a strong appeal on behalf of armin laschet, her party s embattled candidate to succeed her. she told a rally in aachen that mr laschet was the unifier the country needed, and the best candidate to guarantee continued stability. mrs merkel initially stood aside from the campaign, but has played a more active role after the spd overtook her christian democrats in the opinion polls. let s go live to the bbc s ros atkins who s in potsdam, where a town hall event held by mr scholz has been taking place. i thing we will find out tomorrow night. it has been interesting that she has largely stood to the side and allowed the next candidate to do his own think that the polls have suggested that may not be enough so we have had these interventions from
a book of condolence has been opened in south london in memory of the 28 year old primary school teacher sabina nessa, who was attacked and killed a week ago. hundreds of mourners gathered for an emotional candle lit vigil in kidbrooke last night. more than 500 people gathered at pegler square, not far from where a wanted suspect was captured on cctv. 0ur correspondent, megan paterson, is in south london where the vigil took place last night. meghan. as he can see behind me, the flowers, candles, meghan. as he can see behind me, the flowers, candles, cards, meghan. as he can see behind me, the flowers, candles, cards, balloons - flowers, candles, cards, balloons left behind me at the site where sabina nessa s body was found here last week, people continue to come here to pay tribute to sabina nessa. many did not know her until this week, but feel compelled to come down here and share their grief, sorrow and shock and show support for herfamily. last night, as you
of a political era in germany, as elections take place for a new leader to replace angela merkel as chancellor after 16 years. climate change has been a big issue during the campaign, with activists holding rallies in cities across the country. 0ur europe editor, katya adler, sent this report from berlin. applause. relaxing on a friday evening after 16 years at the helm of the eu s most powerful country, angela merkel is relieved, perhaps, that it is almost all over. the migrant crisis, the euro crisis, four us presidents, five uk prime ministers, 100 eu summits and more during her time in office. hers will be a tough act to follow at home and on the world stage. many germans say they will miss the stoic, pragmatic politician nicknamed mummy . merkel is going to be strongly missed, i think so. i will miss merkel very much. why? because i am a fan of her.
been majorly disrupted and a major shock to people living here. the community centre welcoming people in and giving people a space to reflect, chat and speak about their concerns. as well as the shock and grief, there is worry about how safety streets are, and how confident women can go and be meeting friends as sabina nessa did last week. there is still a police cordoned in place and the police are still saying they are very keen to identify a man in cctv footage to was seen last friday evening around the time of sabina nessa s attack and they want the public to try and help identify him and they say he is key to the investigation, as is a silver car they believe he has access to. the police investigation continuing not far away from here and people coming throughout the morning and afternoon to leave their own tributes and read those left, driven by school children, parents,
so this is part of the main taliban cell block, and you can see they ve tried to make themselves fairly comfortable it was obviously very cold in the winter. and these spaces had to be rented from the authorities for quite a lot of money, you re talking about $100 or something like that. the taliban in this place, i have been talking to some of the guys here who are former inmates, ran their own affairs. they tried to keep some cohesion, sometimes they say the prison authorities boarded criminals or people with big drug addictions, and they say that they tried to talk them out of it. there was also a lot of heroin for sale within the prison, and a great deal of corruption as well. this man took me to where he was chained and tortured in ten years behind bars. hejoined the taliban after a raid on his village.