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mainstream media has met its make. a degree rallies in the german city of dresden following the country's electoral lurch to the right meanwhile tough talks begin in the country's angela merkel's party which limped home to election victory with its worst results in post-war history looks like coalition partners to govern with the so-called jamaica alliance appears to be the most likely so far and also to come this hour human rights watch accuses the u.s. led coalition of killing schools and civilians including thirty children strikes near the syrian city of packing my.
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fellow welcome comes you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international now we're starting germany where angela merkel has been digesting what's been a bittersweet federal election for her and her c.d.u. party which despite coming out on top did see a plunge in voters support the right wing nationalists a.f.d. though has been celebrating the story twenty four hours with more on the results reaction to we can cross live now to kevin and the rest of. the evening here in berlin not sure about. the fact she lost eight point five. percent down. from this time in twenty's thirty's but
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a vote for the last twenty four hours we'll talk about it all in great detail at the moment but just to say welcome again to our special coverage of the german election here from the banks of the river spray and i live very well now come on micky arison. developments are happening away from the capital there in germany where hundreds of protesters have gathered in the city of dresden for an anti is. for us. this is widely regarded as a right wing anti islam and in a good organization and these events have become a regular thing interest in every monday at their height these rallies if you just pan out across the square attracted thousands of people joining them today as you can see the numbers have dwindled somewhat this square i would say isn't even full but what has changed of course is what's behind the camera right now if we pan past this line of police there is an anti far protest going on here as well i would say
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about one hundred fifty two hundred people of turned up. for protestors and a case judging by the red and black flags and heard some of them are carrying they're saying they're chanting no he's go home and to nazi propaganda now as we say the numbers of course of piggy to supporters have dwindled but the numbers of a.s.d. voters how very much interest here in eastern germany that i have seen now is the second largest party in east germany and in saxony where we are now it is on par with the c.d.u. among young men for example is actually the most popular party of course peta and the a.f.p. a separate organization is the aft is a political party the peta would call itself a civil movement but the people here that we've spoken to today make their political allegiances very much clear to us for work. the people have voted they are against. what has she done for the nation well she did nothing we haven't advanced an economic. we financed other states and merkel is involved in wars but
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it will be a if he touched the mood of the nation. mrs merkel set out on a course to increase the number of foreigners in germany there is a slow but systematic islam is ation of our country this is connected with a change in coach a more mass migration is just not possible. mrs america has developed into a dictator she's broken democratic rules merkel opened the borders in two thousand and fifteen and didn't ask the german people or parliament and now she has been dethroned. has shocked us i did not expect this and it makes for trouble this is not the germans i would like to represent there's been no violence is that i address the police out things well under control but really what we're seeing here today the big meeting on the wall side of the square with the gathering on the other side chanting no to nazi propaganda this is very symbolic of what's going on
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in many parts of germany. so the chancellor merkel's christian democratic party registers its worst result in the post-war period winning a projected total of only two hundred forty six seats look at the other way that's seventy fewer than it previously held that's was bad news for them but they used to for the social democrats or the s.p.d. they were big time their own course four hundred fifty three seats in the next parliament while ninety four will be taken by the alternative for germany party and that was the other big news the first time it has entered the national parliament bundestag over our shoulder here so what happens next while anglo-american now needs to team up with other parties to create a viable government in the bundestag she has said that she is not willing to form a coalition with the a.f.p. and that the controversial party will not have any impact on say take migration policy i believe that the partition can go into
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a coalition will find solutions search for them there are some differences of opinion between the union and the greens the c.d.c. is you and the f.t.p. and then part also the s.p.d. and of course we will find that then and the coalition agreements depending on how the end that will be reflected in there will not have an impact on that now because major rival martin so also said that forming a coalition with merkel is not an option and that his s.p.d. party will go into opposition. you also have political party we used to have politics without debate without discussion on that so it was like sleepwalking politics and it's important to put into it the role of the opposition in german parliament is an important one it's a responsible role that we assume for the next term plenty of debate in opposition but means that perhaps the most likely option is the so-called jamaica coalition as
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it goes forward in alliance with the pro business free democratic party and the green party where they got their differences. some european leaders of welcomed alternative to germany's success in the mean time not surprisingly the dutch far right leader villagers posted a photo of himself with the chief for the election campaign but she made headlines too as we saw she's decided to leave the party altogether earlier on she walked out of a meeting with the. members the top flight of the told to go away she says they will fight together no for their countries the vote was also called a symbol of the european awakening while the french national front leader marine the plan of course looking on very closely as well over the fronts of what was going to happen because there are a lot of hours in the french election of course covered however some in berlin are horrified that another student karzai has entered parliament. but the image that the city enters the bundestag with approximately thirteen percent is
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a catastrophe for us i hope we won't have a big coalition but rather that the c.s.u. the s.d.p. and the greens will come together reasonably and that the s.p.d. will come up with good arguments to the f.d.a. is our position so that we weren't let them become stronger here in germany clarke avoidant he was clearly if he would get into the going to struggle what is the realisation that such a radical force is in parliament and it's terrifying to know that these people most into longside other politicians than we were completely horrified at the end up to such a have percentage who think it's actually the germany has gone down this path. paulie boy has got more next on the party's election success has left many reeling. following their six s. at the elections this is the building that does a.f.p. politicians are going to be entering for the first time as m.p.'s in the national
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parliament the shock result has left many here in germany scratching their heads. during how this could happen it's been a country of political stability for a number of years now that thirteen percent share of the vote left many people in berlin extremely angry they came out hundreds of protesters outside the f.t. party's election night headquarters they were chanting they were calling the f d a party of fascists and the entire experience left one of the a.s.d. leaders and his family while the rock told we couldn't leave the party headquarters in fear for our launch my partner and her daughter were attacked by these demonstrators those who say that we are nazis that is richard this is what these naive people believe we are furious about this we are a party that stands completely by the rule of law and freedom and we want to protect political discourse perhaps some of the a.f.d. politicians were hoping that once they got into here is national m.p.'s then them
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and their concerns would have a greater legitimacy but in fact if the protests yesterday were anything to go by the level of anger towards them and the so-called other ring of them in german society has only grown if anything following the vote it is really quiet outside the bundestag today and there is a sense that the country is collectively scratching its head trying to figure out what's happened at these elections and while the t.v. political analysts try to pore over the demographics and figure out who it was and where voted for what they say is a right wing party some people call them fascists the f.d.a. is going through some trouble of its own take a look at what one of its leaders did. we want to create real policy and that's a long consideration i've decided not to be
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a member of the parliamentary group in the going to start i would like to ask you on this. standing i will not answer any questions on this petraeus was known as a more moderate voice in the party she said she wanted to make it less politically isolated more palatable to other voters and more palatable to other parties who could form coalitions with it but the co-leaders said they didn't want that they wanted the party to remain a strong opposition force to angular merkel's policies there is a growing tradition that they do those following their election success there's a big protest planned against the a.f.d. for hair to morrow but for now these guys are getting a head start. ok well let's bring going to guest now shall we we could do it we're joined by you know so not the turkish patriotic mr stener welcome to the program is good to have
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you with us now what sort of impact being can merkel's reelection will have on turkish german relations. well to put the context right we interpret the german elections as follows germany has both against the transatlantic alliance so they won't the german population voted against germany's politics towards russia but as well there's germany's relations and politics the words the middle east or west as we call it and germany have been falling in these areas consistently. washington position position was voted against and the the rising force the winning force of your day actions is the be as you mentioned in the report he mentions or highlights the problem of immigrants. we remember well that the problem of immigrants in europe has been
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closed due to washington led interventions moocher interventions in iraq. and also . so i think that these. moves this election result will cause the reorientation in durham even more towards eurasia that is different relations with russia better relations with china more distance with the united states a more self-confident germany and of course that will also change turkish relations because if you for example the points out in its program work for a nation and sovereign germany then you need to have allies and turkey is one of these allies. you know monday turkey's foreign minister said the rancor is ready to quoting here two steps forward to normalize relations it takes just one step what steps should be to normalize relations what would you like to see.
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well first of all both countries and especially if we speak about german elections germany has to be focused on its own nation's interest for example if you take american politics in the middle east these are supporting different armed groups different terror groups like to be k.k. or to get groups or germany has to ask itself is it in its national interest to support or to accompany the american policy obviously it is not because beyond other things it causes a huge refugee problem and it deepens europe's security problems so germany has to refocus on the nation's interest and if it does that then the problem will be solved by itself because there is no structural contradiction between turkey and germany there is no interest collision. but. differences difficulties called by us intervention and by germany's traditional in these elections questions
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. alliance with the united states of america so. the more germany changes this and this will happen the more german relations will become better. as you know merkel is now tasked with forming a coalition do you feel it could change with policy towards iran which policies would be key in determining a new direction. first of all i think germany is now facing the reality of president trump trump has declared on the. u.n. speech that he is willing not to accept the wrong view for example and impose on the world his rejection germany is confronted with the question do they support the american line and. their destruction of their relations with iran by the will of trump or did they follow a different separate part more eurasia and if they follow these eurasian path then
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they should regain their server in. for example in the iranian politics but also in public or iraqi politics and move away from trump's life in that way they will gain suffer anything back and they will gain new alliances and new friends. so the new mr yunus. thank you for your time. also we cut you off purposes slightly we're out of time though we have a delay on the line thank you have a good evening. well it's been an advent full two thousand and seventeen federal election thanks for staying with our special coverage from our studio here we appreciate it very much. go for a last look over the river spring. competitors t.v. it was over that importantly the. yeah there's going to go on over the next
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three four five one. sr who exactly will be sitting there will cover every twist and turn but for now from berlin to my for me and mickey very good night. hello again time now to look at some other news this evening now a new human rights watch report has the keys the us led coalition of killing at least eighty four civilians including thirty children in the syrian city of rock back in march were gassed year for ports from the country. in the unlikelihood more than eighty four people civilians were killed in two u.s.s. strikes even and near the syrian city of braca and those eighty four people well
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that's just the bodies cool enough to identify their strikes alleged he targeted a school in markets and the bakery putting to human rights watch which carried out an investigation and published a forty two page report previously the us led coalition that said that for doing that internal review they found the claims of alleged civilian casualties tax credit bill it's well human rights watch visited these locations they spoke to the people and they looked at the evidence and they found that the u.s. led coalition given visited these locations they never spoke to the people they never looked at the evidence coalition forces have said that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that civilians were killed in the attack on the school but as far as we know they did not visit the school they did not talk to any witnesses if they had they were found plenty of evidence that civilians were killed and knew this case the question they're asking is whether the u.s.
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led coalition somehow missed the dozens and dozens of civilians present to peace ok control whether they chose to ignore them whether they didn't care about the fields or said that they were isis fighters had these locations but so would dozens and dozens of other civilians as the if they're in syria well we have requested comment from the u.s. central command about the reporting this seems we get a response we'll let you know what it is and meantime we have discussed it with the team who are going from human rights watch. it's clear i mean if you do two strikes are we investigated as well some of the other strikes through. in this were. not appear in coalition authority so you actually believe that the actual number of court about a portion under it warrants it. now to keep question is.
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this happening and has been an ongoing subject of conversation issues or letters and requests between us and a whole if. i mean we believe that investigations that they are conducting are not using all of this it's not enough to rely on satellite imagery or grow the term and if there were civilians yes or no it's been going time and time again that. these high tech me miss key information and by going to come to survivors that my company was no one can get a much more accurate picture. when we ask them through all info about how to conduct their investigation and these were. you know there were some secrets not share with us clearly the emotion was not sufficiently spoke you know this is something that we human rights watch has been pushing now in syria from to me
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asking all or more transparency better reporting to its million protection at the heart of operations meanwhile russia's defense ministry has dismissed claims its air force targeted u.s. backed rebels in syria's dear is still province in september with the details on this his jacking the. well first of all it's important to know that the situation in eastern syria is extraordinarily complicated at this point in time we have both russia and the u.s. backing separate forces against eisel and all of them are currently advancing on darrow's or which many consider to be i sold the last foothold in syria now russia is of course backing the syrian arab army and they were invited into the country by the government and then we have washington who was of course never invited in working with the so-called moderate opposition the syrian democratic forces of r s d f and what we have today is on early on monday we have we're publishing an
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article claiming that russian airstrikes actually hit those u.s. backed rebels in there as our province alleged that one of its fighters were killed and two were injured in the strikes adding that they will not stand by idly and reserve the right to hit back i would assume russia has responded to these accusations of course russia has refuted the report saying that all of their strikes took place on locations that were current confirmed to be terrorist locations as part of the syrian army's operation to destroy isis last foothold in the russian air force has been carrying out high precision strikes against terrorist infrastructure the strikes are based on verified intelligence or drums of breeding and there's or haven't spotted any fighting between the militants and russia has also been monitoring the area around areas or around the clock and they think they have not registered any fighting between eisel and the s.d.f. which would be a rather suspicious absence of fighting the russian ministry of defense has also
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published a number of satellite images showing us special forces and their allies camped out in former iceland strongholds here we have the seventh of september and you can see these dark gray areas were all eisel strongholds and then just a few days later we have these pictures coming out and that's showing in these former stronghold. we have construction equipment and armored cars along with also on september the twelfth we have armored harmer and defensive a barrier being put up all in these former eisel strongholds and these are all u.s. led coalition equipment that's what we're seeing in these pictures and the problem with this is no fighting is there's no evidence of fighting having taken place around these locations indicating that there could have been some sort of handover that there was just see an agreement come to between eisel and the u.s. led forces there's also a very worrying lack of patrols being conducted in these areas theoretically you
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would assume that if you take in these locations i still militants may try and recapture them but no patrols are being conducted now the russian defense ministry has of course demanded an explanation for these anomalies but has been met with silence up to this point and in the same vein we have russia's deputy foreign minister calling for the u.s. to prove their commitment to fighting terrorism in syria not with words but with deeds as russia has. talking with. a bit of what we can tell you that the u.s. led coalition has not responded to our request for comment and it says the accusations made by the russian defense ministry folds but it can't comment further on current operations. both korea's foreign minister says donald trump has declared war in pyongyang off to making inflammatory comments on twitter. that his country is the right to shoot down u.s. strategic bombers even if they are not it is
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a space with more his kind of. now it's important to know that the foreign minister who made the comments regarding u.s. aircraft was responding to an earlier statement from u.s. president donald trump on twitter twitter and his twitter statement donald trump had said that north korea's leader quote is not going to be around much longer and so we now have this response from north korea's foreign minister now in response to the statement from the north korean foreign minister about the shooting down of airplanes we now have a response from the pentagon the pentagon is saying if north korea does not stop their provocative actions we will provide the president with options now there has not yet been an official response from the white house the white house spokesperson said there was not an official response but that's not going to stop donald trump from getting on twitter and the whole world is probably expecting donald trump to continue this war of words on social media let's take a listen to what's already gone on between the north koreans and the united states
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has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself words out we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man. is on a suicide mission for him so and for his regime. kind of measure will be decided by the chairman of the state fairs commission. but i think that the strongest ever hundreds might be tested in the pacific. where this month north korea tested its first hydrogen bomb on a new level of nuclear weapon and now they are threatening to test another one but this time to test the hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean so the question remains what will the united states do if north korea indeed does carry out their test of a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean now from the beginning of this crisis russia and china have proposed a double freeze to deescalate the situation on the peninsula they've proposed that
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north korea freeze its nuclear proliferation as well as its provocative missile tests in exchange for south korea and freezing their provocative military drills and getting rid of the thad missile system which is a the terminal high altitude defense system which is a strike enabling missile system the united states has erected in south korea so questions are being raised as to why this this proposal for a double freeze and a deescalation in the resumption of negotiations is not being taken seriously meanwhile we see this war of words escalating and many people are wondering could this end up with a very very dangerous situation resulting in what's now a very heated exchange of comments from the leaders of two contraries when in response to all of this united nations has said the provocations on both sides are increasing the chances of fatal misunderstandings we heard from. him about how he sees the crisis playing. we hope the engines are starting to deescalate but then
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inevitably we just keep getting these fresh comments either from north korea or from donald trump himself we can see from the market's reaction today that we're still far from immune to these this commentary because of what it could potentially lead to alternately though it doesn't thankfully it hasn't yet gone any further it's so far we have had missile tests we have had military drills in the us and south korea for example but fortunately so far it hasn't asked escalate any further guess the concern today is this use of the retarded declared war is is warning people a little bit and hopefully that will start to get the fuse but the problem is when you look at both sides who's going to back down first in this war words and i don't see either side showing any willingness to do so. so that's how things look so fast and i thought they were an ati i'm back with more in just over half and i don't think it there you can keep across all the stories. about website.
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that i do a lot. less. than a. fair. number. morphs into a neo con well i didn't take long also the world disorder after the united nations general assembly speeches and why does morgan freeman hate russia so much.

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