angela merkel says voters have lost confidence in politicians a day after the chancellor's key ally suffers an upset in that there is a regional election also to come on r.t. his fight is defy a deadline for terror groups to withdraw from the demilitarized zone around syria's last rebel stronghold i'm told from trade war appears to be backfiring china's trade surplus with the u.s. reaching a record high despite a barrel of punitive measures. and i welcome just gone six pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international my vote is in the german states but there you have inflicted

a heavy blow on chancellor merkel's key ally the christian social union suffered its worst election result for decades and the party looks 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 doubled their vote share. a f t and to the parliament for the very 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. meanwhile

the german chancellor angela merkel has blamed a lack of voter confidence for the election upset that the talks to form a parliamentary coalition in bavaria get underway but is. now explained breakthrough is unlikely. it's a day of the actions here and varia which led to a devastating blow and major losses for angela merkel sister party the c.s.u. the german chancellor said it was an issue of trust between voters and politicians in her party conference in the politicians what's missing from this election and confidence is very important my lesson from the election in bavaria is that two chancellor have to do more to ensure the trust is there coming just off to merkel

finally managed to piece together a delicate grahams coalition with the c.s.u. and reluctant s.p.d. following her own disastrous results last september in the general election the outcome is another blow to us a fragile three party governments this is yes your leader has made it clear that the c.s.u. will be able to continue to play a central role in the federal government see hoff is also known for criticising merkel's open door policy which he thought would translate into votes for the c.s.c. but this proved otherwise the c.s.u. has long dominated the varian politics for the last six decades coming away with absolute majority is in twelve out of the thirteen last elections but sunday's results means that they will now have to form a coalition and talks could start as early as next week the bavarian prime minister has said the party would prefer an alliance with the independents free voters let's take a listen to what he said it's certain that first sight

a coalition with the party of free voters is a viable option but we still need to talk with the other parties but the c.s.u. has already ruled out sharing powers with the day they'll tell it if the gemini party made their debut in the region of the actions of they've said they're ready to be an opposition force and the party that recorded a spike in games where the greens that may have now become the second largest opposition party in southern germany the rising popularity of the greens on the f.t. means that voters in movie. away from the centrist parties to the left on the right of the spectrum germany is now looking towards its next states election that will be in her say when voters go to the polls there if the c.d.u. on the c.s.u. face losses that the coalition could really be in trouble and that elections take place on the twenty eighth of october that the next few days and weeks could be a crucial moment in rebuilding stability here for the regional parliament in bavaria geo political analyst believes the results to reflect the current tensions

between the c.s.u. party. 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 c.e.o.'s who 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 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 in two weeks' time we have another important election and this is a different scenario because the governor of harrison supports america and it also doesn't look very bright for him so we go generally speaking you know phase that is

the end of that year america and if you will stay in power until the end of her term it's a thousand days. a tete a line for terror groups to pull out of a buffer zone around syria's last rebel held stronghold has expired but many jihad his fight is have stayed put well earlier i discussed the latest situation with artie's hugo she's done of 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 two 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 hours before today's deadline the most familiar. force front now known as. 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 wasn't agreed on by turkey russia what with the other key points with another key point 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 having 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 war of the guarantor of the rebels complying with the deal it is again a very difficult task because not only there is a lot of groups to control that to see them complying with the deal but also sometimes groups say one thing and then do another and but so far russia has been saying that turkey is doing its best to see the deal succeed which is. the agreements are being fulfilled without turkish partners having the main road 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 adlib whether they will continue fighting. in other news tonight the chinese ambassador

to the u.s. has said that beijing has no choice but to do. end itself from a trade war it doesn't want to miss started by washington but it's important to notice who started this trade or we never want to have a trade war but if somebody is tired of the trade war against us we have to respond and defend our own interests or those comments there income and heightened tensions over months of billions worth of tit for tat tariffs between the world's two largest economies one of the reasons for the trade war is trumps and with china's trade surplus with the us but despite all of the punitive measures that have taken place america's trade deficit with beijing has in fact reached a new record is done bushell explained the supremum of it's of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting sons 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 from 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 work tolls 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 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 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 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 to the last two quarters to get as

much product and as possible before the tariffs here 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. the turkish investigators on monday are searching riyadh consulate in istanbul where saudi dissident journalist jim alcohol gene mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago these are the latest pictures from the saudi consulate she said to be carried out by both to saudi officials meanwhile donald trump has spoken to the saudi king who told the president he is no knowledge of what happened to the reporter from padded that he sending the secretary of state to meet him on a he's also speculated rogue may have been behind the disappearance. thing. is really no. i don't want to get it. sounded to me like

a baby. killer. we're going to try getting to the bottom of it. what is the flood. was last seen entering the saudi consciousness and he stumble on october the second no one has heard from him since turkey has not officially keith riyadh being involved but some reports to claim it intelligence services have evidence a saudi was tortured and also killed saudi arabia has since strongly denied the accusations and has offered to help in the investigation. well as international pressure does mount over his disappearance riyadh is warning countries not to threaten it because sochi suspected murder in the consciousness has led to the specter of sanctions sending the kingdom stock market plunging the u.s. is among nations issuing warnings to the saudis however the u.s. president is still trying to keep afloat multi-billion economic t. also signed last year i just irk agreements with the kingdom that will

invest 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 a largest order ever made it's four hundred fifty thousand jobs it's the best equipment in the world but if they don't buy it from us they're going 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 entry but there are other things we can do that will be very severe but we spoke to saudi analysts as mad alley but i haint he thinks that talks of sanctions is premature. doug 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 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 great can play and i don't think really a sanction would be put on saudi arabia if nobody wants to sell us weapon the market to you great and more advance probably if we get. for example weapons from russia it will be more advanced than the a weapon that actually is released by the congress are very be all what they allow so 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 any more about jamal it's basically people out they can prevent you watching us a still to come in the sun just internet access in the ecuadorian embassy in london pockley restored we'll have a look at why and the details just after the break. when

i was just seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me early yet to shape out this day become educated and in game three but it was betrayed. when so many find themselves worlds apart when we choose to look for common ground . you cannot operate as united nations this is not just wouldn't but u.n. d.p. world health organization and in fact other international organizations like the international committee of the red cross you cannot work in a place like gaza without pragmatic cooperation with the local authorities which are hamas in this case here on or has been for most of the last few years.

here with r.c. now ecuador has announced it is partly restoring access to communications for we can expand it you did in a song she has been inside the country's embassy in london for over six years sundays connection to the outside world was cut back in march and see it as more. communications for a wiki leaks founder julian assange who has in fact been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london for over six years have been partially restored by the ecuadorian government following an entire seven month blackout one of sondre was essentially denied access to the internet to phones as well as to visitors with

the exception of his legal team following a series of opinions he had expressed online on a hot political topics including the issue of cattle on independence and back at the time the ecuadorian government had ahead of this decision to cut his communications had cited a commitment he they said had signed up to at the end of twenty seventeen to not express any messages which would interfere with other states however we can leaks as well as julian assange and had denied at the time that any such commitment was made by him and throughout this time of seven months when this blackout was taking place wiki leaks did appoint a longtime associate of julian a songe as editor in chief of weekly leaks and.

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 or yes no question for you does israel have nuclear capabilities to clear weapons yes or no. we've always said that we won't be the first joint producers who we are going to introduce 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 terrible 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. may has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from every corner of the globe but control this is always surrounded just how many of the pieces of ended up in the british museum critics to say it's a showcase of colonial pillage but attempts by the museum to counter those claims haven't quite gone to plan.

not everything here was acquired by europeans by alluding. like starchild live digne there's an excuse the works out for sure officer most of the stuff in my house is stolen but not all of that so it's fine. i'm no lawyer but i'm not entirely sure this argument will prevail in court. i fear british museum is planning special section called unloaded stuff not everything equal secure a three objects that were in the loop. and

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. let's face it was government official of president i don't have faith in the system . i've got it's over i'm too liberal the system designed for people like me. as well as they. do for the people who are here for different reasons but also job we also hold. most people in philadelphia are only a ballot two paychecks away from homelessness. what

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and sure. want to. have to go on to be cross this is what the four three in the morning can people that i'm interested always in the waters of the house. first city hall. who cannot operate as united nations this is not just about you n.d.p. world health organization and in fact other international organizations like the international committee of the red cross you cannot work in a place like gaza with pragmatic cooperation with the locals all refuse which are hamas in this case here on or has been for most of the last few years.

hello and welcome to cross talk where 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 exclusive for 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 all right i mean crosstalk rules in effect that means you 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 tipping point now the role model doing this was a trial balloon alex jones himself 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 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 way i would say because 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 .