and. that. is. to get them out the next convention to i will not run for the chair of the party this fourth time is the last one for me. she will not be running for a fifth term as german chancellor and will stand down as party leader after eighteen years in charge. and military were aware of that from the

afternoon twenty seventh of june longboards civilians were being killed. rights groups urging the french government to relaunch a probe into the one thousand nine hundred four rwandan genocide as video emerges appearing to show france it knew more about the slaughter than it claimed at the time before you the only thing you can let go. but the only people who believe that you will be looking to make somebody who is real. and a nato war games draw protests in norway as troops conducted their biggest drills since the cold war. are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is r t internet. john

thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right angle of merkel is stepping down as leader of the christian democratic union party after eighteen years at the helm she will stay on as german chancellor but says she will not run for a fifth term in two thousand and twenty one did you get them at the next c do you potch 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 hesse where the c. to use suffered a double digit loss the chancellor admitted the result was hard to take. the. figures that came in overnight from her selection a wholly disappointing and bitter. politically it can no longer be business as usual for us after this result has after the result and 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 all fell through. it's been about soaked in this and i believe we should pause for a moment and think i hope we see yesterday's election as 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. 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 diarists of dire straits there's 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 we've seen angle of a 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. 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. or with the social democrats and the c.d.u. haemorrhaging votes in has said those votes to go somewhere in 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. 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 result 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 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 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 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 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. call enjoyed system at lee high approval ratings during the first ten years of her leadership but since two thousand and fifteen her open door policy on refugees has turned many voters against her. in the old days he mystery who oppression political oppression we have a responsibility to help them based on the geneva convention for refugees based on our sign and policy and article one of our constitutional whether we want to or not . here. oh oh oh to.

measure that along political russian ality this move by going to mercury is not surprising at all because her party was losing. confidence among the electorate and the reason and so to speak the burden of this party was on herself so it was quite rational for her to leave office as party chairman but they were the less whenever something important happens you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why there was rain this uprising that anger merkel so quickly has stronger consequences out of the disastrous delay electoral defeats during the last eight elections and if they aren't and in history merkel'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 c.d.u. in one thousand eight hundred nine ten years later she became the party secretary general and its leader in two thousand in two thousand. five on the market became germany's first female chancellor since then she has been reelected a further three times. the time i remember she was always there i mean i can't really remember a time when she wasn't like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before her and i mean that as an event on us that you want to get mad have

a set so 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 a long time i think there's a piece that is going on can tell us why it's 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. years the ear lobe. a boy from my school died in a traffic accident. in fukushima the core mounted 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. and.

you know exercises in norway have sparked mass protests on the streets of osce low it comes after moscow held its own military drills last month artie's what i've got here as details. fifty thousand troops two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five warships and ten thousand tanks and vehicles that's a pretty schrade forward message it is ambitious and it is. 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 i mean two hundred kilometers

from the russian border us troops will be learning to fight in cold conditions against a simulated enemy that is and surprisingly exactly as powerful as moscow. the effect of this activity will increase the tension between norway and russia despite quite clumsy attempts by the representatives of the alliance and its member states to picture such military activity as defensive it's obvious that this fighting capabilities demonstration has a distinct anti russian character tensions now a worse than they've been in a third of a century both nato and moscow have been going to it streams staging bigger and bigger war games russia's vostok maneuvers 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. wait wait wait getting a little carried away there russia's military budget has been decreasing not increasing year after year you'd have thought nato intelligence would have spotted that now compare moscow's military spending to nato's which is almost a trillion dollars a year it literally accounts for harf the world's military spending i mean there's no competition here in this murder need is military activity at the borders of russia has reached an unprecedented post cold war level bloc countries are engaged in offensive drills the aim of all this is increase capacity to swiftly deploy troops across europe. it's a remarkable cycle nato builds up its forces. responds by building up its own 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 problem cation isn't 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 much more we can escalate the for a stupid decision or an accident puts a spark to this trillion dollar powder keg. julian assange has a lawsuit against ecuador has been rejected that story and much more right after a short break this is our international.

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. to bomb a really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is. brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see. what politicians do so. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have two going to be close this is what the before three of them all can't be good . i'm interested always in the water out. the back this is our g international now french human rights groups are calling for a probe into the one thousand nine hundred and genocide to be reopened this comes after news that website media part released a video appearing to show a senior french military officer discussing an ongoing massacre several days before the army chose to intervene france has denied any culpability. before you are the only two you could push going to uni but you could usually don't equal you know you don't contribute. to the show all. right the

genocide in rwanda lasted for about one hundred days and left more than a half a million people dead or quarter comments now 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 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 have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

here are two we managed to speak with one of the massacre survivors. and duma leave it here didn't surprise me i was very happy that the media part of the truth we as the survivors 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 francois hollande 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 the context of the one genocide was a poor year war is argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate did french have a mandate to intervene if french officers observe this and they had a mandate to intervene when they did something wrong. soldiers typically. do not do not. take action without and landed. regular expounder join us claims agood or is planning to end his political asylum and hand him over to the us that is after an ecuadorian court threw out a songes lawsuit over his living conditions at the country's embassy in london earlier the ecuadorian embassy issued a memo giving us a list of rules to follow if he wants to continue his six year stay in the building

they include restrictions on personal visits and a ban on new communications that could harm ecuador or its relations with foreign states the ecuadorian foreign minister and us on his lawyers have been giving some very different points of view in the case. it's clear this protocol was issued with strict respect for international law the ecuadorian state has an international responsibility to protect mr a son or a human rights activist peter tatchell thinks i got doors trying to wear us down as a way of getting him out of the embassy. well let's be clear the conditions imposed on during a song by the could own authority are extremely draconian and they are in some respects similar to the kinds of restrictions that a prisoner would face in a maximum security jail now of course in some respects some aspects of these conditions are reasonable but the way they're being imposed very clearly with the

intention of making life bearable for mr does appear to be part of a deliberate strategy to make life so bad for him that he voluntarily leaves even though ecuador is saying that he's welcome to stay. a suicide bomber has injured at least twenty people in tunisia capital eight of them are police officers and one civilian a woman who blew herself up in front of a shopping center so far no terrorist group has claimed the attack the area has a strong police presence as a number of government buildings are located nearby tunisia's last major terrorist attack was in two thousand and fifteen when thirty eight people were killed at a beach resort. all right that does it for me i'll be back with more news at the top the hour stay with us you're watching our children.

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