with just one day to go until germany's federal election looks at the main candidates the final push to win over voters. independents protesters face off in barcelona as the referendum. and in other news human rights watch accuses the u.n. of failing to investigate war crimes in iraq claiming the security council missed the opportunity to consider abuses by all sides not just islamic state.

if you're watching saturday the twenty third of september one is called in bright welcome to r.t. h.q. here in moscow where it's nine am it's eight am in germany where it's the eve of the federal election with the country going to the polls on sunday to elect members of the next bundestag. the results will determine whether the current chancellor angela merkel will remain in power for a fourth case you've missed any of the action so far we've squeezed together highlights of this election season into just fifty seconds.

this. is a. minute outside of. the whole thing. that's what i. find that. here is. the final run up to polling day the candidates themselves have been busy making last ditch of pails to voters the final campaign rallies have been taking place in major cities all across the country although candidates haven't always received the warmest of welcomes. to the.

final. though it's not and. thank you. as you heard i'm going to merkel has booed and whistled while she was trying to win over any floating voters in munich around two hundred protesters heckled the chancellor a number were arrested. to help you better understand the ins and outs of the german election system our tea party boy has put together a quick guide for you. unless you'll season didn't german politics understanding the ins and outs of the election isn't exactly a piece of cake for starters each person will be asked to cost not one but two votes the first for a district representative the other for their preferred political party then comes

the magic of proportional representation with each party's share of the vote translated to seats won in the bundestag the complex system prevents a single party from winning an outright majority so unlike in the us or france where the very usually produces one clear winner even once the german results are in this still the mystery of who teams up with who to build a ruling coalition polls put marcos party the christian democratic union well out in front and martin short says social democrats are likely to come behind in second but there's real intrigue in who finishes and could potentially be kingmaker if michael wins she still needs extra coalition partners on top of her sister party the christian social union already excluded and. see alternative for

germany and left wing. this could pave the way for the renewal of the so-called grand coalition between merkel's party and martin says social democrats whether she will agree to become the cd use junior partner is another question entirely so far he seemed unwilling to play second fiddle. because as governor. if in the. lions with shills isn't an option this is the man merkel is likely to call next christian lin the the leader of germany's free democrats the pro-business liberal party that teamed up with merkel and her allies before and by the way isn't just

a pretty face he could confront merkel on some key issues if peace prevails refugees must return there's no such human right for cheese in your place in the world i'm not being harsh this is lauren realism speaking. even with lynn this handshake in the bag merkel might still need extra help to get her over the winning line and that's where the green party could come into the fold with their top candidate dubbed green. similarities. this cd you f.t.p. and the greens would make an exotic mix known as the gym a coalition which is never made it to national government before so in case you're wondering why there's no clear winner come monday morning well the details of the final coalition contract could take weeks to finalize the system is complicated

but it is considered the fairest of the mall for voters it can be frustrating though occasionally political parties end up breaking campaign promises and in germany there's always the convenient excuse that it was all their coalition partners fault. and if you kept an eye on the polls you'd have seen that i'm going to merkel's tip to be elected chancellor for a fourth time making germany's longest serving leader of the home depot in the eighty's ninety's mogul knows how many of her rivals come and gone through her twelve years at the top. of has more on how she's become something of a political survivor. she is the ten ran a saurus rex of politics ancient indomitable mike but unlike the dinosaur no way near sting should twelve years in power with no way if she was such.

a. little. power as she lost in these long run i doubt she does they say euro crisis that migrant crisis on terra.

and lead me in migrants in a year welcome to germany voters got cold feet but merkel she's a survivor a political prodigy from his love to work the whole way out of anything to say exactly what the voters want to hear and isn't it's all those who have been persecuted who are refugees displaced by war should be allowed in europe and that is currently if i could i would turn back time many many years to prepare better together with the entire government and those responsible for the refugees you turn us a one of my cold speciality take gave me. each fall back this mrs merkel has had it since two thousand and five you supported discrimination against gays and lesbians and did nothing to bring about equality merkel's pod's support of opposed to gay marriage the public wanted. she led parliament legalized but did

they get to save face. and space steal the ideas of others and take undeserved credit that's pretty bad picked saddle unfairly by name on the ceilings they really went beyond the scene until. after. the meeting that has taken. i believe. if it works it's worth stealing for the first time campaign posters plus the with the national flag which is a symbol of the nationalist anti immigrant opposition. we are in times where right wing populists are stronger and we don't want to leave patriotism to these people in twelve years merkel has practiced her tricks to the fiction yet

the problems. of asia is becoming harder and harder to. get she says she does it. not so it should start. didn't leak you might leak out where it gets to see. the build up to the election of facebook founder mark zuckerberg vowed to help prevent any russian meddling yet despite repeated claims in the media that moscow will be doing all it could to influence the outcome german officials haven't reported a single episode of russian interference given that the polls have barely move throughout the. selection the question of when and how russia would strike have been gripping the media headlines or proclaimed what's putin's play to german election mystery where is russia and all the research as have found evidence of online attempts to sway the vote none have come from russia

a lot of the stuff was seen in germany can be moved or at least inspired by the old movement in the us. despite disappointment from some quarters that no side of russian meddling has been found the chairman of the free democratic party in germany says the country should be looking for dialogue not suspicion. that's the knowledge. we've got aren't we calling for a continuous constructive dialogue instead of saber rattling we want to sit down in the negotiating table and listen to the different parties positions listen to russia's position and in turn explain our doubts fears should be minimized not found hans dietrich game show once wisely said as long as people are talking they aren't shooting each other this should be our go a dialogue and teamwork europe and germany need russia and vice versa we should conduct dialogue rather than fuel fear mrs merkel is facing criticism from many sides of the political spectrum with anti immigration campaigners angered by

a refugee policy as a leftist movement blaming her for the widening gap between rich and poor peter all of us been getting reaction from both camps. over this german election campaign and it seems like a deal dale cole will remain in the chancellor's office just behind doing it away from mrs merkel's popularity nation wide there are pockets of the scent. on happy and frustrated with the policies of berlin like here in dresden despite the sort of the old town the city is the capital of one of the poorest states in germany it's a conservative hotbed as well in fact it's the only major city in the country that leans politically to the right dresden is also the birthplace of the anti immigration protest movement began while the numbers have dropped off across the country as we can see here in dresden still drawing

a crowd. why don't we support merkel because she with her open border policies and whatever she says isn't moving us forward now the refugees are here and she should stand up and admit her mistakes but she doesn't she should offer solutions not model through the issues. i'm not happy with. this whole refugee policy that's been in place a the last two years the german people have not been asked if she decided this all by herself takes tribal mongering why should i support her with throwing bombs so we get a few jewels the big paul graham is opening. and you've got millions of people coming to germany you. but you didn't know who is it what do the. doing or your and this makes people rarely. do you of course about some future i've traveled around five hundred kilometers to the northwest to the port city of hama and the problems people were telling me about and drive them well they don't seem to matter as much to people here does this version as does hope this is

probably because there is extreme clarrie station happening our society but the reasons for such political division in our society have stemmed from the government in previous years to make have of the country poorer the middle class almost nonexistent and the reach even richer the second largest one of the richest cities in germany humbugs also home to fall left and on a kiss to groups in fact just over my right shoulder here is the floor and all this for the theater to squawk it was that a lot of the demonstrations for the g twenty well organized but as we remember from the g twenty some of those demonstrations ten violent.

in politics violence is never the way it must be always we want peace and we want that everyone puts all civil rights that's right you know so strong in opposition to you know because at the moment the politics is that if the rich the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. could be argued that angle of merkel has been so long lived as german chancellor due to her claiming of the political center ground for her own but as she looks set to claim a historic fourth term it will be with voices of dissent from both the left and the right peter all over r.t. belin. plenty more to come with across the german elections throughout the day bringing you the very latest updates or stay with me for a special coverage right from the heart of the german capital right here next out.

one hundred years ago the first computers were actually. people who were hired to do you know additions or multiplications that's gone that is now done entirely by computers. fortunately i think translation is not yet there but it is one of the easier things about computers that will be gone in the next in the next twenty years most translators will probably be out of a job i mean i'm sorry for them but this will just happen this is inevitable. the reason why north korea is trying to develop the capability to. prevent japan and the united states from assisting south korea in case of contingencies

because with. the missile capabilities capable of attacking japan and the united states north korea can say oh the americans and japanese if you. are left. will come back waving flags chanting slogans burning flags rival crowds pro and anti independence protests have faced off in the spanish region of catalonia over the upcoming independence referendum. was iraq was was

was i well that vote is set for october the first madrid deems it illegal and has deployed various measures in an attempt to disrupt it numerous police raids have been carried out on local government offices while legal actions being started against regional officials in the latest move more security forces are said to be sent to barcelona. the last movie considering the reuters developments the government decided to relocate to catalonia more security units to strengthen the state's forces already open in that we're told in this community nobody is above the law all of us are responsible for our actions and whoever breaks the law has to deal with the consequences of. them while around two thousand students rallied outside the university of barcelona demanding an end to the government crackdown

student unions call for the protesters to remain there for the whole of this weekend a local journalists been covering the demonstration for us. we are here at blacktown eager to see that in birth alone and where students have to gather to the soul of their ship or at the university of barcelona it's the place chosen by their students these people have been here during the whole day d.s.p. terrace so when there are disagreements and there are support for the people are referendum just to take place on the first of october we are here to defend our eye on their future state students are very important part of our society and the youngers so we need to make them. what's governing here it is really important for this process to have a students on their side because we're really going to put this to take this forward and to go all the way to independence you know my spending is government spending. we'll try to do our games that will be on the streets and we'll try to

vote. yesterday. if they were a friend they were are in real danger after the actions of the spanish police however. and. puts them on the himself has encouraged people to bring their own leaflets to show their support to vote no matter what on the first a photo or. president trump appears to have a new strategy for dealing with the north korean leader by making up different names for him and he may have settled on a particular favorite rocket man can have many men out there shooting rockets all over the place. rocket man should have been handled a long time before well the russian foreign ministers of the united states and north korea to end their provocative exchanges in favor of a crisis prevention so rob was speaking at

a media briefing at the un general assembly caleb maupin reports from new york. in donald trump's united nations general assembly speech he referred to kim jong un as a rocket man and talked about a possibility of totally destroying north korea then there was a response from north korea's leader kim jong un said that donald trump was mentally deranged he called him a rogue and he used the old english term doto to refer to donald trump now donald trump has shot back and referred to kim jong un as a madman now as these heated words and accusations and threats are being exchanged the russian foreign minister was taking questions from reporters at the u.n. headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula it's unacceptable to something that north korea's nuclear test but it's equally unacceptable to start with the korean peninsula china and russia will continue to insist on a move reasonable approach in contrast to the emotional one we see now where they

behave like children fighting each other in kindergarten and nobody can stop them it's necessary to those hot heads we need to pools we need dialogue one thing that was raised is that from the beginning of the crisis russia and china have had a joint proposal for what they call a double freeze they have called for south korea to end its provocative military exercises and in exchange north korea would end its nuclear proliferation and its provocative missile tests this proposal from russia and china seems pretty straightforward but no one seems to be taking that proposal seriously so a lot of interesting comments from surrogate lab robert specifically talking about the korean crisis he was saying people need to be mature and they need to focus on diplomatic solutions and not the intensification we've been seeing. human rights watch has accused the u.n. of failing to investigate war crimes in iraq the group claims that the security council's also missed

a k opportunity to address recent rights abuses in iran it was referring to a u.s. backed resolution to. set up a team of investigators to probe islamic states crimes in the country but human rights watch complains that the initiative ignores atrocities committed by other groups one example highlighted came early this summer that's when footage of modes to pick ting iraqi police torturing a terror suspect in mosul warning that you might find some of the following video disturbing. you know. all of. the executive director for human rights watch in the middle east told us that she believes the u.n. needs to probe crimes committed by all sides. this is obviously a flawed and selective approach because it misses the opportunity to investigate

crimes committed by all parties to the conflict human rights watch has of course documented very serious abuses by isis forces but we've also documented very very serious abuses by iraqi government forces militias and members of the international coalition we have documented numerous cases of detainees who have been executed tortured lies by iraqi forces we also have a lot of concerns about the bombardment most u.n. security council knows very well that organizations like human rights watch have repeatedly urged them to expand the mandate all of this investigative team to include abuses by all parties to the conflict and they've chosen very deliberately not to do that the reasons of the motivations can only be speculated about about the news for now this saturday morning thanks for watching the election team in berlin picks up our special coverage ahead of sunday's vote in about half an hour or so after which i'll be back to bring you the rest of the news this saturday i'll

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really picking up my car it's still a lot better if you could see this is what actually talks like we're in. the strongest atlantic hurricane ever recorded and said the top of mexico in the caribbean sea. just blew by. the eighty five mile per hour winds for the longest duration ever recorded it prompted perhaps the largest evacuation and ever in the u.s. just two weeks ago hurricane harvey was the largest rain event to ever hit the continental united states the wildfire in los angeles one week ago was the largest l.a. fire recorded in this alone last july pull up by look ok. it stopped recorded on the planet.