that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. as a trumpet ministration pulls out of a key arms control agreements 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 too long. to get them up the next see two new party convention to samba i will not run for the chair of the party this is the last one for me. the german chancellor stepping down in twenty twenty one and to quit its leader. eighteen years. hence with a series of the hounds of the party all tentative. nato

. protests in norway as troops conduct that biggest since the cold war. this is. accused of violating human rights with the un consent people are being forced to live in areas where radiation levels remain unsafe. but i've spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they are being compelled to return because of financial hardships. is just ten seven pm head in the russian capital we are watching us he international. off to almost two decades. she's stepping down as party leader of the christian democratic union the german chancellor has also said she would stand in the next federal election stated for twenty twenty one. did

the next see do you party convention in december i will not run for the chair of the party this fourth time is the last one for me the decision follows her party's disappointing election performance this time in the state of her say where the c.d.u. suffered a double digit loss in its share of the votes with the chancellor admitting the results are tough to swallow. the figures that came in overnight from her selection a wholly disappointing and bitter. but it is 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 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 done from the last federal election and until this moment there in lies the opportunity for us. anglo merkel says she will remain as chancellor but is stepping down as the leader of the christian democratic union she had in the past said those two jobs being the party leader and being chancellor they went hand in hand and you shouldn't separate one of the other this does come as something of a surprise the city you were in well day or a sort of dire straits has been in for a while but i'm going to 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 a 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 and 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 to show state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action brought with us this evening there was a very mixed message has there wants 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 and the c.d.u. haemorrhaging votes in has said those votes have to go somewhere the beneficiaries word the green party who put it at the strong showing of the previously doing well in bavaria and also alternative for germany they entered the parliament and headed for the first time and now it means that they have representation in all sixteen

states in germany as well as be represented in the national parliament the bundestag party leadership of the f.d.a. well they were ecstatic at the results with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the great success it has. but when it comes to angela merkel the christian democratic union in the coalition it's well held together with sticky tape and popsicle sticks at the moment it comes down to popularity and angela merkel's party has been hemorrhaging popularity world since she made the decision to welcome with open arms refugees and migrants into germany it was a huge issue in the election in twenty seventeen and well it caused problems for them there it caused problems with trying to cobble together a coalition it took one of the best part of seven months to do that and since the coalition government has been in place since march it's never really looked stable

it almost fell apart completely this summer with horses they offered the interior minister threatening to walk out of the cabinet and walk out of the coalition with his christie and social union party he was put catered eventually with promises of of limits on refugees and migrants but it hasn't gone away and the problems that as they said started out in the lead up to the twenty seventeen election they then followed through coalition talks they've now started to impact on local government and the overall impression of the c.d.u. party in that is why until a merkel's deemed it time to go is the head of the party she says she's going to hang on until twenty twenty one as chancellor be looking to see how she well how she gets on to do that depending on who takes over the job she's vacating as head of her party. jim annoying pundits maximillian cross says a change is needed in the c.d.u. policy but that will happen only if a critic of mikel 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 that when you look. at run t.v. to lose there is a chancellor. she's a member of to see who. you are. i don't think that so much would change if american say were it would become the popular leader everything would change if america becomes the leader because the end of the party could start to promote critics into political office so they're not. very uncomfortable or 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 it would be very siloed you as a member of critics takes over and. it would. give development against merkel but not the revolution there is a cd use not a politician makes rouge in no way mcauliffe announcement that she will no longer lead to the christian democratic union comes off to decades at the forefront of german politics she began her political 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 angela merkel made history by becoming germany's first female chancellor since then she has been reelected a further three times meaning mikel 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 knew until i met us has only met on us that the longer the mag of the sets 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 content don't have a high dose. 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 mccain barack obama became the first black president. and i'm. moving on now and hundreds of antiwar protesters have gathered and also against nato trails in norway the alliance is flexing its muscle in the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes off to moscow how this major trails last month more and they have had the details.

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 only 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 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. timothy 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 excrete eames 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. 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. is 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 which nato then calls russian aggression and uses it to justify stationing more tanks or 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 it 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 treaty. proud. to north africa now where at least nine people have been injured in a suicide bomb attack in tunis is capital eight of them are police officers and one is a civilian a woman detonated herself in front of a shopping center on a crowded avenue griffith two is the true museum say no group has said it was behind the attacks so far the area has a strong police presence as

a number of government buildings are located nearby. has experienced an almost three year period of calm the last such attacks were in twenty fifteen which resulted in dozens killed. still to come on our take on the fire from the un for relocating families in the fukushima radiation say the details up next. i would prefer to say that the human space is must be come into the ground and terry pushed me instead so we have a leaving in the solar system. and for sure we show the suns on other all this of the solar system i see that is is a way all brain game and developing more technologists new technology so that we

can even. say increase in improve the quality of life on earth. start to bomb a really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is an m.e.p. 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 about here. welcome back to. president trump in the face lady a keeping things sweet if halloween they've been hunting out candy to smiling children at the white house for

the grownups in america the power brokers on capitol hill and giving them the ship it is kind of more can explain. 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 you efforts to influence the twenty to eighteen mid-term elections the big news and divisive stories and posts caravan of impoverished migrants white nationalists prepared to take to the streets trump administration plan 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 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 fifo that know there's nothing to do with that but does that but i want to tell you the people that know though 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 limit to what the russian federation will do to undermine american democracy is why you know we have to work on immigration i have a big dairy district a lot of agriculture a lot of undocumented workers but these things aren't even in the top ten because we have so many of 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 your bridges are going to fall down or something it's real life things that people are worried about a part of it is the economic ones including the corruption of politicians i was interested in the corrupt politician thing being at the top because for a long time people haven't recognized how corrupt their politicians are they think it's thinking in gradually that the whole system really stinks american politicians

have learned that playing on people's fears is a big seller but it seems that what scares the americans the most is the very scare mongers trying to manipulate their fears kaleb mopp and r.t. new york. japan's being told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to fukushima seven years after a nuclear plant meltdown rented the area uninhabitable the japanese government in some areas and now safe but the un special rapporteur on how to substantive says many failed they were 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 international bodies say is that they actually do not know what is acceptable dose

of radiation for their children and women of reproductive age and they urge most caution in justification of any and. 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 twenty eleven the government raised the safety threshold twenty times their own 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 insuring united what level of safety in particular for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children however the japanese foreign ministry says the u.s. report is based on one sided information which could cause unnecessary fares about fukushima. tech giant is under pressure after reports of a former seen executive receiving a multi-million dollar exit package he was accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague and then of trying to silence the claims they go back to twenty

fourteen. for ports. the era of need to has been celebrated as a turning point no more it seemed to could sexual harassers get away with it it to me to me to be to be to me to me bull. 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 hitters 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 the pats 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 two movement in supported by actions like creating a whole project with this guy catching heat map for the hash tag and note that we did not edit this in any way including the music. 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 thirteen who were c.d.o.

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 two thousand and seventeen their white house correspondent glenn thrush was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior the paper did punish him by not allowing him to cover the 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 me too 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. you can read all about her latest stories i've run off join my colleague david chewed on the latest global news inhofe announced time.

and. join me every week on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get a world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. and. your union. rational. desire for all of the fear. that the new. zuma. should slow.

the. fortune for the. more than an election. zia's says holland kentucky. we've moved the boys to sleep it was very funny to. me. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was said i'd. love to see these people the survivors of

a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if 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 happened it's happened to. start the fall it really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is an m.e.p. in brussels for example the stuff 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 about here. but i'm not going to god. i'm going to end up.

almost. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle as the trumpet ministrations holds 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.