on steroids is this what the voters voted for. police in the u.s. identify the gunmen who killed twelve people in a busy california bar on wednesday as a twenty eight year old former marine he is believed to have a committed suicide following the atrocity. hostility towards the media spikes in the west with donald trump parading liberal journalists at a news conference and the far left activists protesting outside the home of a fox news host. and the u.k. government continues to face

a backlash over its handling of the grenfell tower fire it is accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy which left seventy two people dead back in two thousand and seventeen. broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our international time certainly glad to have you with. our police in the u.s. say they have identified the gunmen who killed twelve people in a crowded bar in the small california city of thousand oaks on wednesday they have named the suspect as twenty eight year old local resident in david long he had served in the marines and reportedly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder police say he was known to them for minor offenses and had been referred to mental health experts back in april along motive for the shooting is not known here is how

witnesses describe events. i was on the dance floor dancing at the time was right and then all my friends were at the table right by the door and then they turned your i heard the gunshot i turned around and i saw him shoot a couple more times and 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 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 right and we looked at as fast as we cut. or calls police started coming in and around the living fifteen in the evening terrified customers hid under tables and in bathrooms during the shooting the bar had been holding a country music night for local university students hundreds of people were there at the time. president trump has ordered the national flag lowered to half staff at the white house to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting. donald trump has

launched a series of scathing attacks on journalists in the wake of the u.s. midterm elections which saw the democrats take back control of the house of representatives at a press conference the day after the pivotal vote of the president to accuse the media of being divisive and hostile. 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 that such a racist question would never do that and i don't use race and your marks. in america it's people like this they cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing 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 you i'm going to ask one of the other folks that said to me ma'am on this person that's enough was president the other folks that said to me ma'am you are

a rude terrible person. those are present in in jim's defense i traveled with them and watched them as a diligent reporter not agree with interviewers either so i understand to be out of the. meanwhile the left wing movement and have targeted a fox news anchor activists from the group surrounded tucker carlson's home chanting insults. all right. while the t.v. host wasn't home at the time however his wife was there and she managed to to lock herself and call the police the couple have four children activists rang his doorbell and broke his door. many have dubbed the midterms a referendum on trump's presidency and it seems he has passed the test with the republicans retaining their senate majority explaining that what that means here.

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 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 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 were joined earlier by social commentator anthony bryant logan to talk about trump's worsening relationship with the media following the midterms. you got a late beach front that's where he's going here as well as got him here so far he's not been the conventional president has somebody who is able to think for themselves that for themselves rather than being told what to do for now say which up is doing is the right thing to do when you put in no false information misleading information to confuse people to discourage people from going out and voting that could be considered voter intimidation voters oppression so what do you say here about being an enemy to people is pretty accurate as a description initially it be misconstrued with inciting violence in the actual press conference they don't shout was involved with all these people get you know yelling out of turn screaming i mean that 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 list even those that are kind of his 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 it's not bipartisan valley is it usually comes from the other side has to defend itself. more than five thousand victims of war have been treated so far this year and hospitals run by a u.n. back to humanitarian organization in afghanistan a third were children the organization called emergency has been active in the country since one thousand nine hundred nine and says the violence there is relentless. switching gears now moscow is preparing to get warring parties together for negotiations playing host to afghan peace talks on friday a dozen countries are invited and the taliban is also sending a delegation it is 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 as artie's but i've got to have comments 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 sooner enough . on just one day the twentieth of october jury elections three hundred and eighty eight

civilians were in the plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato is calling for peace the tal the former must understand that to continue to fight this pointless 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 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 and they are probably talking about that and would like to see that seventeen years of war and terror is nato sold that calculus thousands dead on each every side generations thread and misery and violence drunken hatred and heroin 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 the u.k. government is continuing to face harsh criticism over its handling of the ground fell tower fire that story much more after a short break you are watching our international.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go on to be press this is what before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. they sit. with you i'm not an institution when you're on the government's. you'll force is your voice belongs to you and plus in your voice people can

do scenes they wouldn't accept was a situation. it was easy as a difference between the privacy. of people to see. a welcome back this is r t international now the british government is 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 and westminster has been accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy artie's honest as he brings us more. 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 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 unforgivable cowardice if you respect the decision to do it you don't let firms follow the truth wherever it lead. rather than gagging experts in per times in reporting 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 well or the grenfell tower of course took place on june fourth. tienes 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 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 ground fell happened no one should be deterred from speaking out and quote. ukrainian neo nazi militias are suspected of training

a white supremacist groups which have been arrested for inciting violent attacks during protests in the u.s. back in two thousand and 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 it was it was. the. uk 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 absolve paramilitary 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 and ukraine. 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 be a thing of the past european commission president john claude younker thinks none of the e.u. member states will be part of the group by mid century saying the writing is on the

wall for europe's economic might. three are losing economic weight in the next coming decades their role in small us twenty two twenty three percent to do you to be fifteen sixteen seventeen percent to twenty years in thirty years and a single member of the european union will be a member of the do seventh form of demography the few we are losing weight to put in front of the g seven is composed of the seven most industrial advanced countries which meet anyone to discuss global economic policy the first summit was held back in one thousand nine hundred five combined the group's members represent approximately half of the world's well. journalist look at rivera told us that he thinks the younger is correct about the e.u.'s economic decline. is the incur as always been very provocative it's his way and all and frankly ease right on

obviously we will lose weight that's written in the sky i mean india and china ever more than one billion five hundred million people and qualified people and technology their techniques fair are just the same level 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 that would have been replaced by china or india russia needs to be back in the g seven that's for sure of course because it's one of the giants in the world so we need we need to start making use in politics in the economy for you. that doesn't for me i will be back up top the hour with more news you're watching our two international strips .

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a real end of the world. after the genocide there a mob women in rwanda the man. fell to women to fix what the men had broken. 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 vote. voted for. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active rich in the nineteen seventies coronato had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery and ash was

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but. it's the most famous naval disaster in history. the lissa tamia lost just off the course of violin the world war was. a medical opinion against the german campaign the mighty who. blew up under fire in the streets and gauging the best. that these naval catastrophes bore from the public consciousness on the military record and yet the greatest naval disaster and british history with the loss of life was.

with the history of the. few remaining survivors. the question of why the great. sea is true. to so many. huge strategic problem but a glimmer of light in the otherwise totally bleak. face

of the nazi. from the beaches of. them bravely much of. running away but surviving the fight for mother to the great surprise this broken. hill and the. trials. from the reality of defeat. on the very day of the. news came through of the devastating naval loss. the loss of following. a new story that no. the present is everything other than an unmitigated and bloody catastrophe and so the prime minister decided that this was one disaster too many to be reported no mention of the loss was made by the newspapers already surviving soldiers and seamen were ordered to keep quiet it was

a thawing castiel was still afloat and the four thousand dead were still alive i picked up the story was to campaign for to the store the memory of the fate of the lion cast. and i delighted to be joined by mark costar long lancaster campaigner and michelle to be a local historian here and so on the market come to you first what was the lancastrian doing here in seoul is there that fateful day in june one thousand forty four the lancastrian had been commissioned as a troop ship. of war and she was actually just finished the disembarkation of troops from the norway campaign when she got orders to sail to san nazir and help in the evacuations she was a canard lainer which was requisitioned as.