you get very funny. money since you know coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the pay rises shouldn't i just. love to see these people the survivors of 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 how it's happened. the next cd party convention to samba i will not run for the chair of the party this fourth time is the last one for me. the german chancellor announces she is stepping down in twenty twenty one and confirmed plans to quit as leader of her party after eighteen years. with

a series of setbacks in the hands of the anti migrant party alternative for germany . french military for its use were aware from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed. women rights groups were doing the french government to relaunch the investigation into the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide as video emerges appearing to show france knew about the ongoing slaughter. before you and he could push you but you could use all the legal you know you could even control with the image combo to achieve all three of. them and nato war games draw protests in norway as troops conduct the biggest drills since the cold war.

it's ten o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me an idea or two to welcome to the program after almost two decades angler merkel says she's stepping down as party leader of the christian democratic union the german chancellor has also said she won't stand in the next federal election slated for twenty twenty one. did you get them at the next cd 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 city's 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 a wholly disappointing and bitter. politically it can no longer be business as usual price after this result has after the result of 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 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 realize 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 there's 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 received angle of work was speaking to the press in that month that she lists off the troubles that they faced it's no wonder. they find themselves in such a situation in fact as the results 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 solution to her state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action brought with us host this evening there was a very mixed message as there was the christian democratic union to continue leading this state many people have shown during this election that it must be different not in hessen lives. or with the social democrats and the c.d.u.

haemorrhaging votes in has said those votes to go somewhere in the beneficiaries were the green party who put it would look the strong showing after previously doing well in bavaria and also alternative for germany. and to the parliament and has said 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 well 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 with 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 for 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 catered 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 impact on local government and the overall impression of the c.d.u. party in that is why until americans deem that 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 then a professor of comparative politics at the technical university says merkel stepping down with a long option. measured along the political rationale it. is. not surprising at all because her party was losing. confidence among the electorate and the reason to speak the burden of this party was under merkel herself so it was quite rational for her to leave office as party chairman but they were the less whenever something important happened you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is my dream was really surprising that so quickly the consequences out of the disastrous delay electoral defeats during the last eight elections and if they aren't and in history. michael's announcement that she will

no longer lead the christian democratic union comes after decades at the forefront of german politics she began her political career after the fall of the berlin wall joining the city 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 and made history by becoming germany's first female chancellor since then she has been reelected a further three times meaning merkel has been the nation's leader for nearly a generation.

the time i remember she was always there i mean i can remember a time when she wasn't like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before her and i miss knew until i met us as only met on us that she wanted the mac of a set so i think she was elected in two thousand and five for the rest time i was like seven she's just been around for ever she's always been an image she's been in power a long time i think there's a piece of it is trying my cunt don't publicize also. 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 thirty. years my ear lobe. a boy from my school died in a traffic accident. on 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. french human rights groups are calling for the reopening of an investigation into the rwandan genocide back in one thousand nine hundred four that's after an independent french outlet called media part released a video which appears to show a senior french military officer having knowledge of a slaughter that took place in an area known as the base says every hills he allegedly ignored the intelligence so far france has denied any connection to the massacre. before you are the only two you could put your duty but you took your only believe you idiot for me to make somebody. a mass killing in iran the lasted for about a hundred days and left more than half

a million people dead authors correspondent dawn quarter reports on the case from paris. leading french human rights groups called for a reopening of the case on friday trying to get answers from top french military officials about the government's involvement in the one nine hundred ninety four the sesar all massacre in the east african country of rwanda now human rights activists are demanding answers one leader of the organization survey is a plaintiff in the case she says it was too premature to close the case while other lawyers are accusing france were in direct complicity in the genocide lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military authorities were aware that from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed the survivors open the case thirteen years ago although back in july

it was scrapped due to lack of evidence and lack of convictions but survivors of the massacre claim they asked the french military for help on june twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the military only came three days later already after hundreds of people were killed in the massacre and the allegation now is that the french government actually knew what was going on and specifically decided not to intervene the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe and allegations of the french government supports for the hutus who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide have been rough on the french government's relations with the rwandan government for years but the french although they admit that they have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

hundreds of antiwar protesters have gathered in oslo against nato in norway the airlines and flexing its muscle in the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes after moscow how its own major trials last month. has the details. fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks in vehicles it's

a pretty straightforward message it is ambitious and it is demanding in recent years europe security environment has significant deteriorated need to has been careful not to mention moscow as the boogie man 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 the 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 sentry both nato and moscow have been going to extrude staging bigger and bigger

war games russia's vostok maneuvers natives trident war games record size for both this year and each blaming each other for stock 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 which nato then calls russian aggression and uses it to justify stationing more tanks more troops near russia. and repeat it's not a radio drill i think he said provoke a she missed it. trying to look back at it typical. nato drills we have in the eighties the typical will be that we tend to suppose now we've got more than fifty one thousand sigil political struggle between the united states and russia going on all very impressive as 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 which more we can escalate for a stupid decision or an accident puts a spark to this trillion dollar power. to north africa now where at least nine people have been injured in a suicide bomb attack in tunisia is capital eight of them are police officers and one is a civilian a woman detonated in front of a shopping center on a crowded avenue you refer to as katrina. 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 to this year's experience and almost three year period of calm the last such attacks were in twenty fifteen which resulted in dozens being killed. now president trump and the first lady are keeping things sweet this halloween 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 giving them the shivers as caleb 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 midterm 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 be. the people that know there's nothing to do with that but says that what 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 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. time to direct our phobias elsewhere there's no limit to what the russian federation do to undermine american democracy is why you know we have to work at immigration i have a big dairy district to live 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 mopping our t. new york. japan's being told by the un that it might be violating human rights by forcing families to return to focus shima seven years after a nuclear plant ran that the area uninhabitable the japanese government insists some areas are now safe but the un special rapporteur on has it to 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 their children and women of reproductive age and they urge caution and a justification of any options. one of the unanswered questions that we have regarding. 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 they one 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 un report says such levels pose a significant danger to public health especially children. the

japanese are trying to move the situation back to a status quo as it was before the nuclear disaster as quickly as possible and in many ways that's to be commended but there also may be a possibility in this is why we're concerned that the japanese government is moving too quickly and perhaps not ensuring inadequate 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 faizabad for kachina. that tech giant google is and the pressure after reports of a former senior executive receiving a multi-million dollar package he was accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague and then of trying to silence the claims that go back to twenty fourteen all ego. reports. 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 meet paul. 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 should coerced another 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 a pat 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 truly 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 i 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 guy 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 twenty 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 that will 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. controversial u.k. energy company. suspending its operations at a fracking site in northern england after another trial in the area which registered as the biggest so far operations have been stop start of the lancaster site since training began there two weeks ago. on october the twenty fourth minor seismic activity was detected but drilling continued as the energy firm said this was to be expected similar underground movements occurred again the following day but it wasn't until a stronger tremor on october twenty sixth that operations were halted for eighteen hours with the drilling being sporadically called on and off has once again hit the

pause button however the company defended its activity and said it poses no danger to locals. microseismic events such as these results in tiny movements look way below anything that would be felt its surface much less cause any harm or damage without the sophisticated monitoring in place it could drill or they would not be detected a campaigner for talk of fracking group says quadrille its operations could have dangerous consequences on our already weak landslide. lewis fracking at the moment it's a worrying situation and it seems to be that they're going very slowly and cautiously as they should. if you if you then put that over. ground or terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by historic coal extracts and the consequences could be very devastating.

and that effectively covers the entire bottle and a half of the fracking licenses in this country now that's where the real problem is. and i'll be back at the top of the hour but don't forget to follow all our stories on our web site that's r.t. dot com next step here a large international we're going underground. and we're going underground on u.k. budget day amidst the western economic crisis coming up in the show the last two

budgets before the last budget before britain's economic collapse we asked britain's shadow chancellor as advisor 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 are recorded in england days after fracking starts we speak to an activist willing to risk his freedom to stop shale gas but first let's go straight to today's budget joining me now via skype from geneva is economic advisor to u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonogh council member for the progressive economy forum professor guy standing. thanks for being on the show again every year tourism a or previously cameron said austerity was over meaningless in the context of today's a budget the last before breakfast 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 ichi.