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the at. the at . this is deja news coming to you live from berlin germany is far right if he emerges as the 2nd strongest force in 2 recent elections leaders for the alternative for germany say mainstream parties will now have to reconsider their refusal to work with them we get the latest on what those results mean and the implications for the country also coming up after hurricane dorian wreaks havoc in
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the bahamas one of the largest storms to hit the island since records began and is not heading to the u.s. around a 1000000 residents have been told to evacuate. and the fight for survival in general and given grant access to this more torn country our correspondent needs a young doctor working to help its most vulnerable citizens. hello and welcome ivan with that shima germany's main political parties are meeting today to assess the fallout from 2 state elections of the weekend which saw a surge in support for the far right the alternative for germany or if indeed emerged as the 2nd strongest force in both saxony and brandenburg in the east of the country mainstream parties managed to hang on to power in both states but the
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results are raising questions about how they should deal with the f.t. . the head of the conservative christian democrats who won in saxony address genesis short while ago this is what an a great cramped cotton bow had to say about her party's election results. with optimists most with the right composure courage and optimism we will tackle future issues and we won't be divided in the process we will build bridges that is our standard. that managed to convince the residents of. this election victory makes it clear that we can't just make excuses. we have to deal with the real issues that we have to bring people together and answer tough questions. like who are people going to place their trust for the future true here. our chief political editor michelle
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a coup phil was at that press conference and she joins me now from the c.d.u. headquarters which you know we just heard a bit of water on a good come column by i had to say tell us more about how she wants to take the c.d.u. forward after this election results. well she wants to focus on issues tomorrow at the c.d.u. in the building behind you all get together and talk about climate change plans at the same time she says the city wants to deliver locally this sounds quite interesting bearing in mind that the man who managed to secure the city use top position in saxony had also appealed to the c.d.u. to basically get on with it and get on with this basic pension promise well that didn't materialize ahead of these elections that something the next cd you calling for now faces elections into having an mike moving in october and so i
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think we've really seen the outcome of the intense soul searching yet that is clearly going on at the party headquarters both of the conservative c.d.u. party but others also that are the big tent party the social democrats and how much pressure is on a good. is the c.d.u. leader and she's chancellor angela merkel's designated successor. well the question that wasn't really answered here today is how much help and how much hindrance she was on it could come count power has a legacy a very west german legacy that is always something that doesn't necessarily help when contesting elections in the eastern states at the same time she appeared as being a bit of a bit clumsy over the past couple of months so she still kind of has to prove that she has what it takes to both take the party forwards but also to potentially succeed angela merkel also in the post of german chancellor now that she's defense
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minister she's clearly a lot closer to power but it's by no means seen as a given here within the c.d.u. that she would be the one to step up clearly there would be some intense competition and still within the city rank and file. political editor standing outside the c.d.u. headquarters in the heart of berlin thank you very much for that assessment. joining me now is. the head of if he's been in a regional branch welcome mr plus this kid the if he came a strong 2nd in both regional elections but you were not able to topple the main parties in both these states so what do you see angela merkel's coalition government is most stable because your body fish to come out on top. i think the coalition of mr merkel is not stable at all what we experienced yesterday balls that. ruling parties or in the future ruling parties got votes from the other
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parties from the liberals from the left wing party and also from the s.p.d. and c.d.u. and this means all have to unite just to be the f.t. and the oldest will certainly recognize that and next time maybe remark be even stronger but talking mud right now despite your success and you had great success in book these states none of the other parties want to work with you as a coalition how do you react to that. our aim is just to rule with with another party because if you are going into politics then your aim is just to rule and just to to to to bring your politics into working and we will see it's currently it's a situation that nobody likes or wants to work with us but on the other hand if more than a quarter of all voters voted for the f.t. you can not. negate or this this vote by the voters and this
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means in due course i'm british sure that the f.t. will also be in the government and will also rule in one of the countries so you share the view if you're particularly to understand a gallant who said this morning that sooner or later the main parties will have to talk to the f.t. amount of possible coalition perhaps in a saxony this and the c.d.u. so you think this is likely to happen. absolutely we have seen it was the green party the green party when. it started in germany nobody wanted to cooperate with the green party we have seen the same after the reunification with the left wing party nobody wanted to root together with the left thing party today they are normal coalition partners and this is a matter of time and although the f.t. will be a coalition partner in due course and we are very confident that this will happen now you are seen as a moderate within the f.t.
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and one of the $118.00 members who signed a letter warning of the extreme right wing within the f.t. but candidates of the extreme far right have been successful of being now running the f.t. no certainly not because it's the f d which was elected by the people and this means we have obviously the right politics we have the right program we are going into the right direction and we are one a.f.p. and you have in every party you have certainly people who have different opinions are more ride one are more left and this doesn't matter because we have to discuss we have to find the best way follow both us for our country because we want to bring our country from its head to its feet once again and this is why we started to politics in germany because we have seen that many things are going not in the right direction germany mystify this 60 percent of the people polled in these 2
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states which went to the the ballot yesterday said they view your party as a ponty which has links to the far right it has allegedly. links to neo nazis how do you react to such observations when they come from an opinion poll. what we have seen in germany and especially for both elections is said we have an intense media campaigning by the mainstream media and it was all against c.f.d. more so to see all the media against the f.t. and this has certainly impact and people have obviously the opinion that this is a case but i can assure you this is not the case the f.t. is a normal citizens party a normal conservative party we we clain the ground which see c.d.u. claimed 20 or 30 years before and there is obviously also a need in germany for such a party a real conservative party we have to see how far that goes get buzzed escape from
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the f.t. thank you very much for talking to d.w. you're very welcome. and we've been to see do you have a senior political correspondent hans ron welcome hans what do you make of what mr bob diskin had to say what struck you most well he's certainly one somebody from the more moderate section of his party what he's trying to say is what they have progeny their ship at the moment which is more moderate is saying that they are in fact right of center party not really radical all right wing radical polity the fact of the matter is that in both these federal states that had elections now they have been in both of those states is very fall on the right leader of the party in brandenburg state which is the state that surrounds berlin in fact has admitted to attending nazi marches where the swastikas were being shown. this denial of the right wing tendencies in the party that's something that the
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party leaders of the f.t. say repeatedly and then i tribute the media campaigns turn themselves into the victims of a media campaign the reality is that there is a very strong tension within the party between these right wingers these radicals and certainly a motor of fashion ok but there's no denying the fact that these 2 recent elections if he has done remarkably well they've doubled and trebled they have votes in these 2 states and what does it tell us about what's happening in the country you have to say that despite the fact in both of these regions they have he was late there by a very right wing almost extremist people that did not make any difference to the voters the voters did still because they vote for the f.t. part of the reason of that is that these are protesters these are people that decided he was the best party to bring forward their feeling of being dismissed by the rest of the part of the political spectrum were not being respected by the rest of the political spectrum but it doesn't mean that they if he is established as a political force in germany it's something that you cannot ignore it's
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a party that is not going to disappear at the short notice it's very well established particularly. strongly in the east of germany somewhere over 20 percent of the vote but in the west to this party gets more than 10 percent of the political force to be reckoned with so does this have implications at the national level for the government if i'm going to make that she's in coalition with the s.p.d. both these spotty still record losses in these recent elections is there is a sort of parallel movement that as the if he has been getting stronger the more established parties against which the he is campaigning have been getting weaker and the conservatives have on the market and the social democrats have lost a lot of support in voting on no longer strong enough between themselves to form governments that are certainly a serious effect on their policies they have been scrambling to try and find a way of bringing back these dissatisfied versions from the side of the f.t. they've been deciding whether it's better for them to emphasize more left wing
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policies move more to the left or to move more to the right both of these have been attempted both tactics have been attempted neither has been particularly successful for the governing parties they really lift left a little bit at a loss at the moment hans fondu debbie senior political correspondent thank you very much for now. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world in hong kong pro-democracy activists remain on the streets but calls for a general labor strike today fizzled out except for students and some hospital workers this after a 13th street weekend of intense protest that included scenes of police storming a subway compartment beating many on board and using pepper spray as a crackdown for testers. the u.s. china trade dispute has escalated with both sides adding a more terrorists on each other's exports the united states is imposing levies on additional $112000000000.00 of chinese exports like headphones speakers and shoes
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while beijing is retaliating with tariffs and $75000000000.00 of u.s. goods and u.s. crude oil. hostilities flaring on the israel lebanon border the lebanese militant group hezbollah fired a volley of anti-tank missiles at an israeli army base on sunday is drive responded by shelling a village in levanon no casualties reported in. the u.s. states of florida georgia and south carolina have issued evacuation orders as hurricane dorian approaches as many as 1000000 people could be forced to leave their homes their behalf and still miss forecast to hit the eastern seaboard of the united states by tuesday and dorian is currently 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
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warn storm surges up to 7 meters high could be life threatening in the low lying island chain bahamian prime minister hubert minister said parts of the island where dorian made landfall were already flooded. is already under water. the difference as to the beginning of the street. is. that the storm u.s. weather officials called dorian quote the strongest hurricane in modern records for the northwestern bahamas the storm's huge saudis and power become apparent when seen from space. like indy's nasa images film from the international space station meteorologist say dorian might be epic 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
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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 along the southeast coast are preparing for the impact of one of the fiercest hurricanes for a long time. and his strike but the sagal it's coalition fighting in yemen has hit a detention center killing at least 100 prisoners that's according to officials for the who's here group local said the building was being used to detain people opposed to the who he's the head of the international red cross in yemen good the site and suggested the death toll could rise from. the center held 170 people and only 40 had survived. said it had attacked
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a military target of the devastating one yemen has been region since 2015 and is far from over one funny for job was just in yemen and she joins me now in the studio welcome funny not many journeys actually managed to get into yemen share your insights with us as to what is happening there the situation and fired from the ground in fact once you enter. the interim capital ever since the capital. has been taken over by the 5 years ago the interim capital is facing a lot of challenges a lot of tensions when you pass through the checkpoints you really wonder who is in charge or is it the government the government is it the separatists who are dreaming of a state is it part of the coalition who is it's really people waking up the other morning are wondering who is in charge today and within that situation within this conflict on this this is stable situation i've met
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a very young dr fox 26 year old and she said she's doing this job being a doctor in this public hospital but she had completely different expectations when she started her medical study 6 years ago before the war started let's have a look about 40. things can change in seconds at this intensive care unit. this is john not she's 18 months and has been diagnosed with malaria and malnutrition. between life and. death of the. what either of those did you request oxygen there is nothing the oxygen bottle and the room doesn't work in which. the feet the doctor fatuma must improvise it's not the 1st star and she has fallen helpless steam inhalation is the only option available for at the moment it's not just now paralytic impre see her you know breathing is still flat so she needs us to go right away. fatima's shift is
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just beginning the oxygen bottle is delivered after all john earth will make it many children do not for fatuma the fact that oxygen cannot always be provided on time is depressing when she began her medical studies before the war shortages were unheard off i was feeling optimistic i was really looking forward to graduate but it's just so difficult ordering even for doctors but considering you know i've got here in the can. happiness comes in small doses here this father is relieved his daughter is gaining some weight for now i say they're not enough doctors and most of those here must work unpaid. hospitals cannot cope it's not just the lack of food in yemen that brings a lot of people especially malnourished children to this all spittle lest they arrive they face another problem the lack of medical supplies and there's not
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enough space simply the r.t.l. belts for these children. these children are new patients waiting in the hallway for admission. was not prepared for this level of stress after a 24 hour shift she finally find sanctuary at home photography helps or to unwind at the age of $26.00 she finds her job overwhelming it makes me feel that i am not still working and just forget it all. we're going to own the hospital and stuff. for life maybe but there she wants to continue her medical studies germany her father a geologist used to live there in 1980 s. i think the war never and will end. a lot of time how long am i to do this nobody knows but we hope the war ends for a children because the people are suffering and they are in bad shape there's no
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stability nothing nothing salary no jobs the youth is lost. with a future so bleak fatima doesn't know staying yemen working on paid she wants to continue working as a doctor to help people but she also wants better opportunities of her own if possible outside of yemen. so funny how tell us about the humanitarian situation in yemen and why our brave young doctors are not being paid for their work right well this is just one example of what's going on in the country to situation is dire all over the country especially in the north which is controlled by who in fact the world food program has temporarily suspended its aid because they claim that the roof the spare stealing the food and selling it or sharing it with in their fighters no way it comes to she says she's working on paid because she's committed to what she's doing and she started studying a medical studies she made
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a commitment for life so she says if she doesn't get up in the morning who's going to get up for these children but also in terms of experience just very pragmatically she says in a public hospital she will get much more experience than in a private hospital because those also exist but hardly anybody of course can afford to go to a private hospital or spittal and why the situation is this dire and getting even worse because let's not forget there's also a cholera outbreak that the country suffering is not just just the family but so many other problems putting and adding an extra layer of challenges in the country what all these happening on the ground people really feel abandoned not just by their own government or what's left of it but also internationally they feel even do there is international aid that sort of channels towards yemen it really doesn't arrive of course derived because there's so on the other so many other challenges that this country is facing so yes the people really feel left behind and they just also feel that nobody really cares about yemen a war in yemen that's been going on already of years and the conflict in yemen is
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viewed as a proxy war with regional act is is there any sign of this conflict ever drawing to a close unfortunately as it stands now is that just a what's called a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran and a civil war between the yemeni government and who feel and the yemeni government being supported by the saudi led coalition there's also a rift. in that coalition new frontlines opening up the separatists for example they're dreaming of a very own state southern yemen as it was up until 990 so as you can tell there are so many elements in place your decision fluid that even the question of whether soon there will be any peace soon is already very very hard to tell at this point no one can tell what's going to happen that's the only thing what we see on the ground at this point the things are getting more complex and difficult by the day for the people in yemen. just back from yemen thank you very much for your
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insights. the understeer now and there have been were desperate for a home victory against outstanding after losing their 1st 2 matches the season then a man from japan ended up making all the difference. there the dream and coach florian call felt received the backing of the fans after a bad start to the season they were looking for their 1st points against out with europe their aim this term. and the home crowd soon had something to shout about a circle making it one nil after just 6 minutes out spurs defensive line was far too high. but the visitors hit back stefan lick china finding fellow swiss ruben vargas for the equaliser the 2 recent arrivals showing a great understanding. braman though continue to frighten and josh argent showed she purred skill to put them back in front on 21 minutes the
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19 year old american is already making a name for himself in northern germany. they got better over the hose when lic china picked up a 2nd booking and was sent off just after the half hour mark. but instead of falling apart regroup for the 2nd half. and ferguson got his and his side 2nd right after the restart. game on. romans extra man began to tell however japan's a sucker snatched the winner 432160 7 minutes his 3rd goal of the season the same amount he managed in the whole of the last campaign. out burger still to get their 1st win but bremen are now off the mark. here's a look then at the bundesliga table after match the number 3 leipzig led the way with a lead the way with 3 wins from 3 bye and are now 2nd after hammering lines on saturday
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when dortmund also lost and you need on berlin in the bottom of the sea mines rooted to the foot of the table with raylan moving up after their 1st points on sunday. now here in berlin in the zoo's a female giant panda mang has given birth to twins is a major breakthrough for the zoo's breeding program its 1st ever giant panda birth many men gave birth to the 1st panda baby on saturday evening then an hour later the 2nd one of kids this is mom's doing just fine and there's no need to worry resorts just say it's completely normal for giant panda moms to change the carry their babies between the teeth. coming up next on news. as the u.s. legacy it's over the thought of on in the home militants expand their attacks in
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