kate chancellor merkel has a lot of work ahead of her and these political negotiation talks why do these products are they struggling so much to find common ground between basic issue and that's the two of the three main parties taking part in these talks have very opposing objectives in these talks and is that's especially between the social democrats and the c.s. use that the very insistent party to merkel's c.d.u. conservatives and s.p.d. of course remember they actually said that they wouldn't form another grand coalition with merkel's conservatives and so they really have to work over these during these exploratory talks also convince their own delegates and party members that a grand coalition would be the right move for the s.p. day so they're putting demands on the table such as higher taxes for the wealthy they want more integration into europe and they also want more liberal refugee policy and these are all demands which a quite the opposite what the c.s.u. are demand and one of the most contentious issues between those two parties is certainly going to be that refugee policy a

talks for us is our political correspondent kate brady who joins us now in the studio and kate chancellor merkel has surely got a lot of work ahead of her once again as these preliminary talks get underway why is it so hard for the parties to find common ground because really basic problem here in that two of the three parties taking place in these exploratory talks over the next few days a very different objectives so you have the social democrats who initially after the election in september ruled out joining call for a grand coalition again and so this is of course a massive u. turn for them and so they'll be driving a hard bargain going into these talks as they try to convince their own delegates and party members that a grand coalition is the right option for them and so some of the demands on the table from them are higher taxes for the wealthy they want a more liberal refugee policy and they also want more integration in europe but at the same time you have to see if you were his the bavarian sister vassie of merkel's c.d.u. and since the success of the far right day in the elections they

and covering the talks for us is our political correspondent kate brady who joins us now chancellor merkel has got a lot of work a lot of work ahead of her as these preliminary coalition talks get underway why is it so hard for the parties to find common ground. well what you have here helen has a very basic problem that two of the three parties taking part in these talks have very very different objectives so first of all you have the social democrats who immediately after september's election actually said that they would not form another grand coalition with the concept of a tip so this is obviously a massive u. turn for them and they'll be trying during these talks to convince their own delegates on party members a grand coalition is the right option for them so some of the demands that they're bringing to the table include a more liberal refugee policy actually. a tax increases for the wealthy and also reforms for germany's health insurance and then at the same time you have the c.s.u. so that's a very and sister party to merkel c.d.u. and since the arrival of success of the far right

kate brady correspondent thanks so much welcome. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you a first round of talks to form a new coalition government in germany has ended chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party are negotiating with the center left social democrats as the talks fail germany could face fresh elections. more news coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime head to our website d.w. dot com i'm still here in berlin see you again soon. sure you see.

chancellor merkel has made it clear it's a majority government new elections the chance and future two is riding on the outcome of these talks. covering the talks for us as our political correspondent kate brady who joins us now in the studio kate. what do we know about how the talks have progressed at the end of the first day it was quite a positive atmosphere at the s.p.d. the social democrats headquarters this evening the general secretary of the s.p.d. said that the talks today had been intense but open and that most of the time today was actually spent talking about the issues on which the three fought is involved in these talks actually agree upon and those more contentious issues will be addressed over the next four days what was particularly interesting was this comment that he made about how all three of the parties involved realized that germany needs a new political style and he said that this was largely due to the result of the german election back in september because remember that the social democrats as well as the conservatives they had historic lows their worst results since well in post-war german history and we also saw the successes of the far right in germany with

kate brady correspondent thanks so much welcome. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you a first round of talks to form a new coalition government interim he has ended chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party are negotiating with the center left social democrats as the talks fail germany could face fresh elections. more news coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime head to our website d.w. dot com i'm still here in berlin see you again soon. stories that people also for information they provide opinions they want to express g.w. on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. made it's created and it is everything that's spiritual it's where i find peace it feeds my passions my own what i think it's just me in a. pod not just another arm of the elements of nature not just a holes blown. bacteria it's also. things like rocks it's going to the atmosphere obviously to see. the wave to me is like another living living thing moves it's gone mind of the sun. and he. was there for the energy that's there it flows. so you feel as if you're a plant rooted to the sea. and so this is momentous one of those moments that can really change your way of thinki