with other social democrats what's important to point out is that they are one third of the federal coalition that governs germany nationally ever has more of them. on the last time this parliament was elected so you have a very clear sense that that the varian vote is punished to the three main parties in the federal coalition and specifically kristie in social union it's felt almost in titles to govern this state basically since one nine hundred sixty two or now is scrambling around trying to find a deal with the small parties that won seats in this election to try to cobble together a small majority that's why this result has reduced the c.s.u. to. and on a what could that main for child's let macro and the federal government could at significantly weakened what is a fragile coalition. with a point to make here is that if you consider that lots of people were members of this moment lost their seats they're going to be able to on the internet they're going to be wanting to know who want to can lay blame for their poor performance in this election and then consider that as i say two of those

one thousand and fifty and there's concern that the outcome could widen divisions and merkel's federal coalition. to afghanistan now where a taliban attack in the west has left at least seventeen members of the security forces dead several others have been taken captive government are reported to have attacked seven security check posts and a far province on saturday night well that attack follows a bomb blast at an election rally which killed at least twenty two people on saturday thirty six others were wounded in the northeastern province of. the crowd was listening to a speech by a female candidate standing and next saturday's parliamentary elections. now the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan has met taliban representatives for talks reviving hopes of an end to decades of violence the reports from the afghan capital kabul. the election campaigning goes on despite the violence this candidate hoping to be voted into the next parliament. the elections seen as crucial to and instability in afghanistan but attacks by the taliban have picked up the group has threatened more disruption of the ballot

setback they faced here and the lack of confidence that many in the party have in the federal coalition structure or if so what other than the wider implications for the federal government up to this. well if you look at those newspaper headlines the really interesting element of this at election adrian was it wasn't just the c.s.u. that really got punished it was also the social democrats to be clear about that last time around twenty percent of the varian voters chose that party this time less than half did so so you have a very clear demonstration that the parties that are governing this country not this this state. country are really really losing support and they're losing support in ways which are really concerning party members also bear in mind that given the sense of entitlement the c.s.u. has seemed to have for sixty years to govern this country on their own there are many of their previously elected officials have now lost their seats they want to blame someone for that many of them blame angle americal in so far as where this story goes today well there are meetings taking p

be looking to see what happens here because it might shake the make up and the fabric of that federal coalition. worship person of the orthodox church in ukraine have celebrated mass to celebrate their split from the russian orthodox church ukraine secured approval to establish an independent church on thursday as being described the biggest split in christianity in the four hundred five hundred years russia's foreign minister is calling the break a provocation is linked to russia's annexation of crimea from ukraine four years ago a truck carrying migrants is overturned in turkey at least nineteen people have been killed and twenty six others injured a crash in the western turkish province of is mere he is a main route for migrants trying to reach europe the u.s. president says the release of an american pastor by turkey is a tremendous step towards improving relations u.s. doubled tariffs on turkish imports when he's president refused to release andrew bronson. then accuse the u.s. to become a war fare from washington here's mike hammer. andrew bronson arrives back in the united states just a

results and nineteen fifty and there's concern the outcome could widen divisions end miracles federal coalition the question social union of c.s.u. won thirty five percent of the vote losing its absolute majority for only the second time since one thousand nine hundred eighty two and were followed by the sentence to green party and far right a f t let's go to our correspondent dominic cain has live for us in munich talk us through the results dominic because the c.s.u. were forecast to not do as well as they have in the past that this bad. well the polls for some time and been suggesting it was worth and this was going to be a bruising encounter with the voters as it were for the christie and social unit and that is what has come to pass let's be clear about this something like one in four of all of votes is posted c.s.u. last time around five years ago have abandoned that party this time last summer and many hope the but the electorate voted to suit this time barely a third did and as he was saying the green party well they've been the beneficiaries of some of those folks their vote catapultin

be looking to see what happens here because it might shake the makeup and the fabric of that federal coalition. still ahead on al-jazeera back to school in iraq how children in mosul are returning to the classroom as their city and lives are rebuilt and from latin american hero to roman catholic saints the priest who stood up for the poor in el salvador is on it by the power. hello there the rain over parts of china is gradually drifting its way towards the southwest you can see plenty of cloud on our satellite picture and some of it is giving some fairly heavy rain and see lots more of it as we head through the day on monday stretching all the way up towards the who they felt it for then gradually making its way towards the southwest as we head into chews day so working its way towards chandi but i think for us in chengdu it should be dry and now before the towards the west in the rains looking fairly subdued over parts of india at the moment see just a few showers in the east and across the southern parts want to say force in sri lanka and this again is where we'll just see a couple of showe

well it's because the the reverberation from the result here will definitely reach berlin the federal coalition made up of christian social union the varian conservatives angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats will be looking to see what happens here because it might shake the make up and the fabric of that federal coalition. ok in the u.s. midterms now in the u.s. president of course points to a soaring stock market and record low unemployment as evidence his leadership has been good for the country he says he's delivering on promises he made during the election campaign promises made in the first republican nominee to win pennsylvania in almost thirty years and that state will be a key battleground again this year as christensen he explains. business is booming at aging k. equipment in the last year they've hired fifty five new employees a twenty percent increase to make so renting refurbish industrial equipment we are on pace to have our best year ever general manager patrick koch gives president donald trump in his tax cuts a lot of the credit consumer confidence at least af

fifty the outcome could weaken local's federal coalition the christian social union or the c.s.u. one thirty five percent of the vote losing its absolute majority for only the second time since nine hundred sixty two they were followed by the center of green party another centrist party on the far right a f t those are the headlines and back with more news at the top of the hour here on al-jazeera next it's inside story do stay with us. saudi shares take a dive with business leaders in an investment conference the fallout from the possible. how will riyadh deal with it and where does it leave crown prince twenty thirty before this is it. hello and welcome to the program. the disappearance of saudi journalist your ball is hitting the saudi economy stocks plunged almost seven percent in early trading on sunday wiping out all the gains it had made since the start of the year the full comes a day after u.s. president donald trump threatened some vampirish went to saudi arabia was found to be responsible for g.'s disappearance but riyadh warned it would retaliate if economic sanctions

later that sit certainly the focus now is on how confident the federal coalition members are that they can continue in office for the long term. look who's here steph she's going to have a weather update for us in a moment and then still think tom school's out in yemen now millions of kids are missing class because of the war led by thirty arabia and the u.a.e. that's harvard treat asian american applicants unfairly the case is now going to trial and install would join us when a bike ride around and a puzzle all the action from the iron man right with a different. three tranquil arabian can you use. and in on can free routines in a finish i'm going to let. hello there well we were some more pictures coming out of portugal where we were hit by our storm leslie was a hurrican just before it made landfall still very strong when it made landfall but no longer had that warm course it was naturally officially classed as a hurricane anymore you can see what damage it did it could easily have been a hurricane that caused all of this a lot of trees down power lines and cars and homes ruined now

suffered their worst regional election results since one nine hundred fifty could weaken locals federal coalition the christian social union or the c.s.u. one thirty five percent of the vote losing its absolute majority for only the second time since nine hundred sixty two they were followed by the center of green party another centrist party on the far right a f t those are the headlines and back with more news at the top of the hour here on al-jazeera next it's inside story do stay with us.

suffered their worst regional election results since one nine hundred fifty could weaken merkel's federal coalition the christian social union won thirty five percent of the votes losing its absolute majority for the second time since one nine hundred sixty two those are your headlines more news after partition borders of blood stay with us. oh. august donna claimed the front photo of british pop as mr jinnah governor general of the new dominion arrives at the constituent assembly in karachi. august one thousand forty six. a century of british rule over its indian empire comes to an end guest of allah in the muslim capital while older laid him out of bed carrying out one of our love viceregal guilt is the fall the partition of india took effect. the new nation of pakistan just. the violent death stage will set all british road to give pays the bill dominion of india. by david levy across a newly drawn border leaders celebrate the birth of the republic. freed from colonial rule the creation of these two countries completes a long struggle for independence years ago we had begun but it didn't. and no

later that sit certainly the focus now is on how confident the federal coalition members are that they can continue in office for the long term regs and talks of once again stalled over the future of the irish border an impromptu meeting of all twenty seven passengers in brussels on sunday that led to optimism about a deal being reached but e.u. and u.k. negotiators were unable to come to an agreement island's foreign minister called the lack of progress disappointing that's go live now to london. and tell us more so jonah what happens now. well there was this sort of carefully sequenced idea of what was going to happen as late as yesterday afternoon first of all the technical deal among the negotiators then to be signed off by foreign ministers of the u.n. the british cabinet tomorrow and then to be presented to the leaders on wednesday night at a summit by to reason mayor herself well that sort of sequences clearly fall in a way to reason may we understand decided she looked at the deal and couldn't achieve enough political support for it here so she couldn't push it forward well it

of the main parties is pushing further the strain on the betted coalition in berlin these social democrats say they'll review their federal alliance with medicals conservatives but what about implications in the state of his city now the results today suggest the conservatives can continue governing in a coalition they although possibly without a majority. it's been a sobering night for chancellor merkel's christian democrats and the has the state capital the c.d.u. trim here can remain in office but no one is calling this result a success and the disappointment is even greater among the social democrats this is the s.p.d. as worst result in has a state elections. out of nearly four and a half million voters and has about sixty eight percent cast their ballots the results underscore the flagging support for chancellor merkel's coalition government in berlin with punishment for both the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. . party leaders in berlin are now ready to change course. students will lose this politics at the federal level contributed a lot to our losses and has a and there are two reasons for that firstly something has to chan

9% down from 20% the last time, and now the grassroots are pushing for the party to exit the federal coalitioniate challenge to her. the second challenge to her. the second challenge will be from within her conservative camp because she is facing a reelection as party chairwoman in december, and voices are already growing louder for her to step down as party chairman, which would be technically the rest out of her stepping down as leader. to what extent were these polls protected ? to what extent were these polls protected? -- predicted? the green party have done even better in the polls, they reached 19% in some exit polls, they reached 19% in some exit polls, which is an amazing result. we see from the initial analysis that a lot of voters have left the gazmend mula tojoin us have that a lot of voters have left the gazmend mula to join us have left the csu tojoin —— have left gazmend mula to join us have left the csu to join —— have left to gazmend mula to join us have left the csu tojoin —— have left tojoin the csu tojoin —— have left tojoin the csu. i think the key word for this is fragmen

remember that in the some of the just gone the christian social union threatened to topple a federal coalition of the national level if it didn't get its way over the migration hook border controls that was a central issue in this campaign and they've lost thirteen percent of their performance relative to twenty thirteen which seems to be a reverse so the question will be how will this impact on berlin people have been saying if there's a sort of tremor a seismic shift as it were in bavaria the aftershocks will be felt in berlin because for my going to michael's perspective this is been a tough year she's had to ride out that threat of the coalition being toppled now she sees her bavarian allies suffering a serious reverse as another state election coming up in germany in the state of hazare in two weeks if that doesn't go well where her party is directly in government well people are starting to wonder how much longer she has in office thank you very much with all the latest on that election in that area tell me. one out some news just in sources saying a deal has been reached on the u.k.'s d

for other offices all right so there are rumblings that this result in his it could end the federal grand coalition what do the parties need to do in order to save this alliance you know what they're saying tonight that they need to do is to sort of press the reset button find a new way of working with each other in particular because what a lot of people have said is it's not so much about a lack of policies as those rather the tone in the coalition government which has been you know very much about sniping against each other and caught up with the personalities and that has created a sense that you know the government isn't moving forward but i think more than that the parties need to communicate that they've got ideas but you could say the problem is just in the system if you have the two parties the largest parties center right center left together well you know that covers a lot of political ground but it also means that you know the votes is call really see the difference they don't really know. which way the government is leaning and it creates a sense of you know drift i think and that's po

federal government was so incensed about the migration issue that they threatened to topple the federal coalition if they didn't get their way there was an e.u. summit at a european level the c.s. used book concerns were discussed and and a solution was thrashed out to try to change the way that border control that migration is managed right across the e.u. so from one perspective from that perspective at least what happens here which governments emerges in this state ofter today's vote saying well that really could have a profound impact space in berlin and in brussels and then insofar as what is being reported here today anyway the this newspaper the vet is inviting its readers to play what it calls bavarian bingo they've used the map of the excuse me the flag of my very own they're putting all sorts of statements in one statement they say they should their readers should listen out for thank americal thank you matthew how likely is it they say that any of the parties taking part in this election today will think angela merkel for her role when the results come in and the results will come in i

parliamentary election why it matters beyond the area is that the christian social union are also in federal coalitionwrangler mackerels conservative christian democrats and the social democrats the question here will be how will they go about governing with angela merkel when many in the c.s.u. blaming government for the electoral setback they've suffered tonight. well now police have broken up anti-government protests nicaraguan capital managua the protest is a part of an alliance of forty opposition groups calling for an end to president daniel a take us rule since the demonstrations started in april three hundred fifty people have been killed and thousands more injured manolo sent us this update from an atlanta. we're in the uk because i went capitol on the day that there was supposed to be a peaceful protest and answer government protesters were police in riot gear sort of have started arresting one by one every one of the peaceful protesters i was really we are seeing tear gas being deployed against protesters and against the press the press has been victims of harassment as well as attacks by t

later that sit certainly the focus now is on how confident the federal coalition members are that they can continue in office for the long term riot police in nicaragua have made arrests and broken up the latest anti-government protests the protest as a part of an alliance of forty opposition groups demanding the resignation of president that he will take three hundred fifty nicaraguans have been killed and thousands injured in six months of anger against manuel rapala reports from the capital. dozens of anti-government demonstrators were met with heavy force by police in managua after six months of unrest and more nicaraguan citizens are calling on the government of president then you know they got to end the violent repression of political opponents and i mean i don't know if we are being repressed they wouldn't let us march them violating our constitutional right to protest. almost as soon as the demonstration began police vehicles full of riot officers confronted the crowd. among. some protesters clashed with officers and were beaten with clubs many of the demonstrators were women

does not campaign here they form part of the federal the national coalition they've been very unhappy about these sorts of policies to do with migration that angle americal the social democrats who they're in government with nationally been pushing through so if there is a result that emerges today which shakes up the system here in bavaria which weakens perhaps the government governing party the c.s.u. in bavaria that could have an off the shock as it were the tremor happens here an aftershock could reverberate in berlin and it could make anger america's national coalition that much shakier and it's worth saying in terms of the federal national picture not very of the federal picture the governing parties that all their poll ratings are really not very high at the moment that's why what happens here this evening when the result comes out will reverberate around germany. john mccain joining us that from munich that's very much on the. at least fifteen migrants including children have been killed off the truck they were in overturned and turkey it happened in the western takesh provinc

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politicians have been mentioning is that they want some concrete results at the federal level with the governing coalition on some of the social issues that the social democrats are really focusing on on the other hand they want to change in tone there's something else that they've been describing you know the words trying to leave old out quarrelling aside all that infighting aside and really focus on the content and then there's another aspect to that and that's how the s.p.d. will restructure itself internally there is a lot of opposition internally about the social democrats role in the grand coalition and that's something else that they want to try and focus make sure their profile both internally and then also externally is better explained and it's clearer for everyone those are the priorities of the social democrats have said after that very bad result and has said after the very bad result in bavaria as well thomas one of those priorities mean for chancellor merkel and her shaky coalition government. well frankly merkel it's obvious obviously a very difficult moment as well someone yesterday on t

mentioned on a federal level in this grand coalition is partly to blame for this and we have seen that grand coalition crumble and very much they would grant back comes from the idea of a grand coalition which from the two parties and i think that this is slowly less and less the case in germany so it will be interesting to see how the s.p.d. reacts to this and as constantine with them before this is imperative now is the. how they go about that poll is of course on a federal level at the moment it's really difficult at least for the electorate although the government is in fact getting many domestic day to day policy through and actually doing somewhat at the moment it's been completely overshadowed by this infighting in the coalition as infighting within the conservatives and everything is being pushed aside for a much a dramatic same politics let's talk a little bit more about that infighting among these big political personalities and you're saying that the premier now pointing the finger to berlin we see you know germany's interior minister the head of the c.s.u. party pointing hi

had question federal migration policy to the cost of coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. the f.t. will no sit in fifteen of the sixteen regional parliament. they are what i say anyone who voted f.t. today in bavaria is saying that america all must go ladies and gentlemen i. the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces. all right for more on this i'm joined by our political correspondent kate brady kate it's great having you in studio did this come as a shock for these traditional parties surely massive it really wasn't quite as much of a surprise as you might first think of course we've had a lot of opinion polls ahead of these elections and this really reflects what is an ongoing trend across germany and also in neighboring e.u. countries european countries at the moment and that is the erosion of mainstream parties and we're seeing both on a federal level and down in bavaria tonight tha

had questioned federal migration policy to the cost of coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. the f.t. will most sit in fifteen of the sixteen regional parliament. they are what. anyone who voted f.t. today in bavaria is saying that america all must go ladies and gentlemen i. the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces. for more now let's bring in our political chief correspondent michelle it is reporting for us in munich michelle and this has been an earthquake in bavarian politics why how are people reacting to this where you are. i'm actually here at the election party of this is too conservative part of the system party of anger marco c.d.u. and here there was a sense of there was a political earthquake it was predicted but it didn't get as bad as they had feared and that really is the key issue for the sea is you hear that they have been holding down the rounds thirty three percent and u

two parties are in coalition together federally with the social democrats the reason why this election matters not just to be variance not perhaps just to germans but to europeans too is that this summer just gone the c.s.u. so upset with the policy of the federal government regarding immigration and border control that they threaten to topple the national coalition if they didn't get their way so if there is any kind of change electorally today if the result weakens the c.s.u. war brings brings about a different type of government the tremor that will happen here will cause aftershocks in berlin and will certainly make angle america's task as chancellor more difficult that's what's at play here will know the results in the course of the next five six hours or so dominic kane keeping an eye on the very original elections for us thank you dominic. now a taliban attack in western afghanistan has killed at least fifteen security force soldiers ten others have been taken prisoner gunmen are reported to have attacked seven security checkpoints in a province on saturday nights that is like f

the bavarian elections, pointing to what they say is an exhaustion of the ruling coalition, a miserable spectacle of federalcs. it also reveals the ones binding power of large parties like merkel's cdu party and the socialists, their influence is waning and they don't know how to stay relevant among german voters anymore. there is doubt the german government will even survive its full term until 2021. there's another state election at the end of the month and merkel's party could face deep losses. this could force her to relinquish the chairmanship of her party at a congress in december. finalphen hawking's thoughts about humanity have been revealed this weekend in excerpt published from his last ever statement. >> the physicist died earlier this year. his peers have been publishing the last paper he was working on . he warned artificial intelligence could develop a will of its own in the future that would be in conflict with our own ideas. he also warns a nuclear war or environmental calamity will probably wipe out earth in the next 1000 years. but by then, we would have found a way to survive. those who d

i chase issues at the federal level to build coalitions that prove successful. >> are you going to vote for jeff steele? >> i'm going to vote for me. and i will vote for karen leto. i will vote for a series of other candidates as well. i don't know what i'm going to do yet with spect for that one. -- with respect to that one. >> you don't know if you will vote for the menu have endorsed? >> i will support the ticket and i do. >> but you may not vote for the ticket? >> i will make my decision eventually. i will make sure people know. >> this comes down to clear loyalty to the republican party. over someone supporting issues like pro-choice and women's rights and lgbtq writes, which jeff steele was the chair of donald trump's campaign in massachusetts. he was a rubber stanford -- stamp for donald trump's agenda in washington. he will do everything in his power to undercut these rights a support. you say you are clear on your position. it sounds like you are clear and asking the people of the state to send him to senate. >> i have worked hard on the issues here in massachusetts. i will con

had question federal migration policy to the cost of coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. the s.d. will never sit in fifteen of the sixteen regional parliaments. they are what i have anyone who voted f.t. today in bavaria is saying that america all must go ladies and gentlemen i. the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces let's get full coverage of the fallout now from munich i'm joined by our chief political editor michelle a governor and here in berlin peter craven is standing by assassin michael c.d.u. party headquarters good morning to both both of you peter this vote is reverberating far beyond bavaria what does it mean for tasm ackles shaky government here in berlin. it's a real blow to angle america's shaky government as you put it in i don't i don't it party headquarters here and burning conrad up in our house where many of them senior members of the party executive been gatherin

. >> we have so-called big coalition which is no longer a big coalition on the federal level. both lose ten persons. this is a true minuhint that thi not a state policy but a federal policy prob fwlaem we are facing as everyone could see. we were not good performing. >> translator: it's a very bad result and therefore we need to figure out how we can regain credibility and the trust of the citizens above all in berlin we have seen the issues in berlin have over shadowed our campaign remendously three very good policy, a for theable television and popularity we know that from all. opinion polls. we know people think we are very competent in these areas. >> the election in bavaria and now the election has to show that the people don't like the style this have grand coalition works every day and the style of their discussion is also very bad so that's what i meant they should look at that. >> what they say is the society is quite fragmented. some are turning towards the afd, the populus party, which also had a very strong showing here they could activate quite a lot of non-voters

ice under the trumpet ministration a report from a coalition including the group's may hey i calls the two tech companies quote the backbone for the federal government's immigration and law enforcement dragnet researchers commissioned by the coalition examine lobbying records contracts and other documents and found that both amazon and planter have generated political support for isis expanding role and pivotal critical technology tools for eyes to ramp up operations including recent family separations the researchers pointed out that isis cabinet department homeland security is expected to migrate their massive trove of biometric and other data to immigrants to a cloud platform within two years amazon has beaten out rivals including sales force or ical i.b.m. adobe and microsoft to garner the greatest share of cloud contracts with homeland security. it's been a decade ten years since bitcoin and chain bust on to this seem to day we take a look at where the technology group those started where they are not just today but maybe go in with our friend co-founder of counterpart christiane welcome back good to have you here thank you always go

had questioned federal migration policy to the cost of coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. the f.d.a. will no sit in fifteen of the sixteen regional parliament. there what i have anyone who voted f.t. today in bavaria is saying that merkel must go ladies and gentlemen. the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces and for more let's bring in dave used chief political editor mckayla kapoor who is standing by in the very in parliament so what are the reactions on the ground there. well the reactions of the conservatives see if you are of course this is not a very good result for them but it's not as bad as many had feared because the polls had predicted that they might get us the thirty three percent which would have already raised a lot more questions about who should be leading this party in the future is that they feel they got away with a block i've read here at the same time there's a rec

had question federal migration policy to the cost of coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. the f.d.a. will most sit in fifteen of the sixteen regional parliament. they are what i have anyone who voted f.t. today in bavaria is saying that america all must go ladies and gentlemen i. the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces. ok you consider shock waves today here blood let's talk about them with our political correspondent you know he's a good morning you know one you know this is an historic defeat that's the way we're characterizing it for the c.s. you but it's also one in a lot of ways for all america what are the implications for her coalition today it is really interesting i mean the reason why we covered the bavarian elections to the extent we did was because it has in direct implications for on them ackles government here in berlin even though it was regional like you said so both o

issues here to keep in mind number one is what are the implications for the federal government as it is right now the coalition at the federal level and i think everyone thought about you know with the bavarian election over you know what this is you sort of sort of securing you know their share of the vote at least not losing too much they'll keep quiet and the coalition can sort of continue to focus on the actual issues that is not going to happen the way it looks like right now. so that's the that's the first issue you know what is going to happen with the federal government and what's the role of the c's you going to be are they going to desperately try to sort of stake their claim. or are they going to sort of go back to talking about issues and policies and that i think it's hard to say whether they are or whether they're not true we'll have to see how the internal debate in the c's use going to play out and there's a lot of debate going on right now and that debate most certainly underway in munich where i've just heard from my producer that is just getting miked up once again and apparently we can actu

federal level... it used to be that the csu was able to govern without any coalition partner, it could be forced to bringhe greens or even find a third coalition partner if they are coming in as little as 33% of the turnouts. you and i were laughing at the photo, saying she looks like a lady at a local fare, doesn't she, with her basket of apples. she is a very shrewd operator. this weakens further, doesn't it? -- this weakens further. if there was a need for a coalition in bavaria if there was back and forth in bavaria that would not be good for her. after all these negotiations she has had with the csu and trying to get to keep a coalition together, also with the social democrats in berlin, is one of the coalition partners is imploding itself, so to say, because of having to set up a new government in bavaria, it is not something she would want. before we move on from the ft, james murdoch is there, the ftis the ft, james murdoch is there, the ft is saying he is leading the race to ta ke ft is saying he is leading the race to take on elon musk‘s seat as chairman of tesla. since then elon musk has tweet

the csu could be forced into a regional coalition in bavaria — a setback that could further complicate the chancellor‘s federalwe spent an hour ago you were waiting for those exit poll results. what do they say? they are usually pretty accurate of an indication of what has taken place in the polling stations? they tend to be relatively accurate but we will have to wait some more hours before we really get confirmation, but broadly speaking, this is a terrible night for angela merkel‘s bavarian sister party. the csu is the bavarian branch of her conservative party and it has had historic losses if the polls art to be believed. the csu is almost the very much used to reigning supreme the sub it looks to have lost its absolute majority. interestingly, the csu pick several fights with in july merkel ever migration policy and shifted itself to the right. —— angela merkel. it seems to have backfired. rhodes have been leaving in d roves backfired. rhodes have been leaving in droves —— voters have been droves and going to the far right afd. in more significant numbers, into the arms of the green party, the real succes

result otherwise we could certainly start to see more and more and more problems on her coalition government at the federal level all right our political correspondent thomas sparrow thank you so much thomas now with deal to end the fighting in northern syria comes into effect today but it's already under strain and al-qaeda linked jihadist group hasn't yet put down their weapons and has declared it will keep fighting it province is the last major rebel held area in the country millions of people are trapped between there and the turkish border and government and rebels have agreed to withdraw from a buffer zone of the edge of the disputed area which includes the town of moore back there the deal is largely holding delivering a respite to inhabitants. first fell to rebels four years ago government forces for to retake it this is what is left after repeated attacks and counterattacks with strikes barrel bombs tanks and heavy artillery. amid the devastation signs of life. people are coming back and trying to rebuild their lives and their homes this was muhammad ali's homes. we're shocked by what we found des

federal debt? . >> obviously one congressperson to be part of a coalition happy to do that if democrats want to join us but no big omnibus bills and to reform every single agency of government starting with the pentagon. people want to make sure we have the strongest military we can take that money and invest that into the weapon systems if needed but every agency from washington i found a niche and decided we could do some things different my boss gave me the go-ahead going to presidentt clinton working with steny hoyer and others i worked in the bipartisan way every member came up with half a billion dollars we would be better off with the deficit. why should the taxpayers of the united states pay for federal employees to go to and from work? why do we do that? they are the most affluent people in the country they should have to pay their own way they don't even pay taxes on thatho benefit. that would save half a billion dollars is dan for that? . >> what would you do. feehan: what about cutting the military was part of that? hagedorn: i said reforming the military. >> so talk about the tax bill t

according to the latest poll coalition would no longer have a majority in parliament if federal elections were held on sunday. the conservative union made up of christian democrats and their bavarian sister party the christian social union would receive just a quarter of the vote that's a record low the greens are on the rise with seventeen percent as is the far right alternative for germany party or with sixteen percent the social democrats would get just fifteen percent this is their worst ever result the pro-business free democrats and the left party scored ten percent in the poll three quarters of germans polled are either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the current government. only one in four expressed satisfaction. in the last few months chancellor. her interior minister. and s.p.d. . repeatedly forced to hold crisis summits each time they only narrowly avoided a coalition breakdown that has harmed the country's leader most of. more than half of germans blame chancellor merkel for the state of the german government. one third thinks interior minister is responsible for the s

will probably lead the two governments once again this in this in these federal states but of course we will have to look for coalition partners look we've been going through a number of very turbulent weeks in german politics larded my luck is running out isn't it the momentum is drifting away from her she no longer has the momentum she looks vulnerable she looks weak she can't get her way in the party she can't get her allies voted in i don't know what it's like in other countries but i can tell you for germany that ups and downs of politics are nothing very special of course i would like to see us doing better in the polls at the moment but i'm very sure once we're back on track doing serious work in berlin or in the government and the approval rates will go up again in june you agreed a migration compromise inside the e.u. again with you had many holes in it rescued migrants would be sent to control centers across europe but no one agreed on the locations so nobody knows where that's going to happen or how it's going to happen no country will. the force to have these control centers easy to get in the green room w