the german president says his country is facing a situation not seen in seventy years after coalition talks between merkel's party and the free democrats break down over irreconcilable differences. but you could buy that to the turkish president calls on parliament to reconsider the country's nato membership tensions between ankara and the alliance escalated dramatically after president thirty one was depicted as an enemy during a recent nato drooled. suicide surges in the french police force with more than forty officers taking their lives this year alone r.t. speaks to an officer who made two attempts on her life. what was really bad is that we were not given the tools to fight with terrorism some peace men received new

weapons some received training but not one of us the measures that they have introduced were minuscule. a very warm welcome you're watching our c international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital i mean karen good to have you with us. germany's president frank walter steinmeier says his country is facing a situation not seen in seventy years merkel's party is at a crossroads after negotiations to form a coalition government failed steinmeyer urged all sides to form a coalition and snorts let down voters who cast their ballots in september's election. gets we are confronted by a situation that's not existed in the history of the german federal republic for seventy years this is a moment when all signs need to take. stock and reconsider their conduct all

parties elected to the bundestag have a shared duty to serve their country i expect from all parties and a willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future those who seek democratically given responsibility must ensure a kuwaiti when they hold it in their hands. the german president made his statement following the fairly of coalition talks between angela merkel c.d.u. party and the free democrats the free democrats walked out of the talks because of opposing views on several key issues one stumbling block is the migrant issue in particular whether to limit the number of asylum seekers and whether to allow their family members to reunite with them peace are never has more on the unfolding crisis but the reason that those coalition talks broke down was because christie and lynn the head of the free democratic party pro business liberal party here in germany he walked out of those talks he did also give

a statement on monday saying that as he does not it wasn't a decision he made lightly but as we can hear from him just after he walked out of those talks certain didn't seem like he was coming to an agreement with anybody in that room any time soon. we will not abandon our voters for a policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly well the green party for their side who are also part of this negotiation that was going on they said that at the time the free democrats walked out they were close to a deal that in their words would have been an improvement for refugees and say that didn't only didn't get signed because the free democrats walked out but what about the other big player in german politics the social democrats there was a chance they could come back in form a coalition with angle or merkel as they had done before the election and everything would be fine with their leader and former european parliament president . martin schultz has spoken to the cameras he said there will be no with grand

coalition as it's known with angela merkel he did say that if there were fresh elections that he would consider for running again against angela merkel and in terms of the options that were available what option apart from fresh elections is a minority government with angela merkel as its head he said that simply wasn't the right move for germany considering how weak it would make the government and what role germany has to play on the world stage so where does this leave us either a coalition deal gets done a minority government is allowed to rule the bundestag all we all call back for new elections that would probably take place early next year or in the spring at the latest. by someone who might be upset more light on the situ to situation now is that mr frank l.b. athenia f.d.p. party member and former ambassador thank you for joining us on the program sir now the president is calling for fresh negotiations how likely is it that they will

lead to anything new do you think. well. at the present i think that the coalition. talks. to make accommodations definitely fane. that does not exclude negotiations with of responsible parties concerned who considers some sort of core corporation. tolerating a minority government or even forming. some sort of a. coalition government that might eventually work mr b. why did your party walk out of negotiations what were the main sticking points there. well my party has for right from the beginning said that we are guarded by principles we have been elected because we

were called to modernize the country we entered into these negotiations with good faith and things went well in the first phase of the coalition talks with then run into difficulties and the main obstacle was caused by the greens who unfortunately introduced the kade old conflict between real nose and fundies into the. talks. it was this conflict between the greens and south that. never allowed for a meaning to achieve a meaningful result. i think that was the main stumbling block and there was one point when we realized that the. chances to have

a fair chance and against promises that we had hashing forth and i think that caused some anger in the last minute or. more the greens have said them all they were ready to negotiate they are in fact do you think your party f.t.p. might change it change. the point they are on that if there is a meaningful rule to suggest a candidate is cannot be taken for the stand that is if you are less throughout the day. angela merkel and her past how likely is it do you think that obey snap elections out in germany. that. is a matter for the president to decide if new chancellor law would be elected even as a head of a minority government which would be possible in the third.

phase of the elections where the relative majority would be enough it's still his decision whether he is wishing to tolerate a minority government or whether he would call snap elections if this sign is as you think it could be the end of the. party and her time as the chancellor how do you see her future. must tell you i've never really thought about it. i could just turn to martin schultz show way the s.t.p. is not to show he's ruled out forming a coalition what do you think he's done that. well you know. i think that the. democrats virtually suffered a lot in two grand coalitions that they have been going through with the christian democrats and they didn't gain anything from being in

a great coalition and therefore i think it is the bitter experience that they have made an experience which was also shared as a coalition partner when the for the freedom of credits under thirty two thousand and thirteen i think it is this bitter. experience that has prompted such a reaction not to be enthusiastic about one more it would have been the third round of grand coalition and i tell you quite frankly i think that the grand coalition is perverting democracy. do you think they like this week or see all parties return to the negotiating table yes or no well i think it will not necessarily be a return to a negotiating table but they have their own channels to communicate with each other

and to investigate if there are proper. means to return to a negotiating table in the final the know this for the time being i don't think that the same people will meet again within the next few days and so frankly i'll be a senior f.t.v. party member and former ambassador thank you for sharing your thoughts and shedding some light on the situation there in germany thank you. teletech is president's senior adviser has called on parliament to reconsider the country's nato membership . nato is behind all the coup de tars and turkey's dependence on others the difference here it is time for us to reconsider our motor membership there are growing voices from inside turkey calling to reconsider its nato membership now turkey has the second largest military inside the nato alliance after the united states but tensions reached a maximum in the last few days after

a military training exercise was conducted last week in norway now during that drill a poster was unveiled that had the names of in a means of the alliance and listed there was the turkish president the one as well as a photograph of the founding leader of turkey ataturk now are in protest against that the turks withdrew their forty soldiers from the military training exercise in the turkish president has said that there was an affront on his nation. this is not a personal policy issue. and that turkish nation now the nato secretary general stoltenberg has apologized for this mistake saying that it was carried out by an independent civilian contractor and not somebody who was employed by the alliance he certainly says it does not represent the views of nato and an investigation is being carried out at the same time the

defense minister of norway has also apologized saying that it doesn't represent the views and policies of oslo but uncle as having none of that it has refused to accept these apologies and the turkish president as one has said that an apology cannot cover a matter a simple apology is not enough. oil estefan deeper into this story now across live to hussein by a professor of international relations at an chris middle east technical university a pleasure to have you on the program mr baji now do you think this call it could lead to any realize action by the turkish parliament. i do not expect this first of all turkey will not leave nato because of this incident it is of course for turkish public and the government present not acceptable what happened. nato secretary-general stalled it is not nato was responsibility and

apologized and that somebody was a contractor who has done it and it can happen all that is in this sense but the fact is here how the turkish political landscape is acting together and standing behind the president and come out ataturk together and this is once again also showing the psychology here in this country also this side guise of the country that nato has never been so much criticized in the rest of the kates it was the case in the sixty's and seventy's when the soviet union and the united states of america had the cold war but today it is much more interesting difficult because the turkish president statements. definitely from the position of turkey to accept but that same time the discussions within nato

circles that turkey should leave nato turkey is leaving iraq and turkey is having trouble feed united states of america all these discussions creating now a new sense of enmity towards nato i will say is something real in public discussion but to leave the nato is a very very big decision and i do not expect to see if turkey does it then and tire nato and the turkish security it has to be revised once again then turkey would be a non nato member and there. will be a lot of new difficulties challenges rich turkey will face by the way there is no mechanism for. sound turkey out of the alliance except that turkey say ok i want to leave this military pact i do not expect that the parliament.

and say ok make sure it's finished for us when it is like you say just another blip in taking nato relations we can't ignore the facts that relations between the two have been going downhill for quite some time and sooner or later are we going to see the last straw. i think it is time for a discussion the moment in the world there is not another alliance based on what interests system that the nations are coming together putting their military forces according to article article fifty one of the united nations and turkey's member since one thousand nine hundred two tours turkey is one of the. members of nato and all the central and eastern european countries including germany they came later on the internet from this perspective the turkish security structure as well as the military structure in general is pro nato america oriented one and we

have all these public debates in the sixty's seventy's as well as now that nato is not anymore the effect it has before the turkish national interests are not defended by the this is all debates about turkey never thought seriously to leave nato once again if this government president would decide to leave the nato turkey can do this but it will have of course a lot of consequences for turkish economy social life military structure and i think turkish president will not and cannot leave nato because of this incident which is probably the same time definitely the turkish public should beit about this but it is not the reason to leave nato. just hated whites and no action that is he saying back to professor of international relations and chris middle

east he at technical university thank you for your time sir. especially convene foreign ministers summit has been held in the egyptian capital in an attempt to give strained political relations in the middle east you can find out all the date hours after this short break. the go the drama happening in our country and. every day americans to. be sure to bridge that gap. is the great american. welcome back the suicide rate among police officers in france has hit an all time high this year alone more than forty law enforcement professionals took their own lives increasingly poor working fits or working conditions and stress related to

stress related to terror threats are being pointed to as potential triggers artificial it depends kay spoke to an officer who made not one but two attempts on her own life. because i was considered as a trouble maker i also had problems in my private life and with my children i felt abandoned he spent your entire life to build your pessimal and professional life and one day you say to your south everything would be better without me or harley not her real name is an officer with more than two decades of experience having joined the police at nineteen she was very motivated and excited about the job but geez later the pressure of her work drove her to two suicide attempts the latest just seven months ago. our ministration is taking decisions on the people's anger is tending against us we are suffering from the image our government created for us today many people are calling for policeman to be killed. the most important

mission of the french police today is preventing terror attacks yet the offices themselves have become the primary targets of the hardest it's. how all of. an impact has the threat of terrorists and how to live police. we suffered enormously physically and psychologically from the terror attacks we worked extremely hard but that was our duty what was really bad is that we were not given the tools to fight with terrorism someplace men received new weapons some received training but not all of

us the measures that they have introduced were minuscule. all highly tells me the suicides amongst police she'd by no means be as isolated cases. they always say that these a personal issues we will stop saying that police some of the hits traumatised by their work they decide to commit suicide more easily than the others why not because they have weapons on them how many of them hang themselves throw themselves on the trains take pills my female colleague forty nine years old killed herself last week with a hunting rifle. or. is one of the lucky ones dozens of others have succumbed to the extreme pressures they face she says there was only one reason why she pulled through and that was her children. i realize that my child will come home that day and it saved my life but the lack of humanity in

police nowadays leads to the situation when many of my colleagues prefer to die instead of fighting. r.t. . parts. tensions in the middle east have prompted an emergency meeting in cairo of the foreign ministers of arab league nations a gathering with convened at the request of saudi arabia which wanted to discuss iran and iran back to the lebanese hezbollah movement is there are a connect the dots in the regional power struggle. the background to this begins with the latest attempts by saudi arabia to really escalate their attempts to isolate iran which is very accuse of being aggressive in the region they say iran is supporting a number of regional players groups like lebanon's hezbollah and they accuse the rainier's of trying to interfere in arab affairs and it really comes against the backdrop of those rising tensions it comes in the wake of even more open admissions

for example by the israelis and we heard from the i.d.f. chief of staff guardian eyes in court saying that israel and saudi arabia were in complete consensus on the issue of iran and what they see as the threat by iran and also with the israeli military figure there saying that he was willing to share intelligence and israel's willing to share intelligence with saudi arabia which would be something quite remarkable considering that collaboration between the two sides is now very open and so this meeting held by the arab league of foreign ministers yesterday was set up in the light can both iran and also hezbollah here in lebanon. the silence over the brutal attacks of iran through agents in the region will not make any arab capital safe from ballistic missiles. and will. the iranians will change their policies and that they received the message over arab

but not every arab country sent their foreign minister iraq sent a deputy qatar unsurprisingly perhaps considering very tensions with saudi arabia they also didn't send their foreign minister in fact just recently the saudi foreign minister accused of supporting what he said were terrorist groups and lebanon as well the foreign minister here he didn't go and attend that meeting either so an indication that those countries they don't want to have any conflict with saudi arabia they also don't want. be coming out and openly condemning iran because many of those countries are allied with iran so not to the same page that the spark for all of these tensions in the region in particular in lebanon was the resignation of the lebanese prime minister and he resigned on live television but he was in saudi arabia when he issued that resignation leading many to question

exactly how free he was and whether it was his own decision or that of his back because he's expected to return from power is his trip. tomorrow evening just in time for the lebanese independence day celebrations he will meet with the president michel. sensibly confirm his resignation but there are those who say his children and his wife who has returned to saudi arabia so how free is he exactly to operate when his family are still in riyadh. thank you for choosing r c international i mean karen and that's all for me but do join my colleague for the latest headlines the top there. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with. the bad guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have

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