when paul came over the city from cameroon to berlin starts october fourth on d. w. . this is the 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 joke mohsen will be made a special advisor to the syria minister of the same thing as before instead of getting a promotion and dreams. what it only it's a chance in america and also on the program for pope francis create

a tribute to victims of oppression in the baltic countries in lithuania not all those who suffered under the nazi and soviet occupation plus the carious homecoming of two years eleven on it's now safe enough for some syrian refugees to return home we'll see how one family is struggling to rebuild lives interrupted by a. welcome to the program the leaders of the violence had led to speculation about the very future of chancellor angela merkel's government. minister who refused to fire mohsen informed waiting journalism diovan the future of germany's soon to be former domestic intelligence chief failure to give presidents the current president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution hong scaled masson will

henceforth serve a special advisor to the interior minister with the rank of department head there he will be responsible for european and international matters. internazionale. said . last week there were calls for hans-georg masson to be sacked after he apparently downplayed recent violence in the city of chemist's he was to be removed from his post and then set to get a promotion in the interior ministry that sparked widespread public anger prompting communal goshi ations between i'm going to merkel c.d.u. they're both very and sister party c.s.u. led by hostile and the social democrats s.p.d. leader andrea novice gave her reaction in berlin following the whole fiz and then cement through. i have spoken again with the c.d.u. and c.s.u. leaders and i think that it's

a very good sign that if we took the criticism of our decision on tuesday seriously and could resolve it i would like to thank i'm going to call and horse a horse for taking up my initiative. an initiative that in theory at least should spell the end of the massive crisis and help lift the latest cloud over i'm going to merkel's government. our chief political editor make a local for 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 lawson will join the interior minister but no paris 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 the 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 the 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 back off political brand is stability and the governing coalition that she's been heading so far with the old and new partners around the table has been anything. stable in fact we see yet again this governing coalition being taken to the brink over what really should be

a stuffing issue that should never even reach the international press and this is all about domestic actually regional politics that turn tira 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 a kind of a lot of movement and this is something that highlights that i'm going to michael's 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 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 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 and ask the lord to give us the benefit of hindsight. to prevent the return of that 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 and left me if 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 and prayed it shows that he supports us morally you know. this 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. and we really appreciate that then shown on the pope on the what the congo. our

independence actually held the fourth wall of freedom and especially catholicism as a christianity it actually helped us. to fight against the soviet regime and. the pope leaves lithuania for a lot and a stone. fewer catholics live there but the pope hopes his message to remember will still resonate. let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammed is claiming victory in the country's presidential election local media said official results showed he had scored an upset win over president of. its first term in office was marred by a crackdown against dissenters. indian prime minister narendra modi has launched a new health insurance scheme that promises free coverage for half

a billion of the country's poorest citizens the launch of the so-called more dickhead program comes ahead of national elections next year critics have questioned how the government will fund the one point six billion dollars scheme which an australian filmmaker who was jailed in cambodia on espionage charges has arrived back in sydney sixty nine year old james ricketson was granted a royal pardon last week and deported after his release from jail now can body has come under international fire for an increasingly authoritarian stance on free speech and the media the monitor group human rights watch slammed the filmmakers trial as a ludicrous charade. at the end of a nightmare. james ricketson expressed his relief upon arrival in sydney. this lot of things. are necessary for my family to get to some of his birthday right now that supported me enormously that i get things without the hope i don't

go to hear. the astray and filmmaker was facing six years in prison on espionage charges. being detained with i bailed since june twenty seventh seen after flying a drone to photograph a rally by cambodia's then the main opposition party. was well. rickets ins arrest came as prime minister hun sen stepped up a crackdown on critics and political rivals. hun's party won a landslide victory in a july election that political observers said was deeply flawed phnom penh relations with the international community have been increasingly strange with the e.u. calling for all charges against opposition officials and activists to be dropped in

recent weeks several political prisoners have been released ricketson who received a royal pardon has always insisted he had no political agenda. my relationship with them has been a trip but with this basically and what has happened in the us if they know most if they might see this kind of like a lot this part. of it is that you know despite his ordeal crickets and love affair with combo dia isn't over he is determined to get back to work in the country he loved so dearly but first some time at home in australia to recover. in. even as the syrian government prepares to retake the last major rebel stronghold of live 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 are 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 shean 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 point fighting broke out between the syrian army and the opposition. we left because of the armed groups my wife my children and i were able to escape when i opened a garridge in lebanon. at least buckeye 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. 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 that is happening 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 lebannon 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

a homage 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 mohamed wants to bring life back to the village he once again calls home. golf a tiger woods has roared back into form with his first on my victory in five. back injuries and personal problems have dogged the american for several seasons but he comfortably won the tour championship in atlanta by two shots on sunday his confidence boosting win comes at the perfect time for the u.s. for the ryder cup against europe starting on friday well the bundesliga show is

coming up after this short break however thank you for. coming. out to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized fairly early.