breaking news with me here in the studio is spending across she is a political scientist at the humboldt university in berlin and an expert in coalition governments welcome to you q what do you make of what we're seeing this morning it's exciting right now but it's also promising it's good to hear that they actually took time to talk through the night to to get rid of these problems with regard to taxes gratian and stuff like that and i think we will soon hear a positive statement about the official coalition negotiation talks starting the s.p.d. of where of course reluctant partners they want to enter the opposition in the german parliament given that does it seem as if they have a viable basis for cooperation going forward does it seem as if this is a coalition if it doesn't come to fruition that can hold i think so yes so i think there are like they have compromised policies present and also on a personal basis it should work and also and most importantly probably there is no other option right so it's off the table the minority could government is off the table because i'm going who doesn't wan

trying to become chancellor ofter the next election spend you cross political scientists at the humboldt university in berlin an expert on coalition government and just to remind our viewers of our breaking news at this hour apparently there has been a breakthrough in pre-columbian talks to form a german government between the c.d.u. c.s.u. and s.p.d. we are following the story for you and we are standing by for any press conferences that are likely to ensue. but in the meantime here at the w. would like to get you a check of some other stories that have been making news around the world in japan more than. four hundred people were stranded on a train overnight after heavy snow the train got stuck some three hundred kilometers northwest of tokyo officials decided against evacuating passengers until daybreak some parts of northern japan have seen ten times the average snowfall this winter. saudi arabia's first car show geared to women drivers has opened at a shopping mall in the city of jeddah the exhibition is taking place just months after king solomon ordered an end to the country's ban on women

want to thank you so much for sharing that view with us spend across political scientists at humboldt university and berlin and an expert in coalition governments we thank you so much for sharing your expertise this morning. and just to remind our viewers of the breaking news story that we have been covering for you at this hour reports of a breakthrough being rich pre-columbian talks here in berlin between angle america's conservatives and the social democrats and by martin childs keep it here on t.w. news we are following the very latest on those developments as we wait for leaders from those political parties to speak in what could be just moments from now but in the meantime we want to give you a check now of some other news that some other stories that are making news around the world because in pakistan there is anger over the rape and murder of an eight year old girl it has sparked violent demonstrations and two protesters have died in clashes with police it is the twelfth child to be sexually assaulted and killed in the same area over the past year with the killer still at large demonstr

we have seen your cross with us here in studio she's a political analyst at berlin humboldt university good morning thank you for joining us and how crucial is this vote on sunday very crucial indeed i mean this is sort of the vote that needs to be approved in order for the real coalition talks to start do you think martin has a majority at this point it's a bit tricky so we have already seen some regional associations are against forming a new grand coalition but i think in the end he should come out with a majority of yes votes i guess looking at this from the outside people would say you know these are two sizes centuries spent the last four years in government together so what does the s.p.d. really have to lose in going into another coalition with chancellor merkel conservatives i mean so in the short term obviously it's a credibility loss because right of the deal actions they said they want to go in opposition and again after the talks failed they again said they do not want to form a grand coalition with the conservatives and in the long run i mean they always lost votes after

breaking news with me here in the studio is spending across she is a political scientist at the humboldt university in berlin and an expert in coalition governments welcome to you q what do you make of what we're seeing this morning it's exciting right but it's also promising it's good to hear that the.

pleasure of being joined here in the studio by sonia krauss she is a political scientists at the humboldt university here in berlin welcome to you good morning. what do you think the fact that we haven't heard anything yet from from from the use these two parties i mean they have apparently been discussing throughout the night is that a good sign would you say yeah i think it's a good sign because if there were no common ground between these two parties i don't think they would have discussed these on least topics on light what do you see as the main sticking points so far i think it's actually the top income rate so the sea is you really doesn't doesn't want to raise the the top income tax but that's video views they wanted so i think on all the other points they might be able to agree i want to talk about you know what potentially entering a grand coalition again by made for these two parties because we know for example you know we saw very poor election results from both of these parties they really lost ground if we compare it to four years earlier for the s.p.d. specifically the result was a hi