the police will do. believe that he. was. the first results of the cuts in the u.s. midterm elections after tens of millions cost their ballots in a pivotal vote this would be seen as a referendum on the trumpet ministrations performance.

car medics to use hundreds of i'm going to insist to paralyze the streets of paris for a second day in protest against the money reforms as a short poll shows writes would need a marine that was a bit taken the french president for the first time head of next year's eve parliamentary elections. the heads of all missed this day a sabian football star in the u.k. refuses to wear a puppy on his shit saying it reminds him of when his village was formed in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine sometimes you should just swallow your own personal. opinions he obviously has a great school. district why my feet you just have to respect the speed of the street. life from moscow you're watching international welcome to the program. the first

voting results and now coming in from the us where americans have been costing the ballots in crucial midterm elections which will decide who controls the house of representatives on the senate. well we can now cross over. caleb maupin in washington for the latest kaleb these midterms have generated intense interest was the picture we're getting at the moments. well in just the last half hour we've seen polls close in north carolina ohio and west virginia and americans across the country are casting their votes it is indicated that there is a record turnout for this midterm vote now results are starting to trickle in that there has been one upset this evening so far already a seat in the house of representatives belonging to a republican was overturned and jennifer a democrat has defeated the republican incumbent but results are coming in there

are some expected results in the u.s. senate tim kaine and bernie sanders both expected to win were victorious there were widespread republican victories in the state of kentucky but as of yet the crucial results of the evening are expected to come in a few hours now at this point these are mid-term elections and basically midterm elections come two years between presidential elections the presidential elections happen every four years two years in between that you have the midterm elections and during the midterm vote we see seats in u.s. congress up for grabs the house of representatives runs for reelection those are two year positions there also senate seats that are up for grabs and governorships now the vote taking place this evening is receiving quite a bit of coverage many seeing it as almost a referendum on u.s. president donald trump now interestingly google has been citing on its trends page some of the most popular questions related to the midterm vote and apparently many

americans have been googling the phrase who to vote for today essentially turning to google for advice on who to select as their candidate of choice also popular as the search for what do midterms do so americans are actually turning to the search engine the popular search engine for advice on who to vote for but interestingly you know usually midterm congressional votes in the united states see a very low participation rate and not much interest from the u.s. . public but as we're seeing here in the united states there's been quite a fanfare in the lead up to tonight's results and the voting that took place across the country today i did a recent report on why that is take a listen. 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 vague and. 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 join me in impeachment do 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 powerful 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 we want to see 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. . meanwhile the trump administration is raising the alarm they have a foreign interference in them intense it's accusing china russia and iran of meddling in the same through social media. critical elections coming up in november

and control of congress at stake twenty eight this year's midterm elections but this year's midterm elections as the twenty eight 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 about breaking 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. i mean are can speak seem to be either willfully or blissfully ignorant of what's going on. why won't the president say that they are doing this why do 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 attacks 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 i heard so 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 this be careful what you read they're still trying to get in our heads in this country. were us to stand up and say we're not going to allow some russian to tell us out of the. time the question. is who. he.

says that ten thousand the russians are no longer the main peddlers of this information online according to former f.b.i. agent clint's watts who cited a new washington post article it's americans who are really driving divisions and fermenting hatred of heads of midterms everyone's witness the playbook playing now they don't need russia so much the tactic is devastatingly effective in the washington post article watson other experts list cases of this information spread by republicans one example was a photo of a mexican policeman who had supposedly been wounded by migrants another was the baseless claim that billionaire george soros was funding a violent migrant invasion spreading lies isn't the pre-service of the republicans they were courting to the associated press democrats misled potential voters in

north dakota about hunting licenses in other states and on another occasion the democrats were seen to be misrepresenting the republicans positions on health care . well now we're joined by political talk show host brian crabtree from talk forty eight dot com brian good to have you on the program what do you make of this claim from former f.b.i. agent clint watts. well i and there's a lot of claims that are out there right now we've got one here in georgia that there was some sort of hacking in the elections in georgia and there's this back and forth between democrats who say that the secretary of state as the head of the elections had something to do with doing it for political purposes that on the other hand the f.b.i. agent that supposedly hacked into the election systems or attempted to is a democrat operative so i don't really know what to make of all of these accusations but there certainly seems to be a lot of them when it comes to f.b.i.

agents or f.b.i. informants so i believe the words fake news always comes to mind not to be cliche but to be a little bit open minded in that i can't always trust what the media is covering in politics here in america anymore regretfully but i said in the author cool that russians might not get the pettiness of this information cannot be the case that mostly americans were spreading this information along. well i think has been a lot of people spreading disinformation i've always said that there were probably people in russia who tried to act the election as long as well as in china and in america and in other parts of the world so what i find interesting is that in the two thousand and twelve elections the biggest geopolitical threat according to one candidate was russia and they he was laughed out of the room and then all of a sudden the same people laughing him out of the room found russia to be the biggest issue in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen and thereafter so while i think there are certainly divisions between americans and russians when it comes to

political and geo political forces i think that a lot of this has been polarized for the sake of trying to scare voters in america and i really don't think it's working i think the american people see right through this how do you think the current levels of division that you just touched upon will affect the mid ten fates. well america is extremely divided what we're seeing is something rather unprecedented for instance here in georgia and it's even greater in texas which are two very key states to watch republican senator ted cruz has had a tough battle it appears he'll retain the senate as a republican we're seeing eighty seven percent turnout in many of those districts says compared to the twenty sixteen presidential election here in georgia it's north of eighty percent getting to sixty used to be a real good number sixty percent were way above those numbers so while america is extremely divided over the next dreamily politically polarized what we're seeing right now is that the american people are as engaged in the political process as

they've been in perhaps decades ok well thank you very much brian crabtree publisher have took fourteen and political talk show host thank you very much for joining us how naughty. iran's foreign minister has released a video lashing out at renewed u.s. sanctions mohamed seven sorry that he's focused on minimizing their facts on his people. 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 bid 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 russia in condemning us to mounds that countries follow its renewed sanctions on iran speaking at a joint news conference in madrid moscow's foreign minister sergey lavrov said the u.s. actions on tyrone are absolutely illegitimate and disappointing adding that washington's ultimatums equips unacceptable his spanish counterparts chose help arel echoed those concessions the canadian union could and east of there actually i agree with minister love the finn 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 no reason to reject it or step out of it with and meanwhile france germany and the u.k. have issued a joint statement defying trumps threats to european companies doing business with the islamic republic they say they'll work to maintain and develop financial channels with iran and moscow insists hiran has been in full compliance with the thames ahead of the terms of the nuclear deal. donald trump's described the new restrictions as the strongest american sanctions ever against iran their facts more than seven hundred individuals they also aggressively target the financial energy and shipping sectors but slowed the newest former deputy speaker of the parliament says the move may have dangerous consequences. up until now foreign policy

of the united. sorry was mainly you know it reflects if that's what the united states has said not because they just fall into good and mostly agree with it also and now there's a fundamental disagreement governments and public opinion is not always exactly the same i mean the government here in belgium in all of them 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 the character of that regime because we have for regimes that are allies in that area who don't follow us 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 printer that doesn't abide by. their rules that is just speak and i do believe that my fear is also that for the moment you know in the past by a lot even george bush jr you knew that somehow there were advisers in the background who said ok it looks like stone now on this 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 has opened an exhibition in titles donald salon it shaped casing eighty five cartoons that poked fun at washington's foreign policy and its ties to saudi arabia.

that in the first exhibit express this reality as it is but politicians express reality in the way that they want to be seen in the fisa and very classic atmosphere. still to come on our tape paramedics in paris bring the city's ring road to a standstill for the second day running we'll have that story for you after a short break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express injury. or something want to be upset. that you'd like to be close it's like the flag tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers out. there shouldn't mess.

welcome back to the program paris paramedics are blocking the city's ring roads and other key routes for a second day the so-called snail protests sirens blazing ambulances parked across roads and reportedly causing hundreds of kilometers of traffic jams and demonstrations over changes in conditions that paramedics say will put them out of work. through two zero zero.

zero zero. the protests are just the latest to hit france in recent weeks they come as right wing parties need a marine le pen if it takes a month for the first time in the polls ahead of the parliamentary elections next year don't quartet 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 mar say with leftist politician john look mel and sean 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 to sovereignty 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 fail at one of england's top football clubs has received to be on threats and say show media after refusing to wear the traditional remembrance puppet. had of all missed this day which marks the end of world war one in saturday's much for manchester united. to 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 fully 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. matej shaven reportedly said that she was safe fundamental to him that he would leave the club

and england if forced to wear the trim piece 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 the 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 decision politics shouldn't be involved in the sports and that people should not talk to him about of the season i appreciate also decision to explain to fans why he made the decision to 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. very very beginning now. like a man you know because this is the think he's doing now but even in the england itself 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 something that. you can use as a stick to hit a player if you refuses to wear it based on his nationality if your team actually

doing it. especially in a sport like up then i think that really sometimes you should swallow your own personal. opinions i don't think. so because everybody's dilute is dealing with. the war us become but for me is that what i did if you lives and works in britain yes we should all on the national dish and poppy day's a special but yes it should yeah you can find more details on all stories ever. i'll be with you at the top of the hour with the latest. 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 backrooms and down to continue to do to rob

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