f.t. alternative of germany they may well become then the largest opposition party and in the german parliament how would you in your position as vice president of the parliament how would you give them the democratic right to speak without allowing that the german parliament to become a sounding board for a far right use that would be a real. political hard consequence if the a f t. would be the strongest opposition party in the bundestag leader of the opposition practically. but the a.f. d. was elected by the german people and they deserve equal opportunity like any other party in the bundestag no special treatment i believe that we should not give them the opportunity to describe themselves as victims of the political establishment that is what they really prefer to be appear. and we want. to give them we don't want to give them that kind of opportunity the world is watching germany waiting for germany to get a government organized what would you tell people would you tell other governments apart from it's all going to be ok. well the world may be waiting for a german government the fact is

f.t. the alternative to germany they and to the german parliament for the first time so exactly how this new political style will actually come into fruition we'll see over the next four days and hopefully we'll see a more conclusive statement from the parties involved on thursday it sounds like chancellor merkel has a lot of work ahead of her in the coming days why are these parties struggling to find common ground where you have to parliamentary groups here that have to that they have very different objectives the s.p.d. a trying to redefine that profile at the moment as the social democrats in germany while the conservatives are actually trying to move away from that middle ground which merkel has moved them swards that particularly in the last couple of years so there are going to be a lot of obstacles to overcome yet despite today's quite positive comments and some of those are mainly going to be taxes this europe's also going to be an issue in the integration into europe and also course germany's refugee policy particularly with regards to family reunions in germany is this merkel's la

the far right alternative for germany party the f.t. has questioned germany's culture of holocaust remembrance they say islam is the elephant in the room when it comes to defining the real threat to jewish life. busying in on it but still we can all see it you call it immigration mr common or people from other cultures and north africa and the middle east lawmakers from other parties pointed out that the f.d.a. itself has an anti semitism problem and that some if the members are even holocaust deniers the bundestag adopted the anti semitism legislation with a large majority including f.t. votes. that now bring you up to date that some other stories making news. apologies in cape town of impose new water restrictions on how to combat an ongoing drought from favorite residents use no more than fifty liters a day a reduction of one with half the south african cities had three years of rain for. a californian couple who held their thirteen children captive for years in their home have pleaded not guilty to charges of torture and child abuse

f.t. aside they seem pretty united in slamming this proposal that may. well if alternative for germany thought that getting into parliament was going to be the hard part they've certainly been brought down to earth with a bump over the last couple of days as parliament's reconvened for the twenty eight hundred session in berlin the f.d.a. put forward the changes to the law that would have seen those who are applying to have family reunification through asylum requiring to prove that children were of an age that they were deemed they were supposed to be they were claiming to be also to they would be for this more stringent checks on who people were when they arrived in the country that they were who they said they were this was turned upon by the other parties within the bundestag every single one of them to a man saying that the alternative for germany was wrong in doing this and in fact when the proposals were put forward they were greeted by bruce in the chamber. when jets condominium act one could get the impression our position is close to that of the air but if you jus

for the alternative for germany party and it's the second time this week that the f.t. party has been threatened with legal action over allegedly racist twitter posts as though many came now explains the lawyer for no a back away submittal time in setting out his client's reaction to the comments that were posted on twitter by the alternative for germany a member of the german parliament meyer mr becker's lawyer says that his client believes that it was a racist comment and he is seeking legal redress he is suing mr maher but also in a civil sense but also seeking a criminal investigation to be made into the comment posted on the account of yens meyer the point to make here is mr meyer says that the post was made by a colleague of his his and that the comment has been deleted another thought is though the issue of race and how the alternative for germany party is dealing with it this is not the first instance in the car past week or so in which the issue of race race has been raised by elements inside the alternative for germany party they are tricks from stalk a leadin

f.t. finished third in september's election dominic cain picks up the story from berlin . the decision by the police to investigate alice vida the co-leader of the alternative for germany party alongside their investigation into the comments of her colleague baird to explain stark came out a point when we knew already that several hundred people had complained themselves about the point the points that the bear took from stalk had put out on social media the interesting thing to to say here is that following news that use it into news the new law has come into effect in germany which regulates what can and cannot be said online as much as it does in the broadcast media the written major and in the street as it were and so the question that the police will have to with the authorities will have to work out is whether the comments that were made by. talk by alice vital do contravene the law and then there is the question of the motivation behind it because several years ago in twenty fifteen years eve twenty fifteen when many women complained in the city of cologne that they had been assaulted by people of a with a migrant background the alternative for germa

the right leaning alternative for germany or f.t. party has proposed verifying the age of all migrants coming to the country it's an idea that's been roundly condemned by all other parties in the bundestag to all of our reports. well if the right wing populists alternative for germany thought that getting into the bottle was going to be the hard part they've certainly been brought back down to earth with a bump over the last couple of days since the german parliament convent on friday the f.d.a. of put forward changes they wanted to see two laws relating to asylum and refugee status here particularly when it came to the ages of those claiming a reflection of status in germany now the alternative for germany say that between thirty and eighty percent of those that have applied in the past have.