he's just. victims have received compensation. for the suffering that not only won't the money i want the revenge. this hours headlines stories following at midterm elections america piers remains. the republicans retain the senate and the democrats seize the house of representatives also in the program. chaos in the german city of hamburg where an migrant rally is met with a heated country protest just those a recent study finds a surgeon opposition to multiculturalism and growing support for our tarion rule among. russia's investigative committee launches

a probe after pictures of convicted gang members living a lobbyist life in prison or. live from our international news center here in moscow an a.t.m. this thursday morning welcome to r.t. good to have your company i mean and o'neill our top story donald trump. once more the media blaming it for division within the united states as the u.s. congress is now between the two major parties the democrats seized the house of representatives but the republicans kept the senate. it isn't good what the media is doing and that i do have the right to fight back on the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist some people saw the as emboldening white nationalist but since you're

a racist question you would never do that and i don't use race and as you marks. in america it's people like this that cause division one of the statements that you made in the ceiling of the campaign do we go honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. and if you didn't well your ratings let me. ask one of the other folks that said. this president that's enough was president you are a rude terrible person. those are present in in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter and i think the interviewers either so i understand to be honest about it or many have dubbed the midterms a referendum of trump's presidency it does seem he's passed the test with the republicans retaining their senate majority taking a closer look at the entire picture. so which party won the epic midterm battle for control of the u.s. congress well if you listen to both sides they both won and last night the

republican party defied history to expand to our senate majority to their restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the hands hi nancy pelosi has got plenty of reason to be happy she just got her job back as speaker of the house the first time the democrats have had a majority in the house of representatives in eight years they can now launch an investigation spree into donald trump and block all kinds of legislation but you would think they would have won a bigger blowout after all they are running against the new hitler who happens to also be a russian spy you can go for nationalism you can go for anger visit often learn the same type of propaganda. so you would have seen in germany in one thousand thirty eight these comparisons like. the trump will be outmatched by putin and i have never seen an american president simply surrender to the leader of

russia we call it soccer. lots of pressure and is the last word so badly very recent predecessors he not only maintained control of the senate but the republicans actually picked up a few seats so do lots of americans just like hitler and russian spies well perhaps they were just watching a different channel twenty seventeen was a very successful first year for president trump unlike obama business confidence is now soaring on the president trump in fact the news is so good so the vote was described as a referendum on the donald so what's the verdict well the voters seem to have stayed within one of two echo chambers there is one echo chamber that loves the donald and the other that hates him the country is divided and now congress along with it definitely be 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 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 media and also elements within the government better actually creating within the u.s. government that are actually creating more of a device the. atmosphere within the population. we decided to ask a few people in washington if they were sophos fine with the outcome of this week's elections. what party did you support yesterday in the midterm election the democrats the republican party the republicans supported democratic the democrats simak right. and were you open to changing your mind and perhaps voting for the

other party now absolutely no what would change your mind nothing at this point really care about i mean i'm registered one way but each policy comes and goes and . grew up in d.c. where we're mostly democratic district so it's kind of like a. herd just goes do you feel like you would would have been open to supporting the other party yes you know if there were moderate reasonable candidates just haven't found that many. it would have to be you know a different. different president different congress probably a different president. think it would take to get republicans to change their minds and vote for the democrats like you. can see change their mind i think would have to have somebody that's not said divisive and tries to bring the country together

embracing all the different types of people. people from everywhere. well it's all been going on in america's calculus to be just as callup was talking to the folks there u.s. attorney general jeff sessions was being forced out of his position he had faced a barrage of criticism from the president over his decision to withdraw from the russia investigation which has plagued trump's time in office now a sessions a knowledge his resignation on whedon's the he will be replaced for the time being by his former chief of staff matthew with thinker who has been far more critical of the motor investigation into alleged russian election meddling but the goal scientists calling cavil give us his thoughts on how they change will impact the probe. well the miller investigation which is based upon democratic assertions. interfered with the twenty sixteen presidential

election few democrats brought up during the midterm campaign and i think it is very much did 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 revelent or your findings nothing. directly implicates russia interfering in the twenty sixteen elections. on to more world news this hour moscow plays host to afghanistan peace talks on friday a dozen countries are invited and the taliban is also sending a delegation it's the first time the militant group will take part in this kind of high level meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan but us are to have has been looking into not everyone has welcomed the talks. by any measure

the afghan war has dragged on for too long too many people the dead too little achieved too much hatred bred why don't try something new this is a very good opportunity and we would like to participate and raise our genuine issues we would urge these world powers to help resolve the afghan issue as per international rules and principles the afghan high peace council will send four delegates the taliban five reportedly representatives of a dozen nations have also been invited and it couldn't have happened sooner enough . on just one day the twentieth of october journeying elections three hundred and eighty eight civilians while the plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato

is calling for peace the taller from must understand the continuing to fight this pointless there must sit down on the negotiating table the potential for peace is creating our own test being in many years unless of course peace is made in moscow in which case the us won't support it america is skipping the moscow peace summit saying washington only supports afghan led efforts but it will send an observer the united states believes that all countries should support direct dialogue between the government of afghanistan and the taliban to reach and to the war and. we've been clear that no government clued in russia can be a substitute for the afghan government interact negotiations with the taliban wage never stop the u.s.

special envoy from meeting taliban officials. in cata last month for direct negotiations i think the more countries that approach the afghan government and the taleban and all the warring parties and say let's talk let's have peace rather than war that's a very logical thing for most people and for most countries i just don't think in the united states the united states at this particular time wants to see it also the military industrial complex in the united states is a very very big part of the u.s. economy the guns and the planes and the ships and the bombs that they use and sell all around the world support a lot of jobs in the united states i don't think that the wars in general are going to end if they can do some maneuver to make a better situation for the united states in afghanistan and they are probably

talking about that and would like to see that seventeen years of war and terror is neat-o. sold that countless thousands dead on each every side generations thread and misery and violence drunken hatred and heroine finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the u.s. pastas war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. or right to europe or riot police being deployed in the german city of homs where hundreds of protesters have rallied for and against angola merkel's migrant policy . the was in iraq was going to the right wing groups called the rally to deny its markel open door policy which is seen over

a million migrants. or into the country since the heights of the by great prices and twenty fifteen they were met with kuntar demonstrate attended the block their arrival at a railway station leading to a heated standoff with police while the background of this the plush comes as a recent study reveals a growing hostility towards migrants and religious minorities and the change in sentiment with more germans die favoring an author terry in ruler peter all of our picks up the story. new polling into the political leanings of germans has raised more than a few eyebrows eighty percent of those polled said they favored dictatorship is the ruling form for the country with eleven percent saying they would side with strong leadership now i spoke to people on the streets of berlin they were shocked that anyone here would hold those type of ideas. it's terrible we've been through that

in history what do i think about this you know this is our past this is our past it cannot be allowed to become our future i don't agree with that at all and i hope that the majority doesn't this is the this is auschwitz i peonage this in the one nine hundred sixty two. years this has been present in germans for a long time this is just a consequence of that it doesn't surprise me because because. i see the people. well i think this everyone's personal choice may be due to the refugee crosses slightly that may have impacted some people's opinions the government has to make something so that the country is led into a better better place and not into a worse place than it is already. all right to a quite extraordinary story a fifty five year old russian awfully without any arms has taken gold i think

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just coming up to nineteen minutes into the program welcome back authorities in russia have launched a probe after pictures of a convicted gang member in sing luxury food in prison were leaked online the guy next door was jailed for organizing brutal murders in southern russia eight years ago. there can be few things more wretched than mass murdering people including children in cold blood this man was part of a gang that did it all on an avenger night eight years ago then feasting on crowd and caviar and throwing barbecue parties while in prison bitches love to pervert is one of the most new tourists russian criminals and he's serving a twenty year sentence.

or so if you're going to be committing dozens of felonies and extremely serious crimes inclusion of school is more than ten years. to build your future nobody is a. bullshit bullshit gives us the need. the photos of is not very prison lee lifestyle that recently emerged are causing shock the mobster's law it claims it's all photoshop so no reason for anger but officials confirm the pictures are real across the board outrage forced russia's federal prison service to comment on the photos that though its reaction has been far more reserved than the sweeping public indignation. can you see it might be hard to avoid corruption in remote areas especially for a criminal who teams up with officials is insanely rich in the wake of the

investigation civil prison employees have been disciplined it's not exactly clear why and how the pictures became public but one of the versions is that the mobsters ex-wife had something to deal with it the convicted murderer is apparently in a land dispute with her yes while still in prison technically it cost up to fifty thousand dollars a year. to support my ex husband's life in prison i transferred him the money there he had an intermediary who helped him buy food and find a dentist and he paid well for that he also asked for money for me god and then he set up in prison the national investigative committee has launched a probe over it so looking into how on a mass murderer has been able to go which is way through his prison term not least because he is not the only bandit with money and power in russian prisons.

they want to bring you know to another story generating a lot of interest this morning egypt say it may bomb the burka in public quote any time and under any circumstances under a new draft law lawmakers say both male and female terrorists are using the full body fail 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 well if we take europe as an example seven states have a really bar the covering and public sparking heated discussion the un human rights committee has even ruled that france's bond constitutes a violation of human rights earlier my colleague under a farmer gauge the pinion on the issue from historian darwish political and social commentator the ones or. when it comes to the park at the idea that we would limit

a woman's right place fail if she so chooses part of spirit to jenna she been taught to do that is a freedom it isn't actually for democracy it doesn't observe a human rights they have been they have been actually instance 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 describe actually hypocritical and double standard to actually suggest that it's actually i don't think anybody i think anybody saying that we just. thought it was surely fine except by 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

a head or somebody wants whereas a fancy dress or these are part of a secular rights and freedoms example i believe that the raft 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 the bit seven european countries that ban 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 we do 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 in europe in general and the west will resist. because you have truly open society of freedom individual but when you have

a nanny state that egypt is that can be understated you need this kind of law to really protect women from sikes forcing them to wear the veil and the board this is about freedom is a short skirt it's not libertarianism a headscarf it's not conservatism we need to open our minds and become a veil of a about these issues. he had to be it will continue to rage for the forseeable future i do think all right for the past decade has been championed as the benchmark for women's rights in africa but is there a true gender equality amongst its twelve million inhabitants are documentary investigates.

that institution when you are not a government. is your voice belongs to you and. if you force people to do scenes it would look like was a situation. is this is a difference we. should be able to see. right

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genocide is often used to describe what happened here but for the people who saw it all firsthand. it was the end of the world. witnesses to the genocide in rwanda against the tutsi tribes say that when the genocide ended mass acts of retribution followed. the widespread killing and made women the working majority hundred under an accidental feminist country. in time that involuntary social shift transformed into

a positive social trend would filter the country's women to rebuild what the men had broken. have been. no not much but i'm not in fifty and i. want you to meet him one minute. quartette zero one two and are true is that you my i think one other thing that i'm going i'm a photographer hundred fifty thank you for what. i'm.

going to say no way. i. think i have. it is that i am in to a we live it we live agenda a quote me to. me to we say so to reality it's not a wish or so now to dream. you . can justify these. here is one of those statistics seventy percent of girls in rwanda do not complete secondary school melissa a typical rwandan girl is one of them.