the last sixty years. for martin's. immature. this is the w. news live from berlin and photos from this weekend's controversial g. seven summit are going viral on social networks in a class of perspectives is this the defining image of the summit german chancellor angela merkel apparently chastising trump or is it this photograph of the u.s. president calm cool and collected dueling images capture an acrimonious split at the meeting in canada also coming out of college trump arrives in singapore the u.s.

president steps off air force one and what he calls his mission of peace he's there for today's historic talks with north korean leader kim jong on the rocks in singapore earlier. on my ass twitter thanks for joining us. a deepening rift among allies after this weekend's g. seven summit in canada have to two days of tense talks all seven leaders endorsed a final communique seemingly finding an agreement on the need for quote rules based international trade than with a tweet president trump withdrew his endorsement in a separate post from also condemned the summit's host canadian prime minister justin trudeau writing quote pm justin trudeau of canada acted so meek and mild during our g seven meetings only to give a news conference after i left saying that u.s. tariffs were kind of insulting and he will not be pushed around very dishonest and weak it was an acrimonious end to the g seven meeting in canada the usually

amicable annual event brings together the heads of seven leading industrial democracies but the turn of events has created a diplomatic dispute. canada's pm didn't want to talk about it but the flux of reporters waiting in the wings did him an overreaction to i think there was he dodged the questions about the us his surprise rejection of the summit's closing document canada's foreign minister objected to the substance of trump's decision rather than his style. is what is insulting and what i object to very strongly is the illegal and unjustified in position of tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum on the street the national security pretext is absurd and frankly insulting to canadians meanwhile european leaders have

joined in the criticism france's money will macaulay lambasted trump for rejecting the g seven communicate sane in a statement it showed washington's quote incoherence and inconsistency germany's foreign minister also had harsh words for the us president social media diplomacy one cannot find out. you can destroy trust within seconds with two hundred eighty twitter characters this with rebuilding it takes longer than this we now must keep cool and take the appropriate steps one of those will be standing up for our interests in europe in a much more united fashion for most. russia's president vladimir putin weighed in on the war of words after a g. seven statement criticize russia for what it called its destabilizing behavior dickerson the but i think it's time to stop all this idle talk creative idle talk and get to issues related to real cooperation assumes that instead of just cooperation with moscow looks to be on washington's agenda with trump saying russia

should rejoin what was once the g eight putin suggested his door was still open if the group's leaders were willing to hold talks in moscow on russia's terms. chief political editor michel the coup for joins me now for more on the reaction to the g. seven summit some a sailor america has agreed to a last minute t.v. interview with a german television agency tonight as he's generally not known for interacting with the press so fantine asli what do you make of that and what do you expect to hear but i was also surprised to hear that she says she went into this week a program that very much sets the record for the coming week and this here in germany is pretty much as close as you get. to to addressing the haitian on an issue so it's very spontaneous to be very interesting to hear what she has to say in response i would expect her to say anything drastic simply is not her style and keep the the rhetoric here between the g. seven also we say the g. six plus one is definitely heating up and it's far beyond any kind of financial

exchange here now party leaders across the political spectrum in germany have been responding to that the g seven and here's what opposition leader alexander golland of the far right after he had to say. i think trump is far more rational than the german media have long assumed. he has a different agenda for america first and he's making that happen with the resources he has he's been getting laughed at here like a clown but now many have stop laughing. so going to suggesting there that attitude towards attitudes towards president trump are changing and we also heard the italians at the g. seven summit take trump's side in at least one issue so is going to right are we seeing attitudes towards trump changing in europe where we're certainly seeing even the closest allies take a lot more seriously what he promised his electorate we saw you were alluding there

to italy also being in favor of russia rejoining the club that's also because it's he has very strong economic interests that german chancellor angela merkel is seen as responsible for holding to get particularly on those sanctions against russia basically what is keeping russia out of this club of values as well which of course was its invasion of crimea it's breaking violating international law now trump doesn't seem to take this seriously he seems to pursue more of a. kind of. attitude here to who should even be sitting at this table and he clearly is talking one way sanction sanctions almost in a way by imposing these steel tariffs and what would an easy forget is that this is an issue that the seven have been talking about actually for a couple of years also in the format of the g. twenty that we all know about but the difference always was that the g seven stick together because they share values for rules based international also a benchmark democracy and this clearly is being questioned and challenged like it

hasn't been challenged before and we're seeing this evolving really over these hours here so briefly if you can what's next for the g. seven after this weekend with a trade war potentially looming well that seems to be more likely after having observed this over the weekend and who will see what the g. six that are left out will find a different kind of poor now with most of them counting the u.s. out for the future and the video interesting question is will the e.u. stick more closely together now that it is getting this pressure from the outside. chief political editor thank you very much for your insights. and this is the venue for the historic summit the luxurious capella hotel off sentosa island on the coast of singapore donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un are due to meet here on tuesday morning kim was the first to arrive in singapore and has already met

with the country's prime minister trump followed a few hours later expectations are high for tickler early in the united states our washington correspondent alex underfund naaman gathers some opinions. will their meeting be more than a photo op a breakthrough or a disaster times decision to hold the summit called friends and foes off guard and blindsided his own aides proving once again how unpredictable this you ask president is it is good that this summit is taking place says mark to cola a former state department official and an expert on korea to cola sees it as a chance for diplomacy and things it is promising that president trump suggested this could be the start of a longer process takes the pressure off to have more than one meeting because if you made it all about one meeting the chances of failure would be would be too serious i think being able leave things for future beatings having a process start up is going to be good for everybody. trump coordinates his

efforts with south korea japan and china but ultimately he relies on himself president says he's a monster deal maker and doesn't need to much preparation and extremely unusual approach towards such difficult talks trumps all for sanctions relief and economic growth in return put it in nuclear is a north korea but is that enough we've try it before says bruce clinger the former cia deputy division chief for korea clean there doesn't trust the regime in pyongyang. we've had eight international agreements in the past with north korea where they first promised never to build nuclear weapons and then promised to give up the weapons or promise never to build in the first place and all have failed were we're hopeful that this time will be different but i think we do have to be pragmatic about. this summit is a boat building a relationship with him but he also promises to walk over to the meeting if it's

not fruitful the truth is this is a gamble and no one knows how it's going to do no. good don't know i'm conventional approach to break through some here in washington actually believe it's worth a try but most experts remain skeptical they believe that this summit in singapore will be a little more than the photo op followed by long negotiations over the details of an agreement and potentially an even longer phase of implementation and verification enough time for the north korean regime to play its usual game making promises extracting concessions and in the end not giving up its nuclear program. not just some of the other stories making news around the world a fire has rips through iraq's biggest ballot warehouse where votes for the eastern baghdad district were reportedly being stored before a recount ordered by parliament the cause was not immediately known stories were

prepared to retaliate some ten million votes following allegations of fraud in last month's election. in guatemala thousands of people have protested against authorities handling of the waco volcano tragedy more than four thousand people remain in shelters after last week's initial eruption search efforts for the missing were suspended for the third straight day on saturday am a dangerous conditions the explosive all kind of corruption killed at least one hundred ten people. more than three quarters of voters have rejected a referendum that would have brought sweeping changes to their banking system the sovereign money initiative would have barred banks from electronically creating new money when granting loans supporters said the measure would reduce the threat of a future financial crisis. he's called the king of clay for a reason rafael nadal has one ever record eleventh french open open to me defeating dominic team in

a dominating fashion doll coasted to victory in straight sets over the austrian who defeated him at the madrid open last month the win is that all seventeenth grand slam title final preparations are under way in russia for the first game in the twenty eight hundred world cup soccer is biggest tournament cut kicks off on thursday but the host facing off against saudi arabia russian president vladimir putin is hoping to dazzle the hundreds of thousands of visiting fans but he's facing growing criticism at home over what has become the most expensive world cup in history. moscow is getting ready to lift the curtain on the world cup a light show was illuminating the city before the funds and teams of ah you've even for muscovites it's something special. president vladimir putin helped bring the world cup to russia eight years ago after the winter olympics in sochi football's biggest tournament is his next opportunity to impress the world but it's not coming up. initial estimates put the costs of hosting the world cup four

billion dollars now it's costing nearly fourteen billion that is a new record and even five or much is to be spread across twelve stadiums instead of you original sixteen. this is for town of about an hour's drive from moscow this is where the german team will be based is deep in the bush in countryside and away from the scrutiny of the media. just two hundred meters that's how close reporters will be allowed to get to the players. home to nearly ten thousand people is a sleepy town not used to being invisible light but people here are looking forward to welcoming their german guests. of course behind our team but i've got a soft spot for germany they play beautiful football. back in moscow final

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