may be what he does with nato. his relationship with dictators, whether kim jong-un or vladimir putin seems to be very comfortable i think people look at that and they say is trump really more comfortable with dictators than he is with democratically elected governments and sometimes difficult democracies in europe? i think the answer obviously is yes. he is more comfortable. he likes one man he goes to who makes all the decisions. that s not what he is dealing with with european democracies. but i think that makes them distrust him profoundly. we have one more thing right after this break.
clear italy of course is the centerpiece of the whole migration route especially from the northern africa through the mediterranean and then from italy towards the rest of europe it has been like that for years but of course the numbers. perked up in the last years although we had a slight drop in two thousand and seventeen twenty percent approximately down to one hundred and nineteen thousand still pretty high numbers there that s one thing the other thing is that there were some high profile incidents in the last weeks and months involving for example drive by shooting by right wing extremists who shot six african migrants then there was the case of the murder of an italian girl where some african migrants are now being scrutinized over so all of this of course made the press all of this was instrumental lies also especially by the right wing parties and that s why this has gained so much traction something that would have been this is fairly expected in fall but yes migration is def
a test for germany s public broadcaster a.r.d. now posters asked german voters how they would view another grand coalition that s a coalition between the biggest political groups in germany and in fact only a minority forty six percent say their view of it is very good or good a slim majority fifty two percent are less positive or even say it would be a bad thing let s bring in our political correspondent simon young for more on the story hi simon so our grand coalition here doesn t seem to be very popular at the moment what does that say about stability. well if this coalition is launched it will have a good working majority in the bundestag three hundred ninety nine of seven hundred nine seats so it will be able to push through eight states programme of measures that have been agreed in the coalition agreement pushing forward policy on the uniting europe over forming in the education system and improving the digital infrastructure in germany and many other things is that as to stabil
father and knows this neighborhood like no one else. has taken me to the market and institution in the old town palermo i m trying to get a feel for what matters to people in this election migration seems to be at the top of the list. the tone of the current campaign is very harsh i m afraid that the topic of migration is being exploited from the left and from the right these people don t understand the value of migrants and migration that can bring into a country then they need to get out and get it i mean it s. this is really has always been an island between two continents many africans that make it to europe spend a lot of time here some learn italian in charity sponsored classes like this one right next to the market hoping to be granted asylum others move on.
for the e.u. institutions looking at the polls right now max it would show that the anti-establishment five star movement would come out of the single largest party what can europe expect from the five star. probably nothing because the five star movement will not be in the governing coalition by all means they don t have any partners nobody wants to go into coalition with them but if they really were in the coalition and the most powerful party in there so hard to explain to see what exactly to expect in the past they said they wanted italy to leave the euro as a currency but they ve toned down their their rhetoric and often with these populist parties. once they get to the government it becomes clear that their program is not very comprehensive that they don t really have answers to the complex realities of governing they just have answers to the emotions that many people have for example towards migrations and that s where the successful once in power it s a different story but like