Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Walter Lubke was the leader of a regional council in central Germany and a proponent of the country's immigration policies.

Last month, he was brutally murdered by a man with neo-Nazi ties.

We take a look at why the killing has shocked Germans so much and what it says about the rise of the far right.

And China's education model seeks the one true answer.

American high schoolers put hard questions to a debate, arguing either side or both.

We visit a debating tournament where it's clear that many Chinese youngsters are becoming experts in arguing the American way.

But first,

for all the cruelty of the war in Syria,

the country still does see moments of joy.

For decades under the rule of President Bashar al-Assad and his father, ethnic Kurds in the largely

Arab country had all kinds of restrictions.

Speaking the Kurdish language was discouraged, property rights were limited, and celebrations

of their annual Nauru's festival were muted.

It was so hard to celebrate Nauros before 2011.

Novin Ibrahim is a Syrian Kurdish journalist.

The Syrian regime was not allowing us as Kurds to celebrate it and suppressing us with so many

ways by spreading out all the police members in the places that

we were heading to celebrate nowros in they were taking all of what we have that had a Kurdish

symbol now the festival is celebrated freely we can celebrate it happily with no fear at all.

Honestly, it's a great feeling, and I'm so happy with that.

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