ok why is it that. people. disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. with. the f.t. is now represented in the region after the great success it has early results in the german region of suggest a decline in popularity for the ruling coalition together with the rise for the anti migrant which now has seats in every single regional parliament.

controversial right wing populist. swept to power in brazil's presidential election . so people come to this. money than anybody else but will build it up in the stories that shaped the week president threatens a new arms race with russia and china as he looks to pull out of a major cold war nuclear agreement causing further divisions with his e.u. partners. and europe and its transatlantic allies canada and the u.s. appear unwilling to freeze arm sales to saudi arabia in the week of the killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas with the weekly we start with breaking news though indonesia's. q agency has confirmed that

a passenger plane has crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from the capital jakarta a lion air flight j t six one zero was travelling to the city of punk just over an hour away off the coast of sumatra the low cost carrier has confirmed that the plane lost contact with air traffic control early on monday morning but has yet to issue a statement on the crash itself now a rescue operation has been launched and it is not clear how many passengers were on board the flight although the boeing seven thirty seven max eight can seat up to two hundred ten passengers and we will continue to bring you updates as the start of elop news room is staying across the situation. switching gears now counting is underway in local elections in the german region of hassa early results suggest the anti migrant party will win a place in the parliament giving it representation in every region in the country.

and they also show waning support for traditional parties in favor of the greens and other left wing forces the f.t.'s leader has already congratulated her fellow party members on the result and the ruling christian democrats meanwhile say that the elections show that they need to rethink their policies. with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every job and region after the great success it has. its evening there was a very mixed message has there once the christian democratic union to continue leading this state many people have shown during this election that it must be different and has. political analyst stephen mizar believes the ruling parties are going to need to change their politics if they want to stay in power. state election of probably a proxy vote nationally as well that's not just a local vote it will definitely put in

a weak position she's been getting weaker and weaker as 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 fact for instance there have been these so-called demonstrations going on for about a year and a half now that means in german the english translation is america has to go and i don't ever remember seeing shrewder like the chancellor before past the goal demonstrations or before him was cold i don't ever remember having demonstrations here in germany saying call has to go at least in part of the population she's become really highly unpopular. now to brazil where after turbulent and hard fought

presidential campaign the right wing populist candidate has seen off his socialist rival fernando had died thousands of elated supporters of the country's president elect have gathered on the streets of rio de janeiro to celebrate. it. was. all together laugh out of this moment who talks nonstop lap out of this moment. was a former army captain won just over fifty five percent of the vote which turned out to be closer than the polls had been predicting. a controversial figure in brazilian politics he has called for the murder of

a sitting president lamented the demise of the country's military dictatorship and launched bitter attacks on women and minority groups he ran on an anti-crime anti-corruption platform and has proved skillful at engaging with voters. well scenarios workers party opponent fernando hideout is a former mayor of south palo he stood as a candidate after jailed former president lula da silva was banned from participating here's a look back at the race and the issues that have defined it. it's

not just excitement for a better country we've had enough of corruption from the people in our pursuing our health care we not see him play. i saw people in the sixty's here and old ladies in a two ninety who have lived through this with come out of their homes to fight but to mark received i think that those people earlier i was joined by none santos from the libertarian movie mento brazil even a group to discuss why so many brazilians will lend their support to both in our own particularly in light of the country's past how larning are both scenarios

totalitarian leanings for brazilians the people on the ground in terms of the support for the country's former military dictatorship do you think the country wants to return to that style of government no no no it was not even in discussion along this quarter so. yes he looked as he used to make. me really three routine in the past express he made statements on t.v. and stuff but the corporatists. to who. is it. he's always said that he would support democracy his first speech as elected president was a change the constitution and defending our democracy and the same time it's funny that we see the light talk of all the force he sees he used always he said he used to fight a straight shot into support. of military all the root. cause of america.

on friday a group of us a democrat sent a letter to secretary of state might pump a zero asking him to condemn the lawmakers insisted a victory for the far right candidate would pose a threat to democracy and human rights in brazil and on santos went on to tell us his thoughts on the concern in washington as well. some don't correct that. they were expected. to take the trouble to us election election was so moderate or skip closer to. the democrat party who was always saying that too many shows their position is actually receive a political process. so is that true that they are crying it's a game left to what. is broken because the children. and. she was asked that you got to stop trying to get to the left. on tuesday the u.s.

president again threatened to a new arms race with russia and china just two days after he announced he was pulling his country out of a major nuclear treaty signed during the cold war donald trump also repeated his earlier accusation saying moscow was in breach of the i n f a court right now to hear the agreement they should have been done years ago but still people come to this that we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up but till they come to this when they do then we'll all be barred every drop of that by the way not only will we do moscow insists it hasn't violated the nuclear treaty and believes it should be preserved saying it is in fact washington it has been not sticking to the deal russia's foreign ministry has recently said the u.s. sent a list of its concerns to moscow just days before announcing its decision to quit leaving at no time to reply now under the agreement signed back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven all short and mid range nuclear in the conventional

missiles were banned with the exception of those launched at sea washington says it is in talks with its european allies about its withdraw some of which aren't 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 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. little surprise then that america's plans to pull out of the accord dominated tuesday's meeting between u.s. national security advisor john bolton and president putin and although the subject at hand was no laughing matter there was still some room for humor a little careful knew 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. and grateful for the opportunities because you. on behalf of president trump and hopefully i'll have some answers for you but i didn't bring any more all of. them plus what i thought. during the talks putin said he was puzzled by washington's move and the absence of any provocation from moscow as for the i n f a treaty itself john bolton called it outdated and insisted it should be revised to include other nations most notably china international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes it's the fear of beijing's growing military might that is behind trump's plants many commentators think that this is the american decision is linked more to china of them to russia because the chinese are not part of the treaty very 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

. the treaty which we're talking about prevents the americans because deploying missiles not just in your generation as well in the americans want to get out of it so they can start putting missiles. trans threat to ditch the treaty falls in line with is america first policy artist but i've got to have comments now on the wider ambitions of the president. donald trump can be called any number of things good bad it all depends on which side you're on interesting really enough though it's donald trump that keeps giving donald trump new titles a globalist is a person that wants to float to do well frankly not caring about our country somas you know what i am a nationalist. kind of obvious if you think about it what with all this talk of greatness walls and how special exceptional americans

are it's going to be only america first american people first america's interests above all else. now if i may mr president you seem to be confused about what those words mean it's right there in any dictionary globalism a national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence a globalist is someone who treats the entire world as a playground making national decisions which affect the international community in simple terms google ism is what mr trump tells south korea meaning outside america that they can't lift sanctions their own sanctions on north korea

without his permission they will do without her prove they do nothing without her prove and by the way u.s. sanctions which basically force everyone to abide by them because of how the dollar works by definition a globalist venture you know what else is globalist war invading other countries the us currently. fighting in seven wards that's really really globalist as well. the united states military's one of the most globalist organizations in the world it has bases in roughly every third country one in three nations

has a u.s. military base in it that isn't nationalism that's good lobel ism i just want to see them as well straighten out regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military regime change we're placing or helping replace governments you just don't like local rebels to the teeth or financing the opposition by sanctions that's globalism glow lism chance purposes to talk about globalism as the enemy but if you look at the politics it's anything but nationalist trumps attitude to the world as an individual is that he should have complete sovereignty and that includes sovereignty abuse the sovereignty of others you know he wants america to be able to go and do business wherever they want he wants to be able to remove regimes that he doesn't like he wants to act truly globally but in the national interest as donald trump himself can save that he is

a fun fact the word globalism its modern meaning was first used to describe us imperialism after the second world war the way the united states which wasn't destroyed by the war like europe dominated in international trade pushing its products its ideology its politics on every what it could they called it american globalism. hearing mr trump who believes in returning america back to its glory days say that he isn't a globalist is like hearing the pope say with a schrage face that really isn't catholic. go back to our breaking news this hour indonesia's a rescue agency has confirmed that a passenger plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from the capital jakarta on monday morning on the transport ministry says one hundred eighty eight people were on board including the crew lion air flight j t six one zero was

travelling to the city of just over an hour away and the low cost carrier has confirmed that the plane lost contact with air traffic control thirteen minutes after takeoff but is yet to issue a statement on the crash crash site has been located and a rescue operation has been launched it is reported that sailors on board a tugboat witnessed the crash of course we will continue to bring you updates as the story develops the plane was a boeing seven thirty seven max eight it's an american narrow body aircraft designed and produced by boeing commercial airplanes the model seats up to two hundred and thirty people. switching gears turkey continues to demand the killers of a saudi journalist are brought to trial the turkish president says the murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul was politically motivated. our

security and intelligence services the still analyzing the info they have it's already clear that the murder of jamal khashoggi was but since this is a political assassination we also call for the inclusion of possible foreign accomplices. the saudi royal family has met with son and brother to express condolences the journalists l a son was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who is suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father he later left saudi arabia for washington according to sources the us president this week condemned the cover up of the murder but still stressed the importance of continued weapons sales to riyadh cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. saudi arabia has been a really great ally they've been 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 go a lot of things. statement was met with huge criticism by e.u. powers but they are refusing to cancel multibillion dollar arms sales to saudi arabia so far 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 impress. me it's not a press conference to react german chancellor to. me all that has nothing to do with this event nothing and. nothing so i want let's put some context on that front says 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 figure is 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. by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national law especially considering the un resolution which i am the head of the government now my duty is to take legal security and to comply with international obligations and it will be 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 rolled out than holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalist it is only acceptable and only thing. 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 to saudi arabia just behind us with heels worth around fifteen billion dollars now the idea of sanctions was. 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 the new concrete information 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. because the defense spokesperson for the france unbowed party says no crimes will stop europe selling arms to riyadh because there's too much money involved we know that there are many violations of human rights. but above all in yemen and it's not dying when you're more for just words it's time for action and i think that just buying time by saying that they would wait for further and curious it's sad but the european union the especially our french president. he's backing one of the worst country which is really doing one of the worst war in

the world. thousands of environmental activists gathered in western germany on saturday in an attempt to save a trying to ancient woodland the remainder of humble forest could soon be felled by the energy giant are done to. whens to expand its mining operation in the area and the bulk of the demonstrators blocked a railway line preventing coal from leaving the company's mine police had to use water cannons to disperse the activists some of whom clashed with officers tens of other protesters occupied an excavator environmentalists have been battling to save forest which is owned by our for years some even establishing a tree house community there they argue that the twelve thousand year old area of woodland which is home to a rare species of bat qualifies for protection under the e.u. conservation one. of our breaking news this hour indonesia's

rescue agency has confirmed that a passenger plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from the capital jakarta on monday morning debris from the plane including seats has reportedly been found floating in the java sea the transport ministry says one hundred eighty eight people were on board including the crew lion air flight j t six one zero was travelling to the city of just over an hour away the low cost carrier has confirmed that the plane lost contact with air traffic control thirteen minutes after takeoff but is yet to issue any further statements the crash site has been located and a rescue operation has been launched it is reported that sailors onboard a tugboat witnessed the crash itself and the plane was a boeing seven thirty seven max eight it's an american narrow body aircraft designed and produced by boeing commercial airplanes the model seats up to two hundred thirty people and we will keep you updated on developments over the coming

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say increase and improve the quality of life on earth. oh. come on welcome to worlds apart the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul introduced a compelling into the middle east policies of several key players forcing all to take a hard look at both the values and strategic interests well the current geopolitical alignment in the gulf beyond survive these sordid challenge. well to discuss that

i'm now joined by middle east north africa at the russian international affairs council your it's good to talk to you thank you very much for coming over thanks for having me after two weeks of denying the death of the journalist the saudi leadership has finally acknowledged that it had taken place although it's still denying the grisly details or the grisly allegations of what happened to the body what is the scope of plausible deniability for the house of south here or do they even need to come up with a believe story. question i mean. sort of. long they thought probably that. the killing of. that would be the end of the story but clearly that is not the case and you know the story going to keep spinning and you know the the turks keep putting more pressure the americans keep coming coming up with more pressure so at this point it doesn't seem that it's the end of the story

and it seems that the saudis will have to fight back will continue to i think it's a very rare case when the sheer fact. of the killing or of the murder is less egregious. dismemberment callousness. if mr. resurfaces. cynical as it may sound coming from me do you think it would provide some sort of relief if not exoneration for the saudi authorities this point i don't think it's going to be a sort of relief for the saudis the sheer fact that they were not able to produce the body in the sheer fact that they were determined to get rid of the body that is already terrible enough to. put a lot of pressure on them politically this story has a very determined for sure at this point president. turkey who security services continue leaking the most blood curdling details without providing any public.