their values you know who's really dealing with the issues that important to us and i think the green party had a very clear position here and in times when many other parties are going back and forth the whole time you know the c.d.u. and c.s.u. are very split the different views the social democrats the s.p.d. as well don't seem to have a very clear line same is true the left party link f.t.p.'s well what but we as the green party are pro european very clearly we have a very human. want to make clear policy and of course i'm really pleased that so many votes now granted almost joins a government when i'm going to try to form a coalition off the last general elections but then pro-business free democrats pulled out how likely is that consolation again when you look at the very landscape but also looking at berlin right now as always. this evening i don't want to be speculating about potential coalition coordinations we're just pleased about was his story never reached over ten percent very before and had three targets is the green party want to double digit we want to get a second stronges

we're used to these numbers for like fifteen percent from smaller parties but not from the social democrats the greens used to be their junior partner in the last as is p.v. led coalition they're even stronger than the social democrats right now the a if tea party the far right party who is by the way new in parliament stronger than the s.p.d. party so that's really unheard of and we're witnessing an increasingly fragmented party landscape that we've been knowing from other countries such as the netherlands for instance but not in germany so the fragmentation is now here at home in germany you know aspecific li about the current government voters issued a damning combination more than three quarters seventy six percent are quote dissatisfied were very dissatisfied with the conservative social democrat grand coalition only twenty four percent saying they are satisfied or very satisfied with the government's work. all over twenty four percent satisfied with the government very low numbers what does this tell us about attitudes right now towards politicians over a grand coalition as a government is an ex

and the a of the party of the green party who used to be their junior partner in the last s.p.d. led government for instance now stronger than the social democrats the far right if the party who was just new in parliament stronger than the s.p.d. party so this does come as a very big shock and we are witnessing an increasingly fragmented party landscape here in germany that we're not used to apparently and we need to get used to the list stable conditions and the past is ok it is a lot of fragmentation the it with the gains on both ends of the political extreme right and left you know asked specifically about the current government voters issued a damning condemnation more than three quarters seventy six percent are quote dissatisfied were very dissatisfied with the conservative social democrat coalition only twenty four percent say they're satisfied we're very satisfied with the government's work . all over only twenty four percent satisfied of the job the government is doing what does that tell us about attitudes towards politicians right now here in germany well the grand coa

and the letter parties stepped out pulled out of the negotiations and as a result the green party we're talking about right now benefited from that they seemed like a credible party like a possible alternative right now they're also not very far or extremely on the left or right side so for many voters this could be an alternative and then second the environment as a topic is a very important issue for germans right now we had we just had massive protests in a western german forests where an energy company wanted to take down that forest to mine for coal in spite of the government have promised you know to cut down on fossil energy on top of that we have diesel bans imposed on german streets berlin just following a very recent verdict is one of these cities. and again the government promised to avoid that so medical you know promised all sorts of environmental improvements people feel she didn't really deliver on that but the greens could be the party who would do so in the future right all of us want to thank you very much for helping us to digest all those numbers which have com

you know what so i immediately think the green party tonight on russian mentally. green party voters don't tell me you kiribati environment if you know your vote to make the difference between a damn winning over rap and used to choose to candidate who has no chance of winning now the u.s. state of maine tried to correct this with a new voting system essentially voters get to rank the candidates from best to worst and if no solid majority can be established by their first pick then the second votes are calculated in order to pick a winner the idea is that one can still vote against one of the major parties and have their voice heard in the final results but in the main the state legislature overturned this new voting system and it was a big legal battle to get it going now there's other states eyeing something similar but there's a lot of pushback but. i hear is that people do want to have it depended and other parties come to the freighters so they're so tired and sick of the political dysfunction because the democrats are the publicans and i think americans are r

green party and c.d.u. c.s.u. coalition negotiations fail we cannot go on with business as usual i feel we need to take a mother everything right from the beginning. everything that we have done since the national elections we're going to look at again and if we have a break like this i see this as being an opportunity for the. big tent parties c.d.u. c.s.u. in s.p.d. to stop and think through what serves cohesion in this country and what does not serve it. because of the way i understand myself as a chancellor but also as the chair of the studio in germany for i believe that to mark christy lives from agreement supported by majorities in that those of us who are serving the state must do all we can to foster cohesion of the country and that we have to look again and again at what we can best to do justice to this position and the result of my thought process so far is something i want to share with you today. just as i spoke to you two years ago. after thinking long and hard after the national elections i decided

their losses come as the green party celebrate a surge in support. herfragile coalition. ook back at the last few days here at westminster. of her party conference promises.

i'm not just a green party candidate. when i was running as an independent candidate for president, i earned the nickname the government mechanic. i know how government works. i know how to bring together agencies with legislation that will pull everybody together and move us forward. it is about integrating the plans of multiple agencies and multiple stakeholders to create an architecture for change. i ask you, have courage, vote green, make history, send a green to congress for the first time in the history of the united states. i have raised about 1% to 3% of what my opponents have raised. go check it out. they are all taking money from corporations. go to opensecrets.org, fdc.gov. look at where they are getting their money from. i'm the only one that is not taking money from rich people, the only one that is truly the rich people's candidate, and i don't owe anybody anything, and that is how i will start my first day in congress. rep. stefanik: thank you again. i want to thank my opponents for this debate. we have dif

they are in a situation where they are polling even though the green party not just here in bavaria but also federally and so when the dust settles on this election results tomorrow and the politicians in the pit trying to read the runes of this result it's bad news for every parts of the coalition i'm going to metals position as being weak from the pristine social union mask being weakened the social democrats have been weakened and bear in mind that the sense of entitlement that christine social union politicians in this state has. dozens of them have just lost their seats they're going to want to blame somebody for that dominic thank you very much for that amount that is dumb mccain with all the very latest live in munich thank you still ahead on the bulletin the taliban targets afghan forces and to the election valley ahead of elections. and from national manhunt here are two violent catholic saints the priest who stood up for the poor and el salvador as on it by the poet. hello there the weather across many parts of the middle east is now definitely heading towards winter the tempe

the work they have done in the last three years, but also in the style of two different parties, green party and the christian democrats working together. they were not able to convince the citizens sufficiently. so that there is no misunderstanding, i am not suggesting the voters have any blame on this. not at all. i want to thank those voters that did cast their votes for us and showed us trust. the cdu has been the party that has had the strongest performance, and it would seem that the christian democrats and the green party have been confirmed at least to some extent in their work. intoll be entering discussions quickly to form a coalition. on the national level, after the elections in bavaria, hesse, the trouble we had in the csu and cdu in the summer, the longtime it took for us to form a partyion after the green failed, i think we will take a moment to think and policy for thought. -- pause for though. t. we are going to think about everything from the beginning, look at everything again. if we have a break like this, i see this as an opportunity for to stop andrties think through wh

traditional big tent party to find political pastures new both at local and national level germany's green party and the far right alternative for germany party or a f t a cashing in on forma c.d.u. voters. this reality of voting a f.t. because they really present an alternative to the power obsessed politics of america who put saving the euro before the interests of ordinary germans did turn then moment i'm inclined at the moment to vote for the greens because they say what they want and what they don't want. i'm a classic c.d.u. voter but i'm rethinking that now i'm thinking about voting for the greens. has a state crimea foca goofy a is all too aware of the exodus from germany's traditional centrist parties on sunday that could cost him his job. to be honest the parties that make up the grand coalition and this goes for the social democrats as well as the conservative c.d.u. they've got a difficult job in this campaign fighting off this feeling of discontent which actually has nothing to do with us. but has a state election could indeed have everything to do with the future of germany's feder

the green party is a party firmly anchored in the democratic spectrum it is a party of liberal democratic values it has a lot of very forward looking policies voters in bavaria voters in hasn't said they like where that party is going. and where it could take their states and presumably germany as well so one thing that we may be seeing in all of this current disorder or in the shifting political landscape is the rise of a party that can become a serious contender on the national level in a potential future coalition possibly with a newly reformed christian democratic party the chancellor's party under new leadership that would be a coalition that many people in this country find very interesting in terms of putting in place a politics that is both oriented to the needs of citizens and voters but also possibly with real new wind in terms of how to get the german economy ready for the future whether it's in the area of digitalisation investment energy policy that is truly sustainable all of that could be a strength of such a new party with the greens in place so there's some ver

of been hemorrhaging votes to the left and to the right of the political spectrum the green party looks set to make some big gains while the anti migrant alternative for germany party look almost nailed on to into the bavarian parliament for the first time this year series out of touch with the citizens of bavaria and a lot of people from the c.s.u. based thing similar to the way we do in the f.t. so many former c.s.u. voters have come over to us the world is changing but our is changing but the c.s.u. reacts with the same ideas people want different answers the bavarian prime minister has been doing his best to distance himself and his party at a state level from angola merkel's federal government going as far as to crack a little bit the only chancellor he would be seen out campaigning with would be sebastien could of austria. it took angola merkel six months to cobble together the current ruling coalition they've only been in power since march but in that time they. from crisis to crisis it's yes you will have to find a partner for a college. and it's most likely that this will be th

hasn't just become the strongest party that also has the clear mandate to govern. for the greens there was jubilation. but there you are again needs a political party that solves people's problems rather than constantly causing new problems and that dear friends is why this result has already changed the very many many thanks for that. doom and gloom meanwhile for the s.p.d. they lost over half their voter share and the leadership seemed in shock. it's a video defeat. it means we couldn't convince the voters we weren't able to win the competition between the parties. that has to be analyzed at all levels but there certainly wasn't support from the federal level on the contrary we weren't able to benefit from the policy dispute between the c.d.u. in the c.s.u. switch and c.d.o. . for months the c.s.u. 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. t

from september the social democrats the junior party in the coalition are also down three points now with just fifteen percent now look at this the greens in contrast have gained three points with seventeen percent of the vote and the far right is unchanged on sixteen percent meanwhile the free market f.t.p. is on ten percent as is the left party. so what do these numbers all mean here to unpack the significance of it all is a political correspondent again fun that mark good to see you all right let's start off with these approval ratings they're probably one of the worst that we've seen in a long time how do you explain the slump in approval ratings for this particular coalition one aspect to certainly fights between the parties and in between this coalition that is something that never goes well with voters they don't approve that at all if they have the feeling that the government itself is not in line with each other secondly. there were many voters who said they are tired of this conservation they have seen this before the grand coalition has governed before anglo-american is now for thirteen years in power and they just have the f

in other places as well you've seen it in other lands and and belgium also that you have a green parties that are that are rising that are that are showing that they have some life which you're not seeing in the old social democracy parties anywhere in europe right now miracle has always been praised for being an icon of stability in europe and in the world but she's been the chaser for thirteen years do you ever see in your reporting people saying that thirteen years that cannot be helped the for any democracy absolutely absolutely i mean it's there's a reason we have term limits the united states you can't stay in power for more than eight years f.d.r. did it but that was quite a quite a while ago but but there there needs to be any any democracy needs renewal and and you saw. saying that herself and she was very reflective when she talked the other day and in a way quite self-critical also saying i wasn't born chancellor i realize something has to change and the time has come to move on and she's trying to orchestrate this transition in a way that allows her to go out gracefully and i

this is showing you what a very, very well argued and reported piece by andrew byrne, is the green party moderate left, from the christian democrats and the social democrats and they are saying they are a real force. is this going to happen and swear in europe? there is an extraordinary thing by the way, europe has got bigger problems even than that and brexit, they are keeping it going, the sunday times, the italian budget crisis on that is going to crash. we had better move it along, going from the green party to green as in sir philip green. that's right. i'm ready for this, to green as in sir philip green. that's right. i'm ready forthis, no problem. obviously, he says it's been the worst week of his life, he has not team of the front pages for a few days now and in the mail on sunday he's been quoted as saying it was only band. of all the things to say, it's the worst, banter channels the canteen culture of the 705 and 805, for women and black and ethnic minoritie5 had to deal with banter, it'5 minoritie5 had to deal with banter, it's not banter if you are plunging down and if you a

sunday a survey suggests an increasing number of people are rejecting the far right and the centrist green party is becoming more popular when it came reports. its farmer's market day hike in. on this autumn morning the election is on people's minds the local green candidate is on the campaign trail but her party is in buoyant mood you did tells me she and her colleagues offer hope for a tolerant multicultural future we've growing ever more into a globalised village and you need to make sure that we're not neglecting local people and local society and nature over interests that may be the other end of the world and i think this election will breathe new life into democracy in the very in germany and europe and make democracy great again it's a sign of how confident the green party and its candidates are in this election that they're campaigning strongly in areas like this one traditionally seen as hot ones for the governing christie and social union while the c.s.u. finds itself having to fight hard to hold on to places it used to win easily. which explains why it's in battle the prime minister

well on the one side we have tried to grandstand nearly twenty percent of the green party which is left of center party but if they were to actually go into a coalition with the c.s.u. which has been imitating the janitor for germany and has been on the very contrary sides of many issues then the green party would betray the left wing that's for sure. and this is just the region but can we say that this is reflective of a mood across the country do you think or is this to be taken totally in isolation . it is reflective of. the country wants change and a very has seen the same government the same kind of government with the c.s.u. as the government of the party for a while the whole period after the second world war and now they want change and this is the same all over germany we have people standing up with movement stand up standing up all over germany and i think we will see change maybe this year maybe in the beginning of next year but germany is changing vision appreciate your time thanks for being my guests this hour vision. party thank you thank you neil. talking of elections th

and the environmental party the greens. faced with crises corals and squabbles especially over migration policy the popularity of germany's coalition government made up of america's conservatives their bavarian sister party the c.s.u. and the social democrats has steadily gone downhill since the three parties rejoined forces earlier this year through according to the latest trend poll if federal elections were held this sunday the conservatives and the social democrats would no longer have a majority in the bundestag the conservative union made up of medical c.d.u. and the variance e.s.u. would receive just a quarter of the vote a record low. but the greens are on the up with seventeen percent as is the far right alternative for germany party or with sixteen percent. the social democrats would garner just fifteen percent making them only the fourth strongest party their worst result ever the pro-business f.d.p. and the left party would both walk away with ten percent. and surprisingly three quarters of germans are either dis

that could be possible in a coalition with the greens and the left party if schaefer goes s.p.d. beats the greens and both make gains like the latest polls show both parties at about twenty percent. politics. and hess are worried that weakening support for the government in berlin could influence the outcome of sunday's vote rarely have uncle america and her cabinet been so unwelcome on the campaign trail. it's a different story with direct our was zero on the greens they're riding a wave of fresh support benefiting from america's government woes as they make that clear on their campaign posters. with showing that we're ready to take control which demonstrate that will bill it's easy to govern with various partners and we have policies we want to enact and that's what we're aiming to do. sunday promises to be an exciting day in hesse's capital b.'s bought in the city will also be the focus for many in berlin. political correspondent thomas joins me now in studio four more thanks for joining us thomas so why is state elections like this one it has of being observed so closely in ge

the centrist green party it's a night an hour of success five years ago they got eight percent of the vote this time around maybe knowing teen percent of the folks are saying this is a triumph of tolerance they say that this is a repudiation of tough talk about migration about border control and that sort of thing and indorsements them mainstream policies and they've done well in this election as i say one of the parties that didn't do quite so well 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 red

the green party is an established party in this district and that required the work of a huge number of people over quite a number of years. illinois has very restrictive ballot access laws and if there were one thing i could change with a magic wand, it would be that so you would have more choices than you generally have. in this case you do have a choice. i think that brendan is right, what is going on in washington is not working for southern illinois. it's not working for two reasons. one of them is the republicans. the other one is the democrats. i don't think that you can keep doing the same thing and expect different results. for 22 years the democrats represented he this district and things crawled along. for the last four years the republicans have represented the district and things have crawled along. southern illinois is behind. i don't think southern e soldier emhas to be behind there are a lot of people with good ideas, very progressive ideas that will take us into the future right here in southern illinois and those are the folks who need to be listened to. i'm not sur

traditional big tent parties to find political pastures new both at local and national level germany's green party and the far right alternative for germany party or a f t a cashing in on forma c.d.u. voters. is really voting a if the because they really present an alternative to the power obsessed politics of america who put saving the euro before the interests of ordinary germans do you turn then moment i'm inclined at the moment to vote for the green side because they say what they want and what they don't want about. it. i'm a classic c.d.u. voter but i'm rethinking that now i'm thinking about voting for the greens. has a state crimea foca goofy a is all too aware of the exodus from germany's traditional centrist party on sunday that could cost him his job. to be honest the parties that make up the grand coalition and this goes for the social democrats as well as the conservative c.d.u. they've got a difficult job in this campaign fighting off this feeling of discontent which actually has nothing to do with us. but has a state election could indeed have everything to do with the future of germ