please. the french president warns of the dangers posed by the revival of nationalist politics as the world leaders gather in paris for armistice day commemoration. activists in the city rally against donald trump's a visit and voice their opposition to his administration's divisive policies.

so he's in france today he's not a french issue is a global issue and that's why we're here he's not welcome here and he's not welcome anywhere. all right polish nationalists marched through warsaw to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of their country's reestablishment as an independent state their joint for the first time. in the stories that shaped the week after months of intense campaigning the u.s. midterm elections and with the democratic party taking back control of the house and the republicans holding on to the senate we break down what it all means. for broadcasting live. capping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our team international. countries around the world marked one hundred years since the end of the first world war on sunday. heads of state and dignitaries from

more than seventy nations that gathered in paris for this and ten commemorations events have included laying flowers to remember the victims of the war as well as moving performances by highly acclaimed musicians similar ceremonies also took place in a number of european countries including the u.k. and belgium. today is also important from a modern political perspective as well as world leaders gathered to discuss some of the more pressing issues earlier they attended a working lunch in the elysee palace plenty of interest to have been building over the prospect of a meeting between the russian and american presidents however it was earlier reported that the two leaders sat at opposite sides of the table during the lunch and hinted that talks would more likely take place at the next g. twenty in argentina parties and hawkins has more. there was also another aspect that caught the media's attention aside from the main event and that was endless

speculation to lead us in particular the president of russia vladimir putin and the us president donald trump media speculation was rife for weeks on end how would that meeting take place would there be a meeting a tool which leader would show him who what signals would that send to the world and indeed to other leaders and how would the french maybe president of minor well take such a meeting taking place on french territory during this very special commemorative event earlier spoke to the american high school to hughes to get some inside knowledge on the american side of things and how the whole thing was viewed from the other side of the atlantic this time they're actually being very tight lipped in fact this weekend that was something very uncharacteristic of a trumpet mystery of it is that we didn't have a lot of details we didn't have the behind the scenes being leaked out to the new york times the washington post which it makes me think that possibly the leaks might have been locked down or more importantly we're talking about such serious issues that even those who might have leaked to the past realized that it's the not

in the best interest of either country or any of the parties involved and it's of some interest of course there was a lot of media speculation on both sides from from the american the russian side and in the end the believe the presidential aide you said the reason why it didn't go ahead was pretty much out of respect for the french adamant they didn't want this to happen. probably probably a good idea as we discussed i think it's a good idea but i think it's not only just out of respect for the french who are your hosts present more important out of respect for the reason why they were here to honor the veterans across the world international they gave their lives up for world war one in all the conflicts going on i think it actually had been very inappropriate for president clinton president to talk to me together and i think they actually showed very good respect for each other more probably the soldiers that were being honored this weekend by choosing not to take the ten attention away from them and the meeting itself was quite brief said yes. it was amazing but was there really any more to it than you know. that we saw the. pleasantries of

greeting this changed do you know any more was there any juicy details coming out of that said there is a juicy details because for once both gentlemen did exactly i think what the world didn't expect them to do for so long both of them had been characterized as morning long and having all the attention on them and this time they actually about the tension to be right where it was and for that i think a lot of people unfortunately that seem to have a negative view of president who are disappointed they wanted to see some sort of chaos they wanted to be able to throw insults after them and say look at what they did but the truth is both men acted exactly as good representative of their country this weekend is going to be. joining us you know post tell. you some of the visits where they have been to. come in for criticism as well. just on the body language was different was that we mention the whole thumbs up thumbs down on how easy would be if things were. rolled and politicians open their mouth and get

themselves into trouble and usually that's what's caused most wars are actually politicians opening their mouths and talking talking to each other but there are some very serious issues that need to be discussed right now between the two countries and you do have vice president as president trump was taking off from paris he is actually taking off for asia for a long term tour to go to the several asian summits an economic summit over in that area that's very important right now so i think that's a good lead in to the g twenty or issues like the i.m.f. or trade section sanctions north korea lots of issues will be discussed but they're going to do it at an appropriate time and i think that is what made this weekend actually very special for everybody involved. our team france managed to catch up with president putin in between remember day events asked him about the pressure this channel has been facing in france. because in them. we have always heard from our western partners that one of the main principles of democracy is freedom of information creating lists and special counsel switch decide which media is bad and

which is good this is unacceptable but this has nothing to do with democracy. and just before this weekend's commemorations trump criticized micron over his proposal to create a european army president trump called his words insulting however at their meeting in paris they glossed over any differences and agreed on more european defense spending r t france asked what amir put in for his view on that. alternative military forces are not a new idea president micron has simply revived it in europe as a large powerful economic unit and obviously it seeks independence and sovereignty in terms of defense and security i see it as a positive process in terms of strengthening the multipolar world we asked historian peter koos neg why europe may feel it needs a unified military and what the implications would be for the balance of global

power. i think the fact that every nation is modernizing our nuclear power is modernizing its nuclear arsenal now united states spending up to one point seven trillion to modernize its nuclear arsenal russia and china all doing the same so the broader question is in what context if that means more defense spending more military spending if there is a european are bad like to see it being a completely defensive army i'd like to then see rebalancing between the united states and europe in terms of the role played by nato and the reason why the europeans think they need their own armies because they find trump to be so untrustworthy trump has made very negative statements about nato but beyond that by tearing up our poll in the us at the iran nuclear deal that was a really sobering move on the u.s. hard so the europeans by trump's trade wars with europe europeans know the united

states can't be trusted now and that's part of why you see the. image of the u.s. declining so rapidly around the world but not everyone in paris is there to mark the anniversary of the armistice to crowds have also gathered in the city to protest against donald trump's policies are too strong to penske has more. a lot of people law and credibly unhappy that president trump is here it's a commemoration of one hundred years since the end of the war in fact some of the biggest suggesting ten thousand people across the city have come out into protests just like this at this one they say a few hundred people have come out here to say that they don't want trump to be in paris some of the signs just behind it don't if you can see it says trump equals carol which is in french and many of the people holding their signs and symbols out in fact some people actually dressing up as parody trump individuals to get the message across that they don't like president trump they don't like his policies

i've been speaking to people taking part in these protests and they say that this is a man who is making war with everyone and in fact it's not just people from fronts to come out here to show their dislike of trump to show they dislike this is ministration we've also been speaking to some american and irish ex-pats she said it was just so important to be part of this protest today to show president from that he's not welcome this is why they said they were here where american citizens living abroad and that were part of the woman's march and for us it was important. to say that chomped is a disgrace to america and we think that time does not represent american people is a professional he's not somebody that i would look up to in any shape or form you know on the ship or for i just think you know he's putting america joe you know america supposedly great again is so great again like you know trump concerns everyone is

not just an american issue is a global issue and every decision that he takes over the country will follow and we have other countries like brazil we have other countries like even in the u.k. a bit his bosses are being called peter being replicated so he's in france today he's not a french issue he's a global issue and that's why we're here protesting he's not. welcome here is no welcome anywhere well those are just some of the views here in paris at this particular protest but as i mentioned this is one of many taking place across the city as he was making his way to that arms to ceremony just a few hours ago there was a protest a woman actually running in front of his motorcade with the words oh on her body a fake peace maker and that's what many people have said today this is a man with no belief that he's making war with everyone and i saw one sign that sort of summed up the idea is here this protest is a bit of a take on america i make america great again which trump is very well known to

saying and it was make america good again because that's what people think here is that at the moment the policies that have been spewing out of the trump it is straight up policies that are making war not peace and they want america to be good again. far right groups that flooded central warsaw on sunday as poland or celebrates one hundred years sentence reestablishment as an independent state the annual march was more controversial than usual though as it was announced the polish president and government officials would join him before independence poland was partitioned between austria hungary germany and russia flags and banners could be seen stretched it down streets and across squares it's also been reported that a number of neo nazi symbols were spotted and there was a large police presence watching over the march which took place at the same time as the state military parade and warsaw call the event

a success. poland one on november eleventh there will be a great communal march to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of independence. the government's decision to march alongside the far right and nationalists hasn't been largely criticized alan don a professor from the hebrew university in jerusalem told us that the migrant issue is leading to a rise of nationalist sentiment in europe. the polish government as decided to actually embrace the. tendencies and and ideologies of the past because. the fear from the immigration creates a bias a political bias and a political agenda that brings into a defensive approach towards the entire matter of the immigrants threats from the past are becoming the true reality of the present and rising again but we must pay

attention to the fact that today we have more reasons not only on to simitis them but also what is going on with the european approach to the to the boulder questions and to the immigration question the democratic party called back control of the house in the u.s. midterms on tuesday we'll be back in a few moments with more on that you're watching the weekly here on our two interest . what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. let you go i could be worse but what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm

interested always in the water about how. this should. make this manufacturer to be sensitive to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. so we can all middle of the room sit. during. the summer. thanks. and welcome back this is the week on our national now crucial midterm elections on tuesday left congress narrowly split between america's two major parties the

democrats seized of the house of representatives while the republicans built on their advantage in the senate florida emerged as one of the most strongly contested states the republicans appeared to won by a small margin but two democrat leaning counties were still counting votes after election day has criticized the delay in calling it the result claiming that there hasn't been an attempt to steal the election statewide recount is now underway and must be completed by thursday but it's far from the only challenge to have arisen during the midterms. cool. her cool. cool.

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for the mid terms that were dubbed a referendum on the presidency at plain sailing as artie's came up in comments. 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 opposite of hitler

the same type of propaganda to 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 that should be. you know sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct and that's 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 divisive. atmosphere within the population. and a media briefing following the vote president trump once again clash which 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. like in america 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. all right and if you did it well your ratings let me ask you that said ask one of the other folks that said me ma'am on this person that's enough was president the other folks that said. you are a rude terrible person. mr president in peter guy in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him as a diligent reporter big fan of yours either side or stand to be out of the. one

aspect to the u.s. midterm elections that continues to stir the american public is their reaction to who voted for whom white women in texas took some backlash for allegedly betraying feminist values after tickling the box for the state's republican candidate ted cruz a prominent sports journalist set off that 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's the real face of feminism this is just the latest example of liberals and progressives are 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 what it is i mean the country's fifty five percent of it i mean the country was pretty. well 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 but you are a woman and you are democratic. and hillary clinton so i can't. get it. she scared me we posed the question of how feminism works in politics to a women's right advocate and the media commentator. 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 person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist you know it says there's no such thing as reverse racism we'll start there but here's the issue if you're not voting in the best interest of that boy you get 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 and i'm sorry i want to stay here until 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 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 do 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 to get on this affair of the limits 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 violence when you are 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 getting hold of a look at what she's saying is that easy. going to stay well 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 one foot in the heraldry world race and this that you are some thing to celebrate for not wanting to whine about it 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 resent 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 and that is a from we'll be back in thirty three minutes little bit of that with more of the weekly watching our two traditions going with us. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that

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