moving this for you today is not an easy day for the c.s.u. we didn't get a good result. today for the german chancellor. who was set to lose their majority in the regional elections the right wing and the greens to make historic gains. donald trump's trade war appears to be backfiring with china's trade surplus with the u.s. reaching a record high that's. the deadline for terror groups to withdraw from a demilitarized zone around syria's rebel stronghold of. fighters. and france is facing a legal challenge of almost two hundred nuclear tests conducted in its overseas

territory of polynesia with the president. against humanity. why. why. are you on this welcome to the program international. voters in the german state of bavaria have inflicted a heavy blow on chancellor merkel's key ally ultimately handing the christian social union its worst election result in decades the party is set to lose its absolute majority in the regions parliament and that's while the greens almost doubled in the. parliament for the very first time. following

a hard fought campaign. of course today is not an easy day for the see if we didn't get a good result. correspondent has the latest from barry drummond. it was a bruising results in sunday's election with a medical system the c.s.u. who lost their absolute majority in terry a minister heads up the c.s.c.

and he's known for criticizing nichols' open door policy which he thought would translate into votes of the c.s.c. some is suggesting he should resign but since the results he said that there are two sides to the coin is this it is not a good day for christians. this is a result we cannot be satisfied with true but it's also true that very in voters have given us a clear mandate to build a new complement very. soon this responsibility. now the c.s.a. will have to form a coalition but they've already ruled out sharing power with the f.d.a. which brings us to the historic moment for the all time since the chairman accosting here made their debut and ready to be an opposition force within the government but another party with a spike in votes with the greens who recorded strong gains and now the second.

largest party in the regional governments here in southern germany we are satisfied we will be in a position force but if the government makes reasonable legislative proposals we will vote in favor of that demand the people of bavaria clearly show this they want to policy that takes action that looks forwards that offers 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 of the greens and the f.t. have met that voters attending away from the centrist parties to the left and the right but looking at other parties now heads of jimmie's as they close it's a poor election result at all levels she thinks the crash of her party was because of the performance of the coalition but speaking in poland secretary general as merkel c.d.u. they miss the c.s.u. results on recent quarrels within the coalition disputes of the past few months especially the terms and the style as well as the products of the grand coalition were not communicated in the goods

a reasonable way to the outside world. now the next few days and weeks will be a crucial time in piecing together a stable regional government here in the area geo political analyst only brooks says as tensions between the c.s.u. and i'm going to merkel's party that led to this result in bavaria. the style 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 a war you don't need enemies the other problem is that if you don't understand what the 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 then you also misunderstand what is actually going on in. the country well in two weeks'

time we have another important election and this is a different scenario because the governor of heston 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. the chinese ambassador to the united 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 the remarks 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 wars trumps anger with china's trade surplus with the u.s. but despite all the punitive measures america's trade deficit with beijing has in

fact reached a new record and daniel bushell takes up the story the supremum of it's of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting sons to sixth century 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 launching the largest trade war in history from slops 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 american tolls on china in january next month beijing only sells the more same off the french 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 china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election i've done a lot of business which china china china sees route china talking about 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 a g. trump summit next month where u.s. way out the chinese finger trap can be hammered out so then who'd a thunk it trump would make china great again. so what this means is that of course china is basically won the trade war in this in the first round and shows that of course the american consumers are the ones that are

going to be are paying the highest prices for this and it's. certainly the u.s. has no position of strength going into these talks but china has done is continued interest sizes explicitly u.s. american importers are rushing in very very fast to orders to get as much product and as possible before the tariffs. 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. is completely failed. by just not any time past the hour here in moscow a deadline for terror groups to pull out of a buffer zone around syria's last militant held stronghold as passed with jihadist fighters ultimately staying put artie's joins us live in the studio with more details on this it is it is there any chance the jihadists will budge any time soon do you think well why today's the big day first and foremost is this is

a big concession today was supposed to be the day when all factions inside the syrian province of idlib were supposed to make a big concession and move out a twenty kilometer or so wide buffer zone established between the government controlled territories and the territories controlled by the anti-government forces which are again in now this is the second deadline already but we are we will get to that but this is a big this is a very very big concession today was supposed to be the day when they were supposed to move out all fighters out of the buffer zone and into the provinces effectively moving the front line now this deal was well it was kind in limbo from the very get go because a lot of people couldn't see how that many all those different. factions in libya could be controlled and how they could make such a concession and well for example literally hours before today's deadline the have

to create a sham the main force the four led by the are not sure front the main force in said this have a listen. we have not abandoned our choice of jihad and fighting towards implementing our blessed revolution. so this deal was designed to bring peace to syria to kind of make make the government and the fighters in to avoid human casualties because of all of this is a villain who live in adlib and so right now with statements like this it's largely unclear whether or not these all these groups will comply now this deadline was only one of the things agreed upon by both turkey and russia what else did the deal envision you know well it was a complex deal and they were russia and turkey have been working on it for a very very long time essentially implied. like five days ago on the tenth militants were supposed to move move out all heavy weapons out of the buffer zone

and largely despite all claims that because many some groups they publicly denounced this agreement but still largely deadline was met and largely all heavy weapons were indeed moved out so there's that but there's one thing to move out heavy weapons and another thing again to move out the fighters again essentially moving the front line and kind of bringing it closer to what they consider their home and so the situation is complicated is complicated because of the sheer number of groups in turkey which is a defacto tour on the side of the rebels that all those factions inside will comply with the deal they have a very difficult job on their hands because controlling just this many groups is difficult all alone but also when sometimes they say one thing and do another it's doesn't make it any easier. and still ahead for you here on the program on this monday retail giant amazon faces a backlash over its increased minimum wage some workers claiming other benefits

have been cut more on that after the break.

seems wrong. to. criticized. the. physical health has been seriously impacted as a result. i'm living out of my car thank you thank you amazon 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 did nasa to be injured at amazon this was their fault this was their faulty equipment. 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 at amazon. we don't recognize these allegations is an accurate portrayal of what you dam is it proudly safety record.

going to give me one month's worth of pay for. to shut me up. the station that i entered myself on the previous year again october they were still broke eight months later they still had not been seen. 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 it's. 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 of. the workers to the absolute limit. most

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. however. being less enthusiastic about the pay rise saying that other benefits have been cut to make it possible some workers claim they'll actually be thousands of dollars a year less well off and others complain that new stuff will get as much as some of the 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 and i was on says that the increase in the hourly wage will compensate the losses from previous benefits shannon allen

who we heard from bit earlier gave us her 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 received 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 the states right here in this states that they gave us to shares of stock and that we receive stock every year that we are there so i have six shares 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 vest for till two thousand and twenty.

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not after a time when you're watching going underground as moscow anchor attack iran and damascus introduce a twenty kilometer wide demilitarized zone against so-called moderate rebels in the syrian province of lib but who backs the moderate rebels we speak to award winning journalist charles gloss about a century of western secret wars and saudi u.k. relations one of the kingdom's dissidents tells us the alleged murder of journalist jamal khashoggi is nothing new they meet almost to do it enough to play in that jail they had a plus why was the first ever woman film director it raised from history but first to more in london has an energy conference with to raise amaze energy minister claire perry and the bows of the french government c.d.'s companies to see if

anyone wants to know how the u.k.'s energy system came to be defacto controlled from the palace in paris you have to look at ageing archive adverts selling the idea back in one nine hundred ninety when mrs thatcher was in power. anyone who uses electricity would be able to apply because she is in the twelve week electricity companies of india in with so you could buy into. what you plan to do media for eventually bought enough of the shares in british electricity to make swathes of it accountable to the french electorate simone rossi speaking tomorrow is the boss of e.t.f. supplying around six million homes in britain and he's proud of one particular project we're also building a new nuclear station in point here in the u.k. we now have about three thousand five hundred people on site which two on that apprentice this number is throwing. d.c. or we will be spending about up to one hundred million pounds a month on these projects and to see. sort of these money around around to sort of

the money spent in the accounts but let alone with the u.k. electricity users can afford to include bills from the french government even now financially partnered with the communist party in china or afford to build the nuclear power station not according to its opponents if it goes through. a.t.f. or really commit to commercial and industrial suicide because they need to listen to the west and by. the west in the financial press they need to listen to their own union. who will say you must go tempting into this e.t.f. cannot afford. the amount of money they'd have to borrow to to build this is more than what they're actually e.t.f. is actually worth e.t.f. denies that but the reactor in southwestern england is based on an e.t.f. designed in from a villa in france in the past few days france's nuclear regulator a.s.n. has accused e.d.f. of mismanagement costs have now had to be revised upwards in the project will be

delayed according to labor leader jeremy corbyn inc the point is he will not only push up the cost of electricity but involve giving a blank check to e.d.f. for a power station that doesn't work well something that did work as anglo-french partisan corporation in the second world war crucial was the forerunner to m i six the so-called spesh.