too late for damage control or donald trump says he misspoke during his joint news conference with large amir putin which had sent the us media and politicians into a frenzy. the most disgraceful performances by an american president you should care what is on the world stage should have been and i don't see any reason why i would or why it would be a rush. from media storm to syrian settlements russia's defense ministry says it's ready to implement all agreements the chief by trump and putin and house thinking on how to bring stability and peace to syria. 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. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me in the air and our top story this hour one day after holding talks with president putin in helsinki had donald trump has met with the u.s. congress members telling them he misspoke on russian made lingering the summits. 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 what the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by it. can i get the latest from our washington correspondent

for the mirror cohen as it's looking a little like donald trump has bowed to pressure doesn't it. it does and he did give us the inside scoop on this controversial meeting with putin and he began by clarifying statements that he believes were misconstrued he reiterated claims made by the u.s. intel committee community saying that russians interfered in the u.s. election while stressing that there was no collusion and he expressed his full faith in the u.s. intel community despite its a not so credible record and then he went on to describe in detail his two and a half hour meeting with russian president vladimir putin even sharing the agenda which included a problems in the middle east they discussed syria iran north korea which was a major topic of discussion but the most important agenda item in trump's own words

was there were duction of nuclear weapons saying that russia and the us possess and ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons and the reduction of nuclear weapons would save millions of lives but all in all it seems like trump has surrendered somewhat to domestic pressure so let's check out what the mainstream media are saying about him but there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public what i did with putin pitched a shutout trump got beat up in a locker room what worries me about you mr president is you seem to say 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. 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. considering the topics that were discussed was perhaps trying to improve relations with russia even though he did backtrack but it wasn't enough for some let's check out what they're saying. instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump tower in the presence of who it was a wholesale betrayal of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more heartbreaking to me in a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy with the perpetrator of the election interference disgraceful performance of the president treacherous act ignorant and woefully disrespectful president continues to take his word of russian. to z.f.

to fully embracing their excuses he is able to confront russia point and he. was really one of the meeting has prompted calls to release transcripts from the meeting and even new calls to release his tax returns so it seems that nobody wants to improve relations with russia. farah khan thank you for the update well earlier we spoke to former pentagon security policy analyst michael maloof in hades how does that trend has been thinking long term in talking to moscow regardless of what he just said about the translation. and interpretation he did underscore his support for the u.s. intelligence community and in fact the information goes way back even during the obama administration that there was alleged meddling. which amounted to no more than social social networking and by by whether it was russian chinese

or anybody else in the world and but but he's but he's trying to get above that i think and. move on because we've and we not only meddle in the elections we've actually helped overthrow governments so i think that if if if we can get beyond this most democrats and deep state types cannot and so and or and and and the neo conservatives they cannot get a but get beyond that they need russia as a demon and but he wants to get beyond that because he has. a longer range geo strategic outlook i think any needs russia for a lot of things and we need to be cooperating with moscow and he's made that very clear and as much as he dislikes nato he says we also need nato but what is what has happened there is has happened so i think that he's ready to move on even though his opposition is not they still haven't accepted the fact that he's the

president meantime while trump was commenting on the u.s. intelligence services the lights in the room went off the president had his own explanation. for faith in our intelligence agencies what's they just heard of the way that most of the intelligence is. very. very dark a. very. well behind the u.s. media speculation of whether donald trump is actually a russian agents or not the helsinki summit did in fact see some impressive diplomacy one of the issues where the leaders seem to have common ground with syria and russia's defense ministry says it's ready to implement any deal through greed artie's maria for national joined me earlier in the studio with more on this. i'm afraid there is no too much to discuss because there are no details on exactly what has been agreed in helsinki and from what we hear from russian defense minister

right now it's also not clear what steps we may expect from both sides in syria but what is clear is that both russia and us are not interested in making this strategic information public but what is clear that that the dialogue that mr trump and mr putin had in mandarin how to nikki and planes by russia's military is definitely a positive sign for syria both sides also stress that they are interested in. ending the humanitarian crisis in syria and they said that they are going to focus their efforts on how pain people in syria that you but i would i think there is plenty to work on a crucial thing is there are many refugees in streets bordering syria in turkey. if we move back to their homes this will ease the migration pressure on european countries i think that is extremely important if we can do something to help the

people of syria get back into some form of shelter. on a humanitarian basis and that's what the world was really a humanitarian basis that the both of us would be very interested in doing that and we are we will do the right what is the current situation in syria right now so as for the military situation the focus the main focus right now in theory is on the region bordering israel and the confrontation between syria and israel has been very severe recently and has actually been quite always between the two countries but it's interesting that both put in an interim mentioned the security. of israel in that speech. following their along behind closed doors just shortly after that meeting. we heard reports that the syrian government managed to regain control of a strategic point in that region. that the u.s.

has been on so you may say that. it was the reaction or what the two presidents have agreed but again like it's really hard to speculate right now. last night randi coeditor of the online find b s news what the deals reached could mean for syria what syrian refugees are scattered about the neighboring countries there not helping their own country or their own countrymen so i think it's crucial that. the peace the war is won the peace that peace is and the settlement is real. and then i think people will have the confidence to return to their own country. and that certainly will help the migration courses in europe and the neighboring countries around syria like turkey jordan and lebanon. so yes but obviously people won't come back while the war is still raging raging and they won't come back while there are still terrorist

factions within the country i think we're still a little bit of work to do but i think by the end of this year i mean i did say this last year but i think by the end of this year the bit more serious returning not just aleppo and damascus but to other cities and towns within the country itself. meanwhile trying to be a 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. let me answer have some patience to distinguish because we 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 to. it's ridiculous. at the past

but i'm not asking whether they influenced i'm asking whether they try i will answer what. the hackers or 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 is in favor of one of the candidates and that is all and that the leadership of the executive body of the party resigned to 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 in if you don't like miles we'll 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're going to be getting 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 but 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 the victims of the so-called but i love you have the names of these people before you are these people they suffer and i was. picked up the bottle that was used to attack scribbled i can't may i ask you one last question sir. but let us handle this you first. who picks 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 properly just through empty accusations and for what sake why worsen the relations between our countries from russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly. used. as a calling 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 part of the world's economic system 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 on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and

problems i think it is a good start. to start. in the news conference the presidents also raise the issue of their energy rivalry with america and russia campaign taking to supply gas to europe following those comments the energy ministers of russia the e.u. and ukraine have met in berlin the two sides agreed to work towards meeting the growing demands of european consumers and discussed difficulties associated with gas transit via ukraine the parties also discussed the north stream to pipeline which will transfer natural gas from russia to germany under the baltic sea a project to seen by some as a competitor to american liquid gas supplies to europe speaking after the talks russia's energy minister said market competition must take precedent. if systems or. 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. to other suppliers introducing sions because those who supply gas to europe and let supply us liquid gas i think only market competition should work here and donald trump said that in helsinki yesterday that america is ready to supply gas under competitive conditions than with. three giants of social media facebook google and twitter have once again a face to u.s. lawmakers this time it had attempted to defend our they filter content they addressed accusations of bias claiming their platforms do not discriminate for political reasons it comes of space book admit that it's algorithm labeled thousands of russian users as interested in trays that supposedly for advertising

purposes and that's raising concerns over who lytell really want to target those users r.t. is more i gather he 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 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 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 that 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 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 the distrust in russia adds five until you get caught r.t. has 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 so far saying they are not in a position to comment. journalist and radio host jungleland 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 dissent 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 that we gave all our information all our history all our pictures all our significant events and they have literally got too much power and that scary on every level whether you're living in russia america or indeed in western europe and social media giants targeted ads were also apparently

used by some in the u.k. labor party to deceive their own leader as according to a recently published book and control alt delete how politics and the media crashed our democracy by tom baldwin. when they were told to break for nationwide it's regarded as such as one voter registration they made sure that few saw such messages except the dinosaurs of left wing activists it was there for them they thought it must be good for everyone it was and that's how targeted ads can work senior labor party members are tasked with spreading corbin's campaign messages through facebook ads ahead of the twenty seven thousand general election selected only jeremy corbyn himself and his closest aides as the target group this was to ensure that his few people as possible in the u.k. would see those messages at the same time falling the party leader into thinking

his order had been carried out we spoke to former m i five intelligence officer and amish on she told a space book is notorious for being used to sway public opinion sometimes and ethically. in the u.k. it was announced that facebook has been manipulated with microtargeting in try and control and build dissent within the official government opposition the labor party and gerry corbin has been targeted in this too so you know this goes across all sorts of countries 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 as it allows the spies in the west to do what they want it allows corporations to target micro adverts electrets. it's only been a day since the u.s. department of justice revealed that it has arrested maria bettina a girl activist and

a russian citizen but some western media are already jumping to radical conclusions id's kell of more data is now caleb thank you for joining us please tell us more. well according to the affidavit published by the f.b.i. they allege that essentially as she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen

a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me an objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be. a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government. now that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now what's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to lattimer posner now the f.b.i.

goes on to describe the as a lot of your posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the dissin from ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that according to the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang on monday. thank you for those details that authorities can have more pina speaking live from new york that. a century has passed since the last russian royal family they were among all of this were executed by the bolshevik captive

a nine hundred seventy nicholas was forced to give up his throne as the february revolution broke out on to the streets the world family with detained didn't mean to you catherine all members of the last rating family were shot dead and burned to mark the anniversary antti dot com has launched an interactive project which brings the ramana finally get ten life digital age.

they're back with the latest the top of a half. mile . join me every posting on the alec simon show and i was speaking to us in the world of politics or business and show business i'll see you then. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi don't tour was still active. in the nineteen seventies cretonne had as the

chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery. a german company developed from the divide a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything. is just. minutes a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. but the killing i know that hey it's time for the kaiser report i met kaiser and this is stacy herbert. well you know what in the second half we're still in the

u.k. we're in the united kingdom talking to neil mitchell and he's talking about the ongoing fraud wave and all that sort of stuff so i want to look at one of the consequences of neo liberalism in the bailout of banks and the quantitative easing the sort of economy we have engineered since the u.s. went off the gold standard i believe but. you can come up with your own opinion britain's trickiest economic challenge is back in the spotlight eclipsed by brakes at ted lines and all of the exits from ministers the most puzzling economic problem facing britain is back in the limelight abysmal productivity growth has plagued the united kingdom for a decade sapping its underlying strength and undermining wage growth countless explanations and solutions have been proffered and now the debate is raging again after a proposal that fixing it be made one of bank of england's core tasks before i go

on i want to show you that it's actually been way more than a decade that productivity has been collapsing it has been collapsing since about one nine hundred seventy six i put that when the u.k. received a bailout from the i.m.f. a three point nine billion dollars in march of nine hundred seventy six but that's the worst the worst right now in the united kingdom since seventeen ninety four problem solved in two words to work problem solve raise wages raise wages. you know what is a productivity its g.d.p. per man hour raise wages and you've got more g.d.p. because you've got more people spending money out there which is how you calculate g.d.p. so the a way to raise your g.d.p. is a give people more money to spend money and therefore you're going to get more g.d.p. per man hour that's it but of course it never happens because the worker the wage earner the surf the subject of the british crown.