to the viewers fabienne founder mark is at the socialist democrat the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place in our understanding is that the negotiators have left the most contentious issues for last walk us through what some of the main obstacles are and how tough will it be for them to find a compromise. well they are trying hard to find this compromise obviously since it took already eighteen hours that they spend here in the headquarters of the social democratic party for us at this very moment it's hard to say where they got stuck since no information at all gets out of the talks during this night so we can only believe that they're still struggling with the same topics that they struck a while ago we heard that taxation policy and refugee policy are the major obstacles where they're still discussing and money the money question the new government in germany has a lot of money that they can spend on top that's forty five billion euros but that's apparently not enough there are projects on the table that cost some one hundred billion euros so everyone has to g

to devin's did abuse fabienne vandermark at the social democrats headquarters for us where the talks are taking place fabienne our understanding is that the negotiations the negotiators excuse me have left the most contentious issues for last so walk us through some of the major obstacles and tell us how tough it's going to be for them to find a compromise. yes the most controversial topic still seem to be the migration policy the whole question of how and whether and if more refugees and migrants should come into germany second question tex ation the social democrats would like to see a higher top tax rate which would of course target then more people and the richest in germany and this is something that the conservatives disagree with at the moment so these are very controversial topics but then also the sheer amount of projects that were on the table as a problem the new government can spend some forty five billion euros more than before but the project the ideas on the table they summed up to about two hundred billion euros so everyone has to give up some of their projects has to

abuse five in found them at the social democrats headquarters where the talks are still going on fabienne let's start at the beginning our understanding is that the negotiators have left the most contentious issues for last let's start by walking through what these major obstacles are what these issues are and how tough is it going to be for them to find a compromise. it seems that two very big problems are first of all taxation policy the s.p.d. the social democrats they want higher tax rates for the richest in germany which is highly controversial amongst the conservatives and the other all objective is the refugee policy migration policy where the conservatives don't want to agree to let more migrants into germany what the social democrats want another big field is the whole field of finances in general the social democrats. have many many projects that cost a lot of money and this new government can spend a lot of money there some forty five billion euro to spend for the government by the project that are on the table they're worth more than double this amount so everyone now has to s

and our political correspondent fabienne vandermark joins me in the studio now obvious let's start with the very basics what role does the green party play in the german political landscape we're hearing so much now about the the conservative bloc and the social democrats of where do the greens lie well the unique selling point was originally the environmental policy the fight against climate change that is still at the very core of the greens they have started in the eighty's of last century as a traditional opposition movement a grassroots social movement then became an opposition party but in the last twenty years they were again and again in power both on the federal and on the state level and as you just mentioned there were one step away of forming a coalition with americans conservatives and the liberals the so-called john mica coalition that failed and now they ended up being the smallest of all the six of the four opposition parties in the german bunds talk and this new leader talking about robert ha back very simply who is this guy. the greens have very high hopes in this fort

five in found america is at the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place to fabienne our understanding is that the negotiators have left the most contentious issues for last so walk us through what some of these major obstacles are and how tough is it going to be for them to find a compromise. well they still struggle to find these compromises obviously since they started these talks twenty hours ago and in the last hours we couldn't hear anything from inside this building here inside the headquarters of the social democrats where they negotiate anglo-american martin shows and a number of politicians have now left the building for example from the very insistent party if i'm going to actually see as you so now the party leaders are discussing the most controversial topics they might still be migration taxation as they were during the day but also in the field of social policy where particularly the social democrats need to deliver a success story need to have a project that they can sell their voters as something typically social democratic that might be for example i

have been pounding markets at the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place fabienne good to have you with us our understanding is that the negotiators have left the most contentious issues for last walk us through some of the major obstacles and tell us how tough it's going to be for them to find the compromise they're looking for. yeah the toughest obstacles are still refugee policy migration policy in this field the social democrats would like to have an migration law it would also have a regulation so that families can be reunited families or friends fiji's but the conservatives are not too happy with it that's just one example in the other fields most of the things that are problematic have to do with money there's some forty five billion euro that the new government can spend in germany that's quite a lot of money but the project that are on the table they are worth some one hundred billion euro so in other words everyone has to give up on some of their ideas and that's of course something no one really likes to do for the social democrats there's particularly a

ok let's talk about the broader threat now with fabienne father mark our expert on security issues and terrorism good morning fog and first off how many just hottest are we talking about who've returned to europe well five thousand have left from europe to the war zones in syria and iraq roughly one thousand two hundred have returned from germany we have more exact figures thousand people islamists traveled to syria and iraq from these around third have returned one hundred fifty have died so there are still five hundred in those areas and are authorities don't know when or if these people at all will return the big wave so far haven't arrived ok we're talking about twelve hundred individuals back here now what kind of security threat do they pose to us here in europe but particularly these men who were ideologically indoctrinated militarily trained in terror camps in syria they pose a big threat they are capable of potential attacks here in europe. authorities believe that the majority of all these people that return still hold their radical views in islam is thinking but there are al

coming years thank you so much spin you call us political and also university of course our very own fabienne fundament just outside the german parliament thank you both. now u.s. by president mike pence is in jerusalem today as he continues his tour of the middle east he's the first top u.s. official to visit the city since the trumpet ministrations decision to officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and to move the u.s. embassy to the city plans travel to israel after meeting with jordan's king of dolla in amman expressed his concern that the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital is real had not come as part of a comprehensive deal to and the middle the palestinian israeli conflict pence said the trumpet ministration remains committed to a two state solution if both parties agree to it the president made a historic decision that you recognize it as the capital of israel. as he also made clear that. we are committed to continue to respect jordan's role as the custodian of holy sites that we know position on boundaries of final status. and then as i think clear to you the pr

you know is fabienne vandermark is at the socialist democrat the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place in our understanding is that the negotiators have left the most contentious issues for last walk us through what some of the main obstacles are and how tough will it be for them to find a compromise well they're trying hard to find this compromise obviously since it took already eighteen hours that they spend here in the headquarters of the so.

five in vandermark is at the social democrats headquarters for us where the talks are taking place fabienne our understanding is that the negotiations the negotiators excuse me have left the most contentious issues for last so walk us through some of the major obstacles and tell us how tough it's going to be for them to find a compromise yes the most controversial topics still seem to be the migration policy the whole question of how and whether and if more refugees.