court has indeed set that the n.p.t. is pursuing anti constitutional goals and resembles hit us and stamp a party and in 2017 the constitutional court stopped short of banning it only because it said they considered it too weak to actually endangered democracy you know all of this of course no one before stefan yosh was elected and yet the mainstream parties they are like them braised know what jackson's to him so why in the world today objecting now. well they certainly just didn't expect the outrage and the uproar that was coming towards them from the national political level i mean it's interesting to look at what the c.d.u. the members of the council said what the ag humans were in favor of electing jackson they said that there was no other candidate that he knew how to work well with a computer he knew how to write e-mails and his party affiliation didn't play a role and then came the aprile at the national political level where senior political figures here in berlin expressing their outrage their anger and disbelief at these election and were al

the constitutional court here in germany, the highest court has said the npd is pursuing anti-constitutionaloals. it resembles hitler's nazi party. in 2017, the constitutional courts stopped short of banning it, only because they said they considered it too weak to endanger democracy. >> all of this was known before he was elected. yet, the mainstream parties elected and raised no objections to him. why are they objecting now? >> they didn't expect the outrage and uproar that was coming towards them from the national and political level. it's interesting to look at what the cdu, the members of the council said, what the arguments are in favor of. they said there was no other candidate that he knew how to work well with a computer, knew how to write emails and his party affiliation did not have a role. senior political figures here in berlin were expressing their outrage and anger. they were calling for this decision to be reversed. there have been a couple of steps taken toward that reversal. seven of the nine councilmembers have submitted a motion already to dismiss the far right extremist

reconciliation, the re—establishment of the rule of law and the establishment of a properly constitutional courtis court is a statue of abraham lincoln, a reminder of another civil war, but who at a time of great constitutional crisis in his own nation, and it was questioning its fundamental identity, said we are not enemies, but friends. we must not be enemies, though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection, touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. those are the images, those are the matter is, that is the backdrop against which this court is determining the issues before it. and no doubt you are going to turn to those issues? right now. right now. that was just the credits. so, yeah, let's get back down to the quotidian. the appeal is not about prerogative power, and how it might ever lawfully be used, and i think there is a a lot of confusion going on about that, the prerogative power is used as if it is some sort of magic and cases that refer to prerogative power have been referred to as if one could be applied to another because they w

wasn't significant enough as a political force and the german constitutional court is refraining from interfering it's very careful to intervene in german democracy so distasteful as their views may be there and p. d. is a legally constituted political party the mainstream parties raise no objection to stephanie. when they elected him so why they are objecting now. well there certainly just didn't expect the reaction the adderall it cost the election of staff and you ask cause and as we've just seen in the report and there are local council members often get america's christian democrats being quoted as saying quote unquote would he does in that party or in private that's not my business not our business so they really did focus on him asked the only candidate available they said he is able he's young enough able to send emails works well with computers and then came the national average for many senior positions as we've seen 2 of the 2 ruling parties in berlin have expressed their outrage at the election the disbelief and a calling for the decision to be reversed and actually indeed

there's a right, the right is to keep and bear arms and is protected in the constitution and the supreme courtsaid quite explicitly in heller, we can't rebalance, we conduct the bouncing inquiry ourselves about whether this is a good and the port right to be in the constitution. that would be the balance that was drawn by the framing generation and the people when they ratified the constitution up with this amendment and the constitution. i don't think you can balance away the right in the sense of well, it's here but this isn't a right that would really think should be fully protected because we are not sure like it so much anymore. obviously there is room as there is with respect to any constitutional right for some degree of regulation, and there can be laws that can be passed that are animated generally, genuinely i safety and by ensuring that people safely and effectively know how to use their firearms if they're going to need them for self-defense. there's strong support on all sides of this debate for ensuring that people really do have the training they need that they ensure that they'

been several attempts to ban the party according to the federal constitution or the german constitutional court the n.p.t. is indeed pursuing constitutional goals and 2 years ago 2 years ago in 2017 the court only stopped short of banning the patchy because it said it was too weak to endanger democracy so the mainstream parties raised no objection to staff and. elected him so why are they objecting now. well it seems like they just didn't expect the reaction that was coming towards them from the national level and local council member em off i'm going to mcewan's christian democratic party who voted for you actually actually said quote what he does in the posse or in private that's not my business they're not our business so it seemed like there was no other candidate running the post have been vacant for weeks. you actually knew how to write emails knew how to communicate handle a computer well and that's why the other council members elected him and then came the outrage at the national level many senior politicians often going to america but also the social democrats and all other mainstream

could go on longer and it could have go on to the highest courts in the land even up to the constitutional court if need be and right now we have to investment bankers there on trial but many more are involved do we know anything more about the others. yes in other cases for example there are also investors involved who played along who bought into investment vehicles and were also prosecutors claim they should have known about that their lawyers involved and the prosecutors in cologne who are prosecuting this also believe that the doj rebels with its settlement unit clear stream also was involved in some way there have been 2 searches the last one just last week in this particular case there are 5 names 2 from the private bank warburg a very respected old money type of brain can hamburg a bank of new york mellon societe generale with mutual investment fund units and also hamburg capital management company and the interesting thing of course is also that that that comics trading scheme took place between 20112000 or 2006 in 2011 now it's 29 t. what took authorities so long. well i think one of t

constitution adopted in 2014 and the if it's not fully and place you do some things like the constitutional court actually have been part of the place for 4 years it's not there yet but politically it's relatively well over the very you have an active civil society as well that is playing the role of chris let's agree . on the other hand which is lacking has to be correct i left from the dots a lot with a lot of actual voters where he criticized a lot of senior citizens said we have seen any result of this uprising when it comes to economic development in the country prices rising up inflation is. a very experienced some just maybe that's one of the reasons as well or not we're here to . talk us through the rest of the process how soon are we likely to get the 1st results and then what happens next. so basically these results will be published by tomorrow or tuesday tuesday the latest and it's very probable that the high number of candidates that are wants that there will be a 2nd tour that nobody will go into 1st and the 1st from the 2nd. will take place 2 weeks after final results and 2 kinds o

are foreseen and in the constitution of 2014 still haven't been put in place especially the constitutional court busy which should be a government to point to tunisia. to fall back into not like it was before so the president mainly has a moral force here but a very fortunate one all right sam ash reporting from tunis we thank you very much for that. let's get a check now on some of the other stories making news around the world. drone strikes on saudi arabian oil facilities and an oil field in the east of saudi arabia have disrupted about half of the kingdom's oil capacity which makes up 5 percent of the daily global oil supply and yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility for the attack but the united states says iran is to blame. protestors and hong kong saying that god save the queen outside the british consulate on sunday they were calling on the former colonial power to ensure that china protects the territories freedoms the see no british joint declaration signed in 1904 laid out hong kong's future one country 2 systems formula after its return to china in 1907. the white house s

has brought me to the conclusion that what we really need is a written constitution and a constitutional courtrity. because if we had a written constitution, these things would be clear. but because we have this amalgam of convention and laws... anachronisms. and that works when everybody, you know... plays by the rules. but not everybody always plays by the rules, so maybe in these times of populism, the time has come to have a written constitution. all right. well, we shall see how this all pans out and the expectation is that the judges will not deliberate for long, because they realise the clock is ticking and if there is a call for politicians to come back to parliament to discuss brexit and the issues and what is at stake, they need to get back in there pretty quickly. let's now move on and moved to the front page of the independent, looking at liam fox, who of course used to be the international trade secretary not so long ago. he is in washington delivering a speech, and he is going to say exactly what president trump wa nts to to say exactly what president trump wants to hear, which i

it's a very complicated matter possibly the highest courts in the land here maybe even the constitutional court in concert there was a loophole yes but i would say looking at it as i know it would as i've seen the allegations that it was certainly illicit but whether it was illegal whether these people can be convicted that's for the courts to decide and apart from those 2 bank a standing trial today do we know who the other saw. well there are banks that will have to answer to the court in this case 5 names perry their banks mutual fund managers from associate asian island bank new york mellon as well as a capital manager in hamburg but also the prosecutors in cologne having searched for the 2nd time last week also the deutscher bills and with that settlement a unit clear stream which acts as an intermediary in trades and if you look beyond this case all sorts of lawyers and other bankers involved and investors as well i don't close all of this happened more than 10 years ago between 20062011 it's 29 t. now what took authorities still. wants an immensely complicated case there's so much data t

put in place in the constitutions are actually already existing presumptions no constitutional court that's been treated 4 years ago and also the economic situation is still very bad which means that. this is a big problem for the country and for the stability of the general. we've heard that young tunisians the younger generation is especially unhappy with their government why is that. well a lot of them say that the country doesn't really provide any when i'm here and. climate right specially high among antony's and stuff for academics not university and last single day don't find my niece in the working work and so there's been a lot of brain drain like highly qualified teachers going abroad to europe or to the gulf states especially doctors or engineers and i. and they also train under represented in political parties and political outfits to answer to shots on the other day a very active civil societies and as you know for an important force in the democratic transition and the country. and there are 26 candidates running for office that's quite a few who are the front runners a

today it's the seat of south africa's constitutional court. the day after they 1st meet the group's give their 1st concert at a music school in sweater. each group introduces itself by singing a piece from its own repertoire busy. right afterwards they performed their 1st joint arrangement him from the middle ages jazzed up with african beats. 6 can you believe that we just did that. the 1st time. i. see. and i have truly arrived there finding the african audiences enthusiasm infectious unsellable singing has a long tradition here and is part of everyday life. the next day of rehearsals belongs to see he's been commissioned by george avila to compose a work that will be rehearsed here for the very 1st time. it's untitled the birth of change. the aircraft. carrier. there. the vocalists will later be supported by a full symphony orchestra oh whoa. we're. here they're getting acquainted with the new work which was created on a computer and has never been performed before. you can see the i. want to feel. at some point things just click into place

put in place in the constitutions are actually already existing presenters know constitutional court which are that's been treated for years ago and also the economic situation is still very bad which means that. this is a big problem for a country and for instability to come general. we've heard that young tunisians the younger generation is especially unhappy with their government why is that. well a lot of them are saying that the country doesn't really provide any where the money and. the outline of rights specially high among antony's it's not for academics not university to say dude they don't find. in the working work and so there's a lot of rain very unlikely qualified teachers going abroad to europe or to the gulf states especially doctors or engineers and i.t. specialists and they also feel under represented in political parties and political assets to answer to shots on the other day a very active civil societies and n.g.o.s who are an important force in the democratic transition and the country. and there are 26 candidates running for office that's quite a few who are the

replace the law lords as the uk's most seniorjudicial body, today saw the supreme court beginning to flex its constitutionaliggest day in the history of the supreme court so far. with this unanimous judgment, the judges have really set down a marker about their role as a constitutional court, as a check on government and as a defender of parliamentary sovereignty. and although this will have some repercussions for brexit, it's really much bigger than that. this is about how our parliamentary democracy works. cool booing traitor! the supreme court is crossing the line, meddling in politics, downing street has suggested. but the justices were adamant they had a responsibility to question the motives of the prime minister, pointing out he'd failed to submit a witness statement to explain under oath his reasons for suspending parliament. the only evidence the supreme court says it's had was this memo sent by nikki da costa, boris johnson's adviser, recommending suspension. borisjohnson ticked yes. this was not a normal prorogation in the run—up to the queen's speech. this is a completely proper constitutional p

francisco franco foundation says it will appeal and go to the constitutional court. they said this is a breach of ththe famamy's fufundamental ri. we d do not know when the b body ofld be moved to the part the park where his wife is also buried. has tried of francnco unsuccessfully to get the body taken to the cathedral. that is s in the center of madr. that would have been a nightmare for the government. they s see that nostalgic's of e franco regime would have been able to go to a more central site to pay homage to franco. >> this has seen deep division in spanish society. >> the far-right has remained inactive over the 40 or 50 years of the democracy. thiss been reawakened by attempt to move the body of francisco franco. the government has faced a legal itst, many appeals to decision. they tried to do this over a year ago. it will be good news that as he goes into another election campaign, of course he can say to the spanish people, one of his star moves has come to fruition. >> sarah morris in madrid, thank you. the united nations general assembly is going on in

to rain the constitution back ina court to rain the constitution back in a little bit. in any other times other than brexit, this would be a good thing. everybody would be saying it is good that we have these constitutional checks and balances, it stops a wayward government, it means that we have parliamentary moxie, which is what we all hope for and what we all live for. it is a reassertion of the british constitution however unwritten it is. the problem is this type of thing unlawful, what is lawful about denying the 17.4 million people who voted brexit, the problem is it has become political and it will become political. thejudgement become political and it will become political. the judgement itself was illegal — make a legal one and it was arguing that the government was breaking the law. the times talks about boris johnson, his breaking the law. the times talks about borisjohnson, his reaction to all of this saying, i actually don't, i disagree with the outcome of the supreme court, although we will respect it. it talks about

replace the law lords as the uk's most seniorjudicial body, today saw the supreme court beginning to flex its constitutionalthis is probably the biggest day in the history of the supreme court so far. with this unanimous judgment, the judges have really sat down a marker about their role as a constitutional court, as a check on government and a defender of parliamentary sovereignty. and although this will have profound repercussions for brexit, it's really much bigger than that. this is about how our parliamentary democracy works. booing traitor! the supreme court is crossing the line, meddling in politics, downing street suggested, but the justices were adamant that they had a responsibility to question the motives of the prime minister, pointing out he'd failed to submit a witness statement to explain under oath his reasons for suspending parliament. the only evidence the supreme court says it's had is this memo sent by nikki da costa, boris johnson's legal adviser, recommending suspension. borisjohnson ticked "yes." this was not a normal prorogation in the run—up to the queen's speech. this is a complete

replace the law lords as the uk's most seniorjudicial body, today saw the supreme court beginning to flex its constitutionalably the biggest day in the history of the supreme court so far. with this unanimous judgment, the judges have really set down a marker about their role as a constitutional court, as a check on government and as a defender of parliamentary sovereignty. and although this will have some repercussions for brexit, it's really much bigger than that. this is about how our parliamentary democracy works. booing traitor! the supreme court is crossing the line, meddling in politics, downing street has suggested. but the justices were adamant they had a responsibility to question the motives of the prime minister, pointing out he'd failed to submit a witness statement to explain under oath his reasons for suspending parliament. the only evidence the supreme court says it's had was this memo sent by nikki da costa, boris johnson's adviser, recommending suspension. borisjohnson ticked yes. this was not a normal prorogation in the run—up to the queen's speech. this is a completely proper constitutio

to rain the constitution back ina court to rain be a good thing. everybody would be saying it is good that we have these constitutional checks and balances, it stops a wayward government, it means that we have parliamentary moxie, which is what we all

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone is a serious human rights violation mohammed is not an isolated case result from this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months if. not the lawyers says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. i know how meds mother often is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. volkswagen is headed to court in germany today the carmaker is facing a huge lawsuit over the diesel emissions scandal hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers have teamed up to demand compensation for the v.w. cars that they bought the lawsuit as the 1st of its kind in germany lawmakers paved the way for a class action proceedings after the diesel scandal broke in 2015. watershed moment for germany's legal system and a day v.w. had hoped to avoid 4 years after the emissions

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone is a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case with all this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. is a lawyer. he says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. mohammad's mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. or. not before she joins us now from. what can you tell us about the scale of these deportations well refugees and n.g.o.s say that the scale all the recent crackdown on the syrians is unprecedented they say hundreds of syrians have been sent back to their war torn country against their will in recent months we can't independently verify these figures but i've been in contact with about a dozen syrian refugees who all told me that they had been deported to it which is a war zone i

have valid turkish documents and protection status chuckers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation of mohammed is not an isolated case with all this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. is a lawyer. he says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. mohammad's mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. not to china where celebrations are taking place to mark the 70th anniversary of communist party rule when celebrations will take place on tuesday where massive parade square but beijing the celebrations could be overshadowed by pro-democracy protests and unrest in hong kong. on the eve of the anniversary a ceremony to honor the creation of the communist state and the heroes of the civil war chinese president xi jinping paid his respects to the fallen. in the evening he attended a the

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone is a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case with hopefully this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months some of the. last lawyers says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. mohammad's mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. and we have much more on the issues surrounding migration at our website d w dot com well 30 years ago today thousands of east germans fleeing communism made their way to the czechoslovak capital prague their destination the west german embassy there which they were hoping to use as a staging point to get the freedom and west germany their gamble paid off and on the 30th of september $989.00 they packed onto these trains heading west 3 decades later some of them hav

strike a demonstration is underway in johannesburg where protesters marched on the country's constitution court to demand action on climate change. and yet another friday is a future marches underway in cape town we can go over to our correspondent in capetown crease and it seems a lot of climate change of protests are underway in the country tell us about what's happening where you are but you can see in the background it's not so many people anymore most people are going back home at the moment but before we had hundreds of people coming here marching to the parliament house south africa trying to address the politicians and trying to tell them how argent their needs is to take action on the global climate crisis how they call it and as he has mentioned earlier cape town was not the only place in south africa where these protests happens today also in jerks and to durban we have seen similar events taking place but i did hear turn to 1st 1st time the impact of climate change it had a huge drought how do you experience that. right i mean last year cape town was almost the 1st big city on earth

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case which of this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. is a lawyer. he says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. mohammed's mother is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. briefing on some of the other stories making the news at this hour in paris thousands of mourners waited into the evening to pay their respects to former french president jacques shock he died last thursday at the age of 86 and lying in state at the end believes monument some 30 world leaders are due to attend funeral later today. u.s. president all trump says he deserves to meet his accuser in the whistleblower scandal in a series of late night tweets us president attacked the whistle

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case result from this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. alone the last is a lawyer says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost of paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. i know how meds mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. or he's looking for a new partner a day after his people's party won the country's snap general election with 37 percent of the vote austria's conservative leader sebastian cortes is ready to build a coalition government he is not expected to seek another partnership with the far right freedom party voters punish that party after a corruption scandal that led to the government's collapse back in may many are speculating about the deal with the greens who made

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone is a serious human rights violation in the mohammed is not an isolated case which hopefully this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. not a lawyer says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. mohammed's mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. this brief you know some of the other stories making the news this hour u.s. president donald trump has said he deserves to meet his accuser and the whistleblowers got a series of late night tweets the us president attacked the whistleblower who released details of a phone call between trump and the ukrainian president in the call trump asked his counterpart to investigate political opponent joe biden for corruption. a fire has swept through a high speed rail way station in th

a demonstration is already underway in johannesburg at the testers marched on the country's constitution court to demand action on climate change. and that's where our correspondent is standing by adrienne south africa seems to be taking the time of purchase basis is that a lot of protests being planned in the country tell us what's going on there. but i'm retired you can see i'm here amongst a few 100 people who are gathering many of them are students actually and they're planning to march through the south african parliament here in cape town to basically force the quality issues and try to force them to acknowledge the global climate. they say and one they want them to take appropriate action. you know and can tell was one of the towns that experienced 1st hand recent the on the impact of climate change there was a massive drought there the funny experience that they didn't. absolutely this was just last year that the cape town almost became the 1st big city on the earth to run dry it was really a big drought here a big disaster back then water was rationed to 50 liters per person per day e

have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation in this mohammed is not an isolated case we so for this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months some of the ethnic are. lost the lawyer says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost of paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. i promise mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. books weigend is in court here in germany to face charges related to the diesel gate emissions scandal the class action lawsuit the 1st of its kind in germany is being brought by more than 400000 drivers who were seeking compensation for purchasing vehicles with devices that allow the car maker to cheat on environmental emissions test. the scandal has already cost bugs wagon over $30000000000.00 worldwide. i'm joined now here at the big table by my colle

climate protest this march took place in johannesburg protesters combust on the country's constitutional court to demand action on climate change and other fridays for a future ma which took place in cape town because. chris was that i spoke with one of the organizers. so we're here with the right no one south african students who came out of the organizers of today's protests in cape town. today thank you today because you're protesting for climate change you want climate action in south africa to stop when the governments you hear our voices wanting to take action against climate change do you think the government so far is really. acknowledged the problem and done enough he hasn't got is the problem because the so in term to me didn't strike cancel your knowledge i think gave us a shout out but now it's kind of disappointing to see that he's not actually going to go to new york for the united nations emergency climate emergency that just tells us that he does not care about this problem and he doesn't really care how much is affecting the people of south africa so the sooner just one explan