i want to go now to our chief political correspondent lyndal crane she is outside the social democrats headquarters here in berlin where these talks are taking place good evening to you melinda well these are not doing that we're not burning the midnight oil this time on on a very cold berlin february night the deadline we know has been postponed again can we expect in your opinion can we expect an agreement this time tomorrow. we've just heard from an s.p.d. spokesman who says tomorrow absolutely is the last phase and it is the moment when we will know whether in fact the negotiators have succeeded and in fact some are burning the midnight oil we earlier had said that the talks were adjourned but that isn't quite true a fifteen member group of the party leadership is still negotiating in this building behind me it is the s.p.d. central headquarters and they are apparently trying hard to break through in a process that it was described just now as being very controversial there e intensive the spokesman said there has been some progress but they're not where they want to get yet and an

diplomacy and development aid are just as essential as military strength our political correspondent lyndal crane caught up with the german defense minister have a list and minister you said in your remarks that you were concerned that some countries have been decreasing support for the united nations for diplomacy for development aid and you said that the development worker needs the soldier and vice versa one might conclude that you were sending a message across the transom across the atlantic with your remarks well i think we need a pact of comprehensive security because we know one cannot be without the other there is no security without stepping his asian reconsolidation. and economic development. but you know yes i want to send a message over the atlantic but at the same time i want to send a message to ourselves as the europeans we have to be getting better organized what the military means are concerned so we have to be more effective we have to invest more on the other side we know that we need the second leg which is economic development desperately the funding of the united natio