angela merkel wins the general election but not with enough support or her party to rule germany on its own with voters a little way by a newly founded euro skeptic party. russia's foreign minister says law school is being blackmailed by the uighurs which is trying to force through grounds for military action in syria pointing at a huge turn to what's already been agreed. on nuclear for iran's leader readies for the un general assembly pushing to ease economic sanctions that appear to head the weakest part of iranian society hardest.

news from russia and around the world this is r.t. with me you nashbar hello and welcome to the program angela merkel has won germany's strong job again but the landslide victories overshadowed by some tough coalition choices the conservative blog christian democrats took forty one point five percent of the vote and that's not enough support for merkel's party to rule on their own as their main rivals the social democrats led by peter came in with twenty five point seven percent a coalition between the two it will be hard to reach peace on a has more now from berlin for. well it was a resoundingly result for anglo merkel however now the big question is just what kind of government will she preside over she's going to have to enter into a coalition won't be the coalition she particularly wanted she would have wanted to deal with the free democrats who were partners going into this election but the

free democrats didn't even get enough votes to get them one seat in the parliament so she's going to have some tough coalition negotiations on her hands moving away from angola merkel and looking at the election as a whole what we have seen here in germany as a shift in voter opinion away from liberal politics towards euro skeptic politics the alternative for germany party b. a f t were only founded seven months ago the euro skeptics didn't get past the five percent mark to get them into the stagg but they have certainly announce their arrival on the german political stage now as i said the euro skeptic their anti euro they believe that the u.s. being kept alive artificially and they want to see failing countries like greece not be allowed to be part of the monetary union. now they took votes from just about everybody as well as protest votes people are unhappy with the current status

quo in germany their leader saying that although they didn't get into the parliament they put fear into the hearts of the other parties and that they made democracy in germany all the richer so it's angela merkel who's going to be german chancellor for a third term that will make her the longest serving female political leader in europe but some of those europeans are wondering what exactly she'll have in store for them four more years of merkel's election when see comparisons deal with another three to female lead on the markets wanted to know more about merkel is a follower of margaret. this is that euro zone two point zero. and one similarity policies between the two is they both pushed privatization although when mrs merkel's case that's not been as home but in cash strapped eurozone states. we have this

obvious privatization agenda that is an essential feature of european politics it's not people and social needs that get addressed by business angela merkel supported the decision by portugal to sell off some of its publicly owned companies it's not clear sometimes whether what he is proposing for other countries she will do it itself in germany it's natural that some countries would question whether the call for privatization of countries is a way to open. a room for german companies are unaccompanied by most countries angle or merkel has convinced the german people that she's the right person for the job but across europe people are wondering what four more years of her leadership will mean for them. good people is going to be negative that's logical she's the symbol of the recession in europe. this there was. actually nothing will change for those when we get more jobs and people have work then we can have growth

i don't expect anything from the germans or the. critics accused pushing europe in the wrong direction. merkel must be stopped as well as those who only represent the interests of international finance markets just like under satcher parts of northern england were devastated we see the same in greece today it leads to years of an employment and poor living conditions. whether she's the new lady not sick of four more years of and the merkel. as the world's most powerful woman these are all of a i t v. the alternative for germany party was founded less than a year ago and has already drawn sixteen thousand members to its ranks and is german journalist money also writer says a crisis in the country's politics is laying the ground for a rise in non-mainstream party. we have

a huge party nobody's talking about and this is the party of the nonvoters almost one third of the germans didn't participate at the elections and we see that this so-called huge for my dorothy for the t.v. would for angela merkel it's not anymore so huge when we take into account that people are so many people are not represented in our parliament and this is a sign of a crisis this is a sign of a crisis also of democracy in germany and it's time for the power of peace it is time for parties who speak out what people think and what those people mean they don't want to elect always let me say it like this the lesser evil they want to vote for a party that they can support by their heart it so i think yes it's time for eternity is for example the it or not he was the voice. for many angela merkel has

become the symbol of us charity measures and with greece awaiting another does a bailout medicine the country is preparing for a week of protests that story coming up. right now we are able to see live pictures from nairobi heavy gunfire and multiple explosions have been heard from inside the mall where militant show holding several people hostage in a shopping center think black smoke. billowing from the more troops are advancing on the center right now and. gunmen threatens to kill the captives sixty nine people are confirmed dead so far in this standoff with more than one hundred seventy injured and. an ounce that the siege was coming to an end with most people rescued the u.k. media says some of the tigers were british however the group's commander denied this al-shabaab says the action comes in response to the presence of kenyan troops in some. russia's foreign minister believes that western

states are undermining efforts for a peaceful resolution to the syrian conflict after weeks of diplomatic talks to avoid military action there was one state sergei lavrov says that the u. wasn't his allies are simply looking for a pretext for a military strike on syria and she's going to chicken has the details the u.s. says they will stop the work toward securing syria's chemical weapons if russia does not sign off on e.u. one security council resolution based on chapter seven that would allow the use of force so you are upset this is not something that here in u.s. secretary of state john kerry agreed on in geneva the russian foreign minister said instead of using this agreement brokered by russia to get rid of syria's chemical weapons the u.s. is now trying to achieve other goals take a listen. to this and i remember compartments are starting to blackmail us they see if russia does not agree to a chip the seven resolution in the u.n. to see who will stop working with the chemical watchdog in the hague this

completely counters what we agreed on was john kerry namely the chemical watchdog decision and then a supporting resolution from the u.n. to see but without chapter seven. so you lover of also talked about the conflicting interpretations of the u.n. investigators report the report gave a description of substances and shells so the u.n. experts saw on the ground in syria but no indication of who used the chemicals in august twenty first attack near damascus russia says it's looking at the evidence that rebels have you syrian gas there is a report by israeli experts saying the rebels to control over the areas with chemical weapons facilities at least twice and they may have gotten hold of it it is also known that members job out almost were attempted to smuggle containers with syrian gas via turkey so russia is not at all convinced that the assad government used the weapons but whatever classified evidence the u.s. says it has it has not presented it to the u.n.

security council expecting international community to take washington's word for it the russian foreign minister said the u.s. has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that decisions on global security have to be taken together take a listen. our partners are blinded by an ideological goal to remove the assad regime they want to show the big can call the shots in the middle east. they are mostly concerned with proving their own supremacy because it's not the task that we are driven by which is to solve the syrian chemical weapons problem. so your lover upset only extremists will benefit from such a blind approach as he called it he talked about the chaos and war in libya and the walk referring primarily to the us he said they simply choose not to talk about how we chain of their actions lead to a catastrophe in that week in. chapter seven of the united nations charter says the

security council can allow the use of force to ensure its decisions are implemented it's pave the way for multiple western military interventions starting with the korean war back in one thousand nine hundred fifty the us led gulf war in iraq in one nine hundred ninety and again in the middle east state in two thousand and three they just case came in two thousand and eleven when the security council approved a resolution on a no fly zone over libya allowing allied forces to intervene historian and middle east expert mark almond says all that in reason is a reason now for russia and other states to reject any potential military action in syria. remember of libya in march of two thousand and eleven the resolution was presented as a humanitarian resolution to prevent the libyan army gadhafi forces entering the city of benghazi but it was used to justify us more than six months of bombing until gadhafi was overthrown and in july the british prime minister david cameron said that over syria we don't want a resolution like the one on libya that would have labeled us to engage in regime

change he was trying to reassure russia and china but precisely because back in march of two thousand and eleven david cameron obama president sarkozy said this was just a humanitarian resolution to deal with the immediate crisis in benghazi and don't really not just russia and china but other countries like india brazil south africa of a suspicious that a resolution which authorized force over chemical weapons could be used to justify a broader range campaign to remove the regime and install a different government protest although i have to say i think if we look at what happened in libya the chaos that followed i would be very reluctant to predict that even if the west was able to pursue a military option in syria that it would produce a regime that most people in the west would feel comfortable with and for the latest on the syrian crisis log on to our web sites are c dot com and that the good deeds how the comments made by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov on the situation in syria had a live all the highlights of that interview. what

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the u.n. general assembly the country's new leader has some real money but i should not to seek atomic weapons denouncing painful sanctions as unacceptable and as a point to say reports now they restrictions are hurting the most vulnerable the. the aim of sanctions is to harm the state but the real victims are ordinary regular people what small experience has shown that there's a huge wedge between what ordinary people experience under sanctions and what the eat to mohamed we heidi is one such case study he's a cancer victim in iran it is my second chemistry p. program previously each session cost approximately three hundred dollars these days it costs about seven hundred dollars it is also a challenge to get the medication because you have to go to almost every drugstore asking for them and also because the prices are way too high i get a camel session once every two weeks and i am

a pensioner. doctors are also frustrated not only is the problem the cost of medication and getting that medication but also getting medical supplies its upkeep can also be a nightmare. if we have a problem getting high tech modern equipment to treat our cancer patients there are numerous obstacles for importing the equipment due to the sanctions in place against iran we have some equipment but it requires spare parts that we can't get anywhere a failure of any single piece or part of this equipment causes us to stop operating the entire machine history has shown that sanctions are a failure but in those few very instances where they do bring about some kind of diplomatic agreement that takes a long time merely prolonging the suffering of ordinary citizens. present iranian rocket bomb are expected to me said the young general assembly and the first face to face between an american and iranian leaders in over three decades but an

assistant professor said take university mohammad has done a county says there is resistance to this thaw in both countries. you want also for some of the conservation results but more cons are you won't believe. it's good for the worst to think that you were not for a cause famine reached most skeptics or all soil for the turf on washington one of . the most of the mysteries about the possibility of such a breakthrough and even look one. draws one solution to call ruth their own people their own sargent's their own political party is this is the best interest of both sides so the huge war to hear is common. critics say sanctions on iran have no proven effective in achieving political aims no matter their scope alteration the restrictions are justified as

being better than war but they only seem to make things so what is for the people of the countries and north korea has been hated by a range of economic and military restrictions by the us over its nuclear ambitions and if we look at the effects a shortage of food and medical supplies has led to severe malnutrition while pyongyang shows no sign of curbing its nuclear program see where it too has been slapped with the u.s. sanctions which have only aggravated the situation with its economy plagued by over two years of civil war and people are left struggling to deal with shelters of basic foods that cuba is another target of u.s. sanctions the elderly and a man they're paid the most affected and the loss to economy is estimated to be around six hundred ninety million dollars annually so in all those cases it appears sanctions are hitting ordinary people hardest with little effect on the sanctioned states. and while the u.s.

tries to rein in iran's nuclear ambitions new to uncover documents reveal america was on the edge of an atomic disaster due to its own military the country has just one switch away from a nuclear catastrophe after its air force accidentally dropped bombs over north carolina fifty two years ago more now website altie dot com. meanwhile in germany it's time for lead a horse in and a longer had to emotion page of our website where the first to draft a video from unix world famous be a festival. the troika of european leaders is now back in athens land as you say it will divide a new bailout package. a mind aimed at hailing the fragile greek economy i should say meanwhile the country's teachers and trade union leaders have opened a week of protests promising more strikes to come under his lucic afenifere force

now the new installment of cash will mean evil more sturdy adding to public discontent. a team of international inspectors is here in athens for a fresh audit of the country's ailing finances with debt stricken greece hoping progress in reining in spending will unlock even more loans greece has been kept out of bankruptcy with two bailouts worth two hundred forty billion euros but revenues are falling short of expectations sparking fears that another rescue package could be needed to keep it afloat now each loan has come at a high price for ordinary people painful austerity measures have brought cuts to jobs salaries and public services and some greeks are asking whether sticking with the euro is worth the cost instead of waiting for another bailout from europe some suggested that leaving the currency union altogether and one such voices theater cost on a bus he's an economist and former member of parliament now i had a chance to sit down with him earlier take a look do you believe that the cycle of bailouts for greece is a sustainable policy for this country. they have to be fit because we really.

go to google to give us money look to. the big book. lol. and this. bailout to this whole thing raises raise the. guy is why did you go to turn it to live and we will never regain. strength of our economic strength to be an economic development to fight unemployment in the list because of your view. is is made. is basically full for strong can't it's strong currents it doesn't fit with the not too far in corner now polls do show that

a large majority of greeks do not want to quit the euro just yet however more most people also seem to believe that the country's economy will never recover if it sticks to e.u. mandates to cut government spending enough to repay its debts reporting from athens loose accounting of r.t. . here are some traitors and others whistleblower edward snowden has not been seen in public since russia granted him asylum two months ago to find out more about his current lifestyle r.t. interview shows sophie and curry spoke to one of the few men in touch with the fugitive leaker and you'll be able to watch the full interview with a lawyer orchestrating a snowden's arrival to russia on a topic which ran at fourteen prior to jam t.v. but in the meantime here's a quick. there are a lot of job opportunities for him and we keep receiving job offers by telephone or mail. or they are all coming from security services or from different organizations as well. come from different organizations there i even ordinary people who call

and offer help as they are concerned about him settling in a new home. and we also have heads of big companies who offer him employment. i would think a little is there any offer in particular that was surprising girl i don't know made you laugh. yes we had a woman of about fifty years old who called and offered to adopt mr snowden. how well that would take care of this predicament. yes but he's thirteen so this procedure would be complicated but it was funny. day starting with the ongoing hostage crisis in the kenyan capital and right now

you're saying the latest pictures from nairobi kenya police say they have rescued more hostages as they are advancing with their operation heavy gunfire and multiple explosions have been heard from inside the mall where al shabaab militants holding several people hostage in a shopping center thick black smoke billowing from the more troops are advancing on the center right now and the al qaeda linked gunman threatens to kill the captives sixty nine people are dead in the standoff with more than one hundred seventy injured kenya's ministry early and els that the siege was coming to an end with most people rescued the u.k. media says some of the us hikers were british however the group's commander denied this al-shabaab says the action comes a response to the presence of kenyan troops in somalia. to china now where typhoon is soggy has killed at least twenty five people around eight hundred thousand have moved to safety the most powerful typhoon this year has

led to hundreds of flight cancellations in hong kong this it is c. four one of the world's busiest has also been closed. and has seen a thousand strong rally as protesters flooded the streets of its capital to oppose new editor reforms president and ricky pena nieto is proposing. to open up the state owned oil sector to profit sharing contracts with private funds mexico's nationalization of its oil industry has become a popular symbol of sovereignty many in mexico are against and of foreign or private investment in the industry. a policeman and a migration officer have been killed in a terrorist attack in the russian republic of drug a start on authorities say a suicide bomber detonated the car he was driving near a police station at least twelve people were injured in the explosion including civilians two are in critical condition and here by a building collapsed as a result of the blast trapping people under the rubble. and coming up after the

break it's called soul with peace how about you will chancy. the mcmillian family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age but only for one year and not their whole lives so they live in one nine hundred six the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as

a parent i have some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one click away if you find the idea of the self-made man romantic that now is your time because anyone who has the will to learn can learn you know i don't come from money without the internet i would definitely not have this job and i'd probably be worshipping at the feet of rush limbaugh deluded by the mainstream media modern technology can make your mind with information or break it with cat videos and dumb trendiness but that's up to you and this is just my opinion.

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is a. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered on peter lavelle what are the true goals of the surveillance state since the start of the n.s.a. scandal much of the attention is focused on government agencies and the deceptions and outright lies of elected and appointed officials but what about the communications service providers they appear to be willing accomplices in the states vast spying apparatus have day in the name of the people voluntarily surrendered the right to privacy. to cross talk to surveillance state i'm joined by eugene per year in washington.