mr. a passenger jets crashed into the sea short off or took off from the indonesian capital smalling killing all two hundred eighty nine aboard divers in a searching among the debris. a wargame still protests in norway is troops conduct their biggest thrill since the cold rolled also. germany's unseeable gratian a.f.d. party has its first seats in the states giving it

a place in every regional parliament the chancellor merkel's ruling coalition cellphone more big election losses of the latest on that for you plus to. a family's returns in fukushima japan is accused of violating human rights by the un concerned that people are being forced to live in areas where radiation levels remain unsafe. but i've spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they are being compelled to return because of financial hardships. hi there very good morning life from oxys main studio h.q. here moscow is kevin with you for this i was round up just ten eleven am here now this monday the first grieving relatives have arrived. from where an indian easy in jet took off early on monday morning only to then crash into the sea just a few minutes later. killing all one hundred eighty nine year old.

distraught friends and family of the passengers and crew onboard the lion air flight one sixty would give medical assistance as they were told of their loved ones fate shortly after takeoff it seems on what should have been a short local flight the crew of the brand new boeing seven three seven requested an emergency landing the plane then plunged into the java sea. to say they won't speculate on the cause of the crash until data from the flight recorders is recovered let's go to live with hugh richie live to meet the chief executive of aviation consultants international you have really early days to try and work out what the heck could have happened here but a brand new plane only just got into service in august it had one tech problem partly that had been fixed according to law and there what may have caused the crew to seek an emergency landing so soon into that flight baby birds into the engine or

something like that you think. i could have been birds but it was thirty minutes into the flight and so it would have gone in to the second stage climb so it was generally considered to be outside of the hike that. the only . clock at all or problems it is how it is a very early and soon to will speculate what happened that a brand new aircraft it's a highly reliable aircraft it's the eight hundred macs seven three seven they first came into service around two thousand and seventeen and this i believe is the first non accident certainly with the talent to solve that particular aircraft until i find the black box in the record is it was the just speculative certain. ideas that essentially. indicated a flight to emergency it shows something catastrophic has gone wrong.

and here from the debris from what i've been advised in seeing photos of the debris it was a pretty high speed impact so. whilst i'll be out there lucky because it's only an around forty metres of water it was very close to ports on land so they could get there relatively quickly but it does. still depend an ending on the amount in the spread of the debris going to be difficult and depending on the we're not sure this was a brand new plane is the brand new model it's a seven three seven that's been going for years it's a real workhorse of the skies isn't it. it is the this is a seven three seven eight hundred max which is extended. it carries more passengers it's got a greater range it's farming all the fish and it's only been in service for a year year and a half in fact so. it is. highly sought after by most

areas globally. i don't know what could have gone wrong it's too early to focus your. pilot said to be experienced over eleven thousand flying hours i suppose but also the investigators will be looking at them because well part of the world hasn't got the best record for safety including this company it's had accidents and incidents in the past doesn't it. that's a fact that indonesia has had a very poor safety record up until around three years ago were not managed to. bring its safety standards up to the standards which is european union standards and so they're no longer blacklisted in line and router and have all being credited with a higher level of safety so this is unusual i'm certainly not. i would not know what to consider to be the problem the weather here was relatively

ok it was fine it was a little bit overcast it wasn't slander storms in the area. it would be hard to envision something apart from a major catastrophic failure. to have brought the aircraft down and certainly a high speed. crash is something which is. changed to lead one to a catastrophic failure of the airframe itself. hugh thanks for giving us your national thoughts on this year ritchie chief executive of aviation consultants international's appreciate it. we'll continue to follow that story this next german voters have dealt another blow to chancellor merkel with both parties in the governing coalition on course to suffer heavy losses in sunday's state election hester though still in the lead merkel's christian democrats are projected to drop eleven percent points compared to twenty thirty and it's a very different story though for the anti immigrant the party as well as the

greens have done well with supporters of both already in the celebrate to remove. the state elections in her seat came down to good old fashioned winners and losers in the winner's enclosure while amongst them certainly alternative for germany they have their entering the state parliament in for the first time i saw interesting enough the state where the party was first conceived in the idea founded back in twenty thirteen well they've taken around thirteen percent of the vote they'll take up their first seats there and that means they have representation in all of the local parliaments all of the state parliaments across germany and of course the national parliament the bundestag a day party leadership understandably happy at the result with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the grey. success it has also big

winners on the night were the green party they've continued momentum that they've generated over the past few months it really is quite a surprise if you cast your mind back just over a year ago in the general election here in germany the greens the line into the bundestag now we've seen them make great grounds in local elections in bavaria they've just done the same thing and look like they will be a key part in forming the local government their votes where this win is there has to be losers and in this case the losers again were the wealthy parties representing the ruling grand coalition angela merkel's christian democratic union and the social democratic party both dropped around ten percent in the polls those votes going either to the greens or to alternative for germany for the most part what we have seen though is is the people turning away on a local level from problems they see on a national level it's not just voters that have been saying this as we heard from

one senior c.d.u. party official after the exit polls were announced on sunday evening. 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 not in his sense. of the suggestion there that there really needs to be a change at the top that it's angela merkel in berlin that's causing the problems that we're seeing reflected on local governments in the the sixteen german states don't get me wrong though this is no way going to be the result that topples angela merkel however it could be one of the thousand cuts that may eventually lead to her political to mice. for some in germany the rise in support for the cause of concern because of his harsh stance on immigration amongst other things protesters turned out in frankfurt as the first. came out political amnesty even meissner told us the

ruling parties are going to have to change if they want to stay in power state election of probably a proxy vote nationally as well that's not just a local thought it will definitely put america 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 malcolm was very 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 passed the goal

demonstrations or before him was called 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. hundreds of antiwar protesters have gathered in oslo against nato drills in norway the alliance is flexing its muscle of the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes after moscow held its own major drills last month more against the of reports. fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks in vehicles it's a pretty straightforward message it is ambitious and it is more on the. in recent years europe's security environment has significant it irritated nato has been

careful not to mention moscow as the boogeyman which the exercises aimed against but there are no illusions nato jets will be flying i mean two hundred kilometers from russian border us troops will be learning to fight in cold conditions against a simulated enemy that is and surprisingly exactly as powerful as moscow the effect of this activity will increase the tension between norway and russia despite quite clumsy attempts by the representatives of the alliance and its member states to picture such military activity as defensive it's obvious that this fighting capabilities demonstration has a distinct anti russian character tensions now a worse than they've been in a third of a century both nato and moscow have been going to extremes staging bigger and bigger war games russia's vostok maneuvers native's trident war games record size

for both this year and each blaming each other. demonstrates russia's focus on exercising large scale conflict it fits into a pattern we've seen over some time and more assertive russia significantly increasing its defense budget and its military presence wait wait wait getting a little carried away that russia's military budget has been decreasing not increasing year after year you would have thought nato intelligence would have spotted that now compare moscow's military spending to nato's which is almost a trillion dollars a year it literally accounts for hof the world's military spending i mean there is no competition here in this the need to use military activity at the borders of russia has reached an unprecedented post cold war level bloc countries are engaged in offensive drills the aim of all this is increased capacity to swiftly deploy

troops across europe. it's a remarkable cycle nato builds up its forces. responds by building up its own we catch nato then calls russian aggression and uses it to justify stationing more tanks more troops near russia. and repeat its part of the confrontation of politics against russia. and maybe the future also against china but any case we need these actions to agree need is a product of common security of design a man and a friendly relation to russia. since ninety percent always. discussion in europe above the aggressive us and always other countries. russia because it's. all very impressive this far as military escalations go but what with all these war games the propaganda militant rhetoric

and collapsing arms treaties one can only wonder how long can we go on like this much more we can escalate the for his stupid decision or an accident puts a spark to this trillion dollar a powder keg. from war to. nuclear threats there's a lot going on in the world these days to get people concerned but it turns out the biggest food for people in the united states right now is much closer though caleb maupin explains with halloween fast approaching pollsters are looking into what strikes fear into americans the most now turn on any mainstream t.v. network and they'll have an answer for you efforts to influence the twenty to eighteen mid-term elections the big news and divisive stories and posts caravan of impoverished migrants white nationalists prepared to take to the streets trump administration plan couldn't race the definition of transgender but according to

a new poll conducted by chapman university in california americans actual fears don't really line up when given a list of one hundred things to be afraid of including nuclear war zombies ghosts and other terrors americans listed their primary phobia for the fourth consecutive year as being corrupt politicians. and perhaps this fear isn't exactly baseless we do have a president whose tax returns are still under wraps and he seems to be pretty blatantly doing favors for his next of kin i've heard even i've heard how good with . the people that know. this is nothing to do with that but is that what i want to tell you the people that know that he wagner would be dynamite but. then be accused of nepotism if you could believe it right and trump got a lactaid by tearing into his opponent hillary clinton he called her crooked hillary because her reputation for shady deals has been around for years the f.b.i.

even looked into her clinton foundation the former secretary of state never shied away from taking big sums from financial heavyweights if you have to be paid six hundred seventy five thousand dollars well i don't know that's what they offered. accusations of corruption are abundant in american politics even though they rarely make the legal field in the united states there's all kinds of politicians being accused of insider trading lavish gifts as they say welcome to american politics but it seems that the mainstream media is working overtime to direct our phobias elsewhere there's no limit to what the russian federation will do to undermine american democracy while you know what we have to work on immigration i have a big dairy district to live agriculture a lot of undocumented workers but these things aren't even in the top ten because we have so many of them. the things that relate to your life or the future of your kids and things like that not trumped up things like you know terrorism is going to

get two or your bridges are going to fall down or something it's real life things that people are worried about a part of it is the economic ones including the corruption of politicians i was interested in the corrupt politician thing being at the top because for a long time people haven't recognized how corrupt their politicians are they think it's thinking in gradually that the whole system really stinks american politicians have learned that playing on people's fears is a big seller but it seems that what scares the americans the most is the very scare mongers trying to manipulate their fears caleb mop and r.t. new york coming up japan's undefiled from the u.n. for relocating families into the fukushima radiation. when we come back.

i would prefer to say that. the human space is must become terry wish me instead so we have a leaving in the solar system. and for sure we should. follow this system i see this way all bringing in and developing more technology new technology so that's becoming even one. increase. in improve the quality of life on. earth to bomb a really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited 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.

again japan's been told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to fukushima seven years after the nuclear plant meltdown when did the area uninhabitable the japanese government insists though that some areas and i was safe however the u.n. special report hazardous substances says many feel they are being forced to return . spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they are being compelled to return because of financial hardship their financial assistance those provided to them after the disaster has been reduced or eliminated. however if you look at the actual recommendations what the what the be international bodies say is that they actually do not know what is acceptable dose of radiation for her children and

women of reproductive age and they urge caution and a justification of any actions one of the unanswered questions that we have regarding fukushima relating to the waste is what they are going to do with the radioactive stored soil that's been stored in large plastic bags around around fukushima and where that will be disposed to date we have no answer for that either further the u.n. says it's disappointed that japan's ignored recommendations as to what constituted the safe level of radiation after that nuclear disaster in twenty eleven the government raised the safety threshold twenty tell us the un report says such levels pose a significant danger to public health especially children. the

japanese are trying to move the situation back to a status quo as it was before the nuclear disaster as quickly as possible and in many ways that's to be commended but there also may be a possibility in this is why we're concerned that the japanese government is moving too quickly and perhaps not ensuring an adequate level of safety in particular for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children as a footnote to this the japanese foreign ministry says the un's report is based on one sided information which could cause unnecessary fears about fukushima they said . tension is building of sri lanka where the abrupt sacking of the prime minister on friday sparked a constitutional crisis the sri lankan president says his decision to dissolve parliament and oust the top official was over an alleged assassination plot. a person questioned by investigators has revealed the name of a minister in an alleged plot to assassinate me and the turmoil turned deadly on

sunday when a bodyguard of a sacked cabinet minister fatally shot one person and injured others supporters of the former prime minister have been gathering outside his regional residence strongly denouncing his sacking he's refused to step down saying that he has the backing of the parliament. and the problem is that that was a more general confidence that is being. defeated a majority what against showing that they have confidently that we're not here since i haven't made it i've even had the prime minister and i get a function of the brain as well as to the prime minister is known for his pro western views he's been trying to rebalance for lanka's relations with india and the us he says his dismissal is illegal and he demanded an emergency parliamentary session his firing came as a turning point to months of open hostility between him and his rival the newly sworn in prime minister is known for his pro china interests as massively in debt

to beijing for large scale infrastructure projects questions now being raised over a possible shift in the country's foreign policy then a political analyst we spoke to says has been torn apart between major global powers syrian kurds located in the two politically sensitive locations in the indian ocean connecting the key commercial and its you will to always have to go through europe africa and asia despite south asia has been dominated by india china recent seeking an important strategic footholds being bitchy regional ally of india the us stop arms sales to see a long time and was very critical of the human rights record of this country in certain simple japan recent speech on the geopolitical game by forging an alliance between india and us in countering china scoring influence and tying into pacific region what will be you do you like to see not only ease washington d.c.

we are much more cross the with india to try and to rein in. political coalition formed by what the costs are and the president simply send. us a snapshot of some of the main world news story so far this month from moscow or so much more of course on our main site r.t. dot com for now as kevin always say thanks for watching and have a great monday. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me that yet to shape out these days because as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things to consider i'm peter labelle as a trumpet ministration pulls out of a key arms control agreement nato conducts a massive exercise in the arctic is a new front being opened up and it seems the saudis will get away with murder after all. ross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of the u.k. of western civilization and resurgence of russia and we have are all rescues and he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center rajendran cross-like rules in effect i mean he can jump in anytime i want i want to talk about the continued fall out from the i.m.f. treaty that the trump administration is withdrawing from i think it's a significant story the foreign policy blob seems to agree with us for

a change or maybe they're going to we're going with them also i want to talk about these nato exercises which i don't think are getting enough western coverage in the media be it's a significant event and with the withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty and these exercises i think we can draw some conclusions here ok first i want to go to martin jay he's in beirut he is a freelance broadcast journalist martin bring us up to speed what's going on with the show the affair and how turkey is behind the scenes pulling a lot of strings and a lot more than that go ahead martin. well this is not what's being reported out there nearly enough but what's to be do you have a huge deal on the table between turkey and saudi arabia we have to remember that these all frenemies or not very close allies in the region saudi arabia hates tookie for being friends and support the brotherhood it hates being close to cultural and iran and they can see sees it in terms of germany as being a sort of a competitor if you look at.