German Chancellor Merz ‘shocked’ by far-right AfD win and other news stories | Global News Podcast

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Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany is facing a tectonic shift in party politics, following the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)'s victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Mr Merz said the result had shaken his conservative CDU to its core, signalling the need for a major reckoning. The anti-immigration AfD has proposed banning LGBTQ rainbow flags in schools and teaching the children of refugees in segregated classes. Also in the Global News Podcast: 05:28 The funeral of convicted Serbian war criminal General Ratko Mladić is attended by thousands in Belgrade 07:31 President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine and the US must keep diplomacy going, as Russia strikes Kyiv around the clock 11:39 Lebanon says at least nine people were killed in fresh Israeli attacks 14:45 We meet 13-year-old composer Carey Tan, whose written a symphony about AI 16:55 An unsung hero of D-Day, meteorologist James Stagg, is portrayed by Andrew Scott in the new film “Pressure” The Global

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