subscribe to rub people up he comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. crucial midterm elections entrenched deep divisions in the. presidency. as the democrats. the republicans hold senate majority we all. fall out from the. white women in texas for betraying feminist values after voting in favor of the republican candidate i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply based on my skin color or new blue interest are you representing if you're only as a white woman. other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolute also on the program a german partly favor

a strong funded leader with some even seeing nothing wrong with dictatorship according to a nationwide poll this week chancellor merkel's job. for the first time the. high level talks on peace in afghanistan the round table meeting in moscow comes after years of failed attempts by the us to a long war. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly international a warm welcome. crucial midterm elections on tuesday left congress. between america's two major parties the democrats seized the house of representatives the republicans built on their advantage in the senate florida was

one of the most contentious states a recount has been ordered there after the republicans won by a tiny margin. saying it's an attempt to steal the big elections but really it's far from the only thing that went wrong in the. we.

know from really think. if you move from here you. will the big picture here many have dubbed the midterms a referendum on trams presidency many say he's passed the test with the republicans

retaining their senate majority votes a target they had set before the elections but it's not all plain sailing. explains 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 restoring 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 opposite of 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 under 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 be us media and the political parties have definitely created more divisiveness and more friction between. between the parties as well as with the. we can move society itself and i think the media is largely in there. sometimes leaking information that should not be leaked sometimes. twisting the story a different way than that shouldn't be too it's good to know because sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct enough instantiated so i think we've got. we've got a media and also elements within the government better actually creating within the u.s. government that are actually creating more of a device the. atmosphere within the population latte media briefing following the fold president trump once again clash with the media treating blaine with reporters

for the 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 emboldening white nationalist not such a racist question i would never do that and i don't use racist remarks. like in america it's people like this that 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 did it well your ratings let me ask you i'm going to ask one of the other folks that said now. this person that's enough was president the other folks that said. you are a rude terrible person you. mr president in going to meet a guy in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter i'm not a big fan of yours either so i understand to be honest i'm. pretty contentious stuff there well another aspect to choose this poll was the brick done for who

actually voted for him and it's white women in texas who took some back to last for allegedly betraying feminists values after taking the box for the state's republican candidate ted cruz a prominent sports journalist set off debate. fifty nine percent of white women voted for tasha curtis fifty three percent of white women voted for donald trump so given this numbers who's the real face of famine is. well this is the latest example of liberals on progressive criticizing republican voting women there's a few more. what is happening why are women even voting for him yeah i don't get you ladies i mean the country's fifty five percent live i mean the country was pretty. 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 you vote for anybody nobody you are

a woman and you are never going to get it and it will be looked at so i can read it. again i didn't. so she scared me so we thought what better time to pose the question of how feminism works in politics to a women's rights advocates firstly 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 only what are you voting for and the best interests of them as around here here is the person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist.

no it's true there's no such thing as reverse racism will start there but here's the issue if you're not voting in the best interest of that boy you're going to highlight the rule around 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 red flag i don't care how many are you in do you have other women. they're 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 skin and women of other ethnicities are paid what why 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 were present in 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 thirdly she brought up the issue and we don't know that those are how to is someone and we say when i was it was part of the seal there that's my stance and that's the feminine stance on that now thirdly when she's talking about how do you said of course i want you know this is a war of the human rights i view all of that and all that has made me girls who were aborted 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 you know i know you love my mind about republicans you talk about abortion but do you protect the children while they're here if it's ok for you to lead 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 those school i mean it's insane and so when you talk

about oh will i support a man who you know ted cruz but he doesn't support via 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 eating holding those are the ones that we say they. are. 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 are the freest best country in one particular they hire a real race and that's that you are nothing to celebrate that are not i want you 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 my privileges i don't really see

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 support her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl. ok let's turn attention to germany were migraine protesters faced off on whedon's they with left wing activists in the northern port city of hamburg riot police were deployed to separate the opposing sides protesters denying chancellor merkel's migrant policy which is seen over a million people officially pour into the country since twenty fifty the rally was met by a thousand strong counter demonstration marching against what they called racism nazi propaganda. well according to a recent poll a majority of germans want merkel to step down as early as next year that comes after the chancellor none she won't be seeking reelection but will stay in power until the end of her term in twenty twenty one meanwhile another survey produced

a somewhat surprising result was artie's europe correspondent peter over. 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 we think about those you know 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 auschwitz i pin aegis in one thousand nine hundred sixty two and. 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 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 and not into a worse place than it is already. yeah lots of opinion on this we got some from but very in chairman of the alternative for germany part of petre best strong he's of the view that the days of angela merkel's government are numbered. magill is a lamb duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election she lost the election. remember this problem even though it's so good as a polish and she's now it's writing so as to stay at peace this chancellor but the chances are low you've got the information that the socialist. already looking for new jobs outside of the parliament because they think that this government will not

remain any longer the german people thought along the outer it's only another issue . and this is very in for who they already have one to go so what happens in the country not on their own go out map but this is very out so ritzer in the government. is separate loosing stake in us like in cameroon it's that the government is this missing. a cleric's just because they are opposing the government like with moscow after nearly two decades of war in afghanistan the taliban talk peace not a multi national gathering here in moscow the weekly continues after this. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. some want to listen. to what the person is like when. you see that. i'm interested in the. question. so what we've got to do. identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an army and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. hello again on friday moscow played host to london mark talks on the afghan peace

process china iran india and pakistan were present at the meeting along with the taliban it's the first time the militant group done for engagement in this kind of high level multilateral meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan on the fact that they share the same room with a bull representatives is seen as a significant breakthrough the afghan government did not send a delegation however members of an afghan high security council where you're instead they said couple is ready for direct peace talks with the taliban without preconditions while a representative of the militant group told us their focus is on washington on the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. the whole nation is with us and they're going to get some of the kind of the kind of push we would not call it does a single american soldier in afghanistan that's why we should of it if it's all the

we have. to also want more of us we have we want good relations specially what i want to move us the u.s. turned on invitation to the talks but did send an observer rocco's d. of bricks down what may be behind washington's rejection of russia's mediation efforts. by any measure the afghan war has dragged on for too long too many people the dead too little achieved too much hatred bred. on just one day the twentieth of october journeying elections three hundred and eighty eight civilians were in the plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato is calling for peace the toll the bomb must understand the continuing to farts is pointless there 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 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 it and to the war. and. we've been clear that no governments including 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 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. it's been another deadly week in the u.s. twelve people were killed in a mosque shooting at a crowded bar in the city of fathers and oaks in california on wednesday night hundreds of students were there at the time. all my friends are at the table right my doing and then i turn your hybrid to gunshot i 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. it is absolutely.

going through the front door. the sheriff sergeant was struck multiple times with gunfire bergen hills died of. a sergeant passed away at the hospital some haro in the testimony there alissa specked who is dead was identified as twenty eight to a local resident in david long who had served in the marines he reportedly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder police say he was known to them for minor offenses the motive for the shooting is still not known but we heard from former marine and antiwar activists sergio culture again who believes morehouse 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 start 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 to be 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 mark monitoring me. and can we really monitor majority of veterans who come back with p.t.s.d. . think the bigger concern here is that we live in a culture of violence i really think that we'll live in the front year of society are our idea of expansion on our idea of military is deeply ingrained in our society and our psyche. nearly seven thousand civilians have died in yemen since the beginning of the conflict in the country that figure just released by the u.n. high commissioner for human rights the u.n. also estimates that iraq half the yemeni population we're talking over ten million people now rely on international aid and are facing famine we have the harling

story of one of the victims of the war. and i'm the last monday in the situation is getting race and race suffering from malnutrition and passed away from the nutrition after twenty days in hospital one of my neighbors call to say that one of my children was sick i dress my daughter and run her home that's true today she died of malnutrition her brother is also l. before she died and left her brother two at home and then with her to hospital but she died. i don't the way.

that i got just by the fact that she was sick i loved her brothers whatever she needed i did my best to bring that to her but i had no money to send her to. for their right to borrow money from her barrio i see tension is bad my hope has gone after him out on it. the u.k. charity oxfam has expressed alarm about coalition later strikes repeatedly hitting british aid projects in yemen the organization has branded britain's approach in the country incoherent the humanitarian crisis there continues to worsen with medical facilities and water supplies being targeted. last wednesday we had. more than twenty people killed in the strike. and we have fifteen people killed

last month even our own interventions in places for example in some of the in the area called the hummus that we will be providing the supported water system that has actually been bombed by a strike this is what we bombed coaches bombed on the day and yes. well another humanitarian charity doctors without borders also reports coalition led strikes hitting its medical facilities it sais that five centers have been targeted since twenty fifteen resulting in multiple deaths of patients and stuff and then june the group's cholera treatment center in northern yemen was hit by an hour strike all but contributing to the catastrophic situation for civilians in the country.

let's not turn attention to russia which saw thora he's launching a probe this week after pictures of a convicted gang member eating a luxury food in prison were leaked online the infamous gangster was jailed for participating in a brutal murder in southern russia eight years ago. there can be few things more wretched than mass murdering people including children in cold blood this man was

part of a gang that did it all on an avenger night eight years ago and then feasting on crowd and caviar and throwing barbecue parties while in prison bitches love to pervert is one of the most new tourists russian criminals and he's serving a twenty year sentence. or so and if you're going to be committing dozens of felonies and extremely serious crimes inclusion of school is more than ten years. to build your future nobody in the. bullshit bullshit gives us the news. the photos of is not very prison lee lifestyle that recently emerged are causing shock the mobster's law it claims it's all photoshop so no reason for anger but

officials confirm the pictures are real across the board outrage forced russia's federal prison service to comment on the photos that though it's reaction has been far more reserved than the sweeping public indignation. can you see it might be hard to avoid corruption in remote areas especially for a criminal who teams up with officials is insanely rich in the wake of the investigation several prison employees have been disciplined it's not exactly clear why and how the pictures became public but one of the versions is that the mobsters ex-wife had something to deal with it the convicted murderer is apparently in a land dispute with her yes while still in prison technically it cost up to fifty thousand dollars a year to support my ex husband's life in prison.