a kind of rolling basis so big big policy differences that need to be addressed they're making sort of tough noises they're saying that they think that there is room but it's going to be tough it's the kind of language you would expect going into a negotiation it might not happen today could happen monday or tuesday is it going to happen probably yes britain's government to say introducing new rules to tackle money laundering the times newspaper says the measure will give the government the power to seize what it sees as suspicious assets u.k. security

c.d.u. this c s u and the s.p.d. have therefore put together a plan of measures and if you read through our coalition agreement and i have to admit that it's no easy matter reading it for you know aid to said from the first line to the last you will see many specific measures that we have put together with clear timeline was so that it it will be tangible to measure whether or not we have achieved what we want to achieve here. now we know that to be sure that the people in germany prosper in the future that we need to improve our infrastructure that we need to tackle the challenges of digitization and we need to be faster in achieving the change we need to get more dynamism in many areas as well which is why we have a whole chapter called new dynamism for germany that sets out some of these key demands and things we're working towards in our coalition agreement a social market economy with its mixture of contributing and you know give and take we're going to have to adjust it we're going to have to tweak it but it will be

knacker has come under criticism from within have party funding key ministerial positions to the social democrats and for disregarding young c.d.u. talent. the buses have struck there's frustration among the rank and file i've been hearing that every day for the past three days nonstop. and i think we need a big team of younger people but also older ones a mix of new minds and experience ones and if we can manage to present ourselves as a team at this party conference then it will be a successful party conference. it should be clear who the ministers will be by the cd use upcoming party conference on february twenty sixth the chancellor has promised that they will include young up and coming politicians now ukraine has thrown mikhail that saakashvili out of the country he is the former president of georgia who moved to ukraine and became an anti corruption campaigner after falling out with the ukrainian president petro poroshenko an identified man in army uniforms that grabbed him from a restaurant in here early on monday he was taken to an airport and put on a plane to warsaw poland country from which he illegally entered ukrai

democrats approve the coalition treaty next week but in case they do that we will have a new government this is the team of the c.d.u. i welcome angela merkel's decisions of yesterday evening and this is a good team of experience politicians on the one hand some new faces on the other we have equal representation of women and men and i think this is the team but the c.d.u. is ready to show responsibility for germany we want a strong and stable government this is what these women and men stand for ok well let's go back to spawn if we could is he the new face to lead the c.d.u. at some point in the future. i go amok lizza chancellor angela merkel is a party leader she leads a c.d.u. and at some stage of course we will then have to discuss who will follow her but this is certainly not now have a case what we now need is for the next nearly four years a firm and stable government under leadership of aguilar merkel and everything else will be discussed at a later stage ok with that include policies that could bring back the disaffected c.d.u. voters who've gone to their day giving the seat policies that would give the c.

also addressed the question of staffing within her own party there have been growing calls to begin promoting a younger generation of c.d.u. talent to cabinet level posts. from i know that i naturally have to make sure that we keep in mind not just the over sixty's but also the younger people. my own message to the party conference is that we need to be clear about how we go forward into government and to see to use ministerial line up should be clear in two weeks' time merkel avoided talking about a successor saying she plans to remain as chancellor and party leader until twenty twenty one. do you think you have lost your authority. now in an unfinished so no i don't feel that because of course i do understand that the party will be thinking that i've been the chancellor for twelve years and clearly i can't be chancellor for another twelve years. on the other hand i had extensive discussions with the party before the election on whether it was right and desirable for me to come pain for another four years and i agree that it was merkel's message to our party is clear i'm still in charge but i'm listening to my critics. w

c.d.u. talent. the buses have there is frustration among the rank and file i've been hearing that every day for the past three days nonstop. global we need a big team of younger people but also older ones a mix of new minds and experienced ones and if we can to manage to present ourselves as a team at this party conference then it will be a successful party conference it should be clear who the ministers will be by the cd use upcoming party conference on feb twenty sixth the chancellor has promised that they will include young up and coming politicians more of the story now with espana across a political scientist from university here in berlin and we also have our political correspondent thomas aspera with us welcome to you both thomas let's begin with you it is a pretty unusual move for america to do an interview like the one that she did sunday evening why do you think she decided to take on her critics so directly and did it work. well merkel is a politician that doesn't give interviews all too often in fact s

can't mix up these two things first of all now they've said ok we do want to have a government together with with michael c.d.u. so now they have to convince the voters and it can't be about the past now at this point yet but at the same time we also have to talk about what all of this means fungal machall seen as of course one of the world's most influential personalities and here in germany it is becoming increasingly clear that her position is we can so i'm sure that there are discussions going on behind the scenes about who might. it succeed until america as well for people outside looking at germany they see that ok all we might get a repeat of the grand coalition again the social democrats and the conservatives markel as chancellor what is going to be different many are asking about this government coming in assuming they strike a deal today compare in that it gets approved by social democrats would be different about this grand coalition compared to the one we just had well first of all is what it is one where it is clear from the beginning that they don't really want to work together after the election

c.d.u. party avuncular machall both have a rather broad consensus that the need to be a first commitment to europe that's also the first chapter in the coalition agreement that's on the table and that will be voted on by c.d.u. delegates meeting here in berlin on monday morning and they are expected to vote with a resoundingly yes to this their more question marks over how the social democrats will in the end vote on this because the grassroots get to have a vote there but on the whole there is a positive sign from this potential new government also to them on my call in france who wants to take your forward she wants to pretty make headway also on the eurozone moving closer together he's likely to have moved back in now with this new government for the social democrats are strengthened within that continuing potentially continuing coalition. thank you very much. police in central england say an explosion that destroyed a building is not a terrible lated video posted on you tube shows the building in flames in a residential street in the city of leicester four people who were heartily taken

there's one signal that i'm going to merkel is opening up also to critics who have a base to have support within the c.d.u. party and the person who fired by you and spawn at the same time she rewards allies like peter meyer the current interim finance minister before that her chief of staff for their loyalty so that's the message coming out of this that merkel may be looking more ass transition phase also herself with those discussions that we saw over recent months and particular those last weeks over how much clout she still has within her own party. definitely some very difficult decisions that she's had to take why it would she give and spoken critique of her refugee policy a job in her cabinet what's the reasoning behind that. womack of herself it appears is also looking beyond her own tenure in power there's no doubt about her most likely seeing her last time being the german chancellor that if the social democrats vote yes in their party base vote that's still coming up so and at the same time she is recognising that she's no longer the teflon mirco that she has to take criticism from within her p

that in three weeks time we'll have a decision from the social democratic party all right another big obstacle there ahead of us i hands brian to standing outside of the c.d.u. party headquarters as we have a breakthrough here in berlin germany is one big step closer to getting a new government and hans i will be watching closely there behind you while waiting for a members of the negotiating parties to come out and give their statements that will come back to a little bit later thank you hans. and we have our political editor nina hasa with us here in studio to talk more about this story nina i wanted to ask you about what hans was just saying this sense of frustration among some of the social democrat party members also among some voters that there hasn't been a deal yet but also that this is not the coalition government they want to see again for some of our international viewers who might not understand that why is there such frustration i mean within the s.p.d. within the s.p.d. but also among voters who seem to believe that this is another continuation of the status quo. there is a lot of frustration people are beginning to feel that the political lan

c.d.u. party of uncle americal both have a rather broad consensus that the need to be a first commitment to europe that's also the first chapter in the coalition agreement that's on the table and that will be voted on by c.d.u. delegates meeting here in berlin on monday morning and they are expected to vote for the resoundingly yes to this more question marks over how the social democrats will in the end vote on this because the grassroots get to have a vote there but on the whole there is a positive sign from this potential new government also to call in france who wants to take your forward he wants to really make headway also on the eurozone moving closer together he's likely to have more bucking now with this new government with the social democrats strengthened within that continuing potentially continuing coalition. or thank you very much the former leader of the main syrian conflict kurdish political party known as the p y d has been arrested in prague at the behest of turkey augur has been seeking salim muslim after a turkish court charged him with sedition turkey launched a militar

c.d.u. again he as p.d.s. numbers have been in freefall since the national election in september. well for more now let's bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow to talk about this new polls suggesting that the far right party has overtaken the s.p.d. is germany second biggest party of first of all tell us how significant is this poll result. terry as you mentioned this is the first time a national poll has these results but it's also important to stress that this is only one out of many polls that we see here in germany and most of the other polls still show the s.p.d. as the second most important political force here in germany behind the conservatives what is important not only in this poll but in the other polls as well is a general trend that we've been seeing for quite some time in germany namely the crises of the traditional parties in germany the conservatives on the social democrats and on the other hand the rise of the a.f.d. the anti immigrant party that as we know enter the german parliament for the first time back in september becoming the third largest politi

c.d.u. party of angela merkel both have a rather broad consensus that there needs to be a fresh commitment to europe that's also the first chapter in the coalition agreement that's on the table and that will be voted on by c.d.u. delegates meeting here in berlin on monday morning and they are expected to vote through the resoundingly yes to this their more question marks over how the social democrats will in the end vote on this because the grassroots get to have a vote there but on the whole there is a positive sign from this potential new government also to them on my call in france who wants to take your it forward she wants to really make headway also on the eurozone moving closer together he's likely to have moved backing now with this new government with the social democrats are strengthened within that continuing potential continuing coalition mechanic offner thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world china's communist party has proposed removing a two term limit on how long the president can stay in power that would mean president xi jinping cou

c.d.u. and center left s.p.d. have been locked in negotiations over a common position on issues including health care labor reform immigration and housing policy allocating ministerial positions involved more compromise but with a deal now done those compromises have been bitterly criticized by the right wing a.f.d. party. the use of the soft i don't i mean reassignment of the ministry shows that the c.d.u. has totally surrendered out of fear of the s.p.d. members the c.d.u. has given up his ideology and now it's giving up in practical terms too because it has none of the main ministries anymore the cd use just an empty shell there is one last hurdle to clear though before the new grand coalition government can be confirmed s.p.d. members now get their votes on the deal and their sentiments appears evenly split. kevin tonight the leader of the s.p.d. young socialist group use oss has been organizing a strong youth campaign against another so called grow coke the question might be though whether his appeal especially hi

c.d.u. such so the leaders of the conservatives and the s.p.d. have agreed this deal is that it now is the deal done. definitely not let's i mean we still have the party convention from the conservative party and then most importantly we have the. referendum off the s.p.d. where they have to approve the coalition agreement so we'll see what happens then yes when you cross thank you. dallas take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world egypt's army says it has killed twelve is the missed militants and detained ninety others after gun battles in the northern sinai region the operation was part of a government campaign against insurgents blamed for a string of attacks in the area security forces said the latest strikes have destroyed dozens of military militant targets. liberia's ex president ellen johnson sirleaf has won the most him prize for african leadership the five million dollar award recognizes her efforts to rebuild liberia following two civil wars a confidence first elected female leader left office last month after ser

in europe when it comes to distributing money for example i would have preferred to see the ministry of finance in the hands of the c.d.u. rather than the s.p.d. . to do what it was when it comes to portfolio distribution i would say that the c.d.u. did worse than the s.p.d. if it were to stay within the conservative family we could deal with it but we handed over the finance ministry to the s.p.d. and only got the economics ministry of the lot also which the larger party the c.d.u. left the table with the least important ministries says the party's members in sex and it. what i see now in social media is difficult it will be very hard to get back on the right path there's lots of dissatisfaction in the 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 m

c.d.u. it's about the party itself being brilliant we have to work for this we need your cooperation for this i ask for your trust. her speech by contrast through enthusiastic applause there was appreciation also for two ministers leaving office outgoing interior minister thomas de month. and health minister hammond go there the message the party leader on give america was clear the party may follow her but it's not quite convinced. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.s. president has suffered a setback after the supreme court rejected his bid to get it to intervene in the case of the dreamers there the children of illegal immigrants to the united states and they've been campaigning to be allowed to stay trumpets hope the supreme court would agree to consider the case without its having to go through lower courts first britain's opposition leader jeremy corbin has outlined a more flexible approach to immigration after it writes it compared to prime minister teresa mayes he said that his labor party would guarantee permanent residence for e

c.d.u. it's about the party itself being brilliant we have to work for this we need your cooperation for this i ask for your trust. her speech by contrast through enthusiastic applause there was appreciation also for two ministers leaving office outgoing interior minister told us they must here and health minister hammond go there. the message the party leader on the america was clear the party may follow her but it's not quite convinced. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.s. president dublin trump has suffered a setback after the supreme court rejected his bid them together to intervene in the case of the dreamers now they are the children of illegal immigrants to the united states and they have been campaigning for the right to stay in the u.s. trump and hope that the supreme court would consider the case without its having to go through lower courts for us police investigating the murder of a journalist in slovakia say he was probably killed because of his work investigating corruption twenty seven year old young kusa worked for a news website

price of a new coalition government is tight new immigration controls you have you have no income for us in the c.d.u. it was important that we have a legal regulation for migrant family reunifications and for the s.p.d. it was important that family reunifications are possible in general so here is our commitment what's called the right of reunification was suspended in two thousand and sixteen meaning refugees who had reached germany were prevented from bringing their immediate family to join them. was an experienced engineer in syria before fleeing the war and reached germany with her two sons she tried six times to have her husband who's also an engineer join the mall in berlin in the end she succeeded through a refugee sponsorship scheme vitamin money and lying but my husband was alone and say on this it is very dangerous we are apart for two years and my children had to grow up alone but in the end i had to chance through it is one of the organization that my husband was able to come and i think the law is impossible and inhumane but i don't think you can tear families apart ones rights campaign

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 union as such right will say thank you so very much political scientists and your cross is with the humbold

members of the social democrats they still have to accept this agreement ones that has been hammered out. thank you for now did obvious ones want their side the c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin. southeast asia's foreign ministers have begun informal talks tuesday morning in singapore talking center stage taking center stage and discussions will be the creation of a smart cities system in order to build regional cooperation and help fight terrorism and transnational crime. and a record twenty eight french restaurants have been awarded the restaurant world's top prize a three star michelin rating france has more starred restaurants and anywhere else but out of its twenty eight restaurants to scoop the top prize only one was run by a woman. now lawmakers in the mall deve say soldiers have forced their way into the country supreme court building it comes just after the government occurred a state of emergency in response to a spiraling political crisis the country's president is defying a supreme court order to release a group of jailed opposition leaders. this is what usually comes to mind when you think of the multi beautiful beaches isolated islan

as well into the cabinet would also help in finding a successor and as we have muckle as well it would also ensure that the c.d.u. doesn't turn into some kind of over sixty's member club that is a concern that's what critics have been saying exactly and we can have a list now to say what else of a critics have had to say. there's frustration in the rank and file i've been hearing that every day for the past three days nonstop. fatah along about the cabinet posts but many of my party are said even depressed and disappointed and some are fairly angry into giving up the finance ministry was a political misstatement go by and not go on like this we need a renewal. ok calls for a new or anger misstates what are the chances that a little medical could be unseated by own party but it really comes back to this question that we've just been told she has no successor if you compare that to the social democrats overview this week where expected andrea now this to take over is at least cat take a party leader of the social democrats so there's really no one next in line right now and this question of personnel really is a s

understand we have some new polls that have been released today that's right in these new polls see the far right party coming out second strongest after the c.d.u. party even before the social democrats that is something unheard of that has never happened before in germany we have to be careful with these numbers though they might be a bit biased as the institute that published them is run by somebody who had to leave the c.d.u. party because his positions were so far on the right and but the general move can be ignored or the general trend continues which is the rise of the right wing in germany an alarming trend indeed oliver salat reporting on the very latest from our land thank you. sports news now and publish foley elliott is here with the big stories from the winter olympics and chang and we have to talk i mean dates hand really dominated by this story of doping that's why we have to start with the negative news will say and this is the man who's at the center of all this doping story that's alexander crucial from the russian team and i need tested positive for a banned substance which is mold only in which people may recall was also the

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 neighbors use the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one ath

c.d.u. and center left s.p.d. have been locked in negotiations over a common position on issues including health care labor reform immigration and housing policy allocating ministerial positions involved more compromise but with a deal now done those compromises have been bitterly criticized by the right wing a.f.d. party you soft on with i mean reassignment of the ministries shows that the c.d.u. has totally surrendered out of fear of the s.p.d. members the c.d.u. has given up his ideology and now it's giving up in practical terms too because it has none of the main ministries anymore the cd used just an empty shell there is one last hurdle to clear though before the new grand coalition government can be confirmed s.p.d. members now get their votes on the deal and their sentiments appears evenly split. kevin tonight the leader of the s.p.d. young socialist group use oss has been organizing a strong use campaign against another so called grow co the question mind me though whether his appeal especially his and warning

c.d.u. it was important that we have a legal regulation for migrant family reunifications and for the s.p.d. it was important that family reunifications are possible in general so here is our commitment what's called the right of reunification was suspended in two thousand and sixteen meaning refugees who had reached germany were prevented from bringing their immediate family to join them. was an experienced engineer in syria before fleeing the war and reached germany with her two sons she tried six times to have her husband who's also an engineer join the mall in berlin in the end she succeeded through a refugee sponsorship scheme vitamin man. my husband was alone in syria it is very dangerous we were apart for two years and my children had to grow up alone but in the end i had to chance through it is one of the organization that my husband was able to come and i think the law is impossible and inhumane but i don't think you can tear families apart rights campaigners say they're deeply concerned the original ban on reunifications had been due to expire in march and many families had made ap