clear about this 2 parliaments in key east german state some tanning in front of one of them here in potsdam the capital of brandenburg let's be clear here these 2 states they have a population of electorate anyway 5 and a half 1000000 east germans who will be going to the polls today and of course it means therefore they might choose new governments these 2 states are governed by a combination in separate in the separate states of the christian democrats in saxony and the social democrats here in potsdam in brandenburg so quite clearly you have the sense that while the voters do they want to change the government are they happy with the governments but they've had until now this state is governed by a coalition a red red coalition they call it which mean the social democrats and the old communist party the left party you mentioned the fact that it's the we are in the old east germany clearly that's an issue in this election so as we say very clearly 2 important states electing 5 and a half 1000000 people can go to the polls today dominic thanks very much. troops have joined thousands of vol

other artists are also concerned like the ones from potsdam to the audition process and dotson's one deep sense who was censoring different interpretations again that would be a big threat to the freedom of culture. and it would limit our ability to act as societies mira and to keep an open dialogue such as i think is a shock in awful india look to us that's the artists in saxony share these worries like here interest just a lot of political is political and it will stay that way the question is which means will use they will have to be certain strategies for example a complex topic like climate change can be dealt with in a traditional drama. we have to find other strategies to entertain and inform people to make them think and get them to change perspective especially considering that the eye gifty is a party who doesn't believe in climate change which theme of the proposed his artistry came up under so much below market yes and i think we're not directly affected as a publisher simply because we get little to no funding so they can't take that away from us anyway so we can act fre

states are heartland states for the respective parties the social democrats here in brandenburg in potsdam outside the the this is the state capital outside state parliament here and in saxony for the christian democrats the 2 parties have governed these states since the burden wall fell and now all of a sudden they find themselves just ahead of an extreme far right party. that's right and germany's economy overall has been doing perhaps ok in relative terms compared to other countries in europe and around the world but the problem here is the disparity that exists inside the country. yes that's right the point here is that east germans feel many germans that is feel that they have not been able to share in the benefits of the vibrant economy that the overall country represents certainly that's a feeling that the i have to tapped into the point here is that the 16 states of germany while there is a disparity in west germany where you tend to find much greater prosperity you find that the parties of the extreme left and the extreme right do not prosper so for example there was an opinion po

significant drop from the performance in the last election in 2014 dominic cain has more now from potsdam and brendan book. i was if he had hoped it's far right agenda would persuade east germans to put it 1st in the event the party came a close 2nd but more than doubled its vote in the process and struck deep into the mainstream parties heart it's was i would have hoped the cake we would become the strongest party but this result this exit poll shows one thing the f.d.a. has come to stay politics without us will no longer be possible their opponents in saxony with the center right christian democrats who governed there since 1990 but who lost more than 80000 votes to the f.t. and yet still emerge clear in 1st place for them there now begins the difficult process of trying to build a coalition with parties of the center and the center left out of this shaft we did it and this is a message that we send from saxony a large majority of people want to represent the state in a positive way and want to achieve things differently side of saxony has one. who is also a difficult night for the soci

leader nicola sturgeon was presented with an award at a ceremony in potsdam.eon says the eu is ending -- is entering uncharted waters at a time of political crisis. >> it is no exaggeration at all to say that we are living in unprecedented times in the united kingdom, both literally and constitutionally -- both politically and constitutionally. mark: sturgeon added that scotland was committed to the european union and hoped in the future that her country would rejoin the eu as an independent state. investigators say it is still an open-ended question about how sushi -- how much in kyi could be implicated the crackdown against the ethic minority that began in 2017 and ultimately drove hundreds of thousands of rohingya from their home in myanmar. another member of the fact-finding team spoke to reporters. >> the civilian side of the government has substantial constitutional responsibilities. we reported now, this year but that there is no significant change in the human rights situation in myanmar in the positive for the last 12 months, and there are a number of

they -- pot stamp -- potsdam conference in 1945.oted out and friendshiptained his with churchill. when asked in 1946 if he would invite winston churchill to give a speech at westminster college in fulton, missouri, truman obliged and invited churchill. churchill gave his famous iron curtain speech in fulton in 1946. they continued their friendship later in life. on the other side of the room is where truman kept most of his presidential biographies, and they start with george washington and move on to thomas jefferson, james monro. one of truman's favorite was andrew jackson so he has several volumes. james polk. these were pretty much arranged roughly chronologically. a lot of lincoln biographies. sets of ulysses s. grant's memoirs here. so it is a very full collection of residential biographies. truman of the young man went off to world war i and served in world war i. during that time, he was influenced by woodrow wilson. fact, many ofr of the policies he implemented were those wer ii think inspired by a number of the policies wo

party invaded that is just outside of potsdam important blog thomas i don't see you at the moment but there you are ok if you can hear us we heard a little bit of a clip there from that speaking a little bit earlier tell us what some of the reactions are that you've seen there from these initial exit poll results that would indicate that the far right if he coming in at 2nd place with over 20 percent of the vote. obviously some people here i would probably say most people here were expecting or at least were hoping the heat to become the strongest party in brandenburg on a fact some of the signs behind me already pointed to what they described as a historic moment that they were expecting that historic moment becoming the strongest particular. does not seem to be the case for the h.d. but they are still presenting those initial numbers those initial figures as a victory for them in particular because of the increase in support that they have had not only now but over the last few years well we heard some of the politicians you already mentioning that they are here to stay that they wa