this is a news line from british. prime minister parks johnson is suspending parliament tonight but before they go. paint their rejection of his call for a snap election also on the program she's a nazi even after the attempt to ban the n.p.t. he stayed loyal to the party which is close to hitler's nazi party outrages the neo nazis unanimously elected. a small german tough.

talk francis and africa trip with a visit to the indian ocean island of marriages he's already in the memory of a missionary who works for tolerance and interfaith understanding. welcome to the program. british parliament begins a 5 week suspension from tonight lawmakers are being sent home regardless of how they vote on the prime minister's call for a snap general election now they are likely to be checked again in another dramatic development the speaker of parliament john bercow says he will stand down before the next election prime minister boris johnson has been holding talks with his irish counterpart of raka in dublin the 2 leaders are hoping to resolve the stalemate over what will happen of the irish quarter if and when the u.k. leaves the european union let's hear some of what they had to say. i am ready to

listen to any constructive ways in which we can achieve our goals and resolve the current impasse but what we cannot do and will not do and i know you understand this is it creates the replacement of a legal guarantee with a promise like you i've looked carefully at no deal i've assessed its consequences both for our country and and yours and yes of course we could do it the u.k. could certainly get through it but to be in no doubt that outcome would be a failure of state craft for which we would all be responsible and so. let's see where i went up to them way back quite thin pale he's an associate fellow with the europe program at the international affairs think tank at chatham house welcome to day w. . let's start with the those announcements out out of dublin what have we learned

today about the 2 leaders positions notes a huge well we didn't already know they say they found some common ground but i think they've actually probably just had to explain to each other from near veronica's point of view explain to boris johnson just how disastrous he thinks a new deal on bret's it would be. and for the peace process as well as the united kingdom and boris johnson has perhaps had a chance to float some of the rather vague ideas he seems to have about how it might be possible to replace this insurance policy the rich. with something else that would mean that wouldn't have to be a board of quite a lot going on today so we'll take a fall list and move on to the speaker of the house of commons john bercow who's been adding to a day of drama here he is announcing that he has to step down at the end of october . 8th but house tonight for an early general

election my tenure as. and he will. win this parliament and. the house does not say but i have concluded that the least disruptive. and most democratic course of action. would be for me to stand down at the clues of business almost thursday. for 31st. speaker of the house of parliament john bucca quentin pale explain to us the

significance of what just happened why would the n.p.c. clapping that doesn't matter that the speaker is stepping down it doesn't matter because he's been a huge champion for a problem and in its known running battle over breakfast with the government after all not just the johnson government but to reason may's government before have again and again tried to push through the brakes at process with i'm giving parliament a chance to disagree or have it say and john bercow is the man who's made sure that that actually that the government didn't get away with it so he is tested by many within the government just gunna i think by actually putting in his resignation today he's chosen the very day that boris johnson has promised to leave the european union do or die and that is almost certainly what's he won't be able to

do because parliament has not passed a law thanks to john burka saying you can't do that but why is he going well i think genuinely he's always said he would do with the life of the parliament he would go he'd said before at the end of this year there's another reason coming up which is that the conservative party official conservative party hates him so much and he is one of them he is a conservative that they were going to run a. there's against him at any future election but i suspect that's not the real issue i think he's had a hell of a last 3 i think he's tired and i think he actually wants to handover and by choosing the day before the next election he actually will ensure i think the conservatives don't have a majority to choose his successor right. next thing this snap election. m.p.'s have voted against a quick election before this is being brought back to them they will vote again

today it is likely to go against the government again why does paris johnson want this so much m.p.'s are so against it the only way he could possibly get round this new low in parliament that says you cannot crash into the european union without an agreement is to win a new mage a majority and then change the law before october 31st so that's why he's actually really been pushing he's been playing a game he's been trying to say i don't want this election you're forcing me to have it now he's playing another game he's say if you went allow me to have this election sooner rather than later then it's your vote you're running a threat now the truth is that if he can get an election soon and he's not going to he's got a much better chance of getting a majority than if he's forced to go late to perspiring brecht's it because then he's going to lose votes to the real hard line breaks that said he wants that

election sooner rather than later and the opposition's not going to let him have it ok so all this was building up to this next question which is how did we get here how this looks like a mess from inside and outside the u.k. face looks like just a horrible mess and 8 it's one thing to vote to leave the european union we can kind of understand the reasons for. warn against but to do it in what appears to be such a sham balik fashion how is how why is this happened in this way. i guess essentially the problem all along has been that the government has been completely split. on what sort of breaks it wanted how think government wanted a relatively soft bret's it where we stayed pretty much aligned to a lot of european regulation but the other half wanted a hard break sit where we could go off and do what we like and say to hell with the

european union we're on our own those are the ones who really want to know deal bret's it so the government entities negotiations really not knowing what they wanted it's been impossible. for the negotiations to make progress and it's remarkable they go to they did now boris johnson took and said but i need to do it by threatening to go out without a deal thereby throwing in his cards or with the hardline brick such as in his party the right wing of the party as a result he's actually split the party right down the middle he's lost 20 members of parliament and 2 ministers from a government including his brother precisely because he's trying such step that ticks on the rest of the party and i think he's dug himself into a hoe out of which he's going to find it really difficult to escape and i think it's very possible we're going to see another prolonged delay of brecht's it and

maybe we won't ever see bricks' it's all they have made such a pigs ear of the whole thing quentin pill from chatham house thank you so much. now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world preliminary results in the russian local election show figure losses for the ruling united russia party slate in moscow i count of the supported by a position to a better life in the valley for almost all the votes the present your position candidates were removed from the ballot there was a there was no phone to tell. the united nations atomic agency says iran has acquired uranium enrichment equipment but breaches the nuclear deal it signed with major powers in 2015 the nuclear agreement has been under severe strain since the united states withdrew unilaterally last year iran's trying to convince european signatures to embrace that to ease the impact of reimposed u.s. sanctions. british airways says it has canceled almost all of its u.k.

flights as pilots begin a 2 day strike tens of thousands of passengers have been left stranded industrial action follows about 9 months of failed talks over pilot salaries. political leaders here in germany are demanding to know how a town council elected a neo nazi as its meth steffen yards from the n.p.t. stood for the stood for the position on opposed any one back in from mainstream parties like a chance of america's conservatives but now they want him thrown out of office. just that it's not be a small industrial park a bakery a hotel and a pizza place but now many people in germany are interested in knowing how the small town and has in the center of germany elected stephanie action a few days ago the politician from the extreme right wing n.p.t. announced on facebook that he was elected in a simple administrators of stock but from the people for the people he added to his

post the vote was unanimous including votes from chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. and her coalition partner s.p.d. . one of the council members who voted for yonks defended the choice if those who can do we are trying to help the people and address their issues that's all party membership doesn't play a role for us. stephanie actually has worked for the n.p.t. and the regional and national level for a key is the enough authority as have twice sought and failed to ban the party as a threat to germany's democratic order the domestic intelligence service has kept close tabs on the party yaks has even shown up in the agency's report on fright wing extremists but he was democratically elected also because no other candidate was available the fuse approach that presidents a mixed. bag that there was no alternative no wonder he got into an event will never end so you would have lived up to maybe it would have an effect and make

politicians think about how their decisions are received by most people. by. standing we have better people for the job it's over. for you to know politicians were shocked by the choice. is here yuck she is a nazi even after the attempt to ban the n.p.t. he stayed loyal to the party which is close to hitler's nazi party. you know it isn't so much of so in a stupid shit but protest is now also mounting in berlin. as it was going to indignation justified yesterday there was a 1st special meeting of the committee and has said so in the us is an aim is to apply for revoke haitian as the election of that candidate implemented and put another candidate and his place and then we will have to discuss how something like this could have happened. to replace yaks the local council was 1st need to find another candidate for the job. let's get more on

this from d.w. political correspondent clearly from hama style welcome let's start with you and p.d. who are. well there's certainly an extreme right wing party whistlings to the militant neo nazi scene here in germany they have been under observation by the domestic intelligence service for years and there have been several attempts to ban the party according to the federal constitution or the german constitutional court the n.p.t. is indeed pursuing constitutional goals and 2 years ago 2 years ago in 2017 the court only stopped short of banning the patchy because it said it was too weak to endanger democracy so the mainstream parties raised no objection to staff and. elected him so why are they objecting now. well it seems like they just didn't

expect the reaction that was coming towards them from the national level and local council member em off i'm going to mcewan's christian democratic party who voted for you actually actually said quote what he does in the posse or in private that's not my business they're not our business so it seemed like there was no other candidate running the post have been vacant for weeks. you actually knew how to write emails knew how to communicate handle a computer well and that's why the other council members elected him and then came the outrage at the national level many senior politicians often going to america but also the social democrats and all other mainstream parties were expressing their anger their disbelief at the election and calling for a reversal off the election and it actually looks like the 1st steps have been taken towards that reversal and there was a motion filed by some council members trying to reverse to dismiss the right wing

extremist local as chair of that council so it looked like the local politicians were just electing yaks and didn't expect the reaction and the outrage at the national level just it does seem extraordinary with him. like the neo nazi so long as nobody else objects that's weird part of the reason we had in the report local officials say there were no other candidates so a mainstream. running out of people at a local level. yeah this is what it looks like but it's no secret as it has been an issue for years there's no secret that especially the traditional big tent parties in germany the social democrats and i'm going to america's christian democrats have had problems for years to actually get younger people involved in local politics especially at the local level to run for office but obviously critics are now saying that just because a person knows how to handle a computer well knows how to write e-mail that is no reason to elect someone who

has had links with the new nazi scene who is part of the new nazi party to this position political reporter learning from time to time thank you now to united states where pinion polls show that vice president joe biden is leading the democratic contenders to take on donald trump next year he is ahead of rivals bernie sanders and elizabeth warren despite being well known to many joe biden isn't to present everyone campaign trail the w.'s alex hunter from nominee is following the race in new hampshire. joe biden's already had a successful career but here he is again running for president because he says he wants to indict the country. at town hall in.