when paul came over the scene from cameroon to berlin and starts october fourth on d w. this is the don't be news live from berlin germany is governing coalition partners reach a new deal on the fate of the country's embattled domestic intelligence chief hans guild mohsen will be made a special advisor to the interior minister with the same pay as before instead of getting a promotion and dream school called political editor what it means for chancellor merkel government also on the program whole process based tribute to victims of

oppression in the baltic countries to live the way he wanted all those who suffered under the feet and soviet occupation. plus a precarious homecoming after years in lebanon it's now safe enough for some syrian refugees to return home to see how one family struggling to rebuild lives interrupted by fears of. money thank you for your company the leaders of germany's governing coalition have reached a deal over the future of the country's domestic intelligence chief last week there were calls for hans your boss and to be sacked after he apparently don played me sent on to my bank violence he was removed from his post and then set to get a promotion in the interior ministry that sparked widespread public anger prompting

new negotiations here's what interior minister wholesale hole five told the press a while ago. yes you presidents the current president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. will henceforth serve as a special advisor to be interior minister with the rank of department head there he'll be responsible for european and international matters. political editor mccain has been following that story for us and joins me in the studio it's good to see you so we've just heard lawson will join the interior minister but no pay raise for him is this enough to silence the critics was and i'm not sure that will silence the critics but it goes some way to at least sending the message that one has to listen to people who are outraged that somebody who openly contradicted the chance that the head of a domestic intelligence agency who started playing politics really by making statements that really one 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 will fuss and 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 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 michael's political brand is stability and the governing coalition that she's been heading so far with the old 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 actually regional politics that turned to hear a minister from this c.s.u. 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 i'm going to machall power has been weakened throughout this process this is something that we're also hearing from her european partners. with the very latest in the moving parts of this episode thank you both francis has confronted head on the atrocities committed during the nazi and then soviet union soviet occupations of lithuania francis is on a tour of the baltic states as lithuania latvia and estonia mark 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 lithuania as 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 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.

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. last night yes this is important. it's shameful that in the world 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 pray 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 boat on the what's in the. and then sexually held the fourth wall of freedom and especially the catholicism as a christianity it actually helped us. to fight against the soviet regime and. the pope leaves lithuania for a lot thea 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 fun 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 my

group crisis swept 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 to be able 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 vilnius jewish ghetto memorial and the former soviet k.g.b. headquarters the occupations 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 its variants participated in the extermination of the jews that 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 the leaders of the jewish community only twenty have called a day when seventy five years ago the vilnius get over was destroyed by the nazis and then the occupation museum which is very important for the twenty of history because of the proper century of serbia talkee patient 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 dazed 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 your actual experience that is lethal any and. to accommodate new trends new people minorities and people who suffer so she was very much in say oh 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 desh legal has a cover story headlined not to lie attacking the pope's handling of the abuse crisis of course constantine is this trip taking attention away from that scandal. very much that i think of for the book 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 withdrew twenty five deliberate more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church is that yours is 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 exit in vilnius lithuania thank you and let's now look

at some of the other stories making headlines this hour the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammed so he is claiming victory in the country's presidential election for provisional results gave him more than fifty percent of the vote handing him a surprise we knowing come vent a do not young mean guy whom his first time in office was mobbed by a crackdown against a sentence. indian prime minister narendra modi has launched a new health insurance scheme the promise is free coverage for half a billion of the country's poorest citizens the launch of the so-called more de camp program comes ahead of national elections next year critics have questioned how the government will fund the one point six billion dollars scheme now even as the syrian government to pass to take the last major rebel stronghold of there are signs the country's civil war could be entering its final stages the war has driven hundreds of thousands of syrians to seek refuge in neighboring lebanon often for

years now beirut wants them to return home to areas that have been deemed safe for one returning syrian family the last five years have been a struggle on both sides of the border. the small village of beit din near the lebanese border is home to mechanic mohamed al buckeye he returned to just a month ago he was forced to leave in two thousand and thirteen when fighting broke out between the syrian army and the opposition. but when we left because of the armed groups my wife my children and i were able to escape when i opened the garridge in lebanon on the floor. at least baccarat and his son malik found work in lebanon on many syrians don't the country is small and expensive syrians there also usually earn significantly less than the locals.

it was tough we couldn't really live in lebanon comfortably we decided to come back but i know that. the high cost of living and the low wages weren't the only reasons they left eleven on after five long years. most people respected us but some kept telling us you're taking away our work in the form of. his former house was badly damaged during the war now his family has to live in rented accommodation but they aren't complaining so it's a wonderful feeling i can't explain it now we are here again in my village after all the tap and this is still my home if you travel or forced to flee as a refugee there's only one place you can call home. but just eleven years of age their daughter has lived almost half her life in lebanon now she's starting a new adventure joining classes at the local schools. on the first day of

school i was really happy that i knew friends at school different friends than those i had in lebanon. from our college it's not an easy restart he doesn't know who damaged his former house whether syrian government forces or rebel fighters for mohamed it's an important he's looking to the future. it's difficult to see my house like this but we're determined to rebuild it despite everything we're in god's hands and god willing and you house will stand here in the coming year. along with others who have returned mohammed wants to bring life back to the village he once again calls home. the bundesliga show is coming up after the break former pro goalkeeper. is all guest the hoffenheim head of international relations will have lots to say about the controversial ban a unfurled by fans

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