brady is joining me from the headquarters of the social democrats kate it looks like you're standing in front of the truck that's holding all the ballots the truck with all the answers they're going to help those ballots what's the mood there like right now. exactly this is indeed the truck which is just arrived carrying those completed ballot papers and it is quite an exciting not most fair those be more and more press arriving throughout the afternoon and some people i've spoken to over eighty have said that this in effect is actually quite more exciting in fact than the election night itself back in september and so now it's up to one hundred twenty volt from the s.p.d. sickout those ballots tonight and then we will have a result tomorrow morning at around nine am so have that result tomorrow morning but the s.p.d. leadership seems rather optimistic about that and getting this deal approved let's have a listen to what they had to say a little while earlier. so you whatever happens the outcome will be a result that contributes to the espy's continued u

and give ourselves time to renew and redefine our profile as a social democratic party well we wait to see what they'll decide on sunday kate brady thank you for joining us. another european nation italy is actually heading to the polls tomorrow in an unpredictable election where migration has been the biggest issue now the vote pits a right wing coalition led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi against a center left alliance led by another former prime minister material. the other main player is the anti establishment five star movement with polls pointing to no clear winner most observers expect a hung parliament. with less than a day to go until elections almost one in three italians still don't know who they'll vote for polls show that no party has a clear majority and have not decided and so can feel as if i go home. and they will decide they don't know which is which is their right to vote for free money it's the first election under italy's complicated new electoral law which has increased the chances of a hung parliament across the country parties held rallies to make their final pitches to voters former prim

and give ourselves time to renew and redefine our profile as a social democratic party well we wait to see what they'll decide on sunday kate brady thank you for joining us. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world amaldi based affiliate of al qaeda has claimed responsibility for twin attacks in neighboring book enough so that left sixteen people dead and scores wounded friday the group said it carried out the assaults on the french embassy and military headquarters in the capital. you had just gunmen were among the dead. slovakia hundreds of people attended the funeral of the journalist. here his fiance was shot dead in their home a week ago. was working on a story of the time an organized crime in the back here before he was killed seventy tahlia nationals detained in connection with the murders had been released . by the u.s. secret service says the man has fatally shot himself next to the white house fence police and medical personnel swarmed the area which was quickly cordoned off president donald trump was in florida at the time of the shooting. saying with the u.s. president donald trump wh

social democratic party. for more let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady who joins us from our parliamentary studios to put all of this into perspective for us because kate i mean this is a pretty big deal in german politics is it isn't it what will it mean for poor foreign policy do you think. well of course any personnel changes always going to have an effect on how people deal with with the foot with the foreign minister and of course remember sigma gabriele always had a very direct approach and so be interesting to see how his successor works with his counterparts of broad and but of course germany has some challenging times ahead when it comes to the foreign ministry and in foreign policy in germany of course is growing pressure in europe for germany to take the lead with france with these projected e.u. reforms but also outside of europe there's also mounting pressure for belen to take a stronger stands for example on the syria conflict or in dealing with donald trump so that other countries really know web billon stems so let's talk a little bit about what you know how that policy could poten