the highest level of special yesterday had breakfast lunch and dinner with there something very special discussion here there was something something very special this incredible woman right here his ace a very smart very tough very capable person the broadest deepest and most advanced security cooperation special relationship i think prime minister made for her partnership have a lot of respect for the prime minister special relationship long tradition of friendship collaboration and i think she's a terrific woman i think she's doing a terrific job. from made those remarks despite a newspaper interview a day earlier when he slammed the prime minister's plans for braggs and saying that they would kill any chance of a trade deal with america he went on to suggest that boris johnson who recently resigned as u.k. foreign secretary would make a great prime minister of the trump later backtracked calling the coverage of that interview fake news. well meanwhile protesters against a trump visit turned out in large numbers in london organizers estimate

a quarter of a million people took to the streets and he's honest as he reports now from london . that was one of the protesters for the protests that have been. hit since the u.k. here we are interim hours where you can see behind me the score is absolutely shocked with tens of thousands of people that have been marching to get to this point for the last couple of hours and it has to be said that the numbers of people who turned out while we suck up until recent may try to show a unified front they talked about their special relationship we've seen people here talk about how the only special relationship. with him. only going to spend that coming out onto the streets in such numbers is fake news so all of these people are trying to make it be understood that the u.s. present. is not welcome here and again this is just one of many of us activities

that have been tainted thank. you did i say yes. i get a bill you might not think but it's been like this for the last couple of hours really the mood here is very persistent in terms of showing the president he's not welcome to the u.k. and this is something that's been. leading up to his credit i thought that was it is you have arrived yesterday we saw protests outside the u.s. ambassador's residence in london where donald trump was spending one night was. earlier today it was done with this massive giant balloon depicting donald trump wearing a nappy was flown over our just outside parliament also here in central london so obviously the mood here seems to speak for itself in many ways with so many people

finding the time and the urgency to come out to say that they just don't want don obama as the two leaders were getting down to business their spouses were having a much more leisurely time first lady millennia tromp joined the prime minister's husband phillip for a game of bowls and while members of the press were advised to wear flat shoes mrs trump was seen walking around the bowling green fields. despite the show of unity between may and trump there are plenty of tensions under the surface as art is what i got comments. america and the u.k. have a special thing going special relationship they called it language culture values defense then came trump but surely he can't ruin it right the special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. has been strong for many years and we'll have opportunities to talk about

a possible future trading relationship really remember barack obama when he came around they couldn't get enough of him everyone wanted to shake his hand and get a picture what a swell guy. trump just doesn't have the charm it seems where barber was greeted with cheers and applause trump gets protests and outrage even a giant trump baby balloon and americans being told to avoid drawing attention to themselves be aware of your surroundings and exercise caution and expect to live in the vicinity of large gatherings keep

a low profile. one would imagine a special relationship would be a little friendlier but what do we know who to say hip in this explosive and politically divided age of ours but why they hate ok trump did slap britain and europe with painful tariffs and steal an island minium and mrs may certainly wasn't happy about it expressed deep disappointment at the unjustified decision of the united states to apply terrorists to steal and i mean. it cannot be done by taking unilateral action against our partners then there was the whole iran mess so much effort years of work to get iran to verifiably stop pursuing nuclear weapons and then trump torpedoes it but come on you couldn't have been alone britain's always been there for the states donald trump.

undermined progress towards normalization of relationships with i have been very clear in a number of conversations with the president of the united states about the belief that the united kingdom the j.c.t. away the nuclear deal with iran then there's the. maze of government and strategy are in shambles she needs friends the back here and who better than the us the people voted. to break it up so i would imagine that's what they'll do but maybe they're taking a little bit of a different route so i don't know that's what they voted for well that wasn't very helpful no trump did offer the u.k. a tariff free trade deal if it really did as the e.u. but goodness me there's very little that special in this relationship aside from how fast it's losing its special pnas and on top of that trump being

trump just had to rub salt in the wound i'm going to a few hot spots we have nato there we have the u.k. and then we have putin. and i said putin may be the easiest of them all you never know but i'm going to a pretty hot spot right now right with the lot of reza lot of resignations pound on it's just saying it's easier to talk to putin then to you allies but they you go how's that for friends it's like the phrase goes with friends like these who needs enemies. the russian president's spokesperson has expressed hope that ties with of the u.s. can be repaired and he spoke to me peskov ahead of monday's summit between donald trump and vladimir putin. we knew that mr pascal wouldn't really spill the beans just before the big head to head advantage however we did hear

a few things from him lately the media and the west as well as some politicians have really been distressed or even agitated about the summit coming up in the capital of finland feeling that one of the two leaders may use some sort of leverage in a bargaining game while the spokesperson of mr putin says that kremlin is looking into any kind of bargaining options i also asked them about some specific potential bargaining chips that would leave go right up to western journalists are going on about some possible big bargaining game that could unravel in helsinki what should we be watching out for anything like that at all does moscow have any bargaining chips for the americans when you put. the word in his absolutely inappropriate here instead positions will be compared and they will be clarification as to confirm or dispel any fear is you know that our relations are

in a quite pitiful state and you know that russia was in the one who initiated the ruling of the complex of all relations we hope there is a political will to normalize relations with but it may have police for him at a previous so rumors again in the american media that russia might hand edward snowden to u.s. authorities have nothing to do with reality. the thing is that. you know they have nothing to do with it it's out of the question i think about it as a hoarder or books or a daneyko yuma but you know enough well why are you so stubborn when it comes to even the slightest possibility of discussing crimea or some believe it's donald trump who might be ready to start discussing the matter from a different perspective than to like other western politicians maybe it's worth having a go with him or not. look there's only one way to discuss this and continually saying until russia gives crimea back there will be no this or that repeating this

is like some kind of mantra which is absolutely logical it's a road to nowhere it has no perspective and nothing will come of it and with more to. what is mr trump is the one to stop this is there any hope of that. you know we are not and never have been wearing rose tinted glasses but we can count on that dmitri pascal hasn't ruled out that the issue of the north stream to buy blind for direct natural gas deliveries from russia to the new will be brought all pain to hell thinking whately mr trump has seemed to be just a step away from even pulling berlin for working together with russia here is the reaction we heard from mr putin's press secretary to that he would use a voyage to an input of let's not forget the north stream too is an international project it's not even russian german or german russian it's a multinational enterprise which has many shareholders among them very big

companies from farias countries and let's put it like this threatening the shareholders as well as threatening russia and germany with sanctions if this project goes further these threats are a big concern. speaking of the enormous amounts of work in terms of craps by both administrations the press secretary admitted that the agenda. is far from being for here's mr peskov with more on that very process. there's no clear agenda existing it will be created by heads of states as they go. we will be showing the full version of that exclusive interview with the press secretary of the russian president on monday just several hours before donald trump and a lot of our who meet in helsinki. the fifteen year old palestinian boy has been killed during the latest clashes on the israel gaza border

according to palestinian health officials. i know there are. one israeli soldier was injured in the unrest friday's riots marked one hundred days since the start of the so-called march of return palestinians have been rolling at the border fence every week accusing israel of occupying their ancestral lands throughout the day demonstrators burned tires and her rocks at israeli forces who responded with tear gas and live bullets our correspondent and. stuff from the scene. so i'm only one hundred meters away from the fence that separates gaza strip with israel and as you see palestinian protesters are trying to approach a fence and break it well every time there was an attempt by israeli forces or

every act back with live ammunition and here it got palestinians as you see it still come to to the protest are very close to the fence and are burning tires to blur the vision of days or at least night prayers that palestinians are still mark debated and still passionate of that about the great march of return demanding the right to reach. and in demanding breaking the bill cade on the gaza strip that has been imposed for more than eleven years palestinians today are also protesting express expressing their brains and anger against the demolishing of the israelis. but when village the israelis are also closing more restrictions and procedures on the gaza strip while they're going to close down crossing which they're not allowing any imports boyer exports to gaza strip and they're only allowing the humanitarian needs there you can see the protestant is. angry and expressing their

anger at the palestinians say that this is the only way they can achieve their demands expressing their anger and expressing the race to the whole world palestinians continue to raise the palestinian flag up high during the protests and as you see the palestinians are very very close to the fence while they know that there are had fairly weapons states soldiers stationed along the fence this is one of the injuries that came from the fence just right now this. morning with. the intent the beginning of the march eighteenth children worked directly shot dad and they are the two including the one hundred thirty eight palestinians killed since the beginning of the marks. of. the syrian army has it regained control of the city of daraa from rebel forces it is

a strategically vital location in the south of the country seen as the birthplace of the uprising against president assad and the syrian national flag has been raised over the city for the first time since two thousand and eleven over the past month with government forces backed by the russian military have regained most of the surrounding province political scientists. dollah believes that the syrian government could be close to ending the seven year civil war we know that tool who is already lows in syria. will want you to divide c.l.a want to do. with. everything he is it clear now if you will see or not is what we boys we could say. we could see open. with those american woodwards or on american units aboard their israeli supports all the chores are also. what's happened in this house or other parts of the c.h.

not television and it's not some kind of brought this it's really aborted to free these cities that we can see that the syria flight his regime it's a big symbol for and all for these war against. the offending of these four against c.b.s. he. must profits the strike by saying space is cool now to historic launch towers at the cape canaveral space center in florida have been demolished. all. those structures stood for more than half a century during that time they were used for several lunar missions and also to send probes into the far reaches of the solar system so it will now be used for a new space exploration project which aims to establish a lunar colony by two thousand and twenty. does it for me i'll be back of top the

hour with more news you are watching. he. like a bull in a china shop donald trump style and negotiation skills were on full display at this year's annual nato gathering he was not shy about how he feels about the alliance now the trump summit is front and center would be a mere photo op or something more.

was a change agent writes about is a nice way to say he's crazy and he's going to go into any situation and just over turn the table and say let's start from scratch was exactly what is needed for the united states because the united states was very poorly positioned to head into the twenty first century so we need a guy like trump come in there and just you know knock over all the pieces on the chess board and start playing checkers i mean and start all over again. one on one with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov on this special edition politic. welcome to politicking i'm larry king and historic summit looms which we in the united states president donald trump and russian's leader vladimir putin at a time of increased tensions between their two nations mr trump

a signal that syria's sanctions military exercises election meddling may be on the agenda but what does moscow want from this high stakes face to face to find out we now talk with russia's long time. surrogate proff who joins us from moscow thank you for the invitation larry. ok let's get right into it a wrap up of the nato summit the fifth. trump and other members agreed to a joint statement which among other things condemned your country's elite they called it illegal and illegitimate an exaggeration of crimea also reaffirmed support for ukraine's aspirations to become a member of nato what mr foreign minister is your reaction to this.

you know there is nothing new in these statements we have been hearing them for quite a number of years so we take it as inertia and by the caldwell thinking not nothing more than that i thought the cold war was over. well that's why you know are sure of the cold war unfortunately still good with nato and it's high time for nato leave it behind. at his news conference thursday president trump said that the nato allies have stepped up like never before on defense spending he also be called the alliance of fine tuned machine how to what is the foreign minister said what are your thoughts about nato. well nato is the

reality. it's of easing off called what times but that is the reality and we take it as the reality we don't believe that what nato is doing by trying to expand further and further close at the russian borders. smalling countries pool frankly do not add to the security of their alliance we don't believe that this is the way to resolve the problems of today at the day we have common threats come and then in this there isn't climate change organized crime drug trafficking and none of this is being effectively addressed by nato expansion nato should certainly be taken as a reality as i said but nato should understand that it is something which cannot dictate to each and every other country how to handle the international security

matters dialogue is required we have been proposing many things to nato which we can do together counter-terrorism then the discussions of military doctrines discussion of transparency majesty in the military buildup all this was frozen after the events in crimea after the referendum in crimea and made them a deal with the approach that. exactly the same approach as it took in two thousand and eight in august and then president saakashvili of georgia launched a war against his own people in south ossetia and then we demand that the convening of nato russia council but gondoliers the rights of the secretary of state that said no way we can to discuss anything we and i dress quote unquote but then she corrected herself and all nato members agreed that nato must be all the way of that name. the russia council must be all they have

a. forum and that especially at the time of crisis it should function on the basis of equality and taken into account the mutual interests of each other so after the ukrainian the referendum which was three and three as i said and as many international observers assert the mistake was repeated once again and as of the defense expenditure even without any further rice the current statistics is that nato together with the united states spends about twenty times more than russia spends on its defense and without the united states the european spent about four times more than russia spends on his defense budget i assume that it might be possible related to the productivity of labor to the difference in productivity of labor but this cannot be the only explanation but. how do

you react when when president trump said that germany is totally controlled by russia. well. my spokesman there is a kind of addressed this issue i think yesterday when she gave facts that we. sell gas to germany which is business and the united states has dozens of thousands of military men and women on the german soil and a few dozen military bases and then any international observer having this that he sticks in front of him or her or should make their own conclusions i can only quote what the president said when he was asked by the president put in this he is enemy or his friend he said he's

a competitor that's drawn competitive and i believe we can get along this line and they hope one day might become friends but speaking of competition i always believed in free competition because free market is about fair competition and when speaking of gas and germany and united states secretary of energy mr perry yesterday i think said that the north stream to pipeline must be stopped and those european countries whose companies would be participating in this project would be sanctioned by the united states because because the united states use for competition and for the sake of competition there must be new terminals to receive american liquefied national natural gas some of some competition i would say and of course the for the russian what they read there in

the guess is supposed to be warse then the democratic american guest then i am all for this story but this is not the economy this is not competition this is a pure ideal the g.e. and unfair competition. mr prime minister are you going to a company mr putin to helsinki. yes i would do the as well as secretary pun pal we had a couple of conversations with mike can tell we discussed what kind of arrangements we should for see for the for the meeting and helsinki and parallel to the meeting between the two presidents which they want to start one on one would be meeting with mike is invested as to russia and to the united states respectively and we will discuss any issue which each of us would like to raise there would be no fixed

agenda but there are obvious items which would certainly pop up. the two presidents will meet alone by the way i the end of you and mr putin i know in. part a few times and when i when i've been with him he doesn't speak english are they going to be interpreters at that private meeting between the two presidents. yes that would be interpreted as president putin actually understands english but for the sake of better expressing his views he prefers to use the interpreters of good office. will there be there be no other aides in the room you will not be in the room

well as things stand now that's what the american side proposed and to be polite people so we had read. what are you looking forward to from the summit what from the russian standpoint will be a successful summit. while a beginning of normal communications. all channels of commit more struggles of communications established during the last seven eight ten years have been frozen on very important issues count that there are these and there are g. drug trafficking cyber security many others afghanistan other regional conflicts and what we have now is a spy or a dick meetings between diplomats and the military mostly on syria we also have a channel on ukraine where the aid of president putin and

a special envoy of the united states met several times about to be is no visible progress because our american colleagues try every every time they need to is their russian counterparts to deviate radically from the meanest agreements which underlie the consensus on your trainee and crisis but we keep trying and they hope that we would certainly discuss this issue in helsinki but back to your question regarding the ideal outcome ideal outcome would be to agree to in gauge all the channels on all the issues which are devised if on the one hand threatening to see whether we can get closer on those exact topics and also on those issues where we now can usefully cope the rate for the sake of interest of the two countries and for the sake of interest of

international community like a strategic stability for example i optimistic about. well i'm not paid to be optimistic or pessimistic i'm paid to be realistic and really try to stick to the reality we'll see what the reality looks like. mr lavrov us minister lavrov stay right there we'll be right back with more politicking right after this quick break.