More questions for Germany's CDU

Two key players in the funding scandal surrounding Germany's Christian Democratic Party CDU are to to give further evidence today before a special parliamentary committee.

The party's former leader, Wolfgang Schaeuble, and its former treasurer, Brigitte Baumeister, gave conflicting accounts of the handling of a fifty-thousand dollar donation from an arms dealer which wasn't entered properly in the accounts.

Mr Schaeuble told the committee he received the money in 1994 and passed it to the treasurer.

But Mrs Baumeister said she received the cash and passed it to Mr Schaeuble.

The scandal broke after the former Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, admitted receiving a million dollars in secret donations which were never properly registered.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service