one of the reasons that delegates may have decided that they wanted to go for only great crime karen barr is the fact that she does have this relationship with angela merkel who of course is going to be staying on as chancellor as she stepped down as leader of the c.d.u. but you'll remain in germany's top job until the end of her term she says twenty twenty one and that may well be the main reason that she beat her contender in the runoff vote because chancellor merkel and mr maritz they have a history that goes way back to when angela merkel took over the party in the early two thousand she essentially ousted him from his role within the within the christian democratic union so it's going to be a great time karen bauer who takes over just who is she and what's her outlook on things the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet camp counselor known by her initials. and atlanticist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certain to foster the already tight links with france when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptical of the kremlin the chancell

germany's ruling christian democrat party has just a chosen to cry karen barr as it's a new leader that's after chancellor angela merkel stepped down from the role after eighteen years of reports now from. the new leader of germany's christian democratic union party will be an ingrate. the former prime minister of the state of silent she was going into this vote they're already the general secretary of the party she was given that role essentially the papal blessing if you will from angola merkel the outgoing leader of the party that she ruled over for eighteen years. current power was very much the continuity candidate she is expected to continue to a certain extent the work that angle of merkel was getting on with however that may cause some problems because as angela merkel was giving her farewell address to the party conference she pointed out the current state of the party in the state of politics in germany means it's a very polarized and difficult situation that the woman known as a k.-k. is walking into. it's the fight it's a critical time for our country and for parties like ours

been retained in the governor i'm sure the other words i wrote down were found a great come from karen barr a bit enigmatically she's an unknown quality i mean she's and she has says since she says serious achievements as a as a regional politician in this hall and behind her let's take a listen to proceedings day by thinking of becoming. the next big thing delegate thinking like i did kind of thing by a local security committee going to. thanking me for money on. the ground thank you thank. you. thank you very much friends. how do you. thinking. you gonna get out sooner great congratulations to him on these human rights not to share with you do you germany. you've got to leave your house which i'm going to actually you if you don't fork and wish you every success. victim who gets to guard your last when he should be going to have had to you know and i want to thank all of you ladies and gentlemen under-funded sorry for what's been an exciting time was on the view and i particularly want to thank you very fast those of you who voted for me but also those of you who have supported me so much

to replace angela merkel as the party leader karen barr is michael's protege and will lead the party into the next general election with a surge in support for the far right as outrage in france over the treatment of students arrested by police during protests outside of paris on thursday trade unions in far left parties lashed out at what they called police brutality after this footage went viral online meanwhile protests continue in central paris where there have been days of anti-government demonstrations those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour to stay with us here on al-jazeera. day one of a new era in television news we badly need at this moment leadership and values this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder refugees who live here. i got to commend you all more i'm hearing is good journalism still has resigned. after all the lies the attempts of cover ups and the high wire diplomacy. loved ones some form of closure he saw the syrian army likewise stood by in the city as well as post