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let's go the berlin now, and fred pleitgen is there, and good to see you, fred.ow close this puts germany to formally legalizing same-sex marriage? >> well, it is going to put germany a step closer and started a big debate here in this country, especially among the members of the governing ocoalition which is a conservative government which generally has a lot of problems with the same sex unions and basically what the court said is that in the issue of land transfer taxes which is basically if one person gives a piece of land to someone else, that same sex couples in a relationship need to be treated exactly the same way as regular or heterosexual married couples. now that's a big step for this court, because in the past, what it has done is it has given gay couples more and more rights and more and more equalities on the tax issues, and of course, one thing that gay groups are fighting for in country is to get total equality and something that is debated in the government right now, and so you have some members of the angel angela merkel's government opposing,