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to put a special integration. of the french revolution. we speak to him about his experience protesting at the border where he was. and of course. the international welcome to the. americans have now. the crucial. wall of this happening deep divisions in the country the projections suggesting the democrats are set against that will see the . control of the house of representatives we're looking at one hundred eighty five

democrats one hundred seventy five. international three hundred sixty four hundred thirty five seats have been determined however when it comes to the senate things do stand a little bit differently for example. indicate the republicans will retain control of the senate with fifty one republican seats versus forty two democrats now let's cross live towards he's a washington correspondent who's a of course you've been following all the developments throughout what is a very long night for you caleb off to one am where you are now there in the u.s. capital can you break it all down for us how's it looking to you and what does it all mean. well it looks like we're going to have a split government on capitol hill all the projections are in we're still waiting for official results but all the projections seem to agree that while the senate is

remaining in the hands of the republicans that it appears that the democrats have taken control of the u.s. house of representatives the congress of the united states the legislative body is divided into two houses now those two houses belong to two different parties this is the first time in eight years that the democrats have had control of the u.s. house of representatives now this is centrally means a split government and with control of the house of representatives the democrats will have the ability to launch more investigations into donald trump they'll have the ability to subpoena people and bring them before congress also they'll have the ability to get their hands on some key documents now people are asking could this mean impeachment now the way the u.s. constitution lays that out the democrats with control of the house will be able to bring impeachment charges against the president however it is the senate that would vote to remove the president in the event of an impeachment trial so the senate

remains solidly republican however at this point a government shutdown is a real possibility because in order for legislation to pass the u.s. congress both houses have to sign on to it so with the democrats having the ability to shut down legislation they could essentially shut down the government as has happened under the obama administration and previous administrations it's important to note that this midterm election there was a massive turnout and usually the midterm elections those are elections between presidential races in which congressional candidates run local and state officials run for office but no president is running for president run every four years and then between those four year presidential races we have midterm elections. usually midterm elections are pretty pretty you know pretty much ignored by the public we hear the public you know just not participating very much turnout is very low the

media doesn't get a lot of play but this time turnout was massive and we even had celebrities encouraging all of their followers on social media to vote we had thirty five million people voting early in states in the united states that allow early voting let's take a listen to some of the celebrities urging people to go out and vote. make sure the lines in their children's lives to come not to you they actually the future of our country will be decided this week elections don't just matter when voting for president this election might be the most consequential of our lifetimes for all of you. put it to. thank you and for all of you that i still have still yet to vote. you will. see i believe.

now it's important to note that the trending page of the search engine known as google released some of the popular searches related to the u.s. midterm election and their list revealed that a number of americans were actually googling who it was that they should vote for they typed in who to vote for tomorrow hoping that google could provide them with an answer about who they should pick when it was time to cast their ballot now at this point we've also seen that despite the fact that his party lost control of the house of representatives donald trump was tweeting out that this was a true if excess was a great night so at this point people are looking ahead to a divided government on capitol hill appears that while the senate remains republican the democrats seem to have maintained and won control of the u.s. house of representatives live in the u.s. capitol these caliban thank you. now this year's excitement over the minutes

resulted in certainly enormous queues with not even getting to cost their votes other issues included a broken ballot scanners and voting machines blocking power cords and some places there was a shortage of machines and ballots stations open late and sean phoenix the polling station was closed due to a failure to pay rent but that was later opened up again by local officials the real problem it was thought in the run up to the vote would be. critical elections coming up in november and control of congress at stake twenty eight t.v. this year's midterm election 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. china. now to a developing story we have

a breaking news to tell you about the russians 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. and the americans they 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 you see russia hasn't even tweeted a single piece on russia's goal is real simple on this super road trust to create to have social and political content carry out cyber attacks two of them are the other nefarious things. 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 disagree simply along party lines and the russians are winning they seem to know everything that i heard they're going

after all this stuff women. around this country they've 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 resilience needed for us to stand up and say we're not going to allow some russian to tell us out of those. two hundred places. in schools like he. who makes american. life no t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg joining us live from new york steve good to see you on this late night and i was off the one of the morning for your trouble already calling the result a tremendous success is that what you would call it. well we have to put it in historical perspective usually when the president has his first midterm election

and that's what this is for donald trump two years into his first term he loses badly for instance barack obama in his first midterm election lost sixty three house seats and six senate seats bill clinton in one thousand nine hundred two his for first midterm loss fifty four house seats and nine senate seats so the fact that donald trump lost about thirty five house seats and gained at least four senate seats and by the way only three times this is the fourth time in history that a president's party has gained senate seats in the first term election so if you look at it in historical context yes it's a victory steve let's talk about the media coverage here how balanced do you think the media coverage has been in the run up to this do you think the cases like brett kavanaugh and the migrant caravan may have had an impact. i know that the brett

kavanaugh situation had an impact the senators who lost tonight for instance joe manchin joe manchin was the one senator from west virginia one democratic senator to vote for our become from ation of brett kavanaugh democrat from west virginia he was it was very questionable whether or not he would win he won tonight he's a democrat who held the seat the four and possibly more including two female democratic senators by the way were very vocal and very outspoken against brett kavanaugh so i know what motivated the republicans all over the country to come out and to vote because they don't like to see you know someone's life ruined like that and by the way since the confirmation two women well one in particular has admitted that she made it up she lie and she's been referred for criminal charges so i think it played a big part the caravan yeah when you have democrats saying and the media saying

that all this is just poor people just people coming here for a better life guess what a majority of americans don't agree with that they believe in borders they believe if people need to come here they need to do it the right way you don't come to this country looking for a better life breaking through barriers in borders of other countries and waving your hand during or home flag while you're doing it so i think both those issues both those were big factors tonight steve what about when it comes to the issue of outside interference meddling in the elections the u.s. intelligence community and the western networks where warning for weeks if not months all about the risk of meddling russia they said is going to be meddling china they said they even said iran is now meddling in the u.s. midterm elections your thoughts on the ground a scenario of meddling. well china of course the president pointed to some ads they were taking out and trying to influence voting one way or another but look

you could bet that had the democrats lost you know didn't win the house tonight if they lost the senate the senate went republican and if they and the house stayed republican you would already be hearing russia russia russia they did something we need hearings they fixed it they did this they did that i promise you you would have heard that but now that the democrats circa house they can't really cry that can day because. there's no basis for it but they can't even make a basis for it because they actually want something so it's hysteria it's been hysteria since day one to discredit donald trump that donald trump is in putin's you know pocket that donald trump is indebted to putin putin is going to blackmail him and it's an illegitimate presidency that that's what this is all been about from day one make no mistake steve malzberg t.v. host and political commentator joining us live from new york here we're not he

international many thanks indeed have a good night. my pleasure. i so of course on to america was covering the early stages of the u.s. midterm elections that suck if you some of the highlights these are the midterm elections but certainly no usual midterm elections i'm joined by my colleague scott e. mail hughes who's going to be helping to take us through this night this very important night we're also going to be joined tonight by our colleague in los angeles larry king who's joining us to give us his perspective as well they're like the democrats can take the house as i understand it there's a ninety percent chance that they will take the house so we're going to have if that holds a split government which at this point in this country might even be healthy. the last two years have been the turbulent to say the least this is an important election night live through a lot of them but i've never been through one like this from front at all there's

no doubt trump prompted wallace's who's an election for or against strong. but he couldn't roll the media over the last two years it's almost at a point there's never been anything like this in history ever i know donald for forty years the one thing the state you made stacey and you make very few in your life. donald trump does not have a bruised ego. go mains constant in other words what he will say is a couple of things democrats stole as in the house why are you notice that we kept the senate because most of my time was devoted to the senate he will take credit for whatever doesn't matter what happens if he lost the senate he would have blamed the world we've never seen anything like this in politics ever now that i'm trying to picture. fifty years from today they put up till portraits of american

presidents right now i'm trying to see washington jefferson. rose. reagan. do you think that i just never saw him as president and so what we have used accomplish some things. but we have a we have a country in. a lot of trouble a lot of familiar faces that you have seen here on our to america where we had to bring him back and tonight for this historical night i want to bring in rick ungar senior political contributor at forbes and also the host of in the pod a complex and that ryan c.e.o. of the american majority to give us the three sixty view tonight why are the republicans going to lose the house why does it come down to. why i think part of first of all just a historic story i mean it's typical for a president to lose twenty four twenty eight seats on average in the first midterm so i mean part of his just history scottie where there's

a reset and the party out of power in the white house takes back seats in the house so i think that's part of i think what's going to be really interesting a couple thoughts on this first of all it's not going to be a massive tsunami i think it'll be a very slim majority obviously fox and other stations are calling the democrats to a but i think will be a very slim majority and the big question i have scott is this when democrats if they do take the house come into power what are they going to do are they going to actually legislate or is this going to be two years of just investigation after investigation because i think that plays exactly right into trump's hands for twenty twenty and i think scottie when you have maxine waters has had a financial services jury now as head of judiciary adam schiff as intelligence intel and then you've got a larger cummings i think is oversight these are not middle of the road members of the house these are left liberal members and i don't think are going to be able to help themselves i think they're going to be extremely aggressive and i think that then calls into question scott is a lot of these democrats will be potentially picking up seats have been running as

more moderate or centrist candidates i think they're going to put them in trouble and i think getting a plane to trump sands in two thousand and twenty rick how aggressive are the democrats now and their victory that number one over the next twenty four hours or more importantly how are they going to govern for the next two years are we basically just facing the next two years of a stalemate and a hissy. between the two parties it depends on how aggressive is going to depend on how the total ends up tonight i think it's probably going to be somewhere between twenty eight and twenty nine seats picked not bad i agree it's not like the giant tsunami but it's not bad how well that they can govern and whether they can legislate is going to have everything to do with whether or not president trump decides he wants to work with the democrats in congress or not he's made some noises that he might want to democrats support infrastructure that could be a heck of a great place to start if i had been the president i would have started with that in the first place so we'll see obviously there's an opportunity here for

a lot of investigations i think it's going to be subpoenaed congress let's not kid one another that's going to be there i actually agree with something ned said that happens every now and then the democrats the democrats could overdo it you don't want to make the next two years all about investigating this president that will bite them in the unit what come twenty twentieth's that's all this is about this is international and we'll get to some of your other international world headlines and just. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be left.

to the right to be close this is what the before freedom or can people get. interested always in the waters it. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this thing become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

on nine twenty am here in moscow germany's leading jewish organization is calling for special semitism classes full muslim migrants it comes amid a spike in hate crimes talkative jews correspondent peter all of a picks up the story. jewish community leaders in germany say they want to see integration classes for migrants that focus on t. semitism saying that this could help stem a rileys an anti-semitic incidents in the country many of these people. been shaped by regimes in which anti semitism is essential and the jewish state is denied the right to live to prevent the worst scenario we need to tailor the integration courses to these people much more preferably by country of origin the official statistics back up a rise in crime in germany just over four hundred were reported in the first half of twenty eighteen knots up ten percent on the same period last year the vast

majority of these were committed by neo nazi and far right groups but the leadership of germany's foremost jewish organization paints a bleak picture of the future saying he sees more problems coming from migrants one of the most shocking cases of twenty eighteen was caught on camera shows him a dish she's. going to do you think showing a nineteen year old syrian molly going to be using two men from berlin for wearing a kippah going as far as to attack the men with his belt jewish leaders have cautioned against wearing the traditional skull cap so as not to draw attention in berlin we've seen reports of jewish children becoming the target of anti semitic bullying in school and this summer ten people were arrested after a brawl in a berlin park which started after one group of people from syria snatched away a star of david necklace worn by a jewish man also from the same country over one million refugees and migrants

event in the country since twenty fifteen and as chancellor merkel points out some have contributed to the problem of noir we have a new phenomenon as we have many refuges a man whom there are for example people of arab origin who bring in another form of anti-semitism into the country as fortunately and to citizen existed before that i met with burly rabbi yehuda take that and i asked him how bad the situation is and if he agrees with extra integration classes for migrants focusing on anti semitism the. problem with anti-semitism in germany today is unfortunately growing here is much worry about the developments in germany especially due to the fact that many refugees have come from countries which they were breastfed with hate towards israel and towards jewish people of course we welcome everybody but at the same time being a refugee doesn't only have merits it also has obligations it's not something that

only affects the jewish people this affects all people that honor and respect democracy and want to live in a society which respects all people so we have to understand that this is a very serious top agenda issue also for the leaders of the german government and we strongly encourage them to take it in that manner this week sees the eightieth anniversary of kristallnacht or the night of the broken glass when jewish homes and businesses and places of worship were set ablaze by nazis with the nascent support of out of hitler's government and while the situation in today's germany is thankfully a long way from out of the one nine hundred thirty s. that period of history continues to cast a long shadow peter all of our r.t. berlin. a star midfielder at one of england's top football clubs has received harsh criticism on social media after refusing to wear the traditional remembrance poppy ahead of armistice day which marks the end of world war one in saturday's match for

manchester united so. decided not to wear the flower but he explained why on instagram. i recognize fully why people wear poppies i totally respect everyone's right to do so and i have told sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones to do 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 the poppy was first introduced as a remembrance symbol for those who died in the first world war however now its meaning has been extended as a symbol of remembrance for all fallen soldiers is also widely used to raise funding for veterans so we got reaction in belgrade and london to the football this decision not to wear a poppy i appreciate it decision politics shouldn't be involved in a sports i i would do the same keys from this country. has suffered more.

twenty years from these aggressors and. the country where play is one of these aggressors english not the parties. we don't like not the part not the soldiers if he lives and works in britain. on the national poppy today's special day yes it should but he obviously has a great personal feeling as to why and i think you just have to respect his previous two if your team mates are doing it. especially in a sport like that then i think really sometimes you should swallow your own personal opinions just to show respect for the people around him and his family and his even his team to show respect he should i feel like he should wear poppy i wish that's not something that we will find anyway. a photo of a palestinian protester has gone viral for similarities to

a famous french painting of the french revolution a work by called liberty leading the people the protester in the image has now become a symbol of resistance. does it look familiar especially to the french reminds me of liberty leading the people by huge indoor quad a very powerful image. and a lot of them go to the great mulch return demonstrations to live with dignity and to take back all the land that i will never leave oh good every day and god willing i'll dream he achieved.

i thought i put the flag down and started throwing stones with my sling shot so the short may only carry the sling shots on the flank and i wasn't hurting them a tool and they were facing us with weapons. and i used to do this in a great march of return demonstrations flag in one hand sling and the other when i saw my photo i was moved to go back there. has been a wide criticism of israel's use of excessive force against gaza protesters israel insists though that is the palestinians who are inside violence so called march also the demonstration at the border it's been on and go big now for over seven months at least two hundred ten palestinians have been killed with more than

a team thousand of them were. that is the program for this hour we are back soon with more. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. when the final larry go around the

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