this is g.w. news live from berlin and a tolerable attack in the heart of our democracy those are the words of germany's president after far right demonstrators stormed the parliament building and for land politicians from across the political spectrum have condemned the attack. also coming up protestors envelops groups turn up the heat of the streets of minsk 3 weeks after a disputed election now president lukashenko says he's going to seek he's going to russia to seek help from president putin and goofiness do something shocking to us

. the americans say yes we can moment 5 years ago her open arms migration policy changed germany and europe plus in formula one a champagne performance from the us hamilton at the belgian grand prix another win puts him one step closer to the title and mikael schumacher has wrecked. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program german politicians from across the political spectrum have condemned a far right attempt to storm the parliament building in berlin president frank steinmeyer called it an intolerable attack on the heart of our democracy demonstrators against the government's pandemic policies along with far right groups and science deniers over. police to rush the entrance to the german

parliament was far right extremists pushed through police lines to the top of the rice talks steps. the arab leaders stand they shout resistance. and this interest followed we are the people. the black white and red are the colors of the old imperial german rice used now by neo nazis. in front of the rice tar it makes for shocking symbolism. it's coming it's not acceptable and it cannot be tolerated that some appear with symbols from a terrible dark past flags that have nothing to do with our modern democracy and they show up in front of the borders tired building the rice tank building the most important symbol of our democracy the parliament the mall of them occurred to does

parliament other demonstrators who filled central berlin on saturday were no longer the center of attention. many remained on sunday though and how the small day after a rally at the brandenburg gate they focused on the corona skeptic message and dismissed the previous day's aggression as you prosecutor what happened here was chaos and some small groups who wanted to take advantage of the situation and which we who support the corona demonstration want to have nothing to do with a calm voice and. yet the far right are confident place in berlin for weekends amid the rainbows and peace flags of other demonstrators and the corona skeptics didn't seem to have a problem with them being there and for more we're joined now by political correspondent thomas sparrow who was at this weekend's demonstrations we just heard it described there thomas as chaos is that what you witnessed they were certainly not normal demonstrations we did see. specific clashes between the police and

demonstrators in particular when the police try to dissolve the protest because they consider that people were not wearing mosque or a hearing to social distancing rules or in fact no one was wearing a mask we were also laughed at when we were wearing ourselves a mosque and at that time when police an ounce that they would dissolve the protests there were specific clashes and we also saw obviously afterwards what happened when they stormed the right stock building which is one of germany's most important buildings with a lot of symbolic importance because it's important to stress that in 1933 the nazis burned down that building when they were trying to sort of get rid of what was left of german democracy at the time so you can clearly say that this was very very important scenes that we saw also scenes that have shocked germany's political establishment talk with us a little bit about the mix actually that we saw on the streets because you know you have these right wing extremists. pretty much being tolerated and what was a demonstration intended for being against public health concerns why it is that

there was indeed a big mix of people from families that were there simply out to protest to complain about the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic to ante boxes to people who believe in conspiracy theories to people who obviously belong to far right extremist groups who also sold them there as well undock makes the challenge for authorities obviously much bigger to try to identify who is actually going their own what are the goals it is under no circumstances one group of people will want specific interest but a very varied group of people with very different interests probably what unites them all is the fact that they're against the german government and they're against the way the government has been handling the pandemic one person actually told me when i asked about that goal that only the fish only the dead fish swim with the current so basically they wanted to show a completely different face of germany in the way the current the country has doing has been dealing with the krona are they so they do have a common denominator tell us organized as they claim an extreme minority is

responsible for the clashes the friends of the ones we were just seeing on video there is that correct if you look for example at what the far right a f.t.s. of the biggest opposition party in the german parliament stressed stressed they were actually in favor of the protests and they have that exact view so they said it was only a minority of people who stormed the parliament they also agreed with all the politicians in germany saying that was not enough but on the other hand they did stress that their grievances and the opinions that people had were actually legitimate and that they supported that and they were described as being a good day so it depends what view you take whether you believe that it was only a minority who were there from the far right extremist scene or whether you believe like other people said that actually normal common germans were actually marching side by side with far right extremist groups and that was something that we also saw by the way in the counter demonstration that. of took place in berlin on saturday because it's important to stress that it was not only people out there to protest against the coronavirus restrictions it was also people there were also

people there to say that you couldn't have protests where you show people hand in hand or side by side with with what they described as neo nazis at juxtapositions as are a lot about the atmosphere in the country right now what has been the reaction from politicians politicians from across the board from the german president to the german vice chancellor to other politicians from most parties have actually criticised what happened there i stock slammed it saying that that was a bad day for german democracy stressing that it was an intolerable attack on the heart of german democracy already explain the significance of the significance of of the right start different view as i already stressed came from the far right as we saw also many supporters there of the protest on on saturday politicians from the a if they were also at the protests and they again stressed that even though they did not agree with what happened at the rice that they did think that the actual ideas that people were bringing out that protest were legitimate and therefore one of their leading gave people a vision described as a good day thomas sparrow thank you. let's get

a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world police in the u.s. city of oregon have launched a homicide investigation after a man died during clashes on saturday night skirmishes broke out after hundreds orders of president donald trump drove through the city trump and his democrat opponents have blamed each other for the violence. at least 3 microbes died and 5 others were injured when a fire broke out on a boat carrying them across the mediterranean the smoke from the fire could be seen from a beach near the italian town of crypto name 2 police officers were also heard. lebanon's president michel has called for lebanon to be declared a secular state during a televised address he said it was the only way to protect and preserve or listen and to create national unity on monday lebanon marks 100 years of statehood.

police in the belo are seen capital minsk have arrested more than $100.00 anti-government protesters they were taking part in another mass demonstration to demand that president alexander lukashenko step down the protests started after lucas sankoh claimed an overwhelming reelection victory earlier this month but observers say that the poll was neither free nor fair shake i was due to meet his ally russian president vladimir putin in moscow. i. think. go away go away they chant tens of thousands hit the streets of minsk on sunday the 3rd week of protests doing their best to avoid a massive police presence. but not always with success the. thousands have been detained in recent weeks opponents of the regime and of

president of accent of the cinco. i never thought of it i came here to express my disagreement with the results of the election and my solidarity with the detained people i stand for peace for belarus but not for lukashenko and i was mislead lucas franco has dug in his heels since the protests began he says belarus is threatened by foreign powers not those who want our military report that nato has deployed their forces for drills right on our border what am i supposed to do. and he says he'll soon meet with russian president vladimir putin who has offered to send in security forces to quell the protests. telling him let's see what we can do with low draw and what's up sunday's protests came on the crescendos perth to the crowd marked it their own way with another chant. happy birthday.

now all this week we are looking back 5 years to when hundreds of thousands of people mostly from syria escaped war and persecution and headed for the european union to seek refuge it was a pivotal moment for the e.u. which prides itself on its open internal borders some member states however were closing putting up barbed wire fences to keep the migrants out all eyes turn to the e use biggest member germany would it side with the fence builders or uphold the blocs commitment to freedom of movement. the 3 words chancellor angela merkel took an unusually proactive stand and change the course of european history he is chief political editor michelle of course there was there on this day 5 years co. it was the moment that defined going to merkel's response to the 2015 migration crisis.

and us it was the german equivalent of this yes we can. i was there 5 years ago when desperate migrants in hungary set off on foot towards germany just hours later i'm going to marco singlehandedly decided to keep germany's borders open the scenes of an open welcoming germany went around the world. 5 years on this raises the question did germany make it and at what cost. in 2015 many an angle or merkel's own c.d.u. party were against her open arms policy. then finance minister was one of them his key concern was losing control for today's speaker of germany's parliament it still is. one has to prevent the impression that there is a loss of control that situation was crucial for a few months but we did most of the comments affect by now we need

a european solution to these problems. because instead of more europe national reflexes kicked in across the continent in germany america's decision helped launch a populist party into parliament the far right alternative for germany. the f.t. support had been fizzling out until merkel's we will make it moment ignited the party's rise to become a fixture of germany's political landscape its co-founder alexander garland freely admits that merkel's open border policy helped propel his party to parliament. we didn't make it and we can't make it it's nobody's fault but it's simply impossible to let so many people from a totally different cultural background who behave so differently into a country and say we can make it. a matter of decision was humanitarian yet many also hopes the migrants would be able

to meet germany's growing demand for skilled workers a new survey obtained exclusively by d w before publication shows a mixed picture 5 years on half of these refugees are in some form of employment or education the authors of the study germany did reasonably well mostly because of its economic strength. almost to the day 5 years after her yes we can moment same place same setting machall says she would do the same again. overall i would take the same decisions again that's right. but she warns of tough times ahead with the years on of thoughts of course and we will now see a phase where jenaveve rise in unemployment will make it again more difficult to get those people to work who've only recently arrived here as refugees or as

migrants. on the newcomes and surely gone. for now though germans are more busy with corona but debating migration both have proved to be political gain changes while germany has undoubtedly mastered the effects of 2015 economically politically anger machall valves not to let that moment repeat itself a moment that changed germany and will define her legacy. macand the course now reporting their passengers have been checking in for the 1st ever direct commercial flight between israel and the united arab emirates the historic flight will travel from tel of eve to abu dhabi through saudi airspace comes after israel and the u.a.e. agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the u.s. the u.a.e. is the 3rd arab country to establish full depth of mattick ties with israel for many residents the deal means that they can finally bring covert this nest and

personal relationships into the. down of these are unusual days for mark the jewish israeli palestinian businessman from his small office in jerusalem and through travel he has been doing business with the united arab emirates for several years but always under the radar the country's had no diplomatic relations until recently as a 1st step phone lines were officially established but right now my friends it's call me for the fun of it him or why or call it god i just heard in the news that we could call it sort of the regular communication. is something we humans are no 4 . civilization requires communication and work together. i really praise that wonderful great vision of this country united arab emirates. who facilitates the certification of highland kosher products between the he way. is on his i'm cold to

the emirates for years people had to use foreign providers or the internet to connect and the leverage is very. limited. it's easy to say it's actually great just imagine the deal breaks with the long head view among arab countries that normalizing ties would only come after israel and its military occupation of the palestinian territories in israel there have been a lot of firsts in the past days 1st direct interviews with and officials like here a t.v. channel 13 is tell of the reporters chris sent immediately to upper darby and israeli news sites very reportedly until october the emirates you know what is amazing normally in those cases it takes time but now everything is on the table relationship embassies flight stories and everything is moving very fast we can

phone the emirates we can go there we can every interview is there only egypt and jordan have signed peace treaties with israel in the past one hopes that this new agreement will go beyond business and security mountainous i suspect that this will be a war more peace than the relationship with jordan there was never about blood there was never wars there was never any misunderstanding or political disagreement direct between us and the united arab emirates or anybody in the gulf for that reason so i'm really optimistic few arab countries have signaled that they might consider following the u.n. this move it could affect if leave be shaped and map off and i insist in the region . and joining me now from jerusalem is either of you are responding tanya kramer so as we heard time here the 1st commercial flight taking place today who is on board and how is this moment being memoried it. one boat you have

2 delegations one is the israeli delegation headed by the head of the national security and the other delegation is headed by job. u.s. president advisor because this agreement that still has to be signed at some point was brokered by the u.s. so we understand on this 1st flight it's all about civilian matters they will be talking about tourism maybe diving. the asian culture and of course it's then in the details what kind of bilateral agreements day we'll. work on now if you ask me what people are thinking is well i mean this day has been very much anticipated as we heard in the reporting or it all went very fast and it's very exciting for most people because it opens up israel to words that you use and it's of course not the 1st time and it doesn't happen very often that signs of peace agreement the last time was in 1994 with jordan now the u.a.e.

would be the 3rd country only in the 1st gulf nation to normalize ties with israel on the other hand palestinians are very much concerned about this normalization because it actually changes the stands at least a public stands of our country saying that there shouldn't be no normalization with israel unless israel and its military occupation over the palestinians given all of that tanya what is this flight connection mean for both countries. well i think the 1st thing to say it's very significant this is and i'll slide this israel national carry on from what we understand saudi arabia. reportedly will open its airspace so it can be really a direct flight from to be darted up with darby that is the 1st time so it has a lot of

a few no symbolism in this move and it signals also an openness to this agreement now of course it has a lot of interests as well economic interests but also political interests and it's somehow shows a shift maybe also you know in the alliances a common. enemy so to speak iran israel and the gulf states but also of course it's you know. describes the legacy often embattled israeli prime minister here benyamin netanyahu. tanya kramer with a view from jerusalem today thank you. let's head to soccer leone have won the women's champions league for the 5th time in a row after beating germany's wolfsburg in the final french side were 2 goals ahead of half time in control was for captain alexander pop scored the 2nd half to give her team hope but the young sealed

a 31 victory just before the close of the play to win the firm's leon status as europe's most dominant club side there they've now won the tournament in record 7. and in formula one defending champion lewis hamilton coasted to victory in the belgian grand prix to increase his lead in the overall standings the britain is now just 2 wins away from matching michelle schumacher his record of 91 race victories . the way the best chance to catch lewis hamilton in this race was at the start this spa circuit is fost as a tight turn at the 1st corner always gives would be challenges a glimmer of hope so when hamilton held off his mis eighty's team each talks to reporters the writing was on the wall. the wall was where these 2 ended up the safety car called out on lap 10 after antonio driven

that c. lost control of his alpha rim a. job in that season ted to tire careering into the path of george russell in the williams. thankfully both drivers won homs. it was another disastrous weekend for ferrari sebastian fatso overtaken by what should be a slow alpha remain and just left to fight to teammate shell the classroom measly 13th place up at the front hamilton's biggest fights was with his deteriorating tires but he kept tending in the right direction crossing the line for his 5th when in 7 races this year edging ever closer to a record equalling 7th world title. battle isn't still him new york's iconic metropolitan museum of art has opened its doors again after an almost 6 month closure visitors enter with a times ticket and they have to observe social distancing rules in march the

coronavirus pandemic forced the met to postpone a series of special events marking a century and a half since it's found it's not unusual picture in new york these days they're queuing to get into the reopened better politan museum distancing thermometers mosques but new york is hungry for culture we've been in lockdown for nearly 6 months and this is food for the soul and food for the mind the pandemic hit the met heart it was ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary with a spectacular exhibition that then looked down and the new york institution lost $150000000.00 at let go 20 percent of its staff part of a general downsizing. particularly to prepare for the coming years we're expecting our visitor numbers to be significantly down due to the missing

international tourists in new york at least for a couple of years. the museum of modern art the moma opened on thursday like all museums that was under strict conditions only a quarter of normal capacity just $100.00 physics has are allowed in per hour. new yorkers have never had the chance to experience it like this kind of motion have less people here gives you some time to focus and concentrate but it also means lots of people can see here so obviously i can be about things. new york's museums are opening again but they're taking baby steps into a new reality. and finally the story of a family in bolivia who fought a real life cougar in their kitchen check this out hungry wild cat who broke into their house back in june looking for food park rangers captured the undernourished animal and looked after it for almost 2 months well now 35 kilos heavier the big

cat has been released back into the wild in a national park outside of lux. a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you this hour german politicians across the political spectrum of condemned at the storming of the parliament in berlin by far right demonstrators president trying to shine meyer called it an intolerable attack on the heart of our democracy. and police in the belorussian capital minsk cover arrested more than $100.00 anti-government protesters they were demanding that president alexander shango step down after an election that they say was rage to keep him in power. the next on the union's our science show tomorrow today with a look at how giving viruses a face can help us fight them more effectively all that more coming right up and

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