this is d.w. news coming to you live from berlin myanmar's own songs to achieve breaks her silence on the road hinge refugee crisis she expresses her sorow to all groups displaced by violence and says she wants to speak to muslims to find out why

they're leaving does this mean the nobel laureate will now move to and with the u.n. describe says ethnic cleansing also coming up just days to go until the germany till the german elections and a chance for i'm going to michael's main challenger mountain schultz makes a last ditch effort to pull in the votes but can he didn't medical's commandingly. one of europe's biggest airlines ryanair cancels thousands of flights and says it messed up the planning of its pilots holiday but not everyone is buying that and. also coming up by in munich celebrate october fest but once the party's over will they meet their match against a resurgent shout to tonight we'll have a preview. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. myanmar's defacto leader aung san suu kyi

has broken her silence on the road refugee crisis an army led crackdown has driven more than four hundred thousand minority muslims into bangladesh triggering a major humanitarian emergency so she's national address was highly anticipated she's been facing intense criticism for remaining silent on what the u.n. is now describing as ethnic cleansing let's listen to some of her speech has been much concern around the world but they got to the situation in a kind it is not the intention of government to apportion blame to epona gauge responsibility we condemn all human rights violations and unlawful violence we are committed to the restoration of peace stability and rule of law throughout the state the government is working to restore the situation can almost since the fifth of september there have been no armed crashes and that can ok aarons operation

nevertheless we are concerned to hear that numbers of muslims are seeing across the border to bundle again. we want to find out why this exodus is happening we have been trying to build peace out of internal time a peace that must be last king and that must be accompanied by sustainable and i could to defend. we would like to invite you to take part in this peace process to join us in finding knocking solutions to the problems that have plagued a country for years. and that was myanmar's defacto leader on sponsor ci there of course well for more now i'm joined by andrea as lawrence he's a former asia correspondent for the german news magazine def spiegel he's also written a biography of on soul suchi thank you so much for coming in this morning under

arrest having what do you make of speech do you think it will be enough to silence those who have condemned her handling of the range of refugee crisis i think it continues. to be very careful. she didn't explicitly criticize the military or for human rights violations she's just said well we have to find out what what was going on who gave content legations so i am very skeptical about that she could piece into this and critics now she delivered this speech in myanmar is described as a national address but it's also an address to the general assembly of the united nations that meeting this week in new york her address was highly anticipated why didn't she go to new york to deliver the stress i think that the situation is very

tense and. maybe she didn't want to hear the criticism that she's going to new york was there is a major human crisis going on in the country ok that makes sense given that though that she's staying at home she's in the country presumably the government must know what's going on within the country yet in her address she claimed not to know why the ridges muslims are leaving me on mar and crossing over into bangladesh hundreds of thousands of them it's been going on for more than three weeks this exit is do you think she's being completely honest when she says she doesn't know why no she is not i think she she exactly knows what's going on and you have to know and of course she knows that they're bringing a problem isn't it is an old problem which goes back for decades now. and she of course knows that the. since that discriminated against so i

think she tries to also be careful not to blame the military does this crisis reveal the true limitations of also answer cheese ability to deal successfully with the military or the military still pulling the strings exactly i think that. that is exactly what's going on i think in security matters since the chief has less to say of the guards the guard misses markets office. the constitution is made by the military that says that the military has the only say in security if areas defend border and interior affairs so she really has not the power to to rule in or to tell the military to behave. now when also searched she was allowed to run for office again after being under house arrest for years and years and she was criticized for not allowing her party

to put up muslim candidates or at least her party marginalized some of these muslim supporters in the power base why do you think or what role do you think the muslim buddhist divide in myanmar is playing in this current refugee crisis with a range of i think that she she didn't do that because you won't want to was careful as she is now she wanted not to risk that. to gain a major majority in the parliament why because. myanmar is a deeply religious and deeply buddhist country and if she if she openly defend the the ring i think she fears that she might lose the sympathy of the group just population do you think that also suits she has a constructive role to play in resolving this crisis. well as i said. her role is limited she tries she is she is in

a tight spot in this and in this situation why because she tries to to to not to lose her aim and the aim is to make. a democratic country and the. the biggest point of that is to the military which is now so for back to the birth and rest thank you so much andreas lawrence a thank you very much as your correspondent and the author of a biography of a biography on sponsorship thanks for coming in. staying with the proceedings at the united nations general assembly meeting this week we go to new york where president donald trump will take center stage today at the annual gathering of world leaders at the united nations amid global anxiety over north korea and iran. they're waiting to hear what the president's america first vision means for world politics on monday trump made his u.n.

debut at a smaller event to debate reform at the u.n. . in his first appearance at the united nations us president donald trump did not mince his words trump said the organization needed less red tape and more efficiency. in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by one hundred forty percent and its staff has more than doubled since two thousand we are not seeing the results in line with this investment. president trump is a longtime critic of the united nations on the campaign trail he dismissed the world body as a club for people to talk and have a good time. un chief antonio good today she's also pushing for reform and has welcomed trance initiative un s three men this potential all of us have the

responsibility to make sure we live up to it. our shared objective is that twenty first century un focused more on people less on process and as you rightly said more on the levy less on bureaucracy. on tuesday trump will address the general assembly meet concerns of global crises the u.s. president's america fest policy and he support for the u.n. . now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world today hurricane maria has strengthened to a potentially catastrophic category five storm it slammed into the caribbean island of domenico with winds of up to two hundred sixty kilometers an hour the islands prime minister has had to be rescued from his home maria is on course to hit many of the same caribbean islands devastated by hurricane burma earlier this month.

spain has become the latest country to scale back ties with north korea in protest over its recent nuclear tests spanish authorities have ordered north korea's ambassador to leave the country by the end of the month the u.n. security council impose new sanctions on pyongyang after its sixth and largest nuclear test this month. and suicide bombings in nigeria have killed at least twelve people and injured more than twenty at least two blasts hit a settlement in the northeastern state of borno witnesses say the bombers detonated their devices at a gathering of farmers in the region is at the center of the islamist boko haram insurgency now with less than a week to go to the german election the principal challenger for the post of chancellor martin scholz has been facing questions from a live t.v. audience in his party the social democrats are heading into the polls trailing chancellor merkel's christian democrats by double digits so the t.v.

discussion was schultz's latest and last chance to narrow the gap. so time at prime time for martin schulz with less than a week till the german elections challenge faces last t.v. town hall meeting with tough questions from voters on the pressing issue of immigration he chose to rely on a slogan the skipper do you think about soon the lights over there are three magical words for integration language work and friends you have to learn the language of the country you live and work and if you live there you have to find a job and if you speak the language you will find friends and those who have friends integrated wish to know about the feeling of those in the. shoals try to distinguish himself from incumbent chancellor angela merkel for example by promising to take a tougher stance on foreign policy issues america. in these times of added one trump and putin mrs merkel likes to be cautious i wouldn't be like that i think

you have to speak clearly with the u.s. president with all due respect to the office of the president you can very well tell him mr trump your politics will never be those of germany we thought. it was a perfect format for martin schulz as a former small town mayor he knows how to approach people and promised to address voters' concerns. in four years' time i also want us to have invested in schools nurseries and infrastructure if this country continues to follow i'm going to fly and that everything's going to be fine well just carry on living off our capital and in four years time we'll be worse off than today. so with just days to go till the elections of polls for schultz the social democrats look grim but their candidate proved in this town hall that he's not giving up the fight just yet. and you can join the discussion all the election by following the w.'s campaign germany decides there's full

coverage on d.w. dot com. and you can get updates on our c.w. news facebook page or work for was on twitter and use that germany's size hash tag for our social media team is waiting to hear from. you're watching t.v. news still to come five days until germany votes we head to the national stronghold of the left party right here in the nation's capital in the former east berlin at a classic showdown between two old rival shock and buy in munich we'll have a preview of all the midweek action for you. right now it's business news with monika and chaos at ryanair yeah my heart goes out to everyone who is

flying with them right now because it's necessarily a bad airline right terry but dry in air europe's largest airline by passenger numbers is canceling thousands of flights a rather unusual incident for the otherwise reliable kariya ryanair kaante even say which flights will be consulates after wednesday and customers are demanding ounces the airline c.e.o. said they missed up the pilots' vacation i tina rees but not everyone is buying that. around forty to fifty flights are said to be canceled daily that's a total of around two thousand flights by the end of october ryanair canceled the flights to cope with pilot shortages and to improve its punctuality record we can either run the operation with a fifty five sixty percent punctuality we far more flight through options inevitably cancellations and huge past your dissatisfaction caused to thirty five or forty percent of our customer base or we do what i thought last friday was the

sensible thing we need to take out about fifty flights a day for the next six weeks while we have the screwy issue two thousand cancelled flights that means hundreds of thousands of angry customers but that didn't seem to bother ryanair it's not fair for the people that have already there. everything because unlike this it's not put really that right. what about the formula but no idea the budget carrier is bracing itself for a bill of damages totaling twenty million euros but analysts are doubtful that improving the punctuality record is the real reason for the canceled flights rather ryanair could be aiming to grab as many of the landing slots still occupied by the now bankrupt air berlin if air berlin stops operations those coveted slots would be auctioned off but only airlines with a sufficient number of free planes for the additional flights would be eligible to

bid. well and see how forgiving ryan air passengers will be with the breaks it talks not making any real progress financial markets worldwide are looking for guidance and they found it on monday and bank of england governor mark carney discussed his central bank's interest rate policy at the i.m.f. meeting in washington and sent to the pound sterling down almost one percent. rexx it is coming and while some politicians in the u.k. still try to paint this as a positive for the country most fear the road ahead at the i.m.f. meeting in washington d.c. bank of england governor mark carney said breaks it is likely to hurt britain's growth prospects in the short term for him the negative effects of bracks that are clear. any reduction you know openness with the e.u. is unlikely to be immediately compensated by new toys of a similar magnitude with other trade partners and even if those new agreements with

other partners could be struck instantaneously the reorientation of business relationships will take some time. britain's inflation rate has accelerated this year due in large part to the fall of the pound since the referendum decision in june two thousand and sixteen to leave the e.u. carney expects more inflation however any coming interest rate rises would be limited and gradual a statement less hawkish than expected. all the breaks it referendum has not only weighs on the british pound it's also weighing on the minds of citizens living and working in the u.k. and many of them from poland now their country on the other hand has gone through an economic boom in recent years and drank some of the top berry produces in europe there is plenty of work especially during the harvest season but it's not being done by poles. indwell lucy in the north eastern poland we're off to the

blueberry harvest the trailer is full everyone here is from ukraine and almost all of them are women seven hundred ukrainians work here at harvest time. if you go to at a time please. about one million ukrainians work in poland like tanya she has a permit that allows her to work in the e.u. country there are jobs in ukraine but they just don't pay it's much better in poland. they're paid by the box of blueberries tanya earns on average fifty euros a day average wages in ukraine are only around two hundred euros a month for the same work almost all of those i spoke to have left children at home natalia has two daughters ten and six years old. i miss them a lot they're still a little and it pains my heart but what should i do. if you mean how much more do

you earn here. ten times as much. ten times as much the polish economy has been booming for years poland needs workers not least because some two million poles have left the country since it joined the e.u. ukrainians fill the gaps in construction in households and in the fields it's the ukrainians who work here our people prefer to go to germany or britain. poland is one of the main exporting countries for blueberries thanks to the ukrainian workers about eighty tons a day are sent to the rest of europe. in the evening the harvest workers quarters are in a small ukrainian colony. tanya and four friends live in this room they work ten hours a day six days a week they're like a substitute family and cooking eat together every evening. in ten years we might earn more in ukraine than me. the poles will come to work for us.

they'd rather be living and working in ukraine but for now they can only dream of the kind of economic boom that their polish neighbor is experiencing. some twenty two men in show itself dreaming but not about blueberries about beating the other team that's right not just twenty two i mean if you put them all together there are so many games not it adds up to nearly one hundred players i think monaco we're talking about the bonus league midweek action tonight tuesday night shaka will lock horns with munich in a marquee match up shaka have been on a roll so far this season and are expected to give the reigning champions a run for their money especially with buy and keep money well neuer out injured again. child is impressive start to the bundesliga season has a team full of confidence under first season coach domenico to disco the side from girls and kishan have experienced many changes in style and tactics and it appears

to be working the royal blues have won three of their four bundesliga matches this season sometimes of the help of the video assistant referee but now their attention is focused on their greatest test so far this campaign about the against by and. you want to merely want to hold against you have to be the sun i think that's the only way you'll have a real chance against fire munich when you need to have a heck of a day in the talk. buy ins dominance against child in recent years is unquestionable the last time unit lost of the royal blues in a competitive match was back in two thousand and eleven. but this time around byron go into the clash swimming in a sea of criticism their decent start of the season has been overshadowed by their recent defeat to hoffenheim and rumors of tension within the dressing room and criticism towards launch a lot he forced him to answer his detractors. that. is like there's.

no new was. celebrated with. us this is football a mouthwatering battle is expected between these two old rivals. well for more on that match and all of tuesday night's bonus legal action i'm joined now by dez quire from d.w. sports journalists every knowing how are you we've got a lot of football talk about here you have will start with shaka byan shaka right behind by and in the table do you think that they have a shot of pulling off a win at home for the first time in a very long time yes they have and i'll tell you why shell career of mine is to transform itself from a team with aging so called once again once they were superstars into i know nineteen where the team is the star specially the new china going to go to tesco he's instilled something that shall have been missing for years and that is

a real pride in the units and that's how are they having a good start to season why can they beat by and it's not because of the players that shall come will be putting on the pitch but because of the players that bind cannot put on the pitch they need manual noire spent all right he is the backup goalie at by and he's a nice kid but a manual noir. and it's just face the facts that just because buying one big at the weekend doesn't mean that the latest controversy surrounding the team of the team chemistry have gone they haven't and they're just waiting for something to knock on that door to this house of cards that it collapse shall could be the team to do it it shall go when they go top of the table for the first time in and. be watching that house of cards spark now they have a new coach schmidt. they'll be entertaining fellow low flyers braman what does schmidt need to do to get the wolves back on track spitz got to do what he didn't mind and that is instill motivation into

a squad that really desperately needs motivating under his young because the previous vols but coach a good guy knew his job but he didn't instill that feeling of we are a team and schmidt is renowned for doing this and example is. when he was at mines he took the team for a team building excursion up a mountain to go camping that's how far they sky is prepared to go i think the problem the valves but have is that just lacking confidence and somebody like mate can give them that confidence braman on the other hand yeah it's bleak graeme smith can help peak this season does he can multi capacity toss can do two things at the same time i think brian would be looking in the market for that now there's a clash of two teams who hope to be jockeying for europe for a place in europe this may spark a struggle last season and runners up are be light see. i know is this another contest it's simply too close to call whether it is an old one you know outspoken

enjoying that baseball is a good start since they were into the league seven years ago having a good role and they're trying to run a good job by relying on the one thing they can do and that's defend freddie bobet she's the general manager at frankfurt to announce but thinks that we can he said start of play is disgusting but successful and well they tend to do is they go ten men behind the ball wait for a counter attack try and score and then put the other team on the back pedal if they can do that against leipzig they could pull off a short life six problem is yes they do have the extra games because of the champions they've yes they've got a great squad but they are no longer the hunters they are the hunted and that is a psychological switch from go nobody's expecting us to win two people are expecting us to win and like sake will be well advised to get on the scoresheet early if they don't run for a tough and rough ninety minutes thank you so much we'll be watching for all of

that squire from d.w. sports. now you want to faster more athletic version of golf tries to speed golf scores are based on your number of shots and how long you take the british speed golf championships of just taken place with most of the competitors finishing eighteen holes in around fifty minutes golfers run between shots trying to balance speed with accuracy chris benny on one the men's event while elizabeth taylor claimed the women's crown. well the air race world championships have come to germany with daredevil pilots wowing the crowds with some incredible maneuvers the allows it's ring in eastern germany is used to get used to hosting car motorbike races but fans had to look to the skies this time around as you know she had a right a boosted his championship hopes with a victory for the champ japanese racer moved into second place in the overall

standings behind the czech republic so. there is one race left in the challenge. still to come with five days to go to germany's general election will take a closer look at the lift party of the fourth largest party in germany and the successor to the party that ran socialist east germany. and we met a young palestinian boy whose parents and brothers were killed in an attack by militant jewish settlers we follow his battle to get his life back. but have more still ahead. take on. the buddhist legal highlights. myron you made up for losing their last match by thrashing minds for now just in time for the opening of october fest

. after many goals and much debate tournament defeated come on and are once again top of the table. sixty minutes. hijacking the news. where i come from the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a scripted reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china turkey people are told is that it's not and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about the fear and balance or being neutral perry march and our top story the on mars leader she

has broken her silence on the written job refugee crisis she expressed sorow for all groups just placed by violence but said she does not fear international scrutiny of her government's handling of the crisis. for more on the situation of the written job refugees we're joined now by d.w. southeast asia correspondent boss john hiatt. over four hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh in the last few weeks and now aside from the beilenson myanmar refugees are having to cope with monsoon rains how was that affecting the exodus and the relief effort. whether it's through terry it has rained quite a lot over the last few days in that region and that just makes the situation for everyone on the ground just so much more difficult especially of course for the refugees in those camps you have to understand the makeshift shelters that they're

living in or many of them are living in are nothing more than just plastic sheets that barely held to them from the sun or in this case the rain but they're sitting on the bare soil and if that soil gets wet then they're sitting in the mud if they themselves or if their clothes get wet they have nothing dried to change into then especially for the many children many of whom are already sick with fever or diarrhea they then get cold at night and they get even more ill and what's more is that there are new refugees many new refugees pouring into those already overcrowded camps every single day and the aid that's reaching them isn't nearly enough have a look at this report. they keep on coming. more than four hundred ten thousand refugees from me and mark have already crossed the border into bangladesh and no one knows how many will still arrive. in the camps the situation

is already at a breaking point. food water shelter everything is scarce here. many of the aid deliveries are organized by private bangladeshi citizens. but. if we do not help the government of bangladesh this problem will be difficult to solve and how do we don knotts not see the refugees are getting increasingly desperate and distributing the aid to those who really need it can't be done from the back of a truck. the problem with the way this aid is being delivered is that it doesn't reach everyone and that it's a matter of luck and sometimes even the physical strength if you get some or not but there are hundreds of thousands of people here who are all desperately in need of food of water and of medicine and what they really need is a large scale coordinated relief effort some forty kilometers north lies the

hospital of cox's bazar the district capitals. here doctors are treating around thirty rohingya refugees with severe injuries. they have sustained burns broken limbs and gunshot wounds. the hospital only has two hundred fifty beds and was already overstretched before the refugees arrived. and this influx due to the. has been a great burden to us because these patients are huge in number diversity in juice and difficult to manage. infected cases or. with the existing resources existing medicine existing meant to be difficult for us to deal with this influx outside the hospital locals voiced their resentment towards the rohingya refugees. and lying about me that only because of the road our country

is suffering greatly many of them break the law they steal they drop us and the women work as prostitutes. ninety percent. we don't. we don't get them no good people don't get the service in our country back in the camps bangladeshi authorities are trying to get the chaos. the government has designated an area to house four hundred thousand refugees where aid can be properly distributed but with hunger and illness spreading it's a race against time. no report there by deed obvious bastion hard and bastion is joining us today from bangkok bastion your report paints a harrowing picture of conditions in the camps what can bangladesh and the

international community do to alleviate that situation. well i think bangladesh is already doing what they can you have to understand this is a situation that is completely overwhelming for for any country it would be four hundred thousand or more than four hundred thousand people poor ring in just the span of or in the course of just a few weeks and that will be difficult to manage for any country let alone bangladesh which is a poor country which is a developing country in which is let's not forget which is reeling still from some of the worst floods that it has seen in years so what really needs to happen now and what we're already seeing is starting to happen is that the big international organizations aid organizations like u.n.h.c.r. like i.o.m. come in and they're already doing that they're airlifting relief goods into bangladesh and now they have to get them to the people on the ground which is

a difficult task because it requires some sort of infrastructure and what it requires first of all are stable camps where they can hand out and distribute that aid without running the risk of starting a riot over food terry and me almost a factual leader and she says her country is prepared to take back refugees now what are the prospects of the redemption returning to myanmar briefly if you can. well it really depends i think on under what conditions they can return because because we're already with there are already many internally displaced growing up people in myanmar and they're living in closed off camps basically they've been described often these camps as as open air prisons now the question is if if these

refugees really are allowed to return which is also of course what bangladesh wants can they return to their villages many of those villages aren't there anymore they've been burned to the ground so they don't have they have nothing to return to or will these will these refugees then live in camps like like the other internally displaced within me and my within that region those are all questions that that haven't been answered yet terry bussin thank you so much for your reporting in your analysis. there rip talking to us live from bangkok well here in germany it's crunch time in the run up to sunday's general election and we've got a profile of one of the key political movements here known simply as the left on the left party its roots go back to the east german communist party and today the former east is where the party draws most of its support and nowhere is the left as strong as in the nation's capital berlin and half

a balance eastern district have left party mayors including its stronghold in list and back so why is the party so popular here we sent a reporter to find out east berlin the former capital of east germany during the one nine hundred seventy s. the government set up prefabricated buildings here in the district of least in vehicle insurance policy and they're still popular today hardly any apartment is empty and the rent isn't too high the residents are a mixed bag of pensioners workers and social welfare recipients home turf for the left party. because ina lurch is running as a candidate for the left party she defines herself as lawyer for the ordinary man. has been in the german parliament since two thousand and two the former s.e.d member is one of the few politicians in the left party who repeatedly got a direct mandate. we tell people yes we know what you're going through the

problems you're confronted with and when we know how to solve them we will but we can't promise anything because the left party might be strong in this district but we're living in a capitalist country. capitalism is still the specter of evil even though shopping malls are at the center of social life in the district. but when you vote for the left party of course they care about ordinary people social welfare recipients. because it's the only party that has real goals it's the only one that will do what needs to be done. in your life taxing the rich to get more money for kindergartens and housing. c.d.u. candidate martine pitts old doesn't have it easy here in the leftist stronghold he can only gain votes if he doesn't mention the districts east german past but instead looks toward the future. this is fine i think it's important that we appreciate the biography and life achievement of each person there was

a lot of injustice in the east but that doesn't mean that each and every person wasn't just a gun and yet thousands of former east german government officials and secret police officers still live in this neighborhood some even live right next door to a former stasi prison who runs the memorial center for secret service victims he is one of the strongest critics of the left party. program slimed as. above all the problem with the left party is that they have never really severed ties with their past as the dictator party of the g.d.r. . they're trying to brown noser the district residents. believed to be a district mayor may hit against is a member of the left party today he's visiting a workshop for disabled people his constituents aren't bothered by the fact that he's a former east german border guard trainee officer. on the members of the parties

who are active here in littleton back have a g.d.r. history some have put a little more distance between themselves and the system the others less but i think this is prevalent in all parties you can find this pattern in any of them most. everyone in this district. loves me here glimpsed they know his past and have forgiven him in fact no one in east berlin wants to talk about former east germany anymore but it is still there in their heads especially when elections are near. for some analysis now let's bring in our political correspondent hans blonde to joins us from parliamentary studios hi hons we saw the left party has its roots in the former east german communist party but let's face it east germany disappeared more than twenty five years ago all those ties still relevant for the party today well they're clearly all relevant in areas such as this part of eastern bertillon where as we could see support for the party is still very strong that's also the

case in many of the other regions of former east germany where the left party still is quite strong on the other hand many of the supporters of the party that we could see also in this piece tend to be older people and the question is to what extent it can gain voters amongst younger people in fact that it is succeeding fairly well and that one can see that in part of east germany left parties in fact in the regional governments in one region it is the government it's. local premier is from the left party so it is a party that is managing in some sense to build on the roots from east germany but to bring them into the present day when you talk about east germany and kind of in the style ger that seems to be there for what was in east germany is that what defines a left voter or is there more to it than that do they have a particular ideological bent. it's fairly complex there is ideology involved

also amongst the people that supported for former communist regime and in east germany i would say that all people who are convinced that socialism even communism is the way to go there is also an element of protest votes that people that protest against to especially the western political system or the fact that much of western society has been transferred into the former east germany so there is a protest vote some of these protests votes are now moving to the far right in fact to the alternative for germany the right wing populous and there is also an element of young people who feel that this is one of the only parties that is actually offering a concrete. political alternative to the established parties ok so there is there are policy parts to the left party that appeal to people but politics is also very much about personalities does the left party have any charismatic figures. i think the most charismatic figure is there a leading candidate

a woman by the name of. she in fact would describe herself i think as a communist in other words she is on the left wing of this left party on the far left wing and not really prepared to compromise on her issues in on her policies in order to for instance become a member of central government here in germany but she's very popular and her positions i think also reflect some extent voters especially in the east of germany hans thank you so much political correspondent hans bundt. well ahead of sunday's election we've been talking to people all over the world as part of our d.w. series view of germany to find out how this election is being seen abroad today we head to the small greek island of edginess south of the capital athens to speak to demetrius shino who's runs a small hotel on the island things in berlin have had rocky relations because of

greeks debt crisis and the german government's demands for austerity. when i worked in hotels in their money i learned about how to be more effective more responsible. and to give high standards to everything i do i learned how to work really work. and now i get on my own on a good night long and they are often. we receive a lot of that among guests that they're much they like to talk about the everyday life evolved thinks that like us so yes we talked a lot about the crises and how we can go on. this conflict between the north

and south of europe made the warrior look. good that my finance minister mr played very famous indeed because he's pushing us to the limits. is not a good sign for greece. to the limit our government. spending every day new taxes we are really living to the limit we come into play more than we can. believe. in their money people. they stayed because they follow the rules in greece the greeks they have no more trust to the politicians so they don't pay their taxes and don't support. my opinion is that their money rules bureau. medical leave.

legacies my profession and seed. to me you know. they will but this isn't their money in the end if we all had the professor. giving us it either way it's a good the way. professor michael well to the middle east now and the spiral of violence there has spawned a radical minority among jewish settlers who are prepared to target palestinian civilians in revenge attacks two years ago israel and the world were shocked when a fire bombing killed a palestinian couple and their baby boy their other son had survived the fire but sustained severe burns to his body this is the story of his long and painful road to recovery. akhmed is undergoing his seventeenth operation the four year old must be in terrible pain he is

severely burnt all over his body. one extremist israeli settlers fire bombed his family's home. where you know that was in a coma for twenty seven days and afterwards for four months the doctors in joost consciousness for just four hours every day. akhmed is from june a palestinian village south of novelists in the west bank just a few months after the attack we visit his relatives for the first time. his uncle has son takes us to the house where his parents and his baby brother ali used to live.

that is until the night of july thirty first two thousand and fifteen when their home became the target of what investigators say was a random attack that would go on the whole of the new. settlers threw molotov cocktail through a closed window the middle of the room where all four family members were sleeping immediately went up in flames baby al you were sleeping on a separate mattress comment was nine between his mom and dad in a bed of a book the. parents themselves ablaze called outside in the chaos eighteen month old allie fell from his mother's arms he burned to death inside the house afterwards father siad succumbed to his terrible injuries after a week for five weeks doctors fought to save his mother but she too died. when we visit in the winter of two thousand and sixteen after med has been in hospital for six months residents of his village are scared the attackers will return

documents grandmother is still in shock a little. my head hurt so much from crying i hope my children will go to paradise and that god will root vengeance on the culprits and be angry with. a young one. much of the israeli population is horror stricken not just by the attack but also by videos like this one showing radical settlers celebrating the death of a palestinian baby. brother ali. israeli authorities temporarily detained many attendees of the celebration they also arrested the leader of the radical settlers movement and three of his supporters as the suspected arsonist and the extremists have published a manifesto calling for the murder of so-called nonbelievers and our arabs their goal to establish a jewish theocracy. in the spring of two thousand and

sixteen the first positive news from the sheba hospital in tel aviv emerges akhmed recovery is advancing he can now get out of bed and he plays with his newest gift with abandon this is what you ask my gets daily visits from arab and israeli volunteers for them supporting him as a way to take positive action against the brutal attack. as an arab or jew who cares a child as a child we love ahmed with our whole hearts we can't speak arabic but we understand each other just the same people that afterward has to wear a special suit after sustaining burns to over seventy percent of his body it's important he doesn't sweat so his visitors now want him to go back to his room. no i don't want to go back to bed i'm sure i want to sweat i just want to keep on

playing. when i have not i'm never. married doesn't yet know that his mother father and brother are dead he constantly asks when he'll finally be able to go back home to the. well. on july twenty second two thousand and sixteen almost a year after the attack matt can finally leave hospital. from now on he will live with his grandfather hussein who has hardly left his side throughout. akhmed supporters come to see him off. and the hospital's head physician who is israeli has also come to wish the family well. i'm going home now and i'm so happy finally by hospital it's over. his

grandfather has now told him that his parents and brother are dead but afterward now five doesn't quite comprehend what that means he also doesn't know they will have to go back to hospital once a week for checkups and undergo countless plastic surgeries. another year on now in the summer of two thousand and seventeen we visit ahmed again his grandfather continues to look after him with steadfast love. physically akhmed seems to be doing much better than the jewish and arab donors have also raised a special fund for him. hussein is not using it. and you know he says i don't know what. this is just so you just will. decide for himself when he's eighteen whether he'll take the money or not money can't compensate for his parent's death lessons and. the school ahmed now

attends has been named after his initial brother. everyone hand knows the family's story and is keen to take care of ahmed but he's often overcome by shyness is that fair ahmed is no longer a normal child after all he's been through he often doesn't know how he should behave and it's very painful for him when he sees other children being picked up by their mothers starts when he tries to distract himself. in a dizzying one at this hour in the. classroom has been specially fitted with curtains and eye conditioning to protect his sensitive skin. when he manages to overcome his shyness akhmed really starts to blossom. he's intelligent and he's been making huge leaps in reading and writing. for a brief moment the six year old seems to be able to forget about the wounds he carries in both body and soul. and just reminder the

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