she's also deputy chair of angela merkel‘s ruling cdu party.the arrival of donald trump in the white house, plus brexit, spell the start of a new world order and mark a shift in power away from the west? minister ursula von der leyen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. the president of germany, joachim gauck, has said, earlier this month, "with the inauguration of a new us "president, we face challenges to the international order "and to transatlantic relations." germany and europe can no longer live as usual on the transatlantic partnership, can they? i am deeply convinced that they can rely on the transatlantic partnership because there is a strong foundation, the transatlantic partnership exists now since almost 70 years. there is a huge amount of common experience, of trust and confidence in each other and we have this transatlantic partnership because we share common values. but here is your president, who is stepping down in march afterfive years, and he's going through this period of reflection and he's saying that it has challenges

i'm sure that someone from a mainstream party, if he hijacked the cdu and did that, would garner lots of votes. to come and say we want a more social europe, that is not going to get people off their backsides in germany. they're going to ask, who is going to pay for it. the answer is, you are going to pay for it. briefly let us listen to what he has had to say himself. he's been saying this is going to be an election like no other. he sees democracy is under threat in many countries. >> there are deep divisions in society, in germany and other european countries. european society is driftiting apart. after the election in the u.s., one can say that societies around the world are drifting apart. many people feel insecure, but we must work to keep these societies from drifting apart. derek scally, known for being authentic, known for being direct, he says that he wants to heal those divisions by really listening to the ordinary man and woman. can he really deliver on that? he has eight months. he's been parachuted in. befofore he started tatalking at drove society, his pararty through

over to berlin, roderich kiesewetter, mp for angela merkel‘s cdu party and its representative on foreignou've got to be somewhere very quickly. given the british government's stated objectives, what it said the british people voted for, as you know, i'm sure, to limit free movement, immigration, generally to take away any sense of people being ruled from outside the uk, a hard brexit, what some people call brexit max, was somewhat inevitable, was it not? the sense that we should be out of the single market and out of the economic union, how did theresa may's speech look from where you are? we are very happy that we now have a very clear decision from the united kingdom, from the british government, however we are a little bit disappointed about the way that she's putting it forward. but nevertheless, it's a clear decision, we can work with it andi clear decision, we can work with it and i think that's the main issue. what did you make of her threat that if the eu makes it hard for the uk to deter others from leaving the eu, the uk will make it hard for the eu, possibly change its whole e

on the other hand, likely cdu and csu will have a theoretical option to form a coalition.- a jamicha coalition. not probable that possible. they could also form a coalition with the right wing fringe nationalist party which is out of the question but a theoretical option. there is also an option for them to coalesce with the social democrats again in a grand coalition. angela merkel has three options even though one is purely the reticle. the social democrats have one option, to continue the coalition with the conservatives and that gives her the upper hand. comeshe french election first. while it looks improbable that we would see marine le pen winning, were that to come to pass, or we were to see difficulty surrounding the french election, how would that bleed through to the german election? >> that will be a serious factor particularly if and when marine le pen as president would set out to immediately put into move from the european union. i would not expect that to happen even if she should win but such an election would make it more difficult for merkel because it wo

their way, jb morgan, bank of america, wells fargo reporting before the open. 1:30 anna: theat ruling cduarty begins a retreat where angela merkel will start setting her agenda. manus: tanks in the u.s. trading now. diesel commissions cheating by the u.s.. will follow volkswagen and pay big? anna: it promises is a promise. close to a two-year low. the conveyor belt slows at the factory of the world. china's exports stay sluggish as the country races for a possible trump trade attention. this is bloombeg. anna: welcome back. this is bloomberg "bloomberg "bloomberg-- daybreak" nintendo shares fell after the switch goes on sale and march 3 at the price of $300. a new feature, an online gaming network. the price is higher than most predicted and above the ps4 and xbox one. down aselectronic share the vice-chairman faced 22 hours of questioning. a suspect in south korea's influence scandal. investigators have set charges to including allegations of embezzlement and breach of duty. the heir to the country's richest family has denied any wrongdoing. surge -- surged in tokyo. they may announce a