other mountains of georgia it's good to see. this is the only news live from berlin germany is going up already has a new leader meet some other merkel's successor on a kid to come qanbar she takes over for america as chair of the conservative c.d.u. but not as chancellor she's the two mother contenders vying for the top job also coming up. paris greece for another weekend of protests over fuel tax hikes meijer

landmarks like the eiffel tower and the move museum by keeping their doors shut or to step up her security following some of the worst rioting the nation has seen for decades. thank you so much for your company everyone it was close but in the end shows on merrill's favor one on a kept calm qanbar is the new party chair of the german christian democrats she now takes over as leader of the c.d.u. after securing the leadership vote and that puts her in pole position to become germany's next chancellor after america's fourth term ends. up to the medical could barely hired her delight her preferred candidate on a good at trump card is now the new c to you chief in a tight contest she prevailed over her. rivals but is obviously keen to keep both

firmly in her corner. all smooth most wives are in it we must all work together to continue this momentum we all have the responsibility to shape and sustain this great people's party of the middle i would be very happy if both janish down and friedrich mertz would work with me to achieve. it up biden there were fears the contest which featured candidates with markedly different profiles could split the party but the defeated contenders urged unity. i would like to ask everyone now to give our new leader on the great crime our their wholehearted support. an election featuring such distinct candidates was a courageous and thoroughly democratic experiment for the c.p.u. it was a moment to celebrate even for those who didn't vote for comic-con. in

the ten tortuous was no i'm not disappointed it was very close so i voted for a spot in the first round because as a young person he made the best impression on me that it would be mocked up so i did if it was clear early on that it would be a close vote i would have liked the result to have been different. and that's what we've been talking we knew the whole day it was going to be a very close contest but as long as the votes and campaign are both fair and democratic i'm actually happy with it being. done about. now faces high expectations she'll be measured not only on her ability to reinvigorate the party and win elections but also on whether she can succeed on polemical as chancellor. all right in our chief political editor i mean killer because they're standing by in hamburg at the party conference so here we go to see it went down to the wire. yes it took a second round of voting and then i'm going to count poet managed to secure the

victory just with a couple of dozen votes here and there were nine hundred ninety nine delegates who actually cost about it so not a lot of people ready to decide the direction both of the conservative c.d.u. party was so much more at stake also meaning the future political direction of the german government because make no mistake and it didn't combo is a voice chance until america will now have to listen to and although she is her favor. but she does sound different on certain issues she's a lot more tough talking on internal security for instance all right well tell us a little bit more about i think that's a compact qanbar what kind of leader do we expect her to be. both she's a moderator she spent the last couple of months as party secretary general gauging the mood and opinions from the grass roots when she went on a listening tour which was meant to feed into

a new party program well she's not going to be able to finish that task is part of secretary general newbold will be decided here tomorrow but she will now be right at the top of the party if that means she can show that she can indeed moderate and integrate the potential risks that we see here and that could potentially unfold with those disappointed supporters particularly of matz who have a lot more conservative a couple business friendly a bit more neo liberal and that will be her first time just to make sure that there's not much of this quarrelling going on that has so damaged the social democrats here in germany that could potentially threaten the party even one of the last remaining big tent party here in germany all right now michela before champa qanbar was elected chancellor angela merkel gave her farewell speech as a city you were party leader let's take a listen to some of what she had to say and then we'll pick up the other one. is

also about mounting the still be german chancellor the cd is going to be focusing on the time and i have to me it is a matter that goes to my heart when i'm in the last term of my political force that i contribution to ensuring the new success in the. same time maintaining responsibility nation to do to contain the governments this is how we can set the course for the future that we can but it's an unusual and americans career she's that the top of the government but not her party. well she also got she also pretty much explained why she took this decision and she called on everybody in responsibility to ask themselves personally what they can do to ensure that there's confusion in society by the lofty words but clearly she recognized that also being the leader of the party stood in the way of social cohesion she didn't want more tension within her own party and the person we saw on

stage there is on the record proof of what we keep seeing off the record and a child who almost feels liberates is who has a weight off her shoulders who could now focus on governing the country because she knows that this process in this that is now taking place in the party no longer really is hers to govern to rein in or to control in any way having said that if there is a textbook chapter to be written about how to choreograph your exit from politics angle emasculate certainly is working on that so far it's going according to what appears to be her personal plan she chose the time to step down as party leader and she's now seeing the woman she wanted to see in that role in the future being elected as a successor so far so good right so far so good an offer of course also somebody expected to wait patiently in the way the party went for stability in the end

mikaela i wonder didn't they have the stomach for change. for these they have the stomach for radical change i think the hope here and from what i'm hearing is that this will be gradual change that and if they become who was also the state premier of the smaller state of stalin she was also interior minister there she did take rather tough action there was no quarrelling over identifying the age of migrants who say they are minors by x. rays for instance she just went ahead with that she too. axin so she is a lot tougher in the approach she's also tough talking as we've seen so far. and this is something under the mack will have to take into account so it's a gradual change to a more conservative position also she was against same sex marriage something i'm going to machall freed the way clearly the party didn't have the stomach in the end for a radical change would have meant which would have meant finish matts all right now

what i wonder and next though mikhail is how difficult will it be for america's successor to chart her own path and not be overshadowed by america's towering legacy. is the times right now a k.k.k. as she's known said it's herself she mentioned the label of a mini version of magical that is out there that certainly is something she will have to shake off she will still have to brush up on international politics she will have to take positions on many things that she hasn't taken positions on and this will certainly be a process of be very interesting to see which issues she chooses beyond the ones already on the right course like migration like the potential for yet again a conscription service some form or other for young people here in germany and it will be interesting to see which issues she picks most importantly we're all bracing ourselves who she will pick as party secretary general tomorrow right to be

continued we can occur from our reporting from hamburg thank you for your continued coverage. let's bring up to speed our some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. president donald trump has nominated william barr for attorney general barr served as attorney general under president george h.w. bush in the same announcement from also nominated x. x. your news journalist other now or to as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations used a statement earlier yemen's government and rebels have traded on. stations as they sat down for peace talks in sweden one key issue is expected to be the fate of the rebel held port city of new data it's a key entry point for food aid to the country the u.n. brokered talks are the first since twenty six days. a year was meant to get the united nations to condemn hamas has failed the resolution proposed by u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley fell short of the required two thirds majority and it would have

formally condemned the palestinian militant group which fired more than three hundred rockets into israel last month. in paris the eiffel tower and the louvre museum are monga some of the most famous landmarks closing their doors this weekend as the city braces for another wave of potentially violent protests luxury boutiques and restaurants in upmarket neighborhoods are also taking safety precautions the riots that swept the city last weekend looks set to continue that's the spine of the government scrapping the planned rise in fuel taxes that sparked the unrest in the first place across the country and around ninety thousand police officers are being mobilized and last weekend saw some of the worst street violence seen in france for decades and as paris braces for another wave of violence let's check in with jake a cigar an arrow in the french capital jake i mean everybody from a year at least seems to be on a war footing in france you're in the capital paris how much tension is there in

the air on the eve of what is billed as the fourth act of this protest movement. i would say it's quite tense because there's been real big build up to this weekend i mean we've seen more people more groups join the movement this week we've seen ambulance drivers block the blast like on court on monday we saw high school students protesting since monday and we even saw three hundred schools that were affected and some totally blocked yesterday with about seven hundred high school students being arrested but in terms of the climate in terms where people are feeling people have canceled plans for their saturday evening they don't want to risk going out we've seen we've seen stores being boarded up with actual wooden boards can't they've been told not to even put their terrace furniture out some people are taking every precaution possible right now how much public support i wonder if you if you if you listen just all these precautionary measures how much public support is there for the education has there not. well on sunday after the

violent protests of saturday after the riots about seventy five percent of french people according to a poll said that they sympathize with the situation and eighty five percent said that they were against the violence of this on saturday but it's still worrisome that fifteen percent who said they they supported the us today i would say that there's less support for this univision. for at least the movement people don't want to see the violence the basic as we've been but they're fraid of what could be repeated tomorrow well let's talk about president a man who had my call because his silence up to now has been deafening. that's right i mean the last thing we heard from him was sunday from where designed is when he was at the g. twenty summit in argentina she has previously said that he is not going to respond to street protests into the violence in terms of engaging in that communication but he is making some well this week actually he's been sitting his prime minister and the government spokesperson out to do the dirty work and to be the face of the

government next week natural has said that he will address the french public he just didn't want to do it before this weekend because he said he didn't want to add fuel to the fire right now and that's a great play on the on the on the words there this doesn't bode well for a president's my call will his push for the push ahead for his bigger reform plan as. well currently she has said as you have already mentioned he's completely scrapping the green taxes that he had originally planned at this moment i don't see any way that he could move forward in these big reforms he's already made major headway with labor reforms they're trying to make major headway with education reforms as far as these taxes and these these carbon taxes go that are part of his larger environmental policy plan i'm just not quite sure how he could harness forward in the next you know this is a political crisis that really could shape the rest of his presidency right on that now to take a second arrow reporting from the french capital thank you you're welcome.

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