it is for you of course today is not an easy day for the c.s.u. we didn't get a good result it was somewhat painful to german chancellor's key ally in the very air is dealt a big blow in regional elections being on course to lose their majority that is the right wing and the greens make historic gains also to come this hour jihadist fighters to fight deadline for terror groups to withdraw from a demilitarized zone around series last rebel stronghold and told from straight war appears to be back far in the chinese trying to us reaching a record high despite

a barrage of punitive measures. well i welcome you watching r.t. international start starting with that developing story coming out of germany this afternoon where police have closed part of the main train station in cologne due to a hostage situation these are live pictures from there i reports to say the incident began in a pharmacy inside the station trying to being prevented from using some of the tracks and there's a large police presence at the site as you can see the police have not confirmed some radio reports that shots have been fired cologne police have posted a warning on lying telling the public to stay away from the area for now and that's the latest that we know we see as we get more updates bring them straight to you. meanwhile voters in the. state of area have inflicted

a heavy blow on chancellor merkel's key ally handing the christian social union his worst election result for decades the party is set to lose its absolute majority in the region's parliament meaning it will need a coalition partner reports suggest this will likely be the third place for voters party meanwhile the greens almost double their vote share and the anti migrant k.f.t. enter the parliament for the very first time following a hard fought campaign. today is not an easy day for this year we didn't get a good result it was somewhat pain. caused.

but more now on the elections his initial stepping it was a bruising results in sunday's election with the angle a medical system the c.s.u. who lost their absolute majority in terry a minister heads up the c.s.e. and he's known for criticizing nichols open door policy which he thought would translate into votes of the c.s.u. some are 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 us christian social union 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 government for bavaria and we will assume 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 on to the historic moment for the alternative to chairmen who made their debut and are 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 head in southern germany we are satisfied we will be in a position force but if the government makes reasonable legislative proposals they will vote in favor of the people of bavaria clearly showed us they want to policy that takes action that looks forwards has courage and so the 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 the voters attending away from the centrist parties to the left and the right but looking at other policies now heads of germany's close it's

a poor election results out all levels she thinks the crash of her party was because of the performance of the coalition but speaking in berlin secretary general of merkel c.d.u. blames the c.s.u. results or recent quarrels within the coalition disputes of the past few months especially the terms and the style as well as the politics of the grand coalition were not communicated in their 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 governments of area. and i believe that the current tensions between the c.s.u. party are reflected in the poll results. 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 we 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 instead you'll 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 in two weeks' time we have another important election and this is a different scenario because the governor of has 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. now a deadline for terror groups to pull out of a buffer zone around syria's last rebel held stronghold has expired but many jihadist fighters have actually stayed put earlier i discussed the situation with

our teens he goes done. now this is the biggest intrigue is whether or not the rebel factions stationed in the northern province of idlib will will comply with the deal because today this monday is when all those groups all those militants are supposed to make the biggest concession of all within the frameworks of the agreement brokered out by russia and turkey they're supposed to withdraw their fighters from the twenty or so kilometer wide buffer zone in the province of idlib and so it is complicated because there are a lot of factions and all of them have to comply to avoid any violations but for example one hours before today's deadline the most for medical force front now known as. i said this have a listen we have not abandon our choice of jihad fighting towards implementing our blessed revolution so there you have a day our nursery front formally known as al qaeda in syria they didn't openly

denounce the deal like a couple of other groups did but still judging by their statement they want to keep on fighting the assad army and you know withdrawing from the front line doesn't really help that cause now this deadline was only one of the things was in it agreed on by to russia what with the other key points with other key points it was to for the rebels for all the factions in libya to withdraw heavy arms from the buffer zone that was this was like a first step and largely from what we've seen so far we haven't seen too many reports of violations of that but one thing is to withdraw heavy weapons and another thing is to withdraw your own fighters essentially moving frontlines closer to what they see as their home is their last stronghold and for turkey it is defacto a go into or. they go into all of the rebels complying with the deal it is again a very difficult task because not only that there is a lot of groups to control that to see them complying. with the deal but all sorts

sometimes groups say one thing and then do another and but so far russia has been saying that while turkey is doing its best to see the deal succeed it looms to the agreements were being fulfilled with our turkish partners having the main role they're actively fighting to get all groups to cooperate so ultimately today and the next following days will be key to understanding if the deal is on the way to being successful or whether or the groups all those various factions in ad lib whether they will continue fighting. the chinese ambassador to the u.s. has said that beijing has no choice but to defend itself from a trade war it doesn't want and was started by washington it's important to note as for started this trade or we never want to have a trade war but if somebody has ties of the trade the war against us we have to respond and defend our own interests well those comments there do come amid

heightened tensions over months of billions worth of tit for tat terrorist between the world's two largest economies 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 that have happened america's trade deficit with beijing has in fact reached a record new record and will bushel as more. the supremum art 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 war 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 of 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 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 to then who'd

a thunk it trump would make china great again. so what this means is that of course china is basically why the trade war in this in the first round. shows that of course the american consumers are the ones that are going to be are paying the highest prices for this and start harm 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 u.s. american importers are rushing in very very fast the last two quarters to get as much product and as possible before the tariffs here. china is pursuing other trade relationships to continue to closer economy to grow so this is what this shows is that the u.s. has completely failed. now turkish investigators on monday searching riyadh's

consulate in istanbul where saudi dissident journalist your mouth christology mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago these are live pictures from the consulate. the search is set to be carried out by both and saudi officials donald trump tweeted that he had spoken to the saudi king he denies any knowledge of what happened to the reporter from but added that he's quote immediately sending secretary of state to meet the king. well as international pressure does mount over his disappearance riyadh is warning countries not to threaten it because all g.'s suspected murder in the consulate has led to the specter of sanctions sending the kingdom stock market plummeting the u.s. is among nations issuing warnings to the saudis however the u.s. president is trying to keep multi-billion economic to use signed last year a flight we saw right historic agreements with the kingdom that will interest almost four hundred billion dollars. in our two countries this landmark agreement

includes the announcement of a one hundred ten billion dollars saudi funded defense purchase. i believe it's the largest order ever made its four hundred fifty thousand jobs it's the best equipment in the world but if they don't buy it from us they go in to buy it from russia or they're going to buy it from china or they're going to buy it from other countries and i think that would be very foolish for a country but there are other things we can do that will be very severe when we spoke to the saudi analyst on this but i haint he thinks that talk of sanctions is premature. baby has many many many many cards to play many cards but the oil is not one of those cards because saudi arabia has believed that oil and supplies and oil change and this is what the world want to hear this is all for the benefit of the

whole for whole world and the whole economies and the people but definitely saudi arabia has a game and has a card that's going currently and i don't think really a sanction would be put on saudi arabia if nobody wants to sell us what the market did to you great and more advance probably if we get. for example. from russia it will be more advanced than the one that actually is released by the congress are very be all would be a lawsuit it's not for any benefit i think everybody should calm down not to politicize the this this issue and let's get the investigation going but let's solve the issue it's not anymore about jamal it's basically people out they can prevent your snot international still to come this hour high profile interreligious wedding essential quavers across israel will have a look at the details on that present the stories just after the break.

the. you know world's big partisan brute lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that midstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

hello welcome back now let's just give you an update on the developing story coming out of germany this afternoon where part of the main train station in cologne has been closed due to a hostage situation a local police now say the suspect though has been neutralized in the female hostage appears to be slightly injured reports say the incident began in a pharmacy inside the train station trains are being prevented still from using some of the tracks there's a large police presence at the site police have not confirmed some media reports that shots were fired cologne police have posted a warning on line still telling people to stay away from the area for now that's what we know so far any more information we get we'll bring it straight.

the marriage of a jewish actor and muslim news anchor sparking outrage in israel that after top israeli politicians significantly upped the ante by signaling their opposition to the me this is their private matter but i as a jew if you ask me this question i have to say that i'm against these things because we have to preserve the jewish nation the way we've preserved it for thousands of years she can still convert i have a problem with intermarriage we have not recovered yet from the holocaust there are fewer jews in the world that there were during the holocaust and there is good reason in trying to grow i don't blame lucy harris for seducing a jewish soul with the goal of harming our country and preventing more jewish progeny from continuing the jewish dinnerstein i do blame sakhi the islamicized being here lévy bro stop being delusional despite questions over whether israel should be condemning their citizens choice of partner washington claims that all

middle eastern states should be as democratic as the jewish state party shucking bigger takes up the story. apparently the trump administration would have the whole middle east be just like israel if they had their way israel is everything we want the entire middle east to look like going forward it is democratic and prosperous it desires peace and is a home to a free press and a thriving free market economy so let's just take a moment and picture that the entire middle east would look at donald trump to the same eyes as ben human. everyone in the region would hate iran with the same fiery passion threat posed by iran whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos iran large iran's power through the fall aggression danger that you're wrong you're

wrong not be rewarded for suppression in the region and what countries do to those they don't see eye to eye with follow the israeli example and throw up a fence. the muslim in a neighborhood we need to protect ourselves from wild beasts at the end of the day as i see it there will be a fence like this one surrounding israel in its entirety now in that scenario all of israel's neighbors would likely be blocking them in and of course every country in the middle east would be broken down into pro and anti government building barriers and israel has shown us exactly how those rebelling would be treated. let's not forget about the lovely nuclear stockpile israel is believed to have the

region would be filled with nukes not that they'd ever admit to having such weapons right maybe yes no question for you does israel have nuclear capabilities and nuclear weapons yes or no. we've always said that we won't be the first to introduce who we have been introduced is all of that what the secretary of state had in mind let's hope not you really have to see this in the context of american domestic politics and not really in middle eastern politics certainly for israeli jews israel is a very successful country it's often referred to here in the united states as startup nation what kind of reception does it have the middle east care about israel is very unpopular for the way that it has been pushing aside the palestinians and oppressing the palestinians netanyahu and trump have found a brotherhood in their policies towards the palestinians and towards the saudis

and towards iraq they've they've really aligned themselves very closely and that's what you were hearing at the chinse the speech by pump aoe. that finally it may have as one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from every corner of the globe but controversy is always surrounded just time many of the pieces ended up in the british museum critics say it is a show piece of colonial period but attempts by the museum to counter face claims haven't quite gone to plan.

they already dire situation in gaza worsening the u.s. pulling the plug on funding from a un agency that's helping palestinian refugees where will the palestinians turn for help well i asked the gaza director of the united nations relief and works agency for palestine. the gaza strip. blockade from the outside and the bloody rivalry of the palestinian factions on the inside. there are left without u.s. funding. and you were left to turn. the looming humanitarian catastrophe. will anger builds along with the. war. dr. as

a director of united nations relief and works agency for palestine welcome to the show it's great to have you with us lots to talk about nods a. united states has cut funding to your agency earlier this year you have to fire people who work for you in gaza because there is no money to pay their salaries is other nations funding not an elf to keep the organization running smoothly. we've had tremendous success this year to find some money to replace what we've lost from the united states for example for arab countries kuwait the united arab emirates qatar and saudi arabia have given us fifty million each so there is a success story to be told in terms of finding money to replace us money but it's not enough and that is why as you indicated we unfortunately had to release some employees but from what we hear a un r w e employees in gaza are picketing your office there are even people

standing with signs that say matthew as out why hasn't the agency done more to keep its rank and file employed you know well you know for me the answer to this is we have here in gaza thirteen thousand employees thousands of which work on what we call the emergency appeal we have several pots of money one of which is the emergency appeal for the emergency appeal we ran out of money completely at the end of june we had to take a loan to continue the food distribution to one million people it's a huge hugely significant that we're able to continue this three hundred people of the thousand have kept their jobs full time about six hundred ten to be moved to part time just simply because we do not have enough money and just over one hundred had to be separated now it's dramatic and tragic for the hundred or so losing their jobs but as a manager i have to say it is overall remarkable that we had we we could limited to

these numbers so the usa to you number three hundred sixty five million correct and like you said earlier other nations stepped up and reduced your age is this deficit to sixty five million i mean that that's really huge why are there still layoffs if the loss of american money isn't as severe as it was thought. well you mentioned there is still a deficit so i have been very clear and you know the deficit is sizable it's more than sixty million dollars which is not small by any standard so we've significantly reduced it but we are still below sea level we are still struggling to breathe and when you don't have enough money it sadly then affects a couple of people i've consistently said from the beginning of the year and. these decisions in july if we get our complete deficit covered and new money for the

emergency appeal on top of it we can reconsider these decisions we are sadly not in that situation yet so there are there are other downfalls as well the agencies laying off local workers angry mobs are threatening international employees i hear you had to evacuate people.