already seven points behind it which is that so out of those three it's definitely going to be frankfurt ali you've been keeping a keen eye and a keen eye on this season what has actually driven them back into the top four you know i'm not surprised to see them go on a bit of a surge at this stage of the season they came through a rough patch of fixtures where they managed to get through without losing against the likes of lights a brain and your team. i love it of course dortmund all these games back to back they came out of those games unbeaten now they've had some gentle fixtures as we said and. five wins on the bounce the front three of course gets a lot of praise. and they've been sensational but it really has been an all round effort the likes of that need to cost i think is a very good season and today of course the hero. who has been sensational in is our right is really picked up from his poor form hamburg his best ever season the goals and assists but of course the man you can look out mention by only just a minute ago he has a coach he's done a brilliant job of getting all these p

all right time to check in with our financial correspondent ali bartz who is standing by for us in frankfurt and good morning first of all to you ali it's been a very rough day yesterday tell me how today is starting given the fact that those much anticipated merger talks between doj if i can commence bank collapsed yesterday. well everybody's still busy looking at the debris left by that decision and by the whole process i would say there's a collective sigh of relief that this is the end and exasperating that it even started lots of speculation some people are even sure that it only happened the start of the talks because of pressure from berlin on their own the banks would not have gotten the idea of going together especially at this time in their in their collective history is the question is what now let's listen in on christian saving the c.e.o. of the it's a bank last night on german t.v. deal with this you know when we look at europe there are five thousand five hundred banks in the e.u. that's a huge number when you compare that with other regions including america that's a large ba

or rather for the latest let's bring in our financial correspondent ali bards who is in frankfurt with the doj of bank towers right. and you ted. i can tell you more than that other than that there are more sources than reuters who are saying that i talked to a press spokesman at the door at your bank just a few minutes ago about ten fifteen minutes to go before coming here and he said that he called me back soon as anything developed but he wasn't confirming or denying anything about that story it seems that for the most part people here in the financial community were against the merger there were all sorts of problems that were associated with it and too little to gain investors would have had to be top by the door at your bank and people didn't really see the sense of it the only sense of it would have been a short term gain in cost cutting and closing many branches eliminating tens of thousands of jobs with lots of resistance by staff representatives labor unions the only people that seem to back it was the german government the finance minister and his state secretary former gold

let's get some reaction from our financial correspondent really bartz in frankfurt where both banks are headquartered good to see you ali you know those merger plans of course were divisive at best what do you say about the reaction to the collapse that has not equally been polarising. it's really been polarizing because one of the voices who weighed in was all of germany's finance minister in berlin and it's believed that he fueled believes like that that he was the driving force behind talks getting started in the first place over a merger in an atmosphere where really nobody saw any sense or any logic any added value at that point even before talks even got going and having to troubled banks as we just said in the report with with big issues that they haven't faced themselves. alone yet and getting together and then somehow miraculously being way better off and also better for industries scholtz just said among other things today that german industry still needs a competitive german banks to accompany german industry abroad that's basically what he'd been saying before but you know from all of the people that you're

a financial correspondent ali bots is tracking that story he joins us now from frankfurt what gets more about why these talks collapse and what this means for deutsche and commits buying. well one group spokesman the group spokesman for the bank addressed journalists just a little bit of a while ago and he said that they had good talks and fair talks in a partnership kind of atmosphere but they both concluded that there was not enough added value considering also the risks involved risks like the capital base the deutsche bank probably would have had to raise capital in order to take over the command spunk or for example restructuring costs before you save costs by cutting jobs and cutting down the number of branches you need to invest in order to provide an incentive and provide compensation for the people you're letting go he did say that first quarter results also underscored the ability of the deutsche bank to stand alone what happens after this is up in the air both a lot of people would say have hurt themselves by talking merger and not going through with it going through with it