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lot of people say that what the party desperately needs is renewal i think actually the main dividing line at the moment within the social democrats is between the wings if you want the mainstream the right wing of the party and the left wing it is the left wing of the social democrats who are most keenly against joining another grand coalition on the other grow co with chancellor merkel the conservatives and of course the use of those the youth wing a key element of that left me but as i say their concern is a narrow one it's with the health of the party they want to put the party before the nation but for decades now the social democrats have put a nation before party and that is why the party leadership is tending in that direction in fact the the users could be fact. affect the balance of power in the. that is going to take place on sunday but look at mobility these it's the details have been going to hundred and seventeen days give it take a few days what do the general public in germany feel about this dragging on people are fed up with this you know as you say hundred seventeen days four months after the election we still have no government and

it is not only young people who are underrepresented, but left-wing people are not very represented in the social democratic partyd also not that much in parliament. many people who maybe share left-wing values don't vote anymore. think part of the problem is they don't trust the social democratic party anymore. brent: why not save the social democrats, the grains, and the left party -- why don't you join forces and create a party? do you discuss ideas like that? anika: in berlin we have such a coalition. this is a model that i think could also work on a national level. but there is some distrust between those parties and we need to work on that, so that this becomes an option for left-wing politics on a national level, with having a left-wing chancellor. that is a very important point also for new elections. brent: who would you like to see as the spd's next chancellor candidate if we do have new elections? anika: i think at this point it is very difficult to say. i would like to have a woman as a chancellor candidate. the spd never had a woman in this position. brent: are the names you would name? anika: we hav

only young people who are on the repressive but also like left wing people actually are not very you would present it in a social democratic party and also not that much in parliament because many people who maybe share left wing well you just don't vote anymore and i think part of the problem is that they don't trust the social democratic party anymore and we're not doing something creative one of saying the social democrats the greens and the left party why don't you join forces in create a new super bartie had me do you discuss radical ideas like there of course i mean in berlin we have such a quotation which should just put it out and this is the model that i think it could also work on national level but there's some distrust between those parties and we need to. that so that those so that this becomes actually option for left wing politics on national level with having a left wing chancellor and that's a very important point also for new elections would you like to see as the s.p.d. next chancellor candidate if we do have to. you know what new elections i think at this point it's very difficult to say i would like to have

and in terms of socialism, and a pure left—wing ideology, you rebelled against it, and now you are for it. i neverjoined the liberal party. i stayed a social democratal democratic party. that's why i have notjoined it. but i am of the left. i am a passionate believer in the national health service. i believe that the creation of that in 19118 was a great thing. he rejoiced in the fact that he didn't have to ask his patients to pay. so, on social policy, i've always been on the left. but i was, when i was leader of the sdp, and even before — i believe that we did have to change trade union laws. i believe that we did have to change the economy. and above all, i wanted strong defence. all of those were challenged by michael foot in 1981 to 1983. and it took ‘81 — from the time we left till 1997 before labour won. corbyn is getting closer to it, and as i said to you, he's attracted young people. he's got an increased membership. you can't take this away from him. if you had your time over again, would you now think differently about leaving the labour party? would you have stayed in? well, you've studied these things. you know perfectly well i was tot

people think in terms of the party will be destroyed by the grand coalition martin doul terry homburg m.p. from the left wing d. link a party believes the social democrats have long been drifting away from their core values that is a long term process which is followed by this decision when we see the social democrats since ten or fifteen years. original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population. just. this process for. now doing the high school chores isn't exactly everybody's idea of fun is it but one russian cosmonaut may beg to differ these are pictures sent from the international space station coming up showing him hovering around on a vacuum cleaner. that's how you have flown in space and that's all for us probably not i'll be back in what thirty five minutes time but more greats our team programs lie just around the corner stay with us. one else chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. let me. get to shape out these days becomes active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find thems

out of it, and in terms of socialism, and a pure left—wing ideology, he rebelled against it, and now you are for it. i neverjoined the liberal party. i stayed a social democratlabour party is a social democratic party, that is why i have not joined social democratic party, that is why i have notjoined it. but i am of the left. i am a passionate believer in the national health service. i believe that the creation of that was a great thing. i rejoice in the fa ct was a great thing. i rejoice in the fact that my father didn't have too asked his patients to pay. so on social policy i have always been on the left. but i was, when i was leader of the sdp, and even before, i believe that we did have to change trade union laws. i believe that we did have to change the economy, and above all, i wanted 5trong defence, all of those were challenged by michael foot in 1981 to 1983, and it took 81... from the time we left, until 1997 before labour one. corbyn i5 until 1997 before labour one. corbyn is getting closer to it, and a5 until 1997 before labour one. corbyn is getting closer to it, and as i 5aid is getting closer to it, and as i said to you, he has attracted youn

shortly in berlin, the head of the social democratic party's youth wing will be holding a press conference new grand coalition with german chancellor angela merkel‘s cdu. in the us, it's martin luther king junior day and there are several anti—racism demonstrations planned in various cities across north america. the markets were shut in the us for that holiday. in vancouver, foreign ministers from 20 countries are gathering for a meeting hosted by canada and the united states, with talks on north korea. the countries not participating include russia and china. it's the opening day of the australian open and already there's been two major shocks. the fifth seed venus williams has been knocked by the 20 year old swiss belinda benchic. also out at in the first round is us open champion sloane stephens. she lost her seventh consecutive match in going out to chinese number two zhang shuai as she continues to struggle to recapture the form that took her to a grand slam title last year. now it's time to get the rest of the sports news. hello there. coming up in your mondays sports briefing. the s

destroyed by the grand coalition martin doul juror number game pity for the left wing party believes the social democrats have long been drifting away from their core values. that is a long term process which is followed no by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years big gave up the original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population. is just a crease and office process. this hour but peter lavelle and guests are cross talking right after a short break. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle well the four page memo detailing extensive fives of course abuse changed the course of what is known as russia gate also does the trumpet ministration syria policy make any sense and who is the real boy from the media. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and writer for th

wing party. believes the social democrats have long been drifting away from their core values there is a long term process which is followed by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years. original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population is just. this process. which appears completely now household chores can take on a whole new meaning when you are floating in zero gravity a russian cosmonaut was filmed using a vacuum cleaner on the international space station. you know. all the things they do for fun in space space is cool watch my international back with headlines in about thirty one minutes to. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm showbiz most i'll see you then. you know order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with in the leadership of the regime who feel that

merkel's conservatives social democrat leader martin schulz is in favor of forming a new so-called grand coalition but he faces resistance from the left of his party especially its youth wing former coach formal coalition talks can only begin if sold gets a yes vote from the gathering of social democrat delegates in bonn a no vote could lead to a minority government or fresh elections. we're getting the latest now from our correspondent here in the studio show a lot of pots charlotte thank you so much for being here it looks like. let's start with what the mood is right now among the social democrats what are we seeing ahead of tomorrow's vote i mean it's not great let's start with that i think the party is really divided at that point with seeing a division between young and old in the party but also between the leadership and the grassroots the used leader of the social democrats he spent all last week i'm painting against a new grand coalition and there's several arguments for that he's saying that the results that came out of the exploratory talks are lacking social democratic ideas that the party couldn't renew itself and another grand coalition and also that if they

parties. firirt was the left wing of the social democratic party, the old established socialist party that has been in the government, has s been the government. last leader of germany before angela merkel, the current leader,, was a man named d schroeder, and he was a member of the social democratic party in germany. the left wing under a very, very charismatic leader, which was important, a man named oskar lafontaine, withdrew from the socialist party in order--excuse me--to found this new party the die linke. the other part of the die linke is the party that used to be the dominant party in what was east germany. you know, the east german and west german separation ended, and the two countries were unified early in the 1990s. so there's now one germany again, there aren't two, but in the east, which was a communist part of the eastern european block, that party was called the socialist unity party, sed, sozialistische einheitspartei, and that party dissolved, but large numbers of it moved also into this linke. so it's a coalition. in the eastern part--this is something americans tend not to

social democrats. but left—wing voters are not keen. they feel badly burned by the last four years of angela merkel‘s junior four years as angela merkel‘s junior coalition partners and partyleft—wing identity. so the party's leader, martin schulz, has to somehow reach a compromise with the conservatives, while at the same time convincing grass—roots supporters that he is sticking to the party's core values. translation: whatever the new german government might look like, however it might be structured, it is certainly my hope that its challenge will be finding new policies for the new time we are living in. we can all agree on that. in this spirit, we will be conducting negotiations here constructively and with an open mind. as social democrats, we are happy to be able to host the cdu and csu here today, but one thing is clear for the social democratic party — we won't be drawing any red lines, but we want to push through as much red politics as possible in germany. this is the longest period of coalition building germany has ever known. it's not a crisis, the economy is strong and germany's caretaker government can keep things ticking over in the short—term, but no long—

affair none of them know whether this man will win the backing off his party the social democrats in particular yesterday's youth wing has strong reservations about joining another grand coalition. we reject a renewed grand coalition because we're convinced it wouldn't be right for democracy in germany and we consider it a negligent to let the far right have to become the leading opposition party. and recent days party leader martin shows has been touring the country lobbying for a yes vote on the grand coalition because of their own style of concentrating on winning the majority of the party conference on sunday in favor of the decision to enter into talks aimed at finding a coalition agreement that's my task to get a majority first choice there is more at stake than just being part of another grand coalition if the party conference votes no his time as party leader will be over. us that's what i'm afraid of is that if the majority of the party votes against a grand coalition bill be such a big question mark over the leadership skills of martin schulz that he can no longer remain as s.p.d. leader. a no from the part

party of chancellor merkel's conservatives it comes at an awkward time for chancellor merkel as she prepares to start exploratory coalition talks with the social democrats. viktor orban the right wing prime minister of hungary is a regular guest here with the conservative c.s.u. party in bavaria and regular guests are often invited because you know in advance how they will behave in this regard orbán does not disappoint as a known euro skeptic he opposes germany's refugee policy which he dubs a problem of democracy. after. i told our bavarian friends that i think in the year twenty eighteen we will restore the will of the people in europe you need. for your case study tony. and that the european people step by step will force decisions concerning refugee policy that are in their best interest. the man responsible for inviting orbán is horst the who for the c.s.u. party leader who will be part of the coalition talks with the s.p.d. beginning on sunday to the s.p.d. or bond's visit is a slap in the face nonetheless they hope for makes the point of openly supporting orbán. any downed viktor orban respects the rule of law in a newspaper interview s.p.d. leader martin schulz complained

wing party d. link believes the social democrats have long been drifting away from their core values but it is a long term process which is followed by this decision when we see the social democrats since ten or fifteen years big gave up the original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population. just. this process. so i think it's safe to say doing the household chores isn't everybody's idea of fun although one russian cosmonaut might beg to differ the following are pictures sent from the international space station and show him around on a vacuum cleaner. if you've ever wondered what they do in space in the evenings there you go i'll show him thomas is here in half an hour's time with more global news in this studio for me. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see that. prescribe medication is widespread in the u.s. market a frequent cause of death at the point in my life

that behind us on the picture he is twenty eight and he is the leader of the young wing of the social democratic party here in germany and he is all over german media at the moment because he is fiercely competing against a new grand coalition between his party and under merkel's c.d.u. but also because he is this young politician fighting the establishment in a way but he has now said that german journalists are actually giving him a really hard time because of he's eight and he's made some examples sometimes he gets questions that are that an older colleague would never get for example he's been asked whether he lives in a shared flux or whether a very famous german moderator asked him whether he sometimes calls his parents for advice on how to cope with the pressure so questions that are off topic sometimes to being someone to. been hearing about that and now he's speaking up about that yes and he's not alone in fact a famous bento every now and german news website has launched an online campaign with the hash tag it does in human does a human to lie to these young people as you can see behind us a

affair none of them know whether this man will win the backing off his party the social democrats in particular yesterday's youth wing has strong reservations about joining another grand coalition. we reject a renewed grand coalition because we're convinced it wouldn't be right for democracy in germany and we consider it a negligent to let the far right have to become the leading opposition party when it starts and recent days party leader martin short has been touring the country lobbying for a yes vote on the grand coalition because of their own style of concentrating on winning the majority of the party conference on sundays in favor of the decision to enter into talks aimed at finding a coalition agreement that's my task to get a majority first choice there is more at stake than just being part of another grand coalition if the party conference votes no his time as party leader will be over. that's what i'm afraid of is that if the majority of the party votes against a grand coalition bill be such a big question mark over the leadership skills of martin schultz that he can no longer remain as s.p.d. leader. a no

of what we've seen before but there is a lot of temptation within the social democrats especially from the youth wing of the party and i remember i must mention that there is a special delegation for the socialists in general the twenty first and that's going to be a lively debate because many of their long souces were saying that martin schultz the beginning of his period just after the election said they're going into a position that period of opposition would have been very good for them it would bring on the new leaders bring on new energy bring in a new goals an insight into what germany needs and that's not happening so even if there is an agreement here there will still have to be that delegation the party has to accept that formal talks should start and don't count that as necessarily just a shoo in it won't be and of course as you said germany is traditionally one of the main engines of of europe the main way of keeping it together the main engine of reform the main engine of the economy so yes there is sort of trepidation especially i think in the french government press and macro about just how long th

follow you know on the left wing within the party are already mobilizing against it they say there's not enough in this preliminary agreement to be the basis of a social democrat policies the leader of the youth section of the s.p.d. says he's going to travel around the country even as his party leader is doing the same to drum up support he says he's going to find people who oppose this agreement so there's a long way to go within the s.p.d. before this can be done let's go briefly into the detail of that document you just mentioned the twenty eight page document setting out the cornerstones of a potential coalition agreement that was the result of these exploratory talks is there enough in that document for martin short's the leader of the social democrats to take to his members and argue. that yes we should enter a coalition with angela merkel's conservatives well of course schultz says there is he says that eighty percent of the s.p.d. selection program is in they still came and he can see a clear way forward to a new grand coalition and there are some social democrat policies in there you know things like more help for young families boosting job creation

ballot but this is a vote that has certainly split the social democratic party we did see a large challenge mounted by the leader of the youth wing kevin couldn't it and they have the whole youth side of the party saying now they didn't want to be four more years of coalition with angela merkel they wanted to spend four years in opposition well it certainly seems it's not going that way at the moment martin schultz has said though that the final decision on a coalition will go down to a vote of party membership and will be put out to a ballot of the almost full. four hundred fifty thousand party members there it is worth noting that the social democrats didn't have a very good election in september they lost forty seats in the bundestag. there is a lot of people against this coalition but what would the bundestag look like should there be a rekindling of the grand coalition between angola merkel's bloc and the social democrats well what it would do of course is that would make alternative for germany the main opposition party in the in the bundestag with everything that comes with that it is traditional in germany that the. oppos

not convinced the left wing of the party has already mobilized its opposition they say it's not enough in this deal there's no basis for a you know a real set of social democrat policies that's what one of their leaders has been saying another prominent opponents a very new addition of the grand coalition government of conservatives and social democrats the youth section. says he's going to travel around the country stirring up opposition against what's been agreed so far even as martin schulze the party leader tries to drum up support on his side so there's a there's an awful lot of opposition and it is far from clear whether this deal will ultimately be realized let's hear now from one of those social democrat members my colleague phil gale has been talking to s.p.d. member karen taylor is what she had to say to that preliminary deal struck between party and merkel conservatives yesterday. looking at the paper that came out today i'm very disappointed. if we see the results if we see what it's pretty focused on before these talks and what at every right now i think the s.p.d. had to step back on the very core issue with definitely definitely a parting quest

be very tough for as a party leaders to get a positive result and it could thank you for being with us this morning on a closer. head of the youth wing of berlin social democrats thanks for coming in thank you think now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today rights groups say turkish air strikes have killed at least eleven civilians in the northern syria region of the brain this is on the second day of a turkish ground offensive into syria to oust u.s. backed kurdish militia from the area where operation was met with a hail of rockets on current turkish towns killing at least one refugee. fourteen foreigners and poor afghans have been confirmed killed in the attack on the internet continental hotel in kabul afghanistan officials say six gunman wearing army uniforms stormed the compound saturday evening sparking a thirteen hour gun battle with police the attackers were all killed the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. and most u.s. government agencies will be closed today after congress failed to reach a deal on reopening the government of vote is now scheduled for monday at noon the shutdown came into effect saturday a

wing party no the alternative for germany arise and so there has been. an issue because of. the loss of legitimacy from the leaders of the social democrats and. according to the conservatives to their members so they must secure that the members were followed they lease the political leaders and this is quite difficult to reach right and i think that's really interesting what you point out there so you would say that this political uncertainty of these past couple of months was a malays in germany that life just basically you know went on as usual for germans in general you know in short term we agree on this maining but i mean germany is built up on the relatively strong political institutions and the institutions will work on and we have got a very very good economic development since. last eight years which is always important for political stability so i can see even is if they would be afraid of this negotiations the preclinical striations that we will have a severe economic or political crisis in germany in the next month you know right now mckayla the tough part is just starting right now convincing the supporters to join them with the

mandate the reluctant the youth wing of the party is an open rebellion how likely is that talks will produce an agreement that both the conservatives and social democrats can accept well if you want to be fast it's certain to producer and agreement obviously because they're going to that's what they're going for whether it's going to be acceptable in specially to the social democrats that's the big question as social democrats have been discussing this very into. and so you very publicly it's clear that the party is split and that there is probably pretty much half of the party which is in favor of this grand coalition and the other half especially the youth wing are against it so whether the compromise is actually going to be enough to persuade the rank and file of the social democrats that's really the crucial question that's where the decision in the end is going to be made now the s.p.d. leader monti and schultz he has promised to revisit key issues they were already hammered out in a preliminary agreement with the conservatives merkel's conservatives say they're not going to budge on that to agree disagree is there any sign that the parties might

the right wing of the right so there will definitely have to be new policy plans just briefly before we go what's coming next and next will be then the party convention by the social democrats where they offer surely have to agree on the starting official coalition to go she ations and then if they are successful then we will see a referendum for the social democrat members. and across political scientists at the humboldt university here in berlin an expert in coalition governments we thank you so much for joining us here at the w. to discuss this breaking news situation as we just mentioned we are waiting to hear from the party leaders at this hour here in berlin we know that they have been meeting in the as the headquarters for these exploratory coalition talks and reportedly they have come to a breakthrough. you're up to date now on d.w. news to stay with us we will have more developments at the top of the hour i'm sara kelly in berlin i hope to see you soon. from the. memory can be deceptive. psychologists and criminologists know not to rely on eyewitnesses. false memories distorted memories and exaggerated memories. but all false and real memories distinguishable. tric

yourself mentioned the party's youth wing the party's youth wing is decidedly against another grand coalition they see another grand coalition as a reason why the social democrats have lost for example their clear profile and they would prefer other alternatives in particular after martin shows the leader of the s.p.d. had said after the election in september that he didn't want a new grand coalition that he preferred a place in the german opposition so martin chose as a very difficult task ahead of him in the next few days in trying to convince party delegates that this is the good way forward for the party there will be a party conference in bonn on january the twenty first and there he will have to convince those party delegates who then have to give the green light for them to enter formal coalition negotiations it's important to stress what we've seen now it's only exploratory talks among the different parties so if the s.p.d. does approve that the coalition talks should go ahead with the most difficult part be over these talks still collapse if and when formal discussions begin refit almost if you can all the s.p.d. will then obviously have to put any agr

parties left wing is very critical against. helping on glom akhil to stay in power and already the first critics have voiced their concerns for instance the use of going these ational fee social democrats the so-called usals they already said that they are going to start all launch some sort of a no grow cold. meaning that no grand coalition be don't want to have a new grand coalition so they are already starting to. tighten to find two to do to debate against this grand coalition and against a more formal talks for a grand coalition so we're but realistically when could we see a new government be put in place here in germany. well germany and the rest of europe still has to be very very patient here because first of all it's going to take another week until the s.p.d. formally decides to take up coca-cola talks yes or no if they do so these coalition talks could take about two to three weeks or even longer and after that then the party members of the social democrats have to decide again all of the party members and two thousand and thirteen we have seen something similar to that and that took about five weeks so if we are happy and lucky perhaps we will see the rest of the on coaliti

to and politics and that can't be the position of the chairman of the social democratic party of germany. there is wrong each wing movement in europe look at the government in vienna prague or just look at virus to budapest. and i mentioned men mark wrong why did i did do that. i'm not in keeping with the opinions of particularly with regard to the economics policies of his about a french president. who doesn't put the nation at first place but euro. he is a president who is waiting for a partner if he fails with this european policy it can't be excluded that even in paris the extreme right wing movement will come into government and comments i believe that we are part. which supports international solidarity and the fight against the right wing movement of this right wing movement can be broken in europe through a german government which is committed. towards europe and they would commit themselves for these ends by a social democratic party to of germany becoming part of the government. our there was more insults there speaking earlier melinda let's talk a little bit about what he said there you know as you sai