Germany's far-right AfD marches in Magdeburg
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Germany's far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has held a rally near the site of the attack on the Christmas market on Friday evening - we'll speak to one of the party's members of parliament.
Also on the programme: President Biden has commuted the death sentences on all but three of the federal prisoners on death row; and we'll look at the history and politics of the Panama Canal as Donald Trump threatens to re-assert control over it.
(Photo: Memorial event and funeral march of AfD party after attack in Magdeburg, Germany - 23 Dec 2024. FILIP SINGER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Henley. The programme's coming to you live from London. |
| 0:11.1 | Germany's far-right AFD has held a march in the eastern city of Magdeburg, saying it was mourning the victims of an attack on a Christmas market. |
| 0:20.7 | A driver speeding a rented vehicle through thick crowds |
| 0:23.6 | has newly inflamed a heated debate on migrant and security policy. |
| 0:28.7 | The German government has faced angry questions about the Saudi suspect |
| 0:32.4 | who was arrested at the scene of Friday's attack. |
| 0:35.3 | Five people were killed, over 200 wounded. Those questions were |
| 0:39.8 | fuelled by news that Saudi Arabia had warned Germany about its citizen, Taliban al-Abdil |
| 0:45.5 | Mosin, who came to Germany in 2006 and was granted refugee status 10 years later. The BBC's |
| 0:52.8 | Bethany Bell has been at the march in Magdeburg. |
| 0:55.6 | We'll hear from an AFD official shortly, first Bethany on today's rally. |
| 1:00.5 | It was a rally by the AFD. It was in front of the cathedral in the same place where hundreds of |
| 1:08.1 | people gathered on Saturday to watch a church service. |
| 1:12.6 | But today it was political. |
| 1:15.6 | There was an angry crowd. |
| 1:17.6 | The sense of anger in the crowd was very palpable. |
| 1:21.6 | One of the AFD officials said that it was a monstrous political mistake to have given the suspect in this case asylum |
| 1:30.9 | and the crowd yelled back with slogans of deportation, deportation. Around the Christmas market |
| 1:39.3 | itself, not very far away, counter-demonstration was held that was arranged by an anti-racism group, |
| 1:47.8 | and people there said it was wrong to scapegoat migrants, and they said that Magdeburg itself needed time to breathe. |
| 1:58.0 | Bethany, we'll come back to you very shortly. |
| 2:00.3 | First, Beatrix von Storch |
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