chancellor angela merkel's conservatives would score thirty three percent of the vote far ahead of the s.p.d. which would get only eighteen percent and that's just four points ahead of the far right alternative for germany party which would score fourteen percent the business

chancellor angela merkel's conservatives would score thirty three percent of the vote far ahead of the s.p.d. which would get only eighteen percent. and that's just four points ahead of the far right alternative for germany party which would score fourteen percent the business friendly f.t.p. would score ten percent the greens and the left party eleven percent each the center left s.p.d. recently agreed to formal talks with chancellor merkel's conservatives with the aim of forming another grand coalition public opinion on the prospect is mixed and to do this means a standstill nothing will get done it's a lame compromise thing for i think it's crucial for germany that the two parties unite said when i was hoping for a different result less than half of those polled forty six percent approve of a grand coalition government fifty two percent disagree but just over half still think chancellor merkel should keep her job fifty one percent of german surveyed felt good or very good about the chancellor remaining at the helm while forty six percent had a less favorable opinion of her leadership as a head i

s.p.d. members which they will have to vote on this deal do you think that this is a good deal. well that's a crucial next hurdle that almost half a million members of the social democratic party can vote on whether or not they accept this agreement and the way that it has been put together today and i think in order to sell this agreement to the membership of the social democratic party martin sure to steer the s.p.d. leader and the other leaders of the party will need to offer all these concessions that have been made to them during these negotiations they will say look to their membership they will say look we have these major. ministries in our hands and in the coalition agreement they are major points on social issue on issues such as health care on issues such as. labor law and so on that the social democrats have put into this agreement and that will be their selling point in order to try and persuade their membership actually to accept this contract and this new government . there have been a long nights wrangling over these details it's been more than four months since

s.p.d. voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to. make a make an alliance with the build a tabloid and push a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly for. the readers of built just like the editors at build there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we at the turn ignore the people at build or german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now owned and i think that's worth something. an orphanage in central russia is at the center of a child sex abuse scandal that shocked the nation a suspect under arrest but investigators want others brought to justice as well his arteries medina cotton of. allegations of the rape of boys says an orphanage for children with disabilities in the region after lab has shocked russia the accusation emerged once several boys broke down and told their new foster families about their experiences at the institution when my son deci

s.p.d. the social democratic party which kevin could not as a part of. our intent was to spin this story more further you know there seems to be no election in the past years where there wasn't talk of russian meddling or interference but this s.p.d. voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to. make a make an alliance with the build a tabloid and push a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly for. the readers of built just like the editors at build there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we have to turn ignore the people at build our german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. and i think that's worth something. we now continue our look at recent discoveries from japan's official archives on a long concealed eugenics program it left thousands of people infertile over a period of almost half a century argues j

s.p.d. voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to. make a make an alliance with the build a tabloid and push a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly for. the readers of builds just like the editor's a builder but there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we at the town ignore the people at build or german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. and i think that's worth something. ok now we continue our look at recent discoveries from japan's official archives on a long concealed eugenics program it left thousands of people infertile over the decades that it was in force jacqueline vega has been looking more into it. records of only a fraction of the people subjected to sterilization have been revealed but this may finally help the victims to get justice after decades of suffering and some are already taking action has a hard time going through the mid

s.p.d. voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to. make a make an alliance with the boot the tabloids push a story about russian meddling. as we see now it works perfectly it just on that point what was your purpose in choosing russian truelove is there a thirst for anti russian stories fueling this is it so that it's there in society that people want to read it by this whether or not it's true is perhaps a secondary thing yes i think there are people who want this story to be true at least the editors built because russian trolls are interesting just like james bond movies which are very successful in germany as well so we just thought it was a good story. yeah i think it worked perfectly there are other newspapers of course who saw all the. fake links in this particular the email thing but build did not do that and pushed ahead with what they thought was going to be an exclusive story is that why you think they did that because the the thirst for ex

s.p.d. voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the built tabloids push a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly. some people on twitter in the us sorry seeing there are a kind block on their list of followers deleted twitter has allegedly branded some people with conservative views as bots. how soon will be transiting parents thousands of accounts will receive the same passage of the same moment to provide and then a texan through. so it's enough to know what most value is simply because i'm conservative sixpence and live chrissy i wonder how many votes i'm wrong worse donald trump must tonight conservative twitter users are accusing twitter of intentionally restricting or blocking right leaning voices and they're even holding the company responsible for missing followers calling it a great twitter purge and some famous users have even been blocked like mikes or no vision of the son of michael flynn

don't have one large coalition we have one board to start that consists of six party factions in which the s.p.d. and c.d.u. combined make up only fifty three percent. of. what's called. it so those opposing another grand coalition also argue that they always leave the s.p.d. weaker than before do you think head of the s.p.d. is youth organization is justified in this position and in leading the campaign against the grand coalition. up there. i think it's very acceptable in a democratic process of generating political will even when he tried rallying new members to join in vote against the coalition. you know that's wrong he was against that at first he said we're campaigning for people to join the party and vote no. no it was the youth socialist leader in north rhine-westphalia who talked about paying ten year as membership for two months afterwards he clearly stated and i agree with him that new members are always welcome by the way we already have very many who want to vote in favor of the coalition out of the front office but they have to commit to social democratic goals for the long term.

germany's two ts health insurance system a second obstacle is fixed term employment contracts which the s.p.d. wants to replace with permanent positions that provide greater job security the green party now in the opposition is vehemently opposed to the coalition agreement as it now stands start so instead of a display of courage to address tasks of the future we're seeing a grand coalition that's concerning itself with minor issues even while the really critical challenge we're facing in europe aren't getting the attention they deserve . talks are said to continue one choose day even if an agreement is finally reached the social democrats rank and file still need to sign off on the deal. the political crisis in the mold deaves has deepened after two supreme court judges and a former president were arrested its latest move in a cracked by present me refusing to obey a supreme court order to release imprisoned opposition leaders on monday you mean declared a state of emergency. this is what usually comes to mind when you think of the multi beautiful beaches isolated islands and calm blue ocean

germany's to tear health insurance system a second optical is fixed term employment contracts which the s.p.d. wants to replace with permanent positions that provide greater job security the green party now in the opposition is vehemently opposed to the coalition agreement as it now stands. instead of having the courage to address toss of the future with seeing a grand coalition concerning south with minor issues while the really critical challenges in europe aren't getting the attention they deserve. talks are set to continue tuesday even if agreement is finally reached the social democrats rank and file still need to sign off on the deal. i want to go now to our chief political correspondent lyndal crane she is outside the social democrats headquarters here in berlin where these talks are taking place good evening to you melinda well these are not doing that we're not burning the midnight oil this time on on a very cold berlin february night the deadline we know has been postponed again can we expect in your opinion can we expect an agreement this time tomorrow. we've just heard from an s.p

germany's two ts health insurance system a second obstacle is fixed term employment contracts which the s.p.d. wants to replace with permanent positions that provide greater job security the green party now in the opposition is vehemently opposed to the coalition agreement as it now stands. mood instead of the display of courage to address tasks of the future we're seeing a grand coalition that's concerning itself with minor issues even while the really critical challenge we're facing in europe aren't getting the attention they deserve . talks are said to continue one choose day even if an agreement is finally reached the social democrats rank and file still need to sign off on the deal. well for more on the coalition go she's joined by our political correspondent hans but he's just outside the city headquarters here in berlin where those coalition talks are taking place today hans talks are meant to finish on sunday here we are on tuesday they are still dragging on how close are the parties to striking an agreement. well if you believe what the party leaders have been saying last night and t

s.p.d. who hated by the fact that this decision to appoint a novice as the interim leader has been a very top down decision something which the s.p.d. is really trying to change and so we'll have to see really towards the end of the month how much of an influence this will have no cause who is appointed the the leader of the s.p.d. will really determine how the how the campaign for a grand coalition will run in the next few weeks of course the s.p.d.m. vote that members of jews to vote by the second of march on whether they want to have another grand coalition so have to see good biddy thank you very much. moving on now to the winter olympics one of our prime skis greatest ever said to his share has finally topped the limpid podium the austrian did so in the men's combined rising from twelve to after the downhill portion to full has to off the slalom anisha has won a record six world cup titles but this is his first olympic gold. joining me now in the studio for more on the winter games is. sports just welcome so was this medal for muscle it was huge because. he had to prove a point to prove in many eyes he's one of the b

gemini's to th health insurance system is sick an obstacle is fixed term employment contracts which the s.p.d. wants to replace with him and positions that provide greater job security the green party now in the opposition is vehemently opposed to the coalition agreement as it now stands. mood instead of the display of courage to address tasks of the future we're seeing a grand coalition that's concerning itself with minor issues even while the really critical challenge we're facing in europe aren't getting the attention they deserve . talks are said to continue one choose day even if an agreement is finally reached the social democrats rank and file still need to sign off on the deal. let's cross over to our political correspondent husband who is standing by at our our parliamentary studios hundreds of talks were meant to finish on sunday i see you're out in front of the s.p.d. headquarters where the negotiators are meeting today tell us since you are there how close or those negotiators to striking an agreement. well actually today they are changing through the headquarters of the conservat

the points we had negotiated with the christian democratic union which everybody knows that seventy percent of the agreement has the s.p.d. signature and that is met with a lot of support not for everything apart for about ninety percent and they know we

parties in these talks have ruled out any sweeping changes to that health insurance system which is something that the s.p.d. are demanding so that really could be a deal breaker in these talks could be a deal breaker does that mean the grand coalition talks could still fall apart in the coalition would fail. without doubt even with the negotiations continue in tomorrow there's nothing to say that we'll see a grand coalition deal on the table of course that's a scenario where the chancellor angela merkel definitely doesn't want to see this and she'd only be left with the choice of lead in a minority government which is ruled out on several occasions or we might even see snap elections here in germany all right a lot can still happen that's political correspondent kate already thanks very much . under the thousands of groups of protesters in athens against a potential deal with neighboring macedonia over that country's official name of greece's opposed its neighbors use the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one athens has said it suggest a territorial cla

parties in these talks have ruled out any sweeping changes to that health insurance system which is something that the s.p.d. are demanding so that really could be a deal breaker in these talks could be a deal breaker does that mean the grand coalition talks could still fall apart in the coalition would fail. without doubt even with the negotiations continue in tomorrow there's nothing to say that we'll see a graham the coalition deal on the table of course that's a scenario that chancellor angela merkel definitely doesn't want to see isn't she to only be left with the choice of leader in a minority government which she's ruled out on several occasions or we might even see snap elections here in germany all right a lot can still happen that's political correspondent kate brady thanks very much. well here in germany the domestic intelligence agency says that north korea has regularly acquired equipment and technology for its nuclear weapons programs through its embassy here in berlin and a united nations report accuses european countries including germany of not doing enough to stop building up its nuclear w

s.p.d. has a very clear political position naturally they publish this this e-mail chain which by the way caused a lot of raised eyebrows among others in the german media other people who saw it and we are touching it here are a few you know experts few sentences from it did kevin i mean you re i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no grow cold campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mail from you but just to be sure could you name me jay's favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter mere mere multi ginger there yury perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with bots again scholtz social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign i think a targeted advertising campaign on facebook will be appreciated by the now graca movement how much money would you invest in these ads we've already roughly calculated the campaign and expect to pay around four thousand to five thousand euros we've included the social bots don't worry we'll pay from fra

s.p.d. 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

huge political scandal basically what happened is they got these allegedly leaked e-mails which involved the. the s.p.d. there precisely specifically their youth wing lead to kevin. kunar who was allegedly talking to a russian board factory to. an agent a russian agent who introduced himself as yuri what they were talking about according to the e-mail exchange is the s.p.d. kevin kuhn is running a campaign against forming a coalition government with the angular merkel's own party. it's called the google the group will campaign and the russian yuri allegedly offered to use the use of his bots he'd sell the s.p.d. his bots to sway public opinion in germany and de rail this effort to build a coalition would be you know this would be a huge story the first direct evidence of russian meddling in germany is in germany's in politics. we've got the we've got the exchange itself then honestly it's something out of a spy in movie or tacky one at that but here are some bits from it did kevin i'm ury i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no grow cold campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to exp

left versus right which would by the way be a great thing for the s.p.d. because they don't have to do anything to do is stay where they are and say we're defending what we achieved in two thousand and seventeen eighteen very very briefly while we're on predictions show parts are titled grand coalition government wanted this may not be that good of the government germany wanted but could it give me i'll turn to see the government charlie needs and very very badly there we need this table government right now and chancellor and that will be and let me thank you thanks to all of you for being with us today and thanks to all of you out there for tuning in. sinai comes from the lucy. in the nics. college moments. and read in the science. revisit of whom of one of the world's most famous design families. your moment. thirty minutes to. the sun or go five keys to safer food. clean to prevent contamination. for a draw and cook foods to avoid cross contamination. cooks thoroughly to kill microorganisms. keep food safe temperatures call to prevent bacterial growth.

left versus right which would by the way be a great thing for the s.p.d. because they don't have to do anything or they have to do is stay where they are and say we're defending what we achieved in two thousand and seventeen eighteen very very briefly while we're on predictions show parts are titled grand coalition government wanted this may not be the cause of the government germany wanted but could it give me i'll turn to see the government surely needs and very very benefit or we need a stable government right now and a templar and that will be anglo thank you thanks to all of you for being with us today and thanks to all of you out there for turning it. on. the birthday in good shape we turn intending steve and you pay me with this amazing fitness backpack and if you want to know what's inside it is it on the web live. to turning the most favorite home movies into. coughing or maybe no all of that that you have to do so for eleven good luck. it created a movie milestone. it was an instrument of propaganda and persecution. it underwent a bankruptcy and

left vs right which will by the way be a great thing for the s.p.d. because it enough to do anything or they have to do is stay where they are on say we're defending what we achieved in two thousand and seventeen eighteen very very. prediction show parts are titled grand coalition government wanted this may not be that good if the government germany wanted but could it give me alternatives be the government surely needs to get very very bad if there we need a stable government right now and chancellor and that will be and you let me thank you thanks to all of you for being with us today and thanks to all of you out there for tuning in. provocative and aggressive daring and often a dark. these are the works of gail fosler. one of the great artists of our time. this unconventional and or dentures painter isn't afraid to turn the art world on a ten. master painter georg bronson it stands eighteen. fifteen g.w. . film and this is the entire point i was came to directors or dealing with i mean at that i killed many civilians. coming including my father whi

s.p.d. to try to get them to vote against this coalition agreement and scupper the whole deal which would then presumably trigger fresh elections in germany understand some twenty twenty five thousand people have joined the s.p.d. over the past couple of months what how do you think that vote is going to go i think it's going to be a very close call and it's not you can't really say right now how the vote is going to go i think that we have some strong arguments right there and the twenty five thousand people who join most of them i think are supporting us they don't want to keep the great crowd this isn't what you have had for eight of the power of the past twelve years and they really want to change in politics so they joined and they're campaigning with us together against the great and i think that's quite some back out for us some strong support and we have trying to convince every member we can get to vote against the coalition and we won't keep we won't keep quiet until we get the majority well if let's say you get the scenario and say you are successful and you manage to vote down the