east and western germany and the fall of the iron curtain nearly three decades ago but the recent national election here has put the far right alternative for germany party in the blunder start for the very first time and triggered talk of a return to those old east west divisions meanwhile europe wants united by the tearing down of the iron curtain is again putting up walls and fences a question on quadriga this week after the election divided germany divided europe and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by wojciech she moans ski who is with the polish service of d w he believes it is a mixture of socio economic and cultural factors that pushes people towards far right populist parties both in eastern germany and in eastern europe also with us is judy dempsey senior fellow with the carnegie your of think tank also a blogger and author judy says there are all kinds of divisions through europe and they're becoming deeper and more complex but compared to spain britain and poland germany still seems to have a city still seems to be even of stability and a warm welcome to t

us a little bit more about that the you know you have to go to eleven percent of the vote in western germany and almost twice that in eastern germany why the difference why to more people in eastern germany vote for the f.t. . i think you know that party could have had in another name i guess there is not really a party where the east germans feel like they belong to that they would to now stand up for their interests you know the left wing party to link or. the former as they do social as party here and they you know try to take over voters and. but still there is a little suspicion on the people to think ok this is my party and then there's a huge. not huge anymore but you know socialist party and a christian democratic party they're both really you know they used to be really big parties and they're also a little suspicious because that gets a lot of people are reminded of of the big socialist party in g.r. and and also you know they're very varied there are many reasons i guess why is if you. left out by those parties bank of america by shorts in a way they feel those are not the people

our reporter visited, essen, a city in western germany and showed us how this long time social democratictronghold was swiftly ousted by the afd. the city of essen is this politician's hometown. but since the german election, karlheinz endruschat, a social democrat, says he doesn't recognize it. in the past, his party usually won an easy majority. but this time: just 28 percent. many of endruschhat's neighbors told him they were voting for the far-right afd party. >> they said, we come from a family that's always voted spd, but we voted afd because we felt we needed to send a strong signal. we have to win back these voters. if we just sit around another four years, that's not going to happen. endruschat is at pains to find out how to get his constituents back in his camp -- at least in the industrial city of essen. even in his neighborhood pub, he runs into afd sympathizers. i would have voted for the afd too. but you know what? i threw away my ballot paper and that was it. the police even don't dare to get out of their car at our local rail station, although there's two of them. in essen

including those who don't normally associate with religious events so we went to dortmund in western germany for a listen. mark is called hawker oratorial the subject is martin luther father of the modest and reformation. the project includes a late choir with over three thousand singers. just kidding it's a great feeling just a great feeling when one was at school for a choir it's not about knowing whether you can do it but that you can do it for the confidence that you can do what you've been rehearsing just kind of that's what. the popular tauriel doesn't center on luther is ninety five theses but on his summons to appear before the holy roman emperor involves. fish. in vons luther was called on to revoke his theses and views when he refused he was ostracized for heresy they chose to print a lecture of saxony his ruler gave him protective custody in vasco castle in eyes enough that this enabled him to survive. this. was. the mob oratorial luther was composed by details but. i am looking at. the basement of his studio and his of the of those over fifty gold and platinum discs half is one o

our reporter visited essen a city in western germany and showed us how the long time social democratic stronghold was swiftly ousted by the f.d.a. the city of essen is this politician's home town but since the german election karl-heinz endl shot a social democrat says he doesn't recognize it in the past his party usually won an easy majority but this time just twenty eight percent many of endless shouts neighbors told him they were voting for the far right party. they said we come from a family that's always voted s.p.d. but we voted n.a.f.t. because we felt we needed to send a strong signal. we have to win back these voters if we just sit around another four years that's not going to happen. and who shot is at pains to find out how to get his constituents back in his camp at least in the industrial city of essen even at his neighborhood pub he runs into a f.t. sympathizers. that would have voted for the any of the two but you know what as threw away my ballot paper and that was it. the police don't even dare to get out of card our local radio station although there's two of them. in

it's friday afternoon in a school in western germany lessons are over but the pupils are still here for a close swap party. it's been organized by eleven year old young of high tech. we ask why she's doing it. and i think it's because it's important that we all do something to reduce the level of consumerism that we take a stand against so much new stuff being bought if you buy less because you see what more does less need to grow so much cotton which in turn means that fewer pesticides are released into the environment. it's a simple idea the children bring along clothes they no longer need and lay them out on the desks then everyone looks around for the things they like each child can take up to five pieces with them free of charge. the party was young as idea this is the second time she organized one and everyone's enjoying it. and. everything here is in pretty good condition and it means you don't have to spend so much money on shoes and clothing because you get something for nothing else placements and so much. more you can always buy new clothes but this way you save c o two. is t

of some tools groundbreaking designs was a feel chapel completed in two thousand and seven in western germany built to honor the local patron saint nicholas a few times concrete was laid on a framework of one hundred and twelve spruce logs then a small engine fire was set slowly burning away the wooden framework that for a period of three weeks. i'm so glad to see that something very existential. you're safe from the low but there's this large opening to the sky. and unlike the pantheon of all the cells but in this little chapel the desert clad opening is brutally important the rain comes in on a lot of water called the most time. praying in an elementary space via water. and. on the phone fell out of his exhibition pagan's some tool has dreamed up a room that the artists and yet lensing i have tuned into a magic god and with fragile roots seeds and whimsical objects it's now a sense off the pegasus kid into the jaws of the present and i did everything with my hands and i couldn't draw and all the tools get what i wanted to go to art school and they said combs and come by and shows your drawi

and some fooli some media in western part of germany have been suggested that they are second-class. the issue here, really, is don't disregard this expression by the people. therefore, you cannot just say they are crazies who are nationalist and who just want to secede from italy for nationalist reasons. but they have to understand, i always want to repeat what you said, the central government has to understand that if you don't deal with the sentiments of the people, this is going to explode in your hands. there will be a lot worse things than it is now. one last thought, i think that if you cannot neglect part of the country in favor of other parts of the country. you can also not hamper the competitiveness and the business acumen part of the country because you want to succeed well in a different way. it's a tricky thing, but it will rest on the central government to understand what conclusions we draw from this? and they better get their act together, because the next step will be a lot worst. >> i think armstrong, the united states is quite a successful model on this. the state

, and all of western germany and all of europe exploding.an, what rond reagan refusing to give up sdi and ultimately gorbachev having to back down. what was all of that for? so republicans now, 75% of republicans now could say oh, it's okay if russia tries to rig our elections. i want to say that again. 75% of republicans think it's cool that the kremlin tried to rig america's elections. >> okay. the question was not exactly phrased like that. you have to -- >> let me say this also. so you have a legalistic, but i could find you more polls that say a lot of russians approval of vladimir putin have skyrocketed of late. >> yeah. >> go ahead. >> you can ask, 2 t question was really about how serious did they think it was they used targeted ads on social media. if you had said how serious do you think it is that vladimir putin tried to rig the american election, i suspect you may have got a slightly higher number than 24 %. no? i mean, come on. give your former colleagues -- >> do me a favor -- >> some benefit of the doubt. >> let's get vladimir

balkans route to stop the migration flow from syria across the western balkan states to germanyut i'm going to tackle has worked together with a number of leaders over the year including leaders like donald trump the recent may so most people would expect that she will find a way to effectively work together with the courts as well. let's look at the bigger picture here in you spend most of your time in brussels you cover lots of european elections what does this austrian election tell us about europe's political trajectory it basically tells us what you find in a lot of countries in europe that you have those who embrace tolerance openness migration a globalized economy digitalized economy and then you have those who don't who are afraid of what's coming who are afraid to lose their cultural european or national identities who feel that they might be left behind and that is the big challenge that the european union is facing because those looking well backwards are some you know are symbolized by countries like hungary like poland and to an extent now also by austria those forw

germany?ed is >> i don't really like this idea of an eastern and western not only because it's eastern germany or poland that's voting for populist problems. we have this problem in austria, in great britain, in holland, in the united states of america. sure if we really have this iron curtain between eastern.nd >> closing thoughts? >> europe has always been south, east,h, west, all lifestyles, everything. this is a new kind of division. democracy. not about >> one sentence? talk aboutwe should more about the differences than we used to. discussion, not just have it always on october 3. >> okay. we're gonna have to leave it there. divided germany, divided europe. we've given you plenty of food for thought. come back to quadriga next week. bye-bye! ♪ in a anchor: todayay on "global 3000," we head to cambodia, where extreme poverty often leaves kids with no where to go but the streets. but a special initiative offers hope. in mozambique, wildlifife pars were devevastated by civil war d poaching. a modern noah's ark-like project as is now changing that. but first, we head to colombia, to a villag

germany?ed is >> i don't really like this idea of an eastern and western not only because it's eastern germany or poland that's voting for populist problems. we have this problem in austria, in great britain, in holland, in the united states of america. sure if we really have this iron curtain between eastern.nd >> closing thoughts? >> europe has always been south, east,h, west, all lifestyles, everything. this is a new kind of division. democracy. not about >> one sentence? talk aboutwe should more about the differences than we used to. discussion, not just have it always on october 3. >> okay. we're gonna have to leave it there. divided germany, divided europe. we've given you plenty of food for thought. come back to quadriga next week. bye-bye! [applause] >> well, i want to welcome you. i want to acknowledge the awe-inspiring environment that we're sharing this evening. the religious overtones might make you think youou were in one of the two party convenentions-- [audience laughter] but i hope in a few minutes to make you clclearly aware thhat, other than the environment, not that much tha

germany?ed is >> i don't really like this idea of an eastern and western not only because it's eastern germany or poland that's voting for populist problems. we have this problem in austria, in great britain, in holland, in the united states of america. sure if we really have this iron curtain between eastern.nd >> closing thoughts? >> europe has always been south, east,h, west, all lifestyles, everything. this is a new kind of division. democracy. not about >> one sentence? talk aboutwe should more about the differences than we used to. discussion, not just have it always on october 3. >> okay. we're gonna have to leave it there. divided germany, divided europe. we've given you plenty of food for thought. come back to quadriga next week. bye-bye! damien: hello, and welcome to "fokus on europe." this week i am in berlin. i am damien mcguinness. the parliament is about to vote in the building behind me. right now, angela merkel's party is set to win. but her challenger, martin schultz, is not giving up the fight so easily. his supporters are doing all they can to persuade undecided voters to ch

germany. that card simply could not compete with all the western cars like false weygand b.m.w. mercedes but when you look at the kind of strain now in east germany you see plans by false way again by b.m.w. by porsche and it's not just the automotive sector that has recovered you see pharmaceutical swept companies in the east you name it you name many great you have many great universities in the east and many research facilities there is for instance one research facility in dressed and then they develop an enzyme to cut the i.v. virus out of infected cells leading to potential cures for the disease and it's cities like dressed in like leipsic who have profited from the reunification the most it's cities that profit it's villages that lose but that's also. case and all of germany in the east and the west so you now have the same problems and the same challenges and also the same opportunities in the east and in the west and in that respect i think germany has grown together ok so good have positive outlook there from your culinary business editor thank you very much for joining

you have the same thing between eastern and western germany.aria and the rest of germany. you have less of that in france fortunately for my home country. i think that's a natural tension. do we stay together because we are friends, we are brothers and sisters, or do we basically go our own way with our own policies? that's an eternal tension. jonathan: olivier blanchard of the peterson institute. the opening bell coming up next on bloomberg daybreak. we will continue the coverage right there. in the markets, about four minutes away from the open. up .25%. story in the bond market, here we are after being closed for the columbus day holiday. treasury yields coming in by about a basis point at 235 on the 10 year. in the fx market a broad-based dollar weakness. euro-dollar pushing 118 all over again. the cash open up next right here on bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: the opening bell 25 seconds away. after a tuesday drop on the s&p 500 the first to day drops in september 8. we are looking little bit firmer. up .2% on the s&p 500. dow futures positive. sim

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i think in terms of gay rights the community see it as germany catching up with a lot of other western democracies that have already had. gay marriage for some time particularly a lot of european countries i think many in the community felt you know i'm in germany just wasn't wasn't in line with those countries. but a lot of people i spoke to said there was still a ways to go particularly you know in the transgender community. and things like that so you know that they're not all the way there but this is a a big step in the right direction big step in the right direction one you were able to be in the room for rebecca ritter's thanks for being with us today turning now to sports news and formula one max first stop and cruised to victory at the malaysia grand prix the red bull driver produced a sensational race but the same can't be said of ferrari sebastian vettel was hoping to gain some ground on championship later lewis hamilton but technical trouble left him and his team mate wondering if that title is still within reach. max has stopped in may have started third on the grid but wi

goals of course while he was foreign minister was to close one of the routes the western balkans route from syria to germany with the help of other countries he did just that now he's talking about closing the mediterranean route that leads from africa across the mediterranean italy up to austria that has been well not completely caused because after all it's the mediterranean but you have many much less migrants coming through there because of what italy is doing than beforehand so hollywood radically change migration policy isn't entirely clear it's probably also another chapter in the story what you say on the campaign trail is different from what you do once you are in office but it's clear that it's not going to be easy for those who want to relocation across the european union like germany wants and like france wants it to to another extent it isn't going to be easy easier with sébastien courts as chancellor in austria it's not going to be easier i want to take a closer look now for our viewers of how exactly immigration has helped shape the selection. thirty one year old sebastian cortes only became

germany. card simply could not compete with all the western cars like false weygand b.m.w. mercedes but when you look at the kind of strain now in east germany you see the plans by ford's way again by b.m.w. by porsche and it's not just the automotive sector that has recovered you see pharmaceuticals web companies in the east you name it you name many great you have many great universities in the us and many research facilities there is for instance one research facility in dressed in their net developed an enzyme to cut the i.v. virus out of infected cells leading to potential cures for the disease and it's cities like dressed in like lights like who have profited from the reunification the most it's cities that profit it's villages that lose but that's also a case in all of germany in the east and the west so you know have the same problems and the same challenges and also the same opportunities in these than in the west in that respect i think germany has grown together ok so good a positive outlook there for your culinary business editor are you very much for joining me

i think in terms of gay rights the community see it as germany catching up with a lot of other western democracies that have already allowed gay marriage for some time particularly a lot of european countries i think many in the community felt you know germany just wasn't wasn't in line with those countries. but a lot of people i spoke to said there was still a ways to go particularly in the transgender community. and things like that you know that they're not all the way there but this is a big step in the right direction big step in the right direction one you were able to be in the room for rebecca ritter's thanks for being with us today. just time for a quick sports item taiwanese spectators turned out sunday for a sporting event that calls for determination imagination and a very sturdy safety helmet soapbox racing teams navigate a treacherous five hundred meter track on the homemade soapbox cars but the bumps and curves proved a little too much for a few contenders the winners of the unlikely named zone those sick bed and team is now on the judges' with their dead good driving. a

i think in terms of gay rights the community see it as germany catching up with a lot of other western democracies that have already allowed gay marriage for some time particularly a lot of european countries i think many in the community felt that you know germany just wasn't wasn't in line with those countries. but a lot of people i spoke to said there was still a ways to go particularly in the transgender community. and things like that you know that they're not all the way there but this is a big step in the right direction big step in the right direction one you were able to be in the room for rebecca ritter's thanks for being with us today and that's t w news thanks for watching.

i think in terms of gay rights the community see it as germany catching up with a lot of other western democracies that have already allowed gay marriage for some time particularly a lot of european countries i think many in the community felt you know i mean germany just wasn't it wasn't in line with those countries. but a lot of people i spoke to said there was still a ways to go particularly you know in the transgender community. and things like that you know that they're not all the way there but this is a big step in the right direction big step in the right direction when you were able to be in the room for rebecca ritter's thanks for being with us today and that thanks for watching. when history books are brought to my life. maybe the stories they're in will get a rewrite. the story of the russian revolution. from the perspective of writers thinkers kong artists. what did it feel like to live in times of the revolution the people. to the russian or revolutionaries. nineteen seventeen the reluctant starting october twenty fifth t w. hello and welcome to the blitz league here on t

into place again, and then the challenge will arise for a number of countries in the western world, including germanylwith large -- where they have a big share of the economy. digitalization is the place to be in the future where this battle is decided. yes, there is a big risk that was more chinese investment coming forward, germany risks falling further behind. guy: what conversations will you guys be having at blackrock? will it change in investment thesis? martin: we last hour experts looking at the investment, teams looking at the product, in both equity and fixed income. as we have seen so far, the markets have not reacted very to that, and even if there were to be a further catalonianof the crisis, this would not necessarily mean that we need to change our investment position. of course, we would look at the most likely consequences of this, and if they were to be, let's say, a big danger of losing money, we would try to protect our clients investments to this region. this is not the case and has often the case so far, and we will definitely look at what hour experts in the region say before w

out of career flourished in germany as well as abroad he made film after film from spaghetti westerns to mafia dramas. he's always been an imposing screen presence and a very physical actor. if you know if you could see there was a lot of action in many of my movies and they were physically demanding and i loved it back then i never had a stunt double we didn't have those back then. unlike in the us i shot in america once and i did have a double but otherwise i never did in my entire career. in the one nine hundred seventy s. a young generation of german filmmakers discovered out off he started playing more complex characters a tough cop hunting terrorists. win this race is so graphic shows me that i was a guy choice. for those nazi sympathizer and for cash learned off oscar winning the tin drum another shifty character but it was out of show off his comedic talent. which i just don't know i'm going to. start you prefer to think it was call me a dollar even if they really do think this is. the first one hundred one of my two hundred films that was probably the most important one i wou

organized a prisoner of war exchange between the western allies and nazi germany but the swedish pole took off and. a year later a similar intervention the total of prisoners repressed treated to over ten thousand. on their way home at lunch our heartfelt thanks are due to sweetie for the vital part played by the country in the organization of the external. file cabinet dot had successfully established sweden's role as an intermediary. but in germany there were other prisoners in even greater need the swedish count skills as a mediator. ally they were wanted by airport to get right back allied armies warning of an overcoat to fight. as allied troops pushed towards from the east and west. they began to encounter a concentration camps. tens of thousands of prisoners living and dying in desperate conditions. january nine hundred forty five soviet troops entered. the largest center of the nazi industrial killing machine with. rumors were circulating that hitler had given orders to heinrich himmler the commander of s.s. troops for the liquidation of concentration camp. there was to be no e

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i think in terms of gay rights the community see it as germany catching up with a lot of other western democracies that have already allowed gay marriage for some time particularly a lot of european countries i think many in the community felt you know germany just wasn't wasn't in line with those countries. but a lot of people i spoke to said there was still a ways to go particularly in the transgender community and in things like that you know that they're not all the way there but this is a big step in the right direction big step in the right direction one you were able to be in the room for rebecca ritter's thanks for being with us today. attorney now says for susan formula one max for stop and christa victoria the malaysia grand prix red bull driver produced a sensational race but the same can't be said for worry sebastian fennell was hoping against ground on championship leader lewis hamilton but technical trouble left him and his team mate wondering if that title is still within reach max has stopped and may have started third on the grid but with mercedes driver lewis hamilton

out of career flourished in germany as well as abroad he made film after film from spaghetti westerns to mafia dramas. he's always been an imposing screen presence and a very physical actor. it was a lot of action in many of my movies and they were physically demanding i loved it back then i never had a stunt double we didn't have those back then. unlike in the us i shot in america once and i did have a job but otherwise i never did in my entire career. in the one nine hundred seventy s. a young generation of german filmmakers discovered out off he started playing more complex characters a tough cop hunting terrorists. win this race is so good because there's also be a choice. for those nazi sympathizer and farkash learned of oscar winning the tin drum another shifty character but it was out of show off his comedic talent. which i just don't know it was limited to. the livestock that you prefer to use in the moscow dollar even if they really do think this is. wrong good one of my two hundred films that was probably the most important one i wouldn't say it was my favorite role or even

countries western european countries like france and germany all right i just want to remind our viewers who are just joining us right now we have early exit polls indicating that sebastian cortes has won with just over thirty percent of the vote now these are early exit polls they're not confirmed we're standing by to find out which party won second place as max was telling us earlier right now it's between the freedom party that's a far right populist party and the social democrats who are currently in power in austria max i want to come back to you to talk about what's going on with the social democrats we saw them dramatically weekend here in germany we saw. pop up surprisingly in france at the expense of the more traditional parties what's going on with the social democrats why they're so unpopular across europe right now. we've been looking into that phenomenon that for quite some time and of course every country is different. but an overall problem of the social democrats in europe seems to be that their traditional clients cleon tell their traditional voters aren't there anymore

sure about that because he was responsible for closing as we call it the western balkans the route that led from turkey. germany and to scandinavia he was there one who are going to just to get on with countries like america donor serbia and slovenia that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then. the number of migrants decreased very much and then. he will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more or less to cornerstone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by until america even if she did not like this very much at the beginning yeah so still a lot of talking to do this week isn't there in terms of coalitions and all that we will be keeping track of it thank you very much for your time this hour of verner fosler band president of the austrian institute for european policy and security in vienna. now and one of the biggest stories to shape the past week the president of catalonia suspended declaring the region's independence calling for dialogue with madrid on the move prompted the spanish prime minister

making here in germany i think for most of the gay community they feel like germany has finally caught up with so many other western democracies particularly other european countries and they had been lagging behind on marriage rights for a long time now and i think for most of the community it's like finally now you covered this story in june when the german parliament finally gave the green light for marriages to take place what was the situation for gay couples before that well as i just mentioned they could be civilly partners translating it from the german that they could have civil partnerships civil union since two thousand and one and it did give them almost full rights but there wasn't quite full rights in front of the law as heterosexual couples have there were there was different adoption rights they weren't allowed to adopt children and there's also different taxation rights so now there i think more even more than that it's a symbolic and just tell us briefly about that parliamentary vote in june because chancellor merkel didn't actually approve it did she but still that law passed she didn't but she s