right rebecca ritter's i hope you have a good time at the brandenburg gate thank you very much for joining us thank you happy new year. so germans must come together and twenty eight hundred that is the message from chancellor angela merkel in her annual new year's address to be broadcast later this evening w. has a preview where america highlights the challenges ahead she's struggling to form a government after september's election failed to produce a clear winner it was a difficult political year for chancellor angela merkel at the very beginning of her speech she addressed the social atmosphere in germany and the tensions or thought i think i know for many conversations and encounters this year that a lot of you are concerned about the completion of gemini it's been a long time since the differences of opinion about this have been so stark some have even spoken of a rift running through our society. america mention the worries over whether the