germany's social democrat leader martin scholtz resigns after having recently agreed to form a so-called grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel. and to another resignation in europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with vladimir putin and the russian leaders intentions to forge a greater russia. in an exclusive interview with our t.v. ahead of the court of arbitration for sports defends the olympic committee's decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself had already cleared of doping allegations. the fact that the unable to show. has nothing to do the dictates. of. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas have you with us. germany's social democratic party leader martin scholtz has announced his resignation with immediate effect on his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor angela merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand coalition government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back

termes social democratic party is in turmoil after party leader martin scholtz stepped down amid the moves there was a coalition deal which answer all americans conservatives into doubt after almost five months without a new government in the country and all us has received the official endorsement of the party's executive but still needs approval from the party membership. was exactly one year ago today that the german turkish journalist and as you joe was taken into custody by turkish authorities they've been holding him on terrorism and espionage charges and yet there's still been no indictment and no trial human rights groups say the charges are politically motivated the german government says you chose detention remains one of the biggest hurdles to improving relations with ankara and has renewed calls for his release. his colleagues in berlin are not giving up. as they've been campaigning for dennis regents release since he was imprisoned a year ago. the hash tag free ten is in place and on the roof of his newspaper's offices. hugely seen here on a talk show is surely before hi

conservatives struck with the social democrats as the basis for good government social democrat leader martin scholtz said that the new grand coalition will bring fundamental change for both germany and europe. here's part of what chancellor angela merkel had to say about the breakthrough. fund google goggles i know millions of our citizens have been scrutinizing the negotiations. they have to justifiable requirements of us. just films government and seconds to remember the needs and the desires of the people. and even listen to . this dimension i am convinced remains both parties reached can do just that be the foundation of a good and stable government that our country needs and the world expects of us all . are there's lots to discuss about this coalition agreement to do that i have here at the big table in the studio with me political scientist cindy across from the university here in berlin and in stross berg our correspondent barbara v's all joins us tonight barbara good evening to you and you let me start with you the german chancellor and she is now within striking distance of forming a new g

well here in germany martine scholtz has officially step down with immediate effect as leader of germany's social democrats schultz nominated andre analysis as his successor the move comes amid widespread disenchantment with schultz's leadership within the ranks of the s.p.v. party members are gearing up to vote on a deal with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives to form another groundcover ration senior s.p. two members say that they will back as nomination of knowledges as leader. so what does this mean for the party what does this mean for the country let's bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by outside of s.p.d. headquarters here in berlin welcome to you thomas so now under a analysis we've just heard is expected to be elected as party leader in april but what happens in the meantime thomas because this is a really critical moment for the party as it gets ready to vote on a new coalition deal which is very critical for germany well in the meantime the party will be led on an interim basis by all off shows one of the s.p.d. deputies in the current mayor o

you mention martin scholtz the head of the s.p.d. the social democrats here in germany former president of the european parliament elected with one hundred percent support within the party to the post as party leader but he's severely weakened coming out of september's election there's been a lot of speculation about whether he himself would even be able to maintain a position and stay in be a get a get a post in merkel's cabinet in this in a new any new government any ideas on yourself whether we'll see. with a cabinet post that is the big conflict for the s.p.d. isn't it i mean they have promised their votes as a complete renewal in september they went out of the elections almost happy to be in the opposition at last and eagerly awaiting that opportunity to get out of this forced marriage with america as some people call it saying he would never ever enter into a holiday season with anglo american so of course his credibility has been weakened in recent months and this is the big big dilemma which is even if which is the reason why

germany's social democrat leader martin scholtz resigns after having recently agreed to form a so-called grand coalition with chancellor merkel. another resignation in europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with vladimir putin and the russian leaders intentions to forge a greater russia. in an exclusive interview with r t the head of the court of arbitration for sports defends the olympic committee's decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself had already cleared of doping allegations. and we have a full news bulletin heading your way in about an hour's time with my colleague but now it is time for the.

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marchin scholtz has stepped down as leader of germany's social democrats the move comes amid widespread disenchantment on the.

parliamentary studios in berlin and firstly thomas we have to talk about this spectacular fall from martine scholtz why did he have to go. and it is indeed spectacular just think about this in march last year he was elected by one hundred percent of s.p.d. delegates as the new party leader he was hailed as a beacon of hope for the s.p.d. as the s.p.d. prepared itself for the federal elections against angela merkel to conservatives and then to go into a position that changed their mind and now martin shows not only lost the party leadership but also that key position that he himself wanted namely that of germany's foreign ministers over him a terrible moment indeed for the party also a moment of crisis and if we ask what the reasons were if you look behind those reasons you will see that the debate at least in the s.p.d. had been centered on personnel issues on who would do what in the new grand coalition instead of focusing specifically on the issues on the content of that coalition deal and that was precisely the reason why martin short's announced that he would not be taking that position as germ

why there was frederica marini there with her opinion ship for peace correspondent terry scholtz tonight she is in brussels good evening to you terry so two days ago the u.n. security council voted unanimously for a ceasefire it hasn't happened what in the world was europe hoping to achieve today . well this was a regularly scheduled meeting of the foreign ministers brant so they weren't coming together in an emergency meeting on syria and in fact syria wasn't even officially on the agenda but when you see pictures like the ones that were that were just shown a few minutes ago in your program who can really think about anything else and in fact the topic did dominate all the question and answers and most of the statements from the foreign ministers today i think federico really is is using basically the only tools at your disposal at the moment the e.u. has sanctions the e.u. can try to pressure diplomatically but it's not an actor on the ground in syria you know i mean you know you reference there there's a list of sanctions there's letters that can be written you got it i think it was

what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with books again scholtz social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from tannic magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and said to build but build rabbits without jew checks and very thick asian what with their and t. s.p.d. stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was fake couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was specious but theirs to tally it explained bill that was just too excited and anonymous email to all three calls and billed prints everything that fits its agenda remember the drinks name me oh me oh matty ginger well that's now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build. kevin kuhn out in the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by this picture and he's posted he's also enjoying the show as more i mention they have a social de

what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with books again scholtz social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign. i think a targeted advertising campaign on facebook would 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 frankfurt the payment will not be traceable. sounds good i'll collect the data for the facebook or audience and send all the information to you soon so you can watch the campaign immediately as long as it looks like do science pay for that i'm not worried looking forward. front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from time inc magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and sent it to build but build rabbits without jew checks and verification what with their anti s.p.d. stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuh

chaos shortly head of a crucial vote on a new coalition deal with conservatives party chair martin scholtz has resigned in a bid to ease tensions but his plans to install andrea nala says the new chair hit a snag with party members accusing him of breaching long held protocol now that has triggered a leadership battle and the outcome is anything but clear. martin short sleeve same tea hand it just a week ago it looked like he would become foreign minister in america's new government now he's given up that in bishan as well as the s.p.d. leadership. spots. i've given up my s.p.d. post and any position in the future government because i want to help end the debate about individual members of the party so members can focus on the coalition agreement. s.p.d. members will vote on the coalition deal between the social democrats and conservatives in the coming weeks supporters of a new coalition worry that all the party infighting could hurt the deals chances are they hope this woman under this could now reassure the rank and file and help rejuvenate the party she's been endorsed to show successo

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 frankfurt the payment will not be traceable. sounds good i'll collect the data for the facebook audience and send all the information to you soon so you can watch the campaign immediately as long as it looks like juices pay for their ads i'm not worried. of the funny thing here is all the code words that they were using it sounds like an exchange written by a fifteen year old this called the mere meal meal gates on twitter now it's still trending and people are laughing at the build buildings saying wait a second we checked we did you know what we had to do but these were huge revelations and they w

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 would be appreciated by the now graco 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 frankfurt the payment will not be traceable high ury sounds good i'll collect the data for the facebook or audience and send all the information to you soon so you can watch the campaign immediately as long as it looks like juices pay for their ads i'm not worried. by wednesday satirists from from the tannic satirical magazine revealed that they were behind the entire email exchange they faked the entire thing and they left bill the red faced because many news outlets had seen this exchange german news outlets they had thought will you know this is this is new but suspicious a little bit suspect checked exactly build had

down now the party still needs to hold a crucial vote on a coalition deal with merkel's conservative scholtz has pointed to andrea knowledge she received the official endorsement of the party's executive committee on tuesday bought the party still needs to approve or. now if knowledge is confirmed at a special convention in april she would be the first woman to lead germany's social democrats in one hundred fifty years. mine of course it's them i want to express my joy about the high level of support i received today in the party executive and. it's a duty that i now want to carry out. it's a responsibility for our country because i will endorse entering the grand coalition. i will campaign for this and do everything i can to make it work for the finding of spriggan our political correspondent nina hasa for more nina andrea and also there is talking about a high level of support she got yesterday then why though wasn't she then officially confirmed as party leader right away yesterday as was originally the plan. well that's just another sign of just how much chaos the s.p.d. is in the moment

and germany's social democratic party leader martin scholtz has announced his resignation with immediate a fact his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor angela merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand coalition government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back stronger. yes you did all. this big you need to compute when you will put organization including its personnel and this is the urgent wish of the party members with my resignation and also the relinquishment of my federal government membership i want to help bring an end to this debate and then allow monitors to really focus on coalition the green party. with the background to this decision here's how the debate is going. we know that resignations is something that martin schultz's done well in the past he actually resigned his job as the president of the european parliament last year because he said he wanted to fight the german elections and to become the chancellor of germany as we know in those elections in september he failed

germany's social democrat leader martin scholtz resigns after having recently agreed to form a. so-called grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel. and to another resignation in europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with a blood in the kitchen and the russian leaders intentions to forge a greater russia. in an exclusive interview with our t.v. the head of the court of arbitration for sports defends the olympic committee decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself had already cleared of doping allegations. the fact that the unable to show the guilt of an athlete's. feet has nothing to do with the kids is.

germany social democrat leader martin scholtz resigns after having recently agreed to form a so-called grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel. and another resignation in europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with vladimir putin and of the russian law. intentions to forge a greater russia. an exclusive interview with the head of the court of arbitration for sports the olympic committee's decision to exclude russian athletes which court itself had already cleared of doping allegations. being give the full story on those headlines that are to dot com coming up though. some light on the possible. political breakthrough on the korean peninsula.

germany's social democrat leader martin scholtz resigns after having recently agreed to form a so-called grand coalition with chancellor merkel. and another resignation in europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with vladimir putin and the russian leaders intentions to forge a greater russia. in an exclusive interview with r t the head of the court of arbitration for sports fans at the olympic committee's decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself had already cleared of doping allegations. and we have a full news bulletin heading your way in about an hour's time with my colleague colleen brady but now it is time for the. i am an astrologer this is the welcome is done once again to get into the nitty gritty the fun and betty they ultimately expression oh what station i have a confession to make we are actually in mexico right now oh my god that's true we are in mexico for this a toshi round table and we every prerecorded this so we're at the situation round table talking about big plane with our fellow bit coiners and i

coming up in the show is martin scholtz resigns germy social democrats and doors and ryan also has a party leader what can she do for our very fractured social democratic party. both and all about cash in kuwait mark is here now with the latest from an international fund raising conference for iraq right brian iraq is open for investors that is the message officials up pushing at an international donors conference currently underway in kuwait iraq is hoping to lure major investment from its allies aimed at restructuring the country after decades of conflict the united states has already pledged a loan was three billion dollars from ex-im bank but that's only a fraction off what is needed numerous iraqi cities were reduced to rubble in the war against islamic state it will take time and lots of money to breathe life back into iraq rebuilding a country that looks like this doesn't come cheap iraq estimates the cost that close to ninety billion dollars and these are some of the people the iraqi government hopes will help finance it high ranking officials from the world of politics and b

marchin scholtz has stepped down as leader of germany's social democrats the move comes amid widespread disenchantment in the party over schultz's leadership scholtz nominated party parliamentary leader hundred oleson as his successor. south africa's ruling african national congress has confirmed that it told president jacob zuma to step down party leaders have not yet agreed on a time frame but asked him to respond on wednesday zuma is facing multiple accusations of corruption. american researchers say ice sheets melting due to climate change will raise the sea level by at least sixty one centimeters by the end of the century analysis of twenty five years of satellite data shows sea level change accelerating in the scientists warn their estimates are conservative. com comes to the u.s. markets after weeks of volatility but with crucial inflation data jew out tomorrow could it just be to calm before the storm or so coming up about hopping on a bus without a ticket and not getting in trouble the german government's on such a diesel bans and air pollution could mean free public transport.

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social democrats the move comes amid widespread disenchantment in the party over schultz's leadership scholtz nominated party parliamentary leader andrea knowledge as his successor. south africa's ruling african national congress has confirmed that it told president jacob zuma to step down party leaders have not yet agreed on a time frame but asked him to respond on wednesday zuma is facing multiple accusations of corruption. investigators believe human error is to blame for sunday's crash of a russian passenger plane that killed all seventy one people on board officials say pilots failed to turn on a heating unit for a key sensor prior to takeoff from moscow's demoted evil airport that resulted in incorrect data readings. jacob zuma a.n.c. party orders him to step down paving the way for the end of his scandal plagued presidency but he defines refuses to go saying he's done nothing wrong it is a power struggle for the soul of a nation i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. of proof those procedures should be reviewed because those are groups who could refer to the rebels those four. miss

democrats or the move comes amid widespread disenchantment in the party over schultz's leadership scholtz nominated party parliamentary leader hundred knowledge as his successor. american researchers say ice sheets melting due to climate change will raise the sea level by at least sixty one centimeters by the end of the century and also some twenty five years of satellite data shows sea level change accelerating in the scientists warn their estimates are conservative. kong comes to the us markets after weeks all volatility but with crucial inflation dated you out tomorrow could it just be to calm before the storm also coming up how about hopping on a bus without a ticket and not getting in trouble over german governments answer to diesel bans an air pollution could mean free public transport. could venice is while famous gondolas soon be gone. this is your business update on helen on free in berlin thanks for joining me in the u.s. trade is the say it's the calmest day in new york in almost two weeks this in the wake of a correction with stocks losing ten percent well today banks retailer

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