donald trump hails the midterm elections as a tremendous success. party as the republicans hold on to the senate but the democrats have retaken the house of representatives and what they say is a huge blow to the president. with polling stations opening a late voting machines breaking down. the jewish organization in germany calls on the government to put on the special interest ration classes for newly arrived. after spike in anti-semitic incidents. and egypt. both male and female terrorists are wearing them to avoid detection. in

a way that actually meant to be. based failed. as a small piece of material a threat to national security. are broadcasting live there right from our studios in moscow this is our team international and thomas sweeney glad to have you with us. a new political landscape is shaping up in the u.s. after the midterm elections democrats have regained control of the house of representatives but the republicans extended their majority in the senate president trump 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 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 due to family story the

constitution's checks and balances to the job. of america spoke. and took back the house of representatives. so tonight is a night to celebrate how far our movement has come. 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 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

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 result. trump didn't warn the democrats that if they investigated him he would launch investigations into them for alleged leaks out 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 vice president of the eurasia center a think tank believes the divisiveness that defined the midterms was driven by both political parties as well as the media fully the us 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 a story a different way than it shouldn't be too it's good you know because sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct enough 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. as we mentioned earlier donald trump's hostility towards the media was on full display during his news conference on wednesday he clashed with a number of journalists and when a c.n.n. reporter took the president to task about statements he had made before the midterms trump told him he was a rude terrible person. i challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in the terms there we go if you don't want us president bush that's what your campaign your campaign. that's not an invasion honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n.

and if you did it well your ratings will be asked you know if i may ask one of the questions that set up that sort of president that said i asked was that said that's enough put down the mike is what c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are rude and going to go in general defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter i'm not a big fan of yours either so i understand to be honest meanwhile more than seventeen thousand calls about voting problems have been documented but they are far from the only incidents had these elections that will be remembered.

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in the wake of the midterms u.s. attorney general jeff sessions was also forced out of his position he had faced a barrage of criticism from the president over his decision to withdraw all from the russian vest occasion which has plagued trump's time in office sessions announced his resignation on wednesday he will be replaced for the time being by his former chief of staff matthew whitaker who has been openly critical of the miller investigation into alleged russian election meddling political scientists call and ask of al gave us his thoughts on how the change will affect of the probe . well the miller investigation which is based upon democratic assertions. interfered with the twenty sixteen presidential election few democrats brought during the midterm campaign and i think it

is very much dead in the water right now and list mueller comes out in the next week or two with some sort of regulatory findings but so far they have been no real reveller to worry findings nothing. directly implicates russia interfering in the twenty sixteen elections a swiss bank of the biggest japanese carmaker and a british defense giant armaan for an owner firms giving millions of dollars to the republicans and democrats in the midterms that's despite foreign donations being banned jacqueline novogratz planes i did it. 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 despite 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. in a hundred and fifty hundred sixty countries we are maintaining an empire so everybody has an interest and we're out there to overregulating 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 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's a complex system here through the pac system that you know that had 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 it leading jewish organization is calling for special anti-semitism classes for muslim migrants it comes following a spike in hate crimes against the jews are these protests all over has more. jewish community leaders in germany say they want to see integration classes for migrants that focus on the senator's 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 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 fortunately and to simitis who existed before that i met with burly i'm rubber you're going to take those. 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 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 nation support of adult 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. it protester in gaza who became a symbol of palestinian resistance has been shot by israeli soldiers during anti occupation protests will have that story after the break stay with us.

what started the revolution recently against mubarak was that the price of wheat went up the price of food went up to forty to fifty percent of the monthly budget of the average injection they therefore revolt it if you want to create a revolt if you want people in the streets rioting if you want a global insurrection against banker occupation keep rising real raising the price of fish keep raising the price including you'll get your out you get your insurrection you'll get your torches and your pitch fork still get your hundreds of millions of starving people on your front lawn demanding to be fed you'll get it. welcome back desire to international live from moscow now 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 in their quad a very powerful image. of the great modern return demonstrations to live with dignity and to take back all the lands i will never leave i will go every day and god willing our dreams be achieved.

ultimately put the flag down and started throwing stones with my sling shot so the shot may only carry the sling shots on the flank and i will be hurting them a tool and they were facing us with weapons. to 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 wide criticism of israel's use of excessive force against the gaza protesters israel insists though that it's the palestinians who are inciting violence so called great march of return demonstration at the border has been taking place for more than seven months now at least two hundred ten palestinians have been killed with more than eighteen thousand people wounded.

in egypt to may ban the burka in public at any time and under any circumstances under a new draft law lawmakers 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 and did 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 you states have already barred the covering in public sparking heated discussion the un human rights committee has even rolled that france's ban constitutes a violation of human rights earlier my colleague daniel farmer gauged opinion on the issue from historian adel darwish and political and social commentator. when it comes to the birth of the idea that we would limit a woman's right to every place fail if she so chooses participate to jenna sheep mentality that is a freedom it isn't actually for democracy it doesn't observing humans rides they

have been they have been actually instances in egypt and elsewhere where actually a man pretending to be women and so it's for security and i think face veils and the burka are no more as a small piece of material i threaten national security as underpants are we had an underwear bomber who tried to detonate a bomb in his pants we had a shoe bomber who tried to detonate a bomb or he's sure you scratch the hypocritical double standard to actually suggest that it's actually. going on but i don't think anybody saying that we just . thought they were surely finding secular freedoms i think it is a very slippery slope when you are starting to legislate what muslim women in a non muslim member presumably i mean if a jewish woman wants to cut a head or somebody wants whereas a fancy dress or these are part of a secular rights and freedoms example i believe that draft of our proposed law is

not actually banned as neutrons so if you are going to a security zone i eat 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 the feel is that there's 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 on a pogo isolation of the base and i think what we will see is an increasing effort by the populous parties the far right movements in europe in europe i would turn to that said the paradox in england and europe in general and the west will resist. anything because we're out there already open society and freedom individual but when you have a nanny state that egypt is going to understand you need this kind of law to really protect women from sikes forcing them to word of the land or this is about freedom

is a short skirt it's not libertarianism. it's not conservatism we need to open our minds and become. just under thirty six minutes that's when you'll see me again with more news watch march international stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see their.

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this is a poem bus broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on all of us thank you for being aboard i'm part shelton washington d.c. coming up today we take a lengthy look at how u.s. midterm elections the result and changes in congress may impact some c'est sector pacific stock markets are reacting very well today there seems to be enjoying good gridlock that is up five hundred fifty one points we have still i'm sorry we had steve ballsbridge hillary ford which and holland cook all standing by and we consider how tariffs are impacting u.s.

aircraft manufacturers with alex one highlight it and later boeing has issued a warning related to those seven thirty seven max jets with the same plane that went down last week killing all one hundred eighty nine people aboard off the coast of indonesia former national transportation safety board director jamie fitch will join all of that directly ahead but first we hit some headlines let's head it. last week we spoke about the tax on big internet related companies like google and facebook in the united kingdom and noted the european union was also considering a three percent tax well in news today that the e.u. has at least temporarily abandoned the proposal after a group of member states including ireland sweden and denmark all said they oppose it while the tax proposal appears to be. dead if resurrected it will need approval from all twenty eight member states. spanish banks are celebrating after a large legal victory related to the spanish supreme court ruling which exempts the

banks from paying a so-called stamp duty tax on mortgages the ruling overturns a decision last month and save the banks five billion euros or roughly five point seven billion dollars alberta guards on the federal coordinator for the united left party wrote a tweet and said quote what can we expect from a justice department that's tough on the poor and soft on and sold out to the rich . and sick with banks russian banks are complaining about regulations being too tough the news comes after the russian central bank has already addressed the country's troubled banking sectors hundreds of smaller banks have failed and three of the top ten banks have been nationalized the controversy centers upon some key issues including the central bank effort to ensure more strict capital requirements upon banks as they seek to designate some of those banks as systemically important to the russian economy for the bankers part they say strict rules are already in

place in the european union and u.s. economic sanctions make it difficult already to raise capital. and sticking in russia rosneft the nation's largest oil producer is making new capital investments in four large oil and gas exploration projects amounting to nine hundred billion rubles that's about thirteen point six billion dollars that's an increased investment of about a third over last year the company is using some of the recent large profits as third quarter profits increased by an astounding two hundred fifty percent due in part to higher oil prices and the two year devaluation of the russian ruble. the two thousand and eighteen u.s. midterm elections are now history the democrats democrats take control of the house once again while the republicans retain control of the senate the story of how these results will impact the u.s. economy is yet to be written earlier today president trump weighed in on the results of family we can all work together next year to continue delivering for the

american people including on economic growth infrastructure trade lowering the cost of prescription drugs are some of the things that the democrats do want to work on and i really believe will be able to do that i think we're going to have a lot lot of a lot of reason to do. it seems enthusiastic traders and company executives in firms from financial services to infrastructure to big pharma and the internet giants we'll all be watching anxiously to see how the new landscape will impact their companies what will it mean for their bottom lines and what about trade with the rest of the world let's take a look at what's the new congress might or might not be able to accomplish with conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve thank you for looking at this i know you were up late last night watching the results and we appreciated that i enjoyed watching you but let me ask you nancy.