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. is that plenty of people don't think about the future the only see today and tomorrow is that how do you want them to think about the future when it has you nothing but you. should know that the the political parties play people with a minute to get 30000 hours to people in the cathy's who do nothing. to do the campaign work and to fire them. we're heading

towards our debt we have no more prospects when are we going to make is in our lives but if you don't get that job. also coming up tonight in 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 populists who are promising everything except consensus 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 a 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 root 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 g.m. 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 out organizing clutch real events before moving into politics now the goal is very soon. yes they want to enter parliament after october 6th. sense i suppose you are going to achieve that with which 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 and see 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 amongst 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 tunisians was there are problems and solutions or just did we've summarized them in 12 measures of these 12 measures have been approved by more than 1000000 tunisia women are campaign promises are we will not accept the privileges granted to members of parliament and we will immediately abandon our political immunity. for some young people the only opportunity they see in politics is the money they can make during the campaign season. and 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 i do. not know what you should know about 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 misery to let my share go to the good they think it was that would lead a good life 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 whether any approach works only become clear once the polls close. in for more than i'm joined from washington by sarah she is with the carnegie endowment for world peace is middle east program where she has a focus on the news is 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 mean a civil actions and 2018 and now to this people are angry they're frustrated they're not happy with any of the party is there definitely seen a big increase in apathy particularly among 3 additional parties and what are you expecting from sunday's parliamentary election are we going to have a result that gives the 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 tunisia is like what we're seeing here in europe or in across the west year where the 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 up in the balance of power in tunisia. it will be difficult for the president to try to grab more powers 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 involved in 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 an evolving democracy let's look at the final candidates for president if you're we've got a media magnate you was sitting in prison for turns division we conservative attorney who says that he has never cast a vote in his life i mean this is not the picture hopefully 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 groups they're not a political party they're a coalition of civil society activists whom 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 kearney endowment for world peace is here we appreciate your time in your insights ahead of that election this weekend thank you. i don't know that down the line. i know the lawyers think they'd never seen anything so i they've never seen

anything so. 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 killing is they've taken 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 followed their leadership and did what get it done this said it would get away the republican been very unified this is the greatest which. 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 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 skis 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 book or 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 zhan 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 then replies not yes not no but rather call me in the text messages tell us a lot to talk about that and more i'm joined now by colby 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 bookham to 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 trump officials were saying is we're going to have a meeting we will set of a meeting between your president and our president if you are president will launch

the investigations that our president wants i mean i think 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 a lot of the new foreign or domestic politicians officials or other people in the hold me and tried to influence my decisions on any criminal proceedings. but it was . hard so it could be 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. 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 it isn't the fact that he has not been contacted by any for any foreign attorneys like rudy giuliani who is president obama's 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 robin might take a little wind out of president trump sails now one thing that a to ask your it 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 go to investigate the bardens as well a 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 to present a united 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 that they watching in a piece from an inquiry on 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 store to evade impeachment probe are they going to succeed it is then turning 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 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 to visit oh they want to put those democrats on the record. go be it go it's a political reporter with the washington post co we appreciate you taking the time to talk with this is i know it's

a busy time right now in washington we appreciate if they hear. things having. or are going to take a trip to the north persisted coolants home to some of the richest marine life on earth 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 $1.00 can we get 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 there 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 it 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 transits duf 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 metres long so 6 football fields it floats on top of the ocean then uses the movement of the water to 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 metres down and it allows then for fish to swim underneath this milestone as part of a long road a slab 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 only seems like just a drop in the ocean if you know we have 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. there'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 plastic waste is expected to quadruple over the next 3 decades by the year 2050 they're predicting that by weight there'll 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 eaten by fish by birds is even eaten by 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 realising it the biggest problem area brand is asia so 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 that plastic sea life that's that's floating on top of the ocean plankton 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 science as she says earlier this year are born that the ocean cleanup would catch and kill floating marine life this week they announced they're collecting plastic in the picture shows hundreds of floating animals trapped along with plastic we need to talk about this you can see in this picture is the 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. as always carol thank you for.

wasn't 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. 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 there 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 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 would 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 relevant 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 these paintings. with britain's parliament in turmoil over the fast approaching brics it deadline this was the painting fetching millions at southern bees london auction house on thursday. bank

fees taken to 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 breck's it to send it into what some saw as dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric but 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 cost and televisions across the world over the last months and weeks. dark times for the british parliament but good times for banks say the 11000000 euro winning bid was a record sale price for a well 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 love is in the bin. perhaps this image is the artist's warning to britain's parliament not to go the same way. when wonder if they'll end up shredding that's for exit proposal for the day is almost done the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either at the w news you can follow me at brett goff t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you again on monday everybody have a good weekend.

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