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 Lugka 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.

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 Festival were muted.

It was so hard to celebrate Nauru's before 2011.

Nuvine 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 separating out all the police members in the places that we were heading

to celebrate Nauru's in, they were taking all of what we have that had a Kurdish symbol.

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