the right leaning alternative for germany or a.f.p. party has proposed verifying the age of all migrants coming into the country and idea that's been roundly condemned by old other parties in the bundestag of the reports well if the right wing. populists alternative for germany thought that getting into the body was going to be the hard part they've certainly been brought back down to earth with a bump over the last couple of days since the german parliament has convened on friday the f.d.a. put forward changes they wanted to see to laws relating to asylum and refugee status here particularly when it came to the ages of those claiming that refugee status in germany now the alternative for germany say that between thirty and eighty percent of those that have applied in the past haven't been at the age they said they were this was turned upon by the other parties within the body the start of every single one of them to a man saying that the alternative for germany was wrong in doing this and in fact when the proposals were put forward they wer

in germany the right leaning a.f.p. parties proposal to verify the age of migrants is roundly condemned by all parties . thanks for joining us this evening this is our international now if you decide to challenge america's experiment in democracy is going to be your worst day those were the words of the u.s. defense secretary as the unveiled america's new defense strategy which will now primarily focus on deterring russia and china. but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terror that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of your security. correspondent has done us with following this story of what exactly is this powerful battle power competition that james mattis has been talking about well first and foremost neal u.s. offense strategy is a more apt name probably for the document that has been unveiled today and this competition this great power competition is talking about is something the united states military hasn't been focusing on since the cold war so re

a.f.p. as the party has slumped over its proposal to ages verify asylum seekers we've got the full story for you after this short break. bones will be new and when you don't. seem to. get a quote. what are the most true only texts best. left alone they. said. claiming to know german did that. you speak french. it's a new impossible it is talk of exposing the cult taught to. it . welcome back now in germany the right leaning a.f.d. party's proposal to verify the age of migrants has been roundly condemned by all other parties in the bundestag for more on this that can force live to peace all of our who's in the burning forest peace at germany's political parties have been struggling to form a coalition but the f.d.a. aside they seem pretty united in slamming this proposal don't they. yes that's right if alternative for germany thought that the hard part was getting into parliament well they would have been sorely mistaken because once they've arrived in the bundestag what they've found is that what they put forward on the floor of the chamber well it's roundly turned upon by all of the other p

the first time that the ceremony in parliament has been held in the presence of the far right party the a.f.p. that is sitting there with one hundred almost one hundred members in parliament and they sat and listened to her they joined in the standing ovation at the end which some had said you know they might use this occasion somehow to try and attract attention to themselves because of course this is a party that has risen to prominence with a lot of controversial anti immigrant statements and indeed some in the party of said that germany needs to do a complete u. turn on its culture of memorializing the holocaust and such events you know the leadership of the party i should say has distanced itself from that now clearly they have risen to power or at least a presence in the bundestag also as a result of the influx of migrants into germany and there are concerns there that migrants particularly those coming from the middle east don't share germany's sense of what the holocaust means they don't share their sense of the the mainstream sense here of the danger of anti-semitism and indeed a lot

the far right alternative for germany party the a.f.p. has questioned germany's culture of holocaust remembrance they say islam is the elephant in the room when it comes to defining the real threat to jewish life. but still we can all see it you call it immigration mr common or people from other cultures and north africa and the middle east lawmakers from other parties pointed out that the f.d.a. itself has an anti semitism problem and that so many of the members or even holocaust deniers the bundestag adopted the under semitism legislation with a large majority including f.t. votes. and sitting in jail in the social democrats will decide on sunday whether to endorse formal coalition talks with. us it's a tense political drama here's how we got here election day twenty four september two thousand and seventeen the social democrats suffer a major setback and party leader martin should say is the s.p.d. go into the opposition then chancellor america begins its tour trade talks with the pro-business free democrats and the greens but those ta

a.f.p. become the leading opposition party with us and for the second time in two months that will be locking horns with s.p.d. party leader martin schultz on sunday as he bids to go on vince party delegates to vote no grow closer to his grassroots support q not believes this is the only way for the s.p.d. to regenerate after damage in years into local governments. the finnish president and for me he is the kind of politician who hopefully certainly shaped the future of this party. that they tried to influence a very talented upcoming politician he's still young and everything lies ahead of him i think something will become of him. even pozen members who support the idea of a grand coalition have high hopes for canucks political future. impose a t.v. and put in the most positive senses of politics junkie he breathes politics but at the same time he's matter of fact and stands by his opinion and he definitely has a big future. cannot became a member of the s.p.d. at just fifteen in the same year that angela merkel was first elected chancellor but units no grow coke campaign now threatens to en

a.f.p. would also gain more seats and of course for all parties involved it's very very expensive to suddenly launch another campaign just a lot of people so you might not. already government is the most likely possibility if these talks break down you know machall still does have considerable support but looking at these numbers her trajectory is definitely to the downside could she see as a result a mutiny in her christian democrats and possibly a move to replace or well at this stage it's very unlikely that we're going to suddenly see a rebellion of course directly after the election that there was a lot of unrest particularly from the variances the posse the c. s. here but they were the c.s.u. and c.d.u. have really patched up that relationship since the election to try and push forward to create a stable government that i so desperately seeking at the moment but of course there's also the main point that it within the c.d.u. there's no real success to mco and regardless of what happens that is going to be a real focus for the cd even the conservatives in the community as as right now the

a.f.p. has gained so much support. i would say that the union party is above all the c.d.u. look as left of the conservative positions of the past they have turned somewhat roughly speaking into an ask. and ask b.d. it has lost much of its political standing because many of the topics were also covered by the c.d.u. so the eight after just came in to fill in. the blank space that. has left. one of the stumbling blocks during the coalition talks has been migration policy with a number of new approaches being tried to ease the crisis the eastern city of course most has taken matters into its own hands and banned newcomers altogether the move is in response to several recent incidents last week for example a teenager was stabbed by two syrians and several days before that an elderly couple was attacked by a group of refugees however local near nuts seeds have also been blamed for violence at illegal rallies and there are reports that they have attacked migrants we spoke to people in compost. the state they make it look like a salmon seekers or whoever attacked the germans but t

party alternative for germany the a.f.d. though he's not one of the organizers he's in the thick of it. her courage to talk to her thus the fact that an a.f.p. member is drumming up support for this xenophobic protest is very telling that there are very close ties between the far right and they have be in essence they're a far right party but see for another it's not because i thought. some two hundred thousand jews lived in germany today few if any of them are likely to have remained entirely untouched by anti-semitism what impact do such experiences have on their day to day lives here i'm still running around the system do most of the things i want to do but it does change my sense of the relationship . the sixteen to our relationship to the world around us i don't think anyone's going to suddenly jump out of the factory. thought the center is just generally being. vulnerable. the family has been deeply shaken by the violence and verbal abuse that oscar experienced at school. and. this is. still with us i thought we've done rather well through my kids up in a successful way jewish in germany when it clearly we were in a bubble. going publ

anyway at the moment all of the other parties coming together uniting is one something we can't find them doing over any other issue here in germany to say no to the a.f.p. and no to their policies. as our breaking news story now russia and china or rather the need to counter them dominates america's new defense strategy having been given more prominence then even the war on terror the strategy was unveiled by the us defense secretary. but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terror that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of us now from security and here's some more information on this now i'm joined in the studio by artie's ecostar of eco what exactly is this great power competition that james mattis is talking about in a speech where the first thing to understand about this is that this great competition between world powers is something the united states have never done since the times of the cold war so it has been decades since they focused on that now terrorism has taken the backseat the infamous war on terror has taken the back seat instead washington has russia and china in its

anyway at the moment all of the other parties coming together uniting is one something we can't find them doing over any other issue here in germany to say no to the a.f.p. and no to their policies. and it's not only in germany they don't impart that the f.d.a. is having a rough ride recently the facebook account of one of its members was blogs following her call for people to join a women's march against rapes and killings perpetrated by migrants i organize a women's march to the chancery almost every day we read about horrific reaps and murder of women the more women come the more pressure it will put america and politicians from the old parties together but a stick to the streets to fight for our right to freedom and some of the ten min asian. or despite belonging to a party known for its strong anti migrant rhetoric bilger who is the women's and children's rights activist regularly travels to syria and iraq to help people there she says migrant origins herself and was surprised that the official reason for her facebook ban. as an interface will come ashore on my travels with facebook started a few years ago facebook has a big issue with women and mi

anyway at the moment all of the other parties coming together uniting is one something we can't find them doing over any other issue here in germany to say no to the a.f.p. and no to their policies. and it's not only in the german parliament that the f.t.'s having a rough ride recently the facebook account of one of its members was blocked following her call for people to join a women's march against rapes and killings perpetrated by migrants i organize a women's march to the chancery almost every day we read about horrific reaps and murder of women the more women come the more pressure it will put america and politicians from the old parties together let us take to the streets to fight for our right to freedom and saboteur many. despite belonging to a party that's known for its strong and the migrant rhetoric there the builder who is a women's and children's rights activist regularly travels to syria and iraq to help people work she's a migrant origin herself and was surprised that the official reason for facebook burned as going to facebook of a show on my travels with facebook started a few years ago facebook has a big issue with women and migrant ba

anyway at the moment all of the other parties coming together uniting is one something we can't find them doing over any other issue here in germany to say no to the a.f.p. and no to their policies. and it's not only in the german parliament having a rough ride recently the facebook account of one of its members was blocked following her call for people to join a women's march against rapes and killings perpetrated by migrants i organize a women's march to the chancery almost every day we read about horrific reaps and murder of women the more women come the more pressure it will put america and politicians from the old parties together at a state in the streets to fight for our right to freedom and saboteur many ssion despite belonging to a party known for a strong anti migrant rhetoric bilger who is a women's and children's rights activist regularly travels to syria and iraq to help people there she said by good origin herself and was surprised that the official reason for facebook ban. as going to facebook of a show on my travels with facebook started a few years ago facebook has a big issue with women and migrant backgrounds you can notice that i don

party she's actually been an m.p. in the european parliament since twenty fourteen she just joined the german parliament as part of that first entry of the a.f.p. into parliament and she's also most known here in germany for statements in twenty sixteen when she wouldn't rule out the german border guards to use guns against migrants crossing the border illegally that created a storm of criticism here in germany so she's been there once before where she's chosen her words at the very least to say unwisely and now this tweet has become the talk of the town talk of the country again she is well known for her anti muslim sentiments and for being very outspoken so incendiary comments nothing new for her but what is new and i want to talk of this with this a little bit more with marina who's following it from our social media desk is that a new law has actually come into force here in the country it's a network inforcing act apparently it forces social media companies to delete hate tweets and posts you know that a business post of particular just two days old what exactly do they they have to do is people have to report posts and tweets that they t

automatically make the far right party the strongest party the largest party in the german going to star in the parliament that will give the a.f.p. huge visibility and influence in various committees how would you deal with the a.f.p. and extremist views in general in your role as vice president of the bonus time that's a high price that we have to pay in a grand coalition in a new. revitalize grand coalition that the right wing party if he becomes the majority of becomes opposition leader. well how do we deal with that i must say that it is the first time after world war two after the nazi dictatorship that we have a party in the bundestag in that i stuck where which has members who actively propagate. racist and nationalist socialist ideology we didn't have that before how do we deal with it well first of all this party was elected by the voters so they have the same rights they should be treated equally like anybody else they should not given any special deal i believe that one of their approach to populist policy is to describe themselves as victims as victims of the establishment the victims of the political system and we s

party in the german going to stock in the parliament that will give the f.t. . huge visibility and influence in various committees how would you deal with the a.f.p. and extremist views in general in your role as vice president of the bonus time that's a high price that we have to pay in a grand coalition in a new. revitalize grand coalition that the right wing party if he becomes the majority of becomes opposition leader. well how do we deal with that i must say that it is the first time after world war two after the nazi dictatorship that we have a party in the bundestag in that i stuck where which has members who actively propagate. racist and nationalist socialist ideology we didn't have that before how do we deal with it well first of all this party was elected by the voters so they have the same rights they should be treated equally like anybody else they should not given any special deal i believe that one of their approach to populist policy is to describe themselves as victims as victims of the establishment the victims of the political system and we should not give them that opportunity of self perception as to implement thank you so muc