a day at top level diplomacy comes to a successful and as putin and the old trump wrap up and his first summit 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 u.s. media play the furious at the result. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of that is the groom anderson but it sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching for for the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by the american president in memory. also this hour the

front squad gets a hero's welcome in paris that force a triumph over croatia and the welsh cup final. i. a very warm welcome you're watching aussie international with me make it our and first to our top story. the meeting of the year as some are already calling the first chunk putin summit is now over both leaders said they made positive steps and real progress r.t.

easier trying to have us travel to helsinki with putin and year and join the truck team on this trip his their experience. why i'm standing right outside the modestly looking presidential palace in the capital of finland where everything happened first two hours of a head to head togs between donald trump and a lot of our putin with only the translators allowed inside the room that was then followed by a lunch where the leaders were joined by some of the most senior officials from the two countries and i was only able to witness forty seconds of that meeting and during this tiny period of time both sides stayed silent until donald trump quickly replied to a question that was screamed out it was how are the talks going so far from said good start then came the first ever joint press conference by donald trump and

vladimir putin i asked a question myself during this media briefing where the two leaders were standing shoulder to shoulder and here's what i would corded for you just after the press conference was over i looked into 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's quite clear to everyone that the true relationship is that a complicated stage there is no solid reasoning for the impediments the current tense atmosphere in the cold war ended some time ago that 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 i had a unique opportunity to ask the heads of russia and the us whether they could share the details for some specific arrangements for russia and the u.s. to work in syria together if any of those were made but the leaders didn't spill the beans on any of that however i got the impression that steps together could be also perhaps surprisingly donald trump even said that the armies of russia and the u.s. could be better at cooperating then the white house and the kremlin soon it will be

to years since donald was elected but guess what still worries the. 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 have to repeat what i've said several times including in a personal contacts the russian states never has and never will interfere in 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 interference or twenty six every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that the russians did 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 of. an intelligence of some months and i do know how to comply and to conclusions can only be made point of cool and not by intelligence services however none of this seemed to convince american journalists and while i was looking at them when they were leaving the room they seemed to be even more for straighted then before the leaders met donald trump and

vladimir putin though when they were heading towards the doors i could only see smiles on their faces on monday i was working among the group of russian journalists who cover whatever a lot of who does and my colleague from r.t. america on the hill was among the sole called us presidential poll of journalists so. what did it look like from your side 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 the fact the meeting went on and 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. we can imagine there'd be many things for them discussed but only crude jokes coming from the american side i heard one colleague on a major network describe the press conference that was held between trump and putin as a wedding that was on live television i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom anderson but a source sort of feels like we're unaware that you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president why is president trump putting himself in his inaugural ball high stakes canario and letting you out of their pool lead as you can imagine also in washington politicians are already coming back with very heavy handed responses to today's meeting. trump's press conference before. high crimes and misdemeanors it was

nothing short of true not only were trumped. he's hooley the pockets of republican patrick where are you for the president to side with putin over his own intelligence officials and blame the united states for russia's attack on our democracy is a complete disgrace 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 the conversation will continue in the future. facing a barrage of attacks after the press conference trump took to twitter defending his comments he stated again that he has great confidence in u.s. intelligence which is fists russia didn't meddle in the u.s. election trump says he can't focus on the past as the two nuclear powers must get

along well line what is now is our business and executive vice president of the eurasia center mr rasmussen thank you for joining us on the program president putin said that he offered to develop relations with the u.s. and trump after that press conference after that after the meeting do you think the president seem to have found finally found common ground here. well i think there's obviously disagreements and there's areas that still never agree on crimea being a key one but but i think they did find common ground it's good that they met i think just talking and having a real dialogue is very important and then solve everything that's really just a beginning but it's a positive started thinking about something that is long overdue i think was the most outstanding about this summit is the reaction to it really many of the u.s. media seemingly furious with the results of the summit let's have

a quick listen to the response. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom anderson but it's we're sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory why is president trump putting himself in this vulnerable high stakes in area and letting flag in your pool. now so the naked eye watching that press conference you would think of the two leaders going to long very while you know the body language was great trump often you know shows his feelings in his body language and also they agreed on a number of like critical issues confronting the world why such a negative response in the us media i think we. we know the media for the most part of against it doesn't really matter what he does it doesn't

matter. what agreements are made they're still going to be against them and it's unfortunate and we can thank god that they're not responsible for diplomacy even though they try to influence foreign policy significantly but. i think it's just it's the continuing antitrust saga that's going on in. and really without evidence without just. it's kind of ingrained in their in their d.n.a. perhaps. d.n.a. hopefully that we can get past not i think it's fair to say that when it comes to u.s. presidents the dodo trunk is the base of the red bull he doesn't like to be taped would it be fair to say that the media response to him is actually pushed in close that's a good. i think it's. i think in some ways perhaps it is obviously i think he attempted to show that he's

not connected to putin early on but i think he's finally realized and we can we can tell by a tweet that he just did the other day that it doesn't matter what he does. and it is a witch hunt and it basically it doesn't matter what he does it's going to be wrong and it doesn't matter if it's good for the economy doesn't matter if it's good for world peace. and i think in some ways now he's can being controlled a lot there's a lot of influence from congress there's influence within his own staff. but i think perhaps this brought a better understanding about maybe the media the negative coverage of it the obsessiveness of the media is basically pushing him closer in that direction. the u.s. president said in our press that even though the two countries have not been getting on particularly well they will end up having

a close extraordinary relationship do you think that's possible in light of all the issues dividing them and also you know if the two do go on to have more meetings and do get along very well how long will it be before the media gets on board with this and stops portraying things in a negative light when it ever happened but i think with time it's going to be a long time and it's not going to be overnight. we could see before relations get to really where they should be maybe couple of ministrations unfortunately. the media is. the media is missed unfortunately president trump is not is not the golden boy for the media so i do not see i do not see them lightening up at all on him and but he seems to be a very strong individual and with the direction and so i i i think he can he can handle it but. well the media ever ever back down

a highly doubt it. however i do see the proof relationships i think they're positive for the world and it's positive for definitely for peace and positive for . for addressing different economic and. military type actions around the world that are going on and in a positive manner. as an executive vice president of the eurasia center thank you for joining us on r.t. international we appreciate your insight. and just minutes before the news conference started a dramatic style of protest it was drunk from the venue is thought the sign he was carrying red nuclear weapons ban treaty.

near the end of the news conference putin presented with a twenty eight he world cup people i think that it's on his side now a reference to the u.s. co-hosting the twenty twenty which makes it one of those with what you should be able to distinguish analysts were of course looking for any telltale signs from the leaders behavior and some think handshakes speak volumes their first one came when they met in helsinki and the second happened in front of the media before the start of talks we all started as down body experts body language experts how it felt when what we can read into it. trump is coming from a very very highly critical domestic america so he's he's got 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 he faces what seems to be an opponent so he starts off and he's very he's almost strutting both of them off they sit down they very very uncomfortable they look like a divorcing couple and then they reach out for their tension now what do you see about that handshake is it is a very distant handshake it is not one with a whole bodies are involved in notice not 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 hand shake is is. executed donald trump setting is normal donald trump position which is the his legs slightly apart and he kind 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 got his jaw was clear and he wasn't comfortable at all putin definitely looked like

a more comfortable person in the room again let's look at what what's bringing them their health sinking is a much more comfortable place for putin than it is for trump 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. and just hours after putin and trump finished their meeting new accusations of russia interfering in american affairs have appeared a russian citizen was charged by the department of justice for being a russian agent maria patino twenty nine years old was arrested on sunday and she's accused of developing relations with those who have influence in american politics to advance russia's interests. her attorney made a statement denying she is an agent she also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but they showed no interest in that or to discuss this further i'm joined live now by

a political analyst ally in the line of always good to see you always nice to have you on the program and the media quickly dubbed this as a spider charge but that's not how the department of justice officially described it is spying the same as working as an agent of the department. absolutely not and i'm going to be putting on my lawyer hat now as a lawyer and a former prosecutor she's charged basically with being a lobbyist without notifying the attorney general the department of justice that's it if you come into a country into the united states and you work on behalf of russia or italy or anybody in order to experience. cooperation and to to garner and to make connections and to influence decisions and so long as you register it's called the lobbyist you're there to promote

a particular cause whether bridge in this particular case was alleged gun rights gun ownership what we would call second amendment interests and the like it's ok if you register you're a lobbyist but end today as especially today as specially right now if you say russia an agent you could say russian travel agent it doesn't matter you can say special agent there is this confluence there is this weird connection where a lot of people especially in the media the media that loathe and detest president drum they will make connections of ha spying espionage. via violating state secrets versus someone who does not register with the attorney general but you just touched upon my next question

yourself how this story came to light shortly after pearson and charm that's in-house think so tell me tell me why is the timing so special. well the timing of course if you were to ask anybody there was a bonus is merrily this is just doesn't really happen because the the the search had taken. prior to this the search which by the way was also rather most uncomfortable for anybody who has seen a federal agency the f.b.i. search you would think that you are public enemy number one they grab everything that you have you have people who come on board who are professional. pickpockets who are. locked pickers and safe crackers if you have anything that involves immediate activity to break you'll have somebody there who have bolt cutters in

acetylene torches i mean this is this is really a a a a frightful event but what her point of view is and her lawyer she's saying i have made myself available i have talked with you i have voluntarily appeared i've appeared before committees or or tribunals or anybody who would like all you have to do is call me all you have to do was contact me you called me before i spoke with you before i am here you know normally as a matter of courtesy if you were just a regular just an ordinary not criminal suspect but somebody you would actually be appreciated by those in law enforcement because they would have to go through this but that tying me that time i mean more people are saying do you think it has anything to do now let me tell you something. i'm saying this again with all due respect to the american media if you say russian agent do you know that today as an example nobody has yet today to wonder to explain and i'm still waiting what

russian interference even involved over this other subject matter the media as examples by that we we they don't care about that the story is russia collusion putin and anything that embarrasses trump anything so that's exactly what's happening we're not this is a i don't want to say it's a minor crime it carries theoretically five years in prison though nobody would ever receive that sentence it's certainly nothing to do scott that but this she's not public enemy number one she is not charged with espionage she's not charged with spying she's charged with being a lobbyist without going through the formal procedure of registering with the attorney general i don't want to say that said it but that it considering how well talks went between putin and chung today and you know the the press conference

after it was a positive sign people took a breath of fresh air do you think that now this story has come out you think it's going to sound of things to think it's going to reimpose pressure on ties between the seaside. well let me just say this here in the united states among the media who despise the president which is ninety nine percent of all of what used to be called the mainstream media i submit they're not mainstream they look today at what happened as trump absolutely being own as they say by vladimir putin and barrister that it was horrible it was terrible colleagues and to question his own intelligence agencies it was a desaster this is what they are saying what you might see as having occurred is comin poll late lead different than what they're saying now meanwhile

they're forgetting that the most important aspect of today's visit was what happened outside of the view and the air of the cameras that's what's important that's what's critical nobody is talking about that because frankly they don't know anything but what they're saying is this is another example of of this connection between trump and potent and what this is going to do is resonate to some kind of weird pavlovian connection some obey sense that they have to this idea that directions they're at it again even they don't know what the it is that they're adding a line a political analyst thank you for joining us on r.t. always a pleasure. most of the u.k. now it's been revealed that british labor party members responsible for facebook adverts in last year's general election made it leader jeremy called the ninety's closest aides say different from the general public. has the story. this is

all been revealed in a new birth 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 as 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 pay for nationwide they're regarded as mad gap such as one on the water registration they made sure that if you saw such messages 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 corbin 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 centrist 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 revelations it's bizarre that anyone would undermine plans to voter registration during a 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. well the

statement we got from the labor party also said that the so-called uncooperative stars were proven wrong anyway because the videos that emphasized jeremy corbin as left wing politics that were put up all in corbett his own video and website channels and on the channels of his campaign group momentum far outperformed anything that was put 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. political analyst from hughes says this is just the latest display of the divisions within the party itself. but there's an ongoing kind of faith within believer party it's actually a fight for the heart on the soul of the liberal party the liberal party was built on a socialist democratic platform that's platform was moved to the center on the deed to the right by twenty blur the very man he led the united kingdom into the illegal

wars in iraq and when you consider what's happened there on in libya and several other countries throughout the middle east. there's no socialism in a blur right wing of the liberal party so i'm i don't think for one second that it's been an oversight or some high esteem mr vance or 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 thousand and today it stands at five hundred fifty two thousand on the little leadership of germany corben the people of britain who joined the labor party a membership rank and file want to see a socialist alternative to the new liberal policy support for peretz and tourism a. french capital has welcomed its heroes the national team crowned world cup winners on sunday evening in moscow hundreds of thousands of supporters have been out on the seans allee's their company in the squad as they paraded to

the presidential residence where they were greeted by president emmanuel mccall. was there were was was was was was was she was she was thinking of was i think she was she was . wrong thank you i think three for a night in china spying i will wait like calise all the french fly to check out all the wires these three nights of the world cup team fascinating come down to strange people being robbed.