so she'd prefer snap elections to forming a minority government after coalition talks between merkel's party and the free democrats break down over irreconcilable differences. the chief advisor to the turkish president calls on parliament to reconsider the country's nato membership tensions between ankara and the alliance escalated dramatically after president one was depicted as an enemy during recent nato drills. and suicide surges in the french police force with more than forty officers taking their lives this year alone speaks to an officer who made two attempts on her life. was really bad is that we were not given the tools to fight terrorism simply sman

received new weapons some received training that would have us the measures that they have introduced were minuscule. you're watching r t international live from moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. merkel now says she would prefer snap elections to the formation of a minority government after negotiators negotiations to form a coalition government failed germany's president frank walter steinmeier has urged all sides to form a coalition and not to let down voters who cast their ballots in september's election. 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 sides need to take stock reconsider their conduct all parties elected to the bundestag of a shared duty to serve their country i expect from all parties

a willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future those who seek democratically given responsibility must ensure a cool way when they hold it in their hands. the german president made his statement following the failure of coalition talks between anglo-american 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. we're going to discuss this development with dr max art a professor of general and international business administration at the university of applied sciences worms and c.d.u. member i welcome to the program dr max now merkel has just said that she would prefer snap elections over forming a minority government can you explain what this means and in your opinion do you

think it's a step back. in a well this is very surprising to me so far she. clung to power and i thought she would have thought another big oh she had a solution so this is a surprise but everybody was telling everybody. we have a demonstration and. we don't know what this is there's apparently a party. going by the people are demonstrating for. everybody it's just a f.t.p. but in the end the jamaica coalition agree you have to be the c.s.u. the c.d.u. was a very very likely cons. struck a very strange construct that of course cannot work and we can see that the country is it from turmoil here and that this is indeed an unprecedented situation is certainly is i mean the german president each time i he said that this is a none present situation in the history of the federal republic of germany. and yes

europe hasn't seen this from germany has it he's calling for fresh negotiations how likely is it that fresh negotiations will lead to a different outcome given the s.t.p. and the f.t. have refused to form a coalition with party. well the f.t.p. is really for a change in the course the f.t.p. is maintaining its senses i think it's too could have the power to bring the video back to its senses so it's unfortunate that the f.t.p. was singled out as the culprit in this i think they have a very very sensible direction so we don't know if there's going to be new elections but if they are going to be new elections i'm pretty certain be the f.t.p. and probably also the i have to be the opposition party that came into parliament with thirty point six percent of the vote will gain because this. is why the silent

significant part of the population that wants a change in the immigration policy so i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but apparently stated we are going to have them here i mean if we look at the this first round of negotiations to form this coalition which obviously have failed why a new opinion did the three democratic party walk out. well they didn't walk out i mean the city you walked out on its formal law and it's not the c.d.u. i joined in ninety ninety one where i'm still a member it has drifted off course and i think the f.t. . he. is trying to bring some. straight line back to the process when we have to be a degree in the greens want this immigration policy to continue and i think this is a big detriment for germany so i think the f.b.i.

had to walk out because there was no possibility for a consensus. now kind of one set of allah she's got the greens and they've declared their rican us to negotiate. and to form a coalition with her. will not change the free democratic party in their opinions will it change their stance at the moment you think. well i don't think so because the market apparently is closer to the grids and to the f.t.p. which is really. not surprising but it's a shame for the country. why not form a minority government with the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. tolerated by the r.f.d. and tolerated by the other parties i mean that's a very sensible option but nobody talks about that so everything is simply we have to see how things develop. maxie if the snap election does go ahead how likely

is it we'll win again. well again i was surprised that she actually called for fresh elections because i think she will lose further i mean i think she's lost a prime she should step aside she hasn't recognized the call of the time and some time now or later reality will hit and i think she should resign she's probably failed and this is this is the receipt for it the i mean even mentioned earlier that the party is not what it was when you joined can you elaborate on the reasons why you decided to quit the party. well no i didn't quit the party i'm still in there because i hope it will come back but boston which values i mean it had a very sensible immigration policy because two thousand and fifteen it had sensible

policy on the euro. the party on the market broke all these policies and by the last boss so far but i'm really i'm all my father was a member of the poppy i'm a member of the party and i really want to see it back on course and believe want to see it back. stand for sensible and good policy for germany they are not happy with the direction that it's gone under now. if we go into this one of the options is obviously the formation of a minority government and if the c.d.u. form marco relation with the greens will only give them forty four percent twenty in the hope and this town. how likely is it that the how can. that is not like we had all but for whatever reason merkel is on this destructive course she doesn't want to correct her policies or she gets along well with the

greens the s.p.d. or the wide number of bodies and with tolerated so i guess a minority government would actually be workable on. large number of issues because it would have the support of yes you did basically it would to continue the current policies which i think are very different to the country. that's apparently the objective to continue what was predominant all for. a wellness and we'll leave it there for now thanks very much for talking to us us dr marks out a professor of the general and international business administration university of applied sciences worms and a cd member thanks very much. the turkish president's senior adviser has called on parliament to reconsider the country's nato membership. is behind all the crew tags and turkey's dependence on others in the defense fear 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 and during that drill a poster was unveiled that had the names of enemies of the alliance and listed there it was the turkish president the one as well as a photograph of the founding leader of turkey ataturk now 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 party issue. the target. 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 the one has said that an apology cannot cover a matter a simple apology is not enough. well we're going to discuss this further with you know son of the turkish patriotic parties deputy chairman of international relations thanks for joining us here on the program now turkey nato relations they've been going downhill for quite some time now haven't they how likely is that this recent incident over nato drills will prove to be the last straw. well welcome to the rising of

a new world. turkish public opinion is already. strongly discussing closure of different us bases here in turkey like in jude leak from word. the word syria are made or rather station in milan to include egypt which is sort of being the region between the north of iran iraq and syria as well so as long as the basic conflict between turkey and above all the united states exists. concerning the american it down to divide turkey to aim at dividing turkey by using the biggie more prizes and more answers of turkey will have to be expected i mean if we look at the incident in the hand it was a bit of an embarrassing incident wasn't it for nato and the fact that they've had to come out and apologize how likely do you think it is that nato can afford to lose i encourage this point because you know given the turkish. input into nato

it's a second strongest military presence isn't it so it's caused a really rather embarrassing situation. i think nato has a big big problem nato has a very very big problem more than the nato the united states as a big problem because not only in this incident and not only by losing the turkish forces but in general with the rupture been in the transatlantic system between europe on the one side and the united states on the other side the future in the nato is very very dull people but here we do see clearly have a pioneering role of turkey in resisting the american interventions in the middle east and in in europe as well as a pioneering force and this will lead to a rupture within europe within the nato because i don't think that the european nato countries will side with the united states if you consider their recent

positioning for example concerning trumps policy towards iran and drums for this towards syria as well so i think the retreat of turkey step by step from the nato will give rise to a new world by having a great great influence on the nato itself it's the nato who has always going to be divided into two camps the us how how likely is it that turkey does eventually pull out of nato and what impact is that going to have. well actually you might ask if turkey still is in the nato for example if you consider turkish foreign policy concerning take for example the reason referendum in iraqi kurdistan thirty took a nation will position in coordination with iraq and iran or if you take for example for another example turkey's policy towards syria turkey's policy towards syria is not at all dominated by nato or its nato membership but by coordination

with russia and iran and indirectly also with syria so you might ask if turkey still is a nato member and this question is also asked in the united states now the clue point is that we need to strengthen this is my position from turkey we need to strengthen visa lines which is rising in the horizon which is turning into a brotherhood in arms. to maintain these countries a nation of unity enter into our integrity and to reject all american interference in the region so that. is turkey still the nato member now ok well we'll leave it that this son of the talk is patriotic not the deputy chairman of international relations i want to come down to the private. thank you. ok especially convene foreign ministers summit has been held in the egyptian capital an attempt to east trained political relations in the middle east find out more details after this break.

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the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back to the program now back to our top story saying that she'd prefer snap elections to forming a minority government it comes off the failed talks to form a coalition and we're going to cross live now to talk correspondent peter all over who's in for more details peter a bit of a shock what can we expect next. well it certainly is a surprise to hear from chancellor merkel that she would prefer fresh elections we did hear from the german president frank in my earlier in the day saying that germany was facing

a situation it hadn't seen in its modern history hadn't seen in seventy years but chancellor merkel has come out you speaking to german television saying that she wants or she would prefer fresh elections as opposed to ruling at the head of a minority government well the reason that this is all out to come about it follows the collapse of coalition talks on sunday evening those talks fell apart after the free democrats the pro-business liberal party here were. trying to put into a coalition along with the environmentalist greens and her own christie in union well the leader of the free democrats christian linda he got up and walked out on talks he said this it wasn't a decision he made lightly but said that he wanted it was better not to govern than to govern badly as he put it well the green party who were also part of those negotiations they said that linda got up and walked away just as a solution as far as they'd see or

a decision for an improvement for the condition of refugees had been reached that was never signed of course because lynn walked out so that left us with a few options not knowing where we could go could we see a resurgence of the grand coalition between angela merkel's bloc and the social democrats while that was nixed on monday afternoon by s.p.d. leader martin shultz he said that there was no chance of a rekindling of the grand coalition he did also say in his statement that if they would have him he would run as the s.p. days candidate the social democratic candidate for chancellor in fresh elections he also said that a minority government wouldn't be strong enough to reflect and represent germany on the world stage considering the status that germany holds see. it seems that under merkel has somewhat agreed with him on that point and she's put her well her weight behind fresh elections here in germany the best guess on when they would be

probably be end of february beginning of march next year thanks peter for the update there unexpected times and it will unravel i'm sure all over their reporting from berlin. and we have some more breaking news this hour the u.s. president donald trump has officially declared north korea a state sponsor of terrorism he's placed pyongyang back on a list of such states from which it had been removed by george w. bush in an attempt to salvage a nuclear deal negotiations to date united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorists should happened a long time ago should have been years ago. this designation will oppose further say chanson penalties on north korea and related first and supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderers regime tomorrow the treasury department be announcing an additional say shit and

a very large one on north korea and this will be going on over the next two weeks it will be the highest level of sections by the time it's finished over a two week period our breaking news there donald trump trump the u.s. president officially declaring north korea a state sponsor of terrorism and we will of course be getting back to you with more details on reactions shortly so say tuned for that. now 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 conditions and stress related to terror threats have been pointed to as potential triggers r.t. charlotte de penske spoke to an officer who's made not one but two attempts on her own life. if i was considered as a troublemaker i also had problems in my private life and with my children i felt abandoned he spent your entire life to build your pest mill and professional life

and more than day you say to yourself everything would be better without me or her lee 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 through 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 placement or 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.

how much all of. impact has the threat of terrorism hard on the police in on was 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 some policemen receive new weapons some received training but not all of us the measures that they have introduced were minuscule. or highly tells me the suicides amongst police she'd by no means been to put it as isolated cases. they always say that these it has no issues we will stop saying that policeman hits traumatised by the way 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 first in more. is one of the lucky ones dozens of others have succumbed to the extreme pressures they face and one reason why she pulled through and that was her child. at least twenty two ultra-orthodox jews have been arrested in israel after protesting the jailing of eleven men of the community accused of dodging military service. yes. this was just the latest demonstration against a recent court decision to lift an exemption for ultra or for job docs to use allowing them to skip israel's mandatory army draft several members of the religious minority have been arrested and jailed as

a result including eleven students sentenced this week to a ninety day prison term for failing to report to military service serving in the military has long been a controversial topic for ultra orthodox jews they argue that their religious studies a more important. now to round up all of our top stories this hour you can find us all over social media so make sure you check us out i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news so do stay with us. cryptocurrency doesn't really need to replace the u.s. dollar plays the euro it just needs to survive while those behemoths collapse under their own weight and that's when the top and it's going to go sometimes.

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a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us. five hundred twenty seven thousand people dead and many more injured i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago to understand why despite this death toll there is such fierce resistance to even moderate gun control laws in the usa. is thing here was a man on the trigger that's not the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he's trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family. my neighbors.