very big divide a divide that is clearly present here in bonds if it would be a great irony if uncle americal who has led germany for so many years would lose power due to an intra party vote that isn't even her party what is really at stake for uncle americal today. but that is certainly rather quick approach there doesn't mean that if they vote here against the know the grand coalition angela merkel would lose power she would still have other options she was still have options she actually doesn't favor of the minority government and there would also be a possibility of fresh elections there is obviously a big question what will happen in those fresh elections but the vote here does not necessarily mean the end for angela merkel a long path ahead even the focus here even if the delegates here story decide against that new coalition for anglo-american we can say that for sure it is a very big and a very difficult day indeed. thomas let's look briefly at the other side of the ledger what if they do vote for entering into grand coalition talks what happens next. well they would start those coa

europe's two most powerful leaders germany's uncle americal and president and manuel not krone france are meeting to hammer out a series of reforms to the euro zone some of macros ideas are radical he wants a separate budget and a single finance minister for the euro zone napoles more has a tent and reaching an agreement might not be easy. right next hop and joins us now from outside the in the palace in paris max we heard a little bit about what micron wants what is merkel one. she wants to restart the german french and ginger get things done in the european union so that overall goal is the same that mccaw has and on top of that they want to show how unified they are in their approach that's why one of the key messages here today was that they want to restart the treaty of at least eighty at least a treaty we already had the first one which is fifty five years old and they want to second one adapted to the twenty first century to show that the connection between those two countries is still as big as it used to be and you probably can see right behind me here i'm going to america an

new survey survey excuse me by pollsters in for a test to deem up makes grim reading for chance uncle americal it shows only forty five percent of germans want a repeat of her coalition with the social democrats and this just as the two sides prepare for talks. i'm the america desperately needs to deliver more than one hundred days after the federal elections she still has no government the last coalition talks fell apart and new polls showed germans have no stomach for her next proposed solution another grand coalition. only five percent view a new grand coalition as very good and forty percent as good thirty four percent view a grand coalition as less good and eighteen percent view it as bad. further entangling merkel's predicament her popularity has slipped in the meantime. and the longer coalition talks take the worse it gets only fifty three percent support oncle america staying in office in october it was sixty one percent forty five percent are against her staying in office. germans have the following attitudes about anglo america america stands for political stability seventy percent a

uncle americal meets with mcallen in paris the true leaders are looking for a show of unity but events back home in germany this weekend could mark the beginning of the end of the american era. and orthodox believers commemorate the baptism of christ in the river jordan event and their needs are greenies below zero this year they were joined by one very eminent believer. welcome to the show my name sarah harmon it's good to have you with us saturday marks the first anniversary of donald trump's inauguration as the forty first president of the united states some said he wouldn't last till christmas but with the economy booming and his health reportedly good president trump is holding steady as unpredictable nature however has had his supporters cheering and his opponents cringing here's a look back. it was an audacious first week in office. gratian had been a central tenet of candidate trump's campaign within days of his inauguration president trump issued the first of what became known as muslim bands his supporters welcomed the move but thousands of people turned out at airports acros

in the middle between these two parties is uncle americal and her c.d.u. and they know that the only chance to keep anglo-american in power as chancellor is this coalition. is this nichols last chance to form a stable government. but it is her last chance to form a government with a clear majority in parliament the only other option would be listen together with the business friendly liberals and the center left green party she already tried that one but this these talks failed already at the end of last here so the only other option would be a minority government something the american already ruled out and then the only other thing left would be new elections something both the social democrats and the conservatives of america couldn't want because in the end this would mean to strengthen the right wing populists of the f.t. . reporting for us thank you for your work. paris has held a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the shadowy abdo attacks french president a menu item a call on the city's mayor and it had to go laid a wreath outside the former

and the longer coalition talks take the worse it gets only fifty three percent support uncle americal staying in office in october it was sixty one percent forty five percent are against her staying in office. germans have the following attitudes about anglo america america stands for political stability seventy percent agree best days as chancellor are over sixty seven percent agree and merkel's c.d.u. neglects concerns over refugees according to fifty nine percent. of the german government's most important task by far is still the refugee issue even though it's less politically charged than it was a year ago. when asked if families of war refugees should be allowed to join them here in germany forty one percent said yes forty eight percent said no and if new elections were held this sunday germans would not vote much differently than a month ago the c.d.u. c.s.u. would receive thirty three percent of the vote the s.p.d. twenty one percent the f.t. would get thirteen percent of the vote and the f.t.p. nine percent the left party would also get nine percent and the green party eleven

and from what we have heard there won't be a need any higher taxes so this would be a win for uncle americal conservative blog and a big lose for four hundred children the social democrats because they have been calling for a higher taxes especially for the wealthy and the rich we also have heard that they have reached to an agreement on the europe issue saying that they want to go very closely with the strong ally france we women have to remember the french president a minor when markov had issued some proposals on european policy under specially the social democrats have called to follow these proposals and from what we have heard. have found an agreement on that one but there still are some sticking points as especially refugee policy see it still seems to be a problem in the case of presumably about is perhaps the text that martin shields is reportedly looking to adjust there i mean he has quite a hard sell now in front of him doesn't he just walk us through what is expected to happen over the next day is over the next weeks. absolutely these these talks that we have seen here during the

uncle americal is under pressure as well because for over three months germany has been functioning without a new government she wants to see germany active on the european stage once again europe is a focus of the party's new blueprint for talks and the conservative party's advisory board stands behind this negotiation result but things look different with the social democrats six of forty members on the party executive board voted against moving forward with coalition talks there are fears about how the party base will react. when mcclellan i think we're on the right path but we have to be careful to remember this won't just work out automatically dollars the twenty eight page document is up against heavy criticism from the opposition just as expected. to lead this country into the future and there's no answer to digital change and no flexibility in the pension system on the contrary it does injustice to future generations and it's expensive. chancellor merkel wished success to the leader of her would be coalition partner the s.p.d. now it's up to martine schultz to convince everyone at t

rock of stability seems to be a little bit unstable to move the rock and stability is called uncle americal right for many people right are we in the final time of the merkel era in germany i think there's a phase now becoming visible that this last term four years or maybe less maybe less will be a record of her accomplishments as well as maybe her shortcomings so i think that to some extent twelve years is a long time to be in office and who can replicate that and i think that's the reason that her record will be better than maybe what some people think it is now but at the same time there's a change in the air and you can't deny that you want to venture a guess on what a post miracle germany will look like that much different from what it is now i mean i think that the internal fabric of german society is pretty well you know strengthened economically they are riding high great economic machine that's working in their favor people afraid of whether that they're going to continue i don't see much difference here i think this is some extent it might be. a question of whether or not germany

took center stage in the swiss alps with speeches from the continent's heavyweights germany's uncle americal spoke before him but it was france's and manuel mcallen who had the headline slot he told the world economic forum that globalization had to ensure prosperity for all classes in society it's in money when mcmullen first economic forum since becoming french president last may one of his burning issues is globalization and fittingly he addressed his audience in english. ladies and gentlemen my my my first miss each is that france is back france is back of the call of europe. because we will never have any french success without a european success mcconnell spoke of a ten year strategy to make europe more economically politically and socially powerful but he said the most vulnerable members of society must not be sacrificed at the altar of progress letters and have been native to declaw that is asian in general is going through a major crisis and this global challenge requires for sure collectively fought from international organizations states companies civil society. in order to find a

don't know what we stand for anymore however having said that i mean there was one term when uncle americal ruled with the liberal f.d.p. and the s.p.d. was in opposition and it doesn't follow necessarily that if they were in opposition they could kind of remold themselves and revitalize themselves so the reason why martin schulz the leader of the s.p.d. ruled out a grand coalition was because this idea of not going into government with america was very very popular amongst his party base but given that a majority government could not be formed because the liberals basically walked away from the negotiations martin shorts came under a lot of pressure from other senior members of the s.p.d. party to reconsider and he kind of had to do a u. turn and therefore as these coalition talks progress or we'll see if there will be actual coalition talks marching chill's will have to take his party base along with him every step of the way all right nina shake live for us in london interesting to talk to you thank you. all right take a look at the weather now with news of those sides of the atlantic fo

step in it is his decision on what to do then he has several possibilities he could either ask uncle americal to form a minority government something under medical has ruled out several times now if she doesn't want to lead a minority government he could then ask someone else for instance martin shultz the leader of the social democrats but this is very unlikely there's no thinkable majority within parliament which could bring multinationals into power and of course then funk what a steinmeier the german president could also call for new elections this is he's the only one who has the power to do so but he also already said that this would be the least favorable option so it's going to be very complicated whatever is going to happen rip of it evolved with the very latest from berlin thank you know what. a member of germany's parliament leading figure in the far right a.f.d. party may faced charges of illegal hate speech for her angry tweet on new year's eve beatrice fun style he ranted at police in the city of cologne for publishing a new year's greeting an arab back she said that they were t

thank you very much so we are going to we've got about a minute melinda and what happens then to uncle americal i want to ask you this is she in the twilight of her career we've heard it said more going towards this vote today that i think we've we've heard since the election is the momentum for people to expect the end of the era of america is that now has it hit a level that unstoppable well let's say on the basis of this and if they go into a grand coalition negotiations and if they succeed in building a grand coalition that is to say if their party members do in the end vote for the result then what we may see is a tapering off of the. nowra rather than a crash had this turned out differently today we might have seen a crowd or so i think but i is it's slowly coming to an end i think yesterday some people say she may only last two of four years for example melinda crane our chief live correspondent as always a pleasure and that's going to wrap up this special edition of b. w. news you know where we're headed we're headed to coalition talks here in germany i'm brant ghafar all of us here in

really have to decide if these social democrats really want to enter a formal coalition talks with uncle americal and her comes over to brooke so they've got their work cut out for them what's the mood like there in the bundestag right now where you are. while the meetings haven't started yet but we can say that the mood within the conservatives is a mood of. thank god we have made it thank god we have pushed through some of our key issues on the move within the social democrats is that let's wait and see what our party members are going to say there's quite a lot of reluctance within the social democrats which is quite understandable the social democrats have seen the worst election result of the last elections and that coming out of a grand coalition with angela merkel so there's quite a lot of reluctance there and now much ensure that the social democrat leader house to sell his party this twenty eight pages as a success although he didn't manage to push through his key issues oh i took a bit of all thank you for your continued coverage you know work. art let's take a look now at some of the k

really have to decide if these social democrats really want to enter a formal coalition talks with uncle americal and her comes over to brooke so they've got their work cut out for them what's the mood like there in the bundestag right now where you are. both the meetings haven't started yet but we can say that the mood within the conservatives is a mood of. thank god we have made it thank god we have pushed through some of our key issues on the move within the social democrats is that let's wait and see what party members are going to say this quite a lot of reluctance within the social democrats which is quite understandable the social democrats have seen their worst election result at the last elections and that coming out of a grand coalition with angela merkel so there's quite a lot of reluctance there and now much ensure that the social democrat leader house to sell his party this twenty eight pages as a success he didn't manage to push through his key issues oh i took a bit of all thank you for your continued coverage you know work. art let's take a look now at some of the key policy agree