let's listen to some of what mrs merkel had to say.s i stand here before you today, i feel such thankfulness and very humble. humble before the world that i was a roach working for so long in the trust that i was allowed, trust is the most important part of politics. and it is anything but a given. and with that, i wholeheartedly thank you. angela merkel�*s choice of music for the choreographed event raised some eyebrows. it included this communist—era hit by the "godmother of punk" nina hagen, handpicked by mrs merkel herself. asked about the song — "you forgot the colour film" — mrs merkel said it harked back to her younger days in east germany. president biden has reinstated a controversial programme at the southern border, that will force asylum seekers to wait in mexico while they applications are considered. the "remain in mexico" policy started by donald trump, was suspended whenjoe biden came to office — but there have been a record number of migrant arrests at the border in recent months. our correspondent in mexico city, will

let's listen to some of what mrs merkel had to say. feel such thankfulness and humble. humble forthe today i feel such thankfulness and humble. humble for the role that i was allowed to work in for so long, thankfulness for the trust that i was given. trust is the most important thing in politics with him and for that i wholeheartedly thank you. angela merkel�*s choice of music for the choreographed event raised some eyebrows. it included this communist—era hit by the "godmother of punk" nina hagen, handpicked by mrs merkel herself. asked about the song — "you forgot the colour film" — mrs merkel said it harked back to her younger days in east germany. if you wanyt to get in touch with me i'm on twitter — @bbckarishma you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... protesting indian farmers — who forced prime minister narendra modi to repeal controversial farm laws — say their fight is far from over. it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums which have sprung

let's listen to some of what mrs merkel had to say.the role that i was allowed to work in for so long, thankfulness for the trust that i was allowed, trust is the most important thing in politics and it is anything but a given. and for that, i wholeheartedly thank you. angela merkel�*s choice of music for the choreographed event raised some eyebrows. it included this communist—era hit by the "godmother of punk" nina hagen, handpicked by mrs merkel herself. asked about the song — "you forgot the colour film" — mrs merkel said it harked back to her younger days in east germany. let's get more from damian mcguinness, who was watching the ceremony. every leaving chance i would get this ceremony. but they don't quite do it the same way as angela merkel. she's known to be quite a reticent character with a good sense of humour. and the song she's chosen and have really surprise everyone. when you look back a shows a couple of songs in the ceremony, when schroeder t shows i did it my way by frank sinatra which is a bit about his personality. a

mrs merkel has been credited with raising germany's profile and influence, and being a role model for march 2018. 0ur berlin correspondent, damien mcguinness, reports. frau dr angela merkel... after 16 years in office, angela merkel is no longer germany's leader. she is the first chancellor in modern germany to voluntarily give up power. it is the end of one era in the beginning of another. calm, fact—driven and seemingly unflappable... germany's new chancellor, 0laf scholz, is similar in style to angela merkel but unlike mrs merkel, he is not a conservative. for the first time in more than a decade and a half, germany is getting a left—wing chancellor. he says he will bring in a fairer society, a higher minimum wage, a lower voting age, and more rights for minorities. angela merkel has cleared out her desk in the chancellor's office, all ready for the new chancellor, 0laf scholz, to move in. but there is little time for him to celebrate. germany is facing huge challenges. most importantly among them, the pandemic. it is being described here as a national crisis. germany is seeing rec

but there was something of an unexpected personal moment too, reflecting mrs merkel�*s good sense ofhe pastor's daughter for the event. not the 18th century christian hymn... ..or the actress hildegard knef�*s wistful song talking about teenage ambition, but... ..this one. punk legend nina hagen's 1974 hit in which a girlfriend scolds a boyfriend for using black—and—white, not colour camera film on holiday. interpreted as a criticism of the grey days in the former communist east germany where merkel grew up. the door officially closes on angela merkel�*s time next week when power transfers to the head of a rival party, the social democrat, olaf scholz. when a new chapter in german and possibly european politics begins amid a growing covid crisis in the country. mark lobel, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we meet the designers of a new safety app helping to combat the rise in taxi kidnappings in the democratic republic of congo. it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums which have sprung up around the factory. i

asked about the song you forgot the colour film, mrs merkel said it harked back to her younger days inr: the remarkable 0dyssey of angela merkel. i think it's remarkable after 16 years in power, i don't know about you but i don't know enough about angela merkel, who she likes her who she is our how she relaxes, who she warms to on the international stage with him she's an intensely private person isn't she? she with him she's an intensely private person isn't she?— person isn't she? she is. and all those questions _ person isn't she? she is. and all those questions were _ person isn't she? she is. and all those questions were be - person isn't she? she is. and all. those questions were be answered person isn't she? she is. and all- those questions were be answered in my book. the chancellor i have to say i spent five years trying to decode her but she does not want you to know any of the above. she does not think it's your business or mind what she does not the chancellor. she has been the most remarkable, on the personalized politician who has kept her life, and made most of us. it wa

finance minister's style, his manner, his politics, remind many germans of angela merkel, and they like him for it. mrirer, more liberal society, and a climate friendly country, may be harder to keep. angela merkel has done a greatjob but i think now it was a time for something new, something more green. translation: now we have something different but they have _ to prove themselves. that mr scholz managed to form a government at all is seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. he will have to hold to get an unusual coalition. the social democrats, the greens, and the business friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding here. what the rest of the world wants to know is what does this mark a significant shift in germany's wider positions and policies? for now, it seems the answer is no. 0laf scholz championed the eu, likes a multilateral approach. his government plans to spend more on defence and will stick to nato commitments. you might see some shift on russia and china, in tone a

merkel era. earlier, the outgoing chancellor made herfinal speech in the chancellery and was presented with flowers by mrntarily give up power. it's the end of one era and the beginning of another. calm, fact—driven, seemingly unflappable. .. ..germany�*s new chancellor, olaf scholz, is similar in style to angela merkel, but unlike mrs merkel, he's not a conservative. for the first time in more than a decade and a half, germany is getting a left—wing chancellor. he says he will bring in a fairer society, a higher minimum wage, a lower voting age and more rights for minorities. angela merkel has cleared out her desk in the chancellor's office, all ready for the new chancellor, olaf scholz, to move in. but there's little time for him to celebrate. germany is facing huge challenges. most importantly among them — the pandemic. it's being described here as a national crisis. germany is seeing record high infection rates. restrictions mean that unvaccinated people are now excluded from most leisure activities. and they have to get a daily test to go to work or use public transport. next year, germany could als

unvaccinated on our board from access to all but essential businesses such as grocery stores and mrs. angler merkel says new stricter measures are essential in a situation she finds depressing as it was got anything with it. and i don't to be quite honest the fact that we are now in the middle of such a strong 4th wife does not make me happy. it depresses me, especially when i look at certain regions when the in france, where the health services struggling with record numbers of curves, infections, the government, scientific advisor believes the amik wrong, variance will be dominant within a matter of weeks divine me. soon as i can brag a regular volume, the real enemy is the 5th wave with the dell to variant. there will be some time before the army con variant establishes itself in france and in europe. in general, we estimated to be at the beginning of 2022 of at the end of january, you do need one in the u. k, where booster jobs will be available to anyone over 18. the arrival of the amr chrome variant has led to a clamor for vaccinations. we're starting to see people who, i think probably anxio

mr scholz served as finance minister under mrs merkel. president frank—walter steinmeier has appointed the new ministers. the new cabinet has 16 members: 8 men and 8 women. for the first time in the country's history, the cabinet includes as many women as men. angela merkel said she wished him the best of luck for what she said was the most beautifuljob. and just before we go — take a look at these incredible pics from niagra falls. a car was seen floating in the water, kickstarting a massive rescue operation. it wasn't known whether there was someone inside, so a helicopter was sent to check it out only to find out there was someone trapped. luckily they were able to get them out of the car and to safety, thank goodness because those waters are icy cold this time of the year. a really lucky escape. stay with us. we will have world news america and hugh edwards will be here with the ten o'clock news. see you tomorrow. hello there. for some of us, december so far has been quite stormy, with rain, with snow, and gales. but for all of us, it

mrs merkel has been credited with raising germany's profile and influence, and being a role model forlaf scholz, has served as vice—chancellor and finance minister since march 2018. some of the biggest streaming platforms and consumer apps have been disrupted by an outage affecting amazon's cloud services. netflix, disney+, the trading app robinhood and amazon itself were all temporarily affected. amazon said many platforms had recovered from the issues, and it was working towards full reinstatement of services. we will have a look at the front pages in a little bit, they are dominated by that story we have been talking about, the christmas party, was it a christmas party? the video about the christmas party, we will talk about the front pages and analyse all of that in a few minutes. analyse all of that in a few minutes-— analyse all of that in a few minutes. . ., minutes. but a really important weather forecast _ minutes. but a really important weather forecast first _ minutes. but a really important weather forecast first from - minutes. but a really important i weather forecast fi

mrs. merkel begged biden to not support it.of sanctions bills in congress now against russia for the pipeline. so russia has their own financial leverage. they can you know, withdraw oil and heating from europe this winter. there's a lot of stuff that they can do and our again, our hand is kind of limited. >> rick, is there a sort of contraction of the options available? is there a cumulative em boldening of putin from the last four years? is any american weakened by coming after trump? >> putin was watching your last segment. he reads the newspapers. he reads the polls. donald trump probably sends him his internal polls. putin is a kind of a checkers player. he believes in brinksmanship. he tests people. he's testing joe biden. he's looking at biden's polling. the midterms. the possibility that america will turn authoritarian and will have an authoritarian president in three more years. he's testing all of that. one of the things the white house said is that they're not sure that putin has made a discussion about this. i think

finance minister's style, his manner, his politics, remind many germans of angela merkel, and they like him for it. mry a new government for christmas. his other pledges, to create a fairer, more liberal society, and a climate friendly country, may be harder to keep. angela merkel has done a greatjob but i think now it was a time for something new, something more green. translation: now we have something different but they have to prove themselves. that mr scholz managed to form a government at all is seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. he will have to hold to get an unusual coalition. the social democrats, the greens, and the business friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding here. what the rest of the world wants to know is what does this mark a significant shift in germany's wider positions and policies? for now, it seems the answer is no. olaf scholz championed the eu, likes a multilateral approach. his government plans to spend more on defence and will stick to nato com

finance minister's style, his manner, his politics, remind many germans of angela merkel, and they like him for it. mrhristmas. his other pledges, to create a fairer, more liberal society, and a climate friendly country, may be harder to keep. angela merkel has done a greatjob but i think now it was a time for something new, something more green. translation: now we have something different - but they have to prove themselves. that mr scholz managed to form a government at all is seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. he will have to hold to get an unusual coalition. the social democrats, the greens, and the business friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding here. what the rest of the world wants to know is what does this mark a significant shift in germany's wider positions and policies? for now, it seems the answer is no. olaf scholz championed the eu, likes a multilateral approach. his government plans to spend more on defence and will stick to nato commitments. you might se

finance minister's style, his manner, his politics, remind many germans of angela merkel, and they like him for it. mr a fairer, more liberal society, and a climate friendly country, may be harder to keep. angela merkel has done a greatjob but i think now it was a time for something new, something more green. translation: now we have something different but they have _ to prove themselves. that mr scholz managed to form a government at all is seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. he will have to hold to get an unusual coalition. the social democrats, the greens, and the business friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding here. what the rest of the world wants to know is what does this mark what the rest of the world wants to know is does this mark a significant shift in germany's wider positions and policies? for now, it seems the answer is no. olaf scholz championed the eu, likes a multilateral approach. his government plans to spend more on defence and will stick to nato comm

merkel era is over. earlier, she wished mr. scholz luck. he will need it.ncellor's first task, to develop a reputation for managing a crisis. jenny hill, bbc news, berlin. laura: in other news from around the world, that u.k., australia and canada have joined the u.s. diplomatic boycott of the winter olympics in beijing next year, confirming they will not sent officials or politicians to the games. athletes will still be able to compete, however. the boycott is a protest over china's human rights record. french officials have released a saudi man held in connection with a murder, claiming he was a victim of steak and identity up it the man was arrested yesterday at an airport in paris. the saudi royal guard with the me name and age is -- you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come tonight, afghanistan's empty classrooms. we report on the growing ustration of women and girls who are being denied an education by the taliban. in the's time -- india's top military commander has died in a helicopter crash. his wife and 11 others were killed whenhe h

mr scholz is replacing angela merkel after 16 years in power.he swearing in? this is just a very short ceremony. one of the big changes this year is that olaf scholz will not necessarily have to say the words so help me god. he is the first german chancellor to not officially belong to the church, so that as a possible change. we will not know until he says it or not whether that is going to be the case. compare to some of the ceremonies that we see in other countries when leaders are elected, there are certainly not the pomp that we might see when we compare it to america, for example. he is not the head of state, he is the head of government, so in that sense it is a much smaller scale ceremony. it is very bureaucratic anyway. it was the moment that he received a piece of paper from the moment that he received a piece of paperfrom the president moment that he received a piece of paper from the president that he became the german chancellor. there is a joke here in germany that there is a joke here in germany that there is a joke here in german

mr. wooten has managed to get a for, for a number of years you and especially berlin, anglo merkel. that's a consent for, you know, daughter's behavior. because keep in mind that it was ever sanctioned by european union, nor were any, nor did any of the member states decide to bilaterally sanctioned him or cause any sort of a headache for here. so this is part and parcel of what's going on across europe. russians are there fully for do, and this is something that a lot of people in the you don't want to see. they want to pretend that the crisis in bosnia and i think it's a regional crisis. it's on or, you know, what stays in, but what happens in it doesn't stay above above, you know, it's not like biggest, you know, it's not something that you sort of piece of piece, you know, piece of european real estate where you can have an isolated price and that's on us to lower the same applies to ukraine of course, but it has vocal support. so there are a number of indicators, the russian hybrid, so called little green men. i think people have entered bonds, even in 2014. you have there are

. >> angela merkel has done a great job, but i think now was time for something new, something more green. >> now we have something different, but they have to prove themselves. >> that mrnaged to form government at all is seen as something of a miracle. he will have to hold together an unusual coalition, not natural bedfellows. this is a historic day for germany and there's a real sense of excitement of the political changes unfolding. what the rest of the world wants to know is does this marked a significant shift in germany's wider policies? for now it seems the answer is no. a lot schultz championed -- olaf scholz championed nato. you may see some shift on russia and china, in tone if not substance. he was once foreign policy advisor. >> the world will be surprised that there will be much more continuity than change. many people would like to have this stability in germany. >> after 16 years, the merkel era is over. she wished hemlock. he -- him luck. he will need it. the chancellor will develop a reputation for managing a crisis. jenny hill, bbc news, berlin. ♪ ros: now, i'm pretty sure this is something we've never brought you before on "outside source." guess wha

mr. president have this meeting with vladimir putin and then he's going to call the president of france, chance remember merkel and the prime minister of italy and can joe biden convince those leaders if necessary, are you willing to escalate the financial sanctions in a way that actually puts real pressure on putin but also hurts the european? >> right now the europeans are open to the idea which wasn't necessarily the case. it was one of these areas where the white house had to gather all the allies to be on the same page of this issue. especially germany has taken a warmer stance towards russia. they just completed the nordstream 2 pipeline and they don't want to poke the bear, if you will, and upset them but they do realize a violation of ukranian sovereignty does present a lot of security issues for europe, and they don't want to see, that so a sanction seems to be the one option that all the allies are considering, the europeans now saying that they could hurt russia with sanctions, but, really, it -- sanctions haven't really deterred russia from doing anything so far. we've seen a number of sanctions ro

mr. putin the ability to manipulate the european gas markets. in july the government of angela merkel, the outgoing german chancellor, co. signed an agreement with the biden administration committing to taking action against russia should they attempt to use energy as a weapon or commit further aggressive acts against ukraine. lloyd, west virginia -- ukraine." lloyd, west virginia, your up. -- you are up. caller: biden can't even take care of his own country, let alone get involved in another country. he don't know what to do with the border. he didn't know what to do with afghanistan. and so he needs to stay out of russia's business and he needs to do more to help his own country and he's doing it in the wrong way. trump was a whole lot better president. thank you. host: all right, we are asking you to dial in with your thoughts this morning. republicans, (202) 748-8001. how should the u.s. respond to russian aggression? democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. remember, you can also text and we will read some of them. just include your first name, city and state, at

mr. putin the ability to manipulate the european gas markets. in july the government of angela merkele outgoing german chancellor, co. signed an agreement with the biden administration committing to taking action against russia should they attempt to use energy as a weapon or commit further aggressive acts against ukraine. lloyd, west virginia -- ukraine." lloyd, west virginia, your up. -- you are up. caller: biden can't even take care of his own country, let alone get involved in another country. he don't know what to do with the border. he didn't know what to do with afghanistan. and so he needs to stay out of russia's business and he needs to do more to help his own country and he's doing it in the wrong way. trump was a whole lot better president. thank you. host: all right, we are asking you to dial in with your thoughts this morning. republicans, (202) 748-8001. how should the u.s. respond to russian aggression? democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. remember, you can also text and we will read some of them. just include your first name, city and state, at (202

abide by a biden-merkel agreement we send to putin which shows we don't keep our word, you wonder what threats of additional sanctions will have on putin. >> i agree with you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator markey. >> thank you very much. thank you for being here and for your great work and many of my colleagues are focusing on nord stream two. >> and i want to discuss our own input our addiction to russian oil in the united states. according to the oxford institute for energy studies roughly 80% of russian oil and gas revenues come from oil, while only 20% come from natural gas. the united states imported more than 800,000 barrels of russian oil a day on average in june of 2021. and the price of that oil is skyrocketing. russia is now the united states' number two supplier of crude oil and petroleum products in 2021. we only import more oil and petroleum products from canada. most years, anywhere from one third to more than one half of russian federal revenue is a direct result of their fossil fuel exports and profits and the roughly 800,000 barrels of oil per day that americans import contribute to an estimated $20 billion annually in american dollars going direct

merkel. if the senator were willing to reoffer those separately, you would encounter no objection from me. with all of that, mrpresident, i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i'd be willing to modify to get those two nominations approved. i want to be clear, i've been told that there may be other objections on the other side of the aisle. i would like to get them done right now, if possible. i would modify my request to get these two nominations done. there is a republican objection to the other two nominations. mr. president, let me just conclude this part of the discussion by saying i understand that you have a right to demand a vote but you're requiring us to file cloture which means basically it's a filibuster. under the senate rules, that requires intervening day, it requires the vote and debate on the cloture motion, then debate time. there's only a certain number you can get done within a period of time while other ones are pending. the fact that we are not able to have a process to conclude these nominations is not the majority leader's fault.