very closely with the strong ally france we women have to remember the french president a minor when markov had issued some proposals on european policy under specially the social democrats have called to follow these proposals and from what we have heard. have found an agreement on that one but there still are some sticking points as especially refugee policy see it still seems to be a problem in the case of presumably about is perhaps the text that martin shields is reportedly looking to adjust there i mean he has quite a hard sell now in front of him doesn't he just walk us through what is expected to happen over the next day is over the next weeks. absolutely these these talks that we have seen here during the last days only were the talks in front of the real coalition talks and scuse me again there are quite a lot of journalists running around and some of them don't really know what a camera is for i'm afraid. the these talks that we have been seeing here during the last days only have been the talk some front of the talks so the social democrats still have to see if they really want

well let's put it this way i'm going to markov very well knows her political allies who gather here oncear to essentially make a lot of political noise and that certainly happened today inviting viktor orban is a provocation of her but even more saw so for the social democrats that she hopes to put a coalition together with having said that these are very sensitive times in actually the political climate also given the fact that there's very little time to put together another grand coalition something a lot of europe is actually hoping for something that's becoming less and less popular here even here in germany so yes it clearly was a provocation the question is when you listen to some see as you delegates here whether the c.s.u. didn't go a bit over the mark there this is use always wanted a tougher line on immigration and i'm going to merkel c d u i wonder victor obama's presence there is likely to exacerbate those differences. well i think both sides the c.d.u. and this is you know exactly where the differences are there's a certain sense of satisfaction in the c.s.u. that the germa

or french president manuel markov and german chancellor angela merkel have appealed to young people to help it build friendship between their two countries the two leaders appeared in a video posted on the collins twitter feed on the eve of the fifty fifth anniversary of the landmark say treaty between germany and perhaps they call for the post war treaty to be updated. dear compatriots in good german friends have a good dear german citizens dear friends friends. france and germany want to as friends in the heart of europe and in the european stereo's conclude a new. aiming for a new goals and new forms of cooperation so that doubles and without waiting for this new treaty the chancellor and i want to invite you to bring this friendship alive it is on that we are especially calling on the young people whether you're a pupil an apprentice a student sees every opportunity to meet in exchange try to learn each other's language really open to their culture be curious about one another you. well to mark the anniversary of the lease a treaty a delegation of german m.p.'s will travel to the f

with the election of the french president manuel markov there has been a new impetus. which will strengthen us so what do we have to do that side at a time when not all of the members countries of the european union say we want to have a closer union that's exactly what we want well we have to learn to find responses for the big issues in the union and also try to solve those important questions and by the people on the ground where they are otherwise we will not create a good climate for europe and we have to develop our economic strength now that we have well. we haven't exactly left behind the euro crisis completely but we i think have tackled it quite well now that there is growth in almost all european countries now that there is more employment we now have to reorientate our economic policy which means creating more of a digital single market and here i think we are under great pressure because we have big american companies. so the that had access to data and data will be the valma tiriel of the twenty first century are the raw material for the twenty first cent

public there were protests here today against the turkish president coming to france before president markov he says he is very pragmatic he does not believe that that should necessarily get in the way of turkey having a good relationship with france and turkey cooperating on issues such as controlling illegal migration to europe and the fight against what president calls terrorism. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a brutal cold spell grips the u.s. east coast. on the controls on the iconic fish markets in tokyo to stay with us here on out is that. from slowing down i mean when it's to an inch on t.v. does it pretty soon the. how low we've got some very heavy rain coming into southern parts of china over the next dial to still has a wintry flavia's further north we had some very heavy snow into central pass around who by the nam province further south this is whether the rain really is in the prices a setting in is sinking a little further south what we're going to see those big downpours continuing through sas they going on into sunday hong kong joining in with some rather wet weather by

waiting but there is no doubt that the turkish president was here in europe meeting with president markov to troy in may be repaired those really bad relationship between turkey and the european union because he knows that the e.u. of course gives a large amount of funding to turkey in order to prepare the country for a future membership it is money that he would not want to be seen ferguson and at the moment there is no doubt that he is also looking for allies and that is why he is looking here to france especially france because it is one of the main countries in europe still which has a talking relationship with turkey yes and. certainly hasn't been afraid to seize the initiative when it comes to foreign policy matters how might we see things develop between the e.u. and turkey going forward it. will be very interesting to see i mean there is no doubt that the president over one knows that he needs to look for allies because the relationship between turkey and the united states has become extremely tense the situation is fragile in the middle east and that is why he is looking towards

public there were protests here today against the turkish president coming to france before president markov he says he is very pragmatic he does not believe that that should necessarily get in the way of turkey having a good relationship with france and turkey cooperating on issues such as controlling illegal migration to europe and the fight against what president calls terrorism. the u.n. has condemned a recent series of death sentences in egypt with twenty people reportedly executed there in the past ten days the human rights office says death sentences should not be used to combat what they call terrorism and also expressed concern at the use of military courts to try civilians. i was seriously concerned that in all of these cases jew process and fair trial guarantees do not appear to be followed as military courts typically deny defendants rights accorded by civilian courts reports also indicated the prisoners who were executed may have been subjected to initial inforced disappearance and torture before being tried or now moving to zimbabwe where the new president has ruled out forming

about a coalition that didn't read work out was it more pace to that idea so it's very good news for markov that the s.p.d.m. now i know we're talking and people here i was hoping that this would work out and that it would be a grand coulee coalition again it's a nurse in paris thank you. lots of rich people are gathering in switzerland no change the bad though but this time it's for davos that's right we'll see how that change actually translates into action because british prime minister the reason may french president i'm going to call on brazilian president michel them and those are just some of the world leaders that we are expecting to attend the world economic forum in davos and of course we can't forget u.s. president donald trump but davos is known for a very broad array of participants and also topics here's a first look at what's coming. getting rid of the snow that could be one of the most important jobs in doubles need to be cleared for many board leaders to make their way to the ski resort for the first time in almost two decades a sitting u.s. president will be taking part in