political correspondent who is standing by in our parliamentary studios and we're also joined by marina strauss from our social media team welcome to both with you both of you and i'd like to begin first with mckayla. for those who don't know explain to us who beatrice fung store he is and what she means to the political scene here in germany. well she certainly is a leading and spoken figure in the far right i'll turn to but she's been a european m.p. since twenty fourteen and she joined the board to start i'm in parliament also together with the for the first time in the past elections were still to see a government being formed here in germany on she hit the headlines here and in twenty sixteen when she said that if migrants illegally cross into germany as a last resort border guards should also be allowed to shoot. civilians that caused quite a storm she did slightly regret but that also shows that she has been there before making very provoking statements indeed and now we're seeing this backlash against her statement basically describing migrants in a very whole same derogatory term here

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