for instance the leader of the christian social union that's the conservative party in bavaria which is closely allied with the christian democrats he has been saying that against the background of this xenophobic racist attack that the german state the german system the system of. the courts and so on of the legal system will hit back with all the hardness all the means at its disposal against such attacks and against such perpetrators and similar sorts of reactions have been coming from politicians from various other political parties from the social democrats who are also part of a coalition government here in germany from the freedom across that's the business friendly liberal party so i think you can say they're all major political parties are condemning the right wing terrorist nature of this attack and saying that the german state and the german democracy will defend itself against such acts on thanks very much i will have plenty more analysis and we'll be live again throughout the day in on our on the story as details.

potential candidate for chancellor marcus's order from the bavarian branch of the christian union the christian social union has been put forward there we are waiting to hear from ms in her own words of why she made this decision that's expecting to come a little later on monday shock waves from the latest political scandal in germany continue to ripple out to peter oliver in berlin there with all the details thank you. and other news the death toll from the corona virus outbreak succeeded 900 people with more than 40000 cases confirmed globally on this backdrop the russian air force has carried out an airlift evacuating russian citizens from china's province hit worse 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 rescued us thank you very much evacuees were transferred to a rehabilitation center near the siberian city of 2 men where they'll be monitored under quarantine such high level precautions being taken a

already when it comes to a potential candidate for chancellor or marcus as order of the christian social union the bavarian branch of the christian union here in germany is being talked about with increasing frequency as a potential successor even now to anglo merkel journalist and commentator thomas fassbender thinks it's not just in germany though where the christian democrats are losing ground. for sure all this is not going to add a lot of votes to the already diminishing paul's and election results of that party the christian democrats 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 fair. idea 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 go

already when it comes to a potential candidate for chancellor or marcus as order of the christian social union the very end branch of the christian union here in germany is being talked about with increasing frequency as a potential successor even now to merkel all change we're still waiting to hear from. she's expected to speak to the press a little later on monday and explain why she's made this decision why now and what comes next as far as she's concerned. and joined on the line now by the book who's a political analyst who's based in berlin very good evening to you it's been called into media headlines a crisis in the c.d.u. would you go so far would you agree with that is this a crisis. well if a crisis is a situation in which you can tell you go systemic decision and then implodes then it is the next aggravation and i think we see an inflationary use of crises produce certainly a serious moment and for that. to be at risk to follow their junior partner in the coalition the s.p.d. that has been marginalized in the last 2 years and they lost elections they lost support and they will face

already when it comes to a potential candidate for chancellor or marcus as order of the christian social union the very end branch of the christian union here in germany is being talked about with increasing frequency as a potential successor even now to merkel all change we're still waiting to hear from. she's expected to speak to the press a little later on monday and explain why she's made this decision why now and what comes next as far as she's concerned. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak has exceeded 900 people with over 40000 confirmed cases globally against this backdrop the russian air force has evacuated a group of russian citizens from 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 rescued us thank you very much evacuees were transferred to a rehabilitation center near the siberian city of sumant where they'll be monitored under quarantine such high le

already when it comes to a potential candidate for chancellor or marcus as order of the christian social union the very end branch of the christian union here in germany is being talked about with increasing frequency as a potential successor even now to merkel. ok let's get the thoughts now of thomas fassbender he's a journalist and commentator and he joins us here very welcome thomas thanks for coming on some headlines are calling this a crisis in the c.d.u. is that going to be far do you think. for sure not. the storm issuing thing is that all this was triggered by. a storm in a water glass you could say because the fact of the election in the parliament last week has shaken up the political. the whole political class here in berlin to an extent that was hardly to be expected on the other side the previous comments of course perfectly on the spot a cake. was not up to the job. almost everybody assumed that she was mrs america candid and the fact that she is no longer at the top or she will leave the opposition very soon is certainly has certainly a weakening effect on the chancellor on angl

already when it comes to a potential candidate for chancellor or marcus as order of the christian social union the very end branch of the christian union here in germany is being talked about with increasing frequency as a potential successor even now to anglo merkel we spoke to berlin based political analyst all of the things that the cd use at risk of losing support. well if a crisis is a situation in which you can to go systemic decision and implodes then it is an exaggeration and i think we see an inflationary use of crises produce certainly a serious moment and for the you all to be at risk to follow their junior partner in the coalition their speedy that has been marginalized in the last 2 years and they lost elections they lost support and they will face a situation in which the iraq america to have a very credible person in the center of the political spectrum ending her term more sooner than later most definitely by the end of 2021 but as it stands right now it can also be sooner. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak has exceeded 900 people with more than 40000 confirmed case

currently we are with all your troops your partners well our caucus christian democratic and christian social union we demanded to achieve this by the end of this period so that means in 2021 but our coalition partner the s.p.d. didn't want that at all so we need to find compromises and what the compromise was to achieve that goal. 2025 however the pure numbers won't hope this would be about 60000000000 euros some 5 years ago we had nearly 32000000000 euro so that would mean to nearly double it by 2025 and 2 percent would mean 80000000000 euros who takes you seriously though if you can't even abide to your commitments on the international scale because you have those internal dynamics regarding your cold current coalition and your party tree who takes you seriously we need to come down because we are very honest and our defense minister as well as the chancellor made the commitment one but 5 percent but 2025 due to our coalition commitments and to to continue and to achieve the 2 percent goal by 2031 i know as a simple member of parliament that this is too long too late but we have also an armed fo

this attack the most prominent politician as has reacted so far has been the head of the christian social union not just the conservative party in bavaria which is very closely allied to conservatives and he has said that the german state the german judicial system german democracy will use all its faults all that it has at its disposal to fight back against such attacks against such terrorism ok it's not just the head of the soon very we're also hearing from the state premier of has that's where had i was located the german said it has a he's been expressing his condolences to the families of the victims let's listen to that. today's the day of mourning a day of horror so please understand that we are all also in a very personal level trying to come to terms with what has happened. in summary i would like to say that the thoughts of all the people of the state of has with the victims and hano and with their relatives and maybe this empathy comfort to them at this most difficult time. a difficult time not only for the state of hesse up but but also for all of germany we're going to pick up with

events of this week's tragic slayings in hull now we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats they are part of the ruling coalition as well as the left party and the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative media day of funding the flames of far right extremism in the country of course there's a direct connection between the growing strength of the f.d.a. and the increase in right wing violence citizens of foreign descent are being denied their human dignity it's so dangerous because it brings some to a point where they commit a crime here we have a fatal disinhibited at work and the f d bears responsibility for that too 9 people were killed this week 2 shooting incidents at 2 separate she should bars in the city of hama all of those that were killed were from an immigrant background most of them were young people as well we heard from one eyewitness he described for us the scenes of that night condom on the man came in and started shooting at a kiosk then he came to us he shot the 1st person in the head then shot of the 2nd person we'll drop down to the gr

social reforms. one of the most important endorsements came from the christian temperance union in 1881. they were the largest women's organization at the time. we have this petition here from the women christians temperance union that argues that the ballot is the most potent element in all moral and social reforms. through women's reform activity, they realized even if they didn't initially support women's suffrage, they needed the ballot in order to prep for the changes that were most important to them. i love that this exemption -- the section of the exhibit has wonderful records that tell stories of individual women who fought for the vote. we wanted to include as many voices and arguments as we could from women and men who fought for women's voting rights. we developed this projection display that includes beautiful portraits, as well as quotes from other women and men who were active in the suffrage movement, arguing why women needed the vote. >> working women must use the ballot to avoid the crushing of our bodies for the profit of a few. >> the rights of a female part of the com

union making of these developments in germany correspondent barbara is in strasbourg she spoke to katerina bali a european member of parliament for the social democrats. the crisis within the german christian democrats it strikes fear in the heart of many european countries because if it turns into a full book blown government crisis the next step is european crisis how big is the danger what you think well it is a crisis within the christian democrats there's no doubt about it but now our concern of course is that we keep going as a government and i mean we've seen rough times social democrats and we've proved that this is possible because we. we were a very stable partner in the coalition and in the government and this government worked extremely well during the last months so you think stability can prevail even though the christian democrats seem to tear themselves apart very similar to like you say what happened to in your own party is there a bit of shine for them no there's no shame for it at all because i mean germany will take over the presidency of the council in the 2nd half of this year so we are aware of the responsibility that we're having so. we actually ask our partner now