interested always in the water. trucks his support for a joint statement at the g. seven summit in canada the meeting ended in. growing tensions with washington those faced in. the sights the main architects of. the us maybe the american president doesn't mind being isolated today but we also don't mind being six if need be. no one will ever know how many civilians have been killed in syria so says the plan to go after being accused of possible war crimes that one year on from the liberation of the city from islamic state. football's biggest stars lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo together with their national team arrived in russia ahead of the world cup the championship now just days away.

mid-morning on sunday here in moscow thanks so much for joining us your timing is perfect for the weekly top stories of the day the main headlines of. the g. seven summit has ultimately ended as it started with tensions between the u.s. and its main allies shortly after departing from the meeting donald trump abandoned his endorsement of the summit joint communiqué. he accused the canadian prime minister of making quote false statements over u.s. tariffs on metal imports justin trudeau described the reasoning behind them as frankly insulting a cold kind of his response dishonest and meek trade was not the only issue dividing the other g seven leaders.

i would rather see russia in the g. eight as opposed to i would say that the g eight is a more meaningful group than the g seven absolutely. here we all agree. can happen until substantial progress has been. with the problems with canada's position is absolutely clear that there are no grounds whatsoever for bringing russia with its current behavior. if there is to be any conversations about russia's future in relation to this particular group they have to change the way they have to change the route that they're taking on the sort of activity.

it is perhaps no surprise. given that it was riddled with divisions from the get go quarter explains. you don't get maybe the american president doesn't mind being isolated today but we also don't mind being six if need be the rules based in the us for the. be. good to go to the us the g seven june summit seems already destined for dysfunction with a heap of complaints from the u.s. as european allies some are suggesting a name change to keep up with the times we should have been united to england to save them to the group who challenges of the world and instead of that we would be

divided between not just certain it would be a g six one it's not too hard to see where the fallout between washington and the rest of the pack is coming from in just two years donald trump has caused serious problems for a major international agreements first by announcing he was ditching the paris climate accord then the iran nuclear agreement the breakthrough deal which took years to negotiate and now he's unleashed a trade war with the e.u. by slapping tariffs on their steel and aluminum. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the united states will withdraw from the paris climate accord the united states has been taken advantage of by other countries both friendly and not so friendly for many many decades and i'm here to protect and one of the reasons i was elected as i'm protecting my workers i'm

protecting our companies even the angle of merkel who is known for maintaining her cool during the worst diplomatic spats has had some strong words to share about the u.s. as recent exits says. it is clear that especially with the exit of the u.s. from the climate deal there is dissent within the g seven just as much as with the announcement of tariffs on the mean human steel which we believe are illegal and also the issue of the iranian nuclear deal which the u.s. has withdrawn from. there may be disagreements. i regard this as. much like a family quarrel we will do what is necessary to protect the united states its businesses and its workforce don't blame trump. blame the nations that have broken away from those conditions blame the other countries now that's what you want to hear right before a g. seven summit the post motivation trip between you will be leaders and so u.s.

president is better that. no ideas because also serves as subjects we are talking about that these lesions would be better if we have. not only covered with the toes we have covered on almost every subject and lived between the buses and washington so you'll be in your mean and united states who become bigger and bigger. so speaking to journalists in china russian president vladimir putin touched on moscow's relationship with the g. seven. concerning the return of russia to the g eight we never left it our colleagues at time refused to come to russia for the known reasons but we still welcome them and everyone in moscow concerning the comparison of the g seven as the c.e.o. the purchasing parity of countries is bigger yes g seven countries are richer but

the scale of the economy is bigger in the su countries but. let's cross live now to china our teams are down your whole can standing by after the russian president just made some comments there to the press covering some issue for example referring to the drama around trump with the g seven currently in effect in quebec in canada what other highlights do you have for us from the f c o on this sunday. other questions to mr bruton surrounding the g. seven meeting were pretty much inevitable given the publicity they've received as we heard there he very much extended an olive branch to mr trump to g seven leaders as well stating they are always welcome in moscow in particular and one journalist question about his much discussed meeting with donald trump that he agrees that this would be something constructive to shares many of donald trump's concerns including the one about building up of arms on the race he says that

a meeting would be constructive and it was only a matter of settling the logistics and technicalities for this to go ahead perhaps in austria in the near future regarding other issues around the g seven he said that there was unity among the countries surrounding for example the incident in salzburg the poisoning of the former spy and his daughter he said the unity was based on shaky ground because they'll up until now no concrete evidence no concrete accusations had been put forward and mr putin stated quite candidly that enough talk there was a need for concrete discussion concrete words not just. strong words on that on the summit he said it had been productive highlighting many of the agreements that had been signed quite a big list of the journalists have given out here today ranging as we said from economic corporations to military and political closeness as well cultural exchanges very much wide variety of agreements including of course with those two

new members pakistan and india attending this year for the first time was fully fledged members with putin saying that now the state of the c.e.o. the number of members was optimal and this was what was needed for a strong regional cooperation and to decide the regional and war wider international problems as well touching upon the discussions surrounding north korea iran and syria as well for example so very much a wide range of issues covered. mr putin in this year. has been a really interesting summit so far course with the g. seven going on in canada you have these people where you are in china shaking hands doing diplo speak signing contracts signing agreements and then know that over in canada at the g seven you have bickering infighting and divisions it's really quite a contrast in these two summits going on at the same time on either ends of the world i don't know holkins live in the u.s. you know in china thank you. it's been a year since the official launch of the operation to liberate the syrian city of

rock from islamic state terrorists who had made it the capital of the self-proclaimed caliphate to coincide with the anniversary of the international released a new report on the situation in the devastated city actually accusing the u.s. led coalition of quote relentless air and artillery strikes suggesting it may have indeed committed war crimes and according to the coalition itself the real number of civilians killed in the battle for iraq will never be known. as far as how do we know how many civilians were killed i'm just being honest no one will ever know anyone who claims they all know is lying. or getting to the bottom of what was really happening in iraq as the americans and allies were freeing it who will be bothered to do that or it will take ages the

prose of war behind these walls may have thought but scrutiny was inevitable coalition claims that its precision and campaigns allowed it to bomb islamic state house of rocca well causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny based on information from amnesty international is field investigation and public reporting coalition air and artillery strikes killed hundreds of civilians and injured many more open amnesty's report and you'll find words like this proportionate and discriminate bombing the use of white phosphorus claims which could turn into a reputational disaster if proven things that amount to war crimes the u.s. led coalition mission to free iraq a went on for more than four months from june sixth to a cobra twelfth last year and the pentagon proudly told the world they'd fired thirty five thousand artillery rounds while they were at it they fired more rounds

and rockets syria than any other marine artillery battalion or any marine or army battalion since the vietnam war yet we kept hearing from those whose orders matter how cautious they war there is been known military in the world's history that is paid more attention to the limited. view of the guest of minister on the battlefield and the coalition military were not perfect guys we can make a mistake. and in this kind of warfare ready to happen we are the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield know the difference you can't help wondering how many innocent locals general mattis has actually met i'm sure you can find many of those who are genuinely grateful to the coalition for kicking myself out but just compare his words to some of the witness accounts our team heard while in iraq there was that in effect in washington when we were directly targeted by the coalition after the

recognizance craft filmed us it was a low altitude it was very clear there were no terrorists in the area but there were kids playing in the streets and we were collecting water and i knew that i thought i knew that if the aircraft bomb using force for us targets everyone it is not hidden i still the coalition is boman randomly if you're sitting at home a bomb may come down on you there are houses that collapsed on those residents and they could not get out all this happened because of the aircraft the whole plane comes in strikes for instance a five story building i so would be on the second floor while civilians on the third and fourth floors how comes the plane still strikes then most civilians died the ones will terrorists and we weren't alone in hearing those worrying calls from that devastated syrian city humanitarian groups on high alert had to many more whores to share with us and the rest of the world there are worries about how this operation will affect civilians we're concerned about the safety and protection of

more than four hundred thousand people in iraq as these operations commence to strengthen and we've investigated as well. if you're not a year in a coalition already so you know if you believe that the actual number remains what about of course i wonder if you thought any of that led to a change of tactics by the coalition or at least an apology i have to tell you they sealed it themselves from scrutiny with. monthly casualty reports we've been largely focusing on the fate of rock of civilians in our coverage and to amnesty international's now way then with some serious work it could be high time we hear something new from the us pros of war we requested comment from a number of humanitarian organizations the international committee for the red cross said it repeatedly expressed concern for the safety of civilians during the liberation and we spoke to middle east expert joshua landis who told us more could

have been done to save civilian lives i don't doubt that the united states has used efforts great efforts not to kill people but in the end they were not true they were in a hurry the un asked them multiple times to give a break so that civilians could get out they didn't want to negotiate with i asked they said we're going to kill them on the battlefield they didn't want them as prisoners in another guantanamo since the gulf war nine hundred ninety the first gulf war the united states constantly insists that it didn't count the enemy it didn't know how many were killed and it wasn't going to try to find out later on there were some investigations but by and large that has been the protocol of the u.s. which is not to count the enemy and to and to try to keep it secret really. just four days left until the start of the biggest event in football this year at the fifo world cup in russia and germany you know has already made his first

predictions. says mr merida let's go through the group step by step whenever you're ready. i'm not ready because it's very difficult i don't want to be emotional but i have to be i will go to contradictions because i want my players to wean but i also want my place to go on holiday so this is going to be tough but i would say to why his way into the wind would go. they have experienced players they have the right thing to do and the sink russia has to finish second and. then the crucial match will be russia against egypt and it's fine to be a reality testing question is to finish second in the group well. to win the

group b. . and i will show relate to that i am totally portuguese because i want to finish second in the world maybe down the home team russia is going to play against their best team speak up see us in front will proceed to finish first. the fight to finish second. and go for the surprise come on australia let's finish cycles. and in group d. a single fellow will finish first. this one is going to be hard to play well for an african team. so little piece brazil in the name of teach to go on holiday so switzerland who finished second i'm sort in the money of what you need to hold. and in the group germany has to win. i think mexico finished

second of. so. and if you feel up to testing your football knowledge against the might of marine you head online to facebook or twitter and follow the hash tag match marino will be three rounds of predictions from the group stages on once the international teams started arriving for football's showpiece event including two of the world's very best players lionel messi is argentina was the most recent to arrive christiane on all those portugal's moscow a bit earlier argentina will face iceland on saturday for their first group stage match in portugal will play rival neighbors and twenty ten champions spain in the

on friday the first match of the tournament june fourteenth in moscow's nicky stadium well thirty two nations will battle it out to get their hands on the world cup trophy a statue made of gold and the legendary cup has been passed on from winners to winners for many years now but before this championship it's going to. all across russia. the winning team will lift this exact trophy above their heads and this is the one that they keep only for a short while. for the ultimate possession they get to a so called the so called winners trophy which it looks like exactly this one but only made up for a bronze and it's a gold plated bronze. indeed

this is the one in on the maid of eighteen karat solid gold. official fee for world cup trophy and only heads of state and people will cup winners can touch this magnificent full gold price. trophy traveled from coming right through bloody nose to all literally a massive geography we estimated that around forty million people lives in the nearest proximity to the cities where the traffic visited. and you can follow all the very latest world cup events right there on our channel in the run up and throughout the entire championship.

i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman ija. has been spending to get the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else only because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful game a great chance for. peace.

and is going to join us today at the f.b.i. has seized the e-mails and phone records of a new york times reporter as it moves to plug ongoing leaks of classified information and the issues come to a head under the trumpet ministration but as nicky aaron explains it actually dates back long before that. trump's white house has a serious problem it's leaking a shocking secret memo leaked to the new york times white house's most prolific leakers all the weeks we get out of the way else why this white house leaks and all the reasons it's hit there's always so much fun in this white house is so leaky there is even leaks about why they're leaking and so in an effort to deal with the issue is to find it to move on from its fatigue to war of words with the media and

show a bit of muscle wrong with the press. or the press are also were. very. well chums verbal disputes with the press have become commonplace his latest step can be seen as a watershed moment that is crossing the line into spying on journalists now at the center of this is new york times reporter allie watkins whose phone and e-mail records were secretly seized amid a justice department investigation into this guy james a wolf a former high ranking ate at the senate intelligence committee who's suspected of leaking classified information to reporters and he also happens to be the former boyfriend of what kids during their three year romance that what kids they excelled in her career even being shortlisted for a pulitzer her skills in gauging tipoffs from elusive unnamed sources were praised

by her university breaking national story was the direct result of tips she received through unnamed sources with whom she's developed trusting relationships she denies ever using her former lover as a source however now some of her old tweets are coming back to haunt her i wanted to be zoe barnes until episode four sleeping with your source especially in addictive congressman when a very grey area ethically he could be which i'm ok with storyboards of the washington herald morning as he was both of those exactly sure how we got. please do i want it over i'm sorry mr president but i will not do that. you can take. well. so on a scale of one to ethical how does everyone feel about pulling a real zoe barnes for story ideas for media rights groups however what we're saying hey is trump's latest push to demonize journalists which represents

a true declaration of war on the press we believe that the government seizure of early what can this data sets a dangerous precedent we fear it could be an opening salvo in an ongoing battle over reporters' ability to protect this but such intimidation tactics all reporters are actually nothing new investigations into journalists on their sources were heavily ramped up under trump's previous s.-a in fact under president obama the justice department prosecuted more leak cases than all previous administrations combined so perhaps it's time for everything on using this. journalist shine a light on many issues around the world keeping citizens informed prompting robust debate this discussion we certainly face that here and holding governments accountable we honor the many journalists and media professionals who have dedicated their lives to the profession we see all too often that journalists continue to take great risks to pursue this important work america is not this

beacon of freedom of the press that some people like you believe in clearing the track that mr ation the targeting of whistleblowers and leaders and journalists this is something that is this is been going on since at least the fifty's and sixty's with the counter intelligence programs and we know that this continues up to do social media so it's a bit ironic and kind of disgusting to be quite honest to see the united states government pretend to be you know the protector. press freedoms are there we have some great freedom freedom of press system when you really look at the numbers and you look at the rankings and see which countries have the most free press the united states continues to fall further and further down that list. a petition to save a pregnant cow or from execution has garnered almost twenty eight thousand signatures of all garion animal accidentally crossed the e.u. border back prompting the author already to order her extermination as

a precautionary measure however there could be a ray of hope for the ball gary and food safety agency saying the cow has passed all of her health checks. eloi period let's go the out such and such. was the major league how many. areas. thanks. to our local currency.

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