or maybe three of the major ministries namely the foreign ministry the finance ministry and the ministry of labor especially interesting here is that the social democrats are taking over the finance ministry which for the last forward four years was run by the christian democrats by the conservatives so it seems that the conservatives have made quite major concessions to the social democrats in order to make this agreement possible hence just a note to our viewers that there's a little box in the lower right hand side of the screen while we are monitoring that crowd right behind you we're waiting for the party leaders to come out and give a statement about this final agreement we'll be listening life to that as soon as they arrive there hans but as you said there were some major concessions made by americans conservatives what does that tell us about the position that they are in . well knuckle herself when she went into the negotiations yesterday morning more than twenty four hours again ago was already speaking about the need to make what she called painful concessions and it seems ver

for the a speedy you've got the foreign minister the foreign ministry finance ministry and the ministry for labor and social affairs those are the three ministries where the money's being spent and would gemini's role in the well that's being defined so this is a major success and this is what i can read into this. message that's come out from the whatsapp group this is there any information we have so far from the s.p.d. now whether that's going to convince the s.p.d. based on not that far and anybody's guess as we know they have to give their steel into the posse base so that they or the four hundred sixty thousand s.p.d. members can actually vote on that deal and there are also people who said whatever they negotiate i just don't want to be in a coalition government with uncle michael so we'll see that's right the legitimacy of the p.d. the credibility of the s.p.d. i should say is that state to some degree in these talks because they initially after the election said no no no you know the party leader martin shows never going to go in a coalition again with with chancellor merkel at

in bavaria whether they get the interior ministry reports are saying at the moment that the ministry the interior ministry could be expanded to include the source of the area which means the holy land and we know that the conservative group in the very of the conservative party in the varia they tend to have even stronger even harsher positions on issues like immigration on topics like refugees etc so if they get the interior ministry and that means that angle america really has made a lot of concessions and that is something definitely to watch you mention that the political landscape has changed and some of the frustration of the voters feel that maybe the political parties haven't kept up how has germany changed and in particular in the past four months as these parties have been wrangling with each other. germany is still in a in a phase of change i think people are beginning to a knowledge that things can't go on the way they've always been germany is still of course a stable country we have do have an acting government so things are working ok but some people are accusing the g

ministry think three key ministries the. macropod he doesn't get a single key ministry so when it comes to who actually gets the money to do what they want to do it's it's going to be the democrats who decide and not the christian democrats this is amazing and if they can't sell that point the concept on the thing charlotte quite a bit of money is involved this could be one of the most expensive coalitions ever if it does in fact keep all its promises forty five billion just for new projects the head of the social democratic party still head of the social democratic party because apparently it's going to step down from that position martin truex said when he presented the agreement that it had the s.p.d. stamp all over it would you agree with that well i think so i mean it's not very detailed so we can can't really tell but i think it caters to the labor unions that caters to the workers there are some improvements immediate improvement for for workers and terms of contracts that all made it in there also in terms of health

in the new government that is to be formed bettors the foreign ministry the finance ministry and the ministry of labor in addition to another couple of maybe less important ministries there's been much speculation about what the role of a speedy leader martin shows is going to be it has been reported for some time this morning that he is likely to be foreign minister which you would agree with the fact that he spent a lot of his political life in brussels in the european parliament in other words he is somebody who has a lot of interests and a lot of competence in foreign policy but there has been some some speculation that in order to become foreign minister he might give up eating being as the leader of the social democratic party that he might hand over party leadership to another leading politicians of the social democrats when asked about this the leading social democrats that we're entering the building behind me now in the last few minutes have refused to comment and have said that shows himself is going to be speaking in the not too distant future in the near future and will

the foreign ministry and the ministry of labor these are clearly three very crucial ministries for the social democrats and mean that they have driven a hard bargain in this discussion with the conservatives until now the finance ministry was controlled by the conservatives they have given that up to give it to the social democrats also the foreign ministry obviously is important and for the social democrats controlling labor is crucial for their membership crucial for their policies crucial for the questions that they have been trying to push for during these negotiations on the conservative side one of two conservative politicians also enter the bowling recently for further discussions for finalizing the final documents that are going to be released here soon and there have been saying that's difficult concepts sions painful disco concessions as i call them have to be made through the console through the social democrats in order to ensure that germany will have a new government and a functioning government so it seems that this agreement does has been reached and that the social dem

plus, they get ministry finance. they get the foreign ministry. they get the social ministry. they get three key ministries. merkel's party doesn't get a single ministry. when it comes to who gets the money to do what they want to do, it's going to be the social democrats who decide and not the christian democrats. this is amazing. melinda: charlotte, quite a bit of money is involved. this could be one of the most expensive coalitions ever if it does keep all of its problems is -- promises. the head of the social democratic party still, apparently he will step down, martin shall, said when he presented the agreement, it had the stamps all over it. would you agree? charlotte: i think so. it caters to the labor unions, it caters to the workers. there is something it improvement for workers in terms of contracts that all made it in there. also in terms of health care. very domestic issues that they could put their stamp on. i agree that the ministry personalities they are pushing forward is a huge deal and the thatellor said herself it's been painful. concessionsen huge made and

taken the foreign ministry we would have taken the ministry of social affairs but the s.p.d. insisted from the outset that it wanted those three ministries and without them they would not join the coalition because it's called many in the c.d.u. say the chancellor negotiated badly others simply call it a conservative social democrat coalition compromise. and it was we knew that the members of the social democrats they now have to approve this deal briefly what are the chances that they will say no well exactly that is the point that is the very big hurdle that implications they'll face because we're talking here of more than four hundred thousand s.p.d. members who have to give the green light to this coalition deal on this a lot of them especially among the youth wing of the social democrats are very skeptical about the prospect of another grand coalition so it is indeed a very big hurdle that the politicians still have ahead of them and one where it is very difficult to predict in which way it will go our political correspondent thomas fare on the story for streamlines here

well russia's defense ministry has confirmed him as major a month. now the ministry said that he was a very experienced pilot and that he has been to syria for several times and now they've given also some details on his life the ministry said that he had he had graduated from krasnodar flight institute and that he had served in russia so far east for quite some time in the ministry also said that he's family will get all the support that they need now the pilot's plane was shot down on saturday near of the province and north western syria which is controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group all nusra and other militants now the pilot a managed to a jacket from the aircraft but was then or for a while and by terrorists has the weapon was found with an empty magazine and two others have spent and number on various video quite graphic videos and photos quickly surface online after the incident where one can see militants taking selfies with the pilots and even stomping on the debris of the crashed plane and now russia has already reacte

the ministry of foreign affairs the ministry of finance and the ministry of labor obviously the ministry of labor is particularly important for the social democrats but most remarkable is the fact that they will be controlling finances this is something that the conservative party of america has been controlled controlling for the past four years so i think one can say that the social democrats have managed to make major to gain major concessions during these negotiations the conservatives have as anglo-american has put it made painful concessions as a result i think the possibility of selling this agreement to the membership of the social democrats which is the next hurdle that has to be taken is is intact at least the certain democratic leadership will be able to go to the membership with a substantial agreement which might well be something that the membership will in the end support and so we see the crowd of the journalists and their cameras behind you waiting for the official statement from the party leaders but little by little members of the negotiating parties have been coming o

leader the finance ministry which is a big fish obviously and the minister of ministry of labor which is especially important for the social democrats and their voters their. their membership so they have been major concessions on the part of the christian democrats are for i'm going to malcolm's party but at the same time i want to say obviously i'm going to marco is going to stay chancellor for another couple of years or so at least so in that sense all parties seem to be satisfied with the outcome of these elections they have all i know officially confirmed that an agreement has been reached but i have to add there has not been an official announcement that's right time so we see all the cameras behind you and we're all waiting for that announcement for someone to come outside and i tell them more about this agreement but what exactly has been holding up this agreement has so long what are what is the point that they have been wrangling about for weeks now. well one has to say that they did negotiate pretty quickly if you consider that this has been going on for just over a week an

foreign ministry have got the s.p.d. aren't you afraid that you're going to have to do more towards what mccann wants then you might want to. buy m forty two when it comes to positioning as. the france scope of me what do you think is going to happen are you going to be pulling the putting on the brakes the whole time to slow down the social democratic ministries and then mr schwartz it would seem then when it comes to your citizens health insurance you haven't been able to do what you wanted but you've got three important ministries here how are you going to defused the impression towards your members that at the end of the day it was more about ministries perhaps your own position and not so much about content. well first of all the mostly year financial framework is dealt with by the foreign ministry and that's nothing new it's been the case for some time now and i've weathered it fine we have to social democrat ministers in the past with parish time work in the first grand coalition from two thousand and five to two

so he apply those to his ministry, to the school, and that was a big reason for the phenomenal growth. he just thought differently than most pastors do. my father founded thomas road baptist church in 1956. the growth of the church was astronomical. it started with 35 adults. former bottling company facility that still had syrup on the floors. it was a very humble beginning, but it grew so fast, in 10 years, there were over 1000 television ministry, started at that time, and it became national. he was one of the first national religious broadcasters, and so, his ministry had really skyrocketed and been super successful. and he started liberty in 1971. liberty university was founded because in the 1970's, 1960's, christian you were a -- evangelical christian young person and you wanted to attend a christian college, you really -- the only choice you had was a small college with limited academic offerings, mainly bible schools. somethingher thought is wrong. there ought to be a world-class youngsity for evangelical people, like notre dame's for catholic young people, like brigham young

most to his voters and that is the interior ministry they've also kept the defense ministry those are two critical member ministries exactly for a little rivers a right wing the interior ministry is going to be beefed up it's going to include a homeland ministry hindmarsh homeland security and again that is exactly what his voters would be looking for they want issues like german cultural identity to be on the agenda they want to talk about securing the country's borders and while those will be firmly in the hands of the most conservative party on the political spectrum that is not the far right namely the christian social union the bavarian conservatives that's exactly what he's afraid of the c.s.u. said today this is all about the basis for true social cohesion in this country well if greater social to kishon were to come about his party but lose out in the what about the age of the party there mr yolland being male the biggest opposition party in germany. a year ago no one would have predicted that that is what will happen if this coalition comes into place we don't know that yet a

the interior ministry obviously and the ministry of the foreign ministry that were targeted here today but also by the chancellery by the bonus talk the german parliament and several other of very important all forwards and as you can imagine they're hosting valuable sensitive information there now these eight p.t.'s we're talking of all they're not after money they're exactly after this kind of information pool which is politically valuable and authorities are now trying to find out how big the damage really is and their biggest fear of course is that the whole data network off the government is concerned our political correspondent over selling the story tonight on that cyber attack here in germany all over thank you very much the international olympic committee has confirmed that russia's olympic ban has been lifted with the b.d.s. effects despite two russian athletes failing doping tests at deep young chain winter games the country was reinstated after all remaining tests came back negative russia was banned after revelations of state sponsored duping at the sochi games back in two

does indeed get the finance ministry then this is really big news for the s.p.d. you mention martin scholtz the head of the s.p.d. the social democrats here in germany former president of the european parliament elected with one hundred percent support within the party to the post as party leader but he's severely weakened coming out of september's election there's been a lot of speculation about whether he himself would even be able to maintain a position and stay in be a get a get a post in merkel's cabinet in this in a new any new government any ideas on yourself whether we'll see. with a cabinet post that is the big conflict for the s.p.d. isn't it i mean they have promised their votes as a complete renewal in september they went out of the elections almost happy to be in the opposition at last and eagerly awaiting that opportunity to get out of this forced marriage with america as some people call it saying he would never ever enter into a holiday season with anglo american so of course his credibility has been weakened in recent months and this is the big bi

ember but were only made public today of the ministry of the interior has confirmed that the attacks did indeed take place all right we want to bring in now our political correspondent oversell it he's on the story for us tonight good evening to you oliver so we've got the german government confirming that federal i.t. systems were attacked do we know any more about this what sort of attacks are we talking about that's why the interior ministry confirmed these attacks they say they were isolated and brought under control right now the foreign ministry is concerned as well by these hacker attacks these attacks might have started up to a year ago they were then discovered in december but only published today it's unclear right now how big the damage really is but what we do know is that malware was installed on the government service and apparently data valuable and sensitive data will still and and we know that german media are reporting tonight that a group called a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what do we know about this group. well these so-called a.p.t groups are among th

but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show latvia as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry and moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from ation campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections. let's bring in made kotel now editor of the german language newspaper pointed to one show in warsaw or the last in defense minister says this is a misinformation campaign that the implication being that russia is behind it how likely is that. we don't have any hard evidence of course so we can on you only speculate

they have kept the ministry that matters most to his voters, and that is the interior ministry.y have also kept the defense ministry. those are two critical ministries exactly for the right-wing. the interior ministry is going to be beefed up. it is going to include a homeland ministry -- homeland security. and again, that is exactly what his voters would be looking for. they want issues like german cultural identity to be on the agenda. they want to talk about securing the country's borders. well, those will be firmly in the hands of the most conservative party on the political spectrum that is not the far right -- namely, the christian social union. the bavarian conservatives. that's exactly what he is afraid of. the csu said today this is all about the basis for true social cohesion in this country. if great also sure -- if greater social cohesion were to come about, his party would lose out. brent: what about the afd now be the biggest opposition party in germany? a year ago no one would've predicted that. melinda: that is what will happen if this cold ocean comes into place

they already held namely the foreign ministry the labor ministry and the family ministry as well as environment they have one a very very powerful ministry in addition and that is finance with wolfgang schauble of the long running conservative fund eleanor we are you i guess i'm sorry i just jump in here but action we're hearing that chancellor merkel is speaking all come back to you in just a moment let's listen in to what she has to say bill clinton to do from this that we are trying to focus on the real needs of the people in this country but it's my firm conviction that the coalition agreement that we put together here can be exactly that it can be the basis of a good and stable government which our country needs. and not just in germany but beyond that we've got a plan for action that we believe will improve the lives of people in germany that will help soft economy. so that might remain competitive and will strengthen social cohesion in germany. our country. is a concept that means a lot to us and that our country means people young people men and women and workers. people. wh

russians tried undermining a lot the us upcoming poll that suggestion coming in from the defense ministry that things would well have all the details and also going to the top of the hour. every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn a simple online on your mobile and free stuff d w z e learning course the crucifix german meetings the. freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended and new. all over the world. of freedom freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists and their right to express their views freely. d.w. don't come to freedom. as president calls for a swift resolution of a bribery probe into his central bank chief the governor himself says the corruption claims are nothing more than a smear campaign. the deep sea transport industry in deep trouble it's a whole bunch of international companies with fines for operating cartels and for the very first time in oil major predicts of peak in the demand for crude oil let's know when why and what's next. i've been

having lost some key ministries and the social democrats and the christian social union having gained but on the whole undoubtedly the politicians are relieved as well they went into more than the overtime they had allotted themselves and they were looking very weary indeed earlier all right now in a long awaited breakthrough and give us the broad strokes what do we know about this agreement. the agreement is intitled a new start for europe a new dynamic and new cohesion for germany and so one of the central questions to raise obviously would be does it live up to that rather grand title and i think the answer is in many respects it does do the job that it sets out to do as described by that title if you look at the measures that are outlined here in the area of education in the area of digitalisation where for example the parties have agreed that every german has a right to a fast broadband connection by twenty twenty five whether they live in the countryside or the city if you look at the measures agreed in the area of health care to equalize the situation of those insured by public

involve giving the social democrat democrat some some key ministries including finance foreign ministry and justice government a coalition necessarily means doing that so why is this being seen as a loss for the conservatives because i mean they had this time they really had to give up a lot of these very important ministries and especially the finance ministry that was really important in the last couple of years especially with regard to the european union right so the austerity politics within the european union so right now i think. the members of the conservatives are rather unhappy with the distribution of ministries especially because the c.d.c.'s you actually got the interior ministry so there's not a lot of these very important for us left or for the c.d.u. such so the leaders of the conservatives and the s.p.d. have agreed this deal is that it now is the deal done. definitely not let's i mean we still have the party convention from the conservative party and then most importantly we have the. referendum off the s.p.d. where they have to approve the coalition agreement so we'll

no one in the government of sierra leone or in the ministry of lands has resigned their position . no one has lost their job for issuing a building permit in a dangerous really go area. there have been pledges to begin demolition and some homes around the landslides have been cleared but there is been no public inquiry into the issue of building permits in the free turn area. the government of syria does franks enormous challenges the population of free turn has increased by ten times since the one nine hundred sixty s. . pretty down has expanded horizontal e.a. has not expanded war dickel in all been planning the extremely poor and that a lot of slum areas which have been buried in the brains of many of the world and streams are around in the very down balance around like other cities across africa free turns low lying slums are plagued by flooding each rainy season. plus he was seeing what some of. well you. know what any athlete with. any small there will. unfortunately when. it will find a river way and that is where you will find most of the settlements and so unfortunately th

just to recap the last thirty minutes or so russia's foreign ministry saying that reports that. hundreds of russian military contract has been killed by u.s. led coalition strikes in syria is false she stressed this information about only fawy russian deaths the nationalities being confirmed she said and the others. we didn't know what the nationalities were in that number a. few with and some of the media stating some of us we do especially. this is all to international thinks what should my name is kevin o. in the headlines continue just three minutes from now. we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the free world cold better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that my part of fight for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the r.c.c. . recently had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will call. thousand zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero le

the bush so it's ok isn't long with a hand grenade rushes defense ministry has confirmed him. from the ministry said that he was an experienced pilot and it wasn't his first time serving in syria now before that he was for several years in the region of russia's far east it was also part of a dozen successful military operations now the pilots plane was shot down on saturday near the province which is located in the north western part of syria which is still controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group and other militants now the pilot was trying to keep the airplane the aircraft in the air as long as he could and he managed to object from the aircraft but then he found himself over a. terrorist he is weapon was found with and am. magazine and two others have banned now shortly after is that an unverified video appeared online showing militants taking selfies with the pilots the body and also stamping on the debris of the crashed plane russia has there already reacted to this incident carrying out strikes in that particular area and the ministry said that over t

we're talking about data networks that are used not only by these mentioned ministries but by various german ministries also by the german chancellor rhee by the german parliament the bonus talk and other important or thorough decent they could logically host potentially sensitive data and information and these a.p.t hacking groups are by the way not interested in money or any kind of financial resources what they're after is politically valuable information now all four years are of course trying to find out what exactly happened what will still and what went missing here but the biggest fear of course is that the whole data network all of the german government is concerned all right our political correspondent all over salad on the story tonight on this cyber attack here in germany all over thank you very much. well how much longer can it go on like this that is the question aid workers are posing tonight after yet another failed attempt to stop the fighting in syria's eastern ghouta area aid workers say that civilians are now too afraid to even board buses which are supposed to eva

because they drove a hard bargain there controlling the purse strings and the mean spending ministry work on social affairs is everybody happy about that at the c.d.u. well you could see. perhaps grit her teeth a little bit when she was asked about the division of responsibility in the ministries as mentioned the c.d.u. has lost the finance ministry that was a source of great power and as she put it the former finance minister both conk choice essentially became identified with that ministry it will give the social democrats significantly more clout not only in terms of domestic spending and by the way this coalition agreement the budget that they have sent for expenditure sixty four billion euros is one of the most expensive coalition budgets ever so they will have significantly more clout going forward the social democrats but not only domestically also on the level of europe the fact that they now control both the foreign ministry and the finance ministry means that they will have the power of the purse strings when it comes to european union reform and that is very significant in

i've been fizzling let's do business the latvian defense ministry says corruption allegations leveled at the country's central bank governor a part of a decision from ation campaign from abroad the ministry says claims. so bribes in return for keeping a bank in business were intended to erode trust in the eurozone states and influence elections in october if a has rocked a small bolt of nation which blames close neighbor and former political muster russia. bill maher's. it says he's a victim of a smear campaign he's accusing private latvian banks of trying to get revenge for tougher financial regulations by accusing him of demanding bribes of one hundred thousand euros a month. i have become a target have an obvious and well coordinated campaign of some latvian commercial banks to discredit the latvian state. but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show

when other foreign ministry of course but. i do know many of my counterparts especially from g twenty countries as we meet fairly often several times here i like mr lavrov though i don't really have a person like that but when you say you don't have your own character. no but i do have a very good colleague or rather had the former finance minister of germany mr shah but we worked together a lot especially while organizing the twenty summit in russia and we worked really discussed in the ukraine that chris worked on that in detail and we had a really good working relationship and now he changed jobs and he became the president of the bundestag in germany and of course i congratulated him. honestly i felt a little story to see him go because he is the person i work together on international matters for six years and we had some plans for the future concerning ukraine's debt settlement for example. know he no longer works at the finance ministry so we'll have to be entering into dialogue with other quality eggs but since you ask

when other foreign ministry of course. i do know many of my counterparts especially from g twenty countries as we meet fairly often several times here like mr lavrov though i don't really have a person like that when you say you don't have your own character. no but i do have a very good colleague or rather had the former finance minister of germany mr shabazz we worked together a lot especially while organizing the twenty summit in russia and we worked really discussed in the ukraine that worked on that in detail and we had a really good working relationship and now he changed jobs and he became the president of the bundestag in germany and of course i congratulated him. honestly i felt a little story to see him go because he is the person i work together on international matters for six years and we had some plans for the future concerning ukraine's debt settlement for example. know he no longer works at the finance ministry so we'll have to be entering into dialogue with other quality eggs but since you asked about a lo

russia's defense ministry confirms the identity of the pilot jet was shot. and praises the man's bravery in his final moments. the. video surfaces online appearing to show the russian pilot surrounded by extremist militants right before he blew himself. also coming up in the program we'll look at the devastation still blighting the iraqi city of mosul months after it was liberated from. my challenge any member of parliament to live in the conditions we're currently living in here they are even afraid of entering. the u.k.'s high court rules that a british man accused of hacking into f.b.i. and u.s. central bank systems will not be extradited to america it's a move his life to. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know me well hello and welcome to the program. russia's defense ministry has identified the pilot killed in syria's province on saturday as philip off calling him a hero video of the pilot surrounded by syrian rebel fighters after his plane was shot down has been circulated online you may find some of the images dist

to be one of the key ministries here. she faced a lot of criticism after this coalition deal was done with the social democrats and she basically put it to delegates say well should we have let the whole thing fail over that one ministry after all we have the trade ministry here which peter altmire the current finance minister will take over and she also mapped out what she felt for the reasons why the c.d.u. had less support in those past elections which the city you won because it came became the largest party but it by no means can be described as a victory so she signalled some recognition that really there are many questions that if you have social season of insecurity that now need to be addressed and today's convention here in berlin is also the beginning point where she wants to see a renewal and questioning of the own party where its program of the future past to lead the most visible sign of that the appointment of an academic kind of hour as a new party secretary general who will be voted on his day ok and we s

in most of these ministries. employees are not paid there are no incentives. no equipment to do with the people even when they have the skills and so it's difficult for them to perform. and the whole question is about making sure the governance system functions effectively and then you'll be in a position to address most of the spartans the problems are compounded by resistance from local communities eager to make use of labs they consider and heritage from their community as far back as in one nine hundred sixteen the west interns there was declare as a reserve so if as far back as one thousand sixteen it was declared. it's very difficult for me to understand how communities can lay claim to certain areas. if government does bear any responsibility for it would be very minimal we have consulted with the communities we have advised the communities to relocate in order to protect their own welfare and we have been confronted with earache and violent groups members. no one in the government of sierra leone or in the ministry of law has resigned their position. n

the labor ministry the justice family and environment ministries that they held in the previous government but they will gain the very powerful german finance ministry now after a moment it's unknown which position martin schulz would favor whether he would want to be the foreign minister all whether he would want to head up that finance ministry whatever position martin schulze ultimately takes he may well regret giving this statement back in september. so. mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government 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 saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic whatsapp chat saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight thou

but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show left as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry in moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from ation campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections are and we can speak to our financial correspondent clive had a bruise and now who is frank third where the e.c.v. is headquartered good to see frank but frankfurt conrad in frankfurt now in defense ministry is alleging outside involvement it's a new thing it see russia tell us more about this. well berlin well helena h

of social democrats a foreign ministry would be in the hands of martin chose who is passionately pro european hides who has indeed stress on various occasions that he would like a strong good judgment participation within european institutions and he has a proven track record as well all right to max nobody's breaking out the champagne just yet but is this agreement a step in the right direction for germany's european partners. well i think i heard some champagne bottles over there of the european commission because of what is does mentioned it's all over the handwriting of the include your group the president of the european commission i'm sure he's very satisfied with that and he told us as much but the real importance here is the real important message for the rest of europe germany is most likely at least back has most likely again or likely at least a functioning government and that's important for what the european union is attempting to do in the next months and years big reforms for example the eurozone reform and again as your own food you were put it we have to repair the r