ah, ah ah ah germany so sure, democrats declare victory election results in the nation. federal apollo. give them a nor only the party of i'm going counselor, i can go america slumps to historic low. we've got live reaction on the boat coming up shortly. also ahead, serbian tanks are seen heading to the kosovo border amid a dispute. over road belgrade has accuse world powers of turning a blind eye to provocations from the brick away region. a prison

probe and the u. k. reveals a series of failings in the case of a team age and major last born. miss a give the alone and her cell overnight without medical assistance. no one responsible for miss a care. had a full history of her pregnancy. maternity services ad bronze field for outdated and inadequate. ah, just after 2 in the afternoon here in moscow. my name's unit no meal and you're welcome to the news our own r t. the results are now in from germany. federal election with the i'd come said to determine who will replace angela merkel as chancellor in what will be the 1st change up the top in 16 years. the

own with all votes. no counted. it's a narrow window for the centre left social democrats, party leader. all up short, the 3rd victory saying he has a mandate to lead the nation under merkel. christian democrats are trailing and 2nd, followed by the greens our europe corresponded. peter oliver is in berlin with a full breakdown of the vote. and what it means for germany, these preliminary result results are written. they usually fairly accurate. we won't get the official result for a little while yet. but what it shows is the social democrats, how would they select, should they want it in the terms that they've collected, the most amount of votes? it doesn't mean that they directly get to form a government just get, we'll have more, not just wild, gen and politics. never as simple as that. but yes, when it comes down to clear when it and loses,

the winners have been the social democrats picking up almost 26 percent of the votes. and when you look at the fact that just before the summer, this year, they were polling it 10 percent lower. than not, but this is one of the biggest comebacks in lazarus and it's no wonder that their mom, the chancellor, all f schultz is sounding pretty pleased with himself. if i make fairly it's then i'm happy to see so many here today. and of course, i'm happy about the election results. germans have decided, the social democrats are on their way and that's a big success. this will be a long election like sure. but what for certain as well is that many germans put that cross next to the s p d because they want to change in the government. and because they want the next chancellor of this country to be laughed show for the green party will also go down as big width is from miss election. they put on an extra 5.8 percent from what they posted back in 2017. they were partying things at green party headquarters on

sunday night into the early hours of monday morning, along with the free democrats to help pretty much around what they got back in 2017 . they look almost certain to be the king makers when it comes to forming a new government. so those are the winners. have a look at the loses because whether our win is that has to be loses and it is the center, right? conservative union of the christian democratic union on their bavarian system policy, the kristian social union, who certainly fall into that biggest loser, cut agree. it's the lowest numbers that they've posted since the 2 parties have come together back in 72 years ago. really huge question. so exactly what went wrong, that's going to be a big old top see when it comes to what's happened within the center. right. but they still have a chance of rain painting power. this is of course, angular merkel policy or was angular merkel party the outgoing german chancellor. know the party going into the loses category would be the left. they dropped off

massively from what they posted back in 2017. in fact they, they fell below the 5 percent the you actually need to get into the bone, the stag, because they 13 constituencies outright. what that means is they have to wait on the, by the skin of the teeth. the electoral commission has announced that they will get 39 seats in the next parliament, left party leadership. they recognize this hasn't been a good time for them. of has the, it's, it's clear that this was a punch in the gut and it really hurt so much. and of course we lost massively. anything else would be unrealistic to claim done baggage or so i gave the result we will achieve nationwide is disastrous. there is no need to discuss it at all, so stop. secondly, we should get out of the habit of blaming every one but ourselves. it is important to be self critical and analyze the mistakes we made. the far right is alternative

for germany party or f dead. they is really estoppel hotline in and around saxony, in the east of the country, counting the votes as the bit bo, it's forming coalitions that will be the real tricky thing. following this federal election. the possibilities are well, many you could still have a grand coalition that's between the center left in the center, right. that looks unlikely though. you then could have a traffic light coalition made up of the social democrats, the greens on the free democrats called traffic like coalition. because while the party call us other colors of a traffic light, then there are 3 different coalitions made up of the colors of various national flags of kenya, jamaica, or germany counting the votes. as i said, the easy bit, we are still a long way out for finding out what the next government of germany will look like. and who will be the chancellor to replace angle, a miracle? yeah, a lot of options on the table. let's try and make sense of it all with martin to

nurse a senior politics lecturer at heidelberg university. very welcome to the program. so there we have s p d liter. all our shows declaring victory and hoping indeed to send merkel christian democrats into opposition by form a coalition. it seems at least martin with the greens and the pro business f d p. will he succeed? well, that's the, that's the $1000000.00 question i think. but i think he has a chance to succeed, but at the moment it's very much in the hands of these 2 smaller parties, which you rightly said in your report are the king makers. and there's a couple of things. the f, d. p, the free democrats and the green 7 common. they were the favorite parties of 1st time and young voters. and they both want to modernize germany, but they have a very different way to modernize germany and to french climate change in free democrats. the pro market party wants to do it through market mechanisms largely and whereas the greens want to do it was state intervention and that will be a difficult thing for them to sort out what they can agree on. and then those 2 can

basically choose whether they want to go with all of the shows. i think the majority of the green party rank and file, but also the new punters talk members of would prefer the s b, d. whereas they're free. democrats would probably prefer a cd you transfer ship, so i think that's the scenario that would play out in the next 4 weeks or so. yeah, a lot of their discussions in the time, i'm sure. just on olaf shoaf then he's not the high school name in international politics that anglo merkel is assuming he manages to former coalition. can you see him growing. busy into merkel jewel and essentially being seen us the de facto leader of europe. i think i can because i think he's well known already and financial and global governance. 27 the. she's 7 finance and treasury secretary. so i think he's a known quantity there and he's very, very quiet and market style type of politician. very relax, where relate back

a very sort of technical approach to things. and that's actually why so more than a 1000000 and 400000 people probably left the c d u and went to him. a lot of women voters who might be center left but had voted for merkel went to him because they see him more as a continuation of merkel style then actually, i mean, unless it hurt chose the successor. so we, i think we could very interesting with climate, of course, big on the agenda and recent years the greens had their best ever result. 15 percent. interestingly, i saw some reports seeing that they were expecting even more than that. but nevertheless, they are likely to be in the coalition. how much influence do you think they are going to help? well, they will, and whatever of these 2 types of collisions, they will be the 2nd largest party. so they will demand not only clear steps towards being and intensifying the policies to corporate global warming, but they will also get some attractive ministries, perhaps the foreign ministry,

perhaps the finance ministry. but the trouble is that the free democrats, i think they're interested in the same and the same department. so that might be difficult personally, but also on a policy thing. i think there is still the option in the back that all of charles has, should it not work out with a free party coalition, which is completely new to germany on the federal level. we never have that. and it's also completely know that we never have a party that's about 25 percent of the vote chair. so he still has, in the back this option that you also mentioned is unlikely in the report that there will be another sort of grant coalition under has be a leadership. but that that will be just at an emergency things. if the 3 party talks lead to nowhere, and the 2 small parties conte agree on, on office holding and on policy. okay. just on what and love shows if he does become chance there what he would bring you say he is seen by some as more and

chancellor merkel, they taking over from her than even her own at parties leader. but would he be there for then more center than left, even though he's heading a center left party. no, he's certainly center left and he would probably have an easier time. so he's not so much marco in the policy substance. but is that the way he approaches governing? i think that's his style is more mark collect unless it's style. but i think he will probably assuming that my co in france will stay in power. he has very good connections, nothing to the french government and to the current italian government. so i think for the european union, whether that might be in germany is interest to have a transfer union and stuff like that. it's another thing, but i think he will get along quite easily with the 2 biggest countries remaining into your opinion now that britain is out so i think from unless there will be changes there. next year in france has a presidential election in 2022 and in italy and probably in $23.00. but for the

time being, i think all of shows will be very well received in these 2 countries. okay, well we appreciate you coming on and sharing your expertise with martin to nurse senior lecturer of political science at heidelberg center for american study. thank you very much. thank you. have a good day. so voting, the current is now over in germany, and the results as we've been hearing do appear to have victory to the social democrats. but there is a lot of talking to do before the next government and chancellor is ratified. we'll make sure you don't miss any of the days. big developments right here on the okay to another of the days headlines, stories, serbia, and costs of or caught up. and yet another dispute this time, over route access service trips are on high alert. near the cost of and border

video clip circulating online suggest belgrade is sending tanks to the brick away territory. it comes after kosovo, ordered serbian drivers entering the region to obtain new license plates issued by costco to vehicle registration. officers have been attacked near the border. the serbian president said the disputes been building up for a while, but foreign powers have turned a blind eye. the complete occupation of nothing course of all in the matter. he jer with armored vehicles. my prisoner has been going on for the past 7 days, and everyone in the international community stays thunderously silent. individuals in groups whose activities endanger the rule of law and public order are attacking our state and disturbing the peace. they are clearly encouraged and supported by serbia. serbia is using the citizens of kosovo to provoke a series, international conflict. serbia does not recognize its former province of kosovo as a separate nation and thus considers their mutual border is only a temporary boundary. cause of all, you know,

law 3 declared its independence from serbia back in 2000 and eight's almost a decade after a war between the 2 side and the nato intervention. roughly half of us members though, have never recognized cost of all as independent. the has called and both sides to deescalate tension. costco and serbia must find solutions to defuse the situation and agree on the way forward. the you will actively support these efforts, both cost of answer be and lead as a fully responsible for any risks to the safety and well being of local communities . well we've asked, i guess what is driving the balkans found off, they believe tested support from the west is encouraging cars to vote, to engage in confrontation with serbia, european union, western politicians, calling on both sides to de escalate. when it's, as we said, only one side causing the country, and i actually had a chance to interview one of the officials of our courteous party. i'll be pretty,

being the prime minister of the so called republican coastal with minute you start menu, the main method that also is essentially a colony of the west. and this basically means that nothing that customer does is done without approval of the united states. so it's basically an issue where the constable does whatever it wants with the blessing of the united states. and in west says, you know, you to present in belgrade need to figure out a solution of how to get out of this out of a situation that is caused by western interference. what we have here is a us attempt to up up the answer as well. that seems to be happening is that things are too quiet for washington's chase, and they're encouraging the albanian, the leadership to the temperature. so the west come in pressure, so we have to lower the temperature. as always happens. this is one side, the l pay a leadership advised by washington behaving intellectually creating a crisis. so any concessions should be by then we should basically be de escalation

of that tendency to escalate the why the picture we have, i was say, washington advising the paintings. we have a president, routing safety perhaps too much advice from tony lab. so you will have western participants on both sides in a way we, we have here just to kind of an elegy of little situation by proxy with albany and using performing the usual quisling role of appeasing the empire. that seems to be around at the time a british prison has been hit with abuse allegations after a teenage inmate gave birth alone in herself and then lost her child adding insult to injury it. litter emerged that only the guards, not the mother, received bereavement counseling afterwards. i

miss a gave birth alone in his cell overnight without medical assistance, no one responsible for miss a care headed full history of her pregnancy maternity services ad bronze field for outdated and inadequate. the response to miss a request for nurse was completely inadequate. there was no pediatric or neonatal emergency equipment in the prison. ah. the 18 year old was in bromfield prison in middlesex, on reman for a robbery charge. days before giving birth,

she told guard she would kill herself if her baby was taken from her prison. officials have admitted wrong doing and said town, internal investigation is ongoing. women's rights advocate, reese everson thinks the head of the prison should be held accountable. this is more of the horrors that we continue to see with human rights violations, specifically for incarcerated people, but also for women. this is a common experience throughout the private prison that we've got to really get more serious about human rights laws and realizing that we owe each other a duty to treat one another humanely. and even if you have been found to have been, you know, kind of convicted of a crime, there's still a duty to treat you with humanity. and that's not, that's clearly not been the case. and if there is such a large gap in what needs to happen versus what's actually happening as you have to

do a complete overhaul for more importantly, we have to call for accountability for the head of that prison. there are certain protections that need to be put in place and they simply were not here. that's unacceptable. there's, there's no, there's no understanding or no, no, no reasonable explanation for how something like this could happen. or in any way why friendship fishermen are outraged over the government plan to install new offshore wind turbans around the north coast. during a protest they dumped rotten fish at the doors of the regional maritime committee. the demonstration which involved by $300.00 freshmen started on boats and then continued to the shore. the protesters believe the wind turbines will kill off fish to the area. i goal of our protest to alert politicians and the general public that there's a danger to the see. the problem is that they're trying to sell us those wind farms

as if they were eco friendly. the truth is that they're not a senior french energy official has defended the wind farm plant, saying protestors risk leaving people with electricity who will be calling them and it's nothing but the week of certain people leave in their local come in just without taking into consideration the common needs of our country. we do need energy. our society depends on it. energy production can certainly create some disagreements. the head of the french regional fishing committee, whoever sees the government is turning a blind dye to the damage the project will cause. i believe that this whole green transition is a masquerade, a true environmental disaster, and the general public knows nothing about what is going on in the see. we, the fishermen were in the see every day. so we know what problems were dealing with . unfortunately, they never listen to us only we know where wind farms can be built in

a way that won't endanger the fish, at least now the government is aware that there are protests and the fishermen are determined to never let this happen. but we will fight till the end of this is our he's still ahead report on us drone war for examining while he been targeting of a loan, terrorist suspect so often leads to accomplish that story. and more few after this the news the news

the long when i would show the wrong when i just don't need to fill out the thing because the attitude an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves, well, the part we choose to look for common ground in this hello again. the pentagon remains in the spotlight following last month bought drones strike in capital, which killed a young family. it's the latest in

a long string of cases over the years where a terrorist suspect has been targeted. but civilians have paid the price. our team richard met hurst has more now on the tool thrown warfare. on august 29, c u. s. carried out a drone strike in coal, killing tensor billions of the i'm of the family. 7 of them were children. originally they said it was an isaac k cell, but it quickly became clear that they had massacred an innocent family. instead, we've known this now for weeks now the general mackenzie, who leaves us central command or us send. com, issued what is probably the most scripted apology ever recorded. he says that he initiated an investigation within 24 hours of the strike. even though the pentagon had immediately said after the strike that it knows of 0 civilian casualties. why did they say that then if they weren't sure, or if general mackenzie was just about to launch an investigation. even the next day when you sent. com said it was aware that civilians may have died. they still insisted that the strike was legitimate and they were certain they had disrupted an

imminent isaac k threat because of a 2nd re explosion. this is what the united states has always been doing for the last 20 years. this is there war on terror? the u. s. life so much about who it kills? apparently it's kill the same people multiple times. now clearly someone is being droned, but it obviously isn't the targets it's innocent civilians. let's consider it as a dean, how connie, the deputy leader of the gang taliban, and head of the ha connie network. america reportedly targeted him at least 4 times once in 2008, 2009 and twice in february 2010. you want to guess where mister serat, how connie is now? he is alive and well serving as the interior minister and again ascends new taliban government to the united states. killed around 82 people trying to get him all for him to wind up as interior minister. another example is based on my food head of the pocket, signing tele bond or the he could totally bond pockets on the c. i tried killing

him in 2008. instead, they kill someone else the year after they tried getting him again, but killed 4 other people instead. a month later, they killed more than 30 people. still on food. 2 months later, they killed 10 others. united states has killed so many people trying to get him. that is actually too long for me to list all of the attacks and dest you. the united states even targeted a funeral on purpose because they thought he was attending be committed a massacre at this funeral, killing 80 people. and finally in august 2009, the c, i managed to kill him, but only after murdering close to 200 people. so hundreds of dead civilians just think of one guy. clearly these are the standards, the general mackenzie was talking about. so tell me who is the bigger terrorist now? these are just some of the drug stripes we know about. just imagine what the realists looks like. you know, obama called them precision stripes or anything but precise what we used to publish figures. what, how the drawing program works with suspiciously low numbers of civilian deaths. and

when the real numbers were leaked by whistleblower, daniel hale, who now in jail, it turns out for example, during a 5 month period, 90 percent of the people killed by drones or civilian re. also consider this, even if there were no civilian casualties, right. who gave united states the right to assassinate people on another country? soil would america tolerate someone else dropping bombs on american soil? what happened to due process? you just kill people without trial. this is nothing short of mass murder. just imagine the reaction. if a foreign government murdered an american family. busy on american soil, you would never hear the end of it. and it's vice that for once the mainstream media decided to do their jobs and hold the government accountable. but imagine how many other debts we don't know about. because the media abdicated their judy to the truth and help the government cover up the murders. china is reaching out to france, seeking closer cooperation and mid feud between paris and it's western allies over

the orchestra security pack, or t. c. graduate tele picks up the story for us. the new august security packed between us trailer, the u. k and the u. s. was designed to counted chinese aggression. and china has indeed gone on the offensive a charm offensive. the ging is now trying to france who was not by its allies by being left out of the deal as permanent members of the un security council. china in france shoulder the responsibility of maintaining international peace and stability, promoting global development and multilateralism. so we can and should strengthen our cooperation, which is in the interest of the whole world. arms deals on such a large scale or not conducive to world peace. we should not get involved in an arms race. estrella is counting on the u. k, to provide cutting edge nuclear submarine technology. problem is camera might be a century to lay to britain's maritime party. they are real concerned that we will

life the capability to main hines, the vessels, and that we will be increasingly handed on us or support the terms of the all because deal are vague, with nothing concrete agreed. but it's far from obvious what britain can actually bring to the table. british she century sources are becoming increasingly and incredibly trash. and i think many, even people who would support having a strong defense and you would question whether these are the best uses, british resources, even if they wanted submarines in 18 months, which is the timeframe, the suggested these new submarines enlightened to be in service for at least a decade the us, on the other hand, is at the very edge of nuclear sub technology. the only problem is it's subs. they don't come cheap. this figure will fall out of control. is a message saying that boy is the money away from real name to destroy. it has

particularly energy transition, interesting climate trying but also can all make resilience and also the actual living needs of many people in this country. so if a strayer, whose budget is absolutely dwarfed by the pentagons once to obtain a fleet of atomic submarines he'd had better start looking for money right now. a strain his decision to try and square up to china could some fear and now lead to a regional arms race with other nations in the, in the pacific. potentially feeling the need to take sides many nations in the pacific. in the nature of malaysia and new zealand have expressed a thing, composition and sorrows, or real concern that this will lead to increase proliferation pressure, militarization and a lack of certainty, trust and confidence in the rates. and there's already things folks in japan and

south korea about their submarine plate developing a nuclear capability given a strike, has been my finance since. and while china's recent overtures are well unlikely to win over paris, france is alienation from allies over the security packed. it's already a win for beijing. course it's on off. we're all set to tell of into some more great programs here on our tea and moments that i'm back at the top with all of the stories making global headlines this monday bye for now. the the.