from the forest starts. w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin donald trump faces a storm of outrage after accepting the russian president's denial of meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. he took the words of the k.g.b. . over the men and women of the cia. you can go look at yourself from the level of the snake and that's what i consider blabbermouth. the

white house struggles to explain why trump aligned themselves so closely with the russian leader. also coming up rejecting protectionism the european union and japan signed a landmark free trade deal embracing a third of the global economy and more than six hundred million people. and a hero's welcome in paris the world cup champion each member of the team will receive france's highest civilian honor. i'm sumi so much got to go to have you with us president trump has triggered a wave of condemnation in the united states after appearing to favor the russian president over his own intelligence agencies after their first ever summit in helsinki yesterday lattimer putin denied that russia had meddled in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election and trump accepted that assurance contradicting the findings of u.s. intelligence. touching down to

a storm of criticism this was not the welcome home president trump would want but off to siding with the russian president over america's own intelligence services it was hardly a surprise and it even came from his own party. today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory blasted republican senator and former presidential candidate john mccain the president must appreciate that russia is not our ally rebute republican house speaker paul ryan and democrats were also swift to condemn. the heart tired history of our country americans have never seen a president of the united states support an adversary the way president trump the supportive president putin. the president of the united states to side with president putin against american law enforcement american defense officials

american intelligence agents is thoughtless it's dangerous it's weak. the summit in helsinki between the two presidents was always going to raise eyebrows but it was donald trump's refusal to blame his russian counterpart vladimir putin for meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. elections that sparked outrage certainly last friday u.s. prosecutors indicted twelve russian spies by hacking cheering back selection this. menace to president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today there was no collusion at all everybody knows it but that contradicts mounting evidence against russia intelligence community that has confirmed russian intervention you've got the social media companies facebook twitter you tube

confirming russian interference you have all of our partner countries for around europe confirming russian intervention. in an interview off to his meeting with trump putin said u.s. politics was to blame it's absolutely no interest i'm not interested in this issue it will interest single bit it's the internal political games of the united states leading to the mission we were talking of games and it was to football that the russian president turned to having trumped the full was in his court which is growing number of critics believe that it is the u.s. president who has dropped the ball. well let's talk about all of this with henning rica he's a transatlantic expert at the german council of foreign relations here in berlin that's a think tank thank you very much for joining us now we have seen donald trump brushoff other controversy do you think though this press conference will give this investigation a new momentum of course his very soft handling of putin. place in the hands

of those who want to criticize him is being applied to the russian president as if there were some some kind of like pressure that putin could could exert on the trump but you can always also explain this from trump's need to to undermine these investigations to point. to make the indictment pointless to say that russia didn't didn't do anything because it diminishes his his victory in the election it's point positions him as a leader who needed external help actually to win the election so. that might be his attempts of being so so smooth with putin but it backfired a lot because now people are thinking look does he have to hide something you know we seen quite a backlash as we said both lattimer putin and donald trump i gave interviews to fox news after helsinki let's take a look at what trump said to john hannity i think it's a shame we're talking about nuclear proliferation we're talking about syria and

humanitarian aid we're talking about all these different things and we get questions on the which aren't. ok heading we should say the witch hunt is of course what donald trump calls the russian best a geisha but does he have a point isn't it good that these two leaders sit together especially with such pressing security issues like syria. usually a summit like this. would help to sign off of two enemy pows have moved closer if there is a period of reparation more and then you can start a new new things to handle but russia is still. very much opposing western western interests in any of these conflicts in europe of course in ukraine. in syria as well so there is no real reports more between the two sides only trump has moved closer to putin putin has won the summit because he had the meeting russia was suddenly again in the center of the world stage and an important player. the need

to be of comes such actually did take a political risk and holding the summit with lattimer put in do you think it then backfired it did because he said with a football of course he doesn't want much to take home there were no agreements that were visible and it's of course questionable how far the putin could go i mean he could of course of a better cooperation on ukraine he should do this anyway so this is the real concession he could help along in syria he could maybe bring assad not to attack israeli military or on this on the golan heights but that's basically all assad has already won what he wanted to have in syria nearly an iran has a very own mind in terms of its foreign policy it will not follow putin's lead so putting didn't really have a lot to offer and yet he stands here as somebody who who is world leader and important all these conflicts i want to ask you what this all means for europe because this comes off the heels of that very difficult nato summit where we saw

donald trump parading his nato allies for not spending enough on defense he also called the european union a foal when it. comes to trade how worried are europeans looking at the summit in helsinki of course they were afraid that he would give a ways that certain things that he would make a special deal on ukraine would allow. the crimea to be russian that he would offer to seize exercises in the baltic area where it's absolutely necessary that nato trains to be on the spot quickly on to duty to russia so we are afraid of that and this didn't happen but it was also clear that there is a coziness between the two leaders that puts it in question with the trump is really the leader of the strong. the tearing position against russia a thing that he has demanded in brussels where he wanted to have payments and criticize the germans for doing the best because with russia so this contradiction is disturbing you do not know what will happen when the next meeting when he's in

a positive brotherly mood again already heading reka from the german council of foreign relations thank you so much for joining us in a studio and. boss president moves to erect barriers to trade the e.u. and japan have just signed a massive free trade deal that will create the world's biggest open economic area speaking after a signing ceremony in tokyo e.u. council president donald tusk senate deal sent a strong message against protectionism the agreement removes tariffs on nearly all japanese imports to the e.u. japan will also lift duties on ninety four percent of e.u. imports the deal sealed in tokyo is the largest ever negotiated by the european union and michael johns will have a complete coverage of that story in business coming up in a little bit for now but let's move on to some other stories making headlines 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 where he showed off his basketball skills as he opened the sports and training center run by his half sister obama traveled on

to south africa to attend a tribute to nelson mandela's one hundredth birthday. japanese media say an extreme heat wave has killed point. a dozen people there in the last three days thousands more have been taken to the hospital for heat related illnesses the soaring temperatures are hampering recovery efforts in parts of the country hit by deadly floods last week. in hawaii at least twenty three people have been injured after a chunk of lava smashed through the roof of a tour boat and this video shows passengers watching the lava flow from kellaway when an explosion sent a so-called lava bomb crashing into the vessel the volcano began erupting on hawaii's big island two months ago. and pilgrims in the russian city of. mark one hundred years since the killing of tsar nicholas the second and his family thousands marched into perception from the execution site to the location where the bodies were discarded bolshevik troops killed nicholas during the russians of a war eighteen months after he advocated power as russia's last emperor.

world cup winners france arrived in paris to a hero's welcome following sunday's four two victory in the final over croatia hundreds of thousands of fans lined the shop early say to greet them and to top off celebrations it was revealed that they were to receive france's highest civilian award the legion of honor. the victorious france team touching down on home soil the world cup trophy in the secure hands of captain and goalkeeper hugo lloris on the famous song celie's a fence waited patiently for the heroes of the was. i'm so happy to be part of this celebration 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 and it's great. and finally the moment they've all been

waiting for. the twenty eight sea world cup champions their champions lapping up the jew lation. so we've been waiting for like the whole day and we skate with good words here being a novice wasn't have the i don't think we did it because they wanted me yet. there are both are your fans celebrating under a tri color sky united by the beautiful game. and you'd have easily mottaki was in paris for the homecoming party witnessing the moment when the french team bus and it's a tourist passengers drove past. yes thanks thousands have been appreciating. everything. you was just trying to get

a clear sense of that. yes. it's ok it's crazy it's you it's x. y. thanks nice to see us. excited. just. like you are too yes that's the picture of iowa. city and that's much fun thank you. right now to the four protesters who invaded the pitch at the world cup final in moscow been sentenced to fifteen days in jail the pitch invaders members of the russian protest group pussy riot ran on to the pitch dressed as police officers in a later statement they called for the release of russian political prisoners in a more open political process as well as the prison sentence could achieve and put on a comic was she now were banned from attending sporting events for three years the

other two members are yet to be sentenced. argentinian football legend diego maradona has into three year deal to be president of dynamo breast a first division team and belarus the one thousand nine hundred eighty six world cup winner was given a rousing reception ahead of watching his first match but i don't i promise fans he will create a team that will battle for the title and he hopes his presence can help improve football in the country better donna also expressed a desire to meet authoritarian bellaver sim president aleksander the question. our minds are not our top stories that we're following at this hour u.s. president donald trump has returned 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 instead trump see. rejected the findings of his own intelligence agencies . and there's been a hero's welcome in paris for the world cup champions and they celebrated their victory in a parade down the shop and he say each member of the team is to receive francis

highest civilian honor of the legion. the monica jones we'll have more on the big pan trade deal that's coming right up in business. being the fund be to. his work in the congress for tonight. the maestro and three. tom twenty two.

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