That has. Happened a big issue on the obviously immunity. Potentially facing off for the presidency. Has also been reluctant to give him bet one can understand why this is a very complex political situation christine explain to us the Different Centers of power here. Right now has to say youve got jacob zuma in the president s. At the. House and whats happening now is sort of really wants to get to the presidency he wants to start implementing his agenda and getting that jacob zuma and just to give you a sense of how bad this policy struggle has has. South africa for the first time in its democracy bowed to the state of the nation address that was a speech that the president gives the country signal direction the countrys taken of course people did not want to give that address opposition parties and made that very key. Well there for them is also voicing their opposition to that its also crucial for sort of that zuma did not give that address it would signal that is too weak doesnt fact still hold the power but they also worry that this man would get on to the podium and go broke and announce things that were not in line with what the party has now decided to do and the leadership of so when we saw an announcement just a coming of a better speech had been postponed we can already tell you that zuma is power has significantly diminished that he doesnt have as many chips anymore christine as all of this political turmoil has been going on how are South Africans the. South africans are enraged over the last couple of months or they are hearing about there is what they call the state capture approach and thats essentially been an inquiry into the never of corruption that has really persisted in the prison to consumers to an administration. Almost on a daily basis to one person who held some position in the government one of the state into prizes talking about how he received telephone calls from people close to the president. To sign contracts and give out tenders to them some africans are looking at this man as as as corruption personified he has angered South Africans and they say he is the reason that our country one has been routed by several cabinet ministers that he has allowed this culture of corruption to just sort of permeate and theyre also looking at the economy this country sitting with a really rigorous tough Unemployment Rate is one of the most unequal societies in the world. Economic growth all the investment. Banks the i. M. F. Warning about you know the politics of the uncertainty and how its to tary investments those other frictions by and large what this president to go theyve dealt the party of blow in the last test and that was a local government elections two years ago and that was really get into. Last major strongholds in the country it was telling off the anti zuma sentiment that was now causing the party to support now this once to launch. Ham paint and they cannot do much with you as the face of the party you need to step away from it so well get in charge of things so we can go to South Africans and say here is the new man in charge we change but certainly could be a turning point today christine were waiting for an announcement on whether south africas president zuma will resign from office there christine were following the story for us thank you very much for your analysis as always. And for viewers just joining us we are awaiting for an announcement from a german Party Leaders on the agreement today wish on a Coalition Government we will be bringing that to you as soon as a statement comes to us for now though were going to move on to some sports and the Winter Olympics that started this friday in south korea athletes have been arriving and john chiang ahead of the Opening Ceremony on friday but there is more than just sports on the agenda as International Politics are once again dominating the olympics. Musicians not athletes arrived at the south korean ferry port of mukoko on wednesday this one hundred forty strong north korean orchestra will perform. Also in the souths capital seoul at the border and north koreas cheering squad arrived with high hopes for the upcoming games. I mean human helpful im glad the Winter Olympics will be held with a successful cooperation between north and south korea i hope that athletes from the two koreas will achieve good results in this elim pics. The political undertone of the games extends beyond the Korean Peninsula lawyers of fifteen russian athletes appealed to the court of arbitration for sport as they seek to be admitted to the olympics they follow thirty two russians who unsuccessfully appealed on tuesday but the i. O. C. Expects one hundred sixty eight russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag other athletes have still found time to get into the olympic mood my game is on the ice is totally different from right now and. Its like its like you dont know in my way because im probably going to kill you. Is hoping jokes and smiles will prevail as athletes continue to arrive ahead of the Opening Ceremony on friday. Fredricka. In football the german cup return to last night and it was a chance for a david versus goliath ending as byron munich visit a Third Division putter born the last time these teams met it was in the bundesliga in two thousand and fifteen and back then byron won the six nil they were eager to let history repeat itself. There were no surprises in the david versus goliath clash part of vaunted have the ball in the net first but sebastian show was ruled offside after twenty minutes spying asserted their authority confusion in the box and kings the command took advantage one nil brian. Come on turn provide a five minutes later robert leaven dusty with the finishing touch to nail. The bavarians were able to take their foot off the gas but that didnt stop the gulf s. Yahshua kimmage with an ice cold finish their game already just sided at the half time whistle after the break an unmarked car in time to leave so not enough for a simple training drill for the guests. In the dying minutes there was still time for our in robinson score brace six nil the final score. Client progressing to the semifinals with the us. And tuesdays other cup clash also featured six goals as leverkusen down bremen four two after extra time the guests took a fast two goal lead but Leverkusen Julien plan to level the game with the two first half goals bellow robbie and halford scored for the hosts deep into extra time to secure leverkusen their semifinal berth. Now Ronald Koeman has been appointed as head coach of the Netherlands National team he is the seventh manager in eight years for the dutch coleman has been out of work since being dismissed by everton last october after a poor run of form in the premier league he has been tasked with resurrecting dutch football after the once Successful Team failed to qualify for the last European Championship and the upcoming world cup in russia. And returning to our top story now or germanys a biggest political groups are reaching an agreement on a Coalition Government and our Political Correspondent melinda crane is standing by outside of the c. D. U. Party headquarters thats a conservative party for us a melinda what has been going on well at the moment were seeing a number of Party Leaders and ministers leaving the premises so clearly their negotiating work is now finally completely done that means they have probably been discussing who gets what minister positions that was the last open question and that presumably is what kept them there so long because the actual agreement on the coalition on the policies of the coalition was reached earlier this morning so they are leaving and were now awaiting a statement by the Party Leaders who will i think take us through the main principles of the Coalition Agreement and also the way that the spoils have been divided up namely the ministries because that is where real changes have been made tell us more about those changes melinda and how significant they are. Well very significant for the social democrats the social democrats had made it clear from the outset that they would drive a hard bargain that they had to drive a hard bargain thats because their base the broad membership of the party has been very very skeptical about entering into another grand coalition at all theres a feeling among many social democrats that the past grand coalition together with Angela Merkels conservatives led to a significant drop in support which of course we saw in september selection and that it is essentially impossible for the junior partner in a grand coalition to really make an impact so for that reason they did drive a hard bargain they have not only retained the main ministries they already held namely the Foreign Ministry the Labor Ministry and the Family Ministry as well as environment they have one a very very powerful ministry in addition and that is finance with Wolfgang Schauble of the long running conservative fund eleanor we are you i guess im sorry i just jump in here but action were hearing that chancellor merkel is speaking all come back to you in just a moment lets listen in to what she has to say bill clinton to do from this that we are trying to focus on the real needs of the people in this country but its my Firm Conviction that the Coalition Agreement that we put together here can be exactly that it can be the basis of a good and stable government which our country needs. And not just in germany but beyond that weve got a plan for action that we believe will improve the lives of people in germany that will help soft economy. So that might remain competitive and will strengthen social cohesion in germany. Our country. Is a concept that means a lot to us and that our country means people young people men and women and workers. People. Who are ethnic germans or from other ethnic groups these are people who work in Nursing Homes in hospitals soldiers the police we are policymakers to serve them the c. D. U. This c s u and the s. P. D. Have therefore put together a plan of measures and if you read through our Coalition Agreement and i have to admit that its no easy matter reading it for you know aid to said from the first line to the last you will see many specific measures that we have put together with clear timeline was so that it it will be tangible to measure whether or not we have achieved what we want to achieve here. Now we know that to be sure that the people in germany prosper in the future that we need to improve our infrastructure that we need to tackle the challenges of digitization and we need to be faster in achieving the change we need to get more dynamism in many areas as well which is why we have a whole chapter called new dynamism for germany that sets out some of these key demands and things were working towards in our Coalition Agreement a social market economy with its mixture of contributing and you know give and take were going to have to adjust it were going to have to tweak it but it will be the compass showing us the way forward. And i havent got time to go through all of it into much detail here of course but weve really put together a big packages of National Education research digitization one is a case in point that shows exactly what the prerequisites are for us to be able to learn and study and work in the years to come. We want to ensure decent work but we also want to ensure that our businesses thrive and in the days. To come even today weve been already criticised about what we could have done more. But weve always tried to find a balance here on the one hand it is being aware of the fact that we need to distribute wealth in this country justly but on the other hand that we need to create a conducive environment for business because the sound financial state is our trademark we want to invest in traffic infrastructure and. This social sphere we want to give people more security we want to be more with domestic security in germany as well we did bated at how to manage migratory flows and integration on the one hand humanitarian issues but on the other hand managing such flows properly but i believe we found a good package of measures for this issue too we had local authorities state assemblies present representatives Regional Government and this means that weve been able to look at all of the levels of government here in germany and the problems that we have on all levels and weve also got a chapter on our responsibility in the world and weve talked about what sort of connected security approach we want to have peacekeeping Development Cooperation and when i say a military component as well all of these things should be done tail to ensure that we have a comprehensive security approach and for this we want to create a good basis now we need to get support for the Coalition Agreement were going to have a Party Congress is the c. D. U. Where were going to be voting on this Coalition Agreement and then we will slowly but surely be able to actually get to work and i want to say thank you to my negotiating partners it wasnt an easy business. But it was a good one weve done well if you like done the damage but thank you very much ladies and gentlemen first of all i want to express my gratitude since everyone who has ensured that the Coalition Agreements that we have brought on to a close today were in many ways the fastest Coalition Negotiations of this kind that weve ever had in just over a week we have put this Coalition Agreement together it took an awful lot out of everyone involved and i want to thank everyone who was involved in this everyone behind the scenes as well without whom it wouldnt have been possible. Weve been able to start writing down a Coalition Agreement here that aims at improving peoples lives. You know pensioners retraining students people who dont have any perspective on the labor market as well as you know families get up like parents stuck in traffic or parents who need childcare places full time school or to school care. Who are facing major challenges and we want to be there for them a social democrats we feel responsible for them they voted for. The song and their concerns go close to our hearts and we have focused on easy to the burden on them for better and now were expecting with an improving their lives this must be the focus of what we do a little from and all of our considerations focused on this we want social conventions which is and i believe that what weve managed to achieve here in my career move in a spirit so i hope my colleagues will forgive me here but i believe that this will has a real bears a real mark of the s p d theres a real Substance Abuse to happen here and were grateful for the kind of compromises that were sometimes quite hard for us we should democrat colleagues here and with a christian so she. Knows basically we want to ensure that some fixed term work contracts are an exception and so without good reason weve reduced these we want to see parity in the Health Care Sector as well go and pick we want to have ceased on the dirty tax cut for Small Companies as well. So that its all going to cost about ten billion euros that much support for us as well we want to have a social labor market for many people who for very long time now have been seeking jobs and cannot get jobs in the normal labor market and so this social labor markets will give them back a sense of self esteem and pride that many people have lost three years our policy serves children and families eleven billion more will be spent on better education fighting in these were going to be supporting with this educational project our children will be supporting our schools the teachers got more social workers were going to be spending big bucks here to improve. This will be portrayed reviews of education to close some of the gaps in education that weve had but were also going to be strengthening families three hundred euros a year mark childs allowance here and theres also going to be a home owners children allowance as well to help young Families Build their homes were going to be working here to achieve these things we wont get it all going in one year but were going to have eight thousand new jobs that were going to be creating. To achieve these ends were going to be. Increasing Student Loans at school and many more people will be entitled to them but we want to have a payment for trainees thats a minimum that they cant earn and i think i can safely state at this point that these were indeed to the key demands that our young social democrats have been calling for and we have set these out in our Coalition Agreement and the pensioners will be able to use rely on having a stable pensions in this country weve introduced a basic pension if youve paid into a pension plan your whole life long you shouldnt have to this goes to the authorities beg for money for that which was a chant we are also going to improve your patients a Statutory Health insurance theres were going to have the whole Health Care System changed a bit and musicians who are working in virtual areas will be getting regional. Support for that special a special levy will be introduced to tape for that and thats going to improve peoples lives in that regard as well as two million years on top for social housing that were going to be spending as well we want to ensure that people can get a good home in the rural and urban areas as well turned on up with total another issue that weve really got this is key and this is one that weve been off work some kind of. Looking at quite intensely and that is the traditional developing new economic structures in disadvantaged structurally disadvantaged regions weve talked about the environment. Climate protection and also. European policy as well and weve really made an effort here and maybe perhaps youll forgive me if particularly when it comes to what is section of our Coalition Agreement on europe that i express my gratitude to ms macklin mr z. Who first because thats what we have used in korea through what carter what we have managed to agree on about the European Union and its future is a real change of course its going to be a reset. And i believe that the German Government is going to once again take on a leading role in the European Union and i very much hope that this will be on the basis of close cooperation with the government in paris with the European Union and were going to make the European Union i believe Strong Enough to cope with issues facing it around tax evasion Climate Policy even migratory flows that such as fair trade as well and also intercontinental. Competition which affects germany too and i think we will finally take on the role that we need to take in europe. So i believe this is a new start for europe new dynamism for cheering germany and i think on the basis of this agreement we can really improve the lives of people in this country and strengthen cohesion in our society because the greatest risk facing it is that this cohesion get eroded as you. It is evil for. Ladies and gentleman of you forgiveness for the exploratory talks of late for a very good result im very happy with it and im very happy to with the result of our Coalition Agreement now these negotiations here if you read the one hundred seventy seven pages of this Coalition Agreement and hopefully many people well youll find that its waters were hoping to do many good things for the people in this country. And i think we found the right response here to the difficult times that weve all been facing following the two and the Election Results from the twenty fourth of september by telling the electorate weve understood and were not going to continue with business as usual for one and that least split and polarization in our country can be overcome with the results of this Coalition Agreement and thats why i think whats come out of these negotiations is very impressive very positive on treif and what stands out the Coalition Agreement of all barriers martin so im not going to talk about lets wait until its all. Sorted out i need to get a good nights sleep before i respond to whether its an s. P. Di stamp on this Coalition Agreement or not the commons but should the government actually come about and theres a major obstacle in the way that we still have to clear we are going to have a lot of work ahead of us the parliament the German Government are going to have more work than weve had in a very very long time now in lot of area so for you when were very happy with something we get so far postural we always say well done push to get going we say good going. Quite far this time for three questions mr dont. Answer let him chancellor what is your assessment of a members of a in the c. D. U. Were you to have one theres one studio politician whos already said that this is the deal you its very lucky that they managed to keep the chancellor in these negotiations and mr schultz will you continue to be party leader or will you continue with or will you give up that post to be vice chancellor as well first of all let me tell you that weve got a blighty Congress Head of us and we will be voting on that weve made compromises theres no doubt about it and when it comes to the distribution of the portfolios as well but still weve got some important portfolios in the many years in which. He was in the finance ministry of course its very hard for us to give up the finance ministry. And the same is true for the ministry of the interior and i want to thank thomas dementia at this point for all of his work in the past. But i believe there are important challenges facing us for decades now its the first time that weve got the Economics Affairs ministry thats rare sometimes if you havent got something you missed it and then once youve got it you regret what youve just lost. But whats important here is to ensure that the ministries we have you know research and development. Interior defense. Food and agriculture that we do the right thing with these ministries and the question of who gets what portfolios of course is a difficult one im not going to deny that. It is pretty loud in the bodies of his social democrats were going to be deliberating the Coalition Agreement today and in terms of the. Vote members. Very much hope well be able to convince our members that we have negotiated extremely good Coalition Agreement and that they are members vote on the agreement and not on personal issues. I cannot you know im sorry and the question about whether youre going to continue to be pretty experiment of the party every discussed all of these personal issues. And a question to madam a chance not to mr short i was around finances now we have heard that this is the most expensive coalition theres ever been on the one hand but on the other hand youre both very much interested were all interested in europe and other issues but if you look at the amount of money that you are spending it seems that the certain issues arent being covered here how much money is actually available above and beyond the a forty six billion and what about the defense you know difference of defense and development i have successfully about that. Was certainly. You know there was a certain amount of latitude to finance investment but also social expenditure that we believe is key for example to ensure that everyone in germany can have a decent livelihood cut the noise and to make progress here of course i cant tell you exactly how our Financial Development is likely to pan out that we in the c. G. Have. Very much value being able to do both invest and create a conducive economic environment for us in this field to get. Economy going even and better and so the expenditure that we need to make above and beyond the forty six billion that we would be focusing on our International Commitments here and i believe the for the first time as far as im aware anyway we found a really good solution by saying that focusing on a networked connected security. That means one year. As it were per capita just be spent on defense as well so i think weve done a good job. In the salt of political what weve studied about european policy in trying. Contains an important sentence the German Government is prepared to spend more money. On europe. With lloyds essentially. The work on a must see year Financial Planning medium term Financial Planning is already well underway now this current phase is going to run out twenty twenty the next ones being planned and in the news tranche were going to have to look at what Member States it was a contribution for it backs it. And what measures need to be put in place here because i just feel there was plenty of measures that were financed by the u. K. As the twenty eight Member States now were going to be twenty seven Member States and of course everyones going to have to pay a little bit more. And when it comes to the investment budget for the eurozone this is an issue that president mcconnell has posed as well