really was very european and his approach. is. brussels for example he doesn't represent america is america for better or worse and i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see. here. people. we have money than anybody else but we'll build it up. in the stories that shape this week president trump. with russia and china looks to put out of a major cold war nuclear agreement the divisions within. polls have just closed in local elections in the german state. the results are expected to weaken hard fought across the country.

and its transatlantic allies kind of the u.s. appear to freeze arms sales to saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of journalist. in the weekly. joining us this hour. u.s. president again threatened a new arms race with russia and china that's just days after he announced he was pulling his country out of a major nuclear treaty signed during the cold war also repeated. breach of the accord. right here the agreement should have been done years ago so people come here for money that anybody else. will build it up.

by the way not only will. moscow insists it hasn't violated the nuclear treaty and believes it should be preserved saying it's in fact washington that's not been sticking to the deal russia's foreign ministry has recently said the us sent a list of its concerns to moscow just days before doubts in his decision to quit leaving it with no time to apply and one of the agreements signed back in one thousand nine hundred seventy all short and mid range nuclear and conventional missiles will end with the exception of those launch that c. washington says it's in talks with its european allies about its withdrawal some of which are too happy about the move. the announcement by the u.s. that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f. agreement has been important pillar of our european security architecture for thirty years for us in europe it's of great importance we call on the u.s.

to consider the possible consequences the u.s. and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. it to ensure its cool and verifiable implementation which of course is crucial for europe's and global security problem is as others have pointed out in particular this is a problem i think for europeans that this treaty was designed to prevent or reduce the risk of nuclear weapons being used by the nuclear threshold being lowered and not should we say long range heavy nuclear weapons being used against the united states and the soviet union or today russia but that with the shorter range weapons it would be europe western europe that would become the nuclear battlefield and there's some concern i think a great deal of concern amongst all european leaders except the united kingdom who yesterday have stated that they support the american position predictably enough

there is concern that this reduces the prospects for nuclear disarmament increases risks for western europe and its people. was a little surprise then that america's plans to pull out of the accord dominated tuesday's meeting with tween u.s. national security advisor john bolton and the russian president although the subject at hand was no laughing matter that was still room for a bit of humor. a little careful no as far as i remember there was an eagle on the u.s. national emblem and there are thirteen arrows in one foot and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peaceful policy in the other my question is did your eagle eat all the olives and leave just the arrows but. i'm grateful for the opportunity to speak with you and. president and hopefully i'll have some answers for you but i didn't bring any more all of. them that's what i thought. and during the talks putin said he was puzzled by washington's move in the absence of any provocation from

moscow as for the i.n.f. treaty itself john bolton called it outdated and insists that it should be revised to include other nations most likely china international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes it's the fear of beijing's growing military might that's behind trump's plans many commentators think that this is the american decision is linked more to china's them to russia because the chinese are not part of the treaties they've been developing their missile capabilities and there are military capabilities in southeast asia in the south china sea and the americans want to be able to confront them there and the treaty which we're talking about prevents the americans of course deploying missiles not just in europe but in asia as well and the americans want to get out of it so they can start putting missiles. just minutes ago voting finished officially in the local elections in a german region of. hard won a grand coalition fears a poor showing could damage across the whole country would you have some pre-vote

polls they predict warning support waning support rather for traditional parties in favor of the greens as well as other left wing forces the right wing alternative for germany party is also expected to strengthen we gauged opinion about today's election and one of the cities in the has a region. just think at the. top of the lecture results should go in favor of the greens this time and with that a change comes in society that means more for green energy because i personally work for wind power plants and it would be nice if this did more with this wind and solar energy and actually i expect the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. will lose support the other parties people are talking about the f.t. the greens the free voters will get more points but i believe that nothing will change with all this politics they're all staying firmly in place but like i said it's always been like this for the past few elections during the elections there's a lot that it's promised and then when the election is over they say what i said

yesterday is yesterday's go for it doesn't change a thing in the end they've just filled their pockets and continue in this way. that he was right it will help there is going to be a part of the election results for all voters in the sense that they see you and the as a people you will make it it's highly probable and i really expected that to happen . i was joined live by steven meisel independent political observer to get some more on this thanks for joining us stephen good to have you on the program today as those polls are saying heavyweights the christian democrats the social democrats they are expected to move seats why do you think that has been the pattern not only in the local elections but indeed nationally as well. well this has been going on since the national elections in two thousand and seventeen in september they took a real drubbing in those elections and it hasn't been getting any better they had a long period of six months where they could not form a coalition a lot of infighting with the c.s.

who in that city who. resulting in continuously decreasing popularity of. both halves of the ruling coalition the city you and the s.p.d. has its own problems. and it's just being reflected now as well in the various states of germany in the state election of probably a proxy vote nationally as well that's not just a local fold and what could this mean for the grand coalition if the c.d.u. fails to get enough votes for a majority has a could that have a big impact on that political framework. well not directly of course because it's a federal state and what goes on there is not directly connected but it will definitely put in a weak position she's been getting weaker and weaker is and more and more unpopular and now if they lose and they seem to have lost big there as well again i would expect she'd be under

a pretty severe pressure now. as far as the support on the federal level that at some point this city you is going to have to look for a new face she's getting very unpopular i think she's a more of a liability for the party than she is a positive for instance there have been these so-called. demonstrations going on for about a year and a half now that means and in german the english translation is merkel has to go and i don't ever remember seeing shrewder like the chancellor before passed to go demonstrations or before him was cold i don't ever remember is having demonstrations here in germany saying call has to go at least in part of the population she's become really highly unpopular. i just want to touch briefly on some exit polls we're getting in here just as i'm speaking to you stephen the chancellor merkel's party does appear to have won with twenty eight percent of the vote but they've taken a real beating lost

a lot of seats apparently. he has got twelve percent interest and that means that are represented in regional part of us now these are just exit polls and we have to remember that could go up or down a bit but it does give a bit of a picture as to what's going on there i just want to touch upon compromise here because obviously they have to you know all represented in germany's in the buddhist talk as we said in all the parliaments here they're a big point for the election was migration was that they really played that migration card something merkel may not have to compromise on do you think this could put her in a bit of a corner and she may have to take some steps towards that if the hold out hold out all of the. perhaps to get some sort of political compromise. i wouldn't anticipate she would do that although they are all the other parties are actually moving towards the e.f.t. position if you look at it closely enough that even the green party is criticizing america for what she did during two thousand and fifteen that she wasn't prepared

for the influx of migration and so on and all of germany is really suffering indigestion from the influx of millions of migrants that have come in since the end of two thousand and fourteen and that is largely due to decisions that machall made on her own so she she caused these problems they have led to the rise of the f.t. in the first place. i don't know if she's the person to solve the problems that she created herself i think they need a different face a different person to have any hope of really regaining control over the political situation in germany. and what about the prospect of a left wing coalition people say in the green some of the smaller left wing party as well could come together to win that seat do you do you think that's a possibility and if that could happen if there is any chance of that happening is that an isolated case or could we see

a national trend emerging here over the coming months and years. ideologically could certainly could happen i don't have the exit poll numbers in front of me when i came in here they were not yet available really. i don't know if the numbers would work out for the far left the greens and the s.p.d. together but coalition which is sort of like a broad little to left coalition is in power right now in berlin and coalition is in power in tearing. it's definitely a possibility that this will happen and has said no to we'll see how it works out in the course of this even though if the numbers add up for i can't see that right now. exit polls coming in as we're speaking to even just look at some stuff on social media from europe aleck's again these are unconfirmed is just election polls but they're saying. the greens coming up with some of the best results in history apparently eight point nine percent increase i believe for the greens.

also making gains as well so certainly is a possibility. just look like a possibility again in has put the f.t. party as we said in all sixty german regional parliaments here in addition to the what do you think has been the reason for their success because prior to this they were very much marginalized on the fringes of politics people marching against them describing them you know as a policy of racists. what's been the secret to them becoming really almost mainstream. yeah. there not it's my opinion really and active phenomena they're more of a reaction to things that malcolm has done she moved the whole cd you. really quite far to the left from basically center right to center left in my opinion

thereby crushing the s.p.d. the s.p.d. has its own weaknesses and they've lost i guess a lot of the voters to the greens and to the left. anyway and it's opened in the process though a big gap on the right side of the political spectrum which has been filled a vacuum in the church gets filled and it got filled by the e.f.t. so and they attract a lot of the votes of disgruntled c.d.u. people so if i hadn't moved the c.d.u. so far to the left. the f.t. probably would never of arrived. but the whole migration crisis or issue as you will that started in the summer of two thousand and fifteen has had of course massive impact on everything in germany basically from security. the immigration specs. rising rents all these things are also i think related.

it's caused a lot of let's call indigestion problems politically for germany and to describe to people that are. happy with the situation that this is occurred have really politically no where to go other than the f.t. so it's been for the if the basically the best possible world the situation of crisis is just right up there in their alley it's perfect for them that's why they've arisen and but they have so many other topics in there in their program that i don't think this is just a one issue thing i think this is going to go on for a very long time and i think i would like to predict. that the f.t. are here to stay they're not going to disappear in five or ten years you're sure and as we said the exit polls just coming in every minute as i'm speaking to you again these are just exit polls but it gives a bit of a picture cd you suffer some of the worst results fall of eleven percent of the s.p.d. a fall of ten percent. raises of nearly nine percent both for the greens and of tea

with the linker and f.t.p. also gaining seats as well no doubt we'll have more to talk about a little bit later over the coming days when there's the results do become terrorists even meisner independent political observer thanks for joining us here today great to get your insight thank you thank you. ok right after the short break europe canada and the u.s. ruled out any halt arms sales to saudi arabia that's the spike the killing of the saudi german soldier we'll have more on that just in a few moments. have been coming up with a lot of statements saying that the arab states of the gulf should take care of the middle east or other we're still committed to the middle east so there's there's a lot of incoherence there but i think saudi arabia is hugely important to the

united states and i think trump understands that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the. killing i think that's the end of the day it's not going to change the status quo of america's polls because of you. i would prefer to say. the human space is. we have a living in the solar system. and for sure we should expand on all this. i see the way. developing more technology technology so that we can even. increase. improve the quality of life.

of the weekly here on our international turkey continues to demand the killers of a saudi journalist thought brought to trial the turkish president says the murder. was politically motivated. our security and intelligence services are still analyzing in for they have it's already clear that the murder of jamal khashoggi was. since this is a political assassination also closely inclusion of possible foreign accomplices. of the saudi royal family has met with. brother to express condolences the journalists eldest son was pictured shaking hands with a saudi crown prince who is suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father he left saudi arabia for washington according to sources the u.s. president this week condemned the cover up of the murder but still stressed the importance of continued weapons sales to real. the cover up was one of the worst in

the history of coverups. so he really has been a really great ally they said one of the biggest investors maybe the biggest investor in our country. they are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments and you know so many jobs so many. thousands and thousands of jobs they've been funding a lot of things from statement was met with huge criticism by e.u. powers but they're refusing to counsel multibillion dollar arm sales to saudi arabia so if germany is the only exception. i agree with all those who say that exports which are already limited must not take place in the concert. and i don't have to react to every single statement so i won't answer that question. if you are interested in the issues related to this event. but this is not a press conference. and it's not a press conference to react to the german chancellor. i mean all that has nothing

to do with this event nothing and. nothing so i want let's get some context on that france is one of the biggest sellers of defense and on this equipment in the world and saudi arabia is one of its biggest clients despite the fact the president has tried to play down the trade relations between the two countries the figures don't lie between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen deals with more than twelve billion dollars was struck between the two countries and that seems to be a similar thing that we're hearing in spain where they have said that they will not deal with saudi arabia worth two billion dollars. on the taken by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national law especially considering the un resolution on the head of

the government now my duty is to take legal security and to comply with international obligations and it. well it seems that that's a similar view that's being taken by the canadians now they have deals with saudi arabia that are worth almost twelve billion dollars and the prime minister there just in food has said that he's more concerned about the cancellation fee which is around one billion dollars if they decide not to go ahead with that contract then roll that than holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalist it is only acceptable in. google that someone could have murdered a journalist on foreign soil like this i do not want to leave canadians holding a billion dollar bill because we're trying to move forward on doing the right thing seems not much also coming from beginning to that which is the second biggest supplier of arabia just behind us with heels worth around fifteen billion

dollars now the idea of sanctions it was a muted by the foreign secretary jeremy hunt but no clear indication of what those sanctions could be over whether they'll be applied when the prime in the situation made was questioned about this well she said she would speak to the king of saudi arabia no concrete information or whether they would be sanctions against the country it seems that they were germany is the only country it's going alone and putting its neck out in suspending and canceling these contracts. george because one of the defense spokesman of the france party says no crimes will stop europe selling arms to riyadh because there's too much money involved. we know that there were many violation of human rights in saudi arabia but above all in yemen and it's not dying when you more for just words it's time for action and i think that

just buying time by saying that they will wait for further and curious it's sad but the european union and especially our french president mr manu michel he's backing one of the worst country which is really doing one of the worst war in the world. feared an oil leak in the gulf of mexico which has been ongoing for fourteen years could become america's worst ever environmental disaster back in two thousand and four hurricane ivan slammed into florida's gulf coast severely damaging an offshore drilling operation just off louisiana over the company in charge managed to cover up the incident for a whole six years. thanks

thanks. thanks. for the gulf of mexico research coated gas and bubbling in a miles long. people are not the only ones who call the now polluted waters for the indigenous animals there are countless birds and wildlife the stakes are high life or death time is rather. i suppose the big difference is that. arose when there was a big explosion and people got killed instantly and you know and then the most immoral was released extremely rapidly in the case of the. first the original incident. and you see. it was in the context of her and her and both the company and the american regulators managed to keep the

entire incident pretty quiet it's one of those no accidents which. bought into the cool food. with this menu seven hundred marios a day of oil into the go it. being the same kind of food as the roads and. twenty fifteen the company in question said there was no evidence to suggest that. any significant environmental damage but it hasn't given any further explanation since that journalist all of a take a look at it says even routine oily. can result in significant damage. the gulf is currently producing something something like twenty percent of america's oil is rather a highly rated max refiners breaking out every few days is a highly rated oil spill with routines pollutants in the hundreds of thousands of

gallons per year just from new york. and this entire gulf coast is high in the industrial used and it is bound to be unique in concert amounts of modes and also its environmental impacts impact other industries which are also tourism and fisheries and show finish this tens of thousands of miles of oil pipelines transects in this entire region and if you put a pipeline then you were abandoned two hundred leaks. so for myself and a team i don't see for this hour join us again at lumpia most good time for the latest updates on top global news headlines.

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