beethoven 2020. 150th anniversary here on d. don't you. remember. this is the w. news live from berlin politicize close ranks of the far right demonstrations break through police lines at germany's parliament building lawmakers from across the political spectrum house condemned the assault also coming up. a story granting the 1st direct commercial flight between israel and the united arab emirates this world

hopes it's the start of a new relationship with the arab world. safina softer stuff and us. yes we can moment 5 years ago we'll look at how that decision to accept the wave of migrants has reshaped your. gabble 1st welcome to the program chancellor angela merkel has condemned as shameful an attempt by the far right to stall the national parliament building here in berlin hardcore activists broke through police lines during a larger rally against the government's government's pandemic policies machall says those who try to access the building abused their rights to demonstrate peacefully condemnation has been echoed by leaders from across the political spectrum. it looks like a normal monday in central balin the tourist stuff. back the price tag is open for

visitors again but the scenes of unrest at the weekend are on many people's minds. saturday evening far right extremists pushed through police lines to the top of the high stuck steps. pictures that my generation just isn't familiar with. these people stand for different values and to see that also here in germany there are so many people who think differently and have different values the pains me. to . stand the demonstrators shouted resistance. and visit us folk we are the people. the black white and red of the colors of the old imperial german reich used now by neo nazis in front of that i stuck it makes for shocking symbolism. other demonstrators who filled berlin at the weekend and consisted largely of

peaceful coronavirus skeptics were no longer the center of attention. 6 policemen and women were invited to the official residence of the german president frank photo steinmeyer thanked them and their colleagues for their composed reaction at the weekend and had a message to the demonstrators mind 1st an indicator of a door my empathy ends where demonstrators let themselves be instrumental lies by enemies of democracy and by political agitators. they are. if you close ranks with right wing extremists in the streets or even if you just walk side by side with new nazis xenophobes and anti semites if you don't distance yourself clearly and proactively you're on their side. and accusation that corona skeptics have rejected. in

a heated discussion with journalists they insisted the far right where a fringe group and that the organizers had indeed distanced themselves. according to polls the vast majority of germans support the government's anti corona measures . that's also the message anglo-american spokesman had. emerged i want to thank the vast majority of the 83000000 people in this country all those who behave in a reasonable prudent and respectful manner and adhere to the rules in this pandemic even if that's not always easy. the coronas skeptics are making plans for their next demonstration observers will be watching to see whether they succeed in distancing themselves from far right groups more clearly. chief political correspondent linda crane joins us now for more on this melinda we just saw these scenes of some of the women from saturday let's put this into perspective are these

images symbolic of a real threat to democracy in germany. the images absolutely are symbolic but they do not represent a real threat to democracy so let me explain that a bit they are politically symbolic because germany is a parliamentary democracy and that parliament building the heist is the very heart of the country's political system as we in fact have heard from germany's president they're also historically and emotionally symbolic images because in fact the nazi era began with the burning of the price tag it's thought that nazis probably set that fire so pictures like this right wing extremists on the steps of the rice to building are absolutely very disturbing to many germans but they did not represent a real physical attack on the german political system this was a fairly small group amongst the protesters

a couple of 100 right wing extremists who clambered those steps and who appeared once they got there to be more interested in taking selfies and wave waving their flags than actually storming their heist tog entrance the head of the berlin police the interior minister of the city said that at no time was the rice tog building in serious danger the fact is that the vast majority of this quite disparate protest was made up of normal citizens who don't like those corona protection measures as we've just seen in the report and also of some anti-vaccination activists and esoteric people and so on now we also just heard 90 percent of german citizens say in polls that they support measures to wear masks and socially distance so these protests do not represent a vast majority nonetheless one must ask whether all the attention that the right

wing protesters are getting made possibly reinforced right wing groups in this country well that's an interesting point are they going to be any consequences to these actions that we see. well the practical consequences will surely be that the police will be even more active in forcing the covert protection measures at future protests as you know this protest was broken up because the protesters weren't wearing masks they weren't social distancing you can be sure that the police will be watching much more carefully in future to see whether in fact there is compliance because people have the right to assemble they have the right to free speech but they don't have the right to break the rules on covert protection measures so that's one point the other point is that the bluntest tog's council of elders will be meeting to talk about how to possibly protect the building security more intensively going forward with the crime thank you.

the 1st ever commercial passenger flight from israel to the united arab emirates has landed at nobble darby from tel aviv on board with top israeli and u.s. officials during president trump's senior advisor and son in law jared pushed up a historic flight comes off as we come after israel and the u.a.e. established diplomatic ties in the u.s. brokered a deal for many residents of both countries the agreement means they can finally bring their business and personal relationships into the. download from your visa and usually days to 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 has 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 hey man i wired the call it got i just heard in the news that we could call it sort of directly communication. is something we humans are known for civilization requires communication to work together. i really praise that wonderful great vision of this country united arab emirates. who facilitates the certification of helen cautious products between the way. this one isn't cold to the emirates for years people had to use foreign providers or the internet to connect and deliver his very. limited effect. it's easy to say it's actually great just imagine the deal breaks with the long held 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 for. record interviews with and the official is like here a t.v. channel 13 is tell of the big poetess crescent immediately to upper darby and israeli news sites have reportedly until in 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 ever interviews 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 if you arab countries have signaled that they might consider following the u.n. this move it could affect if the map off the line says in the region. reports if the flight indicates a new opening full israel and its arab neighbors. well that's that's certainly what israelis are hoping for and now the flight from tel aviv flight 971 from tel aviv to abu dhabi has safely landed shortly before for local time in the united arab emirates and you know some reporters there have to scribe really something very special also have said it's a historic day also because this flight crossed saudi arabia as aspace as the 1st saudi arabia allowed us national airline. to cross

our space making this flight much shorter than it would have been and that is actually what is already so hoping for an opening to go east certainly this 1st visit to start is symbolic but they would be also talking not about business civil matters economic matters and of course there's also the hope that other countries other arab nations might follow the u.s. . to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today montenegro's pro-west a ruling party has narrowly won the country's parliamentary vote but failed to win a majority the democratic party the socialist will have to form a coalition to stay in power opposition alliance of pro serbian parties just. off the polls. china says its troops did not cross the disputed border with india in the original flood duck the dinar comes after neighboring india accused

beijing of provocative military movements in the area in 2 countries have been in talks since june when dozens of indian troops were killed in hand to hand fighting with their chinese counterparts on the frontier. embattled spiller russian president alexander lukashenko and his high ranking officials are barred from entering estonia latvia and lithuania the baltic states blacklisting comes in response to the hussein because crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in the wake of disputed elections more than 100 people were arrested during protests on sunday. police in the u.s. city of portland have launched a homicide investigation after a man apparently associated with a. group was shot dead fighting broke out as hundreds from supporters drove through the city the president and his democratic opponent joe biden blame each other for escalating violence. lebanon's prime minister designate hast promised to

reform the country just hours after his appointment by the president was the deep is a career diplomat and was lebanon's ambassador to germany he acknowledged the need to form a government in record time a massive explosion which hit the capital beirut 4 weeks ago has blamed has been blamed on corruption and mismanagement the previous administration reside. your correspondent. in beirut joins us now mystified it says his priority is to form a government and implement reforms what are those which will. and frankly the forums are very well known in lebanon since it's the 17th of october when the demonstrators and protesters took the streets of lebanon 1st of all one of the main demands of the protesters and as one of the well the forms that was mentioned by the french president michel who were during his last visit 3 weeks ago when he said about the it explicitly sector one of the main sectors ating sectors and urban

which caused the bunny's state. among 50 percent of the national debt this is one of the many forms as well as we have other people's political reforms and now the speaker of the parliament announced in his speech when he addressed the nation that you could go on.