please. please. please please give it. back. to. the fez polling stations close in america and pivotal midterm elections that's a widely seen as a referendum on the trump administration's performance and a test of the country's follies. how. are medics use hundreds of ambulances to paralyze the streets of paris for

a second day in protest against the man who performs that says a show poll shows right wing lead submarine has overtaken the french president for the first time ahead of next year's parliamentary elections. of all mr stay a sabian football star in the u.k. it refuses to wear a puppy on his shirt saying it reminds him of when his village was poems and nine hundred ninety nine. sometimes you should swallow your own personal. opinions on the street has a great school. as to why and i think you just have to respect for speeding the street. is just ten two am head in the russian capital you're watching all international. polls have just started closing in the us where. tens of millions of americans have

been facing the midterm elections which will decide who controls the house of representatives on the senate with the country massively divided over the trump administration's policies and the democrats desperate to rest by control from the republicans is being billed as an historic contest and campaigning has been fair. you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for such. as. gun wacko and angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are. two words i'm going to define the money the two thousand and eighteen election one of them all and the other is caravan supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett

kavanaugh witches that are placing a hat on brett kavanaugh caravan invasion or about the caravan caravan. the series of suspicious packages sent across the country mail by mail bombs fire alarm here will keep you posted on. you believe me it was. the last. made tens in the us held every four years hof way through the presidential ten this year americans have been allowed to choose including will four hundred thirty five

members of the house of representatives fifty five seats in the senate i'm fifty six state governess america now he's told us this is meant to have seen unprecedented to ten outs at this stage it's not a prediction it's a fact there is a record turnout in fact it almost looks like a presidential year and many of these cases and in some cases we're finding in some states and some precincts where they're actually going over and setting records even for a presidential election year so people are engaged and for a lot of reasons of the headlines people are paying attention and i think this plays into what president donald trump did when he first came into office he knew that he did not want people to go back to sleep to go back to the lives he wanted them to stay involved and so what he's done is allowed people whether it works against him or for him it's not at the polls we'll find out but it's allowed people to actually feel like they have a vested interest in the events that are going on in the united states something

that a lot of them gave up on a long time ago a lot of people have said watch the media and how just absolutely outlandish and dramatic the media has been covering certain topics while ignoring others that doesn't sit well with the american people so that people say you know what i can't put faith and trust and who i'm getting my news that i can put faith and trust and go into the ballot box i can control that we're actually have reporters that are going to be looking at each state individually and it's not going to be all about we're going to bring an expert analysis from our panels but more important we're just going to give you the straight facts of what's happening on the ground without necessarily spinning it we're going to tell you exactly what it is and we trust the viewers to actually make their minds up for themselves it was there presented the facts that they can trust more than it seems these midterms are about. he's not even on the ballots can't pin explains. 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. for the agenda

a page and. then mr trump said your. 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 that 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 investigated to want to see the troops 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. meanwhile the trump administration is raising the alarm if a foreign interference in the midterms it's accusing china russia and iran of

meddling in the face through social media. critical elections coming up in november and control of congress at stake twenty eight seen this year's midterm election this year's midterm elections as the twenty eight midterm election season begins to heat up there are new concerns about the security of america's election system i mean how secure are we there's been some finger pointing at both iran and china. now to a developing story we have a great news to tell you about it got us here in russia so i guess the simple question is is russia still targeting the united states no question the russians will meddle in this year's midterm elections russia is at it again at it again russia is up to its old tricks. from a merican speaking to be either willfully or blissfully ignorant of what's going on. why won't the president say that they are doing this why you see such a rush he hasn't even tweeted

a single piece on russia's goal is real simple a message to the road trust to create division of social and political content carry out cyber attack two of them or the other nefarious that you were in the middle of information and meme warfare is james bond evil villain level plotting the russians they know everything that irritates this country when congress and the general public disagrees simply along party lines and the russians are winning they seem to know everything that hurts they're going after all this stuff women fighting around this country have been heating up more so they're really not articulating a single viewpoint they have weaponized freedom of speech and the public loses trust in the press the russians are winning and the only thing stopping them is news media broadcasts like just be careful what you read they're still trying to get in our heads in this country resilience need to stand up and say we're not going to allow some russian to tell us out of.

the sunday cliche. in lieu. the. as of. the day before the face the f.b.i. along with other government creates issued a joint statements when americans of possible russian meddling it touts the kremlin could spread false information and propaganda among favorite is daniel mcadams executive director at the wrong pull institute says most alleged into ferrets has become more of a political tool than an actual security concern well the interesting thing is there's never been any proof presented it's just a bunch of scare tactics in italy the claim as you remember was that the russians tried to help trump when but when they could deliver no evidence whatsoever it became some amorphous thing like they're trying to undermine our faith in democracy by making us argue with each other as if we've never argued with each other before on these issues but what's interesting is the spending on the advertising in these

midterms election there is a good piece in the nation recently that found that for mid september to mid october in the house races they spent point one percent of the ads mentioned russia point one and in the senate not a single ad mentioned russia what does that tell you if the democrats really believe that this president is controlled by russia then why have they said nothing about it the fact is they do not believe that they have just used it as a way to try to overturn the elections they're not going to put their money where their mouths are because they know there's nothing there. the new times need sylvan newspapers graphic but on the tariff action result is making a comeback for the midterms but with painful memories of the democrats' presidential defeat in twenty sixteen the outlets making some changes. i.

new york times selection the adult still gives me as the from november the eighth one to sixteen. is a test trustful of the new york times needle on nov eighth went to sixteen. which in that you know the new york times has actually tracker is going to kill me pleasure backs off two thousand and sixteen elections we. were in the middle started twitching towards trump you could tell who was watching because they were the ones who started getting these drooled there were people

crying in the news room that night. we had many many discussions we all agreed that aggregated polls and then coming out with what looks like a new york times summary and then placing that too prominently on the home page was not the right thing to do so we're not going to repeat. iran's foreign minister has released a video lashing out at the new to us sanctions but how much of it sorry fact that he's focused on minimizing their facts on his people. the u.s. administration appears to be that imposing draconian sanctions on iran will bring about such pain to our nation that it will force us to submit to its rhythm no

matter how absurd. or fundamentally flawed its demands are and today we and our partners across the globe will ensure that our people are the least affected by this indiscriminate assault in the economic warfare that directly targets the iranian people notwithstanding hypocritical claims by the trumpet ministration to the contrary. earlier unchaste a spain joined to usher in condemning u.s. demands that countries follow its renewed sanctions on iran speaking at a joint news conference in madrid moscow's foreign minister sergey lavrov said u.s. actions on tehran are absolutely illegitimate and disappointing adding that washington's ultimatums are quite unacceptable his spanish counterparts echoed those consents. it is going to continue still there actually i agree with minister love the fin his rejection of any kind of approach that sounds like an ultimatum

including from the u.s. the e.u. and spain in particular have been very critical of the usas unilateral decision to denounce the nuclear agreement with the room and most which affects us badly from the point of view of the economy and security and the european union insisted on doing everything possible to keep this agreement alive and for the sake of our companies so that they can continue working investing and trading with iran the information that we have is that iran is complying with its commitments in this agreement and the u.s. does not have any arguments or reason to reject it or step out of it but i'm saying meanwhile france germany and the u.k. have issued a joint statement to find trump's threats to european companies doing business with the islamic republic they say that will work to main. financial channels with iran and moscow insist hiran has been in full compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal donald trump described the new restrictions as the strongest american sanctions against iran their facts more than seven hundred individuals they also

aggressively target the financial and the g. and shipping sectors but loads the newest former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says the move may have dangerous consequences. up until now foreign policy of the united. sorry was mainly you know reflexive of whatever the united states has said not because they're just full of a good they're mostly agreed with it also and now there's a fundamental disagreement governments and public opinion is not always exec the same i mean the government here in belgium and holland and so are very slow in decent matters but basically when they are so slow in not standing by the u.s. that they'll do a lot of things already given also the historical context so where this will go you never know and i hope that it will work out somehow because this is indeed

a friday dangerous situation but it is more than that this has to do i mean you should not forget why is the u.s. so aggressive against iran has nothing to do with their with the character of that regime because we have regimes that are allies in that area without far worse i mean saudi arabia to name just one it has to do with the feeling that they have that they're losing control over the middle east and then that this one prime tree that doesn't abide by. their rules that is to speak and i do believe that my fear is also that for the moment you know in the past obama even george bush jr you knew that somehow there were advisers in the background who said ok it looks like stone now miss a bit and but this president doesn't even even have reasonable advise us by his side. when tensions running high between the u.s.

and iran want to reign in our test as a penned an exhibition titles donald sutherland it showcasing eighty five cartoons that poke fun at washington's foreign policy and its ties to saudi arabia. in the first exhibit express this reality as it is politicians express reality in the way that they want to be seen in the future and a very classic atmosphere. still to come on our take paramedics in paris bring the city's ring road to a standstill for the second day running we'll have the story for you after

a short break. seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out just they become educated and in gay trade equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich.

that's why. it's like. three of the people. interested always in the water out. there. welcome back to ati paris paramedics a blocking the city's ring roads and other key routes for a second day with so-called snail protests sirens blazing gamblin says paul to cross roads some reports to be causing hundreds of kilometers of traffic jams in demonstrations over changes and conditions that paramedics say will put them out of work.

was. the protests of just the latest ahead in recent weeks they come as rightwing party leader marina pan over takes the money for the first time in the polls ahead of the parliamentary elections next year don't course takes a closer look. 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 up roar 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 mellon chon 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 russia 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. astounded to fail to read one of england's top football clubs has received a piece and threats and social media after fusing to add the traditional remembrance puppy. heads of all missed this day which marks the end of world war one in saturday's match for manchester united in the money a matter which did not wear the flower which is also seen as a tribute to modern day british service members as he later explained his decision i recognize truly why people were poppy's i told her to respect everyone's right to do so and i have told all sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to

conflict however for me it is only a reminder of the bombing of serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine on reflection i now don't feel it is right for me to wear the poppy on my shirt. math h. even reportedly said this she was so fundamental to him that he would leave the club and england forced to wear the trip and. picks up the story it's not every day you see a professional footballer take a hard political stance but that's exactly what manchester united. did regarding wearing the poppy well you would think that this would pacify all the tension because it was heavily criticized for not wearing this poppy but yes some people took to social media to deliver a lot of abuse towards the serbian player now some were suggesting that he should be injured others were saying that he should leave the country and play elsewhere but in serbia his decision received some price appreciate it as. politics shouldn't

be involved in the sports and that people should not attack him about of the season i appreciate also decision to explain to fans why he made the decision on the game and in general. i would do the same i think he did the right thing and then when your mouth it's no i think is the. really really big no football player. like a man you know because this is the good good good think he's doing now but even in the england itself is explanation left very mixed response some people actually defended him and said they respected his choice after all he was not even an english player but say that to stoke city's james maclean from republic of ireland who also refused to wear a poppy and got so much abuse coming towards him that it just you know the social media literally exploded with vile things said about the republic of ireland international player and he even had somewhat of

a confrontation with the fans at one of the recent stock city's games so all this basically raises a big question what is wearing a poppy in england a symbol of remembrance or some. thing that you can use as a stick to hit a player if you refuses to wear it based on his nationality if your teammates are doing it. especially in a change sport like that then i think that really sometimes you should swallow your own personal. opinions i don't think about that is. to do with it because everybody's dilute is dealing with. is recovering from the war us become but for me is that what i did if he lives and works in britain he has to shoot off on the national dish and poppy days especially yes it should. thanks for staying with us on our table be with you with the latest global news of the top of the hour.

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