and hot dry winds have been fanning massive wildfires in southern california the blazes have destroyed hundreds of homes so far north threatening thousands more firefighters are battling to get the fires under control and reach the hardest hit areas so they can assess the damage. now it is a decisive day for germany's efforts to end the political deadlock and form a new government the social democrats are holding a party conference where they're expected to decide whether to hold talks on forming a government with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives though also be doing some soul searching on why they did so badly in september's election the party has been in a coalition with merkel's conservatives for the past four years and for many social democrats that is part of the problem the social democrats banner may flutter proudly but it party headquarters threw some certainty why did the s.p.d. do so poorly at the polls for party chief it's a question that has yet to be answered. why are we not able to make it clear that these old traditional values of respect solidarity dignity and j

hot dry winds have been fanning massive wildfires in southern california the blazes that destroyed hundreds of homes so far no threatening thousands more firefighters are battling to get the fires under control and reach the hardest hit areas so they can assess the damage. you're watching d.w. news still to come russia's vladimir putin says he will run for a fourth presidential term next year will he ever leave office we'll go to moscow for analysis. but first a blow for one of germany's best known carmakers christopher have more on that that's right so me and we're talking about a hefty prison sentence seven years behind bars that's the price to pay for lying to consumers over diesel emissions a u.s. court has sentenced fox wagon senior executive all of us made to the maximum possible time in jail but he's quite possibly the only high level figure at the carmaker who will face legal repercussions in united states. schmidt was the head of u.s. environmental compliance at folks wagon which made him the key focus of investigations over diesel gate now a federal judge has ruled that he violate