tony, do you agree he was wrong to address the afp?” that. tony, do you agree he was wrong to address the afp? i do and it makes life leavers and those of us it makes life leavers and those of us who brokered for breakfast or difficult as one of the leaders of the campaign associate himself with parties like that. gisela, the social democrats, labour's sister party, got close in the polls a few months ago so what has gone wrong? they did, and once we saw the return of members and we talked about fashion earlier, sort of re— energising the voter base, martin schulz scored in a sense because people didn't know him. he had been really much bigger in european politics and he was kind of a new fresh face. and he didn't manage to build on that. the other thing is something angela merkel has been able to do if she's been able to suffocate her coalition partners, she has been very clever in taking the credit for all these things the government has delivered and not allowing the social democrats to carve out a basis of whether have achieved

we are seeing on the afp news agency that five people it says have been killed in the british virgin islands as a result of hurricane irma. another person died in anguila. that fatality we had been told about earlier this week. so officials revealing these figures. five confirmed fatalities said a statement from the government of the british virgin islands. while a police officer in anguila told afp news agency that a man had been crushed by his house as irma passed through the island. so those are the latest lines we have coming in on the situation in the caribbean. as irma is expected to head towards the coast of florida. the government is going to hold a cobra meeting. chris mason is with me. a big response from the uk with more aircraft heading out today and tomorrow. tell us heading out today and tomorrow. tell us what's expected at that cobra meeting then. yeah, this is the latest gathering of the government's civil contingency committee that gathers in instances like this to coordinate the response across the british government to what is happening in the caribbean. the meetin

eclipsed very much by afp and very little contrition sharrod by angela merkel, i thought, little contrition sharrod by angela merkel, ithought, in little contrition sharrod by angela merkel, i thought, in the early hours —— afd. merkel, i thought, in the early hours -- afd. she lost, what, 70 seats? i'm sure it was worse than she expected, she would have expected it to be tough because of the immigration issue and she let in more thani the immigration issue and she let in more than 1 million the immigration issue and she let in more thani million migrants, primarily from syria, and it was always going — she knew it would overs ha d ow always going — she knew it would overshadow the election. but even she didn't quite expect, i think, it to be this bad and i think le figaro has this right, bitter victory, she does much helmut kohl 's victory for wins but the same time, she has this issue now of how to put together a coalition government. and it won't be so easy. the resulting quite staggering about the far right in such numbers, probably 90 in the german parliament, returning to a po

but the afp news agency is saying that new death tolls are reported in st martin, which has brought the death toll there to 27. we just don't know at the moment, because it is still a recovery effort. yes, as i was saying earlier, we are only 110w i was saying earlier, we are only now learning in detail about what happened in the caribbean. there has been criticism of the british government for not doing enough early enough, in particular to try and prepare the british version islands, and overseas territory being struck. it remains to be seen whether the death toll is high in florida or not. perhaps we won't find out for another day also. and, yes, as you say, another one is coming along by hype. that will be three in a row that has dominated the news, if that's what happened, which is quite something. at this time as well, a lot of british tourists are stuck. the tour operator is saying they are trying to keep everybody say. but they are dealing with thousands and thousands of people in hotels who have never gone through anything like this before. that's the problem, every time one of

if afp polls at 10%, will that be a shock to germany? question.important if you have a grand coalition again, the third-biggest party will have the opposition leader. this is a person who answers to chancellor in the debate. if the opposition leader in germany is from the far right, that would not be good for our image abroad and we would not like it ourselves. guy: that is fascinating. if we end up with another grand coalition, if the afd end up as the official opposition, that is an interesting position for germany to find themselves in. thank you for your time this morning. up next, coalition contenders. will germany maintain the grand coalition, or will be greens form a new so-called jamaican coalition with merkel? this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: welcome back. you are watching "germany decides," our weekly election show. we are checking on the latest polling. in less than a fortnight, germany will choose its next parliament. look at how closer the selection process works. german voters cast a dual ba llot with two votes toget 598 members

so one present confirmed killed according to the afp news agency on guadeloupe. —— batters that ireland. and we are tracking where it could head next so we will keep an eye on that. sir vince cable has used his first speech to the liberal democrat speech as leader to call for a cross—party approach to prevent a hard brexit — describing it as one of ‘three great disasters‘ to hit the uk in recent years. sir vince also proposed higher taxes on foreign property speculators and second home owners in order to help tackle inequality. 0ur political correspondent eleanor garnier is at the party conference in bournemouth. it was a steady and serious performance from sir vince cable, his first leadership speech here at the party autumn conference. he set out the broad principles on the big issues that he thinks the party needs to be dealing with. there are tackling the country right now. and of course front and centre of this speech was the party stands on brexit. at the end of these tortuous divorce negotiations the british public must be given a vote on the outcome. let me be clear, thi

the afp news agency has quoted a government official that said that there are over 20 children and four adults that are said to have died at one school in mexico city. the emergency services, helped by hundreds of volunteers, are sifting through the rubble by hand, searching for survivors. james cook reports. sirens in mexico city they are struggling to save lives. this is one of the most densely packed places on earth. more than 20 million people live here, and this earthquake has hit them hard. translation: we left, and when we left, the building started collapsing. i mean, 30 seconds after we left the building came down. in the minutes after the quake, columns of dust rose into the air, hinting at the devastation. in the capital alone, dozens of buildings were destroyed or damaged. schoolchildren are among the dead. the president says it is a national emergency. we are here in mexico city to help those affected. members of my cabinet are helping in the operation. public hospitals are opening up their services to everyone. the earthquake struck around lunchtime. firefighters have been

the french interior minister gerard collomb, quoted by afp news agency, said government buildings on saint maarten, the most sturdy there, had been destroyed. hurricane irma will remain as an extremely dangerous category 5 storm, with another direct landfall expected across the british virgin islands in the next hour or two. winds are just one of the threats to life in this storm's arsenal. low pressure in the eye of the storm will cause the ocean to bulge upwards, with the resulting wall of water slamming into coastal areas, seen here with devastating effects from typhoon hyian. i'm six foot three, but the storm surge due in the british virgin islands is expected to reach up to 11 foot high — nearly twice my height. the resulting inundation is also likely to be catastrophic, and in addition there's colossal falls of rain. irma will then extend its swathe of destruction to puerto rico, the turks and caicos islands and the bahamas before turning sharply to batter florida around sunday night. there is no question that this storm will bring catastrophic damage, but it will take many d

mark: how does the success of the afp in the election, how does that align with the possible referendum this weekend? how does that play into this theme that there are populist forces in europe, a fissure riskn the eu which poses a to the project going toward area -- forward. terms of that, the bigger challenge is more about the automation of the coalition. they will not play any part in government. they got 13%. the bigger challenges with the formation of the coalition and less about populism in germany. referendum,s to the even if it were to happen, it does not represent the existentialism we have seen before. i don't think if it came to that would want to adopt anything other than the euro. i don't think we have the risk we had on other occasions and we had challenges to the euro. mark: it's great to see you. thank you for joining us. this is the biggest today move since december. let's look at what is happening to european act woody's today. -- equities today. , it's alltoxx 600 lower. it was up yesterday and earlier as well. the closes four minutes away. bloomberg. ♪ mark: live f

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the afp, the far right party which manynd 13.5%, people see as largely reliable -- according to the polls, which people see as largely reliable. it does seem to be on the back anchor -- anger, this frustration when she saw her popularity dropped when she allowed 1.3 million immigrants into new -- germany this has taken the political establishment by surprise. merkel saying she was disappointed that her party had not done better. the frustration really with their coalition that they had with merkel for four years showing up with the fact that margaret schulz says he will going to opposition. what's this going to mean for coalitions billing? i want to jump into the bloomberg and talk about what likely numbers are we going to stack up here. if we have a look at this potential to make a coalition, which has nothing to do with jamaica, it's just the color of the parties. the green the fpb, and angela merkel's christian democrats. that looks like the most likely scenario, is that your reading of the situation? >> this doesn't seem to be the most likely scenario, although, the talks could take a

we have the afp in germany, but they're polling in the low teens. not likely to be involved in coalition discussion so it's merkel followed by the spd, also pro europe it's certainly interesting to keep an eye on probably not going to affect u.s. markets >>> my pick is in the "washington post." it's penned by wilbur ross these nafta rules are killing our jobs he's in favor of renegotiating nafta, the rules of origin which he says were intended to restrict non-nafta content in the final manufactured goods that we buy. he says our nation's ballooning trade deficit gutted american manufacturing, killed jobs and zapped our wealth that will change under president trump and rules of origin are just the beginning. of course it's a complicated issue, nafta i spoke with the best buy ceo earlier this week, it is an international company because they operated both mexico and canada he said the rules do need to be modernized certain things didn't exist then that exist now it's a complicated piece of trade. wilbur ross will be on "squawk box" to talk about it. >

what is not going to happen is afp, although they get into the alternative for germany, the hard right party. parliamentime in the for the past 50, 60, 70 years. is 1950's. there is somebody in the 50's. anyway, it will not be in the government. is thet party which inheritor of the former eastern communists will not be in either. other than that it is pretty much open. >> not the pirates probably. russianalked to the finance minister as i did. one of the big questions surrounding the election is whether or not the russian government will spend expensively to make sure the election is going to be stable. talk to me about putin's prospects and how different they really are in terms of situations versus germany. >> we have another story in the magazine this week that talks about exactly that. brewing clearly trouble in putin's heartland. he has always been very strong. in moscow and st. petersburg. that is where he has faced opposition he may have countered which is not much. some of that is actually spreading out into smaller cities. we have seen protests across the country and things co

the afp news agency is quoting an interior ministry saying government buildings on st martin, the most sturdy buildings there, have been destroy and they've not heard from barbuda at all. it seems to be that we are getting reports of impacts coming in. we have a clearer idea of its path? yes. look at the graphics, ican its path? yes. look at the graphics, i can show you that barbuda was the first place that got hit. the satellite picture, we can see straightaway in the middled of that, thatis straightaway in the middled of that, that is the island of barbuda going through the eye of the storm and it's around the eye wall that we have the most fierce winds. south of thatis have the most fierce winds. south of that is antigua. the irony is that anybody on barbuda when that picture was taken would have thought this is rather a nice day, they hadn't have realised that what they saw was coming back at them. ? absolutely. 1 o'clock our time, the next place to get hit was st martin. we can see again that is passing through the eye of the storm and to the north of st martin, we have the island

the afp is quoting an interior ministry saying government buildings on st martin, the most sturdy buildings there, have been destroyed and they've not heard from barbuda at all. so it seems there are reports of impacts coming in at the moment. we have a clearer idea of its path yes. on the graph ifi clearer idea of its path yes. on the graph if i cans, barbuda was the first place that got hit. on the satellite picture you can see straightaway in the middle of that, thatis straightaway in the middle of that, that is the island of barbuda going through the eye of the storm. owt of thatis through the eye of the storm. owt of that is antigua. the irony of that picture is that anyone on barbuda who saw that would have thought it was a nice day. yes. and 1 o'clock ourtime, the was a nice day. yes. and 1 o'clock our time, the next place to get hit was st martin. we can see that again passing straight through the eye of the storm. to the north of st martin we have an island, this second most powerful atlantic hurricane going through there. the catastrophic damage is an inevitability really. from he

the afp is quoting an interior ministry saying, government buildings on st martin, the most sturdy buildings there, have been destroyed and they've not heard from barbuda at all. so it seems there are impact reports coming in at the moment. we have a clearer idea of its path? yes. i can show you that barbuda was the first place that got hit. the satellite picture shows in the middle of that, thatis picture shows in the middle of that, that is the island of barbuda going right through the eye of the storm and it's around the eye wall that we have the most fierce winds. south of thatis have the most fierce winds. south of that is antigua. the irony of that, anyone on the island of barbuda seeing that picture must have thought it was a nice day? absolutely. next on the hit—list1 o'clock our time, the next place to get hit was st martin. we can see that again passing straight through the eye of the storm and, just to the eye of the storm and, just to the north of st martin, the another island. the catastrophic damage is an inevitability really. from here, it's going to track in a west north—

if there will be another will be thet largest opposition party, the afp will always be the first to answer angela merkel in the parliamentary debates. i think that will definitely change the tone in parliament. puglierin, thank you so much, german counselor on foreign relations. we will speak with ellen zentner of morgan stanley. we have much to talk about as well. i want to talk about preparing for the morning. thank you for listening to our conversation on bloomberg television. when you get in the car, bloomberg radio, "bloomberg daybreak" coast-to-coast, serious xm channel 119. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am taylor riggs. let's get to bloomberg business flash. breaking news this hour -- a big blow for uber in the u.k. london is not renewing the operating license in the city of london. there are 40,000 uber drivers in the city. lufthansa and easyjet have been picked as the main bidders for air berlin that will give both carriers a chance for germany. insolvency last month. general electric is close to selling it industrial solutions unit to the comp

anti— islam, anti—immigrant, anti— euro, afp, the far right, is now part of the german establishment. —— afd. translation: we will hunt them down. we will hunt mrs merkel down and we will take back our country and our people. this election will go down in the history books. mrs merkel‘s worst result and victory for the far right. what is the political norm in other european countries was unthinkable in post—war germany. not any more. jenny hill, bbc news, berlin. more on that later in the programme as well. president trump has refused to back down in an his ongoing public row with some of his country's most famous sportspeople, claiming they should be sacked for kneeling during the national anthem. a number of american football players took part in the protest against racism in the us ahead of yesterday's nfl game at wembley, as simon clemison reports. god save our gracious queen... these players stand for national anthems. but not their own. the protest known as taking a knee began last year when one player refused to rise for the star spangled banner over what he said was th