the, the state of the news coming to live from berlin, brock obama, the fires of the crowd at the democratic convention in chicago, putting a couple of harris twist on his trademark slogan. yesterday the support of the president also coming on jewish communities in germany are worried about surprising nationalism is the far right book set to make gains in eastern german elections. we have a special with the

little m terry martin. welcome to the program. there's another big night that the democratic national convention in the us with bar rock obama and michelle obama delivering headlined speeches. the former president told fellow democrats in chicago, the torch has been passed to cumberland harris, and it's time to get to work to elect her as president. as it was, the obama as night receiving got a rock star. welcome at the democratic national convention. the president buck obama bugler rousing endorsement of democratic presidential hopeful. com and the head is we do not need 4 more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos

stores. we are running the president. 2 both obama strongly criticized the republican candidate, former president, done his drum. there's a 78 year old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he wrote down his name escalator 9 years ago. it's been a consequence stream of upgrades and grievances that that's actually been getting worse now that he was afraid of losing comma for years, donald trump did everything in his power to try to make people be or us see him is limited narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the

existence of to hard work and a highly educated, successful people. the head is very formally accept the bodies domination for president at the convention on thursday. it was because the fust of women of color to lead a major party presidential ticket, the off the ready go easy, see it being the presidential these to get behind head. is that the support of the if it goes like the obama demo fix are buzzing, but the whole and teens are former washington correspondent, i mean, is, is following all this and joins me now. in the studio. i mean, at the prospect of cumberland harris running against donald trump for president has re energized the democratic party. brock and michelle obama tried to amplify that energy in their speeches. what's your make of all that? what do you mean? take away from day 2 of the democratic uh, national convention. well,

it was the night of the charismatic leaders at the dnc. that's because the obama's are still very popular. the 2008 election the sweeping election. a brock o'bonham was the biggest moment in my memory for the democratic party, and they want to present commer harris as a repeat of that big game night. that big victory that gave a lot of people the, the hope i mean that was brock obama selling point. oh is the hoping to change that was on all of the signs. and he brought that out along with his very popular wife. michelle obama. there pitch was that come with harris represents this hope that they represented a well over a decade ago. so that was their pitch. they also really went after donald trump. exactly nights or less in the, in the last. it wasn't tonight, there was a the night in the us, but exactly they the above was focused very much on on donald trump in their speech is i'm just wondering what that's all about the obviously that's precinct is the converted inside the convention hall. but what's the point of such messages?

were they trying to reach beyond the convention hall to undecided voters? do you think it appeals to them? of course they got big tears when they went after donald trump in the hall, registered democrats cheering them on when they attacked on from they pitched it as we are the big 10 party of adults, of decency and from represents the strain of of anger, sol, jeanie michelle obama is called him ugly massage and this thing called said he had races. he always gave races lies. brock obama talked about his childish nicknames as a substitute for you ideas. so their pitch was that we are the party of adults, but that pitch was actually my opinion also to the independent voters and also trump supporters who are starting to give up on this politics of grievance, we saw a speech from his former press secretary, stephanie christian, who said that this kind of

a mean spiritedness that he uses to attack his enemies. he also talks about a supporters like that behind closed doors. she said that was 1st her, her 1st hand account. so there are a lot of republicans out there who are look back to the former years of the republican party and say, i want to go back to this kind of decency. the problem there though is there is a lot of grievance in the united states. there are a lot of people who are fed up with the way things are going to know that their lives were better off before the inflation before the pandemic. and they, they, they want real policies to address those. is it? well, there is a lot of emotion in this presidential campaign on, on both sides. what about the substance? what about policy? particularly with cumberland harris. what does she offering to help get her self across the line? well, she is in a very strange predicament. here is not unique in american politics, but she's the sitting vice president. so she is part of the current administration . so while the obama is, are presenting or as hope and change, she actually represents the establishment at this point. so she needs to distance

himself from the unpopular policies of bite and well the same time presenting her policies so far. it's been light on that the obama's and everybody else doing the work of, of building her character ups the voters get to know her. but the real hard policies haven't dropped, she does have a line on a portion of very and pop or that's during the because of the supreme court. the way that the trump uh, set it up with his nominees, abortion has been left to the states to decide. and she says she wants to turn that into law in the us. so taking away from the court and saying it's protecting women's rights by law, but she hasn't really dropped her big pauses yet. we're expecting that in the coming days towards is her running made. he's supposed to speak at the next day of the convention and on thursday, that's her big day will she will give her speech and hopefully present some policies to address the grievances of americans. i mean, thank you so much. our correspondent. i mean, i mean it's a, a style to politics in germany. a 3 state elections

are slated for next month in eastern germany and one party is expected to pull off its best result. however, the par, right alternative for germany, the anti immigration and to us pro russia party is on course to win all 3 races. it would be the 1st time a far right nationalist party has one power at the state level in germany. since the nazis dw is matthew moore visited jewish community in airport, the state capital of the ring, you know, the celebration of 1000 years of jewish history. an effort just to meet before both to his face, a high speech choice. i go on to hold a if d blue. that's a know it's, it was, he's gone. i'm. it's going to use of a new dark chapter to him. she's not just a few jews. he done on floss, denials, escape kind on. they have no reason to be afraid of your different mention. ryan

hutch from survived the holocaust as a baby shows the popularity of the fall right till tentative for jeremy or re f. d is fueling concerned among to written just jewish community by sci fi. and if that's the i the august, what unites them is that they're all afraid the, after the will gain strength. and this under simitis most i think has been a phobias anti semitism and racism. a part of the a f d is dna i've taken who on to say is it's done to this man be on who the local f, the leader who has huge influence nationwide who could use is not us slogans. welcome painting for which he was fined by a court on has called for germany to dwell less on it's not see past. this is yeah, i think if chic this monday will be a h clever maneuvering aimed at avoiding breaking the law. that's this spot. he's

fundamentally sparing on next visit and i do see a thing doing that because ultimately it's not just a few jews was sent to your room who died. but ultimately, when nationalism prevails, it leads to more that you can there's a lot of brushed as a regular at the synagogue. she believes the f, these popularity hasn't bold in violent extremist as in this all a. so we are concerned here because the right wingers are also acting with brutality against not only jews, but against everyone. what they don't like if the face doesn't suit them, then they just lash out. unplug postables, before we put those claims to the f d 's leader in the state parliament escape kind unless they have no reason to be afraid, especially not jewish people. there's no reason to fear the a if the leading or being part of the government. we have no plans,

neither our program nor any of our proposed measures or even remotely directed against jewish people mentioned listed despite those we assurances on each prevails . but some here are hopeful that dialogue and dancing can overcome the vision. the future of 2 india may depend on it. and dw, as matthew moore, who filed that report, joins us now from the airport. but the, the f t says jews have nothing to fear from them, but they clearly are afraid, as we saw on your report. what, what an a f d led government need to do to assure jews, migrants and other minorities that they are indeed safe says. well, throughout my reporting, terry, yeah, it really became clear to me, i was speaking to various people here that the fundamental there is nothing that the the in his current guys laid by his currently view and who can do to assuage those concerns. and that's because the party here has been,

has been designated by security services as a proven right wing extremists policy. and it's led by people who come on, who a court has said, can be described as a fascist. so fundamentally they don't think that this is a potty, that is good for them. but what i was struck by my conversations was it just wasn't just the concerns about their own community. it was also the concerns of all the rest of the minority groups, and they say that while the d. c, a might not explicitly be on t v, racial anti semitic the are trying to target other groups like moves and communities and the jewish community. he had told me that the experience shows them the 3rd in the line. it is quite possible that jews will become a target for a party that has nationalist policies like the f d. i'm going to put those concerns to the the, it's interesting the very dismissal because there's nothing in our program that they should get jewish people cause for concern. but they say that this is these criticisms that the political um, the designation by security services, all of this is politically motivated by their opponents. and so there you see that

the, the, the gap, the distance between the concerns that people have not just the, of our own geometry and also the f d who are trying to really play darn this criticism in the can sense. what would it mean uh, the national level in germany, if the a, f d one, all 3 of the upcoming state elections, both you, this is the if the where to come on top in, in just one of those states selections. it would be a historic moment for postwar, germany, and that is despite the fact that even if they did when they might not have enough to form a government. so it would be a huge moment because they could potentially form a blocking minority which would allow them to kind of still be budgets and the passing of walls, maybe political appointments, it would allow them potentially to stop money going to groups that come that far right extremism. the promote democracy is interesting that the head of the booking vide concentration camp memorial. a short drive from here. he sent

a laptop 235-0000 residents who will have a vote in this upcoming election, wanting them not to vote for the f d. seeing that the use of policy, that for the allies is not see crimes. and in the last 2 or 2, he has a notary so he said publicly that he has been targeted by death threats. he believes that there's a connection between his criticism of this policy, the, the, and these death threats. and what we see is basically highly politically charged the claimant here locally, but also potentially nationwide. and if the, if you did come a on top, it would have a huge implication locally here. but it would have a dramatic impact on the national picture in germany. beth, you thank you very much. that was our political correspondent, matthew, more in air for as you are watching dw news from berlin up. next, we've got a documentary film for you looking at nato and the principle of collective defense

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