give it a try you never know where you might end up. a tremendous success verdict on the midterm elections after the republicans held on to the senate democrats retake the house of representatives saying that that is a huge blow to the president. larger than usual voter turnout. with polling stations opening late and voting machines breaking down. in other news the jewish organization in germany has called on the government to put on special integration classes for the new iraq muslim migrants amid a spike in anti semitic incidents. in the

burka or is it warns both male and female terrorists have been wearing them to avoid detection they have been actually. actually meant to be. security based failed. as a small piece of material a threat to national security. for joining us this hour this is r.t. international. a new political landscape is shaping up in the united states following the midterm elections democrats have regained control of the house of representatives but the republicans extended their majority in the senate president says 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 mid. and midterm year hopefully 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 family story in the constitution's checks and balances to the challenge. of america's spoke. and took back the house of representatives. so tonight is a night to celebrate how far our movement has come. in the race for 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 going 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 furthermore 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 trump 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 didn't warn the democrats that if they investigated him he would launch investigations into them for alleged leaks trump 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. in while more than seventeen thousand calls about voting problems were documented but far from being the only incidence of these elections that will be remembered. please. her.

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in the wake of the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions as being forced out of his position he faced a barrage of criticism from the president over his decision to withdraw from the rush or investigation that has plagued time in office. let's get assessment of that and other things now from political scientist calling cavell is an associate professor of political science at bluefield states good to have you on call and start with jeff sessions that he's gone fired what would your explanation be for that decision. president trump wanted to far just as early in his ministrations after he refused to be

so calm any or in holding him so with anything related to the campaign and trump wanted sessions as head of the justice department to put a check or stop on the mueller investigation and sessions refused to do so so truong could not farre him before the election because it would appear that he was directly interfering with the mueller investigation so we had to wait to add to the midterm election to make it look like this was a change of ministration personnel that was normal so now that sessions is go on do you think it will in some way affect the miller investigation. whether miller investigation which is based upon democratic assertions that russia into value here with the twenty sixteen presidential election you know this is

a neo. few democrats brought that up during the midterm campaign and i think it is very much good in the water right now a list mueller comes out and live next we could see you with some sort of regulatory findings but so far they have been no real revelent to worry findings nothing. directly implicates russia in interfering in the twenty sixteen elections much of that was a ruse perpetrated by hillary clinton in her control of the democratic party primarily to cover up for the corruption that. she was again. there bernie sanders will know will the democratic nomination and what is exactly

foreign interference has been a common theme it was mentioned there was there were warnings issued of possible foreign interference coming into the midterms but a former f.b.i. agent has written an article in which he said he believes that americans not russians of the world stoking hatred going into this vote let's hear exactly what was said everyone's witnessed the playbook playing out now they don't need russia so much they've learned that the tactic is devastatingly effective so the claim from a former f.b.i. employee is that you know the danger really is coming from within rather than from outside how would you assess that that comment. well every state will blame outside powers in order to generate unity and domestically within the state and also to avoid internal problems internal croaky to avoid focus on the management of the state internally

and this is exactly what the democrats did after the mass of laws and the president will campaign in two thousand and sixteen by hillary clinton rather than blaming her for her campaign not showing up and so will states sticking to a corporate law and not really giving the working class of the united states anything to really vote for which resulted in a very low turnout. even the even with that she still got the majority of the boats but she failed to win the electoral college and as a result she wanted to deflect attention away from her in her campaign and blame it on a foreign power and of course she is historically been against russia was the foreign power that she directed or are at

a change in to one of the us t.v. channels to to watch that coverage of the midterms without saying it was it seemed to me like it was pretty clear that they were all one party side from their reaction i just wondered what's your assessment of the role the media's plate in america in covering these elections have they being impartial have they played a role in dividing the country for the. well the media and the tremendous role to play and how the domestic population views the culture views the state of society and in the united states we do have several players in the mainstream media with you can probably playing the fox news is more oriented invariable toward the republican party led by donald trump and c.n.n. and invest in b.c.

is more favorable towards the democrats i would say of the various media right now in the united states. most of the are pretty pathetic they i turn to foreign news primarily because i get more objective news either from r.t. or from al-jazeera and guitar. when you watch domestic there is more repetition of the slain troops in the same accusation or. from the american population if i had any. relatively neutral media in the us i would certainly see the. navy see maybe. your best bet but even then i would go to foreign sources

to have a more objective view about what's going on. cullen appreciate your time and appreciate you being here as well many thanks khaled cavell is my guest he says associate professor of political science at bluefield state. donald trump's hostility towards the media it's well known and it was on full display during his news conference on wednesday as it clashed with several journalists when a c.n.n. reporter took the president to task about statements he'd made prior to the midterms well tom was pretty forthright and told him he was a rude terrible person. challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in midterms that is there we go if you don't mind us president. honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. and if you did it well the ratings let me ask you guys if i think. that's a that's

a. put down that might show what c.n.n. should be ashamed of themselves having you working for them you are rude in diameter going to france i traveled with the option to build a. big fan of yours either so i understand to be. swiss bank the biggest japanese car maker in the british defense giant they are all among foreign owned firms giving millions of dollars to the republicans and democrats in the midterms that despite foreign donations being banned i see second figure explain how it can happen. 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 one hundred and fifty hundred sixty countries we are maintaining an empire so everybody has an interest and we're out there over regulating trade where you know threatening sanctions and putting on tariffs and so the lot of people are buying influence so i think that is the problem to curtail the money you know we're sort of tackling this

symptom yes we want to do that and the law says you're not supposed to but the loophole is that there's a complex system here through the pac system you know that is a huge huge problem the laws says that they can't do it and they should say that if it's coming from of 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 muslims this comes amid a spike in hate crimes against jews into all of the story. jewish community leaders in germany say they want to see integration classes for migrants that focus on the senate as i'm 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 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 you she's . just 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 and fortunately as. semitism existed before that i met with pearly 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 businesses and places of worship were set ablaze by nazis with the nation support a battle 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 protester has gone viral for its similarities to a famous painting of the french revolution and he's now become a symbol of resistance. does it look familiar especially to the french reminds me of liberty leading the people by huge and there are quite a very powerful image. i go to the great mulch of return demonstrations to live with dignity and to take back the land that

i will never leave oh good every day and god willing our dreams be achieved. i put the flag down and started throwing stones with my sling shot so the shot me only carried the sling shots on the flank and i was hurting them a tool and they were facing us with weapons. to do this you need 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 one criticism of israel's use of excessive force against gaza protesters israel insists i would stop the listing is here inciting violence so great much of

a turn demonstration at the border taking place for more than seven months at least two hundred ten palestinians are being killed with all the eight hundred thousand people into. egypt may ban the burka in public at any time and under any circumstances according to a new draft law or make a say both male and female terrorists have been 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. seventy two states have already barred the covering in public it sparked heated discussion and un human rights committee even rule france's ban constitutes a violation of human rights of a colleague under farm against opinion on the issue from historian adel darwish political and social commentator mo and so they have been actually instances in egypt and elsewhere where actually

a man pretending to be women and so it's for security as cry actually hypocritical and double standard to actually suggest that it's actually either but i don't think anybody saying that we. are all that we surely finding 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 remove their bid seven european countries have banned the 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 was twenty seven paradox in england and 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 like egypt iran is that can be understated you need this kind of law to really protect women from slugs forcing them to wear the veil and of or this. is about freedom is a short it's not libertarianism. it's not conservatism we need to open our minds and become a people and. it. has been rocked by government protests for more than half a year now since april more than three hundred people have been killed in them according to local human rights groups investigative group redfish visited 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 was dead and 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 do you know national media have given widespread coverage to these student videos in opposition protests so on the way right now to meet with the student activist she was at our university when the initial protest movement began in april but she soon found herself being

threatened by the opposition the same voice that i don't like. when i say seen. them call me. back and move. your home and say i suspect africa and i had a what and i mean that i mean. they are all up i'm going to wait on you i don't want to. see it. 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 organisation 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. and his government and highlight opposition voices while providing little to no context of the role of influential actors like the us government nearly forty years later are still trying to overthrow ortega by. that i don't know how you think about. whether they thought. the us national endowment for democracy implicated in the nicaragua protests for comment we await the reply. i think stay with us here and i'll be back in half and i would like to start days.

in twenty forty you know bloody revolution here to clear the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean your list put video and put him in the new bill is that i mean you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.