Of prince harry and Meghan Markle, to the retirement from royal duties of the duke of edinburgh, Sarah Campbell looks back on the key events in review 2017 the royal year. Reporter congratulations from all of us how are you both feeling . Thrilled this was the year in which prince harry introduced his new leading lady, the american actress, Meghan Markle. The fact that i fell in love with meghan so incredibly quickly, was sort of confirmation to me that everything, all the stars were aligned, everything was perfect. After 70 years of public service, the duke of edinburgh, britains longest serving royal consort, hung up his hat and retired from royal duties. Prince george had his own milestone moment his first day of school. And flexing their royal muscles in an effort to put the issue of Mental Health firmly on the national agenda. After weeks of fevered speculation came confirmation that prince harry, the fifth in line to the throne, was engaged to the american actress, Meghan Markle.
Several cities demonstrators are protesting social inequality in price hikes is the cradle of the arab spring on the verge of a crackdown. Also coming up scaling new high well meet an incredible rock climber from hong kong whos determined to fulfill his dreams despite losing the use of his left. Im good to have you with us tonight time is running alps political leaders here in germany are bracing for a long and difficult night of negotiations the german chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives and the center left as theyre trying to see if they have enough Common Ground to enter a formal Coalition Talks now the exploratory talks entered their final day today the chancellor saying at the beginning of the day the stakes are high and the outcome far from certain. Orcon often there are still big hurdles to overcome. In stuff thirty seeking from my party i can say well be as constructive as possible in our search for compromises well miss it since in that of course i also were aware that we
Hard to say where they got stuck since no information at all gets out of the talks during this night so we can only believe that theyre still struggling with the same topics that they struck a while ago we heard that taxation policy and refugee policy are the major obstacles where theyre still discussing and money the money question the new government in germany has a lot of money that they can spend on top thats forty five billion euros but thats apparently not enough there are projects on the table that cost some one hundred billion euros so everyone has to give up on some of these projects and thats certainly nothing easy and then the social democrats they definitely need a success in the field of social policy and everything thats available or that its thinkable there is very costly whether it would be a reform of the Health Care System or higher pensions all these things that the social democrats would love to offer to their voters is controversial and expensive. As you said theyv
Highly controversial amongst the conservatives and the other all objective is the refugee policy migration policy where the conservatives dont want to agree to let more migrants into germany what the social democrats want another big field is the whole field of finances in general the social democrats. Have many many projects that cost a lot of money and this new government can spend a lot of money there some forty five billion euro to spend for the government by the project that are on the table theyre worth more than double this amount so everyone now has to step back and give up on some of their ideas kill their darlings which of course no one wants particularly hard for the social democrats because they need social policy successes to offer to their delegates to their Party Members in order to have a proper atmosphere a good atmosphere for this grand coalition potential grand coalition. So lets assume the worst here what happens if everything falls apart what happens if they walk o
Slow to react to the childs abduction. And scaling new heights we meet an incredible rock climber from hong kong whos determined to fulfill his dreams despite losing the use of legs. Hi my ass waiter good to have you with us its the middle of the night here in berlin and german politicians are locked in the go she ations aimed at staving off an even deeper political crisis these talks are make or break for the german chancellor her conservatives have until this morning to reach a deal with the center left s. P. D. On whether they will open formal Coalition Talks says the stakes are high and the outcome is far from certain. There are still big hurdles to overcome. Speaking for my party i can say well be as constructive as possible in our search for compromises. But of course are all those who are aware that we want to deliver the right kind of deal for the country that means its going to be a tough day. Today is five in found america is at the social democrats headquarters where the tal