there's hope when collyer professor at bard college as always thank you welcome. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world an acclaimed russian film and theater director has appeared in a moscow court on embezzle mn charges. curry sarah brady coffee is accused of misusing more than two million dollars of state funding for a future project his supporters say that he is the target of a crackdown on artistic independence under president vladimir putin. authorities in peru say that a former head of the national police force is under arrest accused of involvement in a baby trafficking ring the police chief is among fifteen people suspected of selling babies and children taken from four women gynecologists and a paediatrician were also detained in early morning raids. in cameroon seventy nine boarding school students who were taken hostage by separatists have been released reports say the kidnappers are still holding three adults taken from the school the children aged between eleven and seventeen were seized early on monday morning

way european and other international partners react to the united states or when collyer from bard college putting this election into perspective for us thanks so much for. meantime let's turn now to florida where over one million people have just regained at the right to vote their civil rights activists in the state have been celebrating their victory after the passing of amendment four which restores the voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences six million people nationwide are unable to vote because of criminal records and florida has the largest number of citizens it's. our social media editor and jared reed is here with us in the studio to tell us a little bit more about the reactions that we're seeing to this land mark result so walk us through what amendment four really is here terry so this is a measure that these activists have been fighting for for years and as you said it gives back virgin rights to just under ten percent of florida's versing age population those people who have served what's called felony sentence and so basically prison time it doesn't apply

population will make a difference demography is destiny collyer professor at bard college with more on this u.s. minturn election thank you so much thank you. well here in berlin germany's foreign minister has been weighing in on the u.s. vote. said that he didn't expect the results to change president trumps foreign policy have a listen. when it comes to the policy america first we have to find an answer on this side of the atlantic. for me and for us it's just clear that this can only mean europe united as europeans we must join forces even more closely. it means investing more in our own capacity to act this calls for repairing punitive tariffs as well as in security matters or in the fight against climate change. one view there from the german foreign minister what could this election mean for u.s. foreign relations teri schultz has the view from brussels where transatlantic ties are very much in focus so terry what is this vote likely to mean for europe especially considering trump's america first foreign policy. i think it's a bit early to say whether it will or can change anythi