now germany's drawn out coalition talks could be on the brink of a breakthrough the social democrats leader martin shows has persuaded his party members to vote in favor of reforming the grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's party however the agreement could leave the anti migrant party the alternative of germany as the main opposition force in the country as peter oliver explains. all this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was a visibly very worried martin childes waiting for those results that come in he gave a speech just before the ballots were cast he said that there were only two options it was either go into coalition with angela merkel's conservative bloc or they'd have to be another election and he was very clear on which one he prefers you know . everyone should realize the question is coalition talks or new elections my take

on this is very clear i don't think new elections are the right way for us but what would a coalition do for the bundestag how would the book the stagg look if a new grand coalition can be formed what it would do is it would mean that the social democrats were no longer the largest opposition party that would go to the new kids on the block alternative for germany they would be the largest opposition party they would also get all of the or perks and traditions that come along with that including being the chair of the bundestag budget committee all new ground for the right leaning and t. establishment party a party in fact in which martin schultz and many other senior members of the social democrats have decried as racist before the election in september and said that they shouldn't be taking up seats within the bundestag well in an attempt to try and hang on to power for himself he may well catapult them up into the position of been germany's largest opposition. political analysts rain or office explain to us

why the f.t. has gained so much support. i would say that the union card after all the c.d.u. look as left of the conservative positions of the past they have turned somewhat you speaking into an ask. and ask b.d. it has lost much of its political standing because many of the topics were also covered by the c.d.u. so the eight just came in to fill in. the blank space that. has left. but one of the stumbling blocks during the coalition talks has been migration policy and with a number of new approaches being tried to ease the crisis the eastern city of kut vs taken matters into its own hands and banned newcomers altogether the move is in response to several incidents recently last week for example a teenager was stabbed by two syrians and several days before that an elderly

german couple was attacked by a group of refugees however local near nurses have also been blamed for violence and illegal rallies with reports that they have attacked migrants we spoke to people in corpus. this is a they make it look like a salem seekers or whoever attacked the germans but there were also cases where it happened the other way round for example three afghans were beaten up by a group of germans on new year's eve over the next few days though nobody reported on it only later thanks to the efforts of an activist group it was made public. because it's not a solution to the problem not accepting any more migrants doesn't solve the problem we have here and cutpurse in any case people don't feel as safe as they used to there is some insecurity here. i think there is a need for action in the city however the way the thought is a dealing with this situation might belittle bit questionable probably they could have looked into this case more deeply to see whether there are other options. and

three other communities in the region of lower saxony have also banned migrants from entering as well my colleague neil harvey discussed this with he bronson he's from the alternative for germany party only been a handful of attacks by migrants in bursts as well as some on migrants themselves isn't a ban excessive well not to the victims those violent attacks occurs and. there were about three thousand migrants who entered the caucus and mostly they're young males from north africa and syria bringing with them a completely different culture of. conflict resolution. there's a breaking point for even the most tolerant of communities and apparently this breaking point has been reached there sure opinion locals certainly aren't all in support of this ban nobody's saying that any fire but some people suggesting you know maybe but some people suggesting you know maybe more to this than meets the

eye maybe six of one half a dozen of the other and that perhaps more options should be explored is that not a good idea. well i'm afraid there is little to no time left to explore other options there's a big tension building up and many communities and cities are simply fed up the german treasury has admitted that in the last year alone more than twenty two billion euros would needed to accommodate these one point five million migrants and this is of caught a large sum of money to try to explain this to millions of germans who are living on the breadline having two jobs and trying very desperately to make ends meet washing out internationalists just gone a quarter past ten in the morning here in moscow still to come for you this hour siege in afghanistan has left dozens of people dead including foreigners we have the details and other stories to come just after the break.

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hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. welcome back ny violence intensified in afghanistan this weekend where more than thirty people are feared dead in an overnight siege at a hotel in the capital of kabul that's according to reports citing security officials authorities say that those killed include a high ranking afghan diplomats and fourteen foreign nationals most of them line employees the taliban claims it was behind the attack.

but should be born again is home to one of europe's richest gas fields. locals there are also concerned about the environmental impact labeling corporations for numerous quakes in the area the latest coming within the last three weeks on friday around ten thousand people marched against gas drilling in the area the protesters say the problem has not been taken seriously enough with quite the damage to leave the structure meanwhile the strongest quake in five years hit the netherlands on january the eighth reaching three point four in magnitude it was often up we have

an earthquake damage my home is damaged but in comparison with others it isn't that that my house isn't being held up with braces but i am worried i think it has to do with money and the lack of having good people who know how to deal with processing claims. this problem goes back many years the point is that people have been waiting too long to receive compensation for the damages that have been caused and they have been waiting so long for the drilling to stop it needs to happen now a lot and you know makes me think that everything keeps breaking that no one is taking direct action. well university of corn again has published its own study into the issue of drilling and it specialists do you see a direct connection between drilling in the north and gas fields and also the earth quakes specialists are also concerned about lasers sandstone in the region which they say could lead to yet more tremors a solution to the problem hasn't been found for decades this map shows the number

of earthquakes that have hit the region and we can see they have been occurring in those northern gas fields where the fault lines are concentrated around an area where sixty thousand people currently live that she called me minister says if the government had taken the problem more seriously production could have been cut in half since twenty thirteen activists however still say these measures wouldn't have been sufficient. they are pumping gas out of our soil for decades and. in the beginning there were also earthquakes but they'd just denied it it's not an earthquake it's an airplane gummi going boom or it's something else but the last years it's obvious that there are real earthquakes and that's what worries us very much putting gas out of our soul is easy money. the government owns a lot of it and also exxon mobil and shell a lot. we are like

a modern colony these days and we don't like that heard all so to stop. families in the west african country of mali are still searching for aren't they were french airstrike that killed eleven million soldiers that were being held hostage it's been more than two months since the strike r.t. has spoken to some of the relatives demanding the truth. my nephew was taken prisoner during the attack on the palace security post there were people that people wounded and people missing. i ask for anyone who can help us get out of here don't leave us in this place he saw the french intervened to destroy a jihadi camp during this intervention eleven million soldiers lost their lives.

to keep from that at the time of the operations there were no hostages. the operations are considered sarah's training camp and the notes on was the presence of modest soldiers established. all the production there were eleven hostages found on this site and all of them died during this operation vision from images that we received we recognized five of our soldiers that were taken hostage. obama that night one day they tell us that the hostages were there during the bombing and the next day they tell us otherwise we're waiting to receive news regarding our son. or just to give you a bit more context on this france got involved in the mali in conflict back in two thousand and fourteen after isn't this militants took parts of the country and

around four thousand french troops are involved in an anti terror operation that is still ongoing also just a week ago the u.k. agreed to bolster the campaign with its helicopters. finally got many of us enjoy the housework although one russian cosmonaut might beg to differ it seems he doesn't mind doing the odd cure because these are pictures that have been sent from the international space station showing him. overing around on the vacuum cleaner. i wish all fucking cleaners were not that that's how the news looks back with more in just over half of.

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out these days it comes to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. i'm after going underground just twenty four hours before the global political elite to mix with actors and musicians in this risking resort to davos for the annual world economic forum coming up in the show with sales to the world's most repressive regimes increasing by nearly half a further after the break we speak to a british conservative m.p. and member of the u.k. committee for arms export control pauline lay firm about billions of pounds of

taxpayer money subsidizing the selling of killing machines. we speak to the father of sixteen year old palestinian schoolgirl. jailed for actions after u.k. backed israeli soldiers gunned down her relatives protesting illegal occupation in palestine while the grandson of a signatory to israel's independence israeli special forces. tells us what al-timimi means to the struggle and why don't drums plans to withhold un aid money could ignite the entire middle east political going over today's going underground but first while the great and the good of neoliberalism like canada's justin trudeau and france's emmanuel might grow as well as arch critics like u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell prepared to at ten the world economic forum in switzerland britain's entire nuclear program today is scheduled to be in trouble because of strike action while firefighters strike at sellafield site of the worst ever nuclear incident in british history is important is clear just how many people

could be killed by an uncontrolled fire there and what's at stake at sellafield on the irish sea in the northwest of england so i don't think you know the whole six double decker buses filled to the brim with some of the most dangerous radioactive waste in the world and there's a lot of friends there are twenty. some tears thought i was like this in the sense of was building housing to friends home runs mood radioactivity released by the chernobyl disaster it took fifty years before the state mandated b.b.c. could reveal the truth about how successive british governments covered up the circumstances surrounding a fired windscale sellafield was called before its p.r. name change the firing one hundred fifty seven could according to the b.b.c. have irrevocably altered the u.k. u.s. special relationship let alone killed a lot of people. prime minister harold macmillan met president eisenhower to sign an agreement that would change britain's relationship with america forever.

just days before a fire had broken out at windscale the country's fast be clear reactor. britain was on the brink of an unprecedented disaster but could drive as he continues today about sellafield as well as an ongoing terrorism threats this was in just the past few months army bomb disposal experts are being called to sellafield to detonate potentially flammable chemicals discovered in britain's largest nuclear sites well it's outside the mark the birth of britain's weapons of mass destruction program now located on the river clyde in scotland britain is of course exporting weapons or around the world some believe the brics it may lead to a spiraling of u.k. weapons dealing so we caught up with a member of britain's arms export control panel outside parliament story in people the live from is also on the u.k. international development select committee thanks so much regularly on going underground after a long year in the green outside parliament so what do you say to people who are

warning the british public that post bricks it is dealing is going to twenty eight percent two point nine billion pounds whether licenses agreed to june twenty sixth seen any connections you are having to do deals with with every repressive autocracies because we need the deals because we're leaving europe no there's nothing to say we have to do it if we give licenses to allow companies to export and they're very stringent they regulate it so there's no reason at all why this got anything to do with see it sit referendum or any it's nothing to do with it is about people wanting to sell arms and then it's about the licenses that we agree but of course i mean you're repeating what theresa may says repeatedly in parliament when. he's questioned about arms licensing to saudi arabia currently involved in one of the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. well yes after i

was a strict arms regime we were training pilots to be called is because what we do is we see what they are wanting and then we issue the licenses and we look very carefully about what they're going to use for so although you say it's a very repressive regime it is changing you know the rabia you know i think saudi arabia reserve reza regime it has been i think it's changing because they are now allowing women to drive they are changing the role of women in society they wanted women to get elected into parliament it is moving forward to a democratic society which it never has been so it has been repressive are great but i think there are moves forward people in public squares and retakes people's lives but you cannot change a definite change of access or to go all night just to arabia will help change saudi arabia no i don't think that will make any difference to saudi arabians have

to change saudi arabia we can't change it we can't interfere in the democratic changes which are coming and i have us are only objects welcome if you. do you don't think that we are enabling the saudi violence in the middle east no don't forget i've only been to one meeting so far on that was to elect the chairman so i haven't exactly caught very in vogue all us so far no it's certainly not all my fault because i need joint just before christmas when we had a vote to elect the chairman so we have yet to have there was a meeting this week or last week which i was unable to attend but the next few meetings will be quite critical and we will be looking at our policies in the country as to what we're going to do so then we can look quite seriously about who is getting walked and why are you seeing the pictures from yemen. and we've had andrew mitchell former vice chair of the visit. we've had unicef on talking about

tens of millions of people yes now threatened. british bombs being dropped is a british planes being warplanes dropping the bombs and these are british trained pilots ordering the bombs that are blowing up and killing or wounding thousands of civilians there are many i mean many thousands of people do you think killed him that's completely wrong but you have to look at the morning to picture of what is going on out there and i didn't think. they would want able to drop in which case what you're saying the logical conclusion of that is let's stop all arms trading and let's not have no weapons of any so anywhere in the world well no i'm talking about. the logical conclusion of that is we shouldn't be selling any arms to anybody and we shouldn't even be having arms ourselves starts the logical conclusion of what you're saying but it seems that a huge proportion and the biggest deals with saudi arabia. well they may be the

biggest deals they're not with the united states in a special relationship they are with or talkers well undemocratic countries of course the united states has its own arms manufacturers so we don't need to sell to them but where we have the traditional relationship we have been selling arms to all sorts of different countries and saudi arabia is one of them it's only worth around point two seven percent of our g.d.p. anyway selling killing machines democratic only their populations a large chunk really if we take that out completely there will be many many people unemployed there be an awful lot of people with no job. claiming benefits can justify the killing. of children and i'm not trying i'm not justifying that what i'm saying is that what. we need to do is look very carefully before we allow any licenses now i've not been involved with them at all yet but we will be so you

are going to be and i will be there and then i will scrutinize the decision making and i will make my views no if i feel that it's wrong i will say said but what if you are threatened by these countries because tony blair in from asli said security cooperation was threatened saudi arabia was basically saying if you don't sell us these killing machines we won't warn you if you had that terror attack that's a very long time ago tony blair's not been there for many many years and regimes of change are changing and even saudi arabia is changing to become more democratic but it is bombing him it is bombing imminent moment but we have to look at everything in the round and i haven't and nobody on the committee. because we've only just been reformed after the election last year it's taken a long time to do it so we will be looking very seriously at the decisions to be made what about the fact that if a country can't afford the weapons were selling the taxpayers to subsidize so

there's a fifty percent loans to that country said that they can buy our what we do we give loans to sorts of things and on international development we give loans and we give ground so i don't think the problem is you movie subsidising much needed infrastructure or whatever in britain as it is subsidising foreign countries we are aware but we've got the biggest infrastructure in terms of roads and rail program going on that ever being so it's not that we're not doing that we are spending millions and millions multi-millions on the road infrastructure and it's continuing more than we've ever had before and rail infrastructure is going through the roof another crisis apart from yemen is of course me and mark has been lots of even mainstream media coverage of the ratings crisis how do you. see the importance of it i think it's very important i think it's absolutely devastating to see so many people having to flee their country and particularly where the men are being

slaughtered and the women are being raped on route and i think that is well i just don't understand why people can be so awful to people other people that are living in their country for say when the generations and they're having to flee that country to go to bangladesh and live in pretty squalid conditions i mean that's inhuman and of course britain supported me in my military regime against entrenched c.g. before she was. given this new term with a church in the position that amount but she could have margot canal in my view she should have spoken out against it if it means that she loses her job i think she should have done that but i went to memoir about five years five six years ago i met her and she was already. determined that the wranglers were not part of the the minimal area they were nothing to do with they were not memory people they

couldn't have the status of being they would be stateless and she had a problem with that and i said all along is going to be a major problem she has got a mind set that will not change and we're going again as a committee to marry him and then we're going to bangladesh as well to go and see the real situation and how britain is helping and helping a huge amount bangladesh could not cope with the number of refugees they have without britain's assistance and they're very grateful for it given you have these twin roles that on the international development really and the objects will go maybe what about the allegations that britain is involved in. co co production deals as it were with israel because israel is allegedly. selling arms to her but. we don't know. about when you're going to be looking into british involvement in

the because britain famously supported the military junta before arguably war and chinese orbit we did but i think that again most of these things we look out again freshly every time there's a new committee formed we will look at these things and come up with a conclusion because things change it's not always the same the whole of the time it's not the same now as it was two years ago so we have to look at things as they are now and reevaluate the situation. thank you coming up after the break. the father of this sixteen year old girl tells us why he thinks a camera saved his daughter's life at the hands of british backed israeli soldiers and the grandson of a signatory to israel's independence on why britain and the united states continue to support israel which he accuses of colonialism oppression and the killing of innocent civilians all of them or going overboard to him going on to.