a funeral the same as mine enters mind gets consumed with this. speech then we know what they're takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its make. i'm in the bulletin covering the german federal elections will be a fourth term as chancellor will be christian democrats play the role of seeing you paul is in a coalition and if so who will explain all just a few moments. in our kids other world headlines with me jaclyn who got pro and anti independence protesters face off in barcelona as the referendum looms ever closer. and human rights watch accuses the un a failing to investigate war crimes and iraq

claiming the security council missed the opportunity to consider abuses not by all sides not just islamic state. good afternoon for me and the team here at r t h q in moscow i'm going to go and i'll have your world news a little later. but now our main focus for is of course germany where it's the eve of the federal election this time tomorrow tomorrow voters will be choosing who they want to represent them and the next live now of the r t election team in the capital.

very good up to you know the beautiful day alongside the river spray here in berlin the german elections almost upon us just a few hours to go really welcomes all special coverage from the heart of the german capital now the results sometimes folks going to determine whether chancellor merkel will remain in power for what would be incredibly a. case you have missed any of the build up to the votes we've squeezed together all the salient points of the election build up here it is round into just fifty seconds. and. look. here is a. minute on some of the. bus and fucked up the whole thing. to these i. find that there.

is a here is the schedule. as you can see there all the leading candidates are still working pretty hard to go on the support they've been busy making last. peals to the vote is the final campaign rallies have been taking place in all the major cities right across the country although candidates haven't always received the warmest of welcomes. the. i. like trying to feel a bit too late the pundits who clearly don't shun the seanad this has started to. call doesn't like it not everybody loves her she was booed and she was whistle while she was trying to win over some of the floating voters around two hundred

protesters were heckling the chancellor a number of them were arrested. but i'm glad michael is tipped to be elected as chancellor for what would be a fourth term that would make her germany's longest serving leader after helmut kohl remember how he dominated throughout the eighty's and ninety's michael knows that many of her rivals have come and gone through her twelve years at the top correspondent has more now on how she's become something of a political survival. she is the rana saurus rex of politics. mighty much like the dinosaur. extinction twelve years in power. she was young but she.

could. how has she lost it these long hard hours or does he say you a crisis a migrant crisis when tara. linnean migrants in a year welcome to germany voters got cold feet but merkel she's

a survivor a political prodigy who has learned to worm whole way out of anything to say exactly what voters want to hear and isn't it all those who have been persecuted who are refugees displaced by war should be allowed in europe and then it's current or 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 a one of merkel speciality take gay marriage for bacchus mrs merkel is offended since two thousand and five you supported discrimination against gays and lesbians and did nothing to bring about equality merkel's pods support as opposed to gay marriage public wanted. she led parliament legalized but voted against to save face. it's failing steal the ideas of others and

take undeserved credit that's pretty bad picked sallu unfairly by name get on the field and sealants they really went beyond the finance the ones i wound up doing was looking after. the thing that has taken. so i really i mean. if it works it's worth stealing. for the first time. plus the national flag. is a symbol of the nationalist and immigrant opposition. we are in times where right populists are stronger and we don't want to leave patriotism to these people in twelve years merkel has practiced how to treat the think yet the problems. is becoming harder and harder to.

achieve. you might leave here and where do you see. our correspondent right here and then he's been busy gauging the political mood finding out what are the public think about this election what are the media saying and what are the big issues that could just decide the vote. the last campaign rallies were held yesterday some being held today as well before it's all decided tomorrow some commentators are saying we could see perhaps a surprise the result which nobody predicted like the election of donald trump most were calling the election for what it really is which is to be honest at all bit boring some of the media headlines coming out this morning that. going with this headline for the. elections. quite some time ago

but the article itself on the front page talking about younger voters how many of them feel disillusioned with the election at the issues they think are not relevant to them as voters in the younger generation devote one of the biggest german newspapers in fact something a little more philosophical perhaps quare. where are you going germany saying. elections in time gone by. when we talked about more important issues but now instead of looking to the future we speak about the tiny. car tax reform really vote more will be less about groundbreaking changes and more of a possible litmus test on exam. hope policies over the last few years the key issues being of course immigration the open door policy the economy social reform all of that will be on the agenda. now one of those controversial parties is taking part in this election is the

alternative for germany party the polls predicting that it will actually get into palm for what would be the first time that's despite the fact that it's being called radical by some even. and that is despite. the leading lights of the party refusing to accept those accusations. thank you. so that was less viable storming out of the t.v. debate following such an accusation against her and her party the longer the case of having radical views for its strong immigrant stance been a constant critic of anglo americans open door policy from the start we spoke to who described the priorities of a party and its demand that only those with valid papers should be allowed into

germany. the idea that we have strict priorities who ensure domestic security but this is something that all parties have talking about these days including those that created the problem in the first place now they want to live as you please presence even though they rejected this idea this party is still insist on an open borders policy without passport control. every day we're dealing with this problem and the problem of crime in our country who want to see our borders save guarded ineffectively who want the boom this public site to protect our borders and congesting to be do checks entry into the country must only be granted to people carrying various id documents we also advocate having a clear distinction between the concept of asylum and immigration these priorities . ok now when it comes to the deal of the leading parties of ruled out forming

a coalition with it but both maclin show saul prepared to make a pact with some of the others the greens are relatively small they all have a short history but they do have a notable background nevertheless. the party was only founded in one thousand nine hundred first entered parliament three years later so ready being part of a ruling coalition for eight years and it's then later served as the german foreign minister party member told us while they're standing for face time around. it's obvious that go to the last generation who can survive this planet and you can see all of the catastrophes all across the globe coming extreme weather in west africa and in south asia and some of the for united states in the caribbean and this is why we are lobbying for these issues for years we are also all happy with our own government talking a lot of climate change a lot but not doing a lot we're going to change definitely have a closer and i am more more affiliation of the problem with the nose and the social

democrats by you to be honest i do not care to. do what you want them to do so so do our goal is that we combine into a governmental program and be get more climate change in this country most social justice in this country and more liberty and freedom. ok and just to explain this is what happens in the world. if you see a bus behind me if it looks a little bit strange you can see the people standing on it are got their mouths taped this is a protest i just read what's on the bus it looks like it says one german says that for all through war with everybody not quite sure what the message they're making is we'll try and clarify that for you but that's what happens in the build up to elections people are making their points clear and trying to get their message across to maybe some people who haven't decided who they going to vote for to see something like that and maybe that's why now i know americans facing criticism

despite being in office for so long as a critics they say that the anti immigration sorry i should say anti immigration campaigners are angry with her because of a refugee policies the leftist movement they're blaming her for why didn't that financial gap between rich and poor with more nazis be taller. cast an eye over this german election campaign and it seems like a dog deal and glamour will remain in the chancellor's office just behind during put away from mrs merkel spot nationwide there are pockets of the st louis that are on happy and frustrated with the policies of berlin like here in dresden despite the appeal 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 to give while the numbers have dropped off across the country as we can see here interest in 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 offer solutions not models through . fifty's politike 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 south 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 refugees 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.

the problems people were telling me about and bribe them well they don't seem to look through as much the people here does this version as does hope this is probably because there is extreme clarrie station happening in 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 poor or even middle class almost nonexistent and the reach even richer the second largest in one of the richest cities in germany humbugs also home to fall left and ana kissed 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 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 richer. the rich get richer and the poor get poorer it 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 of a building. so whichever party does win these elections it's almost certainly not going to get more than fifty percent of the votes so what it's going to need is political compromise is going to need to coalition and the various formations that

that could take and ultimately what it means there are a lot of people who don't like the status quo who want their message to be heard for example like the protesters on month post it's just the politics behind me they're off to spread their message to perhaps influence some votes ahead of tomorrow's big moments what else can we say about this election but more analysis next time i see. 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 capability is capable of attacking japan and the united states north korea can say oh the americans and japanese if you assist south korea we would attack you with nuclear weapons. a hundred years ago the first computers were actually. people who were hired to do you know additions or multiplication 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 to do by computers that will be. dawn in the next in the next twenty years most translators probably be out of a job i mean i'm sorry for them but this will just happen this is inevitable.

welcome back also in the headlines this saturday waving flags chanting slogans and burning flayers rival crowds of pro and anti independence protestors have faced off in the spanish region of catalonia over the upcoming independence referendum. was your that was it was was . now the bonus that for october first but madrid deems it illegal and has deployed various measures and an attempt to disrupt it numerous police raids have been

carried out on local government offices while legal action has been started against regional officials in the latest move more security forces are being silenced to catalonia you and i used to own it and we thought you just move considering the riots is developments the government decided to relocate to catalonia more security units to strengthen the state's forces in radio prating in that homeless community nobody is above the law all of us are responsible for our actions and who have a break the law has to deal with the consequences of words he would visit meanwhile around two thousand students rallied outside the university of barcelona demanding an end to the government's crackdown student unions called for the protesters to remain there for the whole weekend a local journalist has been covering the demonstrations for us. we are here at bluffton even in birth alone and where students have to gather to the soul of their

ship or to the university of barcelona it's the place chosen by this students these people have been here during the whole day speeches sowing their disagreement on their support for the book referendum just to take place on the first of october we are here to defend our. future state students are very important part of our society. the youngest so we need to make use of what's coming here it is really important for four days process to have a students on their side costs we're really going to put these to take this forward and to go all the way to independence you know my spending is government spending repressing police who will try to do a games that will be on the streets and we'll try to bow out that by just yesterday . if they were a friend they were in real danger after the actions of the spanish police however.

and. puts them on the himself. to preen their own leaflets to show their support to vote no matter what on the first a folk told her. president appears to have come up with a new strategy for dealing with the north korean leader name calling and it seems he may have settled on a particular favorite that being rocket mail you can have men. out there shooting rockets all over the place. rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. the russian foreign minister has urged the u.s. and north korea to end their provocative exchanges in favor of a crisis prevention dialogue sergey lavrov was speaking at a media briefing at the un general assembly and reports. 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 moved you 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. a failing to investigate war crimes and iraq the group also claims the security council missed an opportunity to address recent rights abuses in iraq as well. 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 humans of

human rights watch complains the initiative ignores atrocities committed by other groups one example highlighted came early this summer that's when footage emerged showing iraqi police torturing a terrorist suspect in mosul the executive director for human rights watch in the middle east told us she believes the u.n. needs to probe crimes committed by all sides of 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 united nation we have documented numerous cases of detainees who've been executed tortured. by iraqi forces we also have a lot of concerns about the bombardment of most u.n. security council knows very well that organizations like human rights watch have

repeatedly urged to expand the mandate of this investigative team to include abuses by all parties to the conflict. our special coverage of the german election continues in about thirty minutes with the r.t. election team in berlin as we count down to tomorrow's about that will bring you the rest of your world news so do stay with us. there bad actors over there but maybe these young folks well you know what japan is launching a competitor in the big point mining space russia is coming in competitively john mcafee's going to get the money business so there's going to be a lot more competitive in the mining business so the big main kind of play to monopolise mining is under attack as well because the world's competitors.

with coal make this manufacture come sentenced to public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flaming. lips and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. do. you really need to prove. that. you did not this past weekend you probably saw the film of the wall the wall hurricane irma reporting it was mostly a name vapid coverage like this you know when you can alter it and you can surround

yourself with protrusions you know if you can spot and rich structure. the story of the big bad wolf the people who live in the struggle to those are usually of course . people who live in stone structures like this letter. who literally dumbing the american bob realists down to the nursery rivals. seriously there was there was very little mention of climate change or ecological collapse you know you know people often say that we're the frauds right in the slowly boiling pot of water but we're worse we're frogs in a slowly boiling pot of water with program porters standing there and all of those can come toward me and. i can feel the sweat of my brass ok susan said stay in your all over and generally it's not so boiling out here ok. so i decided to offer fix the corporate media hurricane coverage.