he didn't manage to put forward a convincing vision of what he would do with charts and did the f.t. manage to do this because the polls seem to be placing the right wing populist party a strong third what happens when they join the buddhist. the buddhist time the tone of debate in the buddhist talk will change radically it will be much more polarized much more fractious. the a f t. you know we expect many of the candidates many of the f.t. candidates who do win seats in the german parliament to be from the far right wing of the party you're going to have revisionists anti semites racists hardline nationalists conspiracy theorists all in the german but this time they will change the tone of the debates in that parliament the mainstream democrats in parliament will have to do their work. they'll have to put much more effort into convincing people and beating the far right populist well christopher thanks for that analysis as we look to the elections coming hours actually you're welcome. so as a campaigning draws to a close ahead of sunday's election why not join our conversation online first

he didn't manage to put forward a convincing vision of what he would do with charts and did the f.t. manage to do this because the polls seem to be placing the right wing populist party a strong third what happens when they join the buddhist. the buddhist time arc the tone of debate in the buddhist top will change radically it will be much more polarized much more fractious. the the. you know we expect many of the candidates many of the candidates who do win seats in the german parliament to be from the far right well here in berlin voters heading to polling stations will have to compete with tens of thousands of affiliates taking part in the berlin marathon city officials say they've made arrangements to make sure that everything goes smoothly for both runners and voters. the forty fourth berlin marathon meets the german elections. forty four thousand competitors will be running through the german capital on sunday. plans had to be made to ensure that berlin voters could reach their polling stations without problems. since the well together there are thirty polling stations affected that i

was the second largest party with a little over eighteen percent of the vote so how did the f.t. manage a success like that well we were actually at a an election party a regional party here last night and we heard when the leading candidates life they call him a thanking his supporters and fellow party members for their concerted efforts in getting the vote out and you really saw that you know everywhere within the city but also on the outskirts the a.f.d. was the best represented party in terms of election campaigning leading up to this vote and what they did if you look at the campaign posters that they put up everywhere they really played on voters' fears if you look at the polls from last night all the people who cast their ballots for the f.t. mentioned that there they had fears they were afraid of changing society in germany something we heard from your guest changing culture but also of the rise of terrorism and the f.t. seem to successfully play on those fears sara one of those fares of course. fears of migration sue may how big a role did that specific issue play so you can't

manages. what do you expect from the f.t. now they've gotten into parliament. well to be honest i don't expect too much of them i don't think they are most of them are fairly good politicians they're not fairy good in bringing up their their point. it's very good possible. they get into trouble with each other so it will fell apart or things like that which happen a lot with new parties so suddenly does success is suddenly so big for them so i don't think day i mean we've already seen in the in the last moments that. it's not a fairy year. spartina the fairy. strong party and so. they came and went straight. i think. most people don't really understand what i mean by it. so that means that i'm not fairy. yet let's say looks very good politicians who just come up with these feelings and bring themselves into trouble. but on the other hand what you see is that the other parties will keep on like especially the s.p.d. to socialist party will people saying that they are now cease and one day i would say that it will become very easy for the f.d.a. to just be themse

f.t. has been using in their campaign and it seems to have worked because look at this the number of voters that they've managed to get from other parties from the c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc alone they've managed to get over one million voters that's incredible and that's not exclusive to the c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc you can see right across all the other parties they've managed to get more votes from from other parties but where exactly are these voters coming from let's look at the german map to just see that the dock blue areas are where the voters seem to be concentrated and very clearly they are in the east of the country now in these regions so in this states in the east of the country the states are less diverse they are less economically well off than other parts of the country and so they do appear to be more sympathetic to the message of the d. but that's not to say that the east is exclusively for the f.t. as you can see in this in this graph i'd like to call it the cd you did enjoy twenty seven percent of the vote from that stronghold that you just said of the a.f.p. and in the west as well the a.f.p. is also get

f.t. candidate nicholas fest was willing to speak. first said he couldn't remember where he read the information but that it was not gates' tone. to find out how this story managed to spread at all we turn to. it when it comes to fake news we look for traces and clues. we examined how it was distributed and whether social bots were involved which may have made the stories much bigger than they really were. to find out why fake news stories spread so rapidly we had to cologne. there we caught up with elisabeth baling. she's a cognitive scientist at u.c. berkeley who studies the language of populists and fake news stories. veiling investigates health fake news lodges in our brains and what emotions it triggers. especially well are very concrete images or very simple sentences words and ideas. this is typical for fake news stories and certain corners of the internet this very simple imagery and these very simple concepts are what gets stuck in our brain. the more concrete the image the longer the message lodges in our memory and the easier it manipulates our thought processes. we go back to munich and. he and his team have evaluated the data on how the fake news st

members in parliament but still managed to turn the debate toxic if you discuss issues in france you have marine le pen weighing in and it will be the same with the f.t. in germany unfortunately. the pedant. it was the same story in the netherlands when far right populist jews strong support in that country's recent parliamentary elections dutch lawmakers say german voters sent a similar signal the signal that i saw from the german elections is really that no one is immune to change and there is more fragmentation in germany while the center is still strong. i think we have to be mindful of what the far right is going to do the german green party's foreign affairs spokesman says this is a wake up call on the future of the e.u. . with this three pronged alliance between brussels paris and berlin we have a window of opportunity to take the initiative to bring the e.u. closer together but berlin has to be willing to play along. which being a voice with the far right is growing support in europe it may compel the e.u. to pay closer attention to the concerns of all europeans. i'm joined now here by our chief political correspondent melinda gray. of the di

f.t. straight in to the bundestag on twelve just over twelve and a half percent between them the others managed to five percent so who was up and who was down. it has been an appalling night for the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. historic losses which we'll talk about very shortly with our chief political correspondent left party and the greens there you see in the middle up just over between a half and just over half a percent of the big plus story they had for the f.t.p. back in the in the bundestag their vote up by nearly six percent over last year and the a.f.d. in for the first time where they are just under eight percent so. what does that mean then in terms of seats right here is how it all. spills out so we have the c.d.u. there in black in red we have the the s.t.p. . pink or magenta the left part of the greens in green and the yellow remember those colors are actually yellow and green green for the greens and yellow for the f.t.p. they're going to be significant when we start talking about jamaica later and the air a f they are ninety four seats so that's the way the new german parliament is g

f.t. as a way of saying pay attention to us well in fact the a of d. has already managed to a large extent to set the political agenda in germany and has through its pressure caused all sorts of changes in policy especially on the migration this is this is the major issue on migration there has been policy changes not only amongst the conservatives to serve or to amongst angela merkel's party even though under the macro open the borders two years ago her party has changed policy on that quite drastically in the last couple of years is no longer full open borders full you know welcoming everyone into germany and also on security issues issues such as police work or surveillance and so on on all of these matters most political parties are a lot i'm all. i think strict then there used to be you can see in that whole discussion caused by the f.t. or started by the f.t. as a radio. led to the other parties changing their positions and. we thank you and brand new political correspondent now if you just joining us this is that they will be special coverage of the german election

f.t. here in west palm renia. zihuatanejo there been disconsolate and you want. to take the direct line nature the chancellor even if you didn't manage to do that . the federal chancellor would have made an offer why when somebody just go soft on it that i should not have managed to win a mandate is that what it was and the right way to go it would have been a very strong a symbol and i was of course she would win that chancellor but it would have been a symbol of all the dissatisfaction of the citizens i mean everybody knows about that dissatisfaction anyway and at least we've managed to make her lose a significant number of votes. she's lost twelve percentage points in london and our result is higher than the set average were not on her yes she is very much when i first asked nations came out and you saw that if he has more than thirteen percent nationwide what can we expect from the f.d.a. and the opposition because he'll be a part of me which they're very happy that we have i mean it becomes the fifth largest party and that will enlighten the debate that's good for democracy if you want this but i'm not means it also normalised t