Protest by the SPD: After Saxony-Anhalt: Can the SPD still trust the Union?

In Saxony-Anhalt, an AfD politician was elected president of the state parliament for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic on Tuesday. Tobias Rausch received four more votes than the AfD and BSW have in the state parliament. It is suspected that there are defectors from the CDU who had previously announced that they would abstain.

In protest against this, SPD politicians marched from the Reichstag through the Brandenburg Gate to Bebelplatz in the evening. The National Socialists burned books there in 1933. The MPs carried basic laws in their hands, and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius sang the national anthem. In an internal meeting he is also said to have quoted Max Liebermann: "I can't eat as much as I want to puke." A lot of symbolism - or has the beleaguered SPD found an issue on which it has remained steadfast since its founding over 100 years ago? And how big is the SPD's anger at the Union, whose MPs may have voted for the AfD? There is also a lot to discuss the day after, which is handled by Michael Schlieben from ZEIT's politics department.

The top politicians from the Berlin Left, the Greens and the SPD from Berlin today visited an installation for the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel. They then met for what was probably their last preliminary discussion. The parties had agreed on this still non-binding format in order to discuss how to deal with anti-Semitism and organized crime before possible explorations. There have been repeated allegations against the Berlin Left in this context. There were no results as of the podcast's editorial deadline.

Also in the update: A Japanese and a French researcher were honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work on so-called chiral molecules. Viola Kiel from the ZEIT science department explains why it can be crucial in chemistry whether a molecule is left- or right-handed.

And otherwise? 20 years ago, journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot in Moscow.

Moderation and production: Philip-Johann Moser

Editor: Fabian Scheler

Collaboration: Lena Herrmann, Emma Möllenbrock