because the choice of the shirts underwood layer complete, it's not normal, quote is piece that you can use not leave to the the disgrace europe. hello. mike has condemned spain today on the you to over the rest of capital on separately, the colleagues pushed him all in italy after almost 4 years on the run, and hundreds take to the streets of bus alona, demanding his release. headlining to quebec outlaws, coven related protests near schools and medical facilities. but critics call the ballot infringement of civil liberties. what do you think we got the story coming up less than a year after coming to office. you may be surprised to hear or not that joe biden's approval rating slumped following

a raft. questionable policies for the us president not less popular than, than his predecessor and likely future rival donald trump. but germany set to choose its next chance. so this coming weekend off to 16 years of anglo merkel at the helm, we begin our special coverage of the country's elections. ah, well, good afternoon for russia. this is our international brew coasting around the world from i will news h q here most go this friday. the 1st disgrace is european politicians have described the rest of the capital and separately the colors pushed him on in italy off. he was stripped of his immunity as an m e p. he's wanted on a range of charges including sedition and has been sought by spanish authorities for nearly 4 years now. well,

these pages came in just few hours ago from barcelona, where hundreds have gathered outside the italian continent to protest his detention and to come out and support them. demonstrate his waving capital and flags and chomping slogan demanded his release. party corresponding tranq had told, under the fall of the latest got reaction to the event 1st from the spanish disgrace just doesn't stop. neither does the european disgrace. solidarity was call us put more, the spanish state is abusing the us war. and by using it in this way, allowing people to exercise their democratic right to vote is not a crime. there is only one way to still be insistent repression of the states. amnesty self determination and independence total supports mr. president, there's definitely could be the turning point in the fate of catalan independence theatre calls, push them on, and it could be the end of freedom for him. he was arrested upon arrival on the

italian island of sardinia, where he was supposed to take part and a meeting that's about capital one, full court, just cultural stuff. nothing to do with independent well on friday that italian court is deciding the next steps in the case of mister, put them on. and one of the very likely scenarios is expedition to spain, where he's wanted on several charges, including misuse of funds and sedition, which could mean 25 years behind bars for the former cadillac independence leader. and you may wonder, how is that possible if he was supposed to be protected by parliamentary immunity as a member of the european parliament? well, earlier this year in march, in fact, mister put him on and his allies worse stripped of parliamentary immunity by other m. p 's, even though a 3rd of them were firmly against it and that was a very intense day in that parliament building. he's in the east side of the

european parliament unity but the european parliament lot more than that, but he didn't get the results. it is also long to your market goes on. well, we may be opening the door to other member states to prosecute emmy piece from representing minorities for probably to go. and you know, these is, these would be tremendous as expressive, and the government should not open quite as we heard him, leaving him on his be monitored by the spanish authorities for several years now. and always stemming from castle and you paid for independence of wide back to the events that were happening exactly 4 years ago in september 2017. when the catalan regional parliament led by calls put them on, initiated a referendum, the regions independence went on despite the constitutional court in madrid, declaring it illegal. i remember how

a vast majority of voters back then supported independence. even though the unionists decided to boy caught that referendum and it all resulted in a very brutal crack down on the independence movement, with voters being severely beaten by police politicians being jailed at that time. some people were even saying that these forgive me flashbacks of victim toil spain of the middle of the 20th century.

and i remember how it all ended so now catalonia never became independent and even it's autonomy was taken away by madrid. some of the independent leaders were jailed, but calls pushed him on was able to flee spain. however, the spanish thought he's decided to change their tactics. and now there you have it . he's been arrested by italian police. and let's see what the italian court has to say. about that full rights to right to the human rights defense. and he says push the most attention on the strength from cavaloni is pushed for independence. actually had a stain. he faced the possibility of criminal prosecution on charges raging from sedition. and also in the spanish camera is also charged with depth of funds, which seems to be a cloak for the political charges against him. and if he is convicted, he would be sent to the very harsh or regime of the spanish prison system,

which hold hundreds of political prisoners in the bask in the catalog and independence. catalonia has been colonized and conquered by the spanish government 1st for hundreds of years now and at every step, the catalog movement has not been crush, it has not been silenced. and if anything it seems beginning steam in recent years, especially in the last 10 or 15 years. so i think that there's a good chance that far from losing far from losing momentum. if anything we get along and move and we'll be further, catalyzed by this i was in stain, i was in catalonia barcelona for independence day, a couple years ago. i think it's a 2017 and the crowds were enormous. there's obviously massive support for the idea of independence, and i think the catalog and people themselves want to be free and want to be independent of a, basically the colonial regime in madrid. so i think that no matter how hard the spanish government tries, i think the trend is clearly that the catalonia people want to dependence and they

want to be free from central rule from a dread. the canadian province of quebec has outlawed covered related rallies, new schools of medical approximation facilities. the better claims to protect children and health workers from when it calls the dangerous impact to demonstrations. the critic sworn, it denies people's right to protest. the law buttons, demonstrations all their incitement within 50 meters of schools and clinics. offenders face thousands of dollars a fines if they do go ahead and do it. medical and school stuff, so are still allowed to protest in their respective workplaces. law follows a number of anti vaccine protest side schools in quebec, se largest city, montreal, they had of the province. in fact, saying that his patient limit had been reached. some of the rallies sort of ruptured across the country, had turned violent to contributed lauren chin and lawyer julius grey look at the reactions variously to the bill. according to premier le go, this bill is necessary because he alleges that protesters could be intimidating or

preventing access to students and patients. not everybody is in favor of this proposal though, and some are claiming that it would be a violation of free speech and freedom of assembly. the problem is that i cannot see why such a law is not. because if the demonstration is violent or culture was loud, it can already disperse, under the criminal code and under various law. so there's absolutely no reason for it because i think they want to stop the message from b and b, p related. and if that's the case, then it's a very serious constitution contravention of the trust. and for anyone who does believe that such a law would infringe on the canadian charter of rights and freedoms, which does guarantee freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. remember that any and all of the freedoms outlined in the charter are subject to what it called

reasonable limitations by the government. and as we have seen time and time again, when different court cases have alleged that certain code restrictions violates human rights in canada, such as the canadian florentine hotels, it does seem that canadian judges are of the opinion that if something is done supposedly in the name of stopping the spread of co bid, then any and all limitations on canadian rights and freedoms are in fact reasonable . meantime, anti vaccine protests have also grouped his trailer with a fest rallies melva with the following week against mandatory jobs for all construction workers. authorities a single building sites after a spike in corona virus k, when police arrested hungry to demonstrate his over the we can fire pepper spray and rubber bullets. now that is a shock, well may or may not be depending on how you view it less than a year after coming to office. joe, by this popularity is already slumped to below that it is predisposed and possible next rival the next election. donald trump, in just 3 months,

biden's ratings have collapsed by more than 10 percent. dental court has got more on it. a pandemic spiraling out of control historic military defeat and a border crisis to boot. americans are starting to think things weren't as bad as they thought under former president, donald trump, the mounting issues on all fronts of lead to the surprise conclusion that trump is now seen as being as good a president as biden suggesting the honeymoon is being replaced with buyer's remorse. first on the list, afghanistan, the washington shameful defeat, that concluded its 20 year long war was the last straw. for many americans, the disastrous withdrawal of us troops and surrendering of millions of dollars of military tax to the taliban. had republicans and democrats alike demanding the biden administration. be held accountable in ah

ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, the piano stand might feel like a world away from america, but there is no shortage of problems at home under biden's administration. the earlier this month biden announced a number of vaccine testing and mask mandates, which is proving to be the latest american political spac connected to the pandemic affecting around 2 thirds of the u. s. workforce. it wasn't long before the cries that biden is violating people's freedom of choice,

were heard 20 for republican state attorney generals or even threatening lawsuits. really disruption divides country. it increases the division in terms of vaccination when we should all be together along the campaign trail. biden. promised to make the country southern border a more humane place. instead, thousands of migrants are living in horrific condition. like under the del rio international bridge, the immigration crisis is getting worse as thousands more asylum seekers come knocking at the u. s. his door and to top it all off biden's approach hasn't changed much from that of the trump administrations. kids are still being put in cages. and despite biden's many promises to would be green cardholders, many migrants are being deported back home without getting their chance at asylum. ah,

ah, with a track record like biden's and not even a whole year in office. it's no wonder over half of america thinks the country is on the wrong track. was don't mention to america disastrous. i've got to start pull out. it's been a major reason for biden's, sliding support. we spoke exclusively to the had the rushes forward intelligence service, the f i s. so again, the risk of new told us the white. so somebody is itself to blame for the african chaos full things coming up on sunday was clear. well then you can get whisky was what happened in afghanistan with the rushed withdrawal and fleeing of the puppet government is a consequence of americans destructive policies. as it tried to impose its social development model on afghanistan, there are many guilty parties in the situation,

not just the cia. and the blame should be shared by the defense department of military intelligence agencies, the state department, and the office of the national security advisor. but again, the cia, it's part of this larger mechanism and therefore shares to blame. i'm convinced that the u. s. leadership had all the intelligence about the situation on the ground. and the potential developments they didn't take into account one thing, their own capabilities. they didn't want to face the truth if you will. and the truth is that the u. s. is no longer capable of playing the role of the global hedge him on which it has assigned itself. with the yeah, look and see in the jail look after the us and its allies invaded afghanistan, the prevalent thinking in the international community was that the americans had everything under control. and the situation was getting better for us. and nato military presence was viewed as a solid barrier against the terrorist threat preventing it from spreading further into eurasia. unfortunately, that wasn't true. the americans withdrew,

fled from afghanistan, and now we see the ruins they left behind, a devastated economy and terrorists roaming free, deepening, interesting conflicts, and increased drug and gun trafficking. of course, security and intelligence agencies of the neighboring states pay special attention to afghanistan because this is a matter of their own national security when you might please us law. we're going to stand there is active dialogue between the countries of this region with the shanghai cooperation organization being the best platform for these talks to ship bay has host to the join f c o and c s t o summit attended by the leaders of the member states, of course afghan a stand was one of the issues the summit focused on naturally will have to include western countries in the dialogue as well. i do think that their participation will make sense. they have to realize that it's because of their actions that can a stand suffered significant losses and is their responsibility to provide financial assistance so that the country can return to

a normal way of life. we story stability and security. you can just talk about this is art internationally as kevin, though with this, thank you for checking in wherever you watch around the world. got this coming up speak. we can in germany from the russian ballad box, one to one in germany. people head into the polls for storing folk because anglo merkel saying good bye. she stepping down. we look at the chancellor's legacy and maybe who's going to take off to her. but such big political shoes to fill out a well it said, oh i use i

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ah, so the german, he's going to be the headlines not this weekend elections just days away in the countries gearing up for a big question and that's who is going to replace. chance wrangler merkel. a. she leaves office up to 16 years in power. ah ah. just yesterday candidates held a final debate about a but at a rally shortly before the event merkel was booed for backing one of the candidates on unless, as her successor. meantime, germans have found some pretty creative ways to say good bye to the chancellor, but said chance it will be happy with this or not. until you make a producing 5 under special edition, teddy bears inter image even with the ball, but the diamond shaped hand gesture. the acute in the capital berlin people gathered to paid colorful portraits of the going leader to medical careers be full

of ups and times, of course, over the years. and she's tackled a raft and major problems from the pandemic to being spied on by the united states . next to europe correspond, it looks at the merkel era after almost 16 years in charge, the time has come for angle merkel to step down as german chancellor. drawing the curtain on a political career of over 3 decades. coming to office in 2005. she's the 3rd longest serving german chancellor of all time. only her mentor helmet cole held a position longer. in postwar, germany, anglo myrtle have achieved something that most politicians haven't. at the time of leaving office. she has remained popular with a large chunk of the voters. no small achievement. when you look at the challenges she's had to face me, germany weathered the financial storm that began with the collapse of layman brothers back in 2008 better than most countries. a 480000000000 euro bailout for

the banks and managing to keep on employment figures from spiking to high sore angle american reelected in 2009 then came the collapse of grief and the fear that could never say any of it. and that pushed the single currency close to the brink and a tidal wave of criticism crushing down on merkel and her government view 2013. so a whistleblower edward snowden reveal that the united states had kept detailed tubs on senior german officials, including chancellor merkel. her phone being tapped by washington. protests on the streets of germany were followed up with more diplomatic comment from the chancellor. have always made it clear to the u. s. president. flying amongst friends is not acceptable to me. one of the biggest moments of angle

america tenure came in 2015 with the refugee crisis. her statement via shuffle. so we can do it. she did a policy which saw hundreds of thousands of risk geez, fleeing the conflict and syria coming here to germany. something which saw anglo merkel revealed by some reviled by others. each daughter guns, i simply say that kim and the strong country we have already managed. so many things, we can't do it on these and whenever there is something sending, you know, way, if you don't need to cross that bridge, which is need to work with these are going to invite the indoor. so we have not migrant lows and such before. and what we are seeing right now has no relevance to the present rule. this is merkle. repeat constantly, we will cope with it, but she is not offered a structured solution yet. on the chancellor medical actions in regard to refugees change the makeup of the german parliament is opposition to her policies on asylum

allowed. b m. t migrant alternative for germany party to win seats in the bottom. the stag, becoming the largest opposition party to her government, and making things difficult to her when addressing the chamber. i me, there's been no easy run to the finish line for angle american. the government's policies on the coven pandemic sets off a small but vocal opposition. that at one point threatened to storm the bottom, the stag, the mm . the mm mm.

mm. the retreat from afghanistan provided the chancellor with more problems in her final weeks with accusations rifts within her cabinets over how best to evacuate people from cobble, and then issues over who had been able to get on german planes. because ultimately, we will continue the evacuation operation for as long as possible in order to help afghans who worked with us for security for freedom, for the rule of law and development to leave the country. we currently have a very pragmatic procedure. we only carry out the security check upon entry to the country. we have now identified 4 cases of people who had already been deported border now in germany. she prepares to vacate the chancellor's office just behind me. alarm bells ringing loudly and angular, miracles, christiy, and democratic union party as they slump to record low in the pulse. the

chancellor's final address to the bone, the stag, which became a 10 to promote c d. u. candidate arm and lush. it as her successor ended in a barrage of hackles. it's not just about foreign policy and nato in europe. and my thought is, what if i have been with this gym and boon descent for with he is here is the heart of the democracy. and this is exactly what will be discussed me despite the obvious challenges to merkel years will go down as a time of relative stability for most germans. her policies have made it easier for families to balance. children with korea's employment figures have remained steady while the economy is enviable in the u. into nationally, germany has taken a far more prominent role under miracles leadership than it is had in modern times

. one of the big concerns right now though, is that with no clear successor to angle america in terms of policy or certainly international clout, what will become of those years of stability that we've seen under her reign. feature all of her r, t, berlin. and of course, merkel was a big political shoes to feel to when he considered just a snapshot of what she steered, one of the power houses of the e u through over the last decade and a half. what's that been then? will jury re merkle, work with for american president is full french lead is 5 british prime ministers from george w bush to joe biden, to judge she ran to my name across tony blair to boris johnson. multiple wars have dominated headlines in the time, including i've got to start syria and yemen. she's also played a key role to help save the euro currency after the 2008 financial collapse hope that was for everyone. under the aftermath of lockdown, she spearheaded an unprecedented trillion euro

e y pandemic recovery fund. so what is all that said her legacy as far as germans on the street, the concern was a mixed bag, but generally positive. like it's been a long time. i've experienced 3 chances i call schmidt and merkel. it's strange when you're 54 and you've only had 3 chancellor, and i think she did a lot of good things for the country and also made a lot of strange decisions with c. d. u is not my partner, but i think she can happily retire. i will miss mrs. mccullough because i'm not satisfied with the current candidates. i would have preferred her. i think mrs. miracle has done a good job. very charismatic. she's accepted everywhere in the world, not to city you boat or you can admire the woman for longer than too long. mrs. merkel should have gone 4 years ago. now. she has lost her way. she did a lot of good in the 12 years before, but now you can see that she's out of steam. well, here's how the election process is going to work over the weekend. tad complicated

. let's make it simple. voters don't directly choose a chunk slip, but they have to vote to decide the next parliament. the 1st ballot is for a candidate in the constituency, and there are $299.00 constituencies across the country. the 2nd ballot is for a political party. there are. 1 $47.00 of them running for seats, but only parties with more than 5 percent of the vote nationwide can enter the button to stag test. you met again later that one of the candidates for the chancellor ship is on a let a bad box. the green party co leaders since 2018. she's now spoken opponent rushes nord stream to pipeline to pump gas from russia to europe. the book has been criticized to for lacking top level experience was even accused of plagiarism. in a latest book, we discussed how the election might pot out with you going to total, how phase and also journalist and former politician for medical christian democrat

party the violence. so when he tried to get it con, go on like this. we have total stagnation in german politics. we can't get any problem solved anymore. we have a failed cobra policy. no solution when the flood happened problems everywhere. the country is stagnant and frozen, and the big parties are also stagnant guns. there's no more progress to that is the cool problem that don't do anything any more. i was in the talk myself for 18 years . it's completely wrong about that. we no longer want the professional politicians who go into the bundle thug, and then stay there for 50 years and whose only goal is to be re elected. they get elected. what are the chancellor or presidents? the same was in america or france. they date, they are elected, they only thinking about their reelection, not about the fate of the country. we want people who, for the good of the country above their own interests, and of course that is not easy to achieve. but there is a way,

don't allow more than 2 terms. then you get a completely different type of person who doesn't run after the mainstream. as bon tindles, we have to leave the to the next generation so that it is still beautiful. but the methods are different than the green c climate policy as a religion, as a belief that what you do once you've decided, but if it is decided they will be electric cars, then they will only be electric cars. that is wrong. you have to approach a big problem with an open mind. new things will be invented. it's a mistake. so focus on the electric cars because 90 percent of the world's population cannot afford an electric car for countries don't have that and we need a solution for these countries. face been known for they take now nothing is happening and nothing more is coming. they no longer have a.