i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how finance happens. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to let it be an arms race. fearing dramatic development the only posts really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. well to me he said when i spoke to fast pool at the next eden party convention and i will not run the chart party secondly because food is the last month for me. the german chancellor now says she's stepping down in twenty twenty one on content plans to quit as leader of her policy office eighteen years is until america is

hits with a series of setbacks at the hands of the anti migrant party all tentative gemini. nato war games troll protests in norway as troops conduct that biggest trail since the cold war. families were attentive for cushy matchup pounds accused of violating human rights with the u.n. concerned people a big will to live in areas where radiation levels remain unsafe. but i've spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they're being compelled to return because of financial hardships. they're watching the international welcome to the program we start with breaking news from germany and america has confirmed that she's stepping down as party leader of the christian democratic union off to almost two decades in the job it

follows another disappointing election performance this time in the state of hesse a where the c.d.u. suffered a slump in the sheriff the vote the move now throws open the race for who will succeed her c.d.u. leader she intends to stay on as chairman chancellor and so forth ten runs until twenty twenty one. essence of the missing woman's father thought that first of all at the next cd you party convention in december i will not run for the chair of the party secondly this fourth time is the last one for me i will not run for chancellor during the twenty twenty one election nor will i seek a seat in the parliament. we can now cross live to bear lennon our europe correspondent peter oliver peter please bring us up to speed on the latest developments coming in thick and fast in germany. or after eighteen years germany's coming to terms that angela merkel will not be the leader of the christian democratic union she said she won't seek reelection for that position their party

congress is taking place at the beginning of december of in hamburg so now all eyes are on that to see who's going to be pushing to try and take that position as party leader now mrs merkel stepping down from not role but she is saying she will remain as chancellor in the past though she's been very clear that she sees both roles as being essentially is one that you can't be chancellor without being leader of your party she was very critical of gary hart schroeder who is her predecessor as chancellor when he did essentially what she's doing now for the last six months of his chancellorship he wasn't the chairman of the party she said you can't be one without the other essentially because if you are a chancellor without being head of the party you're essentially a well chancellor at the behest of that party and whoever is in charge of the party and that's where things could get interesting because there are two types of candidates that could potentially take over from angela merkel there are the center

wrists which is very much the same tack which mrs merkel has kept the party on or put the party on and kept it there during her tenure and then there's also those more conservative voices those to the right of angular merkel c.d.u. party that say that her policies have taken them closer to that of the social democrats and that that's why they've hemorrhaged votes to alternative for germany that they want to get the real conservative voice back there now chief amongst those of the can those type of candidates would be inspired he's currently the health minister he's a vocal critic of angela merkel particularly refugee in migrant policy so if you put it that way in suggests a mr spock was elected to be chairman of the party it's going to make it quite a difficult. time for angela merkel to remain as chancellor with that leadership coming from a party and to see her last all the way to twenty twenty one i wouldn't bet my money on it let's have

a look at angle of merkel over the years that she's been there she's been chancellor since twenty fifteen she was the first woman to take over that job to take on that job as the leader here in germany she's the longest serving leader so far in the at this moment in the european union certainly the most powerful national leader within the european union whenever we see big decisions being floated in brussels we can pretty much guarantee that within a week to a few days those key players in brussels will have been here to berlin and they'll have talked those out a little bit more she was nominated for the nobel peace prize back in twenty fifty for her open arms policy to refugees and migrants she didn't win that one. but she has been a key and crucial part of not just german politics but european politics for so long and that's why that whole task of who will replace her in the top job well that's something that well down the line right now but for who will replace earth

in terms of her party leadership well as i said the splitting in to different camps right now the catalyst for bringing us to this situation now was the vote in head in the local parliament elections on sunday the c.d.u. taking another double digit how marines in that poll they lost by lost around ten to eleven percent they're not prompted her coalition partners as well as her partner one of her allies within her own party to start saying time might be up for mrs merkel. solution to the state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action. is evening there was a very mixed message has there once the christian democratic union chick. to new leading this state many people have shown during this election that it must be different not in hessen lives. well while angler merkel c.d.u.

and her coalition partners the social democrats hemorrhaged votes in those votes had to go somewhere one place was to the green party they were resurgent again taking about twenty percent after they also surprised a lot of people by taking a whole load of votes in local elections in bavaria just two weeks ago surprising when you think about it that just over a year ago they just struggled in to the bundestag in the general elections they've come back resurgent also celebrating the results in will be alternative for germany the populist right wing party enters parliament in that they're in that state for the first time. it means now that they're represented in all states in germany all sixteen different states as well as the national parliament their leadership understandably will elated at the results from sunday. with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the great success it has. so the

big news from here in berlin angular merkel will stand down as leader of the christian democratic union party she will remain as chancellor but she will not seek another term after this if she last the three years these are going to be her last in the top job here in germany. correspondent life from bear led peter oliver hankie. mickelson mounts meant that she will no longer lead the christian democratic union comes off to decades at the forefront of chairman politics she began had political career off to the fall of the bed and wall joining the c.d.u. in one nine hundred eighty nine ten years later she became the party secretary general and the leader in two thousand by two thousand and five and a medical made history by becoming germany's first female chancellor since then she's been reelected to feather three times meaning nicole has been the nation's leader for the nearly

a generation. time i remember she was always there i mean i can't really remember a time she was like that and i don't even know who came before. as only madonna's that she wanted a makeover said i think she was elected in two thousand and five for the first time i was like seven she's just been around forever she's always been an average she's getting power all the time there's a peace is just like i don't like. i've

never been in the delta without governing. in two thousand and five she was elected for the first time i was only thirteen. i pierced my ear lobes a boy from a school died in a traffic accident. in fukushima the core melted people died. i went to mississippi for a year as an exchange student. black smoke at obama whites mccain barack obama became the first black president. and. go america. now that's discuss this breaking news story live with maximillian cross chairman lawyer and pundits maximillian great to have you on the program with us habitat now mickle said a cd for almost two decades so how shocking is her decision to resign. it

is only for those who ordered. it takes to get the job because we're. sort of most people who are looked upon as. liberation but there is a change taking place that is needed i guess so to me it's a very optimistic. well why is she stepping down as head of the party if she plans to continue with chancellor until twenty twenty one. i mean it looks like a plan because her favorite as a party boss is i think it come conboy who is the former governor of. the little sylar state. that has you can say like a clone of america so she has the clone of us over as a party leader so she can remain in the chancellor's office that's the plan and

if it would if it would hurt it would fit to her and she could see and power for the next six years but the risk is there now are other people who have a lot of political well years and other political ideas come up in challenge as there is. a ministry for help he. pretends to be a little bit more conservative and which is very remarkable there's a village mad who is an old opponent from the time. on the year two thousand two thousand slaves who is no lawyer and he comes back and is challenging her so if all of this you guys would take over the party. and she had a lot of chance of for a long time but if come come in by her favorable than the party election you can be sure that merkel will say in poll or many of us from now on because then everything goes like she wants that do you think merkel thek to vanessa those

chancellor could improve if she's not solely focused on party politics. i don't think that it that she has moved as to a party that is not a political party as we know it but it is just a collaboration. that is based on the alone the will to get a government job so you are around a cd you not because you have little use but you think that there was a good way to get jobs in the state or in an interstate or one of companies and you don't need to be a party leader if there is a party leader that is very close to you and and that's what she's not trying to implement i take it from her and our who is a close america and searches to to have power in both the party and the government it's the only one question if i groaned of will win the party election that merkel

remains the most powerful person in germany if a company. is a step party election. things become unstable we just touched upon this slightly but what future do you think for the feeding party without mikhail i mean she remains the chancellor that means very little state seed run t.v. they lose there as the chancellor. she's a member of to see you. for is here it's earth. i don't think so much would change if america's favorite would become the party leader everything would change if america opponent becomes the leader because then the party could start to promote most of critics into political office so doubt it would become. very uncomfortable for them but it all i don't think that the party would openly oppose merkel so you could have more american critics and political positions but

to see you as a very very submissive quality towards the chancellor and it would be very silent you know of america critics takes over and so it would. you. see they use look older. well thank you for your expertise maximillian crowd german lawyer good to have you on the program thank you. grieving relatives have arrived at jakarta at ports from where an intonation jet took off on monday morning and rita crash into the sea just thirteen minutes later search and rescue officials projects that all the hundred eighty nine on board were killed. oh. oh. distraught friends and family of the

passengers and crew on line air flight sixty were given medical assistance as they were told of their loved one's fate and asked to identify the bodies recovered so far shortly after takeoff from what should have been a short local flights to a neighboring island the curve the brand new boeing seven three seven requested in the marriage and sea landing the plane then plunged into the java sea emergency teams say they've recovered a number of bodies crash investigators say they won't speculate on the cause of the crash until data from the flight recorders is recovers. the president of an aviation consulting firm says this crash has knots reflects the country's recent safety record. this is quite a shock for all of us in the past few years to close to four years now since the air asia incident in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen we have

you have collected a clean slate. with close to zero accidents in the last four years old this will be the first and if you take back our safety records since we were banned by you will be immune in two thousand and seven and hands it. a mission to remind president susilo bambang yudhoyono in two thousand and nine we have improved quite a lot in terms of safety and security. really again we need to look at the cost of what resulted in this incident. hundreds of antiwar protesters have gathered and also against nato trails in norway the alliance is flexing its muscles in the biggest matrix of sizes since the cold war it comes off to moscow how this very major trail's last month. has been to tell.

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 how significant would need to 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 the russian border troops will be learning to fight in cold conditions against a simulated enemy that is unsurprisingly 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 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 harf 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 increase capacity to swiftly deploy troops across europe. it's a remarkable cycle nato builds up its forces. responds by building up its own we 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 it's their problem cation isn't it. trying to look back on that typical nato drills we had it is certainties 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. more top story in a few moments time. i would prefer to say that. the human space is must become prone to terry wish me instead to be leaving in the solar system. and for sure we show the

other. this system i see that is the way all bring game and developing more technology new technology so that's becoming even. increase. in improve the quality of life. the bomb was really was very european and his approach he would be very well suited is key 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 here.

welcome back to. japan's been told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to fukushima seventy a softer nuclear plant renton the area uninhabitable the japanese government insists some areas and now safe but the u.n. special records her own house at a substance says says many felt 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 most caution in 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 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. the u.n. says it's disappointed that japan think north recommendations as to what constituted a safe level of radiation off of the nuclear disaster in twenty eleven the government's race 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 and this is why we're concerned that the japanese government is moving too quickly and perhaps not ensuring a night of what level of safety in particular for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children. the japanese foreign ministry says the u.s. reporters based on one sided information which could cause unnecessary face about focus shima. may be gone now and tensions building in sri lanka where the a prop sacking of a prime minister on friday has sparked a constitutional crisis the sharon can president says his decision to dissolve parliament and oust the top official was safer and the alleged assassination plots . a person questioned by investigators has revealed the name of

a minister in the ledge plots to assassinate me. the turmel did tend to lean on sunday when a bodyguard of a sax cabinet minister fatally shot one person and injured others supporters of the former prime minister been gathering outside his official residence strongly announcing his removal he has refused to step down saying that he has parliament's backing. the prime minister that was the more for not at all part of the don't so we look weak defeated or maybe the water that is showing that they have confidence in that situation has not. i would have a go if i demand the prime minister i like a function of the brain is the ousted prime minister is known for his pro western vs has been trying to rebalance sure lanka's relations with india and the us he says his dismissal is illegal and demanded an emergency parliamentary session his

firing came as the tending point of months of open hostility between him and his rival the newly sworn in prime minister is known for his private china interests cherie lanka is massively in deaths a beijing for large scale infrastructure projects questions are now being raised over a possible shift in the country's foreign policy a political analyst we spoke to says cherie lanka is being torn apart between major global powers syria and could is located politically sensitive position in the indian ocean connecting the key commercial and its you will to always have to call to europe africa and asia despite some of asia has been dominated by india china recent seeking an important strategic footholds being the key regional ally of india the u.s. arms sales to see a long time and. very critical of the human rights record of this country in

certain simple japan recent speech on the pope geopolitical game by forging an alliance book india and us in countering china scoring influence in the entire into pacific region what will be you'd like to see not only ease washington d.c. we were much more close the with india to trying to rein in. political coalition formed by water pasar and the president disagree send not. have more top stories and faking minutes time. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

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