also this week the u.s. and allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis and they agreed more pressure is the only solution. the pressure will continue until north korea decides to do nuclear i think our job collectively now is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure discord to include cutting off diplomatic ties there is north korea. we spoke to human rights lawyer ericsson rock and he says washington fears dropping out of the spotlight in the korean crisis. president trump somehow believes that this pressure approach is the is something different than has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s.

is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver. thirty people are fit to have been killed in an overnight see each other major hotel in the capital kabul that's according to reports citing security officials authorities put the death toll at nineteen including a high ranking afghan diplomat and fourteen foreign nationals most of them employees of a local airline all of the five attackers were killed the taliban has claimed it

was behind the assault. i think unfortunately the afghan security forces are just not. up to the standards or there's too much pressure on them and there's not much coordination between nato forces and the afghan police there are multiple threats there's the taliban there's al qaeda there's ice is there's also has miss lami which is also in the government so there are

a number of opponents and i think that there simply isn't the right intelligence to counter these kind of attacks that because they're happening on the regular basis one day it's a civilian target one it's a military target one meets a commercial road or a hotel by today how to counter terrorism in afghanistan you need a regional approach and the regional approach means working with iran working with pakistan and working with russia in the central asian states at the moment the u.s. is not really doing that they have their own strategy and it's not doesn't fit in with britain charity. drug related crimes are becoming so bad in parts of the paris metro train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations that's according to a union representing the metro bus network in the french capital on the charlotte devinsky braving intrepidly went underground to investigate. for most parisians the metro is a staple of life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city

it's often the easiest way to get from a to b. but down in the underground the gritty underbelly of the capital is being exposed drug related crime and violence has been a longstanding issue paresis metro but now the unions representing the train drivers say it's spiralling out of control dealers and muses including those taking crack cocaine a new god thing what they've doing. lighting up metro drivers is so fearful of attacks it's some stations many are choosing to no longer stop there a survivor more force of i'm not pro quo is very dangerous and it's terrifying if it can range from a simple punch to people using nails knives. stations like marks door and market a year are especially troubled druggy says come here for their daily fix

and gangs have taken over for problem of. the problem is very dangerous for both the metro workers and for the commuters it's even more dangerous they are targets of fast i've seen more than one hundred attacks take place within minutes of arriving at marks door metro station we witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera has just arrived with a bag in hand he was the platform stopping and exchanging some packages with people and then he left with his bag empty this seems to be the new normal. there are lots of drug users and i think that with everything that's happening in the match though they should be doing something most of the time the drug users are aggressive and everyone. he's afraid of the security my children. twenty twenty five. lived there we've we've we've heard of course.

i've been attacked just one time because the we had in the middle of the night is small for. playing with that problem was the precipice of problem as the security robberies can happen sometimes it's maybe aggression physical aggression sometimes too why ceasar man attack another young man. as we traveled through some of the most dangerous stations we saw metro security and police trying to crack down on the problem they succeeded in moving things. but in reality all they've done is move the problem to another stop on to another day. r.t. paris. in germany the s.p.d. convention votes to enter into coalition talks with the party of angle america will

bring the full story after this. in order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but also requires actors with in the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no longer serving the national interest you need people in the military or the bureaucracy or both who are willing to see the regime change otherwise they would be able to put down a popular revolt that did not have some point at higher levels. my theory

a year ago. talk to brag here that this was their year twenty seven to go to all kinds of crazy eyes and yeah it sure did. very thing a bit of a fall back. welcome back over to germany now where the s.p.d. party convention has voted in favor of launching coalition talks with medicals party and even though the result is what the s.p.d. leader martin schultz has been campaigning for has been anything but an easy ride for him as peter oliver explains. this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was real hard stuff as the leader of the social democrats waited for this result to come in he was visibly nervous waiting for the well what was certainly not a foregone conclusion it ended up being three hundred sixty two votes in favor with

two hundred and seventy nine votes against joining the coalition with angola merkel so they are going to go forward with mat but what schultz did lay out in a speech there to delegates and to a board members before the vote it was really a speech that was more pleading than it was inspirational he said there was only two options you either go into coalition with angela merkel or we have fresh elections and it was very clear which one he preferred i mean you do you know you everyone should realize the question is coalition talks for new elections my take on this is very clear i don't think new elections are the right way for us. well it was a visibly relieved martin schulz that received those results he definitely doesn't want another election in the region for that is because of just how badly the last election went for the social democrats and there's no sign of that turning around any time soon last time around in september they lost forty seats in almost dipped

below twenty percent of votes cast for representatives in the german parliament he's also going to have two of course though if he's going to form this coalition it's going to cross some social democratic party red lines namely on quotas for refugees that his party opposes also on social spending which he's party want to see increased and that's why this whole campaign to decide whether that the social democrats would go into coalition with angela merkel's conservatives has seen a vision so it well and truly within the social democratic ranks we saw a big. campaign launched by their youth wing saying that they didn't want to be part of government they wanted four years of opposition in order to try and get the party back to the roots where they believe it comes from so how look if this goes as it's been put forward on sunday evening well what it would mean is that the

social democrats would no longer be the largest opposition party they would be part of the government again and that would mean that the main opposition party well that role would go to the alternative for germany the right leaning anti establishment party they would get that role it would be you ground for them and they would get everything that comes with it including the traditional role of being the head of the bundestag budget committee which is quite interesting when you look at it because in the lead up to the previous election martin schultz amongst other senior members in the social democrats it said a.f.d. has known positions whatsoever in the bonder stagg and should have no position in that part of the static world in trying to hang on to power he may well put them into the main seat in german opposition. run a vote for stupid little analyst and consultant joins me on the line we heard our correspondent suggest martin schulz doesn't want to have new elections because he's

afraid they'll do even worse next time around i think that's the case. this is also my expectation. and s.p.d. would keep losing in new elections but if we look at the signal that the world has has sent out in the september twenty fourth elections last year is that they want change definitely because of three parties that have to want the government before all together last fourteen percent of the this is the pearson voters want to see at least new faces heading those parties and this is not going to happen now so it's not really mirroring the results of the elections what is going on now you could say that effectively now is the f.d.a. that are going to be the main opposition force is that all because of martin schulz and his maneuvering and some would say his attempts to cling to power. no definitely not i would say that union parties are all the c.d.u.

has left of the conservative positions of the past they have to turn somewhat roughly speaking into an ass. and the f.b.i. has lost much of its political standing because many of the topics were also covered by the c.p.u. so the eight after just came in to fill in. the blank space that. has left so they are we can see the new conservative party and this is not the fault of smart insureds are for the s.p.d. it will be quite hard now to find their own topics their own original profile back because on the left we have already linked we have also the green party at the center so the space is very limited for the ask you need to find new ground and convince voters that they are going to solve the problems above all some of those problems they have also grew by being in the government us for years

a lot of experts just after the election said one of the reasons the s.p. didn't so badly was because they've been part of the grand coalition they've got they got lazy they were used to fighting against the government and there is internal opposition now within the s.p.d. itself pretty well organized could this divide the party even further in the future . well it will definitely be by party through there if the next elections then even turn out worse for the s.p.d. because this was the big argument of those who said we cannot go back into a grand coalition because we will not have any arguments to fight against the governing party is as we are part of the government this is very difficult but i would say we now cannot even speak again about a grand coalition because they want to support in recent polls turned out to be only between fifty one and fifty three percent so this is just

a slight majority it's not really a grand coalition anymore and will we see more compromise from martin chills will he be compromising the parties to dish will social democratic values if he's going into it into another coalition i think martin schultz has a very personal and private agenda and this is the creation of the united states of europe and he will push very hard forward this agenda he will not talk about it very openly because it's not a very. it's a topic with which you cannot if you can again and he won't turn and support but definitely this is just a gender would you counsel from the european union perspective has taken over your careers. to create it and really political union. a single state european union and so this is what i expect he will push forward in the grand coalition and he will also have more or less clannish find support of i'm

going to merkel in this transfer process and he doesn't have really the democratic basis for doing this that's a runner up for us is my guest pleasure speaking to a geo political analyst and consultant thank you. thanks you guys are staying with us just over half an hour's time until i return with the latest news headlines. in order to overthrow the regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no longer serving the national interest you need people in the

military or the bureaucracy or both who are willing to see the regime change otherwise they would be able to put down a popular revolt but did not have support at higher levels. of. fun and welcome to well to part off your own but not the way that for centuries both russia and the united kingdom struggled to find their relationship with continental europe over the last few here is both seem to have decided to go their separate ways i mean both seem to be pulled back what does europe think of it and

what is europe after all well to discuss that i'm now a joined by giuliana i'm not the former prime minister of italy and now the country's constitutional point charge mr modi it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now about two years ago you wrote a. about how a dangerous cultural divide is now growing between russia and the west i wonder if your sense of concern has been allayed since then our has it on the contrary intensified well i don't know where the returns intensified the suit to me it is still there and. the more i think of it the more it seems to me a sort of nonsense economic political and also historical in my view something has happened which we are responsible that has created again in this country in russia this sense

of being surrounded by others so we don't really want us to mean you as partner is or ally but somehow that as they were saying are defending themselves against us no these goes back to the all the history you will know of this country and makes it acceptable to make it very clear and short in my view it was a mistake to bring need to directly to the border of russia well i'm sure many people in russia would agree agree with you on that point but i personally don't think that's the only point of contention here but i want to see something that you mentioned in that very same article the point that i haven't heard anyone else make and that is that russia's criticism towards western

countries is similar to the grave and says that the jihadist movements a spouse towards the west what made you reach that conclusion you know. the fact that this identity. culture. the grueling again inside the russian sall brings itself the. distance between yourself and our society is this distance is under the line and by is sought to criticism that is similar to the criticism of mostly integra least people. is the west with valueless societies the west materialistic the west against through the holy values around which

a community is formed no these go. behind the soldier in it's in the holy notion of the mother russia. and it creates actually a distance this is something that they found the frightening because they diffusion of this going to criticism really creates. a deep a gap but it made mr mudd if i may interject here i think this is a very interesting observation i think it's also very true but i would point to what lies at the root of. jihadist sentiment toward the west is not on cultural separation but primarily in this the sounds of and just as the sense of an indignity the bloodshed the suffering that western countries brought into many arab society i'm sure they were driven by good intentions the west always things that it's ok what matters to the affected countries i think what matters to the

afflicted countries not the intentions but the actual results don't you think that russia has the reason to be concerned at the same kind of do gooding would be visited upon it by the western countries i'm in i see an enormous difference here. between the two situations but i wouldn't deepen this much more than needed because if we saw a problem that exists between us nowadays and it is the ukrainian problem probably all of these differences can be watered down little by little reste or being the common now bertie that existed years ago so i don't think that it is necessary really so you know all of us have a dark side the problem is whether we do things that are was to

keep it compressed you mention the dark side and i have a lot of friends in the west who believe that russia needs to be saved from the thought that it is sat on spreading your reserves served to be saved from our world there exactly but what people in the west thing is that russia is trying to spread its vices you know corruption nepotism authoritarianism and what the west thinks of itself it's virtuous you know it democracy. it's virtuous you know it democracy his really are a point this is not my thing is that in the case in the craze of ukraine it is not so because you don't do it that well is resized because it is an example. of that country is not good and is not. protected by russia but the choice that was presented before the ukrainians was either you stay with this dark country to your east timor their russia which is forever due to authoritarianism we're

showing our you know western club and they are a perfect family is no not necessarily so it was simply you are here. at the eastern prefer. thirty three of the union you can join the union not necessarily can be here in a union though the moment you would see take it easy. i want to song born to do anything because i'm only an old man but i think that solving the problem we have with russia is a priority and reducing the pressure around its border is a priority but of course it's. that tree russia has a responsibility now which is also visibly international law as you well know but

i don't want to do the things in these terms simply let us take these idea of the ceasefire seriously this is do it but and mr mayor i appreciate you mentioning international law because i think it's this question is absolutely central to the differences between the current challenges that in russia and the west because the law you may argue that the law international law was transgressed in ukraine but it was also transgressed in libya it was also transgressed in iraq i think in syria nobody even protests that it exists anymore and i'm sure as a constitutional lawyer this issue would be very near and dear to your heart the law and not only as a mechanism of justice but as a mechanism of restraint how can we bring bags they respect to the international law back into international politics so this is a very good question and it implies i suppose this is my britain view should we europeans really adopt

a common foreign policy i'm convinced that a common foreign policy would abide international law much more easily as you well know the intervention in libya was designed to. one place plus one european countries not by the european union it could never have been a european initiative but the italy still eagerly participated in s. or in italy perhaps it would have done in either way it's early. in a sword. or bombing of tripoli or third no it was a sort of third stage but in any event i'm not here to defend the me here to explain to you there. has been a leader in the founding fathers of the european idea said we have to fear

their way to this day it's what was the reason for it the reason why because as long as they enjoy his clues if so good and they will aggressive to others and they will violate the rules this is continued this pint to the european union mostly because the european union is not sufficient to your union in foreign policy what makes you believe that even if your strength and the mechanisms of integration if you make them more formal that there is a tendency is will be arraigned then because there is you know as we know in politics there is always a formal way but when the formal way doesn't work you can always use is another matter for mallet is this is a matter of sharing decisions and their food in made these decisions open have a teams only after the necessary consensus is being reached around the

european union table the decision to attack. libya could not have been taken what can i tell you believe me i have no other because this is a counterfactual history. and he is another one but i'm still convinced that food there really. is really use food to reduce their aggressive propensity but it was not the head that that's the thing it was not an act of aggression i think back in two thousand and eleven it was seen as a humanitarian intervention and it was something good it was basically eliminating gadhafi so you don't think it was trying to spread the european and western values . to it was eliminating good there is an opinion here in russia that one of the reasons why the united states and to some extent western europe make that for a positive such as that they make is that because they have been for long insulated

from the consequences of those decisions now europe obviously is no longer insulated from its policy from the consequences of its foreign policy in the middle east and north africa you're dealing with lots of migrants coming into your country it is putting a serious challenge to you and compounding many of the challenges that you face at the moment do you think that may in a way sober up the decision making when it comes to international politics at least as far as the european if you need the most amount we saw. and so successful as we are in economic this is and so we have been successful in. individual rather in the spreading them on an equal be to all of our member states in your become a victim of your own success in that way not to talk we're not been successful in

internation of the matter so that's the point this is where nation. has remained but it is so clear when we needed to fix it up and we adopted olds. you so to have dear is. international politics remained as a productive of the member states i mean it's not normal why because there are the external relationships of the community and the foreign policies of the individual member states and the poor high representative have to be has to be present both the so this is not a success as these are a difficult compromise immigration is one of these areas where from outside.