marchin schultz has stepped down as leader of germany's social democrats the move comes amid widespread disenchantment.

social democrats are getting two of the most important ministries finance and foreign affairs marchin schultz wants to become foreign minister he's given up the s.p.d. presidency to andrea knowledges it's been a tense day in berlin but the next decisive phase is now beginning the s.p.d. membership will be converging in a few days the results should be known march the fourth only then will it be clear whether there really will be a new grand coalition. you know about a month to go so what do we need to know before we get to march fourth to talk about that i'm joined here at the big table by our chief political correspondent melinda crane and in strasbourg france tonight at the european parliament our correspondent barbara very useful joins us good evening to you both mother let me start with you you followed these negotiations down to the wire you were there last night in the freezing cold the world is watching it wants a stable germany what message was sent out to the world by today's agreement i think maybe there are three key messages for our international viewers first one would be germany

social democrats are getting two of the most important ministries finance and foreign affairs marchin schultz wants to become foreign minister he's given up the s.p.d. presidency to andrey analysis it's been a tense day in berlin but the next decisive phase is now beginning the s.p.d. membership will begin voting in a few days the results should be no non march the fourth only then will it be clear whether there really will be a new grand coalition. i'm joined now here in the studio by our chief political correspondent linda gray and finally after a series of late night stakeouts waiting for a deal to be regions good to have you here in the in the war for jay. i mean we when we see today we saw a lot of statements we heard there will be more party negotiations but we can't forget this deal is not done yet i mean the brain can file of the social democrats they have to give their blessing that's right this will go to a vote by the full party membership that's a lot of people and and the fact is that many of them entered the party are not many of them but up to five percent of the party membersh

marchin schultz is short term you're at the head of the s.p.d. is over now it's up to under in august to beat the party plan to its former strength. well that as the s.p.d. hits yet another historic low in the polls with me in the studio right now political correspondent keith brady and use of yawning he's the head of the berlin office of the european council on foreign relations good morning to both of you thanks for being with us if i could start out with you kate you know is on the best choice to turn things around at the s.p.d. as its ratings with the public crater well certainly set us off one of a main aims is to reinvent they espied a of course they came away from september's elections with that. result in post-war history and one of the parties right now every define that profile and says a really huge expectation on her that she could modernize the party and bring more women into positions of leadership and she's also a younger face she's sixteen years younger the mohsin schultz who's just stepped down as the party leader so she could we

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marchin schultz has stepped down as leader of germany's social democrats the move comes amid widespread disenchantment in the party over schultz's leadership scholtz nominated party parliamentary leader andrea knowledge as his successor. south africa's ruling african national congress has confirmed that it told president jacob zuma to step down party leaders have not yet agreed on a time frame but asked him to respond on wednesday zuma is facing multiple accusations of corruption. investigators believe human error is to blame for sunday's crash of a russian passenger plane that killed all seventy one people on board officials say pilots failed to turn on a heating unit for a key sensor prior to takeoff from moscow's demoted evil airport that resulted in incorrect data readings. jacob zuma a.n.c. party orders him to step down paving the way for the end of his scandal plagued presidency but he defines refuses to go saying he's done nothing wrong it is a power struggle for the soul of a nation i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. of proof those procedures should be reviewed because t