noting just how serious this is being taken here without war and see a figure from within the christian democratic union describe the free democrats as having played with fire and set all of politics in germany a place. let's cross live now to the german city of hamburg where beyond tells us only a member of germany's left party joins us welcome why do you think the the christian democrats the ruling party were willing to go against their own promise and cooperate with alternative for germany crucial vote. that is a good question i cannot i cannot answer for the position of the. c.d.u. i think it even the main party had of the christian democrats in berlin not really know what made their party fellows and act this way because it poses a great danger for the role of the christian democrats as the ruling party and the paci that is always has been the right wing party in reserve to take over and has been in power for well off of the last century so their criticism of the radical right wing a of the party has always been they cannot be trusted with power and now they have themselves elected the same c

like other christian democrat parties in western europe have been losing votes over over the years over 1020 years we see this in italy we see this in holland in other countries this is the main challenge for the party and it does not certainly what happened today does not bode well it may well be that as the social democrats fare. widely under 20 percent that will also be this fate for the c.d.u. at least in some of the german federal states so. the long predicted scenario of the diminishing rule of the former people's party is the form of big parties. is going to is now realizing materializing itself. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak has exceeded 900 people with over 40000 cases confirmed globally against this backdrop the russian air force has evacuated all russian citizens who wanted to leave the chinese province worst hit by the outbreak. 144 russian nationals and foreigners were brought home from we were on the coronavirus at the center 5 russian military planes carried out the emergency airlift. we have very happy we were waiting for you when you finally r

the rule has been for the christian democrats and the social democrats to never govern with the far-rightwhether it is at the municipal, regional, or national levels. they are toxic and must not be dealt with. timeit -- was the first the christian democrats voted since world war ii. it looks like the far-right has a disruptive effect if you will on a national political events because of what -- what happened regionally caused angela merkel's successor to resign. they are not entering governments at the national or regional levels. it is a power to cause harm and block things from happening then actual power in itself. >> ireland's political landscape has been shaken up. this after they left wing populist party at sinn fein secured the most votes. mary lou mcdonald says the election was a ballot box revolution. the two centrist parties fiona gail -- find --find gail here's a look at the woman who led the party to victory. >> mary lou mcdonald on paper is an unlikely leader of a sinn fein. mcdonald was born and privately educated in the south dublin, a world away from northern ireland and t

that mr cameron it has been elected by just one solitary vote this is after members from the christian democratic union which is of course angola miracles party alternative for germany the anti immigration far right group well they got behind the free democratic party candidates really worth pointing out the free democrats only picked up 5 seats in the to enter parliament when the public voted back in october but it looks like their man will be the new state premier lots of controversy this has sparked the outgoing state premier of of the left party has called it a disgusting charade the election of mr kerik while the twitter page of the left party has been publishing remark searchers the free democratic party would choose to rule with fascists then not after all of course it wasn't just the f. date that got behind mr. kennedy of the free democrats also the christian. democratic union representatives in the state of turning your world their party leader and. widely tipped as a potential successor to our chancellor of germany said the regional party representatives acted against the well against t

party the christian democratic union and that she wouldn't as a result of putting herself forward as that party's candidate for chancellor in 2021 it's understood from that meeting that the the reasonings from this is that she didn't feel that she had the support of the c.d.u. top brass the christian democratic union have been suffering in the polls across germany and their relationship in their coalition with the center left social democrats well it's been a testing time of late really the last straw seems to have been what went on in the state of today in july last week where the local faction of the christian democratic union essentially sided with the right wing alternative for germany party against the express wishes of c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin even after they were. doing so they still wouldn't step into line now it's almost on thinkable to think that that would have happened under the previous head of the christian democratic union party that of course was chancellor angela merkel and it does seem that that sowed the seed of discourse amongst party leadership in among

will also step down as head of the christian democrats as the ruling party scandal deepens over some precedented alliance with the right wing alternative to germany with details here's our berlin correspondent peter. when the news came through nobody was expecting it whatsoever we knew that there were meetings that were going on following the the fallout from the to the india crisis last week we knew that there was a meeting going on last night but at that meeting it seems. decided that she could no longer continue as head of the c.d.u. party the christian democratic union and that she wouldn't as a result would be putting herself forward as that party's candidate for chancellor in 2021 it's understood from that meeting that the the reasonings from this is that she didn't feel that she had the support of the c.d.u. top brass the christian democratic union have been suffering in the polls across germany and their relationship in their coalition with the center left social democrats well it's been a testing time of late really the last straw seems to have been what went on in the state

protests have broken out across germany over an alliance the ruling christian democrats have repeatedly guaranteed would never happen. i. was. $500.00 took to the streets of cologne and for it and berlin to express their anger after the christian democrats joined the right wing of the german party oust the left wing prime minister and a central state attorney there are reports so often we're talking about high drama in german politics but it's fair to say that the political establishment here has been shaken to its core that's over the role played by far right on tea immigration party alternative for germany is kingmaker in state elections in. well the public went to the polls back in october of last year into india but it was very tight and they've been trying to wrangle out who's going to take over as the state premier amongst themselves in the state parliament and that was completed on wednesday by just worn votes the free democratic party candidates thomas kemah to quilt be the new state premier his party only picked up 5 seats in the election back in october he gets the job the sta

has decided to step down as the head of the christian democratic union party here in germany and therefore won't be the party's candidate for the chancellorship at the on the cycle lections of the set to be held next year she held a meeting on sunday night with party top brass and from that decided she didn't have the support she needed to continue in the role of the cd you have suffered in the polls of late and their coalition with the center left social democrats as also not really helped matters but it's really the scandal last week that we saw in the state of today in jet it seems to have been the final straw that breaks the camel's back here what happened into the in june was the local faction of the christian democratic union sided with the right wing alternative for germany policy now this was against the express wishes of central office here in berlin from the c.d.u. also against promises that it be made by chancellor angela merkel not to work with a.f.p. no matter what well the local branch of the party went against that they did decide to side with alternative for germany and tha

to be off limits politically taboo and that includes both the chancellors christian democrats and the business friendly free democrats mr kennedy's party now suddenly those 2 parties appear to have coordinated their 3rd round voting today with the far right party the a.f.d. and i must say that the chapter into ringing is a particularly rabid far right chapter so by doing so these mainstream parties have lent an aura of legitimacy to the a.f.d. party and they also open themselves up to questions about what the f.d.a. might be expecting in return and that's reason number one reason number 2 mr cameron represents a party that barely scraped into the regional parliament which barely made the 5 percent vote hurdle so many through the reagan voters will be asking is it democracy that he now would lead the state government and for that reason we are hearing a lot of calls for the state told the elections. well the round of 16 in the german cop drew to a close on wednesday and the final is now complete when you're in berlin and by leave occurs the now both into the quarterfinals after beating

want to apply pressure on their coalition partners the christian democrats i think the christian democrats want to try and save face if they possibly can it's a very complicated story mary let me just briefly recap few cat for you how we don't hear it was a vote in the state of 2. last october out of that the left party the most left of the main parties one the most votes but not enough support to continue leading the government in that state with social democrats and greens that were protective negotiations the conservative parties if i can call them that the c.d.u. and the free democrats together sort of opportunity to take control of the government they put up a candidate for the job of state premier and that man was elected with the support of the far right a f.t. that crossed the red line in german politics allowing for right support in that kind of maneuver for the 1st time since the 2nd world war that's why we've got this hullabaloo that's why there's such a lot of politics in this and that's why there's such a lot of pressure at this meeting today well it should be said that the le

politics a regional election has set off a political earthquake that is shaking uncle america's christian democratic party to its foundations the crisis erupted when the party's local branch in the eastern german state of the rich voted side by side with the far right and you have tea party to anoint a political outsider as state premier that broke a longstanding taboo on cooperation with right wing populist and provoked massive protests within and beyond the c.d.u. merkel's designated successor and party leader and read from step down the power struggle to succeed or is now in full swing our topic today fiasco in for india will the a.f.p. destroy america's legacy. on the. island. thanks for joining us on to the point and welcome to our guests matthew carney is chief correspondent for the us magazine politico he believes the f.t. hasn't destroyed america's legacy the f.t. is america's legacy what happened in the regio offers a glimpse of the chaos that lies ahead for germany's political system and great to have derek scally with us he is correspondent for the irish times and he says german politics

and other senior figures saying that what really needs to happen now is that christian democrats need to come together there's been a lot of division lately and some of them are also making the point that it's not that still not absolutely necessary for the decision about who will be chancellor to be made right now who will run for chancellor in the elections whenever they come the set for next year even though a.k.k. said you know that that is one of the points that has driven her to make this decision now that she was hoping to become the candidate to succeed merkel and she doesn't feel she can really do that anymore so who benefits from a case decision to step down. well certainly the s.p.d. the social democrats the sort of main challenges the largest challenges at least they have been in the past. at the moment they're languishing in the polls but they would hope to benefit from this. in terms of traditional politics obviously a k. case rivals waiting in the wings to be alternatives to succeed manacled they certainly will have benefited also i think the far right a f d they their

this is this is a rupture of the political landscape the mainstream conservative parties the christian democrats and the free democrats have forged a coalition with a group led by fascists you could see this was a coordinated maneuver for the incan chemical only entered the race in the 3rd round of voting the previous state premier. had lost twice as did his opponent coast of kenya a rural mayor who had been appointed by the far right can afford to emerge from the 3rd round without any votes those who supported him in the 1st 2 rounds apparently voted for chemical the 3rd time around but now he faces major challenges the new state leader has no platform and no team so he will not work with the state leader elected with help from the. period and. it's the end of the term for germany's 1st ever left party state premier. and he's still in shock. and so are a lot of people in the political establishment they're also in shock let's find out why exactly our chief political correspondent linda crane is tracking this story very closely why is this being described as a political earthquake here in german

it's necessary for everyone now within the christian democratic family to come together and try and assert some stability and indeed the social democrats those of the coalition partners in angle america's national government have been applying the pressure a little bit of non-doing that the c.d.u. show what's the line between it and the far right so they are tempted to make a little bit of political capital with this having said that there are likely to want to bring down the government i think and abandon the coalition because they themselves are electorally very weak so at the moment i think the government will limp all the far right if the party you know it appears to be profiting by having the withdrawal of a k.k. as party leader but who else simon benefits from a k.k.k. stepping down. well as i say the social democrats will seek to pull themselves out they're presenting themselves as the party now thats needed to sort of watch out the conservatives don't move too far to the right or don't flirt with the far right party the a.f.d. then of course the other people who can regard themselv

it's been a tough few days for the leader of germany's conservative christian democrats or cd you. get karrenbauer widely seen as chancellor angela merkel's protege has been caught in a political fiasco ever since our party's regional leaders in the state of touring gear teamed up with far right politicians to elect a new state premier on friday karrenbauer wentz once again on the record saying her party would not work with the far right put it in order for the c.d.u. in germany and also the c.d.u. entering it's still the case that there will be no cooperation with either directly or in directly in direct form initially carabao had said fresh they selections was the only way to solve the crisis interest here now in an apparent back down she says she will give legislators some time to try and find an alternative solution to the crisis she feels the s.p.d. in the greens have a duty to elect their own representative of you which hasn't gone down well with the s.p.d. . we should really use some common sense here and recognize what the outcome of this election was if you can't accept th

going forward so the christian democrats are in turmoil in crisis is there to be a crisis for the country's ruling coalition. well certainly there's a lot of pressure there k.k. said there wouldn't be a problem in the national government coalition and the s.p.d. sort of sounding a bit conciliatory did a saying they they respect her decision to step back but they still trying to put the pressure on saying they've got questions that they need the c.d.u. to answer they need merkel's party to show how it's going to draw a clear red line between itself and the far right and so they've been been as i say piling on a bit of pressure but they themselves are elect electorally somewhat weak so i think it's unlikely that they would want to bring down the government and perhaps force fresh elections at this stage anyway. who benefits from a k.-k. stepping down. yeah i mean you could say pretty much everybody else the social democrats as i say looking to draw some sort of benefit out of this by presenting themselves as the the sort of guardians of german democracy the ones making sure the

to resign as the leader of the christian democratic union and. won't run in the next election after a regional vote over so-called far right files our europe correspondent peter all of it looks at where it's left the c.d.u. . before monday it was almost impossible to hear on a good com column about his name said by a journalist commentator without them modding widely tipped as a future success set to angela merkel all that is no more after a meeting with christian democratic party top brass on sunday she decided to quit as party leader and she won't be running for the job of chancellor at the next election and that's without any new meg there and then there would be difficult times and the last 2 years have proved that out of this reasons and with the intention to make the city's stronger after careful consideration i have announced my decision today in front of the c.d.u. board meeting and federal mord i want john for the position of chancellor as i have already announced our will lead the process to find the new candidate who will move the c.d.

worth noting just how serious this is being tainted here one senior figure from within the christian democratic union described the free democrats as having played with fire and set all of politics in germany a place. you know we've been getting views on this story including from a sollie a member of the german left party which this happened to peter best drawn from the alternative of germany which also had a big role in the play. the question is what would the voters of on. the touring ram people. said quite clearly we would like to have a conservative coalition and this is the majority we had this is the city you have the f.t.p. you they have behaved majority and the communists and the socialists they were just ignoring it they wanted to build the government without having having a majority so they failed and how they are driving mad so but in a normal situation the air you have to deal with that would get the 2nd chance to build the government after the communists were not able to do that. just because all the other parties have a book a thing on us we have to do it this way of course it's a

it's worth noting just how serious this is being taken here one senior figure from within the christian democratic union described the free democrats as having played with fire and set of politics in germany a place where we had one patient of a thoroughly a member of the german left party and petulant by a strain from the alternative for germany. the question is work with the voters of on. the touring on people who. said quite clearly we would like to have a conservative coalition and that this is the majority we have this is this city you have the. they have behaved majority and the communists and the socialists they were just ignoring it they wanted to build the government without having having a majority so they failed and how they are driving mad. but in the normal situation the area of the world that would get a 2nd chance to build a government after the communists were not able to do that. just because all the other parties were of locating ours we had to do it this way and of course it's a battle of this where you. have martin is an unprecedented and we have thousands of people demonstrati

to some christian democrats this is the person to choose. its once on friendly terms with merkel but who she sidelined many years ago he fought his way back from the political wilderness and ram company close in the leadership election of 2018 whoever actually will succeed. has to make a decision either as she tried to do so to bridge that gap or to lead the. in one of the one of the 2 camps and directions either the american direction for a more moderate liberal course or actually for the direction to become much more conservative and there had been before and then there is the question of what to do about the f.t. in the federal parliament then numbers are too small to be more than an irritant to the mainstream parties but out in the state parliament spitting in the east they are much more numerous and now they are raising their voice many germans a deeply worried by what they're hearing dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion from poland which run by who is a political analyst and professor in e

the times a set for changing for angle of a christian democratic union party with how they're going to cram our announcing that she will step down as party leader and it she doesn't want to be considered for the election if chancellor next year it means big changes have to be made but instead of getting on with making those big changes some in the c.d.u. party leadership are pointing the finger of blame at both poles of german politics saying they're to blame for the c.d.u. suffering the any of you benefits a little from what the left party has been saying for 30 years maybe did everything is back they can reap the benefits of that now will protest voters have gone to the a.f.d. the the bar coal into danger where the c.d.u. allying themselves with the right wing a.f. de ultimately toppled calabar in an attempt to bring some stability to the central german states the left party proposed putting in place former minister president christine liebknecht of the c.d.u. until new elections can be held to rehear is far from having stable conditions which the absolute majority of citizens want t

sharply in other recent state elections but voters in hamburg punished chancellor merkel's christian democrats they received just a leaven percent of the ballots. but i. finally a result to celebrate for germany's ailing social democrats after a run of election losses the s.p.d. were the clear winners in homburg on sunday nationalised bt leaders welcome to turn around. and push how this gives the s.p.d. a push and i think it's the right kind of politics and i think it's the kind of politics that suits the whole this meeting has been the past. but for chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it's the worst state election result in almost 70 years. this is the top targets of theater today for the c.d.u. in germany it's an historic lead bad election result for the c.d.u. in hamburg and there's no way to put a gloss on that. i. scream. doubled their vote they are hoping to be the main challenger to chancellor merkel c.d.u. in federal elections next year just yet as additionally. we see we really have an extremely challenging situation for democracy in germany and the c.d.u. a say preoccupied

in the election back in october he gets the job the state premier thanks to the support of christian democratic union party members and glimmer party it's worth noting their. alternative for germany a wealthy person who is ousted bodo rommel of has described the election of mr kerik as a discussed sting sharod in fact the left party have been describing the free democrats as being willing to rule by the help of fascists the christian democratic union and they've come under fire from their party leader and he. has said the regional party representatives acted without the knowledge or without the consent of central office this is not a good day this is not a good day for to be in chair this is not a good day for the political system in germany christiane lindner the head of the f.d.a. pay it done his best to distance himself under his party from alternative for germany . support comes as a surprise because it is not motivated by angry. emmons on substance but purely tactical the f.t.p. does not negotiate or cooperate with the d. there is no basis for cooperation who do not support the goals and v

protests have broken out across germany over an alliance the ruling christian democrats have repeatedly guaranteed would never happen they joined forces with the right wing alternative for germany party to win the central state of turn it over reports. so often we're talking about high drama in german politics but it's fair to say that the political establishment has been shaken to its core over the role played by fall right on the immigration policy alternative that germany is kingmaker in states elections. well the public went to the polls back in october of last year into india but it was very tight and they've been trying to wrangle out who's going to take over as the state premier amongst themselves in the state politicians and that was completed on wednesday. just warned vote the free democratic party candidates thomas came addict will be the new state premier his party only picked up 5 seats in the election back in october he gets the job a state premier thanks to the support of christian democratic union party members and glimmer party worth noting their. alternative for germany

meantime has suffered a significant hit i spoke to soon start for a member of the christian democrats who told us about the challenges now facing his party and how it needs to address them. current combo as she took over after a very huge conflict that we heard in 2 years ago. we have to shape tradition in respect to the old but we never forget her fight when you are forget your historical fight to bring seed your together there is some people there are not too loyal to your party to find out who is going to last one who is not because this is not a game on who saw right there in the past few days there is a lot of people in the world why they are plagued with the fire and this is very dangerous for us so live now to come together to discuss together to find out what we are good where we are where we are going it's very simple is that when i see now that our parties they are keeping likely they are seeking to defend you from us no it's could have been in any party in this time or in this in the politics in history but as i say the time now we really need to come together to write or t

welcome back a top official from germany's ruling christian democrats has blamed both left and right wing parties for its failing support there's been a massive voter backlash to the c.b.s. alliance and a key regional election with the anti immigrant alternative for germany party it all over has more. the times a set for changing for angle of a christian democratic union party with their good at our announcing that she will step down as party leader and it she doesn't want to be considered for the election if chancellor next year it means big changes have to be made but instead of getting on with making those big changes some in the c.d.u. party leadership are pointing the finger of blame at both poles of german politics saying they're to blame for the c.d.u. suffering if do you benefits a little from what the left party has been saying for 30 years maybe did everything is bad they can reap the benefits of that now will protest voters have gone to the f.t. the the bar coal into danger where the c.d.u. allying themselves with the right wing if they ultimately toppled. in an attempt to

fell sharply in other recent state elections voters also punish chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats who received just 11 percent of the ballots. a result for germany's ailing social democrats. the s.p.d. were the clear winners in homburg on sunday night and welcome to. this case the s.p.d. and i think it's the right kind of politics and i think it's the kind of politics that suits the whole the speedy speedy past. but for chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it's the worst state election result in almost 70 years. as a side and b. to lattakia it's a bitter day for the c.d.u. in germany it's an historic lead bad election result for the c.d.u. in hamburg and there's no way to put a gloss on that highway cumber of screens doubled their vote i they are hoping to be the main challenger to chancellor merkel c.d.u. in federal elections next year i just see it as additional. we see we really have an extremely challenging situation for democracy in germany and the c.d.u. a say preoccupied with itself says it can essentially be ruled out as a party of governments like the student i

this is this is a rupture of the political landscape the mainstream conservative parties the christian democrats and the free democrats have forged a coalition with a group led by fascists you could see this was a coordinated maneuver. chemicals only entered the race in the 3rd round of voting the previous state premier. had lost twice as did his opponent christophe kinda fatah a rural mayor who had been appointed by the far right kinda fatah emerged from the 3rd round without any votes those who supported him in the 1st 2 rounds apparently voted for chemical the 3rd time around but now he faces major challenges the new state leader has no platform and no team so it's social democratic ministers will not work for state premier who was elected with the support of a far right period it's the end of the term for germany's 1st ever left party state premier. and he's still in shock why because it is sending shock waves here in germany let's find out why this is described here as a political earthquake among the crazy our chief political correspondent is standing by explain to our international viewer