the mystery. how to outlaw. germany's gratian tea party is that their seats in the state of giving it's a place in every regional parliament is yet another election the chance of a medical reportedly planning to quit as leader of the christian democrats off to eighteen year is. nato war games straw protests in norway as troops conduct that biggest thrill since the cold war. also this hour

a passenger jet crashes into the sea shortly after takeoff from the intonation capsule killing all one hundred eighty nine on board divers are now searching among the dead bury. his family's return to fukushima ship pounds accused of violating human rights with the u.n. consensus people are being forced to live in areas where radiation levels remain unsafe i've spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they are being compelled to return because of financial hardships. is just ten two pm here in moscow you're watching international welcome to the program. the german media has reporting that angela merkel is stepping down as the leader of the christian democrats this is not spin officially confirm say the news comes hard on the hailstone have power. poor performance and germany's half of

region on sunday they still in the lead medical field party if down by eleven percentage points compared to two thousand and thirteen. one life to ben and i europe correspondent peter oliver peter good to see you ethnical does relinquish their long held while at the feed it signals a significant shift in how they need to chips being perceived as not. it certainly signals a significant shift in how germany is ruled how the political party that she's presided over for the last eighteen years how that will be conducting itself and who will be the new person at the helm of the party these are all things we're expecting to hear a little more information from angela merkel in about an hour when she said to speak to speak to the press however as these things do happen we know pretty much what to expect from her what she's going to say we understand although as i said this isn't confirmed just yet that she. said to say that she will step down and not

seek reelection as the chairwoman of the the christian democratic union however she intends to remain in the role as chancellor until the end of this term and then step down as had been widely expected what that means those essentially that she would rule at the behest of the party instead of being sort of ruling while being in charge of the party that backs her up. it's a bold move it's not been done before we haven't really seen this type of phasing out of power since will have now way back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and that resulted from stuff from scandal what we have seen is reaction to this from well i would say her political colleagues but they're certainly not friendly kristie and the head of the free democratic party he said that chancellor merkel had resigned from the wrong position or was about to step down from the wrong position meaning he thinks she should. down as chancellor it was though this news

this what news about you part came on the back of the election result in hester which saw another double digit drop for the christian democratic union in a local election we saw her coalition partners in the social democrats as well as those within her own party in the region saying it was perhaps time for a change in berlin meaning mrs merkel. it's the state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action on the us 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 but in. a while as turmoil within angle of merkel's own party the c.d.u. as well as by proxy the social democrat coalition partners it was a very good evening for two of the smaller parties in germany the green party who i

don't think you really can call smaller party these days they've been resurgent and continue they have twenty percent of the vote tying with the social democrats they of course were almost down and out last year they crept over the line into the bundestag barely but in bavaria and now it has so we've seen their resurgent also taking making ground there was the alternative for germany party they enter that has a parliament for the first time that means they're now represented in all of the sixteen states parliament in germany as well as the bundestag they're not going to take on any leadership role in hester they've all the other parties have said they won't form a coalition with alternative for germany they've proved to be controversial from their start up and continue to be controversial as they move into a more mean straight mainstream role of having representation all state parliament their leadership on the results well they were elated. with the people's party

the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the great success it has. but the big news here in germany under merkel is expected to announce that she will step down as the leader of the christian democratic party it's understood that she will continue on as chancellor but what type of chancellor that will be without the party leadership at the same position we're expecting to hear from her in an hour i'll be here with all the latest ones we do. i'm sure you'll be keeping on top of that story for us our europe correspondent peter olivet thank you. to discuss a story in more to tell us bring in peter short say an international relations professor let's go to an university good to have you on the program now if angela merkel does give up party leadership stays as chancellor what implications does that have for head level of control over the government. tressa for it is not quite

sure yet not years ago and there's a way it is not has been as agreed or are are this draw from office ultra from responsibility so it may be are an attempt to calm down the protests and the negative voices within our own party for germany and would be a very very difficult situation because i mean basically armed she does not have then anymore the support and the confidence of her on outings and the great collision. is a very tricky gyal and instruments are at some moment so as a social democrats are in a similar situation are it is not the person who can create are what their response will be to see it no failures and the one that defeat in bavaria and then has a damn a ask for new elections which is the tool as well so basically germany which used to be the ngos that realty and progress in europe is in a very very big butts

a moment and to i think this kind of situation has been our president of the reason for the destroyer of the mistrust and the loss of confidence in berlin are as you have seen at the new non-solutions and the area and general and has a interestingly enough wire of four years since two thousand and fifteen when the migration is your last dominant in political discussions and interests the results of the elections migration is not play a larger old at least not and hasn't it has lied to. the people. and seen citizens of that much more for better education for they all realize the dangers of climate change and they are from a far better answer because our no gays. or unst are basically taking more so. thirty or forty percent of their income on this is not tolerant dollar amount

anymore in the future so like he said it's a sign that party members are hungry for a change at the top perhaps but how unusual would it be to have a chance live that isn't also leading the party they represent. i mean the incessant problem is always no difficult and starts and. it's a moment i don't see sold many different directions with and yes in the christian democratic party i think they're still in the beginning of the process also looking for success or not because names have been dropped but i don't think these and their names which has been dropped and it's a moment are a real choice for what this huge or similar thing to on some similar development is going on in the social democratic party has so i mean on the what we are. heading for is a kind also weakened government and this move create much more distrust and do not

judge confidence in the billion government among the german population and especially our next particular time when the whole of europe is in turmoil and of this is a very dangerous. situation we're in that's a moment where medical survived many political ups and downs they've had nineteen years a cd leader and thirteen years of chancellor as well but in many way she's still popular but will the attention now change and move to who the succession successor is or what the succession plan will be. and that the search is on the definitely the question is who can leave the successor and i think here we have problems because the in in so far is if you will was never in existence and are the last forty or fifty years in such a terrible association they have had always our rule and then in in

some majority of german and this is not the case anymore i don't see a kind of. prime minister of german lanced taking basically of an office on his or her position and if they look at these suggestions among the cabinet of the city you will ministers it is very rare maybe one person can be named. who could. step and had been in the shoes it is that it would be very difficult of time to not think of this is that this is a story of jenin trouble for islam as well for the christian democratic party do to solve this problem and it will not be easy but thank you very much for your expertise pizza shop say international relations professor at the go think indian of f.t. thank you. grieving relatives have arrived to jakarta

airports from where an intermission jets took off early on monday morning only to then crash into the sea a few minutes later killing all one hundred eighty nine on board. the old. distraught friends family of the passengers and crew on lioness flight two hundred sixty were given medical assistance as they were told of their loved ones face shortly after takeoff from what should have been in short local flights the curve of the brand new boeing seven three seven zero quested and the marriage and landing the plane then plunged into the java sea emergency team say they've recovered a number of bodies crushed investigative investigators say they won't speculate on the cause of the crash until data from the flight recorders is recovered as we asked the chief executive of aviation consultant international into carter about what might have caused the plane to come down. it was thirteen 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. problems it is bringing you a craft it's a highly reliable aircraft it's eight hundred merks. 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 peculiar 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 antiwar protesters have gathered in oslo against nato trails in norway the alliances

flexing its muscle in the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes after moscow how this a nature trails last month more of the thirty eight out of. fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks and vehicles that's a pretty straightforward message it is ambitious and it is. in recent years europe's security environment significant to deteriorate that nato has been careful not to mention moscow as the boogeyman which the exercise is aimed against but there are no illusions nato 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 century both nato and moscow have been going to it streams 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 there russia's military budget has been decreasing not increasing year after year you'd 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 half the world's military spending i mean there's 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 which nato then calls russian aggression and uses it to justify stationing more tanks more troops near russia. and repeat it's not really had real i think he said

provoke a she missed it. trying to look back at the typical nato drills we had of the thirty's in the eighty's the typical would be that we had ten thousand participants now we've got more than fifty one thousand it's a game of political struggle between the united states and russia are going on 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 and much more we can escalate the for a stupid decision or an accident puts a spark to this trillion dollar powder keg. still to come on japan's under fire from the un for relocating families in the fukushima radiation say the details and next.

with make this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room. carpet bomb a really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is in brussels for example 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 what we're all here. welcome back to. president trump in the face lady a keeping things sweet this halloween they've been hunting out candy to smiling children at the white house but for the grown ups in america the power brokers on capitol hill it giving them the ship as it's kind of explained with halloween fast approaching posters 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 your efforts to influence the twenty to eighteen mid-term elections the big news and divisive stories impose caravan of impoverished migrants white nationalists prepared to take to the streets trump

administration plan could a race the definition of transgender but according to a new poll conducted by chapman university in calif. fornia 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 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 know that he wagner would be dynamite but. then be accused of nepotism if you could believe it right and trump got a lectured 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 to direct our phobias elsewhere there's no living with the russian federation to undermine american democracy while you know what we have to work on immigration i have a big dairy district 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 of things like you know terrorism is going to get two or. three. they're 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 spare mongers trying to manipulate their fears they will pop and r. t. new york. meeting on now and japan's been told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to fukushima seventy itself to a nuclear plant meltdown rented the area uninhabitable the japanese government and

say some areas and now say but the u.n. special reports on how such a substance it says many fail they were forced to return i've 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 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 options one of the unanswered questions that we have regarding fukushima relating to the waste is what they're going to do with the radioactive story 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 disappointed that japan think north recommendations as to what constituted a face level of radiation often they need to. two thousand and eleven the governments raised the safety threshold twenty times 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 insuring and not

a quick level of safety in particular for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children. the japanese foreign ministry says the un's for portis based on one sided information which could cause unnecessary fears about fukushima. i'll be back with more top stories in just over thirty minutes time. mr.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. as a trumpet ministration pulls out of a key arms control agreement for 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. this is harlan kentucky. the place you get rich greed fanny's. a co money city with no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was the

said that's it. these people are survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that is 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. there were going underground on u.k. budget day amidst the western economic crisis coming up in the show the last two budgets before brick set or the last budget before britain's economic collapse we ask britain's shadow transfers advise a guy standing about today's budget and why the u.k.

government isn't using billions offshore to fund health care schools and the starving and after the earthquake recorded in england days after fracking starts we speak to an activist willing to risk his freedom to stop shale gas the first let's go straight to today's budget joining me now via skype from geneva is economic advisor to u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell and council member for the progressive economy forum professor guy thanks for being on the show again every year to resume or previously cameron said austerity was over meaningless in the context of today's a budget the last before brics it i think this is become a very sick joke to be honest we've had a dick eight and eight years under the tories basically in which the public social spending has been slashed slashed each year and each year this is it we're told the pain is being shared and it isn't being shared we have a ridiculous situation today where six hundred police stations for example

have been closed in the last five years and we have. cities like bart don't even have a police station to say that austerity is ended means that they're going to have to restore all the public libraries the public parks the police stations in the facilities that have been closed or clamped down they're going to have to reverse eight years of suffering imposed on the british people and when they say it's indeed i think this is a man management trick to give a little accounting to a situation that is not going to be resolved or repaired for a very long time i want to get on to the big four accounting firms that no doubt will be giving advice after today's a budget but as you know they'll be mainstream media coverage and when the say the topic of universal credit comes up the government has to roll it out it will be

good for the most vulnerable in society and it will be cheaper so we need to we need to roll this out i think this is one of the biggest tragedies that are unfolding in our country for our lifetime universal credit is a horrifying social policy and we've only seen the beginnings of this disaster every day people who are supposed to be receiving universal credit and the various means tested benefits operated by the department of work and pensions every day people are dying every day one hundred people on employment support allowance that goes to the disabled one hundred people between the age of sixteen and sixty four a gallon and every day ten people.