has suffered record losses in those 2 states elections in eastern germany how much from blue has this been for the party in your assessment. well here there is very tangible relief that it didn't lose a lot worse managed to come out as the strongest force and continue to be the party that is in charge of forming a government in the state of saxony also there's a lot of relief backs of the coalition partner here at the national level the social democrats didn't receive hammering at the ballot box that many polls had predicted to manage to hold the stage of brandenburg which surrounds lennon and at least in this particular election will not or is unlikely to push the social democrats further down the road of a political novice project breakdown which they are surely in right now as they try and find new leadership so relief here but still a lot of questions to answer for when i could come on boy it gets to the stage here

behind me that's why we waiting to get the official perspective on what these election losses a mean for the c.d.u. party as you said and a good come cotton ball is going to speak there shortly to she's succeeded americal as party leader just 10 months ago what does this recall election defeat in terms of numbers do you think mean for i think we're just about to see if she's there let's take a listen to what undergrad has to say. devor the. walk in was inflated when he literally branded in class and played and the c.d.u. sex mistake. catch man. again. ladies and gentlemen. we are meeting here today after a very difficult election sunday after

a difficult result the result that we will be debating in the presiding committee of the party as well we take it very seriously for months now we have known that this election with these elections will be difficult once we have known that we will have to fight for every single vote and if you look at the figure and how tight the results were this is confirmed our view we also knew that $29.00 teams with the european election was the elections in saxony and brandenburg and the elections and tearing down as well was not going to be an easy year for hours it was going to be an obstacle course and we have to state as well that some of these obstacles we have not cleared as well and as easily as we would have liked. and this is why it's all the more important and this is been said quite clearly and i expect it to committee of the party as well yesterday sent

a clear signal for us as the christian democrats that we have to continue our path of renewal of the party with all. of what that will entail if you look at the time from 2017 to the present day we have to say these have not been easy months. after a difficult german general election and difficult formation of a government in that in 2018 where there was perhaps too much navel gazing and up 2019 so far i've already talked about the difficulties we've had and what we want to do and we. we have set ourselves the job of doing this as well as in the next few weeks and months at least until our party congress as well we want to look at the questions of renewal renewing the party looking at how we can. do climate protection in germany based on innovation and that's good for the economy good for our citizens he has

a christian democratic signature on it we can set up a digital shop situation here in germany that it drives business forward ice well as ensuring that we can show ourselves up against a potential recessions in new communication concept as well that will be presenting at the next meeting within the party and we will have a working. party congress at the end of november and putting all of this together then so this is a process of renewal that will be driving forward the dynamics of this renewal is about listening understanding talking with one another making decisions last year we listened we understood a great deal and now we're in the process of discussing many things but in the next weeks to come we will leave making decisions as well as not least in the german government where we see an opportunity to tackle things because the results of the

elections yesterday showed in no uncertain terms that this is what people expect from us. as i just said we are going to carry out what we agreed to we're committed to this and tomorrow here we will have a workshop debate about climate protection the digital charter will follow and a sustainable economic. approach will also be debated so with the right attitude with optimism we will be tackling the challenges facing us for the future and we let's join forces build bridges and. allowed ourselves to be divided and that is the process that is the mindset that crutch and friends in sexily were able to convince the electorate there and their victory. news shows that it's important to tell it like it is and to tackle the challenges facing us it's about answering like main questions looking at who do

people entrust their future to. crouch my. offering his services in this regard and i want to congratulate him most cordially and all of the friends of the christian democratic party insight on their well deserved but hard fought election and i also want to thank. laden much as well and everyone involved in brandenburg c.d.u. election campaign for the very hard work that they put into it many of us from the party. committees were involved in supporting and saxony. but i'd also like to say and i don't want to mince my words i believe we agree on this the result did not do justice to our expectations but we have to be aware of the fact of the polarization and problems and but between the state premier the s.p.d.

and the f.t. battling for. the top position and didn't leave much room for general. of positive change which is why it's all the more important now that in brandenburg as we tackle the questions facing us for the future a willingness to shape policy is something that. labor has shown quite clearly and he has the full support of the c.d.u. executive committee underside in committee and this is why. brandenburg no need to state it as sound stable government with a voice in the sea do you see this as a voice of responsibility and it's down to those in charge to ensure that brandenburg does not have a social democrat left party green party coalition. and we

certainly want to encourage and go sense laving to take on this responsibility and the next few weeks and months to come with the election campaign it will be driven by a clear approach we'll be fighting for every vote because our policies are for all voters whether they voted for archives or not but at the same time we love be setting the course of a clear demarcation line to the far right alternative for germany which is why we will not be entering into any kind of government coalitions with them and this is very clear it's a line in the sand for us against a mindset that is all about generating fear and not building bridges which is what we want to do about the future this is true for saxon a this is true for brandenburg this is true of the national c.d.u. as well this is a clear position that we have agreed on in the executive committee of the party

thank you mr sentient and thank you anika it. ladies and gentleman. harshness of course we are disappointed about the results yesterday and brands of blood and as their top candidates. i make myself responsible for this and i will take the responsibility for this course. but this means that i'm also going to be. looking at how the. one positions that we are students for in the election campaign education investing more in infrastructure investments security issues that we want to make happen and whatever government imagines we have found that. after 6 o'clock to basically. pull down by whether or not they fire right alternative for

germany was going to emerge top. this is not an issue that helped does it help the as it did help the green party but we were also pushing for a change of government and we're going to be working towards this we will only enter into a government with the s.p.d. or the green party there will be no other options for brands and records and what we want to achieve is a change of policy and binds a beggar's and as of who decides or to we need to build bridges. ok we were watching a live press conference coming to you from the cd headquarters. but i live in where the leader of the c.d.o. body on a great company has just been responding to 2 election results which came out yesterday evening and the parties responded to that to discuss those it me i have with me a senior political correspondent hans blonde just to remind viewers that the c.d.u.

suffered record losses in 2 recent elections in germany on sunday that's in saxony and in brandenburg we could on a gift come qanbar responding to those results you discuss this destroyed this result as a vague difficult result for the c.d.o. party what was your assessment about what she said she sounded the subdued isn't the subdued is i think the right word even though her party managed to stay on top as the biggest party in saxony and is likely in fact to be at the head of the future government in the regional states the losses that are suffered there and the loss of that also suffered in brandenburg really were really a serious time for the for the mood in the party and i think the soul searching that's been going on there seems not to have yet found. a result they don't seem to have agreed on exactly how to handle the situation she was talking about how one

needs to push forward the program that the party has been pursuing in any case on issues such as climate or a digitalization she was also talking about the need to draw a clear line towards the need towards the far right populace that there was not going to be any cooperation with them in any form whatsoever these are all things that have been saved several times repeatedly in recent days and weeks one doesn't actually get the feeling of some sort of upbeat new initiative coming out of this party at the moment and you see. said that vehicle to fight for every vote is going to be a workshop that she mentioned which is going to stop tomorrow and resolve the issues that you mention but she also said it's time to dig decisions and the cd was so fun not taken any major decisions to fight for every vote there's i think if you look at these 2 regional elections that have just happened in the one in saxony the c.d.u. did remain major party as i said the biggest party they despite significant losses

. in that country in that state the party leader then moved his party to the rheims towards the 50 while at the same time saying that he was not going to cooperate with the f.t. and he also very very intensely spoke to people on the ground he did a very intense cross roots campaign on the other hand in this state of brandenburg the one state of the ron's burden the c.d.u. their leader there who was just who you just saw there speaking he tried to move his party more towards the left opening it up towards the coalition with the greens for instance which is what they are still hoping for there. and was not very successful with that this kind of tension within the c.d.u. between the question of whether to move more towards the greens who are potential coalition partners everywhere in germany or more towards the f.t. in order to draw voters away from the f.t.

that tension within the party has not yet been decided they are very powerful factions on both wings of the party and on the could come combo the new leader seems to be somewhere in the middle tending more thing towards the right of center position but the decision has not been made and so the party remains a little directionless at the moment so from what you're saying at a state level of course there reached a level people are looking at tactical alliances and the recent party then decides for stiction it wants to go depending on what clinician. the party can find but at a national level. hans looking at the substantial gains that the if he has made i'll be going to see a little bit if we lurch to the right i did this to amongst the establishment bodies to cope with this new force which is emerged on the national stage in german politics it's clearly a discussion has been going on for a long time ever since the f.t. has become a fairly strong party and it was already significantly strong in the general

election at the end of 2017 which in fact alleged then after that election 2 very difficult coalition discussions in the national government and has also been one of the reasons to some extent why this coalition government governing at the moment between the conservatives and the social democrats is as weak as it is america has said that she's no longer going to be standing for reelection she's handed of a party leadership 2 and a good combo so the christian democrats the conservatives are in a transition period within their own party and as i say they haven't yet decided which direction to take more to the right or more to the left the same is happening within the social democratic party the other party in government at the moment there's a big sense of. change but we don't know well yet in what direction this change is going to take place whether in the direction as it will of the i have to be or in completely the opposite direction we don't know yet at the moment absolutely and a final question to you and what everybody wants to know obviously is what these

recent elections mean at the national level to what extent is the stability of the national government the c.d.u. inclination that the s.p.d. has been compromised or damaged by this election result what would be your assessment of that my feeling is that both the concert and the social democrats have taken a little bit of hope out of these recent elections the one party the conservatives one or remained the strongest party and sacks the navy social democrats remain the strongest party in brandenburg both of them feel that there's a gives them a little bit of backing a little bit of grounding to continue with the policies that they have at the moment i feel that it's going to stabilise the current coalition government nobody's going to risk this government breaking up at the moment risk a new election if they can avoid it in any way at all so i think for the moment we can reckon on this government continuing with its fairly uncertain. governing for the next couple of years on strongly debbie senior political correspondent thank

you very much for that as an honest this. let me now being up to date with some of the stories making news around the wired thousands of people have joined an anti india rally in karachi it's the 4th week of protests in the pakistani city following india's move to strip muslim majority of its autonomy. a memorial service has been held to mark the 15th anniversary of the beslan school siege in russia friends and families of the victims visited the school grounds with flowers and candles $334.00 people including one $186.00 children were killed when a russian special forces ended a 3 day siege by chechen militants. catholic faithful were left anxious at the vatican on sunday after pope francis failed to appear in time for his traditional sunday prayer the normally punctual pontiff did turn up 25 minutes late he explained he'd been trapped in an elevator and had to be freed by

firefighters. hong kong's pro-democracy protesters attempted to hold a general strike today with thousands of hong kong university and school students swapping classes for demonstrations at a hospital staff formed a human chain in support of the citywide strike the actions follow a weekend of chaotic demonstrations passengers friend police storming a train compartment beating passengers and using pepper spray as they hunted protesters. our correspondent charlotte charles and bill is following the day's protests for us in hong kong this is the latest from her. this was meant to be the day packets students pay with if. they are going. to take. the prayer democracy

many of these people would have been taking part in the parade. and they know the reason. a number of the. weeks have been. very long we've. had. that few people tell me. they will be living in 20. days. that was. reporting from hong kong today knows the u.s. states of florida georgia and south carolina they've issued evacuation orders as hurricane dorian approaches as many as a 1000000 people could be forced to leave their homes the powerful storm is forecast to hit the eastern seaboard of the united states by tuesday and dorian is kind of be pounding the northern bahamas. hurricane dorian slammed into the

southwest as a huge category 5 storm packing winds of nearly 300 kilometers an hour officials. up to 7 meters high could be life threatening in the low lying island chain bahamian prime minister. said parts of the island where dorian made landfall were already flooded. the difference. to the beginning of the street. u.s. weather officials called dorian quote the strongest hurricane in modern records for the northwestern bahamas. the storm's huge size and power become apparent when seen from space like indy's nasa images film from the international space station meteorologist say dorian might be a back out to sea away from the eastern u.s.

but it might also slam headlong into the southeastern coast as we just don't know when exactly it's going to turn north it could turn north obviously we want to have that turn as quickly as possible to minimize the impacts on florida but if you look at the forecast it absolutely could impact the coast and turn once it hits the coast and so we've got to prepare for that eventuality as here in florida people all along the southeast coast are preparing for the impact of one of the fiercest hurricanes for a long time. where the oil spills at sea the cleanup usually involves oil booms floating battery is intended to contain the slick from spreading but that doesn't or does specially in high seas and bad weather all recessions have come up with a new idea have a look. at the sinking of the freighter ground america after cut far off the atlantic coast of france in march was an environmental disaster heavy oil leaked

and due to bad weather it was only possible to contain part of the kilometer long slick. following accidents like this hold her own but how and from tracing technical university and his team decided to look for ways to make oil spills harmless. so-called oil booms only work during good weather during rough seas the oil splashes over the booms. was i me too don't think we've developed a method to absorb oil the oil by this can be deployed by plane or helicopter even in bad weather or they can then be used to absorb the oil so the oil binders are made of absorbent wood fiber the procedure was developed in cooperation with researchers from the university is of rostock and leipsic and it's incredibly simple the wood chips are thrown onto the polluted water and begin to absorb the oil after a few hours that oil is completely absorbed and no longer

a danger to marine birds the procedure also works in conditions like those found on the high seas the oil binders have been tested in a way of what the university of rostock after nearly 4 days and artificially created oil spill was completely removed. it was meant as a solid does that is a moment this is them is being tested in the baltic sea as a kind of model region there we can really show how well it works and train employees on how to use this technology and we hope that in the coming years it will be deployed in other regions of the world in this month and he does on and on but like you and i that's in there has already been interest from iran the persian gulf is home to the world's largest crude oil and natural gas reserves no where are more oil tankers on the move scientist giovanni octal is from tehran and is working together with the drapes and researchers oil eating bacteria on the wood chips help speed up the cleansing of the water surface. water is $47.00 times more polluted than the average of. a lot and see what

and the water of passion will. decide to maintain to produce thinking water for people in your own so it makes it very important to purify and to play to clean the water from de petro don't freeze. in the baltic sea the researchers have shown how the oil burners are deployed by plane and later collected again in a few years the technology could be a standard procedure and a lucrative investment for the developers. has given birth to twins it's a major breakthrough for the zoo's breeding program its fullest ever. mailmen gave birth to the 1st baby on the evening and hour later the 2nd of head zeus is mom's doing just fine and there's no need to just say it's completely normal for

john. carry their babies between. so many men and have babies you're watching i did i been use here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you leaders from the far right alternative project mainstream parties will have to reconsider their refusal to work with them after making big gains in state elections despite the populist mainstream parties managed to retain control of governments in saxony and brandenburg. meanwhile the head of the christian democrats which took the top spot in the state of saxony has ruled out a working with the on a group to clamp down said that a line in the sand which your party is not the path to cross.

that's it for me. but we'll be back with you shortly in a few minutes at the top of the hour with more news of information to do stay with us for that if you can back.

to. go to india. the world has a bit less plastic when tableware is edible. and afghan women refugees have jobs. this is what the drama is doing. it's a project started by students in new delhi. the song of the tension in that idea so even for saying that some. 30 minutes on d w.

natural riches. precious resources. and a rewarding investment. farmland that's been called the easy option is a greener goal in the country has an abundance of coffee and leases it to international giants. the government is after high export revenues and the corporations high profit margin. but not everyone benefits from the booming business. tax creation. via mental destruction starvation. selling out of a country dead donkeys fear. starts september 18th on d w. earth home to millions of species the home

worth saving. the global ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate boost clean energy solutions and reforestation. using interactive content to inspire people to take action global audience and series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. the water starts rising people cite for survival. her calling dangerous. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could write any again if not if you want and probably most of the book of. climate exodus starts september 5th on d w.

i am. this is news coming to you live from berlin and germany's far right if he emerges as the 2nd strongest force in 2 regional elections leaders of the alternative project new say mainstream parties will now have to reconsider their refusal to work with them we get the latest on what these results mean and the implications for the country also coming up on hurricane dorian wreaks havoc in the bahamas one of the largest storms to hit the island since records began is the heading to the u.s. around a 1000000 residents have been told to.