in france to mark. the end of world war one hundred years ago today the guns of the war fell silent. also in the program crucial midterm elections entrenched deep divisions in the u.s. presidency it's a split the democrats. the republicans hold onto their senate majority. what it all means. the fallout from the midterms keeps on coming with why do women in texas 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 who are you who interests are you representing you're only as a white woman representing the best interests of other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolutely. apparently favor a strong leader with some even seeing nothing wrong with dictatorships but according to a nationwide poll this week chancellor merkel. the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on our to international hello and welcome. countries around the globe are marking one hundred years since the end of the first world war heads of states dignitaries from over seventy nations are they send ten or m e m. well we

can cross live to daniel in the french capital for us. to reflect on to remember what's ahead today. because that's right you know as you rightly mentioned over seventy world leaders gathered here in the french capital most of them have just left the pilot to go and attend that remember and ceremony a hundred years since the end of world war one twenty million people killed another twenty million injured in what was four years of bloody conflict what about what's going on behind the scenes though the speculation has been rife on that meeting with putin will it take place or will it not the american side at least has been chopping and changing plans for quite some time although back since october in fact at first saying that they looked favorably at the prospects of a meeting before saying that it would probably be brief if it happened at all before finally saying that it probably would not happen in any format with the

kremlin on their side stating that a working lunch between the two leaders was a possibility now it speculated of course that main concern is drawing attention away from the main reason for the world leaders being here would choose the i remember at ceremonies and also to avoid irritating his french counterpart president by devoting time to a possible meeting with the russian leader. and putin. of course met yesterday despite recent differences on very key international events they did try to put on a show of unity at least very much through the body language. yes

they can also spend time with german chancellor angela merkel attending a wreath laying ceremony which also did have its comical moments case of just slight mistaken identity causing little bit of embarrassment for the german chancellor. who. looks. like. what they're going to be. much more. of president putin landed here in france some time ago now we still don't know we can't confirm if any sort of meeting will take place at all and this might be into me media focus on the speculation on closed doors the promo see it is of course worth remembering the main reason as to why these dozens of world leaders have gathered here today which is of course. and remember it's. i mean the market is live from this hour thank you. crucial midterm elections on

tuesday left congress normally split between america's two major parties the democrats seize the highest of representatives while 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 donald trump condemned the move saying it's an attempt to steal two big elections the senate and the race for governor but it's far from the only thing that went wrong in the vote. you.

know it will be. you move from you all to you.

well the big picture to all this is the midterms really have been dubbed the referendum on trump's presidency many say he's passed the test with the republicans retaining their senate majority and that was the 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. one 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 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 created more divisiveness and more friction between between. society itself and i think the media is largely there. sometimes leaking information that should not be leaked sometimes. twisting the story a different way than it shouldn't be. like sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct and. so i think we've got. we've got media and also elements within the government better actually creating within the u.s.

government that are actually creating more of an. atmosphere within the population of things that get a bit choppy at a media briefing following the president trump once again clashed with the press 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 that's such a racist question i would never do that and i don't use racist remarks. in america and it's people like this that cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign there 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 would be as much as i asked one of the other folks that said. this president that's enough as president i think the other folks that said. you are a rude terrible person. mr president in going to meet

a guy in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him to deliver not a great fan of yours either side or step to be honest about it while another aspect to choose these poll was the breakdown of just who voted for whom 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 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. and that is just the latest example of liberals and progressives criticizing republican voting women yourself you more what is happening why are women even voting for him yet i don't get you ladies i mean the country's fifty five percent of it i mean the country was pretty flat 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 vote for anybody nobody you are a woman and you are never going to have it and hillary clinton so i. don't get it. she scared me or there's a divisive issue we pose the question of why feminism works in politics to a women's rights advocates media commentator first. the tradition of women just 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 the best interests of the hearings the person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist you know it says 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 black it's 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 yeah i don't care how many of your do 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 skin and women of

other ethnicities are paid what why women are paid then i have to ask you the question who are you who interest are you representing if you're only as a white woman workers into 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 did she list 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 say of course i want to go this is a war of the moments right so 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 girls rights who are killed ten thousand per day every day you know i know you're blowing 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 well i support a man who you know ted cruz but he doesn't support by 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 home and those are the ones that he's saying are they . going to stay away and we need to get really come over here and basing things on marriage 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 bring in the heraldry world race and this that you are something to celebrate for 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 so i don't really do you resonate where he 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 alum i want to say you go girl after nearly two decades of war in afghanistan the taliban talk peace of a multi national gathering in moscow the weekly continues after the break.

it's been seventy years since the united nations of the universal declaration on human rights but in many places it remains a declaration and a reality how to bridge the divide between practice and preaching.

just coming up to eighteen minutes into the program welcomed back now on friday moscow played host to talks on the peace process china iran india and pakistan were among those present at the meeting along with the taliban is the first time the militant group done for engagement in that kind of high level multi lateral meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan and the fact that they share the same room with representatives that is seen. as a significant breakthrough the afghan government didn't send a delegation however members of an afghan high security council were there instead they said kabul 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 you know what i mean the whole mission is with us and of course to get some of the kind of the kind of appreciation we would in order to live it does things american soldiers in afghanistan don't do. as well that with them we have. no i didn't trust a little more of us we have we want good relations specific whatever the mood was well just a note on the u.s. turned down an invitation to the talks but did send an observer right guys dave can bricked on what may be behind washington's rejection of russia's mediation efforts there. 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 one. 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 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 wave

which never stopped the u.s. special envoy from meeting taliban officials in calcutta 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 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. possum's war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. ok we turn our attention to germany where on t. minor and protesters faced off on wed and stay with left wing activists in the northern port city of homs work riot police were deployed to separate the opposing sides. i was. a test of the non-singing chancellor merkel's migrant policy which has

seen over a million people officially or into the country since twenty fifteen the rally was met by a strong country demo marching against what they call racism and nazi then. according to a recent poll a majority of germans want to undo what merkel to step down as early as next year that's after the chancellor and she won't be seeking reelection but will stay in power until the end of her term twenty twenty one meanwhile another survey produced a somewhat surprising result as artie's europe correspondent peter oliver find. 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 now 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 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 the this is auschwitz i peonage 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 that could be because. i see the people particularly well i think this everyone's personal choice may be due to the refugee crisis lately 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 over. place than it is already well but varian chairman of the alternative for germany party petter bistro is off the view the days of angela merkel's government are numbered. it was

a lamb duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election she lost the election. remember this problem even though it's together a coalition and she's now it's writing. at least this chance so the chances are low you've got the information that the socialist. are already looking for new jobs outside of the parliament because they think that this government will not remain any longer the german people on long outs or it's only another issue. and this is very him for who they already have what because of what happens in the country knowledge on their own go upmarket this is very odd so ritzer in the government. is separate using straight news like in kamloops that the government is this missing. a cleric's just because they are opposing the government. just a note on what you're seeing in the corner of your screen right now about his world leaders and people i'd in the center of party led by emmanuel mccrum the french

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