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Newshour: Merkel Clinches Germany Coalition Deal

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07/02/2018 GMT

Merkel Clinches Germany Coalition Deal

BBC World Service - Newshour, Merkel Clinches Germany Coalition Deal

An agreement looks set to end months of wrangling since inconclusive September elections

A deal has been reached on the formation of a new grand coalition government, between Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU and the centre-left SPD. The agreement was struck in "extra time" of the coalition talks after extensive wrangling following inconclusive elections in September.

Also in the programme; the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to guarantee the return of the nearly three quarters of a million Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar's Rakhine State last year; and the Pentagon is pushing ahead with plans for a large-scale military parade, but is the USA any good at them?

Picture: German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the headquarters of her conservative Christian Democratic Union in Berlin on February 7, 2018, after conservatives and the Social Democrats sealed a deal on a new coalition. Credit: Bernd Von Jutrczenka/AFP/Getty Images

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