Of the social democrats and that is extremely important because she basically singlehandedly at the Party Conference safe this grand Coalition Deal and convinced the Party Delegates to go into these Coalition Talks with the conservatives multinationals really has lost he had the worst year in german politics last year he has lost credibility with his party and so it is a very smart move that he might be stepping down as leader giving it over to and they are not us and taking the Foreign Policy post in the Foreign Ministry a very smart move of the social democrats there and the reason thats important to show that there we have to remind our viewers is that even though theres been this breakthrough today at that the two negotiating parties have recent agreement on forming a Coalition Government the s. P. D. Party members will have to vote on this before it can move forward thats in about three weeks time were expecting what can we expect from that vote right where we havent quite seen the end of it yet so we dont have a new German Government just yet we should not get ahead of ourselves were talking. About nearly half a million s. P. D. Members voting on this Coalition Agreement so basically whats going to happen is they are going to send out a Coalition Agreement to the membership and they will have about three weeks as you mentioned to vote on that and if the majority of the s. P. D. Party membership votes yes then finally this new government can be formed so it could be around easter or it could take until easter and until we see that new German Government and its just the tricky part because we dont know how the s. P. D. Leadership is sorry membership is going to vote but we also have to say the results off the Coalition Talks are so good for the social democrats that the membership is likely to vote yes we are going to go into that new government or should i want to remind our viewers here in the bottom of the screen we are looking at pictures of the c. D. U. Party headquarters here in berlin were waiting for statements from the Party Leaders to announce officially this new Coalition Agreement were waiting for that in about twelve minutes time well be listening to that live but in the meantime thought that looking at this entire protracted process as we said how have german politics changed over these past four months as weve seen the various parties trying to form a Coalition Government well externally i mean weve seen them really struggling to get a government in place first of all we saw a. Its trying to get a Coalition Agreement with the greens and the pro business of Front Business friendly liberals and that didnt work out everybody was quite shocked about that because people really counted on them forming the new government and then the german president had to step in and remind the social democrats as well as the conservatives of their responsibility to at least try to form a new government before they would call new elections and so they went into these discussions and in the end. When i was seeing a Coalition Deal and theyve tried really hard both sides had to make concessions because the alternative would have been worse nobody wanted fresh elections. There was no money for fresh elections within the parties for the companions but also the results of a fresh elections would be so unclear it might have actually strengthened the fringes of the right wing populist if tea party for example so everybody wanted to avoid that and thats what were seeing right now that in these Coalition Talks quite a few concessions were made do you think voters will be satisfied i think that the voters will some voters will be satisfied of course the. Over all we have to say that the grand new vision for what germany should look like in the next four years that is lacking in that Coalition Agreement and our Political Correspondent charlotta pots with us here in studio we are again awaiting for that statement to come in about ten minutes well be coming back to speak to in a little bit time charlotta thank you first of all for your analysis. And as were waiting for those statements were going to move on now to some other National International news rather in taiwan the rescue efforts are underway after a six point four magnitude earthquake killed at least six people and injured hundreds of others Authorities Say around sixty people are still unaccounted for it is the second major quake to hit the island nation in recent days with more aftershocks fear. This building is Still Standing but the lower floors are crushed beneath its weight. Firefighters are searching for any and every way in so they can find survivors and get them out to safety the quake hit. East coast shortly before midnight tuesday it left several buildings listing dangerously near collapse including a Military Hospital and this hotel where an overnight worker was rescued from inside. There was only me working the night shift i dont know what happened to the people upstairs. His son and grandson soon arrive they are overjoyed to find him alive. But dozens of others are still missing rescue workers have reason to believe there are people alive and waiting to be freed from within the devastated hotel. Thats giving hope to family and friends waiting anxiously outside. The younger brother in our family and we believe we know two people inside one is my older brother and the other his colleague. Equipment and tested positive for life. Now the rescuers are trying to dig further down to look for them and thats a situation for. Teams of engineers and firefighters are attempting to prop up the toppled buildings and continue the search theres been two earthquakes in taiwan since sunday and several aftershocks the island is no stranger to powerful quakes it lies directly on the pacific ring of fire the u. N. Warned recently the ring is active right now this time its taiwan thats part of the brunt of its fury over as events in the city of. Khost are reeling after those series of earthquakes in recent days i spoke to witness a carolyn wang and she described the latest quake over night. Last night we were at work by the big cleats that night very quick the big crowd was not terrible you know still earthquake was nice twenty one was moving more fiercely so what is this is gary is that dale what are a series of quacks we say aftershocks so the horde night we scaled up out movies again and again every few minutes or so we couldnt sleep but we must get ready to escape as i dont my neighbors some of that then when out of the house and they stay in and in the yard or in those got into a their car to get warm but it was still to come without that we dont want to catch a close so we just a stay at their home inside a house most of in a really scary experience i want to ask you because you had a friend i understand inside of one of the buildings that fell and we seen such dramatic pictures of these buildings what is she told you about what she experienced she didnt say much but she thanked us for concord she said that they days she saw her father and her family get in the top a stroller and if any of the buildings are down the furniture grabs the door and they have her father pushing very hard and finally it pushes the door open and then the rescue teams thats then its an incredible story carolyn wishing you and your friends all the best and hoping that you all make it through ok and thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us. Now moving on to some other new space x. Has launched of the worlds most powerful rocket the falcon heavy ward off the launch pad on floridas Cape Canaveral it is the latest milestone for billionaire entrepreneur long musk and his Aerospace Company and to mark the occasion musk im sure the rocket contains some very special cargo. Three weeks i he said it was either going to be a great rocket launch or the best fireworks display ever be thankfully for a long mouse it was the former not least because the rocket was carrying one of his tesla sports cars. You know that this image of just a explosion that you. Get that we all about their daily lives excitement there would be because a lot of the legs saying good night i miss you just as or inspiring as it once was here some fifty years ago and it provided the backdrop to missions to the moon now it could be about getting to mas be the spoken heavy is special not just because of its power but also because of its price it can carry twice the weight of its closest rival about five double decker buses for a third of the cost so can have the will be the biggest rocket since the saturn five moon booster its not quite that big but its on the path to enabling that kind of exploration whether its the moon or mars basically beyond low earth orbit and. Much of the cost saving comes from being able to reuse the rocket pastis said this was a critical point in the launch when they successfully separated from the main rockets cheers erupted in Mission Control in california the by the chu side boosters touching down perfectly on twin landing pads less than ten minutes after launch be. Judged for the cargo space x. Imagine the piece of david bowie inspired fear itself which could have come straight out of the james bond playbook musks cherry red tesla piloted by a mannequin in its. Spacesuits blurring the lines between dreams reality and p. R. The Company Streams the speedier of the car how stunning through space following the launch. If all goes to plan attacks that will be thrust into a save the old bridge which will take it. Now to some other stories making news around the world the influential sister of north Korean Leader kim jong un is to attend fridays Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in pyung Chang Kim Jong il here with other official seeing off north korean athletes will be the first member of the kim family to visit south korea. U. S. Vice president mike pence has announced new sanctions against north korea meeting with japanese iran minister shinzo abi in tokyo penn said theyll be quote the toughest and most aggressive measures yet in response to the north failure to abandon its Nuclear Weapons program. And terrifying footage of a deadly multicar accident on a highway in the u. S. State of iowa snowy conditions appear to have obscured the road with some vehicles driving full speed into the pileup one woman was killed and several people injured local police say it was the worst crash they had ever seen. Now an announcement is expected today on whether south africas president jacob zuma will resign from office this after a zuma had been forced to cancel his state of the nation address due to fears that lawmakers would disrupt the speech its an embarrassing climbdown for the leader and a sign of the intense pressure on him to step down in the wake of a string of scandals. Jacob zuma his future heinz in the balance as pressure to resign mounts the opposition says the man has no right to address the country in an annual address that was set for this week i think south africa wants to close a chapter you make use of the story about your new future with nothing to do and speak to what you. So icon of the top thirty of politics into president s speeches. Is also raising doubts about his future Party Members are discussing his fight. Is not desirable most important consideration is that we dont believe. Should. The president of the republic this week pretensions have already been sending messages to be a n c as the party weighs its options on zuma some are convinced his time is up. But others say hands off the president until his term ends next year. While tensions are running high in south africa the countrys future is at stake lets talk more about this with christine one washes here in studio following this story for us hi christine and announcement expected today on president s you must future what more can you tell us about this ok so. That. The president was going to. Say about president jacob zuma is we dont know what that means but what we know is that last night the two off they met and told that they had a constructive discussion we also know that and that is the highest Decision Making body they were going to have. Today it was expected that they were going to before the president that canceled a lot of speculation that last night. They ironed out terms possible about what happens when the presidency what if that is not the case and he does not want to leave the presidency what options does the party have the a. N. C. Will be forced to take this to parliament because as a party they cannot constitutionally from the South African presidency so that have to do this in parliament that would. Stretch the. To. Vote. Against president jacob zuma. Does not want to get to that he does not when he relates jacob zuma in that way he would prefer to resign voluntarily of course prison gypsum has the resisting that. And really the question is. You know is he going to be pushed out what we do know is that is an absolute last resort option that does not one have to do it that way he keeps repeating that keeps going back to try to have further discussions to see if they can reach so