crucial midterm elections entrenched deep divisions in the. house the democrats seized on the republicans built on their senate majority we wanted only. a fallout from the midterms keeps on coming with white women in texas for betraying feminist values after voting in favor of the republican. i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply face on my skin color who are you who interests 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. germans are part of a favor

a strong hundred leader with some even seen nothing wrong with a dictatorship according to a nationwide poll this week. will soon be up for grabs. and for the first time the taliban sits down for a high level talks on peace in afghanistan on the run table meeting in moscow comes after years of failed attempts by the us to end along. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international a little unwelcome. crucial midterm elections on the left. between america's two major parties the democrats seize the high. of representatives while

the republicans built on their advantage in the senate florida was one of the states where the division is most striking a recount has been ordered there after the republicans won by a tiny margin donald trump condemned the move saying it's an attempt to steal the big elections but it's far from the only thing that went wrong in the vote. hello. hello. hello.

from philly. and if you missed it really all you need. to. her a. little. little clip. well the big picture here is that many have dubbed the midterms

a referendum on trump's presidency and that's seems he's passed the test with the republicans retaining their senate majority a target they had set before the elections well expanding the significance of all the. 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 it's 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 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 definitely beat us. 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 than it should be. sometime just falsely claiming something that's not correct enough substantiated 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. media briefing following the vote

president trump once again with the media trading blame with reporters for defamation within 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 involved only white nationalists that's such a racist question for would never do that and i don't use race as you march. in america it's people like this that cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign doing that i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. and if you did it well you're reading so much of the nascar that the other folks that said for me man on this president that's enough the president i like the other folks that set out for me ma'am you are rude terrible person. mr president and i had a meter go in jim's defense i traveled with him to washington to deliver a great band of brothers either side is said to be out of. time wasn't all social

commentary a funny brian logan is of the view that trump is simply reacting to relentless left wing rhetoric. you've got to be trying that's where he's going here as well as getting him here so far he's not been the convention no president has somebody who 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 false information misleading information to confuse people to discourage people from going out there 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 the left they are attacking everywhere 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 being it's not bipartisan values it usually comes from. it has to define do so well another aspect to choose these poll was the brick done of who actually voted for whom and it's white women in texas who took some backlash for allegedly betraying feminists values after voting for the state's republican candidate ted cruz a prominent sports journalist set off the plate. fifty nine percent of white women voted for task fifty three percent of white women voted for donald trump so given this numbers who is the real face of feminism well this is just the latest example of liberals and progressives criticizing republican voting women here's a few more. 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 but with. 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. i mean by you both for anybody nobody you are a woman and you are never going to get it and it will be. so i guess. i did it. she scared me well we posed the question of how the feminism works in politics to a women's rights advocate and first 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 it

sounds are only what are you voting for i'm the best interests of there is around here here it's the person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist. no it says 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 to you while 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 then you would want to vote republican now and thirdly she brought up the issue and we got no that's all i got into if 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 i didn't know they are but i mean it's 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 girls rights who are killed ten thousand per day every day to air out of 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 our with 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 in the holiday those are the ones that me saying are they. going to stay away and we need to get really kind of our hero 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're the freest best country in one particular they hire a real race and that's that you're in thing to celebrate the for not allowing to

whine about and to vote with their other white community and so we're going to forget about all of those things and just stand on why privileges don't really do your resume where he is and he wants to stand there i'd like to just say thank you to jim l. hill for for what he said i just the for her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl. ok now the story of the week migrant protesters freestyle funny thing with left wing activists in the german city of humbug riot police were deployed to separate the opposing sides. protesters were denouncing chancellor merkel's migron policy which has seen over a million people officially or into the country since twenty fifty the rally was met by a thousand strong country demonstration marching against what they called racism and nazi propaganda. according to a recent poll

a majority of germans want merkel to step down as early as next year and it's offered the chance to learn and she won't be seeking reelection but will stay in power until the end of her term and twenty twenty one meanwhile another survey produced the somewhat surprising result as artie's europe correspondent peter all of our son died. 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 this 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 the one nine

hundred sixty two. years 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 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. well but very in chairman for the alternative for germany party petter bistro on the days of angle of merkel's government in his opinion are numbered. americal is a lamb duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election she lost the election. remember this problem even to get together a coalition and she's now it's writing to say at least this chancellor the chances

are low you got the information that the socialist. are already looking for new jobs outside of the parliament because they think the government will not remain any longer the german people on long out there it's only another issue box and this is very him for who they already have one because of what happens in the country not under i'm go out now but this is very young so ritzer in the government. is separate loosing straightness like in kamloops that the government is this missing . a cleric's just because they are opposing the government like with books on mosque. on friday moscow played host to london mark talks on the afghan peace process regional heavyweights like china india iran pakistan they were all present at the meeting along with the taleban it's the first time the militant group itself done for engagement in this kind of high level multilateral meeting after almost

two decades of war in afghanistan and the fact that they share the same room with kabul representatives is seen as a significant breakthrough the afghan government did not send a delegation however members of an afghan high security council were there instead they said kaboul is ready for direct peace talks with the taliban without preconditions while the representative of the militant group said they would first talk to washington as their main demand is the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. the whole nation is with us and they're going to get some of the concern the other is that of the kind of operation we will not all of it does single american soldier than up on the stand that. america is solved with the help . no i didn't trust a lot more of us we haven't we wanted to be some specific what i want to move us on the note to point out it's here washington turned on an invitation to the talks but did send on observer rock as the of brixton what's maybe behind the rejection of

rush's made efforts by any measure the afghan war has dragged on for too long too many people a dead too little achieved too much hatred bred. on just one day the twentieth of october during elections three hundred and eighty eight civilians one. plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato is calling for peace the toll the bomb must understand the continuing to fight is pointless there must sit down on the negotiating table the potential for peace is created in our interest being in many years unless of course peace is made in moscow in which case the us won't support it america is skipping the moscow

peace summit saying washington only supports afghan led efforts 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 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 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 wars in general or going to end if they can do some maneuver to make a better situation for the united states in afghanistan seventeen years of war and terror is nato sold that countless thousands dead on each and every side generations fed 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. possum's war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help.

ok to the us west coast our twelve people who were killed in a must shitting at a crowded bar in thousand oaks in california on wed and stay at night hundreds of students where they're at the top. all my friends are at the table right now doing it and then i turn your i'm in the gun shy turn around to make saw him shoot a couple more times the shots don't we can only think knowing he just heard people say riding up to the stop it's like. going to the front door. the sheriff's sergeant was struck multiple times of gunfire sergeant hill's died of. heat the sergeant passed away at the hospital. the suspect who is dead who was

identified as twenty eight year old local resident in david long who had served in the marines he reportedly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder police said he was known to them for minor offenses the motive for the shooting though is still not known we heard from former marine. activist sergio chicken who believes more has to be done when p.t.s.d. is suspect. i could actually give you an example or a case that happened to one of our friends that we served with he started sending a couple really strange messages to our friends saying that he was going to do something crazy so they called the police the police stormed his place in michigan and they basically arrested him they put him in the mental well psychiatric facility i'm not sure whether it was the b.a. or not but after that they just let him go and nothing happened so the question is what do you mean what does that mont monitoring means.

and can we really monitor the majority of veterans who come back with beat is the. bigger concern here is that we live in a culture of violence and i really think we will live in the front tier of society are our idea of expansion and our idea of military is deeply ingrained in our society and our psyche. the ukrainian parliament a tree unit known for its nazi links is suspected of training american white supremacist groups some of those right wing activists were later arrested for inciting violence during protests in the u.s. last year the f.b.i. we know is investigating allegations. the azoff 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 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 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 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 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 lot of reaction to this following story a former t.v. host in the netherlands thinks his love life is suffering due to age discrimination on the sixty nine your rules are us the courts to turn back the clock the pensioner believes his real age is forty nine and he wants to be made official. i suffer in the my age because i'm much more younger but if i have that age again i hope again i'm you again and there is the whole future is there for me again while there's no legal precedent in this area but authorities humping dismissive of the idea one of them on the south for a meal or off a bond describes himself as a young gourds on things not being legally younger will help him get more work and more notches on dating else the father of seven promises to give up his pension if

a dutch court approves his request after his local authority rejected changes to his birth cert radio host and journalist john gaunt is on the phone they would all like to identify his tread joe thirty years younger most of us do it by getting film losing a bit of white you were born on a certain day and as the years go by you get older it's just seems to me to be obvious i don't know how we got into this position and this chap whether he likes it or not he seventy odd he's not twenty years younger i mean where we're and oh i'd like to identify is so vesta stallone but i think of kind of being able to say this is just madness we need to start addressing no doubt some people in their own body i can understand this but the whole idea of self identification is just crazy absolutely crazy. now a russian paralympic athlete has taken gold in his category up the european

throttle on championships in ip for spain he conquered the kilometers of running swimming cycling with the help of his trainer wife all at the tender age of fifty five we had a chance to speak to both of them about his incredible victory. it was a slow to salute the results could be made to presume some. of the. muscles in the new syria would choose to lower the price to be a lot. of still so exported. more leach need to be in europe only solution to be used by. bottle through long. hours to new proves to put them to consider as we. used to be in the bucharest the blog. solution.