and the millionaire businessman, one sideline by mrs merkel, is fighting hard. it is the one person was not here. angela merkel has led this party for nearly 20 years. she still commands considerable it respects, and so the challenge for those who replace her is this. —— respect. translation: we are looking for someone translation: we are looking for someone who can keep the party together, who will encourage lively debate that you can also achieve results as someone debate that you can also achieve results as someone who were in the medium term be able to place mrs merkel as chancellor. she leaves a big, we might need all three candidates to fill that gap. many have written her political obituary and found themselves premature. there in argentina last week no doubt delighted that mrs merkel intends to remain chancellor until 2021, although few nearest homes think that is likely now. -- fans. the moment a new person is in the conservative party, the party will diminish, and depending on who it is, that person will seek the stand off and will seek the decision ra

the closest other candidate was friedrich merz, a fierce critic of mrs merkel. at her 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 r

german europe minister, who said this afternoon, i hope they will wish each other, mrs may and mrs merkelse 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. so norman, she has a few weeks' breathing space. a little bit, but really, mrs may doesn't have many cards left the play. the only two she really has oui’ play. the only two she really has ourtime and fear. play. the only two she really has our time and fear. time in the sense that mrs may seems to be running the clock down to brexit day, because although number ten say the meaningful vote will be held before the 21st of january, the chances are it may not be held un

she shares a lot in terms of violent politics with mrs. merkelted to point out she tends to be rather more decisive and rather more approachable, rather more direct. she has got a lot of work on her handsif she has got a lot of work on her hands if she wants to wind back voters to the cdu and she is going to have to answer to whims of this party which are concerned by the rise of populism, by the rise of the far right afd, by the success of the german green party, losing voters. she will have to deal with those who thought that angela merkel popped my migration policies were rather too much. she is also going to have to deal with those who would like to ta ke deal with those who would like to take this party back to its conservative roots. she's got a lot of work on her hands, she will be sharing power with angela merkel, the two women have worked together before. she has been the party's general secretary for some time. but today i think she struck a chord with most people in this room. she said she really wanted the party to come together. tran

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 angry over a controversial new income tax or a joke today those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next inside story. a critica

given the blessing by angola merkel the outgoing leader of the party after eighteen years when mrs merkel put miss crime karrenbauer 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 in phone at 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 and uniting a party and the 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 commi

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. maximillian cross former c.d.u. politician and current alternative for germany nominee for the e.u.

ahead of the secret ballot a thousand delegates will choose between three candidates to replace mrs merkelincluding 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 clearly a ref

mrs merkel has said she wants to stay as the german lead until the end of her time in 2021.y to happen. for many complex reasons but most importantly, she is going to be sharing power with the new party leader, which is not something that tends to happen in germany. a lot depends on how well she gets on with the person and whether the person wants to oust her. it is the subject of notjust german focus but international media focus today. perhaps best summed up in the words of one newspaper headline, saying that this is farewell pa rt headline, saying that this is farewell part one from mrs merkel. she gave her farewell speech as party leader here early on. there was a standing ovation. she commands huge respect and affection among the party faithful here. but pretty much all of them think it is starting to feel like the end of the merkel era. who would angela merkel like to be her successor and will she get her way? if the applause in the hole is anything to go by than yes, annegret kramp karrenbauer is merkel‘s preferred candidate and the favourite in the polls, but that do

the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet camp cound known by her initials a k k and it lands assist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certainty fostered the already tight links with france when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptical of the kremlin than chancellor merkel last week she called for russian ships coming from the as of sea to be barred from u.s. and e.u. ports saying bloody near putin hadn't been squeezed enough. protein precious as far as he thinks he will get away with it and if you read twenty years done given through and united's response he will continue to push prisoners we have seen this in the recent years. if the c.d.u. delegates look to the future and inject a little youth into the leadership then again spawn at thirty eight is the warm they'll be voting for he's built up a relationship with donald trump. the administration through a close friendship with trump's man in berlin he's also singing from the trump song sheet when it comes to raising defense spending on europe he's all about the national interests

might we see a point come for the first time when mrs merkel is reined in by her party leader?her is mrs merkel will complete her term as chancellor. she wants to stay on until 2021. a range 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 academ

president trump we also know that german chancellor angela merkel will meet with mr putin to discuss escalations tensions with ukraine no word on whether or not trump will be present for that talk expected to bring up the possibility of new economic sanctions as a response to last sunday's naval clash between russia and ukraine here's what mr putin said about the possibility of new sanctions you need. it cannot be ignored that dishonest competition is replacing on a dialogue between nation states a vicious practice of returning to illegal uni lateral sanctions and protectionist measures and spreading going around the un. and internationally recognized legal norms. linda is the german chancellor is she really going to go in that meeting and say either change or wouldn't let more sanctions on well it's not into the saveable she actually has been pretty tough about sanctions so far in regard to the russian incursions into crimea and ukraine and she may well be willing to make that argument certainly european union leaders were saying today that that is the european line on this that san

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 useful information concerning certain discrete russian related

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 here one woman calls for violence to be directed away from small shops well here another commenter says the weekend's violence is nothing compared with what he says is the continuing violence of inequality. as paris licks its wounds from this saturday's riot the clock starts counting down to the next one. ok let's cross now to our correspondent lisa lewis has been following events for us in paris and across france hi lisa. i held an emergency meeting with several ministers today can you tell us any more about that. while 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 a possible next day of demonstration that is already planned for next saturday he is also talking about gathering

president trump we also know that german chancellor angela merkel will meet with mr putin to discuss escalations tensions with ukraine no word on whether or not trump will be present for that talk expected to bring up the possibility of new economic sanctions as a response to last sunday's naval clash between russia and ukraine here's what mr putin said about the possibility of new sanctions you need. it cannot be ignored that dishonest competition is replacing honest dialogue between nation states a vicious practice of returning to illegal uni law troll sanctions and protectionist measures spreading going around the un. and internationally recognized legal norms. linda is the german chancellor is she really going to go in that meeting and say either change or it will just let more sanctions on well it's not inconceivable she actually has been pretty tough about sanctions so far in regards to the russian incursions into crimea and ukraine and she may well be willing to make that argument certainly european union leaders were saying today that that is the european line on this that sa

language is just so so pregnant of communication if you listen to michael and if you listen to mrs merkel you will see that she she's she speaks quite a simple language compared to him and it also contributed to this image of an arrogant politician very far away away from the normal people. berlin corresponded with really are friends internets you know for those always we appreciate you coming on the show and sharing your insights thank you you thank. well now to another e.u. leader who is under fire britain's prime minister to resign may she says that parliament will not vote on her breaks that deal tomorrow as planned and he says that it's clear there is insufficient support for the deal on the table e.u. leaders they have called a meeting for thursday to discuss the crisis they say they are stepping up preparations for a no deal breck's it to resume these problems not getting any small. a difficult day for it to reason may britain's embattled prime minister. i this is very carefully to what has been said in this chamber and about the. she had hoped her draft breaks it deal on how the u

may well be the main reason that she beat her contender in the runoff vote because chancellor merkel and mr maritz they have a history that goes way back to when angela merkel took over the party in the early two thousand she essentially ousted him from his role within the within the christian democratic union so it's going to be a great time karen bauer who takes over just who is she and what's her outlook on things the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet camp counselor known by her initials. and atlanticist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certain to foster 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 azov sea to be barred from u.s. and e.u. ports saying bloodier putin hadn't been squeezed enough. to put in pushes as far as his things he will get away with and if you read from the years done given through and united's response he will continue to push president we have seen this in the recent years. those

for reforming the eurozone, which for him were absolutely essential necessary preri prerequisites 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

we her the road develop a story that she how to handle this way for her future for example and mrs merkel went to turkey to discuss with the president of turkey. that germany really how. to take care of the three and a half million refugees in turkey in order that they should stay in turkey and not trying to leave to europe and to germany this happened very late she should have gone much earlier. all right we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking with dr horace chick chairman politician and national security advisor to call discussing pressing issues and role in solving. the need. arise. as a. bridge. bring your brother. in law has a funny. way you. write down the bank fall from grace walker. and is going to. treat their entire marriage no mater know that these industries out of polluting simply ignored your money and mother. and the mother of the mentally lost even this. little. this is what happens to pensions in britain. watched kaiser report. the ways of the united states is dangerous for illegal immigrants. a little sympathy. but many of them