Overview

• The 11 September ZDF episode featured Die Linke chair Jan van Aken, journalist Sabine Adler, migration researcher Ruud Koopmans and ZDF Washington bureau chief Elmar Theveßen.
• Van Aken outlined his party’s opposition to rearmament and compulsory service while addressing Israel/Gaza, the Ukraine war and debates over social‑spending cuts.
• Koopmans sharply criticized Europe’s migration policy, calling the asylum system a “lottery of life and death, of freedom and oppression.”
• Adler analyzed reports of Russian drones shot down in Poland and shared on‑the‑ground insights from Ukraine, while Theveßen detailed the killing of Trump ally Charlie Kirk and weighed U.S. migration and Middle East policy.
• Viewer responses on X skewed negative, citing interruptions during the migration discussion and frustration with the segment on Charlie Kirk.