and prosperous and democratic. place in the united states identified the gunman who killed twelve people in a busy california bar on wednesday is being a twenty eight year old former marine they say that he committed suicide following trust. him following the week's elections president she's out of the media blaming it for dividing the u.s. out of left wing anti far protesters target a conservative fox news anchor at his home saying night as the. government continues to face a backlash over its handling of the growing fire it's accused of placing gagging

orders on experts investigating the tragedy seventy two people dead in two thousand and. joining us this is our internet. police in the usa they have identified the gunman who killed twelve people in a crowded bar in the small city of thousand oaks in california on wednesday evening the suspect is twenty eight year old local resident david long he previously served in the u.s. marine corps and was known to the authorities for minor offenses such as traffic violations and a prolonged was cleared by mental health experts after officers responded to a report of him acting irrationally his motive for the shooting is unknown it's believed he used a forty five caliber handgun during the attack here's how witnesses described the

scene. i was on the dance floor dancing. and then all my friends were at the table right the door and then i turned your i heard the gunshot it turned around and i saw him shoot the couple more times. 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 dug probably on top of each other they were very very loud gunshot they were very clear what they were the shots kept going and going and going we just heard people say all right it looked at us and since we cut. course the police started to come in at around eleven fifteen pm local time terrified customers head in the tables and in bathrooms during the shooting and what was a college country music night for a local university students hundreds of them with their at the time president donald trump ordered the national flag lowered to half staff at the white house to commemorate victims of the shooting.

and donald trump has launched a series of scathing attacks on journalists in the wake of the u.s. midterm elections we saw the democrats take back control of the house of representatives at a press conference the day after the pivotal vote the president accused the media of being divisive and hostile. he while the left wing movement and targeted a fox news anchor activist from the groups around it took a call since home chanting insults. many of the midterms a referendum on talking terms president see seems he's passed the test the republicans retain the senate majority explaining what that means is. 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 the story of the constitution's checks and balances do the job. fancy pelosi 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 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 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 him the country is divided and now congress along

with it we're joined by social commentator and to talk about tom's whistling relationship with the media following the elections. you got a late shot beachfront that's where he's going here as well as getting him here so far he's not been conventional president how somebody is able to think for themselves that for themselves rather than being told what to do for now say which op is doing is the right thing to do when you put in out false information misleading information to confuse people to discourage people from going out there and voting that could be considered voter intimidation voters approach in so what do you say here about being the enemy of the people is pretty accurate as a description initially it be misconstrued with inciting violence in the actual press conference day donald trump was involved with all these people get you know yelling out of turn screaming i mean the guy jim acosta rest of america from away from new girl i mean like what are we really doing the left they are attacking

everywhere it is now on a low even those that are kind in the center i think it may come from fear that they're losing their power to lose in new grip and they are afraid of what trump is going to do so it's not really you know a two party thing is not bipartisan valley is it usually comes from the other side has to defend. over five thousand victims of war of being treated so far this year in hospitals run by a un backed humanitarian organization in afghanistan a third of those treated with children who called emergencies been active in the country since one thousand nine hundred nine it says that the violence that is relentless. moscow is preparing to get warring parties together for negotiations playing host to afghan peace talks on friday a dozen countries are invited the taliban's also sending a delegation the first time that the militant group will take part in this kind of high level meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan there's artie's

where i guess they have reports now not everybody has welcomed these 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. plethora of attacks so no wonder that even

nato is calling for peace the top on the must understand the continuing to fight is pointless 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 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 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 sold that 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. possums war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. the british government's facing away volved criticism for its handling of the aftermath of the grandfather seventy 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 who are investigating the tragedy ortiz and c a chicken has the tales. well love 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 c. fifty 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 a 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

unforgivable crime which is if you respect. it. was full of the truth wherever it led. rather than gagging experts in perth ties the ripper to 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 campaigning on specific issues acting as whistleblowers or reason concerns about policy while other 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 grand fell happened no one should be deterred from speaking out and. ukrainian neo nazi militias saw suspected of training white supremacist groups which have been arrested for inciting violence attacks during protests in the us back in twenty seventeen that's according to an unsealed criminal complaint by the f.b.i. . the as off but sally in 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 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 it was. it was. it. was was it was. the. uk the. uk. 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 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 frontlines 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 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. the annual g.

seven meeting could eventually become a thing of the past european commission president jiang through june to things none of the e.u.'s member states will be part of the group by mid century saying the writing is on the wall for europe's economic might. we are losing economic weight in the next coming decades roelant small us twenty to twenty three percent who do you to be fifteen sixteen seventeen percent after twenty years in thirty years and not a single member of the european union will be a member of the g. seven and form of demography point of view we are losing which to put it frankly the g seven is composed of the seven most industrially advanced countries which meet annually to discuss global economic policy the first summit was held back in one hundred seventy five combined the group's members represent approximately half of the world's wealth. gellatly they told us he thinks that is

correct about the economic decline. but this to incur as always seems very provocative it's his way and all and frankly he's right obviously. that's. in the sky i mean india and china ever more than one billion five hundred million people and qualified people and technology their tech must fear same others as ours here in europe so maybe mr young says it just to justify a united europe but in thirty years time he's right there will be maybe still germany but the others italy france etc will have gone from the g. seven they would have been replaced by china or india russia needs to be batting that that's for sure of course because it's one of the giants in the world so we need we need to start making using the politics in the economy for you. rights police have been deployed in the german city of hamburg where hundreds of

protesters have rallied for and against angela merkel's migrant policies was right wing groups called a rally to denounce merkel's open door policy which was seen over one million people pour into the country since the height of the migrant crisis in twenty fifteen and they were met with counter demonstrators who attempted to block their arrival at a railway station leading to a heated standoff with the police. and many germans have been calling on merkel to step down from her role as chancellor as early as next year that in response to her saying she'll continue to the end of her term in 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 that they would prefer a more authoritarian leader ortiz europe correspondent peter oliver has details. 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 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 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 it's possible well i think this everyone's personal choice maybe 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 i'm not into a worse place than it is already a very in charge of the alternative of germany party by strong believes that angle america will have a hard time saving her leadership and said the recent polls in germany a behind the times. 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 is now trying to stay at least as chancellor but the chances are low if you've got the information then the socialist elements are 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 that 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 this is very young so

ritzer in the government. is separate loosing straightness like in chemist'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 are still about coming. people from abroad. russian athletes tragically lost his arms in an accident decades ago has taken gold in his category at the european triathlon championships in spain fifty five year old conquered the kilometers of running swimming and cycling with the help of his wife who's also his trainer we had a chance to speak to both of them about their motivation. the voters are slow to slit was out of the military presence that obama will derail to the most number of us as my new syria which is to lower the price stability. of

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of the hour joining. 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 a chance of me becoming an astronaut but i realize that's what i was passionate about and i wanted to at least try for this if you're trying 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 going to try and you never know where you might end up. both the republicans and democrats claim victory in the wake of the midterm elections but it seems the election settled little if anything now there is a dueling investigation warfare gridlock on steroids is this what the voters voted for. for i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happy each

day. eighty five percent of global wealth if you want to the old for rich the point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per cent get first second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars . china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one you know for to me one and only.

i am ask eyes are this is the kaiser report our still does though on the road and were in new orleans and i woke up feeling dave chapelle eric talk about dave chappelle everything's been great people down here me do it all i just. love it i mean there's. more dave chapelle impression coming later on the show but first let's check in with stacey. stacey. max we are in new orleans on our gonzo trip across the united states and do you know what new orleans is not the choice for amazon's h.q. to in fact it was washington d.c. just outside washington d.c. i know he'll be talking about this and don't believe you know. and it's always going to be washington d.c. he bought a twenty million dollar home there all of this alleged viewing of all the cities across america was all about free publicity.