correspondent tessa walter is following both of those rallies and she joins us now from the counter protest as we understand tessa tell us more about this event and what's going on right now. exactly as you said this several demonstrations happening today right behind me you can see the counter demonstration it is countering the al cooks mosque which is an anti semitic mosque the supporters of to see him they said we need to show a clear stance again and she some of his i'm in germany and when i was special history that is a particular and on top of every citizen ones that used to live in peace here and. they have now come to a standstill because there is standing and you see the fences behind me this is actually what separates them from the outputs monch that will happen on the other side that one substitute so we're just about to wait for them to come up as well. the al quds rallies in the past have become quite notorious for anti israel and he zionist sentiment for burning the israeli flag for showing the flags of hezbollah what's the situation this year. as you mentioned it says exactly

brent: my colleague, tessa walther, outside the home of walter luebcke in hesse. the far right, anti-immigration afd party suffered defeat in a mayoral election in the city of gurlitz. located in the east of the country. it was the work by many parties to prevent them coming into power. the vote is seen as a possible indicator of how german states might go this coming september. >> it was a close call, but in the end, conservatives were able to breathe a sigh of relief. with the support of other mainstream parties, the candidate of angela merkel's party managed to prevent the election of the first afd mayor and eastern german town of gorlitz. both candidates of the green and left party dropped out of the race to put their weight behind him and against the afd candidate who won the first round of elections last month. >> the majority has chosen an open society. that is very clear. i have also said, it is an important task to listen to those who did not vote for me. >> the far right parties candidate is trying hard not to look disappointed. the contest was seen as a

ok let's take you now to my colleague walter she is standing outside the home of the assassinated politician in the state of. tessa tell us about how people feel about this arrest. well we got his to his hometown and there is quite an atmosphere of shock people can't believe that look at might have actually been killed because of a frightening most amount of people who knew him as a very friendly person the neighbor said he helped to take out the cattle when you are is a home so there is quite a shock why did this believe that his political position and especially his support for refugees in 2015 might have actually provoked his kidding right so people are very rattled about where you are why was walter who could target it. so as you said earlier he spoke up for refugees and he was also very prominent in building refugees centers here in the area where people were received after they came to germany and this sort heated up at a community meeting in 2015 he said on stage that people who disagreed with this believe of perceiving and welcoming these refugees while they were free to leave the country at any point afte