is chancellor merkle likely to get a morale-boosting win?e elections today are not about merkle, it's about the governor of bavaria and this is the party when the government decided to hold elections today and not next week, together with the national elections, they were hoping for a positive signal. and there is no doubt that the most conservative party of germany, bavaria will see it as the strongest party. >> so in other words, yes, she is likely to get or receive a very strong message from bavaria? positive? >> well, she will receive a strong message but as always the devil lies in the detail f bavaria will become too strong it will be difficult in the government off the elections next week to continue with the same policy as before. because then she will be confronted with very self confident conservative and somehow anti-european sentiments coming from bavaria. that's one of her problems. the other one is that the liberal party, the current junior partner in the government of merkle is likely to disappear from the scene because they w

. >> reporter: polls suggest voters trust merkle as much as the spd to bring about social justice.rs back, the social democrats need to cast their net wider possibly by wooing big business, hard to do without being seen as losing your social democratic soul. on the next step of our tour through germany ahead of the vote, we'll be visiting a poor down, looking at voters who are tempted by political extremes. >> the inventor of the dole by sound system as died at the age of 80. he pioneered a noise reduction method that resulted in crystal clear found he founded his company in 1965, and decades later, dole by technology is widely used the audio master won a grammy, two emmies and an as ca are fooscar for his mine ear. twitter says it plans to go public the stock offering is the most anticipated since facebook listed its shares last year old. here we explain why in 140 characters. >> reporter: these days you haven't made a point on the web until you add a had been tag. welcome thashtag, welcome to the world of twitter, news outletting advertising form and real time communication forum

merkl will have to turn to the social democrat for help. >> the land coalition was during ankle and la merkel's first term. there are not many issues that divide the leading party. many germans would prefer the coalition anyway. >> translator: she's the one who had the sign the majority. >> the influence of the policies could stop germany in europe. >> it's less pressure on authority and maybe some countries will get more time. >> the shape of any government coalition the what he means for europe and the world could take weeks the decide. during the whole skwr* -- >> >> two suicide bombers struck the northwest city of parshawar this morning. this is the old saint's church in parshawar moments after. members of the congregation gathered for the free rice. when some went outside to get the food, the bombers detonated the explosives. >>> there were in victims. two of the victims were lying on that side. i personally rescued some 70 victims and with the help of others put them in the ambulance. >> reporter: the initial evidence suggest the explosives were packed with ball bearings. >> call

and shaping the face of german politics we look at how merkle is the most popular politician. ♪ in yemenpeople are killed in to separate attacks on military targets in the south of the country and al-qaeda fighters are suspected to be behind two car bombs which exploded at a military camp in the providence and another ten soldiers were killed by gunman on patrol. al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula carried out multiple attacks and capitalized on the vacuum since the ousting of the president last year and it's one of the most dangerous groups in part because of the attacks that it planned on airlines. for more on what is happening in yemen we are joined by ashtin who recently returned from yemen and al-qaeda thought to be behind the latest attacks and do tell us more about what happened. >> from sources under ground and also from the states issued by the army a while ago they say they were two bombing attacks targeting two military posts, one of army and police in the providence, an al-qaeda stronghold and dozens killed and many injuries and many weapons and military vehicles confiscated by

a german parliamentary elections are heating up and merkle and sine brook have nine days to win overhe parties are strong on social justice but as al jazeera nick spicer found out when he visited hamburg even the party's usual supporters are skeptical this time around. >> on this part of our tour of germany as it prepares to vote we are going toward the city of hamburg and a stronghold of the social democratic party and looking at why some of the voters are beginning to feel a bit adrift. these days fisherman is like a social democratic party or spd. over the years the daily catch he gathers with his son has been getting smaller and smaller. the same goes for the spd and their hall of voters and used to vote for the party, no longer. >> translator: we are no longer the party of the little man. all they are interested in is power. >> reporter: hamburg is an old city of sailors, dock workers and the tradition of left wing politics going back to the 19th century and the creation of the modern welfare state so you think of a social democrats campaign promises of instituting a national mi