interim party leader olaf scholz and parliamentary party leader has made a statement before vote counting gets underway later this afternoon. so you know whatever happens the outcome will be a result that contributes to the s.p.d. has continued unity because there will be a lot of people who took part in it through their vote and there have been an unbelievable number of people who have joined in the discussion within the s.p.d. this really brings us together and i think you can already feel that it. is not listen if there is a negative result tomorrow or we have a political crisis hopefully there will be no negative result and i don't speculate about that at all on such a nice sunny day we should only expect good news. as we do that this vote has pitted the social democrats old guard who are pushing for that grand coalition against its strong youth wing were adamant that working with merkel's conservatives is a big mistake for the party if s.p.d. members block the coalition deal tomorrow merkel will have to go back to the drawing board or germans will end up back at the polls. at the soc

keeping an eye on proceedings, the social democrats' acting chairman olaf scholz and the party's leaderrship. translation: we already know there was a high level of participation, so we hope we can lay a good foundation for the renewal of the spd and, at the same time, assess the implications of the result once we have it. angela merkel‘s party has already voted to renew the grand coalition, hoping to end nearly five months of deadlock. translation: it's up to us to have the will to shape our country. it's up to us to make these difficult times a success. and it is up to us to find answers for our party. i hope we can succeed together and i'm optimistic, because i think we can do it despite the difficulties. but what happens if the social democrats say no? well, there may be more talks to form a different type of coalition or perhaps a minority government, but the most likely scenario would be another election with no guarantee of a more decisive result. and for angela merkel and the country she leads, there is a lot riding on this vote. tim allman, bbc news. another country that may so

new appointments within the german cabinet this is according to an spd official social democrat olaf scholz is to become the finance minister in the new government. he will also take the post of vice chancellor in the new government >>> coming up, bye-bye easing bias we get reaction to the ecb's latest decision when we return on "street signs." but i'm not standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ everything is working, just like it should ♪ theseare heading back home.y oil thanks to dawn, rescue workers only trust dawn, because it's tough on grease yet gentle. i am home, i am home, i am home >>> welcome back let's look at the european markets and bring up the stoxx 600 as well as the heat map. broadly not a great deal of commitment in these markets until we see the shape of the non-farm payrolls and the trade tensions are not really going away so we need to see what commitment is made from the u.s. in terms of the carve-outs and exempt shicions and trading par within the eu. the security dimension is important. the othe