The cheatery action illegal. In series of googles 3 dolls of on t w and. This is d w news live from violating phone call authorities why did not crackdown on democracy activists soft amongst the turmoil but hes arrested prominent protesters including joshua wong theyre charged with inciting people to join an illegal gathering then released on bail the government has already denied permission for a major mall on saturday also coming up it is expected to be
a rough weekend for german chancellor im going to delete key Regional Elections 2 german states are expected to boost the strength of the countrys far right a s. T. T. A man and a home free glad you could join me hong kong authorities are ramping up of a campaign against democracy activists this time targeting some of the most prominent figures among them protest Leaders Joshua Walking and agnes choubey Police Arrested and then released earlier today and just a short while ago Police Detained 2 prominent prodemocracy norm a case that
a quarter of the votes well speaking of the far right. indeed they more than doubled their share of the vote in 3 and you know are they getting closer to entering government at least on the state level. no there are not and frankly i don t think that this is actually going to happen anytime soon as i just said d.f.t. and 3 inches of very special a.f.d. and every party into range of from the big dig from the beginning has completely ruled out working together with the f.t. and i m pretty confident that that s not going to change anytime soon ok so that s the far right what about the center right chancellor merkel s conservatives they lost badly in this election and the center left s.p.v. did very poorly to what those this election result mean for chancellor merkel s governing coalition in berlin. well 1st of all it means that political landscape
former classmates this morning i was joking around saying that he wonders if it wouldn t be better if the engine was not a not an independent federal state anymore but rather became a member or part of the neighboring state of very high because he feels that people in politics there are much more reasonable now jokes like this tell you that people here are shocked about the outcome of the election but they also in a sense helpless many people of course are especially shocked about the strong outcome of the a.f.d. the far right populists here and a range of our very special a 50 there are more extreme more right wing the leading candidate. who is certainly one of the most controversial politicians here in germany and many people actually hope that his harsh rhetoric will scare off voters now that didn t happen and many people are very shocked that a man with fascist tendencies can actually get almost
a few wins out neck and neck race and of course that would be a heavy blow and with that in mind how confident all the right wing populists of winning this election. will for them anything above 20 percent or even a bit below that is a victory because they see themselves in any case no matter what the figures say as the only true. representatives of the people here and they ve been campaigning on that echoing the civil rights movement of the former g.d.r. that brought the wall down in the end and also they wouldn t find a coalition partner anyway they are still the odd one out in politics nobody wants to go into coalition with them at the same time they re driving force in this fragmentation of the political landscape that we ve seen and of course we ve also got the top a.f.d. candidate in brandenburg making headlines here in germany for a number of weeks because of his supposed contact with radical near nazis tell us
rely on for a livelihood in brandenburg the s.p.d. has also been in power since reunification it s currently in coalition with the left party but surveys suggest that it s unlikely that the 2 parties can continue to govern together for my work flat out for 161820 hours a day so that the far right populist don t become the most powerful party here just like the coffee the s.p.d. and the a.f.d. are neck and neck in brandenburg but the far right populists are unlikely to take power none of the other parties wants to join a coalition with them for years the a.f.d. has benefited from feelings of insecurity and of being neglected in the east it has taken on the slogans of the civil rights movement in former communist east germany berlin grand coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. especially are looking to the state elections with apprehension. the s.p.d. is suffering from dwindling support and membership. and the c.d.u.