when you have a black box operating you probably go to microsoft dependency puts governments under cyber threat not only. because of this this is it. the all. of these this is. your vision starting there was a sting and all the fun is up in these crowds of. america is heading to the polls in the fiercely contested mid-term elections that are being billed as a referendum on the trump administration. also the u.k. charity oxfam sounds the alarm over the number of society led coalition strikes on aid sites in yemen as the un also reports that the war there significantly

escalated over the weekend. french right wing leading marine le pen overtakes emmanuel macron in the parliamentary election polling for the very first time some fresh protests against the president and controversy over his foreign policy and another suspected stabbing in the british capital brings the number of murders this year to one hundred nineteen america london warns that it could take a generation to resolve been described as an epidemic of violent crime. five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. now the u.s. is heading to the polls on tuesday as it votes in critical midterm elections the live pictures we just received from the polling stations in america's east coast in . york city polls that have not been open for

a couple of as with the country divided with a trump administration on the democrats desperate to wrest back control of congress from the republicans campaigning as being face. you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. it is. left wing but that's what the democrats in. two words are going to do find the money of the two thousand and fifteen election one which kavanagh and the other is caravan supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh witches that are placing a hat on brett kavanaugh ball carrier bag on invasion or about the caravan caravan

. a series of suspicious packages sent across the country mail mail bombs fire alarm here we'll keep you posted on that. believe me. well midterms in the u.s. are held every four years half way through the presidential term this year americans have a lot to choose to including all four hundred thirty five members of the house of representatives thirty five seats in the senate and also thirty six state governors

but this time around it is all about one man who's not even on the ballot paper it's colored moppin reports. usually the midterm elections in the united states are about as exciting as watching the grass grow low public interest and low voter turnout and the ads have a very amateurish quality to them. of a general a. then mr trump said you're right and i love that part. so why is the biennial snooze fest suddenly turned into a political extravaganza well it's apparently about one man i'm not on the ticket but i am on the ticket because this is also a referendum about me so let's go over what's at stake. the big one is impeachment if the pollsters are to be believed the democrats could

regain control of the u.s. house of representatives with a majority they could then gain the ability to bring formal charges against the president impeachment has been on the minds of some democrats that he is impeachable the democrats want to retake control of the house so they could move to impeach the president telling me it impeachment you think trump should be impeached i would vote yes you would have to take a vote i would vote. now the democrats could get the ball rolling with the u.s. house but whether or not they'd be successful is a different story let's remember no president in all of us history has ever been removed through the impeachment process richard nixon came close but he actually resigned before the senate could put him on trial but impeachment fears aside a blue wave could put the brakes on the presidency. so trumps policies that's what's really at stake here if the democrats regain

control of the house they could block and delay the donald's plans he can kiss that big beautiful power. wall goodbye plus if the house goes democrat but the senate remains republican we're going to have some good old fashioned washington gridlock two words for you government shutdown. in the case of a democratic surge we can expect an onslaught of investigations into the trumpet ministration with the house majority the democrats could subpoena witnesses and get their hands on key documents this means that all things from business transactions to furniture purchases and sexual assault allegations all of that could come under scrutiny so we are going to have oversight committee hearings on their presence use of the cell phones the democrats take over that he's going to be subpoenaed to investigate it did he want to seek the truth now results are hard to predict but

one pattern from the post twenty sixteen world seems to be playing out pretty well at the polls americans get to choose between chaos and more chaos cable mup and r t washington d.c. the most some u.s. officials have been raising the alarm to you of a possible foreign interference the mid terms the trump of ministration has accused china russia and iran of meddling in the vote. takes a closer look at the allegations. i want to make sure everyone's been warned i'm going to switch off the maddening madness. just turned off there's no way to turn this off even the ideas of madness and if it wasn't for the for the twenty thousand vote journalists would have this doubt on some big breaking news breaking news tonight what appears to be the first identified case of russian election interference in the twenty midterms quote the

russian intelligence agency targeted senator claire mccaskill as she began her twenty thousand reelection campaign in earnest plenty of air. time would have to be filled with other top stories russia is added again interfering in the two thousand and eight midterm elections been control of congress and stakes do we know what they are doing what is russia's goal you can just create a whole new army try to sell any kind of mayhem or a disk or if they can just openly and publicly shames these election tallies and spread false information here in the us if it wasn't for the meddling madness comedians would have had to work on finding inspiration do you think the russians will meddle in the two thousand and eight elections the offer was made and we've accepted. their russian so they were all messed up inside one big. if it wasn't for the meddling madness politicians wouldn't have had the chance to

prove they got the guts to stand up to prove like the senator from missouri whose reelection attempts apparently made her a target for russian scheming. i will not be intimidated i've said it before and i will say to get on. and the bully frog obama as someone who's no longer bothered by putin now that he's out of the game or is he what happened to the republican party's central organizing principle was the fight against communism and now they're closing up to the former head of the k.g.b. if it wasn't for the meddling madness the election wouldn't have hit america for an extra few hundred million dollars see what are you talking about who cares if the folks busy with the meddling probe said none of it really affected the actual result we can sort of. know what who were affected but the

tallies are accurate they did not in any way shape or form that we're going to go through that how dare you. some of the portland people say that slap around the face of america was almost as bad as nine eleven we have been attacked by a foreign power and have done nothing i mean would be like after nine eleven george w. bush said well we will rebuild new york from the pentagon but we're not going to worry about it well at a certain point that's what this is turning into if we're going to talk about the real meddling issues this year the real trouble is totally off your radar regrettably we've found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election against my administration what the russians are doing pales in comparison to what china is doing across this country although you do know words and prove you are not the same thing come on we haven't even heard exactly

what the chinese meddling masters have been up to but that didn't stop some republicans from doubling down on their china bashing campaign china study history and they started a long time ago. weaponized free trade system really. just for your information mr hall he's running for the same senate seat as someone i've already told you about. what was it won't be intimidated by that thug. so if you still don't get it the twenty terms is actually just a rush versus china showdown and the meddling madness league season. now in other news tonight the un is reporting that the conflicts in yemen escalated significantly just over the weekend that is the u.k. charity oxfam sounds the alarm over the number of society led coalition strikes

hissing at facilities in the country. last wednesday we had. more than twenty people killed in an airstrike in a day we have fifteen people killed last month even our own interventions in places for example in in their sardar in the area called the hammers out there we were provided and supported water system that has actually been bombed by a strike this is what we saw on approach bombed out the day yes well over fifty thousand people have been killed in yemen since twenty sixteen sandy lead strikes the main cause of civilian casualties meanwhile fourteen million are on the brink of famine and cholera polio are also putting the lives of millions risk two thirds of the country is in dire need of humanitarian aid well in july

strike on a water facility did leave up to twenty five thousand people without access to clean water and then just in september food supplies to parts of the country were disrupted after a key motorway was also bombed borders without doctors without borders has also reported that saudi strikes have targeted medical facilities to you in yemen in fact it says that five centers have been attacked since twenty fifteen and in june the group's cholera treatment center in northern yemen was also destroyed saudi arabia though in its defense claims it's only targeting the fighters not civilians meanwhile britain is also coming under a lot of pressure to stop its sales of arms to riyadh. you have a problem with condemning murder and international violations of international law incomplete mistakes are made only thing that we don't do is actually press the button to drop the bomb supplies are there for those who need to defend themselves

you know you have to this whole it's actually got you. when they're actually operational in the border areas of saudi arabia it's the same war but i do think that the advice they give all she seeks to show that any changes happen if you date get it exactly as it was whether it was cool for calling or the week before you recently and that may be more of the station since it was bomb which left eight thousand people without water so how can these continuing and absolute you could get months in people into that part of it every few days we go attacks and if we could get a secret government looking to excuse the saudis that we have a policy here in here where it's wrong we call it that which is going to be quoting or excuse it's we is also giving them dossiers that. we never hear a thing then so we need them to stop the weapons now stop the sales of weapons now

and the most employee committed to a cease fire press for a cease fire in the u.n. security council and nothing less than that will actually do to save the people you know. paramedics in paris a proc in the city's ring road and other key routes for a second day with so-called snail protests sirens blazing ambulances parked across roads reportedly causing hundreds of kilometers of traffic jams in demonstrations over changes in conditions the paramedics to say will put the matter of business. yes. this. was done to serve to zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero

. i i i i i. well those protests there are just the latest to hit france in recent weeks they come as right wing party leader marine le pen overtakes the first time in polls ahead of parliamentary elections next year with more his own quarter. france has broken out into protest as of late on nov fifth five hundred paramedics as well as two thousand supporters took to the streets to protest a government reform that would end state funding towards medical transportation and on the same day macron found himself trying to diffuse growing about the rising

taxes on fuel prices in france already angry citizens are prepared to block roads on nov seventeenth in response to this with authorities preparing for the worst and recently there were even several severe building collapses in a poor neighborhood of march say with leftist politician john saying that it was due to an indifference to poverty in france and the latest polls are actually seriously reflecting this says for the first time ever marine le pen and her euro skeptic party are polling at twenty one percent that's higher than macron and his party's nineteen percent and amidst all this macron is beginning to promise things on an e.u. scale for example a new european army separate from nato and dependency on the united states we can't protect europeans without a real european army faced with a rush to run a buddhas that's shown itself capable of being a threat i want to create a proper security built against russia which is

a country i respect which is itself european we need a europe that can defend itself alone without depending only on the united states in a way that exhibits great is so pretty so as macron continues to focus on issues like a european wide army and these problems internally in france become larger issues for him it just starts to seem more and more like he'd rather become president of the european union than continue as president of france. of course reporting that now the race to replace angela merkel is the head of. with two of the from run is rejecting him migrant policies will have more details of the story to you on the way just after the break. this is neo mercantilist. all countries competing with all countries no more

globalization no more central bank domination no more on national monetary fund world bank united nations colluding in back rooms and down to continue to corrupt the global economy. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go on to be press which is what before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters and my. question.

again i'd be pair of london says it could take a generation to tackle what's being called an epidemic a falling crime in the capital the reported killing of a sixteen year old in south london on monday night the numbers of father deaths to one hundred nineteen this year alone. expects rising knife crime knife crime knife crime epidemic an average of three killings a week londoners don't feel safe to quell public concerns about the rate of violent crime london's metropolitan police have deployed five hundred. the extra officers on street patrols one senior police officer has said that children as young as nine and ten are now carrying knives and compared the situation to the wild west with attacks taking place in broad daylight in front of passes by c.c.t.v. cameras but the reasons behind the surgeon violent crime are now the subject of

fierce national debate police federation's blame cuts to police funding there are around twenty thousand fewer police officers now than there were eight years ago while the rate of violent crime has shot up the home office's own leaked documents suggest that there is a link between cuts to police budgets and serious violent crime london's mayor says that it's a deadly combination we have fewer officers than any time since two thousand and three at a time when the population is going up it's more and more difficult and yet a government minister has denied the link between cuts and crime pointing to other factors instead like social media about police numbers does isn't supported by the evidence or for previous spikes in serious violent crime is changing the gangs or using social media to communicate they're using mobile communications in ways

that ten years ago even five years ago simply was not possible back in twenty fifteen and a broad winning senior police officer warned to reason may who was home secretary at the time that cutting funds for the police would risk national security we run the risk of watching community. risk. alternately risking national security up until now the government's managed to deny that slashing police budgets would public safety at risk but as the death toll mounts and public. an increase is arguing that there's no link between budget cuts and violent crime it's going to be more difficult i've absolutely no idea why a who was home secretary for most of the last eight years before she became prime minister i have no idea at all why she didn't listen to the warnings the

governments do and there's a link between the rises in crime the levels of violent crime on our streets and the number of police officers for the very simple reason that they know that if there is a link established they will be held responsible they are responsible the whole thing is a total shambles and it will take at least ten years if not longer to sort it back out if we started tomorrow or most given no indication of starting tomorrow. there are fees for the safety of a son jafta his legal team said that someone did try to break into the ecuadorian embassy in london they whistleblower hasn't left the building there since twenty twelve when he sought refuge fearing extradition to the us from outside the embassy and situation or reports. according to reports citing the wiki leaks founder his legal team it's being claimed that quite recently a songe had experienced an attempted break in inside the it could dorian embassy

here in london just behind me where of course he has been holed up now for over six years and according to these reports that site his team what allegedly happened was a songe had experienced an attempted intruder trying to break through one of the windows in front of the building and what stopped that intruder allegedly or at least made a songe aware of him was a booby trap that set up using a fire hydrant and now any more details or information about what happened next who this person might have been or any details on this really continue to remain a mystery so that's all that we know so for now we have contacted the metropolitan police to see if they had anything to say on this and they said they have no reports of such an attempt to break in and we also tried to speak to officials inside this embassy he told us over the phone to the is not currently in place so they're not charged with the authority to me comments on this matter but supporters

of julian assange have made it clear that their concerns about his security are quite high this is what his mother had said quite recently the loss of my son general killing and. then immediate critical danger the former president of ecuador. publicly wark it when u.s. president not paid. to deal with done to him and julian to you it will if you can see behind me the building is now currently covered with scaffolding this also raising concerns about whether or not this could be somehow affecting the security camera operations that are that have up until now been in place so lots of questions about coming from the sun. to supporters now about whether or not he's actually seen being inside the embassy all of this even more so highlighted by the fact that recently a scientist had quite a rocky relationship with dorian officials if you remember his access to the

internet as well as other communications and visitors had been restricted by a good or even officials who were not happy with him expressing his opinions on political issues around the world that restriction was later partially lifted exchange for certain rules that julian assange had to follow that officials were asking of him to follow which he was not quite happy doing whatsoever so really exactly where this whole saga is going to be heading next could really be anyone's guess. in germany. of course c.d.u. party has reportedly stepped down as she prepares to run for the party's leadership replacing the outgoing merkel but the jury is still out on who were actually when this race is that are as there are of a major contenders for the post as peter all of reports this is often the simplest fact that acted fast pull out the next you do you party convention in december i

will not run for the chair of the party secondly this fourth time is the last one for me i will not run for chance niger in the twenty twenty one election the queen is dead long live well that's the thing we don't exactly know who is going to step in shoes as the sun begins to set on her career and front line politics her coalition has taken a pounding in popularity polls of late and come paining to try and be the next leader of the christian democratic union adjusting for position so let's have a look at who the front runners are. the c.d.u. is the start it's not about which single person is shining within the city but the party as a whole has to shine. abbreviated to just a k k is the current general secretary of the christian democratic union party and frequently talked about as angela merkel's chosen was a default catholic she is culturally conservative opposed to gay marriage and to

abortion however when it comes to migration she's on side with angela merkel's policy saying that they are in step with her religious beliefs she's also on side with angela merkel's policies internationally skeptical when it comes to russia but very keen on e.u. cooperation same old same old big problem a.k.k. could be though the people got sick of the same old same old and that's the very reason that i'm glad merkel's job is up for grabs. spahn is a completely different story however the thirty eight year old health minister seems to hate everything mrs merkel stands for her migration policy is the white elephant in the room according to mr spann he opposes limited dual citizenship for young foreigners criticized attempts to loosen laws on advertising abortions and called for banning the book or in public he is liked by the right wing conservative element in the party to an extent his homosexuality and marriage to his long term

partner last year thought to count against him with traditionalists though when it comes to international affairs he's seen as more nationalistic and some even speculate he's the one most likely to get on with u.s. president donald trump do you think that. you did this club intend to keep. making up the triumvirate of front runners is a blast from the cd you passed frederick metz was part of a group opposed to anglo-american becoming leader back in two thousand and two they viewed the twenty first century's iron chancellor as just helmut kohl's girl from the east merkel defeated him and then ousted him from party leadership cd you need progressive political discussion and in my opinion this means the c.d.u. needs to get things straight about its image fiscally conservative he once famously wanted to digest germany's labrinth fine tax laws so they would fit on

a big popular with traditionalists when it comes to international matters he's very much in favor of e.u. ever expanding union and after the greece debt debacle that's not so hot with the old guard when it comes to germany's place on the international stage it's very clear. trends atlanticist because cosmopolitan germany. and the european. unlike cement whose most important political allies are the democracy is a waste with whoever gets the job being set up as the logical successor to one glimmer as chancellor how do those candidates fare but remember we have two competing models here one of them is represented by two alpha males who are clearly quite conservative compared to merkel they're ambitious their power hungry up against me is in some ways another american like figure who will continue with her line.