plays a more important role than the u.s. in the world today according to newly released data from a washington based think the same survey shows a lack of trust in donald trump's leadership compared to other world leaders. coming up on the program the daughter of a german right wing politician is disqualified from a poetry contest for her. it comes as the country's main opposition the right wing party its record highs in the polls. may the force be with few russian trolls are accused of swaying public opinion against the latest film in the star wars franchise.

from moscow to the world this is your r.t. international reverie your tuning in from welcome to moscow a plethora of news and views starts now. china is playing a more important role in the world today than the united states that's according to a recent poll by the washington based think tank the pew research center it also shows that the chinese leader is more trusted globally than his american counterpart what gets in donald trump obsessive his inmates so the want to else. has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election i've done a lot of business with china china's market distortions china china china china see through china i'm talking about china. and. reason to be fixated the rise of china

is showing no signs of stopping with a nation poised to overtake america as the next world superpower polls conducted across twenty five countries show why the spread recognition that china is the emerging power with the might to more than rival uncle sam to china overtake the u.s. as the leadership in the learn when i think china will overtake the u.s. china's go a good chance of doing that they're way above everybody else people underestimate i am actually the most powerful country now is certainly the united states but i think china will definitely surpass it in the future but here's the thing china may well become the most powerful in economic terms but people are not so keen on beijing taking the reigns as the globe's moral compass and think the u.s. is still the best option is the world voice of reason trying to place the rest would be in the heart of those scary. i lean more towards the usa for

their democratic system and human rights so i don't think it would be better if china became more powerful however ranking leaders on doing the right thing and trump is well down the list lower than china's xi jinping. oh you know sure. lose. but that's not to say that trump and doesn't have those who hang on his every word taze huge in the philippines it seems most people there love nothing more than an outspoken well to mention provocative man in control and you don't even have to be able to hold a chew. you

lose the minute you leave and in israel forget about it trump is the man pulling out of the iran nuclear deal and moving the us embassy to jerusalem has earned him serious brownie points and alienated a whole bunch of people too but we have i would say probably the best relationships right now with israel that we have or had the who is close you know is maybe ever before. oh. oh. with the term say on netanyahu on his side trunk passes the ports but it's with china's when a song is coupled with america's decline does trump really have what it takes to remain at the top of the world pedestal how likely to think you he's to succeed so

i want. one. i don't think it's possible to be three zero the scale be made between one and five you know his influence around three come on let's be honest donald trump is trying. to a story about stirring up a lot of attention in germany and indeed further afield because in the country the daughter of a right wing politician there has been disqualified for a portrait contest after reading out on migrant pom here's the first. all. the little guys. even. though. what you just heard was part of a poetry competition that was organized in southwest germany by a council as part of an anti racism initiative the entry you heard was by.

the fourteen year old daughter of a right wing german politician her controversial entry provoked this reaction in the hall was well despite that reaction she was disqualified from the competition in fact there were boos when it different when it was announced there has been backlash though her mother the alternative for germany m.p. nicola has said that their house had been dogged in spray painted with nazi slurs this type of reaction to a teenager's poetry isn't surprising in germany right now the political divide in the country hasn't been this prominent in recent times in fact we've seen a number of right wing demonstrations across the country that were really sparked into existence following the stabbing to death of a thirty five year old german man in the city of camden it's the two main suspects

in custody a two asylum applications one from iraq and one from syria was i i was and all of this has played into the hands of the anti migrant alternative for germany party when they entered parliament just over a year ago and twenty seventeen with just less than thirteen percent of the vote they weren't really expected to build on not too much said. we've just heard tectonic shifts and after it looks like the c.d.u. will be electing a chance at the last dramatically is it a bitter not know their country it's a broken our democracy for the first time in seventy years we have a nationalistic right wing populist party partially reflecting metsi ideology in parliament it is no surprise that is d. has grown stronger the shock for everyone is how much stronger it has become fast

forward to now when the polls show that almost one in five germans is on thought eat with alternative food germany the most recent poll showing that they would take over eighteen percent of the vote if an election with held today coming only second to the union of the c.d.u. and c.s.u. headed up by angle of merkel dissatisfaction with angola merkel's government is reasonably high here in germany but what these recent polls show is that if an election was to be held tomorrow well the chancellor wouldn't have enough votes to put together the current coalition government and a considerable minority among the german population there's a lost its trust into the christian democratic union into the social democratic party end of the established politics and media system voting for that if he is mostly or even completely an emotionally driven voting those who vote for the a if he simply wanted to be clear we have lost trust in the it's established political

parties who want to punish them and the most severe punishment for the political establishment is voting for the a.f.p. and this is how the things are going on in germany right now. right to something a little different though first it was the presidential election that alleged assault on american democracy no those russian trolls are up to something even more sinister they've had a galaxy not so far far away apparently targeting hollywood and the star wars franchise. hey america the stole your election hey britain they stole your dream of a united europe democracy will never be the same because of russian memes thralls bartz well surely there is something still sacred in western culture affluent activity that we're looking at today those are areas which aren't actually

front and center in terms of the right business and therefore there's been less results put into these areas in terms of making the algorithms more sophisticated what we need to see is google and facebook and others stepping up and actually improving those algorithms otherwise they're going to face some fairly draconian regulation. the scandal surrounding donald trump supreme court nominee is entering new territory as brett kavanaugh battles three allegations of sexual misconduct his name and face are well pretty much seen in every headline and no the partisan battle is being fought through fashion. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh cavanagh judge dr christine blasted forty pool cues this cavanagh of sexually assaulting her when the two were both in high school. i never had sexual

intercourse or anything close to it during high school or for many years after that in some crowds i was probably a little on our working we shot at about my inexperience. tried to hide that.

i drank beer with my friends almost everyone did i liked. i still like the. students in chile are once again quite literally battling for their rights we've got the details about after this.

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let's start in the u.s. where california is home to progressive tech giants like alphabet on facebook on the all public companies there will have to keep in step the western american state has made it a legal requirement to have at least one woman on their board of directors and the law says it must happen by the end of twenty eight days without number increasing to three in the coming years companies could also face fines of at least one hundred thousand dollars for not complying. well long awaited for many the bill has however provoked concern with the state's chamber of commerce saying it will prioritize gender over all the respects of diversity. ation now against other people in favor of women who might not even be qualified i mean you're talking about putting one woman in place there and now we're having to

mandate that where there are many women in the workplace that have been working hard so rather than hoping for encouraging in the workplace there to be equal treatment of women who do a good job now we're just regulating than mandating it which is undoubtedly going to cause anarchy in the workplace is going to cause dissension among people perhaps amongst other women who have been working hard wondering why this woman got chosen just to meet a certain quota i think it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that there is not a single woman qualified for the board of any public company in california i think we all know them and loads of women who are super well qualified to the question should be why haven't they been appointed to those schools already why have we put up with this. white male boys' club for so so loam i think there are lots of people on boards in california and all over the world you want qualified and i'm afraid to say the vast majority of them all men it only causes tension to grow against women against the very party that they're trying to eliminate discrimination over and so

that's going to end out only cause backfiring a lot more animosity against women not just from other men in the workplace who have been working very hard but from other women in the workplace who might not be chosen to fit this one woman quota type thing for women who aren't going to be doing that and so you know it's causing dissension it's really going against it and it's going to continue to backfire against that until we change who we are intrinsically as americans in the workplace allowing equal rights because there are deserving of it and not because a lot mandates absolutely california should and will in the back of the success of this legislation for the legislation that mandates that there be a person of color on board and then to put people of color and so on and so forth i think that's absolutely not conflicting issues it shouldn't be the case that women and people of color who incidentally many women are also people of color but we shouldn't feel like there's a lot of diversity sport and we don't have. to fight for it we should feel like we're all part of a movement that's working towards better balance on boards and working towards a future which people where companies like this belong to all of us not to

a tiny you know pie on my island style corporate elite which unfortunately seems to be sort of you know a cup which no one can break at the moment. right turning attention to south america where riot police have been deployed in chile is comparable some tiago to break up a student demonstration several arrests have been made on water come and used against protesters. thank you. to. all the students were protesting the news so named to express expulsion will it gives a forward he has the right to expel students who have been aggressive with police

officers teachers and first youth or have done that the critics say it's some attempt to limit free speech could be misused to punish peaceful protesters. russia's military house released a video of an earth defense system being delivered to syria it's being deployed there to protect personnel after the dawning of a russian military aircraft three weeks ago off the syrian coast we've got footage now of some of the forty nine elements in total being handed over to damascus including four launchers. i. i i.

well the u.s. state department reacted to that s three hundred deployment saying it could escalate the situation in the region just to remind you syria accidentally shot down a russian il twenty reconnaissance or craft during an attack by israeli fighter jets the kremlin accused israel of using the larger russian plane as cover israel confirm conducting the air strikes but ses its jets were outside syrian airspace when the plane was done and. america's ambassador to nato is on something of a damage control mission after pledging to quote take russian missiles the international alliance believes violates a cold war era treaty. the kielder majors would be to take out the missiles that are in development by russia in violation of the

treaty so that would be the counter measure eventually. all russia's foreign ministry fired back saying public officials should be very careful when it comes to aggressive rhetoric international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the u.s. ambassador was actually trying to convince nato to boost defense spend. well i think it says something about the need to keep nature active and spending more and more money on defense it's just a she made her comments in advance of our nature today meeting in brussels a british us secretary of defense jim mattis will be there and i think she's trying to raise interest and raise a little bit of alarm as well at same time these are very are carrying issuers to do with a range of different missile and sent to bridges still being developed and they're not being flown yet so it's almost a theological argument because we're talking about things that isare abstract and unknowable and invisible to ordinary people and to most of the intelligence

agencies nature itself except the american ones so that you just have to take the moment trust. well that's our news story for now but still plenty to come this hour a north sea including shaping the future it's a bold claim but perhaps one that can be claimed by attendees of the forbes under thirty summit taking place right now in boston on our business show boom bust is among them is. america is a house deeply divided and that division only continues the entire brett kavanaugh saga has turned into blood sport to many each and every one of us pick a side we're in new territory and that place is called winner takes all.

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of finance of the impact upon you i'm part children and we are busting it from here in boston city hall plaza at the forbes under thirty summit lots to get to today and we're going to bring it to you starting right now. thanks part online retailer amazon under increasing bad publicity has agreed to pay what advocates call a living wage to all of their employees and united states and the united kingdom starting november first amazon will pay their u.s. employees a minimum of fifteen dollars per hour in line with demands from the fight for fifteen movements an estimated two hundred fifty thousand regular u.s. employees at amazon and whole foods supermarket as well as one hundred thousand seasonal workers will benefit from amazon's concession workers in amazon's u.k. facilities outside of london will be paid nine and a half pounds up from fifty one did workers will receive an additional pound per hour due to high costs of living in the city. amazon also says they will support an

unspecified increase in the us federal minimum wage moving their stated position closer to that of their chief critic senator bernie sanders senator sanders spoke about the ways earlier today in washington. it is no secret that i have been a harsh critic of the wage and employment practices of amazon and its owner jeff bezos it has been my view that the middle class and working families of this country should not have to subsidize it is the bay's owes the wealthiest person on earth because the wages he has paid his employees on a solo on the many of them afford to go on food stamps medicaid and subsidized housing and other governmental programs today i want to give credit where credit is due. and i want to congratulate mr barry's host for doing exactly

the right thing. in june to c.n.n. as to mated that if the median worker's salary at amazon is twenty eight thousand dollars as the company claimed than amazon owner and c.e.o. jeff bezos makes that amount every nine seconds mr bezos was named by forbes magazine as the world's richest man in twenty eighteen with an estimated fortune of one hundred and sixty five billion dollars a notable elements in that vast fortune is the washington post newspaper which mr bizos own personally. indian authorities have moved to legally declare a major national infrastructure builder and solvent in order to prevent what some foresaw as an approaching lame in moments of systemic financial instability on monday india's national company lost the company last tribunals granted the indian government's request to take control of infrastructure leasing and financial services a major so-called shadow wonder also known as i l n f s the action was taken under

authority created by india's insolvency and banking code which only became law in two thousand and sixteen iowa fast has been a large and prominent participant in the is building boom. notably built in the is longest tunnel that shahani national tunnel which opened in two thousand and seventeen but.