this is d w news live from berlin poland marks 80 years since the 2nd world war began representatives from dozens of countries joined ceremonies in warsaw and german president. calls the war as a german crime and his nation will never forget also coming up voters go to the polls in eastern germany where the a.f.p. could become the 1st far right party to win a state level election in decades plus in the bundesliga barring munich going off to a bad start against minds of the champions league convert to scrap the when we have

all the highlights coming up. i'm calling aspen welcome to the program dozens of leaders from across the world have joined ceremonies in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war 2 polish president unjaded us said there were still lessons to be learned from that war and his german counterpart from call to steinmeyer described it as a german crime that his nation will never forget. 80 years after the war began the heads of state of poland and germany shake hands. together they remember the crimes that began on september 1st 1939 you may be brought before we pay tribute and we are on our own today all the victims of the 2nd world war were

waiting or were involved are still to that view and with gratitude as we close the hands of the veterans here on pilsudski square in the middle of warsaw was where the saxon palace once stood it was destroyed by the nazis the german president had clear words. peace in. the face who like the german crying. was the history in this case is testimony of that the man. early in the morning the 2 presidents had met in the town of a alone at the exact hour when the german military launched the wars 1st to air raid and the 1st war crime the attack on the militarily insignificant city claim some 1200 civilian lives. involve a loon and later in warsaw president steinmeyer asked for forgiveness from the

polish nation. i found my head in grief before the victims change. things i ask for forgiveness for germany's historical guilt. and. i recognize our enduring responsibility. u.s. vice president mike pence was also among the speakers but russian president vladimir putin was not invited to the ceremony poland's president made reference to russia's 2014 anik sation of crimea and had a message for moscow. anyway sometimes we can see even in your eyes again imperial trends for coming back and how we consider the attempts order is being shifted in europe by force by we are saying that other countries being if they did their land was being taken away and their citizens being kept in bondage the ceremony concluded with the ringing of the bell and from member ins and hopes

that the lessons of the past are not forgotten. i'm joined now by our correspondent simon young who's in warsaw for us simon as we saw very poignant very somber commemorations in poland today what does this anniversary mean to poland after all this time. there call i think if people around the world think about what happened in poland during the 2nd world war they perhaps think of the invasion on the 1st of september $939.00 and perhaps also think of the death camps of particularly auschwitz what they don't think of so much he's the sufferings of the polish civilian population and as you mentioned between 5 and 6000000 poles half of them jews are estimated to have died under the nazi terror so i think

a lot of poles would like the attention sometimes at least to be directed towards places like the alone where the german president was early this morning a little town that had no military significance but it was just wiped out as part of the german military advance and so many other places across poland including here in warsaw were devastated their populations were deported massacred and you know the polish people suffered badly losing perhaps as much of that as a 5th of their population during the 2nd world war so that's what it means when a german president comes here to ask for forgiveness and. simon young in warsaw for us thank you very much. are now to some the other stories making news around the world hong kong has seen a nother day of disruptions as protests demanding greater democracy continued for the 13th consecutive weekend thousands of protesters descended on the city's

international airport blocking roads in an attempt to paralyze the regional travel . hurricane dorian a powerful storm threatening the bahamas and the southeastern coast of us has strengthened into a category 5 storm that's the highest level forecasters warn dorian could be the region's worst storm since hurricane andrew killed 65 people and destroyed 63000 homes in 1902. well millions of voters in eastern german states are casting ballots today with the far right alternative for germany or a.f.d. expected to make big gains until now saxony and brandenburg have been governed by traditional establishment parties chancellor uggla medical's christian democrats and saxony and the social democrats or s.p.d. and brandenburg the latest opinion polls show the a.f.d. is running neck and neck with the ruling as p.d.f.

brandenburg and just a few points behind the christian democrats in santa. we have team coverage of today's election let's go 1st to brandenburg that's where our political correspondent is standing by thomas sparrow is at the f.t. party headquarters in the town of verda thomas. yes carl that's right and it's precisely here where the de or at least many a tea party members will receive the results once they start to come in if you look maybe some of the signs right behind me and they're expecting very good results some of the signs behind we say it's time to stand up because history is being made or you should be here when history is being made and at least the a if he is hoping to become the strongest party right here in brandenburg that is still unclear it is still unclear in particular because as you said they are neck and neck with the social democrats but also because people in this state here in brandenburg tend to decide very late to go to the polls that's at least some of the surveys that were

presented to head of the polls revealed so it is still unclear what the results will be but the i.f.t. right here in brandenburg is at least preparing itself for some big news thomas the a.f. d. has had some momentum now in eastern germany for a few months even years what's behind that strength for the far right party. i would say that it sensually refers to the uncertainty that many people feel here in not only in brandenburg but in the eastern part of germany as a whole that idea that many feel left behind many many fact have described themselves as being 2nd class citizens left behind by traditional parties and that's something that the if he has tapped into that feeling that they are the party that represents the interest of people in the east and those feelings have increased or at least became more evident with the refugee crisis a few years ago where people here felt that too much was being given to refugees and too little to them it's interesting however to say that refugees and migration

in general are not the top topic here in the selection right now people are more interested in issues like infrastructure education and that is something else that the f.t. has been mentioning time and time again did abuse thomas sparrow in brandenburg thank you very much. and now we want to head to saxony that's where did abused brady is standing by she's in saxon his capital city dresden kate. well call the situation here in saxony is certainly looking a lot more close said than it was at least a couple of days ago at least that's according to some opinion polls that came out just a couple of hours ago around midday herin saxony and i love michael's conservative c.d.u. still seem at least to be polling in 1st position at the moment with around 30 percent but the f.t. do at least according to these latest polls seem to have been gaining a little bit of ground since the last couple of days now polling at around anywhere

between 26 to 28 percent so only a couple of percentage points behind the conservatives a social democrats meanwhile still floundering at around 7 to 9 percent but of course as i say these are still in the opinion polls at the moment and we still have a couple of hours to go until we get those 1st exit polls to be also heard that there's been a big turnout in saxony biggest cities in fact is it's doubled in dresden in life sick and income that's which party might favor. well it really is difficult to say. that in time of course each. vote quite differently especially if you compare chemists and leipzig for example the f.t. the far right f.t. has been known to do quite well in chemists and also here in dresden in recent elections in the european elections for example in a lifesaver however just about an hour and a half away from here it's actually the green party who are expected to do extremely well in sedate polls and the polling habits of people in chem its own

life they can the difference that can really be seen in how those 2 cities have developed especially in the last 30 years since the 2 geminis reunited in 1990 s. is still suffering through somewhat of a big i stand because the exodus of people after the wall fell in 1990 life to go in the in the hands booming it attracted a lot of international business and also a lot of international residents but we see exactly how that plays out in just a couple of hours' time before us in saxony thanks very much. to the bundesliga now a newly promoted stunned table toppers dortmund on saturday the high powered visitors or the heavy favorites going into the match but only own took control of the game and dealt dortmund their 1st defeat of this campaign and it was a historic one for the. a party atmosphere in new neon berlin sold out stadium the newly promoted side aiming to do better against dortmund then the 4

near loss to light sigyn their home debut but it was the visitors with the game's 1st chance in the 5th minute helium bronze cross too hot to handle for parka well kotha and jade and sanchez. who neon had a chance of their own with a corner about 5 minutes later former dortmund defender never trying to use his head. the next corner did the trick though. setting the outer 1st advice stadium on fire in the 22nd minute by dortmund defense completely lost track of who made history today his 1st ever been just league goal was also neons 1st top flight goal at home but the surprise lead lasted only 3 minutes. making no mistake sensual feeding him the ball to make it 11. less than 5 minutes after the restart will just struck again dortmund lucy i'm far from done by and only on we're

back in front and the berlin newcomers weren't done yet in the 75th minute they made it 315 year old job back oh with some nifty work setting it up and anderson finishing the job and the day scoring to the delight of the home crowd the 3 months after winning promotion to the bundesliga on your own come up with another big surprise dortmund meanwhile on able to come from behind as they've done in their 1st 2 games of the season. also on saturday by munich gave the league a taste of what they can do when they're firing on all cylinders the reigning champions absolutely crushing mind speeding them 61 and that was thanks in part to some fire power supply by 2 big new sign. she could see me i'm. and even paris 6 made their 1st start so by munich. but the

clash between the champions in the side currently bottom of the table did not come to form initially jump o.b.'s yost netted in the 6 minutes of minds with baez defense all over the place by and was struggling to get into the game but the level that came on 36 minutes puffed out the scorer. just before the break the hosts won a free kick all about took his time. scoring dimmick with an absolute cracker. the austrian is becoming a real dead ball specialist. the floodgates open for buying in the 2nd half this time come out set up parasitics for 31. an impressive home debut past the hour mark and kingsley commom putting on. then who else but lennon dusky join the party is well on his way to becoming the league's top scorer yet again after just 3 match days the 61 rant was completed by substitute alfonso davies.

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