afd has mps in all 16 of germany's state parliaments and this is its share of the vote in the most recenttotal — and because there's a grand coalition government between the two biggest parties, that means afd is actually the largest opposition party. that means what's happened thuringia may be a symtom of a broader trend. here's damien mcguinness again. you have on the one hand particularly in baystate, and very strong right afd party on the other spectrum is a medical left—wing party. the centre left and centre are traditionally formed governments here, refused to collaborate, or collaborate with afd. the right party also refuses to work with the medical left. what we had seen his fragmentation of politics here. which has led to these very unstable calibrations. this is why we see such chaos in the regional elections this week. china is to halve tariffs on 17 hundred goods made in america from 14th february. the tax on american cars, fish and pork will fall to 5% and there'll be a 2 and a half per cent cut in the tax on crude oil and soy beans. economist lynda yueh says easing tensions

be people come of age had been the head of the smallest party in the state parliament his election by lawmakers was only made possible with votes from the a.f.p. and anglo-american c.d.u. party in the state. for the 1st time in german post-war history a far right party was kingmaker. the handshake between the new state premier and their india's 50 chief b.n. hooker left many disgusted the head of his left party through have ok of flowers that come on the street during the inauguration of the party's join the chorus of criticism. is this activism inacceptable breach of the should be elected state premier with the votes especially with a vote of mr. go. to a concert again with a very clear goal that he has good. enough to enter into a joint alliance and the next states prime minister president in vienna. within hours of the vote people had gathered all over germany to protest. demonstrations continued into thursday with protesters standing against fascism i'm rejecting the state premier who made it into office with the help of the far right. well to unpick this story i'm joined here in

the far right at the moment if these projections prove to be correct they could be out of the state parliament in hamburg which would be a 1st in germany as they finally last year they actually made it into all 16 states let's zoom in 1st of all on the greens i mean they as you mentioned they're going to have a big gain it looks like in homburg what's behind that i mean is this another sign that this green wave is sweeping across. well this election of in hamburg was dubbed the climate's election and hamburg as a city state is extremely climate conscious and of course the effects of climate change are very much on the city's doorstep as well it's a port city and they've been struggling in recent years with several bouts of severe floods and they really put climate change and climb and action against climate change at the forefront of a lot of policies and we've seen over the past few years the social democrats in the greens of beating government they're working as quickly as possible to to make the city the city state even carbon neutral as well by 2050. and the a f d a mean another another pa

the country or 1st of all we have to keep in mind of the a 50 has established itself in every state parliament. so technically this would be possible as we just heard in the report the tends to be stronger gets usually more votes in the former communist part of the country in the eastern states of the country the ranger used to be part of this communist region but i think what's also quite remarkable is that it took only hours after those after that election that people went out and took to the streets and demonstrated against it now you have to keep in mind the range is a pretty small state. linfield it's far way down no big towns in that state no cosmopolitan centers so going out and demonstrating spontaneously is not something that is not on the daily basis is there and you should so i was really surprised to see that even in small towns people would go and take to the streets and i thought that was quite remarkable and you know we have to remind ourselves and our viewers the right now in the german federal parliament they are the war just opposition group in parliament so what we. did have

member of the 2 engine parliament since 2014 if the politicians have won seats in all german state parliaments it's the biggest opposition party in the bundestag where its members often provocative. campaigns are work us book hasn't had cover girls and men was nice living off benefits and other good for not seeing are we not secure our prosperity economy grows and in particular the welfare states . migrants particularly muslim migrants are the main targets of the f.t. which started out as a euro skeptic party the emphasis on migration issues has won over many voters big tent party slug c.d.u. and s.p.d. under more and more pressure especially in eastern germany where the a.f.p. has won up to 28 percent of the vote in recent elections it's increasingly difficult to farm coalitions without the far right party but it's a different story at the national level the recent surveys show that if the next federal election was held today the f.t. would only end up with about 14 percent of voters in any case all party leaders in the bundestag have ruled out cooperation with the a of d. nationwide meanwhil

want to take a look now at the i mean that party has established itself in all of germany's state parliaments meanwhile extremist tendencies they are becoming clear especially in the range of the party is dominated as we just heard by aggressively nationalist we take a look. it is the party leader entering he's pushing the far right party even farther to the right that's the divisions within the party itself but they could lead the public face of the party and its internal tensions have passed frequently march alongside well known right wing extremists nevertheless he's been a member of the 2 engine parliament since 2014 if the politicians have won seats in all german state parliaments it's the biggest opposition party in the bundestag where its members often provocative. means our work us book as it heads cover girls and men was nice living off benefits and other good for not seeing are we not secure our prosperity economy grows and in particular the welfare states. migrants particularly muslim migrants are the main targets of the f.t. which started out as a euro skeptic party the emphasis o

he had been the head of the smallest party in the state parliament. election by lawmakers was only made possible with votes from the afd and angela merkel's party in the state. for the first time in german postwar history, a far-right party was kingmaker. the handshake between the new state premier and the afd chief left many disgusted. the head of the left party through her bouquet of flowers at his feet during the inauguration. other parties joined the chorus of criticism. >> it is an acceptable -- it is an unacceptable breach. especially with this vote. this was planned long ago. this was prepared. a very clear goal. >> within hours of the vote, people had gathered all over germany to protest. demonstrators continued into thursday, with protesters standing against fascism and rejecting the state premier who made it into office with the help of the far-right. brent: for more now joining me is my colleague. our political correspondent. let's pick up with the political fallout. the freeee democrats are now saying they want to dissolve the state parliam

public went to the ballot back in october of last year this is the 3rd round of voting in the state parliament itself what has actually happened is that mr cameron it has been elected by just one solitary vote this is after members from the christian democratic union which is of course angola miracles party alternative for germany the anti immigration far right group well they got behind the free democratic party candidates really worth pointing out the free democrats only picked up 5 seats in the to enter parliament when the public voted back in october but it looks like their man will be the new state premier lots of controversy this has sparked the outgoing state premier of of the left party has called it a disgusting charade the election of mr kerik while the twitter page of the left party has been publishing remark searchers the free democratic party would choose to rule with fascists then not after all of course it wasn't just the f. date that got behind mr. kennedy of the free democrats also the christian. democratic union representatives in the state of turning your world their party l

chemically had been the head of the smallest party in the state parliament is election was only made possible with the help of votes from the f.t. and the c.d.u. the latter leads germany's national government. the handshake between the new state premier and the range is a hefty chief b.n. hooker left many disgusted the head of the rangers left party threw a bloke a at kemah vase feet during the inauguration ceremony the party's joined in the chorus of criticism this is the problem it's an unacceptable breach of the to be elected state's premier with a f.t. vote and especially with the vote of mr doswell this was a planned long ago this was prepared because a very clear goal that the f.t.p. c.d.u. and a f.t. enter into a joint alliance and elect a state premier mr president view. within hours of the vote people had gathered all over germany to protest against fascism and to reject a state premier who made it into office with the help of the far right soon they will get their chance to vote again and joining me now from frankfurt is michelle freedman a lawyer journalist and political an

in the state parliament what's what's the mood where you are are those that mirror that that element of of solemn solemnity. very much so solid is the word to describe this city today and that feeling might last an awful long time because they're in shock that something like this happened i'm looking away from in that direction and there are groups of people on the street corners talking quietly to each other about how such a thing could happen there are pockets of people everywhere in this town where i've gone just very quiet quietly talking to each other shaking their heads and just being in disbelief that a mass shooting to take part in it takes place in a in a town in this city a small city of of of about $100000.00 where basically people were getting along with each other high immigrant population but i mean one gentleman who i believe is of turkish descent he was the eyewitness i was talking to earlier today i mean he he was he was he grew up here i mean this is this is his town and he was proud to be part of it and there were hardly ever any incidents about regarding his own e

conservatives over this week's controversial selection in the state of thuringia the eastern german states parliament voted for thomas from the business friendly f.d.p. party to become its state premier. to do that they require the backing of the far right a.f.p. chemical shaking hands with the leader of the courts have ruled that he can legally be described as a fascist some say this shattered a post-war german taboo. this gesture from a left party politician became a symbol of the protest which grew into a full blown crisis for the government not least because miracles conservatives cooperated with the a.f.p. in the ranger c.d.u. party leader and a great compound bar was accused of having lost control of her party the coalition issued this statement the election of the state premier in thuringia with a majority that was only achieved with the fights from the a.f.d. is an unforgettable event the coalition partners expect the elected state premier thomas chemical to draw the only correct conclusion and step down from office today . kerry did just that he resigned with immediate effect that relieve th

would no longer be in all of germany's 16 state parliament so let's stick with the of do you mean they are not as popular of a party in hamburg as they are in in many other states in germany particularly in the in the east the why is that there's a couple of reasons for that really i mean if you compare it to. sorry if you compare voices in hamburg to those in eastern germany or parts of eastern germany they have not been really hit by a lot of the grievances that the voters in the east often use as the reasons behind why they voted for the a.f.d. and they don't feel that they have been as hard hit. it's by the failings what they see as failings by the conservatives and by the big tent parties in germany and as well as the port city and its always really hard to do itself on its status as an international and open minded city states and so that obviously doesn't fit in with the often xenophobia come far out rhetoric that we hear from the far right. now we heard the turnout was higher a i think in 2015 the last election was an all time low in terms of turnout and homburg what can you te

2nd reason as well which is that mr cameron represents a party that barely scraped into the state parliament just barely breaking the 5 percent hurdle so he now would be heading up the state government many voters in through india will surely be saying and that's democracy and that's one reason why we are now hearing politicians at national level including paul syriac the general secretary of the c.d.u. saying it is time for new elections in let's listen. it didn't stim and relying on votes over v.a. if that's no basis for a stable government that is no basis for a mainstream politics let me be very clear about that the city use will not produce a paid in a government that rests on a foundation of a decent point the best thing for it to reinjure would be fresh elections. so malayan that what happens next if the engine doesn't hold new elections are we likely to see the a of d. join the state government well we are hearing important voices calling for those new elections but if they don't occur no mr cameron is saying that as premier he absolutely will not govern with the day he's quite adama

moved above the 5 percent threshold needed to make it into the state parliament. italy has agreed to allow $274.00 migrants to disembark from a rescue ship after they were stuck at sea in the mediterranean they were found off the coast of libya by the ocean viking correspondent drag storage has been on board the ship for 2 weeks and captured the moment the migrants heard the news. release this morning. from. the of the budget bill ation and a massive sense of relief for 274 migrants who have been stuck at sea they'd been aboard the ocean viking since thursday unsure of their fate. the men and women and children were found off the coast of libya and rescued in 3 separate missions the fact. i am happy. to report every thank you thank you. but the new arrivals faced another twist of fate when their ship docked they were met by workers in hazmat suits the migrants now caught up in the coronavirus panic sweeping the globe. whisked off in ambulances all $274.00 passengers plus the captain and crew must undergo 14 days of quarantine before they can move on in a country a

but that's just what happened in 3 inches state parliament this week a candidate from a party with a few seats to free democrats was elected premier and only with support from chancellor merkel's party and the far right this kind of collaboration sets a post-war president the outcry across the country was immediate. chancellor merkel on a state visit to southern africa weighed in to say the move was an unforgivable mistake she's calling for new elections and syringe. but merkel's been getting pushback so the party chief come coven bauer headed straight to the eastern state herself to deal with the rift between official party principles and syringes christian democrats the crisis talks went on until late into the night. and continued to party headquarters the next morning the party chief acknowledged that her counterparts in from india acted against her will. to do intuiting in another mistake and we made this very clear that the c.d.u. in the n.g.'s applauded its candidate against our clear recommendation although it should have been obvious to everyone that it was an opportunity to

more results came in the if he moved above the 5 percent threshold needed to make it into the state parliament. and we turn to german football now in the bundesliga byer live accused maintained their strong start to 2020 with a home when over struggling out for it's a fixture in which leverkusen have had a very successful record that they've never lost out at state 20 three's meeting continued the tradition with a to nail victory for the hosts. home fans in crazy costumes it baby arena could only mean one thing carnival. but labor couzin coming off euro police victory wasn't clowning around with aus burke aside that's only one once in their last 5 outings will labor couzens kevin fallen out have it's was sporting the captain armband for the 1st time in midway through the 1st half how that's found most of the abbey with the perfect past that led to the abbe's 4th goal this season 5 and a 3rd assist from kind habits. after the break nadeem a merry doubled labor couzens lead for his 1st goal for the club the mary picked up position inside the albert half and fired to goal surrounded by white jers

have to leave here to have just barely met the 5 percent threshold necessary to get into the state parliament. u.s. presidents donald trump has said he'd be willing to sign a peace deal with the taliban if such an agreement is reached but he added it would depend on the success of the weeklong partial truths which took effect on saturday a deal could lead to the u.s. withdrawing its forces from afghanistan after more than 18 years. old sunday is day 4 of the 70th international film festival this opening weekend has already been packed full of star power and premieres including for the 1st german movie and the top category director christian petzold film titled indiana and it's positioned to make a big splash. has a broken hoss a man cheated on his now this man is supposed to die christian pitt's old film is based on the myth of the mysterious indiana borders brought to legend has it kills unfaithful spouses. but then christoph appears unexpectedly in her life and suddenly you love to add to the legend or that he'd. he is a diver and historian and together they venture into deep emotions the w

moved above the 5 percent threshold needed to make it into the state parliament. and it has just been reported that the c.d.u. is to hold a special party conference at the end of april or in early may when delegates will elect a new party leader that leader will be in a strong position to take over from. as german chancellor. this is deja vu news live from berlin w. takes a look at life that negative 40 degrees celsius in our documentary northern lights life in winter that's coming up next i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being with us and don't forget our twitter feed and all of our social media offerings as well. beyond. that. we're all about the stories that matter to. us. whatever it takes. a running. mate for minds.

if the people cameron had been the head of the smallest party in the state parliament his election by lawmakers was only made possible with votes from the a.f.p. and angela macko c.d.u. party in the state for the 1st time in german post-war history a far right party was kingmaker the hunt shake between the new state premier and 3 years a.f.g. chief beyond hooker left many disgusted the had to say when she is left party threw her bouquets of flowers that camera she's feet during the inauguration other parties joined the criticism this is to say it is an inacceptable breach of the should be elected state premier with the votes and especially with a vote of mr hucker. to go. to a concert with a very clear goal that they have to. enter into a joint alliance and the next day crimean supposed and in vienna. within hours of the vote people have gathered all over germany to protest. demonstrations continued into thursday with protest to standing against fascism and rejecting a state premier made it into office with the help of the far right. well for more on this developing story i'm joined h

then numbers are too small to be more than an irritant to the mainstream parties but out in the state parliament spitting in the east they are much more numerous and now they are raising their voice many germans a deeply worried by what they're hearing dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion from poland which run by who is a political analyst and professor in european studies at stanford university and then skype from strasbourg we're joined by alan neumann member of the european parliament for the german greens but also in berlin mona. activist and project coordinator for the regional sense of education integration and democracy a pearl in based nongovernmental organization welcome to inside story all of you let's start with you when did it start to and why has it gone so wrong on a graph crime. well if you try to become the successor of a party leader and the chancellor who was elected in 2005 which means now 15 years of being in power and walking in her footsteps is quite something and there has been no discussion about who quit succeed merkel and i

political left wing a leader a centrist a leader bolen is not a willing to accept that in a federal state parliament elects a liberal a to be prime minister because to say he has the support of the wrong. of the wrong party if he into the 2nd largest force and people voted for them and we had a choice between a liberal which if he supported a very hard core left wing politician and now merkel says it's better to vote if former communist of the former communist east german state party instead of a liberal so it's the mosque ing for the central and it's so big a huge victory for if the unit of way. i just want to pick up on something you said because that was pretty much the question i wanted to ask i find this extremely confusing it seems as though parliamentarians voted in a democratic process and for some reason certain people don't like the result but were there any rules broken any laws broken what is it that people are unhappy about. no. it was completely following the rules parliament voted with this majority for this liberal and it is clear that our deputies from f.t. also supported this liber

thiss the memorable response of the leader in the state parliament yesterday.you can see, she brougf a bouquetlowers and drop them at his feet. there have been ptesting a number of cities about this. one editor set on page one, on a y when fascist elected and ftp men as prime minister, the headline read, handshake of sham this is angela merkel's reaction. >> it was a bad day for democracy. it was a day that roque with the values and beliefs of the cdu. everything must be done to make it clear that what the c believes in cannot be associated with it. we will work on this over the >> the reaction of one member in the national parliament was to say, what is unforgivable is policy.merkel's immigration people should keep voting until the outcome suior the chance the man who was ousted by this maneuver when further a tweeted picture othe afd leader shaking hands, alongside was a picture of adolf hitler becoming german chancellor. some very strong comparisons which the afd has been pushing backarn. let's from david mcginnis who is in berlin. david: it started as aarty

german history now we've heard from the feed democrats that their new state premier intends or they tend to resolve the regional parliament but the historical damage has been done here by then what is the damage been to the governing party. well they call operating with the far right if do use lead in the state of the ring which is a stronghold region of the far right if tea party can acquire into a court order legally be called a fascist and that's where we stand and this is something that machall didn't want the party leadership here but lynn didn't want the free democrats who benefited from it say they didn't want either and yet their candidate there went ahead and let himself be elected with the help of the far right if d. it also hands the a of d. a success on a plate because their declared aim was to get the old parties as they call them to corporate with cool off rate with them whether they want to or not. the only viable political option and they achieved that this solves nothing at the regional level of with now a big question marks over what will happen next it looks more likely that there will be fresh regional

correspondent: but that is what happened in the thuringia state parliament this week. candidate from the party with fewest seats, the free democrats, was elected premier with only support from angela merkel's party on the far-right. this kind of collaboration sets a postwar president -- precedent. the outcry was immediate. channel land -- chancel -- chancellor merkel said the move was an unforgivable mistake and is calling for new elections in thuringia. but merkel has been getting pushback, so the party chief headed straight to the eastern state herself to deal with the rift between official party pencils and thuringia's christian democrats. crisis talks wentthey continuedy headquarters the nextthe party r counterparts in thuringia acted against her will. >> another mistake, and we mamae thisis very clelear, was ththate cdu in the range he supported this client -- this candidate against our recommendation, although it should have been positive -- obvious for everyone that was an opportunity for afd to play manipulative games. correspondent: party leaders are in full a

that's essentially what happened in the state parliament of the ring gear to help an outsider really whose own party only got 5 percent in those results actions to power whether tricked or not there were wont warnings from the party headquarters here in berlin not to go down that route and yet the c.d.u. wanted to prevent the left party from being in power once again this smacks with historical reference and that's the big fear and that's what this whole earth quake here in germany is really about of the center ground of conservative and conservatism that helps essentially the nazis to power in germany opening that darkest chapter in german history now we've heard from the free democrats that their new state premier intends or they tend to resolve the regional parliament but the historical damage has been done here and by then what is the damage been michelle or to the governing party. well they cooperated with the far right if de who's leader in the state of virginia which is a stronghold region of the far right if tea party can call in to a court order legally be called a fascist a

christian democratic union angler merkel's party he was able to win the election in the in the state parliament by just one solitary vote well it's been described by the outgoing state premier who lost the election he's the representative of the left party as they discussed sting charade in fact the left party going on to slam the free democrats saying that they've essentially achieved power by joining forces with fascists the christian democratic union as i mentioned until america's party well their party leader callum bauer who is widely tipped as a potential to successor to mrs merkel as chancellor of germany has said that their local party representatives acted without the authority of central office this is not a good day this is not a good day for to be in chair this is not a good day for the political system in germany but what this is doing is it sparked protests across germany including here in the german capital impromptu demonstrations outside of the free democratic party headquarters some very angry scenes there is they came out to slam the f. f. to appear for what many see as break