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Senator Claire McCaskill: We Have Become Tribal

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Ex-Democrat senator Claire McCaskill says politics in the senate has become tribal

With the new US Congress getting underway this week, the Democratic Party is now in control of the House of Representatives. Their first challenge is to find a way out of the government shutdown. On Friday, a meeting between the two sides ended without any progress. Claire McCaskill, a former Democrat senator for Missouri, tells Weekend that politics in the senate has become tribal. 

Also in the programme: gender disparity in photography; and, does the Syrian government believe the war is nearly over?

Image: The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images.

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