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 th

for more we're joined by ali noorani he's a journalist with the a.f.p. news agency in toronto thanks for speaking with us another death in iran iranian police say one of their own officers has been killed could we now see the start of a general crackdown on protesters. ah this could be this could be going down toward a crackdown because sunday night was the most violent day of the protest of these five days of protest we have had now to a protest there isn't one police man dead in as a full body central iraq the. broadcasters that one protests there used hunting rifle started shooting at police forces injuring three and killing one and we have also seen pro regime protest up in got a rally a public not across the country official president rouhani head of the jewish judiciary all of them have that iran will not tolerate this and they said they will be decisive be confronted also intelligence. ministry as that we have and they fired the protesters and the instigators and we will deal with them soon so this is going to are the crackdown i think and it will

and another headache for germany's 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

and let's talk a little bit more about that crackdown we are joined by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph who is joining us with the latest from tehran and eric as we've heard iranian state television reporting nine more people killed overnight more than one hundred protesters arrested what are we to make of the authorities response to the unrest and how big of a threat are these protests to the regime well this is the biggest test the regime has faced since there were mass demonstrations back in two thousand and nine the difference this time around is that they. considered. although it is very difficult to confirm the reports we're hearing for problems is she's restrictions on trying. to you know the six protesters that showed us what on store the station is. several other people were killed in. various schools and cities over the country in recent days. well there is a start of crackdown was just been told the four hundred fifty people have been arrested in tehran the last three days were protests that's a good road to this move and we don't know how many you

earlier we spoke to a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran we asked him whether president rouhani will now try to close ranks with the hardliners in his regime some of whom had welcomed the outbreak of these protests that is something that you know that's how upset the hardliners economy is. running for a long time and. there are some rumors that they hope to start this will prove to us. somewhat shocked by how quickly. grew out. and we have seen already. more truth more moderate hardline factions. referring to the council revolutionaries some of those also have. their on the jets more economic grievances everybody agrees that it's wanted to make sure the there is separate from people who are pushing for wider disorder. violence against the system itself. that was a peak correspondent eric randolph in tehran speaking to us earlier to sports now the second round of the tour to ski is one of the most prestigious cross-country skiing events in the world and it took place on sunday in lends a high to switzerl

for more we're joined by a.f.p. correspondent in teheran eric earlier today we heard reports of six people who have died in the protests iranian state t.v. has now been talking about ten people what more can you tell us about this. well there are limited reports coming from the provinces has been a bit of a blackout limits to internet coverage. tonight but you know six people were killed in one town over a shooting broke out on for another town we have very few details on the. same of that was the school or otherwise a couple of other people were killed what did you not see in and another attack some government buildings and a school to the clergy so it does appear like the protests are continuing quite a bit for various parts of the country. yeah authorities they have threatened to come down hard on these protesters exactly what do they mean by that and is there any sign that that is already happening though again it's very difficult to tell at this stage the fact that some people are dying now this is been the mos

of more on this we're joined now by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran eric protests have been going on for four days now what's happening today. where the protests overnight were a little smaller than previous nights sporadic reports of government buildings clerical buildings in the northwest and then a few different towns. caught the people out of the seizing and crashing a fire engine reportedly but verifying any of this is tough because of the restrictions on social mobile it now authorities have threatened to come down hard on protesters i mean what do they mean by that any is there any sign that that's happening. no so far the police are taking a very softly softly approach we did have a couple of people who showed a couple of nights ago in a small town very hard to get any information on that but they've been keen not to come from to strongly but everyone knows that if it gets out of the revolutionary guards in the waiting in the wings to crack down as they have done in the past where the protests go from here

and i spoke a short while ago to a.f.p. correspondent eric roundoff in tehran i asked him what we know about this latest round of anti-government protests and here's what he said. it's hard to say exactly what's happening outside in the provinces protest to go protest always happening in smaller towns and cities here and tear up but we can all see your goals of violence. this morning we've seen very impressive show strength from the regime tens of thousands of people who. are going round in several major cities not yet in tehran that's coming from but it. does appear that go to sort of the top. yet and when we look at the causes for example of these anti-government protests we know that for example the uprising has been the biggest since two thousand and nine but that crackdown underway as you mentioned and hundreds already arrested how strong would you say is the will for those protesters to continue and how big a threat are they posing to the regime at this point. we're better than two thousand and nine these protests hav

the government might consider using force to bring back calm to the streets for more we're joined by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph intent on eric nice to have you with us as we've mentioned there have been deaths in the latest protests is this a sign that the government is beginning to crackdown on demonstrators. well it's very hard to know that tonight fresh protests out broken out and tear up downtown with my restricted and. very happy on these presents so while the government is trying to take your credit the soft approach to this is not to directly confront protesters but there are certain more arrests but the fact that we're getting reports of deaths and some small child's suggests that there is something of a crowd out yes ok and president rouhani says that foreign enemies have been provoking these protests what does he mean. by that stuff and it becomes a law i probably go although there are legitimate economic reasons driving these protests being exploited by foreign opposition groups by iran's enemies in the united states particularly to destabilize the regime and it's going

candidates in that election mir hussein was savi still remains under house arrest earlier we spoke to a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran and asked how much of a threat the protests are for the regime. well this is the biggest test the regime has faced since there were mass demonstrations back in two thousand and nine the difference this time it is that. considerably more though it is very difficult to confirm the reports we're hearing for problems is due to restrictions on travel we do know that six protesters were killed last month on school these ocean. several other. very small towns and cities. all over the country these days. there is a start of crackdown was just been told the four hundred fifty people in the rest of iraq last three days were protests actually rose at least we don't know how many you've been arrested in other parts of the country. that was eric randolph speaking with us a short while ago to germany now we're on member of parliament and a leading figure in the far right party may face charges of illegal hate speech for her angry tweet on new year's eve beatri

country rather than on the anti-government demonstrators and iran is still reeling from those protests a.f.p. correspondent eric around all is in tehran erica what are the new developments talk to us about that. well today about the. regaining control of the narrative through fairly quiet nights with minimal protests reported this morning we had an accident prone regime rallies tons of thousands of people watching through several cities. forcing no support for the regime and opposing the five suspects in recent weeks and this evening the revolutionary guards to. this sedition sorry this edition is rose and it's ended and only about fifteen thousand people took part. in the younger us the last few days all right what does that tell us i mean i mean you have the protests been effectively a crackdown or is he just trying to reassure the political establishment. it doesn't look like the protests run out of steam these much smaller prioritize us than the ones we saw back in two thousand and nine hundred of thousands perhaps even millions of people were out on the streets this time we were talking

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

allegedly belonging to the revolutionary guard going up in flames let's go straight to tehran now and a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph eric the head of the revolutionary guards has said that the anti-government protests had been defeated what are you hearing well. from the nation on any. protests there are coming from the provinces it was definitely a commentary on last night's presence does. seem to be i would just get reports now we're just just coming of another series of major. rallies very large very prestigious in ten different cities around the country including. ok now i know when you talk about these a pro-government rallies does it then seem that the regime is actually turning the tide against the anti-government protesters. well i think it's important to remember the protests would never end all this revolutionary guard say there were fifty thousand people who vote nationwide even if the number was a bit bigger than that it's certainly nowhere near the hundreds of thousands or millions the streets back in two thousand and nine against other kinds of election rigging. especially

parliamentary groups that they would lose seats in parliament and also the concern that the far right 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

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

for more we're joined by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran eric we're days into these protests people have died and the government is suggesting it will crack down on protesters how much of a threat are these demonstrations to the government. all those insurgents. and radical. reason ignition and learning that some don't. need any further than you can trust one of the people who will be contingent on. the middle east the key to making. any killing. he didn't. manage to be. significant economy. in the trucking running down and making sure those serving over eric randolph in tehran unfortunately the connection is not as strong as we would have liked to thank you for speaking to us now absent the other stories making news around the world hundreds of protesters have gathered in ukraine's capital kiev to demand an investigation into the death of a prominent lawyer arena was found dead on new year's day she'd face threats for helping to convict a well connected man in a case that was seen as a test of the ukra

and for more let's bring in a.f.p. correspondent eric roundoff who is standing by with the latest from tehran welcome to you eric we know that the head of the revolutionary guard has said that the anti-government protests have essentially been defeated or or wiped out so to speak what are you hearing. yeah it's been pretty quiet here are. very few protests last night a very heavy police presence including really good revolutionary guards on the streets very hard for us to verify information we're getting from the problems but the fact that there are far fewer videos posted on social media suggests that they have indeed died down to a considerable extent at least more broadly speaking what do you think that the protests over the last week reveal about iran's leadership are we for example seeing cracks between hardliners and moderates in the regime does these kind of just off to the budget announced by the president hassan rouhani in which he made some pretty unpopular austerity measures cuts to welfare raising fuel pric

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 w

patrol over there while the geo political analyst trainer offers to explain to us why 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. th

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 publi

convinced it wouldn't be right for democracy in germany and we consider it negligent to let the far right 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

for more we're joined by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran eric thanks for joining us we're days into these protests now people have died and the government is suggesting it will crack down on protesters how much of a threat are these demin demonstrations to the government. well it remains to be say we've seen violence picking up in the last couple of days although it's art you know protesters were talking police stations and other symbols of the regime we've had twenty one dead now in the five days but rest of it does appear to be coming to radicalize the same time that could present an opportunity for the regime that are now able to take this as a vital role rather than people economic grievances and they are rallying around each other pointing out this argument i'm sorry if this is directed by foreign elements in saudi arabia and the united states ok you mentioned that there is economic concerns that are legitimate that's potentially against the rouhani government but is that this dissent go even highe

let's go straight to tehran now and a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph eric the head of the revolutionary guards has said that the anti-government protests had been defeated what are you hearing. well it's very hard to get information on any. protests if there are any coming from the provinces it was definitely a commentary on last night so with a heavy police presence this does seem like the protests do seem to be over and we're just getting reports now we're just seeing images come in of another series of major rallies very large very impressive in ten different cities around the country including is that ok now i know when you talk about these are pro-government rallies doesn't then seem that the regime is actually turning the tide against the anti-government protesters well i think it's important to remember the protests will never end all this revolutionary guard say there were fifty thousand people involved nationwide and if the number was a bit bigger than that it's certainly nowhere near the hundreds of thousands or mi

and for more we're joined now by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph was joining us with the latest from tehran welcome to you eric pro-government demonstrations that we saw last night is this a sign of a changing tide in favor of the regime or is it propaganda. it's hard to say exactly what's happening outside in the provinces protests to go protest always happening in smaller towns and cities that are in tear up but we can all see your force of violence out night that is that this morning we've seen a very impressive show strength from the regime tens of thousands of people who take pro-government runways and several ages it's not yet in tehran that it's coming from. so it does appear that the government. when the top is yet and when we look at the causes for example of these anti-government protests we know that for example the uprising has been the biggest since two thousand and nine but with that crackdown underway as you mentioned and hundreds already arrested how strong would you say is the will for those protesters t

to the previous election martha schultz and other senior members of the social democrats have said a.f.p. had no position whatsoever in the bundestag and should have no position in the world in trying to hang on to power in may well put them into the main seat in germany opposition. job political analyst rana roughness and says that the social democrats are losing much of their working class support to the right leaning f.t. he has already a great deal to the work. of the s.p.d. which was the original. historic basis for the s.p.d. over a century now the s.p.d. for example a lot of these very strongly pouring into germany. they have more in mind the rights of refugees than their workers' rights that's at least what . portrays the s.p.d. . what. of two perceived. capitalize on this this blank space left i think has been. all right schools in three russian cities were attacked by their students this week was holding in dozens injured and six people detained. in the north with her children screaming very loudly we were scared at first we thought it was a joke while but then we realized it w

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

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

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

so the a.f.p. just came in to fill in. the blank space that. has left. the push for a second grand coalition has had a polarizing effect on s.p.d. members many on the left believe by entering government as part of a broader lines the party could jeopardize its future and alienate its support base as of yet finally i come under there is no more appropriate term than political suicide to describe this because if the s.p.d. really carries on like all the things they were punished for in the last election then i don't know what will be left of them in two or four years time and that is to ensure that the vicious circle would have been trapped in for so many years now and that we should break it really made a new start for the democratic party in another dollars another four years of government or even two years of government will not bring us any further to this point you are saying that the people's body is for bring in long term care and that the party will be destroyed by the grand coalition. at least one person has reportedly been killed and two others a

at randall thanks very much for shedding some light on what's happening there for us appreciate it a.f.p. deputy chief there for us in teheran thank you so nasty minutes the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has called for an emergency un session to discuss the situation in iran. dozens have already been killed hundreds have been arrested if the iranian dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the un must speak out in the days ahead we will be calling for an emergency session both here in new york and at the human rights council in geneva we must not be silent the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their cause the international community made the mistake of failing to do that in two thousand and nine we must not make that mistake again. well mike hanna is live for us now at the u.n. and so a very dramatic comments there from u.s. ambassador nikki haley how will the members of the united nations respond to this school well it's very much the question essential what the ambas