A new Coalition Government following september election broke down it was one of the smaller parties in the four way negotiations the business friendly free democrats under their leader christiane. That polls. Saying there was no shared vision and not enough trust to form a new government at all leaves chancellor Angela Merkels future hanging in the balance she was aiming to begin a full term in office now though all the talk is of possible fresh elections and in the meantime a long period of damaging uncertainty for germany and europe so our question here on our quadriga special show is Coalition Talks collapse disaster for germany and to discuss that question im joined here in the studio by three excellent guests beginning with venice on a journalist and author and one of the outstanding commentators on german politics and over four decades of. Also with this is alan posner welcome back alan hes a commentator for deep. Thats newspaper and a very warm welcome to two old rick hammond f
German politics it wasnt an easy decision but it needed to be taken to avoid losing credibility. I dont demand that. The greens meanwhile find themselves getting closer to america and her conservative bloc. Think it was make most sense for parties involved to resume negotiating we are ready to talk. But at the end talking alone will not be enough in order to form a stable government chancellor merkel will have to find a clear majority within parliament and many here believe that the only way to do that are fresh elections and. More with me in the studio is a tourist and for us he is professor of Political Science at the university of berlin a very warm welcome professor i hope you can help is navigate the stormy seas as you know for much of Europe Germany is a symbol of stability its a reliable negotiating partner but thats all looking kind of shaky now considering these events that have happened right now clear this up for us is germany going through political turmoil or is this just
Warns we wont be pressured police and immigration officials move in the clear almost four hundred refugees from a camp theyre seeking asylum in australia but they fear they wont be safe at the alternative accommodation the government is offering. Also coming up emmerson men god one prepares to be sworn in as president of zimbabwe hes promised full democracy but will the crocodile as hes now deliver well go live to harare. And germanys president turns to score of the president s time are one meet the leader of the social democrats martin chose to try to persuade him to consider joining us for going markel in a Coalition Government will the president prevail. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us police and immigration officials in papa new guinea have moved in to clear almost four hundred refugees from. An abandoned immigration camp the camp is on man asylum which is part of papa new guinea it has been used to house refugees hoping to get to australia but it was closed at th
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Optimism in zimbabwe with the nation preparing to usher in a new time period that is that is parliament gets set to vote on president Robert Mugabes impeachment and washington threatens to scupper a mega merger between americas Biggest Telecom giant any powerful content company critics say that the move could be politically motivated by trump. Plus in the next hour of myanmars military accused of crimes against humanity a damning new report by Amnesty International says that myanmar suffocating control of the room hinge of minority amounts to apartheid. Amnesty is calling on the u. N. To hold a special session on the road enjoy a crisis. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us. Germany is in political limbo after talks to form a new Coalition Government collapsed chancellor Angela Merkel has been in office for twelve years but for the first time her future looks uncertain and even ordinary germans are split on what should happen next in a National Poll by the german