demanding the german government do more to secure his release. letters to the seven hundred nine members of the german parliament only about thirty five have replied to half of those said they thought the german foreign office and the embassy were doing a good job. so. six has worked for right wing publications and his reports show his political leanings his parents have found support from the far right. party other international journalists are also imprisoned in venezuela but the f.t.c. says. germany the colombian and spanish governments have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the journalists. because that s the germans have not done so. reporters without borders says it s concerned about the journalists well being . to ation in venezuela is very unstable basically two
a grand coalition the social democrats. it took a while for medical to win over the s.p.d. but in the end the junior partners offered their congratulations. the chancellor remains the chancellor and that s cause for happiness and i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. who do not wish to. but at least thirty five members of merkel s coalition failed to support her in the end her margin of victory was nine votes including her own in a parliament of seven hundred nine deputies that s hardly a dream start to the latest medical government. merkel s husband you are put in a first appearance of such an election and merkel s next cabinet is also new in many respects the numerical government is noticeably younger and includes more women than previous ones its main priorities. we need to ensure domestic security
and the government will have to answer or hundred of course be very important in the field of migration and then we see a very substantial change ok we re going to talk more about this we re getting these live pictures from the underside of the voting has just ended we re going to the bundestag right now and our correspondent there michelle acuff they re looking at the chancellor right now and binder results on the line the defense minister theirs will functionally like and let s bring in michelle acuff there at the bundestag if we couldn t ask her what we know so far about the vote and how it s going i m michelle i can you bring us up to date place. yes absolutely well you can probably see behind me what looks like very small shelves that well they ve been closed so that s where the m.p. s just a while ago picked up their voting cards they are now all inside that ballot box that now will be taken outside to be counted there s seven hundred nine m.p. s in the german born this time and
but at least thirty five members of merkel s coalition failed to support her in the end her margin of victory was nine votes including her own in a parliament of seven hundred nine deputies that s hardly a dream start to the latest medical government. husband. put in a first appearance at such an election and merkel s next cabinet is also new in many respects the numerical government is noticeably younger and includes more women than previous ones its main priorities. we need to ensure domestic security and the welfare of society we need to figure out how to positively tackle the challenges of global competition. after the float merkel was sworn in by german president. one hundred seventy one days after germany s national election last september the country finally has a new government. let s get more mr mcchrystal
new roles. ok let s go back now live to the german bundestag i m joined by our chief political editor michelle or governor michelle of what to expect to happen where you are this morning can you walk us through what s going to proceed there. well the proceedings of just start of this just going through the list of those who are going to vote we have seven hundred nine m.p. s in the german and that means basically that there needs to be of authority of three hundred fifty five votes for german chancellor angela merkel to be voted into a fourth term in office there s a market difference to normal majorities it s actually the number of members that counts here so we firmly expect her to be reelected the so-called grand coalition of social democrats and german chancellor angela merkel s conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. union have forty four votes more than they would absolutely need we don t really