what is a clear decision of a democratically elected parliament that he's prepared to countenance plunging many people's lives into complete chaos and we will do everything we can to prevent the crushing arabs all on the same festival toba and we'll support from the election when that is clear that we're not doing that crushing out we'll once an election we all want to avoid a question out there are there was labor leader german corben there will day during that final session of parliament the man who presides over it all the man whose guttural calls to order have made him a global star or that man he called it quits john bercow speaker of the house of commons said that he will step down by october 31st and he offered a strong defense of parliament's place and power in a democracy. throughout my time. as speak. i have source to increase the relative all thought see all of these

soon legislature. follow which i won't make absolutely no public she said anyone. anywhere at any time. to deplore i. pay perhaps dangerous for a raise. i have a new suit so to be. the backbenchers backstop i. we degrade this power of the monks. not us our peril. all right i'm joined tonight you had to be tabled by germany's former ambassador to the u.k. a man who knows a thing or 2 about what's going on inside westminster mr thomas and to say he is currently a senior advisor at the. itself and see flint in london ambassador it's true to

have you on the day you know there are concerns in the u.k. and here in germany as well that the prime minister will defy parliament's will that he will break the wall to make breaks it happen on october 31st are you worried. well you know i think it was mark twain to set for dictions always difficult especially when the future is from cern i would especially when boris johnson is concerned. i don't know i don't think i don't think he'll go as far as openly break the law but as you said he's pretty much fenced in i think he has 2 other options one option would be to go to brussels to the european summit and come up with some sort of changes in the political ticker ration and try to sell it back home as a major as a major result change to the deal. well the deal is that to pop not the legal pot

but the british ration i don't think that's going to happen because he is yes chosen the cabinet a pretty tough complex it is and the last option would be to get in touch let's say with some friendly heads of government of the 27 to persuade them to put in a veto so that he could come back ok a extension was not possible which friendly heads of state are you talking about well i don't want to black mouth anyone but he feels that he is pretty close let's for instance of the polish government but don't forget the french already made some great difficulties the last time around the french foreign minister yes that is that we are really we really. are out of oil we have fed up so but i think on the macro the voice of reason would be able to swing the market do you really do you think there's a possibility that the poles would would say no we're we're going to blackmail this

. and that's it doesn't that would be a big that was a very big says i want to sleep outage i think i think the he practically has no other option than to in tombo pod to os the heads of state and government for an extension and then of course immediately calling the election in the hope to keep his fingers crossed that you might win the election and then of course you can repeal all the laws and the fact that it's even suggested that a british prime minister would break the law that something in itself last week johnson said that he would rather be dead in a ditch then to ask for a break to delay. the law that took effect today he has called a surrender document i mean these are war terms term this is war language do you see boris johnson trying to turn the european union into an enemy char u.k.

oh it has started quite some time ago knocked up with blood drawn some but but the munich rop another us to portray the e.u. as a sort of prison where the make a very very tough for you to get out so the blame game has already stopped of now and i think this is what this british government of boris drones but they close aiming at of the moment so i think the e.u. 27 of very well advised not to walk into that trap but to keep the tone low to refrain from fuller makes and not to stop this escalating war of words because in the end. it will make the situation much worse for both sides you mentioned the voice of reason being the german chancellor angela merkel we know the bush johnson he visited her right here in berlin last month and since then he has repeatedly mentioned the name on the americal as proof that breaks it you know that breaks that deal can be struck before october 31st he even mentioned her today in ireland

take a listen what does that. i think we have really the ideal amount of time in which to get this kind of thing done and get a medical center i think she said it should be if he is 30 days would be enough that he has a series of how you would go on but that is we didn't contribute much 30 days to be enough she said and i think she's taking it right if we really focus i think that we can make a huge amount of progress of a freudian slip there with the 30 years a 130 days but what do you say ambassador i mean is is johnson is he reading on the american correctly no he's not being and he knows that he's not reading are correct if what i'm going to try to do is she try to be polite and say look it's not about the timeframe we've been doing this for 2 years it's about the substance and she just picked a figure out of that 30 days but that of course was used by him the next day and by the way also by a lot of british media and you had better say she now set 30 days this is going to

be going to hammer i think it was just a polite as well you know it also shows the view from the u.k. when they're looking at the e.u. that uncle americal is the the most powerful woman in the world but also in europe well i'm not going to comment on that but and europe she certainly is a powerful voice and she's the voice of reason if you compare the tone to the tone of others as she always was very very disciplined and what she said because she knows what's at stake and at stake is a close relationship with britain and on many many issues britain was also strongest in closest allies yeah fight their guns or at red tape for instance even when but with britain leaving the fiscally conservative countries after the list been voting rules newstead rocking minorities so it's been tough for us and not to

speak of the german car industry credit etc so. she knows what's at stake and she is a very very experienced old hand let me ask you before we run out of time there are reports that johnson wants to ask for a changing in the wording of the political agreement about the cooperation in defense between the u.k. and the e.u. post writes it trying to create leverage in other words if you don't give us the deal we want by october 31st we will not cooperate in all things defense after. i don't see that you see the political declaration is very flexible it doesn't have to be ratified so you can negotiate everything into it and i think it is in the british interest as well as in europe an interest to keep the defense cooperation very very close in the future because both sides on the channel very very much profit from it and to what degree a european defense identity place a role in nato or supplements later or that is for the future i think this is an

empty threat all right thomas menzies that former german ambassador to the u.k. ambassador we appreciate you coming in tonight and sharing your valuable insights we will see reading what happens thank you john thank you. well they were local elections in russia with practically no opposition candidates and few voters and yet vladimir putin's united russia party can barely declare a victory the party lost nearly a 3rd of its seeds in moscow city parliament a stagnating economy declining living standards and a fall in vladimir putin's approval ratings they're all seen as the main reasons opposition leader alexina vonnie he called on russians to vote tactically to block candidates from united russia after some opposition candidates were banned from running. even the mascots outside the polling stations don't seem very enthusiastic

overall turnout in moscow was only 21 percent city council elections 2 candidates from the governing united russia party and other kremlin friendly parties but many opposition candidates were kept off the ballot president vladimir putin cast his vote early the lack of choice didn't bother him too much with your friends in some countries there are 3050 even 100 candidates but that doesn't mean to say they do better work it's quality not quantity that counts i think we have with the candidates to. the exclusion of dozens of opposition candidates has inspired weekly protests since mid-summer the police have crackdown hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. don't you look at every single vote for

a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. for more let's bring in our correspondent nick connelly he's on the story force tonight in moscow good evening to you nic how big of a hit did the russian president take over the weekend i mean how much support has already waltzed year. well this is very embarrassing for and united russia as you mentioned they're down over 3rd in moscow now in control of only 25 of 45 seats and that's this by considerable resources legal analysts are at their disposal as you mentioned no real true opposition candidates on the ballot paper and also reports of state employees being encouraged to put it mildly to go

to the polls and to then photograph their ballots for the candidate they've been told to vote and all the more embarrassing given that united russia officially didn't field any candidates moscow all the united russia candidate even the moscow city head of the party ran as independents to distance themselves from this toxic brand so a real slap in the face from the most is in moscow and so nick can we say then that the opposition despite opposition that it's being banned from the election was the opposition the big winner in this election. i think this is an election with winners i think everyone is a loser to an extent yes this was a tactical victory for x. in a valley in his so called smart voting campaign getting people to vote for the most likely candidate from one of the non-government parties but we have to remember here these are parties that are tolerated by the kremlin otherwise they wouldn't be on the ballot paper at a national level these are parties that are run by people many of them were on the

scene when yeltsin was president the ninety's they aren't seriously challenging the government for power so the valley's be able to create an embarrassing situation for the government but he hasn't been able to put his candidate in the moscow city parliament despite the fact that they collected thousands of signatures jump through all the bureaucratic hoops and going forward i think this is a bad omen for russia that people who are seriously serious about changing the government challenging the current elites that they are not being given away you know the local level to engage in politics to take responsibility that they are basically being forced out into the streets so a bad omen for people who'd like to shake a system that's good news for vladimir putin sounds like. i think in the in the mean in the medium term this will probably dust over in iraq as we quickly these new people elected the moscow city palm it will be co-opted in time as have their colleagues from the same parties in the national parliament which basically doesn't pay much political role and doesn't challenge the kremlin

that all is relatively easy to deal with but long that dissatisfaction that desire for greater engagement we saw bring thousands of people out and streets this summer that's not going away and as i said if there is no kind of constitutional way for these people to engage then that is certainly a very difficult. situation for russia and united russia as it seems is a brand that is increasingly toxic with even though its top figure is not running on the party names they will definitely likely see some kind of reject some kind of new name some new branding as it were to try and. create a bit of new momentum but this is a difficult situation with the economy stalling and people across russia seeing their living standards fall i mean the interesting thing will be to look out to see whether they'll be some kind of tactical union cooperation between the moscow liberals and people at the valley of the one hand and working people across russia who are seeing definite living falling and might find increasingly that they have to make some kind of political demands to try and improve their lot our

correspondent economy on the story for us tonight nic as always thank you. what is this democracy in small town germany political leaders are demanding to know how a town council elected a neo nazi as its mayor stefan yosh from the in p.t. party ran for office unopposed and even won backing from mainstream parties edges chancer under the miracles conservatives are now the story is gone global those parties they want the new mayor kicked out. that is not big a small industrial park a bakery a hotel and a pizza place but now many people in germany are interested in knowing how the small town and hester in the center of germany elected stephanie action a few days ago the politician from the extreme right wing n.p.t. announced on facebook that he was elected in a simple administrators of. from the people for the people he added to his post

the vote was unanimous including votes from chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. and her coalition partner s.p.d. one of the council members who voted for yonks defended the choice if those who can do we are trying to help the people and address their issues that's all party membership doesn't play a role for us. stephanie x. has worked for the n.p.t. on the regional and national level for the keys the enough authority is have twice sought and failed to ban the party as a threat to germany's democratic order the domestic intelligence service has kept close tabs on the party yaks has even shown up in the agency's report on fright wing extremists but he was democratically elected also because no other candidate was available the fuse approach that presidents unmixed when kind of it's a bad that there was no alternative left no wonder he got into an event will never end so you might think of what half life had to may be it will have an effect and

make politicians think about how their decisions are received by most people you know put in chief saw by their me outside a lot more if they can come staggering we have better people for the job it's over . free to no politicians were shocked by the choice. is here yeah action is a nazi even after the attempt to ban the n.p.t. he stayed loyal to the party which is close to hitler's nazi party. you know he isn't so much of so in a stupid shit but protest is now also mounting in berlin. as it's going. nation justified yesterday there was a 1st special meeting of the committee in the us is an aim is to apply for a revoke ation of the election of that candidate implemented and put another candidate and his place and then we will have to discuss how something like this could have happened. to replace yakked.