and i thought i had to say one word of optimistic if i lived up to the s.p. day and if it fails then we all have to be brave. that report there from our senior political editor michelle accused and she is after the s.p.d. party headquarters in berlin this morning following the story michelle i'm sure i'm not the only one who noticed the references there to h.b.o.'s house of cards and as you've just shown us berlin politics aren't really as bad we hope as the fictional washington under president frank under way but when you're trying to say understand us there's a lot at stake isn't there. well the characters don't fit but certainly the suspense that we see in here after all it's now five months after those elections in september and today is the decision day this is the deciding hour really and i'm here at the social democrat party headquarters where we expect that announcement at nine o'clock c.e.t. to be slightly delayed simply because there are so many journalists that they have to let in who you keep seeing trickling in here behind me more than half a mil

and claim a place with an a plus for the future may not be quite that simple for the s.p. these new young star party leaders want him to play a greater role in the is p.d. that's a huge responsibility for such a young politician. so kevin quinn of not convinced that the s.p.d. should be in a grand coalition why is there such a popularity with some members on this grand coalition but it really comes down to this identity crisis that they espied day is currently facing much like many other social democratic parties across europe right now but in germany what made it specifically worst of them was that they've been now in two michel legrand coalitions and many of their party members and also in the leadership feel that the party has lost its way and they're struggling to define themselves right now and say exactly what they stand for of course under merkel moved her conservatives very much towards the center and in doing so she was able to poach a lot of the social democrats proposals particularly in the last four years of this current government and so you saw that the socia

it's basically an s.p. do you coalition agreement with some conservative accents and that's. just not. reason why the s.p.d. members were grumpy this time they. they had a problem with their own leadership they have they are afraid for a new coalition that their friends are losing them from phone even more than they already have. doesn't really matter how good the result was they were just insecure about their own leadership and about their own political course for of people again just joining us you are looking at pictures of the s.p.d. party headquarters in berlin a room full of journalists people watching a dramatic scene well as dramatic as it gets in german politics i suppose people watching us from the wings there waiting for the results of this a social democrat ballot among its party members we have heard some unconfirmed reports that the membership did vote in favor of entering another a coalition government with chancellor merkel and as you said simon we can imagine that chancellor merkel herself that this will be now the impetus she needs to move forward and finall

inspired by as i mentioned that that sort of campaign to change the way politics had done within the s.p. day and has been accusations of course many of them are just sort of tourists as it were coming coming in to vote. on this one point to stir up a bit of trouble and they're not really politically engaged but i'm not sure whether that's true we have to wait and see as europe said you know the membership of the s.p.d. is full and. by two hundred thousand although in the last in the last four years you know every new member is welcomed at the moment of course this whole process. and this dramatic moment can only say to you re using christine the white politics houstonian jim indeed and we can't forget that the social democrats suffered their worst result in the elections in the post where or their on so did chancellor merkel's conservatives if you are just joining us those pictures are the s.p.d. party headquarters here in berlin we are waiting for the party to reveal the results of a key ballot of yesterday ask their entire party membership whether or not they should enter a new grand

some claim a place within the bounds of the future may not be quite that simple for the s.p. these new young star party leaders want him to play a greater role in the is p.d. that's a huge responsibility for such a young politician. now some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of people have taken to the streets of berlin to protest turkey's military operation in the syrian region of our friends kurdish and german groups organize the rally ankara launched the offensive in january saying the region's kurdish why p.g. militia is a terrorist group linked to kurdish insurgents in turkey. slovak police say they've released the suspects detained in connection with a murder of journalist could siac after holding them for forty eight hours the maximum period permitted under the law could have been working on a story about the influence of the italian mafia in slovakia he and his girlfriend were shot dead last weekend. cranium police have clashed with demonstrators at a tent camp outside the parliament building in kiev police say explosives were found at the ca

together with uncle americal it's the so-called grand coalition and now we know who the share of the s.p. d.'s ministers are going to be and yes very familiar faces that in different positions some of them interesting also that there's a fifty fifty a quota three men three women so that was an important signal some new faces like francisco give from the district of north where i'm from. that is called a difficult district of lynn so she has a background of finding pragmatic solutions and that is something that machall and she said he's going as well as he's been she's a young woman's an important signals have towards s.p.d. members that the leadership is taking seriously that they want to take this rejuvenating process that many people in the rank and file of us feel that they're taking this seriously ok one of the big stories today we're looking at a trade war looming between the united states and its trading partners including the european union donald trump there singling out germany as one of the violators as he calls them conducting the assault on the united states. has been named b

their backing to another grand coalition optimistic and relieved after the lengthy discussions the s.p. these leaders present their six cabinet picks for the new government. with the quarrels over the foreign ministry behind them the focus now is on teamwork. we sorta put together a good team who can work together extremely well a good team made up of highly competent people with the expertise to take on significant portfolios. hamburg mayor own life schultz is set to become vice chancellor and take on the coveted post a finance minister former justice minister heiko mass takes a career leap to become foreign minister the important labor ministry goes to who batters hile a parliamentarian with twenty years experience the three male s.p.d. ministers will be joined in the cabinet by the same number of women the incoming family affairs minister francisco gif i was previously mayor of the berlin district of noise of. mrs angus as mayor and it has always been important for me to say it doesn't matter where you come from what matters is who you want to be that's what we have to work for maki

asked to vote for the very option ruled out on the night of election defeat another coalition with the s.p. diaz angola macros junior partner that promise now haunts the woman destined to take over at the helm of the p.d. and they are now less sums up the hours that lie ahead. you know followed by noon or yes we feel the suspense and i would say we're about to reintroduce stability you have you don't noise debilitated. most lawmakers are also struggling to find the word to sum up the i mean. when he decided to say one word of optimistic it's up to the s.p.d. and if it fails and we all have to be brave. the sun will set one more time behind balanced chance rebuilding before germany finds out whether this weekend will simply pass or whether the country faces a brave new era of ongoing political uncertainty. and some soccer news now and match day twenty five for the bundesliga kicked off on friday night with two clubs on the upswing braman visiting a snowy mentioned and the hosts stormed to a first half lead then there's the car yo with the opener on the way to a two male bloodbath lead brama

this is no s.p. the result is a good basis in addition ninety seven percent support from the c.d.u. similar support from the c.s.u. a good coalition agreement and a good team that's good governance. the german president also satisfied germany will soon have a new government. it is simply good for our country that this phase of us. certainty and insecurity is over and that the three parties are prepared to take on the responsibility of governing. nieman only the opposition has found a fly in the ointment amid a feeling of general relief. is the fact is that now the losers find themselves she gathered the statement is clearly carry on as usual. now until america is due to be sworn in again as chancellor on march fourteenth and scrutiny returns to a new edition of the grand coalition. for more let's now go to school correspondent nina nina it's good to see you so i get america is getting a fourth term at the head of another grand coalition does it go back to business as usual or can we expect changes in this government. well this is most certainly uncle america's last term in office th

but the outcome of that vote isn't the only thing on s.p. d.v.d. as minds they know their party needs to rediscover its mission. the truck carrying the ballots arrived at the social democrats berlin headquarters with a police escort but no fanfare. party bigwigs made a point of staying away gathering instead of a nearby hotel to discuss how to rejuvenate the party they want to show that regardless of how the rank and file have voted they recognize the need to strengthen the party's message. comes before stumbles we made a conscious decision to start this meeting before the votes were counted and could see if it also could see this does so and so for show that we're taking a long hard look at whether our answers are also good enough for the future. party leaders say they want the rank and file like here a nuremberg to be part of this process but it's really going to go up on that in our confidence because i went to one of the regional conferences and i really got the feeling from our leaders that things understand that mistakes were made and it's ti

the end of a drawn out process and after prolonged squabbling over the foreign ministry the s.p. day finally presents its picks for the new german cabinet recent years have been marred by ministerial bickering so this time the party wants team players. we sought to put together a good team that can work together extremely well a good team mate of highly competent people with the expertise to take on significant portfolios. cumbered scholtz is set to become vice chancellor and take on the coveted post of finance minister former justice minister must takes a career leap to become foreign minister. to face he will need both his diplomatic skills and his ability to stand firm cards because in today's uncertain world germany is also been called on as a mediator. he's also trying out his lease which will give him one of the qualities he'll need as foreign minister and durrance convert a new employment minister is hubertus heigho who has twenty years of parliamentary experience the three male s.p.d. ministers will be joined in the cabinet by three women. had long been tipped for renewed

to make sure that the s.p. digs message comes through more clearly in a. coalition that it has done in the past i would just like just coming back to the drama of the moment. that you know i wondering if the s.p.d. leadership here trying to avoid one of those sort of style if i can mention the i think it was well if they don't they certainly don't want to come out and look as if they you know they've been wrong all but they even if it's it goes against them they don't know what to do next because as we're saying it everyone's a bit worried about instability and political freefall this may have made should so you know this is long delay this moments of spades is making me think they're just double and triple checking although we out hearing from various sources now that. have voted in favor of entering the coalition government with chancellor merkel and you know we haven't talked a whole lot yet about the chancellor but how weakened has she been in this entire process that we've been talking about yeah i think she's been quite weak and this was a vote she c

most people here in your own book appear to be full of the grand coalition but the s.p. d.'s youth wing have for to get instant to the very last there are fears that the party could fracture along age lines. that the will to him will accept the results but it's crystal clear that the party needs renewal we have to discuss fundamental questions and we need a party reshuffle even though i often call home weeks later by the ideas of the needed ships put forwards that. party need to spend yesterday hoping to get that going your process going and that will continue today but any efforts to rejuvenating the party are dependent on what happens when the ballots are counted. or. if you're just joining us you're watching news our top story that we're covering for you the next step on the journey towards a new german government we are waiting to hear whether the social democrat rank and file as voted to either enter into another coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservative or not and we will have full coverage and analysis of the story this morning with our team of correspond

s.p. fits or real enthusiastic magnus walker also has his own garage in which he and fellow mechanics work on the cars. second poor shriver only someone i'm most associated with his car number two seven seven he started life in seventy one nine eleven t. that's a car do all my trite days my club racing or my spirit of drives and so on this in most of the videos and magazine articles my nine hundred seventy one nine eleven t. is my favorite porsche. and you can see. why whenever he can and magnus gets behind the wheel and takes it out for a spin in and around l.a. because he believes that porches are made to be driven. it's a greatest thing that's what i love about. this is my favorite. color is all the sense of looks good good smells good taste good and the sounds. i hunt. cause all over the world i've actually recently acquired two calls from sydney australia so it's a global thing cause go all over the world and i'm able to find them and bring them back here to the warehouse in downtown

this is not s.p. the result is a good basis in addition ninety seven percent support from the city you similar support from the c.s.u. a good coalition agreement and a good team that's good governance. the german president also satisfied germany will soon have a new government. it is simply good for our country that this phase of a. uncertainty and insecurity is over and that the three parties are prepared to take on the responsibility of governing. nieman only the opposition has found a fly in the ointment amid a feeling of general relief. fact is the fact is that now the losers find themselves together the statement is clearly carry on as usual. as america prepares to be sworn in for a fourth term as chancellor scrutiny will no doubt return to a new edition of the grand coalition. political correspondent nina and you know this vote and the political stalemate that has gone on for nearly six months how are people in germany reacting to this result because we certainly didn't see that much excitement

he's ruffled a lot of feathers hasn't he he has and it's one particular upset quite recently in the s.p. that really put the nail in the coffin for his career as a time as the german foreign minister and you might remember back just a few weeks ago when the social democrats and conservatives first agreed on that grand coalition deal and martin shultz the s.p.d. leader at the time as said that he would then be vying for the position of foreign minister and gabriele responded saying that they saw with him was schultz breaking promises as of course straight after the election back in september schultz in fact said that he would never say i was a minister under a medical led government but governor went one step further to actually personally insult schultz and quoted gabriele quoted his daughter saying that she had told him daddy don't worry now at least we can spend more time together and you won't have to spend as much time with the man with the hairy face and now it was actually this personal comment that meant that the s.p.d. disqualify gabriele from serving again as the foreign minist

attacks in that think of the fact that russia supports every right wing extremist party in europe the s.p. earth the free freedom party in austria which is not in government control it's a defense and foreign ministry is a client of moscow jobbik a fascist party in russia is a client of moscow the new fascist party in italy is a client of muscle the phone that's just not in in france is a client of moscow's and the f.t. in germany the right wing party has excellent relationships with moscow now come on how much more has to happen before we say. we may not be white but they're definitely black so one question is how long we have to do and to live with mr putin there was it as a tweet of one of the the editors of the russia state propaganda news so-called news outlets and she indicated that mr putin might serve as lifetime president for russia so russia following the chinese example but what i wouldn't want to be the question i want to raise is there's no scenario in russia of how to hand over power to a successor and there's no success of real looking from too far into the future christian

analysts have said roughly that kind of number we've seen the opponents like the youth wing of the s.p. day making a very vocal campaign against but i think a lot of rain could fall s.p.d. members will conclude that it's better to being government you could put through more of your ideas than you can in opposition even if of course a coalition means compromise a lot of people asking simon where all of this leaves chancellor merkel and let's take a look because voters were also asked about the chance of staying in office for another term in it's more or less a draw just fifty one percent of respondents saying this would be very good or good but forty nine percent are opposed to michael remaining in office as chancellor simon that is a drop in popularity if we compare it to figures from last year what do you think this means for a numerical government you know there's a clear trend as votes is slowly but surely fall out of love with angle americal you know her popularity was seventy five percent and more at one time sixty percent just after the election said they favored a fourth medical

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committed s.p. to members of the s.p.d.have chosen to follow the executives recommendations by a broad majority we now have clarity s.p.d. will be part of the next government and. the announcement was greeted with icy silence at s.p.d. headquarters. is printed as i found the mood pretty frosty none of those watching cheered even the journalists didn't make a sound it was like a box had been ticked off people are looking ahead but no one's enthusiastic and it's a divided party in a divided country the five and a half months it took to form the next german government have left behind some scars. this is on it's his word it is a turning point and it is and will be not an isolated case of a get used to the fact that german politics have changed fundamentally and that's good now give us a for one's a show there is some uncertainty among the population that the mechanisms are no longer functioning as we were all used to so far we've always had different numbers of parties in the german bundestag but sooner or later it was clear m

year in a set that's totally irrelevant it's only relevant if they are political and he has to in the s.p. countable put it so it's not a surprise that that it's reinstated today it's kind of part of a longer process that was already going on and this is a move that the opposition that many people in south africa have been waiting for given that what is the mood in the country today. definitely i think a lot of people in lot of south africans they're saying finally finally he is facing his day in court and of course there is also the feeling that it is not possible because as soon as no longer the president because there is a new president in town circle run across so that's very much anti corruption so even as i'm saying that this is a case that that's being been lingering for a long time there is this is a kind of a confirmation that maybe there is a new wind in south africa because even though the prosecutor decided to reinstate these charges he used to be a friend of his it why now he said ok actually i have to prosecute him so it's actually the five people you believe are actually ha

as the s.p. deva not being socialist enough and that's what he's done today the lead a deep love bush saying that you know this coalition agreement that the government's going to be based on legal sorts of boning social questions on ellen said and that of s.p.d. members who voted against it you know clearly saw in that lot of people not happy with the grand coalition some initial reactions it's a mixed bag you know but how do you see this result the fact that the social democrats have said yes we are going to enter another coalition government with chancellor merkel's conservative things i think both medical and then some kind of a relief but i think many people in the within the party will also be worried since you know within the c.d.u. has being attacked frequently in recent days so she's her position is slightly weakened says she's in a coalition with a party that has a leadership crisis and a crisis about the political course. that could affect the efficiency of germany in europe so there is

policies by the so-called established parties they just didn't find themselves represented and the s.p. days moved to appoint francisco i defy is a clear symbol a signal to those voters that they're trying because she's from east germany they're going to try and hear those people again so this is something i think that will have to watch out whether or not this strategy is going to work ok what do you think this was a close vote does we heard from michelle the nine votes more than were needed to confirm her as chancellor on michael what is a presage moving forward for this coalition. well. on the american side on monday on so did. we have to move fast this is the this is the message where they try to say we did understand we have to act we have to do it fast and we'll have to see whether this whole this will play oh no this will really work in the grand coalition but but the signal clearly is we did understand you had the we've got the message and they've got a lot of money at hand i mean so many is in isn't really. comfortable situation when it comes to tax or vengeance yeah exactly f

dhimmitude s.p. do the members of the s.p.d. have approved the proposals put forward by the party leadership by a large majority that needs to vote and we now have clarity the s.p.d. will enter the next german government the social democratic party did not take this decision lightly we were very open and transparent as we debated the results of the coalition agreement at length over the past few weeks these were important unexciting discussions in which many s.p.d. members were actively involved so i believe this debate has brought us closer together and it gives us the strength we need as a party to enter into the government and to get our country going in the right direction. of shoals there the acting head of the s.p.d. speaking right after the results of that crucial vote were announced and to talk more about all this i'm joined here in the studio by do believe political correspondent simon young and political analyst. and standing by at the f.t. headquarters is our political editor mr have occurred so thanks to all three of

comes in many months the s.p. days that germany will have a stable government. is if the democrats to tie up the social democratic party struggled with this decision we were very open we were very transparent and we debated at length the results of the coalition agreement is good i completely understand the skepticism there are good reasons for it but it's good that the s.p.d. has shown he can praise democracy that sets us apart.