right let's turn back to our breaking news at this hour the head of germany's social democrats on draunidalo has announced she's stepping down from her posts including his party chair and from her seat in parliament the announcement comes after her party suffered a double election defeat knowledges came under pressure after german voters handed the social democrats their worst ever result in last month's european elections and the s.p.d. also lost a state election in the name and for the 1st time in over 7 years senior party members are due to meet on monday to discuss the party's future direction. we have now in the studio kate brady political correspondent for some more analysis on this so kate what does knowledge of resignation from these posts mean for the s.p.d. as a whole i think it was interesting that you mention are in other words a future direction which is going to be interesting for the social democrats what direction are they going because right now it seems that they're only head in downwards in the opinion polls this is get another sign of instability without doubt within the