it's just a good area for immigrants it's. never really know for sure but this is. when i started going. in a show of military might the u.s. flies that it's north korea's eastern coast while at the un pyongyang promised is a ruthless measures if it's attacked. the best and together it will do anything that you elected to the main candidate for the final push to win over voters. in all t's of the world headlines with.

france's president michael rushes through his overhaul of the country's labor code with a raft of executive orders amid scenes of violent protests against the reforms. you're watching out international live from moscow with me in india to you well we're going to start the program with breaking news this hour the u.s. has find its bomb is off north korea's east coast the aircraft remained in international airspace but in a statement the pentagon said it's quote the fall of this north of the demilitarized zone any u.s. fighter aircraft have flown off north korea's coast in the twenty first century. this mission is said to demonstrate the u.s. resolve and sends quote a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat

meanwhile north korean's foreign minister has slammed the us president and his policies towards north korea from the podium at the un i feel forced to make comments on the speech are to four days ago by someone called the u.s. president that rendered this sacred u.n. arena tainted. since trump uttered such reckless and violent words provoking disapprove dignity of the democratic people's republic of korea at this very platform during his eight months in power he has turned the white house into a noisy marketing place full of crackling sounds of abacus peace and now here is try to turn the u.n. arena into a gangster's nest where money is respected and bloodshed is the order of the day

the north korean foreign minister was apparently referring to donald trump speech made from the same podium four days ago no nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or it's our lives we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. to discuss this further now i'm joined live by geo political analyst patrick hannington patrick welcome to the program to talk about this now in your opinion what message do you think washington is sending with this bomb the deployment. this is a message of aggression it's a message of war it's certainly the message just age that trumps base i guess

some of them anyway want to hear it's the message that the military industrial complex in the united states all the defense contractors they want to hear this it's john mccain's message it's james madison's message this is you know the message of the neoconservative war hawks so that's basically who he's talking to in terms of diplomacy it's completely counterproductive in terms of china relations it's very poor form and also in terms of military strategy it's worthless it's nothing in fact you know the other thing is obama would have done the same thing in fact obama did exactly the same thing in september of two thousand and sixteen he flew a b. one bomber over south korea not very far at all technically from where this was flown today of course that didn't get any media coverage of the time but that's a separate conversation but this is just basic u.s. behavior. a government that's dominated by the pentagon by the defense industry by

these interests to give listed quite a few negative and we can ignore can we i say one of the media that the high tensions between the two countries at the moment how sensible is it that they've taken this decision. the problem is you know the us is the problem in this you know south korea and north korea have tried different times to initiate some kind of a meaning meaningful peace process and almost at every turn you know the united states will intervene in one way or another to try to break up the sort of bilateral negotiations between the north and the south united states has a demilitarized zone between the north and south korea with thirty thousand troops and military contractors into their international base there they have a base in okinawa they have a base in japan they have a base and whilst they have a base in the philippines were the two big three bases if you bases in the philippines so you know from a from

a career point of view each day the problem is the united states i'm sure that north and south korea could eventually work this out there to have a peace treaty you know but that's not what's happening in the united states intervening for one simple fact because the whole the sick room agenda is predicated on poor relations with north korea and war footing otherwise the u.s. would have no business in the pacific and your reason they're there is to counter china so north korea is just theater this is a stage managed geo political theater and it's a very day it's very dangerous what united states is doing right now what this president is doing right now and putting the all open in a very negative way but do you mention that it's a dangerous what do you know predictions as to how peeling yang might liat to a provocation like this. well you know if you listen to the words of donald trump at the u.n. general assembly when you want to nuclear deterrent as well he's threatening to

destroy a country there's twenty five million people that live there and it's an idiotic statement by the united states president for this simple reason if you knew to north korea you would also create a huge nuclear contamination that would kill so many people in the south it would make the huge areas unhappy of all and parts of china it's not going to happen everyone knows the united states is not going to nuke north korea what you have here is an exact identical replay of the united states relations with cuba the united states government through its policies through its ridiculous policies and rhetoric and threatening and sanctions him or has kept fidel castro in power for seventy odd years ok they're doing exactly the same thing this is like a replay of you but your united states made for bill castro who he was made the conditions that kept him in power the u.s. government is doing the exact same thing here in but with north korea it says it's

like a replay of history so this doesn't make any sense on so many levels but this is sort of business as usual for washington and unfortunately history will not sort of be on the size of the u.s. in this because at some point it has to end they've been or seventy years of carved out a strip between north and south korea which is a basically giant dollars think for u.s. dollars for the military industrial complex there's no reason for the united states to be there and frankly there's no reason for the north and north and south korea to be pointing guns at each other only reason the orse because the united states had to take was interesting that you know other players are involved obviously trying to paint the situation russia's foreign minister despite the latest exchange of threats as follows i just got a quick listen. you can't have married men out there shooting rockets all over the place with rocket men should have been handled a long time ago with china and russia will continue to insist on

a more 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 so we had trouble there on love are often our how in your opinion would you assess the behavior of both the leaders. well you know north korea is north korea it's a theatrical of bordering on comical most of the time but you have to look at the conditions that have created this. regime or this system and this government in north korea and you have to go right back to the korean war itself this was a imperialist project by the united states that was brutal it was vicious and what do they do they moved into the far east permanently on a military footing after that and so what they've done is is risking the destabilization of the korean peninsula it's unlikely that you know that states would deploy nuclear weapons in this case but so you have

a president is desperate for ratings and you have the us media that is desperate for ratings c.n.n. fox they need a war because frankly ratings are tanking they try to push a fake narrative for syria for seven years and they fail miserably completely and everyone's got their tail between their legs right now washington and a seat at the c.n.n. news room and everybody else who are pushing the lies and fiction is of syria for the last seven years and now they're looking at this and this is brilliant they love a good crisis but in the problem is the u.s. should recuse itself and start making plans to withdraw from the d.m.z. because they've been there almost seventy years and so in you have trumps generals so what are these people what are they other than glorified sales reps for the defense industry look at their c.v. east afghanistan that was successful iraq oh that was a great success syria fantastic job by the generals and these are the people

running us foreign policy right now the only one that had the guts to stand up as a real patriot was general james cartwright and he was thrown in jail by barrack obama and none of these generals stood up for general jay james carville's for being whistleblower blowing the whistle on israel's stocks in a. ok so this is the culture of corruption that we have in washington and this is where it leads to what you're seeing right now from the u.n. general assembly and what we're seeing these comments from the white house and then the back and forth between communities in washington to call with all regimes right now having it all in a big theater and it's all about money at the end of the day. the defense budget has been increased twenty percent safe to seven hundred billion dollars twenty percent from seven hundred to go to more than the entire crease of one hundred billion dollars is more than the entire russian anyone defense budget ok so this is

what it's about this is what it's always been about and that's what will always be about ok patrick we're going to have to leave it there for now but yeah and watch how those tensions escalate even further hopefully not jam political analysts patrick having said that thanks for coming on to the show. also when our main focus this saturday is germany which is on the eve of the federal election live now to the altie election team in the capital there. hard to do everyone welcome to a three way. tonight's kevin owing to care and with the last bit of our coverage gets annoyed it's kind of the big night before the big vote those polls open in less than twelve hours as germany goes to the polls yes and the results of sunday's vote will determine whether johnson us will remain in power for eight or ten ok

well you know a preview then in case you missed of the action bus for we've squeezed together the highlights of election season to the very political. this. year's. when you stop. he never does i don't think flog a few people copied us anything fucked up the whole thing and that's what i did these are. what i'm going to find that. the time. i sit here that scared. so germany right now i'm going to bed i'm thinking about what we're going to do

tomorrow because a lot of minds made about a lot of minds not made a big percentage of the final campaign rallies took place in major cities across the country with candidates doing their utmost to try to breathe new life into their political image the. chancellor merkel is doing a very first showing of a first aid skills at the last rally in northern germany that is and if you're there of the beaches classic stay in a log obviously perfect or a bit of sci fi you know the atmosphere was quite cheerful in contrast to an earlier rally in munich which didn't go so well. i was. trying to look at it. you'll know it's not the shot the. longer merkel booed and whistled up there was who's trying to win over the floating voters around to the

protests expected which a number were indeed arrested over it. but despite that angle michael is tipped to be elected songs lesser of all time and by the end of that they'll be a new generation of germans that there's been no other leader in all face in their lifetime america has self know so many other. i both have come and gone through her twelve years at the top as cross live to charlotte and do benzine now to tell us more about how merkel has become this political is the vine of us on that good to see you could you take us through the main highlights of the chancellor's three terms. yes that's right nickie she has been known as a political dinosaur here in germany and across europe for the last twelve years and in the office behind me is where she has held that soft power the image that she's created of being the mother not just of germany but perhaps the mother of the

eurozone now she is hoping that she will sit in that office for another term a whole term if her conservative c.d.u. become the largest party tomorrow and then able to form a ruling coalition with one or maybe more parties in the next few weeks now if she retains that seat if you comes chancellor for a fourth time it means she will equal that of germany's longest serving leader her mentor helmut kohl let's take a look now at some of the presidents and prime ministers from across the world in the twelve years that merkel has seen come and go during her time in office.

now there have been big aha lies and lows during my season merkel's time in office here in germany some of the highest included the fact that germany has been the engine all of the news but then they have been losing to news of the economy as well with the euro crisis that we saw in gulf you are both of the last ten years the micro crisis and of course those terror attacks.

well in two thousand and sixteen those issues caused such a deep in the polls many people thought that angela merkel may not even stand for this truth but she has been able to push those polls back up and of course here we all the night before the election and she is standing hoping to be a chancellor for a fourth time now one of the reasons that she's been able to reclaim that popularity is because she's very astute seeing the public opinion is and how it's changing now some people have said that's actually not being a state it's flip flopping. all those who have been persecuted who are refugees displaced by war should be allowed in europe than 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 well i'm glad merkel was today on saturday finding out how to improve her first state skills and it seems that those

skills may be needed over the next few weeks if her party is to win and form a coalition with some of the other parties considering some of the very fractious debates that we've seen in germany in the lead up to this election nikki kevin back to you. at place on. it's thanks for that they sent an indefinite angle in my first career so i didn't think thanks very much on our correspondent on the balkans has been so he's been he's been busy gauging how this election is going to go with a political move finding out what the public think about this election and where the main fights going to be playing no. there's no major surprises being expected no shock results being anticipated this election is more about the changing landscape of domestic politics in germany and more of a litmus test for current popularity and voters confidence in health policies will put out in subtle but in all day speaking to people is the word on the street we

have kind of a stalemate you know that nothing's really moving politicians i would translate she's pretty good on one hand side on the other hand 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 she is a powerful woman overdoses i think it will stay more or less the way it is it 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 vote should teach you to avoid. going together with the. because that would be the kind of liberal coalition that many including myself want to avoid having i mean we're happy that many things going to change because i think

a lot of things are pretty ok so pick change always come as a big big risk as well. oh i think what has to be changed i for one am not a fan of marco no one that i know is a friend of merkel and i hope that we 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 c.d.u. is the way forward 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 social democrats or the freedom democratic party a few people within the centrist framework those voting for fringe parties and those are voting to stop those fringe parties namely the d. they've made some surprise last minute games going up a couple of percentage points they could be in for the first seats in the bundestag the first right wing party far right politic considered by many to do so in 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 but. i do know when i joined in our studio mr grunow crown the former chairman of the bell in front of the pirate party thank you for coming and i know your child a long way to be here with us tonight we really appreciate it now everyone's saying that the outcome of this election is a foregone conclusion do you think that so we're going to see some upsets some surprises while i think one surprise for many people will be that i think i'm not happy about it but i think that he will be most likely on position number three and it will change a lot like the balance of power in future coalitions so i think the show will be going quite deep. and of the. party is way out there in front already and that coalition partners that michael. is part of the social democrats a comfortable second do you think german voters really have promised to choose from

in this election well basically of course chancellor make. the chancellor and she made sure she was sick who faces. a lot to get this position again basically she was the whole party pushing into the direction. everybody so there was no space for the opponents to somehow compete with her so it was sure she wanted to keep the power and i think at the moment at the momentary situation it might be also what the people want because it gives a certain kind of stability and specially when seeing how right wing parties with no ideas with ideas from the past about closing society are coming up having actually no solutions being just protests it's at the moment i think this what most of the people want stability but one criticism of merkel is the she's leading the country to what is the future plan she's come and come and go on with what the public wants to change her mind on some things what about your policy what are you

going to bring to the party i know you're worried about surveillance state to the voters care about that you can make a show tomorrow and i was going to do this is this is actually true for us it's quite hard to come up with our subjects because people are afraid at the moment you can see hold over the world that nationalistic parties who are more into closing society instead of opening a much more successful in pirate party is a party which has an idea like an opening the world like one world this is something what's at the moment people are not interested unfortunately you were defiant surveillance particularly in being spied on in a room full of a living hell by the government etc because almost couldn't come at a worse time for you look at the last summer and the sound before of all the terror attacks and said from you know they have to say no we want to keep us safe so how do you tell him that you don't want surveillance but equally people want to want to stay safe yes it's quite sad thing as a people also like using a lot like pick knowledge in social media that smartphones everybody is using this

model of i have nothing to hide and therefore i'm not afraid but basically so wainscot goes much deeper and it's not only about states of aliens it's also about the so wanes from large corporations like google who would use all our information unfortunately rubra not able to bring this to the people and at the moment people are more. interested into closing the society not so much interested into technology and future and this is what actually germany needs because when it comes to technology and the internet we are far beyond that what we should be what you think the likelihood is of germany seeing its first significant far right presence and over half a century such that you know you said is going to shock how much of a shock it will be big a shock and it will be a shock to hear people like alan speak in the parliament that we have to be proud about soldiers and second drop of think about these soldiers brought killing to whole over europe to russia to everywhere and we should be proud of that i mean

basically the holocaust is one of the worst things what germany has done and these kind of people in the parliament i hope briley that our society starts to strengthen its own system against this right wing ideas because if he brings really no new ideas in its many protests and fear of the people you know things in terms of law and especially considering the weather friends could rain all day tomorrow but hopefully it will consider one put the voters off so you can do well very quickly yes or no i was going to be here all right for you trying to look at night thinking ok those from former chairman of the berlin branch of the power party with us tonight thank you for being with us from across the journal of the course throughout the day it's the last broadcast from us tonight we've got nineteen hours rolling coverage tomorrow from eight in the morning when those polls open we'll be there in the morning i'll be here for the rest the afternoon you're into the night so stay with us sort of international but in a day or of more headlines what are. welcome

back to me in a day or two to in time now for our top stories of the day paris is seeing more protests after president micron's signed five executive orders to rush through his controversial labor forms on friday although largely peaceful clashes at the main demonstration. thank you. i was i thought my carl's former rival in the presidential race joel newcomen sean out is that over

one hundred thousand people gathered to protest against the president's policies our correspondent pulis live reports from paris. well i would estimate that there were easily around a hundred and fifty thousand people where i'm standing in the bastille square and this follows a promise that was earlier made by the leader of the french leave milan sean that he would be passing in people from as many as three hundred fifty cities today saturday and since the early hours of this morning we have seen people writing here more democratic france is becoming far less democratic no days even more decisions are taken by officials not by the french people the people who were. killed the rights. that against the christian here there were. people want to show the don't agree and told us what's happening with the decisions of the government decisions that are almost always in favor of the ruling classes who have money and people who work then also for thoughts about which is why we

need to show that me here to stand up for our rights talking to protest yet they are angry basically angry with the statement that mcconnell made not so long ago calling them slackers for sure they didn't do to me at i will be absolutely determined to that i will not yield in any way not to sarkozy not to cynics not to rick stream ists music so now they have a six hundred twenty magic. pill and we're making our way down this way. to get around this area we're going to. cut what the french police radar seems like be repeating the.