why do they have such a hard time building momentum there well if you look at the history of the green party in those wages the greens started out in the west where there is a different mentality different preoccupations and often in shows their focus is met mostly on environmental questions while. most of the capacious evolve that revolve around the economy situation and that's where the 2 world 2 worlds collide how can a party i'd like to greens promote renewable energy in a region east germany where the economy revolves around the coal industry for example and that's where the challenge it is' for the green party and its origin let's throw forward if on sunday we see the far right come out with a strong. party in both states what does that mean for chancellor angela merkel and her government here in berlin well if you look at the campaign of the h.d. d.v.d. played on voters' frustrations on feelings of having being forgotten by the federal government the time of their initial cation and the. xenophobic and racist minority in those regions using populists with or make anti immigrant feelin

in part if you look at the history of the green party in does regions the green party started out inwest and germany was a very different mentality where patients are very different defocus the name indicates is trying to be on the environment. most of the patients are on the economy situation and that is where we have 2 worlds colliding how can a party like the greens promote renewable energy you know eastern germany why do you come with me relies heavily revolves heavier on coal mines for example yes it's a good question but the coal mining and the driving some of the voting there you know is the final results do come in with the statistics that you just mentioned there the if the leading right now by here in brandenburg just behind. you in saxony what would that mean for the governing coalition and for all america well that would be said for the ruling coalition once again you say date it shows that the voters don't place a trust in traditional parties anymore so that would confirm the far right party of the if he was a 1st opposition party outside. and that also puts into questio

the only green party mp.hich he has of the moment and we all know politics is a very short span, but what she is doing now is calling on the tories and the backbenchers we mentioned earlier, the david gauke squad and the former pro—european ministers to stand up and be candid to stop borisjohnson. and that rings true with what nigel was saying earlier. prepared to put country before party. they did not ca re country before party. they did not care about the conservative party if you are the liberal democrats. when they go that far as affecting?” suspect there will be some defections. not the people. not philip hammond and rory stewart. but there could be some people. philip hammond will lead the rebels on the back benches probably and so she is a billing to people like him, david gauke and rory stewart and also trying to get people in government and in cabinet who don't have a like of no deal and nikki morgan. let's go on to the observer. and there is another story they are on brexit. kind ofa another story t

as germany's green party enjoys a surge in popular support of late we take a look at one of the most ambitious yet very controversial new environmental policies the suggested. the morning live from us international's world news a mosque and kevin i'm with you with your monday morning update thanks for tuning 1st and as mentioned france's president. russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence later today on the mediterranean coast the talks which are expected to focus on the crisis in ukraine syria and the persian gulf come ahead of the g. 7 summit later mbia writs this week shall i do been reports. well what an idyllic setting for the 2 presidents to meet a 4th overlooking the mediterranean sea thought of a break and so on has been an official french residence of the president since 1968 of course it's not the 1st time the president has invited a leader to this sport it's his holiday retreat and he did of course invite to reason may the former u.k. prime minister last see in 2018 but this will be the 1st tete a tete he's had with president putin at that fort well many are saying

if you will be good and then does your p. college eat the green party that's become a key player in. a box on the left wing parties will have to form coalitions with them through the quiz show. today the green party called when a loss of municipalities ally inside that going to have to build alliances. the only thing certain about and what's new about these alliances is that the green party is now in the position where it can impose environmental policies. as a top priority could you repeat the missiles in the twenties shore acres i need i'll go the mayor of paris is of course not without her critics. how do you rate her chances of reelection in the spring of next year? some distilled footage is similar -- but that would lead the body you should yeah that's a very difficult question but beyond paris and what i can say isishat a stududy involving fifteen thousand french citizens revealed that more than 80% of the public feels that man's have performemed well l over role. the a ticket plans 60% say they would like them to run again in the next election come to the other question that ex

interesting as well that the green party and the national ‘s, plaid cymru, asked their supporters tohe lib democrats. they have taken a seat from the conservatives with a majority of 1400, overturning a conservative majority of over 8000. i think we can now hearfrom the victorious liberal democrat candidate. i am incredibly humbled by your support, from every walk of life and every political persuasion, people have chosen to believe in my positive liberal vision for something better. and by supporting that liberal vision, people in this electorate have sent a powerful message to westminster. we demand better. welsh farmers and small business owners facing a no deal brexit demand better. working families, working families relying on food banks to feed their children demand better. young people who see politicians failing to tackle the climate emergency demand better. the message to all of you from me and oui’ message to all of you from me and our new leader, joe swinson, is that you can have better. better with the liberal democrats. this victory must bea liberal democrats. this victo

which were just that 5.7 percent there well those numbers could transform the greens in eastern germany from a fringe party to a force to be reckoned with and beyond doubt the greens co-leader of about how back is being talked about as a possible future german chancellor is chief political editor michelle a note was out on the campaign trail with topic. this man cycling through small town saxony could well be on his way to succeed angle americal as germany's next chancellor in recent months about harvick has taken his green party to new heights in the opinion polls they're expected to double their share of the vote in next sunday's regional elections in the eastern states of brandenburg and saxony a development that raises big questions about bigger ambitions. in my walking through the countryside here with the future chancellor of germany. most of all you're walking next to a party leader who's campaigning in saxony in brandenburg together with his colleagues at the beginning of the year everyone said sure you have a good opinion poll did you get all crushed in brother bergen sectioning and they're all th

to just 5.7 percent in the last election of those numbers could transform the greens in eastern germany from a fringe partyo a force to be reckoned with green momentum as they're calling it the co-leader of the greens here in germany is even being talked about as a possible future german chancellor his name is robert e.w.'s chief political editor called up with him on the campaign trail. this month cycling to small town saxony could well be on his way to succeed. next time and recent months has taken his green party to new heights in the opinion polls they're expected to double their share of the vote in next sunday's regional elections in the eastern states. and saxony a development that raises big questions about bigger ambitions. am i walking through the countryside here with a future chance of. a time for most of all you know walking next to a party. leader he's campaigning in saxony in brandenburg together with his colleagues at the beginning of the year everyone said sure you have good opinion polls which you can get all crushed in brandenburg and saxony and now the opposite could happen as germany's

greens are well on the way into regional government. here they have been able to score with voters in the race to offer alternatives to the far right if tea party the tightly contested race between those pushing for change and those promising the return to good old days seize the greens also an anonymous a trained doctor up against the f.t. parties and yes kind of bits an army veteran. because we cannot afford to fail on our climate targets time and time again we finally need to get serious about meeting the 1.5 degree target of the paris accord we only have a couple of years left to do that. a liberal leaning crowd feels the a protest too much overt rhetoric on migration. we have to openly address the problems people have and that's what the f.d.a. is about we don't start fears. of the high hopes of the greens prove that the political battle in eastern germany is not simply about the rise of the far right it's also about who might replace angle america as her political era draws to a close. now the fight against the so-called islamic state may be winding down as the extremist group has lost much of the territory it once held however online the

experimental stage and probably decades away from commercial use the green opposition party demands higher taxes of course and industry wants to go on as usual. the heavy hitters from the german government arrive by helicopter that had more to do with speed than the environment but the environment was the order of the day and leipsic anglo-american made it clear that climate friendly aviation can be a competitive advantage and here you know if we invest in new technologies in focus on modern aircraft with low noise levels and low emission engines the aviation industry can accept it and demand in competitiveness can be security that. one policy the german government wants to promote is the use of hydrogen powered aircraft the opposition green party is calling for higher taxes on jet fuel but the industry sees threats to its competitiveness. as of year it's important that the german aviation industry can compete and therefore we say we need internationally agreed aviation policy not national unilateralists. the german transport minister opposes any new taxes but he is considering raising the

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germany all but disappears pie in the sky thinking ahead of the curve we debate the resurgent green party's proposed environmental. reverie or chiming in from right around the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my name is union only. french president a month will welcome russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence on the mediterranean coast this monday their talks are expected to focus on the crises in ukraine syria on the persian gulf come ahead of the g. 7 summit in theorists of the weekend charlotte reports. well what an idyllic setting for the 2 presidents meet for to looking the mediterranean sea thought of a blank also has being an official french residents of the president since 1968 of course is not the 1st time that president macklin has invited to this force it's his holiday retreat and he did of course invite to reserve may the former u.k. prime minister. last see in 2018 but this will be the 1st tete a tete he's had with president putin at that for what well many are saying the timing of this meeting between the 2 presidents is very significant why i

and his japanese green party enjoys the support we take a look at one of the most ambitious but very controversial new environmental policy . good morning live. here in moscow is kevin irwin here for half a monday morning updates out of this than france's president amount of mccrone is set to welcome russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence later in the mediterranean coast monday their talks which are expected to focus on the crisis in ukraine syria and the ongoing problems in the persian gulf come ahead of a big g. 7 summit in beirut slater in the wake. well what an idyllic setting for the 2 presidents to meet a 4th overlooking the mediterranean sea thought of a break and so on has been an official french residence of the president since 1968 of course it's not the 1st time the president has invited a leader to this force it's his holiday retreat and he did of course invite to reserve may the former u.k. prime minister last see in 2018 but this will be the 1st tete a tete he's had with president putin at that for what well many are saying the timing of this meeting between th

the green party the best in germany, and green parties across europe.was really the untold story of the european parliamentary election. it is not the first time that the cfu would have -- that the cdu would have eaten the lunch, so to speak, of the green party. if you look at voters, particularly in germany, addressing climate change is the top concern, more than the economy or other factors. so that could be very smart politically and economically. guy: the french are certainly paying attention to it as well. let's ask a broader question. global bond market has been in freefall of late. there's fear about what is happening on the trade front. there's fear about what is happening to the global economy. when you look at what is happening politically, do you see anything that could halt the freefall that we are seeing at the moment? yields are collapsing. germany is negative from the front to the back of the curve. there's negativity all over the place. what is going to change it from your perch politically? tina: hope always springs internal with trader

and the green party enjoys popular support so coming up we take a look at one of their most ambitious new environmental policy. international's world you sense here in moscow my name is kevin o. in that welcome to you have monday morning up and then come 1st from says president . to welcome russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence on the mediterranean coast later monday the talks which are expected to focus on the crisis in syria libya and ukraine come ahead of the g. 7 summit impurities later this week served look ahead to this meeting go the french capital show. that morning to you ok let's talk about take us through what's planned out for the day here. well this is look sets of be a meeting in one of the most ideal expose in front this is being the french presidential residence official since 1968 it's a place where president might go on taking his holiday retreats the last few years it's not the 1st time he's met another leader that he did of course welcome to. may the former u.k. prime minister back in 2018 but this time at the meeting overlooking the mediterranean sea you

and the green party enjoys a surge in the support of late we take a look at one of the most ambitious new environmental policy this controversial. morning thanks choosing out international law from a world view center here in moscow one is kevin irwin here for next half hour with a monday morning update 1st and looking ahead a bit busy france's president tomorrow mccrone is set to welcome russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence later today on the mediterranean coast very nice the talks which are expected to focus on the crisis in ukraine syria and the persian gulf come ahead of the big g. 7 summit in beirut slater in the week sure do been ski reports oh what an idyllic setting for the 2 presidents to meet a 4th overlooking the mediterranean sea port of break also has been an official french residents of the president since 1968 of course it's not the 1st time that president mark warner has invited to this force it's his holiday retreat and he did of course invite to reserve may the former u.k. prime minister in 2000. 18 but this will be the 1st tete a tete he's had with presid

germany green party and join in popular support tweeting a look at one of the. controversial new environmental policy. one minute past 6 am unsure cargo 11 pm an all clear 2 in the afternoon right here in moscow this monday august then one thing this is r t international hope you're having a fine start to the week i mean a new middle. french president will welcome russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence on the mediterranean coast this monday there are talks which are expected to focus on the crises in ukraine syria the persian gulf come ahead of the g. 7 summit. the weekend show do tell us what we need to know. well what an idyllic setting for the 2 presidents. for to looking the mediterranean sea thought of a break also. has been an official french residence of the president since 1968 of course it's not the 1st time the president has invited a leader to this force it's his holiday retreat and he did of course invite to reserve may the former u.k. prime minister last see in 2018 but this will be the 1st tete a tete he's had with president putin at that

job from the berlin green party's executive committee the greens are part of the city's governing coalition thanks for coming in today morning thank you for having me a recent survey shows half of all berlin residents are deeply worried about skyrocketing rents many fear losing their apartment completely situation similar and in other european cities certainly in german cities as well what can you say to reassure all of these people well i actually understand the situation it's a very distressing situation and we stand with them in solidarity and want to support them but to a certain degree the oak of politics hands are tied because building and tenancy legislation is federal but however i strongly believe that. organizing and banding together really can be a force for change oks organizing enough though if you look at the way is the to 6 for building permits specifically from the city government they show little investor faith in berlin city government when it comes to handling the housing crisis building permits are down 9 percent year on year for $28.00 team how can you turn that around

with almost daily warnings of an impending global climate catastrophe germany's green party has been enjoying a surge in support among the time bush's environmental policies as a plan to completely phase out domestic flight by overall in the railways but are most germans on board with that peter all of it takes a closer look. germany's green party has been in full bloom in the polls of late one of their most recent policies they put forward is a railway revolution all trains on a hike to schedule moving at a cheaper price with better while a far right there with the ultimate aim of making the internal flights in germany i think of the past in the next 50 years by 2035 who want to make domestic flights largely obsolete with all of that said to cost the states around $3000000000.00 euro a year what the real passengers think of the proposal i definitely would support the policy i think i'd rather take the plane more often at the trains then the plane yeah if the whole network would have to be in a better condition going by train is really expensive and it's not very comfortable if you'r

from losing their homes and the social environments ok thank you very much beginner john from the green party here in berlin executive committee for coming in this morning thank you thank you. well 50 years ago 4 men crossed the road in london and a photographer took a picture that went wrong become one of the best known images in music history the picture of dizzy brook crossings taken by photographer in mcmillan graced the cover of that band's studio album abbey road and fans have been recreating it ever since . the zebra crossing itself hasn't worn out and it seems neither has the novelty of walking across its hundreds of people came together outside the film a am i recording studios to celebrate the crowd wanted to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of the abbey road album with something special whether that meant proposing to your girlfriend or simply just by being there. i really wanted to come here i stay till my sight feels like they were 50 years ago in the same place in a way i just connect. to mark the anniversary record companies are releasing a special abbey road package th

is germany's green party enjoys a surge of popular support coming up we take a look at one of the most ambitious very controversial new environmental policy. that afternoon life multi-nationals world views h.q. here in moscow is kevin i'm with you for this 30 minute round thanks for your company today 1st then as mentioned france's president tomorrow mccrone is set to welcome russia's vladimir putin to his summer residence on the mediterranean coast later today the talks which are expected to focus on the crisis in ukraine syria and the persian gulf come ahead of the g. 7 summit later in the we can be sure it's sure to do been skee looks forward well what an idyllic setting for the 2 presidents to meet a 4th overlooking the mediterranean sea port of break also has been an official french residents of the president since 1968 of course is not the 1st time that president mark warner has invited a leader to this force it's his holiday retreat and he did of course invite to reason may the former u.k. prime minister last see in 2018 that this will be the 1st tete a tete he's had with presid

the support of the green party, his work majority in parliament is now reduced to just one.r watching. hello. well, the good news is that it's fairly quiet on the weather front but not completely because we are expecting a few showers to develop on friday across some northern parts of the country and that does include derbyshire. the good news is the chance of any heavy rain falling in the vicinity of that reservoir where the environment agency has a severe flood warning, well, the chance of any further rainfall is very, very low and it is looking like it's going to be a mostly sunny day so some good news there, as i say, at least on the weather front. not necessarily with the situation there. the forecast or the satellite pictures shows we are in between weather systems so clear skies across western and central areas. towards the east by the early hours of friday morning, we will probably have some thicker cloud so that means anywhere from aberdeenshire all the way down into east anglia, the weather is looking pretty cloudy first thing whereas in the west, i think sunshine

working with other pro—remain parties was key, the so—called remain aligned with plaid cymru and the green party line. as tomos morgan said, many candidates predicted a much larger victory for the lib dems, they expected the brexit party to do better to further spread the pro brexit vote, and the remain parties coalesce together but on the leave side the tories and the brexit party we re side the tories and the brexit party were pretty much split. i think there is some grants for optimism for borisjohnson there is some grants for optimism for boris johnson and there is some grants for optimism for borisjohnson and the conservatives, polls have suggested a little bit of a boost in support for the tories since borisjohnson got the keys to number ten downing street. nevertheless, it is a reminder to the new prime minister... sorry to interrupt you, peter, butjo minister... sorry to interrupt you, peter, but jo swinson minister... sorry to interrupt you, peter, butjo swinson and change odds have just arrived peter, butjo swinson and change odds havejust arrived in brecon, so let's have a listen to w

policy the german government wants to promote is the use of hydrogen powered aircraft the opposition green party is calling for higher taxes on jet fuel but the industry sees threats to its competitiveness which that is does of year it's important that the german aviation industry can compete and therefore we say we need internationally agreed aviation policy not national unilateralists. the german transport minister opposes any new taxes but he is considering raising the existing aviation tax. i agree with the aviation industry that we can talk about adjusting the levy which means we could use the extra revenue to invest in new technologies in order to look even if we missed you and the government wants conferences like this one to take place regularly in the future the next one is set for 2021. our reporter kate ferguson was that that aviation conference earlier we asked her what else the industry could do to make flying less environmentally damaging. demand for air travel is rising all the time it's expected to double in the next 2 decades to 8000000000 passengers on huling and that means of

meanwhile, in the guardian, leader of the green party caroline lucas has asked ten female politicianst in another bid to stop a no—deal brexit. the ft reports global investment banks are shedding tens of thousands of jobs. falling interest rates, weak trading volumes and the growth of automation are being blamed for creating an increasingly difficult climate within the financial sector. germany's deutsche welle says russia's media oversight agency has demanded google take action to stop the spread of information about illegal mass protests. thousands of its youtube channels livestreamed one of russia's biggest demos last weekend. and finally, the telegraph website repeats claims made byjamie 0liver in an interview to you magazine where he said one of the reasons

intentionally taking attention away from non mainstream sources on both the left and the right green party libertarians those are the people who are being severely impacted by this and what do they have in common they are anti establishment anti-war and they're against the way that things are currently set up right now perry you know you're you're in that you know as a as a there's been a candidate in your view been an activist i mean ju-ju feel about kind of censorship on social media to the bench describing for those people who are you know not your mainstream candidates not your main with the mainstream political message from our experience activists have have made this cry for years far as conservatives crying that you know they're the ones it's one intellectual term that out and used to describe conservatives. where they are always plan to eat. it is like they are the only ones now watch this our organization suffer from the i.r.s. over scrutinizing when the tea party the southern california tea party they complained about being being scrutinized for 9 months by the i.r.s. and they so

the green party backs the move but once more than just talk.

meanwhile, in the guardian, leader of the green party caroline lucas has asked ten female politiciansrom all parties tojoin her in forming an emergency cabinet in another bid to stop a no—deal brexit. the ft reports global investment banks are shedding tens of thousands of jobs. falling interest rates, weak trading volumes and the growth of automation are being blamed for creating an increasingly difficult climate within the financial sector. germany's deutsche welle says russia's media oversight agency has demanded google take action to stop the spread of information about illegal mass protests. thousands of its youtube channels livestreamed one of russia's biggest demos last weekend. and finally, the telegraph website repeats claims made byjamie oliver in an interview to you magazine where he said one of the reasons for the collapse of his culinary empire was the fact his restaurants weren't posh enough. the celebrity chef, who paid £4 million from his own pocket to prop up his chain, but was unable to save around 1,000 jobs, said his business would have remained intact if he avoide

joining me now from westminster is jonathan barclay, the court leader of the green party. n to try to take control of the legislative programme. is that plan going to have to change in light of what has happened today?” going to have to change in light of what has happened today? i think we are going to see a four way chess game. there is a legal challenge going on, parliament and executive and the people. i expect to see crowds behind me outside the mother of all parliaments protesting at what has happened. it is a cynical and cowardly move, a power grab by the prime minister. he is clearly rattled by the moves to stop something he has no mandate for, crash out brexit, worried about that, saying he is going to drive this thing through. that is clear what the agenda is. it is a cynical ploy. the speaker has come out and said clearly this is a constitutional outrage and we'd be shouting loudly about this and this needs to be resisted. what would you say to people who voted for brexit and who say, well, the prime minister is trying to deliver what they voted for? no one voted

is they often was in germany concerned about climate change has boosted the green party's popularity the greens could surpass marcos conservatives as the biggest party in the next elections. while michael professes to fight for the environment this is also a fight for political survival. in a year when places of worship across the globe seem to have become particular targets of terrorist attacks the was the biggest interfaith assembly is meeting in southern germany the $900.00 representatives from many religions are debating this socio political responsibilities in society and politics with special emphasis on the rule of women in bringing about peace president from. the deliver the assemblies keynote address. reporter at the world's religions for peace is in southern. lindau is it to him i have to list more about this initiative and why is it so important. so and rita as you have mentioned this is the world's largest gathering of interfaith religious leaders it doesn't happen very often it happens only about 5 every 5 to 7 years over 800 delegates really from every religious faith an

and there's more to it -- all you have to do is reduce the third party voting from 2016 on the green partyhird party voting and trump loses. that's all you have to do. >> yeah, you could do just that one tweak in those critical states. keep in mind, florida has the same problem. we don't talk about it a lot, but the same problem down there occurred. i mean, we're talking about all of these states being decided by less than 1%. donald trump did not win a majority in any of those states. he carried them with a plurality of the vote because of the 5%, 6% syphoned off to third party voters. when we factor in the turn out among of concern american voters and latinos, i guess you would call that quadruple factor of democratic malaise that we are not going to see 100% no matter how bad democrats might be at turning out voters. there's this natural passion now it's like kerosene on this demographic tsunami that's been laying there just waiting to vote. >> you first saw this new turn out phenomenon developing in the state of virginia in their stiet wi statewide elections in 2017. you learning from

and the local green party. so i'll focus more son on future agenda items, ab1054 is far worse than just blocking public power, is does some profound things that are even worse than that. i want to focus, again, on local buildout. it is reassuring to hear from mike heims that they are going to have a plan next year for some kind of renewable energy buildout, but i don't think that's going to change what i said, that it is not the s.f. p.u.c.'s role to do the kind of build-out we're talking about. the numbers we just saw are really troubling. so 70% is not 100% by 2030. and, also, it doesn't make any sense to count large hydro because that's already there. it's not newly built renewable energy. that doesn't solve any of the problem of the climate crisis. we need to build new renewable energy resources and efficiency and storage, and we need to do it locally because of line loss over long distance transmission lines, and because of the fire danger of long-range transmission lines. we need to build renewable energy

to become the strongest party and saxony at the same time at the other end of the spectrum the green party has been very successful in present representing a kind of count to balance to that they have a program they have a legacy of decades here and still a very young party and they seem to be able to mobilize voters as well the greens look set to double that figure from the last time around. but the look set to come on top of that election slogan is we all the people but that's all quite true. to get more than like 21 percent that still leaves some 79 percent with other parties ok you're just back from saxony in brandenburg and the greens have been out there stumping as well bringing out the big guns into those states right now is well they argue that the big gun is that they actually have an election program they've been talking about c o 2 emissions for decades now and that they really want to present an alternative particularly for those coal mining regions but at the same time they say that they don't want to be fighting the 50 this is something that the f.t. actually has been able to