we call on all nations to cut off all ties with north korea in addition to fully implementing all u.n. sanctions all countries should sever diplomatic relations with north korea and limit military scientific technical or commercial cooperation they must also cut off trade with the regime by stopping all imports and exports and expel all north korean workers. just last week the world was given a stark reminder of the barbarity of the north korean regime when one of its own soldiers fled the country even more than the dramatic video of the soldier's escape more shocking was the soldier's medical condition unrelated to his bullet wounds while being treated by south korean medical team doctors discovered that the soldier had parasites and uncooked corn kennels in his digestive track clear evidence there nor that you know he had a year celeste a u.n.

speaking at a meeting of the u.n. security council all countries to cut off all ties between north korea after its latest missile test which the country said north korea said could any time hit any target in the united states so that meeting continuing as they discuss the latest north korean threat fault lines is coming up next that's all from me now by phone ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germany is satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily estonia's biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. i told john trump do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute that i will faithfully execute it's been just over a year since startled trump won the us presidential election and shook the country and split a cool system to the core. between the unpredictable statements and tweets it's

pretty hard to look away from the every day chaos that dominates the news cycle. but under the surface the turbulence trump has brought to washington has forced both republicans and democrats to question who they really are the best way she can brass about american politics is how the parties define themselves to define himself as not the other guy's. or they do need to find themselves as something pure and real these two political parties are until actually exhausted it's not clear what either of them stand for oh i think and i think most of russell's think of these parties are really an inspiring and unimpressive and we need to do some fundamental reworking face of this rather long range because in this episode of fault lines we'll explore the way donald trump has impacted american politics and the fractures he's exposed in the country and a split acall parties. with

donald trump and power the republican party has full control of washington in the white house and both chambers of congress. so the past few months since he took office should have been blissful. but they haven't been that. anything like palin in my current life and one day on capitol hill in capsulated that i did it should have been a good day as trump appeared to visit with republican senators to discuss the one issue they can all agree on tax cuts really don't go and do anything but before trump even arrives a brewing feud with a prominent g.o.p. senator who had recently said he wouldn't seek reelection took over look i think the standing up in front of the american people and stating untruths that everybody knows to be untrue and just. attempted bowling that he does which

everybody sees through just the dividing of our country you would think you would aspire to to be the president united states and act like a present united states but you know that's just not going to be the case apparently trump came and went and afterwards republican senate leaders tried to project unity and downplay the president's feud with their colleagues if there's anything that unifies republicans it's doctrine we've been looking for the opportunity to do this literally for years we now have a president who will sign it who believes in what we're trying to do and we're going to concentrate on what our agenda is and not any of these other distractions that you all may be untrue but that appearance of calm and unity faded pretty quickly in less than an hour we just heard that arizona senator just slake is not seeking reelection he says he feels like he doesn't have a place in the republican party anymore why didn't you speak up what are we going to say. mr president i rise today to say and not. flake gave an impassioned speech

to explain his decision at its core it was a rejection of trump and his brand of politics it must also be said that i rise today with no small measure of regret. regret because in the state of our disunion . regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics. flake was facing reelection in two thousand and eighteen but in the past year as he began to speak out against trump he saw his approval ratings drop why did you decide to do this now after everything that's happened in the presidential campaign and in the months since about grace i mean not maybe in the senate not running again so carefully but a few months so there was no good or mean and cumbered by the way. it is easier to speak out. about it if i could if i could run the kind of race i'd like to run and i believe i could win a republican primary i might go forward. but it's. you know it's there's

a very narrow half. of the national republican that fractured between establishment republicans and those from the far right branches of the party is also playing out in the state of alabama where there's a high profile senate race. in the primary election republican voters here chose roy moore to be their nominee over an establishment candidate already serving in the u.s. senate here for the judge roy moore of and. this is a key race because losing here would endangered the republicans the majority in the senate. were getting ready to welcome the republican candidate for senate without further ado let's give judge roy moore a warm air fart that you well know. you've probably already heard of roy moore because of a scandal that's overshadowed his camp. in november news broke of multiple

allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his thirty's allegations he's denied but even before that more was a highly controversial candidate assy got a thumbs up from the president saw guess something in her i think you came to hear him speak in late october when he was addressing the alabama federation of republican women. there's a big battle going on in the republican party. we've forgotten where we've come from. and what we are down. here a few headlines this morning post jim flake out roy morion heaven help us. well i hope heaven doesn't. more is a staunch of vangelis and throughout his career as a state judge he stirred controversy by trying to inject religion into his courtroom the united states supreme court created out of thin air a right of marriage for two persons of the same gender. as

a judge who refused to enforce a supreme court decision that legalized same sex marriage that gives me a violating the rule of law that came when he is a violation of rule of law when we have a country thinking that whatever the supreme court comes out with in their eloquence. is law. that refusal to enforce a supreme court's ruling got him removed from the bench for second time. like the first time was when he installed a giant monument to the ten commandments in a government building and then refused to take it down i want to bring god back into. he's also said that a congressman shouldn't be sworn in because he's muslim and he's running voters in one of the country's most divisive issues undocumented immigrants the liberals hollering to put these people on television. that were target no doubt they did.

no doubt they're very sympathetic toward their position they were brought here as are children they're grown up it's been years now and people will sympathize with them but it resulted in has resulted in a permanent evil. twenty years a guy who campaigned on getting kicked off of the state courts not once but twice for what ethics you know people kicked him off argued for for forcing his beliefs on the state he is so far to the right that i think he will be unique among senate republicans in a caucus that has been to the right are we ready for center more. or are we going to stop illegal immigration. many. more may be on the political fringe but in a lot of ways he fits the model donald trump built. a firebrand candidate who

wasn't backed by party leaders but in the field of establishment candidates republican voters made him their nominee. and both more and trump have raised the question of what and who the republican party is now. i am. probably was from this day forward a new vision will govern our land. i don't think republicans in washington or republican elites are understand to this day why trump succeeded this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. we must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products

stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. what the president has revealed is that actually the republican party was probably always. in terms of its voters and its animating forces much more nationalistic than a lot of us believe products and. it's not so much about free markets. he's figured out a way to just say touch into that gut emotion that republican voters want to hear they want to hear a president who hates washington with every fiber of his being and who thinks that his voters are getting lost in the new global world order. it's time to expose the crooked media deceptions ideas by the way they are dry detect away our

history and our heritage. on trips also that he's real estate developer right he looks a piece of property. what's going to be right in that piece of property he looks the republican party he said this is an incredibly right wing party is in more right wing party than it's leadership understands and so what donald trump has done is to make himself the vehicle for that extreme right and anybody that thinks he's going to great that are are all to that he isn't going to that's the base but more importantly. he's giving them what they want. the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful backward looking people in the case of the republican party those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful backward looking minority party. republicans are fighting a civil war policy i think the senators recognize and jeff flake said as much the

party that they represent is changing underneath their feet as we speak and they realize that you can't criticize trump and all the things he stands for and all the positions he has they don't agree with and when a republican primary thank you mr president i yield the floor. really is an identity crisis. introduced here. how are. you all as republicans try to figure out what the party is turning into the democratic party still coming to terms with its marks. the forces that were in the twenty sixteen election are still with us it was a perfect storm deep currents of anger and resentment flowing through our culture

a political process and process that told voters my emails were the most important story but that doesn't explain what happened during the democratic primaries when a self described democratic socialist managed to seriously challenge a politician as a stop to show us hillary clinton. there's been a deep division in the democratic party that now goes back to nine hundred sixty eight. and into a huge scorching division that has been very rarely discussed there's an establishment grouping the blues democrats can never win unless they're just marginally better than republicans right it's like a kinder gentler republican party then there's the so-called practical or compromising left clinton have going into the two thousand and sixteen race establishment no question and a lot of the practical or compromising left. i certainly understand the appeal of saying let's start all over let's start with the all single payer.

ok what's the idealistic going to get very very centrist group huge. it's just like me really. don't believe. all problems but the process is what brought me all the young people and c.d.'s and from the people of old clothes and to live on the good. man that ever told not to come over. me as much and bring sanders come along. who a lot of ways was the antithesis of hillary probably in some ways going to have a bad that he that resonated more often to city he had a much more force full and inspiring platform. from bold on apologetic platform and that resonated with. sandor

seems to have revealed some of the inner desires residing within democratic voters . but the problem for party daters is how to reconcile that in the trunk there are . president trump for stop tweeting and start leaving you feel no leadership from this president whether it's on tax reform whether it's on health care whether it's on the north korea all he does is tweet and make the problem worse americans don't want that they just want to say they're not true. but do they want to say also and we are something really different here's who we are and that's what the rest of us do you just run against trump or do you literally stake out a set of positions that offer us a clear alternative not just to trump but to the politics that gave you true that's a much deeper much more fundamental thing they are unveiled a message a couple months ago it was called i have to look it up because they came from

remember it was so not memorable the better deal a better deal a better deal american families deserve a better deal or better deal that's three goals more money in your pocket the party released an economic proposal that seemed to target people who voted for trump particularly white working class voters there are people in our country who are getting screwed everything second minute an hour of the the democrats are obsessed with how do you appeal to them speak to their issues pull them back into the party fray helping people middle class working class of every region of the crew rather than trying to excite their own base the democrats seem to be widening their tent some say at the expense of their core values want to do and that's what our party is focused on can you be a democrat and the support of the democratic party if you're pro-life of course earlier this year some party leaders said they would be open to supporting candidates who opposed abortion rights they're saying well some of these white

working class voters may actually not like the choice issue so we shouldn't alienate them and so to sort of a one hundred races well what's the point of being a democrat. if the democratic party is still searching for itself in the age of trump the grassroots movements aligned with the party are clear about who the party should be. we've been fighting for immigration reform we've been fighting for reproductive rights we've been turning out for criminal justice and we've been voting down ballot on issues we've got to make sure they represent out issues and if we act those polls and in the streets and fighting for our rights then guess what the democratic party will have to catch up to us. we went to detroit were organizers of the women's march the large demonstrations after trump's inauguration gathered. people here seem to have a more crystallized view than democratic party leaders of how it should move

forward and white house so for. example credit party is too many to pick and choose. the conversation it's often reduced to this question of who is the how do we get the white working class back as opposed to how do we build the kind of coalition that's multiracial that's really standing up for everybody that people are excited to be a part of let me just you know the democratic side is going to tell you that a democrat can win in this country without black women earlier this year dozens of black women including many of the women here wrote an open letter to the head of the democratic national committee saying the party was taking them for granted despite the fact that one of the party's most loyal voting bloc but the reality is most of the party deals with what white men within the room you're right and they decide what the message is who the messenger is how to deal with that message as women as women of color we've got to inject energy into the democratic party if

we're going to win. the democratic party needs to restructure and it needs to restructure from the ground up but it needs to reflect the diversity of that in this room. we're talking democrats often say one thing about us is that we're a motley box and that makes us a bit of a dysfunctional family you'll hear democrats make that criticism that solves the weakness of the republican party is that it doesn't have that diversity we're not going to be able to get where we say we're going as democratic activists try to make leaders embrace the party's diversity republicans seem to have done the opposite what's not discussed at all is that trump won the majority of not working class white folks and so this is not just the white working class problem this is a question of what is going on white voters was going on with racism in this country . and why all those other folks actually supporting their playing to the lowest

common denominator within politics rather than summoning people to their highest and best selves. the likes of hillary clinton then there's drugs or terror and we hear trump is undoubtedly appeal to a part of the republican base by playing to and even perhaps bringing out fear and division particularly when it comes to race. in that sense the country's polarization is reflected in the way both parties have responded to america's changing demographics. that the republican on the far right is of the wrong body image because of the world the republican elite then your stance that by doubling down on tribalism they are forfeiting the future but from their point of view they're doing the rational thing because they throw away the republican base and today in the hopes that ten to twenty years from now asians and blacks hispanics

may be more open to repub voting republican again. they'll all be thrown out of office between now. we understand the republican party right now is this is a party that just experienced shock. you know but is it a shot where they were taken over per se by something different in reality they were taken over by them or self from or word. high or if the party's lifeblood is now trump and his base the alabama senate candidate growing more is also part of its d.n.a. you know the kitchen servant in late october as the election got closer more visited capitol hill to me just potential future colleagues and stood by his belief that a muslim congressman should not be able to serve because of his religion. and he also reiterated his views on religion and government.

come on. come. here. despite all this he still had the support and even indorsement of senators here. the day after his visit which is a week before allegations of sexual misconduct came out we tried to talk to republican senators about their support of moore and if you represent what the party is now the room was on the hill a sign what you think about his candidacy. well i support the nominee of my party over the democrat but i disagree with a number of the statements he's made. but there's never been an absolute purity test in terms of public. sentiment i ask you by your indorsement of roy moore the alabama senate nominee are you worried about some of his extremist comments about this just color press office and how to get into congress here but i mean this is a man who has called for keith ellison

a member of congress to not serve because of his religious use does that concern you at all as i said. judge roy moore was on the hill yesterday. are you concerned that someone like him could be your colleague in the senate on the republican side as called islam a false religion he's made other pretty radical comments. and he's not the first southern senator who's not a century and a new not the first southerner to do that and not just in the southern people have done some things like that but when you get up here it tends to do radicalize should. it tends to cause you to realize hey there are a lot of different viewpoints in this world and we are we above all people should come out for the exchange of ideas. even those that we don't agree with i think first of the man that i met yesterday with that appreciate you guys good to say. i don't. when the news did break of the allegations against four more party

leaders quickly dropped their support for him roy moore should show up aside the women have come forward are entirely credible he's obviously not fit to be in the united states senate but why did it take this for them to withdraw their support. why did they support more before despite his controversial views that were already well known. in the end it may not matter because the heart of the party seems to be with more i can tell you one thing you. don't need a liberal virgin mary democrat. joe what you have to wonder is would really more have been able to become the republican nominee and possibly a u.s. senator if donald trump had not taken over the party. moore's fate will be determined on december twelfth when he'll face his democratic opponents a civil rights attorney known for prosecuting the ku klux klan.

yes well you know i just never gave them my i mean. it's a similar logic republican leaders used a year ago to support trump. the other side can't win no matter what party first. as long as trump is there as long as they can see around politically this is where the republican party's going to be and he's not going to change and you can see people on the periphery saying well i'm morally offended by it. but by large the story is not the outliers who made the break the story is the overwhelming majority that go right we're trying something. together we will determine the course of america and the world for many many years to come this core concept that one party can win on. fear division

no comment on how these go to court motions right. one of the great tragedies in american politics is that we often think that the anger and fear is what other. both parties do have an identity crisis where. if nothing else trump has clarified the battle from this day forward it's going to be only america birds. in jakarta school students are taking up weapons to fight in deadly street battles . one on one east investigates this violent phenomenon. at this time on al-jazeera.

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