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from becoming the largest party in opposition and that's one of the focus that martin szell's will have in the next few months in the next few years the s.p.d. trying on the one hand to be in opposition to the conservatives to angela merkel on the other one also trying to have a clear position against the i.f.t. ok so into all intention there on the part of the ask for choosing to go into the opposition charlotte i'll turn to you next because you know thomas was basically highlighting one of the chief complaints of government partners with german chancellor angela merkel the fact that you know she tends to steal the credit for their party successes and their platforms what does that mean now for her efforts to form a coalition going forward what are her options. well there is actually mathematically only one viable option left if the social democrats decide to stick on not being part of the grand coalition as thomas just told us which is very likely and that leaves the option of the jamaica coalition that means a coalition of conservative bloc at the variances the party and her conserva

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hello there and a woman welcome to this edition of eco africa you favorite eco szell my name is joy during vera and in their own way we are coming to you from the mum of village which is quite an eco place as you can see from my background my colleague n.t. is on the other side of africa and see how you doing. so again i would bring exciting environmental stories from all over africa and your solutions to save our climate good ideas environment and tips and tricks to keep nature safe like this animal rescue garden we are taking the lead in so here's what we have lined up on the show today. we visit one of nigeria's pony as who tries to push along a cleaner and greener city of lagos. with the help of german scientists i would pose a reveals the secret of the plant. and we visit biologist steve boyce who runs a project to save the key parts from a station in south africa. now driving in lagos nigeria is commercial capital is tasking they fact of fumes of thousands of vehicles on the road hasn't described as a major cause of pollution and that is not likely to change that about twenty million

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with a szell's. that would of course be a step forward that would be one of those concrete commitments the e.u. is looking for where negotiations could start but if course as i've said in my piece in the report this is just a fraction of the actual breaks that bill we're looking at the sixty billion twenty billion that wouldn't even include for instance the question of pensions though there's a whole list of other issues parts of them not even in my report which have to be tackled so the twenty billion frankly a step forward what about the rumors that have been circulating that negotiations have run completely into the ground that there is a deadlock is that your impression it really depends which side you tend to believe that there is of course david davis the press it resents to from the u.k. who says the discussions are fruitful which is a far cry from actual agreement and there is michele dunne you out ruled that there is actually a deadlock but who said we know we we have not made sufficient pro

he's saying just to get a feel for how apparently shellshocked appeared after this vote we have the szell statement from the chancellor let's listen to it and then talk some more. i can i don't know what we could have done differently i put a lot of thought into this election campaign and i ran it the way i planned it. would be safe and i mean i you when i look at that i see until america who is normally so cool calm and collected looking i need a c. word clueless clueless is absolutely the right word for and when we just try to describe the current major players it's even worse in bavaria right know there the word is really big clueless definitely and it was very almost shocked when i heard . on monday saying we did ever sing ok there was no need to change of course we can't go on like saying bye to us or let's move on like we did before that's impossible and join politics right now the need we do need change no doubt about it and but the central question is what will be achieved that goal and before can really enter into any meaningful negotiations about a new government she has to clar

so last week the power everything will come back that won't be easy but the szell say electricity may not be restored until sometime next year the key to puerto rico's recovery then is restoring power but it's more than about clearing fallen trees or getting broken cables back into place this country's power grid was already in crisis the power company and there is only one is nine billion dollars in debt and this we know investment for years all of that is bad news for local businesses and already ailing economy. this is one of the few grocery shops open in san juan but here too time is running out i only have room for two hours this is the last of the diesel when the generator fails this business will close on time really be but our community and we want to stay open because. we know that the people need the store opened and we're trying to do that but we depend on these so puerto rico is already facing a financial crisis but its failure to invest in infrastructure is now costing it daily and gallacher al-jazeera san juan puerto rico. iraq's kurdish leader massoud barzani says monda

so i saw last week the power everything will come back that won't be easy but the szell say electricity may not be restored until sometime next year the key to puerto rico's recovery then is restoring power but it's more than about clearing fallen trees or getting broken cables back into place this country's power grid was already in crisis the power company and there is only one is nine billion dollars in debt and this we know investment for years all of that is bad news for local businesses and already ailing economy. this is one of the few grocery shops open in san juan but here too time is running out i only have to go for two hours this is the last of the diesel when the generator fails this business will close as fans are really be but our community and we want to stay open because. we know that the people need the store opened and we're trying to do that but we depend on these so puerto rico is already facing a financial crisis but its failure to invest in infrastructure is now costing it daily and gallacher al-jazeera san juan puerto rico. the u.s. department of homeland securit