president has given a television interview calling for a decisive rejection of religious intolerance steinmeyer responded to a recent spate of anti-semitic attacks by emphasizing that intolerance destroys the sense of home for all who want to make own life in germany also coming up. voters are votes are being counted in lebanon after the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade and an unprecedented number of independent candidates are hoping to shake up lebanon's political establishment under prime minister saad hariri. and turkey's president. kicks off his election campaign or the one call for early vote to go ahead next month and now faces a credible threat to his power from an office addition on lions. and welcome to the program and a television interview german president. has called for increased vigilance in the country against anti semitism this comes after a series of anti semitic incidents including an attack on a man wearing a jewish skull cap on the streets of berlin and the country's largest music awards ceremony was also canceled recently after controversy over a prize winnin

the rule of law may operate in germany said steinmeyer but freedom and democracy are not guaranteed. the ballot count is underway in lebanon after voting in parliamentary elections and then a few hours ago it's the first election held under a new law meant to give smaller parties a chance but observers expect the race to come down to western backed prime minister saad hariri and the iran backed militant group hezbollah. lining up to elect a new parliament for the first time in nine years the war in neighboring syria security concerns and disagreements between rival parliamentary blocs delayed this vote until now many vote is deeply frustrated. with had enough of clans that have ruled us for fifty years. tried with the old gold but nothing's changed you will add up just as yet another name is old prime minister may well become its new one billionaire businessman saad hariri heads up the coalition campaigning for votes from simians and moderates but he is under some pressure his company's are foundering and many resent his cooperation with hezbollah. the radical shiite group has pointe

the rule of law may operate in germany said steinmeyer but freedom and democracy are not guaranteed. of personalities now let's bring in d.w. political correspondent thomas sparrow told us what's your impression of the president's remarks those who really believe that freedom and democracy are under threat in germany. well terry the role of the german president is to be above party politics is to touch some of the broader issues in germany and from that perspective he was mentioning and he did mention it right from the start of that interview the fact that democracy might be changing whether you're talking about polarization in the country whether you're talking about the role of the digital world and how doctors changing the debate in germany i don't get the impression that he was pacifically talking about those as very big problems in fact he stressed that there was no need to go into our alarmism or be alarmist so from that perspective it was more about touching on the changes in german democracy and addressing those changes in german democracy. twenty four other star emerging as

both people living in germany who possess both german and turkish passports said my president is steinmeyer not everyone president. tolson mirror has changed his mind in recent years he now questions the policies of the turkish president. he travels back to germany regularly and the family still has a house in bavaria. as always the first thing i'll do is order a potion of wienerschnitzel. drink a wheat beer travel around high rise but i'm a guest there. i live in turkey. dorothy. born in india. the influence of germany's powerhouse extends well beyond europe even to china where an exhibition series exploring the global impact of the design movement is kicking off. our house elements shifting in reconfiguring the theater performance mark the opening of the exhibition powerhouse imagine east . organized by the guta institute at the china design museum in hong joeys china. we're less interested in what's truly bauhaus and more in the ways it was interpreted how it was built on. and how it sparked the imagination hence the title powerhouse image an easter with emerging societies regarding the

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president not calling chancellor merkel did when they were both in what we get and if the front steinmeyer and he said i'm really concerned about the development of the transatlantic relationship not because i'm looking at a president with some irritating twitter messages but because a substantial change is now going on and there is a new american administration that no longer seems as parts of the global community where we act together but it sees the world basically as an arena where everyone has to somehow find their own. wade i mean that is that's a really really hard indictment that germany is making on the united states and would you would you say that is telling the truth. well i do think that we're in a a very challenging phase there are definitely some people. who believe exactly what president sharon myers saying in terms of that being the attitude of this administration. and yet i certainly felt that during the visit by chancellor merkel she was really trying to make the case for being partners and if you think back to. last may when she returned from the united states she start

who believe exactly what president steinmeyer is saying in terms of that being the attitude of of this administration. and yet i certainly felt that during the visit by chance remark will she was really trying to make the case for being partners and if you think back to. last may when she returned from the united sates she started using rhetoric about we can't rely on the united states or our traditional partners we need to take more responsibility europe needs to take more responsibility and i think this kind of rhetoric is certainly the kind of rhetoric that is that is driving us apart a little bit having said that if one thinks about some of the themes that were raised in the public opinion survey that that we carried out it seems as if there's agreement in the german public and in the american public that there could be closer cooperation in areas such as the fight against terrorism even in climate change which of course is a little bit contradictory given america's decision to pull out or given the trumpet ministrations decision to pull out of the paris climate accord but there ar

want as his president the president of an international german football is called frank will to steinmeyer not reject type of one. well don don has responded saying that the photos were not to play sickles statement and that football and politics should remain separate the turkish president's senior adviser describes germany's reaction as a new example of iran phobia while also giving a reminder that erdogan is an elected president who represents his nation we spoke to ellis cashmore an expert in sports and media studies he believes football can't accept political points of view i don't think they have any kind of political motivation or were trying to make a propagandist point we have the world cup having a less than a month's time there are going to be players there from all over the wall there are going to be current troops that have saudi arabia for example that does not have a dignified human rights record what will the german player. play saudi arabia what will the german pows be instructed to do they want to boycott the game the play and trying to somehow separate politics began goi

president has given a television interview calling for a decisive rejection of religious intolerance steinmeyer responded to a recent spate of anti-semitic attacks by emphasizing that intolerance destroys the sense of home for all who want to make a life in germany also coming up. voters often votes are being counted in lebanon after the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade and an unprecedented number.

authorities the government in kiev still can be trusted don't forget the drum president franco to steinmeyer was in kiev on the official state visit he was present when this affair broke and he was urged in public to comment on the death the alleged death of mr button go and was destroying my assent his condolences and this snow looks like as if he was made part of that staged operation of the ukrainian secret service ever since ukraine's confrontation with russia started in spring two thousand and fourteen ever since russia has launched its attack on ukraine on ukrainian territory on ukraine young in the ukrainian army it's the war was accompanied by a wall of words propaganda battle with fake news from both sides and allegations and it looked as if you crane was losing that wall as if the massive state propaganda machine of russia was winning it but ukraine could always claim that they were on the right side that they were defending west on the u.s. and this now for sure is a big blow for that absolutely it is one that russia is certain to latch on to and for that reaction i'd like to term

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