the news jihadist fighters defy a deadline for terrorist groups to withdraw from the demilitarized zone around syria's last rebel stronghold. good evening and welcome this is our. voters in the german state to bavaria have inflicted their heavy blow on chancellor merkel's key ally christine social union suffered its worst election result for decades losing its absolute majority in the regions parliament means the party will now need to find a coalition partner reports suggest that's likely to be the third placed free vote his party. the greens almost double their vote share 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. i . mean while the german chancellor angela merkel has blamed the lack of voter confidence for the election upset talks about forming a parliamentary coalition in bavaria are already underway but as he explains an early breakthrough is 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 and her party. in the petitions was 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 government 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 some 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 that the party would prefer an alliance with the independents 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 tentative for 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 that 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 are moved. away from the centrist parties to the left and the

right of the spectrum germany is now looking to what its next state election that will be and has say when voters go to the polls there is this cd you 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 hefted the regional parliament in bavaria . in a departure from angela merkel's assessment of the elections moving smell lashed out for the bitter losses faith in germany's coalition parties has been eroded noses and brittle 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 are 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're losing trust people don't think we're able to deliver what we promised with the parties program unfortunately it's all about the s.p.d. party i will say carefully lynn 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. took investigators on monday are searching consulate in istanbul where saudi dissident journalist jamal mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago the search is said to be carried out by both turkish saudi officials meanwhile donald trump has spoken to the saudi king who told the president he has no knowledge of what happened to the reporter. that he's sending the secretary of state to me the moment he also speculated rogue killers might be behind the disappearance he firmly says.

really. i don't want to get it. sounded to me like. you. were going to try getting to the bottom of a very. large. jamal how 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 ashaji 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 of riyadh is warning countries not to threaten it should g.'s suspected murder in the consulate has led to the spectrum sanctions sending the kingdom's stock market plunging the u.s. is among nations issuing warnings to the saudis but the u.s.

prison this trying to keep afloat multi-billion economic deals signed last year we signed historic 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 our largest border 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 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 and we spoke to saudi analyst akhmed alley but he thinks the talk of sanctions is

premature 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 weapons marketed to you great and more advanced probably if we get. for example. from russia it will be more advanced than the one that actually is released by the congress which are very big 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 any more about jamal it's basically people are taking revenge. spain is bracing for more violence this is football stars take

on england in seville on monday night this is after clashes between police and drunken three lions fans who calls college on sunday by damaging cars and vandalizing property is out a sports correspondent alexia schiff ski. situation not exactly unheard of but the english football fans are making themselves loud again this time in soudan spain city of seville where the national team is playing spain now it began on sunday night when what the media described as drink fuelled anti-social behavior by the english fans erupted when the riot police had to walk in after the english translated vandalizing cars and smashing property or you think that was loud that loud is continued into the day on this clip posted on social media the english fans are bombing the pope in a pub outside. central in seville one fan of england it ended pretty early he drank half a bottle of some book and was a scored on an ambulance car now the f.a. english f.a. had to apologize for the fan behavior saying that it was unacceptable and promised

to identify those involved and sanctioned all those responsible for this disorder funnily enough but some of these english fans on the ground have blamed the spanish police for what happened to them like this bloodied bloke here saying that with the spanish police and feel and you know you might think this is shifting the blame but they have a point the spanish police particularly have been very rough when it comes to greeting and treating english fans last year when liverpool played civilian that city there was a lot of trouble between the fans of the police and even a blind man had his cane taken away by the police and the club promised to investigate those actions which begs for a question who ever thought of putting that game into the city with such a bad history so it looks like it's a recipe for disaster but we'll know soon enough whether spain against england would provoke any more fan trouble. the chinese ambassador to the united states has 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 war 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 the remarks come amid 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 anger with china's trade surplus with the u.s. but despite all the peace it measures america's trade deficit with beijing has in fact reached a new record bush takes up the story the supremum of its 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 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 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 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 has basically won 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 u.s. american importers are rushing in very very fast the last two years to get as much product and as possible before the tariffs here and china is pursuing other trade relationships to continue to cause her economy to grow so this is what this shows

is that the u.s. has completely failed. the deadline for terrorists groups to pull out of a buffer zone around syria's last rebel held stronghold spite of many jihadist fighters a stayed put under a farmer discuss the situation with artie's you can stand. 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 framework 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 familiar will force the 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 front formerly 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 front lines

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 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 adlib whether they will continue fighting. i could or has announced that it is partly

restoring access to communications for wiki leaks founder julian assange has been inside the country's embassy in london for more than six years now a son just connection to the outside world was cut back in march and to see if churkin 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 ecuadorian government following an entire seven month whack out 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 him and throughout this time of seven months when this blackout was taking place we q leagues 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 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 an 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 un has already declared mr song victim of arbitrary detention this unacceptable situation

must and julian assange just biggest fear of course remains of possible extradition to the united states where he fears being prosecuted for the work that we clearly 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 and a songe 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 on the next steps for this massive big case for julian assange continues to be extremely unclear. the marriage of a jewish center and a muslim using can respond outrage in israel of the top israeli politicians significantly upped the ante by signaling their opposition to the move this is their private matter but as a jew 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 i have

a problem with intermarriage 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 harish was seduced in the jewish soul with the goal of harming our country i do blame saqib the islamicize ing halevi bro stop being delusional despite questions over whether israel should be condemning the citizens choice of partner washington claims all middle eastern countries should be as democratic as the jewish state it is directly and has been. 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 you're on the path of the ball aggression danger that you're wrong you're wrong not be rewarded for russia 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 it will be. the most were 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 this speech by pompei out. of a house one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from all corners of the world but control to see is a we surrounded just how some of the pieces ended up in the british museum critics say it's a showcase of colonial pillage but attempts by the museum to counter those claims haven't quite gone to plan.

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 equal secure a three objects that weren't loose. and staying with us here on r.t. international updates coming your way in half an hour. i don't have faith in this government official of president i don't have faith in the system i see i've got it's all right i'm just a broken system that sets aside for people like me. as largely. different people are here for different reasons the loss of job loss the whole.

most people in philadelphia are only a ballot two paychecks away from homelessness. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is a rich one trillion dollars and. more than ten thousand dollars timestamping each did . eighty five percent of global will you loan to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from its lowest year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second in bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars . china's building two point one billion dollars a our industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only.

obama codified the worst time to see the wall street institutionalize the club doctor say the journal blind eye to the excesses of the really though the rats on on on financed in america who are pilfering with impunity and going to sell this is draining the swamp gave us fortunately i must say that it does mean that interest rates are going to start going higher and this is for the first time in thirty two years the bond market bull rally we've had with thirty two years or longer this looks like it's coming to an end and that is a fundamental shift a huge change in the economy for the world and for the united states going forward so that will be the big story of the next twenty four months.

now imagine a time when you're watching going underground as moscow ankara attack iran to 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 dramas 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 job i had a plus why was the first ever woman film director it raised from history but first of all 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 will be able to play because she is in the twelve week electricity companies of india didn't win so you could buy into. what you plug into 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 the 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 sort of these money around and around to sort of the money spent in the account but let alone where the u.k. electricity users can afford. include bills can 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 committee commercial and industrial suicide because they need.