democrats who received just 11 percent of the ballots. finally a result to celebrate for germany's ailing social democrats after a run of election losses the s.p.d. were the clear winners in homburg on sunday nationalist b d leaders welcome to turn around. and push this gives the s.p.d. a push and i think it's the right kind of politics and i think it's the kind of politics that suits the whole this meeting has been the past. but for chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it's the worst state election result in almost 70 years. it's a bitter day for the c.d.u. in germany it's an historically bad election result for the c.d.u. in hamburg and there's no way to put a gloss. on that with screens double their vote they are hoping to be the main challenger to chancellor merkel c.d.u. in federal elections next year. we see really have an extremely challenging situation for democracy in germany and the cd usa preoccupied with itself says it can essentially be ruled out as a policy of government. green supporters chanted nazis when it looked like voters had kicked out the far right alternative for germany. more results came in the f.t. move

voters also punish chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats who received just 11 percent of the ballots. a result for germany's ailing social democrats. the s.p.d. were the clear winners in homburg on sunday night and welcome to. this case the s.p.d. and i think it's the right kind of politics and i think it's the kind of politics that suits the whole the speedy speedy past. but for chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it's the worst state election result in almost 70 years. as a side and b. to lattakia it's a bitter day for the c.d.u. in germany it's an historic lead bad election result for the c.d.u. in hamburg and there's no way to put a gloss on that highway cumber of screens doubled their vote i they are hoping to be the main challenger to chancellor merkel c.d.u. in federal elections next year i just see it as additional. we see we really have an extremely challenging situation for democracy in germany and the c.d.u. a say preoccupied with itself says it can essentially be ruled out as a party of governments like the student i was. i was green supporters chanted nazis 28 looked like cumber voters had kicked

germany's social democrats are set to keep power in the city state of after the election played out in front of political turmoil in the country charles and america's christian democrats looked set for their worst ever result in the german region while voters have rejected the far right alternative for germany party when it came in hamburg as the results came in. a moment of celebration for the social democrats and to many perhaps vindication successive defeats in other states elections have left them leaving a big stick producer. with this closeness and solidarity we really have an election campaign behind us that no one would have expected of us at the beginning of the year. but the biggest winners of the night with the green sioux more than doubled their vote to finish a strong 2nd place wonderful crazy a quarter of though to hand back well for the green that is fantastic we should definitely be in the coalition because it's a stable result for us there's little doubt that climate change is at the top of many voters' minds the greens and s.p.d. have been in coalition with each other

germany's social democrats look set to win sunday state elections in hamburg remaining in power the greens have seen a boost in support finishing in 2nd place the far right alternative for germany party appear to have just met the 5 percent threshold necessary to get into the state department. and thousands of people marched through the streets of the german city of hanno on sunday to remember the victims of this week's terror attack flowers and candles were left outside a cafe where some of the victims were shot and killed and wednesday evening a 43 year old german man killed 10 people most of them with foreign background. u.s. president donald trump has said he'd be willing to sign a peace deal with the taliban if such an agreement is reached but he added it would depend on the success of a week long partial truths which took effect on saturday deal could lead to the u.s. withdrawing its forces from afghanistan after more than 18 years. italy has agreed to allow $274.00 migrants to disembark from a rescue ship after they were stuck at sea in the mediterranean they were found off the coas

our here's a check now of some of the stories making news at this hour germany's social democrats looks set to win sunday's state election and remaining in power the greens have seen a boost in support finishing in 2nd place in a far right alternative for germany party or have to leave here to have just barely met the 5 percent threshold necessary to get into the state parliament. u.s. presidents donald trump has said he'd be willing to sign a peace deal with the taliban if such an agreement is reached but he added it would depend on the success of the weeklong partial truths which took effect on saturday a deal could lead to the u.s. withdrawing its forces from afghanistan after more than 18 years. old sunday is day 4 of the 70th international film festival this opening weekend has already been packed full of star power and premieres including for the 1st german movie and the top category director christian petzold film titled indiana and it's positioned to make a big splash. has a broken hoss a man cheated on his now this man is supposed to die christian pitt's old film is based on th

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they try to salvage their belongings bolivia's annual rainy season runs until next month germany's social democrats is set to be the biggest party in hamburg's parliament following state elections the s.p.d. got around 38 percent of the vote down about 7 points from 2015 the greens with whom they currently rule the city have roughly doubled their support to 25 percent chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats came in 3rd with 11 percent its worst ever result and the far right looks on track to exit the parliament having not reached more than 4.8 percent of the vote. well dominic cain is in hamburg and has more on what the win means for the social democrats. for many of them it is vindication they've been in government here for 9 years the current mayor when i spoke to him on the campaign trail a few days ago was determined that his policies his party's policies were the ones that chimed with the people with the voters and he believes now that he's vindicated so his party emerges with fewer votes but in a very strong position and let's be clear this city state is an important part of the federa

area but all procedures are expected to apply to goods arriving there after december 31st germany's social democrats are set to be the biggest party in parliament following state elections the party is set to maintain its leadership of the city state along with the greens who've made big gains chancellor angela merkel's crisis ridden except for the worst as a result in any german region and voters in the city state have rejected the far right alternative for germany which so it's dropped dramatically well let's take a closer look at what the exit polls are saying the s.p.d. got around 38 percent of the vote down about 7 points from 2015 the greens with whom they currently rule the city have roughly doubled the sport to 25 percent chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats came in 3rd with an 11 percent and the far right looks on track to exit the parliament having not reach more than 4.8 percent of the vote. well let's go live to dominic a now his life for us in how dominic tell us. the s.p.d. share of the vote is down but they're still celebrating out there. yes they are definitely celebrating

germany's center left social democrats are set to keep power in hamburg after an election which dealt a severe blow to the chancellor angela merkel's conservative christian democrat party which is in the middle of a leadership battle looks set for its worst ever result in any german region voters also rejected the far right alternative for germany party dominic cain was in hamburg as those results came in. a moment of celebration for the social democrats and to many perhaps vindication successive defeats in other states elections have left them leaving a big stick producers last night was with this closeness and solidarity we really have an election campaign behind us that no one would have expected of us at the beginning of the year was that the biggest winners of the night with the green sioux more than doubled their vote to finish a strong 2nd place was wonderful and crazy a quarter of voters in hamburg went for the green that is fantastic we should definitely be in the coalition because it's a stable result for us there's little doubt that climate change is at the top of many vote

germany's senseless social democrats are set to keep her in her burger after an election which dealt a severe blow to chancellor angela merkel's conservatives the christian democratic party looks at for its worst ever result in any german region when it came has more . a moment of celebration for the social democrats and to many perhaps vindication successive defeats in other states elections have left them leaving a big stick is a question last night of because with this closeness and solidarity we really have an election campaign behind us that no one would have expected of us at the beginning of the year. was that the biggest winners of the night with the green sioux more than doubled their vote to finish a strong 2nd place was wonderful crazy a quarter of 0 to the handbag went for the green that is fantastic we should definitely be in the coalition because it's a stable result for us there's little doubt that climate change is at the top of many voters' minds the greens and s.p.d. have been in coalition with each other here for the past 5 years and yet during the campaign their e

social democrats. and the question that. somebody looking from outside germany at all of this could be forgiven for saying ok so the christian democrats in a small eastern state vote side by side with the a.f.d. party what's the big deal doesn't democracy often create rather unusual and uncomfortable bedfellows. absolutely and i think that's why it's difficult for a lot of people outside germany to understand the uproar that this is caused and that it's led to these resignations and all of this soul searching and it really shows how how deep the wounds of the 2nd world war really remain here and when people you know refer to weimar which obviously was you know this period that led suit to hitler's rise it really strikes a chord with people and i think you know germans would would do well maybe to stand back into to listen to people outside the country a bit and look to other systems and see that this is perfectly normal to have multiple parties in a parliament if you look at the netherlands they have i think 12 parties or something like that in their parliament

germany's center left social democrats to keep power in humber going after an election which dealt a severe blow to chancellor angela merkel's conservatives her christian democratic party which is in the middle of the leadership battle looks set for its worst ever result in any german region voters also rejected the far right alternative germany party dominic cain is in hamburg all of the results. a moment of celebration for the social democrats and to many perhaps vindication successive defeats in other states elections have left them leaving a big stick with the socialists not have been abusers with this closeness and solidarity we really have an election campaign behind us that no one would have expected of us at the beginning of the year. was the biggest winners of the night with the green sioux more than doubled their vote to finish a strong 2nd place was wonderful crazy a quarter of though to hand back well for the green that is fantastic we should definitely be in the coalition because it's a stable result for us there's little doubt that climate change is at the top of many v

have shown because europe is looking at looking towards germany so that was got to leave the european member of parliament for the social democrats returning to you know. how much trouble is germany right now on the german government how do you think what does this mean for europe and the risk of the world they have get great expectations of the stable specially in a post regs it was. well i'm going to machall stands for political stability that's her political brand and from what i'm hearing as long as america will keep so coalition going nobody is truly concerned what what we have seen now i don't think we see coalition her government her last time in office in acute danger here but we have seen fresh sources of instability pop up from within her own party her succession plan hasn't worked out and her self declared finishing line which is to bring germany staveley unproductively into and through this e.u. presidency is not an acute danger but she certainly has to watch out that she actually deliver on what she would like to see as her european legacy. debby's she political thank you very much for that assessment. there's been s

but germany's governing coalition of conservatives and social democrats. has a different take on the numbers they say germany has invested more than 30000000000 euros in nato since 2014 provided the 2nd largest contingent of troops in afghanistan and taken part in many missions around the world the social democrats in particular oppose a sudden rise in the defense budget foreign and defense policy expert heifetz and he explains. the figures supposedly provide suitable personnel to nato. as we try to coordinate with our alliance partners and are guided by quality. is a swipe at sent back when the german government accepted this 2 percent target we in parliament said alternately we the lawmakers are the ones who will decide what will be in the annual budget was in yiddish and also stated. a professor at the bundeswehr university in munich advises the government on security issues he says economizing on military spending would be disastrous this is no it's not just grossly naive it's negligent and risky here in europe we are currently in a situation where the

top brass the christian democratic union have been suffering in the polls across germany and their relationship in their coalition with the center left social democrats well it's been a testing time of late really the last straw seems to have been what went on in the state of today in july last week where the local faction of the christian democratic union essentially sided with the right wing alternative for germany party against the express wishes of c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin even after they were. doing so they still wouldn't step into line now it's almost unthinkable to think that that would have happened under the previous head of the christian democratic union party that of course was chancellor angela merkel and it does seem that that sowed the seed of discourse amongst party leadership in amongst the party membership who thought well if she can't handle a local faction like those into india what she going to do when it comes to big coalition talks or all the major decisions that have to be made the reaction has been coming in no to this decision by. the step down she has made worse if the cool fals on deaf ears in the party'

germany. of course was former leader of the social democratic party he thinks that this decision by anna. could well spell the end of the grand coalition it's really in germany at the moment if mr gabrielle's correct well we could well see new elections sooner than the ones that are currently planned for 2021 when it comes to who will take over as the new leader of the party or as the new candor that there will be put forward by the christine union when it comes to the election whenever that is held friedrich metz is being talked about now mr metts was beaten by. in $28.00 for the job he did come under some criticism for his ties to the black rock investment group he has since quit all of his posts with that organization are men also being touted he's the the state president to say prime minister of north rhine-westphalia also the vice leader of the c.d.u. already when it comes to a potential candidate for chancellor or marcus as order of the christian social union the very end branch of the christian union here in germany is being talked about with increasing frequency as a potential succ

hamburg as voters there are choosing a new state government it's germany's only regional election this year the center left social democrats or s.p.d. are celebrating it's a rare victory for the party after performing poorly in recent elections let's take a look now at the numbers these are the latest exit polls coming in from if we can bring up those results the center left social democrats you see their sets maintain power around 37 percent the greens with a big jump up to $25.00 on the americans party the christian democrats are right around 11 the left party is at 9 percent and the far right a.f.d. coming in just under the 5 percent mark the business friendly f.d.p. also right at 5 and you see the other parties there rounding out the rest of the projections. little correspondent kate brady joins me now in studio to help break down those results kate 1st of all just what stands out to you with those numbers of just oh well 1st and foremost of course the. booking the national trend they've managed to hold on to their stronghold of pain in hamburg at the same time of course the greens have come out the big winners they've

exists anymore it had to sell its headquarters in order to survive financially the social democratic party in germany is extremely weak and although there are some right wing populist parties in europe had some success the league in italy the freedom party in austria . basically they have also been chased out of office yet by the cartel. right now on this side of the atlantic i'm afraid the cartel is doing extremely well and certainly as far as for example france is concerned american in spite of his unpopularity has a perfectly good chance of winning at the time of the next presidential election in 2022 that's right you know we're down you know one of the things i really like about bernie sanders is he talks about real people he doesn't talk about these newfangled idea this virtuous signaling and all of this i don't i'm just i don't get it ok i'm a political junkie i don't understand most of the white noise particularly on the left ok but i mean when bernie talks he talks about real people and real problems and you know what he's been doing it for a long time right now that you know i you know not s