g.w. correspondent my ass waited outside the social democrat headquarters and chief political editor michel i could feel his outside the c.d.u. headquarters we just heard chancellor merkel's comments babble can we take from from what she said. 1st of all out of respect for and who did stick it out with her party did suffer a very tough days indeed of internal and external criticism but also a recognition on the chances sides if not in as many words that the conservative c.d.u. and the current government her final term as chancellor is now at the mercy of the social democrats of them actually facing finding a way out of yet another internal crisis and also finding the will to continue this governing coalition because they've had in the past there are 2 camps fighting against each other the conservatives all they can do is say well look this is in the end up to the social democrats to decide but one thing is clear there's no interested to hear in seeing a collapse of this current coalition and everybody here also lacks the imagination what could possibly be in it for the social democrats to g

g.w. correspondent max often who is in a saka japan covering the summit there max a lot of ground to be covered by the world leaders there what can we expect from this summit. and indeed a lot of ground to be covered in traditionally you know these g. 20 summits are about promoting multiroom lateral trade and the main instrument to do that is a declaration that the leaders need to accept at the end and that is prepared by so-called sherpas they've been doing that now since sunday here in osaka and we're hearing things aren't going to well although the japanese presidency is really trying to put the focus on those topics that are afterwards in the declaration there are so many important topics on the sidelines just take iran for example or the well the chinese american trade conflict that the japanese presidency indeed is afraid that all the attention will be steered away from from their focus and maybe that in the end there won't even be a declaration on the table at least the last each one of these summits for example and when as i received at the end of last year have always been extremely di

g.w. correspondent teri schultz what allies were calling a bilateral issue between the u.s. and iran is now becoming an international issue and the u.s. has said clearly that's what it wants it believes that more pressure will bring iran to the negotiating table so that said everyone was very relieved to hear secretary esper say as you heard there that the u.s. wants to rely on political pressure economic pressure and diplomatic pressure as secretary-general yet still simmering explains. i think that one important message is thought. is that the united states so clearly the house stated that they don't want a war they actually said very clearly that they're it's a talk with iran without preconditions on it was a message from allies so they that we support efforts to deescalate to avoid in the miscalculations instance accidents and especially that they spotted of out of control and create a really dangerous. dangerous situation and i was just speaking with a european diplomat who told me that inside the room when secretary esper said that they wanted more allied support they

g.w. so maximillian akashic who is a political correspondent for the doors of a keeps a close eye on the greens and maxie argues that the greens must choose between purity and graft they can't please everyone it's interesting thank you for those free statements for the top of the show 1st question goes to maxine mckew see how greedy is g m. i think germany is guessing greeno every election and now we see that in especially the states elections the last couple years we've seen that in bavaria last year where. the greens have become the 2nd biggest forth and the very heart of meant which was traditionally very conservative and reigned by merkel sister party the very own conservatives we've seen that also enhance their one of the other conservative strongholds where the grains gain significantly they're getting a foothold in almost every of german states the question is how ready are they going to be governing the states how willing are they going to be getting states and is this still a debate we only see in the west because we'll have a couple actions coming up in east germany and the greens hav