look ugly. donald trump jr rejects allegations of collusion with moscow over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year with the kremlin saying she has no ties to the government. i mean reports that displaced mosul residents are starting to return home fears are growing that they have nowhere to go as the iraqi cities liberated has left to utterly devastated. and a cold front blows in behind the warm meeting behind between trump and putin and he with the u.s. now apparently backtracking on plans to restore relations with russia.

you're watching r t international live from our moscow studio with me. welcome to the program. democrats on the media have rounded on donald trump's son over a meeting he held last year with a russian lawyer in response he has released the full email exchange from june twenty sixth detailing how the get together was set up trouble jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over quote very high level and sensitive information via russian noir the info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was part of moscow's effort to aid his father's campaign it apparently originated from a crown prosecutor of russia although that job title has raised more than a few eyebrows in the media that's because there is in fact no such official position in russia. being among the kate and confusing aspects to the story to

as came to explain the story is like a rorschach test meaning that everyone sees a different picture and most of the media sees a picture of collusion entries a double trump think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin this is looking more and more like treason intent to collude with the russian government all these strange behavior from the president it's all explained now that's not how trump jr sees it he says that nothing of substance was discussed at the meeting which he described as a name nonsense it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. me i wouldn't even remember it until you start scouring through the stuff it was literally just a wasted twenty minutes which was a shame whatever the content was the characters involved with the meeting are certainly worthy of a good moving. every

way to come up i'm really tired of the five year. old know her name now i want to tell you this guy at natalia vessel needs sky the new tal you have vessel night sky a. good story but why does everyone want to link this russian lawyer to the kremlin she works in adoption law and does not work with the. government and why would the

russian prosecutor choose all of these people to deliver sensitive information to the trump camp donald trump jr confirms that this meeting was a big nothing burger he says she did not have any damaging information on clinton but instead that she wanted to discuss adoption law in the magnitsky act she confirms this. nobody who would be attending the meeting who i knew that mr donald trump you knew was willing to meet with me. to grow she goes. you know furthermore if this meeting between the trump team of the russian lawyers was about handling damaging information on clinton where is this bombshell we have yet to see any bombshell from the trump team about their opponent so after months and months of proof related to russian trump being anticipated we finally have a story that's rather complicated in fact it's so complicated that you can see whatever you want the confirmation bias of the reader can lead the mind's eye to

read whatever they want into the story if you're determined to see trump works for the russians you can see it even though the logical links just don't add up cable mup and r.t. new york. julian assange she was among those urging trying to publish his e-mails in the name of transparency he offered to do it for him anonymously via wiki leaks in two hours later trying to publish them himself political and legal analyst lionel told us that there's no substance in this story only in the buzzword russia making it a point of discussion for the media whenever you hear about this trouble. me to always ask the question and. because that's what you have to do and that i will drive junior met with this rush in and he thought maybe he would have some research opposition research and and it turns out that she didn't but she wanted to talk about apparently adoption and and that somebody

said treason this there is nothing here but let me tell you what is the saddest part we have been told russia russia russia russia to such an extent that maybe by virtue of this repetition there's been some kind of a cerebral connection made where people impute to guilt whenever that word is met and i'm not kidding you it's almost like a brainwashing there is absolutely nothing to this story no matter how you look at it from anybody's point of view there is nothing there i think. the kremlin has denied having any links to the russian lawyer who participated in the meeting spokes person dmitri pascoe if i did that allegations of trying russia collusion have turned into a t.v. series which is tracked on for too long. we've never been in touch with this lawyer

we have nothing to comment on that she has no ties to us this is all part of a long drawn out c.v. series which compete with the most popular shows an immensely partial play such series. civilians are starting to return to the iraqi city of mosul after the government declared victory over islamic state in the area on monday however one of the most difficult task could still lie ahead as most of mosul has been devastated by nine months of fighting the u.n. says it will take billions of dollars. to rebuild the city.

according to human rights watch the coalition used a number of weapons that are inaccurate and could be quote unlawfully indiscriminate if used in heavily populated areas among them unguarded artillery rockets and mortars mccarron has more on the story the liberation of mosul from islamic state has talked the news cycle over the past few days has been full of praise for the victorious iraqi and coalition forces and pictures of celebration victory over isis in mosul. celebrations in the streets of mosul in battle the

iraqi city of mosul is now free of the biggest city in isis the so-called islamic state is in the hands of the rocky truths but against the backdrop of jubilation humanitarian groups crying foul over the plight of locals honesty international issued a fifty page report detailing the extent of civilian suffering calling out both iraqi and the u.s. led coalition forces for repeated violations of international humanitarian law which it says could amount to war crimes amnesty says there was a reliance on imprecise and. weapons and ignorance to the growing civilian death toll and a failure to adjust tactics to the challenges created by i still of course you'd never expect much respect for civilian life from the terrorists known for using innocent people as human shields but is seems that those fighting eisel somehow turned a blind eye to what they call collateral damage we have already shifted from attrition

tactics probably shove them from one position to another in iraq and syria to annihilation tactics to billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation besides any additional needless deaths can just be blamed on the ruthless enemy anyway according to the un the battle for mosul is left almost nine hundred thousand people displaced more than eight thousand civilians dead or wounded and one hundred thousand children at risk sure it's heartbreaking now but if only where heard about it all sooner well the neighboring street all but destroyed the street across rubble the street over there it's the same story wherever you look. around you little bit little along with the shops one had your garbage coming in on foot mother. says you know my uncle's house

how wrote her mother whose wife went back home because howard was sick and the house was shelled by american planes i tried but i couldn't save our from the shelling and the strikes and. there was no it was when it comes to how the battle for mosul will be remembered is seems these pictures of celebration at the liberation will live on in the media where the civilian suffering will be sufferance in silence. the u.s. led coalition has reacted to amnesty international's report calling it irresponsible a spokesperson added a war is not pleasant and those who claim otherwise put the lives of civilians and soldiers at risk award winning journalist martin che told us the battle in mosul is not over. we're looking at possibly months or even the best part of a year before most people return but return to what you know i mean you should look at most of the old city in mosul is completely destroyed and we've seen in the past that this is a tactical war unfortunate by by i saw two to shamefully use these people is in

some people's pockets as buffers as literally human shields for the ordinance which is flying backwards and forwards it's their destiny is it is rather sudden and uncertain one unfortunately in the longer term i think we're looking at. another war another. battle another conflict with new groups people will be signing up to isis or whatever takes over from isis but you can't really say that the battle is over and muscle. another liberation campaign is underway now as u.s. backed rebels prepare to seize eisel syrian stronghold of raka un says between thirty to fifty thousand people are trapped in the city almost two hundred thousand have already been displaced here are some of their stories assure you that actually i'm a little bit of a dash dash well it's not as nesmith has met but you live on your little niche that actually you know but isn't a bit of

a novelty the food and has been and the doom that has you had of all that and then has become of ultimately. if you don't know how to be of course you haven't come through the bureau. at the height of you the realm of any. one as a member of youth lay of the verb. to haven't been up to one hasn't really the fact that there are huge numbers of civilians there makes it very risky for the called the u.s. led coalition to start such an air offensive similar to that of mosul for example already there are one hundred sixty thousand people civilians who are fled the area but there are more than one hundred fifty and the entire province that are still besieged by the terrorists are not allowed to leave so therefore any sort of a campaign against the area will most definitely increase the number of civilian deaths and to be honest with you the u.s.

has not made any sort of willingness to defend or to protect the civilians they put a plan and they go on with the plan and they don't take any concern whatsoever given the fact that there might be civilians after the break we take a look at how u.s. russia relations a fairing after the long awaited first encounter between presidents putin and trump . here's what people have been saying about rejected in. the long haul the only show i go out of my way to launch a lot of the really packs a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. some to see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight not the president of the world bank so very. seriously he sent us an e-mail.

when almost seemed wrong but well we just don't all. get to shape out just. how to. engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has confirmed a joint center to monitor the seas find syria has been agreed with the u.s. and jordan his words run contrary to what is being said by washington the state

department claiming the matter is still being discussed. still i like to talk a lot going to the world i don't have this lady could know this like we're not acquainted and get out ahead i think of some of the negotiations that are underway how things work at the state department who has access to what information but the documents signed in amman by russia america and jordan provides for the creation of just such a sensor that is all still being worked out nobody should get ahead of themselves before keep abreast of the latest developments. for diplomats. the joint center in syria was one of several matters agreed by putin in trouble during their first encounter on the sidelines of the g twenty summit last week however less than a week later it seems in the us administration is losing enthusiasm as jack explains the highly anticipated biological meeting between donald trump and lot of

your putin at the g. twenty summit and with high hopes that the two countries could finally leave all the bad blood behind and see a new stage in relations after the two presidents met in hamburg tillerson came out saying that they had great chemistry they discussed cyber security and the cease fire in syria and were really ready to move forward. to discuss that joint cyber security unit but trump has since backtracked on that with a post on twitter after the idea was widely attacked here in washington and about that cease fire in syria the most important achievement reached by the u.s. and russia in conjunction with jordan moscow has already outlined what role in the suspension of hostilities they will play but america has yet to be clarified and recent reports show that the pentagon was left completely out of the process we reached out to the pentagon to see if they could shed some light on the plan and they in turn said that the state department was the head agency and referred us to them but they also have yet to come up with a solid strategy in terms of who is doing what when where or how some of those

details are so. is there a level of urgency in work you know because it seems like if you don't have a monitoring organ of course mechanisms. it sort of incentivize people to break it to those monitors will be i don't know at this point i know we have folks in the region i know that are special envoy to syria is actively engaged in these conversations so i anticipate we'll get that information in the near future so we're seeing again one step forward two steps back what's becoming the usual u.s. approach to working with russia some of america's partners in europe have also pointed out the inconsistency of the countries approach to russia german government official not at all or has lashed out saying lushington policies i mean decisive back and forth and with no clear direction former u.s. diplomat jim believes there are too many opposed to a reset and russia u.s. ties if the russians believe the americans are talking with two voices that's

because we are clearly i think president trump is very sincere in trying to work out some kind of a broader arrangement with moscow and he faces tremendous opposition here in washington from people who didn't want this meeting to take place at all or wanted to be at best a pro-forma handshake and pleasantries kind of thing not to affect any substance we have a lot of people here in the if you will in the deep state who don't want any cooperation with russia at all on anything particularly on syria and there is a huge potential that somebody may try to sabotage it but i am still rather optimistic. that i'm going government has launched a countrywide anti migrant post a campaign that takes a swipe at one of its biggest critics billionaire george soros the billionaire is being targeted after he wanted hungry to accept more refugees a country where auntie my consent is strong sorest later criticized the campaign calling it anti semitic. i am distressed by the current hunger in regimes

use of and ice medical imagery as part of a deliberate dissent from mission campaign although israel's ambassador to hungry also initially criticised the campaign televisa quickly released a clarification condemning the actions of cyrus both in hungary and israel we discussed the issue with an israeli activist sources very hostile towards israel and here was the economy of the situation in the hungry because was sorest did he supported all kinds of what we call orange revolutions which on the surface was very peaceful mother there of the day we saw these blood spilled in the ukraine blood spilled in beliefs in many other places where soros put his fingers as you know now the reason. banned in the united states that russia meddle in the us elections i don't assemble they're talking about the united states

government investigators in undermining israeli prime minister during the campaign they do it all they interfere or they meddle and then the queues others of doing i mean this is kind of hypocrisy which needs to be stopped and we agree with the government of gary when they want to say stop stop and soros is alleged meddling is also becoming a concern in the u.s. in march several republican senators attempted to launch a probe into where taxpayers' money ends up after being centers and years but the initiative was rejected despite a collective letter sent to secretary of state rex tillerson hungry is not the only european country to openly denounce the activities of george soros the publisher has claimed cyrus violated proposed constitution while a former macedonian need to said sorest using his engineers has been meddling all across the world we spoke to an international affairs commentator who supports

those who use. complaints about george entirely justified because we see in his behavior somebody who is has got a will to power and if he doesn't like the results of a democratic election he will do his best to topple that democratic government so for example in the case of hungary clearly pursuing a nationally or inside policy and that government knows that it will be targeted sooner or later by solar for daring to pursue a national policy rather than a sort of policy in essence what george soros is about is the complete opposite going to this is a democracy he has money which he uses to buy a power and influence by creating organizations which he tells what to do and they tell the world what to do and what to think he talks about transparency but everything he does is veiled in secrecy he talks about democracy but he seeks to overthrow democratically elected governments just because he doesn't like them this is a kind of megalomania on a james bond villain scale and it really should be stopped. emanuel micron

has enjoyed and meteoric rise to the top securing the french presidency and then a landslide election victory for his party and his ambitions make it even further judging by some of his actions. since becoming a member of the national assembly it's been cooked meals cooked. with. it.

didn't it would have been going on when countries so have seven to eight children per woman you can decide to spend billions of years which will not stabilize. coming up next reports on the economic plight of puerto rico as the caribbean island struggles to cope with its multi-billion dollar.

people with stories to tell our economies come to those who deserve to be heard when all our modern. insight. is still of course and if you listen to us. all peters the stations you see first and witnesses believe they're here to speak are you there to hear. think you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media

control over the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last turn. here after caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feelings started to change you talked about more like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave

a funeral in the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with this one difference i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its make. all of the bonds that were available to trade in the public market benda socially taken private they've been purchased by the central bank and they've also purchased many stocks they purchased e.t.f. the central bank of switzerland is a huge buyer of our stock the central banks are taking all the publicly traded securities bonds and stocks also market as a way to stealthily bail out all these corporations that are buying back their own cite them selves using that started early cheap money thanks to the low and low interest rates of banks like bank of japan.

take. a. look at us as a stronghold for puerto rico's independent voters. not only the. well. you know the caribbean island which was annexed by the u.s. in eighty ninety eight is about to elect a new governor. many young people have turned out before. bruce wants to make us a. little but not enough. i am a. little must look to seventy percent that. seem. to

look at him look at least in the long run it. has been passed bringing austerity measures to overcome the crisis. the federal american board is supposed to govern puts a rico. is the independent candidate she's determined to defy washington in many view the federal board is a humiliation. can be overlooked that is said to. listen to listen to that he said. he still can't easily dismiss it explicitly says he'll. get into.