last few days from all three of the parties involved in these talks but we heard as well from martin shultz the leader of the social democrats this morning who said despite this progress there are still many issues which need to be resolved and a lot of these obstacles revolve around social policy and we've already also heard today that the c.s.u. that's the bavarian sister party to merkel's conservatives that they've actually already canceled a board meeting for tomorrow which could indicate of course that these talks will be expected to extend into monday and of course today's deadline so to speak was a very loose deadline and the parties have given themselves a two day buffer so it could well be that we are still here in two days' time or a case to tell us more then about these topics that are still causing trouble. or the main obstacles are as i mentioned these social policies that martin schulz mentioned and they cover the german health insurance system and also limited contracts in the german work market and also and and so these are going to be more obstacles to overcome and the cons

the country's elections but both chancellor angela merkel and her social democrat counterpart martin shultz say that the agreement is the only way to guarantee german stability. after a marathon thirty four hours of negotiations it's all strained smiles for the would be coalition partners with a working compromise achieved relief from the chancellor. it's been about so i am convinced that the coalition agreement we have worked on together can be just that the basis for a solid and stable government that's what our country needs and it's what the world is expecting from us awful about. expectations were high especially among martin schultz's social democrats the s.p.d. party base will have the last word over the next few weeks the parties roughly four hundred sixty thousand members will decide whether the agreement will stand as the foundation for a new grand coalition shields's message success he's a target stock we had a big influence on this agreement and we're grateful to the union parties for making compromises that were difficult for them but it chiva ball in the end just. one example

martin shultz the leader of germany social democrats and former chancellor candidate has officially stepped down schultz has nominated andrea knowledge as his successor the move comes amid widespread disenchantment with shelters leadership within s.p.d. ranks party members are currently preparing to vote on a deal with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives to form another round coalition. martin short sleeves empty handed just a week ago it looked like he would become foreign minister and new government now he's given up that ambition as well as the s.p.d. leadership. the only people to have resigned from my s.p.d. post and from the government because i want to help and the debate about personalities in the party. members can focus on the coalition agreement. s.p.d. members will vote on the coalition deal between the social democrats and conservatives early next month it's fear that grassroots members could reject it out of frustration with debates about ministerial posts. many members believe could now rejuvenate the party the s.p.d. executive has endorsed charles schultz a successor. t

resignation not to rush ahead and place the next candidate on a pedestal in just three short days martin shultz now finds himself without the leadership of the s.p.d. without a position of authority and without a ministerial post and with the s.p.d. really in chaos. for the latest twist in this political drama let's bring in our political correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by at our parliamentary studios so thomas all of this hard work on the coalition agreement now this how surprising was this development but you say. well it is certainly surprising in particular for those here in germany who thought that after months of uncertainty germany's political troubles were about to come to an end with the signing of a coalition deal only a few days ago but this is just another chapter in germany's political drama as you your say and certainly big development in germany a big development also for the s.p.d. if you ask why this development happened the reason is that the debate on personnel the debate on who would do what's in a no the grand coalition overshadowed the debate on content and th

four months after the country's elections chancellor angela merkel from the conservatives and martin shultz from the social democrats announced the deal it means merkel will keep the chancellor's post but the social democrats will have control of some of the most important ministries the deal still has to be approved by that's party's rank and file. more that story now with our political correspondent hans brandt with us here in our studio and also max hoffman a standing by in a process good to have you both with us let's start with you as we said germans finally have a blueprint out for a new government if the s.p.d. rank and file approve it that is the next hurdle what did you make of this coalition agreement what is the vision here what stands out well the vote by the social democratic rank and file still has rejected as you say but i think in the end they're likely to approve of the deal simply because the alternatives are to costly to call contemplate as it were for new elections in which the social democrats would likely lose even more support if you look at vision in this in this coa

ministerial parts i'm going to start which has she were roe remain at the helm of the government and martin shultz resigned from the as well as the leader of the social democrats that's been confirmed just right before we came on air and that he's slated to become germany's foreign minister and his party colleague schultz could take over the finance minister well this is just a tentative look at some of the potential candidates for ministerial posts here let's find out more about what this lineup means for germany and europe in general would you w. news is that political correspondent simon young gets out here with me some to shed some light on the americal will stay at the helm of the government she had to give up some prime real estate to secure this deal is she out of the out out of the woods yet well in terms of her leadership you know as melinda was saying there pretty much everyone is expecting to this is america's last term as johnson you know she is very weakened i would say this evening in the sense that you know she's had to give up make compromises on these key cabinet positions you kno

in just three days martin shultz has managed to hit both a political high point at its low point on wednesday after a long and exhausting wrangling his pride in once meant we have a coalition agreement in a marathon session of talks lasting more than twenty four hours the two parties had fought argued yelled at each other and finally agreed. use of i can see that we had a strong influence on this agreement and we are grateful that in the end we achieved some compromises that were hard for the conservative side to accept. shultz negotiated well for the s.p.d. and rested key portfolios from the conservatives he came away with the ministry of finance labor and official tim southee the foreign ministry all this despite the fact that he said he never wanted to become a minister and the government and was against another grand coalition. afterwards many people in the s.p.d. said he had broken his word twice many party members were angry and that time get did not abate despite his decision on wednesday to resign as party leader making way for andrea nonis to take over then on friday schultz announce

developments within the is that he would have any impact on the coalition agreement because after all martin shultz was the one who negotiated the coalition agreement on behalf of the s.p.d. . this is a complicated question we don't really know that however i think that it will not impact in the decisions that have been already taken so the policies that are great on so far so it's more of an internal is more fun for us to write a month or two from the university here in berlin thank you very much thank you. listen take a look at some other stories making news around the wild u.s. president donald trump has signed a bill into law increasing the federal budget and ending a brief government shutdown the senate and the house of representatives have previously passed the bill it will fund the government through march twenty third and increase overall spending limits over the next two years. risky operations in taiwan have started to wind down after a devastating six point four magnitude earthquake rocked an area around the eastern city of this while in this week the death toll now sits at twelve dead w

between angela merkel's conservative bloc and the center left social democrats and it looked like martin shultz was set to be installed as the next foreign minister of germany friday evening and all that has gone out the window martin schultz has announced he won't be taking up that position as germany's t.v. chief diplomat and rumors are abound he's being forced to step down from that by some disgruntled colleagues high up in his own party who actually blame him for the party's current failure as well mr schultz put out a statement himself explaining in his own words why he wouldn't be taking up the post i renounce joining the federal government and at the same time i hope that this will in the personal debates within the s.p.d. we all make policies for the people in this country and my personal ambitions must be behind the interests of the party but it's a social democratic party that's in real dies straight at the moment earlier on friday we saw the current foreign ministers gabrielle lash out at martin schultz saying that all that was left was regret it how little respect there was between

us how significant that is it's really an excellent result for the social democrats i mean with martin shultz leading probably the foreign ministry that is a very important post which was an s.t.d. hands before we have to say he will be of course a strong european supporter so that is a huge deal for the s.p.d. and then the other ministry that came as quite a surprise as the finance ministry which was before in christian democratic hands and has been a key post for christian democrats for a long time so it's going to be very interesting to see if it's probably going to be led by the mayor of hamburg and it's going to be very interesting to see what that means also for the european union germany has let this very strong austerity course within the european union for the past years and that could now a change under the leadership of all of shows and of the leadership of the social democrats and then they are going to get the labor ministry which is also of course a key post for the social democrats so they are really the winners of these coalition talks and who are the losers here i mean how do

joked as he left the talks that all of them now needed a shower and meanwhile the social democrats martin shultz has just announced that subject to approval of the coalition and the new cabinet he'll become foreign minister if confirmed as the country's top diplomat he will step down as the party's leader and be forced to eat his own words. mr schultz exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government. artie's peter all over it looks at what we can expect after this long awaited deal what is this painful compromise well the social democrats they will hold on to the foreign ministry the labor ministry the justice family and environment ministries that they held in the previous go. but they will gain the very powerful german finance ministry so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we sa

saying could this be the end of the political career of martin shultz the form of a you paul and president well he still remains a member of the bush in the stud book what's his future holds right now it's really anybody's guess the stuff that he said he won't be taking a seat in a cabinet with angola merkel should the coalition deal go ahead. human rights watch has accused iraqi kurdish security forces of mass executions of suspected islamic state finances this was back in august the report claims the killings occurred near the town of zuma where an apparent mass grave was found the record this government denies them because ations claiming that the bodies belong to i saw fighters killed in battle with kurdish forces who discussed the findings with senior iraqi researcher for human rights watch focus will since september we've been looking for an eyewitness who can testify to the fact that the men were captured and were captured alive and later they were killed by kurdish security forces. and and what we found two weeks ago is the actual great site and now we know where the bodies. were a

between angela merkel's conservative bloc in the center left social democrats and it looked like martin shultz was set to be installed as the next foreign minister of germany friday evening and all that has gone out the window martin schultz has announced he won't be taking up that position as germany steve chief diplomat and rumors are abound he's being forced to step down from that by some disgruntled colleagues high up in his own party who actually blame him for the party's current failure as well mr schultz put out a statement himself explaining in his own words why he wouldn't be taking up a post i renounce joining the federal government and at the same time i hope that this will in the personal debates within the s.p.d. we all make policies for the people in this country and my personal ambitions must be behind the interests of the party but it's a social democratic party that's in real bias straight at the moment earlier on friday we saw the current foreign ministers gabrielle lash out at martin schultz saying that all that was left was regret it how little respect there was between sen

martin shultz has many many years of experience in brussels so theoretically if he does in fact take that post he will be bringing that to bear so a lot of when they are saying for the social democrats will that be enough to overcome the final hurdle we cannot forget that the s.p.d. party members will have to vote on this agreement about three weeks time. that is the big question martin short's just said in that statement that he hopes the members will read the contract that they will look at what has actually been decided rather than simply voting on a gut feeling of rejecting a grand coalition but as we know twenty four thousand new members have joined the party in recent weeks a number of them in response to a drive by the party's youth wing to get new members precisely in order to vote no on the ground coalition the new membership represents almost five percent of the party so that is not obviously enough to win on its own but it's it will remain very suspenseful for several weeks until we have the outcome of that vote which is probably not going to be before the end of february

will most likely remain the chancellor she will take go into a fourth term probably that leader martin shultz will become the foreign minister particularly the job that he wants but let's look up pessimistically if a deal isn't done then it's down to the president to untangle the mess he has a largely ceremonial role but a very important constitutional role and he will then have to select a proposed chancellor put it to the bundestag for one perhaps two maybe even three different votes and after that if there's no agreement we could be back to a whole new set of general elections here in germany that's not a very good prospect all right paul many thanks indeed i was it was pulled from the life in berlin. italy's prime minister has condemned a shooting by a far right supporter saying that hatred and violence won't be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central town of musharraf's a suspect is in police custody peter shop reports. this was a drive by shooting that italian police said was racially motivated firing from this vehicle the lone gunman is said to h

germany's social democrat leader martin shultz resigned after helping recently. called granny coalition with chancellor merkel. the other big resignation the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with vladimir putin the russian leaders intentions to forge a great russian. coming up in the program in exclusive interview with our to see the head of the court of arbitration for sport defends the olympic committee's decision to exclude russia which the court itself have already cleared of doping allegations. the fact that. the guilt of an athlete that has nothing to do with the case. with all the day's big stories live at the top of the hour every hour this international broadcasting from moscow hello and welcome to our top story germany's social democratic party leader martin schultz has announced his resignation with immediate effect his decision comes after he lost it in the german election to chancellor angela merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to form the coalition to essentially form a majority government f

really written pretty big in this coalition deal of course martin charles a big friend of europe a big friend of brussels and strasburg shultz now gone will that change well it can be said that obviously with shultz as foreign minister europe would have had absolute key point to keep priority if you will but the fact that shows is no longer taking that they are not necessarily mean that europe will be left aside if you look at the coalition deal if you look at the coalition agreement you will see that europe takes center stage which is right at the beginning that key idea of a new europe obviously the coalition agreement loses one of its main proponents in martin short if you will but i still think that conservatives and social democrats are putting europe at the center of the new grand coalition thomas sparrow with the very latest from berlin thank you thomas. brags that opponents in the u.k. have launched a campaign aiming to persuade britons that a second referendum on membership is needed campaigners argue that there should be a final vote on the deal with brussels this time voters would know what a future outside of the