good afternoon, stephen. good to hear you again. well, it s great to have you on the show. and i dare say you are delighted to look at german national opinion polls which put your afd party at 20% plus in terms of public support. but you know as well as i do that federal elections don t come until 2025. how sure are you that you and the party can keep this level of support up? well, you can never be100% sure here, especially mid term. the opposition usually is better off because at the end of the terms, the coalition parties, the government do things that please the people, so that might be difficult. and in afd s case, they usually do a lot of things defaming us. so we re expecting something. on the other hand, well, if they continue governing like this, we shouldn t go down in the polls. the problem is it looks like it s mostly a negative vote. germans, according to the polls, are deeply dissatisfied both with the state of the economy at present, but also with the state of
many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a profound and permanent contribution to british life. if you ever feel like you re in a room and you re the only one in the room, that s the way i feel, at that time. but then you start to meet friends, you know, and here and there, and little bit and that and then they get them together. and then they say, well, it s time we have a little thing about my people now, because lots of people didn t believe that. they didn t believe their dream would be such a horrible
through the second set. after rolling his ankle midway through the second set. alcaraz had won the first 6 2. meanwhile, the women s world number one, iga swiatek, has taken the first set against daria saville. plenty of grit and determination from the australian, but it s the defending champion, swiatek, who seals it 6 3. and it is currently 4 3. looking good to the next round. the women s second seed, aryna sabalenka, overcame a poor start on serve to win her opening match against belgium s maryna zanevska. she hit five double faults to lose her first two service games, but found her rhythm and won in straight sets. rangers are among the sides looking to qualify for the champions league tonight. they ve travelled to psv eindhoven, with the scores level from the first leg. in the other fixtures, aek athens of greece are up against belgian side royal antwerp and danish champions fc copenhagen take on polish side rakov chestochowa. that one also 0 0. not many goals to tell you
centre has now downgraded idalia to a tropical storm no longer a hurricane although they are still warning of the risk of freshwater flooding, and storm surges as it moves inland with georgia and south carolina next in its path. helena humphrey has been witnessing the aftermath of the storm, in cedar key. mariko, that s right. not at least in terms of loss of life. but some people here are saying that the destruction is far worse than anything that they ve been seeing in terms of the debris. when you compare it to example to hurricane injust last year, ian just last year, and if you just take a look behind me, mariko, i mean, you re just starting to get an idea of the destruction that we re seeing. this is just one of 49 counties here, which was under a mandatory evacuation order. so you ve got to imagine that scenes like this will be replicated across the coast. nevertheless, this is one of the hardest hit areas. and as you can see, this hotel here essentially has just b
fell to ground in kyiv. as you can see, there was a large explosion when it came down. and this is more video from kyiv it s not clear if this is a separate incident, or the same debris filmed from another angle. this footage was filmed shortly after dawn in kyiv. you can see how there still appears to be smoke billowing from the area where the debris landed. our correspondent paul adams is in kyiv and he gave us this update on what happened there in the early hours of the morning. we had had a succession of air raid alerts for about two or three hours before that. when the alerts come, they appear on your mobile phone and people can track where things are being fired from. and so the country as a whole was braced for attacks. then at around 5:00 in the morning, we heard several explosions as we headed down to our secure bunker here in kyiv. and as we now know, those were, we think, all caused by intercepted missiles or drones. this was a combined attack using the smaller s