twelve euros fifty a month. a tremendous success. on the midterm elections after the republicans held on to the senate democrats in the house of representatives saying that it's a huge blow to the president. was larger than usual. which cause huge queues with polling stations opening late and voting machines breaking down. in a jewish organization in germany has called on the government to put on special integration classes newly arrived muslim migrants amid a spike in anti semitic incidents. and egypt drafts

a lot of the book or is it warns both male and female terrorists have been wearing them to avoid detection. you have been. aware of actually men. as a small. acts are joining us this evening you're watching. a new political landscape is shaping up in the united states following the midterm elections democrats regain control of the house of representatives but the republicans extended their majority in the senate president says that both sides will try to work together despite the divide . and last night the republican party defied history to expand our senate majority well significantly beating expectations in the house. for the.

and midterm year openly we can all work together next year to continue delivering for the american people it seems we're facing a divided government in the legislative branch at this point the houses of congress we've got the house of representatives and the u.s. senate are controlled by different parties the democrats gained control of the house of representatives while the senate remains solidly republican with the republicans actually increasing their leadership and their role in the senate gaining a few seats it's not exactly clear how many they gained but they did clearly make some gains last night in their control of the senate now both sides seem to be congratulating themselves seeing this as a victory the democrats are rejoicing that they seem to have taken control of the house of representatives the republicans including president trump are celebrating the fact that they've solidified their control of the senate let's take a look at some of the aftermath of last night's vote to see if that restoring the

constitution's checks and balances to the challenge. of america spoke. and took back the house of representatives. so tonight is a night to celebrate how far our movement has come. in the relief of the. law several others have announced the senate going into republican control that's a huge moment a huge victory for the president to fill testament to the fact that many voters want their state wide officials to be people who will continue to have this economic boom are voting in favor of freedom and free markets with control of the house of representatives the democrats will be much more able to block trump's agenda further more of the democrats will have the ability to launch more investigations into donald trump the question of impeachment remains open as the democrats do have the possibility of bringing impeachment charges against donald.

however an impeachment trial would require the senate which is solidly republican to vote out the president however at this point we've heard from donald trump he spoke about how the numbers showed a big success for the republican party there was a big turnout of supporters and donald trump spoke about you know the gains made in the senate compared himself to previous administrations and the successes that were possibly made and furthermore donald trump when he spoke he talked about how he was willing to work with democrats he said that he'd be willing to cooperate with the democratic party when it came to issues such as the drug prices and other issues he urged bipartisan cooperation it's also important to note that during the press conference trump was asked about whether or not russia and china had quote meddled in the election now trump did not give a direct answer to the question and said simply that he's been working with the

f.b.i. and the justice department did not give a direct answer about whether or not he was going to accuse russia or china or any other country of meddling in the election results trump did warn the democrats that if they investigated him he would launch investigations into them for alleged leaks also clashed with the media quite a bit during his press conference so the country is reacting to quite a dramatic vote was quite a big midterm election that just happened here in the united states and the results are mixed. more than seventeen thousand cools about voting problems have been documented to far from being the only incidence of these elections that will be remembered.

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spring in the restless and he's the executive vice president of the eurasia center a think tank good to have you all know we have learned just in the last couple of hours that u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is. leaving as of this on kind of asked to leave what do you think the significance of that is and will he be the first of several. i think. i think we knew there was some issues going on for a while now so i don't think it should be any surprise and i believe that there will be probably several change over design in the administration which is typical of during a changeover but i think mr trump will have as we've already seen many changes over the last first two years i think we will see a change over

a few more positions. probably between now and january we should find out what do you usually put that down to the need for changes people not considered to be doing that job whether enough is it because you need to have somebody who's like perhaps by the other side of the house and it's on both sides i think i think someone that you can feel that can work with the congressional side as well as within the administration. i think also. president trump is pretty pretty demanding so i think you'd probably looking for someone that's more aligned to his train of thought or his direction. as well as how it blends with the chief of staff or so the chief of staff going to have a big say i think other cabinet members will have a when you read that he does retain will have a big status in so it's typically don't see huge change over after two years but

but as we've seen the last two years anything can happen here so there's a lot of talk of from foreign interference in the build up to these midterms one x. f.b.i. agent wrote an article noting that in that opinion americans thought russians were the ones guilty stoking election phase you can just have a listen to what was said. everyone's witness to play playing out now they don't need russia say much they've learned that the tactic is devastatingly effective so the accusation is that you know the phase coming from within getting this effect home until not. i think it is a fair comment i think you've got a lot of things going on within and i and i think from from other allied. allied countries other countries as well who have extreme influence on our political process but we really kind of look the other way to it primarily because of the funding that comes in for that but yes i think i think you've got things going on on both side another nonprofit organizations lobbying organizations are all in the

game now. in terms of you know influencing the elections what do you think of the role that the u.s. media has played because the accusation he started around that particularly the t.v. channels extreme but but you know newspapers as well extremely policies on is decade sation and that influences the vote is when the supposed to be independent what's your assessment of the u.s. media and how they performed yes i think the media itself i mean i know these accusations from two thousand and sixteen on the russians creating divisiveness that which i find i've looked at the advertisements and i haven't seen that but but definitely the u.s. media and the political parties have definitely created more divisiveness and more friction between. between the parties as well as within the within the society itself and i think the media is largely to blame there. sometimes leaking

information that should not be leaked sometimes. twisting the story a different way than that should be. sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct and that's substantiated so i think we've got. we've got a media and also elements within the government that are actually creating within the u.s. government that are actually creating more of a divisive. atmosphere within the population. trumps happy celebrating it's a victory for him he says he's strengthened its control the senate democrats are celebrating because they got they the house of representatives what will be the consequences of that at the house coming under democrat control i think i think well for one thing we always heard this blue wave i think was more of a blue ripple because we just see barely a turnover maybe a little over two dozen turnover in the. in the house and they needed twenty three

so we've got maybe three or four more than the necessary. i think they're hoping for much more i mean what obama has mid-term election is first midterm i think they had over the largest turnover by any party in like seventy years like sixty three members the law both the senate in the house meanwhile at the same time when the republicans strengthen their hand in the in the senate and so i think. what we're going to have we're going to have more divisiveness we're going to have a blockade i think stagnation in florida legislative actions. but i don't i think there may be there's still some room in there for negotiations and i and i don't think the democratic candidate has as been strengthened as much as they are anticipating so it's. it'll be washington you know we're in the quagmire it'll just continue to move forward and not a lot gets done. appreciate your time thanks for coming on this evening

a resinous of my guests executive vice president of the eurasia sent a think tank. a swiss bank the biggest japanese comic and a british defense giant they are among foreign owned firms giving millions of dollars to the republicans and democrats in the midterm elections that despite foreign donations being found how does it happen he's checking the figure explains . it's no surprise that meddling was on the mind once again in the run up to the midterms we are receiving information through a variety of public and private sources that indicate that. we should be seriously concerned about people trying to influence the elections in two thousand and eighteen and spending serious money to do it serious money and perhaps those concerns aren't completely unfounded because while the vast majority of the five billion spent on these elections was burned through by the parties themselves

a nice chunk of change was generously spent by foreign companies a list put together by the center for responsive politics shows over a dozen countries jumping at the chance to put their money where their interests are the data shows most support was thrown behind republicans spending roughly four million dollars more on the right than the left the u.k. switzerland and germany were the biggest spenders on the list of over a dozen countries. and you may be surprised to hear that mexican based companies overwhelmingly gave to republicans and all the contributions weren't high every dollar is another metaphorical brick in the wall isn't it now you may be thinking but that's illegal right well yes and no while it is true that only american citizens can make political contributions there is a lovely little loophole that allows american divisions of foreign companies to form political action committees or pacs and collect money from american employees

and this by the never ending meddling mania in the us over the past two years the federal election commission has rejected proposed changes to address foreign influence in the us three times and we can't accept the fact that why would people want to give us money unless they think they're good or they kick back or getting something from it so it's a reflection of the type of government we have is a reflection that we have interests around the world. we're in a hundred and fifty hundred sixty countries we are maintaining an empire so everybody has an interest and we're asked their overregulating trade where you know threatening sanctions and putting on tariffs and so a lot of people are buying influence so i think that is the problem to curtail the money you know we're sort of debt tackling this symptom yes we want to do that and the law says you're not supposed to but the loophole is that there is a complex system here through the pac system that you know that is

a huge huge problem the law says that they can't do it and they should say that if it's coming from a from a foreign source just because it's given to a pac to excavate it that shouldn't be allowed. germany's leading jewish organization is calling for special anti semitism classes for muslim migrants this comes amid a spike in hate crimes against jews peta all of it has a story. jewish community leaders in germany say they want to see integration classes for migrants that focus on semitism saying that this could help stem a rise in anti-semitic incidents in the country many of these people have been shaped by regimes in which anti semitism is essential jewish state is denied the right to live to prevent the worst scenario we need to live the integration courses to these people much more preferably by a country of origin the official statistics but

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 fall 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 case a. of twenty eighteen was caught on camera shows him a dish she's. still showing 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 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 among whom there are for example people of arab origin who bring in another form of anti-semitism into the country i fortunately anticipate is what existed before that i met with burly rabbi yehuda title 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 there 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 topic gender 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 christan act or the night of the broken glass when jewish homes businesses and places of worship were set ablaze by nazis with the nascent support of out of hitler's government 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 photo of

a palestinian protesters gone viral similarities to a famous painting of the french revolution he's now become a symbol of resistance. does it look familiar especially to the french reminds me of liberty leading the people by using the marquardt a very powerful image. i'll go to the great march of return demonstrations to live with dignity and to take back the homeland i will never leave i will go every day and god willing our dreams be achieved.

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 was hurting them a tool and they were facing us with weapons. and i. 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's been white criticism of israel's use of excessive force against gaza protesters israeli sr is the palestinians who are inciting violence the so-called great march of return demonstration of the board has been taking place for over seven months at least two hundred ten palestinians have died eight hundred thousand people were injured. egypt may ban the burka

in public at any time and under any circumstances according to a new draft law will make you say that both male and female terrorists are using the full body veil to avoid detection. we are currently in an ongoing war against terrorism we should do our best to ended the veil or is used by many people as a cover for the crimes that they're committing it's not part of personal freedom as some say. seven states have already barred the covering in public it sparked heated discussion the un human rights committee even ruled france's ban constituted a violation of human rights earlier my colleague under farm against opinion from historian are held darwish political and social commentator mo and so they have been actually instances in egypt and elsewhere where actually men pretending to be women and so it's for security as class

a hypocritical double standard to actually suggest that it's actually either but i don't think anybody saying that we. are all that which i think secular freedoms i think it is a very slippery slope when you are starting to legislate what muslim women anonymously member presumably i mean if a jewish woman wants to cut the head or somebody wants what is a fancy dress or these are part of a secular rights and freedoms. that drafted our proposed law it's not actually banned as in france so if you are going to a security zone. a government institution. or a military base or airport security or any of these places you are required to move the bit seven european countries have banned the burka safe in public places do you feel this is a growing except answer a growing push or a growing movement to do this and would you anticipate to see more countries follow suit i think we've seen a growing faction lies ation and

a hard thing to polarize actually the base and i think what we will see is any creasing effort by the populist party the far right movements in europe in europe i would turn to that said the paradox in england in europe in general and the west will resist. anything because we're out through the open society of freedom individual but when you have a nanny state that egypt erodes that can be understated you need this kind of law to really protect women from slugs forcing them to wear the veil and the board this is about for. a short skirt is not libertarianism a head scarf is not conservatism we need to open our minds and become a bill elevate about these issues let's. make regular has been rocked by anti-government protests for over half a year now since april more than three hundred people have been killed in them according to local human rights groups investigative group of redfish paid a visit to the country.

we're trying to understand what's happening exactly at the moment i mean it's very difficult to keep up with the rival demonstrations. nicaragua's civil unrest began in mid april twenty eighth and has left school or state in hundreds injured it began after the government of president daniel ortega proposed social security reform protests followed and the government soon ditched the proposal but the violence continues. to nicaragua now where thousands of people are fleeing violence as the government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters the international media have given widespread coverage to these student videos in opposition protests so on the way right now to meet with the student activists she was at our university when the initial protest movement began in april but she soon found herself being threatened by the opposition. that i don't like. when i say seen.

that one man says that made. the man say i suspect that person i had a what and i mean that i mean. they are all puppet also what i mean is that i also . think that. the national endowment for democracy any has provided millions of dollars to the groups leading government operations in nicaragua today in twenty seventeen for example the ne d. provided an anonymous organization with eighty six thousand dollars to foster a new generation of democratic youth leaders the international media lays the blame for the civil unrest squarely on president done a lot. in his government and highlight opposition voice while providing little to

no context of the role of influential actors like the us government nearly forty years later we're still trying to overthrow ortega. but his seal. with that i don't know how you think it will go on monday. but they thought he had them. well t. has asked the u.s. national endowment for democracy implicated in the correct protests for comment we are awaiting a reply. and i will be away to new hope you'll join me for the latest update in half an hour.

finally the midterm elections and there are many questions with these races a referendum on donald trump's time in office what will the democrats are doing power and what are trunks chances in twenty twenty. you should the government. is your voice belongs to you and us in your voice people can do seems they wouldn't accept was a secure should we. if this is a different. people see. survival guide post a single malt to start with at least are. you sure it's still there you don't

get it back. oh heck no. repatriations king would get arrested seven years. philip a separate kaiser report. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be recently violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lawyer i mean your list book video. scrolling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty forty. of those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. right

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