cips us a small within the party is gaining popularity evangelos cips us has more. after the c.d.u. more surely in the 3 d. elections. after the city use or showing in the thuringian elections the party is in full blown crisis mode this has implications for the party is in full blown crisis mode this has implications for germany but potentially for europe too chancellor angela merkel is not the chief germany but potentially for europe too chancellor angela merkel is not the chief anymore but members of the c.d.u. are still pointing fingers at her among them anymore but members of the c.d.u. are still pointing fingers at her among them this mad theory that it hurts the psyche for years that shows that inaction and lack of leadership have covered this country like a blanket of things this med free that it hurts the psyche for years that shows that inaction and lack of leadership have covered this country like a blank it's of things can't go on like this and i simply cannot imagine that this kind of government in germany can count go on like this and i simply cannot im

summits this seems the country is divided with an invisible line separating east and west indies evangelos sips us reports. walking through the center of berlin one can see how much effort the german government has put for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall it almost seems that the country was never to fight it it is difficult to identify characteristics of socialist architecture between the multi ethnic restaurants and bars but leaving the center as you see in the west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor angela merkel admits those show the majority of east german citizens in today's germany feel like 2nd class citizens according to those less than 40 percent of these germans think that reunification was successful among those under 40 the figure is around 20 percent less than hoff are satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister told us them is a good one said the for east. everything has changed but for west germans only their postal cold and 30 years on his comments seem to be quite superficial a recent study

we're going to live the program by our correspondent evangelos sipp self for more on this some disturbing details so tell us more about what's known here. well left politicians are ringing alarm not because they've been threatened by local neo nazi groups but because they're on the kill list and some of them are on the top of that list. as they made who is the leader of the greens who is from turkish descent and claudia roth claim that they've been receiving threats e-mails by a group called nuclear weapons the vision germany in the e-mail of the group writes how and where they will execute attacks on the politicians providing some chilling details the track may be directed against germany this time but to join salaam least attempts of intimidation against local politicians and civil society against jews and muslims against women artists and immigrants. i can rely on a police escort for protection of the local politicians. who are being attacked and have no personal protection it should be possible to end any stadium to a solution event without getting a comments on mine. the threats thou

outcry are a ban on some pesticides and regulations to protect groundwater from nitrates artie's evangelos sepsis was with the farmers convoy it is set out the. it is early and the morning 'd that they should be working on their lands but instead of these german farmers have hopped on their tractors and will be rolling into amber to make a big point. as the country's regional and environmental ministers are meeting here in hamburg the farmers want to make it clear that the shifting balance between ecology and arkie culture is putting them out of business as the ever tightening and national regulations on the use of chemicals from wheat killers and fertilizers to roots now we've become from the german government is so hard for us that we cannot drag on our farms we cannot have made good crops. have followed a frozen for the for the dairies at the root of their rigorous restrictions is the protection of wildlife and habitat the farmers agree that looking after nature is the core to the job but what infuriates them more is how they were shut out of the conversation of how to go about implemen

snooping scandal back in 2013 evangelos takes a closer look at the story. while wait a foreign in the side of the e.u. u.s. relations since the beginning of the year the chinese tech giant has triggered a global power play over the rolled out of its 5 g. network washington once it out of the european markets and after some heavy influencing sometimes not so friendly pressure and the spice agha germany's economic minister has added fuel to the fire by saying there is no reason to boycott while we beg then in the n.s.a. affair we imposed no boycott the u.s. also requires from its companies that they provide certain information which is necessary to fight terrorism peter meyer also mentioned that there is no link between wa wait and the chinese state little did he know though that this statement would come back to bite him not only here in germany but on the other side of the atlantic too it doesn't seem to bother the united states if you call them out for a straw but compare them to the chinese that is a definite no no. the recent statements made by senior ge