ponselle it is a professor at dresden technical university specializes in populist movements in eastern germany he joins me tonight from dresden profesor pods and it's good to have you on the program eastern germany has the smallest numbers of migrants in foreigners than any region of the country yet it is a hotbed for right wing extremism and zina phobia why well there is a quite easily understandable reason for that seat with germany increased its percentage of foreigners in the country from ciro after the to something like twenty eight to twenty five per cent in a number of tea cakes that is slowly in east germany the percentage increase during the last five six seven years from zero to something close to ten percent so the dynamics between migration much higher in east germany then invest chimney and so if the reaction of the society against immigration which

department but as a whole the german police states neutral what about what we're seeing in and also in dresden the we've seen problems like this before and we've we've heard these accusations before and it's like it seems that they don't go away do you have an explanation why this this problem persists there well i don't really have a true explanation for that but the police and its nature is. very close to conservatism and law and order and let the groups tend to reject or despise conservative conservatism and law and order so that might be a reason for those accusations that we the police protect the new nazis we heard on the program last night from a professor in dresden he said that police tend to feel more aligned with the far right then the left because they are constantly told by the left we hate you i mean what do you what do you say about that. hatred from the far left side to tell what's our colleagues is truly a problem that is true but we do not align with the rightists. what happens inside a police force if it becomes apparent that a colleague does have sympathies with the far rig

in the great movement was founded in dresden so dresden has been very much in the focus now it's. and there are other smaller incidents that have happened in eastern german cities so this is something people are asking where's the link to maybe history something that happened during east german called me in this times where people were not properly. well they didn't learn probably about the disadvantages of totalitarianism. but having said that there are lots of people who are cautioning against making selling this. problem at the same time we can also see the statistics in places where there are fewer foreign knows there's a big fear of foreigners and this is for example this is the case in cyprus we saw in a report that politicians are searching for answers and we heard chancellor merkel say there is no place for hate on the streets what do you think her government is going to do well i'm going to machall is faced with this challenge of countering and immigration sentiment she is faced with it on the day to day level. right party won tremendously in last year's federal elections

in populist movements in eastern germany he joins me tonight from dresden professor upon so it's good to have you on the program eastern germany has the smallest numbers of migrants in foreigners than any region of the country yet it is a hotbed for right wing extremism in xena phobia wa well there is a quite easily understandable reason for that seat with germany increased its percentage of foreigners in the country from ciro after the bill go to something like twenty eight to twenty five per cent in a number of to kate that is slowly in east germany the percentage increase during the last five six seven years from zero to something close to ten percent so the dynamics between migration much higher in east germany then invest and so if the reaction of the society against immigration which a significant minority of the people here doesn't want to have there's an interesting observation when it has to do really with numbers i'd like to point out something that happened last week in eastern germany a t.v. news crew trying to cover a right so far right demonstration was detained by polic

can you tell us about some of your personal experiences in the depth of this problem not only in dresden but in german football i think of this rather sorry yeah well i mean anybody who watches football in football grounds in germany especially in the lower leagues audience especially unfortunately also in the east of germany is likely at some point to encounter this sort of thing now we're seeing some pictures here from a game last year this is belongs to a group to new society chemists who show in their name to the end boys is no. accident bad that n.-s. research stands for national socialism the picture that we're seeing images taken directly from the the youth poster from the nineteenth it again we see here and now that game that which we just saw the pictures that wasn't even candidates that was playing and the candidate seems quite closely linked to another scene of an eco post which is another club with a big problem his son as far as you know estimating and measuring the depth of the problem it's quite difficult because the network is very widespread it's a lot of different clubs

versus bottles leading to move offices being drafted in from neighboring dresden unlikely to cope. this is our city they chant in this video shared on twitter they're protesting against what they see is a rise in crime committed by foreigners. the unrest follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during the city's annual street festival. he died from his injuries and hospital after being attacked with a knife. two other men must seriously injured. police sources have issued little information on the crime saying only that the ulta cation have been between people of various nationalities government spokesperson stuff inside but stressed that the events in cam that's had no place in a democratic society. this is. it's important for the government as it is for all democratic politicians and for most of the population as well i think to state clearly we do not accept marauding riots like these nor the hounding of people who look different will come from somewhere else no attempts to spread hate on the streets this has no place in our cities we a

patterns vs bottles leading to more officers being drafted in from neighboring dresden and like to to curb go to strut this is a policy they chant in this video shed on twitter. they're protesting against what they see as a rise in crime committed by foreign it's. beyond rest follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during mrs he's on you will street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife. two of a man was seriously injured. government spokesperson. stressed that the events in cannot have no place in a democratic society. this is wish to goodness we get it's important for the government as it is for all democratic politicians and for most of the population as well i think to state clearly we do not accept marauding riots like these nor the hounding of people who look different all come from somewhere else no attempts to spread hate on the streets this has no place in our cities we and i can certainly say this for the government utterly condemn that kind of behavior. attention on eastern german city of

has been in the headlines there was a very big anti immigrant gratian demonstration in the city of dresden in saxony in the middle of august and in fact this state was the birthplace of the zina phobic movement piggy which brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of brazen in two thousand and fourteen to protest the so-called islamisation of germany and this is also the state where the far right party actually was. the strongest party in last year's federal election in saxony so what's going on in saxony and in eastern germany as a whole it's a paradox really brian because the fact is this is a region where there are the lowest number of migrants of foreign residents nonetheless the far right fares best where it can exploit a sense of insecurity and frustration and that is absolutely present in many regions of the east that has to do both with demographics and with politics just briefly the demographics this is a region that has seen real deep population since the fall of the berlin wall young people moved away to expand to look for better opportunities in the west order people r

what are we if the divine drivers have been driven to use to a relative trickle in dresden on the few boats were able to move creating problems for bigger vessels and the rhine is so shallow that had been point even the one war two minutes since were exposed. let's return to our top story and the post election results in zimbabwe where the leader of the opposition movement for democratic change has said the elections are fraudulent and illegal joining me live from harare the zimbabwean capital is our correspondent and increase. again welcome to you know we heard some very tough words from nelson chamisa he also described the elections as i mentioned as for dylan and illegal what is the basis of his claims well that's a very good question i mean he's been saying it many times that the elections that were fraudulent he's been saying that according to his numbers he's clearly the winner of this election and this is obviously in contrast of what the electoral commission and what the current president uss buts and this is the key issue although he addressed the press today he did not come

birthplace of the anti immigrant movement that brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of dresden in two thousand and fourteen to protest what they called the islam is ation of germany saxony is also a stronghold of the a.f.d. the far right party in fact it was in this state during last year's federal elections that the a.f.p. took the largest share of the vote and the problem is not only confined to stocks in the far right has a good deal of support throughout the former eastern germany and it's a bit of a paradox because the fact is there are fewer foreign born residents in that part of germany than in many parts of the west but there are demographic and historic political factors that account for this the far right thrives in places where people feel pretty scary yes where they have a sense of insecurity or frustration that is certainly the case in much of the former east they've seen massive structural change since the fall of the berlin wall since the opening of the east young people leaving de population older people who remained especially in rural areas feeling that they'r

trickle ryan is now so shallow that it one point even world war two munitions have been exposed and in dresden on the elbe a few boats are able to move. only a few pleasure boats are still out on the river elbe an interest in bigger boats can sail water levels have dropped to forty six centimeters here about one and a half metres lower than normal. i mean we should be up to our knees in water here but students need smaller vessels were still able to operate until recently but now they're going nowhere the. older boats with a shallow draft are still able to sail but it's difficult for them to dock so they've had to reduce or even shut down operations. on the river rhine near calls for barges are still on the water but most can only carry half their normal cargo so as not to run aground in the shallow channels but very passengers here don't need to worry yet these boats can still dock. about favorite tape is eight years old so there is can still operate even if the water levels drop further by default and couldn't but if i can but it's possible that some of our passenger service is won't be able

sources and we've also seen earlier in the month of august an incident where by police in the city of dresden detained a press camera team after the insistence of a right wing demonstrator who later proved to be an undercover police agent and essentially could be said to have violated the free speech rights of this camera team so big questions as well about the degree to which the police services are adequately trained again in those very critical democratic values that they are here to represent. just one of thousands of fans lining up to pay their last respects to aretha franklin us old singers bodies lying in state inside a museum in the hometown of detroit a private funeral will take place on friday but some just like your old music legend died earlier this month from pancreatic pancreatic cancer this reportedly double as much weight. this is where rita franklin learned to say her father was the head pastor of the new bethel baptist church while she was growing up. with her upbringing here in detroit and her incredible talent franklin grew into a superstar if i am and for me to be here i

center in eastern germany the defendant detonated a homemade pipe bombs outside the fatty mosque in dresden while the him and his family were inside no one was injured but the judge said the accused has shown extreme xenophobia. ugandan pop star turned opposition lawmaker bobby wine has been arrested and to be an international airport and taken to a government hospital his lawyer says he's in a worrying condition and has been going abroad to seek treatment for injuries sustained as a result of being tortured by ugandan north ortiz allegations that mr white had been tortured during an early detention prompted widespread protests for the australian filmmaker who flew a drone over an opposition party rally in cambodia has been jailed for six years james ricketson was arrested in june last year and charged with espionage is arrest came amid a wider crackdown on freedom of expression by prime minister sends government. approve the international space station has been repairing a small leak in the soyuz transport ship thought to being caused by a small meteorite the initial solutions were surpris

congress center in eastern germany the defendant detonated a homemade pipe bombs outside of a mosque in dresden while the a mom and his family were inside no one was hurt but the judge says that the man had shown extreme zina phobia. is the first senior government minister visited the scene of a deadly stabbing in chemist's today the crime carried out last weekend allegedly by migrants laid bare deep divisions over merkel's decision to welcome nearly a million migrants in twenty fifteen following days of violent protests germany's minister for families said that the unrest was a wake up call for the government to start listening to its people. the crime scene has become a place of remembrance family minister francisca get five is the first member of the federal government to visit the site where a german man was stabbed to death last sunday the minister met political groups and pledged more funding for initiatives aimed at strengthening democracy. we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that this is just a problem for saxony. it is a focal point because of the current events here. but this is

he detonated a late pipe comes in dresden. no one was injured. extreme xenophobia.many's minister visited the scene of a deadly stabbing. the crime was committed last week and. they fear the divisions over angela merkel's decision to allow migrants and. they described the unrest as a wake-up call for the government to stop listening to the people. >> the crime scene has become a place of remembrance. prime minister is the first member of the federal government to visit the site where a german men step to death last sunday.y. they pledged more funding for initiatives for strengthening democracy. >> we should not make the mistake of thinking that this is just a problem. it is a focal point because of the current climate. this issue affects single country, the whole of eastern germany and also, the west. >> they have confirmed that one of the alleged attackers should have been deported in may 2016. its officials or not to blame. >> the federal authorities are responsible for that. it is now being investigated and the results will now have to be made public. >> the accu

reporter: only a few pleasure boats are still not on the river in dresden. biggerer boats cannot sail. water levels have dropped to 46 centimeters here, 1.5 meters lower than normal. >> we should be up to our knees and water here. reporter: smaller vessels were able to operate until recently but now they are going nowhere. then older boats with -- >> older boats with a shallow draft are still able to sail. there had to produce or shut down operations. reporter: on the river reine,, barges arere still on the water, but most can only carry half the normal cargo. sherry passengers here don't need to worry yet. the boats can still talk. -- dock. >> ferries can operate even if the water levels drop further. it is p possible e that some passengerr service won't be able to run. reporter: low water levels on the reine from history to the surface. police divers have found antiaircraft shells from the second world war. they say removing them entirely is too dangerousus. >> their condition is such that we don't want to transport them. we have decideded to explode thm u

we heard last night on the program we spoke with a professor in dresden who said that the police particularly in eastern germany often identify more with people from the far right than they do from the left because they're told that they're hated by the left what do you say to that well by its nature police tend to conservatism and law and order. the left to groups by nature or. rather reject or despise conservatism and law and order so that might be the reason for that opinion the these accusations that we were seeing this cooperation possibly between the police in the far right and kennison in eastern germany is nothing new and it's something that seems to continue to persist how do you explain that i mean why can't it be broken. that is a very good question you have to consider that the police of a german state we call it it's a mirror of the population so if you have a certain opinion you know. within the population within the people that might reflect on to the police force and if if there are police officers in a department anywhere for those of us who are in the police and you suspect

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know about him is that he's a thirty nine year old prison guard based at the corrections facility in dresden he says he didn't know that in leaking this boat a graph that he took that was partially blocked out in places showing the details of the arrest warrant he didn't know that that was a legal however what we have been told is he still may face criminal charges now following the admission of this he has been suspended and has put out a statement through his lawyer that we just heard a little bit of there and all communications he said will be done through his lawyer from here on out in that statement for a little bit more and he said that he did this because he didn't want the media to speculate on details of those who'd been arrested he went on to cues the press of manipulating facts in the past to fit the narrative that they wanted to put across he says that he lives daily the realities of decisions that have been made in germany and the reasons that he leaked this warrant and the these warrants was because he wanted to show the world. what he sees as the reality of germany today. ever

police in kenya city center i tunes versus bottles more officers had to be drafted in from neighboring dresden and light switch to cope. with that start get out of town this is our city they chant in this video shed on twitter they're protesting against what they see is a rising crime committed by foreigners. the unrest followed the death of a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during the city's annual street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife two other men were seriously injured government spokesperson stefan seibert stressed that the events in cabinets had no place in a democratic society. this is which the feebleness league it's important for the government as it is for all democratic politicians and for most of the population as well i think to state clearly we do not accept marauding riots like these nor the hounding of people who look different all come from somewhere else no attempts to spread hate on the streets this has no place in our cities we and i can certainly say this for the government utterly condemn that

you back here to be hable so we've got a king someone working at a prison we as we understand in dresden a prison official prison guard has been suspended in connection with leaking that arrest warrant to far right groups so he reportedly turned himself in but this on its face it looks like a case where you've got someone in law enforcement feeding confidential information to right wing groups what do you say to them. i think it's absolutely embarrassing thing to add to the facts as i think he showed up at the bill title today is not under his body is to have boy accompanied by a lawyer who is a clear activist of the piggie the movement. has been active in interest for many years and i think it adds up to a number of incidents which i think has severely undermined trust in the law enforcement authorities in the state of saxony. that is something that the state government in cooperation with the federal sources has to work on strictly i think we have to enforce law and order we have to enforce discipline. and compliance with legal requirements period there is another demonstration planned

those arrest warrants he's a thirty nine year old man who was working at the corrections facility in dresden he says he didn't know that it was a legal for him to share these documents to leak these documents. but he may well face criminal charges for doing so we heard a little bit of the statement that's being put out this is through his lawyers this is the only way he says he's going to be communicating from here on out he said he didn't he did it because he didn't want the media to speculate on details as to who the arrested were he went on to accuse the press of having manipulated the facts in the past to put across a narrative that they wanted to see every day as a prison officer i am the focus of what has happened in our country from a few years ago and this intensity and manner nevertheless every day i see that most people are lied to about the changes in our country or do not want to accept the truth however at least regarding the manslaughter or murder in chemnitz i did not want to be a part of the silent crowd anymore but in response to that statement that was put out we've also he

that program was on view for example in mid august when there were demonstrations in the city of dresden also immigration demonstrations and saxony which of course is also the state where chemist's is located it is the place where the piggy to movement took groups that is an anti migrant movement that brought tens of thousands of people to the streets grazed in twenty fourteen to protest against the so-called islam is ation of germany this is also this state that is viewed as a stronghold of the far right e.f.t. party in last year's federal election it took the biggest share of the vote in saxony but the problem goes beyond saxony alone in fact far right parties and anti and immigrant sentiment are strong in many places at the former eastern germany which may seem a paradox since the fact is that region has fewer foreign born residents than many parts of western germany but still this this phenomenon absolutely has both demographic and historical political roots of just briefly on the demographic side the far right parties exploit a sense of insecurity a sense of frustration and those ar

counter-demonstrators now that resulted in some violent scenes there here in the state capital of saxony dresden we've heard from lawmakers who've been shocked by the state of the violence and they were joined in that shock by chancellor angela merkel. because in the us what we have seen after the clearing does now have a place in the state governed by the rule of law. we saw videos with harassment and hate on the streets it was the sickest and i was at the demonstration in chemist's on monday and the scene there was alarming it shocked me personally what happened yesterday is that over a thousand demonstrators registered but it turned out that there were about eight thousand protesters in chemist's most of them were rightwing us it was. the only two decent type and it was a scene from the beginning that there will be twice as many demonstrators as were registered but it turned out to there were about four times as many rightwing demonstrators as initially planned home it was it was. twenty people were injured during those clashes between right and left including two police officers ten people a

him is that he's a thirty to thirty nine year old man he was based at a correctional facility in dresden he says that he didn't know that what he was doing was illegal and he may now face criminal charges for doing that now he's issued a statement through his lawyer and said that all further communications will be done through his lawyer in that statement he says he didn't want the media to speculate on details of who were the arrested were he also accused the press of having manipulated facts in the past to fit their narrative says that he lives the daily reality of trying to keep order and keep the peace in germany says that there was a growing number of incidents involving refugees and migrants and saying that they went under reported or not reported at all and that's why he made the decision to put out that to leak these arrest warrants well in response to this the justice minister of the state of saxony is referred to him as irresponsible and said that there could be serious repercussions for doing this that may have an impact on the investigation but also flare up tensions in the c

observers positively identified right wing hooligans from bavaria dresden and. is particularly relevant because in the francine in corpus there are very close links to the fan scene in chemist's. ok you mentioned the eastern cities the eastern region how deep a problem is this in german football. i mean anybody who watches football especially if it was stadiums in lower leagues in the east is likely at some point to encounter this as i said chaotic chemist is known to the constitutional authorities in saxony. there. groups in this scene commits f.c. one called the n s boys who are also known to the constitutional authorities this is in pictures here that we're seeing of the n.s.t. always displaying is a picture taken directly from the youth in the nineteen thirty s. now what's also bit of it here you see the game that this was actually taken. wasn't even a game of the chemist's f.c. and these are fans from chemists they join the group with whom they're linked in corpus. it's estimated that in chemists alone there are between one hundred fifteen two hundred footb