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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 bullet true relationship is a complicated stage there is no solid reasoning for the impediments the current tense atmosphere 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
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a few times was syria and on the one hand that 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 had a unique opportunity to ask the heads of russia and the u.s. 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 two years since donald trump was elected but guess what still. the
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entire us 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 i address 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 our 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
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do with the election your parents are twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia 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 offer. or was an intelligence of the month and i do know how to comply and get to the conclusion can only be made by a court 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 frustrated then before the leaders met donald trump and vladimir putin though when they were heading towards the doors. i can
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only see the smiles on their faces on monday i was working among the group of russian journalists who cover whatever lot of who does and my colleague from or to america on the bill was among the so-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
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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 it is sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president why is president trump putting himself in his along or a ball high stakes an area and letting flat in 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. exceeds the french who before high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of true as the only work from. he's hooley the pockets of republican.
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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 following a stream of attacks after the press conference trump took to twitter defending his comments again that he has great confidence in u.s. intelligence which has repeatedly stated that russia did and the u.s. election but trump says he can't focus on the past as the two nuclear powers must get alone. as we've heard many in the u.s.
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media already simm fewer risks with the results of the summit executive vice president of the eurasia center. explained why he believes that they are so angry. we know the media for the most part is 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 are not responsible for diplomacy even though they try to influence the foreign policy significantly but. i think it's just it's the continuing anti trump saga that's going on and. 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 just minutes before the news conference started joran alist was dragged from the venue as that he was carrying
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a sign which read nuclear weapons ban treaty. towards the end of the press conference put in presided trump with twenty eight. and comment on the u.s.s. cole hosting the two thousand and twenty six when in the end of the endless war of course looking for any signs from their leader is behavior and some think handshakes speak volume's their first came when they met in helsinki and the second to happen and front of the media before the start of the talks we asked body language expert how worried feldman for his stake. trump is coming from
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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 there that he enters the room and he faces 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 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 their whole bodies are involved in it it's 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 handshake is is. executed donald trump setting is normal donald trump
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position which is the his legs slightly apart 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 bull comfortable person in the loop again let's look at what's what's bringing them this whole scene he is a much more comfortable place for putin ilithyia support from 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 put an end trump a finish their meeting new accusations of russia interfering in american affairs sarah faced a russian citizen was charged by the department of justice for being a russian agent twenty nine year olds in my rehabilitation now was arrested on sunday she's accused of developing. relations with those who have influence in
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american politics divans russia's interests her attorney made a statement denying she's an agent he also said that the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but they showed no interest in speaking to her political analyst lionel believes that the media is reacting too quickly and branding a spy. but you're going to hear we guarding this this russian citizen this she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative up when american media say agents they think secret agent. espionage agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal something that is other than an agent this particular person was
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charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not the british labor party is targeted facebook ads to trick its own leader about his general election campaign on this and other news right after a short break. you know world of big partisan mockers and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for
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a facebook ads and last year's general election made it leader jeremy corbin and his closest aides see different ads from the general public or he's probably 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 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 be from nationwide they're regarded as month gap such
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as one on the water registration they made sure that few sources messages except 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 over 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.
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