Coming up chinese president xi jinping sets out his vision for the country at the start of the communist Party Congress is says that his dream is to turn china into a global superpower. And nearly. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program nearly one month after germans went to the polls chancellor Angela Merkel has started what could be difficult and complex Coalition Talks with other parties the first meeting between merkels conservative c. D. U. C. S. U. Party and the probusiness free democrats took place in berlin after two hours of talks Party Officials from the conservatives described the meeting as constructive. And that is a view that has also been echoed by the frame democrats lets bring in now Thomas Sparrow who you can see is out on the streets of berlin he has been following these talks for us and he joins us now for his as always expert analysis thomas so we hear that both the free democrats and merkels conservatives appear to be happy with the results of their first meeting does that mean that theyve made some Real Progress here. Not necessarily in fact obviously they did say that the talks had been constructive that they had been able to discuss a series of issues that both parties are interested in but that does not necessarily mean that they made Real Progress in fact the goal of this first meeting which took place right behind me here was to try and set the ground for negotiations that everyone involved already knows will take a long time in fact one of the participants in that first meeting said that if the distance between germany and jamaica is around eight thousand kilometers jamaica referring to the colors of the jamaican flag which also represent the colors of the parties involved here if that distance is eight thousand kilometers then what theyve achieved here today is only the first few meters so that just gives you an idea of how difficult it will be to try and find Common Ground yeah a lot of those meters are between party and also the green party that we know theyre currently talking the two of those parties together what are the likely pressure points between those. Well here you have here you have a big difference between the conservative bloc on the one hand and in particular. Sister party the c. S. U. Of bavaria which tends to be a party on the right of the political spectrum and the environmentalist greens who tend to be on the left side of the political spectrum so obviously you can see that there are plenty of this plenty of space between the two blocs their own areas for example migration if were talking for example about the goal to reach two hundred thousand refugees per year all the possibility or not possibility of having family members reunited with refugees here in germany those are all issues where the c s u in particular on the greens do not see eye to eye but its not the only issues we have differences on climate differences on on europe so in particular the conversations between the greens and the conservative block will be very difficult and thats something that members here have already expressed publicly so a lot of work there still to be done as those talks are underway Thomas Sparrow with as always your expert analysis outside of where that meeting is taking place with thank you very much for your reporting thomas. And there is news of a setback facing chancellor Angela Merkel right here in germany another setback a key figure in merkels conservative c. D. U. Party is stepping down saxony camero tillage says that his state needs new leadership to meet future challenges this after the far right pushed his party into second place in eastern germany is most prosperous day and last months general election. And elsewhere police have conducted dozens of raids across germany to gather evidence against health hells angels biker gang they seized items including motorcycles and computers the gang has been active in germany since the early one nine hundred seventy s. Some members have been implicated in crimes including selling weapons store sion and murder. Well meantime elsewhere in the world the head of kenyas Election Commission has said that it will be difficult to guarantee that next weeks president ial election will be free and fair and credible while foula. Blamed interference from politicians earlier a Commission Member quit saying that the upcoming vote would not be credible. Chinas president xi jinping has declared a new era for his country and said that it is time for china to take center stage in the world at the first session of the communist Party Congress in beijing she also pledged to open his countrys economy further and pursue a policy of zero tolerance against corruption during the week Long Congress a new politburo to run china for the next five years will be selected have a look. Its a meeting on the grandest of scales. Nearly twenty three holes and we can also see now that trump is actually moving the u. S. Out of the center stage that china will actually try to move in all of into all these voids that are left open by the u. S. You were telling me a little bit before the show that you were actually struck by how confident he appeared in that in this congress why did why did you see that specifically as being significant weve seen like speeches of his before and also of his predecessors but it was not that weve seen such a leader who stood there was such a confidence like knowing these gentlemen and ladies who are sitting here in this room like two thousand three hundred delegates are sitting there following my course i can just feel their support and i feel vision where i want to move china like domestically but also its position in the very world so that was really amazing and very different from what you see on the street is this is or him at previous occasions we know that one of the biggest sticking points right now especially when it comes to the United States relationship with china is of course the crisis with regard to north korea china having a lot of influence in that regard what do you make of chinas position at the moment. Well for now we did not see any clues in the report that was presented but we are quite sure that there actually two different camps in the Chinese Government and at the party who consider basically the one camp stands with the north korean government and says its like a historical its also like a communist regime we should support and stay next to one another and supports ourselves against like intrusions from other nations and the other camp is basically more in the direction of we actually should also see how we can handle him better like kim jung un is also for them like a risk perceived because they see if this crisis is not managed well it will have like many negative effects for china for example also like a refugee crisis that can come from this point and many other things they would not be happy if theres like any at home issue that also concerns like their own population and so from the part of congress as such we can also expect that there will be really just a brief shuffle also in the Foreign Policy field who is sitting in the ministry who id like to he advises and there might be that the one all the other camp mind plays like leading people there so a lot of things for us to Pay Attention to as his Party Congress gets under way and we thank you very much for joining us here in the studio with your initial assessment of how its going so far mathias step on from the institute for china studies we appreciate it thank you. Well lets head to syria now and the cleanup of rock is underway just a day after u. S. Backed forces said that they had taken full control of what was called the capital of the selfstyled caliphate of the socalled Islamic State the troops made up of syrian kurds and arabs have been clearing roads and landmines small pockets of militants are still thought to be holed up in the city the u. N. Says that there has already been staggering loss of civilian life and rocca well over a thousand people were killed in the four month long battle for the city and for more on all of this lets talk now to mcdonalds spokesperson for save the children in the middle east the organization has been working with people who have fled iraq and you join us this afternoon from jordans capital amman thanks so much for being with us and what can you tell us about the civilians who have fled this city and what does their condition say about whats been going on there. The children that we speak to when they arrive in these camps are in churches condition they. Theyve been living for the past few months in a city thats been boman to be fighting with outs water electricity food all in very short supply so that theyre really in quite a desperate state when they they reach the camps but theyve also been living for more than three years now on isis will many of the children that we talk to you are still suffering nightmares because of the extreme violence that they seeing. Everything from seeing people be hated and executed in front of them the same perhaps blown up in the fighting. Theres a real psychological toll on these children. That we know we see when they run even in these camps and alan we just have about thirty seconds before we have to go here but we just want to ask you just generally speaking are we looking at a lost generation here not just in iraq but across syria. Yes potentially theres a whole generation of children across syria who are growing up with this kind of violence and deny that and i took a shot at other opportunities and but its not too late to help them rate we need to make sure now that these children can get back into school and have some some kind of. Full future. Before its too late really well we thank you very much for telling us a little bit more about your work there in the area with save the children Allan Macdonald talking with us this afternoon from amman jordan we appreciate that. Youre up to date now and your news im sarah and thanks for watching well see you next time. Im. Sure that people will move for information to hide the pain and the