it was. people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger 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 how it's happened. with the next cd you catch convention december i will not run for the chair of the party this is the last one for me. the german chancellor announces she is stepping down in twenty twenty one and confirms plans to quit as leader of her party after eighteen years as a police state with a series of setbacks at the hands of the anti wind and party alternative for

germany. nato war games draw protests in norway as troops conduct their biggest drill since the cold war. and his family's return to japan is accused of violating human rights with the u.n. concerned people are forced to live in areas where radiation levels remain unsafe. spoken to several mothers in particular who feel that they're being compelled to return because of financial hardships. it's eight o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from our studio with me in a do or two to welcome to the program after almost two decades she's stepping down as party leader of the christian democratic union the german chancellor also said

she won't stand in the next federal election stated for twenty twenty one. did you get them at the next c 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 vote with the chancellor admitting the result has been tough to take. the figures that came in overnight from the election of the holy disappointing. when the swedish politically it can no longer be business as usual process after this result has after the result and the area after the conflict between c.d.u. c.s.u. in the summer and after all the difficulties in forming the government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party through. soaked in this 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. exact time 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 to 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 angle of 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 received angle of

a speaking to the press in months it actually 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. of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action wrong on this house. this evening there was a very mixed message as it 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 lives. or with the social democrats and the c.d.u. haemorrhaging votes in has said those votes have to go somewhere in the beneficiaries were the green party who put it at the strong showing of the previously doing well in bavaria and also alternative for germany. and to 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 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 horse and 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 placated eventually with promises of of limits on refugees and migrants but it hasn't gone away and the problems that as i said started out in the lead up to the twenty seventeen election they then followed through coalition talks they've now started to him. act 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. gemini and pundit maximillian cross says the change is needed in the cd party but that will only happen if a critic of merkel is appointed leader there is

a change taking place that is needed i guess so to me it's a very optimistic nears what future do you see for the cd party without mikhail. i mean she remains the chancellor michelle you look. at 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 it will become the party leader everything would change if america becomes the leader because the party could start to promote motive critics into political office so they're not. very uncomfortable for but it all i don't think that apology would be your person so you could have more market critics including positions but to see the very very

submissive quality towards the chancellor and it would be very siloed you know let's remember critics takes a route. it would. give development it gives merkel but not a revolution there is a use of the cold it makes no way. michael's announcement that she will no longer leave the christian democratic union comes after decades at the forefront of german politics she began her political career after four of the berlin wall joining in one thousand nine ten years later she became 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 re-elected a further three times meaningless has been the nation's leader for nearly a generation.

time i remember she was always there i mean i can't really remember a time she was like a child and i don't even know who came before mission a mission america has only met on us yet you argue that america 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 been in power. distribution . for a good job of us was. i've never been an adult without under american 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 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. blacks moated obama whites mccain barack obama became the first black president. studied. back and i'm up. on go america. now hundreds of antiwar protesters have gathered against nato drills in norway the alliance is flexing its muscle and biggest military exercise since the cold war it comes off to moscow had its own major tells last month mark as death has the details.

fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks in vehicles that's a pretty straightforward message it is ambitious and it is demanding in recent years europe's security environment has significant it deteriorated 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 immediate two hundred kilometers from russian border us troops will be learning to fight in cold conditions against the 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 go into 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 that russia's military budget has been decreasing not increasing year after year you would have thought nato intelligence would have spotted that now compare moscow's military spending to nato's which is almost

a trillion dollars a year it literally accounts for a half the world's military spending i mean there's no competition here in this murder 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 publication isn't it. try to look back on that 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 much more we can escalate the for a stupid decision or an accident puts a spark to this trillion dollar powder keg. to north africa now where at least nine people have been injured in a suicide bomb attack into his u.s. capital eight of them are police officers and one is a civilian a woman detonated himself in front of a shopping center on a crowded of new referred to as the. no group has said it was behind the attack so far the area has a strong police presence as a number of government buildings are located nearby tennessee has experienced an almost three year period of calm the last such attacks were in twenty fifteen which

resulted in dozens killed. japan's under fire from the un for relocating families in the fukushima radiation zone the details are coming up soon. i will prefer to say there the human space is must become into prana terry wish me instead so we have leaving in the solar system. and for sure we should expand on other all this all disorder a system i see this is a way all bring in and developing more technologists new technology so that we can even learn to say increase. in improve the quality of life.

start to bomb a really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is the 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 the program president and the first lady of keeping things sweet this halloween they've been handing out candy to smiling children at the white house but for the grownups in america the power brokers on capitol hill giving them the ship business kind of more than explains. 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 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 though know that he wagner would be done 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 to do have to be paid six hundred seventy five thousand dollars well i don't know that's what they offered. accusations of corruption are abundant in american politics even though they rarely make the legal field in the united states there's all kinds of politicians being accused of insider trading lavish gifts as they say welcome to american politics but it seems that the mainstream media is working overtime. time to direct our

phobias elsewhere there's no limit to what the russian federation do to undermine american democracy is why you know what 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 for the future of your kids and things like that not trumped up things like you know terrorism is going to get to the bridges are going to fall down or something it's real life things that people are worried about 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 mop and r t new york. pans being told by the u.n. that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to focus shima seven years often you can't rent at the area uninhabitable the japanese government insists some areas are now safe but the un special rapporteur on the house says many feel they were forced to return. i've spoken to several mothers in particular who 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 and a justification of any actions 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's ignored 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 the u.n. report says such levels pose a significant danger to public health especially children. the japanese are trying to move the situation back to the status quo as it

was before the nuclear disaster as quickly as possible and in many ways that's to be commended but also maybe a possibility in this is why we're concerned that the japanese government is moving too quickly and perhaps not insuring united 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 cause unnecessary fears about a focus she. brags it has dominated headlines in europe for over two years already but across the atlantic about another exit on the horizon american activists candace owens has announced blogs it calling on african-americans that it's the democrats and back president trump. so excited because we're going to launch a fire the world's a movement a movement that will forever be remembered as a piece of american history

a movement called black sit the black exit. joining us live now with me brian logan who was at the young black leadership summit when the legs it movement was and thanks for coming on to the program now firstly can you describe what the general atmosphere was like at the summit where blacks it was and what exactly is the movement. oh the atmosphere was absolutely electric it was really energetic people have been looking for those for quite a long time because as an african-american person you feel like you kind of isolated due to your political beliefs if you are a conservative i think it's like nine hundred ninety five percent of black people in america vote democrat and it's been my day since about one nine hundred sixty s. so to have an environment where you have about four hundred conservatives when every year it was really exciting for a lot of people in a general movement is to get more people open minded say i think differently you don't have to necessarily vote live in a different way than you have been doing but be open minded to maybe you come to

the realization next the best way for you to be so that is that main thing tribes encourage people to think differently and be entertained rather do being attached to the democratic no matter what and to name but a it is about votes in the end is that you're saying for them to be open minded if we look at the timing of this is it deliberate that it's during the run up to the midterms what i think is just happens to be right now i can't really say if it deliberate or not bad say it definitely helps because you do have the midterms coming up and i think this is a really big boost you know to many people ryan really does on his ads on television to talk about the opposing person would be talking about as a democrat liberal versus a republican they'll say all the republican is racism which i could well have been if it's so we're just trying to come with a way of people who have an open mind and what we hope is that people see the correct way is to vote republican in our least that's what i hope and saying just

once and that you know something that republicans are racist how can this succeed then with the democratic african-americans and how likely is it that they will switch to becoming republican. well i think more and more we're starting to see that the whole thing about republicans being racist is a lie because you're seeing more and more people get attacked injure they happen to be conservative that are black people get in or has knocked off i mean i was in the airport myself i had a picture of my go viral over the weekend i'm getting thousand miles stares and these people they claim to be so loving they claim to be so tolerant a lot of people that are white these are the same ones that oto black americans days the republicans are racist to hate you and all of this and then we're starting to see more things like does play themselves out on television everywhere else and we understand that the library publicans being racist and liberals being the ones

that are on our side is not really true and it's really the other way around so as we get to see more does happen you see a shift and i think more of the black and hispanic vote mitt romney did despite all the dimity is best efforts to paint him as some kind of racist white supremacist and everything else and saved i think of the support having you know one very high profile black celebrity kanye west who's designing like that much and dies so soon after he was criticized for his rooting with in the white house is this an attempt to win people over again. well i think it's just more of kanye was just being himself being an independent person being a free person he's always been like this and it was never really a problem until he became conservative or conservative leaning on a really common conservative i think he still kind of in the middle is still just being who we are which is an independent person not really affiliated one way or the other but because he likes show up and has expressed his support for him all of

us in is a problem but i think this here is just a way for more people would suit not fool loans if you like to have a community and to understand it's ok to be conservative if you want to do what you want to do it is perfectly fine and also this whole thing about black people having to vote liberal having to vote that's going to be over with and you see the merchandise they have on the black sea black exit you know as a play on the whole europe thing of course deborah we're leaving the ideology of having to be attached to democrats america way and we're being more independent and more conservative hopefully ok and same time eleven great to have you on the program for this commentator frank. thank you. and i'll be back at the top of but don't forget to follow all our stories on our website that fought it out com and accept hamilton's national documentary called. stay with us.

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