donald trump is about to meet with the u.s. congress members after his talks with president putin sparked outrage in american media. graceful performances by an american president who showed cowardice on the world stage where the pros look like a week. it's a disaster. facebook admits classifying thousands of russians as interested in trays and supposedly for advertising purposes raising concerns over who might really want to target such news is. also this hour full of french honors the victorious world cup team returned home to a hero's welcome. thank.

god she was. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron now our top story this hour donald trump has completed his european trip which began as a nato summit and ended in a historic meeting with vladimir putin now the u.s. president is set to meet with congress members however they may not give him the warmest welcome. my mouth is still agape i can't believe it is thoughtless it's dangerous it's weak but i think it was just principle. to the number one enemy we probably have on the globe ladder me approach each of

you will go away it's mine but. it's inexplicably. or maybe it's not it's a big hairy terrible outstanding question is the possibility that president putin holds damaging information over president trump and american media joined in on denouncing trial for how he handled the joint news conference r.t.s. american explains. promptitude in some it has the entire country up in arms and to give you an idea of what it's like here i have two newspapers to show you a number one the washington times here's the headline trump sides with putin over intel and it gets worse number two the daily news open treason trump backs enemy putin over u.s. intel so in this political climate if you don't support increased escalation between two nuclear superpowers well it's considered treasonous but going back to

the press conference itself trumps pragmatism and constructive additive was appreciated by russia judging by the comments of some russian statesman but when trump was bombarded with questions regarding alleged russian meddling trump chose to focus on building relations between the two countries and his slogan for the summit quote i would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics this was also appreciated in anti-war circles in the u.s. but how did the us media respond well let's take a look there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public what i do with putin pitched a shutout trump got beat up in a locker room what worries me about you mr president is you seem to saying only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat and. you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president he showed cowardice on that world

stage where the president looked like a weak don't be stooge we negotiated from a position of weakness yesterday and a lot of our putin walked away from helsinki with the when he had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster some u.s. politicians took to social media to denounce the summit entirely even calling for the u.s. military to act representative steve cohen said. where are our military folks the commander in chief is in the hands of our enemy but then cohen backtracked on his words saying that he didn't call for a coup so we're left with one question why is d.c. so hostile to peace well we'll just have to find out what happens in congress. defended himself from attacks in 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 trying to take focus on the past as the two nuclear

superpower is must get along we spoke to former congressman ron paul who believes that american media are used to betraying 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 then 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 term is going in the right direction and talk him into getting rid of the sanctions on russia meanwhile vladimir putin took part in a hated interview with the american channel folks 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 wait wait let me answer have some patience to distinguish between being. you really think that it was possible to meddle in the us elections in the territory of russia and to influence the choice of millions of americans. it's ridiculous. 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 warrant. emails as they told us and there was information that inside the democratic party but you know when the new elation is 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. you're indicating that if you don't like miles we'll 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 finish speaking 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. and. 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 a political process to be had not given. and now we see that people became victims of the so-called but i love you have the names of these people before you are these people suffer and why. they picked up the bottle that was used to attacks cripple i can i ask you one last question sir. but let us handle this you first. picked it up and from where and what is its chemical film is us. 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 proper legally just through empty accusations and from what you say why worsen the relations between our countries from russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so you could. use the as a calling point by efforts of the 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 critical part of the world's economic system in that 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. to start. in their news conference the president also raised the

issue of their energy rivalry with america and russia competing to supply gas to europe following those comments the energy ministers of russia the e.u. and ukraine have met in berlin the sides agreed to work towards meeting the growing demands of you are paying consumers and discuss difficulties associated with gas transit and why ukraine the parties also discussed the north stream to pipeline which will transfer natural gas from russia to germany and the baltic sea the project is seen by some as a competitor to american liquid gas supplies to europe speaking off the talks russia's energy minister said market competition must take president. if it's the. liquid natural gas global production and sales will grow to high priest to meet the growing demand for it consumers may guess but it's important to use competition here to the markets approach. measures should be used as some see let's string

two of the suppliers introducing sions because those who supply i guess to europe and let supply us liquid gas i think you market competition should work here and donald trump said that in helsinki yesterday that america is ready to supply gas on the competitive conditions. three giants of social media facebook google and twitter have once again faced u.s. lawmakers this time in an attempt to defend how they filter content they address the accusations of bias claiming their platforms do not discriminate for political reasons it comes as facebook admits that it's algorithm labeled thousands of russian users as interested in trains that supposedly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target these uses art is more ghastly ever explained. 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 uses 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 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 me see they say the real control over see is that these people could be targeted by russian authorities imagine a facebook categorize americans as potential traitors fact 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 that's the meat of it when it's russians being targeted by propaganda to sell distrust in russia as far down until you get caught. well r.t. hon sent a request to a number of human rights and journalists groups asking for comment as to whether such a practice constitutes as meddling in a country's internal affairs four of them including human rights watch and transparency international have responded to our request so far saying they are not in a position to comment journalist and radio host john daunt believes facebook's power and influence has become overwhelming if this was americans who were being targeted there would be absolute power age in congress and across the whole of the american

media and clearly it was looks like it was being used to spread dissented in russia and that's wrong with this also be given to governments so that governments could enforce their will against the people we already know the algorithms against anybody who's got a slightly right of center view we know about shadow of a shadow account i just think we've all been rather foolish it came along facebook and twitter facebook in particular but we gave all our information all our history all our pictures all our significant events and they have literally got too much power and they're scary on every level whether you're living in russia america or indeed in western europe. one of america's two major political parties the democrats may be entering a new era as left leaning progressive politicians are increasingly unseating political establishment letter and caleb moore in 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 longtime 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 rescind more dishing. carriageways next for her then we're going to see that to happen in a very very district in new york. with the best of them. is

the best of the more than just palin is down to say it is not she would be. something that's going to now delete on and kazuo 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 in new york city people need health care dianne feinstein was against single payer she made fifty two million dollars for herself in her tenure she's one of the richest senators 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 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. and

voted for the patriot act these people are out of touch they're endorsing this national security paranoia state that favors wall street or war how 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 an either party to be seen as a defender of the status quo just doesn't cut it with voters hey look mop and r.t. new york. hundreds of thousands of people packed into the song police and paris to give a hero's welcome to the victorious well it's cup squad the winners were taken see the presidential residence where they were greeted by a man who maha. of the. things

he said and it's kind of. the way. she's nice easy to seeing descending on anything she phrased rightly she was a lazy. during. the why. i think rephrase that the jets flying over with the guys on the french try to cheer the wrong guys these winners of the world cup he doesn't need to come down the street people who've been watching the team for the last month fighting i'm praying that they would win the ones come i may have done it in other words like it's just a feeling incredible though that the energy everything soon then coming here is was incredibly was but your book 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 fight it's really just great to embody the spirit

this is what france is all about we do stand. the older wedge full of clothes just sitting there only realizes this is beautiful. this is only looking at the much older oh you were only. showing so i did the city of paris is actually renamed some of the metro stations you know not all of these places including i'm not trying to show up as being green i'm just not good did you show up in oh no all but 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. i did. take. a route to its reception also way to big croatia squad is they were turned home the team was driven through the capital in an open top bus and cheered by around one

hundred thousand papal getting to the final was the country's best ever performance at the world cup having reached the semi final back in one nine hundred ninety eight and the team captain luca moderates was also named player of the tournament for meanwhile some young fans inspired by the world cup final decided to have a go at recreating it. thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks thanks. thanks

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. to mark the end of the tournament the russian mission to the united nations also organized a very special reception. but we also organized we were the first i think maybe i'm mistaken to organize the matches both in europe and in the because of one which was one city that participated was you considerable which is geographically as you did in the in the winners of the world cup series which i think the entire world recognized and appreciated the. critically good job that russia has made all along as opposed to executives. well a century has passed since the loss to russian royal family the ramon ups were

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talk about that nord stream pipeline system the president from criticized germany over last week archies peter oliver joins us from germany plus the c.e.o. of strong market reforms which encouraged servant of t.v. and radio commentators to help us get very perspectives on the trump trip and the impact on business finance and foreign relations and r.t. correspondent ashley banks takes a look at amazon which actually all 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 in 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 our room from which the us has withdrawn from or in the media we go to our she's on your part until who joins us from helsinki on your thank you so much mr trump upset the europeans in the nato the nato meeting and he upset the u.k. prime minister theresa may on friday ahead of the meeting with president putin mr trump said a pretty low bar what took place at the meeting and it didn't go over that bar

it seems to have gone at least better than those two previous meetings you just described president trump described or said his meeting and his lunch with president putin went very well and that it was quote deeply productive and he also congratulated president putin for what he said was one of the best world cup ever to have taken place which of course just wrapped up in russia yesterday at trump said today during the joint press conference that he was simply engaging in the proud tradition of american democracy american diplomacy and that some of the issues that were discussed were syria the situation with north korea the joint comprehensive plan of action or iran nuclear deal and a host of other issues including for example nuclear issues but what we didn't get out of this summit was any sort of joint declaration or pledge from the presidents on what concrete steps they will take.