not the same as one enters mind it's consumed with this. speech and we know what they're takers. that mainstream media has met its maker. and i. bring you on t.v. special coverage of the german federal elections this out hopefully you'll be surely i'm sure will speak to a member of the alternative for germany party q broad's and you'll be a few minutes to see what you just saw. in our to the other world headlines with me jacqueline pro and anti independence protesters face off in barcelona as the referendum looms ever closer. and 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 states. good afternoon for me and the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow. and i'll have your world news a little later. but our main focus for now is of course germany where it's the eve of the federal election this time tomorrow voters will be choosing who they want to represent them in the next one to study live now to the r.t. election team in the capital. very good afternoon to you not long to go now i reckon about twenty eight thousand

two we should be getting the first exit polls from the german election which really is now upon us welcome to our special coverage coming right from the heart of the result of sunday's vote will determine whether chancellor angela merkel will remain in power for what would be an incredible four. case you missed any of the build up there are lots of issues being discussed we round the whole political season into a highlight reel for in just fifty seconds it would. be. no one. here is it. minute outside of a few people trying to push anything fucked up the whole question hunch think. what i'm going to find that there can be all this once

a month. as it is it scares. you know this stage it's all about forming coalitions making friends they're not all depends on how many votes your party gets every vote counts so the candidates been very busy making last ditch appeals to what we call the floating voters the final campaign rallies they've taken place in major cities right across the country although candidates haven't always been getting the warmest of welcomes. i. i. find if you look at the little funded through college don't shun the show and this has started. for years in power but no by no means universally popular anger local they're unhappy

at being booed and whistled while she tried to win over those young made their minds up yet two hundred protesters roughly pickling the chancellor none of them actually arrested. anglo-american tipped to be elected chancellor for a fourth straight time that would make her germany's longest serving leader after helmut kohl remember him around what seemed forever in the eighty's in the ninety's merkel notes many of the rivals have come and they've gone throughout her twelve years at the top rank as the it has more now on our she's become something of a political survivor. she is the rana saurus rex of politics. much like the dinosaur. extinction twelve years in power when she was young but.

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

a survivor a political prodigy who has learned to work out of anything to say exactly what 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 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 tell us a one of merkel speciality take gave marriage fall back this mrs merkel is pathetic since two thousand and five you supported discrimination against gays and lesbians and did nothing to bring about equality merkel's pod's supporters opposed gay marriage the public wanted to she led parliament legalized but voted against to save face. is failing to steal the ideas of others and

take undeserved credit that's pretty bad picked sallu unfairly by name on the field and sealants they really went beyond the finance the ones i wound up doing what was the key. and for. anything it has. to be. if it works it's. the first time campaign plus the national flag. is the symbol and nationalist 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 . 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 daniel hawkins is also right here in berlin nice being gauging the political mood and finding out what is the public thinking about what the media telling the public to think about and what are the big issues that could just decide this election. 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 a 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 that boring some of the media headlines coming out this morning that. going with this headline for the . elections. obviously from 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. developed one of the biggest german newspapers in fact going with something a little more philosophical perhaps quare. where are you going germany saying this land has seen better elections in time gone by when we talked about more important issues but now instead of looking to the future we speak about returning to capital and car tax reform really though tomorrow will be less about groundbreaking changes and more powerful litmus test an example of. how policies over the last few years the key issues being of course immigration open door policy the economy social reform all of that will be on the agenda. now however confident the

chancellor and her c.d.u. party may be medical's main rival the social democrat leader martin says he refuses to believe she's already won so says he hopes the last minute swing could still happen well they all say that he's seeking to win over the undecided voters and the former european parliament president remember he's positioning himself as a man of the people. martin shoots angela merkel's fish roy win the race for the german chancellor here's how the world knows him as the leader of germany's social democratic party and also as the former president of the european parliament but what many don't know at least outside germany are the ups and downs that have marred his early days start at the beginning martin shooters troubles began in high school from which he never graduated he wanted to be a professional footballer but a knee injury put an end to those dreams. started drinking and was diagnosed as a serious alcoholic by the time he was twenty. or so bad that even contemplated

suicide luckily he turned his life around opened a book store and eventually got himself elected as the mayor of his hometown. his rags to riches story painted twenty twelve when he was elected the. the european parliament transforming him from small town mayor into a powerful year across. the perks reportedly included. and over thirty aides which angered some fellow m.e.p. the queen of sheba probably had less stuff certainly less refers i can't decide if martin schultz is a bull in. a gruff federalist. was also accused of using his position to help his good friend the european commission chief and former luxembourg prime minister. blocking the probe into a luxembourg scandal in which big companies got generous tax breaks. now back from brussels seeking to dethrone angela merkel accusing her of americans while

presenting himself as a man of the people. given the struggle she was in jordan his day it's likely that many relate to him as a man who understands real hardship but he's more recent brussels baggage in the case voters might find it difficult to tell him apart from the iron chancellor he's trying to oust. ok let's bring in that guest i promise you i'm joined by hugh bronson is a member of the berlin parliament for the alternative for germany party here good to have you here know this like you're a busy day for you about expectations realistically for your party i believe the polls put you in third this kind of a lot of parties jockeying for the third place is this a good result if you get that are you hoping for more of course we'll be absolutely delighted to be. we're expecting thirteen to fourteen percent and that is

a realistic view of the polls told us today that we are literally between twelve and fourteen percent so let's look at third place thirty percent and i'll be very happy. do you suffer from a kind of a similar issue that many in the pen have in france and that you know you're labeled as far right some people call your party a nazi party and once you've got your supporters there are those people who would never vote for you whatever the circumstances because of what they perceive to be your your stance is not always going to hold you back i mean the problem is what you just rightly said what they perceive to be this is not our party we are the conservative party a right wing party yes but we are within the frame of the law otherwise our party would not be allowed to stand for this election if you want to have a fair assessment of the party how it's been perceived abroad i advise you to read austrian papers all the news erie papers and they all have

a completely different view they see it objectively they're not involved and they're not vilifying the f.t. but looking at the party for what it is because i mean you've got an image problem do you feel be misc concerned because it will be the same key points that will come up every time the parties mention and and that will put a lot of people off who maybe don't know too much about the deeper policies and the media seems to be on board with the established parties who try everything i mean everything to prevent the f.t. from entering from having them a decent result by starting smear campaigns it's literally like just like that if you look at alice vitals private life and you make it a big story that she's a homosexual and she lives in a partnership what does that have to do with a policy that has absolutely nothing to do our policy is decent conservative policy and people who will look at a program will actually give us their vote but there's an awful lot of people who i mean your party again is perceived to be anti islam and team integration of

a lot of people in germany both anglo-american as christian christian party that they they welcome immigrants they want to be multicultural design i mean your point is in the wrong country it means that we are perceived wrongly we are not anti migration this is wrong we have. controlled immigrations we don't want our borders to just be open to everybody who comes across this is not the way forward we are not anti muslim also this is wrong if somebody has followed the koran has this view sends his children to school a decent job looking for a job starts to speak and practices his rule at home fine with his religion at home fine with us the problem starts if you put the sharia above the law now this is illegal and this is what we don't want so every every muslim says this is my belief system my religion but i don't want to impose a syria they're welcome. how much more support do you think you need in order to be what would be a key player on the political scene capable of forming

a coalition so if you sit around the ten eleven percent mark waid eastley need to get someone goes maybe we don't even like the you but we need you. first of all anyone who wants to form a coalition look at the christian democrats this is not possible with angular machall still in power she's responsible for many things that went wrong in this country many things people object to in this country and as a strong resistance against hunger that back in her own party you look at the pictures where she gave speeches market places she was booed she was good people after their protests they don't want her to continue the policy with other parties will look at the greens the free democrats and say ok we can make a deal with them a lot of them is a look at him and say no we do must be a market where you have to reach how many more percent do you need to become a realistic player i can't really put a figure on that number because if you look at our work in the lead up

parliaments in the small apartments and communities now we are working together with the sensible people when the cameras are off the photographers have gone and then you can talk but you can talk sense to a policy and on a very local level many. agree we have decent agreements now of course if we have fifteen or twenty percent or five million six million people gave us their vote then of course we are a factor that cannot be ignored. this is an issue that we've seen in france and in austin of the countries where right wing parties can gain so much support that we've seen progress made in other countries but this seems to be a hard cap and limit they have a hard core support is this basically a wave that is coming to an end are you limited can you actually break this this this this tradition of getting progress but you're limited to what you can achieve what we of course want to do what we have to do is to put in place sensible policies policies to look after let's say the regular man on the street was

worried about his pension he was worried about his job who is not happy with migrants being given millions and millions while all pensioners have to connect. bottles and cans in order to cash in on deposits this is not what we want by doing the right thing for the people i think we will gain plausibility and hopefully hopefully we will have a stronger support in the coming years q are you taking the time to get about eight with hugh bronson party. ok we're going to see what's going to move on to. now however the chancellor ok we've run out of time and just found the going to lead out now and i guess to bring you more coming up later today.

they're bad actors over there but maybe these young folks 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 in the mining business so there's going to be a lot more competitive in the mining business so the main kind of play to monopolise mining is under attack as well because the world's competitors. the reason why north korea is trying to develop capability to japan needs to actually prevent japan and 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 assists. with nuclear weapons. hello again also in the headlines today waving flags chanting slogans and burning flares rival crowds of pro and anti independence protestors have faced off in the spanish region of catalonia over the upcoming independence referendum.

her. groups of protesters exchanged insults and threats into independence activists burned cattle and flags and even threatened a journalist who was filming the demonstration. yeah. yeah. yeah. in this. case and i want to i mean i had been to some of this in the deal that was made my god you can figure out how do you see. this was a piece of pieces he was god i'm going to let this be done this that it. was. now the vote is set for october first but madrid deems it illegal and has deployed various measures and an attempt to disrupt it through merced police raids have been carried out on local government offices legal action has been started

against regional officials in the latest move more security forces are being sent to catalonia. and i used it often we finished considering the riots is developments the government decided to relocate to catalonia more security units to strengthen the state's forces in the open in that's all told in this community nobody is above the all of us all responsible for our actions and who have a breaks the law has to deal with the consequences. 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. birth alone and where students have to gather to the soul of their ship or to the university it's the place chosen by this students these people have been

here during the whole day speeches showing their disagreement on their support for referendum just to take place on the first of october we are here to defend our. future state their students. very important part of our society the youngest so we need to make use of what's governing here it is really important for four days process to have a students on their side. really going to put this 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 our games that will be on the streets and we'll try to boat passed by just yesterday. if they were a friend they were in real danger after the actions of the spanish police however the government 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 folk told her. human rights watch has accused the u.n. a failing to investigate war crimes and iraq the group claims the security council also missed a key opportunity to address recent rights abuses in iraq 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 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 terror suspect in mosul the executive director for human rights watch in the middle east told us she believes the u.n. needs to programs 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've been executed tortured. by iraqi forces we also have a lot of concerns about the bombardment un security council knows very well that organizations like human rights watch have repeatedly urged them 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 as we count down to sunday's vote that will bring you the rest of your world news so they stay with us. prescribe medication is widespread on the u.s.

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agreement continue in ottawa we are live from canada with the latest and the organization of petroleum exporting countries opeth met today in vienna to discuss continuing production cost we'll talk with former u.s. trade commissioner bart chilton and get his analysis of this impact and the omens related to opec's decision by us start right now. researchers at rice university and texas a and m. at galveston have spotted problems in the catastrophic flood danger maps used by the federal emergency management agency to predict areas with even a one percent per year chance of massive damage from rainfall it's known as

a one hundred year flood classification the maps in question cover southeastern harris county which contains houston texas it's just one area which was ravaged when hurricane harvey crashed into the state last month seventy five percent of the land area damaged by previous storms there appeared to have been overlooked and therefore did not fall into the danger zone which means that those homeowners may not have bought special flood insurance as hurricanes increase in their frosty the federally backed national flood insurance program is nearly twenty five billion dollars in debt now in florida the aftermath of hurricane irma has faced more than one million residents in the forty eight counties affected they are set to register for federal disaster assistance and in the u.s. commonwealth of puerto rico president donald trump officially declared hurricane erma a major disaster that's setting that place up for more aid.