a big day in german politics and a new blow for uncle merkel the leader of her coalition partner quits unexpectedly threatening to push merkel's teetering government into chaos opinion polls show both major parties in her grand coalition hemorrhaging support the chancellor insists chill stay the course and stick with the alliance with the social democrats this is after andrea and alice threw in a town just 14 months after she became the 1st woman to head the s.p.d. . i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel's governing coalition took another beating today the leader of its junior partner the social democrats and alst her resignation leaving the future of both the party and germany's government in doubt the social democrats and local conservatives were once the country's 2 biggest parties lately they have been plunging in opinion polls but promised to keep on with the task of governing. after a year in the top job at the s.p.d. andrea now this she is standing down because she feels she can't go on. discussions in the parliamentary group and feedback fr

news live from the land uncle merkel insists her government will press on the german chancellor says she's not planning any changes to the country's governing coalition this after the surprise resignation of the leader of the social democrats a move that's punched her coalition partner into crisis. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel's governing coalition took another bating today the later of its junior partner the social democrats an ounce to resignation leaving the future of both the party and germany's government in doubt the social democrats and merkel conservatives were once the country's 2 biggest parties lately their faint plunging in opinion polls but merkel's promise to keep on with the task of governing. it was a bad day for germany's grand coalition i'm sure your knowledge the s.p.d.m. 1st female leader in the party's 150 plus year history and now she's stepping down as its leader she held the post for just 14 months her resignation comes after her party's dismal performance in recent european parliamentary elections the s.p.d. lost

news live from berlin and uncle merkel insists her government will press on the german chancellor says she's not planning any changes to the country's governing coalition this after the surprise resignation of the leader of the social democrats a move that's punched her coalition caught not into crisis.

biggest military budgets rise since the cold war by more than 5000000000 euros that's according to uncle merkel but even that falls short of what nato and trump want somehow he's change that for make america great again to make nato great again they were going to make the europeans pay more for their defense what they never did what they never point out of course is defense against whom they say nato is not directed against russia although everybody knows that nato is directed against russia even though i don't think anybody on asli believes there is a russian territorial threat to any of these countries every new member states is a part of the whole war machine huge need to represents and you have to overcome these war machine because these war machine all these dinos out is other of history what we need is to reduce the troops at the border to russia to bring the troops home the old slogan of the peace movement is actually an adequate but defense spending is not the only bone of contention between washington and berlin and just one of many aspects that separate poland from germany. result app

a big day in german politics and you blow for uncle merkel the leader of her coalition partner quits unexpectedly threatening to push teetering government into chaos opinion polls show both major parties in her grand coalition hemorrhaging support but the chancellor insists chill stay the course and stick with the alliance with the social democrats this after andre and alice threw in a town just 14 months after she became the 1st woman to head the s.p.d. . i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel's governing coalition took another beating today the leader of its junior partner the social democrats an ounce of her resignation leaving the future of both the party and germany's government in doubt the social democrats and local conservatives were once the country's 2 biggest parties lately they have been plunging in opinion polls but medicals promise to keep on with the task of governing.