such events are being used as a stage for political statements amid revelations of who is writing the acceptance speeches. and so much for joining us this is r.t. international. a growing political scandal in germany has claimed another victim this time it is a major scalp and i get it was chancellor merkel s designated successor she s announced that she no longer plans to run for the leadership she s also stepped down as head of the christian democrats over its unprecedented alliance with the right wing alternative to germany peter oliver has the story. and. has decided to step down as the head of the christian democratic union party here in germany and therefore won t be the party s candidate for the chancellorship at the bones. elections for the set to be held next year she held a meeting on sunday night with party top brass and from that decided she didn t have the support she needed to continue in the role of the c.d.u. have suffered in the polls of late and their coalit
down to the south zero live from doha also coming up another controversial move venezuela s leader bans the opposition from next year s presidential vote. wildfires in southern california burn out of control as more people are told to evacuate plus. the end of nuclear weapons over the. national campaign to abolish nuclear weapons wins the nobel peace prize and calls on the world to see the light. bed of lebanon s hezbollah is calling for mass demonstrations on monday against u.s. president donald trump s recognition of jerusalem as israel s capital on sunday protests were held outside the u.s. embassy in beirut meanwhile the anger in occupied palestinian territories continues to grow more than a hundred fifty people injured in clashes with israeli forces the palestinian leadership decision to snub vice president mike pence during his visit to the region has been described by the white house as unfortunate and binyamin netanyahu has reiterated trumps decision as merely the rea
brussels pretensions brewing over the status of jerusalem jerusalem as israel s couple no one can go far it doesn t appear peace that makes peace possible because recognizing reality is the substance of previous video made netanyahu tells e.u. foreign ministers that countries like the u.s. should recognize jerusalem as israel s capital as we get an update from dresses. and see me a german politicians condemned the burning off israeli flags in but then that s off the pounds demonstrated in the german capital against president tom s tuesday them decision. and a riddle to kid hits europe with a vengeance heavy still for grins for travel chaos but it s of bringing to wonderland the song. of the welcome to you i m on the thought she. israeli promise of binyamin netanyahu is in brussels meeting e.u. foreign ministers this comes against the backdrop of international protests over the u.s. decision to recognize twosome as the capital is red netanyahu says european governments should
year churning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to our team international you know neal our top story turkey s foreign minister has hit the u.s. saying he doesn t believe washington is a trustworthy partner it comes as tensions escalate between the two nato allies over turkey s offensive against the american backed kurdish militias in the north of syria which unquote describes as terrorist groups at the. moment says the u.s. hasn t. missed a true told president on the phone that no more weapons will be given to the. we re going to see guns put into action well tensions between the u.s. and turkey have been escalating ever since the u.s. announced its collaboration with kurdish forces in northern syria trump an air. have attempted to ease tensions but somehow that seems to have gone wrong as well the turkish foreign minister had a few things to say about all of this he first commented on the general state of affairs a between the u.s. and turkey sa
hundreds of thousands rallied to mark the islamic revolution thirty nine years ago . a woman welcome at the winter games north korea s delegation talks politics with south korea s prime minister. competitors working together we look at how entrepreneurs in nigeria are getting the upper hand on a challenging business and. israel says it has responded to the downing of one of its warplanes by syrian government forces with its most significant attack on syria in decades israeli airstrikes reportedly hit the county airport on the outskirts of the way to that s in southern syria and a weapons depot near the capital damascus where prime minister benjamin netanyahu told a cabinet meeting that israel will continue to strike back against any aggression he described the airstrikes as a heavy blow to iran and syria well earlier russia s president vladimir putin caution to avoid any steps that could further escalate tensions imran khan has more now from west jerusalem. the key developmen