c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believe me when we can so we live in turbulent times what people want from the mainstream policies the conservatives on social democrats is that we form a reliable government if it gets off the population it will be for this people. even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence. so i have good reason to think we're in the final stretch i'm hoping for a positive spirit to the talks and a good result for our country in this rules are law. and the leader of chancellor merkel's more conservative sister party the c.s.u. from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat than earlier in the day elizabeth before. everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore the moment of truth is upon us. but the wait goes on in the meantime the coalition partners in wa

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c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin the sides disagreed over labor laws and health care reform it's been more than four months since german national elections country faced the prospect of fresh elections without a coalition deal. well for the very latest let's cross over to our political correspondent hans bond who's standing by outside the c.d.u. party headquarters here in berlin where those marathon talks of been taking place hans we're getting signals that breakthrough has been achieved in the talks what can you tell us is obviously the signals have arrived here as well that come from the online edition of a very german magazine who report from inside the coalition talks saying that an agreement has been reached and especially an agreement has been reached on the distribution of the various ministries in the new government between the two parties the social democrats and the conservatives there has however been no further confirmation of this has to nobody has arrived from inside the talks to talk to journalists and there have been no further other reports like this the members of the soc

c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believe me when we can so we live in ten times what people want from the mainstream policies the conservatives on social democrats is that we form a reliable government if it gets off the population it will be for this people even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence. so i have good reason to think we're in the final stretch i'm hoping for a positive spirit to the talks and a good result for our country on this rules are on. and the leader of chancellor merkel's more conservative sister party the c.s.u. from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat then earlier in the day listen it's good for. everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore the moment of truth is upon us. but the wait goes on in the meantime the coalition partners in waitin

c.d.u. headquarters in berlin. some new faces in the government likely can we expect then real change in merkel's policies with these additions. well we certainly see changing is the set up of the people she allows into her cabinet let's just remind ourselves she will only be able to announce of course the c.d.u. side of the cabinet picks and her own c.d.u. party is still trying to recover from the fact that merkel in those late nights ago she is handed over the key finance ministry now with un spawn and we're not hearing anybody denying this joy in her cabinet she will have somebody at the table who is on the record of could not just criticizing her but also through actually without really courtenay to with the german chancellor forced himself through votes into the upper echelons of the c.d.u. party system real competition there the social democrats we've seen really having not just lively debates it's really internal fights not something angela merkel had under control until now recently after these elections wh

c.d.u. party headquarters to to hear what is about to be said. and i think that it's really high time that we. know that we're heading for government here in germany so good morning to all of you. and the sun shining movie back when twelve o'clock. we were just hearing from members of the 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 en

c.d.u. party headquarters where the coalition would be coldish partners are continuing to negotiate. well moving on to taiwan rescue efforts are underway there are a six point four magnitude earthquake killed at least four people and injured hundreds of others authorities say more than one hundred forty people are still unaccounted for it's the second major quake to hit the island nation in recent days with more aftershocks feared. this building is still standing but the lower floors are crushed beneath its weight. firefighters are searching for any and every way so they can find survivors and get them out to safety the quake hit. east coast shortly before midnight tuesday it left several buildings listing dangerously near collapse including a military hospital and this hotel where an overnight worker was rescued from inside. there was only me working the night shift i don't know what happened to the people upstairs. his son and grandson soon arrive they are overjoyed to find him alive. but dozens of others are still missing rescue workers have reason to believe there are people aliv

c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believe me when we can so we live in turbulent times what people want from the mainstream party is the conservatives on social democrats is that we form a reliable government for the good of the population it will be for this people. even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence. so i have good reason to think we're in the final stretch i'm hoping for a positive spirit to the talks and a good result for our country this ruins a lot. and the leader of chancellor merkel's more conservative sister party the c.s.u. from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat then earlier in the day elizabeth before that everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore the moment of truth is upon us. but the wait goes on in the meantime the coalition partners in wa

c.d.u. party headquarters that is anglo-american a party if you can hear me we can't see you yet but this is a long awaited break through what we're details can you tell us about this agreement. well the most the most controversial points in the end at the end of the negotiations over the last roughly twenty four hour. where the ones concerning labor law reform and. medical aid to reform as well as discussions about all the various ministries would be distributed between the two party blocks and these controversial points were cleared up during the night and the final agreement was reached sometime this morning i think what one can say is that the social democrats especially seem to have gotten quite a lot of mileage out of this agreement they drove a hard bargain and one can see it in the fact that they have been given two of the major ministries or maybe three of the major ministries namely the foreign ministry the finance ministry and the ministry of labor especially interesting here is that the social democrats are taking over the finance ministry which for the last forward four years wa

c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin we hope to hear more from you later thank you. thank you. sports now and the german cup return last night there was a chance for a fairy tale david versus goliath ending as by munich visited third division pot a ball on max merrill from our sports desk is here with this was there any chance max that pot of ball and lonely pot of born would pull this out of the hat well let's just say this the last time buy in this is them they thrashed them six nil so let's hope let's hope it's not deja vu well let's see if history repeated itself is a lot. there were no surprises in the david versus goliath clash had a bomb did have the ball in the net first but sebastian shown now was ruled offside after twenty minutes by an assert their authority confusion in the box and kingsley come on took advantage one nil brian. come on turn provide a five minutes later robert leaven dusky with the finishing touch. of the variance were able to take their foot off the gas but that didn't stop the gulf s. just what kim ish with an ice cold finish their game already dec

c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin where those marathon talks are continuing hans any sign of progress any sign of a breakthrough. there's no sign of a breakthrough at the moment we've had a couple of people from inside the talks come out and tell us what's going on what's going on is negotiations if you want to put it as simply as that there has been no information about any breakthrough at the moment it's like you have for this process will take several hours still one has to say that last nine. there was a leak to the press of the agreement that has been reached so far this comprises more than one hundred sixty pages of detailed agreement in other words they have been going quite follow really they have achieved quite a lot already but they are reaching the sticking points the really crucial points the ones that we have been mentioned labor reform this this concerns temporary work or six term contracts in germany and the question of health care reform these are both issues that are very important to the social democrats who have been demanding further concessions on this in order to sel

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 islands and calm blue ocean but pol

c.d.u. headquarters just about half an hour ago where we have been reporting on the statements that they made and they have now all come over here to the bundestag where they are informing their parliamentary groups about the content of the coalition agreement for those who weren't part of the negotiations and also about the division of responsibility in terms of the ministries and we've just been hearing now from the head of the christian democratic parliamentary group that's. conservatives and he said he is very very satisfied with this coalition agreement which is interesting since in fact the c.d.u. has lost a crucial ministry but he said he had a few interesting points to make first of all on competition with asian nations he said that while germany remains one of the world's strongest economies it definitely lags behind in critical areas like digitalisation and he said that this coalition agreement will close that gap by essentially greatly modernizing both germany's digital infrastructure and education skills in the digital area and then he also talked about european union policy and h

c.d.u. party headquarters for us hi hans this is a long awaited breakthrough what details have you been hearing there what do we know about this agreement right now. well at the moment there has been some confirmation that an agreement has been reached from from the social democratic party but we haven't in fact yet had an official statement here behind me as you can see everybody is waiting there for say this official statement to be given but a lot of details have leaked out of the negotiations in the last oh and i think what we can say what is really new at the moment is the distribution of the ministries in a new government and here the social democrats will be given the foreign ministry the foreign minister will be a social democrat they will be controlling finance and they will also be given the labor ministry as well as a few other ministries obviously in the government this is i think one can say big achievement for the social democrats these are really very crucial ministries for any government and they're very crucial ministries for the issues that the social democrats have been tryin

c.d.u. party headquarters here in berlin we're waiting for statements from the party leaders to announce officially this new coalition agreement we're waiting for that in about twelve minutes time we'll be listening to that live but in the meantime thought that looking at this entire protracted process as we said how have german politics changed over these past four months as we've seen the various parties trying to form a coalition government well externally i mean we've seen them really struggling to get a government in place first of all we saw a. it's trying to get a coalition agreement with the greens and the pro business of front business friendly liberals and that didn't work out everybody was quite shocked about that because people really counted on them forming the new government and then the german president had to step in and remind the social democrats as well as the conservatives of their responsibility to at least try to form a new government before they would call new elections and so they went into these discussions and in the end. when i was seeing a coalition deal and they've trie

c.d.u. party headquarters that's chancellor merkel's party here in berlin any minute now her conservatives and the social democrats under martin schultz are set to announce plans for a new grand coalition this follows days of negotiations in which the two were deadlocked over issues like health care reform today's agreement a still faces a vote buying nearly half a million social democratic party members. and let's go back to our political correspondent hans front who is standing by for us outside of the party headquarters monitoring the story any more details on this breakthrough agreement that you can that you've been hearing. i think what we can say it's been is this certainly has been confirmed now that the agreement has been reached of what is happening at the moment is that the various leading party bodies are being informed of all the details and a few logistical things still to be solved in other words the agreement has to be put into its final written form and has to be printed out to be distributed to party members but also to the public through the press to us as it were so that's a

c.d.u. party headquarters that's a conservative party for us a melinda what has been going on well at the moment we're seeing a number of party leaders and ministers leaving the premises so clearly their negotiating work is now finally completely done that means they have probably been discussing who gets what minister positions that was the last open question and that presumably is what kept them there so long because the actual agreement on the coalition on the policies of the coalition was reached earlier this morning so they are leaving and we're now awaiting a statement by the party leaders who will i think take us through the main principles of the coalition agreement and also the way that the spoils have been divided up namely the ministries because that is where real changes have been made tell us more about those changes melinda and how significant they are. well very significant for the social democrats the social democrats had made it clear from the outset that they would drive a hard bargain that they had to drive a hard bargain that's because their base the broad membership of the p

c.d.u. party headquarters i'm thanking will be coming back in just a little bit. and our political editor nina is back with us here in studio and you know we heard hundreds there just talking about the social democrats and of course what a difficult process this has been for them what is going to take now to convince their party members that they need to accept this agreement so that germany can form a new government you know sumi i think what we have to do is take a step back and remind everybody why they are so reluctant to enter a new government again with conservative because i can imagine that people in the world are asking themselves the question what's the problem with and for a government you are in power you have you have a few ministries even you have as we've seen in this deal even if it's not been confirmed yet but looks like this baby's going to get major ministries at the same time the s.p.d. feels like it has lost a bit of its identity in the past grand coalitions with uncle americas conservatives they feel also this is being confirmed by the polls

c.d.u. party headquarters we are expecting an official announcement in about an hour and a half's time has we'll be talking later thank you very much. well said that the two sides have one more hurdle before the deal is sealed any agreement for another grand coalition must receive the blessing of the rank and file members of the central left so germany must wait a bit longer for an end to months of political limbo until the party vote and that could take weeks. of fate is in their hands the four hundred sixty thousand s.p.d. members could block another grand coalition between mack of the conservatives and the social democrats but who are these people there are far fewer women than men two thirds of members a male. less than ten percent of s.p.d. members around. the strength the numbers lies with those above sixty. have a university degree even more people with higher education can be found in the pro-business f.t.p. . the green party sixty eight percent of members with degrees. when the s.p.d. members vote on the grand coalition civil servants will have the most powerful voice as they represent

so let's pull in our chief political correspondent linda crane she is at the headquarters of the c.d.u. that. conservatives where the coalition talks are ongoing this evening good evening to you melinda so here we are again are we nearing the end of these talks what are you hearing i know i asked you that last night is tonight any different. tonight is different because this is basically the end of the overtime that these two parties had allocated for themselves they had initially set a buffer zone of two days and this is the end of day two or as one politician who entered this building a little while ago put it if this were soccer we would now be in minute one hundred fifteen and as you know that means way into overtime so they are down to the wire but we've heard it could go late into the night they have accomplished an enormous amount we know that because the document that they're working from was leaked to the press a bit earlier it's one hundred sixty seven pages long and as i went through it the the areas that are marked in yellow those are the areas they haven't agreed on they a

c.d.u. party headquarters so melinda we can't see you yet but if you can hear us so this is a long document some one hundred fifty pages we understand so we haven't had the chance to read through it just yet but what are the most important points to take away here. the overall title of this coalition is essentially turnaround for europe and turnaround for germany and the way that it was presented today by the party leaders is that it seeks to strike a balance between. giving people a secure basis in their lives whether it's in the area of health care whether it's in the area of work whether it's in the area of pensions so essentially giving them security but at the same time making the country fit for the future in the sense of fit for demographic challenges fit for new forms of business competition due to do juleps digitalisation due to automation so essentially a coalition agreement that seeks to strike the balance between competitiveness and security and the areas that are absolutely key for that and they were they were listed by the chancellor in her remarks in the in the city you have

c.d.u. party headquarters waiting for some agreement in the subzero temperatures good to have you here. let's take a look at just tell reaction is going down until america has healed this deal hands as the best basis for good government opposition parties and business groups too are slamming it what's the verdict in the papers well i brought along some of the german papers from the smalling and if we look at the headlines this is bitesize and that is the largest newspaper in germany. malco hands the hands the s.p.d. the social democrats the government as a gift gifts the government to these social democrats they feel in other words that criticizing them on the number of can say is that our new american made this is the five but i got mine aside and so largest conservative newspaper in germany business friendly it's very neutral the conservatives and the social democrats have agreed on a coalition this is more conservative newspaper i deviate from berlin him berlin macko this last stand and it's gives an overview of the number of cabin opposed that have been given to the social democrats

c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin reporters wait for information on the progress of talks to form a grand coalition one hundred thirty four days after germany's general election the country is still without a government. updates from the parties have been few and far between. believing in all that we can and we live in turbulent times what people want from the mainstream parties the conservatives and social democrats is that we form a reliable government for the good of the population it will be for this people even under mounting pressure the leader of the center left s.p.d. is full of confidence.