that's what i was passionate about and i wanted to at least try for at least if you try whatever it is you're interested in general for people if you have that passion if you have something you think is really interesting but you think it might not be possible that doesn't matter just just give it a try and you never know where you might end up. police identified california shooter who killed twelve people as a twenty eight year old former marine officer thought he's playing the suspect committed suicide following the assault. he. may have been following this week's elections president trump who lashes out at the media blaming it for dividing the u.s. has left wing and tea for protesters targeted conservative fox news the very same night as the vote. i have.

also this hour. germany's just this a recent study finds a surge in opposition to multiculturalism and growing support for terrorism rule among germans. don't agree with that at all and i hope that the majority doesn't seem to me it could be. a seed of people. giving or watching our team the national live from moscow. thanks for joining us this hour now police say they have identified the shooter who killed twelve people in a crowded bar in california the incident took place in the small city thousand oaks not far. more than a dozen people were also injured the suspect has been named hours twenty eight year old local resident david long. you previously served in the us marine corps and was

known to the authorities for minor offenses such as traffic violations in april long was cleared by mental health experts officers responded to him to report him acting irrationally his motive for the shooting is still unknown is believed to use the forty five caliber handguns during the attack here so witnesses described the scene. i was on the dance floor dancing and. you know and then all my friends were at the table right the door and then i turn your i heard the gunshot i turned around and i saw him shoot a couple more times and split second i think everyone yelled get down so i ran to the left of the dance floor where the back door is and everyone pretty much drug problem on top of each other they were very very loud gunshot they were very clear what they were shots kept going and going and going we just heard people say all right and we looked at as fast as we cut the calls to police started coming in

around eleven fifteen pm local time terrified customers hid under tables and in bathrooms during the shooting on what was a college country music night for local university students hundreds of times. president donald trump has ordered the national flag lowered to half staff at the white house to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting. that incident came just a day off the crucial midterm elections wrapped up in the united states the results leave congress split between america's two major parties with the democrats seizing the house of representatives and republicans keeping the senate at a press conference following the vote president trump once again clashed with the media trading blame with reporters for division within the community. 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 that as emboldening white nationalist that such a racist question would never do that and i don't use race and. in america it's

people like this that cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign there we go honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. and if you did it well your ratings let me. ask one of the other folks that said. this person that's enough was president the other folks that said. you are a rude terrible person. mr president in peter good in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter big fan of yours either so i understand to be out of the i mean while the left wing movement on t.v. talking to fox news activists from the group surrounded tucker carlson's home chanting insults. right. at the time however his

wife. called the police a couple of four children activists rang his doorbell and broke his front door. many have a referendum on trump's presidency seems he has passed the test for republicans retaining the senate majority explaining what exactly that means. 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 our senate majority to found restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the. fancy 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 on hitler the same type of propaganda day you would have seen in germany in one thousand and thirty eight these comparisons to trump it's like it bums me out but 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 now the donald is far from a media darling lots of media criticism and pressure and his loss is weren't so bad when compared to his 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 rough. i'm 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 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 the story a different way that shouldn't be too it's good though because sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct enough to stay in cheated 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 device the. atmosphere within the population. of a five thousand victims of war have been treated so far this year in hospitals run by u.n. backed humanitarian organization in afghanistan third of those children the organization called emergency has been active in the country since one thousand nine hundred nine they say the violence is relentless moskos for pattering to get warring parties together for negotiations playing host to afghan peace talks a dozen countries are invited also the taliban is sending a delegation the first time the militant group will take pots and this kind of high level meeting after almost two decades of war in the country but as all reports 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 laws 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 soon 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 top on the must understand are continuing to fight this point first they must sit down on the negotiating table the potential for

peace is great in our interest being in many years unless of course peace is made in moscow in which case the u.s. won't support that 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 an end 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 war is in general or going to end if they can do some maneuver to make a better situation for the united states in afghanistan they are probably talking about that and would like to see that seventeen years of war and terror is nato soldat countless thousands dead on each every side generations thread and

misery and violence drunken hatred and the heroine finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the u.s. possum's war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. the british government is facing a wave of criticism for its handling of the off the mouth of one fell tower fire seventy two people died a year ago and the blaze that engulfed a block of flats in london wessels that has been accused of placing ducking orders or experts investigating the tragedy in a situation of brings us the details. well our critics of the british government have dubbed it shameful in light of information that has emerged about a company that was hired just days following the grand fell fire tragedy to analyze and investigate u.k. government state building safety and that company was reportedly told not to

criticize theresa may and her government this was revealed as part of a comprehensive investigation carried out by the times newspaper which disclosed that among hundreds of other contracts the specific one hundred thousand pound contract with an engineering company called w s p had instructed that particular company not to quote create. adverse publicity for the cabinet or other crown bodies when looking at the situation involving other buildings around the country following the grunfeld fire and of course reactions to such a gag order on clotting experts was was not met with open arms this shows unforgivable cowardice if you respect to do so. would. follow the truth wherever it led. rather than gagging experts in per times you repeat ational damage this conservative government should be doing everything in its power to ensure they

never happens again coming just a few weeks after the prime minister promised to get tough on gagging causes these shocking revelations show the government to be deeply hyper critical as well as paranoid and this is how the government had to respond to all of this standard contracts in the public and the private sector contain provisions to protect the commercial interests of government and its suppliers in a reasonable way these contracts do not prevent individuals from complaining on specific issues acting as whistleblowers or raising concerns about policy well over the grenfell tower of course took place on june fourth. last year it was a fire that killed seventy two people it lasted many many hours and really brought lots and lots of criticism in terms of the initial reaction of to recent man her government and as well as the days that followed.

well the grandfatherly united campaign group reacted to these latest revelations with a statement saying quote the focus at every level of government must be to get to the truth about how and why grand fell happened no one should be deterred from speaking out and quote coming out a poll in germany suggest that i'm going to merkel should call tomahawk shots on the ship before time finishes and twenty twenty one all nut off to the short break

. when i'm not an institution when you are not a government. you'll voice is your voice belongs to you and he was a nice plus in your voice zen people accept you do seems they wouldn't accept was a situation we used it would be this is a difference which is diplomacy and superficial diplomacy. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back to out international ukranian near nazi militias a suspected of training white supremacist groups which have been arrested for inciting violent attacks during protests in the u.s. back in twenty seventeen that's according at least to unsealed criminal complaint by the f.b.i. of quote a trend going to shoot out to give us more details what more do we know about these allegations on these documents high again dan well the man who

behind this a complaint was actually in charge of investigating terrorist groups back in america for the f.b.i. and right here you will be able to see some photos of the defendants here they are and these people are from the white supremacy rise above movement just lately a number of charges have been brought against this group which include a conspiracy to start riots now the men were involved in the deadly twenty seventeen charlottesville riots. was. was was was

. so the f.b.i. agent found that the rise above movement members toured europe and went to countries like germany italy and ukraine and that is where they met local extremist neo nazi groups according to the f.b.i. operative the people from the r m a had a photo with the leader of a ukrainian far right party one of their leaders founded out of a paramilitary battalion called dissolve which was on the front lines of the conflict in east ukraine and that conflict broke out when a number of the regions there refused to accept the results of a bloody coup in kiev which led to the government there being overthrown now here's what the f.b.i. agent wrote about dissolve the azoff battalion is

a paramilitary units of the ukrainian national guards which is known for his association with neo nazi ideology and use of nazi symbolism and which is beliefs of participated in training and radicalizing united states based white supremacist organizations well just have a look at the screen here you don't have to be an f.b.i. agent to prove that out of is actively using neo nazi symbols you can just look at their emblems and signee out neo nazi salutes and slogans even are a common thing now just want you to have a look at what rather frequent marches of members of these kind of organizations and their supporters look like in ukraine. look look look look look

look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look . this was marches of members and supporters of the use of battalion so dan this criminal complaint which is written by an f.b.i. operative is important because it is it appears to be story the first instance of f.b.i. actually looking into the claims of ukrainian neo nazi somehow being involved in training the radicals across the atlantic and resisting to see what those further documents reveal and of course any mr geishas that happens r.t.c. looked drunk or thinks the details. police have been deployed in the german city of

hamburg were hundreds of protesters have rallied for and against angela merkel small group policies. but it was. you can see that right wing groups called the rally to denounce merkel's open door policy which has seen over a million people pour into the country since the hyatt of the crisis three years ago with counter demonstrators who attempted to block their arrival at a railway station leading to the heated standoff with police officers. and many germans have been calling on local to step down from her role as chancellor is early as next year that's in response to her saying she will continue to end to the end of her term in twenty twenty one merkel said she will be seeking reelection after a series of disastrous results for her party in regional elections now a growing number of germans say that prefer a more or third tarion leader party's europe correspondent peter all of

a has more. 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 there 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 those 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 this is our schmidt's i painted this in one thousand nine hundred sixty two. this has been present in germans for a long time this is just a consequence of that it doesn't surprise me because because because. i see the people particularly well i think it's everyone's personal choice maybe due to the

refugee cross a 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 very and chairman of the alternative for germany party a part of which strongly believes going to merkel will have a hard time saving her leadership and said recent polls in germany are behind the times. magill is a lame duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election she lost the election and he's got the tremendous problem even to get together a coalition and she's now trying to stay at least the chancellor but the chances are low you've got the information that the socialist alimentary and so are already looking for new jobs outside of the parliament because they think that this government will not remain any longer the german people don't want them out there

it's only another issue even bought and this is very important they already have one because of what happens in the country now under angola america this is similar variants orator in the government. is separate loosing stake in us like in chemist's the government is this missing. a collapsed just because they are opposing the government like with books or mohsen the germans are very open minded people and they're still coming. people from abroad. let's set for myself on the team the out see for this hour my colleague neil harvey with the mix that taking through the global headlines throughout the evening. i think it's important to do something that you're passionate about and even if you

know you may not think you can do that and i didn't think there was any chance of me becoming an astronaut but i realize that's what i was passionate about and i wanted to at least try sir at least if you try whatever it is you're interested in it and in general for people if you have that passion if you have something you think is really interesting but you think it might not be possible that doesn't matter just just give it a try and you never know where you might end up. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer here i mean you know liz 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. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will

ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. right.

one hundred ninety four. the country is torn apart by brutal this new conflict. nearly a million died in all for him and the streets of rwanda cities was steeped in blood and littered with bodies. the term genocide is often used to describe what happened here. but for the people who saw it full firsthand it was the end of the world. witnesses to the genocide in rwanda against the tutsi tribe say that when the genocide ended mass acts of retribution followed. the widespread killing and made women the working majority country wonder an accidental feminist country.

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