news live from berlin french president emmanuel mccraw issues are rallying cry for european unity and your president said he was too slow to weaken to any fish and he called for a joint military intervention force more unity on immigration and border security on for a common eurozone budget how will that go down in frogs and indeed the rest of the e.u. was on the program germany's angela machall begins the tricky task of forming a new governing coalition a three way alliance maybe her only option but what does allow her to deliver the stable government she has promised the german think. maybe top of the bundesliga but i face a huge challenge tonight in the champions the in champions league time and champions league title holders well madrid. on field guy welcome to the program french president emanuel not cry he's delivering his long awaited speech on his vision for the european union addressing a crowd of the soul bone university in paris he described current you systems as weak slow and in effect if he's called for a shed budget for the eurozone he also proposed more european cooper

and mccraw seems sort of like the rising star in the european union at the moment while medical with this election more seems to be like you know in the fall of her political career but she still is the most seasoned politician she has the most experience but now she will have to prove also to her partners that she's able to lead that new coalition that new government in germany and everybody will watch that very closely here in brussels you know your i mean she does remain the longest serving leader in europe and in the western world emily let me ask you a balance the relationship to russia is a weaker marital does that translate into a stronger vladimir putin. well if it is the case that merkel is weaker than of course that could be a distraction from whatever is going on in russia for her so that could be a positive factor for vladimir putin but of course i basically agree with what max said she still is the chancellor and that's very much how it's been perceived here the headlines here in russia have really read americal wins the election basically throughout the board and so peo

i'm phil gale welcome to the program french president emmanuel mccraw has delivered a long awaited speech outlining his vision for the european union speaking at paris this so bone university he described current e.u. systems as weak slow and ineffective he called for a shed budget for the eurozone while cooperation on terrorism and a rapid day your average european rapid reaction force to work in tandem with nato . europe correspondent catherine martin says that a welcome catherine president visit to europe with greater cooperation and all sorts of levels how does he propose together well as far as we heard in the speech the french president seems to be willing to use the same toolbox he's used to become french president he really focuses on a very local approach to get back to the european citizens to trigger a real european debate with the europeans as citizens about the do's and downs in the european union so this would mean a change in the european decision making not any more a top down approach with heads of states making decisions without the citizens but a bottom up. approach int

could be the one next time merkel is really hoping all for several months too for this time to help mccraw as much as she could that is on hold for the time being for the reasons pascal just mentioned that event is on how much has political mandate been weakened in the last few days it has of course of course been weakened a lot no doubt about it but chaos is too strong a word cliffhanger us think is the right description right now this is where we are and it will take a while and we have no government in the netherlands we have. for one and a half you know government in belgium and life continued and therefore the same thing will happen here in germany we are not. politically dead we do have a working government and therefore we will see a very very very complicated and complex attempt to form a new government very open ended no doubt about it. but the world can rest assured germany will continue to do is its job is a phase of insecurity around us no doubt about it but in the end because there is no alternative to this government nobody wants new elections it will happen the only question

reform proposals that french president emmanuel mccraw made earlier this week the commission chief john crowed younker also warned that the talks are not progressing quickly enough. hoffman talks and talent welcome max bed facility and he's also here as well he's come to find he's keen to find out what the end user vision for the digital future is now let's let me start with the politics first at bryce it hijacked today's agenda with a e.u. commission president saying that miracles needed for progress one of the main stumbling blocks at least that hijacked the first part of that meeting you're absolutely right in threesome made herself the prime minister of the u.k. said that significant progress had been made now the german chancellor makola said something else she said yes there was a little more momentum than in the past ever since the reason me gave that speech in florence about brags it's a more momentum but really may was the only one to say that significant progress had been made because as you know the e.u. expects progress significant progress in three areas the status of e.u.

and a showdown month in france can president emmanuel mccraw deliver on labor market reforms. so over the past decade the i phone has transformed the app or into the world's most profitable and biggest technology company the launch of a new i phone has a big influence on how the internet economy is taking shape around us a host of app developers chip makers and other industries depend on the apple economy for survival and business owners to want to be able to work on the world's most popular smartphone and now many people are worried about apple's dominant position with its suppliers and customers apple doesn't even have to be price competitive its newest model the i phone ten is the world's most expensive i phone ever according to analysts at i.h.s. the cost of the components inside a typical i phone add up to around two hundred dollars apple maintains that tear down price does not take into account the time and money spent on research software and transport gevo elizondo reports from new york. yes i phone yeah and annual event for apple with billions of dollars of future sal

now the french president emmanuel mccraw is in the caribbean which is also recovering from the destruction left by harken. he has been briefed by disaster officials on the island of guadalupe where aid efforts for st maartin are being coordinated the dutch french island suffered serious damage from the hurricane ten people died in the french part of the island and in a nearby island of sand bar tell me about alarmist guatemala's congress has protected president jimmy morales from facing trial over irregular finances from his election campaign lawmakers voted to keep his immunity from prosecution a congressional committee says it found evidence at least eight hundred thousand dollars he received wasn't registered last month guatemala began a corruption trial against the brother and son of president morales security forces fighting armed groups in the southern philippines are focusing their efforts on a strategic lake last month navy seals intercepted several boats carrying weapons ammunition and material to make bombs to miller in dugan was with the seals in action on lake menow on mindanao

between siemens and also well the french government is and they asked about it especially president mccraw he says that there's going to be a european champion europe is going to be more more integrated and he takes us as a good example because seventeen years ago for european countries merged us and to compete against the rival boeing and that has been quite a success story and they hope that this is going to continue on the tracks now with the merger so european champion the heir to a european champion on the rails thank you. in a new study the world economic forum warns robots the said to replace vast numbers of jobs worldwide and that we're not ready for this next wave of automation i don't know if they're any better at making pizza research is that oxford university reckon every second job is a risk in the long term but the institute for competition economics and just love says there's no reason for panic pointing to the highly automated german car industry which has seen no significant decrease in factory stuff in recent years gemma joins us now from cook around the international fed

policy and interestingly enough president mccraw used a similar phrase in his own speech saying that there need be no red lines when it comes to discussing what's good for europe so what's all the talk of red lines well it has everything to do with the fact that one of america's potential coalition partners in a new government has said that his party does have red lines he is the leader of the business friendly free democrats and he doesn't at all like the notion of a common euro zone budget or a common finance minister believing that both would leave in the lead in the direction of germany footing the bill for various issues and problems of the indebted to southern european countries and interestingly enough a second potential coalition partner of the chancellor namely her own bavarian sister party the christian social union they also raise their voice after mccrone speech today saying that they too see some red lines when it comes to that common budget and the common finance minister so with this point she may be mildly receptive to mr message in this area of common economic policy

in other world headlines with me jacqueline francis president mccraw rushes through his overhaul of the country's labor code with a raft of executive orders amid scenes of violent protests against the reforms. and human rights watch accuses the un of failing to investigate war crimes in iraq claiming the security council missed the opportunity to consider abuses by all sides.

a protest staged against friendship present a manual mccraw giving a speech university has seen fighting break ip tween students and police. was was. was was. was was the clashes erupted us the president was speaking about plans to reshape the european union up the sorbonne university students have also been under it by the government's decision to cut france's education budget by three hundred million in europe. north korea's foreign minister sees donald trump as the cleared war. on war and all of countermeasures it's after the american presence inflammatory comments about the north korean leader on twitter. since the united states declared war on our country we will have every right to take counsel measures including the right to shoot down u.s. strategic bombers even when they are not inside our countries as space the question of who won't be around much longer will be on so then. it's important to point out that north korea's foreign minister was responding to comments by donald trump on social media specifically on twitter donald trump said the north korea's leader might not be arou

as mccraw moves to reshape the economy anger is a rising among the french people you can see right here latest poll showing that just well three months into his term and already less than half approve of his job so far well at the same point in their presidencies for example previous i said nicolas sarkozy had sixty nine percent support and even afonso all on who became known as mr unpopular he had fifty four well despite those findings a government spokesman claims the figures can be ignored or macro and will quote transform the country and we asked people in paris about the president's apparent fall from grace so it doesn't surprise me that what he's doing is making human popular nobody supports his proposal for extending working hours. the french people it's you closed minded when it comes to changing benefit reform so it's not surprising that his ratings of foreign. very rare for presidents popularity to increase some not too surprised we need to give him time to get things done to one direction so we need to leave for that we spoke to the editor in chief of the popular magazine who

in public sectors and cut taxes for the wealthy after unveiling his first annual budget president mccraw was being dubbed by some the hero of the rich our correspondent charles the reports. thousands of pensioners in paris of rally to the cools from a number of unions for a national day of action against the cuts that are being imposed in not new budget the first budget by a manual month corms government no social security in particular is going to be slashed in the budget floyd point five billion euros removed from the budget and many pensioners say they're unhappy about what they see as being a budget is for the rich when some pension is in front of having to live on as little as six hundred euros per month and many pension is i've been speaking to this process say they're having to live on tomorrow and miles every month. mr might draw is making separately seek up the road she's. not due to resting for me and for the majority of the forty in front of the crown is defending the reach because actions prove that i was supposed to tax us on the poorest in favor of the rich. people on a per

union what about this issue of a continent wide european army hike you expect germany to react to two mccraw speech do you think berlin is going to welcome reform this joint defense force. well the reality is that there is already the prototype of exactly that policy there is already cooperation between the various songs in europe it's just that the on where european union potch what they're doing is they're off. and on these across the member states that cooperate together upon policies that come out sort of the central european union institutions so what do you know this is not a new policy but what he's doing is he's taking it one step further this is what the five presidents were talking about in their reports probably eighteen months ago certainly it's the beginning of what could be considered to be an army the police the european borders that would grow out of the european court of force again already exists we mustn't forget that there is already european navy in existence although it's very small and it operates mostly in the mediterranean so what they say is this is about stretching

making individual competence a key political promise and i found this very interesting because both mccraw and i'm a don't have that extensive governing experience while merkel backs policy speech by their very nature and scope up prone to me sire they are pretty risky politically you don't know how they're going to fold out later on so i was just wondering what does competence mean in this day and age is it simply being more consistent more verb really disciplined than trump east he's still somebody that the politicians are comparing themselves to i think i think there is a sense indeed that. in europe for. people who don't want to follow the united states and the candidates in your. rippin over the last year who sort of looked as if they were inspired by the triumph or normal get phyllis in the governments or marine independent in prague's did really quite quite poorly the expectation that the end of last year for instance was that good for us would get about thirty percent of the adult troops in the end he got thirteen percent of the dots wrote and marine le pen's campaign i think was a

nosedived dr paul smith an expert in french politics at the university believes it's too early to tell if mccraw will be able to push through his reforms it's the same as we've seen over the last ten years the trade union movement or least part of it in france likes to mobilize people and this is. these these changes all right a call but i think what we need to what we need to look at very carefully is just how many people really want this test is being seen as what today is being seen as is a test of the strength of opposition i'd also the strength of one of the trade unions which the main trade union that that called the action it really remains to be seen whether over the months to come whether this government on like it's pretty decisive is able not only to talk the talk to walk the walk and that's to say to deliver the reforms it wants to deliver more of the week's big new stories in ninety seconds. here's what people have been saying about rejected and this is. the only show i go out of my way to find you know. really pack them. yeah john oliver of our to america. we are apparently better

welcome back french president emmanuel mccraw has been hit by a fresh wave of criticism off the cutting taxes for the wealthy he's responded by saying his latest tax reform is aimed at encouraging investment and promoting talent in the country however many people in paris don't agree warning the new leader is already becoming a president for the rich and that the reform will only worsen inequality in france . explained how do you know when you know just rich but you won't feel feet waves. fast cars and race horses a definitely signs that eve more than a pretty penny to spend right. well not so much in france where the toys of the rich and famous no longer eligible for tax and that's causing quite a stir is because this is. i think this is unfair but just this no longer exists in france there isn't a justice system anymore this is the hunger for power of a prince who wants to rule our country how he wants some government is only for the rich and he doesn't care about the poor little. have a middle class there only poor people who work for the rich yes i am outraged and we the young peopl

ahti paris well as mccraw moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity you can see it's dropped to forty percent mccrone spokesman however claims the president will quote transform the country while other presidents have fed a lot better at the same points in their careers nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even francois along to his best known as mr popular had fifty four meanwhile some have accused the new french president of arrogance in light of some of the things he's been saying on the world stage. we have absolutely different positions to vladimir putin i act france will not pass on anything he is ready to follow us and then we will have some progress on syria. i can't really imagine calling anyone other than himself now i think they have different views of their political views i can't even imagine something like that would actually where i. think. the international stage is not really that cool you are now also i am the one obliged to speak to every two on every ten days. yeah this made the film tick i don't think it's a sm

policy and interestingly enough president mccraw used a similar phrase in his own speech saying that there need be no red lines when it comes to discussing what's good for europe so what's all the talk of red lines well it has everything to do with the fact that one of those potential coalition partners in a new government has said that his party does have red lines he is the leader of the business friendly free democrats and he doesn't at all like the notion of a common euro zone budget or a common finance minister believing that both would leave in the lead in the direction of germany footing the bill for various issues and problems of the indebted to southern european countries and interestingly enough a second potential coalition partner of the chancellor namely her own bavarian sister party the christian social union they also raise their voice after mccrone speech today saying that they too see some red lines when it comes to that common budget and the common finance minister so with this point she may be mildly receptive to mr message in this area of common economic policy but

a protest against french president emanuel mccraw has seen fighting break up between students and police on the part of university clashes erupted as the president was about to give a speech at the university on plans to reshift the european union students have also been by the government's decision to cut france's education budget by some three hundred million. yeah i want to bring this story to you as well at the sterling loan from southern russia police have detained what is alleged to be a cannibal couple suspected of killing and eating up to thirty people who moan cos trip is in the city of cross the dark forest his report includes graphic descriptions of what's alleged to have occurred. we're standing outside a detention facility in crossman's are a city in south or russia that was there recently should by absolutely horrifying events a local couple has been are taken into custody for murdering and dismembering a woman moreover now they're suspected of cannibalism as well r.t. source in the local police said that the pair confessed to killing the police uncovered chynna details tha

in france protests are taking place in the capital against president emanuel mccraw decision to slash spending in key public sectors and cut taxes for the wealthy after unveiling his first annual budget mccrone has been dubbed by some as the hero of the rich. are for fun and charlotte dubin ski is in paris for us we have another unpopular decision coming from a crime but who are these cuts affect most. well thousands of pensioners in paris of rally to the cools from a number of unions for a national day of action against the cuts that are being imposed in not new budget the first budget by a manual month corns government no social security in particular is going to be slashed in the budgets loyce point five billion euros removed from not budget slightly less than was expected but still a huge chunk of that budget suddenly no longer there and pensioners also say they were unhappy about some of the increases in certain taxes like for example the touch that they have to pay the social security contributions or any rental income that they may receive a pension is say well that's going to

frenchch presidentnt emmanuel mccraw has impressed turkey you know turkey has few friends inn europe but the moment. our relalations with germany austria a and manitobaa netherlalands i have never been well us whilile in germany said the turkey can never joined the you. are under are the ones leadership. austria hosts called fororty you negotiations access some negotiated since with turkey to be ended. our and against that so are. my my no mccrone stands up and says no i'll let them negotitiations wilill turkey continue. that you'll needs turkey foror its strugglee against terrorism. and also in itsts battle to cocontain illegal immigration. so franz has becomee a valuable ally. also. okay well thank you very much indeed for that update from central is just for more tonight in ankara. excellent. no news in the face of growing opposition from baghdad be iraqi kurdish parliament has today held votes on paving the way for independence talks. but the outcome of that vote being approval for an independencece referendum in just ten days from now. with the move which is also generated alarm

in other world headlines with me jacqueline bouvier france's president mccraw rushes through his overhaul of the country's labor code with a raft of executive orders amid scenes of violent protests against the reforms. and human rights watch accuses the un of failing to investigate war crimes and iraq claiming the security council missed the opportunity to consider abuses by all sides not just islamic state. you're watching r t international broadcasting live from the russian capital i'm jackal muga and we'll have your world news a little later in the program but first our main focus for now is germany where it's the eve of the federal election live now to the r.t. election team in the capital. yeah stuffy hi everyone well why don't kids course who growl behind you here in berlin it's six of the seven when it started to rain as the weather forecast said it would put question is will it dump of people's spirits for this big election right in the very heart of europe so welcome to our special election coverage with may have been going on of course nick here on with me a liar the result of s

officers at a time when the country's on a high still and for so long now just a few months into mccraw presidency but his approval ratings are on the slide and that some likely to be helped by his recent description of the protesters. i will be absolutely determined to do that i will not yield in any way not to slack because you're not cynics not to extremists. who are gathered here today to protest against macron and his policies which undermine the very existence of the workers from the spheres this movement is necessary it is the response of the french people who are protecting their rights. is on fifty mosco time we continues right after this break. when i almost choked someone seemed wrong model wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape out just to come out ahead and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. international community continues lee emphasize about one theoretical united iraq as a slogan maybe an approach will of the politicians but in reality on the ground iraqis not one and we recognize united. as kurds a

push this reform through and to appease the french people charlotte devinsky altie paris well as mccraw moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity as you can see it's dropped to just forty percent mccrone spokesman however claims the president will quote transform the country and well other presidents have fared a lot better at the same points in their career is nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even france was all low and who is known as mr unpopular heard fifty four meanwhile some have accused the new french president of our guests in light of some of the things he's been saying on the world stage. we have absolutely different positions to vladimir putin i act france will not pass on any he's ready to follow us and then we will have some progress on syria. i can't really imagine calling anyone other than himself and i figure they have different views if they're pleased to go through i can even imagine something or that actually where people. think. the international stage is not really that clear. also i am the one of the large

what will she be able to do within that coalition she might not be able as i just said to follow mccraw as much as she would like to keeping that in mind she's still the most seasoned most experienced politician leader in the european union and that has to count for something now right what about the i.a.f. days influence in german politics i think that's going to make things harder on european level. well indirectly maybe of course if he won't be part of any german government but they have one within the strict anti immigration courts that have won many votes and you know what's happening to germany and has happened in many other european countries before just think of france with the money in the pen in some countries the right wing populist or even power for example hungary with their prime minister viktor orban and you know it's not inconceivable to think that he will go up to merkel next i mean caesars see told you so told just so better words there are right max hoffman thanks for giving us the view from brussels the same thing well let's take a look at how this is all going down

altie paris well as mccraw moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity as you can see has dropped to forty percent spokesman however claims the president will quote transform the country well of the french president's half a lot better at the same point in the. careers nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even france was all on who was known as mr popular and fifty four meanwhile some have accused the new french president of arrogance in light of some of the things he's been saying on the world stage. we have absolutely different positions to vladimir putin i act france will not pass on anything he is ready to follow us and then we will have some progress on syria. i can't really imagine calling anyone other than himself and i think they have different views their political views i can't even imagine something where that would actually where i. think. the international stage is not really that cool you are now also i am the one obliged to speak to enter one every ten days. yet that made the film tick i don't think it's a smart mov

that is split half french dutch and here it was that president mccraw of france had positioned his military in advance of the storm and that's to me demonstrates a kind of commitment to its territory and so i think all of criticism is. it's unfortunate that this is di notwithstanding that criticism notwithstanding the fact that so many within the u.k. have had have felt and expressed that the criticism was was completely reasonable those in whitehall refused to accept that their response was other than as they called it and so what you're saying that i pulled up to this headline here hurricane irma has devastated british territories so why so little aid this is in the guardian and this is actually written by the former attorney general for and well i so your concerns are you're not alone there josephine charles i know you were nodding your head you wanted to jump in what did you want to. you know what i wanted to say that one of the benefits of not being a colony is the fact is we've got to look out for themselves and what the government did before irma hit was to preposition we purchased a

president emmanuel mccraw has signed an overhaul of france's labor laws the measures which triggered mass protests make it easier for companies to hire and fire staff nikon's government has promised to cut unemployment from nearly ten percent to seven percent in five years. brazil's government to shut down roads and close schools in the country's largest favela even the army has been called in to intervene. as more. violence between rival drug gangs has led to this military helicopters above this favela security forces monitoring the streets of rio de janeiro hundreds of police officers have been called then the government says it's ready to send in many more very warming. up to ten thousand of our men could be called into action just like we did in our first operation for now because it's urgent we have mobilized the military police seven hundred men and is on its way if necessary more. roughly seventy thousand people live in the cities were sent her father ella violence is no stranger here but over the last year murders have increased eleven percent to just over two thousand three

renegotiate this this nuclear agreement and on the back of that we know that french president biden mccraw has offered new papers to appease u.s. concerns so what were those. well essentially that has all been ruled out now by the joint commission plan of action where we heard from the chair of that commission making very clear that the deal is non negotiable that is written into the document the one hundred four page document that constitutes the iranian nuclear deal it took some twelve years of negotiation to arrive at that particular document and she's made clear that the opinion of the commission is that there can be no renegotiation of any aspect of it that is a position to of the iranian government the iranian president making clear in the course of the day that if one detail of the dream and is amended if one brick is pulled out then the whole structure is going to collapse so the idea of renegotiating parts of the deal that the u.s. might not agree with is simply not going to happen but what's at issue here is the u.s. attempt to separate out technical aspects of the deal as it cal