or is it still oil here i mean you are liz book video in the new bill is that i'm the spelling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. led . to the next c.d.u. potch convention in december i will not run for the chair of the party this fourth time is the last one for me and. says that she will not be running for a fifth term as a german chancellor and will stand down as party leader after eighteen years in

charge. and military out for its use we're aware that from the afternoon off twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed rights groups urge the french government to relaunch a probe into the one thousand nine hundred four rwanda genocide as it video emerges appearing it to show france knew more about the slaughter than it claimed at the time. before you only to you could put it to you but truth because only only believe you can give me to make one body in the truth is real. and the nato war games are drawn protests in norway as troops conduct their biggest to drill since the cold war. and are broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is our to international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and 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 that she will not run for a fifth term in two thousand and twenty one. did you get them at the next edu party convention in december i will not run for the chair of the party this fourth time is the last one for me or the decision follows her party's disappointing election performance and this time in the state of where the c.d.u. suffered a double digit loss of the chancellor admitted the result was hard to take. the. thinkers 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 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 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 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. exact time and i'm glad 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 to show state of the government isn't acceptable we therefore expect the c.d.u. to take appropriate action and that's how this evening there was a very mixed message has there once 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. hemorrhaging votes in has said those votes have to go somewhere the beneficiaries word the green party who put it a little strong showing after 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 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 a horse and a half of 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. right angle merkel enjoyed consistently 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 to finish three 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. to.

measure that along political russian ality this move by going to merkel 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 disaster still a electoral defeats during the last eight elections and if they aren't and it has. marco's announcement to 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 nine hundred eighty nine ten years later she became the party secretary general and its leader in two thousand in two thousand and five on the merkel became germany's first female chancellor and since then she hasn't been reelected another three times. the time i remember she was always there i mean i can remember a time she was like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before me. as an event on us that you want to give us it's 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 average she's been in power a long time i think their speech is. i've never been adults 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. barack obama became the first black president. and i'm. sure.

french human rights groups are calling for a probe into the one thousand nine hundred. and this comes after news 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 put your duty but you're too close or the only people you know you deal with the one to make somebody a good look forward to the show all sure. the genocide in rwanda lasted for about one hundred days and left more than half a million people dead already done a 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 recess or 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've made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there. we managed to speak with one of the massacre survivors but do not need to hear it

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 from sorrow and promised to declassify the arc ifs but it didn't work out everything had published it 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 it is argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate to french have a mandate to intervene if the french are to sears observe this and they had a mandate to intervene when they did something wrong. soldiers typically. do not do not take action without

a mandate. you know exercises in norway have sparked mass protests on the streets of oss low it comes after moscow held its own military drills last month artist but i've got to have comments. 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 significant 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 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 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 we catch 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. try 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 trillion dollar powder keg. julian assange his lawsuit against ecuador has been rejected that story much more right after a short break stay with us.

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technologists new technology so that's becoming even. increase. in. international now wiki leaks founder julian assange claims ecuador is planning to end his political asylum and and hand him over to the u.s. that is after an ecuadorian court threw out a song as a lawsuit over his living conditions and the country's embassy in london now 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 including restrictions on personal visits and a ban on communications that could harm ecuador or its relations with foreign states the ecuadorian foreign min. sure and it's obvious lawyers have been giving

some very different points of view on 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. human rights activist peter tatchell thinks ecuador is trying to wear a 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 ecuadorian authorities are extremely draconian they are in some respects similar to the kinds of restrictions the prison that 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 mistress 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. the suicide bomber has injured at least twenty people in tunisia capital eight of them are police officers and one of civilian a woman blew herself up in front of a shopping center so far no terrorist group has claimed in the attack in 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. u.k. energy company quadrille is suspending its operations at a fracking well in northern england after another tremor in the area drilling began at the site two weeks ago on october twenty fourth miner seismic activity was detected but operations continued after a stronger tremor on october twenty sixth operations were halted but only for eighteen hours has defended its activity saying it poses no danger.

microseismic events such as these results in tiny movements that are 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 the talk fracking group says quadrille example asians could cause a disaster. with fracking 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 put that over. ground or terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by historic coal extract and the consequences could be very devastating. and that effectively covers the entire bottle and

a half of the fracking licenses in this country and that's where the real problem is. serious national museum in damascus has reopened a six years after it was shelled by militants for many it is a sign that life is returning to normal after years of civil war. the set up and deciding 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.

in the city of rock which was previously held by islamic state the losses are far greater and more than four thousand five hundred artifacts were looted during the jihadi occupation according to syrian officials and many priceless works were stolen from the museums and palmira iraq and homes as well. hi this is art international be back in thirty five minutes with a full look at the news stay with us. when we all make this manufactured consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the climate

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