when did so much about the next cd you party convention in 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 confirmed plans to quit as leader of her party after eighteen years as. is head of the series of setbacks at

the hands of the anti migrant party alternative for germany. to be up for its use were a word from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed. human rights groups are urging the french government to relaunch an investigation into the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide as video emerges appearing to show france knew about the ongoing slaughter. before new year only to you personally if you go through your soul the only thing you know you will be the image homebody is to make sure you show all your. and nato war games draw protests in norway as troops conduct the biggest drill since the cold war.

it's eleven o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from last year with me in a day 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 also said she won't stand in the next federal election stated for twenty twenty one. did you at the next see do you party convention in december i will not run for the chair of the party this fourth term is the last one for me the decision follows her part part is disappointing election performance this time in the state of hess a where the scene suffered a double digit loss in its share of the vote with the chance for admitting the result has been tough to take. the the figures that came in overnight from her selection of 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 of the area after the conflicts 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 there in lies the opportunity for us. to tighten the angle of 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 going to work has 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 a speaking to the press in months that actually 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 the 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 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 but in berlin. or with the social democrats and the c.d.u. haemorrhaging votes in has said those votes to go somewhere the beneficiaries were the green party who put in a little 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 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 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 put 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 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 banner pad professor of comparative politics in the technical university of trust and says stepping down was her only option. measure it along the political rationale it. is. going to merkel 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 why there was really surprising that anger merkel is so quickly stronger consequences out of the disaster still

a electorate defeats during the last eight elections and if they aren't and in his . 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 four of the berlin. 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 sanchez 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't remember a time she wasn't like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before her and i miss no until i met us as i only met on us that we want to get a makeover said i think she was elected in two thousand and five for the first time i was like seven she's just been around 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 yochanan cunt don't have the size 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. 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. barack obama

became president. and. 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 often independent french called media politics to video which appears to show a senior french going to treat office and having knowledge of the slaughter that took place in an area known as the. hills he allegedly ignored the intelligence so fall france has denied any connection to the massacre. before you are the only two you could put your duty but you took us all the only people you know you deal with before we. didn't accuse me of. the mass killing

in rwanda lasted for about one hundred days and left more than half a million people that correspond to 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 nine hundred ninety four 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 others. 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 opened 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've made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

when managed to speak to one of the survivalist. do mamma need to hear it didn't surprise me i was very happy that the media part of the truth we as a survivor is have known this for a long time but it's important that the french people know what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there i only know that france aren't promised to declassify the arc ifs but it didn't work out everything had published was already known the only thing i have to add is that the french people have to know the truth. now and as of antiwar protesters have gathered in

oslo against nato drills in norway the alliance is flexing its muscle in the biggest military exercises since the cold war it comes after moscow how its own major drills last month radagast has the details. fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks and vehicles it's a pretty schrade forward message it is ambitious and it is demanding in recent years europe's security environment how 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

a mere two hundred kilometers from 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 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 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 ten 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 more troops near russia. and repeat it's not really had real i think if that provoke a she missed it. try to look back at it typical. nato drills we had a certainties in the eighty's but typical would be that we had ten thousand participants now we got more than fifty one thousand is sigil political struggle between the united states and russia are 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 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 twenty people have been injured in

a suicide bomb attack in tunisia as capital to them a police officer is a civilian a woman detonated itself in front of a shopping center on a crowded up and you refer to as the. no group has said it was behind the attacks so far the area has a strong police presence has a number of government buildings and by as you has experience an almost three year period of calm the last such attacks were in twenty fifteen which resulted in dozens killed. president trump on the first lady a keeping things 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 has more than explains with halloween fast approaching forster's 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 to twenty mid-term

elections 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 i've heard how good. the people that know nothing to do with the. 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 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 did 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 do to undermine american democracy while you know what we have to work on 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 of things like you know terrorism is going to get to. 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 of mopp and r.t. new york. japan's been told by the un that it might be violating human

rights by forcing families to return to for shima seven years after a nuclear plant meltdown rendered the area inhospitable the japanese government insists some areas are now safe but the un special rapporteur on has a disappearances 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 international bodies say is that they actually do not know what is acceptable dose of radiation for three children and women of reproductive age and they urge most caution a justification of any actions one of the unanswered questions that we have regarding to 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 a status quo as it was before the nuclear disaster as quickly as possible and in many ways that is 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 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 had cause unnecessary face about for kashima. while people in syria work to rebuild their homes after years of war cultural life is returning to normal as well and the mosque the national museum has opened its doors to the public for the first time since twenty twelve when it was closed to prevent damage to its collections.

the reopening of the museum shows that civilization has conquered terrorism the national museum of damascus serves as a witness to the long and bright history of the syrian people the reopening of the museum is significant. however there is less positive news in iraq are over four thousand five hundred artifacts were stolen by your hardest from that city's museum according to syrian officials and to quit are also taken from the power mira daraa and homs museum's. controversial u.k. energy company quadrilateral suspending its operations at

a fracking site in northern england after another tremor in the area which registered as the biggest so far operations have been a stop start at the languishes site since drilling began there two weeks ago on october the twenty fourth miner seismic activity was detected patrolling continue to see energy firms said this was to be expected similar underground movements occurred again the following day but it wasn't until a stronger trammell october the 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 day no danger turn locals. microseismic events such as bees result in tiny movements. anything that would be felt it surfaced 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 the talk of fracking group says quote on his operations could have dangerous consequences on an already weak land site.

at the moment it's a worrying situation and it seems to be going very slowly and cautiously as they should. if you if you then. ground or terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by historic coal extract the consequences could be very devastating. and that effectively covers the entire. half of the for king licenses in this country that's where the real problem is. tech giant google is under pressure after reports of a former senior executive received a multi-million dollar exit package he was accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague and then of trying to silence the claims that go back to twenty

fourteen eagle reports the era of need to has been celebrated as a turning point no more it seemed could sexual harassers get away with it it to me to me to me to be to me to me to talk. 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 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. google's big head has 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 followed by the executive a goodbye golden handshake over a staggering ninety million dollars and they passed on the back from the big boss i want to wish and the old 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 too movement and supported by actions like creating a whole project with this 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 seedy and 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 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 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 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 to move.