donald trump jr rejects allegations of collusion with lost go over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year with the kremlin saying she has no ties to the government. amid reports that displaced mosul residents are starting to return home fears are growing that they have nowhere to go as the iraqi cities liberation as that sways of the city in ruins. the british government comes under fire after revealing it won't publish a much delayed report on the funding of extremism citing national security reasons .

to r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. us 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's released the full e-mail exchange from june twenty sixth seen detailing how the encounter was set up trying to now was initially contacted by and in to me gerry who talked about hunting over a very high level and sensitive information via a russian lawyer the info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was considered part of moscow's efforts to aid his father's campaign well it's apparently originated. from a crime prosecutor of russia also done job titles raised rolled in a few eyebrows in the media now speak us there's no such official position in russia as the country isn't a moment and there are other confusing aspects to the story to scale explains the

story is like a rorschach test meaning that everyone sees a different picture and most of the media sees a picture of collusion and treason double trumps i 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 explains 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. no i wouldn't even remember that until we 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 movie. every

week come on i'm really tired of the five year. old know her name now and the time you have this guy at natalia vessel night sky the new tal you have best on that 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 russian government and why would the russian prosecutor choose all of these people to deliver sensitive

information to the trunk 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. i never knew who else would be attending the meeting so all i need is to donald trump jr was willing to meet with me do you have connections to grow should go. no further more if this meeting between the trump team in the russian lawyers was about handling damaging in. from ation 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 russia and 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 caleb mop and r.t. new york. the intermediary who wrote those emails to donald trump jr is a british born music publicist rob goldstone he said he requested the meeting on behalf of his client a moscow based ossify shoni pop star and. according to goldstone's e-mails the mysterious russian crown prosecutor who is described as the perceived source of dirt on hillary clinton that i'm going to a rough spot as the week comes out to the lawyer for the man's family and this is what he said the only thing that's true is that in. the air that the meeting be arranged rob goldstone an entertainment industry has. so i think it's fair to say that he was out of his element in. making these communications and anti what he said was just not true it is not true that. the law or our had

a meeting with russian prosecutors about the campaign is not true that the tali is. a lawyer for the russian federation governess we understand that she is a private practitioner who represents private clients it is not true that are understanding was that the purpose the meeting was to talk about the campaign. our understanding was only that the purpose of the meeting with the discuss the magnitsky act which is an issue that we understand is how you as. pursuing and interested in present time president donald trump has praised his son for his transparency in a tweet again claiming that his family is subject to the greatest witch hunt in political history political and legal analyst lionel told us that there was no substance to the story under the bus what russian making it a point of discussion for the media whenever you hear about this drug culture

luzhin meeting always ask the question and. because that's what you have to do and that i don't drive junior met with this rush again and he thought maybe he would have some apple 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. and the kremlin has denied having any links to the russian lawyer who participated in the meeting spokes person to me for skulls and at that allegations of trying russian collusion have turned into a t.v. series which is trying to own 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 can compete with the most popular shows in america but there's no need to drag us into this we don't take part in such series. civilians are starting to return to the iraqi city of mosul after the government declared victory over islamic state there on monday however one of the most difficult tasks 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 and he is to rebuild the city. and according to human rights watch the coalition used a number of weapons that are innocuous and could be unlawfully indiscriminate if

used in heavily populated areas well among them arm guided artillery rockets mortars and here in. the liberation of mosul from islamic state has topped 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 and 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 a lucky troops 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 iraq and the u.s. led coalition forces for repeated violations of international humanitarian law which it says could amount to war crimes honesty says there was

a reliance on imprecise 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 it seems that those fighting i still somehow turned a blind eye to what they call collateral damage we have already shifted from attrition probably shove them from one position to another iraq syria to annihilation tactics two billion cattle or 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 way 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 shock as one had your garbage comment but i'm told mother. was sitting at my uncle's house how wrote her mother who's 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 fahringer to us and there was no it was when it comes to how the battle for mosul will be remembered it seems these pictures of celebration at the liberation will live on in the media where the civilian suffering will be sufferance in silence. well the u.s. led coalition has reacted to amnesty international's report calling it

irresponsible a spokesperson added war is not pleasant and those who claim otherwise put the lives of civilians and soldiers at risk award winning journalist martin j. told us the battle in mosul isn't over. we're looking at possibly months or even the best part of a year before most people return but return to what 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 in some people those are the pockets as buffers as literally human shields for the ordinance which is flying backwards and forwards from its destiny is rather sad and uncertain one of. 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 really say that the battle is over and muscle me while it was recently reported u.s. military advisers were operating inside the syrian city of raka another liberation campaign against eisel in the middle east the u.n. says between thirty to fifty thousand people apparently trapped in the city almost two hundred thousand have already been displaced here are some of their stories. i assure you of a rational aim a little matter of a dash dash well it's not as nesmith has met but should have won you the image that actually you anybody can do better than have a trace of what else has been and the dome that has you had of all that and then has become of all gone mad little to. learn more about them. or not. if you don't know how to be a quarter of a concert. or. much of the dollars at the head of your government any. one as a member of you would lay of the verb issues would do i shouldn't as

a matter haven't been up to one as a million 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 have 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. anger is growing over the british government's refusal to publish the full report into funding of islamist extremism in the country the decision was announced by home secretary amber rudd. i have

decided against publishing the classified report produced in the review in full this is because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons a lot of politicians have been waiting a long time for this report the home office had been criticized for delaying it earlier on this year but now the fact that it's not going to be released at all has bugged a lot of anger from various opposition parties tim farron the outgoing leader of the liberal democrats he said that it's utterly shameful that it's not going to be published he said that the government needs to be naming and shaming the states and the institutions that fund terrorism in this country instead of supporting them he's obviously referring to speculation that saudi arabia and the u.k. as of the gulf allies could be named in that report the green party co-leader caroline lucas she said that the statement gives absolutely no clue as to which foreign countries are funding extremism here in the u.k.

so you've got the government saying that the report publishing the report would be damaging to national security but as this angry response already demonstrates refusing to make it public has only increased speculation about what's contained within it it's pretty much as vague as it gets it doesn't list a single country it admits that for a small number of extremist organizations here in the u.k. overseas funding is a significant source of income however it says that for the vast majority of extremist groups in the u.k. overseas funding isn't a significant source it also says that it's going to introduce more stringent checks on where overseas funding comes from for sort of nonprofit organizations and things like charities and at the very end of this very short vague summary it says as part of our wider international engagement on countering extremism. island

extremism the government is going to raise the issues of concern supported by evidence with specific countries and that last line really contains the million dollar question who are this specific countries and why is the government determined to keep them secret says. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has confirmed that a joint center to monitor the cease fire in syria has been agreed with the u.s. and jordan but his words run contrary to what's been said by washington with the state department claiming the much as to been discussed. still i like to talk a lot going to the world i don't have this lady could know i could dislike we're not acquainted and get out ahead i think of some of the negotiations that are underway i don't know 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 to keep abreast of the latest developments some helpful for diplomats as well the joint center on syria was one of several matters agreed by putin during their first encounter on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit last week however less than a week later it seems some in the u.s. administration are losing enthusiasm as jackley into their explains the highly anticipated biological meeting between donald trump and lot of here 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 putin and did discuss that joint cybersecurity 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 still being worked out. is there a level of urgency in working out of because it seems like if you don't have a monitoring organ of course meant mechanisms. eat 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 our special envoy to syria is actively engaged in these

conversations so i anticipate we'll get that information in the in the near future so we're seeing again one step forward two steps back on 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 country's approach to russia german government official. saying washington's policies are indecisive back and forth and was no clear direction former u.s. diplomat jim jack trust believes there are too many opposed to resetting 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 the 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'm still rather optimistic. the hungary and governments 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 hungary to accept more refugees a country where the migrant sentiment is strong so us later criticized the campaign calling it an t. semitic. i am distressed by the current hunger in regimes use of and diced medical imagery as part of a deliberate descent from mission campaign well as i israel's ambassador to hungry also initially criticized the campaign tell of eve quickly released a clarification condemning the actions of sorest based in hungary and israel israeli activists avogadro s. can believe some of us is reaping what he so. sources are very hostile towards

israel and here was the economy of the situation in the hungary because it was sorest did he supported all kinds of what we call orange revolutions which on the surface were 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 huge compan in the united states that russia meddle in the us elections i don't assemble they're talking about the united states government invested money and in undermining israeli prime minister during the campaign they do it openly they interfere or they meddle and then they accuse others of doing i mean this is kind of he cooperate see which needs to be solved and we agree with the government of gary when they want to say stop stop.

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 sent his n.g.o.s but the initiative was rejected despite a collective letter sent to secretary of state rex tillerson well hungry isn't the only european country to openly denounce the activities of george soros the polish prime minister has violated the polish constitution while a former macedonian leaders that soros using his n.g.o.s has been meddling all across the world we spoke to international affairs commentator marco gases he believes sauce runs contrary to democracy. 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 unsaid 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 persist of democracy he has money which he uses to buy 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 my clock has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top first securing the french presidency and then a landslide election victory for his party but he's ambitions making even further judging by some of his mentions.

because since becoming a member of the national assembly it's been cooked meals cooked cocktails although with. didn't it put up on google notice when countries so have seven to eight children per woman you can decide to spend billions of years which will not stabilize.

cross-talk debates the outcome of the g twenty summit that's next here on r.t. . what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure more somehow want to be rich.

but you'd like to be prosperous like them before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the water. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the trump putin handshake at the g.

twenty is now part of history well their meeting appeared to go well both presidents said so moving forward on this bilateral relationship is problematic at best are the u.s. and russia destined to be enemies. cross talking russia u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest peter because they can washington he's a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all over stone the untold history of the united states in pittsburgh we have dan koblick he is an adjunct professor of law at university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia and here in moscow we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander before i want to go to you first ok we can talk about russia gate we we can.