and joining me now is my colleague michael okwu who was at the elections in brandenburg indeed you were one of the people talking to those people involved in the arts so what would just tell us what the atmosphere was like of elections what crazy enough in the end i have experienced a great relief in the culture saying because everybody was expecting the worst and that is a right wing party in the government but a lot of people vote for that day and now the kucha see has to deal with that and now everyone is willing to face the dialogue and to look forward and to stand up more than ever for values like freedom and tolerance and then you told me that they become more political again. ok now why were artists working in the art scene so worried about the rise of this party there. 50 well because they already observed some certain tendencies if team members already discussed in public gets and bad art and whether we need that at all so this could be the end of the freedom for the artist if you might think and even if there are no attacks financing could be reduced or radically cancelled now

i'm michael okwu thanks for joining us protests to demand action on climate change have drawn huge crowds with an estimated $4000000.00 people taking to the streets in cities around the world a movement that started with children skipping school on fridays as grown into a global force uniting young and old and young people we keep up the pressure today holding the 1st ever youth climate summit at the united nations in new york. they're the largest climate protests the world has ever seen that's what organizers have been calling friday's wave of strikes for the planet. student demonstrators took to the streets in well over a 100 countries some of the 1st rallies kicked off in australia. in the quarry run the front lines climate change you know it's already happening it's not waiting for it to happen or you know a matter of time it's already here. in new york thousands of students were permitted to skip school for the event. hello new york city. treated to the 16 year old swedish activists who seen as the initiator of the climate strikes movement addressed cheering crowds. we will not just

i'm michael okwu thanks so much for joining us protesters in hong kong or back out in force today as the territory braces for more possible violence crowds took over a hunk kong mall where they trampled on the chinese flag and a clear provocation aimed at beijing the protesters are calling for greater democracy and criticizing what they say is police heavy handedness they're also sought to disrupt travel to hong kong's busy international airport the 2 sides have been facing off every weekend for. almost 4 months down. let's cross over to correspondent mathias he's at the mall outside it where protests have been taking place mathias as i ask you the 1st question i want viewers to know that there's a little bit of the delay between the 2 locations give us a sense of what's going on where you are. while protesters have protested inside the mall for some time they have at the beginning been very peaceful and have had several actions against again some businesses taking away tickets or is of asian tickets from restaurants and hanging them as ribbons then police was a riving and gathering