by the 1980's uncle americal had a doctorate in physics and was working at the academy of sciences in east berlin her first marriage ended in divorce but she kept up for my husband's last name. what was looking like a quiet life as a research scientist was interrupted on november the ninth one thousand nine hundred ninety she had just emerged from her weekly soma visit when she was swept up in the crowds pouring across the war and into west ballin. i as. she said to me mother i've never been much of a civic activist so joining an activist movement isn't my thing. she said she'd also consider the social democrats. in january one nine hundred ninety they still look like they might do really well here. but then they'll make it on their own we need something new chef and that was her pragmatic mind speaking. and then came the east german democratic movement the democratic awakening which included pastor wright. she said it's chaos there they need me. soon thereafter in spring one thousand nine hundred. was appointed deputy spokesperson for the first and only democratically elected east ge

every news coming to you live from berlin germany's chancellor under pressure from all sides as uncle americal seeks to build a stable governing coalition the leader of the barbarian sister party says things have to change following the conservatives huge election losses also coming up just two days at the germany's right wing a up to celebrate a huge election gains the party's co-leader says she's resigning. and france's president calls for more european unity among well not calling says the e.u. is too weak he wants a joint budget of the eurozone and a shared military intervention force but how will that go down elsewhere in the e.u. . and sarah harman welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel is coming under increasing pressure as she works to cobble together a new government her bavarian sister party the c.s.u. insists that policy changes are needed and lessons must be learned at the conservatives major election losses but the chancellor already has her hands full as she seeks to build a coalition with the pro-business free democrats and the environmentalist greens two parties

with holes in her favor uncle americal can feel confident that she'll be reelected as chancellor of the a if he is likely to win seats in parliament for the first time machall ruled out ever cooperating with the far right party and she promised to take the concerns of those who feel disadvantaged seriously. my you know my answer is clear to solve people's problems the worries they have having their own jobs as well as decent schools and doctors to really take care of these issues but on the other hand to signal a clear stop to hatred and violence. the interview with chancellor merkel was the last in a series of seven that included all top candidates of germany's major parties and recent surveys are correct on sunday young americans conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. will become the strongest political power and she could become one of the longest serving chancellors in german history. poll there she's due to abuse editor in chief and she led that interview with the german chancellor angela merkel she is with us in studio now to talk more about the interview high and as i said we have just a few

germany heads to the polls on sunday to elect a new pro parliament uncle americal is tipped to win a fourth term as chancellor but the far right alternative for germany party is expected to enter the bundestag for the first time. that's your news wrap to join us again at the top of the hour and if you want more news right now you can always go to our web site that is d w dot com thanks for watching. rationalists are on the rise with lloyd to make your contract great again that is their slogan their focus put your nation first i am taking you know the luxury to highlights different shades of nationalism and to find out what this nation mean to use. the c.r.u. story join the conversation.

germany heads to the polls on sunday to elect a new pro parliament uncle americal is tipped to win a fourth term as chancellor but the far right alternative for germany party is expected to enter the bundestag for the first time. that's your news wrap to join us again at the top of the hour and if you want more news right now you can always go to our web site that is d w dot com thanks for watching to. make your store t.v. even smarter with the d w four small. what you want when you want it to do extraordinary. and you decide what's on.

latest websites called the idle or the break in english it paints uncle americal as having betrayed the german people claiming she broke her youth to protect the country and blames her for the victims of past terrorist attacks and her open door policy to refugees for taxing german taxpayers so i feel we don't know whether things like this you know will translate into more votes for the f.d.a. i guess that's something we'll have to wait a few more hours yet to see janet thank you so much. of course data is going to be bringing you a full coverage throughout the day with the latest developments as they happen you can also follow us on line dot com and there's plenty of content on our facebook page and on twitter look for the hash tag germany get involved tell us what you think. now north korea's foreign minister has said that an attack on the u.s. mainland is inevitable just hours after u.s. bombers so close to the north coast both sides of increased tensions over john young's nuclear program this week using speeches at the u.n. general assembly to deliver some remarkable verbal blows ear

uncle americal had earned a doctorate and physical chemistry and was working at the academy of sciences in east berlin and her first marriage ended in divorce but she kept her former husband's last name medical what was looking like a quiet life as a research scientist was interrupted on november ninth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. she had just emerged from her weekly visit to the sauna when she was swept up in the crowds pouring across the wall and into west berlin. i asked say then one day she said to me mother i've never been much of a civic activist so joining an activist movement isn't my thing but. she said she'd also consider the social democrats. in january one nine hundred ninety they still looked like they might do really well here. but then she thought they'll make it on their own we need something new. that was her pragmatic mind speaking. and then came the east german democratic movement the democratic awakening which included past surrender and she said it's chaos there they need me. soon after in the spring of one thousand nine hundred. appoint a deputy spokesper

shocking and surprising some delighting and satisfying others of the takeaways are clear chancellor uncle americalwill retain her position for an historic fourth term but her power has been diminished her conservatives along with the other mainstream party the social democrats together gave up almost two million votes to the new party in parliament the far right alternative for germany the a f d and like a script from a donald trump campaign speech candidates last night valved to quote take back the country and they promise to hunt down the german chancellor with an investigation into what the party claims are possible crimes in connection with her refugee policy but first the a.f.d. will have to bring its own house in order to day the party leader and its best known member this woman petrie she resigned just a day after winning a seat in parliament she announced that the f.d.a. has lost its way now if you're a pessimist this will not surprise you if you're an optimist this may be the best news of the entire election. nothing in the german parliament will stay as it was behind the scenes power pla

boondocks tog and the resources of the bundestag to spread and legitimize their message now how uncle americal is able to respond to that that's something that you know we're we're watching very closely to see and in fact you know alexander golland who last night after the a.f.d. one year he is the co-chair co-founder he said you know we will hunt americal so they have her in their spotlight and well we'll have to see exactly how she responds what what we've seen in other countries the u.k. being the best example is that even when the far right party doesn't win it is not in government per se they're able to end fluence the governing party with theresa may she is not a member of of you kep the far right party in the u.k. but you know she is guiding breck's it which is which was the position so will markel koat as she famously does. positions that are held by the f.t. and use that to illegitimate her own. her or her own chancellorship and if so will that pull germany further to the right that's the kind of power that the a.f.p. might have will have to wait and see but we will have to wait and s

the virtues of uncle americal will be supported by a coalition partners as one dividing thing and that is a big one and that is immigration how will we deal with the immigration problem and then you will see a huge difference especially which we see as you have a system padi potter leader. on the bavarian prime minister and the americal and the central question here is the limit will they have put a limit on the number of refugees that can come to germany. once this definitely. wrist is resisting this and so do the greens and probably well see what the f.t.p. in the end really say about that. but this is the sticking point and therefore they have to find a solution and nobody really knows how this will come about and therefore it already is stated the most important question is how will you all if machall is ready and able to reunite was the c.s.u. . this is the most important question that you that she has a tech right now and until she has reached in and agreement nothing will move forward in these negotiations. i think if i may sort of generalize this to we're seeing across the west

has always looked to uncle americal for strong leadership can it still do that after what happened today. well she's still the chancellor and she's still the chancellor of europe's most powerful economies so there is built in leadership in a way here it really depends on what she will be able to do within the framework of a new coalition she might not be able to follow mccraw as much as she would have liked to because as you know the german french engine of the european union which is extremely important for anything to move on was reborn with the election of mccraw and mccraw seems sort of like the rising star in the european union at the moment while medical with this election more seems to be like you know in the fall of her political career but she still is the most seasoned politician she has the most experience but now she will have to prove also to her partners that she's able to lead that new coalition that new government in germany and everybody will watch that very closely here in brussels you know your i mean she does remain the longest serving leader in europe and in the west

with holes in her favor uncle americal can feel confident that she'll be reelected as chancellor of the a if he is likely to win seats in parliament for the first time machall ruled out ever cooperating with the far right party and she promised to take the concerns of those who feel disadvantaged seriously. my you know my answer is clear to solve people's problems the worries they have having their own jobs as well as decent schools and doctors to really take care of these issues but on the other hand to signal a clear stop to hatred and violence. the interview with chancellor merkel was the last in a series of seven that included all top candidates of germany's major parties and recent surveys are correct on sunday on the americans conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. will become the strongest political power and she could become one of the longest serving chancellors in german history. of the more i'm joined by the woman who conducted that interview our editor in chief as paul is great to have you in the studio today we heard merkel making this offer to mediate with north korea do you think tha

linda macron envisions a europe with greater cooperation at all sorts of levels does he have uncle americal support. well after his own election she was mildly if nonspecifically encouraging saying that she certainly did want to work together with france to reenergize europe and following the german vote on sunday she said that she can in visage more europe if it leads to a more competitive e.u. and also to more jobs and more clout for europe abroad she also said that she has no red lines when it comes to e.u. policy and interestingly enough president mccraw used a similar phrase in his own speech saying that there need be no red lines when it comes to discussing what's good for europe so what's all the talk of red lines well it has everything to do with the fact that one of those potential coalition partners in a new government has said that his party does have red lines he is the leader of the business friendly free democrats and he doesn't at all like the notion of a common euro zone budget or a common finance minister believing that both would leave in the lead in the direction of germa

for example the kremlin mike to be now somehow satisfied that uncle americal is forced to change policies because of the i d but moscow doesn't recognize americal as arguably the most influential politician in europe it has to deal with yes it's true that russians have recently had a direct contact to the d. but you can see you can't say moscow has been only keeping in touch with the deep president putin met with the social democrats in my governor the german foreign minister he also welcome to the various state premier how to say how far to wise in the last two years and he received the christian democrats and the americal german cut chancellor at he's a summer house and such is so alternately what russians want is dialogue to be recognized as an equal partner and russians are not interested in a weak germany they want to strong germany because of a very strong german russian relations yuri thanks so much they don't use your ear shatter they're talking to us from moscow. and as if the german election wasn't enough to deal with the german capital was also hosting a major global sporting e

little bit further along we can see a list of all the leading party candidates we see people like uncle americal martin schultz. list and the list goes on social they're just two of the options available in social media to help people make up their minds today and how significant is social media in getting news to versus well if we compare the german elections happening today to the more recent ones in the us in the u.k. that we've seen social media played a bit more of a bigger pot in those elections than it is doing today and that's for like a bunch of reasons but one of the big ones is where people turn to for the news. and here in germany it's not social media it's not trained it's not it's not online it's actually t.v. and we can take a look at this graph from the reuters institute and the university of oxford i'm not going to go into too much of the day sales but if we look at that graph we can quite see quite clearly that germans of all ages still turn to their t.v.'s as their main source of news and surprisingly few you turn to social media you know there are a bunch of reasons for all o

the cd use instagram account and these are some german celebrities pledging their support for uncle americal you see music icon high you know in a little swimming gold medalist friend just phone they're praising miracle here for not wavering when it comes to the big decisions the c.d.u. is also taking its efforts offline they are literally going around germany knocking on people's doors you do that soon they're trying to get reluctant or undecided voters to go vote to end the seaview actually has some new technology to try to give it an advantage in this case they have an app for its volunteers which helps to target specific neighborhoods and potential supporters ok on the other hand you have germany's second biggest party v.s.b. day they're in trouble they're polling in the low twenty's you know can social media give them a boost well let's see this is their big push now and i have to not quite up to the seed used standards this is them getting out there canvassing around berlin and they've turned it into a bit of a video game is he a volunteer here she's earning points by accomplishing acc

euro skeptic they do not want a lot of closer integration they would not for extents want to see uncle americal start making deals with french president emanuel. for example to put an e.u. finance minister into place at least that's what they said till now again there may have been some tactics there they may have been trying to siphon off e.u. skeptics support from the alternative for germany the far right party that is now going to be entering parliament may have been trying to break off some of those who are euro skeptics who were supporting that party maybe they're going to come around certainly business finds the european union and further integration very very important and their clients are businessmen those are their main supporters so there may be some room for overlap but it won't be easy it's going to take a long time and they're going to be very tough negotiations let's see if only the social the democrats talking to the wise about their future they seem to believe their future lies in opposition rather than government is their leader most in shields you know. in a democracy it is p

and uncle americal. well for the greens it would be the biggest difficulty to talk to get to terms with the f.t.p. with the conservatives with the angle america that they would have a lot of common ground and that was actually the coalition that the greens favored at the end of this election campaign. coalition with the conservatives but with the liberals they are traditionally not getting value long for the the greens. as our liberal industry loving climate change ignoring party so basically one delegates here told me a party member it's like fire and water and this is of course very difficult for the greens but then again there's also some common ground for example if both parties are in favor of an immigration law for germany there are other fields where they could get along these discussions would certainly be difficult but at the end of the day it would be the only option to avoid another grand coalition for germany it's all right on the mark at the headquarters of the greens here in berlin told me

this topic of uncle americal the wounded chancellor tonight. is it was quite interesting we just sold a defeated sounds are from the social democrats martin souls calling of the biggest loser of the evening. anthony might well be bright she's been dealt a severe blow over the past twelve years he actually managed to increase. a support base considerably and ben vince now using. is quite significantly down from those forty one percent the cdu got lost time around at this being so direct dealings. at to migration policy this party the city you has seen a million photos he most likely across over cross over that line that red line this cd you. wants to drool between them on to the far right ast party that raises and also questions. you're seeing someone on stage that you still have a lot of soul searching to do on where they went wrong. clearly she wasn't ready interest in doing that's tonight at delivering more a sofa and collected a plan on how to move forward. raw the been greedy recognizing evening o be a rather unlikely scenario a particular

their policies and in a sense both small parties both the greens and the free democrats have uncle americal at their mercy because without both of them she will not be able to govern so it's a really difficult process one other aspect to that is there is a regional election an important regional election in lower saxony in october in other words in just a couple weeks time and before that election is passed and the distribution of power between the various parties is absolutely clear before that nothing is really going to happen of concrete results ok so kate kate brady there at the press house lots of to go. to come how does this process work is this going to merkel also will from bangalore workers party speaking to each of these other two parties individually or do they f.t.p. and the the greens get together say well if you will this we don't want this how do these negotiations were. well i love michael's podgy the c.d.u. will first approach any hartness that they want to consider into a coalition and it will only be then that old members of the you know planned coalition in this case wil