i was. us policy finally the east coast of north korea while pyongyang claims president trump is on a suicide mission. president like wrong pushes through his overhaul of the country's labor code despite a furious backlash on the streets of paris. and germany gears up for sunday's federal election altie looks at the main contenders. watching r.t. international live from moscow with me in a day or two to welcome to the program the foreign minister of north korea has sent

a strong warning to the united states in a speech to the un general assembly we will take preventative measures through mostly preemptive action if the u.s. and its muscle forces show any sign of attempting to decapitate some operational headquarters or military talk again so a country. that's. in washington d.c. samira could you bring us up to speed on the war of words between the u.s. and north korea. yes well the crisis has escalated today even more after the u.s. flexed its military might according to the pentagon the u.s. sent b. one b. bombers from guam as well as f. fifteen fighter jets from okinawa japan on and on a mission in international airspace off the eastern coast of north korea. this is the farthest north of the millet of the demilitarized zone that any u.s.

fighter or bomber has flown in this this century. the pentagon says that this that this mission sends a clear message to the d.p. r. k. that the u.s. has a many military options to defeat any threat this all comes amid a heated dialogue between the two leaders both issuing threats and insults sometimes sounding identical a few days ago trump said that the north korean leader was on a suicide mission to which the north korean foreign minister responded saying that traffic was run on a suicide mission let's take a look at it. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime none of the trump himself is on a suicide mission. in case innocent lives of the

u.s. . because of this suicide trump will be killed totally responsible yes it looks like the north korean leader was particularly affected by trump's comments because the foreign minister responded saying that trump's actions were an irreversible mistake. you can't have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place the rocket man should have been handled a long time ago in the heat to try to insult the supremes you need to be holes in my country ok by referring it to a rocket we do it by doing so however he committed you don't even irreversible mistake the fundamentals making it all wrong gets a visit to the entire us mainland inevitable all the more the russian foreign

minister urged the u.s. and north korea to end its saber rattling and engage in political dialogue accusing both leaders of behaving like a kindergarten children. china and russia will continue to insist on a movie reasonable approach in contrast to the emotional one we see now where they behave like children with fighting in kindergarten nobody can stop with the test with the tensions escalating in between both countries the situation remains quite unstable at the moment so it's unclear where this is all headed. and certainly it's unclear thanks very much samir a column there reporting for us thanks. jay political analyst patrick hanging from the leaves and the threats coming from washington actually encouraging north korea to keep going with its nuclear program if you listen to the words of donald trump at the u.n. general assembly when you want to nuclear deterrent is 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 huge areas undoubtable and parts of china it's not going to happen everyone knows the united states is not going to nuke north korea 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 side of the u.s. in this because at some point it has to end we've been or seventy years they've carved out a strip between north and south korea which is a basic 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 the only reason the orders because the united states. have a different style of president micron has signed five executive orders to rush

through these controversial labor forms has despite days of chaotic protests on the streets of the capital. acro i. i was a house micron's former rival in the presidential race showing malinche on claims that over one hundred thousand people gathered to protest against the president's policies pulis lee is in paris for ati. 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 the writing here. france is becoming far less democratic now days even more decisions are taken

by officials not by the french people the people who. took the rights to it will say that again is the place to. get work with the 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 were then also thought 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 of not to cynics not to extremists music's nowadays that is sexy it's quite imaginative. and we're making our

way down its way. around to say we're going to. cut what the french police raid on. repeat. what. it really. they march with the protesters here at speaking today and what they were most concerned about is that. the trade unions who want one of the same companies to be able to more easily find people so really the mood on the ground is one that people are not going anywhere until mcconnell himself make some changes hoping at the latest on germany's federal election off the shelf break.

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a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of r t americans do the same we are apparently better than blue the things that i see people you've never heard of love for jack to the next president of the world thank you so very deliberately seriously send us an e-mail. gemini's carrying out france federal election polls will be opening in a few hours and the altie election team is following the developments from berlin. yeah a big thing if the polls are right angle of merkel heading for four more years but . welcome to our special election coverage live from the heart of berlin with me kevin i may make the air and have now the results of sunday's vote will determine whether chancellor angela merkel will remain in power for

a fourth term it's going to get old picture this election sixty one of the half million people able to vote those polling stations opened its poker morning so it's going you know so twelve hours time now in case you missed any of the build up to this we've squeezed together the highlights of the election season for just fifty seconds. because. i. think there's a. funny stuff. and then a downside and a few people can. fight off the whole thing that's what i do these are. what i'm going to find that. i deserve you skip to.

the final campaign rallies have taken place in major cities across the country with candidates doing that most to breathe new life into their political image. quite literally their charms from the merkel showing her first day skills at a rally in northern germany to the sounds of resilience yes if you're old enough for the free trees and the law if you talk to say. tempo's highly suited for performing c.p.r. if you have one that there was fear quite cheerfully of the event in contrast to the key to the rather embarrassing or little bit of embarrassment that went on in a big rally in munich early. on the only thing. i. find if you noted the budget through college voyage was the shining has started to be.

quite the same atmosphere there is anglo-american down the way still washee was trying to win over any floating vote is around two hundred protesters had called the chancellor and a number of well rested. so i'm going to be elected chancellor for a fourth time about the end of the term there will be a new generation literally of germans that have seen no other leader in office microsoft notes many of her rivals indeed have come and gone through her twelve years now at the top of the show to do bensky reports next how merkel has become somewhat of a political survivor not just a political survivor she is known as being the mother of not just germany but for some the mother of europe and some describe her as being a political dinosaur now under merkel hopes the results of that election tomorrow will see her win that fourth term in office and you'll see her back at these

offices that she's called home for the last twelve years let's take a look now at some of the political leaders from europe and across the world angle of merkel has seen off during her time in office. during that duration three terms sir paul anglo merkel has seen highs and lows

let's start now by the fact that germany has for a long time during her first term and even into her second term in office seen as the powerhouse the engine over europe in terms of its finances but that was hit slightly during the euro crisis that we've seen over the last ten years or so with germany having to bail out many other countries and forcing the european union to help bailout many other countries including greece we've also seen the migrant crisis with around a million refugees coming here to germany and then of course they have in many incidents of terror. she saw a big dip in the polls in two thousand and sixteen with some people thinking that she may not even contest this election for a fourth time but two thousand and sixteen was

a long time ago and she has rebounded in the polls since then she is also a person who is kani enough to know that when her own policies are not reflecting well in terms of the public opinion and she's been known to take ideas from other parties some of described her as being a bit of a flip flop when it comes to policies. 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 refugee. so there are many ups and downs in anglo merkel's twelve turns twelve years in office has three terms it is very likely if the polls are correct that her party will come out on top tomorrow but it will still then have to form a ruling coalition if she is to gain another few years in this building our correspondent daniel hokkien says being busy gauging the political mood finding out

what the public really think about this election and where the main fight will be playing out 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 her popularity and voters confidence in her policies will put out in central but in all day speaking to people this 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 sees 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 over there says 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 at least to avoid. going together with the f.t.p. because there will be a kind of very near liberal coalition that many including myself want to avoid having i mean we were happy that she did not him 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 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 this will cause a big change i think many commentators would agree there is 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 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 the first seats in the bundestag the first the right wing party far right party 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 i gave up when i joined in our studio by mr grunow crown the former chairman of the bell influence of the pirate party thank you for coming in 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's so are we going to see some upsets and surprise as well i think one surprise for many people will be that i think i'm not happy about it but i think that 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. i know 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 found much to choose from in this election well basically of course a chance to make the bilby stone the chancellor and she made sure she was sick who faces. a lot to do. at this position again basically she was the whole party pushing into the left direction she just 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 what is the future plan she's come and come and go on with what the public should change your 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 you can make a show tomorrow and how well you're 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 whole over the world that nationalistic parties who are more into closing society instead of opening a much more successful empowered 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 got to do well really quickly yes or no iraq is going to be all right we're not going to live at night thinking here ok those former chairman of the berlin branch of the

power party with us tonight can be tricky now vacating to the numerous parties running in this election the possible alliances they could be phones but don't worry we're here to guide you through to help you better understand the ins and outs of best. put together this little guy unless you all season then chairman politics understanding the ins and outs of the election isn't exactly a piece of cake for a start says each person will be asked to cost not one but. the us. for eight 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 two seats one in the bundestag the complex system prevents a single party from winning an outright majority so unlike in the u.s. so 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. to discover. if an alliance with shills isn't an option this is the man cole is likely to call next christian. the leader of germany's free democrats the pro-business liberal party that teamed up with coal and. allies the four by the way isn't just a pretty face he could confront call on some key issues. if peace prevails refugees must return prisoners such human rights for choosing your place in the world i'm not being harsh this is. 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 why the green party could come into the fold with their top candidate dubbed green for her similarities to. this cd f.t.p. and the greens would make an exotic mix known as the jim maker 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 all the details of the final coalition contract could take weeks to finalize the system is complicated but it is considered the fairest of them all for voters it can be frustrating though i caved in the early political parties end up breaking campaign promises and in germany there's always the convenient excuse that it was all their coalition partners fault.

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