today, friedrich merz launched his bid to lead germany's christian democrats. he was once sidelined by chancellor merkel. now he is back and hotly tipped to take her job. also coming up, uw heads to honduras to find out why so many people fear for their lives and are now walking to the united states, knowing that president trump has vowed not to let t them in. and pakistan's top court frees a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. but islamists are determined to get her back in jail and what the judges who freed her to be executed. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight, we are getting a clearer picture of who could possibly try to become the next chancellor of germany. it has been barely two days since angela merkel announced that she will step down as leader of her party and not seek reelection as the country's chancellor. today one of her long-standing critics launched his campaign to take her place. his name is friedrich merz, and he says he has what it takes to unite a divided party. reporter: meet chancellor merkel's ol

chancellor well today one of her longstanding critics launched his campaign to take her place his name is friedrich and he says that he can unite a divided party. meet chancellor merkel's old rival the man she once ousted is back to challenge her. the c.d.u. needs a fresh start and renewal. needs a forward thinking political discussion and i believe that means the c.d.u. has to be clear about its core values i'm going to america had taken over his position as parliamentary leader of the conservatives sixteen years ago many say he's never forgiven her he carried on as her second in command for a couple of years then in two thousand and nine he left politics he returned to his day job as an attorney joining an international corporate law firm he's also sat on the board of governors for several companies including the world's largest asset management firm blackrock so far is one of three contenders for the party leadership he's considered the most conservative among them and would represent a clear break with merkel style of politics. although he's been a critic of the chancellor and her government si

who wants to be germany's next chancellor well ten years ago friedrich merits quit politics the loser in a merits versus marital rivalry that was then today a would be winning merits told reporters that he's back and ready to lead where uncle americal is about to leave i bring in berlin this is the day. of the month ladies and gentlemen my name is frank rich math to even speak on this for you is a convinced european and the convince transatlantic systems of them it is in the treaty i stand for germany that he's open to the wealth of its use roots a base in its christian ethics its wealth you see you now need a new will and a new style well you're going. to go see go see we cannot accept votes is being suggested by populist movements with constant disappointment and frustration with the established parties. a few he's been of his i am firmly convinced that. under these change circumstances will manage and gets along with each other. also coming up tonight u.s. intelligence says that russia meddled in the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen you would think that the lessons

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is already a clear favorite according to a new spiegel online poll more germans would like to see friedrich meir take over from miracle as head of the conservative c.d.u. party later this year now the job of party leader usually goes hand in hand with becoming chancellor before he left politics merits was considered america's loudest rival within the conservative party could his return he said in the end of the miracle error or today as miracle attempted to carry on with the business of being chancellor she was confronted with questions about not being chance. i believe that my position in international negotiations will not change at all. you could say i have more time to concentrate on my responsibilities as head of government and. as far as the list of possible candidates for the leadership of the c.d.u. is concerned as i said yesterday this is an open process i've learned in the past as chair of the party that you shouldn't get involved in the question of succession it just doesn't work so that's something i'm definitely not going to do so it's an open process different people have put

years ago friedrich merits quit politics the loser in a merits vs miracle rivalry that was then today a would be winning merits told reporters that he's back and ready to lead where uncle americal is about to leave i bring in berlin this is the day. ladies and gentlemen my name is basically teach math. is a convinced european and the competing strengths atlanticist comes along it isn't going to be i stand for germany that he's open to the world who gets in these roots a-basin it's christian ethics it's unusual to see you now needs renewal and a new stock. to listen to see if we cannot accept voters being seduced by populist movements who would you took you out of disappointment and frustration with the established parties. a few of those he's been if his family commands that. under these change circumstances will manage and get along with each other. also coming up tonight u.s. intelligence says that russia in the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen you would think that the lessons learned would be applied to next week's crucial midterm elections and you would be wrong.

time rival to act of america has lost his bid to succeed as leader of germany's christian democrats friedrich the man said he was the right in the united divergent ways of refractions policy. tell it we're coming up with. the business sequence is paul poised to pour six hundred billion euros into developing an innovation campus and it's both places you'll have just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour i'm going to. frankfurt. international gateway into the best connections of road and rail. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the whole world. experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by for.

sidelined by chance of american in the past now tips to take over her job friedrich matt sun launches his bid to become leader of germany's christian democrats. nato stages joint military exercises in northern europe involving troops on hardware from all twenty nine member states moscow just scraps the war games as a russian exercise so is the alliance ready for twenty first century conflict. welcome to the program a court in pakistan has freed a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy well the baby was condemned to hang in twenty ten for insulting islam prophet mohammad since today's ruling thousands of islamist activists have blocked roads and ransacked government property in protest with one group even calling for the deaths of the judges overturn the sentence. she has spent most of the past eight years in a prison cell in solitary confinement. bibi has always maintained her innocence the christian farm worker and mother of two was convicted in two thousand and ten of blasphemy she was accused of insulting the prophet mohammed after muslim women from her village objected t

correspondent melinda gray i mean these events know how are taking place quickly melinda what would a friedrich merits christian democratic union party look like he hasn't given us a lot to go on so far but what we do know is that he is business friendly always has been both when he was back when he was a politician and now as a corporate lawyer for the last nine years he was also always a big advocate of tax reform of making the tax code so simple and a tax declaration so easy that could be written on the back of a coaster for a year so that probably indicates that he would implement more friendly business policies beyond that he made it clear that he wants to open the doors to let voters who have drifted away to the far right nationalist party return to the fold how exactly he would do that is unclear because they don't care about business friendly policies what they're interested in is migration stopping it he we do know that as a politician he was very much in favor of stricter measures for assimilation to what was known as leading german cultural values so possibly we would see something a

so how is this likely to affect the vote well because it is from the friedrich ebert political foundation is the country director for afghanistan welcome to the doubly thanks for having me what effect are these latest killings likely to have so far as vote on the dramatic events in kandahar obviously a major setback for the elections and for the afghan government at large they just reiterate and underline the already existing concerns for forgot to security on election day they have been targeted killings of candidates to have been attacks against election rallies and i don't think we can fully comprehend what it means for ordinary afghan voters to be heading to the polling centers tomorrow to go door to cost a vote knowing that they are putting their lives at risk it takes a lot of courage and i'm afraid many people are not going to do that simply because they are fearing for their lives so it's a given all the vats all these elections can they be described as credible but the environment in order for free fair transparent and inclusive elections to take place is extraordinarily difficul

the warning has got it let's hope the world listens good talk to you thank you for joining us cull friedrich and thank you thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a vigil has been held in the bulger in city of ruins say in memory of murdered television journalist victoria martin over the thirty year old was raped and killed on saturday but it's unclear whether the attack is connected to her work has been an international outcry or a thorough investigation into had their. opposition leader morris come to has declared victory in the country's presidential election even though no results have been formally announced come to did not provide any data to support his claim the party of incumbent bia rejected the claim and accused mr cantor of breaking the law. turkey's present the one has ordered the saudi cultureless in istanbul to reveal the whereabouts of a missing journalist this isn't a saudi writer come out. at disappeared last week during a visit to the consulate and has asked riyadh to prove he left the building. for a politician also naro house on

was very glamorous and credible stuff yes so but not the first time the physics past of the friedrich shot has worked with a top design words no absolutely not to write this is actually been part of this is part of their revamp strategy i think after about two thousand and eight because this theater of course goes back a hundred years and it had quite a dusty old fashioned image after after the g.d.r. years so they've taken on this practice of working with with top designers and so far we've seen shows with artistic direction by big names like me. you can see here in some of these scenes that chua was also. a couple of years. here and of course the unstoppable. and all of them were equally spectacular but interestingly the budgets seem to keep getting bigger and so i think they definitely are trying to raise the bar every time now i should add that the. biggest theater stage in the world felt the original building was largely destroyed in the war but in its new residence the stage spends a gob smacking two thousand eight hundred fifty four square meters and so it's perfectly suited yo

was his date of leaders live from goal and the race to succeed i'm going to pace friedrich met some launches his bed something germany's christian democrats one sidelined by chance i'm back and he's now hotly tipped to take over her job also on the program nato stages joint military exercises in northern europe involving troops and hardware from all twenty nine member states moscow describes the event as an antique russian exercise so is the alliance ready for twenty first century conflicts.

so how is this likely to affect the vote well because it is from the friedrich ebert political foundation is their country director for afghanistan welcome to the w thanks for having me what effect avi's latest killings are likely to have so far as vote on the dramatic events in kandahar obviously a major setback for the elections and for the afghan government at large they just reiterate and underline the already existing concerns to figure to security on election day they have been targeted killings of candidates to have been attacks against election rallies and i don't think we can fully comprehend what it means for ordinary afghans voters to be heading to the polling centers tomorrow to go there to cast their vote knowing that they are putting their lives at risk it takes a lot of courage and i'm afraid many people are not going to do that simply because they are fearing for their lives so so given all of that all these elections can they be described as credible but the environment in order for free fair transparent and inclusive elections to take place is extraordinarily difficult a

attitudes really gracious is aligned with merkel's and then there's merkel's long standing rival friedrich commands the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody is ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor the dean barber al-jazeera. and a german nurse has admitted to murdering one hundred patients with lethal injections emma hayward has a story. nails hogle hit his face as he entered the crew it's already a convicted killer and now accused of the murder of one hundred patients to hospitals in germany prosecutors say the former nurse was motivated by vanity but he wanted to be seen as a hero by trying to resuscitate the patients who were given a lethal dose of medication to me took. her goal is accused of one hundred counts of murder he's believed to have abused his

today, friedrich merz launched his bid to lead germany's christian democrats. he was once sidelined by chancellor merkel. now he is back and hotly tipped to take her job. also coming up, uw heads to honduras to find out why so many people fear for their lives and are now walking to the united states, knowing that president trump has vowed

and joining me now is daniel conduct from the friedrich naaman foundation which is going to germany's liberal f.t.p. body he's responsible for bulgaria welcome mr cadigan your organization has been working to promote liberal values in bulgaria for decades what's your assessment of victoria body nor was investigations into not scared of fraud. and the it is not only last year froth we have foes likely high level corruption cases where not only a couple of millions but tens of millions have been still missing where do you project have cost four times of what they should have cost so therefore of course especially in the rises when it comes to the killing of a well known journalist and still we cannot say if that was in their coming was actually linked to our investigations but the fact that so many people in civil society are raising that question tells you a lot about media freedom and the atmosphere and bulgarians the mums and who look on exam express fear for their own safety and some might even get into hiding what can you tell us about the media landscape in bulgaria. unfortunate m

rates so that might be one thing we could expect from him let's have a listen to something else friedrich mensa's been saying about germany's political landscape you know if you can still i want to be really clear about this it bothers me so that's why i'm saying it's clearly. we cannot except that on the left wing and the right wing fringe of our democracy in regional assemblies all sixteen legion assemblies and i and also in the national parliament the buddhist tighe parties that are dividing our society are stop wishing themselves we must not a law is a situation where voters are at of disappointment or frustration attach themselves to these kinds of populist movements are large themselves to be seduced by them. well into crying out what is frantic minutes as message there. to be honest he's not saying anything all that different than what we have heard from a number of conservative leaders but the question is what might he do differently well he did tell us today in his announcement that he has conservative social values so we might see him try to take the christian democratic union i

if he has his way probably he'll weigh in as a kingmaker no doubt and support somebody more like friedrich mazz who is somebody that is now an asset manager for black rock who was in her of ministration or that's very interesting you know we've spoken about on the program before the first norge dream to that idea that not an identical but a different pipeline we got the norge three one coming from russia no nordstrom two and then just last week germany says they were going to. look quite natural gas from the us we think it's about you think that maybe the chancellor is trying to get in the good graces of the truck ability and i think it will perhaps but also don't forget they want to diversify they were very dependent on russia liquefied liquefied natural gas and i think that they wanted to diversify are there have been a lot of questions about the cost of all these plans that they were going to be building in northern germany because a lot of that could be taken care of from some of those dutch facilities so the view was that it would take about a decade to remain stable but i think going

coalition of the grand coalition and give it another try as it were i think if it's somebody like friedrich's metz who replaces anglo-american law against foreign much more of a sort of a right of center conservative then i think it would be well nigh impossible for the grand coalition to consider it would break up there would be fresh elections would be difficult to see with christmas coming up and all this we were just we just spent the better part of the last year working through a whole election process an election cycle here joe we don't want it to happen again but i think it would be a certain inevitability if there was a sort of a new neo conservative member of the. party challenging for the leadership and winning it so you think i'm not depends on who takes over from academical as party leader should she decide that she's not going to stand for that post but to what extent of the developments that we're seeing today would seem to cause a bit of a crisis and both the s.p.d. and the c.d.u. a result of the election result sunday's election results in the state of hesse who we've been tal

attitudes really gracious is aligned with merkel's and then there's merkel's longstanding rival friedrich admits the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody's ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor the dean barber al-jazeera belin . and news just in the united the u.s. secretary of defense has called on both sides in the war in yemen to me since we next month the peace talks james mattis made that statement just a short time ago at the u.s. institute of pace yemen has had it more problems than any people deserve to carry and we're calling on all the parties share specifically the cooties and the arab coalition to meet inch wheaten in november. and come do a solution not talk about subordinate issues about what town they're going to meet in a what size table if t

moderate liberal attitude really gracious is aligned with merkel's there's merkel's long standing rival friedrich admits the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody is ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor the dean barber al-jazeera belin . a man who is already serving a life sentence for murder could be germany's most prolific serial killer the former nurse is on trial accused of killing one hundred patients to hospitals and he would reports. nails hogle hit his face as he entered the quilt already a convicted killer and now accused of the murder of a hundred patients to hospitals in germany prosecutors say the former nurse was motivated by vanity that he wanted to be seen as a hero by trying to resuscitate the patients who were given a lethal dose of medication to pi

liberal attitude really gracious is aligned with merkel's then there's michael's long standing rival friedrich advance the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody is ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor. al-jazeera but still ahead on the news hour accused of murdering one hundred patients post-war germany's deadliest serial killer appears in court and we'll tell you how human destruction of the planet is eroding animals capital it's coming up in sport lester opens a book of condolences for their late owner who was killed in a helicopter crash. hello it's been raining recently in around and afghanistan i suspect that rain is welcome particular afghanistan i was the right time the year for however is not staying in one place is a frontal system so it will move throug

her too much from the sidelines but he does plan to run for the party leadership and then you have friedrich merz, a former rival, left plex, well liked by the business community. those are the three declared potential replacements right now. yvonne: you have all these issues in europe right now. you have italy and brexit. do you you think markets actually wants her to stay given the instability around the region there is this >> for europe she's kind of like the leader of europe. that's how she's viewed. she's viewed as the voice of reason in all these surface. . she kind of has the last word on many of the issues facing the effort u. now. we did see stocks rise in germ me. there's some talk that maybe if she's out, there will be a stimulus there. they'll ease up on austerity measures, so from that perspective, the markets might see some opportunity but longer term, the questions about italy. you see the rise of nationalist parties in various parties. the rise of right-wing populism and merkel was staunchly against this. she represents that liberal democracy holding the beacon for that in t

liberal attitudes really gracious is aligned with merkel's then there's merkel's longstanding rival friedrich amounts the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody's ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor the team barbara al-jazeera. of course you can follow all of the stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com. you're watching under their arms the whole rom and these are all top news stories u.s. defense secretary james mattis as called on the warring parties in yemen to meet within thirty days speaking at the u.s. institute of peace mattis said all sides need to do more to prevent the deaths of innocent people. we've got to replace combat with compromise and we're working in. speak with mr martin griffin the u.n

friedrich met his bid to become leader of germany's christian democrats. joint military exercises in northern europe involving troops from twenty nine member states just scraps the war games as a russian exercise so is the alliance ready for twenty first century conflict. welcome to the program a court in pakistan has freed a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy whether to ask if baby was condemned to hang him twenty ten for insulting islam prophet mohammad since today's ruling thousands of islamist activists blocked roads and ransacked government property in protest with one group even calling for the deaths of the judges overturn the sentence. she has spent most of the past eight years in a prison cell in solitary confinement. bibi has always maintained her innocence the christian farm worker and mother of two was convicted in two thousand and ten of blasphemy she was accused of insulting the prophet mohammed after muslim women from her village objected to her drinking water from their shared class because she was christian bibi then became t

but the last part of the book about the last man was this is nietzsche, friedrich nietzsche last man, the man or the human being that emerges at the end of history where your peace and prosperity, democracy but yet know aspiration to you have no satisfaction of this in a hearing that people have for something greater. and i said this is going to be a problem for democracy in the future because peace and prosperity, it's great when you don't have it as an authoritarian or very poor country, i want you can take that for granted people what something extra. there's this part of human personality that the greeks called -- spiritedness or this belief that got in inner sense of dignity that is not being adequately recognized by other people in the surrounding society. this is the driver of a lot of phenomenon in the world, beginning with democracy itself. if you live in an authoritarian country where you were treated like human garbage, this is the origin of the arab spring. there is a tunisian vegetable seller named mohammad assisi who it is vegetable cart confiscated by the government by

who wants to be germany's next chancellor well ten years ago friedrich merits quit politics the loser in a merits versus marital rivalry that was then today a would be winning merits told reporters that he's back and ready to lead where uncle americal is about to leave i bring golf in berlin this is the day. ladies and gentlemen my name is basically fish mats. before you is a convinced european and convince transatlantic systems of the indians and to be on touchdown for germany that he's open to the world who gets its roots a base on its christian ethics it's a huge blow to see the.