if the party who of course came into this parliament in september of for the first time on an anti maclin anti migration ticket she really rebuffed the very concept that the whole migration crisis crisis as it became known is really the source of problems here in germany she says there are differences social differences that preexisted and that this strain on the society here in germany all those institutions she said that that was just unprecedented and germany was ill prepared for it and that also together with the assurance that this would not happen again and at the very end of her speech she basically said that the aim of her now three and a half years still in office. would be to bring society closer together again to reduce those differences to see germany more as one and frankly i'm coming away from this this is the most kind of emotional almost touchy feely kind of approach to a policy outlook that i've certainly heard from the german chancellor did we hear more about policy going forward michelle how she plans to address that issue of social cohesion. well i mean this whole coal

thinks maclin with his. my little child with his begin guinea pigs who died. we made a shoe box, that is butter scotch inside and we decorated it. he was working on a project for a banner for first companion. >> they each of their own guinea pigs. >> well not in the more. >> he lost his. >> yes, he was very attached. truth be told, that was my favorite guinea pigs by the way, so, run faster in the little wheel or something is that why it was your favorite. >> they are not wheels, more like hamsters. >> he was just gerbill, so sweet, so, then, we had a funeral. the kids like to have that discussion. we went outside. here's a moment, lets take a look. >> ♪ >>> so that is my husband, brian. >> he a harmonica player. >> yes. >> like, you know, dust in the wind, blowing, bob kill on blowing in the wind now that i think bit. so everyone said their little thing, maclin wanted to put all of the shovels in and bury the guinea pigs and kelen, my four year-old is eating the entire time. >> i noticed the man was eating. >> he was hungry. >> he was jumping. then he was a r

strikes and those days are planned now for the next three months because they're determined to get mr maclin and his government to listen to the grievances and how unhappy they are about the changes the government wants to make to the railway service. facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network it was revealed the personal details of millions of its customers were used to influence elections while in a lengthy facebook apologies or detailed exactly what went wrong with privacy policies and what steps have also been taken to solve the problem he added that the company quote will learn from the experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward well for mine. do the scandal does involve a data gathering firm called cambridge analytical it worked with multiple u.s. presidential campaigns including donald trump some reportedly harvested the details of fifty million facebook profiles for its political operations the company is now under investigation and is even suspended its chief executive and local me

in two thousand and thirteen maclin the c.d.u. one by a landslide no longer was she underestimated the girl had become the world's most powerful woman and her third term michael again had to demonstrate her crisis management skills in the midst of the refugee crisis she allowed a million people into germany the arms of feel especially have done so much we can do this and whenever something stands in our way it must be overcome. it will be a decision that polarized like few others. america must go became a slogan of the far right populist alternative for germany party a.f.d. healing and the refugee with anti american sentiment in two thousand and seventeen a.f.d. and to germany's for the first time mack on the conservatives were reelected but negotiations to form a coalition with the liberal free democrats and the greens failed germans had to wait nearly six months for a new government. finally funneling drawn out negotiations the social democrats agreed and now i'm going to matt who stands on the verge of a fourth term as german c

interior ministry in the last twenty minutes while i was down there well what were you waiting for mr maclin president want to speak spokesman for the interior ministry is unable to confirm that there is just one hostage a police officer because the whole place is surrounded by police and you know we just don't know or they don't just don't know whether there may be somebody else hiding elsewhere in the building so let's just be cautious about one police officer he can confirm that absolutely just yes but what's interesting is it now appears to be three specific parts to this incident now not just what we believed initially which was to a shooting of four officers out jogging and then a supermarket it appears there's a carjacking associated with this just before those four officers were shot at. many thanks indeed for bringing us up to speed of the live in paris as a civil will keep across that situation which is ongoing in the southwest of france will bring you were any further developments when they emerge right now though let's get back to brussels where a few moments ago we were we were

means the items on the to do list well they have been piling up the log jam was cleared this week and maclin servitors finally signed a coalition agreement with the social democrats take a look at some of the challenges ahead. the moment it became official it took months of painful negotiations to get to this point then with one stroke of the pen this week chancellor merkel find the starting gun for the new coalition to start work on its long political to do list first there's europe. french president manuel mccall wants to work with germany on ambitious e.u. reforms but there may be trouble ahead while germany agrees in principle to his plans for a new e.u. finance minister merkel conservatives are strongly opposed to the eurozone have a good same budget. and if that doesn't keep the german government busy enough in europe there's always brights it time's running out for a deal with the u.k. due to leave the bloc in just over a year's time. next up u.s. german relations u.s. president donald trump has unnerved germany by raising the prospect of a trade war with europe his threatened tariffs