in turmoil after party leader martin should step down the move throws a coalition deal with chancellor america's conservatives into doubt after almost five months without a new government and they are dallas has received the official endorsement of the party's executive but still needs approval from the rank and file. in new york a judge has sentenced the man convicted of planting bombs in downtown manhattan to life in prison plus thirty years and that can that he meet a u.s. citizen was captured on video depositing pressure cooker bombs in september two thousand. and sixteen no one was killed but thirty people were injured. denmark's royal palaces prince henrik has died hendrick was the husband of queen margaret of the second the palace said he died late on tuesday in his sleep he was only hospitalized with a lung infection he was eighty three years old. that was exactly one year ago today that a german journalist a dentist in your chile was jailed by turkish authorities they accuse him of terrorism and espionage charges which burton says a politically motivated the german government is doing n

concerned by the fact that many turkish germans feel closer to president ed one than they do to chancellor america how do we get people to take democracy and freedom of speech more seriously. that's a decisive issue for germany for turkey for europe for all of us the turkish exiles aren't going to win this fight by themselves. if european people nature t. care about that lot is going on in turkey. they will increase their war there is going to be less so much more if it g.'s inserts here and also turkish people will become refugees soon. people who are in neutral need to act against these. latifa mustapha heiko me and beyond us are exiles from a country where democracy is dying. again in a. was. in. the. smooth. oh. you're max heights. love the last place. because we can never get enough last. lifestyle. the highlights the odds cut double. play the games. the scars. the pain still tangible. suffering for good. for city edge but. they have survived do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they do want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided

charge of the party's david day operations and of places her in pole position to take over as chancellor if america steps down it's by all means a colorful choice and a good come combo of the take the position as general secretary of the cd hugh although she already has helped more important posts within the party but conservative leader uncle america wanted a party manager whom she can trust one hundred percent and on a good come come by has been close to america for many years we can once again when we have known each other for many years now and i can say that we can rely on each other even if we both have our own opinions so i think we'll have some exciting times ahead of us. the media has given come combo the nickname mini america the board a k k as she is known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a mini unincluded com combo or has been state premie of the sol region since two thousand and eleven. victory at the state elections last year was key to merkel's win in the nationwide elections just a few months later know she gives up this strong position to help marco to set up a reform age

be seeing a lot more of a i'm hearing a lot more in the future the reports of germany's chancellor i think america will appoint a k k as the christian the democratic union's new secretary general which would position her to take up a leading role if chancellor merkel steps down. and the position close to uncle americal is nothing new for and they could come out and she's been one of america's closest advisors for some years now. many say that come qanbar his victory at the state elections in the saar region one year ago was key to merkel's win in the nationwide elections just a few months later. i was hoping that many people would support our politics of the center on a grand coalition and me personally and that seems to be the case it's great that this mood was translated into so many votes and that many nonvoters came back to us and this is he was afterwards the media gave come convo or the nickname many american but a.k.k. as she's known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a mini the fifty five year old lawyer has managed to secure a conservative majority within the saar region tradition

foreigners has angered many what began as a local scandal has now had drawn the attention of chancellor america. this is not good but it also shows the pressure that exists and how many people feel this need and that's why i hope that people can find good solutions to not exclude certain groups. about six days a needy people regularly get groceries from the food bank in the city of s. and organizers say more and more foreigners have been coming about two thirds of the food banks visitors were known jerram and they see elderly visitors and single mothers especially felt increasingly uncomfortable around the many young men and felt they were gradually being pushed i that's the reason the head of the fifth bank gave for this decision. he should also this has nothing to do with xenophobia or with foreigners being more or less needy than german people we just want to distribute what we have fairly and redress the imbalance. for the moment essence food bank wants to keep restricting aid for foreigners that's the outcome of an american sea board meeting on tuesday those in charge say that single mothe

increasingly you're seeing people within the conservative ranks saying that you know may be chancellor merkel and america won't be the person to lead that party into the next election whenever it comes sooner or later maybe they're saying you know i'm going to medical isn't the future you know whenever it comes that's the big question isn't it the talks resume today they're supposed to wrap up on on sunday both sides are sounding optimistic are we going to see as some suggest a government by march well i think that is likely if they can do this deal and that's a big can of yet they've worked out a g. compromise for instance on the question of migrants coming to germany but there are still some other areas like health care for instance like labor policy and some others where you know the social democrats particularly want to see more compromise from angle of those conservatives and the math has been offering more money last night you know to see if that helps to do the deal spose to come together over the weekend maybe sometime next week but of course any deal that. on will be put back to the social democ

social democrats struck a deal on forming a coalition government the grand coalition would keep america as chancellor the social democrats are to receive several top cabinet posts and the interior ministry will go to america's bavarian allies the c.s.u. they praise the agreement. on the sea but on september the one reads these one hundred seventy seven pages and i hope they will be widely read it will see that what we are proposing is good for the people of our country in the fall. but the optimism that the three leaders tried to convey is not entirely shared by the german business community industry associations complain that hoped for corporate tax cuts were not written into the deal. and they say the new agreement will end up making firms pay billions more to help insurers. employers also reject tighter restrictions on temporary job contracts they say don't make it harder to react flexibly to the ups and downs of the economy. it's a screening together of costs regulations and additional changes for the worst especially compared to the program agreed in the initial talks between the parties and i g

as your monitor of our top stories at this hour german chancellor all america has vowed to serve out another full term this despite being under fire from her own conservatives for making sweeping concessions to form a coalition government and hang on to power. and top officials from south africa's governing and see party saying they are ready to poach finalize a departure of president jacob zuma zuma has already refused calls to step down and is under no constitutional obligation to do so. this is good of you news live from berlin don't forget you can always find out more about these and other stories that are a web site t w dot com you can also false of course on twitter and facebook for now though from all of us here in berlin thanks so much for being with us back again at the top of the hour. and. a steady job is their greatest dream. shanda from syrian and jet from afghanistan to see their future in germany. but the road to the job market is a long answer. we're. going to germany. the jury on the job. play next d.w. . elastics all about the moments that. play it's all about the s

said i will not enter a cabinet with america as chancellor and we now have a situation where media reporting that he is likely the head of the social democrats is likely to become germany's new foreign minister if the s.p.d. party agrees to that deal and of course that would be a major step but that is something that he will have to sell to his party base how come you have done such a turnaround in your promises but of course the position of foreign minister is one traditionally the most popular ministry even seek my gabriele man it's also an s.p.d. man managed to get out of really low support points and when he became foreign minister. ranking really highly so maybe that is one of the hopes that martin charles has that he will he can win some of his popularity back and he said that it would probably mean that he would have to give up the leadership of the party this is what some people are saying at the moment because it is just not going to happen the s.p.d. cannot really knew itself to the necessary extent if you have a government if you have the foreign minister who's the head of the par

on the future not just of the current government but also potentially on the future of america herself as chancellor in germany and that is indeed the question you said the criticism was quieter today than it has been perhaps in recent weeks has merkel emerge stronger after this convention. absolutely she has spawn the man who currently is that secretary in the finance ministry soon if it comes to this grand coalition to be health minister she's now balanced him into a potential new cabinet so no threat really expected that if you sit around that cabinet table but he's also seen as the symbolism of a potential change. german chancellor angela merkel's term come to either an early and all the end at the end of year is what everybody seems to agree on here that the expectation is that she wouldn't really continue beyond that but early days and that's a vote let's see whether that vote actually goes through this coming sunday. political editor michelle covering this story for us thank you michelle. now to some other stories making news around the world police investigating the murder of a journalist in

relations between turkey and germany remain at an historic low that despite a meeting between chancellor all america all and the turkish prime minister been ali elder i'm the imprisonment without charge of german journalist and it's huge oil in turkey has been straining ties while turkey says germany is harboring leaders of twenty sixteen's fails to we'll be talking about the bilateral relationship after this report. turkey's prime minister was confronted by protesters outside the chancellor rhee and berlin there calling for an immediate end to turkish military operations in northern syria as well as for the release of the jail german turkish journalist dennys huge a. sense of only oh i think it's just incredible how in turkey people who are simply interviewing dissidents are being persecuted with fascist methods. everybody should be angry about this they should be outraged and protest. sign or importance. that's something the german chancellor is funny people to do right although she has spoken of a souring of german turkish relations during her meeting with the older him machall also made it clear

begun to talk a lot more in the last couple of months about the possibility that one day america won't be the chancellor you know they're saying that perhaps she isn't the person to renew her party and to lead the country in the future so more of these noises of come out paul. in the context of the slow coalition talks what about for coalition partners the s.p.d. they once had a double the support that they have right now what has been behind their decline well because there are there are many reasons i think social democrat policies around europe have their roots in traditional left politics have to find a new agenda in the post industrial economy perhaps a new way of talking to younger voters and so on but there are other things as well too many grand coalition governments with the social conservatives you know this will be the fourth cold with democrats and serves of two conservatives together if it happens so that is that is affected their support the other thing a lot of people within the s.p.d. a saying the leader most insurance hasn't really done what he should have done he hasn't inspired and he

yeah well pretty much not at all remember that i'm going to america the german chancellor said by a twenty twenty she would like to have one million mobility cars on the german roads that's certainly not going to happen the problem is that the entire industry has been very slow to produce cars being attractive from the prize also being attractive from the range they can actually drive so there is still a lot of more whole work that needs to be done in order to create a similar hype that we have seen for example happening with tesla in the united states and your corp reporting from frankfurt thank you. now in a surprise move us cable giant comcast has thrown down the gauntlet to tycoon rupert murdoch says it's a bidding him offering more than twenty five billion euros to. by european pay t.v. group sky murdoch had already agreed to buy the sixty one percent of sky he doesn't already own but british regulators fear his company twenty first century fox could become too powerful comcast says fox would be a perfect fit and it's now reportedly teamed up with disney which has its eyes on some fox

yet five months after the elections and after some quarrelling with other partners angle america the german chancellor eventually had to go into negotiation talks with the s.p.d. with the social democrats and of course we know that even though they reached a deal last week a coalition deal still the s.p.d. members will have to decide about whether or not they actually want to go into government so on the americans fate also hangs in the hands of the s.p.d. members half a million people and will find the result on march the fourth so very tricky days for the chancellor and of course he doesn't have the same powers as he usually does who just want to you know door in turkey and germany have very strong trade ties do you think that was also a factor that played a role in in this case of dead tissue chip. of course yes i mean money is his number one trading partner in the world the very important relations who also have to realize that there are major german companies operating in turkey divide is very important for the turkish economy as well and i think the fear that if this terrible crisis of relations

exposes the military industrial complex and the contradictions of post-war america and why is britain's blairites. chancellor charlie for a futurism is government of the criminal we speak to a former prisoner turned reform campaigner about the horrors behind british prison walls elizabeth coming up about two of going underground. in america a college degree requires a great deal. of. study. humiliation to enter an elite society. and punching to death sometimes quite literally. wants other true colors of universities in the us. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each of killian erroneous and spending two to twenty million one fly a. book it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy great so what chance for. that makes this minute. what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some will wan

come including it's been a long time coming the deal that's likely to guarantee an america stays on as german chancellor. and the workers who are taking on the u.k.'s biggest retail giant in the record compensation claim. however adelaide hits back forty one on wednesday and it's still pretty hot in south australia's not quite as haas in melbourne and as in victoria but was still up in the middle thirty's in many places and this war spread drought well comes out of the interior to be ours as also heading down towards perth low thirty's here for you tempered a little bit come friday but the wants is still there or maybe the hots to the east thirty nine still in adelaide it just doesn't quite reach victoria but it's a very pleasant possibly not so hot spell of summer with low cloud in the mornings in sudden doozie into the south island it's disappointing to stop maybe in fact the temps don't really get that high eighteen at best but you got ten soon oakland here generates a bit of rain unfortunately that's all to see on friday that's possibly even more so the case twenty one nor can much of north and unde

have agreed to form a coalition although four months after the election it means i can america will continue as chancellor social democrats have changed their minds after initially refusing to prop up lack of government as you had once witness continues next news after you after that. the freights thing used an icelandic destroying he's a venture capitalist i suppose who makes. a lot of money through spec to leave projects he began he used commercial curry in ninety ninety two he went from being unlikely factory. jeans importer exports. iran tin papa new guinea as a publisher now. tangent dentals sort of leap from one's unconnected industry to another. he's been involved in a hugely controversial publishing deal only government then sets out his iron company which handles to see states. the first red flag was clearly raised by the government. from becoming an agency. and i found ten illegal contracts in my nomes over to trace the money from the states to states. i don't think it was staged joe was aware of what he was actually fighting against . functions idea is a dream is that i work in the say it's a p

happy with so the overall question here was always we witnessing her last term until america's last term as german chancellor and will she then present her own successor at some point nonnegative come carbon ball is not automatically her successor as the new secretary general but this is a very influential position and we have to take into consideration that i'm going to machall her self help this position before she became party head and later german chancellor absolutely not automatic because nothing is automatic in a democracy is that all of our on let's look though in the meantime at the other part of the plant grand coalition do the social democrats have their house in order well the s.p.d. party is struggling a big deal since the election itself they suffered the weakest election results or the worst election result in modern german history and now the big question is how to move forward it was very complicated for the party to agree on a new grand coalition deal with the c.d.u. party and they had to promise their party base that they would be able to vote on this agreement this is going to happen very

i'm serious i was gonna get to have you with us i know america has promised to remain both chancellor and conservative party leader for another full term in her first interview since clinching a new deal for a government she quassia should step down early to make way for a new generation of leaders though many in her party are not satisfied with merkel we'll talk about that in a moment but first this report. the german chancellor stepping up to defend the coalition deal specifically the key foreign and finance ministries going to the social democrats it was the only way to stop the talks collapsing she says. and for so long for now as i also find it painful. i would like to have kept the finance ministry but it's what we decide as politically and in the coalition agreement and the finance minister cannot just do whatever he likes to merkel also address 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 my notes i naturally have to make sure that we keep in mind not just the o

we'll take you to washington for the showdown between america's president and its intelligence community plus a warning from germany's chancellor as she has a fresh coalition talks i'm glad meryl says there are still major differences between cross party and potential partners the social democrats that's next week's deadline for for any of government drawls close to find out what germans think of this protracted political horrible goes it's going to go. to the same courtroom drama at a sentencing hearing for disgraced u.s. doctor larry nasser in just watch the father of three of his victims being tackled after he launched at the former gymnastics doctor who abused his daughters. and sarah harmon welcome to the show it's good to have you with us and the united states are. controversial memo critical of the f.b.i. and the justice department has been released and speaking at the white house u.s. president donald trump confirmed the document had been declassified it alleges the f.b.i. used bad evidence when it applied for a fine as a warrant to buy on a member of the trump campaign during the twenty sixteen election the memo was cr

generation of leaders many in our party are not satisfied with america we'll talk about that in a moment but first this report. the german chancellor stepping up to defend the coalition deal specifically the key foreign and finance ministries going to the social democrats it was the only way to stop the talks collapsing she says. so even for now as i also find it painful. i would like to have kept the finance ministry but it's what we decide is politically and in the coalition agreement and the finance minister cannot just do whatever he likes a message to merkel also address the question of starting 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 my notes i thought i naturally have to make sure that we keep in mind not just the over sixty's but also of the younger people . my own message to the party conference is that we need to be clear about how we go forward into government get involved in the cd use ministerial line up should be clear in two weeks' time merkel avoided talking about a success so saying she plans to remain as chancellor and

in truth, america remains a long way off finding a way to end its problems with guns. germany's chancellorys she's "not frustrated" by the brexit process, but is "curious" to know more about the uk's aims, after meeting theresa may in berlin today. the prime minister reiterated her desire to maintain the closest possible economic ties with germany and the eu, but said there would have to be a "new balance of rights and obligations". 0ur political correspondent, vicki young reports. political survival against the odds. something these two leaders know all about. both have been weakened by poor election results, but when it comes to brexit negotiations, not much will happen without angela merkel‘s approval. so theresa may came here keen to stress what binds germany and britain together. the uk and germany's shared history, values and culture, i think, makes us vital partners and strong allies both bilaterally and through nato, the g7 and the g20. and we'll continue to work together to strengthen these ties for years and decades to come. the german chancellor admitted there had been a candid

also here to washington for the showdown between america's president and its intelligence community plus a warning from germany's chancellor as she has in a fresh coalition talks.

governor carney in london, he must write a note to the chancellor on britain's 3% inflation in americainflation data at 8:30 and retail sales as consumers spend more and save less. we consider america's a liberal -- relations inner and an angry president. this is "bloomberg surveillance" live from our headquarters in new york. i am tom keene. francine lacqua in zurich with a conversation with credit suisse. did you ask on the vix? did the vix, but conversation? was 85% ofeah, that the interview. imc happy you listened to all of it. -- i am so happy you listen to all of it. img am kidding, i know we listened together. -- not expecting volatility to affect the credit markets and we spoke with -- about this etn they had to shut down and it was interesting to hear -- saying i wanted to know exactly what this was, so i wanted to read and get perspective myself and it was never meant to be for retail investors, just short-term like one day impact of hedge funds. tom: it will be interesting to see how this plays out and the vix comes in, but the headaches for many of these etn's continue. in

military industrial complex and the contradictions of post-war america and why is britain's blairite called an easter for the lord chancellor charlie for the accuser is a maze government of the criminal we speak to a former prisoner turned reform campaigner about the horrors behind british prison walls elizabeth coming up about two of going underground. in america a college degree requires a great deal. of decades of. study. i'm parching today sometimes quite literally. wants of the true colors of universities in the us. tens of billions hundreds of billions probably a trillion dollars of us government subsidization on the energy industry yes government can subsidize mining big oil or other crypto currencies and put those into wall it's called american citizens give each have an automatic wallet tied to the social security account and they can get a daily weekly or monthly air drop of crypto coins that they can then years to boost economy with the government can easily do that. for. welcome back does a perceived threat of war declared by russia and china mean the united states is prepared to go bankrupt donald trump today s

conservative party the secretary general which by the way even until america held herself before she became party head and before she became chancellor of germany so she certainly this name is a name to watch out for in the future all right talk to us now about the social democrats oliver is their house in order. well the s.p.d. party is in a complicated situation right now it took them weeks to get this coalition deal underway to negotiate with the conservative party after having had one of the biggest election defeats actually the lowest results in in modern german history now they the party obviously promised their their vote their vote their party base actually to vote on the outcome of these off this coalition deal and this is going to happen and as you can imagine there are very different standpoints within the party not many are happy. to go way back into a grand coalition sound has been think that the party can only gain strength in the opposition so there's a group of young social democrats fighting passionately against going into forming part of a government again and this will be a major challenge then to convince the part

social democrats the chancellor as christian democrats approve the coalition with a broad majority the move was expected the social democrats are voting next week an early america announced her picks for the new cabinet most of the candidates are younger and there are more women of a chance are also named in one of her fiercest critics to join her cabinet. dishnet c.d.u. conventions to applaud party leader and chancellor angela merkel after the speech as long as possible this time the delegates managed to play for little more than four minutes considerably shorter than in recent weeks this reflects the growing dissatisfaction with merkel's policy and the disappointing result at the last national elections and she's aware of that that's the good news and this result is not at all what we were hoping for we all fought hard and we were all disappointed we need to do better the next time. that's your belief my view that this option. but many delegates whether this can be done with a new grand coalition together with the social democrats have reached agreement has been criticized especially by the conservative wing within the christian democrats but merkel defended

of very influential position coming right after the german chancellor and it will be certainly very interesting to watch if i'm going to america will step down at some point and this might be the person to follow and it is a done deal with will it gets this job and if she does what does she stand for well she's a very factual politician and we've also heard this before in our coverage she's very factual she's not consider very emotional but thinking about things a lot before she takes decisions and this is a style that appreciates a lot she is seen as a close adviser all for as well and she stands basically for the continuation off the medical style she's very successful within the state of sond where she is the prime minister and she will bring that experience certainly to the conservative party and that is something that i'm going to michael would appreciate very much and why is there a vacancy for general secretary. well the former general secretary. was ill that is not the official reason why he stepped down he was considered weak also because of the election campaign that is one of his job one of his duties and now he vol

east so there are many child soldiers there are many chancellors across africa in conflicts happening there in the past there were more in south america in colombia for example before the end of the conflict so it's not something where there's really there isn't a culture where this is something that happens particularly there isn't a particular conflict it's just where the violence is where children are they will inevitably be drawn in to some extent or another so we've seen a lot of progress in the sense of standards setting. through states ratifying the optional protocol against the use of child soldiers. through other developments have come to say school speculation to protect children in conflict the parents principals vancouver principals so there's a lot of the parent will political will at that level to address this issue but what we're seeing is a failure for that to implement on the ground. and put simply if you are in a conflict situation where communities structures where governmental structures are so damaged and or and so incapable of functioning properly it's very very difficult to prevent young people from being drawn

parties are planning to divvy up top ministers it's a start which has on the americas she will stay at the helm as chancellor and martin schultz resigns as that has resigned i should say as a leader of the social democrats and will indeed become germany's foreign minister and his party colleague all of olaf schultz is slated to become the finance minister well that's just a tentative look at some of the potential candidates for minister a post a find out more about what the lineup means for germany and europe as well with a political correspondent simon young good to see you simon. american no surprise there it will stay at the helm of the government she had to give up some prime real estate to secure this deal and her position is she out of the woods has it paid off well it looks like there's going to be a government you still go to get it past some members of the conservative ranks and of course pas the s.p.d. membership but if all goes to plan then in that sense the government is there that's the most important things you would say to have a stable government in in germany in terms of her personal positio

running dispute the german chancellor says macedonia is closer than at any time over the past ten years to reaching an agreement with its neighbor greece about its name all this is america welcomed her macedonian counterpart. to berlin for talks greece has long objected to the name macedonia saying it implies a territorial claim over greece's own northern region also called macedonia athens has vetoes copies membership bids for the european union and nato because of the disputes americal said macedonia the country was on course toward joining the e.u. but didn't specify a date. it is still lights camera action here in berlin where the international film festival is still in full swing and use charlotte shell some pill and scott are down at the red carpet good to see you guys so what movies hit the silver screen today. well today just a few minutes ago we had the world premier of the second of three german films that are here in competition. the stars of the film and the director were strolling down the carpet behind us the film the nice need more interesting name it's called my brother's name is robert and he's an idiot but i write it deals with the light hearted issues

in this idea if you followed his america first course that's what has made relations worse than the. about the dislike is not mutual german chancellor angela merkel is very popular with most americans. her popularity has increased constantly with all americans since two thousand and twelve sixty four percent of democrats feel that chancellor merkel is trustworthy and her approval ratings have even been rising steadily among republicans the study also states that americans mainly value u.s. german security in defense ties but germans focus mainly on democratic values perhaps the differing interests make transatlantic relations so complicated. indeed write his remarks at the top stories that we're following for you hackers have attacked germany's foreign and defense ministries and stolen data the hackers are alleged to belong to the russian group used of attacking the democratic national committee ahead of the u.s. presidential election back in two thousand and sixteen the international olympic committee has reinstated russia's olympic membership the move comes after the remaining tests of the country's athletes at the winter olympics

trend in europe nd, of course, north america, has been to essentially pander to fringe voices who have taken anti-refugee position. but you found, you know, chancellor merkel standing up saying, if it comes with an stand by cost she'll european values and stick to the principles of, you know, all uropean countries have signed up for the refugee convention and she said we're going to that.by trudeau -- canadiens refugees.t that's the whole issue, i think, of the leadership. we need leadership to stand up and do the right things. question. one >> good morning, my name is -- two the mexican -- i have questions. the first one is, i remember, i last year, i don't now, it was an organization, they presented a report about he [inaudible] after the election of donald trump. of, you know, y that, and, i t mean, we've seen some of the evidence sometimes on tv. question is, i wonder if you have any reference about that situation in your report? alive orentiment still has it rescinded here in the united states? is, on second question latin america, recently, on the there ntial elections, was a call to the organization for american states, they a report, a very

the trend in europe and, of course, north america has been to essentially pander to fringe voices of taken a very anti-refugee position. but you found chancellor merkel's steny of fencing even if it comes with an electoral cause she will stand by european values and stick to the principles of all european countries have signed up to the refugee convention and she said that we are going to abide by that. president to do, we were i nine years by harper in the previous regime that canadians don't want refugees. suddenly it seemed to be different and that's the whole issue of i think the leadership, that we need leaders to stand up and build the right things. >> good morning. i'm with the mexican -- [inaudible] i have two questions. the first one is i remember, i think it was last year, i don't know, if it was you or freedom house of one of those organizations that presented a report about the race -- [inaudible] after the election of donald trump. there was plenty of evidence about that. and we, i mean, we had seen some of the evidence sometimes on tv. the question is i wonder if you have any reference about that situation in your report? i mean,

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 said she wanted to try a new deal with the business friendly f.t.p. and with the greens we all remember that fell apart last year and those negotiations didn't go anywhere and so the s.p.d. is basically second choice and everybody's very well aware of that they do have a few they have very good contacts so they are work in government they are in government at the moment which is why there is no feeling of crisis in germany things are moving forward or be very slowly of course and there are lots of silence is that out of waiting in europe to be solved for example mark owen the french president is waiting for a st

the country's elections chance on america from the conservatives and martin schultz from the social democrats announcing the deal is means merkel will keep the chancellor's post but the social democrats will have control of some of the most important ministries now the deal still has to be approved by that party's rank and file. more on the story now with our political correspondent thomas sparrow with us here in studio and our correspondent standing by for us as well in brussels for the european angle good to have you both with us thomas let's start with you the s.p.d. does have to approve this the party members but looking at this coalition a coalition agreement what is the vision here all those who expected probably radical change from this new government will be disappointed it's more about continuity and stability than radical change and that's something that you can clearly see when you look at the one hundred seventy seven pages of the coalition deal obviously the different party members have been making sure that it's not just as usual as the other two grand coalitions that we've seen under i'm going to merkel but certainly no radical positions h

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europe and, of course, north america has been to essentially ander to fringe voices who have taken a very anti-refugee position, but you -- you found, you know, chancellor merkel standing up and saying, that you know, even if it comes with an electoral cost, she will stand by european values and stick to the principles of, you know, all purp-of-european countries have signed up to the refugee convention, and she said they will abide by it. president trudeau, we were told by harper and the previous regime that canadians don't want refugees. suddenly it seems to be different, and that's the whole issue of ethical leadership, that leaders need to stand up and do the right things. there was one question here. >> good morning. i'm here with the mexican news agency and i have two questions. the first one i remember, i think it was last year, i don't know, it was you or freedom house or one of those organizations, they presented a report about the rise of anti-immigration sentiment in the united states after the election of donald trump, and there was plenty of, you know, evidence about that, and we -- i mean, we see some of that evidence sometimes in tv. the