the french president warns of the dangers posed by the revival of nationalist politics as world leaders gather in paris for armistice day commemoration. activists in the city rally against donald trump's a visit and voicing their opposition to his administration's divisive policies its policies are being. used in france today is not a drug issues a global issue and that's why we're here he's not welcome here he's not welcome anywhere. polish nationalists and march through warsaw to celebrate the one

hundredth anniversary of their country's wrist as an independent state joined for the first time by polish officials. in the stories that shaped of the week after months of intense campaigning u.s. midterm elections and with the democratic party taking back control of the house and republicans holding on to the senate we break down what it all means. for broadcasting live. this is our national and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories are in 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 gathered in paris for the record commemorations the 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. the leaders of france germany the u.s. and russia. so used the opportunity to discuss a number of key political challenges they attended a working lunch at the alice a palace reportedly discussing syria nuclear proliferation and sanctions plenty of interest and had been building over the prospect of a one to one meeting between the russian and american presidents but that did not happen as the two leaders sat opposite sides of the table and they hinted the talks would be more likely to take place at the next g. twenty in argentina daniel hawkins has more. there was also another aspect that caught the media's attention aside from the main event and that was endless speculation on two leaders in particular the president of russia vladimir

putin and the u.s. 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 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 spoke to r.t. america scottie 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 if they're

not in the best interest of either cards or any of the parties involved and in terms of 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 leave the presidential aide you do said the reason why it didn't go ahead was pretty much out of respect for the french they didn't want this to happen. 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 out of respect for the reason why they were here to honor the veterans across the world internationally they gave their lives up for world war one and all the conflicts going on i think it actually had been very inappropriate for president putin president to meet 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 there was a meeting but was there really any more to it than you know. that we saw the troops and perhaps some pleasantries and greets in this change do we 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 have been characterized as whining drama 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 putin and president 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 held. some of the visits where they have been on the sidelines and trump is coming 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 in politicians ok member i often get themselves into trouble well 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 pins 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 some. it's over in that area that's very important right now so i think that's a good lead into 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. all right our two friends who managed to catch up with president putin in between remembrance a day events they asked him about the pressure this channel hasn't been facing in front of his name. 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 deciding which media is bad and which is good this is unacceptable

but this has nothing to do with democracy but. just before this weekend's commemorations trump criticize 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 the french just want to put in for his views on that. alternative military forces are not a new idea president micron has simply revived it europe is 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 nick 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 being nuclear powers

modernizing its nuclear arsenal now the united states spending up to one point seven trillion to modernize its nuclear arsenal russia china all doing the same to defraud a question is what content. that means or defense spending or military spending if there is a european orbit like to see it be completely defensive army. like these then see the fallacy in between the united states and europe in terms of the role played by nato the reason why the europeans think they need their own army is because they find trump to be so and trustworthy 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. targets for the europeans by trump's trade wars with europe europeans know the united states can't be trusted now that's part of why you see the. image of the us

declining so rapidly around the world not everyone in paris was there to mark the anniversary of the arm assist of crowds also gathered in the city to protest against donald trump's policies. a lot of people are 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 we don't know if you can see it says trump equals carol which is out in french and many of the people holding their signs and symbols out in fact some people are actually dressing up as parity 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 this protest

and they say this is a man who is making war with everyone and in fact it's not just people from france is of 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 he 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 were part of the woman's march and for us it was important. to say that chomp 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 any shape or form 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 is 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 peacemaker 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 that it was make america good again because that's what people think here is that at the moment the policies 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 of flooded central warsaw on sunday as poland celebrates one hundred years since it's a reestablishment as an independent state the annual march is more controversial than usual though as it was announced the polish president and government officials would join now before independence poland was a partition between austria hungary germany and russia polish flying's and banners and could be seen stretched down streets and across squares it's also been reported that a number of new nazi symbols were spotted there was a large police presence watching over the march which took place at the same time as a state military parade and warsaw called that 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 decision to march alongside the far right nationalist has been widely criticized. a professor from the hebrew university in jerusalem told us the migrant issue is leading to a rise of nationalist sentiment in europe. but the polish government decided to actually embrace the. tendencies and. ideologies of the past because a defeater from the immigration creates a bias a political bias and a political agenda brings into a defensive approach towards the. immigrants threats from the past are becoming the reality of the present and rising again but we must pay attention to

the fact that today we have more reasons not only understood with islam but also what is going on with the european approach to the to the border questions and to the immigration question. authorities in california say thirty one people have now been killed in the wildfires tearing through parts of the u.s. state a further two hundred twenty eight are still unaccounted for and two hundred fifty thousand people have had to flee their homes and firefighters are currently working to extinguish six separate wildfires the largest and deadliest is the so-called camp fire in butte county that has claimed twenty three lives and destroyed the city of paradise the fires are expected to continue in the coming days as the flames are being fanned by strong winds. 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 taleban

it is the first time the militant group had sat down for this kind of high level multilateral meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan and the fact that they shared the same room with the cobbles representatives is seen as a significant breakthrough although the afghan government didn't send a delegation members of the 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 that their focus is on washington and the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country is a very the whole mission is with us and of course to get somebody to this endeavor is that of the kind of operation we would in order to live it does medical school get enough of the stuff that's why we should have a good day that it's all good with the rehab. no i didn't drop the what morris we have we want to do some specific what i want to live with us turn down an

invitation to the talks but did send an observer but i have comments now on 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 during elections three hundred and eighty eight civilians one. plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato is calling for peace the tal a bomb must understand the continuing to fight is pointless there must sit down on the negotiating table the potential for peace is create 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 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 generation's fed and misery and violence drunken hatred and heroin 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. crucial midterm elections on tuesday left congress narrowly split between america's two major parties the democrats seized the house of representatives while the republicans built on their advantage in the senate florida emerged as one of the most strongly can. tested states republicans appeared to have won by a small margin but two democrat leaning counties were still counting votes after election day has criticized the delay in calling the result claiming there has been an attempt to steal the election state wide recount is now underway and must be completed by thursday but it is far from the only challenge to have arisen in.

the. future you think. right here live here all right thank you.

and the midterms were dubbed a referendum on presidency and some say he has passed that test with republicans retaining control of the senate a target that they had said before the elections but it is not all plain sailing up and 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 that 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. 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

a story a different way than that shouldn't be twisted you know but sometimes just falsely claiming something that's not correct enough 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 of within the population at a media briefing following the vote president trump once again clashed with the press trading of 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 such a racist question would never do that and i don't use race and remarks quiet on 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 that honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n.

our and if you did it well your ratings let me ask you i bet i'd ask one of the the other folks that set out for me man on this person that's enough the president of the other folks that set out for me ma'am 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 is a diligent reporter plus i'm not a big fan of yours either side or step to be honest about it. and that does it for me my colleague unit now o'neill will be here in about a say thirty five minutes time with another will cure we are watching our two introductions it was. with the supposed to sleep while. my little course on the syria.

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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 of the divide between preaching and practicing out of reach to discuss that i'm now joined by peggy hicks a director at the u.n. human rights office thank you it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time. now you gave a number of interviews and we talked about the advent of the post human rights. iran and before we talk about these new face let me ask you about be human rights era supposedly preceded it how would you define it chronologically and how was it different from what we see around us today 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 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 will live in a world that's that's probably better off for women's rights than than my generation was so it's that type of progress that we see during the human rights era and yet this was also during the period. wars were launched on false pretexts the resoled legalized torture research secret prisons the. dehumanization of average graber i mean all those abuses that were supposedly committed by human rights respecting 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 respecting and others that are not isn't isn't really taking taking account of that

reality i'm 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 for the figure i can 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 we. back to full of human rights like the united states and western europe do you think that division. is less clear cut this i think the division was never that clear cut 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 the.