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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming live from London, this is Owen Bennett Jones.
Now the German elections are on tomorrow and with the growing rift between the United States and Europe, they are taking on ever more importance.
That's the international side of it.
Domestically, the German economy remains in recession and migration has been a huge issue in the campaign.
And to bring it all together for us, NewsHour's James Kumarasamy joins us live now from Berlin.
James?
Yes, thanks, Owen.
It does feel like a big moment.
Almost exactly three years after the outgoing Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared a turning point in Germany's foreign and defense policy after the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany could be on the verge of a political turning point.