well divisions emerge in the u.s. media this time of a video of a c.n.n. reporter released by the white house some accuse the journalist of an attack of the material is being. white women in texas face accusations of betraying feminist values so they cast their votes in favor of the state's republican candidate. i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply based on my skin color who are you who are you representing if you're only as a white woman representing the best interests of other white women then we absolutely

have a problem absolutely. on afghanistan. saying it was a success and ready to meet again he was the only news channel to speak to the group's representatives after the meeting. we have we want good relations. joining us this is our t. internet. press secretaries release the video which she says justifies banning c.n.n. reporter jim acosta from the white house called the video to the manipulative but others so it is proof of the journalists inappropriate behavior and debate has been

raging in the media over whose side to take. it just is it crosses a line you don't put your hands i don't want him a cost to sort of wrestling this young white house intern jim acosta clearly never touched that white house intern that's just a lie and what i saw was a battery not by jim acosta but by the young white house aide if you can use a fake video use a fake video as you go all the way do something like this. so we have sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary pulling the credentials of jim acosta c.n.n. reporter and she then released a video clip of the incident which she called an inappropriate laying on of hands said that because he touched this this staffer of the white house who was holding the microphone this way that it was necessary to remove his credentials that was unacceptable behavior while she posted the clip and now we have people saying that it's a doctored clip the clip is distorted in order to make the incident look far worse

than it was it's also been pointed out that the clip that she shared on twitter to justify her decision came from the right wing website known as info wars however the individual who put the clip on info wars has defended their action it isn't doctored it isn't sped up it isn't slowed down all i did was zooming in look at it again is this an example of someone don't clip to change its meaning no it's virtually identical is it won't hundred percent identical no video compression is going to result in it looking marginally different let's recall the incident where this took place this was during trump's most recent press conference it was following the midterm elections trump came out and jim acosta confronted donald trump about the issue of the migrant caravan and his immigration policies and some of his advertising he actually asked for a follow up questions trump then cut him off and tried to move on to other

reporters i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. or. if you did it well your ratings let me ask you if i mean one of the question is present right by me are you worried i should know that sort of president i think that's an ask one of the other probes that stood out for me ma'am i protested enough for me ma'am and it comes to what took place during this press conference americans just don't see eye to eye there are two different versions of events that people are very very strongly fired up and believing they may be looking at the same video clip but they have very very different interpretations of it was the famous dress incident some people thought the dress was white and gold others thought the dress was black and blue were in a situation where the country is increasingly divided regarding what side of the political spectrum you're on. your list charles will tell joins me now i'm sure you've had plenty chance to watch that video we've seen it in slow super slow replayed over and over again would you make of this event.

well i think that the one thing if we were talking about a legendarily objective an accomplished journalist being cut off by the president and i have to say you know i'm no fan of c.n.n. but in particular i'm no fan of jim acosta i think that he is overbearing not particularly perceptive he was i think not only being rude in that instance to the president but to his fellow colleagues hugging the microphone asking all these extra prolog questions you suppose that basically has one question you might get a follow up but to be asking for in that way. when jim acosta gets in front of the camera it's all about him minutes and seems to be less about the news so i think the president was right to do what he did i also think we can't forget just how aggressively jim acosta has treated sarah's stare he stares at sanders who is why all accounts and from what i could tell a very decent human being so this is a this is a guy who's crossed the line he's being slapped down i think appropriately and it's

time for the mainstream corporate owned media to start getting back to the business of actually being journalists those press conferences with the president they do seem very aggressive from the outside maybe this is par for the course i don't know but everybody is demanding a second question and it's taking the president himself to go on and say no moving it along it didn't seem surprised me when acosta just basically refused to let go of the mike but is that normally how it rolls in the u.s. . i don't think anything about this president's his normal going back before it though no i i don't think there were all that many pro open press conferences like the one you just referring to when barack obama was president and think about the deference he was shown were any tough question he actually said numerous occasions as he was leaving that his was a scandal free presidency. where was jim acosta asking about fast and furious and the stimulus plan there wasn't a stimulus plan but we spent almost

a trillion dollars our own go on and are we are suddenly everyone's a videotape expert where were the experts looking at the suppose a videotape that triggered the benghazi incident and say wait a minute that seems all suspicious i mean there wasn't any tough journalism under or barber and now under trump they decided i guess to more than make up or do you think ultimately the white house was right to take away a course this credential they would have known that this was only going to set off a huge argument with the media yet again. i think you know i think it's very important to ask probing questions but you don't have to shout them they could be probing in their substance they could be probing in you know that the subject matter that. to behave in the way the jim acosta and some of his colleagues behave shows i think utter disrespect for the office of the presidency and i think there needs to be a better balance. but appreciate your turn charles charles

a little political analyst is my guest. of your system reeling from its face the disputed midterm elections that saw the democrats win control of the house but they failed to take the senate and some key states that they were hoping for such as texas where republican candidate ted cruz won a tight battle and now there are accusations that those women who voted for cruz are doing so betrayed feminism a prominent sports journalist set off the debate fifty nine percent of white women voted for task fifty three percent of white women voted for donald trump so given this number scores the real face of famine is. and that's just the latest criticism of republican voting women by liberals and progressives who are some other examples of what is happening why are women even voting for him yeah i don't get you ladies i meant the country's fifty five percent women i mean the country was pretty

specific. we have tons of black presidents when i see women doing that i think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves voted against hillary clinton voted against their own voice. and by your vote for anybody nobody but you are a woman and you are never going to get it and it will be looked at so i guess. i didn't. say she scared me we put the issue of feminism and politics up for debate with a women's rights advocate and a media commentator the tradition of women just a voting independently as they think and not based on their gender or their skin color or those kinds of things that is true independence i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply based on my skin color and especially and especially because i happen to be the mother of

a child with brown skin and so to decide that based on my skin color that i as i sounds are already what are you voting for and the best interest of that is around here here is the person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist. know it's two there's no such thing as reverse racism we'll start there but here's the issue if you voting in the best interest of that but have a china rule around you you child that you have then here's the question what type of mother are you because here's the question at the end of the day we want children to be protected so we need gun laws that reflect that if you're voting against the interest of your own child in school then we have to raise the question what are you voting for the second read why don't you go how do you know you're in but you have other women and their reproductive rights when you know that ted cruz is not interested in protecting protecting reproductive rights when you know that ted cruz is not interested in equal pay for other women and you know that women who are brown skinned and and women of other ethnicities are paid what white women are

paid then i have to ask you the question who are you whose interests are you representing if you're only as a white woman representing the best interest of other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolutely it is the republicans by the way it is the party of abraham lincoln that actually fought for civil rights and won over the democrats so if you want to vote in accordance with what is civil rights and you would want to vote republican now and thirdly she brought up the issue and we've got no that's all i have going to lift someone and we the united party sealed in there that's my stance and that's the feminine stance on that now thirdly when she's talking about it how do you know of course what is going to they are what i mean is right how do you all of us all of us maybe girls who were of boarded what about their rights if you're going to talk about women's rights what about the baby girl's rights who are killed ten thousand per day every day to their town and my mind about republicans you talk about abortion but do you protect the children while they're here it's ok for you

to let a school full of children be shot i do because you as a woman want to have the right to bear arms but you don't protect those children who can't carry guns inside the school i mean it's insane and so we. you talk about oh well i support a man who you know ted cruz but he doesn't support by what's when you're a conservative woman you celebrate the things that you've actually accomplished based on your own you know own drive and your own freedom and your own will and your motivation and those kinds of things that's what i would rather be judged for the rather than things like going backward to things like religion and skin color and gender to me those are the holiday those are the ones that we say he's. going to stay with and we need to get really come over here and basing things on merit and accomplishment because because no matter what skin color or what gender you are you can be anything you want to be we are the freest best country one foot

in the heraldry world race and this that you are some thing to celebrate that for not wanting to whine about it and to vote with their other white community and so we're going to forget about all of those things and just stand on my privileges i don't really do you resent it where she is and she wants to stand there i'd like to just say thank you to jim l. hill for what she said i just support her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl. highly anticipated peace talks in afghanistan were held in moscow today a dozen countries were invited and the taliban was also represented delegations leaders said that the taliban wants peace with all its neighbors. the whole nation is with us and they're going to get some americans in dead against the kind of occupation we will not go live to single american soldier in afghanistan we have. no agenda across our borders we have we want good relations specially whatever the neighbors fridays russia hosted and russia led talks basically the forest open and

public appearance of the car top aides taliban movement political office at an international conference nine countries have been participating in the dialogue aimed at finding peaceful solutions to the afghani conflict including the gani delegation after the talks i've had a chance to talk to the head of the delegation of the taliban movement that is considered to be a terror group here in russia and this is what he has told me about taliban's views on the situation in afghanistan and on a potential solution or tripped up on assad it's been invaded for the last seventeen years i would him is that these forces out of honest these. talking to a negotiation which is going to go with american this is in a very initial stage the delegation from afghanistan not the government from the diplomats but the members of the country's high peace council also participated in

today's talks and i've seen you during coffee break shaking with them talking to each other they do you agree on direct contacts with the government and this conference which was live that was locked at the start of the. negotiations with the problem of egypt because first of all we do not take my eyes the global are going to station i said legal go are going to have on this the kabul has decided not to send its diplomats to moscow but the members of the country's high peace council government appointed body that is responsible for overseeing the peace process in afghanistan have agreed to participate. kate we've had a chance to talk to the head of the of ghana delegation and among other things i've asked him what do they think about american generals saying that there is no military solution to getting problems at the same time promising to go on with the offensive against taliban in afghanistan which is obviously a military action by the we have fishel washington turned down the invitation to

participate in moscow event but eventually they sent a representative from the u.s. embassy here in moscow who had a status of an observer at friday's talks this is what the head of the of going to the geisha has told me about that when he's coming there's no need for that again what is the. first piece should come of merced americans should be. ok this is a good thing in the world is going to stand ready to talk directly to taliban with yes yes just. yes you're right. thank you thank you obviously the situation in afghanistan is very complicated and the road towards a long awaited peace in this country could be a long and bumpy but many admit that friday's event was a very important multisided peaceful initiative that has all the potential to become a success. must trial in germany was launched this friday is thirty people

stood accused of brutally abusing refugees and asylum center the shocking revelations first came to light four years ago some of the worst incidents filled. leadership but they're also not a small leadership that i was lucky. incidents allegedly took place in the town of burbank in the west of the country prosecutors claim the staff tormented asylum seekers physically and psychologically images of abuse were leaked to the media sparking an outcry social workers security guards and other staff were among those facing charges of assault and false imprisonment one of the accused though disputes the gravity of the claims. how do you feel about the fact that you're being accused of this. it's an exaggeration again and see more than that. company operating the migrants and to deny claims the management turned a blind eye to abuse saying instead that a group of security guards had gone rogue and

a member of germany's left party was quick to point blame at the country's migrant policy. believe that it's all one word. police have to follow the constitution and to figure out all of human rights you cannot will the. human rights abuses and actually those senators that are just out of it and it will just say you know we're not going to manage what it is that angela merkel. and she had not actual positive you're to hear. and so this is a sign. that gerry. rebuilding water in syria has taken center stage during talks between the u.s. secretary of state and the un's outgoing special envoy to syria

a phone call highlighted the importance of humanitarian groups and comes as a report reveals u.s. aid money is actually lining terrorist pockets explains. american taxpayer money cash that is almost wholly in the u.s. mindset inviolable money but has seen politicians jailed for the slightest misuse is ending up in the hands of al qaeda in syria now that's a sick twisted if anything a new report has found that millions. of dollars in aid to syria has been funneled to terrorists since late twenty seventeen u.s. agency for international development office of the inspector general investigation have uncovered numerous instances of possible or confirmed diversions to armed groups in government in northwestern syria including hayat. a

designated foreign terrorist organization. h.t.s. nusra front they have many names in short as wing in syria facts of the matter that they were benefiting from u.s. taxpayer money is no surprise everyone. aid organizations civilians traveling through northern syria have to pay to pass checkpoints be that money in goods this is been a fact for years it's business one of the terrorists' main sources of funding. and. the. worst of all it is assumed that these jihad ists have been able to infiltrate put

their people in n.g.o.s humanitarian organizations from which they siphon money and aid to further their malign cause one investigation found that in n.g.o.s employees knowingly diverted thousands of u.s. aid funded food kits worth millions of dollars to ineligible beneficiaries including terrier al sharm fighters. usaid g. also investigated diversions of assistance to hire top of your all sham in another n.g.o.s programs which oh i g suspected were perpetrated by n.g.o.s staff affiliated with the terrorist group the report itself is light on names and numbers perhaps for political reasons the fallout here could seriously damage and geo operations all we know is that millions of dollars in cash in aid have been funneled to al qaeda in syria and that's just what they've admitted found that

funding has now been terminated but is very interesting in this report is that the us aid watchdog does not name the n.g.'s now of course one of those primary n.g.o.s will be the white house probably one of the most primitive. and i can i and these are n.g.o.s and he's working on the ground in syria basically providing the prostate cancer and the corporation of the regime change current policy surely the year i should have to be left on economic sanctions and it should then be if it's necessary be collaborating with the syrian government to provide aid to the areas where it's most needed i don't expect this to happen regardless it's a sick and a sad joke on the american taxpayer trillions of their hard earned money spent on the war on terror originally on defeating al qaeda and all the while they've been paying to feed and finance those very same jihad ists.

russia says the west has abandoned normal diplomatic protocol and adopted a pattern of publicly accusing moscow of wrongdoing that's after all steer accused one of its own former high ranking army officers of spying for russia in a culture of the story. i had a chance to. minister sergei lavrov to comment on the recent allegations coming from austria that former austrian colonel was accused of spying for russia for decades the ministry said that he has just found out about the news and that he was unpleasantly surprised he added that russia's western partners have recently started to publicly accuse russia and publicly demand to explain nations his common practice within international law to directly ask for clarification but recently our western partners have started using nontraditional megaphone diplomacy they publicly accuses they publicly demand explanations are monsters we know nothing

about we've officially some industry members to the ministry to explain how his country shouldn't if they have any questions. broke the news this friday he said that this may lead to worsening relations between the two countries and he also added that he plans to discuss possible further steps with e.u. partners if these suspicions prove to be true if this is position is confirmed such cases regardless of where they take place will not improve relations between russia and the european union russia's aspirin is your t.v. news in europe are inacceptable and condemning the country's defense ministry said that they obtained information with the frenzy intelligence service with providing any concrete details on who was behind this now asked for foreign affairs ministry of the minister was quick to council her upcoming trip to russia and she also some

russian representatives to discuss the matter and meanwhile there is still very little information regarding the former colonel in question we only know that he was accused of spying for russia for over twenty years and here in moscow the australian ambassador. russia's foreign affairs ministry. at least thirty seven palestinians have reportedly been injured at the border between the gaza strip and israel despite peace talks involving egypt and the garza based organization hamas in an attempt to stop the violence. clashes with israeli defense forces have been happening for the last seven months in a protest by palestinians known as the great march of return which they demand the right to return to lands they say have been illegally occupied by israel and smart at least two hundred eighteen palestinians have been killed thousands more have

been wounded the idea of the denies it deliberately target civilians saying that it has the right to defend its borders from a group israel considers to be terrorists. a massive wildfires engulfed the u.s. state of california destroying thousands of buildings and forcing areas into emergency evacuations residents across california been urged to leave by officials more than a hundred fifty thousand have already been evacuated reports say the first moving wildfires have destroyed an entire city currently threatening to move in on the iconic location of malibu it's believed at least five people have been killed and many others injured. the phantom submarine spotted in swedish waters has been making headlines for years previously but the blame on russia now it appears they've solved the mystery. that's.

the search expanding for what's believed to be a russian submarine lurking near sweden's capital an emergency call from these waters to a russian space ship it could be a sobering reasonable for a smaller submarine a photo looking very much like a submarine on patrol it's. the first.

i meant to say we don't see that it was not a submarine there was no foreign underwater activity. of updates for you inhofe and i was telling see them.

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a real attempt of the world. after the genocide there a moment women in rwanda. fell to women to fix what the men had broken. a low in welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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.