to secure it to push it. and not have to be cheap so much more needs to be jobs and i think people have to be a concrete solutions money miss on mcclatchy an election to council. meeting. this weekend voters in tunisia will choose a new parliament what will not be on the ballot and what many wish were on the ballot consensus tonight in the country that gave birth to the arab spring 8 years ago populism appears to have found a new home here in europe a populism struck record has been mixed at best is there any reason to think it could work better in north africa i'm bored off in berlin this is the day.

was that but let the people don't think about the future the only see today and tomorrow. how do you want them to think about the future when they cost you nothing because you want to. have the political parties by cubans with money to get $30000.00 to people in the cafes who do nothing. to do the campaign work then they fire the. fish that are heading towards or do we have no more prospects when are we going to make it in our lives but if you don't get the job. also coming up tonight is the picture of modern day politics in the u.k. apparently that was why a painting by the artist banksy with the title devolved parliament just sold for a record 11000000 euros. but really what he's pointing to here is the regression

all of this the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world into tribalistic animalistic behavior the sorts that we've seen both kos and televisions across the world of the last months and weeks. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with voters and the choices they are about to make in tunisia on sunday voters in the north african country go to the polls to elect a new parliament if their recent presidential election is any indicator we can expect 2 outcomes a disaster for established parties and victory for populous who are promising everything except consensus or just a few weeks ago in the 1st round of voting in the presidential election 2 winners emerged a media magnate serving time in prison for tax evasion and a very conservative constitutional lawyer who says he has never voted to outsiders with no experience in governing one of them will become tunisia's new president in

the final round of voting next week now put all of this into the context of recent history it was just 8 years ago when the arab spring began in tunisia an uprising which may have wilted but is still influencing political life across the middle east in tunisia it took roots which is why when we talk about the promise of democracy in the region we are talking about to nisha but voter turnout on sunday it's expected to be look how much of a democratic promise is left in tunisia we begin tonight with this report. this is not your typical political campaign here in the tunisian town of what jeanne a self-proclaimed anti-party is hoping to get attention with punch backs for beating corruption and symbolic yellow cards against the system i used to see started about organizing cultural events before moving into politics now the goal is based. because they want to enter parliament after october 6th. sense i suppose you have

been treated with such tunisians in a different way we wanted to approach tunisians with culture we wanted to do activities where there was culture and enjoy the fruits nations who express themselves give their opinion and make proposals that despite being the only country to emerge as a democracy from the arab spring tunisia still suffers from corruption and a stagnating economy making many disillusioned with politics among this apathy age 20 sees an opportunity the party is hoping its approach will win over young people frustrated with the country's political elite. there that is we don't see asked more than 400000 sunni was there are problems and solutions are still we've summarized them in 12 measures a lot of these 12 measures have been approved by more than 1000000 tunisia from our campaign promises are we will not accept the privileges granted to members of parliament and we will immediately un-band in our political immunity. for some

young people the only opportunity they see in politics is the money they can make during the campaign season. in a poverty stricken to a suburb the unemployed know more about how much a candidate will pay to have campaign leaflets distributed than the party manifesto . you know why did you not do what you should all of the political parties by people with money during the election campaigns they give about 10 euros to people who sit in cafes doing nothing but they use them to do their campaign work and then they fired and when they become presidents ministers or whatever that's when they send us back to missouri to lead a magical kill or the good thing because it was that but medically people don't think about the future they only look at today and tomorrow how do you want them to think about the future when they have nothing if they make enough money to eat to live and feed their children it's a good otherwise they have no money for anything else where do you see the future years. how this disillusionment will play out in the election and what their race

to unseat approach works only become clear once the polls close. and for more going on i'm joined from washington by sarah yankees she is with the carnegie endowment for world peace is middle east program which she has a focus on tunisia's there is good to have you on the program let's look at the numbers turnout for the 1st round of the presidential election in tunisia was not very high and it's expected to be low on sunday for the parliamentary election after all the unrest that we have seen in the country recently are we now looking at a case of political apathy. absolutely we've seen the turnout decrease from the 2014 elections to minas of all actions and 2018 and now to this people are angry they're frustrated they're not happy with any of the parties we've definitely seen a big increase in apathy particularly amongst the traditional parties in what are you expecting from sunday's parliamentary election are we going to have

a result that gives the tunisian people a fragmented parliament. i think so i think the most important thing to watch is how the independents fare there are not a cohesive bloc but i think we will see that the independents will probably do better than any of the individual parties so what you're likely to see is that the party that gets the most votes and therefore is expected to form the government may not have much of a mandate there's going to be a lot of horse trading a lot of interesting going back and forth between the independents to see if they will actually want to be in the government or remain in the opposition and between the parties themselves of whether or not they can cobble together a government that's able to actually pass needed reforms it's interesting what you say there because it's in the news it is like what we're seeing here in europe across the west year with political parties seem to have less importance and the candidates seem to have more importance on election day if parliament is fragmented and if it's unable to find consensus will that open the door for the new president to grab more authority would that blow wolf in the balance of power in tunisia.

it will be difficult for the president to try to grab more power because there are pretty clear differences in power among the constitution the president is the head of state he or she has control over the foreign affairs sector national security and defense they're not really supposed to be involved in domestic affairs so most likely the president would have a hard time actually trying to grab some other powers that said i do think we're going to see a government it looks very different from the past the parliament is not going to be likely this consensus model that we've seen but in my mind that's actually good for tunisia is a valving and maturing as a democracy i don't think it would hurt it to have a real opposition versus another party in power and actually have these parties have to compete figure out what their message is try to appeal better to voters and to constituents to try to actually get things done you see the valving democracy let's look at the final candidates for president do your we've got a media magnate you were sitting in prison for turns division we you conservative

attorney who says that he has never cast a vote in his wife's read this is not the picture the democracy is it. no but unfortunately the picture of what we're seeing globally around democracies around the world it was a little bit surprising that none of the candidates from that were even at all connected to the system we had a candidate running who was the defense minister at the time the prime minister at the time they did ok they didn't do very well not well enough to advance to the 2nd round what we saw again is this a global trend of people who are outside of the political norms people who don't represent traditional parties one of the presidential candidates has no party and didn't campaign that's really unique the other one is in jail that's also really unique so what we've seen is that again there's a global trend where people are not happy with traditional formal parties and politics that's again in parliament why we're seeing the independents likely to do well and this coalition who is really a civil society group they're not a political party they're

a coalition of civil society activists soon they will probably do quite well as well because of that. you know it's fascinated the developments that we're seeing in it's in egypt sarah yorkies with the kearny endowment for world peace is here we appreciate your time and your insights ahead of that election this weekend thank you. i do know that some of the lawyers i know the lawyers think they've never seen anything so odd they've never seen anything so i just i've been president now for almost 3 years and i've been going through this for almost 3 years it's almost become like a part of my day the way this doing it they take it away all right so if they 1st see it and you know they'll just get their people they're all in line because even though many of us don't want to vote they have no choice that follow their leadership and what get it this says it will get away with the republicans been very unified this is the greatest switch. in the history of our god. he was

president don't trump today told reporters that democrats do have enough votes to impeach him but he added the if he does stand trial he will win thanks to that unity among republicans in the u.s. senate republicans control the senate which is where an impeachment trial must be hilda cording to the u.s. constitution trumps latest comments they come as congress pushes forward with hearings aimed at the terminal whether or not the president abused his power by using u.s. military aid to coerce the ukrainian president golda meir's alinsky to dig up political dirt against joe biden and biden's son hunter overnight members of congress released text messages which show how the state department coordinated with zilinskas office to arrange a summit between him and trump. in one of the texts and aide to ukrainian president selenski received the following message from the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine kurt volker now that text reads like this volker writes

good lunch thanks heard from the white house assuming president zs alinsky convinces trump that he will investigate and get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 we will nail down a date for your visit to washington and in another exchange we see diplomats obviously worried in a warmed about what is happening u.s. diplomat bill taylor sent a text to the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon zon bland at the start of september he writes are we now saying that security assistance and a white house meeting are conditioned on investigation son meant to be flies not yes not no but rather call me if the text messages tell us a lot to talk about that and more i'm joined now by koby it can wittes political reporter with the washington post koby is taking a little break from writing the post live feed on this impeachment story to speak

with us we appreciate that koby buchan for the day let me ask you about these text messages are they being seen as the smoking gun here are they evidence of that quid pro quo the president is denying. so if you just read the text messages that we got overnight they look pretty explicit i mean you read them there on air and it sounds like what the trumpet officials were saying is we're going to have a meeting we will set up a meeting between your president and our president if you are president well launch the investigations that our president wants i mean i doesn't get more quid pro quo than that whether or not it's the smoking gun the democrats are looking for obviously remains to be seen there's going to be a lot more digging and they're just getting started ukraine's new top prosecutors said today that he is not aware of any evidence of wrongdoing by joe biden's son hunter and reporters asked him if he has been contacted by any foreign attorneys

take a listen to how we are doing is that quote of the new foreign or domestic politicians officials or other people who they told me i'm trying to influence my decisions on any criminal proceedings going on but it was. hard so cobi the new ukrainian prosecutor clear message there he's been on the job since the end of august after that phone call between trump and selenski so how important are his comments today about biden's son and how important is it that he says he hasn't been contacted by any foreign attorneys. right so you make one good point which is that he came on the job you know very recently and so a lot of these conversations were going on earlier in the summer or last spring so that is the fact that he has not been contacted by any for any foreign attorneys like rudy giuliani who is president in terms of personal attorney here. doesn't tell us much the fact that he's saying that there's been no evidence of hunter by

and do anything rod might take a little wind out of president trump sales now one thing that a tough period also said though is that he's going to do an audit of the investigation into the ukrainian company where hunter biden sat on the board and so we don't know if he would have done that audit anyway but it's pretty clear that he would you know publicly announce this audit it seems like you publicly announce that so that it knows it's happening yesterday we heard the president calling on showing to investigate the bardens as well. how grave is that i mean he did it in public for all the world to see and hear right any did ever in the white house lawn and say you have the president and states standing on the white house line on . telling china to help me get dirt on my possible political opponent he did the thing in public that the house isn't really watching and a piece of an inquiry on him so it's pretty grave on its face you have handful of

republicans coming out and noting that they're troubled by that still not going far enough asking for an impeachment inquiry but it is troubling it will certainly be added to the list of things that the democrats have when they launched this probe there were reports that the republicans or trying to require a vote by the entire health of representatives to basically give permission for the start of an impeachment probe are they going to succeed it is then time to vote is that required by law or by the constitution it's not required by house rules or by the constitution as speaker pelosi has said that she is not required to hold a vote as she could if she wanted to but she can also just give her committee as authority to start this investigation which is what she did it's a little bit of a political power play here that the republicans want a vote held because they want to put some of the democrats that are going to face

a tough reelection in 2020 on the record voting for an impeachment inquiry there so about 10 democrats who won in districts where trump had won who have not come out for an impeachment inquiry because it wouldn't play well among their constituents and so that's why the republicans really want this vote they want to put those democrats on the record. coby it go it's a political reporter with the washington post so we appreciate you taking the time to talk with this no it's a busy time right now in washington we appreciate if they hear. thanks for having. or are going to take a trip to the north persisted coolants home to some of the richest marine life on earth where it's become the world's biggest rubbish dump after decades of pollution now a floating landfill known as the great pacific garbage patch it stretches about $1.00 take a look at that 1000000 square kilometers and that is about what 3 times the size of

france and it's estimated to contain at least 1.8 to meet the number right 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic but now for the 1st time ever we might be seeing a breakthrough in the cleanup of this mess a team of dutch scientists says that they're ambitious effort to remove plastic from the ocean has achieved a milestone. all right this is a good time to talk trash to do that con edison is here with me to do a deep dive into what they're calling a really cheap meant to i mean they're calling this actually the largest clean up in history that's what they wanted to be the project is called the ocean cleanup that was started 7 years ago by this gentleman here is name is boy in slots he's only 25 years old by the way his team announced this week after those 7 years that finally they are now the 1st so successfully remove plastic from that great pacific

garbage patch it's not easy though here's just some of what that team pulled out of the water i mean you can see all kinds of plastics stuff small bits large pieces there also quite a lot of fishing nets even car tires in there and in those smaller pieces the micro plastics that fish and other animals mistake for food right device looks kind of simple. it's actually very complicated it's 600 meters long so 6 football fields it floats on top of the ocean then uses the movement of the water as a collect and filter out plastic it's sent its location to a ship then when the plastic is ready to be picked up and it works below the surface 2 you can see here extending about 3 meters down and it allows then for fish to swim underneath this milestone as part of a long road a slat came up with this when he was just 19 years old has gone through multiple different variations of the project multiple failures test designs this is a small 1st step but they're calling it a big one it almost seems like just

a drop in the ocean if you know your i mean it is a little bit about just the scope of the challenge of trying to clean up the oceans i mean we saw how big the great pacific garbage patch is the problem is that's only one of them out there there's 4 other ones around the world's oceans it's just going to take a lot of work and the problem is it's only getting worse i mean we're producing more plastic than ever and plastic waste is expected to quadruple over the next 3 decades by the year 2050 they're predicting that by weight there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans and just crazy eventually all that plastic of course it makes it into the food chain it's even by fish by birds is even in my whales you see these these beached whales and they're taking plastic out of their stomachs you know it also makes it into humans we eat thousands of bits of plastic every year without even realizing it the biggest problem area brand is asia china indonesia the philippines thailand and vietnam they generate more ocean plastic

than the rest of the world combined so that's the hotspot ok so that is all the bad news when you put all that together one of the chances that a project like this will actually be able to even put a dent into the problem will be the goal of the project is to clean up 90 percent of that pacific plastic patch by the year 2040 of course we've seen after 7 years millions of dollars this is the. just that just a small load of plastic and some experts say you know those resources should be used for preventing more plastic from coming into the oceans in the 1st place others are saying the project actually has some unintended consequences it's harvesting along with plastic sea life that's that's floating on top of the ocean blends in and things like jellyfish and this is some of that criticism that's coming from scientists after this announcement so rebecca helm she specializes in jellyfish she's a scientist she says earlier this year are born that the ocean clean up would catch and kill floating marine life this week they announced they're collecting plastic in their picture shows hundreds of floating animals traps along with plastic we

need to talk about this you can see in those pictures that she took the publicity photo and she sort of what she says are many of these kind of small creatures jellyfish things like that they're crucial to the food chain so it's a problem if if this machine is sweeping up animals as well i mean clearly it's a big complicated problem there's no easy solution here scientists still debating the right way to do it and whether it's even doable at all well at least. for trying he's trying. always carol thank you for. was there something about a prime minister who would rather die in a ditch british prime minister boris johnson he has confirmed that he will seek an extinction to the october 31st brags that did lie if no withdrawal deal with the european union is reached by mid october that's right that's according to a document presented to scotland's court of session they indicate the jobs intends to comply with all the parliament passed this month that requires the prime

minister to ask the e.u. for a postponement if the deal is in place by october 19th. subject and ireland has given a lukewarm welcome to prime minister johnson's proposals intended to deal with problems over the british border in ireland irish foreign minister simon company said that johnson's new proposals fell short of what was needed but the added this is not mission impossible there is a deal to be done here. the proposal from the british prime minister as it stands today it won't be the basis of an agreement but if it's a stepping stone. to to a a landing zone then i think it's. it should be seen in in a positive light. i really want to stay with politics and go to art the art work devolved parliament was painted by the british street artist banksy 10 years ago

but current events you could say in the u.k. parliament had given it new relevance they've also helped boost its price the work has just been sold for more than 11000000 euros that is the highest some ever attained at an auction for one of banks explains. with britain's parliament in turmoil over the fast approaching brics it deadline this was the painting fetching millions at seventy's london auction house on thursday. banks east take on a debate in the house of commons was originally titled question time when it was painted back in 2009. but the artist has renamed it devolved parliament in a damning critique delivered just off to m.p.'s arguments over the bracks it to send it into what some saw as dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric. well he's pointing to here is the regression of this the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world into tribalistic animalistic behavior the sorts that we've seen broadcast

and i televisions across the world over the last months and weeks. dark times for the british parliament but good times for banksy the 11000000 euro winning bid was a record sale price for a work by the secretive street artist. it comes exactly a year off the shocks the out with a painting that shredded it south the moment it was sold. with balloon has since been known as the love is in the bin. perhaps this image is the artist's warning to britain's parliament not to go the same way. with wonder if they'll end up shredding that's for exit proposal of the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter. you can follow me off t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag of the day and remember whatever happens between

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