Germany: Will the far right beat the ‘firewall’?

As Russian election disinformation disrupts German media coverage, the far-right AfD threatens to break the political “firewall” that has long kept it out of power.

Contributors:
Olaf Böhnke – Berlin director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation
Ulrich Brückner – Political analyst
Michaela Küfner – Chief political editor, DW

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Donald Trump, the president of the United States, sparked a row between himself and his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week and blamed Ukraine for starting the conflict with Russia. The Russian media’s gleeful response and the diplomatic fallout are covered in Meenakshi Ravi’s report.

Mass arrests, silencing dissent, and prisons for hire, six years on, President Nayib Bukele’s unique brand of populism remains wildly popular in El Salvador. Elettra Scrivo of The Listening Post reports on the price that some journalists have had to pay for it.

Featuring:

Sergio Arauz – President, the Journalist Association of El Salvador
Jessica Ávalos – Investigative journalist
Víctor Barahona – Community journalist
Andrés Guzman – Presidential commissioner, human rights and freedom of expression

Source: Aljazeera