key vote on whether to enter a coalition talks with merkel conservatives social democrat leader martin shultz is in favor of forming a coalition but he faces stronger systems from within his own party a no vote could lead to minority government which merkel has already said she won't lead or to fresh elections. i'm joined now by our correspondent thomas sparrow of the s.p.d. congress in bonn. thomas the congress has just started can you tell us what's happened so far. so well you can probably hear martin shows the leader of the social democrats speaking right behind me here in a barn or he and another prominent member of the party leadership. regional leader of the s.p.d. clearly stated why they believe that the s.p.d. should enter those formal coalition talks with the conservatives they have in particular mentioned that the party could change more within a government than if they went into the opposition in particular in two areas one the keystrokes of democratic areas in the social justice for example pensions or health or other areas like that education and second one in europe that's one

coalition so in order to convince his party to go into another grand coalition social democrats leader martin shultz has to push through through some key points for instance he wants to change make some reform on on health insurance he wants to cut he wants to have higher taxes for the wealthy and a more liberal stance on refugee policy and more integration into europe then on the other side within his conservative party bloc c.d.u. c.s.u. the small of the two parties you see as hugh they feel the breath of that they feel in their neck the breath of the right wing populist have deep parties so they want to push. the c.d.u. and seize you into a more conservative direction they want to have a more tougher stance on refugee policy so they want to cut corporate taxes and they they also want to have a less integration into europe and that's the the key problem here. in the middle between these two parties is uncle americal and her c.d.u. and they know that the only chance to keep anglo-american in power as chancellor is this coalition. is this nichols last chance to form a stable government. but it is he

suffering their worst result since one thousand nine hundred nine and this man him party leader martin shultz categorically saying the s.p.d. will now go into opposition what happened then was that chancellor merkel opened exploratory talks with the free democrats and the greens those talks however failed in late november so the focus shifted to president frank. as you can see here he urged martin short that's the back of his head there to revise his decision to go into opposition and talk instead to the conservatives about renewing a grand coalition after weeks of negotiations in january d.s.p. these leaders agreed on a preliminary agreement with the conservatives and they recommended starting full coalition talks with them now we get to tomorrow sunday that is when the s.p.d. is holding its special party conference the rank and file voting on that recommendation from their leadership to enter full coalition talks with the conservatives the party that is deeply divided on all of this as speed the leaders have been meeting this afternoon to discuss tomorrow's vote so we're going to get the la

agenda and so that's really the danger for them and that of course in a certain way strengthens martin shultz his hand because he can say to angela merkel look you know i've got my people waiting at home they're going to be given a vote on this coalition deal if we put one together so there's no red meat in there for social democrats to get behind that asked to be something in terms of policy on the labor market on the health care system once some of these key areas that have been identified where social democrats would like to see some concessions from angela merkel so i and so i mean we've got about twenty seconds left give us a date here is there any idea when we might see a new government here in germany was a few more weeks of talks brant and then as i say they'll be a vote of the s.p.d. membership to see if they approve the deal people here are saying it could be made moments before any new grand coalition government is sworn in so i'm young on the story for us tonight here in berlin so ivan thank you very much. and that is going to wrap up this edition of b. w. news i'll be back at the

well then the tricky part actually starts martin shultz the leader of the social democrats will tour germany and he will campaign for the results the preliminary results that were reached in these exploratory talks and he needs to complain very hard because the grassroots of the social democrats is against a continuation of the grand coalition so he will have to convince ponty members who then will meet at a party convention in about a week time and at that party convention they'll vote on this whether they want to have a new grand coalition or not after that the coalition talks could be could be held with the christian democrats and then the social democrats will have their party base vote on it so overall it's going to be a very long complicated process and it's going to be weeks maybe two months until germany actually sees a new government if everything goes as according to plan our shall prosper forty thank you. and next to that harrowing story out of pakistan where the rape and murder of an eight year old girl has shocked the nation the incident has sparked violent demonstration

vote on whether to start formal coalition talks with the chancellor's conservatives as the leader martin shultz and the party executive have already agreed now the rank and file needs to endorse the decision refusal by s.p.d. delegates to hold further talks could lead to new elections or a minority government for the first time in germany's post-war era our political correspondent thomas sparrow is standing by for us with more on the story hi thomas good morning to you so how likely is it that we're going to see another grand coalition for germany or depend the century on that event on sunday that you've been talking about sumi the. conference of the social democrats where martin shows on the party leadership will try to convince the six hundred delegates that they should support formal negotiations for an another grand coalition that is under no circumstance and in fact politicians themself themselves haven't dads to say what's going to happen on sunday because there are many delegates many members of the social democrats who are very skeptical of the possibility of a new grand coalition in pa

but it was martin shultz now needs to show that the s.p.d. can be a reliable coalition partner and he must nip this potential revolt in the bud there can be no renegotiating. this is nonsense and of course i can't stop people from c.s.u. from talking nonsense we're used to that but such strong arm tactics definitely don't help us come together social democrat members will be able to have their say on the grand coalition in a week's time. well from my let's bring in our correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by at our parliamentary studios here in berlin in the german capital welcome to you thomas good morning you know as we just saw there from that piece that this does not look like a marriage made in political heaven but at the end of the day ken pragmatism when the day. well sorry and it doesn't look that way because in a way these reluctant partners if you look for example of the conservatives their preferred coalition was not necessarily once again with the social democrats they had preferred a different coalition but got fed up las

committee all new ground for the right leaning and tea establishment party a party in fact in which martin shultz and many other senior members of the social democrats have decried as racist before the election in september and said that they shouldn't be taking up seats within the bundestag well in an attempt to try and hang on to power for himself he may well catapult them up into the position of being germany's largest opposition or the push for a second grand coalition has had a polarizing effect on s.p.d. members other parties on the left are also warning the social democrats that they are jeopardizing their future. as of yet. there is no more appropriate terms and political suicide to describe this because if the s.p.d. really carries on like all the things they were punished for in the last election then i don't know what will be left of them in two or four years' time and that's the vicious circle would have been trapped in for so many years now and that we should break it with. another coalition with another four years of government or government will bring us to this point i think that

began a lot of hard work but she said she was optimistic and her social democratic partner mark martin shultz prospective partner said there should be no red lines but there is a lot at stake it shows essentially that the the power at the heart of the european union that was angular merkel she was the one that had the strong partnership with the with france is beginning to erode she's less popular now with the people of germany are almost dismayed by what's happening how long it's taking and they want to result in an and in fact during these five days there will be a more or less a media blackout they don't want the sort of interviews they had during the last coalition talks which started feeding in to the actual coalition talks and that she increasing friction so we're not going to hear much about what's happening but i think that or concentrated to make sure that will not be another general election and there will not be a minority government is in all their interests to come to a solution. israel's strategic affairs ministry has published a list of groups banned from entering the country t

strollin our coalition talks could be on the verge of a breakthrough the social democrats leader martin shultz has persuaded his party members to vote in favor of reestablishing the ground coalition government with chancellor angela merkel's party however this could save the anti migrant i'm turning to for germany party become the main opposition force in the country as peter all of and i break start. all this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for both it was a visibly very worried martin childes waiting for those results that came in he gave a speech just before the ballots were cast he said that there were only two options it was either go into coalition with angela merkel's conservative bloc or they'd have to be another election and he was very clear on which one he prefer you don't you know you everyone should realize the question is coalition talks for you elections my take on this is very clear i don't think you elections are the right way for us but what would a coalition do for the bundestag how would the book to stagg look if a new grand coaliti

germany so i think there's a very clear task facing them but for the social democrats of course martin shultz will have to convince his own party his own delegates is a power base at a conference on january twenty first even if he comes to an agreement in five days is going to convince his own party that it's going to be worth it so that's yet another hurdle so we're still long way off but if they can come together in some way then perhaps there is a lot more optimism but it does seem at the moment the politics is politics is causing many problems for the people of germany and they're looking in some dismay what is happening as you say local merkel says that she is optimistic but should she fail how serious would this be for her and indeed for germany and the e.u. as a whole. well that's a very good point i mean as far as angela merkel is concerned because of these huge extended talks because there's been almost four months under a caretaker government her power and her popularity are beginning to erode she's in a way dipped over the peak of her political powers and the latest polls show that

well there was very optimistic going in the the social democrat leader martin shultz was saying there will be no red lines and so i think everyone is realizing that if they don't get some sort of policy agreement between the parties then they will face either a minority government which angela merkel has ruled out or another election and everybody fears the instability that that could bring and the results it could bring so i think there is a real concentration of minds at the moment they realize they have to find something and these are only nick talks about talks because when we get a result there will still have to be passed through the social democrats meeting on general the twenty first so modern shows realizes that he's got his own supporters his own base to convince as well and that means that these are going to be very tough talks and there's going to be essentially a bit of a media blackout to make sure that we don't see a repeat of the last coalition talks where people were giving interviews and that was feeding into the actual coalition talks and damaging those talks so the

than one hundred days ago she and her conservatives are in talks with the social democrats led by martin shultz to form a new government as the talks began yesterday merkel was cautious about the out. the no more can often there are still big hurdles to overcome. speaking from my party i can say we'll be as constructive as possible in our search for compromises. but of course we are also aware that we want to deliver the right kind of deal for the country that means it's going to be a tough day. in. a tough day and a tough night for more let's bring in our political correspondent review to vault standing by at the social democrats headquarters where those talks are taking place as we mentioned so rupert i mean no word yet this morning on any progress presumably they have been up all night talking about these issues should we take that as a good sign or a sign of trouble. well the negotiators have been sitting together now for more than twenty hours and we they haven't made any progress so far only very little so i can't really see that this is going to be a good sign here one of the main proble

little bit of time just to work out their strategy so that's the focus of tonight's efforts but martin shultz the s.p.d. leader when he arrived here about an hour ago he said that he come to with the intention of setting up a new grand coalition government in the interests of all germans but also. recognizing germany's international responsibilities and it's in that spirit that he's going to work well these are worse but he's in a tricky position isn't he we heard in the report there how his party members are not happy with the framework that he's agreed with the cd you have the same framework the babe actually voted that they will pursue but they wanting to change it now post agreement how is that going to work well there were many in the s.p.d. who don't think the agreement goes far enough it doesn't have enough social democrat policies in it so what they would like him to do is to push through a few more of those and that's really the challenge for martin schultz can he get some concessions on labor market protections on the health care system or on the asylum regulations those are the kin

if she doesn't want to lead a minority government he could then ask someone else for instance martin shultz the leader of the social democrats but this is very unlikely there's no thinkable majority within parliament which could bring multinationals into power and of course then funk what a steinmeier the german president could also call for new elections this is he's the only one who has the power to do so but he also already said that this would be the least favorable option so it's going to be very complicated whatever is going to happen rip of it evolved with the very latest from berlin thank you know what. a member of germany's parliament leading figure in the far right a.f.d. party may faced charges of illegal hate speech for her angry tweet on new year's eve beatrice fun style he ranted at police in the city of cologne for publishing a new year's greeting an arab back she said that they were trying to appease muslims in germany twitter swiftly delete about post and also froze her account for much of new year's day. and for more let's bring in d.w. social media editor elizabeth show w

coalition talks with medicals conservatives after september's elections social democrat leader martin shultz said that his party would not go into government with them again but he backtracked under pressure after the collapse of talks for a multi party government now schultz says a coalition with the conservatives is the only realistic option but he faces strong resistance from within his own party a no vote could lead to a minority government which merkel has already said she won't lead or it could lead to fresh elections. should they seek to join another coalition government with angle americans conservatives or should their priority be to renew their own party so they can win back support pave lost in recent years that is the tough choice facing this congress of social democrats the s.p.d. leadership are united in arguing in favor of the deal leader martin schulz told delegates that many people are looking to the s.p.d. to represent them against conservative policies the only move in the no name on. the farm workers pension is single parents school students and trainees people who are re

coalition in germany leaders now have to sell the deal to their party's social democrat leader martin shultz is perhaps under the most pressure after the september election he ruled out entering another grand coalition now he has to convince his party to do just that. the global outcry following president donald trump's alleged foul mouth outburst maligning african nations continues a spokeswoman for the african union representing fifty five countries on the continent called it frankly alarming particularly in light of america's history of slavery. saudi arabia has allowed women into a football stadium to watch a live match for the first time it's part of the highly conservative kingdom's recent moves to ease some of its social restrictions on women which are among the harshest in the world. some of these two biggest parties intend to continue their alliance he talks pointing to a new government on the horizon while investors saw the brighter side there's no pleasing big business leaders they want more of less less taxes less regulation also coming out of facebook is said to overhaul its new