Bashar: his departure will not stop fighting in Syria

Bashar Al Assad (REUTERS.com)

None of the patriotic people would think about life outside of his country. I like those other patriotic Syria. "

Damascus (Reuters)-Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has stressed that his departure will not stop the fighting in Syria, adding "absurd" If the person declaring the conflict in that country was about the President and his future.

Bashar issued a statement during an interview with the Sunday Times, United Kingdom, which aired Sunday (3/3). During the interview, he described himself as a person who holds a patriotic Syria he was unable to live outside the country, Xinhua reported.

"None of the patriotic people would think about life outside of his country. I like those other patriotic Syria, "Bashar said when asked if he would go to improving the prospects for peace.

He asserted no reasonable to declare that the conflict was about the President and his future. He said, "obviously this does not make sense, and precedent was recently in Libya, Yemen and Egypt shows evidence of this."

The face of opposition leaders issued a statement that while some superpower has delivered back to their rallying cry that he put the title, Xinhua reported.

The previous week, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the newly appointed, said he was drafting a proposal for diplomatic coaxing Bashar to put Office.

Kerry did not specify who might bid it conveys or excuse to Bashar, but hinted at mendatangnya visit is the Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia--where he would like to talk with U.S. allies about how to "making Bashar stepped down".

However, during a recent interview, Bashar accused Kerry wasting time because trying to see him put his position.

Syria's President says his leadership is domestic affairs.

"Every issue will be discussed with Syria a stranger anywhere. We only discuss it with the people of Syria in Syria, so I will not discuss it with anyone who also come from abroad, "Bashar affirmed.

Bashar tells us that "he has a friend, we listened to their suggestions but in the end, our decision is as Syria which sets out what is good for our country".

Meanwhile, Bashar lashed out against the attitude of the Government of the United Kingdom not long ago Syria, especially after the recent statement of the United Kingdom's desire to arm the guerrillas. Bashar branded the Government of London as a naive, confusion, unrealistic, for ending the weapons embargo had been trying the European Union so that the guerrillas could be supplied with weapons.

He stated that such actions could create conflicts in the field so the more severe. Additionaly, the "problem with this Government is that the rhetoric is superficial and does ripen they only highlights the threats and tradition of this hegemony ...."

Regarding the opposition, conveying the tone is Bashar cf. and convey back his invitation to all the opposition parties to attend the national dialogue, said the Sunday Times. (C003)

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Deadly fighting erupts in Syria

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30 September 2011 Last updated at 15:34 GMT Homs province has been one of the focal points of anti-government demonstrations Heavy clashes have broken out between the Syrian army and opposition activists in central Homs province, as anti-government protests continue.

In Rastan, seven soldiers and police were reportedly killed fighting troops who had defected to the opposition.

Activists said at least one civilian was killed by security forces in Hama.

Thousands of people took to the streets after Friday prayers across Syria, in a fresh wave of dissent against President Bashar al-Assad.

Correspondents say the demonstrations, which began peacefully six months ago, are becoming increasingly violent as protesters grow frustrated at the lack of any tangible reform.

Earlier, the US condemned an attack on US ambassador Robert Ford, who was pelted with stones and tomatoes by a mob in the capital, Damascus, on Thursday, ahead of a meeting with an opposition figure.

US officials said the mob was violent and seriously damaged embassy vehicles, but that Mr Ford was unharmed. There are no plans to withdraw the ambassador, officials said.

'Restoring security'

State news agency Sana quoted a military spokesman as saying that seven soldiers and members of law-enforcement agencies had been killed in Rastan, among them two officers, while 32 others were wounded.

"In a specific operation, the army units have successfully fulfilled their duties, arresting a number of the armed groups' members, seizing their weapons, explosives and different ammunitions," he said.

"The army members are pursuing the terrorist groups to restore security and stability to Rastan and its citizens," he said.

Reports from Rastan, a town of 40,000, indicate that army defectors have been fighting government forces to protect the protesters.

Correspondents say Syrian security forces have mostly remained loyal to President Assad, but deserters have formed their own units around Rastan, 180km (120 miles) north of Damascus, regarded as a recruiting ground for Sunni Muslim conscripts for the army.

The military is dominated by officers from the minority Alawite sect, of whom the Assad family are members, but most troops are Sunnis.

Continue reading the main story Lyse Doucet BBC News, Damascus

The mood outside the mosque in Barzeh after Friday prayers was tense as people milled around us. The first man to speak up, spoke loudly, insisting 'Syrians should be given a chance to talk together, not fight!"

Others whispered to us that he wasn't from this neighbourhood. "He's from intelligence," some said. Several men brushed past, speaking in hushed tones: "Sorry, we can't talk."

Another passed us a crumpled bit of paper with the words "thank you but no one can meet you because the army is in the street, and all people are afraid of them."

Soldiers stood guard nearby. Men wearing shirts of their favourite football teams then moved in, telling people to leave.

With a smile towards us, they shouted in Arabic "Bashar Ou Bas" (Bashar Only) referring to their president.

The government gave us permission today to visit a few mosques in Damascus including the grand Umayyad where the mood was peaceful.

Residents in Rastan told Reuters news agency at least 1,000 army deserters and other armed men were fighting the government forces.

UK-based opposition group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one person has been killed in the central city of Hama in Friday's violence, adding to six killed on Thursday, activists said.

"People seriously wounded in Rastan were unable to receive medical care because of the continuing military operations," the group said.

Resolution watered down

Thousands of protesters came out onto the streets after prayers on Friday in several cities including the capital, Damascus.

"Oh God, give victory to Syria and Yemen, Oh God... let [Yemeni President Ali Abdullah] Saleh and Bashar fall," they chanted as they emerged from mosques in Damascus.

In the northern province of Idlib, a sign proclaimed "Rastan is the bastion of free men, despite you, Bashar", Reuters reports.

The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones on the Syrian-Lebanese border says that when the protest movement began in Syria, opposition activists stressed that theirs was a peaceful protest movement determined to use non-violent methods to overthrow the government of President Assad.

But, he says, after six months the tactic has produced only promises of reform from the government.

That has led some in the opposition to argue that to achieve change they need to use more force, our correspondent says.

Speaking on Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the attack on Ambassador Ford was "unwarranted" and praised Mr Ford's "admirable courage" as a "vital advocate for the legitimate aspirations" of the Syrian people.

Mr Ford was targeted outside the office of opposition figure Hassan Abdul Azim, who heads the outlawed Arab Socialist Democratic Union party.

Meanwhile, diplomats in New York watered down a UN resolution condemning the violence in Syria, removing a reference to a recommendation made by UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay that the council should consider referring Syrian authorities to the International Criminal Court.

Russia has however said it will not back the latest version, Reuters reports.

The UN estimates that more than 2,700 people have been killed across Syria since the crackdown began.

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Are men the key to fighting rape?

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30 September 2011 Last updated at 09:25 GMT By Mike Lanchin BBC News, Johannesburg BBC News spoke to Ronnie and Phikeleli, who have been taking part in the Men Against Violence workshop

"How many of you here have ever raped a woman?"

After a short silence two men gingerly raise their hands.

In towns and cities across South Africa, small groups of men, some of them confessed rapists, are meeting to talk about sexual violence, as part of a small but significant challenge to their country's notorious record on rape.

This workshop is gathered at a sports centre in the deprived Johannesburg township of Alexandra.

"Most men are silent about this," says Dumisani Rebombo, who is leading the workshop organised by the One Man Can Campaign.

But it is "vitally important" for men to play their part in tackling the rape crisis, he says.

Just as the participation of white people in the black struggle against apartheid in South Africa had added strength to that movement, men "must stand up and work with women" to combat rape, he told the BBC World Service.

"Do you think women are raped in our country because of wearing short skirts?" Mr Rebombo asks the group.

They reply with a mix of Yes and No - the Yes group a little louder than the other.

"Rape is about sleeping with a woman without her consent and I have done it," admits one of the men, 33-year-old Phikeleli.

"By coming here I have had the opportunity to sit down with other men and to discuss the issue of 'No is No' - and to understand exactly what rape is," he adds.

Another man told the BBC about a gang rape of a woman in his neighbourhood.

"The community said that she deserved it... It happens so often that it is not taken seriously by the community - it's a norm to them."

Though South Africa's murder rate has now fallen to its lowest level in recent years, rape is still on the increase, according to the latest official crime figures.

More than 56,000 women reported having been raped during the 12-month period to March 2011, police say. Many more cases are believed to go unreported.

Justice and society

Earlier this month President Jacob Zuma infuriated activists and many of the country's top lawyers by appointing an ordained pastor with controversial views on rape and homosexuality as the country's chief justice.

The workshop is trying challenge some of the root causes of rape

Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng, now South Africa's most senior judge, has denied he was insensitive to rape.

In 2004, however, he reduced the sentence of a man convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl from life imprisonment to 18 months, the minimum.

And a year later, he reduced the jail sentence of another man who attempted rape from five to two years.

In an interview with the BBC World Service, South Africa's Minister for Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, denied the authorities were doing too little to tackle the crime.

The rate of rape cases is "unacceptably high," says Mrs Motshekga.

But she says "the decadence in our society" is to blame, not the government.

"Kids come to school with social stereotypes, which are reinforced at home, in society, in the church - everywhere they go. It is a social problem."

"How many people we arrest isn't the solution, it lies with socialisation and our country's value system."

Saying sorry

Dumisani Rebombo is himself a confessed rapist who went one step further by seeking out his victim years later, in order to ask for her forgiveness.

He was 15 years old when he and another boy raped a girl in their village - "in order to teach her a lesson".

He said it took him 20 years to realise what he had done was wrong.

"It dawned on me that I had to find this woman," he said.

When they met, he apologised and she broke down in tears.

Dumisani Rebombo was racked by guilt after raping a woman

Three years later, he began organising workshops to talk about how to stop other men raping women.

"I would say all men have in one way or another raped," says Ronnie, a former convict and another member at the workshop.

Many of his fellow inmates were in jail for rape attacks.

"It's not easy for them to accept what they did was wrong," he says.

"It's all about power - men believe they have the right to do as they please."

The issue of rape in South Africa was discussed on a special edition of the BBC World Service programme Newshour hosted by guest presenter, South African radio talk show host Redi Tlhabi. You can listen to the programme here.

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Renewed fighting kills two in Yemen capital

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Army soldiers block the way of a demonstration by anti-governement protesters demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa September 28, 2011.

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SANAA | Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:33am EDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Heavy clashes rocked northern neighborhoods of Yemen's capital Sanaa at dawn on Thursday, killing two people and breaking a truce aimed at ending the worst violence since a popular revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh began eight months ago.

A Reuters reporter at the scene said shelling and gunfire had engulfed three areas in north Sanaa as troops battled armed followers of powerful tribal leader Sadeq al-Ahmar, who supports opposition demands for an end to Saleh's 33-year grip on power.

A doctor tending to the casualties said two people had been killed and six wounded in the violence.

Many residents fled their homes as the fighting intensified, shattering three days of calm in the capital after Saleh ordered a ceasefire upon his surprise return to Yemen on Friday.

"I only returned to the streets two days ago after clashes stopped, but I'll stick today to the south of Sanaa because it's safer," said ice-cream vendor Abdullah al-Wasabi. "We're tired of this crisis and we're losing our business, while these tribes and the president's soldiers don't tire of fighting."

The truce had calmed a week of fighting that killed more than 100 people and revived fears that Yemen, which borders top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, would tip into civil war.

The United States and Saudi Arabia fear lawlessness in Yemen could embolden the al Qaeda wing based there, endangering Western interests in the Gulf and oil transit routes via the Red Sea.

Even before protests paralyzed the impoverished state, Yemen was grappling with a tenacious wing of al Qaeda, a separatist insurgency in the south and a sectarian rebellion in the north.

In the war-torn northern governorate of Saada, which borders Saudi Arabia, aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it had been forced to suspend its activities on Monday after local authorities imposed new conditions on humanitarian organizations operating there.

MSF said the conditions, which included a ban on international staff supervising operations, would "greatly affect" its ability to guarantee the quality and effectiveness of its work. "We had no choice but to suspend our activities," it said in a statement.

Until last week, Saleh had been recuperating in Riyadh from a June assassination attempt. Western diplomats had pressed him to stay in Saudi Arabia while they struggled to push through a long-stalled power transition plan to defuse the Yemeni crisis.

The president has hung on in the face of nationwide protests that drew strength from popular revolts in Egypt and Tunisia.

Former Saleh allies, such as Ahmar and Ali Mohsen, a general who defected to the opposition in March, have deserted him. The conflict has divided Sanaa into warring zones of influence.

Thursday's fighting pitted Ahmar's tribesmen against state security forces and troops from the elite Republican Guard, commanded by Saleh's son. It was unclear how the battle flared.

During the lull politicians and diplomats had scrambled to revive a Gulf-brokered plan under which Saleh would stand down. Gulf nations and Western powers have been exasperated by Saleh's repeated last-minute refusals to sign agreed transition deals.

(Additional reporting by Khaled al-Mahdy; editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Heavy fighting in Gaddafi bastion

September 27 2011-11: 05 GMT state anti-Gaddafi forces against the fortress in the Gulf of Sirte for the first time on Monday it has heavy fighting in the Libyan Sirte, where armed supporters of the transitional authorities strong resistance Gaddafi loyalists are exposed.

A BBC correspondent on the outskirts of the city says that the two sides have Exchange was machine gun fire, rockets and artillery shells.

Many thousands of civilians remain in Sirte, East of the capital Tripoli.

Aid agencies expressed concern about the conditions facing you.

Sirte is still one of the last strongholds of supporters of the beleaguered Colonel with Bani Walid 250 km (155 miles) to the West which hold only other big city.

Sniper

Hundreds of National Transitional Council (NTC) troops are in Sirte, but snipers they kept a step forward in the center of the city, Reuters news agency reported.

For a second day, forces at a roundabout anti-Gaddafi were 2 km (1.5 km) from the city centre, it fixed said.

"Forces have put a lot of snipers around the roundabout to Gaddafi and it is not easy for us to promote us, until we get rid of the snipers," said Ahmed Saleh, a NTC fighter, told of Reuters.

The Agency said explosions, artillery rounds and exchanges of small arms fire heard and NATO aircraft were flying overhead.

There were also clashes in the port.

Humanitarian agencies warn that Walid asked civilians in Sirte and Bani have to help, say, medical supplies and food are scarce.

As soon as the fighting under way and both sides create front lines will, says it is a good indicator whether Sirte will fall quickly or whether it urban will sink warfare into dangerous which kill and injure many civilians and soldiers, the BBC's Alastair Leithead in the city.

The firepower and determination of the new Government Libyan army be Col Gaddafi he says hometown, but with propaganda, which say that the rebels want revenge, defence Sirte to fight until death, who think they have nothing to lose.

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Australia lifts woman fighting prohibition

27 September 2011 09: 10 GMT state merit, but as gender, determined the military roles Australia has lifted all restrictions on the reels, the women in the armed forces can carry out.

According to qualified female soldiers, combat units can be used in the special forces and front line.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the ban would be lifted immediately but can be up to five years to implement. Critics described the move as premature and a gimmick.

Canada, New Zealand and Israel can already women in all military roles.

Australia's military has about 59,000 full-time members, including 1,500, which are used in Afghanistan.

Women are for about 93% of roles, including artillery tasks.

"All the same"

With the lifting of the ban, they are capable of filling the remaining 7%, as long as they are physically and psychologically qualified.

As well as roles are combat serve in special units entities, if they can meet the entry standards.

Mr Smith said that the movement "a logical extension of the strongly held view that we are all equal, regardless of our origin and regardless of our gender in Australian society,".

He added: "from this day forward... no combat roles, no front line role is an Australian from his family be excluded, it will apply openly for all on the basis of the services."

"This is a significant and extensive cultural change."

Sex scandal

Critics have described as a "political gimmick" movement.

The head of the Australian Defence Association lobby group, Neil James, said the Government "the gun on research that currently performed was jumping skills in the military context of officials of the defense of women".

"It actually much confidence that this is little more than a further political gimmick and a distraction not give us," Mr James told ABC Radio.

The Australian defence establishment checks currently also sexual abuse in the military after a sex scandal at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

The review given a large number of complaints - more than 1,000 of abuse accusations that it was extended for a month, and is due to report on the 30.

Investigations began after two cadets of the Academy have been secretly filming of a female Cadet, sex and broadcasting over the Internet.

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'Ceasefire' halts Yemen fighting

The latest violence is the worst the country has seen for several months

20 September 2011 Last updated at 17:12 GMT Anti-government activist Ahmed Al-Shawish said the action was ''cruel and aggressive''
A ceasefire has been agreed in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after government forces shelled a protester camp there, killing seven people, reports say.
It was apparently negotiated by Yemen's vice-president and Western envoys.
The city fell quiet before sunset after hours-long gun battles between government troops and armed opponents spread into the wealthiest suburbs.
Government soldiers launched a bloody assault on protesters on Sunday in which dozens have now died.
The latest violence is the worst the country has seen for several months.
The protesters want President Ali Abdullah Saleh to stand down.
Mr Saleh, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, has been in Saudi Arabia since June, when he was seriously injured in a rocket attack on his presidential compound.
He has refused to stand down and is promising to return to the country.
Negotiated truce
Only sporadic bursts of gunfire could be heard after Tuesday's ceasefire came into effect at 16:00 (13:00GMT) on Tuesday.
Continue reading the main story 27 Jan: Thousands take to the streets in Sanaa and southern cities urging President Saleh to quit; weeks of mass protests follow 18 Mar: 52 protesters killed by snipers; Mr Saleh declares state of emergency21 Mar: Several senior army commanders defect to protesters23 Apr: Mr Saleh says he will stand down within weeks; he later appears to renege on deal24 May: Clashes erupt between Saleh loyalists and tribal groups; dozens die in days of fighting3 Jun: Shells hit presidential compound, injuring Mr Saleh; he leaves country for treatment18 Sep: Government forces launch crackdown on protester camps; more than 50 die in two daysThe truce was negotiated by Vice-President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and several foreign envoys, including the US and British ambassadors in Sanaa, unnamed officials were quoted as telling the Associated Press news agency.
Everyone will now be watching to see if the calm lasts, says BBC Middle East Correspondent Jon Leyne from Cairo - and whether it provides space for negotiations over a handover of power currently being mediated by international representatives.
Envoys from the UN and the Gulf Cooperation Council arrived in Yemen on Monday to try to sort out a deal to end the bloodshed.
Violence erupted before dawn on Tuesday, as a rocket attack hit worshippers returning from early morning prayers.
Witnesses said government snipers targeted protesters from the rooftops in Sanaa, and that the main protest camp in Change Square came under intense shelling.
According to doctors, three opposition soldiers, three protesters and a civilian bystander were killed by the rocket attacks on the camp, where tens of thousands of protesters have been calling for the president to stand down.
Manea al-Matari, a protester, told Reuters news agency: "We were walking back from prayers. All of a sudden a rocket hit close by from out of nowhere, and some people fell down.
"And then a second one came and that's when we saw the two martyred."
Government forces were also involved in full-scale combat - involving intense mortar and machine gun fire - with the army unit that defected to the protesters months ago. Witnesses said military aircraft targeted positions held by the opposition troops.
The rebel military unit had been protecting protesters in the city centre, and opposition supporters were reportedly caught in the crossfire.
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed its alarm at reported gunfights inside in al-Gomhori hospital - one of Sanaa's main medical centres.
Ministers have consistently denied that their soldiers have targeted civilians or peaceful demonstrators, telling the BBC that the unrest was initiated by al-Qaeda-linked forces within the opposition.
'Humanitarian crisis'
Analysts say the final battle for control of the country could pit the republican guards against opposition troops and their tribal allies.
On Tuesday, fighting spread to the Hadda neighbourhood, which is home to government officials and several members of Mr Saleh's inner circle.
Reports said the gun battles there were likely to be between government troops and tribes long hostile to the Saleh regime.
Mass protests and killings by security forces have also been reported in the cities of Taiz and Aden in recent days.
Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. It faces multiple crises and some analysts already see it as a failed state.
It has an active al-Qaeda cell, as well as a separatist movement in the south and a Shia-dominated uprising in the north.
Aid agencies warn that the country is suffering a severe humanitarian crisis with about 7.5 million Yemenis - one third of the population - going hungry.
Mr Saleh had enjoyed long periods of support from the US and West by casting himself as an implacable enemy of al-Qaeda and other extremists.
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Car manufacturers are fighting European melancholy in Frankfurt

A series of five BMW is on display at the headquarters of the German luxury carmaker in Munich May 11, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Michael DalderBy Massy-Helen Beresford and Christiaan Hetzner

LONDON/FRANKFURT | Fri 09/09/2011 9:26 am EST

FRANKFURT/London (Reuters)-the global automotive industry descends in Frankfurt next week to show the latest models hopes will move away from an economic slowdown in some of its biggest markets, like government spending cuts chip away at consumer confidence in Europe.

Automakers also are experiencing slowing growth in China car market, now the world's number one search engines and major influx of luxury cars over the past two years.

Even if the United States avoids recession, will intensify the competition there as Japanese automakers battle to claw back lost ground when the March earthquake interrupted production.

Car registrations in some major European markets actually rose last month, but analysts are warning the figures, which reflect the cars purchased two months ago, before the fall of stock market of the summer, do not tell the whole story.

"Certainly a point of view, a lot has changed during this time," said Barclays Capital analyst Michael Tyndall. "I take little comfort from August good numbers".

"It was very aptly said that we must be careful that we do not talk ourselves into a recession," he said. "It is very easy from a consumer point of view of getting to a point where you don't want to spend on anything--is very uncertain," he added.

Evaluation of Tyndall of the vicious circle that could choke off demand is shared by the luxury automaker BMW (BMWG.DE) chief financial officer Friedrich Eichiner, who told reporters on Friday: "we don't want to provoke a crisis by the way, why don't we see a moment".

Eichiner said: "we believe that we will have to deal with growth dampened in the future, but not necessarily with a new recession."

However, with the rapidly changing macroeconomic situation, gloomy forecasts could weigh on demand.

Tyndall said: "we are looking for a slower growth and Europe are looking at some pullback in 2012, but not anything like the collapse that we saw in 2008".

But even if the car industry is expecting something far short of an accident, will face the slowdown without the support of public loans and generous scrap schemes that saved the market last time.

PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts see a "difficult" the last quarter of 2011 in Europe that will drag the whole year for a dip of 2.5 per cent in the European automotive market to 13.4 million vehicles.

Josselin Chabert, analyst at Autofact unit PwC said: "With the debt crisis, the reduction of economic forecasts and weak prospects for the labour market, numerous European countries could experience a difficult months ahead."

European car makers may have scrambled to increase their presence in China and other emerging regions, but they still rely on Europe for most of its sales and tough austerity measures threaten consumer spending power.

The Frankfurt show, which opens to the media on September 13, is traditionally an opportunity for German car manufacturers show their new premium models.

These tags in particular has been flying high recently as affluent Chinese buyers have snapped up their plush models, but the smaller cars, they are set to unveil next week should help them gain a larger share of the stagnation of demand in Europe, where the tightening emissions legislation favours small vehicles.

"It's a great tendency, especially to German car makers, shifting down-segment," said the analyst at IHS Global Insight Tim Urquhart, adding that the movement also helped attract younger drivers.

"Can extend into smaller segments and there is a new demographic that will be able to buy their vehicles."

Mercedes-Benz (DAIGn.DE) will take the wraps off its new class b for the first time in Frankfurt, while the BMW (BMWG.Will show your 1) new compact series.

Europe's largest automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) will showcase its new small town car, the Up!, which it hopes will rival popular small models including Fiat (FIA.500 MI) and forms a fundamental part of its bid to be the largest automobile manufacturer in the world until 2018.

Drive VW Audi displays an urban concept car powered by a lithium-ion and built around a framework of carbon fiber monocoque in their booth lavish 10 million euros that incorporates its own test track.

PwC said that Germany itself remains a bright spot on in melancholy and expected growth this year of 9.7 percent in this market, Europe's largest, in the region after its economy performed better than some of its neighbours.

If this will last is an open question and dealers are braced for tougher times ahead.

Ernst-Robert Nouvertne, owner of Concessionaire Autohaus Nouvertné am Wasserturm in Solingen said orders had cooled rapidly since may, after a strong start to the year.

"But we hope new models and premieres in Frankfurt auto show to play a key role in giving impetus to new orders."

Juergen Karpinski, owner of Autoschmitt Frankfurt added: "new cars are in demand and can be long waiting lists for several months. However, we expect an impact-what always happens when the economy softens and hurts purchasing power, it just comes with a delay. "

(Edited by Chris Wickham and Mike Nesbit)

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