a bit but it's clear. a day of top level diplomacy comes to a successful and as random and putin and donald trump wrap up a historic summit hailing great progress. our relationship. has never been worse. than it is now however that changed. as of about four hours ago. despite both leaders agreeing on a number of key international issues the us media already furious at the result. only the president calls the reporters the enemy of the american people as an american citizen that i just personally think spaciousness incredibly depressing moment in our time in our history and also this hour the strong squad gets

a hair rose welcome in paris after their four two triumph over croatia and the football world cup by. a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me. now our top story this hour the meeting all of the year as some are already calling the first trump putin summit is now over both leaders have said they made a positive steps and real progress well we can now cross live to try and r.t. america's. your company the russian president tell us about your experience.

hello there once again well right now i'm standing just outside the. a modest looking presidential palace in helsinki it's right there that's where everything happened more than two hours of head to head discussions between donald trump and vladimir putin where nobody except for the translators were president then that was followed by lunch where the leaders were also accompanied by some of the most senior officials from both countries i was only able to witness forty seconds of that and both sides stayed silent and only at the very end donald trump quickly replied to one of the questions that was thrown at him he said the talks were off for a good start now i can tell you that later we were there at the press conference where i did ask a question myself it was the first ever joint media briefing by vladimir

putin and donald trump and here's what i filmed for you just after it was over exactly at the location where a lot of members who've been and donald trump were standing and talking to the press. to refuse to. see the faces of donald trump who was standing right here by the way with a bigger microphone and vladimir putin here with a smaller microphone and i saw two men who were genuinely enjoying talking together but today first of all their message to the journalists was that they want this kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track and it is quite clear to everyone that the by the true relationship is a complicated stage there is no salute reasoning for the impediments the current

tense atmosphere in the cold war ended some time ago. our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago at this presidential palace the word we heard quite a few times was syria and on the one hand this is the area that was looking rather promising ahead of these talks but on the other hand it wasn't promising at all given the interests of israel and iran that are at stake i asked the leaders whether they came to any specific arrangements when it comes to the russia and us working together on solving the syrian crisis plus mr trump perhaps surprisingly said that the russian and american military could be doing a better job at working together compared with the white house and the kremlin soon

it will be to years since donald trump was elected but guess what still worries the entire u.s. presidential press poll allegations of meddling and collusion there were sitting right here and almost all the questions from this part of the room were about that and it was rather fascinating to see how the two leaders almost teamed up to dodge these kind of questions during today's meeting addressed directly with president putin the issue of russian interference in our election and i had to repeat what i've said several times including in a personal contacts the russian state never has and never will interfere in internal american affairs do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular yes i do i hold both countries responsible i didn't know the president.

there was nobody to collude with where did you get the idea that prison trump trusts me or i trust him. he defends u.s. interests and i defend russia's interests president putin denied having anything to do with the election your parents are twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did it who do you believe i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the twelve people i think that's an incredible offer. or was an intelligence officer myself and i do know how to compile it into conclusion can only be made by a court and not by intelligence services speaking of offers donald trump received from his russian counterpart the u.s. president twice mentioned an idea that came from the russian side about learning

and vesta gaiters work together and team both in russia and the u.s. on investigating these allegations of meddling but it seemed that these kind of things didn't satisfy the american media at all. a while later trying to was following a president putin succumb to how stinky also that was on t. america correspondent on year who's been following trump during the summit to see you can you tell us your view from the other side. hi nicky well ilya captured it quite perfectly and making the point that you can see it just from the way the reporters during the press conference handled question time the only two questions to come from the american press gaggle had to do with collusion as you just saw ilia playing those two questions for you earlier that's

because in the u.s. in washington all the talk has been over the last few days not about issues like syria ukraine nuclear disarmament north korea it's been about the indictment handed down by special counsel robert mueller concerning these twelve allegedly members of russian intelligence services which mueller suggests hacked the d.n.c. e-mails now apparently for the press corps and political establishment in washington and indictment is good enough as a court proven or a case proven in court because all the way up to the meeting today the very last moment nikki you had a mainstream networks in the united states calling for trying to cancel the meeting not even make an effort at diplomacy purely based off this indictment again not even ruling in court now the fact the meeting went on in the fact that it went on

long made the washington press corps that i was traveling with quite distraught if you can imagine waiting around for the press conference i could hear many reporters from the american side making jokes about what could possibly be taking so long with these. two world leaders of two very powerful countries of course. you we can imagine there'd be many things for them discussed but only crude jokes coming from the american side i heard one called league on a major network describes the press conference that was held between trump and putin as a wedding that was on live television i personally don't know how this press conference was different from any other press conference that the president of the united states would have with the world leader but there's a real inability for the american press corps to grasp the fact that this summit happened between trump and putin and that there are perhaps issues beyond election meddling worth discussing syria for one which i'm very glad my colleague the train

go brought up during that press conference because no substance was coming from the american side now as you can imagine also in washington politicians are already coming back with very heavy handed responses to today's meeting one senator senator john mccain of arizona who you have to understand is quite literally on his deathbed battling brain cancer at the moment mustered up the energy today to make the following statement he said the damage inflicted by president trumps and egoism a false equivalence and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate but it is clear that the summit in helsinki was a tragic mistake his colleague in the senate bob corker said i do not think it was a very good moment for our country and described the president as a pushover now nikki this is without any sort of anything as much as a joint statement from the two presidents pledging concrete steps that either will take on issues concerning syria or otherwise none of that came from the event today

the two leaders simply said they met and things went well and they hope that this conversation will continue in the future and yet this is all ready the way washington politicians and press are reacting it suggests that trump and. pruden have a very difficult road ahead as they continue to strengthen their relationship and that one of the biggest challenges it will see is winning over the us media and your thank you for that it's a fascinating to see the different responses to this meeting but thank you for bringing us the two perspectives from both camps as. well earlier we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul he says u.s. media work to make russia look like an enemy. you believe here in this country that trump has advice it's not necessarily the best i think he has good instincts i think he was very sincere today i think it was all very positive but you also

mentioned so far in his program about the american media and that is a big problem because for some reason they're almost unanimously endorsing the idea that we have to have an enemy and at this point especially for the last twenty years they've been working very hard to make russia the enemy and i think this is this is wrong and it's not just democrats alone that do this it's the democrats and along with some disgruntled republicans who just they just don't like trump but no i was very pleased with what went on today and it's a step in the right direction they can rehash everything whether it i think the biggest thing that if it ever had a serious discussion i guess it would come out on how much we've been involved when we should be involved for instance in ukraine and how that occurred but if they don't have want to concentrate on those problem they want to look forward i think that is great but i would like to i think the next best a systemic ever would be for us to reassess this and say that trump is going in the

right direction and talk i'm into getting rid of the sanctions on russia. oh just minutes before the news conference started to protest it was dragged from the venue is thought the sign he was carrying led to a nuclear weapons ban treaty. when at the end of the news conference putin presented trump with a twenty eighteen world cup ball and saying that it's on his side now a reference to the us co-hosting the twenty twentieth's biggest hornets. analysts were of course looking for any telltale signs from the need his behavior

and something handshakes speak volumes their first one came when they met in hell thinking on the second happened in front of the media but before the start of the talks we asked analyst and body language expert how it felt him and what we can read into it. trump is coming from a very very highly critical domestic america so he's used he's very aware that his whole country is looking at him and trying to interpret what is really going on between these two leaders and it's with that that he enters the room and he faces faces what seems to be an opponent so you start off and he's very he's almost stretching both of them off they sit down they build a uncomfortable they look like a doubles and couple and then they reach out for their attention now what do you see about that handshake is it is a distant handshake it is not one with the whole bodies are involved you know to start one hand on top of the other trump is very very visual with

a war with of placing of his hand and he goes in very very evenly and that's how the handshake is is. executed donald trump said to his normal donald trump position which is the his leg. so oddly apart because of slumps quite comfortably although he didn't look comfortable if you looked at his his mouth it was a grimace to it he's good he's told was clear and he wasn't comfortable at all and definitely looked lockable comfortable person in the route again let's look at what's what's bringing them vit c. he's a much more comfortable place for putin that is to put putin has just come from a enormously successful world cup event so he is feeling a little bit more relaxed it is on his turf even though it's a very very important discussion and meeting for him. to live with is now less benedict executive director of the libertarian policy mr benedict that welcome to

the program president putin as said that he offered to develop relations with the u.s. and trying to do you think the presidents have finally found some common ground. i think so and i think that's a good thing it's good for russia and the united states to talk it's good to discuss important issues and to figure out how we can coexist and prosper. as a libertarian i'm in favor of peace free trade and prosperity for americans and the rest of the world in a course including russia and while it seems like the american press is obsessed with trying to point out every possible thing that russia has ever done wrong as a libertarian i think it's important for america first to focus on what america has done wrong and what policies we might change here rather than trying to blame russia first. americans generally don't like it when russia intervenes in other

countries affairs whether that's militarily or by spying or influence in elections or trade wars but what is it fair for america to focus on russia's infractions when the american government routinely behaves badly on an enormous scale. who does more spying on foreigners america or russia i think there are a lot of government contractors and bureaucrats here in america that make a lot of money that would brag about how effective our spying is and we even have edward snowden who pointed out all the abuses here in america and is about six let's talk they were doing action in syria interrupt let's talk about the reaction that we've seen since this isn't this summit wrapped up just a couple of hours ago what we've seen in the u.s. media is what kind of describe just some kind of his stereo all of this if you were us with the results of the summit let's just have a listen so what's being said only the president calls the reporters the the enemy of the american people as an american citizen i just personally think space is just

an incredibly depressing moment in our time in our history not to the naked eye this media conference off to this this summit seemed very positive they agreed on a number of critical issues at hand why are we seeing so much anger in the u.s. media do you think. it's a common thing the american media likes to cover conflict and it's seems like they always do their share to create conflict. we need to focus on things that have america that america has done wrong the american media needs to focus on that rather than try and find out everything that russia has ever done that seems wrong and that's i was trying to point out things like the military elections foreign intervention is some where america has done far more damage in recent years than russia and you know i'm an american i love america. i want america to

prosper and there are things that we can do in america that are under our control that would improve america that would also improve russia and the rest of the world and those are things that america needs to discuss with russia without the discussions there just a lot of mistrust and struggling so yes the american media is doing its best to drum up hatred between the two countries when what we really need is dialogue and finding common ground. at parity in also on the lines that russia has never meddled in the u.s. and elections is something he said before he said it again trump also said that he believes putin on this how could this affect the indictments of twelve russians that those that haue king link to fences. well first of all you know interference in foreign elections russia i imagine they've done it

occasionally to some scale it's impossible for me to know exactly but let me point out that there was a political scientist dolphin of carnegie mellon university who pointed out that the united states attempted influence for elections at least eighty one times between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and it didn't stop then and of course there was a recent example in two thousand and fourteen when while hillary clinton was secretary of state where a high ranking state department official was caught on tape conspiring to affect the elections in ukraine i think americans are paranoid about foreign influence and particularly with respect to facebook i think i would not be surprised if there were lots of russian trolls on facebook but the but the idea that there is somehow so much control by russia on facebook is laughable i mean we

have a zillion trolls right here in america on facebook i've actually met many of them in person as well and of course donald trump has twitter covered so i i i am not so worried about russian influence in elections and i really think the american media especially needs to focus on what has the united states done to try and influence elections throughout the world not to mention invading countries and installing dictators or or political leaders that we prefer life benedict executive director of the libertarian party thank you for your time. what's in the u.k. now it's been revealed that british labor party members responsible for facebook votes in last year's general election made leader jeremy corbett and his closest aides seem different from the general public artie's polly boyko picks up the story . this is all been revealed in a new book about the effect of the media on politics and the allegation is that in

the run up to the general election back in twenty seventeen just over a year ago senior labor party staff members hostile to jeremy corbyn used targeted facebook ads in order to trick the labor leader into thinking that his campaigns were being rolled out nationwide online in actual fact the campaigns that jeremy corbyn wanted to push nationally but which senior officials didn't like they were being targeted just jeremy corbyn and his closest aides take a listen to how the labor party leader jeremy corbyn was heard winked by his own party when they were told to be from nationwide they're regarded as might go up such as one on the water registration they made sure that few sources mostly just accept a tiny slice of left wing activists if it was there for them they thought it must be there for everyone it wasn't that's how targeted it's going to work well a very twenty first century sort of sabotage and clearly quite dysfunctional

relationships there between a party leader and the officials meant to be executing his campaign decisions but jeremy called ben is no stranger to hostility from within his own party he's loved by plenty of labor voters but not so much by the parliamentary party here in the u.k. this contains all the centrists that are unhappy with his left wing policies and perhaps he may be unfazed by all of this he survived several coups against him labor party or had a few raised eyebrows in response to these red. relations it's bizarre that anyone would undermine plans to advertise voter registration during the general election despite fighting with one point behind our backs by some on corporates of senior staff we achieved a lot just increase in labor's vote since nine hundred forty five while the statement we got from the labor party also said that so-called uncooperative stuff

were proven wrong anyway because the videos that emphasized jeremy called it is left wing politics that were put up on corbin's own video and website channels and on the channels of his campaign group momentum far outperformed anything that was posted up by the parliamentary labor party on its own website and video channel so according to the labor party all they have the last laugh anyway. are to discuss the issue further now we're joined by political analyst from hughes mr hughes welcome to the program great to see you so were you surprised to find that top labor officials have tricks their leader. i'm not surprised but i have to say i'm extremely shocked what you're seeing there is the remnants of the old. that is still a very strong influence within the labor parliamentary party and factor in. resigning not that long ago he was played

a major part in the deception of germany corben and kind of inner sanctum within the liberal party that was pushing the korban elected and have a small on elected on representative and on a card table group with the labor party staffers actually sabotaging germy corbin's chance of winning the election i think it's just discourse will it is always impossible now to check who saw which so is there any possibility at all that the former labor staffer simply made it all up. no it's definitely part of an ongoing there's an ongoing kind of faith within believe reporting it's actually a fate for the heart on the soul of the liberal party the liberal party was built on a socialist democratic platform that platform was moved to the center and indeed to the reg by tony blair the very man who led the united kingdom into the illegal wars

in iraq and when you consider what's happened there and libya and several other countries throughout the middle east. there's no socialism and the blur wing of the labor party so i'm i don't think for one second that it's been the worst states or some high mean misadventure misadventure i think it's been a planned operation from the start to sabotage germy corben and if you remember that the labor party membership in may two thousand and fifteen was around two hundred thirty and today it stands at five hundred fifty two thousand under the leadership of germany corben the people of britain who joined the labor party membership rank and file want to see a socialist alternative to the new liberal policies of the brics interns in may and what kind of effect do you think based on this very modern day scandal is going to have do you think it could divides the labor party. i think we've already seen several members of the labor party in several different occasions of trade and then

turning to within the party of parliament. the leaders kind of workings of that in threes in may is struggling with for thought the proposals that members of elected members of the labor party their m.p.'s in parliament actually met with the cheap but of the conservative party to see if there's some way that they get back to resume a keeper and paul are so when jeremy corben as effect column was in his own party who are determined to. bring him to and i think he's going to struggle but i think with the support of the rank and file members of the labor party and indeed the voters of great britain who as you alluded to have voted in greater numbers for the labor party than half since one thousand nine hundred five i think you're we corben on totally going to be the next leader of the british parliament after the next election and that very briefly but this stuff also argues that political advertising should be banned from social media that's something you would agree

with. social social media is. that the word media is in there or if you can advertise a television if you can advertise and in newspapers as shoom like every other form of advertising the most be some form of of a financial cop put on him what's come be spent for social advertising but you know jeremy corben would like to go away george galloway fantastic success the mark has opposed this one point two million followers on social media he can reach more people and many of the television programs are great in the evenings and in the united kingdom or indeed the newspapers through social media is a great way to get your money manifest the before the people and that the people to say political analyst for he's thank you for your time. ok. now the french capital is welcoming back its hair rose the national team crowned world cup winners on sunday evening in moscow hundreds of thousands of supporters

are out on the shelves and they say accompanying the squad as they paraded to the presidential residence where they were greeted by the president and manual macross . of the. oh they say seventy thank. you thank you. she said she did eighteen deciding on anything she prayed a short sale a day. or going to see you while. rephrase that is just fine over with the colleagues on the french try to check the wrong guys these days of the world cup she has an a.t.m. come down the street people have been watching the team for the last month by

saying i'm praying that they would win the world cup and they have done it in other words like it's just heating incredible though that the energy everything soon then coming here is was incredibly was the chore but now the feeling was a sense of unity and everything was absolutely incredible i'm an american and i'm living here this is such a joy to see all of us you know find it's really just great to embody the spirit this is what france is all about where they started here all their words growing close just sitting there and realizes this is this beautiful they don't need to see over the old man that's all growing all over the you showing so i think it is the city of paris is actually renamed some of the metro stations you know not all of these places including i not try don't want to show up as being renamed as not like did the idea show up in oh no oh but the manager of the world cup team of course he was also the captain affronts is will cup winning team back in ninety nine to.