this week. news line from britney and kevin its faces another round of rival protests the left and right wing staged dueling rallies in the eastern german city this follows a wave of unrest sparked by a fatal stabbing allegedly committed by migrants look at the latest from our correspondent. and former u.s. president george w. bush and barack obama paid tribute to the late senator john mccain they say the man

they both defeated to win the white house may both of them that the president. you think you for joining us thousands of protesters have been taking part in rival demonstrations in the eastern german city. over the last few hours far right groups including germany's largest opposition party the anti migration. silence this evening come to demonstrators have already been gathering in the city. broke out at demonstrations earlier in the week spock by a stabbing of a german man two suspects syrian man and an iraqi were arrested in connection with the killing. let's now bring in correspondent seana chill some people who is in kenneth social demonstrations from both sides of

the divide can you tell us what the situation is like at the moment. yes there are thousands of people gathered here behind me the protest here has been organized by the right wing f d party and the anti islam biggie to movement now the people here who have gathered say that they want to march in silence they say in memory of the man who lost his life on saturday evening the killing that sponsored days of protests they say that they're also here to remember what they called the victims of anger the medical the german chancellor's refugee policy if you look just behind me perhaps you can see the faces of some of those that they say are the victims of this policy no less than a kilometer away just in front of me there is a counter protest there several people thousand people gathered there as well they say that their message is that this these images don't present the whole of kenya's they say there are people here in kenya in the state of saxony they feel that refugees are still welcome not just here but in the whole of germany so shallow two

very large groups of people kill you very divided over this issue is a police prepared to deal with any violence should that be the case. there are a lot of police on the streets tonight not just riot police there are also horses police horses here we've seen water cannons is while they all trying to keep the two sides apart we've seen some scuffles very minor scuffles here so far the police have been very quick to me that is quite a different picture from what we saw on monday night where police came under fire for not being totally prepared to deal with the numbers of people that came to the streets of candidates tonight though we've got police from around the country making sure that it remains calm here and we don't see a repeat of the scenes on monday nights now the a.f.d. party that organized this rally here they've put out on their facebook page that they want this to remain calm and to remain peaceful but we'll see what unfolds over the coming hours earlier i know shot of the two at the counter demonstration

so what is the message from both of these protesters. we were at the counter demonstration. yes they said that they don't want this image these the nazi salutes that was seen on monday evening being the images that come here from kennett so but of course on the other side you have people who want to represent their concerns what they say are legitimate concerns about angle america's migration policy is worth pointing out that here in saxony last year in the national elections the a.f.d. party came out is the strongest party so there is a very deep concern here in saxony about the influx of migrants into this region shallow tell some people joining us from candidates thank you. so as a demonstration and counter demonstration goes underway in chemist's it is across germany a holding public events to mock different occasion world peace state it was created

in one thousand nine hundred sixty six to mark the day now seventy nine years ago when nazi germany invaded poland sparking the second world war in the studio to talk with me as you report to i mean a sifu has been following the story for us thank you for joining us in studio thank you so i mean the hash tag create a stag welt piece stage german is trending on twitter a was what were they saying what was the message yeah that's right it's trending in germany and it's has a lot to do with the fact that people are pointing out an irony that they see here that you have churches across the country giving speeches giving sermons about tolerance remembering world war two seventy nine years ago today you have bike rallies for peace and things like this meanwhile in ten minutes you have special police forces guarding turkish an arab markets on the streets to protect them from possible window getting their windows smashed by far right demonstrators so people

are pointing out that it's perhaps ironic that these two things are coinciding today listen to look what people said on twitter yes we have one twitter user luke is he says it's quite coincidental that both to get it now that's the anti muslim anti immigrant movement and the right wing party are calling for another race this demonstration on a day that could not be more symbolic there's another tweet here for you this is. if we can have the next tweet this is. a politician of berlin politician from the left party says seventy nine years ago today fascist germany invaded poland and began the second world war antiwar day and world peace day is an opportunity to reflect on where racism anti-semitism and militarism lead to so really making that connection between racism and what happened before world war two and germany not. not all demonstrators who are out on the streets today in ten minutes identify with the far right even or not neo nazi ism they see that they're out there too. because

of the murders that happened but a lot of people on twitter making the connection between world peace day and the demonstrations basically that look at what happened in nazi germany with using an ethnic group as a scapegoat and so that's the conversation that's happening right now i mean to say thank you so much for that definitely leaving us much to think about thank you let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world a massive explosion at a south and german oil refinery has left at least ten people injured by officers managed to get in suing the blaze under control but smoke forced the temporary evacuation of around two thousand local residents authorities say they don't know what caused the blast. a giant balloon resembling a bikini clad said dick has been shown has been flown in london as part of a campaign to oust the mayor organizers raise some sixty five thousand euros for

the stunt it comes after and defended the flying of a similar blue depicting u.s. president donald trump during his visit. talks between the u.s. and canada to amend the north american free trade agreement have stalled up to four days of negotiations the countries remain divided over access to canada's dairy markets and medical patents auto hopes to sign on to the u.s. and mexico's revised accord talks are set to resume on wednesday. a moral service for the late us republican senator john mccain has been held at the national cathedral in washington d.c. a vietnam veteran mccain died last week eighty one to battling brain cancer among those who spoke at the service were former president barack obama and george w. bush both of whom defeated mccain in the race for the white house president donald trump who had a bitter feud with mccain was not invited to attend so that service obama

delivered a unity for mccain where he praised his lifelong commitment to serving the american people by his own account john was a rebellious young man in his case that's understandable what faster way to distinguish yourself when you're the son and grandson of admirals and to munich. eventually though he concluded that the only way to really make. his mark on the world is to commit to something bigger than yourself and for john that man answering. the highest of cops. serving his country in a time of war. correspondent alexandra phenomena is outside washington national cathedral where the service took place and she joins us alexandra we just heard president obama praising mccain's service can you tell us what else stood out for you during this memorial. i would say that it was

a very moving soul and the world script ceremony here in the national cathedral that once again showed how much respect and admired john mccain was by many here we heard from former president barak obama praising the late senator for his willingness to reach across the political aisle for the values he stood for values that transcend party lines we also heard from former president george w. bush who praised john mccain for his decency and courage and also said that he was very often frustrated by wards to president i'm sorry the senator had to say that that's made him a better person and we of course heard from meghan mccain mccain store to.

pay tribute to her father in a very personal and emotional way and let's pick up exactly that listening to just a little bit of what meghan mccain had to say. the america john mccain is generous and welcoming and bold she is resourceful confident secure. she meets her responsibilities she speaks quietly because she is strong america does not boast because she has no need to. the america john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. thank you alexandra clearly a message to president trump and his support to. yes indeed i would say that it was a message to president trump who by the way was tweeting during the memorial about

trade deals and the russian investigation as you know john mccain was one of the fiercest critics in the republican party of the president he's daughter was very critical of the president as well and the fact that john mccain explicitly asked former president obama and george w. bush actually political rivals in the two thousand g.o.p. primaries or in the case of obama of course and in the two thousand a general election so the fact that he asked them to speak here today and that he explicitly asked president not to attend this so room when he spoke to he steve and he party for the president who still continued to disrespect john mccain even as he knew you were. right so alexander we've heard a lot of high profile voices but what do ordinary americans in washington think

about john mccain how do they remember him. when you ask people here in d.c. what they think about john mccain they would always tell you we respect team he was a war hero he was a maverick someone who fought for what he believed in and of course he was one of the most influential political figures of his generation and i was in phoenix arizona his home state if you go and what i even found more interesting was to speak to his close friends here who would tell you that he will be missing his sense of humor and that he actually was. easy to get along with an eccentric phenomenon with their very latest from washington thank you. football now unfolds bugg have continued to surprisingly strong start to the season

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and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. rival the left and right wing rallies are being held in the eastern german city of. the city has come international focus amid a wave of unrest that followed a fatal stabbing allegedly committed by michel. you're watching live from berlin at the top of the hour thank you for. environmental. human rights to strangers.