Im sorry kelly welcome to the program and thank you for joining us we begin here in berlin where german political leaders are reported to have reached a breakthrough in precolumbian talks chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives and the social democrats led by Martin Schultz negotiated throughout the night to find the Common Ground needed to enter formal Coalition Talks now merkel has been heading a caretaker government since the National Election more than one hundred days ago she and her conservatives have been in exploratory talks with the social democrats since sunday for more lets bring in our Political Correspondent rupert vietor volves who is standing by at the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place and rupert im looking at the scene there behind you it is quite different from the scene that we saw about an hour ago when we spoke with you last tell us a little bit more about whats been going on. You know since we talked about one hour ago there was this ne