by our political correspondent. roberta good to see you the parties there are still talking are they actually edging any closer to a deal or are they just kicking the can further down the road well at least that trying and i think they're willing to find a deal the problem is they're really going to reach that goal yesterday we have seen that what we've seen yesterday was a matter of rebuilding trust in the end i mean you have to understand they have been sitting together for more than three weeks now and didn't gain any any progress and what we saw yesterday was chancellor angela merkel trying to take a lead there and she what she was doing is called here a confessional procedure she was holding private talks with the leader of the greens then she was holding private talks with the leader of the leaders of the sea as you and then again private talks with the leaders of the free democrats and this was going on and on and on over the whole day or we're going to see today though is that they are going to tackle the real conflict issues they have been they have sat