he. says voters have lost confidence in politicians of this a day after the chance of this key ally suffered an upset in the various regional election. investigators all searching the saudi consulate in istanbul live pictures for you here this is a journalist jamal khashoggi who went missing there two weeks ago made international warnings of consequence is that riyadh is found to be complicit in his disappearance the kingdom has denied all accusations. also jihadist fighters defy a deadline for terrorist groups to withdraw from a deal militarized zone around syria's last rebel stronghold.

good evening and welcome this is our. voters in the german state to prevaricate have inflicted a heavy blow on chancellor michael schiavo like christine social union suffered its worst election result for decades losing its absolute majority in the region's parliament it means that the party will now need to find a coalition partner report suggests that this is likely to be the third place for a vote his party. the greens almost doubled the vote share while the. end of the parliament for the first time following a hard fought campaign. today

is not an easy day for the c.s.u. we didn't get a good result. i . think. the german chancellor angela merkel's blamed a lack of confidence for the election upset talks to form a parliamentary coalition in bavaria get underway but. that's unlikely. it's a day off to the regional elections 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 mom prudence and 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 that 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 yes a fragile three party governments the c.s.u. 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 some days 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 that the policy would prefer an alliance with the independence free voters let's take a listen to what he said it's certain that at first sight a coalition with the party of three 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 germany 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 they may have now become the second largest opposition party in southern germany the rising popularity of the greens i'm not if day means that voters in movie. away from the centrist parties to the left and the right of the spectrum germany is now looking to what its next state's election that will be and has say when voters go to the polls there is the c.d.u. and 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 and the various. departure from angela merkel's assessment of the elections munich's mare lashed out at berlin for the quote bitter losses having the faith in germany's coalition parties has been eroded. roses and bitter or in general it was a bitter evening for the s.p.d. if i was able to tell you the reason we could have avoided those mistakes i presume it's not about the party's policies as polls suggest they're precisely what people care about nowadays homes rental payments social support the environment the s.p.d. in bavaria has researched these issues over and over i think the main problem is we are losing trust people don't think we're able to deliver what we promised with the party's program unfortunately it's all about the s.p.d.

party i will say carefully berlin didn't help us many decisions that were taken half heartedly politicians often went back on their words certainly that doesn't help to strengthen faith in the party today we felt that ourselves. turkish investigators are monday are searching where consulate in istanbul saudi dissident journalist jamal mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago these are live pictures from the saudi consulate the search is set to be carried out by both turkish and saudi officials meanwhile donald trump has spoken to the saudi king who told the u.s. president he has no knowledge of what happened to the reporter from thirty sending the secretary of state to meet with the man. you also speculated rogue killers might be behind the disappearance. very.

really no. i don't want to get it. sounded to me like. you. were going to try getting to the bottom of a very. large. smaller soji was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second no one has heard from him since turkey hasn't officially accused riyadh of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence services have evidence that assad was tortured and killed saudi arabia has since strongly denied the accusations and offered to help investigate the case . as international pressure mounts over the disappearance riyadh is warning countries not to threaten its assad g.'s suspected murder in the concert that led to the specter of sanctions sending the kingdom's stock market plunging the u.s. is among nations issuing warnings to the saudis but the u.s. president is trying to keep afloat multi-billion economic deals signed last year we

so i'd historic agreements with the kingdom that will impress. the chinese ambassador to the united states to said 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 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 those remarks come amid heightened tensions over months of billions worth of tit for tat tariffs between the world's two biggest economies one of the reasons for the trade war it's donald trump's anger with china's trade surplus with the u.s. but despite all the peanuts it measures america's trade deficit with beijing has in fact reached a new record bushel pics of the story the supremum of us 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 from slops vicious restrictions on beijing get its 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 chinese 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 sea route china and talk of 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 than 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 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 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. has come julian assange says internet access in the ecuadorian embassy in london paul it restores details after the break.

you know world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter 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 troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back a deadline for terrorists groups to pull out of a buffer zone around syria as the last rebel held stronghold has a expired and many jihadist fighters to stay put in my colleague andrew farmer discussed the situation in the eighty's it is done and 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 in 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. 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 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 if you do this doable the agreement being fulfilled without a. 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 the groups all those various factions in the whether they will continue fighting. has announced that it is partly restoring an access to communications for we can

leaks founder julian assange has been inside the country's embassy in london for more than six years now so just connection to the outside world was cut back in march and reports 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 equipe dorrian 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 had denied at the time that any such commitment was made

by have 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 and now following this latest announcement it comes after a meeting between the top senior u.n. officials and the ecuadorian president discussing the matter and this is what we can weeks had to say in reaction to this announcement to partially return his ability to communicate. with the outside world it is positive that through u.n. intervention ecuador has partly ended the isolation of mr saunders though it is of great concern that his freedom to express his opinions is still limited the u.n. has already declared mr song victim of arbitrary detention this unacceptable situation must and julian assange just biggest fear of course remains a possible extradition to the united states where he fears being prosecuted for the

work that we can leaks have been doing over the years and he and his team want to see guarantees that such a thing would not happen and of course they have not seen any such promises as of yet anderson and his team of course are continuing to work on any possible legal options for him moving forward but the way things stand as we speak the future in the next steps for this massive big case for julian assange continues to be extremely unclear. my house one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from every corner of the globe but controversy has always surrounded just how many of the pieces and it up in the british museum critics say is a showcase of colonial pillage of terms by the museum to counter those claims quite gone to plan.

not everything here was acquired by europeans by alluding. might start shoplifting 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 a special section called unloaded stuff not everything it was secure of three objects that were in the news. to stay with us here on r.t. this evening updates coming your way at the top of the. tech 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. with more make this manufactured consensus still to the public well. when the right wing. closest to protect themselves. when the financial merry

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the already dire situation in gaza worsening with 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 director of the united nations relief and works agency for palestine. gaza strip. and the bloody rivalry of the palestinian factions inside. the un. there are left without us. and you were left to play. along with the. war. dr massey

a rally gaza 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 the. 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 the u.n. are 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 thousands have kept their jobs full time about six hundred ten have 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 one 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 agency's deficit to sixty five billion 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 are significantly reduced good 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 after announcing 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 vote.