to the bavarian sister party who are very with the green party. working with the greene working with the green party. and ti democrats- and the working with the green party. and ti democrats ared the working with the green party. and ti democrats are note working with the green party. and ti democrats are not the working with the green party. and 1 they |ocrats are not the working with the green party. and 1 they once :s are not the working with the green party. and 1 they once were not the working with the green party. and 1 they once were and the force they once were and they have had a terrible time. that has been _ have had a terrible time. that has been the _ have had a terrible time. that has been the - result - have had a terrible time. that has been the - result in l has been the worst result in their history, in fact. and olaf scholz has been blamed, fiat having perha psnot fairly-fer having over an presided over an unruly coalition. the free democrat seatitien; the free der-"met were always questioning party were always questioning the wisdom of economic polici

been the greens of traditionally being one of the parties. it's a most open to migration, but they even, they have been kind of on the political pressure to move to the right to them that yeah, yeah, i mean, why would he, they, were they, were they already moved to the in government? i think if you asked me because they that they didn't seltz's government and has become more and more draconian on integration in the green parts and kept verging for him. and now in the they've come up with this 8 point plan which became a 10 point on following the attack. and i saw some bug with a callback doing it like a social media video where he kind of explained jess, we're going to a increased deportations. we're going to make sure that the restaurants will be carried out quicker. we're going to include, i think, i believe a psychological tests in, in medical tests are like when new immigrants arrived, there will also be like a psychological element of the test. so you can and, and, and this is, yeah, and uh, i think a lot of the green party members have

back to now 2025 and the party program that the green. so i'll put out this year which is called suzanne and vax and so kind of to get the grow. what sort of grow together, basically in english, whether or um, and this time around what they say about nato is very different. just remember what we just heard from 1998, talking about replacing nato and an anti military strategy. all right, let's see what they say. now, we stand by our nato alliance commitments and the necessary expansion of our military capabilities piece, dumont's reliable funding with a defense budget that invests significantly more than 2 percent of gross domestic product. so we've gone from wanting to dismantle the military and dismantle nato, to strengthening nato, and increasing spending on defense. and in fact, rubbing how back the candidate for john. so this time signature, you, he's up to 3.5 percent of gdp military spending. yeah, i think of it all of this. this also fits into the context of you know, why they are now pushing for strengthening the military, strengt

and these are values that are still very important for the green party. and so for them it's also on the one hand issue of defending sovereign state ukraine. democracy. but also stopping a leader that has seen as victoria autocratic and going against a lot of the, the values up the green stand for. yeah. so from that point of view, i mean the greens would argue that is absolutely coherent with previous positions. you know, they went into the balkans to protect people. they objected to the rock for because it was a breach of international law. and they very much object to the invasion of ukraine because that is in that rise and even more gross violation of international law. yeah, the question is whether the voters have gone with them. expose this is where the germans takes to agree with the same party and yeah, and well, let's get to that. but robert hop back so it him personally, but the potty is a whole. what does it fit in the spectrum of parties in terms of its position on the, on the triangle is pretty, it's very much at the sort of hawkish end of th

p and the green party. for the reasons we have said, but there is no majority with the green party to form a german government. so there's no point having sports or talks. and there's no point entering into coalition negotiations because we can't even have a majority with them. so the priority for us, for me, remains with the social democrats, but naturally we will speak with all the other fundamental in parliament in the future and talk with them. yeah, hi to book this, talk all about business. the been the, you're talking about the majority in the parliament, but if we have $328.00 votes together with a succession, democrats and that's 17 more votes, and we need to have an app saving towards family. i experienced a phase that was with the f d t where we had a majority of 4 vote since about the kind of and we didn't lose a single vote for an entire term of office in such a 5 minutes of why should we not manage it with the majority will like to have now, how may i assist with again, it is almost the mountai

and this was very much my policy, you know, the green party and i assigned to the greens and the idea was to have a strong party in. but i have to say that i will no longer aspire to a central role reduced size, right. and the party alls, so that wasn't the only big statement behind in the past 24 hours. one of the most astonishing statements was made by incoming germans on specific methods on election night. and that was about his relationship with the trumpet, ministration in washington. he said that he would do everything he could to make you are independent of the us. that of course, after president trump had sent shock waves across europe by pushing ahead but based on ukraine with russia excluding both keys. and you all have been lead is sure is what matt said in the election program on german television, a good opportunity to play with for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible. so that step by step we can achieve independence from the us up. i never saw it. i would have to say something like this on a television program. they bought them o

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and this was very much my policy, you know, the green party and i assigned to the greens and the idea was to have a strong party in. but i have to say that i will no longer aspire to a central role reduce the size in the party. also, there are a couple of other things i'd like to refer to. i'd like to say that there was a shocking normalization of the a f d and the party program of the as easy. 2023 re migration towards the was the worst word in the world. and now at least vital could talk about her re migration program with that need any problem and, and were no longer caused any shock. and this is just a year and a half later that term has been accepted. so there's been a shift in social norms and some, and the law on limiting the influx of migrants to germany treats people as if they're a disaster that we have to prevents. they're not a natural disaster. they're not animals, they're not parasites, they're not a disease. and they're, so even the language has shifted on quite shockingly, and this normalization of the a, f d, a, you know, the discussions isn't and that's, and the coor

percent. making them the 2nd largest party. germany's uncommon social democrats suffered a crushing defeat. dropping over 9 percentage points to 16.4 percent. the greens fell 3 percentage points to 11.6 percent left party fared better than expected. with 8.7 percent of the road, b. s. w with splintered from the left party last year took only 4.97 percent, just short of the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament. the business from the f t p also fell below the 5 percent threshold of crash out of parliament. other smaller parties together took over 4 percent of the votes. so we'll look now and how election 9 unfolded, starting with the conservatives for the 1st place. via the cd, the cd you and c, s. u, the uni of law of one. there's 2025 election which ones is gone and previous matches. the man in the driving seat is clear winner of this election. he said to become jim and john sla though he still faces the tricky task of building a coalition, a center right, cd. you see if you block, received the most, both sparkly emoji, and there were down to 50 percent. it's not the support match. wanted to laugh, shouts will stay on this kid. it's a good c

still, the governing party will now have a 120 seats and the green party, 85 seats. the far right alternative for germany. now the 2nd largest party in the parliament will have a 152 seats. delinkum. that's the far left. a will have 64 c and the election outcome of these different coalition options as fear, radical possibilities. one is between the conservatives and the far right a if the very theoretical one, because even though they would have an ample majority in parliament solution mass as ruled out a coalition with v. a. if the another possible coalition wouldn't be with the social democrats. this option would have a slimmer majority in parliament, but is the most likely one since mass has, as i just said, rolled out collaborating with the far right or expecting to go to a press conference by the far it. if the shortly was the 1st conservative leader finish mount said he'll get down to work on forming a governing coalition as soon as possible. here's more on demand points to become germany's next chance. this is the mind. if the moment the police match just let t

and today we're going to get you briefed on the green party here in germany. death fighting to stay in government off of this month. selections. first of all, we're going to be digging into that belief and that pretty extraordinary journey from peace movement hippies of the 1980s to defense hawks today. then we'll talk about the cabinet, the chancellor robot hall, back a man who's adored by some and a proper hate sake of others. and finally, we'll look ahead with some predictions of whether the greens will make it back into power. i'm here with julia, so deli and ben nights and both of them have followed the greens closely over the years. so it's great to have you both here. so let's get.

they fall short so they have to get other parties on board. the greens for example.can talk and say here is the acceleration of the military. tom: kriti gupta, thank you indeed. many guests will fall into kr iti's show. later, we hear from ifo president and diw president. now today marks -- we have been talking about defense and marking three years since russia's invasion of ukraine. russia was the aggressor. are we seeing some movement to bring an end to the conflict? zelenskyy said he would step down if it guarantee peace and nato membership for ukraine. >> to achieve peace i am ready to leave, i will trade my post for nato membership, i'm focused on ukraine today, not 20 years. tom: let's bring in piotr. how important is it that the european union the united? piotr: very important. the rhetoric from the u.s. is worrying for europeans. we are going to have a foreign minister meeting to discuss ukraine and emmanuel macron is heading to d.c., the prime minister will meet trump in the idea is reassurance for ukraine, part of a settlement, but we will still need the u.

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and the other will be the so—called kenya coalition — so three parties, the green party in green, the and cdu in black, so the flag of kenya. but of course, these coalition talks are difficult and tricky. and germany's likely next chancellor said he wants these negotiations to continue as quickly as possible, to have a strong germany, he said, to take a more active role not only in europe, but also on the international stage. and tell us a bit more about what merz said. he was also quite critical about the us. he was really critical. and after the first exit polls came out, he strongly criticised not only donald trump, but also elon musk, what he called was interference. he compared what elon musk has been doing by praising the far—right afd party, by giving airtime to party leader alice weidel, to intervention from moscow, and he said that... so he criticised it basically pretty strongly. we know that elon musk has been supporting the afd not only in the last couple of days. only two days ago, he shared a video of bjorn hocke, one of the more radical figures within the afd, that has

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the social democrats currently still the governing party will now have $120.00 seats and the green party, $85.00. the far right alternative for germany is now the 2nd largest party in the parliament, with 152 seats. the link on the left party will take 64 seats. now the election outcome leaves different coalition options as see or radical possibilities. one is between the conservatives and the far right. a f. d, which would have an ample majority in parliament or fish. merits has rules out a coalition with the sd and other possible coalition would be with the s p d. this auction would have a slim or majority in parliament, but is the most likely one since merits rooms out collaborating with the far right . or on the far right alternative for germany, for its part. well, there was a big winters last night managing to double their results since the previous selection as well as solidifying their voter base. the f t also managed to mobilize support from 1800000 people who didn't vote in the last election over a 1000000 germans who previously voted for the cd. you c s, you cast their ballot

social democrats currently still the governing party will now have only a $120.00 seats and the green party, $85.00 states the far right alternative for germany. now the 2nd largest party and parliament will have a 152 seats. the link on the left party will have 64 and we can look now at how election night unfolded starting with the conservative. so it took 1st place via the cd to cd. you and c. s. u, the union block of one. there's 2025 election which ones is gone and previous matches. the man in the driving seat is clear winner of this election. he said to become jim and chancellor. though he still faces the tricky task of building a coalition is center. right, cd you see a few block received the most boats by a clear mileage in there. we're down to 50 percent. it's not the support that's wanted. oh laugh shouts. we'll stay on this kid, it's a good chance that but these days as jim and his lead a on number is s b d policy, etc. thoughts west result in and then i still election since the 19th century on, on for the big and also on the grounds comm raids face is a base or election results o

san francisco's chapter of the green party doesn't have a reporting system specifically for sexual misconducts us it does have a process to report a wide range of complaints, including harassment. if you hahave a stoy for bigad, siobhan or anyone else in our investigative unit, give us a call 888996 tips or you can simply visit our website nbcbayarea.com. all right. let's check in with meteorologist vianey arana. and boy, it is clear skies ahead, isn't it? it is. and it will be nice to get some warmth around here. we have that cold front that dipped in early this morning, bringing us just a couple hundredths of an inch of rain. not a huge rainmaker, just as we had forecasted. and right now we've got 40 on the map. but i do want to talk about some areas that are already starting to see some fog. so let's get right to microclimate forecast so we can talk about what we're seeing temperature wise. and also that fog. notice we're about five degrees cooler in oakland. so we do still have the influence of that cold front that will continue to weaken make its exit. and here's what we're left with. no

and today we're going to get you briefed on the green party here in germany deaf fighting to stay in government off of this month selections. first of all, we're going to be digging into that belief and that pretty extraordinary journey from peace movement hippies of the 1980s to defends hawks today. then we'll talk about the candidate for chancellor robert hall back a man who's adored by some and appropriate hate sake of others. and finally, we'll look ahead with some predictions of whether the greens will make it back into power. i'm here with julia, so deli and ben nights and both of them have followed the greens closely over the years. so it's great to have you both here. so let's get.

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frankly. ftp, who got kicked out of the book in the stock altogether, and it probably won't be the green party as this would not deliver the necessary majority. that only leaves the center left s p d as a realistic option. the poverty of current chance, low enough thoughts which took a beating from voters, losing nearly 10 percent of its support. salts already announced that he will not be part of any new governments after this electoral defeats. but his policy says it's open to negotiations with the conservatives and provides cuz we are prepared to hold tullocks for the bull is in favors mathis course. and then the course of the tools will decide whether a government is built on the call and votes of seeing a cd. you'll see as you and s p d correlation many times before. it's even got a nickname, a grams coalition. but for many, the prospect doesn't exactly. eros enthusiasm, i have gotten vista now. we had 16 years of a grand coalition. that's what i grew up with. so yeah, yeah. solving these, i don't think anything will change significantly most imposing days. we don't let putting in trunk g

even the green party, with the jobs to remain in government has changed its focus. sunday's election is taking place in a decided journey at a time when europe is struggling to respond to donald trump's presidency and increasingly popular fall, right. admit an economic downturn, votes us, huge challenges for effort will leave the country next. the coming for us as seen as a test, not only for germany's political middle ground, but for democracy as a whole. step size, and i'll just say around bell and stay with us on algebra up next all hell the planet looks at the power of psychology and blocking climate change action. thanks for watching the voters in europe's launch. the economy are heading to the poles with the far right expected to make is the biggest gain since the 19 thirty's, the german election could reshape your state without is there for the latest updates on things that phenomena of the german federal election supercharged by the climate crosby, on trick towards unreasonable, it's impossible to escape climbing directly into the account and whole neighborhood to the right p

even the green party, with the jobs to remain in government has changed its focus. sunday's election is taking place and they've decided to me at the time when europe is struggling to respond to donald trump's presidency and increasingly popular fall, right. admit an economic downturn, votes us, huge challenges for effort will leave the country next. the coming for us as seen as a test, not only for germany's political middle ground, but for democracy as a whole step size, and i'll just say around valid. and now the group of deformities from the u. s. has landed in north west in india is a trump administrations crackdown. undocumented immigrants continues a 112 people arrived from the city of i'm that so on. the 3rd such flight from america, washington says it's identified around 18000 indian nationals that believes have been living in the us illegally. winter storms and eastern parts of the united states have killed at least 9 people, swollen creek for flooded roads in areas of kentucky, alabama and atlanta. major ologist, also wondering of an active loss from the feast for the nort

i think green party as well.y over the last government and it collapsed and government and ittotlapsed and was lot of public there was a lot of public bickering and that's what we are having a election now. is happening earlier than he been do to be because had been do to be because the collapsed after government collapsed after various disagreements but one i’ over a z -—z7 issue. so it friedrich merz hoping for government would -la.essssssisses if; ohe the party but as we just one of the party but as we know politics is maths and the final calculations are not yet in. ., .. h nan m it's a few busy days ahead for you and of course that election place this weekend. thank takes place this weekend. thank you for the moment. and families of those who were dissappeared who went missing. human rights organisations estimate more than 100,000 with their families were transferred to orphanages human say hundreds of thousands appeared under the assad regime. relatives gathered so their under the assad regime. relative not

tom: on regulation then, do you have a sense, from the leading members of the party, whether it is the cdu, the spd or the greenshat they are willing to move to an innovation first approach that you say they should prioritize? jarek: i have not seen strong enough signals, i would say, across any of the parties until now to be really as forward thinking when it comes to how regulation impacts tech and how important it is for the overall tech scene, so i would like to see more from everyone. tom: there's an argument you could take the industrial base of germany and create efficiencies and product video by layering that shan productivity by layering -- and productivity by layering things on top. how willing are they to adopt these innovative solutions and push through some of this digitization and innovation? jarek: some of the problems for them in terms of adopting new tech are really in the regulations and how strict those might be and how deliberate they need to be in driving that change, so i think that point is going to help them quite a lot. i think in the current set up, everyone understands we need to work

parties are going to be in the coalition. the new government conservatives espied in greens, 3 parties. what do you say? but whoever it is, brands, and i would agree with that assessment. they've got to find a way to show germans that, that, that, for the future and against what must go as trying to impose on them as well as against the threat, the german democracy. okay. with the us. we've got we've, that's what you think. do you think whatever whatever makes you give it, will it hold longer than one year? it's pretty as to make some fundamental changes and then it can okay. refrigerant that's, that's the lead. and if he does, then i can. okay. alright we, we are unfortunately, we're out of time, but i want to thank both of you for being here in the studio with me and joshua in washington. appreciate you taking the time to talk with us as well or whether they continues online. you will find this on x, also known as twitter, and youtube and dw, and usually can probably be on social media, brand dot tv, every member, whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you next time ev

it should not be a red, white or blue issue, democrats, republicans, green party, everything a politician should want to know where our tax dollars are going and when they don't we should be investigating them. >> that's exactly the point, the deadline has extended to march 14 what is president trump of the american lawmakers do to make sure it doesn't happen. griff: to sarah's point about hakeem jeffries, there's an opportunity if you are democrat. have to be careful giving him advice because they haven't thought of it march 14 is the deadline in the house gop bill in version in the senate are not aligning right now quietly they're not getting along it's all included with tax cuts and another separated two, there is an opportunity for hakeem jeffries to try to find the few republican lawmakers that don't want to spend any money and don't want to with and try to cm for the republicans instead they're going off on doge. if the democrats shut the government down for a day, fiscal cliff fiscal cliff at democrat shut down the government for a day for doge it will be a massive wind that takes

normally you have like two party coalitions where either you have the greens or the my party, the free being the smaller coalition partner of either the social democrats or or the conservatives, the christian democratic union. yet that is not working anymore, because the social democrats are down to around about 15%. and let's face it, even the leading conservative christian democrats are only at 30%. and then you need to have either a 20% coalition partner, or you have to have two coalition partners. we have to get adjusted to that. the last coalition, the so-called stoplight or traffic light coalition, didn't work at the end because when money was running out, you couldn't agree on where to spend less. as politicians always have the problem. they agree on where to spend more, but can't agree on where to spend less. and i see the problem right now that and keep that in mind. here we come. here comes the classic german guy. considering our history different to other countries, it is very difficult for us to have a coalition with right wing parties as the alternative for deutschland, th

10 years convincing germany whether it's through cyber operations, misinformation, you know, the green party in germany, let's shut down all of our fossil fuel and base load. buy all of our energy from russia. when russia invaded ukraine, they knew the price was going to go up. they made tons of money. they were making money off that war whether they wanted it or not. part of what president trump understands we gets the price of oil down, that's hard for iran to fund terrorism. hard for russia to fund the war. >> bret: seems like warming up to russia. deals in the works as far as natural gas, oil, i mean, is that part of this thing? >> i think deals to be made to sell energy to our friends and allies so they can stop buying from adversaries. >> as governor when you were running for president you were pretty bullish against russia and pretty supportive of ukraine. today you heard peter's piece leading off, it's really tense here between president trump and president zelenskyy. what do you make of that? from where you see it? president trump wants to stop the killing and wars and stop them all

san francisco's san francisco's chapter of the green party doesn't have a reporting system specifically for sexual misconduct, but tells us it does have a process to report a wide range of complaints, including harassment. now, if you have a story for our investigative unit, call 888996 tips or visit our website nbcbayarea.com. investigation. a driver connected to a crash that killed a p peninsulaouple in 2022 is set to be sentenced in court this week. kyle harrison was recklessly racing down el camino real in redwood city when the driver he was racing triggered a crash, and that crash killed a san carlos couple and injured their twin girls. harrison was 23 years old at the time. his sentencing is set for tuesday morning. the other driver charged in the case was tried as a juvenile, as he was just under 18 at the time, and last month that man was sentenced to 90 days electronic home monitoring and one year of probation. new at 11 governor newsom is unveiling a new tool tomorrow, he says will help track how cities are doing in the fight against homelessness. during a virtual news confere

that leaves the green party and the social democrats. the big problem is, is that these parties all don't really see eye to eye on a lot of the main issues when it comes to migration, when it comes to the environment, in part also when it comes to the economy as well. so forming a government might be possible, but will it be a stable government? that's going to be the big question. voters here in this country, though, have spoken very clearly. they understand that this country has a lot of problems, and they want those problems to be solved. the economy, first and foremost, migration certainly as well. but the other thing that looms also here in europe, and certainly for one of the largest countries here in europe, is the war in ukraine and how that is going to move forward in the future. fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. >> u.s. president donald trump is celebrating the election results in germany and suggesting the opposition win signals a global shift toward conservative movements. he even linked the outcome to his own election win. in a soc

in 2015, this meme of the green party member appeared on facebook, falsely implying that she said everyarms my reputation because people think she's a bit crazy because how can she say that? >> kunast, a 40-year politician said she began receiving threats and hate-filled comments from anonymous users online. >> you spent your life in politics. what was different about what took place online? >> the first point was it was much more personal. you are looking so ugly. you are an old woman. we know where you are live. or even, you should be raped by a group of men so that you see what all this is doing. >> so, this was not elevated conversation. this was very personal, very hateful. >> it was very personal. >> kunast asked meta to delete all the false quotes attributed to per worldwide. >> and they were astonished. they said, what, we cannot do it? just by software, the software is not able to deal with all this, and we will have to get a lot of new employees. and i said, yes. it's my personal right. it's my reputation. >> kunast sued facebook and won. last year, in a landmark case, a germa

i'm particularly interested in the green party, because the green australia has been the most anti-semitic. >> multiple parties. >> i'm afraid we had a similar situation france last year, that anti-semitism could be an issue in the election campaign here too. we have israel related anti-semitism in a variety of spectrums in our political arena, particularly in the left-wing, of course the political spectrum, for instance a form and green but social democrats, vice president of parliament liked a terrible picture that had connections between israel and terrorism actually, and she was only a little bit criticized for it, and so we see that the left-wing political spectrum is really in danger of following up on israel related anti-semitism, and at the same time, we've just had a couple of party conventions last weekend and the afd, the right wing populist party actually suggested to abolish in our penal code the law against incitement of the people. this is where holocaust denial is regulated, and one of the most important leaders of this party is actually himself the subject of having commit

yes, the greens, a party whose results were so pitiful with single digits and regional elections late last year that its leaders reside. because apparently those german voters in the east had bigger priorities in mind as germany. the industrialized been trading their gas heating for wind and their bmw, of use for bicycles and shots as for administer, the particularly geometry challenge, green and the lead. a bare bach for once confused the $180.00 degree turn with a $360.00 is apparently just as good at geography and started talking like she was chief diplomat of ukraine, even vowing to defend ukraine from germans and the rest the shots. his cabinet was like, uh, yep, sure. sounds good to us. if i give the promise to people in ukraine, we stand with you as long as you need us. then i want to deliver no matter what my german vote a thing, but i want to deliver to the people of ukraine, isn't all gum. scott, and we are very clear with the message to ukraine, but also to the russian aggressor. we will support ukraine as long as necessary. so do you know, ukraine must not lose the score.

of center social democrats right now with olaf schulz, who's currently the chancellor, and the green party, that is going to make it extremely difficult to govern here in this country, because the conservatives have said they are not going to form a coalition with the far right afd. frederik pleitgen. >> fascinating. all right, fred, thanks so much, melissa. so elon musk, i mean, he had shown his support for that far right party in the lead up to the election. how are members there feeling after they did nearly double their vote count from 2021? after all? >> that's right. and i've just been speaking to the vice president of the party inside the bundestag, the german parliament, who said they were so grateful for both elon musk and vice president vance's comments that they had been a tremendous boost to their electoral fortunes and to the question that fred was just answering. due to the proximity with the afd and the current american administration. of course, even greater on the question of ukraine specifically, this is, after all, a far right party that is not just insistent on closing

that leaves the green party and the social democrats. the big problem is, is that these parties all don't really see eye to eye on a lot of the main issues when it comes to migration, when it comes to the environment, in part also when it comes to the economy as well. so forming a government might be possible, but will it be a stable government? that's going to be the big question. voters here in this country, though, have spoken very clearly. they understand that this country has a lot of problems, and they want those problems to be solved. the economy, first and foremost, migration certainly as well. but the other thing that looms also here in europe, and certainly for one of the largest countries here in europe, is the war in ukraine and how that is going to move forward in the future. fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. >> fred, thank you. also, new details emerging tonight on the health of pope francis. the vatican saying the 88 year old pontiff remains in critical condition and is now showing signs of mild kidney failure. the pope was hospi

i was also standing next to a member of the german green party whose family were refugees from the soviet union whose extraordinarily well known. he said he was sick to his stomach and never expected to be a beacon of freedom and opportunity everybody would look towards. to see them lecturing about free and openly siding with who constanze discussed, and extreme right wing party. the europeans also know that they have themselves something to blame for this state of affairs. like fiona: -- constanze, we spent time moving around europe, just after the time when the previous chancellor olaf scholz realize the world had changed rather dramatically after russia's invasion. it was also very sobering to see this sense of helplessness and paralysis in germany over this which he is a response to as a very fractured electorate. i have been spending a lot of time in the u.k., my home birthplace, i am a dual citizen there. i've also just been in paris coincidentally the same time many european leaders showed up for an emergency meeting in the wake of that speech. like constanze, scandinavian doll the

but if you like your local green party candidate, you can give him your first vote as well, and thenh of them will be stronger. in the german parliament, in the bundestag. and one of the things that we are seeing here, kim, is that this is a very consequential election, that voters feel that this is a very consequential election. a lot of people that we've been speaking to, when we asked them a simple question, are you optimistic or pessimistic about the way things are going in germany? a lot of people say that they are quite pessimistic at the moment, and the topics are ones that, you know, we've been discussing a lot over the past couple of weeks. migration is obviously a big topic right now in germany. the economy is a huge topic as well. with this country now two years in recession. but then also, of course, the international environment that we're seeing here in europe right now, with the war in ukraine still going on with that new government in the united states led by donald trump being very negative publicly about germany as well. so those are all things that are weighing on

here's one reaction from an australian senator and member of the australian greens party.ates is sliding. >> into fascism under. >> donald trump, and it is marginalized communities who. >> are going to pay the price. >> black skinned and brown skinned. >> people, migrants. >> in the us, women. >> in the us, transgender and queer folks in the us. >> they are going. >> to be persecuted. >> and they're going to be demonized, blamed for all the. problems of. >> the day. >> and you know what else is going to pay the price? nature is going to. pay the price. >> under his drill baby drill. policies of. >> destroying nature, climate. >> is going to pay the. >> price. >> as we've. >> already seen. >> a withdrawal. >> from global climate action. president trump. >> is a disaster. >> for humanity. he belongs. >> behind bars. >> not in the oval office. >> that is going to do it for me today. deadline. white house starts after this quick break. >> take a breath of fresh air with a stanley steamer air duct cleaning. we clean over 10,000,000ft of air ducts each year with our specialized