the big financier's he loves the very rich but he doesn't care about the people he despises them mr mr merkel you asked us to come and see you we are here come to see us don't send your delegates it's the people who are unhappy. discussions happen online this woman wrote those who absolutely want to break something choose your targets act constructively see you on saturday whereas this commentator said the real violence is nine million in poverty it's eighty billion in tax evasion that's violence not three cars burning in an expensive neighborhood as paris licks its wounds from this saturday's riot the clock starts counting down to the next one. hey let's cross now to our correspondent lisa liras has been following events for us in paris and across france hi lisa. held an emergency meeting with several ministers today can you tell us any more about that. well the president hasn't talked since then he hasn't given many interviews but we have heard that he has taught is interior minister to consider actually to review the security measures that would be put in place for possible next day of dem

the closest other candidate was friedrich merz, a fierce critic of mrs merkel. mrsher party conference. she wants to remain german chancellor until the end of her fourth term in 2021. jenny hill has more from hamburg. annegret kramp—karrenbauer isn't a name that exactly trips off the tongue, it is why germans refer to her as akk, but it is a name to remember because you're going to hear a lot of it. she's notjust been elected here as the leader of the cdu, she's also now widely considered to be in effect a chancellor in waiting. she was the preferred candidate of angela merkel, the preferred candidate of the wider cdu party. she's seen as a continuity candidate, someone who's likely to continue mrs merkel‘s brand of centrism. she shares a lot in terms of style and politics with mrs merkel, although commentators are at pains to point out she tends to be more decisive, more approachable, rather more direct. she has a lot of work on her hands as she needs to win back voters to the cdu and is going to have to answer to wings of the party which are concerned by the rise

there is little enthusiasm in berlin for mrs merkel to begin offering any kind of concessions. mrsy it is up to the eu as a whole to negotiate those concessions. but there is no appetite whatsoever for that year. there is a great deal of concern about the possibility of a no—deal brexit. business in germany is worried about that. the government is starting to try and prepare for that. perhaps it is best summed up in the words of the german europe minister, who said this afternoon, i hope they will wish each other, mrs may and mrs merkel, a merry christmas, because that's all there is to talk about today. jenny, thank you very much indeed. here, some conservative backbenchers have renewed their demands for mrs may to step down or face a leadership challenge. opposition parties have called on labour to force a vote of no confidence in the government, but labour says now is not the right time. downing street says the prime minister will take her brexit deal back to the commons for mps to vote on it before january 21st. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in westminster. s

replace angle americal mrs merkel's given her last speeches party leader in hamburg ahead of the secret ballot a thousand delegates would choose between three candidates to replace mrs merkel including her chosen successor and the good at. as well as her former rival friedrich matts mrs merkel is not seeking reelection but the winner will determine how long she can stay on as chancellor. there's outrage in france over the treatment of students arrested by police during protests in a western suburb of paris trade unions and left leftist parties have lashed out at what they call police brutality after this footage appeared online but france's interior minister says none of these high school students were injured. do so little by little the yellow vest movement has changed as it gathered fewer and fewer people there were two hundred ninety two thousand people on november the seventeenth but there are now around ten thousand it is a small minority some appear suppress but others have radicalized and affected beyond the law hundreds of judaism brave strong winds and heavy rain to protest against what they describe as the government's corrupt economic policies they're ang

process in istanbul together, it was playing the forefront in international diplomacy and then mrs merkel and mrdent to talk to putin in istanbul about the situation in syria. so you see, there's a bit of an inconsistency in the way european leaders are having a public discourse about turkey. they are not consistent in their approach towards turkey. what they are seeing is a turkey that flounts the wishes and demands of the european court of human rights. the european court of human rights is not being flounted, there is due process there as well. well, you in turkey have locked up one of the most significant opposition leaders in the country, the european court said that was entirely unacceptable, he should be released, turkey's just ignored them. well, no. well, yes. well, no, because once the european court of human rights issues something like that you have three months in order to reply and investigate. this is still going on, it's not a final decision, and then you can appeal. so it's not a final decision by the echr. we'll keep a watch on that, i guess the clocks ticking... i do think you

mrs merkel is reined in by her party leader? there are now also grave doubts over whether is mrs merkel will complete her term as chancellor.of scenarios are being speculated over, but today in that hole as she gave her farewell speech to her party as their leader, there was a real sense of a moment in history, a moment of angela merkel‘s era starting to draw to a close. she said goodbye to her party as their leader. how much longer, people wonder now, will it be before she bids farewell to her country too? jenny hill hamburg, thank you. a bbc investigation has found that academics from black and arab backgrounds at britain's top universities are being paid a quarter less on average than their white colleagues. baroness amos, the first woman to be in charge of a university in the uk, says more needs to be done to encourage more black men and women into academia. here's our education correspondent elaine dunkley. professor kehinde andrews has reached the top of higher education, but he's amongst a minority of black british academics teaching in universities across the uk. when it comes to promotion and pay, they are far behi

chancellor angela merkel mrs merkel has given her last speech as party leader in hamburg ahead of the secret ballot a thousand delegates will choose between three candidates to replace mrsmerkel including a and a good at clam. and a former rival friedrich metz is merkel's not seeking reelection but the winner will determine how long she can stay on a chance let's go live now to dominic came a correspondent who's there at that meeting in hamburg so whoever the party chooses well i have in the media it could have an immediate impact on the country and on mrs merkel and the remainder of her term. very much so the point to made here is that angle america has just spoken to delegates is you saying the move on a thousand delegates here spoke for a biopsy forty five minutes or so fights the party for letting her be in charge for so long and she mentioned the successes during her time but also the successes around the different states of last year where her party forty elections she specifically referred to the states of zoller and well that's interesting because that's the states which her protege and that is you saying well she referred to the success there well that's clearl

she is mrs merkel's process and won more than fifty one percent of the ballot in the second round of voting mrs merkel is not seeking reelection but her successor a.k.k. issues nation could decide on how long she stays as chancellor that humans have been exploring the surface of mars remotely for more than two decades now we finally heard what it sounds like. that is the sound of wind rolling across the solar panels of masses new models in sight lander it touched down on the red planet last month. time just take a look at the top stories here it out as there are documents released by u.s. prosecutors have for the first time directly linked president trump to financial crimes committed during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign it's also been revealed that a russian who offered quote political synergy with the campaign reached out to transform a lawyer michael cohen as far back as twenty fifteen well now from she have a child see what this means for president trump. two bits regarding cohen from robert mueller that are of interest from current provided the special counsel's office with usef

mrs merkel announced she was standing down from the role. the election at the cdu party conference in hamburg has raised questions over how much longer mrs merkelr. our berlin correspondent jenny hill reports. there is a famous german saying, everything has it stands, only the sausage everything has it stands, only the sausage has two. and there is an air of the nullity here, a sense that as the year draws to a close, so too does the angela merkel era. translation: is right, she has been too long in thejob, it translation: is right, she has been too long in the job, it would translation: is right, she has been too long in thejob, it would be better to have a 2—term limit like in the us. translation: domitian is good, i must say i am sorry to see her leave. it was bad luck for were that the refugee policy but for me, she was the chancellor. —— i have to say it is good. her would-be replacements are campaigning for the chance to lead her party and quite possibly the country. there is health ministerjens, ambitious, energetic, unlikely to win. there is annabel, the former regional minister and the current favourite. and the millionaire businessman

merkel who was working in the east german government when mr. bush was president. a merkel spokesperson tweet add photo of her with mr. sh in the oval office when they first met in 1991. look at that. >> yes. >> i just spoke to the secret service. it was interesting. they said they'd been working obviously around 24/7 to coordinate this. but they were getting calls up until yesterday from leaders and dignitiaries saying we want to come and they have to coordinate that. >> it's a high class program that you have a lot of friends to come and bid you farewell. >> it is. and they said they accommodated everyone they were able to here. the day here in washington is -- well, in contrast to two days ago when the casket arrived when it was unseasonably warm and sunny. it's seasonably cool and cloudy today. but it's impressive to watch the long line much mourners here. it's a moment. >> it is. you think about the photo of angela merkel there with the president. last week she said that the former president george h. w. bush was the father of a reunified germany, the real impact he had on a floebl stage. let's go to nancy who is

mrs merkel put misc. in the position of general secretary of the c.d.u. interesting enough the same position angela merkel held before she went on to lead the party eighteen years ago now mrs merkel did give a very emotional speech and fired the opening of the party conference in which she said whoever takes over from her is going to have a difficult task of pulling together uniting a party and a nation in very polarizing times in the fight it's a critical time for our country and for parties like ours the c.d.u. c.s.u. with the f.t. to the right of us and with the polarized societies well certainly one of the reasons why you miss karrenbauer bay well of being voted in by those delegates is the relationship she has with angola merkel because although chancellor merkel has stepped down as leader of the c.d.u. she hasn't stepped down as chancellor and the two will have to work together very closely all the opposite side of that of course would have been if through to commit to get near. him mrs merkel do have a history in fact it was chancellor merkel that essentially ousted him from the c.d.u. party leadership way back when she rose to power but just who is and a great powe

merkel. she said there is ‘no way to change‘ the brexit deal. mrs may's first meeting of the day was in the haguer over breakfsast with the dutch prime minister, mark rutte. tomorrow, mrseets her irish counterpart, the taisoeach, leo varadkar. on the crucial question of when mps will get that big vote — downing street says it will take place by the 21st january — which is the final deadline for the deal to be approved. in the commons today — labour forced an emergency debate — on the government's handling of the debate and jeremy corbyn is being urged by other opposition parties to engineer a vote of no confidence in the government. theresa may has been speaking in the last hour at the ambassador‘s residence in brussels. there is a shared determination to deal with the issue and address this problem. i am going to be seeing the taoiseach leo varadkar tomorrow and then returning to the eu council on thursday. the deal we have negotiated is a deal that honours the referendum and is the best deal available and indeed the only deal available. the backstop which is the issue that parliament has raised, the backstop is a necessary guarantee for the people of northern ireland

mrs merkel from office. a lot to talk about here. most importantly over the next few hours we should know who's going to replace mrs merkel as party leadermany. . thanks for joining us. more on the breaking news that fiona bruce is the new presenter of question time, starting the role injanuary. david sillitoe is here. not a surprise? not a surprise, we knew that an offer had been made but they have signed the deal on the dotted line. january the 10th, she will be appearing on thursday as the new presenter of question time. of course replacing david demba ba who is going to be saying farewell on december the 13th —— david dimbleby. a remarkable run on the chair of question time. part of the broadcasting furniture. not often we get a new presenter. the last time was 1993, when peter sissons said goodbye. before him, going back to 1979, we had robin day. and therefore she is the first woman to present the programme. absolutely, all of the batting, if there was any, was that there was going to be a female presenter. it was said that her authority, warmth and ability to connect with the audience were what swung it. we don't know that there h

mrs merkel put this crown karrenbauer in the position of general secretary of the c.d.u. interesting enough the same position and gloom urkel held before she went on to lead the party eighteen years ago now mrs merkel did give a very emotional speech in phone at the opening of the party conference in which. he said whoever takes over from her is going to have a difficult task of pulling together uniting a party and a nation in very polarizing times in the fight it's a critical time for our country and for parties like ours the c.d.u. c.s.u. with the f.t. to the right of us and with the polarized societies well certainly one of the reasons why karrenbauer bay well of being voted in by those delegates is the relationship she has with angola merkel because although chancellor merkel has stepped down as leader of the c.d.u. she hasn't stepped down as chancellor and the two will have to work together very closely opposite side of that of course would have been if through to commit to. him mrs merkel do have a history in fact it was chancellor merkel that essentially ousted him from the c.d.u. party leadership way back when she rose to power but just who is. the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet. known by her initials a k k and it lands assist with a small a pro european and a francophile. the already tight links with france when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptical of the kremlin the chancellor merkel last week she called for russian ships coming from the sea to be barred from u.s. ports to be a food haven't been squeaks enough is on the part of. times he thinks he will get away with it and if you are in the us done given united's response she will continue to push for we have seen this in the recent years and its policies that convince the five hundred seventeen delegates out of the one thousand and one casting their ballots that it was a k.k. that should be taking the c.d.u. forward. maxi

mrs. merkel said no and very soon after that she lost power. the explanation is the center is not holding because we are not consolidating the european union's economy the way that even mr. macron, who is more moderate that i am in his politics, had specified as absolutely necessary and essential. >> let me put the little devil's advocate then to you. some economists do believe that some of the reforms he did put forth have actually produced results, the labor reforms and others. and the question here is that some also saw not a galloping french economy but a move toward the french economy doing a little bit better and predictions it would continue to do better if the reforms continue. the same in germany, a still galloping the economy. in britain the economy doing really, really well. in united states the economy doing really well. yet this malaise against the government. so if this is the result when the economies are going well, what happens when they go really badly if you predict that to be potentially the case down the line? >> well, i think the key to understanding what's going on and answering your question is to look at these economies and manage to discern the

mr younger but also from angela merkel we didn't hear from mr rooter the dutch prime minister that you met the start of this whistle stop tour but certainly that's been the mantra as it were from the european leaders that she's met so far she's just finished a meeting with the e.u. council of ministers president president obama took place for the better part of an hour and a half two hours and they had frank talks we understand and once that meeting finished she gave this statement about what was the main issue at hand the backstop which is the issue that parliament has raised the backstop is a necessary guarantee for the people of northern ireland and whatever outcome you want whatever relationship you want with europe in the future there's no deal available that doesn't have a backstop within it but we don't want the backstop to be used and if it is we want to be certain that it is only temporary and it's those assurances that i will be seeking from fellow leaders over the coming days. so mr toast for his part has said that he believes that despite the frank discussions there is a will to try to find a way forward but remember that the deal that has been negotiated and which every party to it thought had been agreed well we know there is a great deal of of anxiety about it certainly from the british parliament perspective worth saying that mrs may is now meeting mr younger who we heard at the start of the sequence where we know that he is there is no likelihood of renegotiation perhaps mrs may can cling on to the prospect of what he alluded to at the end of that statement where he said that with intelligent cooperation perhaps there's room for more clarification for more interpretation of the deal question is how can one side interpret the deal as being not negotiable and the other side interpret it as still being up for negotiation knots the question those are the questions of the e.u. institutions and mrs may have to answer dominic thanks very much dominic kane live in

mr poroshenko asked for mediation by both germany and the u.s. however mr trump hasn't indicated that he's particularly eager to take on that role and co-host such an effort with ms merkel so it may come down in fact to her and she certainly she said she thinks this absolutely does need to deescalate and she wants to see russia release those sailors so she hasn't spoken out about sanctions directly but she may well do so in that meeting quickly just ask you what about getting european union support for more sanctions against russia. yeah but before i answer that brand i want to make an announcement here it appears that the chancellor is in the process of landing in buenos iris the german chancellor so after a stronger way we might actually see her here at the summit today so get back to your questions new sanctions against russia now the question first question here is have to have the sanctions that are in place still together with the united states work if you look at what putin is doing in ukraine crimea eastern ukraine right on the border of the european union that many say no it has not worked so what's the point of having new sanctions especially that the e.u. can't really hope for the new round of sanctions working without the united states in the signals from the u.s. to get on board with new sanctions aren't very strong to say the least at the moment but don't notice the e.u. council president arriving here at the g. twenty summit at the beginning did say he expects a rollover of the already existing e.u. sanctions against russia. thank you the g. twenty summit is the first international diplomatic test for the saudi crown prince mohammed here we are and sell it we are going since the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in turkey back in october much of the world believes that the crown prince ordered that killing well some leaders have distanced themselves from the prince namely and you're going to see that just a second turkish president erda was it did not go unnoticed today when the leaders gathered for a group photo or we're going to see that photo there we go i want you to look closely now president ever won and the saudi crown friends position themselves at opposite ends of the group aired a one you can see on the left the crown prince. on the right it's. that that said the crown prince is certainly no political pariah at the moment to the french the u.s. the chinese president's met with him in separate talks to. so as he really isn't suffering is he is well we don't know what they're saying to him behind closed doors meetings like that absolutely are a crucial occasion for bringing pressure to bear and i think that certainly will have happened with at least some of the countries that you named they made it pretty clear from the outset that that was their intention and their two european union and union leaders spoke out quite forcefully and said that they would be raising the matter with the crown prince to resume a from the u.k. referred to what she expect to be a very robust stance that she would take and i think they will be raising questions not only about the murder of journalists but also very much about the war in yemen and there has been at least a bit of pushback on that from not the trump administration but from the u.s. senate which essentially rebuked the president for his stance this week in which he essentially said look we're not that worried about what saudi arabia's up because we just need them so badly to counter iran we need them as a friend for israel and and basically essentially offering cut blash lot of pushback from the senate which said we are now going to take another look at u.s. activities in yemen and roll back that u.s. rule so i think there will be some hard questions asked of the crown prince nonetheless a lot of people like saudi arabia's oil very good point the german chancellor as we heard is missing the g. twenty opening and we heard that she has just landed her government air. and return to germany and make an emergency landing because of technical problems so this morning she continued on her journey to what is arash on the flight operated by the spanish airline iberia there's been a lot of reaction on social media this german users we do you realize the state is saving money until it totally void. now when the head of government misses half of an international summit because of a broken bundeswehr air play another post germany finally needs a decent miracle for someone who will take us seriously if even the chancellor can't make it to the g. twenty on time and then you've got this tweet it i find it pragmatic unpleasantly low key that mrs merkel is using the national airline of another easy member to fly to buenos aires some commentators view the national pride as being damaged that says a lot about them interesting. all right well if you drive you might have a yellow vest in your car it's a hybrid safety vest in case of a break but in france it's become the symbol of a protest movement against the reforms of french president yellow vest demonstrations were triggered by micron's hike in fuel taxes he says it's needed to tackle climate change but critics say it's forcing the poor to foot the bill well it's no longer is just a french story take a look at these scenes here there from brussels belgium today elise fired tear gas best protesters and made dozens of arrests this weekend in france the yellow vests are expected to be out in force again in paris g w two to the streets with one of the founders of the. ski is on her way to paris to organize a protest she hopes will shut down the downtown area. is on the line. of bu