i name is elizabeth and i work at studio. this is the w. news line from barely germany's governing coalition partners reach a new deal on the fate of the country's embattled domestic intelligence chief killed months and will be made a special advisor to be interior minister with the same pay as before instead of getting a promotion and brain to ask our political editor what it only means for chancellor merkel's government also in the program. pope francis pays tribute to victims of

oppression in the baltic countries in lithuania if he wanted all those who suffered under the nazi and still be its population. i made a few money welcome to the program the leaders of germany's governing coalition have reached a deal over the future of the country's domestic intel is the intelligence chief last week there were calls for has field mohsen to be sacked after he apparently downplayed recent anti migrant violence he was removed from his post and then said to get a promotion and being to be a ministry that sparked widespread public anger promoting new negotiations. here's what interior minister hosts the hole for told the press a short while ago. it's a good president as the current president of the federal office for the protection

of the constitution. will henceforth serve as a special advisor to the interior minister with the rank of department head there he will be responsible for european and international matters. our chief political editor mckay local snow has been following that story for us and she now joins me in the studio it's good to see you so we've just heard last and will join the interior minister but no piranhas for him is this enough to silence the critics was certainly and i'm not sure that will silence the critics but it goes some way to at least sending the message that one has listened to people who were outraged that somebody who openly contradicted the chancellor the head of a domestic intelligence agency who started playing politics really by making statements that really weren't backed up by facts that he produced later on would then be moved sideways or upwards through a promotion but it also shows how poisonous really the situation currently is in the governing coalition because one thing that hospital for us it said today as

well is that at no point in time was there any danger for the governing coalition with the social democrats and nobody around the table ever threatened with this which raises the question why did we all bother talking about this for a whole week and so why has this episode surrounding the domestic spy chief spot so much outrage here in germany because it's a symptom of the condition in which the governing coalition finds itself on monday it will be one year since the general elections here in germany it took six months to get a government up and running i'm going to political brand is stability and the governing coalition that she's been heading so far with the old and new part is around the table has been anything but stable in fact we've seen yet again this governing coalition being taken to the brink over what really should be stuffing issue that should never even reach the international press and this is all about domestic what actually regional politics that turn to or minister from this year's you sister

party in bavaria is playing right now who may well face his doomsday come those elections because his own party is suffering in the polls so we'll still see kind of a lot of movement and this is something that highlights that's going to machall power has been weakened throughout this process this is something that we're also hearing from the european partners. with the very latest in the moving parts of this episode thank you. but francis has confronted head on the atrocities committed during the nazi and then soviet occupation of lithuania francis is on a tour of the baltic states as lee through a knee a lot via and stony a mach one hundred years since winning independence from russia his message to the faithful remember the suffering as a way to guard against hate in today's political landscape. as many as one hundred thousand people attended pope francis's mass and count us a huge turnout but that's less than half the number of that the way is jews

murdered in the holocaust lithuania uses this day when seventy five years ago the nazis fully liquidated the ghetto in the capital vilnius to remember that destruction it was the pope's moment to remind a country now eighty percent catholic of the dangers of forgetting the murder of more than two hundred thousand jews but. let us think back on those times it and ask the lord to give us the benefit of hindsight to prevent the return of the resurgent attitude. we must remove any with of anti-semitism among those who did not experience the holocaust and can therefore be seduced. because. the pope prayed silently at the vilnius ghetto memorial and met members of lithuania's existing jewish community today numbering about three thousand one woman who survived the ghettos liquidation now ninety six years old

was there and left me if this is important it's shameful that in the well today there are people who say the holocaust is a lie that there were no ghettos and no such thing happened but what is most important is that the pope came here in prayer and it shows that he supports us morally no no no that's the idea that. pope francis then toward a former k.g.b. prison in vilnius it's now a museum documenting the hundreds of lithuanians who were murdered there and thousands more including many priests shipped to forced labor camps in siberia the soviets for a decade occupation is still fresh for many lithuanians. we other but oleg's and we really appreciate that then shown on the pope on the what's in the. bandon such an e. before thought of freedom and especially the whole it isn't as a christianity it actually helped us. to fight against the soviet regime

and. the pope leaves lithuania for a lot and estonia. fewer catholics live there but the pope hopes his message to remember will still resonate. and for more on the pope's style of the baltics correspondent constantine fine agathe now joins us from of illness so constantine the pope called on people to keep a watchful eye on them but was he aiming his comments beyond just the baltic states well his general message it is was anti-nationalism. exclusivism if you wish so i think that yes this was very much a global message that he repeats very frequently especially since the. major migrant crisis that europe in two thousand and sixteen and he repeated it here in this one year thing is that ethnic minorities in lithuania are rather posed

russians ukrainians basically it's not very combustible stop talking about tensions but generally the message was very clear and of course it was intended for a wider audience than just the baltic countries so global message but very targeted visits pope francis made a stop at the various jewish ghetto mario and the former soviet k.g.b. headquarters the occupation's museum how important were those visits for lithuanians. both are very important because the story of the holocaust and its many has its dark sides because some of these variants but it's a page in the extermination of the jews of this is something that the country still continues to tackle i'd say compared to some other countries pretty well but still this is a reminder and of course the pope was joined by leaders of the jewish community only twenty have called a day when seventy five years ago the vision is get over was destroyed by the nazis

and then the occupation is in which is very important for the twenty of history because of the proper century of soviet occupation that both visited the execution chamber there and the chambre rather the sale where the bishops of the lithuanian catholic church which was also pretty much destroyed in the saudi days were kept by the k.g.b. and the message he delivered after that was very much about also diversity being able to overcome and use you know actual experience as least many and. to accommodate new trends new people minorities and people who suffer so she was very much and stay on message delivering that over and over and over again during all these two days in this writing i want to shift focus now to the catholic church sex abuse scandal the german influence the german influential magazine beagle has a cover story headlined not to lie attacking the pope's handling of the abuse

crisis of course a constant thing is this trip taking attention away from that scandal. oh very much so i think of for the pope it's rather like education from this scandal it did not attract a lot of attention in the baltic states until it's ready which is a seventy five percent catholic because the catholic church is the usual recreate its yeah after the soviet union with twenty five deliberate more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church institutions here so i think that's very much for the pope this trip was a real exception and it turned away from this scandal. correspondent constantine for an egg in vilnius lithuania thank you and. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammad saudi is claiming victory in the country's presidential election local media said official results showed he had scored an upset win over

president of do and i am being. his first time in office was mobbed by a crackdown against a sentence. by the indian prime minister narendra modi has launched a new health insurance scheme the promises pre coverage for half a billion of the country's poorest citizens the launch of the so-called more program comes ahead of national elections next year critics have questioned how the government will fund the one point six billion dollars. serious voters have rejected two proposals aimed at protecting farmers and promoting ethical and sustainable food voters appear to be put off by concerns about the cost and governmental position to the so-called fair food initiative the government argued the proposal could limit choice raise prices and endanger trade agreements. britain's opposition labor party has kicked off its annual conference with calls

for a second brags that referendum set to dominate the gathering party leader jeremy corbyn is now signaling that he'd back another vote if that's what the rank and file decide that could raise of pressure on prime minister to resign mayor whose own blueprint on leaving the e.u. has reached an all. the pressure is growing on labour's leadership even before the party conference in liverpool officially got underway voices were growing louder demanding a second brecht's that referendum. many members argue voters should once again have their say on whether or how their country should leave the you. eighty three percent of the home the idea of a people's votes the party has to listen to its members nobody voted to be poor nobody voted for food prices to go up sixteen percent jeremy corbin who has his own reservations about the e.u. favor snap elections to replace to reason may as prime minister the issue is set to

dominate the conference agenda and labor commitment to a possible second breaks that referendum could put may under further pressure zoids preference would be for a general election and we can only go shake our future relationships with europe but let's see what comes out of congress were democratic party very big because congress who have had to resign may is already under huge strain after the recent salzberg summit the times newspaper even claims that downing street is making contingency plans for possible snap elections with the conservatives leading labor in the polls may break that minister denies this is a gesture i think what we need to do is hold on keep all call continue to negotiate in good faith and really press the e.u. to be clearer on what their objections are for now all eyes are on labor with the conservatives convention following next weekend many conservatives are urging me to change course and pursue

a hard break that. the bundesliga show is coming up after the break and former pro goalkeeper lutes fun issue is our guest the hoffenheim head of international relations will have lots to say about the controversial ban unfurled by doctrine fans of hoffenheim on saturday also bring you the highlights of sunday's games including laver cruz's bid for their first point of the season against mine that's all coming up very very soon. or you're watching live from berlin we'll have more at the top of the hour for now we leave you with these images from a kite festival here in the german capital this weekend. but

a little bit of. a contentious figure at home. here in germany. gorbachev was one of the great heroes of the twentieth century. mikhail gorbachev the last leader of the soviet union was an agent of change.

who quickly met his downfall. i had decided to resign my duties as president of the soviet union. even.