well for more now i'm joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda tell us why all these talks so important today and all we like each see sparks fly i think we are likely to see sparks fly and they're important because in order to start coalition talks with the other potential partners in in a coalition the chancellor first test to achieve some kind of unity between her own party and its bavarian sister party the christian social union and these two parties are essentially umbilically joined there often referred to as sister parties but the fact is they differ very deeply on issues such as immigration and the head of that very and sister party essentially now has his back to the wall many people view him as politically vulnerable because the party got fairly weak results in the recent election therefore he's under pressure to try to essentially affirm his own very conservative position but he's facing a chancellor who quite well will object to that so i think very tough talks today and yet no other talks with any other potential partners can. go ahead until these t

well for more now i'm joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda tell us why all these talks so important today and are we likely to see sparks fly i think we are likely to see sparks fly and they're important because in order to start coalition talks with the other potential partners in in the coalition. the chancellor first test to achieve some kind of unity between her own party and its bavarian sister party the christian social union and these two parties are essentially umbilically joined they're often referred to as sister parties but the fact is they differ very deeply on issues such as immigration and the head of that very and sister party essentially now has his back to the wall many people view him as politically vulnerable because the party got fairly weak results in the recent election therefore he's under pressure to try to essentially affirm his own very conservative position but he's facing a chancellor who quite well will object to that so i think very tough talks today and yet no other talks with any other potential partners can go ahead until the

don't lose chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda what put investigators on to this man they appeared to have conducted surveillance both online and also by telephone and then as well sent a team physically to watch this man during the recent weeks we're told that he had a number of contacts online to people who were considered to be either jihadist sympathizers or propagators of propagandizes of violence and we're also told that he had physical contact to such people here in germany as well so from everything that we can see there was were multiple levels of surveillance by multiple instances ranging from federal investigators to state investigators in three different german states on what would use targets and how far advanced were his plans. we don't know precisely what targets he was looking at we're told by police sources that he intended to conduct an attack against a large assembled assembly of persons so clearly in a public place and he possessed many but not all of the ingredients necessary to make a highly explosive bomb there were still a few ingredients h

happen till after that and that means it could be january or later chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you very much. sports news now and for me no one the japanese grown prius provided the setting for a crucial showdown between lewis hamilton and sebastien official now how milton sot of the race thirty four points ahead of fetter and with just four races left after this weekend's action the ferrari driver it a big performance to have a chance of regaining his title. the locals gave sebastian fattal a warm welcome on race day and another german world champion footballer lukas podolski was on hand to offer his support to me but fertile knew the odds were against him his main title rival lewis hamilton started the race in pole position the messages man wasn't giving any ground following his lead through the first corner. and it wasn't long before disaster struck for federal. political power. in just the fourth lap his ferrari suffered engine problems bringing his race to a premier to end the hammer blow to his diminishing title hopes hamilton took full advantage the british driver

and our chief political correspondent linda crane is out those celebrations and minds to choices for more high melinda so how together is the germany a twenty seven years after unification. well economically and materially east and west are closer than they have been at any point since unification on many indicators like unemployment the two are pretty much at the same level though productivity and g.d.p. do lag behind in the east but the perhaps biggest barriers are not visible ones not material ones but the barriers that are in people's minds as a recent survey puts it it shows that a large majority of germans in both east and west feel there's still a kind of a berlin wall in people's minds and certainly that was evident in the recent election results as you remember the far right a f d a party the alternative for germany took twelve point six percent of the vote nationally overall but it took over twenty seven percent in some parts of the east and came in first before the mainstream parties so there clearly is a sense in many parts of the east that people are dropping behind that they simply can't

and a crane there reporting there from the celebrations taking place in mind today melinda thank you very much. so reunification has brought mixed political and cultural success but what about the economically get out those who make anomic leaders so also there's also the invisible berlin wall that melinda just referred to twenty seven years ago west germany inherited a run down economy west german taxpayers transferred an estimated two million euros eastward since then to probably engines and wages and to finance the exchange of the worthless eastern currency into hard deutschmarks much has improved since then but to this day differences we may just take a look at disposable income with an average income of nineteen thousand euros per capita the lowest only regions are still almost completely located in the former east germany areas with per capita income of twenty one thousand tend to be those bordering the former is that's due to limited investment in these areas during the cold or era in contrast germany's richest regions are all in the former west as humble. and very in the sout

went very quickly and i'm chief political correspondent linda crane with the latest that coalition negotiations here in berlin thank you melinda. ben is back with more business and impressive earnings than i but a mixed reception been a good day in europe but in asia a completely different story which is surprising considering all the good earnings data starting with apple's i phone ten and it started offering the hotly anticipated new device on friday and within minutes demand exceeded supply apple was forced to push back shipments through late november than december shares of apple supplies listed in taiwan climbed on monday with some up around four percent major i phone assemble haun high precision industry also known as foxconn was up nearly two percent let's go live to a greater hang out asia correspondent who's based in singapore and why the mixed result first of all. well the market did start strong in the day as you said apple manufacturing shares did go up of course obviously due to the effect from the preorders of the i phone x or the i phone ten then flashing flashing in so unfortunately some weak market fundamental

germany does grow together in future to do these more in the crane there reporting there from the celebrations taking place in mines today melinda thank you very much. so mixed political and social success twenty seven years on but what about economically monica has more well so many also mixed one might say because twenty seven years ago west germany inherited an east german economy that lay in tatters some two trillion euros were transferred by west german taxpayers since then to prop up the east then chancellor helmut kohl also known as the father of german unification promised that very soon flowering landscapes would appear in the east of that nobody would be worse off well that is not the case to this day differences between east and west remain and they're quite steve just take a look at disposable income with an average per capita income of nineteen thousand euro the lowest earning regions are still mostly located in the former east germany here in dark red areas with a per capita income of twenty one thousand euros tend to be those bordering the former east due to the limited investment in these areas during the cold wa

a crane has been reflecting on that question she joins us now from the city of minds where the syria's main celebrations are taking place tomorrow this year being together we are germany hello melinda. tell us how together is germany twenty seven years after unification. well germany has made enormous strides economically unemployment in most parts of the east is almost as low as in the west and the centers of eastern german cities tend to look as tidy and prosperous as this western city of minds but there are still big economic caps productivity in the east is twenty percent lower than in the west g.d.p. twenty seven percent lower and perhaps the biggest barriers though are invisible ones a survey this week by the bills newspaper showed that sixty two percent of west germans but fully three quarters of eastern germans say there is still something like a berlin wall in people's minds deep deep divisions and as you said those divisions were very much in evidence during the recent national election ten days ago when in some parts of the east the far right alternative for germany party the a.f.d. came in with the largest share of the vote twenty seven percent in saxony compared to thi