this is. all patients and importance to them is a funny describes of the. police identify the california shooter who kills twelve people in a crowded bar as a twenty eight year old former marine or to say the suspect committed suicide following. the term a him following this week's elections president trump blushed out of the media blaming it for dividing the country it's left leaning anti far protesters targeted a conservative fox news anchor at his home the very same night as the.

chaos at an anti by good rally in heated counter protesting germany's hamburg just as a recent study finds a surge in opposition to multiculturalism and growing support for authoritarian rule among germans. didn't agree with it and i hope that the majority doesn't just as me because. i see the people. as a joining as this is our international. 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 of thousand oaks not far from los angeles or than a dozen people were also injured suspect has been named a twenty eight year old local resident in david long he previously served in the u.s. marine corps and was known to the authorities for minor offenses such as traffic violations in april long was cleared by mental health experts after officers

responded to a report of him acting irrationally is mostly for the shooting is still unknown it's believed he used a forty five caliber handgun during the attack is how witnesses describe the scene . i was on the dance floor dancing an extremist here and then all my friends were at the table right by the door and then they turn your i heard the gunshot i turned around and i start him shoot a couple more times in a split second 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 right then we looked at as fast as we cut calls to police started coming in around eleven fifteen pm local time terrified customers hidden the tables and in bathrooms during the shooting on what was a college country music night for local university students hundreds were there at

the time. as the donald trump has ordered the national flag lowered to half staff at the white house to commemorate victims of the my shooting. incident came just a day after crucial midterm elections had wrapped up in the u.s. the results leave congress split between america's two major parties the democrats seize the house of representatives and the republicans have kept the senate the press conference the fall of the vote president once again clashed with the media toting blame with reporters for division in the country. 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 racist remarks. like in america it's people like this they cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign there we go. i think you should let me run the

country you run c.n.n. and if you did it well your ratings on. the other folks. that's enough is present the other folks that. you are a rude terrible person. mr president in in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter big fan of yours either side or step to be. any one of the left wing movement. today fox news anchor activists from the groups around it took. chanting insults. right. with t.v. host wasn't home at the time however his wife was there and she managed to block a self in and called the police the couple have four children the activists rang the doorbell and broke the door. many have dubbed the midterms

a referendum on donald trump's presidency and it seems that he is. with the republicans retaining the senate majority explaining what 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 to our senate majority says that restoring the constitution's checks and balances to that. fancy palosi has got plenty of reason to be happy 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 opposite of hitler

the same type of propaganda that you would have seen in germany in one thousand and thirty eight these comparisons to trump it's like it bums me. out matched by putin 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 losses 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 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 them the country is divided and now congress along with it. let's bring in media contributes to come he joins me on the line i could have you all. so this took about donald trump and press conference it was an eventful talked about bipartisanship he spoke about you know he believed that the two parties could work together but it soon unraveled spot with jim acosta from from c.n.n. . about who was responsible the media for the division in in the country is chumps approach making things better or worse and sums of division in the country. well that's like a criminal asking if the victim brought it on themselves no trump has been trying to govern as so far he's done everything he's promised to do and the only

obstructions have been people in his own party like on health care or people on the other side who would rather turn our politics into some sort of which than actually discuss policy and how to make americans lives better drivers been a democrat for over thirty years he switched call signs to win an election and the guys worked with the very people that now are trying to defame him so even though we may not like trump or some people may not like all the president's ideas or statements the idea that we should be at gridlock here this far into a new presidency is just really silly what do you make of the way the u.s. media cover the build up a national night of the elections with a balance with a fair they hoping to polarize opinion in the way they cover events. well the media has been a service saying a in agenda for over i mean not just tromp i mean these but the media's been doing this type of thing and dividing the american people now for at

least several decades it's just gotten worse because more of the people in positions of power now are not they're not the elites they're not the bush clinton ok oligarchy they're fresh a lot of fresh faces so that being the case the media has stepped into overdrive because this incestuous thing they had with the feds for several decades now is in threat so is under threat so that's why you're seeing this type of division. done if you saw the offense in involving protesters outside the house of calls and fox news they were. very close to his house yesterday were inside it calling him a racist from the clip that we've been playing you know fox news are accused of being politics on the accusation will be that took a callous and partisan but is this an appropriate response. no i mean look this is insane and very people attack my former employer by the way my former boss at the daily caller tucker's a great guy he's been on multiple networks n.b.c.

which is considered left of center how people who have actually just won the house the democrats think that it's now even necessary to try to savage or commit violent crimes against those with whom they disagree is really a commentary on the left the left no longer means classically liberal no longer means open minded and able to deal with other perspectives it manes puritanical you know i love a crumb well when you know we're talking lenin here not trotsky you know it's no longer open or tolerant it is only tolerant of itself is this one of the you know the sludge robotics the fact that the us has such amazing freedom of speech that you can pretty much say anything about anybody you know to a large extent and people are pushing these say anything not violate their property but i mean people at the pushing this to the maximum on this train they are of

animosity yes but i mean look this was like in two thousand and eight when people went to the lawn in front of the bank of america c.e.o.'s house and his young son was in there looking out the window as people were trying to get in and hurt them that's inappropriate that's un-american things happen people do bad things we have a judicial process we have due process to prosecute criminals and we don't need mobs we don't need lynch mobs that's the stuff of the south in the early sixty's with jim crow we don't need that back so if the democrats who by the way helped pass the civil rights act the republicans and sixty three are going back to that kind of lynch mob mentality that's not a good sign. really appreciate you coming on interesting conversation john griffin is my guest the media contributor thank you. over five thousand victims of war have been treated so far this year in hospitals run by a un backed humanitarian organization in afghanistan

a third of them were children organization called emergency has been active in the country since ninety ninety nine and says that the violence there is relentless. moscow's preparing to get warring parties together for negotiations playing host to afghan peace talks on friday a dozen countries are invited 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 as artie's my guest there are reports not everybody has welcomed the talks. by any measure the afghan war has dragged on for too long too many people are dead too little achieved too much hatred bred why not 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 were hurt in the plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato is calling for peace the tal the farm must understand the continuing to fight this point first they must sit down at the negotiating table the potential for peace is creating our own interest being in many years unless of course peace is made in moscow in which case the u.s. 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 it 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 wave which never stopped 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 us 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 and 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 heroin finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the u.s. possums war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help.

british governments facing a wave of criticism for its handling of the aftermath of the grunfeld tower fire seventy two people died a year ago in a blaze that engulfed a block of flats in london. westminster has been accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy of the sun the future 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 to resubmit 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 pounds 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. this if you respect. it you don't let firms follow the truth wherever it lead. rather than gagging experts in per times the reputed 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 clauses 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 campaigning on specific. action is whistleblowers or reason concerns about policy well or the grenfell tower of course took place on june fourteenth 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 theresa may and her government and as well as the days that followed.

well the grandfather 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 ground fell happened no one should be deterred from speaking out and quote. ukrainian neo nazi militias are suspected of training white supremacist groups which have been arrested for inciting violent attacks during protests in the u.s. back in two of the seventeen that's according to an unsealed criminal complaint by the f.b.i. . 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 witches beliefs

have participated in training and radicalizing united states based white supremacist organizations this was a quote from a criminal complaint and the man who wrote it was behind investigating terrorist groups in america for the f.b.i. and right here you will be able to see the photos posted by the defendants he was trying to bring to justice they are members of the white supremacy rise above movement just recently a number of charges have been brought against them and clued in conspiracy to start riots the men were involved in the deadly twenty seventeen charlottesville riots that was. it was. it. was

it was. the. uk. so the f.b.i. agent found that the rise above movement members toward europe and went to countries like germany italy and ukraine and there they met with the members of the local extremist neo nazi groups besides this according to the f.b.i. operative the defendants were seen on a photo with one of the leaders of a ukrainian far right party which was founded out of a regiment of the military but tally and that is the battalion that was mentioned and the quote that i showed you are. earlier now as of was seen on the front lines of the conflict in east ukraine which 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 being over thrown in there now

you don't have to be an f.b.i. agent to prove that absolve is actively using neo nazi symbols you can just look at their insignia their emblems and neo nazi salutes or even just slogans are a common thing now i just want to show you what rather frequent marches of members of such organizations and their supporters look like in the ukraine. i i. i i. i i i i i i i i i i

i so this criminal complaint could be important because it appears to be the first instance of f.b.i. actually looking into claims that ukrainian neo nazis could have been involved in the training of extremists across the atlantic. a russian athlete tragically lost his arms in an accident decades ago has taken gold in his category at the european triathlon championships in spain the fifty five year old conquered the kilometers of running swimming and cycling with the help of his wife is also his trainer get a chance to speak to both of them about their motivation. the photos are slow to slip it was our commitment to prisons that are much. more than will work when you're syria which is to lower the price to build. of shells

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riot police being deployed in the german city of hamburg where hundreds of protesters have rallied for and against america's migrant policies. i was right wing groups called a rally to denounce merkel's open door policy which is seen over one million people pour into the country since the height of the my crisis from twenty county demonstrators who attempted to block their arrival at a railway station leading to a heated standoff with police. many germans have been calling on merkel to step down from her role as chancellor as early as next year in response to her saying she'll continue to the end of her term and twenty twenty one local won't be seeking reelection after a series of disastrous results for her party in regional elections and now a growing number of germans say they prefer a more authoritarian leader party's correspondent peter all of her explains 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 have been through that in history would do a sinking about those this is our past this is our past it cannot be allowed to become our future but 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 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. i see the people particularly well i think this is everyone's personal choice maybe due to the refugee crisis lately 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 arden to a worse place than it is already. the very in chairman of the alternative for germany party petabyte police and angela merkel will have a hard time saving her leadership and said the recent polls in germany were behind the times. angle america was a lamb duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election she lost the election and 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 if 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 bought and this is very important they already have one because what happens in the country now under anglo-american at this is very young

so ritzer in the government. is separate loosing straightness like in camden it's the government is this missing. clerics just because they are opposing the government like with books on mass and the germans are very open minded people and they're still about coming. people from abroad. stay with us here on r.t. updates coming your way at the top of down. next geysers financial survival you know they say money to develop for it's pleasure to use it this is a central plank support dying at the moment kind of problem right now so you stop. so. when i'm not in the situation when you are not a government. you'll voice is your voice belongs to you and use it is

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