the left party had won the vote followed by the a.f.p. which was gathered around a right wing extremist. the musty and stale air will be cleared out my friends and we will keep on taking back our country. simi our general secretary of the c.d.u. still believed his party was firmly rooted in the center of society. but after the touring and debacle it became clear that the center of society actually was. pretty pretty to shim it is the us this is a turning point for the moderate political center of the lot as a seat for the 1st time it was been able to form a government without either the left party or the a.f.d. to be honest i simply couldn't imagine that in the past and in fact but today it happened for the 1st time as if the modest native of it might not be representative of what has happened in a state like tooling and defied. that evening c.d.u. asked itself the question the s.p.d. had struggled with in the spring of 2018 should it go against its convictions and form a coalition. of the c.d.u. find common ground with a party that remai

do you not think that whether it is the liberal democrats or the labour party or any new centre—left or any new ce ntre—left party, democrats or the labour party or any new centre—left party, there are really only one charismatic leader away from electoral success, logically? it is difficult to see how your conservative vote can really hold sway for years?” how your conservative vote can really hold sway for years? i do not agree with that and the reason i do not agree is that the communities that have voted conservative have been frankly forgotten about and allowed to decline under successive governments. they do not have a massive amount of trust for political parties and politicians in general. the reason that people have plenty prime minister therefore it is because of getting brexit delivered but also an idea of, come on, we will give you an opportunity to make things better. if the conservatives are complacent and do not take that opportunity, we will have lost their trust and we will deserve to lose their void but with a huge amount of care and attention has gone in this direct

including from the head of the left party benefits thing i says congratulate them and says the s.p.d.m. the country desperately need left wing policies instead of the uninspired meandering other grand coalitions. within the s.p.d. though that mean this has been fairly divisive. especially from the party establishment obviously we saw a former social democrat chance again still kind of a big figure when the party sharply criticized the outcome saying this would only worsen the party's problems and also from the center right from the free market f.t.p. we saw this criticisms from marco bushman who's the party whip is that the s.p. d.s. descending into chaos threatening to take the country down with it merkel most now clear clarify how she intends to continue costly giveaways to this body have been futile so far we need a new course free markets not bureaucracy investments not restrict redistribution so a very divisive and potentially you know a decision that could really up in the political landscape right now definitely and quite mixed reactions there now the big qu

for reaction we're joined live now by beijing tell us only a member of germany's left party now the german foreign ministry has called the reciprocal expulsions groundless do you agree with that. no i don't agree with that at all they knew that it was coming because it is the absolute diplomatic convention to react in such a way for any self respecting nation so they knew what they were doing and they knew that the russian reaction would be. absolutely adequate to the german to the german offensive move which was to expel those diplomats without any credible claims as to the involvement of the russian government. at the same time berlin also says that moscow is sending the wrong signals what signals are those do you think and what would they had wanted from russia i can't even guess because you know. in the german administrative law there is a special provision for cooperation between authorities and when they're accusing the russian authorities of not cooperating enough then they should look at the own german administered a law which says that in order to accuse another government authori

to go you know solidify the base as it's called they want they want to win votes back from the left party possibly even from the green party and they are looking towards a period in opposition where they can sort of cleanse themselves of of the being tainted by the by the but by association with the. cd u.s.c.'s you do you agree with that because the s.t.p. find itself in embroiled in some kind of internal turmoil could could division over the direction of the policy be destabilising for it could end up tearing it apart. this is already happening i mean the this election is the result of this it's a result of a very deep for teac within the party the social democrats have been in power in germany at the national level for 16 out of the past 20 years they started out 20 years ago with more than 35 percent of the vote now they're pulling a at about 13 to 17 percent so they've flossed the popularity tremendously and the many party members just want out they want out of government they think they need to go in opposition but they don't really have a path there this election that brought to re

used to be the party of free speech the priest speech movement was started in the 1960 s. by left wing activists and and they're also the anti-war movement and they used to be the party of anti-war we've seen this dramatic shift the entire paradigm has been flipped on its head free speech and war and war relations it's just 2 of those biggest issues the democrat party the left is fundamentally anti free speech i mean while the washington post has thought of its own crusade against republicans priming them russian propagandists as more guys the if explains that it boils down to some muddled thinking about events in ukraine. we're going to go in a journey you and i a trip into another dimension a magical place written in the rated by the washington post where they're assuming the russian agents in the united states they will soon outnumber americans themselves president trump has been disloyal to the united states not only given russia a leg up in his war against ukraine but also in broadcasting his propaganda and for that republicans are just as guilty like to point out that it was

have also been reacting the head of the left party for instance and congratulations is exactly the right way to go more or less policies as you might expect him to say the market friendly free market free democrats have been saying well you know this is a disaster the s.p.d. is descending into chaos and dragging the country down with it so there's been some pretty strident reaction across the piece here in germany to that shore the big question i suppose really is what's going to happen to i'm going to back off government that's right well these 2 new leaders of the s.p.d. have said they want to renegotiate the coalition agreement that is the basis of the coalition government featuring the social democrats and chancellor merkel's conservatives they want more left left wing policies in there the conservatives for their part have say to repeated it again today note shown of renegotiation so one of the new leaders now know but the boy said to die well if that's going to be the sort of blockade as he calls it from the conservatives you know that's not a good sign and so

we cross live now to martin dolls are a member of the hamburg parliament for the left party for life comment on this now what i says it made a balanced decision today what kind of balance do you think they're talking about. oh i can see you're you balance and that decision i think is a clearly political move to boot it decision. exactly when we look at the justice. of the right mood in one of the fundamental belief of modern societies the collective guilt is nothing which should be proceeded in a modern society know where there is the political conflict between western countries the new 2 countries and russia earth sports to my mind is misused term to bring forward political in this on the show this sport and of glitz meanwhile every individual atlas and as well nations should have the right to compete in sport because sport could be a means of friendship and dialogue in between people and between countries and if i may ask you while we see the situation is very sensitive in many ways because the accusations leveled against russia are pretty serious you know tampering with their data

praise from the head of the left party benefit who says the s.p.d. in the country desperately need left wing policies instead of the uninspired entering of the grand coalition and on the other end of the spectrum you have the whip of the free market f.t.p. marco bushman who says the s.p.d. is descending into chaos threatening to take the country down with it merkel most now clarify fi how she intends to continue to give away suggested you've been futile so far we need a new course free markets not bureaucracy investments not redistribution the big question now on everyone's lips is of course what does this mean for government right that is the $1000000.00 question as we saw just before these 2 newly designated leaders have come out criticizing the grand coalition sharply there is a growing consensus within the party that it's really hurt the party's image it's basically become indistinguishable from the seaview this is also a criticism merkel on her side is facing. basically that it's just become one big blob. so. you know we really that the numbers r

party? there's many times in the past that members from either side of the aisle have left their party to go to the other, but i can't remember a time that somebody left from a majority party to join the minority party. so that question that you raised to me and the premise of it really should be asked to the democrats. how can you be excited if you started this whole process thinking the outcome would be better and your own conference got smaller because of it. it showed the differences. it shows you're not welcoming. it also shows you cannot have a difference of opinion. when you watch the body language on the floor last night, you watched those 31 democrats who sat in seats. their shoulders were down, their heads were down. they were not proud of what they were in. it was almost like the pressure was too great for them. in fact the pressure inside their own claimhambers greater chambers of their own conference was greater than the people back home they should listen to. many of them promised before they got here that they would not vote for nancy pelosi for speaker. they broke that promis

could be the challenger to so there's no way that the cd you could give way on issues on the left of the party man what is going on within the s d p then this this shift to the left why would the s.t.p. want to risk losing power and influence by putting the coalition at risk. i think one has to sort of perhaps even look at the labor party in britain and look at the internal workings of a political party like people join a political party because they have strong views now who lost the leadership election is actually the 3rd most popular politician in germany but a political party does not reflect the people at logs they reflect the membership and a lot of people in the social democratic party feel that they went way too far when . it was chancellor they have embraced many thier right wing policies especially in social affairs issues and therefore i think they want to go back to basics they want to go you know solidify the base as it's called they want they want to win votes back from the left party possibly even from the green policy and they're looking towards a period in opposition where the

even to the left of the party, there are even to the left of the party, there a re lots of even to the of arguments as to what should happen next. whether a more charismatically leader is needed. whether it should be a women, somebody like rebecca long bailey. also, how they present their policies. some agree with these radical policies on nationalisation, for example, but disagree during the election, thick and fast, so rapid that people couldn't take in what they were talking about. people on they were talking about. people on the left at least recognise there has to be a different presentation of the policies. is there a possibility that we could see quite a widespread change in terms of what labour looks like? john mcdonnell has said that he will not be part of the cabinet, do you think that this is what the party does need — all change? from john mcdonnell, point of view, there were some talk on the left of people wanting him to stand as party leader, some people think that he could be interim leader if jeremy corbyn went. but he seems to have made a decision that when a new leade

confirmed in the jobs next weekend and go to mount and to climb some of the other reaction the left party leadership saying congratulations you know that's exactly what the s.p.d. needs is more left leaning policies which they're expecting from these new leaders and on the other side the business friendly free democrats saying that the s.p.d. is descending into chaos and dragging germany down with it so a lot of reaction and it's a question say tional really so and quite divisive reaction to you know different from the not unexpected i suppose from both sides but the big question really is what is likely to happen to government right these 2 new leaders have said that they would like to renegotiate the coalition agreement which is the basis of the coalition between social democrats and chancellor merkel's conservatives and they want to get some more social democrat left policies in there the conservatives for their side to rule that out they said there's no renegotiation we want to carry on this coalition government on the basis that's already been stated so now you had one of the new lea

party galvanised. let's try and get away from extreme left. the party galvanised.m the party galvanised. let's try and get away from extreme left. it will bea get away from extreme left. it will be a story we will run and run over the coming couple of months. another story that will run all year, of course, lynn, is brexit. the sunday express, eu will lose brexit trae del 5—8. express, eu will lose brexit trae del 5-8. it express, eu will lose brexit trae del 5—8. it is the eu who will come out the wrong side of this trade deal negotiation, they say. well, you know more than ideal on this one. we couldn't find page four online. they don't have much of this story. there isn't much there. they are saying that two senior european politicians are saying that, actually, the eu will be the loser. obviously we should note this is in the sunday express, the most brexiteer of all the newspapers by some way, probably with the telegraph. from what they believe, obviously we don't have this section of the story, butjournalists obviously we don't have this section of the story,

sort of posh boy revolutionaries who have helped destroy the labour party and persuade them that i am labour, is nonsense. does the leftt a working—class leader because there is much discussion about how a relatively posh person or a person in london who's done well or themselves... borisjohnson. no... they've just voted for borisjohnson. the people we're talking about have just voted for borisjohnson. so is this a canard, you have to have a working—class leader for the labour party? look, what you have to have as leader of any party in a general election campaign, is somebody the public look at and think, "i can see them as prime minister". now, where they come from, i think, is less important. i saw yesterday lisa nandy — i like lisa — but i saw she was talking about, you know, we need take the headquarters of the party outside london. the idea that that is going to somehow make people in the north say, "we've got to have our party conferences back in the northern cities." well, maybe but, in the end, what i think the country wants is a labour party that has leader, team, policies that they say — and we're not talkin

diplomat jim trusts and german left party members of a sollie believed america's approach is souring relations with europe. when they say oh this will cut cut ukraine out of the transit they will they will get less money but really think they care about ukraine they will carry by ukraine a lot and the only reason they would be concerned about re ukraine being cut out already transit sees is that if that would be make it more difficult to put pressure on russia by having a puppet ukrainian hand on the obama spigot with regard to europe's a gash you know that is no longer the case and all we're really talking about is ukraine being included in a more cooperative relationship between europe and russia that's the worst possible outcome from the point of view of people in washington damage to the german american relations is down and. the idea that america is conscious of the imposing extra china extraterritorial sanctions to the german economy and to hurt the german consumers is now firmly implanted into germany's minds from the left to the right that is absolutely outraged by the action

left? >> the labour party led by jeremy corbyn is essentially a far-left socialist, corbyn has been describeda marxist here in the uk and british voters did not want to embrace the kind of far-left big government essentialism that jeremy corbyn had and not only in britain but across many parts of britain, voters have rejected socialist policies and british -- british voters really in this case embraced conservative ideology, they embrace free markets, limited government, they embrace also a strong national defense, strong british foreign policy but above all they embraced brexit, the ideals of sovereign and self-determination that they had endorsed in 2017 referendum and they wanted brexit delivered but certainly the uk general election was massive defeat for the far left and jeremy corbyn also deeply antiamerican politician and british voters did not like the kind of america bashing that jeremy corbyn represented, also the labour party as well was deeply antisemitic thinking as well and british voters did not like that and they didn't like corbyn's constant bashing of israel, british voters

would say the results and the foreign minister was speaking and i was speaking for my group the left party dealing and that criticised for for expelling. the russian diplomats he said that. it's. that he cannot understand german expelling of the german diplomats today but this is part of the game about i should think i think we should come out of this game the issue is about what's behind the murder what's behind. this man who was killed and. there are a lot of questions and we are raising this questions here in the german parliament too to see some. transparency about what happened. yes and then i think the general prosecutor should to do his work but fall it's always. the rule. that there should be. thinking off 1st thinking of everybody and except you have the proofs for things so this is the way how to do it murk but not on this diplomatic level exposion of diplomats has pointed out that there's not really any malice in reciprocated effort there merely just responding to what germany's done and russia says it hopes their nations are going to be affected but how do you think germany wil

in parliament the left party and the greens are calling for the government to take action and. we have to close these loopholes stop training taking place this can't continue because we can't say we don't want to export weapons for military use and then support others in using them at the same time it's a massive contradiction and it's also not a humanitarian measure it's just about a few german companies trying to make money. but at the moment there is little chance of that happening the german government doesn't see any reason for changing its stance. or saudi arabia is not only under fire for using arms bought from western nations against civilians riyadh's human rights record is one of the worst global rankings one woman for example. was arrested and jailed simply because she campaigned for the right of women to drive. everyone has been following that story for us joins us now here in the studio good morning to you and i see again can you tell us something about jane why she was arrested what she was doing in saudi arabia well the day it happened it is really one of the mos

we welcome congressman any democrat that sees the socialist party that is left them behind. they are welcome to join the republican party. >> you expect other good democrats about the possibility - >> there been people in the past that a move from one party to another. and of a hard time finding anyone who moves from a majority party to the minority. this should be an eye opener to the democrats. should be the eye-opener was because policy promises are members that join join they're through with and keep peace with them to be more popular join they get to for which it's not. she did was i saw the american public, the reason they cannot have a do process because they had controllable so they can sell it to the market public and the american public it is actually drop further on impeachment. so think about the beginning of this. speaker policy waited 48 hours, we never be going through this. the conference will be smaller, the smaller will that support will be smaller and her legacy will be an embarrassment. [inaudible conversation] >> united, witnesses that are united customer

northern parts of finland i'm not sure this whether there are other structural problems of the middle left party that addressed the people properly but we will take a closer look to that in the next days is it fair to say the social democrats here in germany know you're not dealing with drags it but could perhaps learn something from this result well i think we have structural problems with the middle east and social democratic parties and other countries as well we are struggling as well and we are thinking of how to address people and their situation lives and to persuade them and the social democrats have the good answers to it that did not work in. the bracks voting districts in this this election let's see whether other subjects will be more important to german voters in future elections mr grady what do you think this resoundingly victory for the conservatives in the u.k. means for germany. well what does it mean for i would say what does it mean for you can you but 1st with the united kingdom itself from the outside it looks at the country still very polarized and divided so that's not a

for the left party and their hunker and he bronson from their turn to germany party shed there these with us. don't think that the expelling of russian diplomats from burden from the foreign ministry year and the count or expelling is a good development i think we should avoid diplomatic escalation a lot of german people want better relations to russia and now to have this garden issue will as a starting point of a new escalation i think it's the wrong signal in these times it's easy to go 3rd from your own security failings and from your own optimal police work by blaming somebody else and looking for a scapegoat and i believe this has happened here it was a mistake to jump to conclusions and instantly to blame russia without actually knowing what has actually happened this is not the way serious police work should be done 3 years ago we had a radical islamist here in berlin who took a truck as a weapon and killed 12 people it christmas fair now these are the real threats we are facing and not a diplomatic spat. police stations have just closed their doors in the u.k.'s general elec

this event polling firm which has slashed the conservative party's lead over labor to just 5 points he says labor's taken support from another left leaning party the liberal democrats we have seen the labor party make some progress here what they have managed to do throughout the campaign is to squeeze the liberal democrats were found you know 2060 remain voters were initially considerably more split over whether they would vote for labor or for the put them across and what we've come to the conclusion now is that far more are going to vote for the labor party and the looked at means and that can only be good news where as you know for the conservative party they always had quite a significant majority of the lifo and that hasn't really changed the campaign. israelis have another election next march its 3rd in less than a year neither prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his main opponent benny gantz were able to form a governing coalition after september's inconclusive vote harry false it reports now from west jerusalem. it was the outcome feared by voters in september's inconclusive election warned against by israel's presiden

germany's left party member beers on top us ole thinks the u.s. sanctions have done some serious damage to relations between berlin and washington this project is so close to completion and so crucial to the german economy. that there will be a way and we will find a way to complete this project but of course the damage to the german american relations is down and the. that america is conscious of the imposing extra charity extraterritorial sanctions to have the german economy and to hurt the german consumers is now firmly implanted into germany's minds from the left to the right that is absolutely outraged by the actions of the u.s. government because in germany frankly some parts of the governing party are very close to the u.s. government but even they are by this is serious because they know the importance of russian gas supply to the entire german economy. america's spy agencies are permitted to gather information on citizens without a warrant in certain cases the u.s. court of appeal has a real rule that this can happen if a non national who

a p for the left party under her believes that his country should avoid diplomatic escalation. don't think that the expelling of russian diplomats from bourdin from the foreign ministry here and the count or expelling is a good development i think we should go it diplomatic escalation a lot of german people want better relations to russia and now to have this. issue as a starting point of a new escalation i think it's the wrong signal in these times so i hope we can stop this we can have cooperation here and deal with the real big issues. the u.s. senate committee has approved a bill directing the country secretary of state to determine whether russia is a sponsor of terrorism russia's foreign ministry slammed the initiative as irrational it passed the state department have 90 days in which to report back to congress the senator who tabled the bill is convinced russia backs terrorism lattimer putin continues to try to cause grievous harm to international peace and stability and i am pleased the senate foreign relations committee advanced my critical legislation directing the st