listen spoiler alert. the good book be an apartment magazine. long d.w. . this is detail the news live from berlin the helsinki summit provokes dismay and condemnation across the political spectrum in the us donald trump returning home to a storm of criticism after refusing to blame russian president vladimir putin for meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election that cost down on the findings on the u.s. intelligence agencies even members of his own republican party have slammed that.

you can't believe it yourself from the level of a snake and that's where i consider whatever food he took the word of the k.g.b. . over the men and women of the cia. the white house is now struggling to explain why trump has aligned himself so closely with the russian leader we'll have analysis of that move for you in just a couple of minutes. also coming up a hero's welcome in paris for the world cup champions hundreds of thousands of families turning out to see neighborhoods that have victory parade down the shoals of easy each member of the chain will be receiving france's highest civilian honor . hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us. president trump has triggered

a wave of condemnation in the united states after openly favoring the russian president over his own intelligence agencies after their first ever summit in helsinki yesterday let me putin denied that russia had meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump accepted that assurance directly contradicting the findings of u.s. intelligence. the finnish capital sweltered in an uncharacteristic thirty degrees as people gathered to watch the biggest show in town the meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump putin though arrived half an hour late trump in turn kept putin waiting before he himself left his hotel yet despite the slights both leaders expressed a desire to improve relations. this agreement between our two countries are well known and president putin and i. discussed them at length today. but if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world then we are going

to have to find ways to cooperated pursuit of shared interests and if you put in and trump spent more than two hours in one on one discussions behind closed doors with only translators present true to trump's word of a summit covered everything from trade to terrorism from nato to nuclear weapons to china but there was another question at the top of most minds was mr. douglass again president trump mentioned the issue of the so-called interference in the american elections and i had to reason right things i said several times including now in a personal context that russia has never interfered but he's not going to be here if they're new into internal american affairs including the electoral process. we would only put his. foot in denied any knowledge of the twelve russian military intelligence agents who were indicted on friday but said he was prepared to help

the u.s. president investigate the matter on the. confidence of my intelligence people but. i will tell you president putin extremely strong and powerful. credible offer he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the twelve people i think it's an incredible thank you. and as helsinki bakes relations also appear to be warming between the usa and russia on some issues but the areas on which the european union had hoped for solutions remained unresolved including the war in syria and iran's nuclear program there's also continuing distrust of a nuclear. and military deployment in countries bordering russia. ok let's talk about here with me in the studio to do so tyson baka an international affairs analyst with the aspen institute here in berlin tyson let's start with the

russian president vladimir putin a man trying to escape pariah status on the international stage what's he taking away from the healthy summit well it's mitigated success for vladimir putin and russia and his regime what his goal was was to put russia on parity with the united states to say that it is a world power that it plays on that level that no only these two countries are kind of at that status and he was brought in from the cold essentially i mean he got a very warm reception from donald trump you could see the personal rip or donald trump took a lot of the talking points that of lattimer putin would have used so for him it was a rhetorical and optical political success ok and what about donald trump himself you know we'll talk about what he took away from the summit in a second what i want to ask you first though is what was he hoping to get out of the summit well this is where you see the preparation sometimes pays off his his

intention here was just basically to wing it and that's to some extent what he did he didn't go in with any concrete asks and he didn't come away with much i think that that's been the general consensus i mean when you look at this it's all very shocking but not very surprising this is a pattern that has kind of defined his interactions on the world stage and at home for the past seventeen months so i think it's not surprising to say that there's not much except for criticism of this is when the united states ok well we'll talk about what he really did take away from the summit and in a minute first though let's look at reaction to the health thinking some have back home in the u.s. where donald trump has been facing a wave of criticism from both political camps. disgraceful bizarre a push over and that's condemnation just from there a pup. u.s. president donald trump drew stinging bipartisan criticism of deciding with russian counterpart vladimir putin and against his own country's intelligence services of a moscow's denial of interfering in the twenty sixteen u.s.

elections in a statement u.s. republican senator john mccain called the joint press conference in the house think one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president and memory. democrats with similarly thunderstruck mean hot tired history of our country americans have never seen a president of united states support an adversary the way president trump supported president putin. for the president of the united states to side with president putin against american law enforcement american defense officials american intelligence agency is thoughtless it's dangerous it's weak we've seen in this last week. president trump treat our allies as adversaries and try to treat an adversary as if they were a friend. following criticism the white house announced trump will meet go make his

own cheese day but with even staunch allies shocked the u.s. president may have his what cuts out to him just with a tad bit of political waters back home. so with me tossing bucket from the aspen institute tyson some really very bitter criticism that donald trump will be meeting members of congress later today is that anything more than a cosmetic measure you know is this is this criticism affecting him in any way well i mean with congress in particular you have to know that it's a very hawkish republican caucus institution because of the russia just before he went on the summit the senate passed almost unanimously something backing a resolution backing nato they i think their criticism is real the question is will it filter down into his base where he has that direct that instinctual relationship and they are really the key holders in this in this political situation and coming to trump's perspective on all this what what he may or may not have taken away from

this summit that there are those who say for him it's all about his core supporters is satisfying them is his guiding principle would you agree with that i think that's right i mean the thing is is that his core supporters before the twenty sixth election didn't really have an opinion visit to russia this seems to be a personal project of his to realign the united states more on an axis with russia and china in contrast to our traditional allies the u.s. as traditional allies in nato japan other democracies and it's an open question as to whether or not he'll succeed in pulling his base to that position. many thanks for the views that oft times and baka from butlins aspen institute. we're going to get more on the russian perspective now from a moscow correspondent emily sure would and emily the summit yielded very few concrete results what turns reaction. been like all the russians happy about homeless well christopher the reaction here in moscow has been pretty

positive across the board. including among those who were actually involved in the summit so russian foreign minister sergei lover off said that the summit had gone excellently better than great so pretty successful assessment there are positive assessment there from him putin was slightly more careful himself he said that it was a good start and the beginning of a process that's what he called it and the media here in russia has been also a little bit more careful even though their assessments have generally been positive one observer i heard this morning on the radio pointing out that the whole press conference yesterday was basically about russian meddling and that it seems that the u.s. is absolutely obsessed as he said with that issue which to him sort of points to you know potentially stumbling blocks on the way of improving u.s. russian relations and other people also pointed out that really the two sides

didn't really agree on anything but look christopher the stakes were very low going into this meeting for the russian side even the fact that there was a meeting at all was positive for the russians. to show that they are a important player on the world stage and trump yesterday was saying that this was the first of many meetings that he was hoping that they would that the two sides would meet often so that certainly a positive outcome for the russian side really where the does seem to have been some movement you know president putin did say that he's willing to extend the start treaty that limits the number of nuclear warheads in russia in the u.s. how seriously can we take that. well i think that that's one of the concrete outcomes that observers have been talking about going into this summit as well in a way it shows it's kind of the bare bones you know the two sides agreeing that they that they won't basically engage in a cold way in a cold war arms race but there does seem to be willingness on the u.s.

side as well to kind of extend that treaty. yesterday talking about the two sides being nuclear powers so that could be one of the concrete takeaways from this summit christopher ok emily many thanks for that emily show in the moscow correspondent and to round off our coverage that's also get the view from brussels on him there for. this the europeans are very apprehensive about the summit yesterday in helsinki about potential concessions that trump might make from what we know he hasn't actually blindsided his european allies is there a sense of relief perhaps among european leaders. from the side of the european union if first of all it is has been important that these two leaders talk keeping communication channels open is something that proselyte approves but but you're right the sense of relief i'd say yes

a little bit in the sense that he has left this trail of irritation off the visiting brussels for the nato summit but also the visit to the u.k. and seeing that he hasn't really made these damaging compromises you have mentioned there is this sense of relief but i'd rather say there's a sense of unease now what has exactly been agreed in these two hours and why exactly has the american president elevated his. opposite putin to the back to the world stage for apparently no cost and you know that there are also growing calls now for europe to rethink its relationship with the u.s. german foreign minister for instance going as far as to say we can no longer completely rely on the white house what can we expect from now on a number of european politicians have made clear just because the administration changed it doesn't mean the deep and strong partnership to the establishment in the

united states has to change so but of course when one must talk about readjusting that relationship what he means is and that was many european politicians agree on that is strengthening institutions of the european union strengthening multi natural institutions and so today for instance the european union will sign a free trade deal a landmark free trade deal with japan and given those speeds these deals are done it takes a long time now this deal was done in the speed of light and many have said here thanks to donald trump. reporting from brussels many thanks to you. ok we're going to catch up now at some of the other stories making news around the world former u.s. president barack obama has wrapped up a brief trip to kenya he paid a visit to his father's home village there where he showed off his basketball skills as he opened a sports and training center run by his half sister a bomb has now traveled on to south africa where he'll be attending

a tribute to nelson mandela's one hundredth birthday. hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the nicaraguan capital managua as funerals there were held for the victims of a violent crackdown on protesters at least ten people were killed over the weekend when police in gunmen loyal to the country's president daniel ortega attacked students holding anti government protests. and at least twenty three people have been injured in hawaii after a chunk of lava smashed through the roof of a two a boat is video shows passengers watching the lava flow from volcano on hawaii's big island when an explosion sent a so-called love a bomb crashing into the vessel the volcano began erupting two months ago. turning to football now world cup winners france arrived in paris to

a hero's welcome yesterday following sunday's four two victory in the final over croatia hundreds of thousands of fans lining the show is it easy to greet them and to top off the celebrations it was revealed that they are the team members all to receive france's highest civilian award the legion of honor. i think tory is friends team touching down on home soil the world cup trophy in the secure hands of captain goalkeeper hugo lloris on the famous song celie's de fence waited patiently for the heroes. of the was. i'm so happy to be part of this celebration and i was lucky enough to experience it already in one nine hundred ninety eight in two thousand and six when we reached the final now in trying it's great. the band finally the moment they've all been waiting for was the twenty eight c. world cup champions their champions lapping up the jew lation was

so we've been waiting for like the whole day and we skate with good words here you know you cannot just let them have the i don't know if we did it because they wanted me yeah. that was you. sent celebrating under a tricolor sky united by the beautiful game. and it happens in lima turkey has been covering everything in paris forests in recent days including that one coming party she witnessed the moment when the french team bus and its victorious passengers drove past.

it's. like. there's. two w.'s in the mottaki they're reporting from central paris well now that the world cup is done and dusted two are going to start seeing plenty of big name transfers big name players moving from one club to another they don't come any bigger than cristiana rinaldo of course the portuguese forwards being greeted by his new adoring fans in children younger went to medical there after his one hundred million euro transfer from real madrid to ventus he'll be wearing his iconic number seven jersey of course ronaldo signing

a four year deal with the italian giants he had this to say at his first press conference. when the. i feel great. for me it's another challenge i love challenge. will be tough i know that's very difficult for league it's very very tough but i will be ready juvie is ready i will be ready i will be there. kris jenner an elder. speaking for his new club you're going to business news now with monica and you're talking free trade indeed i am even though some people say it's out of fashion by now but not here the e.u. and japan are due to sign a free trade deal at a summit currently underway in tokyo a landmark pact will cover a first off the global economy and it will deepen economic ties between the two blocs that said it's a fairly balanced relationship already last year the e.u.

export of goods and services worth just over seventy eight billion euros to japan and looking in the other direction japan's exports to the e.u. were worth a little over seventy seven billion euros the agreement removes most of the duties and regulatory barriers to trade between the two sides while the deal which removes ninety nine percent of tariffs on or japanese imports to the e.u. and a little less than that to the other way round still needs to be ratified but it could be in place by early twenty nineteen and from war on that free trade agreement between the e.u. and japan i'm joined by custom jet ski chief economist at i n g d burbank who joins us in frankfurt good to have you with us so yesterday you officials were in beijing for the e.u. china summit today the e.u. and japan signed the economic partnership agreement are we seeing a shift in economic relations away from the u.s. and towards asia. definitely it is something that is really the only

symbolic but we already had a very productive talks and in china and other free trade agreement to go of japan clearly shows that the e.u. goes on with free trade agreements and also that they will not wait any more for the us. while another free trade deal thought to be under wraps is in jeopardy now italy is in no hurry to ratify state of the free trade deal between the e.u. and canada all those deals still worth the paper they're written on. i think i think they are were there the the difference between the european japanese free trade agreement and said is that the japanese e.u. agreement does not require national parliaments to rectify them so that makes it much more easier to really implement the agreement with said i think it's obvious that there had been opposition before us from from other member states so therefore i think it is a bit more complicated still we see that i think free trade is still on we're not

living in a protectionist world and i think also that europe is able to also show the citizens that they can benefit from free trade now another free trade agreement of that dived not too long ago was of course the transatlantic partnership but now germany industry still promotes a free trade deal with the u.s. calling its teeth to light give a current trade tensions do you see any chance for such a deal. honestly right now there are tensions between the u.s. and the e.u. but also the year the tensions between the u.s. and china i think do not really argue in favor of any any free trade agreement which involves the u.s. right now so i think there the chances are extremely low i think we will where we have to be happy if we do not see a further escalation of the of the trade tensions so far so therefore any teeth to blight is completely out of the question all right because jesica chief economist

at a bank in frankfurt thank you so much for your assessment of the international monetary fund says global economic growth will remain solid this year but has sounded the alarm over worsening trade disputes despite cutting its euro zone and japan growth estimates the i.m.f. says global growth remains on track with three point nine percent this year and next it says the u.s. and china will remain unscathed in the short term by their tariff dispute but if all the currently threatened tariffs in the world were to be levied that would reduce global growth by half a percent. china has been building the new silk road to the so-called one belt one road project for five years billions of euros are to be invested in infrastructure worldwide in order to expand trade routes thus the boosting the economy and china the new silk road will also go through the french port city

called max eight and it's looking to raise its profile on international markets. this investor is hoping the new myth sixty eight transshipment center for fashion will become a permanent hub on the new silk road. a sea route for goods from northern china that leads through the suez canal to maher say. this is a real opportunity to become a hub for trade with china will be offering a wide range of products here starting with bashing and then other goods for instance from the tech sector i think in the time when i think there is. so far about ninety mainly chinese traders have set up shop here. the next phase will see many new businesses because this center isn't just a gateway to the french market. i think our goal is to become a hub for businesses across southern europe italy and spain for instance are looking to create trading links to countries in north africa such as algeria with

which there is a shared history. sixty eight could connect all these countries with china as i think. the city administration is all too happy to get in on the silk road action china's largest shipping company has made marsay its main trading base in europe a chinese tire factory is also due to be built here soon expanded access to the french market however will need to be a two way street. of course we hope that more foreign companies will do business with us so we can lower unemployment here the chinese are more than welcome what in return they need to open up their markets to our products after all products from provence such as oil as wines and soaps are very popular in china. at least one economist doubts french exporters will be able to sell more in china even if beijing shows the political will. the silk road infrastructure project

won't really change france's trade deficit with china it comes down to compared to pricing french products are generally more expensive. with french government should be aware of this it's also a bit wary that the silk road will be used to peddle influence. that's why it shielding certain strategic sectors. of the head of the fashion thinks apprehensions of a burgeoning chinese influence are overblown. that we need to stop peddling on these horror stories i think the situation is similar to the post world war two cario. at that time american investment in europe was also knew that despite the current trade conflict the u.s. is still an important economic partner now it's china's time we need to work together with the chinese in other words he believes the prints need to follow china's lead if they do this transshipment center will not only be

a major import hub it will also open the door to expanding exports to china. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you u.s. president has returned home to a storm of criticism after refusing to blame russian president vladimir putin for meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. and action instead of doubts on the findings of his own intelligence agencies even members of his own party have expressed outrage. but of course don't forget you can always get the details in the news on the go just to download it. from the google play off from the apple store and that will give you access to all the latest music from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the do you know the app to send us photos and videos. in washington news coming to you live from berlin and more at the top of the aleksey going.

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