this is d.w. news live from delhi and germany's latest scramble to contain a political scandal involving the far right the country's ruling conservatives are holding crisis talks with a junior coalition partner in berlin today that's up to the party's regional leaders shouted a decades old to do by teaming up with right wing extremists to elect a state laid out also coming out. as the coronavirus claims more lives on contacts fresh action to stem the spread of the infection posing a mandatory current thanks to anyone arriving in mainland china. and the women led

protests in delhi that are the target of india's hindu nationalist government our correspondent explains why they have taken center stage in a local election. oh . i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are set to hold crisis talks with a coalition partner the social democrats to address nationwide outrage over the role of the far right in a german regional election earlier this week some regional say the lawmakers sided with the populist alternative to germany party to block the re-election of the left party incumbent installing a liberal premier in the eastern state of for india the shock political maneuver shattered a post-war consensus among mainstream german parties to extremist politics. it's been a tough few days for the leader of germany's conservative christian democrats or cd

you. get karrenbauer widely seen as chancellor angela merkel's protege has been caught in a political fiasco ever since our party's regional leaders in the state of touring gear teamed up with far right politicians to elect a new state premier on friday karrenbauer wentz once again on the record saying her party would not work with the far right put it in order for the c.d.u. in germany and also the c.d.u. entering it's still the case that there will be no cooperation with either directly or in directly in direct form initially carabao had said fresh they selections was the only way to solve the crisis interest here now in an apparent back down she says she will give legislators some time to try and find an alternative solution to the crisis she feels the s.p.d. in the greens have a duty to elect their own representative of you which hasn't gone down well with the s.p.d. . we should really use some common sense here and recognize what the outcome of

this election was if you can't accept the results then you still have to realize that things would have changed for the voters the right thing to do is hold a new election not more talks in our planned in berlin over the weekend i aimed at containing this regional fiasco so that it doesn't turn into a national political crisis. who are on this story i'm joined by davies political correspondent simon young simon hi what's the objective of today's crisis talks well on the surface is to work out a way forward for what's going to happen in removing the stain of far right interference in mainstream politics but for the s.p.d. at this meeting i think the political objective is to put pressure on their coalition partners the christian democrats and from medical c.d.u. to try and save face any way they can what happened in the ranger was that the right of center policies c.d.u. an f.t.p.

saw an opportunity to take over the government in the states there they put up their candidate for state premier and he was voted in with the far right support not crossed the line the 1st time the far right so had that kind of role in politics in germany since the 2nd world war that's why there's all this fuss and that's why there's such a big political round about it were chancellor angela merkel had criticised the events she called them a grave mistake she says return from an official visit in africa when she solve this problem perhaps not our on her own but she has started to put her stamp on this crisis she has forced the record resignation today of a senior official a christian he had to his job was to coordinate government policy in eastern germany dealing with the sort of special circumstances of a former communist east but he is happens also to be the deputy leader of the

christian democrats in the range and he voted at least for him tweeted out after that vote was dumb through his support for for the candidates of the cd unifi pay he probably thought that was an ok thing to do but given that this man has become so controversial by big. elected with the right support as i said so until america is already letting it be known as she thinks all of this is inexcusable and what does this say about the current leadership of the city your honor and a great crime care about i took over from uncle michael as later of the party and this isn't really voting very well for her showing cracks in her ladyship it's a very bad look for a k.k.k. she's trying to do something about this she spent hours down into a range of the other day we're in talks with people they're trying to get them to agree to her plan for how to get out of this mess they sort of push back and of tried to go another way and you know it's evident that the social democrats see

a chance to say look who's in control of this party and don't forget a.k.k. wants to succeed and go to medical as chancellor or at least to become the candidate for the c.d.u. that's a battle that's still going on within the party and this last few days really hasn't helped her in that effort either simon and thanks very much for explaining it to us turned on to some of the other stories making news around the world the trumpet ministration has 5 top white house ukraine specialist army lieutenant colonel alexander van monk and man has provided damaging had provided damaging testimony about president trump during the race an impatient process media reports say trumps also recalling the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunderland who also testified against the president we were playing. u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls have faced off in the final debate before tuesday's new hampshire primary bernie sanders and paper targets after their strong finishes in monday's iowa caucuses sanders faced criticism for his left wing policy

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in the last 48 hour as little comfort to the families of those who've died or the 10s of thousands of people now living under quarantine. local elections are underway in india's capital daily it's the 1st electoral test since the national government passed controversial citizenship laws which may which many believe discriminate against muslims legislation that sparked protests and violence in the city hall and 15000000 people are expected to vote as prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist b j pay party aims to wrestle control of delhi from the opposition the ruling big pay says the protesters are anti national elements and that only the b.j. pay can protect indians from the fate of these maisha giles fall is in delhi with more. the gender thing but god is doing his bit to win a seat for the hindu nationalists. his campaign pm song says it all.

like the days of nationalism in india but god will rise to. he is especially concerned about a month long sit in delhi against an amended citizenship law. the law makes religion a test of citizenship for the 1st time. and protesters say it's exclusion of muslims is discriminatory and unconstitutional. they're seeing feet they're insulting hindu symbols they're chanting that they want freedom from him those are the shaheen mark protesters the demonstrators and isn't alone in his view senior media being leaders have called the protests the militias the slap them and i national housing their leader expressed their anger against the set and by watching for the media one needs every parliament and even their south to try and sue the state was up to these after that controversial speech a teenager shot

a trotter stores at the university center in the days to follow to woman shot firearms at protests. activists saki of cool clear question why the b.g. people edition wasn't charged for inciting violence sure she decided to test authorities he sought permission to hold a rally to chant shoot the traitors the delhi police rejected his application calling it a tried to law and order now clear is going to court if he can't use the slogan on the right to free speech why can a politician says the answer to simple hate pays for the b.g.p. then the scale of the radicalized people seem to be unemployment as an all time high the b.g.p. has a huge number of untapped people out there who are frustrated who are angry who don't have jobs because of economy about the government how do you know all the anger inside these people is do you give them a bogey you have them something to hate and for the busy bee that's mostly. the

protesters are unfazed. their motto has become flowers not bullets for an event titled artists against communalism. musicians ports and doctors from across the country have been pouring in to perform. for the process of. joining this campaign these thought afters have been called many things. sellouts treaters even suicide bombers. in dying b.c. leader nice for what they are doing. freedom fighters. and when this latest soccer on track frankfurt have extended their own bait and start to 2025 no win over burg on friday america defended timothy chandler continued his incredible scoring run with 2 goals either side of half time is now scored for this calendar year philip cost it completed the route deep into injury

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