this is d. w. news line from berlin colombia's president calls for dialogue to try to end nation wide demonstrations protesters defied a curfew in the capital but with tons of vent their anger against planned economic reforms at least 3 people have been killed since protests began also on the show germany's conservative leader tries to rally support after a tumultuous year on the grass across the current our tells the c.d.u. she needs its full support to win the next election as she tries to step out of the shadow on the american lot of party conference and with german neo nazis

demonstrating in on over against journalists we take a look at the ultra far right movement campaign choosing to date a photographer. i'm calling assman welcome to the program in colombia protests have resumed amid growing anger against president even to gays right wing government this comes as hundreds of thousands of colombians took to the streets in bogota and other cities earlier this week to protest to gays economic social and security policies as part of a nationwide general strike earlier today do they promised social reforms let's hear what he had to say. by the putin approach you must amanda starting next week i will launch a national dialogue to strengthen the current a social policy agenda. we will work to develop

a medium to long term vision. that what hope is to deal with any quality in our society. is our let's get more of that now i'm joined by in the studio of your i gave us who's been reporting extensively from colombia i mean in fact you were recently in bogota you know colombian citizens in the streets again we've seen those frustrations just describe the situation for us i mean what's it like there and are those frustrations visible and in daily life in colombia well the president was mentioning inequality directly and that is probably the key word here and colombia is a wonderful place to live if you are rich if you are privileged it's a very tough country if you are under privileged and that is in part because the government does not offer policies that allow people to move up the ladder it is a country where people have to fight day by day to just get the minimum is a country where for 44 percent of the population earns less than the minimum wage

therefore do not have access for example to pensions and all of that discomfort and all of that frustration is definitely something that you feel there every day and we heard the president's promising what he calls a national conversation what would that conversation look like what is he referring to that well president came to power with a very clear plan of what he wanted to do and one of the things he wanted to do was do not make any concessions to opposition parties in order to achieve his presidential goals that means he ended a practice that was very commonplace in colombia in politics of for example offering some kind of public money to a certain party in order for that party to support a project the result has been that he has not been able to get through any of the. laws in any office project basically done nothing for the country and that means now he has to at least show signs of negotiation in order to at least talk to the

opposition parties and that also means that he will have to talk to the sectors that are organizing these protests we're talking about teachers we're talking about universities we're talking about workers' unions in different parts of the country i cannot tell you if this is just an image thing if he's only saying yes let's talk and i'm open or if he actually will do something about that blockade now protests this large i mean we're talking up to a quarter 1000000 people in the streets there are in colombia i mean how is this movement become so big and where do we think it will go well the main reason is that everyone had a different reason to go on the streets students have budgets that we're fighting for many people are not pleased with how the government has deal dealt with the peace process in colombia there are social activists that are being killed every day there's members of the former group that are also being killed the government has not really been effective in solving that problem colombia's problems are very complex it would take a whole program to analyze them so everyone had

a different motivation to go on the streets and that's why it became so big and in this particular case it was certainly also motivated by the movements that we've seen in other latin american countries recently where people saw that there's a possibility to force our government into action by going on the streets and that definitely was a factor as well certainly not the only country saying protests in the region javier gave us thanks very much. our now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a car bomb in a turkish held border town in northern syria has killed 9 people monitoring group says 2 children were among those killed there is no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb. up francis has arrived in japan during his 4 day trip he will visit nagasaki and hiroshima or he is expected to warn of the dangers of nuclear weapons francis is on the 2nd and final leg of an asia tour that began in thailand. in paris people are joined in march to manning the french government

take stronger action against deadly domestic violence with more than 130 women killed so far and 29000 by their partner france is one of the worst countries or deadly domestic violence in your. all victory for the head of germany's governing conservatives on the ground laid down the gauntlet at her party conference yesterday warning delegates that she would resign if she didn't get their full backing that earned her a 7 minute standing ovation car of our took over from chancellor angela merkel as c.d.u. leader last year but the party's popularity has continued to slide under her leadership . she now has time to catch your breath and calm cabin at a party conference the head of the cd you've managed to see off the rebellion against her leadership at least for now. i described here at the party conference where germany could look like and i asked the party whether they wanted to go down

that road together with me and to delegates confirmed this very impressively on friday with the. delegates rewarded her passionate speech where she posed the question back me or sack me with this 7 minute standing ovation. even her most vehement critics declare their loyalty. this idiot you once to make a display of unity and present itself as the party of the center of territory where they have lost some footing lately as the far right a 50 and the environmentalist greens gain support. you mentioned people want answers to their questions not to our questions on the web so what are the cd use answers to the big questions 5 g. a digital ministry and an inclusive digital agenda the city use priority is to modernize the country's digital landscape become cabin boy has bought herself time to deliver on such promises i want us to win the next wonderstruck election and we're working towards that. the decision on whether she will be the one leading her

party into the 2021 election will be taken next year and chancellor angela merkel her low key appearance at this weekend's party conference was yet another reminder that the american era is drawing to a close. or let's break that all down now joining me in studio political correspondent kate brady you were at that cd you party conference as far as party conferences go this was quite an eventful one just just walk us through some of the highlights of this weekend well the last few days have had a lot of issues a lot of things debated a lot of motions that passed and also rejected but one of the most interesting issues or motions to be passed the day came the c.d.u. regarding digitalisation in germany and the development of germany's 5 g. network now until now german chancellor angela merkel has said that the chinese tech giant they should not be blocked from at least putting in

a bid to develop germany's 5 g. network but of course that is a very controversial topic here in germany right now as it also is in a lot of other democracies that's already been ruled out in the u.s. for example largely because of the suspected ties between they and the chinese government is safe to say the c.d.u. the conservative c.d.u. passed a motion which now means that this issue will be debated in the german parliament so it's seen as a little bit of a rejection towards stands and so be interesting to see exactly how that turns out once that's discussed in the german parliament that said definitely without doubt the overarching issue that kind of overshadowed this entire party conference these last 2 days has been the question of party leadership and it could come carabao at least for now it seems as you mentioned she's taken this issue into her own hands and yesterday she really seemed to call her critics bluff basically saying back me or sack me so at least it seems to now that she's safe but of course it's still

a long way until the c.d.u. decides who it's going to put up for the chancellor e in the 2021 elections how secure should a.k.k. as she's called feel right now as the party leader when they will there yesterday she received this grim 7 minute standing ovation it wasn't really an. thing binding at the end of the day there is still competition queuing up to fill her shoes and definitely friedrich matts who was one of the prominent figures speaking yesterday one of the loudest critics of a.k.k. he struck a rather conciliatory tone yesterday saying that he didn't want to go against the party leadership but he certainly i think at least will be waiting in the wings come next year when they will be putting forward the nominations for the candidacy of right now. is still struggling in the polls nationally among voters and there are several other members of the cd you know ranking much better than her in the polls when it comes to who they want to see as the cd party leader and of course

she's trying to fill some big shoes stepping into translator uncle miracle's role as the head of the c.d.u. political correspondent kate brady thanks very much well staying in germany neo nazis are engaged in a campaign to intimidate journalists or write alter nationalist n.p.t. party as targeted 3 reporters who are investigating the neo nazi scene more than 100 alter nationalists took their message of intimidating journalists to the streets of an over on saturday the n.p.t. refers to journalists as enemies some 7000 counter demonstrators turned out to protest against them. now we met one of the journalists targeted by the end of a secret location for safety. and is looking through his photos. he took this one at a far right extremist demonstration

a neo nazi stares towards his camera and they exude very clear jester. photojournalist arden is used to this. kind of i wanna vent goes by in which we're not showing that they think we should be killed or injured and that our private lives should be invaded. at and his colleagues are investigating right wing extremism in germany he is known on the scene the militant group combat 18 has sent him letters addressed to andre jewish swine authorities say the letters are genuine and now add a knows the militants have his address. for that reason alone i've moved several times we're not he's got hold of my address and then it rallies they said hey i know where you live and i'll come by but it's not only about me it puts other people in my private life in danger to the lord. is the deputy chairman of the far right extremist n.p.t. he has a criminal record for assault and incitement to hatred he mentions journalist andre

addon by name in a speech. today i know and i have no doubt about this that one of our main enemies in the gutter press those who call themselves journalists is one called arden. our names are brought up and he mixes them with violent themes he doesn't say go get him instead he says i wouldn't shed many tears if something happened to him i would not say that something should happen to him but i would not shed many tears and from that everyone knows exactly what they should do. with those kinds of threats and feels abandoned by the author already s. and the police. he alone is responsible for his own safety. of course i feel broken or if you have ever experienced violence you carry it with you or you can just sweep it under the carpet and be done with it. while all of us have experienced balance and threats my strategy for dealing with it is not to get scared. i won't allow myself to be afraid and that's how we all keep it up and keep

going to their events because we want to show them that we will not be frightened of us and that's why there is no doubt that he will go to the next neo nazi event to document it is worth and if there's i don't want our democracy the social system in which i live to get into a situation where it is hollowed out and it topples over to the right we know from our own history where that can lead to fascism and mass murder and that is something i as a journalist want to prevent it is my duty as one of the talk and to add in takes his duty more seriously than ever in these times of growing populism and nationalism. are right sports now in the bundesliga as early saturday games are in the books so let's take a look at those results newly promoted on your own berlin upset table toppers gladbach are munich dominating dusseldorf leverkusen and fibered shared the points

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