let's take it now to our political correspondent the only thing hammerstein's she's following it here in berlin good evening to you let's start with the basics here the in p.d. party who are they well the n.p.t. certainly is an extreme right wing passy with slings to the neo nazi scene here in germany and as we heard in the report the domestic intelligence agency has for years half been observing the n.p.t. and there have been several attempts to ban the party their constitutional court in germany the highest court has indeed said that the n.p.t. is pursuing anti crimes to to use no goals and resembles hit us and stamp a party and in 2017 the constitutional court stopped short of banning it only because it said they considered it too weak to actually endangered democracy all of this of course no one before stefan yosh was elected and yet the mainstream parties they are like to them braised no objections to him so why in the world today

objecting now. well there certainly just didn't expect the outrage and the uproar that was coming towards them from the national political level i mean it's interesting to look at what the c.d.u. the members of the council said what the ag humans were in favor of electing jackson they said that there was no other candidate that he knew how to work well with a computer he knew how to write e-mails and his party affiliation didn't play a role and then came the admiral at the national political level where senior political figures here in berlin where expressing their outrage their anger and disbelief at these election and were also calling for this decision to be reversed and actually there have been a couple of steps taken towards that reversal indeed 7 of the 9 council members have already submitted a motion to dismiss the it's an extremist asked chair so it seems like they were

really reacting to that political pressure from the highest level here in berlin that a saying no 0 tolerance towards the end n.p.v. interest and with computer skills that will get you the job as a mayor what about the fact that there were no other candidates are the mainstream parties such as the change those conservatives to use are they are they running out of people at the local level yeah this is definitely what a lot of commentators have been drawing attention to most that and this has been no secret it's been an issue for years especially the big tent so-called big tent political parties and going to america christian democrats but also the social democrats do really seem to have a problem to engage especially younger people at the local level to run for office and to engage in politics so this is what this case has shown. storyboards tonight here in berlin only thank you.

national politics in the united states opinion polls in the u.s. show former vice president joe biden leading the democratic contenders to take on donald trump in next year's election he's ahead of rivals bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and despite being well known to many joe biden is not impressing everyone on the campaign trail u.w.s. alexander phenomena 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 unite the country. at town hall in luck kanya in new hampshire. president troops entre many sad my own the former vice president but you need to hear what kind of message she has to offer as a presidential candidate. we are in a battle for the soul of this nation is 1st and foremost the reason why i decided.

i had talks about his accomplishments in the obama administration and the problems he wants to tackle is elected but he doesn't really seem to be focused on many open 3 marks are 2 things and lengthy the data shows if you do you increase foremost i think you need to be more concise in his explanations of things and i was a little disappointed that way i was happy with what with what he said i understood what he was trying to say other people maybe not so much there are a lot of people here that are on the fence today he spoke on issues that were important to me and it was about the immigration issues and it was about the violence with the guns and i think that he'll definitely improve this country and bring us back together again the next morning of the new hampshire democratic party convention biden is one of 19 presidential hopefuls cept to speak here and he is on the pressure to defend his position as the party stay put. the former vice

president is still woolly hat in the race for next year's democratic presidential nomination his campaign has portrayed him as the candidate most likely to be able to be done all trump but his lead in the polls has shrunk and the question remains how much of his advantage merely reflects name recognition for a man who has been in the public eye for more than 4 decades. thank the audience gives him a warm all come when he takes the stage. but the supporters of his main opponent senator elizabeth warren and senator bernie sanders seem to be much more enthusiastic and ruckus. we think a little bit worse the ideal candidate she's smart she's got a plan she's looking out for our planet earth as well as all americans not just the one percent what do you think about the front runner. mr by. anybody the

truck so if he's the nominee i'm behind him but my preference is elizabeth warren order will be the new council in eastern new hampshire which is a number of by come pain stuff his advisors say joe biden represents the democratic party better than anyone just a party they say that is older and more moderate than many as you know but that also means that his record is being questioned by young progressives my question is how can we trust that you're going to act on climate on the climate crisis if you're saw attending fundraisers that fossil fuel executives like andy goldman are at i want to look at my arch. i guarantee you i guarantee you we're going to end fossil fuel and i am not going to cooperate. the activist doesn't seem to be convinced but by had months on it's still early in the primary race and his

companion is bracing for a long fight. back to the right. or reporters in indian administered kashmir are struggling to do their jobs without internet phone lines or mobile phone service more than a month after india suspended the region's all tommy reporting from kashmir well they face severe restrictions and an unprecedented communications shutdown. correspondent. travelled to srinagar in indian administered kashmir there she discovered kashmiris in a state of confusion without access to reliable news. and news room without internet phone lines almost by connections this meet in 21000. foot of spock bantry a reporter for the national newspaper. the computers that was simply to write stories on. to get his work to the people of headquarters in another city he

has to save it on a pen drive and take it to a media facilitation centered on by the government. the center has one internet connection and 5 computers for hundreds of local national and international journalists. it's also where he can catch up with other to porto's on what they are hearing but these aren't the only what is he and his colleagues in kashmir face just really it's pretty difficult to get off from version of that and some saudi and writer were very careful and you can say did have been going so many journals have been someone about the officials who had to do good from this information if they can say it sort of against a threat and question also. that are occasional briefings like today when reporters are invited to hear from army and police official this. the focus of the briefing however is not on the situation in the media randi it is on pakistan and its

alleged efforts at infiltration. officials insist that the past month has been the most peaceful in kashmir and shutting down communications has been.