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Party in this country. Its anti immigration, anti islam and anti merkel. Its vote exceeded most polls and reached 12. 6 . Over a million voters left the christian democrats for the afd. Almost half a million from the social democrats did the same. Co leader Alexander Gauland repeated today a key message. He said we say i dont want to lose germany to an invasion of foreigners from a different culture. But National Representation brings with it a new level of pressure and already the afd is showin...

World news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 6 30 in the morning in myanmar, where, on thursday, un agencies will enter Rakhine State for the First Time Since the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims began. The burmese army has been accused of ethnic cleansing and nearly half a million rohingyas have fled to bangladesh to escape the brutal crackdown, which the army says began after attacks by rohingya militants. The bbcsjonathan head has tracked down a man who claims to be one of...

Referendums then i would normally be inclined to be because i tend to think referendums put very complex questions in very simple terms, which is something we saw with the brexit referendum very vividly, when everybody was actually voting on a different topic and for Different Reasons to an apparently simple question but when you see Spanish Government resorting to the most repressive tactics to prevent the cata la n repressive tactics to prevent the catalan referendum happening, you think, well...

The governments in iraq and spain have been responded to the referendums proposed and held . It makes you actually be more in favour of referendums then i would normally be inclined to be because i tend to think referendums put very complex questions in very simple terms, which is something we saw with the brexit referendum very vividly, when everybody was actually voting on a different topic and for Different Reasons on a very apparently simple question. But when you see Spanish Government reso...

Hello, good morning, welcome to date line. Dateline. Let the people decide. In kurdistan they have, and this weekend catalans wanted to do the same by holding a referendum on independence. In the uk, a referendum gave us brexit. Jeremy corbyn, leader of the opposition labour party, has announced hed give similar, decisive votes to people he says politicians ignore. In germany, the voters rewarded Angela Merkel with another term as chancellor, but also gave the far right their first seats in the ...

In germany, the voters rewarded Angela Merkel with a term as chancellor weekend but also gave the far right their first seat in the parliament in more than 50 years, though the taboo against Holding Referendum in germany remains as strong as ever. To discuss all that im joined by henry chu, International Editor of variety, Polly Toynbee from the guardian, maria margaronis, who writes for the nation, and stephanie bozon from germanys der welt. Welcome to all of you, good to have you with us again...

Good morning. Welcome to dateline. Let the people decide. In kurdistan they have, and this weekend catalans wanted to do the same, by holding a referendum on independence in the uk, a referendum of course in the uk gave us brexit. Jeremy corbyn, leader of the opposition labour party, has announced he would give similar, decisive votes to people he says politicians ignore. In germany, the voters rewarded Angela Merkel with a term as chancellor last weekend but also gave the far right their first ...

Redundant as the airline goes into administration, affecting thousands of customers, many of them abroad on holiday. And on newsnight we have the latest from las vegas, and we look at the Extraordinary Events in catalonia. We will be asking the Spanish Foreign minister why he thinks sending riot police to stop the independence vote was a good idea. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. At least 58 people have been killed and more than 500 injured in a mass shooting in las vegas, the worst of its...

Contains some graphic scenes. They came for a celebration of country music. What they got was terror. Gunfire the deadliest mass shooting in us history began atjust after 10pm last night. A barrage of automatic gunfire, some at the outdoor festival, mistaken for celebratory bangs, rakes crowds of people. Petrified concert goers begin to panic. Some fall to the ground. Others run for cover. Bullets fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel rain down upon them. There was quiet for a bit,...

Welcome to bbc news. The bbc understands the metropolitan police is investigating a further three Sexual Assault allegations made by one woman against Film Producer Harvey Weinstein. Alexandra mackenzie is here. The British Police very much involved now in this investigation. What have we learned . We got a statement from them within the last hour, this statement, they have not named the hollywood producer but the bbc understands that is who they are referring to in this statement, they have rem...