it seems to have gone at least better than those two previous meetings you just described president trump described or said his meeting in 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 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 to address these issues which they say were discussed though president putin did say he passed on a note of suggestions for how the u.s. might respond and tackle some of the global problems facing the u.s. and russia but we'd all like to see the note now on you know on last friday the special counsel robert mohler did charge a dozen russian intelligence officials with the democratic national committee and other organizations in trying to influence the twenty six thousand elections in the state was that topic raised at the meeting. well not only was that topic raised it was the only issue brought up by the two questions to come from the american side of the press conference earlier today much to my disappointment as a member of the press gaggle i would have hoped some of my colleagues would raise questions about other issues perhaps syria or korea for example but

trump did say he raised the issue of these mueller indictment with his russian counterpart who he says had an idea trump said that putin suggested that he or that he had his own idea and putin said that idea is in fact to allow u.s. investigators to perhaps visit russia and collaborate and cooperate with russian investigators on this investigation and get to the bottom of some of these accusations in the indictment and i'll have more on that in the five pm newscast just coming up we'll be looking forward to that and finally on president trump criticizing angela merkel last week saying that quote that germany was a captive of russia related to this a pipeline that this north stream to pipeline but germany was already getting energy from russia via the original north stream does a concern on the u.s. side appear to be that germany and theoretically the e.u.

would be more dependent point russia going forward and was this a subject of conversation today is this the issue of the north stream pipeline was brought up by a member of the russian press delegation and trump had this to say in response to his question. i think that. we will be competing when you talk about the pipeline i'm not sure necessarily that. it's in the best interests of germany or not but that was a decision that they made will be competing as you know the united states is now. or soon will be but i think it actually is right now the largest in the oil and gas world so we're going to be sell the l.n.g. it will have to be competing with the pipeline and i think we'll compete successfully although there is a little advantage locational germany

has determined that it then it's best interest to go ahead with the north stream pipeline in fact and while trump says there that the united states is number one and global gas production that may be true but when it comes to the question of europe and germany it's russia that's number one russia provides the european union with forty per cent of its gas imports and for germany that number is forty four percent the construction of the second nord stream pipeline well out for russia to double its gas natural gas imports into germany which is going to help german chancellor angela merkel meet her goal of phasing out nuclear energy in germany by the year twenty twenty while still reducing the country's carbon footprint so it seems as though trump has to accept that the pipeline is going through. our tears on your part or pill from helsinki finland thank you on your

pre-show your time. and for more on this key energy issue regarding russia and germany leading up to today's meeting we are joined by our t. correspondent peter alter who joins us from berlin peter thank you so much what's your reaction there in germany over this pipeline criticism. well many germans in fact that includes angular merkel in key members of our own cabinet view this pipeline as essential if we look at germany's energy usage last year they used fifty three billion cubic meters of natural gas what north stream two would guarantee as its base would be fifty five billion cubic meters of natural gas every year from just outside of st petersburg directly over to you case filed in germany it goes along the same just about the same twelve hundred kilometer distance that

north stream one currently runs between the two nations however this will allow more gas to go directly from russia to germany of course what from the biggest european producer of gas to the biggest european economy and one of the biggest users of that gas as well the controversy comes in when you take into account the those countries in between germany and russia they've been making quite a lot of money over the years on transit fees lucrative lucrative transit fees as pipelines one their way through central in eastern europe if we look at just how effective those transit fees can be even a country like ukraine which you can't really say relations between moscow and kiev could be any worse really at the moment ukraine made two billion dollars in transit fees last year alone now donald trump has made a big song and dance about wanting to make sure the transit fees remain in place for countries like ukraine but he's also been pitching that liquid natural gas the u.s. liquid natural gas he wants to see as

a competitor the big problem there though is that liquid natural gas from the u.s. is prohibited least expensive compared to gas piped direct from russia into germany peter i assume that one of the concerns president trump and maybe others is that with this second norge dream that not just. perhaps the whole of the e.u. would be more reliant upon russia but with regard to germany specifically i know that president trump said that fifty to seventy percent of germany's energy needs were being provided through this pipeline but some have said that that figure is way off what's the actual accurate detail. you say fifty to seventy i heard him on friday speaking in the u.k. by that it was up to eighty maybe ninety percent the actual amount when it comes to energy that comes from russia to the german system is nine percent that's according

to angela merkel's main spokesperson stefan's i bet he came out straight away when donald trump it said this the first time and said it's just not true when it comes to gas it's around thirty seven percent of the market but still certainly not the numbers that we've heard from the u.s. president it is becoming something that we're getting used to over the last week of seeing him here in europe that he may say these things but they sometimes don't and more often than not can't be backed up with the cold hard facts you know it's unfortunate hey peter from an e.u. perspective do you think folks over there believe it's just sort of a given that the u.s. is going to move away from e.u. nations and perhaps toward russia under the current administration. well it's been clear since the campaign that donald trump has absolutely no time for dealing with brussels and dealing with the e.u. and not feeling is is mutual we saw last week at the nato summit at the end everybody had their happy faces on and were smiling shaking hands and saying oh no

no it wasn't that bad behind the scenes it wasn't that bad from the people i've spoken to that were behind the scenes it was that bad and it was that bad and then some when it came to dealing with people from the trump team. p. in the here in the e.u. at the moment there is that whole thing of looking at donald trump as a lot of the staying towards him and his attitude and what we view does our really from a lot of european countries but there's also the realisation that we've seen this man say one thing on a tuesday and say a completely different thing on a wednesday so it may look like he's cozying up to moscow right now but next week it could be something completely different and i think that's the way a lot of europeans are looking at donald trump that perhaps he isn't somebody to be taken at face value. arctic correspondent peter all over from berlin thank you peter for your time appreciate it. the u.s. secretary of state and treasury have rejected calls from european countries related

to exemptions for certain companies from u.s. sanctions against iran that were reimposed after the u.s. withdrew its support from the p five plus one nuclear deal commonly known as the iranian nuclear deal diplomats from britain germany and france as well as top e.u. diplomat federico the formerly requested exemptions in this sector of banking health care and energy among others now u.s. secretary of state pompei o. and treasury secretary minutiae have replied and formerly rejected the request according to multiple published reports the letter reportedly says quote we will seek to provide unprecedented financial pressure on the iranian regime the secretary say such pressure will continue until there is quote tangible demonstrably and sustained shift in iranian policies absent any intervention some sanctions are set to be reimposed next month while energy related sanctions will be imposed in november. the us department of agriculture u.s.d.a.

is changing the release process for critical farm economy reports to tighten up a two second gap in access critics said that some high frequency traders have that small but significant advantage over others who get the information directly from u.s.d.a. u.s.d.a. typically allows journalists to see this to dicks in advance known as the lockup where cell phones are not allowed in a secure room in a. like a way interrupting your regular viewing out to take you live it to the us is don't . own thing and you lose one hundred on the pictures we can bring to you. he's discussing of course the results of monday's much discussed them into the not to be putin that's listening to the united states working very hard with our allies and all over the world will work and we're going to have peace that's what we want

that's what we're going to say peace through strength. have helped the nato alliance greatly by increasing defense contributions from our nato allies by over forty four billion dollars and secretary so it's fantastic as you know he reported that they've never had an increase like this in their history and nato is actually going down as opposed to going up and i stood by my meeting last year forty four billion dollars and this year will be over it will be hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming years and i think there is great unity with nato is a lot of very positive things happening there's a great spirit that we didn't have before and there's a lot of money that they're putting up they weren't paying their bills on time and now they're doing that and i want to just say thank you very much secretary so.

he really has been terrific so we had a tremendous success i also had beatings with prime minister may on the range of issues concerning our special relationship and that's between the united kingdom and ourselves we met with the queen who is absolutely a terrific person where she reviewed her honor guard for the first time in seventy years they tell me we walked in front of the un it. was very inspiring to see and be with there and i think the relationship i can truly say is a good one that she was very very inspiring indeed most recently i returned from helsinki finland and i was going to give. news conference over the next couple of days about the tremendous success because a successful as nato was i think this was our most successful visit.

that had to do as you know with russia i met with russian president vladimir putin in an attempt to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing humanity. we have never bit of a worse relationship with russia than we are as of a few days ago and i think that's gotten substantially better and i think it has the possibility of getting much better and i used to talk about this during the campaign getting along with russia would be a good thing to get to go with china would be a good thing not a bad thing a good thing in fact a very good thing with nuclear powers nuclear powers russia and have ninety percent of the nuclear weapons so i've always felt getting along is a positive thing and not just for that reason i entered the meeting with the firm conviction that diplomacy and engagement is better than hostility and conflict and i feel that with everybody we have twenty nine members in nato as an example and i have great relationships or at least very good relationships with everybody in the

press covered it quite accurately they said i insulted people well if asking for people to pay up money that they are supposed to pay is insulting maybe i did but i can tell you when i left everybody was thrilled and that's the way this was to my meeting with president putin was. really interesting in so many different ways because we haven't had relationships with russia for a long time. and we started let me begin by saying that. once again the full faith and support for america's intelligence agencies i have a full faith in our intelligence agencies whoops they just turned off the light of most of the intelligence a. very. you guys ok. it was strange but that's ok. so i'll begin by stating that.

i have full faith and support for america's great invalidations agencies. and i have felt very strongly that well russia's actions had no weigh in at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that and i've said this many times i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place. of the people also. a lot of people out. there was no collusion at all and people have seen that lucy and that strongly the house has already come out very strongly that a lot of people have come out strongly and i thought that i made myself very clear by having just reviewed the transcript now i have to say i came back and i said what is what's the big deal so i got

a transcript i reviewed it i actually went out and reviewed it clip of this or that . and i realize that there is need for some clarification it should have been obvious i thought it would be obvious but i would like to clarify just in case it wasn't in a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been. i k we do apologize we seem to have lost the connection that we watching donald trump says speaking from washington d.c. address thing what was said during that meeting with president putin and during his meeting we do believe we've got the line back now so let's listen and. sort of a double negative. so you can put that in and i think that probably clarifies

things pretty good bye as i have won numerous occasions noted our intelligence findings that russians attempted to interfere in. unlike previous administrations my administration has and will continue to move aggressively to repeal and they have friends and repel we will stop it we were repel any efforts to interfere in our elections we're doing everything in our power to prevent russian interference in two thousand and eighteen and we have a lot of power as you know president obama was given information just prior to the election last election two thousand and sixteen and they decided not to do anything about it the reason they decided it was pretty obvious to all they thought hillary clinton was going to win the election. they didn't think was a big deal when i won the election they thought it was a very big deal and all of

a sudden they went into action but it was a little bit late so he was given that in sharp contrast to the way it should be. president obama along with brennan and clapper and the whole group that you see on television now probably getting paid a lot of money by the networks. they knew about russia's attempt to interfere in the election in september and they totally burdett. and as i said they did because they thought that hillary clinton was going to win turned out didn't have. in that way by contrast my administration has taken a very firm stance it's a very firm stance. on a strong action we're going to take strong action to secure our election systems and the process. furthermore as has been stated and we've stated it previously and on many occasions no collusion yesterday we made

significant progress toward addressing some of the worst conflicts on earth so when i met with president putin for about two and a half hours we talked about numerous things and among those things are the problems that you see in the middle east where they're very much involved we're very much involved i entered the negotiations with president putin from a position of tremendous strength our economy is booming and our military is being funded seven hundred billion this year seven hundred sixteen billion dollars next year it will be more powerful as a military than we've ever had before the president put in i address the range of issues starting with the civil war in syria and need for humanitarian aid and help for people of syria we also spoke of iran and the need to hold the

nuclear ambitions and the destabilizing activities. taking place in iran as most of you know we ended the a red deal which was one of the worst deals anyone could imagine and that's had a major impact. or a substantially weakened or read we hope that at some point the red will call us a while maybe make a new deal though we may be local. but iran is not the same country that it was five months ago. and no longer looking so much to the mediterranean and the entire middle east that got some big problems that they can solve probably much easier if they deal with us so we'll see what happens but we did discuss the red we discussed israel and the security of israel and president putin is very much involved with us and a discussion with netanyahu on working something out with surrounding syria and

syria is specifically with regards to the security of a long term security of israel a major topic of discussion was going to korea and the need for it to remove its nuclear weapons russia has assured us of its support president putin said with one hundred percent and they'll do whatever they have to do to try and make it happen discussions are ongoing and they're going very very well we have no rush for speed the sanctions are remaining the hostages are back there been no tests there have been no rockets going up for a period of nine months and i think the relationships are very good so we'll see how that goes we have no time limit we have no speed limit we have we're just going through the process but the relationships are very good president putin is going to be involved in the sense that he is he is with us he would like to see that happen

perhaps the most important issue we discussed at our meeting prior to the press conference was the reduction of nuclear weapons throughout the world the united states and russia have ninety percent as i said and we could have a big impact but nuclear weapons is i think the greatest threat of our world today and there are nuclear power where nuclear. power. we have to do something about the player and so that was a matter that we discussed actually in great detail and president putin agrees with me the matters we've discussed are profound and they're of importance and have the potential to save millions of lives i understand the many disagreements between our countries but i don't so understand the dialogue and the. when you think about a dialogue with russia or dialogue with other countries but dialogue with russia in this case what we've had such queer relationships for so many years dialogue is

a very important thing and it's a very good thing so that we get along with great you know get along with them get along with them but i think we have a very good chance of having some very positive things i thought that the meeting that i had with president putin was really strong i think that they were willing to do that frankly i was unsure whether or not they would be willing to do. and we'll be having future meetings and we'll see whether or not that comes to fruition but we had a very very good so i just wanted to clear up i have the strongest respect for our intelligence agencies headed by my people we have great people whether it's. dan coats or any of them i mean we have we have tremendous people tremendous talent within the agencies i think they're being guided properly and we all want the same

thing we want success for our country so with that we're going to start a meeting now on tax reductions we're going to be putting in a bill kevin brady is with us and. i might ask kevin just to say couple of words about that and then we'll get back on to a private meeting but kevin could you maybe give just a brief discussion of what we'll be talking about yes or mr president thank you for having the waste. means maybe they. true story. ok we've just been listening in on the u.s. president donald trump as he addressed. these been under constant criticism really since he returned from his trip his trip where he visited nato summit and also a much talked about meeting with vladimir putin he underscored his full faith in u.s. intelligence agencies saying he accepted in the conclusion of russia's meddling although

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