a decade in power also coming up brazilian voters chosen a populist president. south america s biggest country sharply divided over the election of a former soldier a torture advocate and a self professed homophobe. goff it s good to have you with us tonight we know when the. scheduled to end germany s chancellor will today announce that she will relinquish the leadership of her political party in december and step down as chancellor at the next election in two thousand and twenty one the move follows disastrous results for her conservatives in recent state elections chancellor merkel has been at the forefront of german politics for almost two decades but she has been under siege domestically ever