biala guest trend food city managed by from. this is you know use life from berlin moment of truth the most important u.s. midterm elections in a generation are on their way after a fierce campaign americans are casting their ballots will tell you what's at stake and why the poll matters also coming up a nazi concentration camps to talk was a police of shore and as the trial of one of its guards begins in germany

a camp survivor tells you to be a news why it's so important to keep talking about the past. and cameras present call b.-a begins his seventh term in office with a pledge to confront the country's english speaking separatists even as the hunt continues for dozens of kidnapped school children. thank you so much for your company everyone millions of americans are voting in the most crucial midterm elections and decades present trump is not on the ballot but if you didn't know better you think he was running for reelection the vote is being seen as a referendum on the u.s. president's agenda with a strong results democrats could force trump to rein in his policies and surveys now suggest the republicans will keep control of the senate and that democrats

could take back the house of representatives but the battle promises to be very tight. it's their first chance to vote since trump's election back in twenty sixteen the american public is going to the polls the midterms are widely seen as a referendum on the president would he change anything about his first two years in office regret that you wish you well there would be certain things i'm not sure i want to reveal all of but i would say tone i would like to have a much softer tone i feel to a certain extent i have no choice but maybe i do and maybe i could have been softer from that standpoint but he hasn't toned down his rhetoric in the midterms campaign accusing democrats of being weak on migration and. democrats are inviting caravette after caravan of illegal aliens to pour into our country overwhelming the

schools you are spittles and your communities i. mean the democrats not so secret weapon former president barack obama he's been on the campaign trail taking aim at the president often abrasive personality the killed through this country's on the bill who we are is on the ballot what can i. thank you. what kind of politics we expect is on the ballot how we conduct ourselves in public life is how we treat other people is on the ballot. there are likely to be swings to both sides across america and deeply conservative texas a surprisingly strong showing for a democrat but rule book seeking election to the senate floor. just a few weeks ago democrats felt fairly sure of recapturing both the senate and the

house but polls suggest the race is still wide open. all right so joining us now is will marshall he's the founder and president of the progressive policy institute in washington d.c. the institute has close ties to the new democrats a centrist faction within the democratic party a very good evening sir thank you for joining us are you expecting a strong night for the democrats yes i am now i expected a strong night for the democrats and twenty sixteen so i'm a little apprehensive but certainly it would take a massive systemic problem in the polls to produce anything other than a democratic victory in the house it just seems to be too many seats in which democrats have gained an advantage so i think there's a strong likelihood that the democrats will take the house of representatives back as your report made clear we don't know about the senate it's up for grabs and it

could go either way but yes and we should we should forget about the state elections i think the democrats will end up with a lot more governors is very important because governors are usually are our most you know i best pool of talent for a national election so replenishing that pools will be very important for the party . but there's been a lot of talk about a blue wave some are calling it a tidal wave in the build up to these elections a strong showing for the democrats as you just outlined what i'm wondering is could that actually be something that could hurt democrats people feeling like well i don't need to go vote because there is this blue wave anyway. you know i don't think that's going to be a big factor in this midterm election we're already seeing signs of extraordinary voter interest an extraordinary turnout the early voting that happened before today was unprecedentedly strong the amount of grassroots fundraising democrats are

raised roughly two to one over republicans from ordinary people small contributions from actual politically active people so i think there are a lot of signs that that there's not going to be any lack of motivation particularly on the democratic side we have rain today which is not usually great thing and may dampen turnout a little bit but democrats are very motivated to show up to vote and i think we'll see a strong turnout the big question really is whether republicans or the president has spent the last three weeks trying to try to inflame his core partisans particularly non-college white voters remains to be seen whether how strong the turnout will see from them but my guess is it won't be low either i think we'll see strong turnout on those. let's talk a little bit more about that if you will because supporters of president donald trump say the reason why they are backing him is because he connects with ordinary

people is that something that the democrats are still struggling to do. well i don't i don't know why you would say that there are only ordinary people on one side of this debate i mean america unfortunately is divided is a deeply divided society between urban coastal people with higher degrees of education including minorities and young voters and older white. working class people often with less education evangelicals living in rural areas and small towns so the country is divided who are the people the people everybody who are here and both sides connect pretty well with their people but the the point the question is and this will be. the big takeaway from tonight's election is what's the swing vote who change their vote who made the difference and and tipped the balance a very evenly balanced society toward the democrats and vicariously that's what i'm

hoping for i think we have some inklings of who they are their their their college educated suburban voters and sort of exist between the urban centered democrats and the small town and more rural oriented republicans. all right so we'll marshall founder and president of progressive policy institute in washington d.c. search thank you for weighing in my pleasure thank you all right let's bring up to speed on some of the other stories making news around the world. french judicial sources say they've uncovered a plan to attack presence in money when my call police have arrested six members of the radical far right official say the plan was vague and not final but that it was violent. the funerals have been held in the cilia city of palermo for nine members of an extended family killed in a flash flood over the weekend

a family drowned when the village they rented was swept away three had their people were also killed by flooding in the same region. the former guard of a nazi concentration camp has gone on trial in germany the ninety four year old man is charged with complicity in the mass murder of prisoners during world war two prosecutors say that the defendant didn't take part in a specific killing but that he knew inmates were being murdered at the camp he says he had no knowledge of what was going on he was a guard at the tough concentration camp near what was then the city of dunces now danske in poland while more than sixty thousand people died in the camp was survivor there ross has made it her mission to tell her story she spoke to de w's tanya kramer sometimes it is difficult to tell her story door huzzahs as

a child she spent several years in the stator of concentration camp her parents and her sister were killed in the holocaust born in poland doris family fled the jewish ghetto in wall so to lithuania from their door of us to puerto to the studio of concentration camp near done thick i can only tell you what happened in the in the years things that i will never forget i will never forget that i was hungry day and night i will never forget that and my mother died from hunger because the little piece of bread that she got she gave them me it is estimated that over sixty thousand people were moved as institute of gassed executed or killed by extreme labor conditions and frequent epidemics. remembers both the fear and the daily violence off the nazis what they did it's not he was not human you dunce at

all child in the health can of water. you know done to make a child. pick up a twenty kilos cement which i had to pick up and i couldn't so i was beaten up only daughter and her brothers survived the holocaust in is where she got married and raised a family since then she has made it her mission to talk to children about her experience. syncs which is they were the germans put on our shoulders. it's incredible therefore i sing that whoever knows it and when it ever knows how to share it with this i think they should because i need that way we can prevent

another holocaust it is important for her she says to speak out for the many other children who didn't survive to keep them memory alive carers a veteran presence paul b. our house been sworn in for a seventh term following elections marred by violence and allegations of fraud be a has ruled the majority french speaking west african nation for thirty five years is an operation address there's an inauguration address he dismissed hopes of secession for some troubled regions where the english speaking minority is calling for more autonomy now his comments came a day after seventy nine school students schoolchildren were kidnapped in the actual phone northwest region and unverified video showed the boy is held by people claiming to be separatists alright let's bring in our correspondent major increase in the jury he just came back from cameroon and i believe you were in that very

region do we have any news about the whereabouts of the kidnapped girls and boys. unfortunately not although a massive search operation has started by the army of cameroon we however have more information on what has really happened on the night from sunday to monday some of the children who managed to escape saltus how the abductors came to the school managed to get access to one of the dormitories then rounded up all the children there beating some of them and before taking them to the bush they also tried to get access to more rooms to more dormitories to get more kids so unfortunately this didn't work out because otherwise most likely the number of children away affected would have been even higher no of course was mind boggling adrian is why would some separatists kidnap sello and go from children what's the point.

well you need to know that for about two years now most of the schools in the region have been closed because of pressure from the separatists size they don't want the children to attend schools where they're taught in the french system so the obvious answer would be they try to duck the good children to force other schools to also close down but the thing is that none of the ten groups that operate in the in the region one of the ten separatist groups have claimed responsibility all that we have is a video with an unknown man talking to the hostages and it is not clear if he belongs to any of those groups some of the separatist groups already. said these children quickly have to return they said these are not separatists behind it and there's a lot of speculation going on right now in cameroon some people even blaming the government saying they will use this to justify further attacks on the separatists and as you know there's been a lot of allegations on human rights abuses against the military and the police forces in cameroon in the past but as of now this is all speculations it's very

difficult to say what's really going on because independent journalists or observers are not allowed to enter this region right now and local journalists are not free to report from there right here krishna reporting thank you very much. you're watching video we need to solve a lot more to tell you about including as everything goes digits all the more and more people are moving in the opposite direction alec is making a comeback and companies are pushing in on the vintage robot stephen a we'll have that for you coming right up. i'm not nothing to do the job well i guess sometimes i am but i stand nothing which is that the germans think steven's or german culture of looking at the stereotype the cracks in years in the future of the country that i now know i'm right. here needed to be taken as grandma did you know it's cold out there you know

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