i. missed. the. ah. germany's around him a great. seats in the state has said giving it a place in every regional parliament it's yet another election blow for chancellor merkel and he's reportedly planning to quit as leader of a christian democrats after eighteen years potentially big news that one coming up today where across it also. makes a will draw protests in norway as troops conduct their biggest drills since the

cold war. house around the world a passenger jet crashes into the sea shortly after takeoff from the indonesian capital killed all under one thousand nine hundred border divers are now searching among the. families or tens of pounds accused of violating human rights with the u.n. concerned that people are being forced to live in areas where radiation levels remain safe. but i've spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they are being compelled to return because of financial hardships. other very good afternoon is kevin owen here for the next thirty minutes live from . moscow which is ten one of the afternoon first that the german media is reporting that angela merkel is. as the leader of the christian democrats it's not been

officially confirmed yet but we're across it the news comes hard on the heels of a party's poor performance in germany as a region on sunday still in the lead merkel c.d.u. parties down by eleven percentage points compared to twenty thirteen bit of bad weekend for let's go straight to our europe correspondent peter all of a potentially huge story this one brewing if merkel does relinquish that long held role at the c.d.u. it signals a pretty significant shift in our leadership has been to disappear sieved doesn't it. well it's a huge shift in the party it's a huge shift in how german politics looks i'm glad merkel's been in this job as the party chairwoman of the c.d.u. for the last eighteen years. her name her ideology is written through the party what we have seen is her saying many times in the past though that she puts party leadership on the chancellorship as worn meaning that well you can't be the chancellor if you're not the leader of your party she said that she's not going to

seek reelection are expecting a press conference at one pm local time that's in just two hours time or so where she's expected to clarify what will happen next basically and what this means for the christian democratic union they have a party congress coming up in december in hamburg that may well be where the next party leader is elected is what that would mean for the chancellorship though we still don't know as of yet the reason we guess the reason that this is come about is the latest terrible results in local elections for angela merkel's christian democratic union this latest time was in hester where they dropped the suit double digits again they've done the same in local elections in bavaria just last month. it does seem though that the unhappiness with angle or merkel as a politician has started to drip down onto the local level and not seen a lot of coalition partners and local representatives of angela merkel's party

start to say it's time for change. solution state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action does house this 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 hester lives. or moves afoot in the christian democratic you. perhaps in the chancellor's office itself but while the christian democratic union the social democrats took a pounding and it was the greens who how it came out as one of the biggest successes they took twenty percent they romping forward out of nowhere if you think that just last year they looked almost out of it limping across the line into the the bundestag now they've they've made great gains in bavaria now in hessen and also. election if you take as a big success for the alternative for germany party they received thirteen percent

of the vote there into the parliament in hester for the first time that means that they now represented in all sixteen of the state parliaments of germany as well as of course be represented in the bundestag so a good night for them their leadership clearly very happy with the result. with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the great success it has. well just go back through the latest news off the back of that election has set a miracle the german chancellor said that she won't seek reelection as the party chairwoman of the christian democratic union we're expecting to hear from her a little later on on monday with all of the latest the call firm what's going on here in berlin well we'll find out as you said about two hours time paid for now thanks for the day if you're thinkin the say will be across it to peter all of your correspondent. well for some in germany the rise in support of the cause of big

concern because of his harsh stance on immigration for one protesters turned out in frankfurt as the first results came here bronson news and i have t.m.p. in the berlin parliament told us the establishment is afraid of the new kids on the block. the city is a newcomer on the scene we've been now around for five years i do massive success in every single election there's been and the other parties the old parties are absolutely petrified and afraid to talk to us because people are turning to us and we are gaining massive support in germany and the other side just simply afraid to lose their status to lose power and to give up their old beliefs that were germany in the policy that served us for more than seventy years is still suitable for the new century which it isn't. give you relatives arrived at the carter airport from where an indonesian jet took off early monday morning only to then

crash into the sea a few minutes later it's killed all one hundred eighty nine. of . the straw friends of the family the passengers and crew on that lion air flight one sixty would give medical assistance they were told of their loved ones fate shortly after takeoff it seems on what should have been a short local flight crew that brand new boeing seven three seven requested an emergency landing about thirty minutes into the flight the plane then plunged into the java sea emergency teams say they've recovered a number of bodies air crash investigators say they won't speculate on the cause of the crash until data from those all important to flight data recorders are recovered we asked the chief executive of aviation consultants international in jakarta about what may have possibly happened here so so catastrophic lead to go wrong. it was thirty minutes into the flight and so it would have gone in to the

second stage climb so it was generally be considered to be outside of the hike that . clock at all or the problems that a brand new aircraft it's a highly reliable aircraft at c eight hundred max seven three seven they first came into service around two thousand and seventeen and this i believe is the first. accident certainly with fatalities of the particular aircraft it was a little bit overcast it wasn't under 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 changed to lead one to a catastrophic failure of the airframe itself. hundreds of anti-war protesters gathered in oslo against nato drills in norway the alliance is flexing its muscle in the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes after moscow held its own major drills last month mcgahee of us

a correspondent reports. fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks and vehicles it's a pretty straightforward message it is ambitious and it is demanding in recent years europe's security environment significant to deteriorate to nato has been careful not to mention moscow as the boogie man which the exercise is aimed against but there are no illusions needle jets will be flying 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 sentry both nato and moscow have been going to it streams staging bigger and bigger war games russia's vostok maneuvers the natives trident war games record size for both this year and each blaming each other for stock 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 ten nato's which is almost a trillion dollars a year it literally accounts for harf 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 neato builds up its forces moscow responds by building up its own which 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 are there any case

we don't need these actions who agree need is a product of common security of design a manned and a friendly relations to russia. since the nineteenth century always. discussion in europe about the aggressive russia and always other countries. saying russia because it's. all very impressive this far as military escalations go but what with all these war games this 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 a stupid decision or an accident puts a spark to this trillion dollar powder keg. president trump or the first lady a key things sweet this halloween the been handing out candy to smiling children at

the white house but for the grown ups in america the power brokers on capitol hill are giving them a shivers kellam open 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 midterm 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 and 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 evolved i've heard how good would be. the fifo that no this is nothing to do with that but does that but i want to tell you the people that though know that he wagner would be done by. 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 to do 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. time to direct our phobias elsewhere there's no limit to what the russian federation will do to undermine american democracy is why you know what we have to work on immigration i have a big dairy district a 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 to or the 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 scared mongers trying to manipulate their fears tale of mopp and r.t. new york coming up here when we come back to pounds on the fire from the u.n. for relocating families into the fukushima radiation details ninety seconds away. i would prefer to say. the human space is must become terry wish me instead we have leaving in the solar system. and for sure we should expand on this system i see this way all bringing in and developing more technology new technology so that's becoming even.

increase. in improve the quality of life on. earth the bomb was really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is in 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 this is out international next japan has been told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to fukushima seven years after

the nuclear meltdown read to the area uninhabitable the japanese government insists though some areas they say a safe but the u.n. special report on 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 that was provided to them after the disaster has been reduced or eliminated however if you look at the actual recommendations what the what the b. 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 most caution and a justification of any options one of the unanswered questions that we have regarding to relating to the waste is what they are going to do with the. radioactive store 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

the u.n. says it's disappointing that japan's ignored recommendations as to what constituted the safe level of radiation after the nuclear disaster in twenty eleven the government rate the safety threshold twenty tell us now this u.n. 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 well as a footnote to this story in turn the japanese foreign ministry says the un's report is based on one sided information which could cause unnecessary phase they say about fukushima the continued fall of the story. tech giant google is under pressure after reports a former senior executive received a multi-million dollar exit package after being accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague it's also accused of trying to silence the story that goes back to twenty fourteen as he goes down off reports. the era of me too has been celebrated as a turning point no more it seemed to could sexual harassers get away with it all chose me to be me to be to be to me to meet pull. but as some perpetrators were ostracized and ruined for life others apparently were covered and protected this is the claim made in

a new york times article about the man who fathered the android mobile operating system allegedly the google big short coerced and other employee into intercourse at a hotel an accusation andy rubin denies specifically i never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room these false allegations are part of a smear campaign by my ex-wife. but the misconduct story is only part of the scandal according to the paper google's big head has reportedly knew of the allegations but there was no big outing for rubin no public shaming no kavanah scale investigation what happened instead a discreet resignation letter filed by the executive a goodbye golden handshake of a staggering ninety million dollars and they passed on the back from the big boss i want to wish and the all the best with what's next with android he created something through the remarkable with a billion plus happy users and the irony is that it's google one of the champions

of the me too movement and supported by actions like creating a whole project with this i catching heat map for the hash tag and note that we did not edit this in any way including the music. the fall when the paper published its investigation google retorted by flaunting its record of layoffs over such accusations in the last two years forty eight people have been terminated for sexual harassment including thirty who are seedier managers and above. and from we've learned so far this scandal looks pretty black and white good going the new york times against potentially bad guy google but the irony actually goes deeper here the new york times is amidst a very similar scandal itself back in twenty seventeen their white house correspondent glenn thrush was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior the paper did punish him by not allowing him to cover white house events anymore because yeah

that'll show him those who are preaching the loudest about things like tolerance or things like you know taking moral high ground are often those who don't hold themselves to that same accountability because i don't think for them it's necessarily a more ality or even you know a principle of theirs i think it's more about politics to them so then when it's convenient for them to say they espouse the mitsu movement for political pragmatism or for you know sometimes i think click for click bait things like that that's very different from when it hits them personally the need to phenomenon had a lot of women inspired and empowered to giving them hope that maybe they don't have to be afraid to speak out anymore and while this message could not be more true it's hypocrites within the ranks that are stealing the hope from the victims.

because down of the truck it was. lunchtime tension building after the abrupt sucking of the prime minister on friday that spoke to a constitutional crisis no the sri lankan president says his decision to dissolve parliament to oust the top officials over alleged assassination plot. a person questioned by investigators has revealed the name of a minister in an alleged plot to assassinate me the turmoil turned deadly on sunday when a bodyguard of a cabinet minister fatally shot one person and injured others supporters of the former prime minister of been gathering outside his official residence strongly denouncing is sacking it by the way he has refused to step down this is the problem no saying that he has the backing of the parliament. and the prime minister was the more general we don't like is we. defeated a majority water that is showing that they have on. that situation has not here

since i haven't made it i even as the prime minister allow you to function at the brains so the ousted prime minister is known for his pro western views he's been trying to rebalance for long because relations with india around the us he says his dismissal is illegal and he's demanded an emergency parliamentary session his firing came as the turning point of months of open hostility between him and his rival about to come up here the newly sworn in prime minister is known for is pro china interests sri lanka is massively in debt for a start to beijing for large scale infrastructure projects questions and i've been raised over a possible shift in the country's foreign policy that political analyst i spoke to says sri lanka is literally being torn apart right now between major global powers . syrian courage is located in the two politically sensitive location in the indian ocean connecting the key commercial and its you will tories week which have to call

to europe africa and asia but despite south asia has been dominated by india china recent seeking an important strategic footholds being to keep the regional ally of india the us stop arms sales to syria lanka and was very critical of the human rights record of his country in certain simple japan recent speech on the part geopolitical game by forging an alliance for india and us in countering china scoring influence and tie into pacific region what would be the likely scenario is washington d.c. were much more cross the will of india to try and to rein in. political coalition formed by what just passed in the president serious center. else around the world developing story in brazil next where after a turbulent and hard for presidential campaign the right wing candidate jaya balsa narrow as seen off his socialist rival fernando had dad thousands of the lated

supporters of the country's president elect gathered on the streets of rio to celebrate. was it was it was it was it was it was but that's not the total picture was little celebrations there also violent clashes between bulls in our supporters and opponents in one rio neighborhood and also in sao paolo the former army captain paul snorers cuba fifty five percent of the vote in the end in brazilian politics he's a controversial figure known for some controversial statements was nor was called for the murder of a sitting president he lamented the demise of the country's military dictatorship and also has launched bitter attacks on women and minority groups he ran this time on an anti crime anti corruption platform and is produced skillfully engaging with voters especially via social media so valsin arrows workers' party opponent for

nando her dad meantime is a former mayor of so polo he entered the presidential race after jailed former president lula disillusion was banned from participating with such polarized candidates brazil's election has been a tense race than is a quick recap of it. thank you. it's not just excitement for a better country it's we've had enough of corruption and of stealing from the people enough of stealing our health care we're not stupid. thank you. thank you thank.

you. thank you i saw people a mess excuse him and old ladies in eighty two minds who have lived through this book come out of their homes to fight for democracy i can't help that those people . from the free brazil movement believes that despite his controversial statements both scenarios when doesn't pose a threat to democracy in brazil. yes he took bass he used to make the frames really three routine we had in the past express he made statements on t.v. and stuff but the corporatists three to who is now besides him he's a columnist for the office he has always said that he would support democracy is

for speech and elected press it was a change the constitution and defending our democracy and at the same time it's funny that we see the left talk of all the focus he sees he used our system to use brazil to find us to slot into supports the leave it to rethink how to regimes america. well as a snapshot some the world news stories this is among the things i watch not international oh so much more outside the course. and he said he's here in the coming hours for me kevin no end of a great day. but hope to do something to them. they put themselves on the line. they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president as you. want to be. that's a great price that's what the three of the people that. i'm interested in

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