that the perpetrators can be held to account with me in the studio as our senior correspondent peter craven peter not a huge surprise what can you tell us about these two winners not a great surprise you're right terry knew that had been a lot of speculation about whether the the award would go to the korean peninsula somehow the two korean leaders having forged a breakthrough as it's been seen in recent times also with the help in inverted commas of donald trump a lot of speculation that he would go and that are. action but i must say that i personally was hoping that there was mccuaig and not him or her out would get this award as they have because it sends out the message we've heard it here sexual violence is a grave infringement on the rights of women and it is a crime against humanity women make up fifty percent of humanity and that this is a very important part of the peace agenda that's the message here well tell us something if you can something about these two individuals and why they were awarded this probably had a lot about it dennis mccuaig is it going to college who works in

peter craven has been covering the election fallout from much as america's party headquarters here in berlin and i asked him what this vote means for the chancellor's shaky government. it means for the chancellor's shaky government bryan the very government is even more shaky because we've heard the numbers he said be massive setbacks for the c.s.u. and especially for the s.p.d. in bavaria. there is now involved in a sort of an existential battle for their very survival and that's going to have an impact i'm sure on the coalition after all the c.s.u. on the s.p.d. of the two pillows besides anglo-american c.d.u. conservatives that make up the coalition but there's a third problem for a. second problem i think i should probably say for angela merkel that whole see hope for is still around there have been some hopes that in. some quarters and maybe i'm going to medical share these hopes that if the candidate cabinet is going to be sitting firmly in the coalition to go she ations he's looking pretty smug about it he's talking about big plans for the future and this must move very disconc

peter craven reporting for us peter thank you very much. now to some other stories making headlines around the world one of the conspirators in the nine eleven attack on the u.s. is set to be deported. was arrested in two thousand and one and convicted in homburg in two thousand and six of helping three of the attackers in the suicide plot german authorities said they did not want to jeopardize the procedure by specifying when the moroccan national deportation would take place. british and the e.u. negotiators say they have not been able to seal a break that deal with head of an e.u. summit this week despite a flurry of unscheduled meetings on sunday the chief negotiator michele tweeted that the key issues were still open in particular the need to avoid a hard border between the you case northern ireland and the irish republic. kensington palace as prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex are expecting their first baby in the spring the announcement comes as harry and meghan arrived in sydney at the start of a sixteen day trip to aus

but now to return to a few no particular correspondent peter craven afraid of we had no talk about or raise the possibility off it's pretty good drawing out of the grand coalition in case its demands are not met so you have to kill facing pressure from within our own party and also from local edition. and you use the words fresh elections you know which is truly what nobody wants here in germany just to remind our viewers that the last election took place that last year in september there was an initial round of negotiations with three german parties that broke down after many weeks and months as it turned out and then there was a second round of negotiations and it took right through to march before we got a government in place then the government spent months and quarrelling meanwhile europe's germany's neighbors around europe would be looking on hoping to get a go. it's going to be doing some some some prognathic business in the american style for all the money we'll mccraw he's been waiting for a whole year now for an answer to his famous obama speech inviting germany to participa

our political correspondent peter craven is following this story for us hi peter this is not looking good for the governing coalition the conservatives down around ten percentage points of social democrats or worse result ever in the state how worrying is this for chancellor merkel's government it's very worrying indeed this is a really really big loss is an absolute hammering as you said and i think what it does represent is you know very importantly the erosion much talked about erosion of the big tent parties the social democrats the c.d.u. the christian i'm going to merkel's christian democrats have been melting away in recent times and this is exaggerated that feeling beyond them is also in berlin among the voters in germany this is there's a growing sense of disillusionment i think with angela merkel's leadership why is that well i think she says she's failed she for so many people this is been universally expressed across germany she has failed to prevent her coalition government in berlin it's a time when germany needs domestic leadership and international leadership she has

hello and welcome to focus on europe with me peter craven now i was born in england and when i was growing up the u.k. was very much under the shadow of what was called quite simply the troubles the violent clashes between protestants and catholics in northern ireland thanks though to the good friday peace agreement signed in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the border between north and south is today.

announcements we've been expecting or a day for analysis let me turn to our senior correspondent peter craven peter we heard a flock of a few talk about this being a turning point for the c.d.u. party himself is from the c.d.u. and he was referring to often clinic of decision not to stand for party leader at a party conference in december and also that this is her last parliamentary term what did you make off chancellor merkel's comments was very interesting gave it it wasn't quite the end of an era that wasn't the sense that you have we know that angle americal is still in office is german chancellor intends to remain in office and indeed returns to remain in office and serve her full term. her full four year term that would be then for four terms in office as german chancellor she writes of that with conrad out an hour and helmut kohl. but this is a new chapter i think in german politics definitely i think this is the american slowly taking her back this is the clichéd beginning of the end of the cliche really works today it has substance and i thought it was interesting that she said that

i get it he's peter craven reporting for us peter thank you very much. now at some other stories making headlines around the world the once jailed malaysian politician on why you were him has been sworn in as a member of parliament two days after a landslide byelection victory the move seals abraham's political comeback following a two thousand and fifteen sodomy conviction which he claims was politically motivated prime minister mahathir mohamad has designated for him as his successor. british and a unit goshi agers say they have not been able to seal a break the deal ahead of an e.u. summit this week despite a flurry of unscheduled meetings on sunday the e.u. chief negotiator michel tweeted that key issues were still open in particular the need to avoid a hard border between the u.k.'s northern ireland and the irish republic. kensington palace says prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex are expecting their first baby in spring the announcement comes as harry and megan arrived in sydney at the start of a sixteen day trip to australia and the pa

now from munich i'm joined by our chief political editor michelle a governor and here in berlin peter craven is standing by assassin michael c.d.u. party headquarters good morning to both both of you peter this vote is reverberating far beyond bavaria what does it mean for tasm ackles shaky government here in berlin. it's a real blow to angle america's shaky government as you put it in i don't i don't it party headquarters here and burning conrad up in our house where many of them senior members of the party executive been gathering this morning and there is a mood of dismay basically what they're saying is it can't go on like this and when they say that you can't go on like this they're talking about the backdrop to the fact of the c.s.u. has suffered its worst defeat in decades the s.p.d. has suffered its worst defeat ever why because if you listen to what the voters have said and what the opinion polls have said that's quite simply been too much squabbling since this coalition was put in place and in the past several months since it has been in government a lot of that is blamed on the c.

senior political correspondent peter craven is bit me in the studio peter we saw the disastrous election and has said for a chance that the cd you bought him and why did this particular election become the tipping point as far as she was concerned because she'd been under pressure for months now. i think i can only imagine that within the party somebody has taken on the americal aside it would have to be somebody very senior and somebody with very high standing and said. this doesn't work. and if i had to guess who that personality could possibly be just sort of what what kind of area within the party in terms of sort of gusts status to be somebody like for control of the former finance minister be very many minutes are very many of our viewers and i think there are a lot of things have gone on the. there is a reaction to some of the anglo-american centrist policies within the party some of the more conservative wing of the party of never quite accepted in the dean looking for the moment to fight back and also i think it's the longer term the polling on the voting trend not just a third

and for more on the three i'm joined now by political correspondent peter craven in our studios welcome peter first of all how big a surprise will this be if the news is confirmed the chance that there will not be standing as the leader of a cd you bought it's a complete and utter sensation the question you were just asking i'm very sorry is this the beginning of the end you know we. both know down the years until america has had various crises and we've asked our question at times we've never really believed in it properly in our house of it's now from this moment on i do believe that this is the beginning of the end of angle america's long tenure as german chancellor thirteen years in office and it certainly looks as though it's very close to the end of her tenure eighteen year tenure as the chair woman champ person of the christian democrats i think this is a we we wanted whether that has an election was going to be what the germans were calling a shit target day of destiny and that is indeed what it has proved to be but is it still not clear whether she is stepping down but if you j

looking in the room now and she is expected to make the announcement any second now with me is peter craven as i mentioned to peter the nominations for the peace prize are kept secret than what about the doors opening this is right there before we can even begin to talk about. the announcement of the nobel peace prize for twenty eight. good morning.

and turning now to our senior political correspondent peter craven with me in the studio welcome peter not chancellor angela merkel is likely to step down as fanti leader and reports all with also say that she will not run for another term as chancellor after her term expires in two thousand and twenty one what does this mean for german politics. for german politics this is this is a bombshell of. the whole of the past week in the lead up to the election in france so we've been assuming. that it could be quite dramatic. newspaper headlines have been shikse eyes were on a day of destiny for germany on sunday evening but there were i ten i tended to the time to think that that was a little bit extreme but i thought it was going to be a little bit more sort of business as usual that is in the first instance how it seemed but then it suddenly proved to be much more dramatic developments it has sir and now we have a situation that i think could change things completely in germany could change things for this for the christian democrats from the americans conservatives could change things fo

and the similar analysis to have with me athena political correspondent peter craven in the studio welcome peter so we heard what it thomas had to say what do you make a what chancellor angela merkel said and do you think she's a much stronger. after these announcements that she made at a party headquarters what i think the third the first thing to point out is that there was an element of pragmatism in the decision that she'd make she just feels that they these two days defeats the c.d.u. party has suffered and has known to be very in the last two weeks to that too sensitive and don't bode well for the future at all but she also expressed some still some strong emotions she didn't talk directly about horse a hole for her rival from the very and c.s.u. the the bavarian wing of her conservatives who's been there they've been involved in a quarrel which many believe that whole see hope for is really pushed in the last couple of weeks that have been disastrous for the government has been disastrous for the c.d.u. and has been as we saw yesterday evening and i think i'm going to america has be

elections from munich i'm joined by our chief political editor michelle acuff now and here in berlin peter craven standing by chancellor machall c.d.u. party headquarters good morning to both of you peter if i could start with you this vote is reverberating far beyond varia what does it mean for the chancellor's shaky government here in berlin. that means for the chancellor's shaky government brian of our government is even more shaky because we've heard the numbers he said been massive set backs for the c.s.u. and especially for the s.p.d. in bavaria. very near involved in a sort of an existential battle for their very survival and that's going to have an impact i'm sure on the coalition after all the c.s.u. and the s.p.d. of the two pillars be sorry starting in america to see do you conservatives that make up the coalition but there's a third problem for i'm going to america for a second problem i think i should probably say for anglo american vote hole see hope for is still around there have been some hopes that it in some quarters and maybe i'm going to medical share these hopes that if the c

alone welcome to focus on europe with me peter craven now i was born in england and when i was growing up the u.k. was very much under the shadow of what was called quite simply the troubles the violent clashes between protestants and catholics in northern ireland thanks though to the good friday peace agreement signed in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the border between north and south is today completely open and unhindered but briggs it the looming british exit from the e.u. threatens to trigger a return to well divisions and old a trend catholics in the north fear that a hard brags it will cut them off from the republic in the south most protestants meanwhile are desperate to remain fully within the u.k. as a result for people like elfin mccrory the mood in northern ireland is increasingly bringing back memories of the troubles. the memories never fade memories of the troubles in northern ireland. alpha mcroy witnessed a nine hundred ninety three shankill road bombing which claimed ten lives it was one of the most devastating attacks perpetrated by the ira in the years of t

and with me in the city i have a feeling there political correspondent peter craven the day you were listening with me. to what came out of the s.p.d. headquarters and i'm the analysis and her comments your key takeaway from her comments was very interesting umbrage i was just listening very closely to what you were saying and what nina was saying and it turns out i mean we listen to quite a long chunk of an address there from under a novice and we must of all three of us scribbled down and circled one particular point and that was the moment when she became quite emotional and talked about the achievements of angela merkel eighteen years as policy chair and thirteen years since german chancellor all of which began at a time she were she went on to point out where i was under a lot of pressure the conservatives were under a lot of pressure where she was ridiculed by a lot of the men the politicians the journalists about her she was she had fun poked at her by these men and she nevertheless prevailed and andrea knowledges was there was remarkably emotional and communicative about that