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within nato, is non existent, the us and britain struggle to come french under great security, with the streaming ah, with the top stories for the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. welcome to the weekly news recap. polls have just now closed in germany's federal election. the vote will determine who gets to replace the angular merkel as chancellor. and what will be the 1st change of the top over a decade? ah ah. now according to germany's chief election officer and

voter turnout, this year is lower than last time in 2017 by 2 pm. local time, just over 36 percent of eligible voters had kept their ballots. the outgoing leader, anglo american house, endorsed her own parties, candidates, our men law should for the rule of chancellor. although posters give social democratic leader laugh, show a slight edge. there's also a strong challenge from a party scene of the possible coalition power broker, the greens. so with voting now officially, over in germany, were expecting those 1st exit polls. any time now, let's head tour your course on peter oliver for the latest. peter, indeed the pulls are no shirt after a day of voting. and when can we expect results? when will they start filtering through? do you think will the exact results,

we won't start guessing until the early hours of monday morning until really people are starting to get up for their breakfasts on monday. we'll be able to know exactly how things of, of come about. i can tell you, i've got the exit polls right in front of me right now. and it shows a very slight lead for the social democrats on 26. according to the exit poll, the christian democratic union, along with their bavarian system policy, the christian social union on 24, the greens on 15, the free democrats on 11, the alternative, the germany party on 11 on the left party, on 5. now what that would mean, it all comes down to coalition mathematics after this election has happened. what that would mean is that we could essentially have a repeat of the current ruling coalition, just with roles reversed. currently, as it stands going into this election, the, the, the conservative union, the center right block are the leaders in the coalition with the center left social

democrats, the junior partner of these results turn out to be the way the results have actually gone. these exit polls turn out to be the way results have gone. we could see roles reversed. that would mean that all app sholtes would be the chancellor. the green policy would become the largest opposition in germany. now when it comes to who the party is all about conservative union that uncle a miracle has headed up now for such a long time. and with such a big part of, in fact people had said if the, the outgoing chancellor stood in this election, she probably would have one again, they run on a policy with armand lush. it of the candidate of no new taxes, in fact tax reductions on lower and middle income families. they also said that china and russia, when it came to where they wanted to see foreign policy issues titled, the social democrats, who, of course, we go off the exit, polls have just nipped the head in this election. they run with more of a climate change agenda as well. in fact, they put forward the idea of

a speed limit on germany's outgo bomb. they weren't the only policy to do that, but they certainly did. it's not a popular issue with a lot of people here, but it seems to have been popular with enough to see them edge ahead. they are more open on migration. they're also open to free trade and they have said put forward this time that seems to have seen them edge ahead. according to the exit poll, if and we then come onto the greens, who i said would be if the exit polls correct the largest opposition party. they run as you would imagine from a green party on it with a climate change policy right front incentive. they will also against against a speed limit. they wanted to see a speed limit imposed on germany notoriously or celebrated leave it speed limit, free out. so bonds, and they also propose the number of new taxes with the idea of giving more of that money to children. across the country, they also proposed rises to the minimum wage here they, as i said,

polling on 15 percent according to the exit poll. what we do need to take into account. so we're looking at those results that have just come through to us in the last few minutes is not exit. pulled does not include people who cast their ballot by post. and what we are led to believe is that a record number of people here in germany have done exactly that they're estimating around 40 percent of the 60400000 eligible voters cast their and their vote by their ballot by post what we have also we know that uncle a miracle, the outgoing german chancellor did exactly that when it comes to the man. she tipped in order to be the next chancellor left arm and lash of the christian democratic union where he had a few problems of his own. when it came to casting is valid, he was one of those that did it in person. when he did it, he folded his ballot wrong. you could see the, the crosses, where he'd mark them on the paper. now those people who watch these elect much

closer than the likes of me and know all of the ins and out and minucci, i of them say this, well, not really shouldn't be allowed. however, it is such a small infringement. it's not going to cause any type of real problems, but it is certainly something that's likely to be debated for a little while to come because what it goes, mark is a gaffe to end what had been really a gaff filled campaign from arm and lush. it, there's also been problems, it would seem around the country. we got reports earlier that the city of get to get had a problem where the, the alternative germany, the right wing party been left off counting sheets. they have to be rushed around the town. there. we've also seen problems here berlin, whereby the fact that the election is being scheduled on the same day as the world famous international. berlin morrison meant that quite a large section of the, the german capital was closed off the wall traffic during the voting day. that meant there were some issues getting ballot papers where they needed to be in time for people to vote. we've been told by the, the electoral committee that everything worked out fine in the end. we didn't know

that they were hunting out chocolate to try and a piece people that was stuck in lines are the places where there's been attempts to try and kill 2 birds with one stone. in fact, in dusseldorf, people have been able to get vaccinated while they've been voted as mobile vaccination centers against coven 19 with their soap. so you could, you could put your cross in the box and also get yourself inoculated against the pandemic. the one thing we do know i mentioned it's going to come down to coalition months. that's going to be rumbling on perhaps for a few hours baby for a few days. it could well go on for a lot longer than not if the parties can't agree on who will fall in the next government. but the one thing we do know is that when the dust settled angle, a miracle will no longer be the german chancellor. she's held the post for over a decade and a half or over 30 year career in politics will come to the end. certainly on a domestic level here, i had to look at her time in the big chair of the crisis that you faced along the

way. after almost 16 years in charge, the time has come for anglo merkel to step down as german chancellor. drawing the curtain on a political korea of over 3 decades, coming to office in 2005. she's the 3rd longest serving german chancellor of old time, only her mentor. helmut kohl held the position longer. in postwar, germany, anglo myrtle have achieved something that most politicians haven't at their 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 unemployment figures from spike and

to high soaring de la medical reelected in 2009. then came the collapse of grease and the fee as it could never pay any of it. and pushed the single current, the close to the brink and a tidal wave of criticism crushing down on merkel and had government view 2013. so 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. but have always made it clear to the u. s president, buying among friends is not acceptable to me. one of the biggest moments of angle americans 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 refugees fleeing the conflict and syria coming here to germany. something which saw anglo merkel revealed by some reviled violence. each daughter guns, i simply say that germany is a 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 you need to cross that bridge, which is the to work and see if these are going to invite the indoor. so we have not seen migrant slows and such forms before and what we are seeing right now has no relevance to the present rule. when this is merkle, repeat constantly, we will cope with it, but she is not offered a structured solution yet. on to the chancellor medical actions in regard to refugees change the makeup of the german parliament is opposition to her policies on asylum allowed the anti migrant alternative for germany party to win seats in the bottom. the stag, becoming the largest opposition party to her government, making things difficult to her when addressing the chamber.

the me that being no easy route to the finish line for angular medical, the government's policies on the covert, pandemic sets off a small but vocal opposition that at one point threatened to storm the bottom to stuck the me me me, me the retreat from afghanistan provide the chancellor with more

problems in her final weeks with accusations of 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. is that the if 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 merkel of christian democratic union party as they slump to record low in the polls. the chancellor's final address to the bone, the stag, which became a 10 to promote c d. u. candidate arm and lush, it her successor ended in

a barrage of hackles. it's not just about foreign policy and nato in europe. oh, my goodness would have been with this german boon de sac for with 30 is here is out of the democracy and this is exactly what will be discussed me. despite the obvious challenges the merkel years will go down is the 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. internationally. germany has taken a far more prominent role under medical leadership than it is had in modern times. one of the big concerns right now though, is that with no clear successes to angle america, in terms of policy, certainly international cloud. what will become of those years of stability that

was seen when to her reign feature all of her r, t, berlin. the just insurance if i things worked as regards the germans today were not directly choosing a show or they were acting members when they go by picking a chancellor to lead. what in practice is always a coalition government, each voter receive to valid papers. the 1st is for a candid in their electro district, there are $299.00 such constituents across the country. the 2nd ballot is for a political party. there are $47.00 of them buying 4 seats, but only parties with more than 5 percent of the nationwide can enter parliament. so none of the german parties are expected to secure. that's all important. clear lead. that means likely post election wrangling on a peg level on for may not coalition governing coalition. the german law professor

elmore g moolah, he shared his take with us. he saw a lot of elections, a lot of horse wrangling. indeed this is his take on the possible land the only thing the certainly notice that when part is, is to spit in the future government because they needed to for coalition attributed a coalition may be together. but the christian democrats, i mean that it all written social democrats to the greens unnecessary entity. so the question is, who can the majority to gather the incident, the most likely them and he needs the liberal party to form a majority of coalition. the other option is from my point of view, a bit less preferably that it could be a social democratic, corrective, and green coalition. you cut a long story short. my view is it did most likely be

a coalition bit of christian democrats. i mean less. it will be the chancellor next johnson, the greens definitely. and of course also be voting isn't over in germany. as we heard our correspondent explaining just a little while ago, the 1st i must be pushing that. i thought it's just the 1st exit post suggesting that the country's heading for a change of direction with the s t p. that's the center left party just ahead of the ruling cd knew the center, right. but of course still too close to call. we won't know result until monday morning, but as those results 3 and i'll get more reaction, we will of course bring it through through the evening night here at our national after the break or the story that shape the past with ah

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to face the truth if you will. view. the truth is that the u. s. is no longer capable of playing the role of global hagaman. i mean the role which had had assigned to itself in the glove when morning with ah hello again. the russian city of perm isn't morning after this week's university gun massacre. 6 people were killed on monday by a student who classmates described as a silent, lonely teenager warning you may find the following image is disturbing. another 40 people were injured in the shooting. most of them students, many are still fighting for their lives. ortiz,

constantino's cough has been retracing the step taken by the killer. this is the exact road the perpetrator took while he was carrying out his business plan. and this is, by the way, the exec shreed, where he fired at a passing car as he was making his way towards the campus. ah, the gunman showed up at the university faculty building and this is where he was 1st film by terrified students. they were staring at him as he strode across the park with a hunting rifle, ammunition wrapped around his body. he doesn't use the ah, me. i didn't show this, but when i was leaving university,

a group of people had already gathered that. it turns out that we had 15 minutes earlier, we could have been in that situation. it was very scary. we usually eat in the building. next time we are in the 1st building and out that it was this little past today. ah, ah, that's the building where are these horrific scenes unfolded just meters away from where we're standing now? people were jumping from a height of about 4 meters spalding heavily onto the ground. many of them have suffered serious injuries because of that hasty evacuation to my fee was among those who jumped. this is him on the video falling from the window. fortunately, he didn't suffer any injuries, unlike other students. movie gillian, we saw a guy walking across the square holding a gun aiming at our building. he fired a shot and then disappeared from our line of sight. and we realized we had to do

something. a bit of the suspect has been identified as an 18 year old freshman at the university and a social media post he made. shortly before he embarked on the shootings, he talked about hatred for mankind in general, and that he'd been planning to commit a mass murder for several years. yeah, well, it looks like nobody's in there. this is the suspects department. this is where he lived with his mother and neighbors told us that after she was called in by the investigative committee, she then decided to move elsewhere away from the media. attention near the house, we met the suspect. former classmates remembered him as a silent and lonely teenager who didn't have a lot of friends. they also run into him the morning he went to shoot people on to quibble when he was quiet and shy, not very sociable and he always slower when he walked out of the game that day. he

walked differently. that day he worked with confidence quickly with broad steps. and of course the main question in everyone's mind now is how 18 year old got hold of a firearm. while he bought it legally, he passed the medical test. he was headed by it's a high tree a who apparently hadn't found anything odd about this quite young man. there was a bit footage taken in one of the gun stores on the outskirts of berg right here. where are the light shooter? purchased himself. ammo as he was getting ready for the mass. murder, ah ah, we were welcome at the store. if we could get your, what your name was

crystal clear about this tragedy is that it could have been much worse if it had there for 2 heroic traffic. police officers who just happened to be in the vicinity . when the shooting started, both officers rushed to the campus with one of them and quickly running into the attacker who opened fire. that officer constantine calling in return fire, wounding the suspect. and then he administered 1st 8 or the gun mans and hospital in a serious condition. although he has revived and even regained conscious, i can say that about the city though. hark, as perm is still trying to come to terms with the nightmare that has just happened, and as you can see, people are still gathering at this make shift memorial to honor the memory of the deceased the us and britain are scrambling to men. the rest with france after sidelining their ally and security packed with us really a president biden has now admitted it was wrong to strike the deal behind presses back. that's after the french defense chief said political dialogue within nato has

all but disappeared. latitude is it, as you knew, the attitude of the united states was the submarine program is a further investigation of the surveys that we have been making for months today. political dialogue is non existent within the atlantic. lions are to double quarter reports. now, in the cracks, appearing within the western military alliance and how the british prime minister is handling the pressure. what, what do you say that you have stolen? i would say aggravating mutual protection, a greater common purpose. all this seems to go out the window and there's a bit of money to be made. the recent controversy surrounding the u. s. u. k and australia as new security pack has left in new leaders scratching their heads about what even means to be in nato anymore. the reason for nato's existence is transatlantic security. this is what we want to remind the united states off. therefore,

our partners decided on our initiative as well as on the initiative of germany to revise the strategic concept of the alliance. being allies does not mean being hostage to the interests of another country. at 1st the spat seem confined to only a few powers friends being upset with the suspension of its submarine contract with australia, which resulted from hawkess's provisioning of nuclear sub technology to the country . and the entire strategic alliance is feeling the reverb. it is such a difficult issue where we see traditional alliances in some way torn apart are certainly changed fundamentally. but the issue doesn't stop there. one that doesn't even feel like they've done anything wrong. it's 3 very like mine did allies standing shoulder to shoulder creating a new partnership for the sharing of, of technology. it is not exclusive. i did not trying to to shoulder anybody. i did not at the stereo towards china. e, you states feeling like they were left, hung out to dry, the u. s. and

u. k. and making decisions without consulting their friends with nato's ongoing friendship. crisis airing it's member states dirty laundry. many are finding it hard to see a strong united future for the west over 7 decade long military alliance. nato was considered by france a month ago began to go by president my whole as brain dead. a brain dead alliance, best strong words within nato. they want to revise the concept, these teach a concept and bring it back actually to the north atlantic. because if you follow america, nato will soon be in the pacific, cruising around china with us. this is not the way nature was conceived, and it shouldn't be there. europeans should not be in that region of the world markets that repeatedly, that we should enlarge, our vision any desperately look to something to do. that's the reality. you know, we are in that, i mean, maintain what's in the scanner stuff is in iraq to train the forces. that's the

limits of the extension. this is not the north atlantic anymore. is it about a recap of the week that was neil's here, inserted with all the latest developments to including of course, from the german elections hope you can find the time to join and then good by the join me every thursday on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics, sport, business and show business. i'll see you then, in the ah,

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