well mostly. for just twelve euros fifty. seems to me he's been doing this for the past pull out the next year to do paunch convention and i will charge. secondly this is the last one from. the german chancellor says she's stepping down in twenty twenty one income ten pounds to quit. off the eighteen years as a kind of heads with this

a wreath of setbacks of the hounds of the party tentative. also this hour nato war games protests in norway and its troops conduct the biggest trail since the cold war. this family's retentive. used to violating human rights with the un consensus 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 hardship. live from moscow watching international welcome to the program. breaking news from gemini has confirmed though she's stepping down this. party leader of the christian

democratic union after almost two decades in the job it follows another disappointing election performance this time in the state of her say where the c.d.u. suffered a slump in its share of 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 her fourth term runs until twenty twenty one this is off to move. fast ball out the next you do 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. for more on this story we can cross over live to belin who are your correspondent peter all over so medical stepping down as leader of her party what more can you tell us on this. right well what this does is it puts in play an interesting situation and says she will remain as chancellor but is

stepping down as the leader of the christian democratic union she had in the past said to jobs being the party leader and being chancellor they went hand in hand and you shouldn't separate one of the other she had admitted this in her interview that in the statement she gave to the press earlier on monday saying that she had said this in the past and she realized she was going back on this how long she lost as chancellor though may well depend on just who gets the job as being the next head of the christian democratic union if it's one of those out of the around six candidates we're hearing that are going for the job towards the right of the party the more traditional conservative side of the party i can't see it and certainly many of the pundits are saying they can't see her getting on in lasting in that role it is worth saying though that angela merkel admitted that the book stopped with her when it came to the poor showing of results that the c.d.u.

have had in local elections and said that it's ultimately this was her responsibility. the figures that came in overnight from her selection of a wholly disappointing and bitter one the british politically it can no longer be business as usual process after this result has after the result and the area after the conflict between the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. in the summer and after all the difficulties in forming a government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party all fell through. i believe we should pause for a moment and think i hope we see yesterday's election is a turning point that we put to the task we have sat and done from the last federal election and until this moment that i realized the opportunity for us. to get on well this does come as something of a surprise the c.d.u. were in well diarist of dire straits they've been in for

a while but i'm glad merkel's been at the helm for eighteen years she's such a big part of the the d.n.a. of the c.d.u. today so for her to say that she's stepping down and somebody else is going to be shaping that party that's that's big news perhaps worth noting that this was probably the most relaxed we've seen angle of merkel speaking to the press in months that she lists off the troubles that they faced it's no wonder they find themselves in such a situation in fact as the result started coming in on sunday evening we saw both those within the c.d.u. her own party and her coalition partners already starting to turn on angola merkel and suggesting that there needed to be a change it's state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect this city you to take appropriate action with us 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 berlin. well with the social democrats on the c.d.u. haemorrhaging votes in has said those votes had to go somewhere in the beneficiaries word the green party who put in another strong showing of the previously doing well in bavaria and also alternative for germany they entered the parliament in hazard for the first time and now it means that they have representation in all sixteen states in germany as well as being represented in the national parliament the bundestag party leadership of the day while they were ecstatic at the results of the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the great success it has. but when it comes back to angela merkel the situation with the c.d.u. in the current coalition it was only really a matter of time when we look back at it the it took them the best part of seven months to form

a coalition government to homicide thing together after elections in september of twenty seventeen that's been in place since march and it's never really looked stable this summer we saw the c.d.u. slip to their their worst polling in twelve years we also saw the whole coalition nearly fall apart over a row between the government and the interior minister horst zia hoffa certainly a firebrand of german politics he said he was going to walk out and quit the coalition which would take the c.s.u. angela merkel's c.d.u. sister party in bavaria with them he was eventually put catered by saying that there would be caps on the amount of refugees and migrants settled in welcomed into germany. but popularity remained very very low in the popularity of the coalition suffered and most of that suffering was at the hands of angela merkel's migration policies it was a huge issue going into the election in twenty seventeen and it's dogged the coalition as it's tried to try to rule since. what we can expect though is that

we're not over yet when it comes to the the roller coaster if we can call it this is about exciting as german politics gets i've been following it for a long time now we are going to a lot of where we end up next is going to be based on what decision the c.d.u. membership make on who is going to rule the party next and whether they can rule the party along with angela merkel sitting in the chancellor's office plenty more to come on this. pete on of a keeping across this story for us live from there len thank. you jim and lawyer and pundits maximillian craft says that change is needed in the party but that will happen only effect that will have any. happen if a critic of mekele is appointed leader there is a change taking place that is needed i guess so we have a very optimistic noose what future do you see for the cd party without mikel.

i mean she remains the chancellor that means very little. run t.v. they lose her as a chancellor. she's a member of to see who. i don't think so much would change if american say were would become the party leader everything would change if america becomes blocking leader because the end of the party could start to promote critics into political office so that. very uncomfortable floor but it all i don't think that the party would really oppose merkel so you could have more american critics and political positions but to see you as a very very submissive. towards the chancellor and be very siloed you as a member of critics takes a route. it would. give development it gives merkel

but not the revolution there is to see use not uphold it makes no way. mickelson else meant that she will no longer lead the christian democratic union comes off the decades at the forefront of chairman politics she began her pet school career after the fall of the bet in war joining the c.d.u. in one thousand nine hundred nine ten years later she became the party secretary general and its leader in two thousand by two thousand and five america made history by becoming germany's first female chancellor since then change being re-elected a further three times meaning merkel has been the nation's leader fanelli a generation.

the time i remember she was always there i mean i can't remember a time she wasn't like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before her and i miss snow until i met her as i only met on us chatham long in the mac of a set i think she was elected in two thousand and five for the rest time i was like seven she's just been around forever she's always been an image she's been in power a long time i think there's a piece of it is in my conduct homicide also. i've never seen an adult without governing. in two thousand and five she was elected for the first time i was only thirteen. i pierced my ear lobe. a boy from my 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 did obama whites. barack obama became the first black president. and i'm. moving on now and hundreds of antiwar protesters have gathered and also against nato drills in norway the alliance is flexing its muscle in the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes off to moscow a major trails last month. 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. in recent years europe's security environment significant it 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 i mean two hundred kilometers from the 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 the natives 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 murder need is 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 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 it's their problem cation isn't it. try to look back at it typical nato drills we had it is 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 r.t. japan's under fire from the un for relocating families in the fukushima radiation saying the details up next. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class has some protect themselves. in the final

merry go round. we can all middle of the room see. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be this is what the three of them or people. interested in the why. they said.

welcome back to r.t. japan's been told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to the focus shima seven is off to a nuclear plants meltdown rented the area uninhabitable the japanese government insists some areas and now safe but the un special rapporteur on hazardous substances says many feel 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 a justification of any options one of the unanswered questions that we have

regarding. relating to the waste is what they're 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 disappointed that japan think north recommendations as to what constituted a safe level of radiation after the nuclear disaster in two thousand and eleven the government raised the safety threshold twenty times the u.n. report says such levels pose a significant danger as 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 quick level of safety in particular for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children. the japanese foreign ministry says the un's report is based on one sided information which could of course and necessary fears about fukushima. tensions building in sherry lanka where. the abrupt sacking of the prime minister on friday has sparked a constitutional crisis the sherry lankan president says his decision to dissolve parliament and oust the top official was over and the alleged assassination plot. a person questioned by investigators has revealed the name of the minister and the ledge plots to assassinate me the turmel did tentatively on sunday when

a body guard of the facts cabinet minister fatally shot one person and this supporters of the former prime minister have been gathering outside his official residence strongly denouncing his removal he has refused to step down saying that he has parliament's backing. the prime minister that was the more for not open the door and said yes we. defeated. the water that is showing that they have confidently that to do with has not. since you have a dog in. the brain is like a function of the brain is the ousted prime minister is known for his pro western views he has been trying to rebalance sri 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 pro china interests sri lanka is massively in threats to 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 sherry lanka is being torn apart by major global power as soon learn could it's located to politically sensitive locations in the indian ocean. and it's you will to always. to call to europe africa in asia. but so has been dominated by india china recent seeking an important strategic footholds beyond a key regional in ohio in the u.s. . to see a long time and was very critical of the human rights record over these companies so to japan recently joined the geopolitical game by forging and lines but you didn't do us any country in china schooling influence and time into pacific region

what would be you'd like to see not only ease washington d.c. we're much more with india to trying to rein in the political coalition for i want to toss. to the president and say we send our. president on the fifth keeping things sweet with how doing they've been handing out candy to smiling children at the white house but for the grown ups in america the power brokers on capitol hill and giving them the ship is it's been explained 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 your efforts to influence the twenty eight eighteen mid-term elections the fake news and divisive stories and post 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 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 it be. the people that know it's nothing to do with that but does that but i want to tell you that 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 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 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 of things like you know terrorism is going to get to 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 sell. but it seems that what scares the americans the most is the very scare mongers trying to manipulate their fears hale bopp and r.t. new york. to pick out for real time updates you can visit tough social media pages as well as author he took home team and thirteen minutes time with the late ted has been a really nice. join

me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure both of those i'll see you there. 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. i would prefer to say that the human space is must become into prana terry wish me instead so we have a living in the solar system. and for sure we show that spans on other on

other all this of the solar system i see this as a way all bringing them developing more technology is a new technology so that we can even learn. increase in the end improve the quality of life on earth. that absent out there we're going underground on u.k. budget day amidst the western economic crisis coming up in the show the last two budgets before brick set of 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 drama darling council member for the progressive economy forum professor guice the 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 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 baath 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 and the facilities that have been closed all clumped down they are going to have to reverse eight years of suffering imposed on the british people and i mean when they say it's indeed i think this is management. tricks 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 budget but as you know they'll be mainstream media coverage and when i say the topic of universal credit comes up they'll say the government has to roll.