using it to stop arguments with the elected leaders of germany, the united kingdom and france has been criticized and government policy in great britain is in germany's fall right at the but for the whole is noise coming from the wells, the richest man, how much you fact his pronouncements having will examine the gentleman case, i'm feel go invalid and this is the day the but a diesel. if we're being told 10 years ago that the owner of one of the world's biggest social media networks would intervene in the elections, including in germany who would have imagined this task missed the most cost report to the policy thought is partly 5 by 6 treatments. and as we can see, he is not only doing this in our country of those to the supporting line as far as the wides. kind of interested in fixing the interested in themselves.

this is something we know tell you we disagree with. i reject it to work also on the day just intruder says he will resign after nearly a decade as kind of as prime minister i intend to resign as party leader as prime minister. this country deserves a real choice in the next selection. and it is become clear to me that if i'm having to fight internal baffles, it cannot be the best option. the welcome to the day we begin with the tech billing uh, who is fast becoming a political force since taking charge of x only notice, theresa. a loan mosque has use the social media platform as a platform for his own political views. and after spending millions of dollars

helping to secure donald trump to return to the white house, he's not waiting into your pay and politics expressing support for $5.00 rights on . and he stablish been taught is across to your, including here in germany. in december, he traded his support for the fall right alternative for germany party or a half day with a general election in february, the half days polling sack and then pots, the pottery, being monitored by government domestic security services as possible, threats to democracy. on december the 20, if he posted only the i f, d can save germany and then on new year's eve and referring to next month's elections, he posted a half day is going to win an epic victory must also used an interview in the gym. a newspaper felt to double down on his views, defending the half day against its detractors and describing it, says jim, the laptop is also attacked. germany's leaders saying that chancellor of shouts

should resign immediately. i'm calling him, i'm incompetent for the jim and president from fall fish time my he said, starting my is an anti democratic tyrant. shame on him. felon has accused a loan mosque of election interference as well. when asked of, backed up. must barrels of insults directed at a mind other gentlemanly? there's a chance to a shelter brushed off the comments, say, don't feed the troll. oh, the shelves went on to say that it was nothing new and be highlighted musk supports . before i'd ask d as a much greater consent. b, as in a sense of the social democrats, we have been used to which media entrepreneurs disagreeing with our policy since the 19th century. so this isn't a thing, new doctor, this makes noise doesn't shy, but as long as the fact is not missed the most cost supposed to deposit that is partly far right extremist. and as we can see,

is nothing the doing this in our country a get. this is something we not totally disagree with. i rejected by as is to hook. so is a law must trolling, having any effect on german politics. simon young as one of the deputies battalion of political correspondence. welcome, simon. oh, mister musk comments having an immeasurable effect on public opinion. yes, bill. well, that has, in fact, being a poll in the last few days looking at the loan mosques possible at influence. but i'm afraid it's inconclusive. so that poll has said that 40 percent of germans believes that mosque could influence the upcoming election here in february in favor of the the sd alternative for germany policy, but 42 percent. so just very slightly more of those polled said that they,

that they didn't believe so indeed that number included quite a lot of young voters and also a people who say they suppose the a f d. so make, if that was what you will in terms of the actual voting intention, will the latest polls they do show an increase in support for the a if the there are just one percent now to around 21 off the sides at the, at the same time it also shows an increase of one percent is a vote for the green to a very much not supported by a low on mosque. so, you know, these things are difficult to pick apart, but to a lot of people certainly here, at least in most cases, the side on what about the most politicians we think chance of a shoulds downplaying must a circle trolling. what else is being said yeah. as some of down playing it, but i think the, the political parties are overwhelmingly against these interventions by mosque. i

mean, that's just remind ourselves, you know, calling the john slower and incompetent full is cooling the german president, an on democratic tyrant. and saying the i have the, the only ones who can save jim and a, it's a policy that so the intelligence agency here describes as a potential at extreme is direct, well, you know, the greens, a candidate to become show on the slide. currently, the economics minister robot haul back, he said hands all 5 democracy, mr. moscow, where a point 8 on mosque called him a traitor to the gym and people at a full so it goes back and forth. a lot of politicians are cooling for more regulation of fake news and social media and that kind of thing. and i'm sure we'll see a lot more of that. of those types of holes in the coming weeks. i want to buy, they have to have a lot of a lot musk samples or well, i think they,

if they are overwhelmingly very happy about this kind of support, not say ecstatic. i mean, he's someone who's an influential a celebrity. i think you could cool, hey, mary, has the air of donald trump, of course. and you know, he, he generates a lot of media comment 3. and it's to some extent they, if they are leaning in, they say that to the media, to the team around alice vidal. he's there, john. so the candidates are in regular contact with either on most people. and on the 1st day, alice viable and a little must continue to hold some sort of conversation live on the mosques platform x that design to i'm, i think the will, to is, if a german they need to be careful. we think of what's been happening in the u. k. where even most said that the reform policy, nigel, for roger's policy were the only ones who could site the u. k. and then he turned around and said, no,

i go for ours is not the right man to lead that policy. so you know, it, the i f t 2 could be vulnerable to the so to southern women's, also more like a loan most. well, if the in this live conversation on x, for instance, that he criticizes the if these policy of getting really close to russia on the vladimir putin. how would vital react? would she give any ground on that? so i think there are risks for, with, with being so closely at a supported by somebody with at the last profile. he's the sort of person who will possibly just say anything to get cliques and perhaps very often does. okay, thanks for that. so i'm indeed, every political correspondence, i mean you but i have always been driven by my love for canada, by my desire to serve canadians and by what is in the best interest of canadians.

and canadians deserve a real choice in the next selection. and it has become obvious to me with the internal battles that i cannot be the one to carry the liberal standards into. the next selection was kind of this justin showed or explaining why he'll resign his prime minister. once his liberal party has selected a new leader, mister shrewd has been training in the pulse for the past year, but his popularity plunged to new lovers following december surprised resignation. office finance minister across the freeland. she accused him of using caustic gimmicks to appease. both is just to ensure that it has been almost a decade on this side of a former canadian prime minister. yeah, i showed you guys about in 2015 on the way the functionality is usually useful energy of these policies on come back to the climate change. all is sort of the openness of the values that i have. let's get more from janice that lucy,

if i'm alden, bond ipad, who joins us from the canadian capital altima, a welcome to dw, and they say, last month's very public folding on with the finance minister mocked at a low point of to those to me. but he's popular as we have been folding before that different by want as well. and that doesn't. that's like probably a really great place to start because as you say 2015, he could not have been more popular. he was popular, not only in canada, but around the world. he was a bit of a celebrity prime minister. but since the pandemic economic issues have really been wreaking havoc on through those popularity, all the economic issues with, with whether it's inflation, the cost of housing, general affordability, he's, he's, he's been really pumping this thing called the, the carbon tax, which many countries have. and he's been severely criticized that is just escalated the cost of living. then there is also his personal popularity at this point a 10

years that he's been prime minister. people are ready for a change, and there are parts of his personality. they just seem to now irritate people, he comes across as arrogant. he comes across as out of touch, and those, all those things together have really seen his numbers plummet, and they were growing calls for him to go from within his own policy. so was that just a reaction to his full of popularity with the public or was something else going on as well? so. so what was happening is there were there were, there were tiny voices before pressure freelance resignation calling for him to resign. but it all indications were that he was going to stick it out until the next election scheduled for next october. that could be a lot sooner. we can get to that. but when christopher freeland out was fired, slash resigned in december, all bets were off intruder. oh really the the cries for him to resign from with in

really started to get so loud that he could no longer ignore them. and so he took the holidays to think about it, to take a walk in the snow. and today he announced the results that really, it was untenable. there was no way he could stick it out any longer. but by, by waiting this long, he's really putting the handcuffs on any potential new leader. because there must now be a leadership race. there has to be an election this this this year, so it could likely be very soon after any liberal at any lube leader is chosen. so that leader will have to hit the ground running and will also be solved with these low numbers. not only for 3 robots is liberal party. so was that also a feeling within his positive, adjusting to, to was the person to defend kind of his interest against the incoming us president donald trump? yeah, i think that was less of a concern because you'll remember he was the prime minister when trump was elected

in 2016. and so by all measures that his government and was especially christian freeland, leaving that as deputy prime minister at the time, they found a way to, to have a combination of springs in charm. when dealing with donald trump. so that really wasn't his achilles heel at, at, at this point, although donald trump has been full in canada significantly. and justin prudel calling us to 51st dates so, so there needed to really be a strategy on dealing with trump. but it wasn't his achilles heel, i'd say, right? focus through the the, the, the runners and right is and who's likely to replace mister trudy. well, christopher freeland, we've talked about her now, his former deputy prime minister and, and finance minister. she's sort of leading the pack and then there are a number of current cabinet ministers who are, who are thinking of, of running and i've already been making calls. then there is mark karney. this name may be familiar to your audience. he was a former governor of the bank of, of,

of england before the governor of the bank of canada. there you see him on your screen. he is, he is a moderate, he is well connected internationally and he's also well respected what he's also perhaps most importantly an outside or to the true go liberal baggage. so uh, so by all accounts, he's probably the front runner at this point. so whoever wins will have to deal with or us present, threatening to impose 25 percent tires on canadian goods. alas, off to a stands. what donald trump says is a flow of migrants and drugs into the us. it's not likely to be a cum painting issue. for the posts of the liberal party leader and indeed a prime minister of this year. oh, i think that is, that is a significant concern for any politician in canada right now. that's possible. 5 future prime ministers as well as premier's because of that possible 25 percent tariff this this has become a real concern. so we will be who will have the,

the strongest strategy on dealing with president trump going forward. so i will be watching that closely. it will be a significant issue. and what does this tell us? we who um, who are outside canada, who sort of look at business and see justin true though about kelly, i'm teenager who's done so well for himself. we get this idea of it. canadian politics is positive, but this seems not to be the case. oh no, we're, we're a very dynamic. politically. i would say, i think at least we are right now, but you've caught canada at the 10 year mark. this is the time when canadians typically get fatigue with their governments when, when people have been in, in leadership for 10 years, it is often time for a change. and then there's also this global call for change. and so that's the dynamic and you have donald trump, right? you know, barking at our heels. so this dynamic is making politics and kaz canada. fascinating

at the moment. so don't take your eye off us. all right, good to can do. thank you for to hear us through that. so clearly just that lucy found alden bond defense in auto thank as a dw investigation discovery about that you have in government has been quietly cutting funding for several is riley and palestinian human rights. organizations that have often been critical of israel's actions in the will and casa, since they have us to attack on the, is viable on the 7th of october 2023 policy agents in germany have repeatedly emphasized that israel security is part of germany, so called stance the rise on o v, as in the states, our investigative team has more us williams is really city of bass. she's just 40 cubic meters from gaza. so you certainly can upset that was

why jim and officials cut the funding of his n g o. i don't know if it's been done so on purpose, but it's definitely a bit intervention that was time to deliver the most possible damage to our work. similar workspace. riley's human rights organization. you profile. it supports conscientious objectors, risk imprisonment, industry. since it's a launch to avoid god the following, how must her a ticket? october 2023. your profile has received a more request for support and lisas were catering to a real need by many people, including many people who have served in this really military and realize that they come to continue doing so often for ethical reasons. since 2023 is that work was funded by the gym and government through a partner and you off that having been invented by the for an office. they have signed a 3 year contract for 2 or 3 after that they had been defended. we are under enormous

pressure all the time from before act and as role. but okay. what is the german government's business? imposing? yeah, ideological demands of these early government on these rarely citizens. what is the german government's business? trying to silence descent, not even inside its own country. the decision was made by the german for an office . and the book, it has repeatedly emphasized germany's commitment to human rights. the ministry confirmed that the funding but didn't provide the w all the energy else was any official reason. just the foreign office examines old projects for which federal funds are used in accordance with legal requirements. the funding didn't just happened to new profile. we know if at least one of these rarely human rights organization that had been supported germany 3 years and several posting and once that also lost the german funding. recently this comes at a time when it is for the space for criticizing the government is frank king says

lawyer michael swat. he has been advising east riley and palestinians, human rights organizations for years. we're in unprecedented severe cricket down and targeting go is there any can rice organizations and, and human rights activists? it's a trend that began and decade and a half ago, but came to speak with the current government and especially after october 7th, i did re shift this experience. she's the director of so hot. the as us radio varies ation. it was funding was cut by the gym and government. so how does it when's rising activities like this to and it's right. the group advocates for the recognition of the displacement and exposure. those kind of students before and during the 1948 for and then right to read to him, which is a highly controversial topic. any certain bid to read tells us that before the

funding was rescinded, she meant was jim and official to she says made reference to the costs to justify their position. the gym and past the not sewage and was, you know, brought up again and again in these conversations. it's important to dream. i need to support israel because of the past that was very explicitly said. and then last ditch effort so hard to even send an official letter to the for an office. clarifying the existence of the state of his reyes is a tax, not the question, then opinion, amaro judgment. we do not question any but you know effect. they would be fun to to know for the reason, excuse me. 2 things. the jim and he was under pressure from that is really right when government to my great grandparents, all died in the holocaust. i don't want this tragedy to be used to

justify another tragedy in the scaling, and i really find it quite defensive and and, and dishonest. really confronted with the allegation, stuff is really influence the gem and for an office and search decent situation is inaccurate. the german government continues to support numerous and deals and is ro, i mean, the palestinian territories that are critical of israel's occupation policy. let's pick up some of those points with definitely investigative reports that then become as, who was part of the investigation team. so we had germany deny is acting under pressure from these right, the government. so what reasons do job and officials give for withdrawing? funding from n g o is critical of israel is actions in casa, as well on the record, not a lot. i mean, the whole purpose is really a page,

but we have to remember that these 2 organizations, the to has many organizations with talking about the very critical of these by the government. one of them was with conscientious objectors as a time, of course, when, as males involved in a war and gaza, the other one campaigns with a return to palestinian refugees. another sentence, which is highly controversial in, in israel because it would, of course change the whole make up of the country. so, and we know from, from members of these to enjoys that they were told, look, can you not just focus on the past? you have to be quite as vocal about the vice of a ton of palestinian refugees. so a lot of it could be, but again, the officials here what to have the tax, would you tell us the little reason that they just don't want to style too much trouble that they don't want to support the troublemaker? so you want me to read between the lines, but what does i actually say? what does a when you say, so why have you withdrawal? and that funding was the response from bell and officials on the responses that

they have this whole system of betting. and that at this time they would just not able to give a fine a fee waiver. okay, no political to look at so, so what does your research indicate then what is likely to be behind it? what do we presume that is that criticism of, of, of israel? yes. that very vocal criticism, including maybe to a point that it was uncomfortable from berlin. i mean, remember berlin does. germany doesn't have a very special relationship with isabel. right. well, his business started for reasons do you, particularly of the, the 7th of october came out very publicly like politicians came out very publicly saying that they would side with israel. which of course, that's a lot of criticism of, of politicians here. but it was very clear, at least right at the start of the war that not jem and the german government who's citing with as well. what's his royal sense about you, your findings?

well, they know most of our questions, they know what the critical question is and just answer the questions about the palestinian n g o's. they did all of us say that they provided some information to the agenda for it offers them to the intelligence services. but the critical questions they've just never got back to. you mentioned that the palestinian and yours at 6 pa, the city and and use the german government says defended. we heard about a couple of his radio organizations. and what do we know about these 6 palestinian organizations? so these 6 pal listed in organizations were actually designated as to organizations by these varies back in 2021. on what most people see is vice guns. evidence of terror links. in fact, the german government, together with other you'll ping governments, came out publicly in 2022 saying that they didn't believe the evidence and that they would continue to fund and then come october 2023 a couple of months later, the old funding is cuts what, okay, and the thoughts of um,

opaque funding decisions. is this the way the process normally works in 20 seconds? no, no. so tool i will talk to people to say this never happens in any other reasonable country. this is a purely, it's very palestinian problem as it were. ok, thank you for taking us through that. so now let me dw investigate before then we come and that was the day you can solve the team on social media at c, w use lasers headlines on the dw 14 w dot com have a good day by the

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