markus soder, for his part, has always stood aloof. bavarians down in munich see things differently, they like to say, so he's always been his own man. he is pushing in from the other side. i think merkel is not involved in this race. she hasn't tipped it either way. as a result, she is just letting things play out. brent: the polls show that markus soder, the governor from bavaria, he is more popular among the german public then -- than armin laschet, yet the leadership of the cdu voted for laschet. why? simon: i think they wanted to give their backing to their man. armin laschet was just chosen as the chairman of the cdu party in january, so he's got a certain amount of impetus within the party. i think there's a feeling from the cdu that they are the larger of these two parties and they should have the priority that -- particularly in big decisions, like who is going to be the candidate to run for the nation's top political office. that's why they wanted to clear this question clear the air, as they probably saw it. this evening, he

soder or laschet soder was not looking to expand the coalition.dding they were both suited >> translator: expectation to come to a shared resolution regarding the question of the candidacy of chancellor. conversation was not conclusive. we established both are suitable and willing. >> let's get out to anetta with more we are talking about this when you had interview mr. shultz talk about the candidate you would think the presumed candidate for chancellor would be the leader of the cdu party in this case, laschet. what's going on here >> that's the case if you look at popularity, that is crucial when it comes to soder and now laschet. only 15% of the germany think he would be a good fit as chancellor only 5% think soder would be a good candidate soder was saying he was prompted by the high showings in the poll and that prompted him to run for chancellor to give you an idea of how significant that is, twice in the lifetime of germany, post-war germany, a csu candidate was running for the chancellor essentially, both men failed it is a tricky issue t

soder polls well. what is your thinking?is customary for the cdu chancellor candidate to go to the chairman and that is laschet. he has the backing of the leadership of the party, the so-called presidium. but he is not polling strong compared to soder from the csu. and that is the conundrum the cdu faces. most likely, they will go with the traditional decision because there actually has been no precedent. there never has been a chancellor from the csu and bavaria. there have been two shots at it before in 2002 and in west germany when strauss tried to take a shot at the chancellorship. it would be a risk to go with soder but the cdu is looking at a downward trajectory in the polls. that is the question -- go with the traditional choice or soder. anna: how does this play more broadly for the conservative bloc? germany is still very much at the forefront of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. it could look to some as infighting within the conservative part of german politics. sudha: the political brinksmanship within the co

matt: so, i was really shocked when i got your email a couple of days ago pointing out that soder had preorders of the sputnik vexing. for one thing, it seems like this leader, who may be a chancellor candidate, was breaking from the rest of germany. for another thing, he's breaking in a sense from europe. for a third thing, he's going to a man for the vaccines that president biden called "a killer." i guess that's how desperate the situation is. agatha: well, yes. but i think also, he made this preorder that is obviously still contingent on approval in the eu. and i think that the thing now is to look at whether the ema, european medicines agency, is actually looking at the sputnik vaccine as an option. but obviously making sure it goes through the approval processes that all the other vaccines have done. they are expecting that that vaccine process might need to take another couple of months, three or four months is what bloomberg in brussels has been reporting. if that was the case, it may be that while soder has made this deal, and may not be necessary to take on these vaccines wh

elections later this year angela merkel is stepping down after more than 15 years in power marcus soder had also been vying to lead the center right blog but has now conceded the race. ok so levon 1000 people were forced to flee during last month's attack on palmer in northern mozambique humanitarian workers say most are now being looked after by their relatives in nearby pemba it's putting even more pressure on local communities that are already struggling as heroin tosser reports from. susanna felix's she was preparing food for her children when she heard gunshots then she saw her neighbors running confused and frightened she grabbed her kids and also ran it was the middle of the afternoon on the 24th of march the day of the attack on parma by an eyesore backed armed group began to say off i grabbed my children and we started running my husband was at work on the other side of town i haven't heard from him since march and his phone is switched off. the family is now staying with a relative in the provincial capital. but my dad is so who could barely support his own wife and children n

elections later this year angela merkel is stepping down after more than 15 years in power marcus soder had also been vying to lead the center right block but has now conceded the race stephanie decker will join us from berlin to tell us more about this stephanie and more we know about kids. well he's just been speaking now and he came out with a smile on his face it was an uneasy apos to get here debates into the night and certainly senator who you mentioned there had more public support but when it came to the executive of the parties he's now one that it's down to have a vote still time to get official confirmation that he will be the candidate of the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. but briefly to get back to your point who is he while he is the premier of germany's biggest state he's been a staunch ally of angola markel throughout his political career he is pro europe he's pro immigration he stood by her certainly when merkel open the borders here in 2015 to hundreds of thousands of refugees that called her a lot of grief he was very much her ally on that but he comes at a time when there are

break so what would that interruption look like i mean in what major ways would we expect soder to be different from. well mark is it official has to say whether he wants it or not and that's what everybody is waiting for whether he just wanted to ride that popularity wave or whether he actually wants to be chancellor candidates and although in the past he's been a harsh critic has angered a machall in recent months and particular weeks and days he's been very eager to stress that you can't become a michael said against the chancellor and we've seen some signals that i'm going to mind so a very interesting debate behind me right now indeed. the chief political editor many thanks for that update. let's get some sports news now in the bundesliga is a big game solve all sport of travel to frankfurt both teams have been in fine form this season so it was no surprise that this match was a goal frenzy. firepower to an already potent frankfurt attack. on the other hand have one of the leaks best defenses read back to coach them in front with just 6 minutes gone. delete the last 2 minutes. sh

elections later this year angela merkel is stepping down after more than 15 years in power markets soder had also been vying to lead the center right law about has now conceded the race. police in the u.s. state of texas are serving search warrants after 2 men died in a car crash on sunday so they were in a tesla vehicle which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver's seat and in a tweet the c.e.o. of the company rejected the idea the vehicles driving software was to blame he tweeted data logs recovered so far show auto pilot was not enabled tesla with autopilot engaged is now reproaching 10 times lower chance of an accident than the average vehicle let's talk about this with a gabe's is a correspondent an automotive news europe which is europe's leading automotive business publication is joining us from london it gives thanks for speaking to us so iran mosque has come out defending the company but what do you think is going to be the fallout from the us. well i really think the american national highway traffic association that says should should clamp down on what the