brent: melinda crane, thank you.ere are some of the other stores now that are making headlines around the world. the e saudi journanalist jamalal khashoggi wawas strangled to deh immediately after entering riyadh''s consulate in istananb. that is according to the city's chief prosecutor. he says that khashoggi's body was then cut up and disposed of. saudi arabia's attorney general has now left turkey after talks on the killing. the rebel leader has returned to south sudan to celebrate a peace deal with his longtime rival, the president. the world's youngest nation was plunged into c civil war in 2013 when the president sacked him as his vice president. the country has seen a string of failed cease-fires and peace deals ever since. as the u.s. city of its bird continues to grieve and very it's dead after the synagogue shooting, a grand jury has charged the suspect on 44 different counts, including hate crimes. 11 people were killed in that attack on saturday. the united states says it is sending up to 7000 troops to i

let's pull in melinda crane on the story for us tonight. i know that the german chancellor, i can imagine that she wishes the world would operate and think as she does, in a very slow, thought-out manner but that's not the way politics is. can we say she's a lame duck chancellor? in three years she won't be there anymore. melinda: certainly her influence and power are diminished in comparison to the height of her power when she was mediating and shaping europe's response to the sovereign debt crisis, the greek economic crisis or russia's incursion into crimea but if you look at where we have been the last six months, one would have to say, frankly, it can't get a lot worse. germany has not been at the table. the government has been at least perceived as being extremely self absorbed, riven with divisions. last week i had a french and polish diplomat tell me that as far as they're concerned they're not getting any response out of berlin on key concerns and issues. so clearly this was a bet on the part of the chancellor. she said as much yest

this is an issue close to the heart of melinda gates, co—founder of the bill and melinda gates foundationtes told karishma vaswani that the answer is greater digital distribution. digital is upon us, so whether we like it or not, it's coming and it's already there. three quarters of the world's whole population use cellphones today, and what we're trying to say two countries is you need to make investments both in health and education for sure, you have to have a healthy population, and educated population, but you also have to make investments in digital and the right regulatory framework because you can take advantage of digital, and when young people, which 60% of the continent of africa is under 25, when they have access to capital and credit, they'll start to create new businesses and actually start to create jobs in your economy. there's a lwa ys create jobs in your economy. there's always this criticism of the innovative economy or the technology industry that it possibly leaves workers worse off than some of the most vulnerable may not have the right that they should have. how do

>> i love working with bill and melinda.ny opportunities i've had in my career, when you work with people who are smart and passionate, you can disagree. you can have wonderful dialogue about where to invest, how much to invest, what priorities should be. we very uncommonly disagree, partly because we have very similar values, and in part because they are so clear about the north star foundation. everything we do across the world has one thing in common, and that is equity. sharing that and sharing values means that most of the time we agree. emily: you are also on the board of facebook and i have to ask. on the heels of cambridge analytic and the big attack, the founders of whatsapp and instagram leaving, the public trust in facebook has eroded substantially. what is your best argument for why mark zuckerberg should maintain majority control and chairmanship at this point? >> as a director of facebook and as the lead director of facebook, having worked with mark and having known mark before i joined the board, i'm so impres

well i'm joined now by our chief political correspondent melinda cranes are melinda i guess you know we've had to come the end of the medical error is beginning i mean how important is that for germany it's very significant and she has been head of that party head of the conservative c.d.u. for eighteen years she has been chancellor for over twelve years so she is a very historic figure in this country she has taken the c.d.u. and brought it into the center of the political spectrum opened it for different groups opened it for new topics and issues modernized it as you know many people in the party didn't like where she took her and took it but in fact she has made it electable for many people who would never have cast a vote for the conservatives before hand she also has a very important legacy again controversial in her policy on immigration and she accepted hundreds of thousands of immigrants in twenty fifteen she was controversial but also often viewed as an important leader for what she did during the financial crisis in the sovereign debt crisis in europe so she is a major figu

melinda very briefly if you can will the taxpayer end up with footing the bill that's unclear the finance minister says no but the auto industry at the moment isn't offering much so what we can be pretty certain of is that drivers are going to wind up footing a lot of the bill for example the auto industry says well it might offer a trade in premium which frankly is is pretty fresh given the fact that it was the misdoings the misdeeds of the auto industry that put us in the specific and that made these diesel cars nearly worthless they are now offering premium for trade ins around maybe six to ten thousand euros that's basically far less than half of what these cars would have been worth so certainly the drivers look like they're going to wind up footing the bill whether it's hardware retrofits or or those trade in previous and there are for a new car and that as i say is pretty outrageous and i say that by the way as a diesel under myself melinda grand our chief political correspondent thank you very much. it is one of the most radical shake ups at a german blue chip in decades still mic

well i'm joined now by our chief political correspondent melinda gray i mean these events know how are taking place quickly melinda what would a friedrich merits christian democratic union party look like he hasn't given us a lot to go on so far but what we do know is that he is business friendly always has been both when he was back when he was a politician and now as a corporate lawyer for the last nine years he was also always a big advocate of tax reform of making the tax code so simple and a tax declaration so easy that could be written on the back of a coaster for a year so that probably indicates that he would implement more friendly business policies beyond that he made it clear that he wants to open the doors to let voters who have drifted away to the far right nationalist party return to the fold how exactly he would do that is unclear because they don't care about business friendly policies what they're interested in is migration stopping it he we do know that as a politician he was very much in favor of stricter measures for assimilation to what was known as leading german

and for more i'm now joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane so melinda what more can you tell us about these people who've been arrested. the six men who were arrested today are all between twenty and thirty they are german citizens and they belonged to the skinhead neo nazi far right scene different groups associated with that scene in the city of kemet they also apparently see themselves as leaders of the far right movement in the overall state of saxony which is in eastern germany now they were working together with a seventh man named christian k it's practically a practice here in germany not to use the last name for privacy reasons mr christian kay was detained in the middle of september after that attack you just heard about in the report on september fourteenth he was detained for violence against foreigners and presumably some of the information we're now getting from the prosecutors it does come from the ongoing investigations with christian ok and what we also know is that this group the men founded apparently sometime around september eleventh shortly befo

it's great what melinda does because most of us first experience very smart unintentionally like say it's from a hairdresser or the attention of a teacher some of us personal attention but what melinda has created is intentional as some are so it's like if you want to go and get a massage you go to a professional ms soups if you want the world's best a smart experience in person with someone you're not going to ask your teacher or your hairdresser to give you that experience you're going to go to a place like melinda offers for intentional it's more sessions right and it's really amazing as well i've been there myself and melinda this is just all my goodness she's got the most beautiful car a little guy and. she went into her room her experience and she was doing what we would normally do in a video but to my face which was really a different experience for me and she just got very simply got a cotton bud and started running it over the top of my and talking to me and it was so nurturing and so lovely. i want to do it all again but yes she is fantastic i remember that and even years

gates, co—founder of the bill and melinda gates foundation.er is not to stop digital investments, it is to redistribute them. digital is upon us, so whether we like it or not, it is coming and it is already there. three quarters of the world's population use cellphones today and what we are trying to say the countries is you need to make investments both in health, and education, for sure, you have to have a healthy, educated population, but you also have to make investments in digital in the right regulatory framework, because you could take advantage of digital and when young people, which 60% of the continent of africa is under the age of 25, and they have access to capital and credit, they will start to create new businesses and actually create jobs in your economy. there is always his criticism about the innovative economy or the technology industry, it actually possibly leaves workers at worse off and some of the most honourable may not have the right so they should have, so how do you address these sorts of issues? today, really only in

it's great what melinda does because most of us first experience very smart unintentionally like say it's from a hairdresser or the attention of a teacher someone give us personal attention but what melinda has created is intentional as some are so it's like if you want to go and get a massage you go to a professional ms soups if you want the world's best a smart experienced in person with someone you're not going to ask your teacher or your hairdresser to give you that experience you're going to go to a place like melinda offers for intentional it's more sessions right and it's really amazing as well i've been there myself and melinda this is just our own my goodness she's got the most beautiful car her little guy. and i went into her room her experience and she was doing what we would normally do in a video but to my face which was really a different experience for me and she just got very simply got a cotton boat and started running it over the top of my and talking to me and it was so nurturing and so lovely. i want to do it all again but yeah it was fantastic i remember that and

it's great what melinda does because most of us first experience very smart unintentionally like say it's from a hairdresser or the attention of a teacher someone give us personal attention but what melinda has created is intentional as some are so it's like if you want to go and get a massage you go to a professional ms soups if you want the world's best a smart experienced in person with someone you're not going to ask your teacher or your hairdresser to give you that experience you're going to go to a place like melinda offers for intentional it's more sessions right and it's really amazing as well i've been there myself and melinda this is just our own my goodness she's got the most beautiful car her little guy. and i went into her room her experience and she was doing what we would normally do in a video but to my face which was really a different experience for me and she just got very simply got a cotton bud and started running it over the top of my and talking to me and it was so nurturing and so lovely. i want to do it all again but yes she is fantastic i remember that and e

let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane for more on the story hi melinda how much of an impact will the chancellor's decision to suspend exports have on saudi arabia. well germany is a very important arms supplier for saudi arabia it's also a very important trading and investment partner so what we're seeing unfold here in germany right now not only the decision to suspend arms exports but also the fact that a number of very important companies are pulling back from attending a coming saudi investment conference for example that definitely does have impact but i think there are essentially two factors to consider first of all what will happen the contracts for arms exports that have already been signed will those two not be carried out that would certainly increase the magnitude of the impact on saudi arabia the opposition the junior coalition partner is pushing for that as are some of the opposition parties but it's unclear at the moment whether the government will in fact apply this suspension also to already signed contracts secondly there important is whether o

crane reporting for us melinda thank you for that update. to iraq now where fears are growing that the recent killings of a number of influential women may be linked last week a women's rights activist was shot dead outside a supermarket in the city of basra and just days later a social media star with millions of followers was gunned down in broad daylight and we have our social media editor jared reed with us here in studio jared these killings are shocking what is going on so you just mentioned two of the most recent killings but in fact there's been a total of four since august and people are starting to warry they've been targeted that they may be being targeted because of their outspokenness online and in public life and they're going against the norms of what is a conservative patriarchal society in iraq i want to tell you first about far as she was a former beauty queen turned instagram celebrity she had three million followers on instagram and her profile is pretty typical for your regular instagram influence lots of makeup showing

phil: let's get more from melinda. what more do we know about the suspects? >> these men are all german citizens between 20 and around 30 years of age. and they're known to the police to be associated with neo-nazi huell began and right-wing extremist groups in the city of chemnitz. they seem themselves part of the larger right-wing group. they were working together with a man named christian k who is known as the ringleader of the group. he's been in detention since the middle of september, since one of those protests in chemnitz. the group were, as they called revolution chemnitz. they seem to be not only isolated attacks on foreigners or people of other political persuasion but in fact toppling the democratic system here in germany as a whole. so big aim. phil: so it does sound, then, the risk of far-right terror remains high here in germany? >> that's what german officials are saying, both at federal and at state level. the interior minister said this -- these arrests were a real blow against right-wing extremism but he also did say, yes, the threat remai

attend to a string of agents developing conferences among them the goalkeeper event hosted by the melinda bill and melinda gates foundation and that foundation tracks progress towards the united nations sustainable development agenda. the good news is that worldwide extreme poverty defined as living on less than a dollar ninety a day has fallen drastically in the last three decades the bad news that extreme poverty is now concentrating in fast growing africa. by two thousand and fifty almost ninety percent of the world's extreme poor are expected to live in sub-saharan africa many of them in the democratic republic of congo and i geria does the call from gates for more aid more resources and more investment while the world's done a great job getting people out of extreme poverty but it's committee a huge challenge in africa with the population growth the disease burden there so our innovation in new tools our aid generosity we're going to have to do an even better job in africa than we've ever done in the past sustainable practices across the west are also a focus because even in somalia

also in business briefing melinda gates has been talking to the bbc about making sure noone is left behinde digital revolution. a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. also today the uk government begins a pilot scheme to try and tackle loneliness — cookery classes will get underway and in some cases the postman will be popping in to check in on people. tell us what you think. is this effective or tokenism? how do we fix loneliness? get in touch — use hashtag #bbcthebriefing. it's a crucial week for the british government and the eu. uk prime minister theresa may will take her proposalfor a brexit deal to a summit in brussels on wednesday. but there's been n0 breakthrough at the latest talks with negotiators. the irish border remains a central issue. and in westminster, pressure is mounting on mrs may. our political correspondent vicki young reports. it's crunch time for brexit talks, and time for a flying visit to brussels by the man in charge of the uk's negotiations. dominic raab spentjust over an hour with his opposite n

we will hear from melinda gates who singapore. don't go away.nts and global economy. there has been a development in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. there has been a telephone conversation about a joint investigation between rich and tape erdogan and prince mohammed that someone. “— erdogan and prince mohammed that someone. —— erdogan. —— mohammad bin salman. the studies have denied allegations that mr khashoggi was murdered. we will bring you more on bbc world news. thank you for joining us. we will see you again soon. hello there, good morning. the last 2a hours has seen the number of flood warnings reducing as the wettest of the weather moved its way a little bit further east. gradually, everything will come in from the atlantic over the next few days. this band of cloud working its way towards our shores by tuesday. that area of cloud contains a bit of ex—hurricane michael. that's going to slip its way into iberia. that's where we're feeding up all our cloud and outbreaks of rain at the moment, so more of that coming back into england

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we have some interesting comments from melinda gates, the co—founder of the bill and melinda gates foundatione impact of technology but how you provide equal access to technology. digital is upon us, access to technology. digital is upon us, so access to technology. digital is upon us, so whether we like it or not it is coming and it is already there. three quarters of the world population use cellphones today. what we are trying to say the countries is you need to make investments in health and education, you have to have a healthy population, and educated population but you also have to make investments in digital in the right regulatory framework because you can ta ke regulatory framework because you can take advantage of digital and when young people, which 50% of the continent of africa is under 25, when they have access to capital they will start to create new businesses and create jobs in your economy. there's always this criticism about the innovative economy and technology industries that leaves workers worse off and some of the most vulnerable may not have the rights that they shoul

melinda gates wants big tech companies to help more of the world's poor.ir of the bill and melinda gets foundation thinks policymakers should incentivize philanthropy for tech firms. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: it switched parties in each of the last four elections. new hampshire's first congressional district now has an open seat. eddie edwards joins us from manchester, hampshire. good to have you with us. >> great to be here, thank you>> . nature of the the constituents you are appealing to. consistent with the folks in our district is that these are american patriots. these are americans who want their country brought together. they want a representative who will be able to work to bring our country back together. that is what they have been asking for. that is what they have been pushing for. that is why i am happy to be the republican nominee. david: how does that play at a practice, especially on th

string of aid and development conferences among them the goal keeper event hosted by the bill and melinda gates foundation that tracks progress toward the un's sustainable development agenda. the good news is that worldwide extreme poverty defined as living on less than a dollar ninety a day has fallen drastically in the last three decades the bad news that extreme poverty is now concentrating in fast growing africa. by two thousand and fifty almost ninety percent of the world's extreme poor are expected to live in sub-saharan africa many of them in the democratic republic of congo and nigeria thus the call from gates for more aid more resources and more investment will the world's done a great job getting people out of extreme poverty but it's community huge challenge in africa with the population growth the disease burden there are so our innovation in new tools are a generosity we're going to have to do an even bet. our job in africa than we've ever done in the past sustainable practices across the west are also a focus because even in somalia i've personally seen in somalia and in the

stick that was the wrong place so let us get analysis from the dublin chief political correspondent melinda crane i welcome belinda so effectively to announcements that the chancellor started out as chair of her party and will not fight for the chancellorship of the next election so what do those two announcements mean for her party at this stage first of all for the party it means that it theoretically at least can begin to govern proactively rather than reactively and that. disentangle its fate and its future from the chancellor and begin to look toward the future rather to than toward the past she has become so controversial for her decision in the twenty fifteen to admit hundreds of thousands of refugees that it has provoked ceaseless internal party strife particularly with the cd use of area in a sister party the c s u and that strife has simply drowned out other topics other achievements to the point that many germans are thoroughly sick of the bickering and we've seen voters both in bavaria and in hessen saying sending a message saying we want this to stop one of the conservative sor

not being exactly the way we wanted that to end but let's press on melinda crane is the w.'s the chief political correspondent welcome. what would a free to lead to cd you look like. well mr matz didn't give us a whole lot to go by in his announcement today but it's certainly safe to say that it would be a business friendly party probably more so than it is right now he is known for example for his strong advocacy some years back when he was still in politics of an enormous simplification of the tax code that would also have been accompanied by tax reductions and he is very close to the business friendly wing of the conservative party so that's one part of it but he also made it very clear today that he is eager to win back voters conservative voters who may have drifted away from the party into the arms of the right wing nationalist alternative for germany the a.f.d. and he's not going to do that with business friendly policies and tax reductions the thing they are concerned about is immigration so would he propose much tighter immigration policies or possibly look toward m

we're told the list also included journalists so clearly a pretty pretty concrete plan that they had melinda crane thank you. this year's nobel prize for medicine has been jointly awarded to two immunologist for their work on therapies to combat cancer announcing its decision a short while ago the currents the institute in stockholm said the prize would be shared by fans to go and james alison of the us now allison started a protein that functions as a brake on the mean system while hundreds discovery of a protein on immune cells led to effective treatments in the fight against cancer. in spain's catalonia region protesters are marking the one year anniversary of a referendum on breaking away from madrid that was banned by spanish authorities and plunged the country into a political crisis a year later independence demonstrators have been rallying in this streets demanding that their voices be heard. i independence activists marching in the streets of the council on capital barcelona they also sat down on the tracks of the railway station in the town of hebron or while out in the countryside

this more and more i'm sure in the coming weeks and months of another chief political correspondent melinda quite like you. guys are some of the other stories making news around the world for the prime suspect in the weekend's deadly synagogue shooting in pittsburgh is that due to appear in court forty six year old robert bowers is accused of carrying out the mass coming on saturday a morals been set up outside the tree of life synagogue in the city eleven people were killed. a female suicide bomber has blood herself opportunities capital the country's interior minister says nine people including eight police officers were wounded the incident reportedly took place in central. news near the city's landmark municipal theater police have cordoned off the area. in brazil far right firebrand the giant balls that are has won a sweeping victory in the country's presidential election official results are giving more than fifty five percent of the vote ten points ahead of leftist candidate and i know her dad was an hour has pledged to crack down on crime and corruption. around three quarters of the

how much did you given up to melinda. it's worth remembering that japan's crime rates are amongst the lowest in the world and that's why the story of the modern day you're closer is much less about a particular crime problem than it is about a rapidly vanishing breed. prosecution only to become almost. equal where you push. the threshold fines. by the time on plus you do i mean yeah i mean i mean political pressure on the. security industry knows what the. business models used by american corporations. to see to produce. a set of. eyes up in association. as it is just really really came to an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. i did the war planning for the principal force provider command in the united states military for four years i've worked on this region for years i do not understand this saudi arabia is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the world still today and yet we call here on that we lie when we say that we right blatantly lie when we say that and moreover we know where the lie. being. seas

must be given up to melinda. it's worth remembering that japan's crime rates are amongst the lowest in the world and that's why the story of the modern day you're closer is much less about a particular crime problem than it is about a rapidly vanishing breed. well let's figure this government official of president a lefty through the system because we have gotten so much i'm too liberal the system is not designed for people like me. as long as there's. different people who are here for different reasons but also job we also have. most people in philadelphia are only a ballot two paychecks away from homelessness. sometimes you can. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go on to be press this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house. first city. prosecution will need to be criminals in this show before the pump is all. over you push us off the thread you'll find someb

deep.bris is 10 feet >> is melinda in seattle, washington. one of many thoughts we are collecting before the president starts to speak at 7:30. we will go live to you when that starts. 50-48 was the vote. collecting data when it comes to the senate. twitterfind them on our feed. this is according to the c-span archives. beginning when the debate spent 33the senate hours 47 minutes debating that cavanagh nomination. kavanaugh nomination. other facts, the number of senators who spoke on the nomination since september 28 when the senate vote began, a total of 65 people. those speaking against it, 35. for it, 65. a total of 100. seven democrats did not speak at all. mark warner of virginia. joe manchin of west virginia. tightf them involved in senate races. folks saying 28 republicans did not speak. jeff flake of arizona. john boozman of arkansas. you can find out more at our website, c-span.org. confirmationll the video of this process at c-span.org. a lot of information for you to digest. thomas in pennsylvania, republican line. go ahead. grate

. >> reporter: melinda jackson is the head of the political science department. >> do your own research. do not rely on things coming in your social media feed or ads on tv. use the power of the network to fact check the network. >> reporter: most importantly don't give up. >> don't be discouraged. it is easy to be cynical and what to tune out. it doesn't take that much time, maybe an hour out of your life to do your civic duty. >> i like that, one hour out of your life. >> we have red flag warnings in some parts? >> we do. and that is going in effect tonight starting at 11:00. we will tell you more in specifics in just a few seconds. but i want we see the wind building in the hills. we have high pressure withe nor us out into the pacific. and any time at all during weather at all across the globe from high pressure to low pressure, air flows. it is really rushing a lot of air from high pressure to low pressure. it is creating this vacuum effect and it is going to drive these winds out of the north. that is why we have a red fire weather in effect. it is for specific parts of the bay ar

melinda fleming/neighbor:"he's not looking for a free ride. he appreciates everything that everybody's doing for him." jeremy donovan/father of keegan donovan:"it feels so good i can't even describe it, this is one of the toughest things i've ever done."once jeremy gets to the pacific coast he plans on getting a job for the winter.he says he also plans on settle in an area where theres a town with a very familiar name.jeremy donovan/father of keegan donovan:"hammond on the east coast, hammond on the west coast. try to learn the ocean." when prime boating season rolls back around jeremy's heading up pacific ocean coast with keegans ashes for alaska. jeremy donovan/father of keegan donovan:"i got a kayak right there, see it? boat goes down we'll ride in that. so it is what it is, i won't stop." (ken) (ken) (ken)coming up: a woman calls 9-1-1 on a black man babysitting two white children. why the parents of those kids say they are outraged (terisa) two men are accused of tampering with the pumps at a gas station in sunnyvale.how the man were caug

are trying to find out why a building collapsed at least one person is known to have been killed in melinda several dozen the war rescue. because president has sacked the prime minister and replaced him with his predecessor mahinda rajapakse sworn in on friday and replaces for neil. work i'm singing and says he's still in office saying the decision to remove him is illegal follows the collapse of the governing coalition and now fernandez has more from colombo. developments here in sri lanka giving the frieze never seen never heard almost completely different twist the former president mahinda rajapaksa now sworn in as new prime minister now the swearing in this development coming as a board from the blue no one here with the political circles in general day to day life expected it what we're hearing from the president's media division was that the president might or policy ricin swore in the former president now this is not something that many people expect they were almost sworn enemies after seriously in the defeated rajapaksa at the last presidential election now running a victory macing

died in kenya after a building collapsed several people are trapped in the rubble in the town of melinda the rescue workers are on the scene and more than a dozen people have been pulled out so far locals believe the collapse may have been caused by strong winds it's been more than a year now since u.s. trade and economic sanctions against sudan were lifted but since then the country's economy has continued to struggle with cash shortages in the banks and soaring inflation rate here but morgan reports now from the capital khartoum it no matter how mad is trying to withdraw money from his own account he needs cash to put food on the table and support his family but he says it's often not possible. to get it done us proud so i wanted to withdraw five thousand pounds or about eighty five dollars and days ago i couldn't withdraw it all sometimes there's money sometimes there's no money in the banks. economic problems began more than two decades ago when the u.s. imposed financial sanctions accusing sudan of supporting terrorism most of the sanctions were lifted last year and sudan devalued i

chief political correspondent melinda welcome linda so we're talking about to announce from son stepping down as party leader in december and as chancellor in twenty twenty one start with the conservative party losing. as its party leader what does that mean first of all that they can at least in theory start governing proactively rather than reactively and that they can disentangle their image and their future from the chancellor and the past she has become americal deeply controversial even within her own party for the decision that she took in two thousand and fifteen to allow hundreds of thousands of german immigrants to enter germany now whatever you may think of that decision it has been a very sore point within her party which has been riven by divisions ever since it took office many voters are absolutely sick of the bickering and that's the message they sent both from the area and from the state of has. she stepped on his party later in december and the conservatives have a new leader how does that affect the coalition because she will still be chancellor the idea is that it wou

let's hear more from chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda's under the magical says this is business as usual the negotiating position will not change but can she now be relied on to deliver for international partners. certainly they seem to hope so there were a number of european and international legal leaders who have essentially paid tribute to her decision over the past twenty four hours and said that they expect to continue doing business with her until the end of her term as chancellor in twenty twenty one and clearly the chancellor's take on this is that she and her government can now finally get down to business yesterday when she announced her decision she said that her government had conveyed a completely unacceptable image and in fact the perception not only here at home in germany but amongst many international partners of this country is that the government has been very very self-absorbed riven with internal dissent essentially ever since it took office just last week i have to diplomats one for perhaps one from poland told me that they have the f

may see uncle america's term in power and sooner rather than later chief political correspondent melinda craig thank you. so at the news in germany's biggest post-war serial murder case for the nurses admitting killing one hundred patients forty one year old neil's made the admission join his trial for mass murder in the northern city of bremen already serving a life for previous killings at two different hospitals the scale of his alleged crimes has shocked the country the defendant is accused of committing mass murder his motivation according to the prosecution boredom and vanity. and unusually large crowd turned up to witness the proceedings the trial was taking place in a conference center to accommodate the crowd many relatives of the victims of. the trial is unusual because there are so many people involved who have sent one hundred twenty six hope plaintiffs. they're being represented by seventeen lawyers from that means the trial is huge just because of the number of people involved and the defendant is alleged to have injected his victims with drugs to bring about a cardiac arre

there was a german chancellor angela merkel there let's fill in our chief political correspondent melinda crane she's on the story for us tonight well and you know i know that the german chancellor i can imagine that she wishes that the world would operate in think as as she daws in and of in a very slow or maybe thought out manner but that's not the way politics is can we say that she's now a lame duck chancellor we know in three years she won't be there anymore. certainly her influence and power are diminished in comparison to the height of her power when she was mediating and shaping europe's response to the sovereign debt crisis the greek economic crisis or russia's incursions into crimea but if you look at where we've been for the last six months one would have to say frankly it can't get a lot worse germany absolutely has not been at the table it has been the government has been at least perceived as being extremely self-absorbed riven with divisions just last week i had both a french and polish diplomat tell me that as far as they're concerned they're essentially not getting any re