best occasion continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on america's christian democratic union policy who were in overall charge found the line has self which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u. commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions for all of our r.t. . that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corpo

the grand coalition embracement which has harmed them a lot in the past years because the christian democratic union has just followed the strategy. morally orals the topics social democrats slow the tendency of themselves from this grand coalition in addressing the needs and interests of the voters then i sing the good game. in the pub. and to round off the ballot in a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines start with how a gunman has injured 10 people in new orleans he resign or 2 of them critically police have detained a male suspect witnesses say he opened fire after cation. riot police on the front foot here plus a have come in for heavy criticism up today not to down the aisle to a man at a demonstration one protest is trying to help and he's confronted them with batons the rally itself was actually held to commemorate 8 year old woman who died last year after police take aspirin it hit her in the face. and finally china has sanctioned several u.s. nongovernmental organizations among them human rights watch and freedom house beijing also suspended all american navy visits to

grand coalition embrace him and which has harmed them a lot in the past years because the christian democratic union has just followed the strategy of eating up morally or of the topics of the social democrats if they follow the tendency of straining themselves from this grand coalition in addressing the war the needs and interests of the voters than i think he has been he could gain 3 in the public. the power of siberia gas pipeline is being launched today president vladimir putin and she jumping will watch as russian gas starts pumping through to feed chinese industry took 5 years to be built and was the biggest investment projects so far for russian companies as good sailors got the details. the power of siberia a pipeline running through mountains swamps and on to red has and i'm bishop project uniting the northern hemisphere is 2nd largest gas producer with the wild 2nd largest gas consumer 3000 kilometers of pipe smoking economic unity and friendship between russia and china are launching today. and for china it couldn't be more timely the country has been increasing amounts of gas and with it

the grand coalition embracement which has harmed them a lot in the past years because the christian democratic union has just followed the strategy of eating up morally or of the topics of the social democrats if they follow the tendency of straining themselves from this grand coalition and a dressing room for the needs and interests of the voters then i think the s.p.d. could gain a new 3 in the popular. thirties in a small canadian town and want to change its name because it makes people think of cancer they say as best ask the current name is also bad for local business the name change discussion has been brewing for some time there is really a negative perception around us best us we have lost businesses that don't want to establish themselves here because of the name. described as the most dangerous town in canada asbestos for more than 100 years provided a half the world's supply of the mineral from which its name derived before its deadly properties were known the material used to be the heart of the local economy over the main aspects are small and closed in 2012. used to be widely used to b

the grand coalition embracement which has harmed them a lot in the past years because the christian democratic union has just followed the strategy of eating up more and laurels the topics of the social democrats if they follow the tendency of straying themselves from this grand coalition and addressing war the needs and interests of the voters than i think he has been he could gain. in the public. and bring her back some of the stories making headlines a play a penny a gunman has injected 10 people in new orleans louisiana 2 of them critically please have detained and male suspect witnesses say he opened fire. to cation. riot police in the french city of mass say have come in for heavy criticism after they knocked down an elderly woman at a demonstration one protester tried to help police confronted them with batons the rally itself was how to commemorate an 8 year old woman who died last year after a pit police take aspirin 8 in the face. and china has sanctioned several american and among them human rights watch and freedom house on top of that beijing suspended all u.s. navy visits to hong kong

investigation continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on americans christian democratic union party who were in overall charge found the line has self which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u. commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions peter all over r.t. early jack rasmussen a professor of political economy and a former u.s. diplomat both say the u.s. is trying to prevent russia from becoming more integrated with europe. well it's kind of ironic that the u.s. is saying they don't want germany and europe to be dependent on cheaper russian gas but they wanted to be dependent on more expensive american gas you see and what you see here in this latest move is that they couldn't u.s. couldn't get germany to. pull out of the nordstrom too so it's going after smaller companies building some of the parts of nordstrom tows kind of an act of desperation in a sense the u.s. is getting concerne

investigation continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on angle americans christian democratic union party who are in overall charge and ursula fall into line herself which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u. commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions peter all over r.t. berlin. thanks mean krave deputy chairman of the alternative for germany passing saxon brown says that the public should put more pressure on the government. does it feel as a german minister of defense everywhere she had to turn or it was a catastrophe it was do this force of you lose the liberal socialists and the christian democrats would have for president of the e.u. commission the ministry of defense been ruling in some millions to external consultants for some of them alone created as soon there are external beep for more military people decide how to purchase new equipment after the tenor of misses from a lot of mis

investigation continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on anglo-american as christian democratic union party they were in overall charge found ursula fall into line herself which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u. commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions for all of r.t. . that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more.

investigation continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on angle americans christian democratic union party who are in overall charge and ursula fall into line herself which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u. commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions peter all of a r.t. berlin. now the rock musician turned political activist roger waters has a lot to get off his chest at the moment especially given the state of british politics he is the guest on the latest episode of going underground in which he does rail against the mainstream media's influence on the u.k. election recently you can watch it in full day today here on r.t. but here's a preview. it's becoming more and more apparent that propaganda is almost the most important thing in our lives and the fact that the mainstream media is owned by very rich and powerful people and in consequence they may be that big coming closer and closer t

social democrats that in turn could spell the end for the grand coalition with the christian democrats and christian social union the results of the s.p.d. poll came as a surprise as did the clear margin of victory the new leaders to be want to chart a new course for the party and reopen negotiations with chancellor angela merkel on future government policies. has the responsibility of the social democrats to make policies for the low and medium earners at this time and again we see closes in our contract with the c.d.u. that are not in their best interests and that has to change. but the conservatives are likely to resist any major changes to government policy only 2 years before the next election c.d.u. leader on it could come common power made this clear. we stand by this coalition on the basis of what we've already negotiated. 100 m. we want to get back down to work quickly but. the opposition greens say berlin is headed towards a government crisis the s.p.d. the s.p.d. has to clear this up this week do they want to govern this country yes or no you can't govern if your answer is maybe you can the s.p.d. has

christian democrat friends in parliament are you at odds with the chancellor on this i think at the end the good arguments for the digital sovereignty of this country of germany and the european union will prevail it's that easy i'm very convinced that at the end we will have a rule of trustworthiness in our law in our national telecommunications bill that will rule out companies that are based in countries where the government could get into the business of their of their companies so you expect the chancellor to change your mind i'm not talking about the i'm just a making a suggestion what the end of the bill will be of the not what the chancellor will think 5 g. is just one of 2 flashpoints here there's also the natural gas pipeline from russia to germany known as nord stream to the u.s. is threatening sanctions if that pipeline goes online here is merkel again playing the eternal diplomat when she has to do. with policies of double trouble take a look. next come up we have 3 known been against extraterritorial sanctions we have the same problem with iran in my opinion the only solution is to hold talks very decisive talks with against letting these extra territorial sanctions t

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