subscribe to rob people are some good enough for just twelve euros fifty per month . as of state from around the globe gather in france to mark the centennial area of the end of world war one one hundred years ago today the guns of the war fell silent for a. crucial midterm elections and trench the deep divisions of the u.s. over trump's presidency it's a split camp as the democrats seized the house and the republicans hold on to this then it would geraghty we break down what it means for law and for the midterms keeps on coming with white women in texas slammed for betraying feminist values after voting in favor of the republican candidates. i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply based on my skin color or knew who

interests are you represent if you're only as a white woman representing the best interest of other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolutely and germans apparently favor a strong candidate leader with some even seeing nothing wrong with a dictatorship that's according to a nationwide poll this week chancellor merkel's job will soon be up for grabs. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shaped the week good to have you with us now our top story this hour countries around the globe are marking one hundred years since the end of the first world war heads of state and dignitaries from over seventy nations are in paris for the sunne ten or a commemorations we can cross live to our correspondent who's also there daniel. in

the french capital that's paris for us daniel it's a day to reflect and remember give us more of a feel of the day in paris that today. you. over seventy world leaders of course in attendance today in the french capital two of them were conspicuously absent this morning for the joint photo session namely president trump and putin nevertheless the leaders made their way over to the off the tree for the ceremony to commemorate the hundred years since the end of the first world war two twenty million killed twenty more million injured in what was four years of bloody conflict now. himself a little late to the ceremony due to his later arrival in france president trump was also slightly delayed some family and protesters jumped on his motorcade as he made his way to the trio with hypocrites and make peace tattooed all drawn rather on their bodies laying a rival before they were detained by police a bit of drama there before the wreath laying ceremony at the arc de triomphe.

behind the scenes what was happening there was receiving quite a bit of speculation of the last few days and weeks as to whether trump and putin would meet at school and what form that meeting would take place they shook hands the. passing donald trump on the back before taking his place for the ceremony the american side had been chopping and changing their plans quite a lot back since october saying that they favored a meeting between the two leaders later saying that any talks would be very brief before then saying that any sort of bilateral talks like you're highly unlikely to take place the kremlin in their part also him to get some sort of working lunch that may or may not take place i guess we'll find out soon enough as the leaders as you can see behind me make their way into the palace so let's say for that working lunch the main concern for trump perhaps was of course. from the main event here in

paris the commemoration of the wreath laying and also irritating his colleague and possible friend devoting time to meeting the russian leader the two leaders did meet yesterday despite recent tensions and clashes on a key international issues they put on a show of unity at least through their body language. we were. the french president also spent time with. us that a little bit of a comical moment perhaps due to slight case of mistaken identity of the german chancellor.

that they're. going to meet and what do you believe. just about six or seven minutes ago a whole host of leaders made their way through the gates here in fact i don't know if the operator could just pan the camera behind me you can see the russian president's motorcade arriving here beside the god of water let me just move the. president putin's caught her riding that brand new almost to be an actual vehicle which received a load of public just a few months ago the doors opening the russian president about to step out president was there this morning on those steps meeting and greeting world leaders he is not there today perhaps you to the right now i should say perhaps using the rain taking place here nevertheless that is about me arriving being greeted by officials making use of. way up to the pilots i say. for that to work in love snow

of course will be waiting on the arrival of president trump mr cruise and they're giving away to the media president trouble of course also due to arrive here for that work i'm not sure exactly when that's going to happen hopefully in the coming sort of ten fifteen minutes or so i guess they will find out if there will be any talks of course but despite the constant media speculation be discussing the back door behind the scenes closed door diplomacy the main aim of these world leaders here today is of course to commemorate to remember those who gave up their lives in the war on the secondary issues of course can they come up with any steps for perhaps on those key salient issues of the day or will there be simply more stumbling blocks we'll give you updates of course as more of the leaders arrive here today thanks dan we appreciate that just to elaborate on what you were just saying that we understand that a peace conference at the paris peace forum will be table may be taking place this afternoon with leaders including the russian president vladimir putin as you chose

that which is to write their release a paris. morning it is due to arrive including angela merkel and mr macleod of course and turkey's president do one and of course i'm sure you'll keep us up to date on that daniel hawkins for now thank you. crucial midterm elections on tuesday left congress now really splits between america's two major parties the democrats seized the house 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 in the state but it is far from the only thing that went wrong in the vote.

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we. well the midterms have been dubbed a referendum on trump's presidency and many say he's paul's to the test with the republicans retaining the senate majority it's all good they had said before the elections but it's not all plain sailing in 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 last night. republican party defied history to expand our senate majority to found restoring the

constitution's checks and balances to the job. nancy 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 party definitely created more divisiveness and more friction between. between the parties as well as within the week. 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 it shouldn't be too it's good to know because sometimes you're falsely claiming something that's not correct enough some stamps are needed 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 a device the. atmosphere within the population and a media briefing following the vote which president trump once again clashed with the press trading playing with reporters for division within the country 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 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. all right and if you did it well your ratings i mean that's an ask one of the other folks that stood out for me ma'am on this president that's enough was president 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 he's a diligent reporter boss i'm not a big fan of yours either side or staff to be honest about. another aspect to choose days paul was the breakdown of who voted for whom and it's white women in texas who took some backlash for allegedly betraying feminist values after taking the box for the state's republican candidate ted cruz a prominent sports journalist to set off that debate. fifty nine percent of white women voted for tasha cruz fifty three percent of white women voted for donald trump so given this numbers who's the real face of feminism. liberals on

progressives criticizing republican voting women here's a few will. what is happening why are women even voting for him yeah i don't get you ladies i mean the country's. women 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. anybody you vote for anybody nobody but you. and you are never going to end it and it will be looked. at it. and i did it. she scared me we pose the question of how feminism works in politics to where women's rights advocates and 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 worry what are you voting for 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 i don't care how many are you and do you have other women and their reproductive rights when you know that ted. ruth 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 interests are you representing if your 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 did she list someone and we say when i was it was party sealed in 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 to get on this affair of the limits right so

i view all of the law would have 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'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 sure 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 my with when you're a conservative woman you celebrate the things that you've actually accomplished in 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 whole grains is the way she's saying they.

going to stay away 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 want to bring in they hire a real race and this that something to celebrate for not i have 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 do you isn't it where she is and she wants to stand there i'd like to just say thank you to jim l. hill for for what she said i just support her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl our city two decades of war in afghanistan the taliban told piece to us a multinational gathering in mosco the weekly continues to break.

during the past thirty years lebanon has been subject to six invasions from israel . six invasions. practically every i agree every five years we are having. one that's and this is definitely the kind of medium level.

welcome back on friday moscow played host to landmark talks on the afghan 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 had sat down for engagement in this kind of high level multilateral meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan and the fact that they shared the room with the same group with kabul representatives is seen as a significant breakthrough by 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 talks peace talks with the taliban without preconditions on the representative of the militant group told as their focus is on washington on the withdrawal of far. troops from the company from the country. the

whole nation is with us and democratic against americans and dead against the american occupation we will not call it a single american soldier in afghanistan that's why we should buckle of a ticket dated as all that with them we have. no i didn't across a lot more of us we have and we want good relations specially what i want to move us the us turned down an invitation to the talks but did send an observer sees more of gaseous breaks 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 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 were hurt in the plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato is calling for peace the tal the bomb must understand that continuing to fight is pointless they must sit down at the negotiating table the potential for peace is great in our own test 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 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 soldat countless thousands dead on each every side generation's 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. and see mike when protesters faced off on wednesday with the left wing activists in the german city of humbug riot police were deployed to separate the opposing sides . but through it. protesters denounced chancellor merkel's my current policy which is seen over a million people officially pour into the country since twenty fifteen the rally

was met by a thousands strong counter demonstration marching against what they called racism and nazi propaganda. well according to a recent poll a majority of germans want uncle or merkel to step down as early as next year after the chancellor announced she won't be seeking reelection but will stay in power until the end of her term in twenty twenty one or meanwhile another survey produced a somewhat surprising result as artie's europe correspondent peter all over found out. 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 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. the very end chairman of the alternative for germany party petro by strain is all of the view the days of angela merkel's government are numbered. i knew america was a land duck and it was pretty obvious already after the election she lost the

election she's got the problem even to get together a coalition and she's now trying to stay at least as chancellor but the chances are low it got the information that the socialist allotments aryans are already looking for new jobs outside of the parliament because they think that this government will not remain any longer the german people out there it's only another issue box and this is very important they already have one because what happens in the country now under under america this is very young so it's the government. is separate using straight news like in cameron it's the government is this missing. a cleric's just because they're opposing the government like with. nearly seven thousand civilians have died in yemen since the beginning of the conflict in the country i think i just released by the un high commission of human rights the un

also estimates that around the yemeni population we're talking of a ten million people now rely on international aid tender facing famine we have the hiring story of one of the victims of the war. why am i suppose the only situation is getting race and race suffering from malnutrition and possibly from zero nutrition after twenty decent hospital one of my neighbors call to say that one of my children was sick i guess my daughter and one who passed through today she died of malnutrition her brother is also ill before she died and the brother took home and then with her to hospital but she died on the way.

just by the fact that she was sick i loved her brothers whatever she needed or did my best to bring that to her but i had no money to send her to. me. the father went to borrow money from her barrio my situation is bad my hope has gone after market. ek charity oxfam has expressed alarm at coalition led as strikes were pitifully hitting british aid projects in yemen the organization has branded britain's approach in the country and to harrod's adding that the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen with medical facilities and water supplies being targeted.

last wednesday we had. more than twenty people killed in an airstrike in for they at a we have fifteen people killed last month even our own interventions in places for example in some of the in the area called the families out there we will be provided and supported water system that has actually been bombed by a strike this is what we bombed approaches bombed out in the day yes. another humanitarian charity doctors without borders also reports coalition led strikes hitting its medical facilities and says that five senses have been targeted since twenty fifteen resulting in multiple deaths of patients and staff and in june the group's.