tough negotiations to come here so given all of these on the result issues what kind of timeline are we looking at for the formation of a potential new government fabia. we expect three weeks probably of tough negotiations between the social democrats and the conservatives after that if the coalition treaty is fix. the grassroots then would have to vote that would take probably another two to three weeks and then the middle of march a new government could be elected here in parliament and at the end of march around easter this new government could actually begin to act five in front of mark in the german parliament thank you very much for that. but the germans the past four months of political deadlock have been unexpected an unprecedented what do they think about the possibility now of another grand coalition government between the
tough negotiations to come here so given all of these on a visit of issues what kind of timeline i ll be looking at for the formation of a potential new government fabia. we expect three weeks probably of tough negotiations between the social democrats and the conservatives after that if the coalition treaty is fixed. as pretty grassroots then would have to vote that would take probably another two to three weeks and then the middle of march a new government could be elected here in parliament and at the end of march around easter this new government could actually begin to act five unfunded mark in the german parliament thank you very much for that. dan and look at some other stories making news around the violent the trial of two women accused of killing the half brother of north korea s leader has resumed in malaysia the women allegedly smeared poison on kim jong nam sprees at airports in february two thousand and seventeen
a polarizing figure mugabe is now uniting far more frames for rules against. all german police have arrested six syrian suspected of planning a terrorist attack in germany on behalf of the so-called islamic state the suspects were detained during raids in the cities of hanover essen castle and. they had all applied for asylum in germany but prosecutors have not revealed whether they were granted refugee status the german built newspaper says the men were planning to attack the christmas markets in essence and that has not been confirmed by investigators. all right in our political correspondent and from their mark is following this story for us fabia what more do we know about these raids that took place. a these rates were carried out today in the morning there were big coordinated raids by five hundred police officers who searched eight flats in four
foreign minister lavrov, minister fabia said he s forming this contact group and that the russians might agree. did you talk about this with the minister? and do you see this as a useful mechanism that might happen in the coming days? and lastly, i m wondering if you talked to him about the fact he told you last week the exercises the russians were doing had nothing to do with ukraine. we now know that that was a pretext to mask the russian intervention what was the first part of that question? i m sorry. we now know what? we know this exercise did have a lot to do with ukraine and perhaps it was a pretext for russia to go into the crimea. i m just wondering, you ve invested a lot in your relationship with minister lavrov and i m wondering if you feel misled by him at all and whether you spoke with him about that. thank you. well, let me take the first part of that question.