a closer look at the story with the dublin chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome belinda so we have a state premier who is a member of the f.t.p. he was elected because of votes from his own party the c.d.u. in the far right a half day everywhere else this sort of cross party support to be held is a victory for consensus politics so why is this a problem in germany. 1st of all because of this country's history because of the fact that the rise of the nazis in the 20th century brought disaster throughout europe and that is a very strong reason for the fact that there is an absolute red line when it comes to cooperating with the far right secondly this particular party the a.f.d. its local branch in the state of the regio were all of this took place is particularly rabid it has statements and party positions that very much echo some of those of the nazis very anti migrant very discriminatory and it is in fact under watch by the german security services so the fact that mainstream parties like the liberal free democrats or the chancellors conservatives the c.d.u. that they actu

they don't miss chief political correspondent melinda crane is that welcome belinda what sort of reaction has there been so the jenna president's words. well we heard nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives a short while ago on stage and she complimented the president on his speech and in general it must be said that those words about the u.s. followed equally frank words accusations against russia and china a sensually for the same thing for putting their own national interests 1st for undermining international institutions and transgressing international rules and norms with the german president saying that taken together what that represents is essentially a 0 sum view of the world meaning of you in which one nation's strength is another nation's weakness and he went on to say that basically all of us lose out when countries take that approach that both the weak and the strong lose because we are increasingly unable to work together to solve problems that only can be solved internationally that and he cited for example nuclear escalation and climate change as 2 examples of that but

from database chief political correspondent belinda crime welcome melinda friedrich interesting character he going to medical have rarely seen eye to eye so if he became leader might she rethink her current strategy of staying on until next year. quite possible it's not only her strategy she is the elected chancellor and her term expires with the next election in the autumn of 2021 but many observers say that because uncle americal is in a way a nemesis for math he actually stepped down from politics years ago because of a power struggle with her which he had lost because they simply see things very very differently that if they were to try to work side by side with him as party leader and she serving out her term as chancellor it could become quite quite difficult which is why some people think that if he does in fact become the party leader we could very well see her step down early and new elections following and so if again we're in the early stages but if he became party leader the presumably would mean that he would then succeed angela merkel and try to run for chancellor. well there are a whole lot of ifs in that statement when on