thank you so. yes. well when i started though i. was just one day to go and spot just fifteen hours of the job with these federal election of those votes and groups open to the bank of that so the final push to with the with the votes. in our three other world cup games with me jacqueline bouvier france's president mccrum rushes through his overhaul of the country's labor code with a raft of executive orders amid scenes of violent protests against the reforms. and human rights watch accuses the un of failing to investigate crimes in iraq claiming the security council missed the opportunity to consider abuses by all sides not

just islamic state. welcome to the program it's just turned six pm here at r.t. h.q. and moscow i'm jack and i will have your world news and just a little bit but first our main focus is going to 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 stud live now to the r.t. election team in the capital. well you should hear all your welcome again to our special studio here on the banks

of the river spree in the heart of just fifteen hours to go until those polls open tomorrow the big vote in the heart of central europe is going on with you and of course. yes they result of the day's vote will determine whether chancellor merkel well the main in power for a fourth. mr the action we've squeeze it all together all the highlights of this election season in just fifty little seconds. here is a. minute outside of. the whole thing to. find. out. as it is it.

well there you have it the final campaign rallies took place in major cities across the country with candidates doing that to breathe new life into their political image. chancellor angela merkel is showing off her first grade school. is that a rally in northern germany not sure if you survive or not to the sound of the rhythm of the classic staying alive will she what we think she will get through this election whether she'll be of course on the sky this is a moment time will tell don't just say the songs tempo is highly suited for performing c.p.r. . her heart but the atmosphere there was bright cheerful and you have entered functionality into an earlier rally in munich take

a look at the end. of the. i the loop. which trying to note that the bunny suit will do it stunts. this has started to be rather uncomfortable there for a while for a little work was the whistle while she was trying to win over the floating voters of which there are many around two hundred protesters heckled the chancellor a number of them indeed were arrested but all could i know caused it to be elected chance left for a fourth time making her germany's longest serving leader after helmut kohl in the eighty's and ninety's remember battles here well local notes many of her rivals over all this time of. twelve years at the top elections every four years of course . has more next on how she's become something of a political survival than. she is the rana saurus rex of politics.

my team much unlike the dinosaur. extinction twelve years in power because you think she was nothing but. how has she lost it these long hard hours through does he say euro crisis the

migrant crisis will tara. lead me 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 worm whole way out of anything to say exactly what the 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 tell us a one of merkel speciality take gave marriage fall back this 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 supportive opposed to gay marriage the public wanted to she led parliament legalized but voted against to save face. it's failing to steal the ideas of others and take. credit that's pretty bad picked sallu unfairly by name in the ceilings they really went beyond the finance the ones i wound up doing was looking after. the thing that has. if it works it's with steve the. campaign plus the with the national flag. is the symbol the nationalist anti immigrant opposition.

we are in times where right wing populists a stronger and we don't want to leave patriotism to these people in twelve years. has practiced her trips to the fiction yet the problems mounting. is becoming harder and harder to. get she says she does she's. not going to run stock. didn't believe you might you can't. see. well our correspondents are all across but i don't think it has all the latest on what's happening across the city in relation to the elections and here's one of them down. here. ready to head to the polls i found it good to see you know what's the outlook looking like. a major surprise is being expected no shock results being anticipated this election

is more about the changing landscape of domestic politics in germany. voters confidence. in all day speaking to people this is the word on the streets. we have kind of a stalemate you know that nothing's really moving politicians our chancellor she's pretty good on one side on the other side says since twelve years now in office and so i think this is definitely a time for change to have fresh power even if it's. she is a powerful woman though. i think it will stay more or less the way it is there will be no groundbreaking difference because merkel will carry on and that's good for america to start this morning that is just as predictable as hillary clinton becoming the next u.s. president so you never know and i hope people including myself about trying.

to avoid. going together with the. because there will be a kind of near liberal coalition that many including myself want to avoid having i mean we were happy that she did not many things going to change because i think a lot of things are pretty ok so pick change always comes as a big big risk. oh i think what has to be changed i for one am not a fan of mark and no one that i know is a fan of merkel and i hope that will cause any change. i think many commentators would agree there's no deep divisions or heated passions for this election but really the voters can be divided into several distinct groups the michael finds who think the s.d.u. the. c.s.u. the the c.d.u. is the way for they're happy with the status quo those who feel there is need for change and for some fresh faces but within the confines of mainstream political discourse perhaps voting for the the social democrats or the freedom democratic

party a few people within the centrist framework those voting for fringe parties and those voting to stop those fringe parties they may be the d. they've made some surprise last minute games going up a couple of percentage points they could be in for their first seats in the bundestag the first the right wing party far right party considered by many to do so in modern german history can they be the next german opposition party that is could be the biggest change coming out of this election will find out soon enough back to you mickey and kevin. indeed we will find out said frank. so that i thought if danielle hawkins all over confident the chancellor and her c.d.u. party may be have a confident locals may rival the social democrats they did martin shell says he still nonetheless refusing that she's already won the is not believing it chill says he hopes a last minute swing could still happen in his favor seeking to win over these large number of undecided voters the former european parliament president of course is

positioning himself as the man of the people but is it going to work. martin shoots angela merkel's fish royal in 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 let's start at the beginning martin shooter's troubles began at a 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 four it was 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 pink's in twenty twelve when he was elected the president of

the european parliament transforming him from small town mayor into a powerful year across. the perks reportedly included to limit and over thirty eight 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 ball enjoy bolshevik or a few a gruff federalists schultz 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 become. he's 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 early days it's likely that many relate to him as a man who understands real hardship but he's more recent brush with baggage in the case voters might find it difficult to tell him apart from the eye and chancellor he's trying to oust. but joining us live in the studio now is a frank christian hands all of them at the bell in parliament for the f.t. hearty welcome to the program thanks for coming on now how does a company putting your party in third place do you really think you have to compile it out i'm sure we do we will be the third political force in germany and there was a little time where we thought probably not because the anti a of decomp aim putting us to the extreme right seemed to be very successful but at the end we'll have failed how do you react to the target are often given you called nazis what you thought. we know that elections always will be one in the center and never in the extremes never the left and the right we are not the right extreme party we

want a center we want to confidence off the people who lost confidence and i'm going to government so you come on i mean a look back i'm just looking at some quotes back in two thousand and thirteen there was an email from one of the one of your party's lead candidates then alice middle . she's making derogatory remarks about arabs as well as the the the roma gypsies except ok you're going to say you've moved on from up but then we could say well hang on very recently alexander goal and one of your chief has basically said it's right to be proud of our achievements and also asked for the german integration minister who happened to be turkish to go back to a country have. origin if she didn't like it here. well it's when we were founded in two thousand and thirteen we were the first to one immigration law for anglo-saxon standards like canada has it we need for demographic reasons we need immigration we know that so we're not we don't want foreigners out the ram after everybody was not his soldiers went on that there were some of them where but the

majority defended the country and we have the problem that they were also the opposition to hitler and the one who wanted to kill hitler were friends and so this is a discourse but what passes for us and for us isn't important to solve the problem of germany of the future not about attitudes towards the past. if some of these polls are correct and a.s.d. are going to come in third place what makes you so confident that voters are going to turn to see your party and not. because the link doesn't share an analysis for instance to the europeans to the euro crisis where they understand that systematically from the economics it doesn't work with the euro divides europe as we say too but they want more solidarity they want to transfer all the german money into the whole of europe and this is sort of it cannot want we don't want and the germans don't want it and i'm sure also that the government whatever however it looks we're not endure for four years the problems will be too strong and we will

have another federal elections the next two or three years and then we will see really what happens maybe is the time not right for you now you could say i know there's a lot of political change going on the moment you never know what's going to happen look at the brics it vote look at trouble we don't know that was all going to turn out because the recent votes in austria france and holland as well the right wing is expected to do very well but actually end of the day didn't help with religious time i don't for the moment we will be the third power but i think oh i was we always say we are the party of political realism it's not about right wing it's about the right direction and the. form of murder government failed in this direction and i'm sure we will recover and we will recover confidence of the german people ok from christian hands a member the bell in parliament thank you very much can i thank you very much for your budget thank you. note no election these days is complete without allegations of russian meddling on the german vote is of course no exception. and hacker scene

is huge german security agencies and cyber experts are alarmed all evidence points to russia that's why we cannot rule out why we're preparing for similar efforts to influence germany's election mishal who some walk ups in part because of a year long search by german intelligence that failed to find any hard evidence of kremlin but interference want to experts cited in a recent washington post article says the very fact there's no sign of russian meddling is itself suspicious adding that quote it just doesn't feel right well despite the apparent disappointment from some of that set and moskos not trying to rig the race but vice chairman of the free democratic party says germany should be looking for dialogue not fear mongering. but to knowledge is to be a warning to you look we go aren't we calling for a continuous constructive dialogue instead of saber wrestling we want to sit down at 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 fanned his hands a detroit game show once why he said as long as people are talking they aren't shooting each other this should be all go a dialogue and teamwork is europe and germany need russia and vice versa we should conduct dialogue rather than fuel syria. but we are of course going to be here with you bringing you all the latest from berlin either as the polish command over the next three days but for now pass it back to our studio in moscow.

one hundred years ago the first computers were actually. people who were hired to do you know i difference 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 to do by 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. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in the economy is built around corporation corporations washington the washington post media the media the voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power

who must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . welcome back despite ongoing protests president mccrone signed five executive orders yesterday to rush through his controversial labor reforms that will come into effect in the coming days and this is the first of many changes that are planned for the future potentially causing more public unrest artie's pulse lear is in paris for us putting two old guys this is at least a hundred and fifty thousand people now this is a reaction to president my confines of those five official orders and talking to people here looking at the placards they really saying no to these labor reforms now this is an amalgamation of both lift wing organizations and anti mcconnell protesters people have been bussed in since the early hours of this morning some

are save some for me from a post office range cities and we're also hearing from the leaders on the fringe. that they will continue to. be labeled all that. work for protections and that would like to see like this in the coming days and the coming weeks talking to protest that they are angry basically angry with the statement that mcconnell made not so long ago calling them slackers stupid and it did mean that i will be absolutely determined to the i will not yield in any way not to sarkozy not to cynics not to extremists music's been nowadays. a magic. pill and we're making our way down this road way. to get around this area where there are some kind of. what the french police radar seems like be repeating themselves.

well as we march with the protesters here and speaking today what they're most concerned about is that. trade unions how well they want to see how it companies to be able to find people so really the mood on the ground is one that people are not going anywhere until mcconnell himself make some changes. 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 the country as well that's a reference 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 video emerged apparently 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 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. by iraqi forces we also have a lot of concerns about the bombardment of most 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 general election continues in about thirty minutes when they are to election team bring us the all the latest developments live from berlin and then i'll have the rest of your world news so do stay with us . 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

assist south korea we would with nuclear weapons. just manufacture consent to public will. when the ruling closest project. the flaming. lips. we can all middle of the room see. the real news.

my soul the jolly. old have piqued my interest so i went. to ask somebody what is this the somebody is going to get at and they tell me this is a they believe in waiting legal fishing oh my god will that's kind of interesting. pirate. well you know the pirate thing we've got a good because we were called pirates for so long but. really.

the world is changing our tactics i change things. a lot to give the government needs to tie for them to wait like i'm sure they've all seen what's happened to me i'll go fishing. and the call to call abstemious just might think kaddish another european pleaded the east africa is already in a very bad state like then they got told us they have been there they still are just emptying the ocean so if you look at the situation in somalia the pirates can be argued that they used to be fishermen and then foreign told us came to fish they have no human so i think it's just common sense that the country is so waking up.

if . you can't. see him wanting to come on in it then you must you see him do not own posted a few times costs are not in any good also known to consume i'm not good to do men married to god would never make good on people are going to. show you mean i stand by that misty's not exactly nothing to them but they didn't get that and i think my team would come to this instant they turn eighteen.