that would be today's not an easy day for the c.s.u. we didn't get a good result it was someone. who lost to lose their majority in a regional election the right wing and the greens make historic gains. trade war appears to be backfiring with china's trade surplus with the u.s. reaching a record high despite. punitive measures. france is facing a legal challenge of almost two hundred nuclear tests conducted in its. former president branding them crimes against humanity.

why. why. moments after ten am here in moscow on this monday and a very well welcome to you from all of us here at. voters in the german state open area have inflicted a heavy blow on chancellor merkel's key ally the christian social union its worst election result in decades the party is set to lose its absolute majority in the region's parliament and that's while the greens almost doubled their vote in the. parliament for the first time following a hard fought campaign. of

course today is not an easy day for the c.s.u. we didn't get a good result it was somewhat painful. because . you. thought. so i think it was a number of areas. good morning to you the latest where you are. well it was a bruising result in sunday's election for anglo-american sister party the c.s.e. who lost that absolute majority now in terry minister for heads up the c.s.c.

and his name faith in me criticizing and. policy which he thought would translate into votes for the c.s.c. but some are suggesting he should resign but since the election he says that there are two sides to the coin. is this current it is not a good day for us to be christian social union this is a result we can't be satisfied with true but it's also true that very in voters have given us a clear mandate to build a new complement for bavaria and we will assume this responsibility. now the c.s.u. will have to form a coalition but they've already ruled out forming a coalition and sharing power with the f.d.a. which brings us on to the historic moment when they'll tend to pick any party now made their debut. they're ready to be an opposition force in the regional government but said never posse with the spike in votes with agree with your record

it's raechel strong game seven now the second largest party in southern germany. we are satisfied we will be in a position of course but if the government makes reasonable legislative proposals who will vote in favor of them he meant the people of bavaria clearly showed us they want to policy that takes action that looks forwards but his courage instead of fear and that's what we greens stand for more than any other party in this country. the results with rising popularity for the greens on the f.t. that voters are now moving away from the centrist parties towards the left and the right but looking at the other parties to jamie's as thinking that it's up for election results at all levels she thinks that the crash of her policy was because of the performance of the coalition but speaking in berlin secretary general of medical c.d.u. c.s.u. results when recent polls within the coalition of. the disputes of the past few

months especially the charm and the style as well as the politics of the grand coalition were not communicated in the good reasonable way to the outside world. the next few days will be crucial now in forming a stable reach a stable government hair and regional bavaria. the reporting from what i can thank you very much. let's all get some reaction to the developments here from a political analyst joining us here on the program today great to see you today so thanks for coming on the program without it's clear the c.s.u. have won the largest share but why does it look like a defeat. well it has been a historical moment for the conservative party in bulgaria because they managed carefully in the last fifty years to understand what people want in you know part of germany or that always pretended to be a little different than the rest of germany and they lost the ability to understand

what people want in bavaria and that is why they lost the majority which sometimes made them feel as if the stability of the party is the same ability of democracy which is totally wrong and you know way a lesson in modesty. so perhaps as you as you allude to the c.s.u. is now out of touch with the voting populace but it is the c.s.u. its worst result in over sixty years and can you bring us a bit more detail why did it go so badly wrong for them. well it has a number of threes and says it was already mentioned this dial in politics and the communication within the coalition gave a terrible impression of the state of the conservative party if you have a system like that see as we don't need enemies and people got the impression that instead of governing it was much more about a personal fight and

a person. crusade the minister of the interior the former governor of the various evolve and he appeared to be the biggest problem and strategically it meant that if you believes that marriage who moved the conservative party is too much to the right to this and to much to the santa then there is room on the right for a party is like the ivy and he decided to imitate the positions of the ivy which apparently didn't pay off the other problem is that if you don't understand what the wharton topics are for the people in your democracy which are much more green topics like urban development and climate change consumer protection questions and instead you play with a few years of people that migration could cause problems within the country and you also misunderstand what is actually going on in the country crime rates went

down the country is doing better than ever and it's not like the end of sherman as we know it just because we lived up to the commitment of a humanitarian position when we helped people in need since two thousand and fifty so what does this mean the future for the future of angle of merkel is she sitting pretty with a lot of time left in her position. well in two weeks' time we have another important election in the financial center of germany which is has and hung forward where all the major banks are located and this is a different scenario because the governor of hessen supports america and it also doesn't look very bright for him so we go generally speaking in a phase that is the end of that year america and if she will stay in power until the end of her term it's a thousand days if it comes to an end quickly which is also a possibility then we will see

a major shift within the german political system but this is pure speculation we simply don't know what's coming up next geo political analyst but i can joining us here on r.t. international thank you for your time and thank you for your insight you're welcome . the chinese ambassador to the to states has said that beijing has no choice but to defend itself from a trade war it doesn't want one started by washington. it's important to notice who started this trade or we never want to have a trade war but if somebody has ties or trade the war against us we have to respond and defend our own interests or mogs come amid heightened tensions over months of billions worth of tit for tat tariffs between the world's two largest economies and one of the reasons for the trade war is trump's anger with china's trade surplus with the united states despite all the punitive measures america's trade deficit with beijing has in fact now reached a new record and daniel bushell picks up the story the supremum all it's of war is

to subdue the enemy without fighting sons to six centuries b.c. applied by his homeland today to a different war trade wars protracted trade war believe bling of china as the enemy trade war continues game on here a trade war between the united states and china is here it's real china is accusing the white house of a launching the largest trade war in history trump slaps vicious restrictions on beijing get it sales just grow so the biggest trade surplus with washington ever in other words beijing has never sold so much stuff to the states while buying so relatively little in return america whitehall's on china in january next month beijing only sells the more same off the fresh us fees in july august and september now panic after this month's record sales by beijing to america is trump's plan working or is he just talking the talk china's market distortions. and the way they

deal. cannot be tolerated. has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election i've done a lot of business with china china china china china seas route china china from beijing also hold a nuclear option up the sleeve it owns over a trillion dollars of u.s. debts because that cash in something washington has a problem there are talks for the g. trump summit next month where u.s. way out the chinese finger trap can be hammered out to then who'd a thunk it would make china great again. so what this means is that of course china is basically one of the trade war in this in the first round and it shows that of course the american consumers are the ones that are going to be are paying the highest prices for this and start hiring china

certainly the u.s. has no position of strength going into these talks but china has done is continue to emphasize its exports to the us american importers are rushing in very very fast the last two quarters to get as much product and as possible before the tariffs hit and china is pursuing other trade relationships to continue to cause or economy to grow so this is what this shows is that the u.s. has completely failed. france is facing a lawsuit over three decades of nuclear tests conducted in the countries overseas territory of polynesia and the islands former president says the tests cost irreversible damage to locals branding them crimes against humanity however denies the nearly two hundred atomic tests had any harmful impact on the archipelagos environment.

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since the start of nuclear test countries. decided to go really far away from twenty thousand kilometers in the south pacific and. in the. lead say in paralyzed. from the pacific ocean. why why. and a quarter past the hour here in moscow still to come on the program here on r t a retail giant amazon faces a backlash over its increased minimum wage with workers claiming other benefits have been cut more on that and the rest of your monday mix of stories in just.

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it's a broken me it's its i mean mentally and physically it's it's approaching me . i'm not the only one this is and this is an epidemic literally i didn't ask to be injured at amazon this was their fault this was their faulty equipment. they. was my oldest and that i should have been healed already the only thing i would like compensation for is the interest that i sustained to emphasize that we don't recognize these allegations is an accurate

portrayal of what damages it crowd last safety record. going to give me one month's worth the pay for. to shut me up. the station that i injured myself on the previous year again october they were still broke eight months later they still had not been fit. for a warehouse job where people literally fall out and from. the heat. i think we should be paid more than fifteen dollars an hour. to me they don't care about their employees feel that there's no

sympathy there's no empathy they literally feel like they do not care it's all about. the work absolutely. recently announced it was hiking its minimum wage up to fifteen dollars an hour a move that was welcomed by employees we're also establishing a new amazon minimum wage a fifteen dollars an hour i. however . have been less enthusiastic about the pay rise saying that other benefits have been cut to make it possible some workers claim the actually be thousands of dollars a year less well off and others complain that new stuff will actually get as much as some long time employees. now amazones new minimum wage will affect some two hundred fifty thousand employees as well as more than one hundred thousand seasonal workers concerns have been raised about the elimination of its stock awards program

and the retailer has also phased out incentive payments but i was on says that the increase in the hourly wage will compensate the losses from previous benefits shannon allen who we heard from earlier gave us hope views on the new pay scheme. there's a condition that comes with the fifteen dollars an hour which is they took away our stock and they took away our bonuses that we receive every month i think that by them taken away the stock in the bonuses was not a good trade off but we all signed the contract i signed it and amazon signed it they have to come up with a new contract for us to sign that's exactly what this states right here in this state that they gave to shares of stock and that we receive. every year that we are there so i have. six share that i will never be able to cash

in because they've taken it away from me and because i've been on medical leave it will it won't invest for till two thousand and twenty. one just about wrapping up the program for this hour here on r t international though so many more of your monday world headlines to come your way if you can join us in about half an hour. max keiser financial survival guide stacey let's learn about fill out let's say on the troika and your theories on greece of the fight well street spot thank you for something. on the story

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trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. when gold make its manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the running plus isn't protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent.

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to go on the road this is what the three of them would be good. interested in the waters in the. hollow and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle take tyranny you too can be disappeared in broad daylight also the fate of a saudi journalist is testing washington's relations with riyadh is the crown prince's rule in doubt and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow and he is a professor at the higher school of economics and author of the decay of western civilization and the resurgence of russia we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bob and he is a political analyst with sputnik international. rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated. the purge his com long expected what do you think of the extent of it is this the beginning because we had alex jones was the was the tip of the tipping point now there. was a trial balloon alex jones have self said it's that they're going to come after everybody once they're done with me and they wipe them off the internet map and now they've come after at the media they went after the free. project it's important to

point out these are not just conservative sites these are also progressive sites and it's up to three weeks before the midterms so there's no coincidence that you brought that up because one could make the argument that facebook is injecting itself into the political process here because they're saying they're required to protect the political process from these quote unquote fringes but they are the ones that are meddling it's also important to point out that it's not just facebook twitter also suspended the account so there is obvious collusion between the two companies so i mean what you have here is facebook in my opinion has put the final nail in their coffin we could look at that now as a big company but believe me in a few years facebook we're grette this disorder any millennial is are leaving in droves here glenn would have significance for you because it seems to me that there's an enormous amount of lucian going on here and it's the mainstream media that is cheering this along because they want their monopoly back they want to be able to push their.