RT News - October 15, 2018 (12:00 MSK)

A bad day for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative allies in Bavaria, who are set to lose their majority in regional elections.  That's as the right-wing and the Greens make historic gains. Donald Trump's trade war appears to be back-firing - with China's trade surplus with the US, reaching a record high  despite a barrage of punitive measures. France is facing a legal challenge over almost 200 nuclear tests conducted in its overseas territory of Polynesia with the archipelago's former president branding them "crimes against humanity".