watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 10 am welcome to the program. protests have broken out across germany over the lines the ruling christian democrats had repeatedly guaranteed would never happen. i. was. christian democrats joined forces with the right wing alternative for germany party to win the central state of turned it over reports. it's not often we're talking about high drama in german politics but it's fair to say that the political establishment has been shaken to its core that's over the role played by far right on tea immigration party alternative for germany is kingmaker in state elections in . well the public went to the polls back in october of last year into india but it was very tight and they've been trying to wrangle out who's going to take over as the state premier amongst themselves in the state parliament and that was completed on wednesday by just worn votes the free democratic party candidates thomas came in a quill be the new state premier his party only picked up 5 seats in the election back in october he gets the job a state premier thanks to the support of christian democratic union party members and glimmer parties worth noting their. alternative for germany a wealthy person who is ousted bodo around a lot of has described the election of mr kerik as a discussed sharod in fact the left party have been describing the free democrats as being willing to rule by the help of fascists the christian democratic union if they've come under fire from their party leader. has said the regional party representatives acted without the knowledge or without the consent of central office this is not a good day this is not a good day for to be in chair this is not a good day for the political system in germany or what this is seen as protests across germany. god was. here in the german capital in those protests so focused on the headquarters of the free democratic party the people angry that the f.d.a. pay of broken well for many is one of the biggest to booze in german politics of getting into bed with alternative for germany the party leader christine linton at the head of the f.d.a. pay he done his best to distance himself on his party from alternative for germany . support comes as a surprise because it is not motivated by an agreement on substance but purely tactical the f.t.p. does not negotiate or cooperate with the d. there is no basis for cooperation who do not support the goals and values of that party while thomas kenniff accepted the votes from a day to put him over the line and make him the new state premier into danger he has ruled out any coalition government talks in the states with alternative for germany 'd but this is going to have potentially big ramifications outside of the states of to injure in fact one senior figure within the christian democratic union like and that's angle of merkel's party has described this move as well playing with fire that could potentially or at least has set german politics ablaze we heard from beers on thomas only germany's the left party who's furious at what he calls a right wing coup and firstly alternative for germany as peter by strength. the question is work with the voters of on. the touring on people who. said quite clearly we would like to have a conservative coalition and that this is the majority really head as they see to you. they have behaved majority and the communists and the socialists they were just ignoring it they wanted to build the government with thoughts of having having a majority so they failed and how they are driving mad. but in the normal situation. you have to deal with that with get a 2nd chance to build the government after the communists were not able to do that . just because all the other parties were of blockading us we had to do it in this way and of course it's a birth of this where you. have nothing is an unprecedented and we have thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and the way by which they stole the rightful government from our party is a instigating a true basically it was it was secretive negotiation so when he says that we are the losers then you have to look at the vote tallies and it was my party of the left party that actually won this election in choosing the man in charge of the a is someone who has competed who has been compared by many many people to hitler himself and so he's the most radical elements of the f.t. and this man has now decided who will form the next government in choosing. and a blow to democrats caucus votes from the u.s. state of iowa are still being calculated unless 2 days on after an error and an application recording election data stopped publication of the results and just as key primaries come up twitter and your to announce changes to the way they fight doctored materials or design a court looks at the tech giants of a wording and the new rules. we all like a good many i know i do and that's why i'm here to warn you that they're potentially in danger because of twitter's new war on altered images and videos that might mislead voters we know that some tweets include many plaited photos or videos that can cost people harm today we're introducing a new rule and a label that will address and give people more context around this tweets twitter has boiled its definition of so-called doctor damages down to a few criteria editing of the contents composition changes in its visual or auditory information and anything that simulates real people but who actually gets to make the call on what does or doesn't harm is anyone's guess are these trump dog and rocky memes politically misleading maybe this one with bernie sanders is harmful a political satire well it's always bound to hurt someone's feelings but if you're not on twitter don't think this isn't going to step on your toes you tube's got its own version of this new policy of the 2020 lection season kicks into high gear in the united states people who visit you tube to learn about the candidates and watch the election season. over the last few years we've increased or if it's to make you tube. and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media and the church it was funny to them to the mainstream media well they were a bit offended the white house correspondents association says it is horrified by this and is calling on president trump to denounce the video c.b.s. has decided not to show that video we can't show this video because it's so disgusting it's extremely violent it is disturbing and one man satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for political discourse with. me. we. actually. let those bad liberating videos could also be interpreted as politically misleading you're probably a day think a bug just quickly here. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new ones because the old ones just become so big twitter's netizens have already picked up on the controversy because people were kind of these fantasy is this i love how you used the word doctored because that's the elites attack on memes the left caught me on twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your bed in the eams which may cause harm to the left we can read between the lines there would be no unapproved thought in the people's republic of twitter coverage it seems that without any ultimate authority to make the call on what is and isn't a violation so many decisions will be left to the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. and still to come the u.s. senate finds donald trump not guilty on abuse of power and obstruction of congress charges health later in the program. a moscow court has given custody of a child to social authorities after parents failed to take her home for 5 years the girl has been living in the hospital almost her whole life despite doctors pointing out that she is perfectly healthy. this girl is 5 years old and she's had a bizarre sheltered life this is the room where she lives it's not in a house or apartment and her relatives are not by her side it's an elite private hospital in central moscow and for entire life she has never left his grounds for the wrestling marcion or stress me or her captain washington's embrace. you. don't have to be here to measure the voice or sharing is not her mother it's her nanny the mother has decided that her daughter is hopelessly ill and must be confined to a hospital. however doctors say that the girl is perfectly healthy and there is no medical reason to keep her in the clinic although they have been unable to discharge or without parental consent knowing is that i don't wish i could let my idea which could. the girl's parents have paid the hospital huge sums of money almost $200000.00 a year to keep her there in the company of private nannies almost a year ago the parents stopped sending their payments but they still refused to take her home and a legal battle has been raging please keep the bill in the thank you good committeeman you were thinking why do you think she thought the like you think that you're given the flag you simply knew i getting into can you please help like you see. if the. what the mood. on monday the corps delivered its verdict that's you and your resume can the parents are to be stripped of parental rights to the girl and she will be placed in the custody of child welfare services perhaps soon she will final leave the confines of the hospital and see the world she has been drawing for all these years 12 israeli soldiers have been injured and they suspected terror attack in jerusalem they tell us on that story and more after this break. china chose to build their economy in such a way as that spawned the crisis of the problem by ira's and for that there is an economic. and the u.s. could inherit a benefit of that economic penalty similarly the us build its economy in ways that cause other kind of extra analyses that are highly detrimental to the u.s. economy. what holds as. you put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want. to go on to be this is what the before you the more people. interested in the waters of. course. welcome back the stomach route suffered another bitter defeat this week when the senate voted down both their articles of impeachment against donald trump the acquittal comes a day after term state of the union speech and voting application malfunction i think democrats caucuses in iowa also across refused to accept the impeachment defeat however. ordered and adjudged that the said donald trump b. and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles he was acquitted without facts he was acquitted without a fair trial and it means that his acquittal is virtually valueless because of the republican sit ins betrayal of the constitution the president remains in and growing threat to american democracy with his insistence that he's above the law that he can corrupt elections if you wants to. verdict from a fight trial with no witnesses would change the fact that the majority of americans know that trump is guilty trump is impeached and was not exonerated the same will last for a trump face to charges abuse of power claims that trump withheld military aid in a bid to pressure ukraine to perhaps oppose the corruption by potential democratic rival joe biden trouble by trying to quash kids investigation into a gas company hired by the sun another charge was obstruction of congress are the president instructing white house aides to defy congressional subpoenas kelm up and takes a closer look well the impeachment proceedings have come to their ultimate conclusion donald trump was acquitted on both charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress however even though it was a quick vote with very little unexpected activities there was certainly plenty of debate in the lead up to the ultimate vote and conclusion the proceedings your hatred of dugald trial of his blood to do to the obvious. this is not about protecting the country this is about destroying the president a great miscarriage of justice in the trial of president trump as a result the verdict of this kangaroo poor will be meaningless they're going to refuse to accept this acquittal perhaps you will tear up the vertical that you took the state of the union address now at this point the result was one that was not really surprising the republicans have a very solid majority in the u.s. senate and it requires 2 thirds 67 votes to remove a sitting u.s. president so clearly the democrats had nothing near that there was one interesting surprise which was that mitt romney who was a long time senator from the u.s. state of utah who was the republican presidential candidate in 2012 against barack obama he voted to convict donald trump on the charge of abuse of power he voted against party lines making him now the only u.s. senator in all of us history to vote to remove from office a member of his own party a president from his own party now it's also important to note that this has not been a good week for the democratic party in addition to their failed impeachment proceedings there was an increase in popularity for u.s. president donald trump he has now got a 49 percent approval rating the highest approval rating he's had since taking office and the iowa caucuses in which the democrats took their 1st step toward picking their nominee to run against donald trump in the 2020 fall elections did not go so well quite a debacle so not a good week for the democratic party donald trump will be speaking in response to his acquittal on the end of the impeachment process very soon and it appears that this entire impeachment situation is now past and the country is figuring out what will happen next as they move on. how in the name of god do people proves cede with some titular theoretically only impeachment which is just to charge when they know under no mathematical models is it possible to gain $67.00 votes to remove this president it is if everything's unconstitutional and if anything subject to impeachment removal it's the impeachment trial nobody understood what this president did nobody could understand it nobody what did he do he abused power what does that mean is it a crime no he obstructed congress here is the 1st part he obstructed congress by implementing by using affirmatively using a constitutional provision called executive privilege it defies logic the payback is going to be severe as it's going to be serious in november when he wins reelection perhaps in a landslide then hell will pay. is there all is investigating a terror attack in central jerusalem on thursday morning which injured 12 israeli soldiers one of the victims remains and in critical condition the driver fled the scene after the attack and a massive search operation is underway for the suspect comes amid anger over trumps peace plan for the region the proposal would leave jerusalem as israel's undivided capital palestine would be de-militarized and its capital placed behind a security barrier on the outskirts of east jerusalem the deal has sparked fears claims across the middle east of pro israeli bias. thousands of tons of european trash and one falls across portugal is provoking a massive public outcry and rage residents have been staging protests some even taking the issue to court. the smell is the worst thing we can smell it a kilometer away because landfill i have a daughter who lives close by and some bearable to give us it's impossible to be outside it's awful and we can't even drink the water it's contaminated. we found out that's in portugal the waste management fee for landfills was set to $10.00 euros but some one of the newer of the average is 80 euros you don't have to be an expert join to stand for those huge economic opportunity to attract rubbish to portugal transforming our country into a kind of justice for industrial waste. stream in survival reskin for the closure of the landfill because it is located 100 meters from a vocational college it is too close to the houses to therefore it does not respect legal limits and it is impossible to live like this. the greek government has an extra riot police to the island of glass was amid growing protests by refugees as we got officers fired tear gas as hundreds of migrants demanding better living conditions in camps. it isn't that thing for people who didn't have much. money as money but. this movie and movies will get big problem the jungle the girl. all of the children you sick now your mother must. be and in many years very much athens has been struggling to contain a growing number of refugee applications that's committed to relocate migrants stranded on its islands and to speed up processing of asylum claims but just a few 100 more to the mainland so far for his migration minister is vowing to step up 3 spots of basic goal is to reduce refugee flows this will be achieved through strengthening border protection speeding up the settlement process increasing the number of returns and pre removal centers the number of. centrifuges is increasing all the time so it's very difficult because the view of the case is for the political to make the difference between the refugees and the goods to give to their side of them and to others no the 2nd thing is a political reason because the new government criticised the previous government it was too soft towards the emigrants of the refugees and they transferred over the capacity. or the authority of the. state of 'd immigration to the police but you know the police cannot cause the problem which is not a political police problem it's a 0 political problem. according to the un refugee agency $74000.00 asylum seekers reached greece last year more than any other e.u. country most are now in a crowd of facilities on greek island the un has sounded the alarm over deteriorating conditions in those camps which are home to large numbers of children and pregnant women i mean peace tell us again says athens should not shoulder all the blame. fortunately this behavior of the european union that abundance greece and italy with refugees coming. is unacceptable because according to previous agreements the the those emigrants and the richest blokes in greece should be relocated to to the other member states of the european union according to the publishers but there are some countries mainly the kind of research governed by the right wing governments they're not accepting even one refugee you know it's very simple when it comes to financial questions whether to repay your debts etc there are very strict but even just to come to the political questions. of the show the human values the foundations of the european union they're doing nothing. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with the ability to negotiate for drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so when your own people vote they should look at how much does this politician get from the power pharmaceutical industry. welcome to the alex salmond she will return to the future of the labor party the christmas election was a crushing blow to corcoran lately part instead of the hope for elections such as in 2017 borders johnson quest it's 10 year long fight when and labor were left. this is how the labor leader conceded defeat on election night and set the scene for the current contest or to also make it clear that i will not lead the party in any future general election campaign i will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and. on the policies that the party will take going forward now to take part in the race for labor leader it stronger has a number of hurdles to jump m.p. support consistency party support i'm trade union support before they get to the opening of the ballot in 2 weeks' time a number of potential candidates have already fallen at the 1st hurdles leaving just 4 hopefuls with their eyes still on this special conference just out on saturday the 4th of april we assess their prospects and thus the future or british labor with 2 key commentators steve richards and professor richard murphy if johnson is a disaster the question is is kier storm of the man who could replace him if the johnson is excessive doesn't matter what kid stallman does because johnson is going to be in power for 10 years so the question is can he actually know johnsen down i can see legally potential lisa nandi. in a way that i didn't expect to you know a few months ago i can see why she is doing as well as she is she started as the least well. but has forced her much the most impressive and interesting of the campaigns the new labor leader will face the change political landscape a brick that britain and on that point this is how you reacted to our program on bt james says great show again but that welsh led dave lambert should join the tories well at lambeth nor james stephen beat says we are not utopian because a bunch of backwards and a forbes dictate whether we are or aren't we are europeans because that is where our heart slowly we will still be europeans after 31st what ever westminster city after all we still call ourselves scots despite over 300 years of attempted assimilation patricia said the country did not vote for brics it only england did and then put us into a tortie dictatorship why roberson says it's it was. droll agreement nothing's going to change on the 1st if a body as time goes on and on and on it will start falling apart mike says sadie hopefully an independent scotland will get back soon and finally david says i'm only a should and a scottish voice in the world we are ignored by westminster now only 4 candidates are still in the labor leadership race emily foundry the semantic the back along belly and cut in toronto a favorite secure starmer. alex looks at their prospects in turn with political commentator steve richards and former labor economic adviser richard murphy so steve richard welcome to the show we feel there's this race for the labor leadership able to form but listen and rebecca long billy and starman there we're going to start from the the outsider to the fever so we start with emily thought 100 to 100 yards no we're not even sure she'll get to the starting gate in a vote 10 days time which is the bit where she added something to this contest in a way it's very surprising that she has struggled to to make a big impact if a year ago i think most political commentators if they were asked who had a real chance of winning the leadership she would have been very much up that.