this is d.w. news along the from berlin the far right in france tries to shed its racist image for national party cuts its remaining ties with founder sean marie le pen abolishing his post of honorary president his daughter and party dumber in the pen tries to reground the party with a new mainstream name also on the program. reunited after more than a year behind bars for two turkish journalists returned to the independent newspaper laureates after being released on bail but their battle is far from over

. and colombians vote in the first of a parliamentary elections to include the former falkirk rebels movement to the political party right wing parties who oppose the twenty sixteen deal say bill amend it if given enough a vote of support. i need a committee welcome to the program the leader of the french far right for national party marine le pen has proposed changing the pot his name to a more last year now which roughly translates as national rally that's one of a number of changes delegates are considering at a potties conference in the north and city of new now the gathering is aimed at true branding the potty and marine le pen was reelected as their leader delegates also cut their last formal ties to her father found shawn marie le pen abolishing

the post of honorary presidency and effectively stripping him of his job. as i'll talk to our correspondent in paris lisa lewis it's good to see you lisa so what is marie le pen hoping to achieve by giving her name a potty rather a new name. but she wants to show that this can lead be a fresh start for the party she said in her speech used to be a protest party now we have become an opposition party and we want to become with this new name a party of government obviously she's also addressing concerns about herself since the debate before the elections last summer where she performed really poorly facing iraq or the current president that word doubts and there are doubts among members of the foreign arsenal of the national rally now that she actually wanted to go through with this that you want to become president now in her speech today she said three times our declared target that particular target is to take to seize

power really to become a governing party and she wants to dissipate these doubts about her own very own personality lisa does this name change also come with a change of political direction or is it a case of the same product in a new package. it's actually quite interesting she came forward with this new name this new mainstream name and at the same time her speech was very very traditional for nasa nonstate she was talking about her anti immigration stance her stance against islam against immigrants protection is there was a put true texan his message she was saying our party will protect the poor french against evil globalization and so it was a very traditional speech sound like she was going back to the roots to the roots and actually she was kind of contradicting early a message that she wanted to change the party's name speaking of the roots of the party early in the day the party did cut all remaining ties to its foundation and i

really append my really means father delegates voted to abolish the post of an area president effectively stripping him of his post was that controversial in any way while at the conference it was and eighty percent of the one thousand five hundred delegates that they did in favor of step is stopping him of the of the post or rather voicing the pace however we very well know that many people in the party still support him and are still quite quite close to him actually and he's very very far to the far right so when you're good at that and when you look at how marie le pen was speaking what she was saying it was quite clear that she was also trying to address the people in the party now that are close to her father now she's trying to get rid of her father and saying you know we don't really we don't agree with him we are a new party but when you look at to look at what she's actually saying it looks like the potty hasn't really changed that much lisa newest thank you for that update from paris. police in germany are investigating several

suspected arson attacks against mosques and turkish properties across the country over the weekend no one was injured in berlin a mosque and a turkish cultural club was set on fire police say they believe the attacks were politically motivated in the other incidents fire bombs were thrown at a turkish immigrants association in the western town of mischa day a turkish shop burnt down in the town of it's a hole and on friday a mosque in lafon in south in germany was torched but he's investigating that attack and looking for five suspects after video of the incident was posted on a kurdish website. two prominent turkish journalists have been reunited with their colleagues after spending well over a year behind bars now the two men were released on bail on friday but they and sixteen other staff at the independent newspaper jury it's still on trial for allegedly supporting terrorism so their battle for freedom and justice is far from

over. the staff of turkey's jim hurried newspaper celebrate the long awaited return of editor in chief. and investigative journalist ahmed shafik the two were held in a turkish prison for over a year at least on bail now they returned to their news room to greet colleagues despite the joyful mood their return doesn't signal the revival of the rule of law in turkey. too. there was no legal basis either for my arrest nor for my release it was a political move and nothing else that's how we have to see it there is no rule of law in turkey the idea that courts here are independent is the biggest turkish life . together the journalist celebrate the birthday of a key ally to spite his absence he's the newspaper's chairman and the only employee still behind bars including not to lie but all of eighteen jim her employees are on

trial for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations. shortly after his release the relief felt by more at some buju and his family and colleagues is clear. but celebrating is difficult he says because nothing has changed for journalists or press freedom in turkey. the russia or many journalists local officials and attorneys currently imprisoned only after they have all been released can we begin to speak of real freedom. more than one hundred journalists are currently sitting in turkish jails after his release from high security prison ahmed shafik spoke of his hope for change. happy days will return to this land the mafia like rule here will end i guarantee here. despite international condemnation these journalists are still on trial the next hearing is set for friday. that's now have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world british

authorities investigating the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter saying they found traces of a rare nerve agent at the pub and restaurant the pair visited shortly before they collapsed so cripple and his daughter remain in critical condition a week after falling ill. japan is marking the seventh anniversary of a series of disasters that devastated the north east coast and left of. eighteen thousand people dead or missing a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami that led to the worst nuclear since nuclear disaster since general bill prime minister shinzo has pledged. for the region a. conservative billionaire sebastian pinera has been sworn in as the president in chile returning to office for the second the second time he replaces socialist michel it has pledged to transform chile into a developed economy within eight years. colombians are voting in the

country's first ever parliamentary elections to include the former fox rebel movement a fox agreed to end its decades long insurrection in return for status as a political party in a controversial twenty sixteen peace deal now the agreement going back a handful of seats we godless of the results but the parties electoral campaign was marred by protests and it is expected to do badly. voting has been peaceful so far but passions are running high conservatives are hoping for a chance to make significant changes to the peace deal with fark rebels and their place in the referendum the people rejected the steel but nothing happened so this is our second chance to do something independent of the president. five bloody decades of conflict only ended two years ago when president juan manuel santos shook hands with rebel leader roberto the violence in the region. violent

protests dogged farkas campaign efforts and his lead candidate said the party was disadvantaged as it made its pitch to voters. our goal is to introduce a completely new kind of politics to this country fark is expected to have a poor showing in this ballot widely seen as a predictor for the presidential vote in may. she isn't being is already the most powerful chinese president in a generation and now he has a right to remain in office indefinitely that's after china's rubber stamped parliament passed a constitutional amendment scrapping the presidential term limits the presidency had previously been limited to two five year terms. if chinese politics is dominated by one party that is no even more firmly in the grip of one man president xi jinping. the new rules will allow him to govern until he dies

even enshrining his philosophy in the constitution despite close scrutiny of the ballot papers it was a day more of formalities than surprises. and just who people had the nerve to disagree. signage. outside the great hall of the people not a flutter of dissent. isn't removing the limit on the terms of the presidency when the continuity of our policies and provide strong political support for the realisation of our great nation i think it's great that. the changes have revived memories of mao zedong whose leadership was marred by bloodshed after mar rules were drafted to prevent a repeat analysts say these reforms undo those safeguards. quite

obvious the worse and i do believe that this recent. within the party leadership among the intelligentsia because they are concerned with the potential of a return of them our style of leadership. maoist china's past and she is china's future for no only he knows which direction he will choose to take the rising asian superpower. in today's early bundesliga game strip that we're up against rb leipzig but neither side managed to find the net and that draw means leipsic failed to gain ground in the race for europe next season a stock that meanwhile is the sixth match unbeaten in germany is going to sleep at the top clash yesterday so leverkusen locking horns with local rivals with both

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