this is. from berlin tonight an attempt to change the tone and turn down the volume over migration in germany. after anti migrant protests shook the eastern city of candidates last week tens of thousands attended a concert against racism and neo nazi volumes also coming up global condemnation for me and mars attack on freedom of the press today

a judge sentenced to international journalists to prison for their reporting on what the u.n. calls the ethnic cleansing of the minority and hundreds of years of history up in flames a massive fire sweeps through brazil's national museum the president has called it an encounter loss critics say the blaze could have been prevented. it's good to have you with us it is a monday but it's very different from just one week ago tonight tens of thousands of people turned down for an anti-racism concert in the eastern german city of chemist's now this just a week after a violent protests that were triggered when two asylum seekers allegedly stabbing german man to death on tonight's concert against racism attracted an estimated

sixty five thousand people. you. may have there are more of us that was the motto of the candidates concept as liberal germans responded to calls to stand up against far right racism before it started there was a minute of silence for the thirty five year old whose fatal stabbing unleashed last week's anti immigrant protests. he thought. the mood was peaceful albeit with a clear message to the racist mobs who've shocked the country with thousands chanting nazis out. i. think. this is absolutely fantastic because the people of chemist's we have to show that our city is colorful open to everyone and that we have no sympathy for what's happened here in recent days. and that. this

particular shares are just we're not a far right city the majority of the population is totally normal democratically civilised but not far right for god's sake we don't want that we don't want such people you know to watch ok. several well known german bands performed in chemists including local group comes close the driving force behind the concert is the group singer explained at a press conference earlier. today asking to start after all this rubbish happened we called friends on tuesday evening and asked them if they would join us for the concert. from. within twelve to twenty four hours everyone had said yes everyone was just getting in touch with everyone else and then all these people here agreed to join the concert and gets in with them starts in the lead singer of one of germany's most popular rock groups to toward an hors and explained his motive for taking pot. business it's essential that we're clear that this is not

about a fight between left and right everybody who's in any way decent and it doesn't matter what political beliefs you have should oppose a radical right wing mall that attacks people it's also a good fish but. few people at the candidates concert would disagree with that their city put on a different face on monday with thousands united in a fun loving show of music and tolerance. we use when the fear is in commission joins us now from the concert going evening to you linda it looks like the show has is wrapped up i mean the scene there dramatically different from what we saw in kevin it's one week ago do you think that the message on stage today do you think it got through to the people. yes definitely for the people that went to the concert definitely definitely yes there were fifty thousand people here and they organize this actually talked about

more than this they say they talk about seventy thousand people so this is really something nobody expected that here. to the other people i think to the rest of the cabinets enough been talking to these people over the last couple of days the message probably is another the message is we are against racism we are against you so you know there's two sides of candidates still that we experienced here but tonight this has been very peaceful this has been a strong and very loud statement against racism. and you know if we look right behind you where your nell standing that was the scene of far right violence when we could go talk to me a little bit about the potential for more conflict that encampment. very hard to tell of course to predict the future but i think not all can come this people were here tonight and of course many have their doubts many have their their

fears for security in the cities there and some part of these people what we have seen are right wing extremists and this fear that people have they taking it and putting it into this protest we have seen and some of these protests are very violent so yes the potential is still there and actually through the post protest here. this protest from the right wing side won't go away either this is what we've been seeing and the people i've talked to actually said you know we don't see us there you media calling us nazis and we are not so this is the big problem people here they don't see themselves and what we are calling them maybe because they have a different view of it and they're not listening. let's say the media then on this ning to the politicians and any more and this is the big problem to democracy i would say the big question in the has this concert changed anything i mean will be

a different place tomorrow morning. i think it gave great hope to the initiatives that have been very active in fighting the right wing extremism for many many years they didn't have much support before now but the attention is on chemist's many politicians have looked that way we've actually heard a couple of different sounds also from the state premier of saxony that never been very active in fighting right wing extremism i think many of these politicians have actually understood that there is a problem here and that they have to stand up loud to fight it so yes it has changed but of course a concert unknown won't change the world it's exactly what the musician said here just a little while ago and it's right you can try to change the tone it's hard to change the to our correspondent linda fear tonight in the eastern german city of kim linda thank you will across the other side of germany from kim it's

a juvenile court has sentenced a fifteen year old asylum seeker to eight and i have years for murder he stabbed his former girlfriend last december after she and her father filed police complaint he was still in germany although his son with an application had been rejected. the small german city of congo was unknown to most people until last december. that's when a teenage girl was stepped in front of a local drugstore her boyfriend a young immigrant was the suspect what followed was a situation not unlike that in kemet migration protesters flocked to the small western german town from all parts of the country back then the poster stated cundall is everywhere the goal was to utilize the tragedy for right wing propaganda . but they were met with resistance the citizens of candle did not want the town to

be utilized and with the help of the state government they staged counter protests . is not nazi brown it's colorful and diverse we have an open society and absolutely no reason to instrumentalists this tragedy for right wing thinking. but then the counter protesters were targeted local residents like this family were attacked after exhibiting and honey a nazi outside their home police had to protect the family as rightwing hooligans attempted to forcefully enter the house you know i did miss out on one sack under him for these people are abusing our towns. they have reasons for doing this but the real reasons are defrayed. ones in country they shut us down effectively we have to hide in our houses all day because it's too dangerous to take our children outside. even after today's verdict their ordeal isn't over for condo right wing protest as have already decided to march again.

well according to me and more today sentenced to international journalist just seven years in prison they were convicted for possession of classified documents the reporters deny the charges they say they were framed by police to stop their investigation into the alleged mass killing of a hinge of muslims by the military. the next seven years in jail for preaching man miles official secrets act or as some would say for simply doing their job while lying on his colleagues but found guilty of illegally possessing confidential documents pacemen have tonight the charge saying that being punished for their posting. is help either but get out of this decision is unfair and one sided it directly threatens our democracy and freedom of the press told us we will continue to fight it. he noted on. the generalists well rested while covering the

military's brutal crackdown on for him to muslims which has prompted some seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh to the international community the case is clear me and must government under increasing pressure over the range a crisis is attempting to silence critical voices these two admirable reporters have already spent more than eight months in prison on false charges designed to silence their reporting and intimidate the press without any evidence of wrongdoing and in the face of compelling evidence of a police set up. the evidence roy has it's referring to the cia a policeman testified that his commander had given an older the documents to be planted on the journalists but the court declined to stop the trial and the policeman in question was thrown in jail in the case of hama and has drawn condemnation from the start

ahead of the verdict journalists and pro-democracy activists took to the streets of young go on to support the report as. they go we do not think that we want the truth that's why journalists who write true news for the people are important. that's why i'm taking part in this rally that. whatever you do. the u.n. and me and i has called for the release of the journalists and reuters says it will do whatever it can to help secure at. that until then it's back to prison for the journalists but lane has already missed the birth of his first child he's never met his still time. but here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a new u.n. report says the proportion of migrants dying as they cross the mediterranean has risen dramatically this year it says there is one death for every eighteen arrivals in europe that's roughly double the figure from last year the un refugee agency says that people smugglers are taking ever greater risks five people have been

killed and more than a dozen injured after a bus crashed into a viaduct in a sturdy office in northern spain four of the injured are in serious condition after the vehicle plowed into a concrete column and split into the driver is reportedly among those badly hurt. a huge fire has ripped through brazil's national museum in rio de janeiro gutting the two hundred year old building it housed a collection of twenty million items including egyptian and greco roman artifacts and the oldest human skull found in the western hemisphere the museum's director calling it a cultural tragedy. history turned to ash. the preserved collection of twenty million items in brazil's national museum in rio de janeiro. almost totally destroyed on sunday night.

museum stuff the following morning coming to terms with what happened. it's a tragedy it is there is a period of mourning we have to go through this period of mourning but we have to think what now it does not help just to cry it's necessary for all the authorities that have the resources specifically the federal government to help the national museum put its history back together now. we've already lost part of our collection brazil cannot lose its history. but as you. brazilians are already asking how this could have happened and who's responsible has been angry protests outside the museum and some say many years of budget cuts are to blame. rio as a city is in crisis government cutbacks rising violence and fewer tourists and this

the country's history up in flames feels to many brazilians like a bad omen. you're watching the w. news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will be back at the top of the hour with more world news. earth. home tunes of species. a home worth saving. here those are big changes and most start with small steps but global ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around.