the f.t. in this poll last one point in west and. again this shows a deepening gulf between the east and the west and. all the voters of all the other parties say that they do want the a.s.d. watched not watched by the intelligence agencies doesn't mean that the f.t. would be banned straightaway and also this is a question that only the the country's regions can decide on because that's how the intelligence service is built up here and it's a federal system but actually we will see whether this is a continuing trend or not because we will have very important state elections coming up in germany's east next year where the f.t. will probably come out really strong and there's one issue where they really are getting a lot of political mileage i mean we have to mention after the violence and chemists that the locals they basically choose law enforcement of losing control again we're seeing it east west of vidal when this is polled and i'd like to have a closer look now because when asked when the rule of law works well in germany almost

under surveillance and the verdict very clear two thirds of those polled say they want the f.t. monitored. so let's drill down into the details here we are joined by political correspondent nina so nina. we have some some interesting trends here we have the a.f.d. the biggest party in the east and yet most germans wanted under observation as a domestic threat how do you reconcile that because it seems to really paint a picture of a divided nation it almost sounds like a contradiction but it isn't like you say he is now according to this poll the strongest party in the country's east but the same poll shows that he has lost one percentage point in the west so that does paint the picture of a divided nation and there will have to be a lot of soul searching as to why that is why those messages of this anti immigrant party are so popular especially in the form a commune east germany so if you look at what's happening there of course the conservatives are losing big time. posing a massive threat to the conservative bloc especially in the east and we will probably see that trend confi

a leader of the extreme right wing of the f.t. who is well known for his controversial statements the town citizens say they refused to surrender their town hall to politicians like her and the f.t. party so whenever they disagree with something said by the politician they raise a red card others just walked out. if there was quite. i couldn't take it any longer this lack of respect for other parties and politicians of the statements again said to live politics was going to the things they say shouldn't be repeated it shows that this party has nothing to do with democratic politics open a lot of people see it the same way it was. just. speeches disrupted and the protest bundled out of the room was quick to exploit the situation who doesn't know anyone who doesn't love germany should leave germany. it's a statement that shows that the political divisions in this small the varian town but is also a reflection of the increasingly polarized politics across the whole of germany. the scene there in bavaria and we see how divisive immigr

a change of one it would seem you know the polls show the party is not just losing votes the f.t. but also to other parties are we seeing a revolt of some kind against the far right policies. well what we are definitely seeing is not the same is happening in the very a what is happening on a federal level here in germany that the political landscape is becoming more frakt in fact at the very end elections on the fourteenth of october we could see seven parties and the very important for the very first time and incidentally parties at the top establish really clear topics are doing really well in the polls and that includes the green party last year that many people thought the green party was almost dead but the green party could become second strongest policy thank you nina . the main program of bundesliga matches has come to an end yet again by our new nick have three points the champions beaten by our liberties and three want to home all spur going to hearts have berlin's one hundred percent records are over following an action packed two two draw but there were victories for r

party such as be on her well known for his inflammatory anti foreigner tirades f.t. national leadership does not rein him in a lot sparkman was also that he's one of the founders of the far right and the muslim peggy movement he's been convicted of inciting racial hatred. neo nazis and other right wing extremists who are out in force many already known to the police and ordinary townspeople this is the first time right wing populists and extremists have marched together so blatantly. the police broke up the march but its message had already come through loud and clear how dangerous is such an emergent right wing nationalist alliance. when they let me pass that question right on to you how firm and how dangerous is this alliance between a party sitting in the federal parliament the f.d.a. this right wing party came to power partly on anti immigrant positions and actual neo nazis. but it's it's also it's a sign you know it's a symbol also i mean we've been hearing things in the in the bundestag in the parliament. that are that are racist so you know the party is settin

s being victimized by the governments that he's trying to construct the f.t. as a victim of this policy now we are we're going to be hearing from chancellor angela merkel in a moment she's going to be able to of course respond perhaps to what alexander garland has been saying but it's do you think she will take the bait yes i think she will respond on those issues but i suspect that. to refer to those things that her government has been doing that are positive for people that are concerned about their situation so i think she's going to try and emphasize as well she will not spend too much time responding to the dia i think she will just simply defend a position how much pressure is chancellor merkel under right now and particularly given what has transpired in germany over the past couple of weeks well what's happened obviously is that the f.d.a. has in fact profited from the situation the a of d. in the most recent polls is making gains is getting close to twenty percent of support amongst voters while i'm going back as conservatives are losing civil it's at

he said that migration was the mother of all political problems and that was the opening line of the f.t. of alexander garland here in parliament so it raises questions is somebody out to get the german chancellor here and who is the head of the german intelligence domestic intelligence services anyway to get involved and so his future hangs in the balance and there is yet more evidence of a lot of internal pressure playing out on the german chancellor. will be coming back to we're going to play a sound bite from xander garland were he addresses the unrest that accompanied the far right protests and he chooses chancellor merkel of using it to quash criticism of her migration policy. you behave as if we only had a choice between multiculturalism and fascism apparently it doesn't occur to you that it's possible to live like the swiss or the danes or the swedes. and i'm sorry i missed it instead. ms merkel when you were forced to take back the accusation that people were hunted down you said there was hatred. first of all hatred is not a crime and second it usually has causes why was there

so change of one it would seem you know polls show the party is not just losing votes the f.t. but also to other parties are we seeing a revolt of some kind against the far right policies or to. well what we are definitely seeing is not the same is happening in bavaria what is happening on a federal level here in germany that the political landscape is becoming more frakt in fact at the very elections on the fourteenth of october we could see seven parties and in the very in palm and for the very first time and incidentally parties at the top establish really clear topics are really doing really well in the polls and that includes the green party last year that many people thought the green party was almost dead but the green party could become second strongest posse thank you and you know. kazakh parker good boxer a good rematch with. her as it's being called the fight of the century by pundits the two middleweights met just under a year ago when the match was controversially ended in a draw and sparks flew at friday night's weigh in three world title belts are on the line and

to ation the f.t. has become clear in its association with right wing politics in the last few days if the people and the politicians have joined such marches by nazi groups by radical right wing us and we can expect that they will launch of a further attack on under macko on the migration policy on government today it's not going to be very pleasant i think so they have the party of course being the largest opposition party in parliament so what do people here make of the way the uncle of machall has been handling the situation following the incidents in kenya it's an elsewhere over the last couple weeks what people make of it well german society is very deeply divided on this issue and has to say and in fact the most recent polls of voters have shown that the if he has profited from this they have he has become stronger in some polls that is stronger than the opposition then the social democrats who are involved in government i get with uncle america in other words that become the second strongest pa

terms of her handling of the protests that occurred in kemet so what did you make of that well the f.t. has the feeling that it's on a roll here at the moment that all of this discussion this very acrimonious debate at times in germany about migratory issues actually is to the benefit of the right wing populists and i must say that the most recent polls confirm that impression that people in germany voters in germany seem to be increasing their support for these right wing populists that does not mean that there isn't a majority against them but they are on a roll and in the context of this he really. ran a broadside attacked. on this migration issue very vehemently very strongly accusing her of basically ignoring the concerns of a large number of people normal citizens and he was trying to distance as party from the right wing extremists who have been most prominent in these recent demonstrations together with the f.t. he's trying to say well one of the sentences he said is hatred is not a crime. even if people feel very vehemently he feels these emotions should not be punished should

he said the sea is you need to distance itself from the f.t. very clearly and i asked some of the high ranking official says how they're planning to win back the voters. they have to clearly show that we do. have a clear line as regards migration policy that we have a plan that is what we actually have you know we want to help people who are asking for asylum in europe that's not it's an issue but we also want to know that we don't know on the basis you know that we have a regular procedure to be used that you know who is coming into our country this is different to the dean who simply says no it's because you know refugees at all in our country that is not a. change of one it would seem you know polls show the party is not just losing votes the f.t. but also to other parties are we seeing a revolt of some kind against the far right policies there to. well what we are definitely seeing is not the same is happening in bavaria what is happening on a federal level here in germany that the political landscape is becoming more frakt in fact at the v

weeks before publication one of the f.t. members told german media which details were discussed. us and we had both with mr marson both the report although it was in the vailable in printed form yet we talked about various figures of interest such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats to the field of. germany's opposition parties are outraged by such a dissemination of internal data weeks before the release because it's such a warning to the law the federal minister of the interior publicly announces the report from yet came i know no other example of this information being released to a political party before the official publication of the report. according to germany's domestic intelligence service the secret meetings came at quote the explicit request of the federal ministry of the interior. if this is indeed the case then the minister has given a civil servant the license for political action which should not have been given the politicians are supposed to drive the nation's policies not ministry officials . again germany's top domestic spy stands

has a history of concern about immigration we saw that in the national election last year when the f.t. party came out is the strongest party in the state of saxony poll suggests that could be repeated in state elections next year when the f.t. suggested it could do quite well there is a concern here this is a divided state about the future germany the future of the immigration policy but this isn't happening to me there are still those who insist migrants refugees are also welcome our correspondent sean at chelles impale reporting from camus thanks a lot. former u.s. presidents barack obama and george w. bush have led tributes to john mccain at a memorial service in washington and they sent us a died last week of brain cancer bamma bush praised him as a consummate statesman who embodied to the country politicians from across the spectrum attended at the service with one notable exception president donald trump who had engaged in a bitter feud with mckay was not invited. john mccain long serving senator an american war hero lies in state. becoming the great and the good from across the

was trying to imitate the f.t. and polls then clearly showed that that strategy didn't work that voters didn't like that at all and so the c.s.u. has now clearly changed its strategy in fact the state premier marcus souter who spoke earlier here in munich said that the c.s.u. needed to attack the a.f.p. he said the sea is you need to distance itself from the a.f.p. very clearly and i asked some of the high ranking c.s.u. official says how they're planning to win back the vote. they have to clearly show that we do. have a clear line as regards migration policy that we have a plan that is what we actually have you know we want to help people who are asking for asylum in europe that's not an issue but we also want that you know that we don't know on the basis you know that we have a regular procedure to be used that you know who is coming into our country this is different to the dean who simply says no it's because you know refugees at all in our country that is not our line progress or change of one it would seem yo

you know the f.t. has finally last its mast of respectability slip every chairman can see that in candidates the f.t. has become a front organization for the base has some thoughts as it's neither respectable nor patriotic in my view it's a party that must be pleasanter observation by the federal office for the protection of the constitution if you ask me there are more than enough reasons to do so. well as the political volume increases in germany's migrant debate there was an attempt on monday to change the tone on the streets and perhaps in people's minds as well tens of thousands of people attended an anti-racism concert in the eastern german city of chemist's achim it's was the scene just one week ago of what police described as hooligans and thought chasing down people who looked different were today it was the stage where artists performed in saying to welcome people who look different. views into there are more of us that was the most of today's event is liberal germans responded to calls to st

weeks of public wrangling over what really happened on the streets of chemists with the f.t. and the extremist right closed ranks in demonstrations and the constant power struggle between machall and her interior minister horses. have hurt the government the promotion of germany's chief spy hunter masson a medical critic as a compromise way to remove him from office also appears to be backfiring on the very man who had the idea. machall critic and interior minister horsy who his approval ratings have plummeted eleven points since april to twenty eight percent. the head of the various conservative c.s.u. party is facing increasing criticism from within his own party ranks this latest poll again suggests that coalition wrangling is a major problem and is playing into the hands of the far right f.t. . efforts on an assisted of his chief political editor joins me from up on i'm interested us as we saw gains for the far right if he according to the latest survey making is the second strongest party in the country what does this mean for the american. well it means that the pressur

and f.t. member told germany the data was contained in an unreleased government report. when we spoke with mr marson about the reports it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats. s.p.d. chairwoman under their analysis met for crisis talks with merkel and conservatives on thursday but there was no breakthrough talks will continue next tuesday. political correspondent christopher springer welcome chris so that meeting is over does hans go martin still have a job. apparently he does still have a job the meeting as you say is over all three leaches none of the three leaders involved chancellor magical for the conservatives for the varian conservatives hosty who for the interior minister and the leader of the social democrats and tree analysis none of them have made any public statements what we're hearing from government sources is that all three leaders have agreed to keep the contents of their meeting secret for now apparently it was a good and serious set of talk

has a history of concern about immigration we saw that in the national election last year when the f.t. party came out is the strongest party in the state of saxony poll suggests that could be repeated in state elections next year when the f.t. suggested it could do quite well there is a concern here this is a divided state about the future of germany the future of the immigration policy but this isn't happening to me there are still those who insist migrant refugees are also welcome our correspondent sean at chelsea reporting from camus thanks a lot. let's get you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has praised washington's decision to end decades long funding for the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees he said the money should instead be used to quote rehabilitate the refugees well the u.s. has been the agency's largest donor palestinians have condemned the decision. u.s. defense secretary james mattis has counseled three hundred million dollars in aid to pakistan citing a lack of decisive action

political correspondent in the berlin bureau of people online and she's been reporting on candidates the f.t. community is gradually merging with right wing extremist groups in germany she says if the moderates in the party fail to take a stand against this development they will inevitably be dominated by radicals and finally i'm very glad to greet our colleague from torch of elegant afia eka who also has been reporting from she says the events income that's have the potential to further divide german society so we have seen to start plainly different faces of come that's over the past ten days we've heard dramatically opposing views about what actually happened there on sunday august twenty sixth so you linda have been reporting from candidates and i'd like to ask you to get us started by giving us your sense of who is behind the violence and where kevin it's really comes down to which is the face of candidates that's a difficult question. something that the people there are some self i think i've talked to people from both sides as we can say initiative some people that are very engaged in

suggests that coalition wrangling is a major problem and is playing into the hands of the far right f.t. . so what do all those numbers in that survey mean douglas chief political editor joins us now from our parliamentary said yes we can or as they saw gains for the far right f.t. making it the second strongest spot in the country what does this mean for chancellor angela merkel. it is on to really stand their ground and going back to those voters which she vowed to do after those general elections which for the first time saw the far right if the end to the german parliament but the bottom line really is that there is way too much infighting in the government for this to be credible and that the one beneficiary is the party with a very simple messages which are mainly on migration which is the far right if the so a lot to be concerned over for german chancellor angela merkel and at the same time as so of weakness that was actually quite evident in her action when she was able to get rid of the chief spy in germany and unable to really so her rebellious interior minister who is the bos

there's a change of line it would seem you know polls show the party is not just losing votes to the f.t. but also to other parties are we seeing a revolt of some kind against of the far right policies there to. well what we are definitely seeing is not the same is happening in bavaria what is happening on a federal level here in germany that the political landscape is becoming more frakt in fact at the very elections on the fourteenth of october we could see seven parties and the very important for the very first time and incidentally parties that have established really clear top picks are doing really well in the polls and that includes the green party last year that many people thought the green party was almost dead but the green party could become second strongest pasi thank you nina and finally an update from formula one where qualifying has come to a close it was a competitive battle for the staging starting grid at the singapore grand prix with less than one second separating first from sixth place reigning champion and overall leader lewis hamilton came out on top taking pole p

change of one it would seem you know polls show the party is not just losing votes the f.t. but also to other parties are we seeing a revolt of some kind against the far right policies there to. well what we are definitely seeing is not the same is happening in bavaria what is happening on a federal level here in germany that the political landscape is becoming more frakt in fact at the very elections on the fourteenth of october we could see seven parties and have the very implement for the very first time and incidentally parties at the top establish really clear topics are doing really well in the polls and that includes the green party last year that many people thought the green party was almost dead but the green party could become second strongest pasi thank you nina. the main program of bundesliga matches has come to an end and yet again byron munich have three points the champions beat buyer leave accused three one at home and head to berlin is one hundred percent records are over following an action packed two two draw but there were victories for our fortuna dusse

was twenty three percent now the survey points up obvious concern about the advances made by the f.t. across germany the in for test polling agency asked our representative sample of german voters if they thought it would be appropriate for germany's domestic security agency to put that right wing party under surveillance on the response was clear two thirds of respondents said yes one third of voters said no to putting the party under surveillance. so let's speak to our reinhard schlink or he is from in for a test map and he joins us now for more on the story what are the f.t. the biggest party in the east according to this poll we had a huge majority of respondents as well saying they want to put this party under surveillance how divided is germany. well in this case it's not as divided as we will see with further questions the two thirds majority and the rest of it says this party has to be observed and in the east it's a slight majority of fifty three percent but what is quite interesting that three quarters of the young generation eighteen to thirty four they think this party rea

and f.t. member told germany via the data was contained in an unreleased government report. when we spoke with mr marson about the reports it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islam and threats. s.p.d. chairwoman and their nala smith for crisis talks with merkel and conservatives on thursday but there was no breakthrough talks will continue next tuesday and i'm joined now by my colleague chris durst brigade he's been covering the story for us here in berlin good evening to you krista first so how widely is it that will be out of a job. well the interesting thing is that last night he looked he was going to survive this crisis but the tide seems to turn either during the night to this morning in particular the social democrats or the junior coalition partners in chancellor merkel's coalition have their stance stiffened quite considerably and they are fairly categoric in that demands for his resignation the opposition liberal free democrats they were also dealing dallying last n

of ignoring the concerns of people worried about migration one member of the government accused the f.t of using fascist language. as angela merkel arrived in parliament today it was already clear that this wouldn't be a normal address to the bundestag at the forefront was the recent far right violence in eastern germany she started her speech with a strong call for a common togetherness against exclusion and incitement it's good. there's no excuse and justification for incitement partially use of violence nazi hatred hostility towards people who look different own a jewish restaurant attacks on police and conceptual arguments about whether it's hate or hunts really don't help us. who live by. the largest opposition party in the bundestag the far right alternative for germany a.f.d. has drawn its own conclusions blaming foreigners a migrants for germany's problems. the list goes on. chancellor merkel you have nothing more to offer this country and its citizens except stubbornness arrogance and insults your barricading yourself in the chancellery further away from reality i repeat my que

and the f.t. member told german media the data was contained in an unreleased government report . and we spoke with mr martin about the report it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats. critics point to other instances where they say mass and has favored the far right or been less than forthright about past conversations but for the time being his conservative boss interior minister horst say hoffa has backed the secret service had. this oh. god like to tell you that mr marson has my confidence as head of the office of the protection of the constitution of. say s.p.d. chairwoman met for crisis talks with nicole on thursday but in the end it was only announced that talks will continue next tuesday perhaps giving masson time to decide to step down. well for more on this story let's bring in political correspondent. hello to you so just how serious is this crisis for chancellor merkel's government. well once again chancellor merkel is caught between the part of those who wi

then yes you know the f.t. china opens the first battery cell production companies here that's nice that means battery cells will be made in europe too but i don't know whether that should be our goal not to be able to do it ourselves in the european union so i advocate that we develop the strategic ability to produce battery cells too in the coming decades that will be extremely important. to fix theme the growing competition from china and the u.s. free trade under threat from protectionist tariffs britain poised to leave the e.u. these are some of the uncertainties that german industry has to contend with not to mention the specter of growing xenophobia in germany itself. as a german economy we need open borders we need an open mind and this we need a globalization we are working in the in and with the global environment so. national protectionism is not what we really need amidst all the uncertainties of a was certainty at the meeting on one point the economic boom has passed its peak worldwide and in germa

we suspect the f.t. could be attractive to police because the party stands for a strong state a clear rules and clear dominance. clout of the club. for years germany's political leaders have tried to improve conditions for security services providing more personnel better equipment and resources but the massive case may yet prove to undermine such efforts. are at some soccer news now and sunday's early burn as they get action by oliver picked up their first points of the season when they beat in a four minds one they'll at home germany is. grab the goal on sixty minutes to fire leverkusen up to fifteen spots frankfurter hosting live think right now in the final game of match day four and last evening byron travel to shelter in a battle of the top two from last season but so far those terms then very different from their stock at the bottom with no points and biron made sure they stayed there . first there was be inevitable off the page me on correct square booed on his return to shell. and then came the

kevin is located is pretty divided we saw that last year in the national elections saxony voted for the f.t. the far right party to be the strongest party in those national elections it's expected that they have to also do very well in regional elections next year so that just goes to show exactly how divided this city this state is in particular. some people reporting from candidates thank you. as i have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a suicide bombing in somalia's capital mogadishu has killed at least six people including two children and that's according to police the bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside the local government office just outside the school this militant group says it was behind the attack. protesters have rallied in several russian citizens against government plans to raise the country's pension age this despite recent pledges by president vladimir putin to soften the and popular measures the government's new proposal would delay pension eligibility by five years for both women and men u.s. defense secretary james mattis

he's accused of improperly passing on sensitive information to germany's far right populist party the f.t. and a half team member told germany via the data was contained in an unreleased government report. when we spoke with mr marson about the report it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threat. s.p.d. chairwoman under the analysis met for crisis talks with merkel and conservatives on thursday but there was no breakthrough talks will continue next tuesday. and i'm joined now by my colleague chris durst brigade he's been covering the story for us here in berlin good evening to you krista first so how widely is it that will be out of a job. well the interesting thing is that last night he looked he was going to survive this crisis but the tide seems to turn either during the night this morning in particular the social democrats or the junior coalition partners in chancellor merkel's coalition have their stance stiffened quite considerably and they are fairly categoric in that demands

kevin is located is pretty divided we saw that last year in the national elections saxony voted for the f.t. the far right party to be the strongest party in those national elections it's expected that they have to do very well in regional elections next year so that just goes to show exactly how divided this city this state is in particular. some people reporting from candidates thank you. as now revisit that story from somalia's capital mogadishu where a tragic bombing has left at least six people dead and i'm not joined by journalist . who is on the line. if you can hear me can you further describe the circumstances of this bombing oh i understand that we have dropped him again so we'll definitely try and reach him later on let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world protesters have rallied in several russian cities against government plans to raise the country's pension age this despite recent pledges by president vladimir putin to soften the unpopular measures the government's new proposal would delay pension and agility by five years for both women and men

think that part of the problem is the political rhetoric that comes from political parties like the f.t. but also globally from other far right and populist leaders that is anti immigrant and anti slum and when ordinary people who might kind of privately hold racist opinions start to see that validation and legitimation of anti immigrant and to islam islamophobia can racist sentiments coming from political leaders they feel empowered and i think that gets amplified then over social media and the way in which people can kind of share share racist thoughts that they might not have shared prior to this kind of online space so i think that's part of what we're seeing here is that back and forth of legitimation and activation how do you respond to those who would say that this is not something which is a particular germany because the those who came a woman the election is against a backdrop of xenophobia to migrants not of one elections in broad trump to the u.s. a lot for the brigs it to happen behind the spectacular rise of the populist movement in europe. yes i am i wouldn't say that. le

been overtaken by the far right alternative for germany the party of eighteen percent that makes the f.t. the second strongest political force in the country calling for the green left and pro-business f.t.p. parties is largely remained the same so thomas sparrow perhaps these polling figures explain why the three party leaders have agreed so quickly to new talks in part that's correct obviously because they realize that they do not necessarily reflect. what the public what the german of voters are thinking you can just imagine the criticism that came from german voters after mr marson was promoted and there was an outcry also on social media regarding this decision but i would see and i would interpret these numbers in a more much broader perspective because it's not only about mr marson that we see these numbers it's about a general sense of disconnect between german voters and traditional parties like the conservative bloc all the social democrats and that reflects precisely fill why we are seeing these numbers and why other parties like the alternative for germany have precisely bein

the far right f.t. party that was the strongest party in the state of saxony there are people here who say that they are very concerned about the german chancellor angela merkel's migration policy of the last few years. thank you very much joining us from. candidates here. a public memorial service for the elite u.s. senator john mccain is beginning in washington d.c. the motorcade carrying mccain's casket has arrived at washington's national cathedral where guests have been gathering a vietnam veteran mccain died last week aged eighty one after battling brain cancer his widow cindy and daughter meghan accompanied the casket as it traveled from the capitol building to the cathedral former presidents barack obama and george w. bush are set to deliver eulogies at the service president donald trump who had a bit of feud with mccain was not invited to attend. well our correspondent alexandra phenomena is outside washington national cathedral where that service is being held and of course here in studio with

kevin is located is pretty divided we saw that last year in the national elections saxony voted for the f.t. the far right party to be the strongest party in those national elections it's expected that they have to do very well in regional elections next year so that just goes to show exactly how divided this city this state is in particular. some people reporting from candidates thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world protesters have rallied in several russia against government plans to raise the country's special pension age this despite recent pledges by president vladimir putin to soften the unpopular measures the government's new proposal would delay pension image ability by five years for both women and men. u.s. defense secretary james mattis has canceled three hundred million dollars in aid to pakistan citing a lack of decisive action against militants the u.s. believes pakistan has allowed terror groups especially near the afghanistan border to operate freely the u.s. secretary of state is due next week. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu