the team sixty eight the global story september first double. this is d w news coming to you live from berlin calling time on a long running dispute the european union is set to end the practice of putting the clocks forward and back in summer and winter he uses it's responding to the will of the people we look at the pros and cons of scrapping daylight savings time also coming up

a rally by the far right in the eastern german town of chemist's passes off peacefully despite violence from earlier in the week but the situation remains tense with groups from both the right and left preparing to take to the streets again to morrow. and time to say goodbye friends around the world prepare to been there for final farewells to the queen of soul aretha franklin should be laid to rest in detroit later today. hello i'm terry martin thanks for being with us the days of changing the clocks backwards and forwards here in europe could be numbered that's because the european commission is today proposing to end the switch between summer and winter time across. european union decision comes after an online poll found that

a majority of those responding want to get rid of the hour changed to winter time with more than four and a half million participants it was the largest online survey in e.u. history. e.u. commission chief john clarke says the people will get what they want. to sell junk . this debate has announced itself for years many citizens are involved in this debate we had an official survey and millions responded and have the opinion that summertime should be valid in future and should stay forever and so will be. so if it doesn't come well for more on scrapping the time change let's bring in our correspondent. joins us from brussels or is the e.u. really going to change the way we keep time on the basis of this one survey. i must say terry an extra hour of daylight here in brussels it sounds really tempting and

yes it looks like it seems very convinced he is now talking to the college that is his colleague commissioners to propose make a proposal in due course this is what a spokesperson from the european commission told me and then they will take it from there and yes they do take that pole very seriously a lot of responses came from germany and so not fully representative at the at that point it's over proportionate participation of germans but everyone in the whole european union participated all countries represented in the speaker's poll ever and so they do take it very seriously and they want to live or what the people in europe want. so what are the implications of scrapping the time change i mean it's been in place for a long time this is a significant change. well summertime all year round in europe will have some some significant changes and the proponents of the summer time who are also the people

in that survey they also voted in favor of keeping the summertime rather than the wintertime the advantages of that would be extra daylight in the evening so there are some arguments about traffic reducing traffic accidents there are some arguments about health factors particularly finland has appealed to the european union now for a number of years that they need extra day late in the evening hours rather then a little bit more daylight in the early morning hours and so don't put junker has heard all these arguments and here is what he had to say. euston doesn't have patient problem now it's up to the number states and the european parliament to take action the european parliament has been heading in this direction for years anyway it will happen and there's no sense in asking people and once they respond disregarding their response behaving as if it weren't put on records of little people wanted to will do it as for muslims so what are the next steps are we know that john clarke junco wants to go ahead with this there will be

a proposal how soon could europe stop switching between winter and summer time. well in two months we'll switch into winter time and i think they won't make that deadline but what they what the process now for sees is that the proposal of the commission will go to the european parliament there it's already clear there is a big majority for ditching this this unnecessary time change as lawmakers there see it and then it will go to the council and the only thing i can see that could really stop it is the big question if a number of member states would say we would like to keep the winter time and a number of member states would say we'd like to keep the summer time all it looks like agree that they would like to do the change that could be an argument to say that's let's leave it there it's only causes confusion in europe but we'll have to see that it looks like there is a majority for the summer time. thank you so much for now brussels correspondent matters there talking to us from brussels. now about

a thousand far right protesters have staged another demonstration in the eastern german city of canute's police say the rally was tense but not threatening or marked by violence like a protest earlier this week at a nearby venue politicians met with local residents some of them saying officials are out of touch for. the. get lost they chant. demonstrators are out in force again in ten minutes they're protesting against the town hall meeting with saxony state from e n but some in this east german city want to engage with him. it's most important of all dockyard small i want to talk to him about my feeling that many politicians don't know anything about their citizens anymore and don't know what's going on i saw a report that he was shocked by what's happening here about how cannot be up if he is our state premier management is the president and that. the fatal stabbing of

a german citizen over the weekend sparked violent anti immigration protests and what appeared to be vigilante attacks on people believed to be foreigners the authorities are also investigating several protesters for making the hitler salute . then an arrest warrant was late apparently by a law enforcement officer the man has since been suspended from jussi a federal state in crisis the leader in saxony pleading to his citizens to be courageous. and they should learn what countries we want to live in. the rule of law and democracy still the pillars of our peaceful life together. i'm standing up for that i'm fighting for that and i'm asking you all to join me. everybody is needed now to take responsibility and to get involved with the mission for now kim needs. the state of sex and the remain on age for the protests by right

wing groups planned for later in the week. our political correspondent nina is following this story for us and joins me now in the studio nina the events in kemet have forced a discussion about right wing extremism and neo nazis in germany but there are also a lot of citizens in germany who say they don't identify with the far right but they're simply concerned about migrant violence do they have a point that is the big challenge for the politicians these days to walk this tightrope walk they have to address both problems and of course you know in the refugee crisis in two thousand and fifteen lots of foreigners came to germany they came to places where there was never a big sarah foreigners in the first place so many people are just scared the city is changed there are young male unemployed people in the streets because we don't have an immigration lawyer yet and so many people are just concerned what does this

mean for a country statistics show that young males are more prone to violence than other social groups but then if you look at the figures actually the crime rate in germany is at its lowest level for thirty years and actually migrant crime has gone down it went down by twenty three percent from twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen so after they saw the influx of foreigners so politicians really have to get this message across or else they'll lose these people for we talked further i just want to bring in a clip here a very famous clip from exactly three years ago today. i say quite simply germany is a strong country and our approach has to be that we've achieved so much we can do this. so we can do this and whenever we encounter obstacles they will be overcome and it will be dealt with on the government will do everything in its power along with the local and regional governments to do

precisely that. they're shuffling us we can do this chancellor merkel three years ago today an iconic statement from the chancellor there has come it's proven her wrong you know well i believe that chemistry is just the latest low point in a string of events where the political debate has shifted it went from a welcoming culture in twenty fifteen where they statement was made where the german society showed itself as being a very liberal openminded off was offering to give shelter to all those refugees coming to northern europe and then lots of small incidents started happening and every single migrant crime case was covered extensively by the german media and that also started shifting the debate in favor of the anti immigrant party of the party and so if you've got this shifted the debate then ungrammatical is losing her narrative lots of small initiatives on the ground are saying we felt left alone we

didn't know how to counteract this we need more support from the national government and this is something that i believe and go back and the government have understood that this is high time that they're showing more support to pro-democracy groups on the ground or else they lose the narrative entirely to the f.t. which is already the strongest opposition party on the national level you know thank you so much to do for you political correspondent nina. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world today and australian filmmaker who flew a drone over an opposition party rally in cambodia has been jailed for six years james ricketson was arrested last june and charged with espionage the rest came to a wider crackdown on freedom of expression by prime minister hun sen's government. in australia the catholic church has rejected a recommendation that priests break the secrecy of compassion to report child abuse

and inquiry found that thousands of children have been sexually abused between one hundred sixty in two thousand and fifteen sixty five percent of them in church run institutions leading catholic clerics have vowed to end a history of cover ups. and ugandan pop star turned politician opposition politician i should say bobby wine has reportedly been stopped from leaving the country after being rearrested and to international airport is lawyer says wine was heading abroad to seek treatment for torture injuries allegations that wine was tortured during an earlier detention prompted widespread protests. at the funeral of soul i call on the wreath of franklin will take place in detroit later today among those expected to attend former u.s. president bill clinton and musical celebrities like stevie wonder and smokey robinson the seventy six year old died of cancer earlier this month after

a career spanning more than six decades. they sing for a recent franklin a homecoming song for the queen of soul mourning and paying tribute to franklin in her hometown of detroit. she would be deeply honored and appreciate the fact that people for treating her ford out of every test of the new ruling preppers this city and country to travel long miles to recognize her genius. thousands lined up for the free concert organized by the singer's family their fire inside to franklin's grandchildren took to the stage to think the crowd and it's heartwarming to see all the love and all the support that you guys gave us and i just want to say thank you and that we appreciate you so much from the bottom of our hearts.

franklin's sister in song patti labelle also paid her respects my roof. oh. oh my. for her fans it was a final sendoff for the queen of soul. i think she added something. in her life she brought something in her death she brought something she brought us together she was me feeling she needs me so she lifts me up when i'm down rest or serious to. franklin civil rights work and uplifting anthems made her a symbol for african-americans. her absence will be felt but her legacy will be kept alive here in detroit.

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