this is d.w. news live from berlin clubby and voters back right wing parties critical of the governments of peace deal with marxist rebels conservatives emerging as a political force but still pulling short of the majority in the vote but a disastrous results for the former far guerillas of their first ever election will go live to bogota for the latest also coming up hardline turkish activists call for a day of action across europe to protest turkey's military offensive in syria this most reports of arson attacks against mosques germany. also on the show the

children left behind by islamic states reign of terror autumn's mother was a year's eve raped by an i.a.s. militant we report from the mosul orphanage and hear from eunice off about the first for these children in iraq. and a look at why russia's young voters are seen as a top prize in this month's presidential elections and how the candidates are trying to get out the vote. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show. colombia's voters have decided and in the country's congressional election on sunday they handed victory to critics of a peace deal with former leftist rebels right wing parties that campaigned against the twenty sixteen peace accord emerged as a political force but they failed to secure

a majority it was the first election for the former fark rebel group which saw its radical agenda soundly rejected the results now raise questions over the future of the deal that ended their half a century long insurgency. colombia's president when manuel santos cost him his ballot in a vote call it a crossroads for the country the first ever parliamentary elections to include form a fox as a political party. is that if you notice these elections are very special. this is the first time in a half a century where the far at a time instead of sabotaging the elections are participating in the elections. and i think if you're not it's something historic and very important for our democracy here. it was his controversial two thousand and sixteen peace deal that gave the

fox status as a political party in return for an end to the group's decades long and sarette action. the deal also guaranteed the former rebels ten senate seats regardless of the election results house voting began one form of fuck command called it a historic day. is do i think this is going to mark a milestone we're entering the consolidation of peace it's the first time in my life that i've voted and i do it for peace. but that campaign was marred by angry protests many colombians feel the x. rebels should be punished for their crimes instead of being given positions of power. it was a catastrophic results for the fuck. meanwhile the democratic center party founded by former president of. one of the largest number

of votes in the senate a triumph for hard line conservatives who have fiercely opposed the peace treaty. so where does the long go from here for more let's bring indeed of you correspondent of delia harms or rudi in bogota good morning ophelia this vote looks like a repudiation of the peace deal with the fark is that deal now under stress. well what we see is that not only the party that opposes a deal had a very good result prev former president i'd already where we saw him on the report he got the best result as a candidate ever seen in colombian history with more than eight hundred sixty thousand votes only for himself but you said it before they have no majority in congress actually one of the biggest surprises tonight was of the green party doubled its representation in congress and also the inclusion of this movement

called the list of the decency that officially supports the leftist presidential candidate so i wouldn't say the piece is on the threat it might see some blocking in congress but most of the parts of the agreement have already gone through legislation ok now in spite of getting just under one percent the far group of the four members will nonetheless get ten seats in parliament that they're guaranteed under the peace deal or what kind of influence will this give them. well colombian strongly oppose this i mean obviously everyone wanted peace but they don't agree with the fact that they will be in politics without serving prison time they're not ok with them having ten seats for free and actually what we see is that this week the special jurisdiction that has been created to punish the former

rebels with social work will start operating but colombians also think that this social work is not enough and doesn't make up for more than fifty years of war you know the president is calling these like sins a story but as you mentioned the inclusion of far has been very polarizing especially the fact that there's been no judicial reputations for the crimes committed by the group what are people saying right now where you are in bogota. well like i say they oppose it will probably have no. no nothing to say and in congress for now what we see is that the leftist parties are trying to stay as far away from them as possible the leftist candidate goes through who was officially being supported by the fark rebels or a former far cripples. said tonight that he does not want to see have anything to

do with them if he becomes the next president but we will have to wait and see who actually becomes the next president and how congress operates to see if they will have to do anything to say to or are they are needed at all to pass legislation through your harms rudy for us and thanks very much for the update now for some of the other stories making the news around the world today conservative billionaire sebastien piniella has been sworn in as president of chile returning to that office for the second time he replaces the socialist michelle bachelet and yet has pledged to transform chile into a developed economy within years at least two passengers have been killed in a helicopter crash in new york's east river three others are in critical condition the chopper was hard for a photo shoot when i went down sunday evening it's pilot was able to free himself

after that crash and was rescued by a passing tugboat. amnesty international has released satellite images purporting to show me and more building military bases on land previously occupied by millions of muslims and this is calling it a land grab hundreds of thousands of lead to neighboring bangladesh to escape a brutal military crackdown since august of last year. civilians have been playing in the kurdish held city of our friend in northern syria missed reports that turkish forces are now just one hundred meters away from that city and poised to capture it but some people are staying but saying they're ready to act as human shields turkey launched a military operation to ousters fighters it uses terrorist from that city seven weeks ago. while kurdish groups across europe took to the streets on sunday to protest that turkish military offensive in our friend they've called for another

day of action today yesterday's rallies led to disruption in a number of location protesters calls to major london train stations to be shut down they also climbed onto the tracks in the northern city of manchester and paris demonstrators rallied outside the u.s. embassy. and here in germany the protests turned violent demonstrators threw rocks at a building here in berlin after a resident waved a turkish flag and there were clashes a dozen doors airport between kurdish and turkish troops injured german police now this after a series of arson attacks targeting mosques and turkish properties here in germany over the weekend. our political correspondent kate brady is here with us now for more how are police responding right now what are they saying about the violence over the weekend so best occasions right now under way but there were three key attacks as well over the weekend so friday we saw attack on

a mosque in southern germany and on sunday we're also had firebombs thrown turkish immigrants association and western germany in lynn a mosque which is run by detail which is actually a religious organization close to the turkish government that was also set on fire now as i say investigations also in the way that were injuries and police at the moment ruling out a far right motive but they are also investigating possible political motives by. kurdish groups who of course big have become more vocal against turkey's offensive on a free and in we in recent weeks let's talk more about those pro kurdish groups you just mentioned they're calling for some of them are going for more demonstrations today what do we know about these groups exactly so we've already seen some of these rallies across the weekend and they various proca websites we've been seeing

them calling to bring the war in of rain to the streets of europe and now the most these demonstrations are against this military offensive which turkey began back in january and so basically africa is controlled by the kurdish militia who is known as the people's protection units of the y. p.g. and ankara considers the y.p. g. to be a terrorist organization linked to the kurdistan workers party of p.k. k. and they have been having and they have had this decades long insurgency against the turkish state and turkey. kind of has this fear that any gains made by the white p.d. in syria could have knock on effects. well could this could ish minorities back in turkey and their demands for greater autonomy and grace rights into ok what about the knock on effect for german turkish relations they've been strained of course recently on a number of fronts how are they likely to be affected by these anti turkish rallies

that is going to be a very difficult challenge for germany to handle on those be many german politicians who have already called criticized turkey's offensive in against a free and this is certainly going to be a big challenge for the new foreign minister jim foreign minister who set to be sworn in this week just as the outgoing german foreign minister is saying my god really has just been trying to rekindle. relations with turkey which as you might have been become very strange in recent years has largely due to the arrests of several german. journalists who were arrested actually on suspicion of being a supporting terrorist organizations and you also had one paula. have recognize in the one hundred fifteen armenian genocide and all their salad relations so this really could scuff by those plans to kind of rekindle those

previously close relations between ankara and berlin a huge diplomatic challenge for the new foreign minister or must keep brady versus going thanks very much. wants to britain now in his thirty's they're investigating the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter so they have found traces of a rare nerve agent at the pub and restaurant the pair a visit shortly before they collapsed there's a script all and his daughter remain in critical condition a week after falling ill. police vehicles being taken away for testing they might be contaminated and could become evidence in the spy case that has gripped the picturesque english town halls vary. and patrons who enjoyed a pint at this pub and now all extras in the thriller they might have rubbed shoulders with a former russian double agent and been exposed to nerve poison now the hundreds who passed through the pub and a nearby pizza restaurant are all being told to take precautions. there may be

a very small health risk associated with repeated contact with belongings which may have been contaminated by this substance so we're recommending a very very precautionary approach is taken and were advising people to clean the clothes that they were wearing and any possessions that they had with them at the time after a night at the pub former russian spy sergei screwball and his daughter yulia were found unconscious on a park bench poisoned by a nerve agent they're still in a critical condition in seoul's very people are on their guard we've come here to visit for the day and we try not to touch anything but i think they could probably informed everybody a little bit sooner because my daughter was actually in the middle of the time when the incident was supposed to have happened and she was a little bit disappointed because she center just been. actually wash clothes for

cases similar to the two thousand and six poisoning of another russian defector alexander litvinenko his widow marina says she's shocked it could happen again it was a video said when i realized nothing has changed and him as a russian person asking for political reason for being or if you g.'s in this camp you became a target and attacked you key provided to his people kind of. insecurity by the family doesn't work and the need to talk about. evil to provide c.t. insecurity to for people who ask for political asylum in this country. her husband's killers remain unknown and she accuses british police of taking too long to investigate this time authorities aren't waiting to start hunting for clues. this is did of the news still to come on the show back man saves the day four door winner a real thriller against god we've got the lowdown on that match and. now this evening's

business legal action can cause chaos in the relegation battle. on their hearts here now in the debate about president trump's decision to put tariffs on steel aluminum imports and a possibility of a trade war heating up over the weekend that's right and there's not much progress in resolving the issue of the u.s. allies are scrambling to get an exemption from the tariffs on saturday u.s. trade representative robert litan eyes are met e.u. and japanese officials in brussels for talks but neither side announced a result meanwhile in a complaint speech in pennsylvania a u.s. president on the trump has defended his decision to put tariffs on steel and element imports and singled out german carmakers as a target. pennsylvania's steel industry has hit hard times and employees on the hof the workers it used to president donald trump wants to win over voters here with proposed tariffs on steel and alum minium steel country is

also home to a congressional election set for tuesday trump came here to support the republican candidate and to underscore his own accomplishments isn't your government protects your own steelworkers so we just want to same thing our government should protect our steelworkers you talk to number one country in the world he's going to be irrelevant to the united states keeping campaign promises seems to be trump's new motto he owes this election victory in a large part to voters like these in the midwest now he's promised to protect the domestic steel industry and penalize countries that take advantage of america. european union they kill us open up the barriers at get rid of your terrorists if you don't do that we're going to tax receipt he spends we're going to tax b.m.w. you want to have fun of it we want to have money come into our country was it may have once seemed farfetched but trump is taking a risky gamble on trade and many in pennsylvania are already celebrating the

prospect of another trump picture in twenty twenty five or more hardening of the rhetoric the rhetoric that are we looking at a real trade war on the horizon let's bring in your kramer he's chief economist for german linda comments bunk york one of the options here for the e.u. do you think playing hardball is the right thing to do. i thought so one and a half weeks ago but then i found out that the european union is even more protection is than the united states european union travis are usually higher than those imposed by the united states therefore i think a policy of retaliation is not the right approach the european union should should or should talk to trump and indeed the talk trump has offered the possibilities are to come to an agreement to come to a compromise so you use the exam has a point that do you i mean but what are the terrorists that the you could lower now

for example cut terrorists the european union tariffs on imported costs are ten percent and compare this to the mere two point five percent of the united states i asked myself why does the european union not offer to cut its two percent cut terrace to the mia two and a half percent of the united states i think this is exactly what what trump wants to see and i think this could be a solution in the dispute. we talked about playing hardball and you retaliate and all that. is the use it can only process fission to retaliate if if if you foresee the us to back down. well a policy of retaliation risk a trade war and a trade war compu one by anybody not by the united states not by the european union

the odds of only be loses in the end think back to the thirty's you know after the stock market crash of ninety twenty nine there was a trade war where each of the countries increased its tariffs and there was retaliation toes and so on and in the end we have seen a call it's in trade war and this is this mainly explains why we had a mighty heat depression in the western world and that is like a nuclear war nobody can win it. nuclear war be a worst case scenario u.s. commanders bungle lendell argue you must have worst case scenarios run us through it. well of course a trip worst case in how you off cause in the mess by research is a trade war but i think it is it is it will not happen there you see that trump already office way out it's like cutting tariffs on cars or for example

raising defense expenditure way also as a case because all the western european not all members promised to raise their defense expenditure to two percent including germany by the county for example germany spends only one point two percent on defense and our defense system is no longer probably working therefore it's in our best interest to to raise the defense expenditure to two percent of g.d.p. and this would significantly have to convince to convince president trump to accept the european union from the traffic. your dream of the commencement of chief economist thank you very much for this analysis thank you. now in a substantial shake up of the german energy market utilities heavyweight aon has agreed to acquire a large stake of energy the sustainable subsidiary of its competitor r w e for forty three billion euros it's all part of a complex swap deal will be will buy more than seventy percent of our w e stake in

the renewable energy company in exchange will sell most of its renewables business to r. w. e. the deal comes in the wake of germany's twenty eleven decision to abandon nuclear power and focus on renewable energy sources which up ended its a tease in the country. but we have seen another great weekend of bonus league of football here in germany talk about some of the highlights i'm joined by max merrill from the sports this morning max run you know. is on loan from chelsea are going to talk about him later in the show let's talk about first off the but it's like a football match here in germany and some of the highlights what were they for you on the weekend well we had a great game between dalton and frank for their level on points third against fourth and spoiler alert it was a fantastic match ok what about another game we had there we also had

a. story that we had leipsic playing against it got which ended up being a bit of a dead row but let's take a look first at dortmund who host frank for a really tight game. over eighty thousand packed inside technology do no park for this one early in the match american wonderkid christian policy looking for his forty six thousand two hundred surely he couldn't convert it would have been his second goal this season and sometimes the ball lets you know you messed up minutes later the ball finds politico again the cross for marco rice but it's marco reus who commits an own goal giving domain name one elite after the break the free kick gave frankfurt another shot to you'll be unmarked level to school above. the hour mark meichi batch one checked in to give dallman a boost pulis sick again setting up the conversion and pat he didn't disappoint the

third goal in the matches for batch one frankfurt responded any bloom from close range made it through to the ninety first minute bloom's maiden goal in the going is the go over but that's when i wasn't done being the hero. stuff came to me three points for doing me. leaving peter still got yet to taste defeat in the bundesliga three to the final. it's an incredible highlights there max why was i mentioned earlier he's on loan to door and long term what does it look like if they can keep him on board decides possibility i mean it's difficult because he's playing so well really yes they saw us on the bench because long day he was in action for the open in the europa league

and the star gave him a bit of a rest but he did have to rely on them eventually two goals he scored then now five and six but in the second game since joining and insist seems more motivated than obama has very stocks and allows is that as well and some of the pace next. initially ability but that's why add something to dortmund's game and that's his hold up play bringing in the wingers like cruellest sic royce i'm sure who have all scored since he's joined and royce is actually just extended his contract which is huge boost to dortmund incidentally but chelsea reportedly inserted were willing to buy back close by close and provided they get a buy back option now dalton and have rejected that and there's no by buying clothes in the loan agreement because dortmund have had bad experience with those kind of clothes as mario gets and twenty thirteen for instance joining by and under one of the possibility remains it's absolutely the price will certainly go up though i think with his performances now the early game pitted guard against yet

that was should have been a great game not as fantastic as the other one we can have a look at that as well. thanks to their run of good results stuttgart is a house of fun these days for the coach the sporting director and even their notoriously critical fans. but the good mood evaporated after kickoff once the string of fouls started. those fouls and the hectic pace gauge took guard an advantage as they kept six stronger squad from getting into rhythm by the first big chance for the visitors didn't come until added time in the first half i'm unable to be run but see that. after the restart another forty five hectic minutes right with arguments this was anything but

a polished performance from either side and it ended neil neil typhoon corkage remains on b. net the helm. and the point means much more to them than to leipzig who still have their sights set on the champions league. although it wasn't a polished performance at all what does this all mean for the tables and well if we take a look at the top of the table things of looking very good for buying munich they can actually win the league next weekend if shell could win that game and they win that as we saw their light sink not really putting in a performance where they have a champions league spot and outs of the mix that moment in sixth and further down the table there's a game actually happening tonight's braman hosting how bug who both teams are in trouble but we look at. who we thought were gone they could be back. sorry braman hosting cologne in fact and if braman win then combo's coach might go ben's hollow but he's not want to single game seven games since taking over so dark

times in hamburg and cologne could just leap in front of them and that's like a real battle at the bottom there thanks very. for being with us and thanks for joining us as well we're back so after a short break here did of you know. shopping for a bride in bulgaria. young rola from the town like she planned are looking for love . the bride market takes place once a year it's a combination of speed dating foot and steel making. and attractive young girl from the family high priced. brides for single bulgaria's role on marriage market.

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a journalist is to get me on the smoking mirrors it's not just about being clear and balanced or being neutral it's about being truthful. when he was born golf and i work immediately. welcome back to the news live from berlin our top sources our conservative parties critical of colombia's peace deal with former leftist rebels have won the most seen in the country's election but they failed to secure an outright majority the former fark rebel group met with public rejection and disastrous results in the first ever bid for elections. kurdish groups across europe but took to the streets on sunday to protest turkey's military offensive an african. they've called for another day

of action today this comes amid a series of arson attacks on mosques and churches properties in germany. it's to iraq now in the aftermath of the war against so-called islamic state to the hottest were driven out of course of their declared capital most all last year but the liberation of that city cost thousands of civilian lives many children now suffer from the trauma of losing their parents in the horrors of living under the extremists will be speaking to unicef's representative in iraq about the situation there in just a moment first we have this report from inside a mosul orphanage. mornings are the highlight of suu kyi no muhammad's day joyful children greet her with huge hugs they're playful and happy now but they share the past yet these children were orphaned during the so-called islamic states reign of terror. iraqi special forces recovered them from the rubble

this mosul orphanage is now their home where they can dream of a brighter future. when they might want to work at a company. well your school principal and the so i want to study at university but. i yes wouldn't allow education for girls and i don't have an answer that sakineh mohammadi wants to give these children a chance to flourish but the head of the orphanage says money and resources are often an issue. that you key to the alicia a shot but i'm so sad that i can't really help them. i go to the government again and again and ask them for books and help is. that i beg them to make improvements and decisions. but nothing happens. that hurts children like. he was conceived during a rape his father was an i.a.s. militant his mother his eating women from the religious minority were subjected to

kidnap and sexual assault under i.a.s. today she's returned to her husband and her other three children leaving her them here. and must the easy his mother is easy her religion forbids her to raise the children of muslims. you know. that's why she gave her son to the all financial model in japan and saved his life to. shiite children like ramiro and were taken from their parents and given to supporters. after the city was freed their uncle found them here at the orphanage. now he wants to raise them but years of brainwashing have left their mark. they were taught what i guess believes. now ali hates iraqi police and soldiers. he sings songs its ideology has shaped his

thoughts. the idea of. the so-called islamic state didn't just leave behind destruction in mosul they sowed hate in people's hearts. snipers even used children as bait when iraqi soldiers tried to come and rescue the children they were ambushed. in the movie it was used this way he was dragged out of a firefight by a dog as iraqi special forces approached the baby lost his arm but survived he's just eight months old no one knows where his parents are. any kid i don't know what has me most children can hold milk bottles at eight months but he can't because he's missing an arm and means that he's often ill and needs a lot of care you haven't got a huge amount of the key but here there are many such sad stories here at the

orphanage but still the children can laugh sing and dream of a better future. for more on their future let's bring in unicef's representative in iraq peter hawkins who joins us now from baghdad a good morning to you and peter thanks for being with us today do we have any idea how many children have been orphaned and abandoned in mosul alone. it's too early at this stage to say how many rubino over two thousand five hundred children i mean separate from that family what we're trying to do is identify them . ok mentation straight look for the extended family to see if we can we unify those family is your. very well illustrated it's a very complex issue a very emotional issue where children's futures are at stake. you know finding the

extended families of the of the orphans and the abandoned children must be very expensive are the resources there to do that. we're doing everything we can in the partnerships are very group the government through the department of social affairs are doing everything we can to try and ensure that the children are looked after in the media because he was my right to say it's a very expensive and very difficult process to trace for extended families and trying to unify those children but we have to do it for those children that we contacted by families all is looking at first through arrangements or other arrangements within the communities. iraq has a very egalitarian community would look after each other and is trying to find those cultural contacts to ensure the children's future within the community is assured are all orphans and the children being helped are there

some a slip through the cracks. for months if the scale of this operation did in mosul and. your correspondent is highlighted elsewhere in the country with mr sheer scale of the problem it is very difficult to manage however we're doing unicef and its partners and other we're going to use ations are doing everything we can with the government to try and ensure that neutral site you can practice what is crucial now is to focus on the recovery stage trying getting services in place trying to children children go back to school trying to ensure that children get with him you know you just try and ensure. hundred everything holes that these children that means the greatest level of protection received are actions that those who've been separated because they've been violated those children that are of. regime through a trauma an extensive reach or receive the right psychosocial care the

right parents support counseling to parent statement through and help them look with with futures your will as well rightly indicated rather than two of the parts and when you consider this the stope of massive rape of women across iraq by islamic state no intense they're being held as sex slaves are being sold and now as specially in the z.t. community as we saw in that report you know there are religious reasons for them to be abandoned do you know how many children are being abandoned you know compared to the number who have been orphaned is there a relationship there what can you tell us about those children who've been abandoned by their mothers. there are a number and i am i'm aware of fifty five and in one place which are who have been abundant rues in the extended family is very difficult to find for those children

but we need to do is look for alternatives to institutional care to see it when we can place them within the community help them through psycho social care trying to get explicated to zero proof that psychology along so they can start thinking about it future we keyed to that is obviously trying to get back into school trying to get them back into a family where they feel. wanted and try and open plan a learn and respond to a different future to the one they but won't through of the austrian four years peter hawkins unicef's your senator of in iraq joining us from baghdad this morning thank you so much for being with us and all the best to you in helping the abandoned and orphaned children in iraq thank you very much and thank you very much for all the support it is. well this coming sunday some

one hundred million people across russia will be going to the polls to elect a new president they have eight candidates to choose from but there's little doubt about the outcomes lattimer putin is all but guaranteed to win another six years in office as part of our ongoing series russia votes were looking today at how young russians feel about the election a large majority are expected to vote for putin but today we meet those hoping for change. yes but i'm collecting signatures folks and you know some charge i don't need to send you some check is female feisty and defiant ones among russia's most visible society ladies she's become an independent journalist. subjects strikes a chord with the young people who oppose vladimir putin but not yet openly and actively which is just what. he's one of the kremlin's most vocal critics but

a criminal record prevents him from running for office his young supporters repeatedly call for protests and election boycotts. russian president vladimir putin on the other hand is urging voters to head to the polls the greater the turnout the greater the legitimacy of his reelection which many and not just his fans see as a foregone conclusion. i like being a russian citizen living under the leadership of a strong politician named vladimir putin would. i expect the secret service to arrest me at any moment for something i've posted that you. see in your subjects in your song child herself says she's not running for president a strategy is to go against everyone she's not fighting on the front lines like novell me yes. but she can appear on television. using her as token opposition so

he can say look we've got freedom of speech the world will not solve all the slow. i'm convinced that all the candidates except the are criminal projects their purpose is to legitimize putin's reelection with. no money is the only one who can mobilize thousands in this kind of cold and snow like this it's. the sound you know kind of historic. leanings comes from all from the soviet era was a good training ground we should all take that as an example and not just protest in the streets we ought to do something useful like collectively clean up the city more than. the leadership should know what we're doing and it's not sitting at home like a couch potato. business lot of many young people take a critical stance but that doesn't mean they're in the opposition many are happy

we've put in an office because they're doing well. just so the truth you notice that russian culture is increasingly popular and that the russian position is gaining more respect to broad support anything that many young people don't care about put anything more they're not interested in politics our task is to get these in different voters on our side. this is the neighborhood you will resurrect the. we should be allowed to protest again but within the legal framework. and if someone doesn't agree with that he should run for election as a people's deputy there is a convincing emergencies they would do that we put in will step down within three years he can't hold on any longer and the more we rock the vote the better not only the worse for the reporting system we don't want him to govern the entire six years we want him to go earlier and. yes fully answer me a little. bit another bag that was if we are being intimidated. inside beriah

or chechnya i wouldn't be as politically active as i am here. because most of the world when you buy them see. your way i'm afraid we either die standing up or live on our knees if we take to the streets now be in the front row got the award and then you get over to the super newsroom busy and that. we support the president would have seen you with your guts and we support his decision to run and that's really important and we'll all be giving him our vote and i may support alexei navalny ork sr subtract or putin it seems the twenty eight thousand presidential election has at last politically galvanized russia's young people. hello i'm collecting signatures for extended subchapter. and we'll be featuring reports on russia's upcoming election on sunday all week long let's bring in our moscow correspondent emily assure when right now emily good morning to you how important

is the use vote in russia in this election. well i would say statistically it's not a huge percentage of the vote and many young people despite that report that we just saw it here in russia are actually kind of political but we have seen the candidates courting the youth vote so for example saying yes of chalk and i like saying that vine you have run other smooth campaigns on the internet on social media on you tube and in a way that's part of why the youth vote has become important now viney has been very successful here as an anti corruption blogger some of his corruption investigations have millions of hits on you tube for example one that he did on meet the needs the diff currently has twenty six million views on you tube so that's a huge amount and he also managed to get thousands of people onto the streets particularly

in russia's cities so that seems to have kind of worried the kremlin worried them into trying to court the youth vote putin has been showing himself with young people he gave a lesson on the first day of school at one at a school in russia he also announced his candidacy on a day where he also held a huge rally two young volunteers so he's kind of showing himself with young people and it does seem that the kremlin is concerned about the youth vote for example i just saw on twitter that someone had posted a photo from a university where the dormitory was saying that attending the upcoming election would be obligatory if you want to stay in your dorm no no a pull back in december put to use vote support the support for vladimir putin at about eighty six percent because that road since then is where young people stand today. well the the most recent poll that i

saw that does split split things up by age puts that number closer to sixty percent but that still is a huge amount of the votes of the votes huge amount of voters under thirty will be supporting put in that seems according to polls and that's interesting because you know for a lot of young voters put in is the only thing that they know in fact this election is the first time that eighteen year olds will be voting the eighteen year olds who have only only lived under putin's rule as it were since he came became president in two thousand and the support i think probably is is for the same reasons that many people here in russia support putin he still very much stands for standing up to the west he also stands for the stability that he brought after the chaos the chaos and the trauma for many people here in russia of the ninety's and you know

young voters were children in the ninety's were children in the two thousands so they very much that that trauma is still fresh for them and also i think it's interesting analysts here are noting that it's and it's a myth in a way that that all run young russians. want change many of them are actually very conservative. and they'll be supporting putin what about the young generation of new political power there are there any are there any potential stars on the horizon. well that's a good question of particularly because it seems that the result of this election according to statistics as well is kind of a foregone conclusion so people here are very much discussing what will happen after this next term that putin is likely to win on sunday putin will

be seventy two. at the end of this next term if he does get it and he will also have just served two consecutive terms which according to the russian constitution he can't serve any more than that observers say that he will be choosing someone as a successor probably from his inner circle there isn't really an obvious candidate to succeed him on the political scene at the moment and the people in his inner circle many of them are kind of young technocrats sort of grade no one with a lot of charisma so that is really one to watch i think. in the coming years ok only sherman thanks so much this morning from moscow for us looking forward to more reports and analysis as we head towards voting day on sunday thanks very much . gary and they're also heading to the polls to vote they'll be going to vote next month on april the eighth to elect

a new parliament prime minister viktor orban and his conservative feet as party will be seeking a third term in power now they've been running on a populist anti migration platform of course and their campaign targets the u.s. billionaire george soros in particular the eighty seven year old businessman was born in budapest and has spent millions of dollars there on mostly leftwing projects in the capital and across hungary now orbán has called soros and anime of the younger in state accuses him of hoping to orchestrate the mass migration into europe we saw beginning in two thousand and fifteen last year posters like these one up all over the country this one reading don't let soros have the last laugh now or bond's party is proposing new laws targeting groups funded by soros so what impact is the empty soros rhetoric having on the campaign lars so stick travel to budapest to find out. one meal a day is all it's

a he can afford peace a refugee from afghanistan who's been living in hungary for the past year and he receives no help from the government to lift problem we have nothing but problems here i actually wanted to travel on to germany belgium france and norway but the hungary in authorities won't let me even put me in prison for six months sick as well not me on. this harsh treatment of refugees it's part of a wider strategy in the hungary prime minister to all ban him to frighten my class away and provoke western europe especially now during election days it was well beseen when you go through all the danger that we are subjected to comes from the west from politicians in brussels berlin and paris they want to turn our country into a nation of immigrants which will mean the decline of christianity that will usher in islamic takeover a kind of thing called little honey or clash so the slump in every shadow of. this

campaign season here in hungary and the government is amping up there and time my good rhetoric prime minister viktor orban has repeatedly claimed that europe is overtaken by migrants and he blames it all on one man george soros. george soros behind darian born investment billionaire makes no secret of his opposition to our bonds government he's been the target of a multimillion dollar ok to compete for months the government heckled soros who lives in the u.s. on huge posters and a negative t.v. ads like this one he struck out on the stove on the menu it asserts that soros is trying to get migrants to europe to advance his own political agenda michaela but i still short of. the conspiracy theory that is now even being challenged in court by human rights organizations like beyond gary in helsinki committee. this is a quest distributor. every single household eight million people in hungary got

this and it talks about how human rights groups are. conspiring with george soros and the european institutions the commission particularly to bring my clients to hungary or bonn has even proposed a law in palm and that would place non-governmental organizations like the health the key committee under direct control of the government. were being branded for the work that we're doing as an want. to national security these restrictions that package before parliament and visions are absolutely not in line with human rights norms and yes there are exist existential threats that organization that's hard to deny and rights groups and the only organizations that feel threatened are still to use a name not just a source but everything else he represents he's jewish and the holocaust survivor

the jewish community in budapest is deeply concerned about the propaganda against him. it feels like a blaze that is slowly spreading those in government igniting fear like a fire among the people and now we're seeing the results there triggering emotions that could lead to an anti semitism. on some good players on the field. meanwhile heat from afghanistan has long since given up hope of having a better life from the hungry refugees like him are helpless targets of the government's smear campaign it's creating an atmosphere that poses an existential threat to hundreds of the society threats that will be even more apparent the so-called stops on this legislation become small next month. is the interview news live from berlin. here's

a reminder of our top story this hour conservative parties critical of colombia's peace deal was born or less this rebels have won the most east of the country's congressional election but they failed to secure an outright majority of the former rebel group met with public rejection and disastrous results since first ever bid for election. you can always find out more about these and other stories that our web site that's w dot com now we're going to leave you with some world class action of the canine variety one of the world's largest dog shows crofts came to a close of the weekend with thousands of prize food vying for the title of top dog we'll leave you now with some of the highlights. yes. thanks.

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