one old rule. many of you believe to shape out just to become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. breaking news in r.t.d. u.s. department of justice confirms it has arrested the person over the recent wave of bombings targeting top political figures. the nation with polls suggesting americans are divided like never before. with donald trump's trade war meanwhile showing no signs of abating old photos japan and china are making the

best of a bad situation signing the economic deals together and this really refuses to back down over its budget plans to spite them being rejected by brussels one italian m.e.p. even used to shoot to demonstrate just what he thinks of the respondents also to come this hour in germany polls do predict that the anti immigration party will end up with seats in all of the country's regional parliaments that is the latest remaining region votes on sunday and he is campaigning for. what should have a good chance of discriminative. if . the welcome is just on seven pm here in moscow he watching r t international starts

out with breaking news because the u.s. department of justice has confirmed a person has been arrested over the recent wave of mail bombs and is now in custody the packages were crude homemade pipe bombs that were sent to an array of top democrat figures those included barack obama bill and hillary clinton the former attorney general eric holder as well as cnn's new york. department of justice he said to give more details at a press conference in a little. time in the meantime let's go to a correspondent kind of open he's the new restoring the story good evening just run through then what we know. the details of command well the individual who is now in custody it appears according to the department of justice that they were in florida which was the suspected location of origin for these postal explosives that were sent these suspicious packages as they had been

called that were sent to a number of figures associated with the democratic party former presidents you know people in congress number of former democrats receive them a number of democratic party figures and now we had the mainstream media speaking up in a lot of ways blaming donald trump for the incident so then we had donald trump speaking up on twitter and blaming the media let's take a listen to donald trump's response calling for unity in the aftermath of these postal explosives being sent. in these times we have to unify we have to come together. and send one very clear strong and mistaken will message that acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america now this idea that the united states needs to unify and that it's deeply divided seems to be pretty widespread we also had joe biden the former vice president tweeting out the country has to come together this division this hatred this ugliness has to end and according to some polls that were recently conducted

by the associated press and the norks center for public affairs research there is indeed a great deal of division in the united states and eight in ten americans were found to believe the country was quote greatly divided according to poll results now if you if you look at the division poll results also show how it is that americans are divided now thirty nine percent believe the division will get worse at this point so eighty three percent of republicans approve of donald trump's role whereas ninety ninety one two percent of democrats do not approve of donald trump's role sixty one percent of a pen independents also disapprove of how donald trump has been conducting himself as president now the divide is similar along the issues for example when it comes to the issue of income inequality eighty three percent of democrats believe that the gap between the rich and poor is too large whereas in comparison only forty three percent of republicans believe that there is too large of

a gap between the rich and rich and poor when it comes the issue of climate change in environmentalism seventy five percent of democrats are unsatisfied with how the environment and climate change is being handled whereas only thirty two percent of republicans are concerned about that seventy five percent of democrats say that they are unsatisfied with with different issues with the with the so it's a lot is happening there's a quite a bit of division that's taking place now when it comes to the midterm elections interest. only forty four percent and fifty four percent believe the candidates are not talking about issues that are the most important to americans that's that's forty four percent of democrats fifty four percent of republicans say that the issues that are most important to americans are not being addressed so these poll results show quite a bit of division in us society so in the atmosphere of these these postal explosives being sent we're seeing different figures of the president the president's opponent speaking up about the real do this in this it seems to have

gripped us society pretty widely ok thanks kind of big show has that was kind of moving for us there in new york. now japan china relations are at and the story turning point that's according to japan's prime minister speaking at a summit with his chinese counterpart is the first visit to the country by japanese late if a bilateral talks nearly seventy is the current full does follow a long period of territorial disputes trying to takes a look now what does lead to the change. the japanese prime minister is in china and he's smiling. that was him with the chinese premier who was smiling to. seoul was of course these kind of guys put up a happy face for the cameras during the product call handshake well sometimes things between countries get so bad that even handshakes can save the day.

but both leaders surely would have preferred not to stand there together like that just a few years ago the gloves were off between beijing and tokyo because of these tiny islands in the east china sea just to realize how much i hate that land dispute generated have a look at this. it was. it was i really wouldn't want to be a japanese car owner in china back in the days the twenty twelve col flicked was spiralling out in all shapes and forms mr abi mr she didn't even talk on the phone up until may this year today though we're pretty much back to seeing the new un friendship with the chinese state run media telling us this kind of stuff so

what happened what kind of magical friendship did this and the dragon get prescribed maybe it was the dog will try. pil the world knew mr trump was on a mission to give beijing a real business beating the united states has just announced tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars in chinese made goods china's market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated but who knew the president will then take aim at his biggest asia ally japan in his economic bowling well last month the media got a trade war to pay off and anyway the steel and element tariffs had already kicked in you know how it works now america first but we understand that president trump wants to reduce the trade deficit but i think it's very important for president

trump and his administration to find out the root cause of why there is a trade deficit in america i think there is a possibility that they do not yet understand why and so the world silver and bronze medalists and g.d.p. are shaking hands smiling and are possibly even ready to team up what will the golden boy have to say in a prank reporting that well asia pacific experts who have to tell us that trump has only got himself to blame for china and japan getting closer together. us did not expect that that other countries would be able to set aside their differences and get to get to the table with each other as relatively easily as they have been able to do so but at the end of the day it is the us which has to britain which has to carry the blame for this both the countries are frankly facing unilateral and hostile trade enforcement action from the trumpet ministration china primarily but

i would also suggest that part of the reason for the coming together is because both countries realize the important players. and that without speaking to each other the relationship their relationship with each other as well as the larger geopolitical environment in which they operate becomes a little more negative. now shoes whether flung at speakers or perhaps banged on podiums to make the occasional appearance in politics and after the year rejected italy's proposed new budget recently it was the turn of an italian m.e.p. to put his foot or should we say rather he she done.

well it is the first time european commission has rejected any member states budget proposal block three weeks to revise its spending plans quarter breaks down the dispute. brussels is sharpening its knife in preparation for a new battle with rome for the first time the e.u. has flat out rejected a member states budget demanding a resubmission. for the first time as a commission is obliged to a. country that it was off budget. but we seen no alternative to it all and to do so it is really into the whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that salvini is government needs to tighten its purse strings and fulfill its obligations the euro skeptics

say it doesn't have anything to do with money since there are other states with bloated budgets that have never felt such a heavy hand from brussels this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels. you tell me an economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy to stability it needs we won't change one comma in this document to . be you know to go into the we are not. that. on. the future. it spain belgium portugal and slovenia have all been in violation of the e.u. agreements in the past and for years france has broken the three percent deficit threshold imposed on it by the e.u. as for debt it's been in the red since two thousand and two and only this year the

second largest european economy received a carefully worded letter in response asking all very politely to reduce its debts . we thank you for sending we from twenty nine thousand draft budget that we received on october fifteenth we would like to ask you for more details the commission's preliminary assessments also indicate that the growth rate for france does not respect the reference rate of ditch reduction in twenty nineteen so italy refused to be taken to heel by this double standard. except the e.u. commissioner in charge of budgets didn't seem to find the stunt very funny even connecting the italian shushan and against to a potential quick path to fascism the episode of the made in italy shoe is grotesque at first you smile and we trivialize it because it's ridiculous but then we start getting used to this kind of muted symbolic violence and one day we wake

up with fascism stay alert democracy is a fragile treasure or the draft budget would have seen over five hundred million dollars worth of cuts to defense spending while putting more money towards social welfare and tax cuts not exactly a sound way to revive fascism and certainly not a good way to be a shoo in with the new donald quarter r.t. . now in germany angle of merkel's hard fought grand coalition there could be facing another setback because polls are predicting a poor show in regional elections in the state of hesse on sunday among the main contenders of the green party allied with other left wing forces but the right wing alternative for germany party is also expected to strengthen its position to speak to all of our reports. the party known for its on the immigration stance is set to chalk up another milestone in german politics just over a year since they shocked the country by entering the bundestag for the first time

polls predict that this sunday alternative for germany will enter the state parliament in head for the first time that will mean that they have representation in all sixteen german states as well as the national parliament head of the vote in her alternative for germany have been campaigning aggressively. in the clintons just a minute and that momentum and the stickies. want people to spin if he. holds a special place for alternative for germany or the air it was at a meeting there back in february twenty fifth the party was formed setting themselves out from the get go as an anti establishment group focused on the economy. the parties in the buddhist stag and bundesrat don't do any politics in the interests all consideration of germany and europe. in the five years since its formation an alternative for germany has been widely criticized by those who

condemn what they see as its populist and racist stance. in germany has the rhetoric of the one nine hundred twenty s. and we all know where this to carl and the continent seems even have a blatant problem with anti semitism the whole of the f.t. is an anti liberal anti civic party and was in the us here. he was here. despite that they have enjoyed steady growth in the polls here in germany at times even coming in as the second largest political group in the country while taking up seats in hester would see them represented in all sixteen of germany states they aren't going to see this as job done or ought. they just ruling.

who are of the heads of the people they are doing things well the people don't want only as a police we have to serve to people we have to do what the people want this is not only about the d.d. if you will look. after european countries in whole or in how degree in children already this are our ruling the same in our studio with the f.b.i. . and we see now also italy. and. all those movements all those new products which are behaving the same way like the air each day becoming stronger and stronger and in many countries in europe they are already on the far. white supremacists running as the republican congressional can. in the chicago area is trying to appeal to voters in the arab

community with anti israeli and anti-gay rhetoric arthur jones placed a campaign ad in an arab american newspaper but didn't quite get the reaction he'd hoped for. you know the holocaust is a fact i think you know it's real. ridiculous . are white superior blacks. no question about it you know that's racist that you know that's true but i consider myself a way to refill those. now

russia france germany and to meet on saturday to try and get the syrian peace process back on track we'll have a look at that. right. join

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again now after years of bloody war in syria the country is slowly beginning to look to the future on saturday russia to see france and germany do meet in the attempt to get a lasting political settlement back on the agenda the u.n. envoy to syria staffan de mistura has also said he'll be briefing the meeting on the current situation in the country well earlier i talked to ilya a member of the orthodox community in syria about hopes for tomorrow's gathering. well i think each one is looking for his part of the cake which means his problem france germany have their own problem which is the. cell of his who are all regionally especially france they have a big number of people who went to fight in syria and now they're afraid that if they go back to france what's going to happen to germany about immigrant turkey is about also how they should keep their influence in syria but i think the russian

are still trying to talk about the unity of syria where they don't accept like syria in which the syrian government or the accept not a single syrian would accept that syria will be. part of syria will be taken up part. of what part of the kurds are doing or ellipse or syria will be united but i think they are meeting just because each one has a problem we're not talking about a global problem each one will be talking about his own problem things are looking more like settled in military except for to region majorly people are coming back to their home a lot of the region are destroyed so people are not seeing anymore where they could live the international building of syria that everybody was expecting that will show up the european and american are refusing to move anything out of it without having a political settlement the return of the refugees from abroad which is something is going to take time well the problem is rebuilding syria everyone is talking about rebuilding. stones if i mean use this word rebuilding buildings is something you

get money you can do it but rebuilding the. social. between people the relation between people which was in syria in the past and syria was very proud of that having. a one of the biggest versed in religion in ethnic group all those people lived really well with each other now to rebuild it it's not anymore it's not as easy as it was but without it syria want to be syria where it was. russia's security services claim that they have busted an eyesore terrorist cell in moscow which had been planning attacks in the capital with more details on this is not against the. six suspects were reportedly arrested during this raid and they were being directed by receiving instructions directly from senior leadership the federal security service which carried out the operation put out

a statement in which they said these men were planning to carry out a resident terror attack in moscow using firearms as well as improvised explosive devices perhaps something like we saw in paris in two thousand and fifteen the massacre there now judging by the footage of the raid these men were very very well fired on stacks and stacks of cashel though we weren't given an exact number but law enforcement say they were financed from abroad via money transfers as well as from profits gleaned from criminal activity investigators also found a variety of automatic weapons as well as communications gear plans on the potential attacks that these men were going to carry out as well as blueprints for improvised explosive devices according to the federal security service these men put a lot of effort into remaining detected staying under the radar but now that they're in custody now that the investigation is of full swing that loosely will see more

details about their sponsors their facilitators allies and others. but again there with the details that's how the news looking so far today here in r.t. we're back again at the top of the. plane to perform. sorry. as most of. the snow and homo stuff her clown. squinted was. she had

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so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. in a world of big partisan new things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the whole world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us you me the guy behind the tree everybody in the world i'm bart chilton washington we're sure glad you're with us thanks for being part of the. today coming up world trade organization is meeting in ottawa canada and absent are some key members namely the u.s. and china will go to canada for the latest and there are more earnings reports out john grace the c.e.o. of an investor's advantage joins us to take a look at some of the key names and bet almost a decade here since coyne and clark changed burst on to the scene we consider from whence they came and where they are going with christiane counterparts and there are growing pains that a t. and t. and netflix metra media consultant the host of the big picture right here in our here america holland could join us to discuss all that directly head but first let's get some headlines let's go. to the world's largest international cargo

airline a flag carrier of hong kong cathay pacific airways ltd has disclosed hackers have breached the accounts of up to nine point four million cathay customers information at risk reportedly includes e-mail addresses and passport numbers my guys passport numbers company officials also reportedly admitted some customer credit card information was stolen albeit without those three digit security codes airline management system hackers did not obtain any passwords the incident of the sequel to that hack we told you about before with british airways which they disclosed last month airlines are a prime target precisely because they handle it whole so much critical consumer information cathay says they flagged suspicious now. traffic in march of this year and confirm the hacking in may cathay did not answer the media question of why they waited so long to disclose the breach cathay stock fell at the hang seng in hong kong of course on the news. the italian competition authority has.