the party base. is not currently seeing the e.u. as a key area it simply is not a main area of focus they want to see traditional socio economic issues issues around the health care system issues around education issues around payroll taxes and others they want to see those absolutely on the top of the priority list so there's a division there then there's a vision division between the chancellors conservatives and the s.p.d. and that's why the position paper is interesting because it shows real movement toward the s.p.d. s. positions on a number of important issues like more funding for investments in europe which of course people hope could drive jobs more funding for youth unemployment to combat it important issues and issues that really also would redound to the benefit of the middle class here in germany right melinda stand by here the states have we been saying could hardly be higher for the german chancellor angela merkel if the social democrats vote no there are special party comp conference

wrestling with this self it's fascinating if you're interested in the mechanisms of party party debate but it's not at all clear what happens then at the end of that road so i think for the chancellor she will have been watching this very carefully and she may to some degree feel an additional bit of pressure now do that the fact that these three issues have been mentioned and but i think she's also feeling pressure from within our own party from her own conservatives who are saying look we were not going to bend on those let's find out melinda if there have been any reaction from the chairs or our correspondent to other parts joins us now from the chancellor rhee she's been covering the story from there and e.v.g.a. usual otto's so has there been any reaction any word from america to what we saw today with the s.p.d. . good evening brant no no immediate reaction from the chancellor herself though we are guessing there must have been a sigh of relief behind me in the chancellor rhee when she when she found out that the s.p.d. actually voted to pick up the formal coalition talks we are

normal person one party is the party of big business the other party . intellectual elite that wants to speak for the people write. this forty two percent that we talk about if they stop giving their power to other people and say you know what we're going to select the best amongst us to run then i think we can you know we can offer a challenge we can create that that vibrant conversation. however it's difficult because the amount of mudslinging that has happened in the past two decades it's unseen i mean down the fake news down to you know fake. like people actually alleging assaults or you know negative things that are detrimental defamation so as a third party our job would be to throw that mudslinging aside to get right into the real political strategy and philosophy of our country and i think if people stay there will be able to raise this party pretty quickly now you mentioned earlier the greens and libertarians are the good part of the true biggest third parties out there today what what about those existing third parties you know where where do y

as a senior figure in the republican party, the party of abraham republican party, the party of abraarty of abraham lincoln and ronald reagan, do you not feel that right now your party is on a 1—way path to self—destruction? party is on a 1—way path to self-destruction? look, ithink my party has not had to deal with a lot of things that we need to deal with since reagan left office to be honest. this is a just donald trump. the issues that are boiling inside the gop have been there since really the gop have been there since really the late 80s, early nineties. this idea of who we are as republicans. republican versus conservative. are be the same, are they different? the idea of what we believe, what we stand for, we've watched this party, to my great frustration, again prompted by this administration, move closer towards a blind loyalty to putin and russia. what the hell is that? where has that come from? we were the party that label that the evil empire. doesn't big comeback to cynicism? donald trump has delivered massive tax cuts for corporate america. he has delivered... all that

parties have taken a cerebral battering. the system for about 25 years because it hopelessly divides both parties. the idea that either party is remotely united is ludicrous. the other thing after the referendum that theresa may, the prime minister stood outside downing street and gave what many people said was a one nation speech, talking about the managing... you agree with every single word. i do wonder if there is any evidence of that being reflected in what she has done in the 18 months hence? here, i entirely agree with you. it was a splendid aspiration. a splendid vision of what the party was for. we need now the policy and the implementation of the policy that will enable us... what has happened so far is not adequate and we are not going at an adequate pace. is there anything you would point to that you would say that is following through. 0n the social aspirations? 0n the things that are important to you. she was also talking about capitalism and the people it has left behind, she was talking about that in the past

well first the party leaders they have said that the party has a responsibility in germany that they want to be able to pass proposals for example on key issues that the social democrats have like in social justice and they can only do that if they form a government that they would only be able to push for those policies policies for example also on the future of the european union that's something that martin shows has been very interested in in fact he described this as something important for europe's future on the other hand those who are against the new grand coalition say this is all about the renewal of the party they see the image of the party tarnished by the past grand coalition and tarnished also in the elections that them are twenty four and they say that their new all of the party will only happen outside of a grand coalition and a second argument they say is that if the party did join another grand coalition then the main opposition party in the german parliament would be the alternative for germany the party described as far right or populous and that's something that

for e party to survive. so he can choose not to crush this new party because it can be kind of a safety for him to guarantee parliamentary majority. quick response to the institution's question. i think, you know, in a decade or two h when we look back and hopefully some of this insanity will be behind us, the lasting legacy of 11 years of erdogan guy lana lie ance from 2002 to december 2013 will be haloed out institutions. and haloed out institutions i this i will remain in turkey citizens beyond the life term of these two individuals. and ultimately many of the structural difficulties, turkey citizens will have to live on day by day. i'm not blaming everything on that alliance. but i'm saying the haloing out of the institutions will matter significantly and will have lasting effects. and very quickly, the last comment, what change in 2010? i think what really changed was september, what changed turkey was september 12th, 2010. that is the day of the referendum where erdogan alliance and with the support of

now it's up to martine schultz to convince everyone at the party conference and get the party members to vote with the yes if all goes well germany could have a new government by early spring. let's get more detail his political correspondent to thomas spargo welcome thomas what's in this twenty eight page document that they had of pass' and agreed. every imaginable topic infrastructure transport education foreign policy wide range of issues explained all in a very general way i would say that two aspects clearly stand out one the idea that the parties agree to work closely on european integration in particular alongside france and a second issue one that has been very contentious the issue of migration and that proposed limits on the number of migrants that could arrive to germany as well as on family reunification an issue that was particularly controversial in recent days those are certainly the issues that are present in that twenty eight page document but it's important to stress that this is only a roadmap if you will a set of guidelines in this first round of talks these explor

in two thousand and two you were elected not by the party list but as the first green party politician to directly win their constituency. an example of grassroots democracy. did that make your work in the party easier and in parliament to. absolutely. i've already experienced four years of being in parliament thanks to the party list before i was elected directly. it puts you on the same level as directly elected parliamentarians from the big party is. it turns you a lot of respect so you can't understate its importance we would have liked that from the beginning but we did not even think it was possible if. you want to call the parliamentarians the highest power in parliamentary democracy is that really the case in the bundestag the real center of debate over ideas. believe this parliamentary democracy needs urgently restoring freely elected deputies who have a direct mandate from the people who have the power line not the government. just like it says in the constitution this means that those in power will always have to come to the parliamentarians and make an effort to build major

one of the established parties. what many would include them in that category i hope and i'm working to ensure that that isn't quite the case before the country. now you are no longer in parliament are you back in the extra parliamentary opposition. i've always been part of it. still take part in demonstrations as long as my health. i will be active but i will be active in the greens. i'll be there at the next party congress and the one after this. i'll do everything i can but i also want to be involved in the discussions not something i do now not just with speeches or leaflets but via twitter every week. it was as mr strobel to finish here are three sentences that i'd like you to complete the greens are currently the smallest parliamentary group. i hope for the future of my party. you. know i'm that someday it will become a party that is indispensable to forming a government. and big movement for the left as left politicians are back in place discarding four is. this to end something that hasn't been thought throu

the we already have the next points on the schedule there's a party if the party. both parties have their own meetings sometime presumably within the next three hours where they will talk about the agreement and whether they want to say yea or nay to it so after twenty four hours of negotiations no rest for the weary report we had evolved with the very latest little they are joining us from berlin at the scene of these pretty coalition talks thank you so much for your reporting repair work. so what does this mean for the german political scene we are joined now here in the studio by spanier krauss she is a political scientist at the humble to university in berlin and an expert in coalition governments thank you so much for joining us here in the studio today what do you make of what we're saying. it's exciting right they seem to reach a common ground but as rupert correctly said i mean this is just the first starting point here right we have the party convention that will take place and after successful coalition negotiation we will also have the referendum of the

now it's up to martine schultz to convince everyone at the party conference and get the party members to vote with the yes if all goes well germany could have a new government by early spring. when both sides were forced to compromise to reach this agreement on starting to form a coalition talks among the most controversial issues with tax increases and refugees here's a look at some of the issues that were originally holding up the deal but appear now to been resolved for now. now this is what they came up with here advil a twenty eight page document that outlines the basic points of moving ahead with building a government let's have a look at the most pressing issues on top of the list family reunions of refugees under the new draft agreement one thousand family members would be allowed to come to germany every month until america had resisted a cap to yearly refugee arrivals for a long time now she has agreed to limit them to around two hundred thousand per year the parties also said they wanted to bolster germany's relationship with france and strengthen the eurozone in september

we as weasa we as a party are a party of leaders.e months into the job there are questions over his future, relating to his relationship with this woman, jo marney, in tex messages, she has said that meghan markle had a tiny brain and would taint the royal family. markle had a tiny brain and would taint the royalfamily. she markle had a tiny brain and would taint the royal family. she called black people ugly. the mail on sunday revealed text messages she sent in which he said meghan markle had a tiny brain and would taint the royal family. and she called black people ugly. in a statement, she reportedly said her comments were unnecessary, reckless and overly exaggerated for effect, and offered her sincere and deepest apologies to anyone she had hurt, and for the distress and embarrassment caused to family, friends and the party. she has been suspended, and some ukip members think their leader should quit. i don't want to talk about his personal life. it's entirely up to him. but it is impacting on activists now, and they are working

left party could play in strengthening europe. you know you couldn't feel it do you do it we can improve many things in germany and we have a great opportunity to rebuild europe and thus bring about more social justice not just in our country but across the continent. and in few of the last decade and a half i want to tell you this very clearly in my view it would be negligent not to seize this opportunity not even. thank the leader of the party's youth wing urged delegates to vote against the talks. but in a way to proceed is this instance and today whatever happens today it's not the end of the story and it's certainly not the end of the social democrats but that can be the beginning of a new story we write together let's take this risk together even if it means being a dwarf today in order to be a giant again in the future. others say the party's approach a coalition talks will still be tough. sun which is going to negotiate until the other side squeals i can't promise you any more than that i don't know if we'll get one hundre

i gave money to the labour party at the last election. i ama labour party at the last election.rter but not a member. i am nota member am a supporter but not a member. i am not a member because i don't agree with quite a lot of its economic policy. but i do think that they have shown greater strength. i personally think labour is more right than not on the health service, and i think this government is literally destroyed the health service in england. fortunately, not yet in scotland, wales or in northern ireland. so i am still a social democrat. i have never made any secret of this. i have never been a tory, and i will never be a tory. but on this issue at the moment, let me focus. i do believe theissue moment, let me focus. i do believe the issue for this country over 2018, and i agree with you, this is the moment where the toughest decisions are going to be taken over brexit, that we should rally as a country, we should spend our time on getting the best deal that, that party politics should slip away into its normal place, and not elevate. there will be time of an election,

those are the three cases i mentioned, race or party. as a proxy for party, or party all the time. the me suggest where we are likely to go is none of those. we are likely to go to know policing. the victor goes the spoils approach. as justice kennedy gets ready to retire, the supreme court further moving to the right. the court is likely not to want to police either political discrimination or racial discrimination. the court could decide strict voter id laws do not violate constitutional provisions. it is not likely to strike down section two of the voter rights act. they have artie been doing death by 1000 cuts. looking at ways to make it harder and harder for the plaintiffs to win their cases. the way they may solve the problem is if you have political power you can use it to full extent. on that happy note, i think i am done. [applause] >> we have time for some questions. >> this is a question for you, maybe two questions. southern exceptionalism being problematic, the usual ruling is you don't do things for a list of motives. it is not unusual for one place to have it unconst

conference votes no his time as party leader will be over. i'm in my sister's house that's what i'm afraid of is that if the majority of the party votes against a grand coalition will be such a big question mark over the leadership skills of martin schultz that he can no longer remain as s.p.d. leader. a no from the party conference would also put chancellor merkel in an open position it's an unusual situation for america she can only wait and see wait and see whether a party other than her own will help her secure a fourth term as chancellor if a second attempt to form a government fails macas public image will suffer no one could replace her right away but there are younger politicians and have party who are waiting in the wings for now though they are keeping a low profile. which bullied him and refused to talk about what may happen after medical she's been a leading candidate she is germany's chancellor and she must also lead the next go . that should be the focus of our attention not what might happen in the future so the leaders of thre

that it would be well the duty of the social democratic party. let's say a man to save american lives or would yes kind enough to save credit germany and see how many democratic projects we can now try to manage and make the lives of the people better i think it's a good thought but i think it's a it's a wrong way to take to say we make sense of again and hope to get some crumbs of the cake get some yeah yeah exactly the crumbs that are left on the floor for you what about new elections why does it seem that all of the political leaders are afraid of new elections i think many people just don't know in our past i think we need to be strong and we need to be faithful because this when the social democratic party now decides not to juggle america and we really pushes for social democratic ideas and values that we can also gain from the electorate i mean your party is so far away from that place where you would like to be right now don't you think your party reflects what we see in politics right now in germany where young people in particular are r

parties have taken a battering. europe is... the idea that either party is united is ludicrous.at theresa may, the prime minister stood outside downing street and gave what many people said was a one nation speech, talking about the management is. you agree with every single word. i do wonder if there is any evidence of that being reflected in what she has donein that being reflected in what she has done in the 18 months hence? we agree with you. it was a splendid aspiration. a splendid vision of what the party was. we need now the policy and the implementation of the policy and the implementation of the policy that will enable us... what has happened so far is not going to inadequate he's. is there anything you would point to that you would say that following through. aspirations? on the things that are important to you. she was also talking about capitalism and the people it has left behind, she was talking about that in the past few days. she is talking about people dealing with those who take excessive pay out of the company when it is doing badly and pay no regards to pensi

will also seek the backing of its rank and file at a party conference and bomb at an earlier party conference in december delegates had already voted in favor of the current exploratory talks if the party conference boxful coolish and talks the conservatives and social democrats then start a fresh round of negotiations which could take several weeks. just like four years ago the social democrats will then put the final agreement to then tie a membership in two thousand and thirteen they followed their party's recommendation to end to coalition with conservatives so there's still a few unknown's before germany as a new government. are allowed to lead the party is covering the talks and joins us now from our parliamentary studios in berlin charlotte those taking part in these coalition talks or staying very tight lipped about the progress of these negotiations what are you hearing through the grapevine how likely is it that we'll have an agreement by tomorrow as deadline. i think it's very likely that we'll see an agreement by tomorrow's deadline by thursday night or maybe in the early morning

party congress so i decision will be made next monday within the party bodies within the parliamentary group this afternoon and c.s.u. before become good so i would like to express my gratitude at this point. for what has been an extremely good way of beginning our work and the result of the fall well of the race last night of course it all got a little bit intense as is often the case when you're running up to the finish line but i think the capability of a coalition to stand difficult times is seen best when things get emotional when you discuss difficult issues and make decisions and still manage to do so in a spirit of respect with you now in the last discussion with the s.p.d. without any irony i wish the s.p.d. every success at their party congress i really wish that martin shirts. you always have to have a bit of luck in such matters and i wish you every success in your party congress and if we are all been so successful as it were and are able to enter into. coalition agreements and i hope we can pull of the stops out and get it all sorted out before easter it's not that easy w

democrats and the sister party c.s.u. in bavaria which is suffer daily and which faces recent elections this year it is very much afraid of the alternative to many and it is picking up some of their rhetoric as well and they are convinced there's a quote of a former leaders saying nothing should be no legal party should exist further to the right of the c.s.u. now this is the democrats are pretty much the other end of the spectrum and putting all of that together is rather difficult the f.t. is still a single issue party it's very much. that was being anti you're on to europe then the migration crisis came and this is what they cashing in on right now that simply is no appetite for. further large groups of migrants coming to germany i think this is also what made it slightly easier. leader that not to grandstand on principle and go along with the seize a huge amount to further extend this while pretty much ban on relatives of asylum seekers or people who have less a status here in germany to come and to limit this to real

said a birthday party? [laughter] >> that was at trial often are summary judgment the officer changed his story. [laughter] >> that evidence came in at trial after summary judgment was concluded and that happened on a couple of occasions and we could cross-examine to get the officers to admit their memory was better now than two years ago that with the fact probably added to the damages results. >> the police report says they found marijuana field-tested for thc and they also admit that was false. unless there are any further questions we will submit. >> thank you counsel. you have four minutes remaining mr. kim. >> first just to clear things out. >> i don't know if i agree completely with your opposing counsel that the wealth of the neighborhood should make a difference. but i suspect that if police officers arrived at a wealthy home and it was white teenagers having a party and one said my dad just bought this house and i told the kids they could have a party, and he told me to come and larry told me to c

he left the party in the 1950s. hoover uses to make this accusation with information that's over five years old. if you're in intelligence, you know that's probably not very useful. the fbi, in fact, had attempted to recruit levinson to be an informant. how much of a threat can this person be if the fbi thought they could turn them? and there's no evidence at all that moscow is influencing levinson or king. here is the head of the co-intel operations, sullivan, shortly after the march on washington in which martin luther king jr.'s famous "i have a dream" speech. we must mark king now, if we have not before, as the most dangerous negroe in the future of this nation, in terms of the communi communi communism. to limit our accusations to legalistic proofs to stand up in court or before committees. wire kennedy approves wiretaps of king's home in the fall of 1963 after the march on washington. the fbi will also tap king's hotel rooms, which kennedys maybe, maybe did not know about. unclear. in 1964, the fbi goes after

delegates among party members and as you yourself mentioned the party's youth wing the party's youth wing is decidedly against another grand coalition they see another grand coalition as a reason why the social democrats have lost for example their clear profile and they would prefer other alternatives in particular after martin shows the leader of the s.p.d. had said after the election in september that he didn't want a new grand coalition that he preferred a place in the german opposition so martin chose as a very difficult task ahead of him in the next few days in trying to convince party delegates that this is the good way forward for the party there will be a party conference in bonn on january the twenty first and there he will have to convince those party delegates who then have to give the green light for them to enter formal coalition negotiations it's important to stress what we've seen now it's only exploratory talks among the different parties so if the s.p.d. does approve that the coalition talks should go ahead with the most difficult part be over these talks still coll

in germany the leader of the social democrat party martin schultz is urging members of his party to back moves to form a new grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives now the two sides hammered out an agreement last week that paves the way for negotiations on a new government delegates to a key party conference on sunday must now approve that deal but schultz faces a hard sell among the rank and file with many say that it betrays social democratic values so he has traveled to the party's heartland in an effort to win support for the agreement. welcome to dark historically a bastion of the social democrats but many have lost the appetite for a grand coalition saying the party's losing sight of its aims. these are the paths of social justice is over and i can see that it's now more about careers and clinging on to seats. while this diner is selling as the daily denmark's in short selling the exploratory talks as a success but it's not easy to convince party members to support a new coalition especially here in north rhine-westphalia. we've clarified many things there we

now it's up to martine schultz to convince everyone at the party conference and get the party members to vote with the yes if all goes well germany could have a new government by early spring. let's get more from w.'s political correspondent thomas sparrow welcome thomas so the three parties detail that agreement in this twenty eight page document whose hard to give way on was. i think the conservatives the better deal when it comes for example to all the issues on migration that number that we've heard about the migrants that are with the will be or could be allowed into into germany the idea of family reunification as well those are issues where i believe conservatives had a better deal as far as the social democrats they probably had a better deal when it comes to draw the social issues regarding children and families and also as well the investment in education in infrastructure those are issues that they were obviously try to sell to the party members into the party delegates i think both parties will also try to sell that idea of of europe of integration into the european level

the kurdistan workers party and the white p.g. in syria they couldn't stand worker's party is on the terror list of the us and the e.u. the organization that works within syria is exactly the sign. away could go the us announced a new border force for syria to be headed by the wipe a.j. . now it's a nato ally turkey is bombing the white p.j. in syria putting anger on a potential collision course with washington. but turkey shows no signs of backing down it says its tanks my cross the syrian border lighted today. in romania the masses have returned to the streets to protest corruption at the highest level at the heart of the country's ruling elite there were occasional scuffles with police as an estimated fifty thousand people converged on the capital bucharest with smaller demonstrations taking place across the country was romanians have had enough countries ranked one of the most corrupt in europe and now people are turning on the politicians tens of thousands descended on parliament many carrying giant yellow hands with the slog

against me they are undermining the party further.nd britain reaches his first grand slam quarterfinal at the australian open in tennis. and the women's march in central london. hundreds of people have been taking pa rt hundreds of people have been taking part in time's up. the protest against discrimination and harassment outside downing street. and in politics europe we look back at the top stories of the week in brussels and strasbourg. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. afghan special forces have ended a siege in a luxury hotel in the capital kabul, twelve hours after it was stormed by gunmen. six civilians — five afghans and one foreign woman — were killed along with all the militants. 160 people were rescued from the hotel by the security forces. the taliban says it carried out the attack. our correspondent zia shahreyar reports from kabul. the final moments of a fight that had lasted all night. gunfire and explosions, as afghan special forces battled to regain control of the intercontinental hotel. one soldier throws a grenad

both parties are in a frightful mess. yes, but it is the conservative party...able. indeed. but if the conservative party, if it had to fight another election — we learned from the chairman of the campaign for conservative democracy that the membership, he reckons, is about 70,000. we don't know figures, because they have not provided figures forfour years. in my political career. and when comparing with... i don't exactly bring down the average age when i go to meetings, but i still do not feel out of place. and there are many, many fewer people than there used to be. comparing to a labour party that has half a million members as of last summer... they have mass membership of young lefties who are totally unrepresentative of their generation as well. 0k. both sides, activists, do not represent the people who vote for them. indeed. as far as the conservatives are concerned, queen mary university did some research — nearly half the conservative party members are over 65, nine out of ten are middle class and two thirds are men. that is the difficulty for the conse

young welcome simon so the conservative party heads out of america for the c.d.u. and her horse a half of the say su they're meeting what can we expect to come out of that. well filled the meetings today and they'll be one with martin chills the s.p.d. leader here in a couple of hours time they're really organizational the parties the conservatives here in the social democrats also have been discussing today what their strategy will be going into these full coalition talks and how they're going to deal of course with that major strand of opposition from the social democrat party that we saw yesterday in that very tight vote to proceed so today it's strategic later on it'll be organizational just setting out really the timetable i think we're going to have to be a bit more patient because the social democrats in particular saying they need a little bit of time just to work out what they think they can get out of talks and they might not be ready to do that until wednesday or thursday of this week here social democrats but the party conference they're saying that mr

one political party or the others this is not the truth. that in the middle of an economic crisis in a political crisis they try to exploit. this but hopefully that is because it's something that in this country and i want to say to all the people that are watching that on seven march this year there's some kind of national day of fight against racism fascists because we see this voice and this political forces are rising in europe are rising in france a rise in nasiriya what are they are not getting. the government are rising in germany so for us it's not only to describe all of these but nasty picture but it does show that in greece various issues and the fastest movement that comes just so i hear what you're saying and hear someone who might agree with you this is romney on twitter he says one issue is the roots of attraction to far right groups among drinks many golden dawn supporters are just angry greeks who lost their jobs or can't enjoy life as they used to before the economic crisis policymakers and banks are the cause of that cris

party leader martin schultz on sunday as he bids to convince party delegates to vote no growth. grassroots support q not believes this is the only way for the s.p.d. to regenerate after damage in years into medical governments. the finnish president and for me he is the kind of politician who hopefully has certainly shaped the future of this party. that they tried to influence a very talented upcoming politician he's still young and everything lines ahead of him i think something will become of him. even pozen members who support the idea of a grand coalition have high hopes for canucks political future. impose a t.v. and put in the most positive sense he's a politics junkie he breathes politics but at the same time he's matter of fact and stands by his opinion and he definitely has a big future. i cannot became a member of the s.p. day at just fifteen in the same year that angle of michael was first elected chancellor but can it snow grow coke campaign now threatens to end a twelve year reign. that's because that's what i think i'm going to mathilde's time in office will soon e

heard this specially the social democrats seem to have some problems with the agreements that the party leaders had reached earlier this morning. these problems seem to have been resolved now the press conference is going to start within the next half hour we have heard and at least now the doors have opened to the press is allowed to go into the headquarters of the social democrats and to build up the commerce and everything so i'm quite optimistic that we're going to see the party leaders within the next time of ours the social democrats who are having so many problems to accept this agreement well it's quite understandable what we have seen so far from the twenty eight pages that's how long the text is it all seems as if the conservative bloc of angela merkel mainly pushed through the their ideas on that the social democrats didn't really get through what they wanted and. some of them said well we pushed through at least sixty points sixty point from. election manifesto we can find it within these with these within this text but if we look at them precisely although the big issues on

more specific negotiations the social democrats will even hold an extra party convention at the end of the month. and covering the talks of the c.d.u. headquarters in berlin is our political correspondent charles potts who joins us now welcome to charlotte we know that these exploratory talks that they're set to continue until thursday and there's a lot at stake right now for anglo american right. everything is really at stake for chancellor merkel it's a make or break moment these talks for her she has to convince her party leadership and also the social democrats that's another grand coalition a grand coalition two point zero and a continuation so of the last four years is a good idea and there's a lot of opposition against that in both parties more on the grassroots so she has a lot to do if these talks fail that would mean that there is there are two options left in minority government which tends to america has already said that she does not want to go into or new elections and if new elections are called and the big question is what she posts again as the leader of her party a

party as a whole share the optimism. absolute you know this is the democrats actually in this city she is the very martin so when after those election results came out in september sewing that america had lost significantly and the social democrats had lost significantly and then she turned around said he would not stand for another grand coalition and now he's sitting in the building behind me with the german chancellor talking about exactly that that didn't go down well with the grass roots of the social democrats in fact right to the top of the party there are many skeptics whether this indeed could be the right course for the party but in the end martin souls argued it was the responsibility of the social democrats to at least start talking after that initial attempt to forge a coalition between the green party in the free democrats basically failed so that's where we are right now with a big question mark hanging over what at whatever might come out of this where the social democrat grassroots to get to vote on this

as a seniorfigure in the republican party, the party of abraham lincoln and ronald reagan, do you not with a lot of things that we need to deal with since reagan left office, to be honest. this is a just donald trump. the issues that are roiling inside the gop have been there since, really, the late ‘80s, early ‘90s. this idea of who we are as republicans, republican versus conservative. are they the same, are they different? this idea of what we believe, what we stand for, we've watched this party, to my great frustration, again prompted by this administration, move closer towards a blind loyalty to putin and russia. what the hell is that? i mean, where'd that come from? we were the party that labelled them ‘the evil empire‘. doesn't it come back to cynicism? it comes back to the fact that donald trump has delivered massive tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporate america. he has delivered... but all that was in place before those things happened. what you're talking about is post—administration. he's already been elected and they move those balls that was transformative before, th

leadership and the party's members and what does that mean for the head of your party martin. that's what i'm feeling right now actually yes that there's a big disconnect and i really don't understand why the leaders of the social democratic party supports these results so much i understand that they have negotiated very hard was a c.d.u. but looking at those results there there's no social democratic hand-writing and if my kids wants to connect himself and his faith in the party it was these results in south christian off coalition are not maybe in this case he's not the right one for is there for leading the party at the moment because we don't fear new elections and we also don't fear changing majorities in the polymer and i think i'm in a minority coalition can also be an option would be very good for a democracy and we need people who are up for that and we need people who really fight for the social democratic values ok so we're talking here about the good of your party right just generally speaking i want to talk about the good of the country right now though because yo

party's leader describe the s.p.d. suspicion to enter graeme coalition as political suicide tough language are you have a similar assessment about. yes from the tendency this is a right to analyze this but if we look in deeper we can see there is a long term process which is followed no by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years they gave up the original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population so this was a process with which was to be foreseen if you see that now is just the crease and office process we can see in the moment it was the kind of dilemma if the social democrats now would have say we want new elections maybe they already lose two or three percent and make the. stronger if they say they go into the government maybe they save powerful tool for years but maybe after that. the election results will decrease. here in mistake i