we all sense that the challenges for a new federal government however it may luker be structured lie in that the new year in which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here constructively and with an open outcome. 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 t

we all sensed that the challenges for a new federal government however at me luker be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here constructively and with an open outcome. of covering those talks for us is our political correspondent rupert and he joins us now for more so rupert merkel perhaps sounding optimistic but she certainly has a lot of work ahead of her as these preliminary preliminary coalition talks get underway what are the main hurdles for her. well basically we have three parties here sitting at the negotiating table just behind me in this building the social democrat how the quarter there is first of all the e.c. is you the conservative party bloc of anglo american the c.d.u. c.s.u. and especially the c. is you the small of the two parties is more conservative and they have already pointed out that they want to be more strict on refugee policy that they want to have. less integration into europe on one to cut corporate taxes something especially the social democrats

you know i will we all sense that the challenges for a new federal government however at me luker be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here constructively and with an open outcome. of covering the talks for us as our political correspondent rupert who joins us now for more so rupert has america all does have a lot of work ahead of her as the these preliminary talks get going why is it so hard for the parties to find common ground. well there basically three parties sitting at the negotiating table. there's first of all the conservative flock of anglo-american self and within this block the smaller parts of the sea is used the more conservative and this is you party is truck tries to. to be more tough on refugee policy is against more integration into europe and then on the other side there's the there are the social democrats and the social democrats have been very reluctant to go into this grand coalition again as this growing coalition in the past hasn't proven them to be

boston luker was part of the operation from the beginning at the age of just thirty one he has significantesponsibility here with many different roles. it's been fun but with. responsible for industrial engineering which includes planning the production process as well as planning the factory building at the moment i'm also in charge of prototype construction so i'm overseeing everything that happens in assembly as well as planning the construction of the new factory. corina staying on is working on the e-car project she developed the doors for the ego from the internal structure to the locking mechanism the car may be tiny but she wants the doors to feel a solid as those on a big s.u.v. . it's a great feeling when else do you get the chance to build an entire vehicle jewel from the ground up we all started with a blank sheet of paper then we bought all the pieces together and i was so proud that on the first prototype that all pretty much worked immediately now with. one hundred fifty students are working on the project at the university their goal is to show the car industry that there i