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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're beginning in Germany, in what may seem like slightly strange territory for a global news programme like ours,
because we're talking about a local election
and also one taking place in one of Germany's smaller regions, Saxony-Anhalt.
And yet, with voting well underway there,
the word that keeps on coming up in the reporting of these elections is seismic.
Because the Alternative für Deutschland party, the AfD, is hoping to secure a majority in the regional parliament,
and an outright win would mark the first time a far-right party has held state-level