with. criticism from all of the political spectrum and of course the media. i don't know which side is the bride and groom sort of feels like we're in a way 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. facebook admits classifying thousands of russians as quote interested in trees and supposedly advertising purposes i was raising serious concerns over who might really want to target.

the. french the victorious world cup team returns home to a hero's welcome. welcome to the program here on the international the news team here in moscow rounding up your top. donald trump has completed his european trip which began with a nato summit and ended with an historic meeting with vladimir putin positive steps and real progress those are the words both leaders used to describe the talks as

something that caused outrage in the media back at home. 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 scenario and letting flat in there putin lead the politicians and join the media in denouncing trump after the u.s. leader vouched for putin when the topic of election metalink came up during that press conference. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement that russia did not intervene in the twenty sixteen election do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular president putin denied having anything to do with the election or fair to twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did who do you believe 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 if there's ever both of us here i was an intelligence officer myself and i do know how does compiled. what conclusions can only be made by a court and not by an intelligence service. i knew when that didn't happen q outrage i never thought i would see the day when our american president would stand on the stage with the russian president and place blame on the united states for russian aggression this is shameful john brennan former cia boss and now media darling even went as far as to brand trump's appearance treason donald trump's press conference before minson health think you rises to exceed the threshold of

high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treasonous not only what trumps common in the silly who's who in the pocket of putin republican patriots who are you not only does the department of justice fail to provide any conclusive evidence linking the kremlin to the alleged crime it actually admits that the suppose it conspiracy did not affect the vote count or the election so a confrontation with putting over meddling was clearly the desired result or following an onslaught of attacks after the media conference trump decided to defend themselves are perfectly well. on twitter he stressed that he has great confidence and u.s. intelligence which has repeatedly stated russia meddled in the u.s. election but also said he called focus on the pasta as the two nuclear powers must get along. we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron pole who believes the current drama is based on the old us media habit of making russia are out to be the enemy but you also mentioned so far in

this 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 the 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 and it's a step in the right direction they i think the biggest thing that if they 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 step ever would be for us to reassess this and say that trumps going in the right direction and talk amanda getting rid of the sanctions on russia. really petrenko

has been following the much anticipated hotly debated summit he assesses why it's went into such a drama. so i just made it to the area intended for the media very close to where donald trump will be meeting lot of our group and i see this so the hosts are sitting to the straight and perhaps that's a. security precaution very soon we'll find out whether the arabs can when they get the same direction when the presidents meet so they head to head meeting lasted two times longer than originally expected and we were only allowed to film the first forty seconds of the launch the only words that we heard from mr putin donald trump actually was only doll who said that there was a good start to the summit there's something else i pointed out for myself the microphones for both theaters are different for some reason the one for donald

trump looks to be much bigger and a bit more complicated because then president bush to go to. the president is just remarks that we hosted the successful football world cup i'm not going to give this to you mr president so the pool is in your court. given the u.s. is due to host the world cup in twenty twenty six. tune it will be two years since donald trump 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 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. meanwhile vladimir putin took part in a heated interview with the american channel fox news in which he was pressed on key issues relating to russia. firstly russia as a state has never meddled in the internal affairs of the us and in particular has never meddled in its elections that or secondly. when as of american instead. people will buy i will answer now what. the hackers all about whom everyone was talking about i will turn to it do not warrant. e-mails as they told us and there was information that inside the democratic party but there were manipulations in favor of one of the candidates and that is all and that the leadership of the

executive body of the party resigned so they wanted to do this fact and that was the most important thing in all it that the manipulations of the us public opinion must be stopped and they had to apologize to the voters what now mr mr president let me. tell you then and i will stay silent supporters but if you want to americans to hear my opinion i mean have more patience they are going to be getting mr miller and his colleagues. but why mr miller and his colleagues let you finish speaking of the disrespectful this time you won't stop with the deal it. relations between the u.s. and russia the hostages all of you internal political struggles. and what can we want to be given some documents on this issue at least some material as you see no one is saying anything specific that it's like in the case of the accusations against us over the meddling in the us political process to be we have

not given any. and now we see that people became victims of the so-called but i love you heard the names of these people before you are these people what are they suffer and why. picked up the bottle that was used to attack scrupled i can't may i ask you one last question sir. but let us handle this issue first what bottle who picks it up and from where and what is its chemical formula. you know whether there are different reasons for which the people have suffered and maybe these reasons are in some way the u.k. . but no one wants to investigate this properly just through empty accusations and for what sake why worsen the relations between our countries when russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so look at it then you. just. do you see this as a turning point then by efforts. by the west in recent years to isolate

russia. we see that these efforts do not see any success and they could never have seen it given the size and the values of russia on the scale of global security and in economics and i mean energy costs are part of the world's economics and the understanding of what is uniting us and on what we have to work together is leading us to the idea that it is necessary to stop the attempts to fight each other and on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and problems i think it is a good start. and so just hours after putin finished their meeting all of us knew i could say sions appeared of russia interfering in america as a russian woman charged by the department of justice with conspiracy to act as a russian agent twenty nine year old maria who recently graduated from american

university in washington d.c. was arrested on sunday 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 he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the special counsel's office showed zero interest in even speaking to her we brought up the issue with political analyst live. but you're going to hear we guarding this this russian citizen as 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 are when american media say agent they think secret agent. espionage agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes

something illegal or something that is other than an agent this particular person was 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. thousands packing the shells ollie's i am powerless to give a hero's welcome to the victoria swelled cup squad they found themselves at the presidential residence with emanuel across. was the. place he said he was thanks. was she says the sanctity of the things he was saying was true during.

the same was wherever she goes flying over with the cries of the french the only true lucky ones these witnesses who were shot she was in the front runner st we've been watching hakim for the last month. so i think i'm praying that they would win the world cup and they have done it in other words like it's just a feeling incredible though that the energy everything seeing them coming here is was incredibly was but short of 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 we've been standing here all day waiting for the close just sitting there and realizes this is beautiful. this is on the shoulder

oh you are on the roof. so excited here is the city of paris is actually renamed some of the metro stations you know not all of these places including are not trying to understand is being renamed does not take did you show up in oh no all the manager of the world cup team of course he was also the captain up front says it will cup winning team back in ninety ninety eight. why did. they. have similar scenes awaited the croatia squatter's they returned home being driven to the capital in an open top bus with thousands of people greeting them getting to the final was the country's best of a performance at the world cup since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight meanwhile some young fans decided to recreate the world cup by.

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live. live live live . well to mark the end of the tournament the russian mission to the united nations organized a special reception. but we all saw the night we were the first i think maybe

a mistake and told in eyes the matches both in europe and in asia because one match was one city that but dissipated was it. which is geographically seated in the in the winners of the world cup so we are even more grateful but i think the entire world recognized and appreciated the. pretty bleak good job that russia has made all along as opposed to the games are still to come facebook admits categorizing thousands of russian users as quote interested in trees and we'll look at why after a short break. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you there.

good of you to join us facebook has admitted categorizing thousands of russian users as interested in treason supposedly all for advertising purposes but this is led to serious concerns over who might really want to target these users. explains . it's simple facebook exists to serve advertisers not users not you and i said a rerun of its. advertisers pay money they want direct access to the right users the target audience you might fall into the interested in islam category or interested in homosexuality group it depends on the things you click on line which facebook tracks and then advertisers or governments can tag you but one of those categories was treason interested in

treason officially russian people who facebook deemed as anti government to be russian and facebook confirmed it to us treason was included as a category given its historical significance given it is an illegal activity we have removed it as an interest category that is their official statement they added that the key word was hardly ever used by advertisers which means that it was used there were people out there searching for treason inclined russians and serving them with presumably propaganda encouraging them to commit treason against russia months it was found out facebook removed the category but the pundits managed to twist even vat this isn't about sixty five thousand russians being targeted with foreign propaganda meddling in internal russian politics let's see

they say the real controversy is that these people could be targeted by russian authorities imagine if ace book categorize americans as potential traitors advertisers that blog zuckerberg op have expressed how upset i am that the russians try to use our tool to sow distrust what they did is room and we're not going to stand for it. and now at the meat of it when it's russians being targeted by propaganda to sow distrust in russia at five until you get caught party has sent a request to a number of human rights journalist groups asking for a comment as to whether such a practice constitutes meddling in a country's internal affairs human rights watch the american civil liberties union and amnesty international have responded to our request saying they are not in

a position to comment time or staying with facebook the social media giants targeted ads were also apparently used by some in the u.k. labor party to deceive their own leader that's according to a recently published book control delete how politics and the media crashed our democracy by tom baldwin when they were told to pay for nationwide ads they regarded as madcap such as one and voter registration they made sure that few saw such messages except a tiny slice of left wing activists it was there for them they thought it must be for everyone it was and that's how targeted ads can work in your labor party members tasked with spreading corbin's campaign messages through facebook ahead of the twenty seventeen general election selected only jeremy koeppen himself and his closest aides as the target group this was to ensure that as few people as possible in the u.k.

would see those messages at the same time fooling the party leader and to thinking his messages and orders had been carried out so well that we also spoke to a former m i five intelligence officer an emotional she told us a facebook is notorious for being used to sway public opinion sometimes unscrupulously. i think we have seen time and time again over the last decade facebook in different ways is allowed itself and its data to be used they do it to make money but it allows the spies in the west to do what they want is allows corporations to target micro adverts electrets and even in the u.k. it was announced that facebook has been manipulated with micro-targeting and trying to control and build sent within the the official government opposition the labor party and jeremy corbyn has been targeted in this to so you know this goes across all sorts of countries. a century has passed since the last russian royal family

the romanovs were executed by their bolshevik captors in one thousand seventeen design nicholas was forced to give up his throne as the february revolution broke out onto the streets the royal family was detained i move to you catherine all members of the last remaining family were shocked that and. to mark the anniversary r.t. has launched an interactive project which brings the romanovs final years to life for a digital age. i

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is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm smart children thank you very much for joining us coming up on the program today we jump right in with coverage of president from trip not only to the nato meeting in meetings last week in london but to the meeting completed today with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki finland we'll go to finland in just a moment where our team is america's on your farm bill is on the scene and we'll talk about that nord stream pipeline system the president trying to criticize germany over last week archies peter oliver joins us from germany plus the c.e.o. of strong market record which encouraged servant of t.v. and radio commentators to help us get varying perspectives on the trump trip and the impact on business finance and foreign relations and r.t.

correspondent actually banks takes a look at amazon which actually got all the time stock high today of seven hundred eighty six for share and some due diligence it has at least to this point not been done related to hate product that they offer for sale let's get right to it president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin have wrapped up their two day summit in helsinki finland with typical self centered bombast mr trump said at a press conference with the russian president that relations have been between the two nuclear armed nations have been quote never been worse than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago mr trump pushed back on questions about the indictment by special prosecutor robert muller on the eve of the summit of twelve russians alleged for election interference and dismissed the judgments of some current and former intelligence officials on the investigation. while the two presidents seem determined to create a display of cordial and correct diplomacy it's not clear where any goodwill the

two leaders might develop could lead russia in the u.s. are backing different sides of the war in syria and russia still support the nuclear agreement with iran from which the u.s. has withdrawn for more on the meeting we go to our she's on your part phil who joins us from helsinki on your thank you so much mr trump upset the europeans and the nato at the nato meeting and he upset the u.k. prime minister theresa may on friday ahead of the meeting with president putin mr trump set a pretty low bar what took place at the meeting and it didn't go over that bar.