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this is the doctor news life from germany's governing body has a new leader needs and give up michael success and it could come out of she takes over and macalester the conservative c.d.u. but not so strong she beat two other contenders vying for the top job also coming up. how does braces for another week at the protests over. the life of top of the louvre museum keeping the authorities step up security following some of the last
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rites in the nation has seen for decades. it's good to have you with us it was closed but in the end chancellor angela merkel's favorite candidate advocate comp will take over as leader of make. after beating her top rivals in a party vote this now puts it in pole position to possibly become germany's next on stuff after americans for tom and. i'm going to medical could barely hired her delight her preferred candidate on a comp is now the new cd you choose in a tight contest she prevailed over her two rivals but is obviously keen to keep both firmly in her corner. so i won't miss my ex again i mean i think we must.
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all work together to continue this momentum we all have the responsibility to shape and sustain this great people's party of the new. i would be very happy if both young sean and frederick mertz would work with me to achieve this also. 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 a great calm column by our their wholehearted support. thank you lection 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 compound. condition torches was no i'm not disappointed it was very close i voted for a spot in the first round because as a young person he made the best impression on me it will be mocked up so i did it
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was clear early on that it would be a close vote i would have liked the result to have been different. if you like 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 photo and campaign are both fair i'm democratic i'm actually happy with it. 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. as chancellor. for more let's bring in chief political editor mahela was in following the party conference for us morning to you and they get it from the new chief of the cd you're not critics are saying that she's making a two point zero in essence are they right. yes and certainly she is an individual first of all but she's was the favored candidate of
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anglo america without her ever saying so and she did offer the maximum amount of continuity following the ear america which lasted for eighteen years at the same time we see her top talking much tougher particularly on the issue of migration integration in germany and but also in the lead up to this vote she made quite clear that she would expect a tougher stance towards russia now this is a slightly different line a tougher line from i'm going to macro and it's a line that the chance of we'll in the future have to also listen to having said that both clearly see eye to eye they like each other and this certainly is the maximum continuity amongst those three candidates. with. spawn were coming from a more conservative pro business liberal count she might be the continuity can do her lower than. nearest rival but only thirty five votes used to do you
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a divided house. well it's more divided than it was before the power fortress that machall built within the party for herself that had been crumbling it was quite clear that there was a lot more grass roots to listen to so we've seen a lot of. sized party members come forward specifically valerie around trying to match and as you say it was only thirty five votes almost fifty two percent for the winning candidate sounds a bit like a bracks it was all doesn't it but at the same time this party wants to remain in government and all three candidates pledge they will try and integrate all different sides all different directions of the party right now they don't want to see a rift and this will be tossed number one now and i think come on by a similar record i get up. at this party conference there's just listen to an excerpt of address. it is not just.
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parting ways you can see do you i don't have to be party chair to have strong ties to this party and it's also that now to me still being german chancellor you see do you is going to be focusing on the time after the it is a matter that goes to my heart and the last term of my political force that i contribution to ensuring the new success of the studio whilst at the same time maintaining responsibility nation to contain the government this is how we can set the course for the future. but you know you heard what i get out. and should now be confident that the trump card in bowers you do you chief should be able to see out of last august. well there's a lot more factors than who is the leader of the c.d.u. party but yes for sure she now has the breathing space to focus on what she says she wants to focus on which is being silenced without having to fear that the
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person in pole position for that post next time around is putting on the pressure and that certainly would have been finished mats although he did pledge that he would work with the german chancellor i think he did a protest a bit too much there so on that front it's rather peaceful for her at the same time we've seen political dynamics unfold here in germany over the past year and with those european elections coming up regional elections coming up next also in particular in eastern states which have a very strong showing from the far right if t. is a lot of political factors to take into account let alone the coalition partner the social democrats feeling bruised and battered once again in this coalition and wanting to reassess how well it's going whether they will say in this coalition next autumn. political editor mahila reporting for us from the party conference and thank you very much. now this all the other stories making news around the world six people have died and more are injured after this time in
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a nightclub near the eastern italian city of an official said trampled over each other in the rush to escape a spring like substance that was torn into the crowd. a u.s. jury has found the man who drove through crowd of protesters in charlottesville virginia guilty of first degree murder prosecutors described twenty one year old alex fields jr as a white supremacist a woman was when his car hit people demonstrating against a white nationalist rally last year. the chief financial officer of chinese telecom giant huawei is spending the weekend behind bars in canada a judge on her bail hearing on two mondays mom one joel faces extradition to the united states on fraud charges prosecutors the. u.s. sanctions on iraq. now to france where the eiffel tower the
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museum are among some of the most famous baddest that mocks closing this weekend as the mission braces for another wave of potentially violent protests shops and restaurants and supreme neighborhoods are also taking additional safety precautions the rights that stop the city last weekend looks set to continue despite the government scrapping the planned rise in fuel taxes that spock's the rest of the first place across the country around ninety thousand police personnel being mobilized last weekend saw some of the west street violence seen in france for decades. this hairdresser is still in shock she has been running the salon for thirty five years and says she's seen many protests but none of them were as violent as last saturday's city it was like in a warm these being one side advance then the other retreated this went back and forth to the protesters gripped anything they could get their hands on this time
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she's planning on closing and shattering her salon but she's not happy about having to do so this saturday's before christmas are crucial for her turnover she blames one person for the current situation president. putin the president is just too stubborn he shouldn't have betrayed the people with the announcement he dres few taxes it was obvious that people would hit the barricades i understand the yellow vests to live go on move on their own here in the area around the arctic he owns demonstrators have vandalized entire streets and burned dozens of cars. paris officials estimate the cost of the damage done to public facilities at about four million euro so far and the figure for the damage done to private property could be many times higher but that doesn't seem to have dented the public's support for the yellow that's three out of more french people still think the demonstrations and
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blockades are justified even if they don't necessarily endorse the violence. but i can understand the yellow vests but these rioters are just intolerable and i don't understand why the politicians are adding fuel to the fire instead of calming the situation down you can go on the more consumers should government finally needs to find a solution and negotiate with the demonstrators they shouldn't wait until the protesters have leveled interest and they're going to. publish but the protests are spreading hundreds of schools have been closed farmers will go on strike next week the government says. it expects the protest this saturday to be extremely violent with thousands of rioters coming to paris to rampage and kill eight thousand police officers more than twice as many as last weekend will be deployed to deal with the threat in the french capital they have armored vehicles and a new strategy if we weren't cordon off the like last time around when our police officers had to say put we have mobile teams that will quickly confront the
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protesters this person and arrest the main instigators up until now the rioters were merely far left or far right extremists now even regular demonstrators are attacking us as representatives of the state in that sense it's an insurrection body that's your job despite the increased measures this restaurant owner feels let down last saturday the former soldier defended his premise with a few friends they were up against rioters armed with axes and baseball bats he's preparing for more of the same this weekend was one of his own at the president and the interior minister have a duty to protect us business owners after all we're paying taxes but almost all the restaurants in the area have been destroyed i can't let these thugs destroy my restaurant and threaten the livelihoods of my twelve employees and he's confident that he'll be able to withstand any attack but he hopes that the situation will soon come down and that the protests in the country don't become the norm.
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