crucial midterm elections entrenched deep divisions in the us presidency. as the democrats seized on the republicans hold on to their senate majority. and. the fallout from the midterms keeps on coming with white women in texas for betraying feminist values voting in favor of the republican. i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply based on my skin color who are you

who interests are you represent your only as a white woman representing the best interests of other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolutely germans are partly favor a strong one hundred leader with some even seeing nothing wrong with a dictatorship according to a nationwide poll this week. for the first time the taliban sits down for a high level talks on peace in afghanistan the round table meeting in moscow comes after years of failed attempts by the u.s. to the long enough. 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 hello and welcome crucial midterm elections on tuesday of next congress nor early split between america. two major parties the democrats seized the house of representatives while

the republicans built 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 condemned the move saying it's an attempt to steal two big elections but it's far from the only thing that went wrong in the vote. to.

go from really think. that you must. make all of you in. touch. well many have dubbed the midterms a referendum on trump's presidency many say he's passed the test with the

republicans retaining their senate majority a target they had set before the elections but it's not all ceiling and 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 reference. i'm 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 the us media 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 that should be. you know sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct and then 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 a lot of media briefing following that vote present from once again clashed with

the media trading blame with reporters for division 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 race and as you marks the quiet among like in america it's people like this they cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign there we go. 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 that so don't ask one of the other folks that said hartley man on this president that's enough was president the other folks that said. you are a rude terrible person. mr president in had a meter going in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter was on not a big fan of yours either so either step to be honest about. one another aspect to

choose these poll was the breakdown of just who voted for him it's white women in texas who took some backlash for allegedly betraying feminist values after ticking the box for the state's republican candidate ted cruz 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 numbers who is the real face of feminism. but are these just really the latest example of liberals progressives criticizing republican voting women here. what is happening why are women even voting for him yeah i don't get you ladies i mean the country's. live i mean it becomes you it's 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 but you.

and you are never going to get it and hillary looked. at it. again i did it. she scared me excitable stuff or we pose the question of heart of feminism works in politics to a woman's rights of the kids and also first the 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 their around here

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 and do you have other women and. 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 women of other ethnicities are paid why women are paid then i have to ask you the question who are you whose interests are you representing if your 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 know that so i how going to live 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 were but i was right how do you all of us i'm all about 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 they're not 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 when you talk about oh well i support a man who you know ted cruz but he doesn't support our was when you were 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 meet with any home and they don't even want me thank god they ease back for an acting white girl a young that. going to stay way 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 you want to print and they hire a real race and this that hillary i'm thing to celebrate that for not i want 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 white privilege and don't really

do your resume where he is and he wants to stand there i'd like to just say thank you to mel hill for for what he said i just the for her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl. but i want to turn attention to germany were migrant protesters faced off on wednesday with left wing activists in the northern port city of hamburg riot police were deployed to separate the opposing sides. right i. protest denying chancellor merkel's migrant policy which has seen over a million people officially or into the country system to the rally was met by a strong country demonstration marching against what they called racism nazi propaganda according to a recent poll a majority of germans want to step down as early as next year after the chancellor and she will not be seeking reelection but will stay in power on till the end of

her term in twenty twenty one meanwhile another survey produced the somewhat surprising results artie's europe correspondent peter over is across the. 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 one thousand nine hundred sixty two. this has been present in germans for a long time this is just a consequence of that it doesn't surprise me because because because. i see the

people it's possible well i think this everyone's personal choice maybe due to the refugee crosses slightly that may have impacted some people's opinions the government has to make something so that the country is led into a better better place and not into a worse place than it is already. we also heard from bavarian chairman of the alternative for germany parter petter best strawman use of the few the days of i'm going merkel's government are numbered. america is a land duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election as she lost the election at the tremendous problem even to get together a coalition and she's now it's rising so as to stay at least the chancellor but the chances are low but the information that the socialists. are already looking for

new jobs outside of the parliament because they think that this government will not remain any longer the german people thought on how to return to and. bought and this is very important they already have one because of what happens in the country nolen the congo america this is very odd so ritzer in the government. is separate loosing stake in us like in chemists that the government is this missing. a cleric's just because they are opposing the government like with books or mohsen all right we're back with more of the week's top stories in ninety seconds time. they put themselves on the line big get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go right to be pros this is

what the three of them all can't be good. interested in the waters in the. city. during the past thirty is lebanon has been subject to six invasions from israel. six invasions. every every five years we are having. one and this is definitely coming through the health level.

hello again on friday moscow played host to the more talks on the afghan peace process china iran india pakistan were present at the meeting along with the taleban 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 i'm a fact that they share the same room with kabul representatives it is seen as a significant breakthrough the afghan government didn't send a delegation however members of an afghan high security council whether instead they said it's ready for direct peace talks with the taliban with preconditions while the representative of the militant group told us their focus is on washington on the withdrawal of foreign. troops from the country. the whole mission is with us and protect against americans and dead against the kind of oppression we would not call it a single american soldier in afghanistan that's why we should talk to a medic about it as solve it with the v.a.

help. no i didn't trust a little more of us we have we want to go to some specifics what i want to move us i just a note the u.s. turned down an invitation to the talks but did send observer rock as the of can break down what's maybe 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 during 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 bomb must understand that to continue to fight this

pointless there must sit down on the negotiating table the potential for peace is great in our done to us 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 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 us 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 soldat countless thousands dead on each every side generations thread and misery and violence drunken hatred and the heroin

finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the us possum's war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. all right recapping what happens on the west coast of america this week twelve people were killed in a mosque shooting at a crowded bar in the city of thousand 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 back i read the gunshot i turn around and i saw him shoot a couple more times the shots kept going and going and going he just heard people say right in the distance is a. bomb

going through the front door. the sheriff's sergeant was struck multiple times of gunfire bargain his died of. sergeant passed away at the hospital. the suspect who is dead was identified as twenty eight year old local residents in david's 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 most said for the shooting is still. well we heard from former marine activists sergio culture again who believes morehouse to be dumb when p.t.s.d. is suspected i can 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 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 my monitoring means. and kim were really monitor majority of veterans who come back with p.t.s.d. . think bigger concern here is that we live in the. violence i really think that we're 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. ok let's take another visit to worlds apart next and find out who excel is caught in the hot seat today this is our take.

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coming well to two worlds apart seventeen years after the united nations as the universal declaration of human rights in many parts of the world it's still a declaration rather than leave reality and that's not only because upholding human rights is hard work for many societies but also because of the hypocrisy and politics associated with the issue can be divided between preaching and practicing out of reach to discuss that i'm now joined by peggy takes a director at the un human rights office thank you it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time to be here now you gave a number of interviews and reach you talked with some alarm about the advent of the post human rights era and before you talk about these new phase let me ask you about be human rights era which supposedly preceded it how would you define it chronologically and how was it different from what we see around us today right

well i think i have to clarify and i am not an alarmist about where we're heading on human rights i think what's happened over the course of the seventy year history of the universal declaration is that there's been a global understanding of certain basic rights fundamental rights that all people have and that we've been working together over that period to try to implement them and i think globally we've made enormous progress and i always say that i'm i'm very glad to be a woman today rather than a woman in my mother's generation or my grandmothers and i think my daughter will live in a world that's that's probably better off for women. it's the my generation was so it's that type of progress that we see during the human rights era and yet it was also during the period. wars were launched on. the legalize torture research secret prisons the. dehumanization of average graber i mean all those abuses that were supposedly committed by human rights respect and

actuaries abroad rather than at home i wonder if let's be clear i mean there the basic premise of universal human rights is that human rights abuses occur every place and anybody who tries to say there are countries that are rights respect and others that are not isn't isn't really taking taken account of that reality from the united states myself and in the united states there are all sorts of groups that work on human rights abuse in the united states every day because there's a lot still to be done. in preparation for this interview went through your twitter feed you quite often repeat people who have a sound with many key in the world they believe that there are certain countries who will represent clear abusers of human rights like russia china cuba syria and then there are others who are more respectful of human rights like the united states or western europe do you think that division. is last. i think the division was never that clear and i do think there are

a number of trends that have made people recognize a very important fact and that's the indivisibility of human rights one of the big things that happened in the human rights movement is that when it first started it grew out of a movement following the second world war that focused more on political and civil rights and it's taken some time for the discussion around these issues to catch up and there are still some who focus much more on the political and civil side than on the economic and social rights side but i think part of what's happened more recently is that we see how the two things are completely interrelated that you know it's in. porton not only to be able to be invited to a dinner but to have food to eat at the dinner so we have to take up a bowl sets of rights and i think some of the criticism of the human rights movement is justified in that there wasn't and hasn't been as much attention on the economic and social right side i come from a country russia or.