good. as hell thank you so much the plot of a success unleashing a storm of criticism from all ends of the us political spectrum and the american media. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of that is the groom anderson but it's really sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching for have for 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 interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes raising concerns over who might really want to target such users. and also this hour both french honors the victorious world cup team but returns

home to a hero's welcome. this is art international bringing you your life news update with me jack and welcome to the program. donald trump has completed his european trip which began of a nato summit and ended in a historic meeting with vladimir putin positive steps and real progress those are the words both leaders used to describe their talks but their report reproach meant sparking outrage in the media back home he went on to attack his own people and

institutions while standing next to the russian president i don't know which side is the bride and which side of the groom manners are but it is 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 in this case when it comes to putin the president's taking a pass american politicians joined the media and denouncing trump after me about putin when election meddling came up at their news 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 your fair to 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 if there's a proposal but if i was an intelligence officer myself and i do know how dull ca's are compiled. what conclusions can only be made by a court and not by an intelligence service. when that didn't happen to you outright his behavior is so inexplicable and so against the interests of the united states i never would have. a u.s. president would get duped by the former k.g.b. and. don't want trump should be arrested for threes and the moment he sets foot on

american soil. look traits in trees in a very serious words i have avoided them for nearly two years but today's chum put in some it cannot be sugarcoated with. this was the day in american president stood on foreign soil next to a motorist lying thug and refused to back his own country patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president 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 performance in helsinki rises to exceed the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treason this not only will trump's comments 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 supposed conspiracy did not affect the vote count or the election so

a confrontation with putin over meddling was clearly the desired result from defended himself from the attacks and perhaps his favorite way through twitter he stressed that he has great confidence in u.s. intelligence which has repeatedly stated that russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election but trump added he can't focus on the past as the two nuclear powers must get along we spoke to former congressman ron paul who believes that american media are used to portray russia as an 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 and they want to look forward i think that is great but i would like to i think the next best day 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. has been following the much anticipated and now hotly debated summit he looks at why it turned into such a drama. so i just made it to the area intended for the media very close to where donald trump me to fly out 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 see 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. soon 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 but. what you just let me answer have some patience to distinguish because we think that it was possible to meddle in the us elections through the territory of russia and to influence the choice of millions of americans to. it's ridiculous city council. at the past but i'm not asking whether they influenced i'm asking whether they try i will answer now what. the hackers about whom everyone was talking about i will turn to it do not worry. emails 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 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 but if you want to americans to hear my opinion i mean have more patience they are going to be that being mr miller and his colleagues. but why mr miller and his colleagues let me finish speaking of the disrespectful this time you won't stop me to delete. the relations between the u.s. and russia the hostages all of you internal political struggles. 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 had not given any documents 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 suffer and why. they picked up the bottle that was used to attack scrupled i can't say 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 inside the u.k. . but no one wants to investigate this properly just through empty accusations and for what you say why worsen the relations between our countries when russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so look at it then you can work with. do you see this as a turning point and by effort of the effort 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 of the violence in russia and the scale of global security and in economics and i mean energy costs are part of the world's economic system in that the understanding of what is uniting us and on what we have to work together but it is leading us to the idea that it is necessary to stop the attempts to fight each other on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and problems i think it is a good start. to start just hours after putin and trump wrapped up their talks new accusations appeared of moscow interfering and american affairs a russian woman was charged by the department of justice with conspiracy to act as a russian agent twenty nine year old mary abortion or recently graduated from american university and washington d.c. was arrested on sunday she is 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 office showed no interest in speaking to her we brought up the issue with political analyst lionel. what you're going to hear regarding this this russian citizen is 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. when american media say agent 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 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. recessional media giants facebook google and twitter or face u.s. congress and less than an hour of or alleged political bias on their platforms hearing is also expected to address advertising practices and fake news it comes as facebook admits that its algorithm labeled thousands of russian users as interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target these users are gusty of 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 the russian and facebook confirmed it to us prison 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 that an see they say the real control over see is that these people could be targeted by russian authorities imagine if ace book categorize americans as potential traitors fact advertisers that blog zuckerberg op have expressed how upset i am that the russians tried to use our tool to sow distrust what they did is rome and we're not going to stand for it. and that's the meat of it when it's russians being targeted by propaganda to so distrust in russia abs five until you get caught

r.t. sent a request to a number of human rights and journalist groups asking for comment as to whether such a practice constitutes meddling in a country's internal affairs four of them including human rights watch and transparency international have responded to our request saying they are not in a position to comment saying with facebook the social media giant target 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 all politics and the media crush our democracy by tom baldwin when they would to to pay for nationwide regarded as such as one voter registration they made sure that few saw such messages except to donna's songs of left wing activists it was there for them they thought it must be the one it was and that's how to get to it as can moore senior labor party members tasked with spreading corbin's campaign messages through facebook ads ahead

of the two thousand and seventeen general election selected only jeremy corbyn 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 filling the party leader and thinking his order had been carried out. we spoke to former m i five intelligence officer an emotion she told us facebook is notorious for being used to sway public opinion sometimes an ethically. i think we have seen time and time again over the last decade facebook in different ways is allowed its of and its data to be used they do it to make money because it allows the spies in the west to do what they want it allows corporations to target micro adverts electorates and even in the u.k. it was announced that facebook has been manipulated with micro-targeting in trying to control and build dissent within the efficient government opposition the labor party and gerry corbin has been targeted in this too so you know this goes across

all sorts of countries. the victorious from squad has been greeted back home by emmanuel across thousands and thousands of fans that story after a short break. seems

wrong. with just don't. get to see palo. alto. and in the detroit. trail. find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back a freight train carrying diesel and propane has derailed near the back ontario border in canada some twenty five wagons a quarter of the train came off the rails there is still no confirmation of what caused the accident though authorities say no hazardous materials were spilled and there have been no injuries so far an investigation is under way.

hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the phone to his am paris to give a hero's welcome to the victorious world cup squad the winners were taken to the presidential residence where they were greeted by a manual process. of the logo. they said i'm excited by the way seeing. the way she's nice even a seeing descending on they think she's right. sally's a fright for going. why all. of the. victory for a right in jets flying over when the car lies on the french try to check the wrong guys these winners of the world cup she asked me to come down the street people be

watching nazim for the last month fighting i'm praying that they would win the world cup i may have done it in other words like it's just heating incredible the oil that the energy everything seeing them coming here is was incredible was that your boat 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 this you know find it's really just great to embody the spirit this is what france is all about we do start to hold their words grow closer saying they're all roses just as is his full. suit over the old man i saw growing room oh oh ho so exciting 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 sean has been renamed as not tied to the additional thing oh no over the manager of the world cup team of course he was also the cap. up front says it will cup winning team back in ninety ninety eight.

i think. was. around for a reception awaited the croatia squad as they returned home as well the team was driven through the competition in an open top bus cheered by around one hundred thousand people that i was going to lose the country's best ever performance at the world cup having only reached the semifinals back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the caps in the motor which was also named player of the tournament meanwhile some young fans inspired by the world cup final decided to recreate the game. to let you out let me let me thank you. thank you.

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thanks thanks . thanks. thanks. thanks thanks. thanks thanks. thanks. thanks to mark the end of the tournaments the russian mission to the united nations organized a special reception. but we also organized we were the first i think maybe a mistake in the cold in eyes of the matches both in europe and in the show because one man shows what one city that was just

a page was you considerable which is geographically is huge in asia we've seen the winners of the world cup so we are you going all right so i think the entire world was recognized and appreciated being the i've heard you believe that i could show that russia has made all along as opposed to the q. one of america's two major political parties the democrats may be entering a new era as left leaning progressive pull politicians are increasingly unseating political establishment that arens up and takes a closer look at the trend. diane feinstein has long been a top boss among the democratic party but recently the california democratic party decided not to throw its weight behind her but instead to give its endorsement to a progressive named kevin duly on now kevin de leon saw this as a political blowout this is what he said about his shocking victory we presented california with the food. to the washington playbook and of course

a century this fits a pattern here in new york city a twenty eight year old socialist defeated a long time representative crowley now nancy pelosi a leader of the democratic party says that progressive is gaining the upper hand is no big deal this is isolated circumstances in certain districts we need to respond more and issue so let me ask you to characterize now for some of them in the answer that there has been a very very good to be in your. book aggressive. is a passive more than palin is down to see if it is not she would be. something that's going to now deliver on and a cacio cortez say that they are giving voice to issues that the mainstream of the democratic camp is longside away from they want free health care and education for all americans they also want to abolish the immigration police for good now we

decided to talk to sander hicks' a progressive who's running against mainstream democrat carol maloney and new york city health care dianne feinstein who is against single payer if you two million dollars for herself and her ten years for the richest senator out there and yet she doesn't believe that people need health care so that's pretty pretty plain to me that's why bernie sanders really struck a chord and people like feinstein and people like the incumbent here in the twelfth congressional district got to go carolyn maloney she voted for the iraq war she voted for all the wall street bailouts the patriot act just like diane fine. i'd go to for the patriot act you could are out of touch there endorsing this national security paranoia state that favors wall street and war at this point the democratic party seems to be pretty well unified around only one thing opposing donald trump however among the rank and file there are some pretty clear disagreements about policy and it's pretty clear that in either party to be seen as a defender of the status quo just doesn't cut it with voters kayleigh pop and r. c.

new york. a century has passed since the last russian royal family romana were executed by their bolshevik captors in one thousand nine hundred sir nicholas was forced to give up his throne as the february revolution broke out on the streets the royal family was detain and moved all members of the last reigning family were shot dead and burned to mark the anniversary r.t. dot com has launched an interactive project which brings the amount of final years to life for a digital age. that's

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