it. was. too late for damage control donald trump says he misspoke during his joint news conference with landed near putin which had sent the us media and politicians into a frenzy. the most disgraceful performances by an american president's few showed cowardice on that world stage the show should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be a rush. for media storm to syrian's that so moment russia's defense ministry says it's ready to implement all agreements achieved by trump and putin in helsinki 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 that it used to.

be. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron our top story this hour one day after holding talks with president putin in helsinki donald trump has met with the u.s. congress members telling them he misspoke on russian meddling during the summit. i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be 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 bias well it's not all we us politicians from both parties who

are going absolutely nuts over trump's meeting with president putin it's the media as well and as you can guess it's all a criticism of trump's willingness to talk to a fellow superpower let's check out what they've been saying. there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public what do we have putin pitch to shout about 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. deep breath 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 but now it's forced trump to backtrack saying that he misspoke and then that allowed him to reiterate claims that made by the u.s. intelligence community despite its not so credible record but they're still not convinced that it's standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of who it was a betrayal of the values and interests of this country. there is nothing more heartbreaking to me than 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 trump continues to take his word of russians to z.f. stiffly embracing their excuses is able to confront russia and the

well the highly controversial meeting has prompted calls to release the transcripts from the meeting apparently they all want to know what happened behind closed doors we're worried about what the president said publicly we're even more worried about what happened in those two hours when the president was alone with mr putin i believe the senate foreign relations committee should hold a hearing with the american translator who was present during president tramps and president putin's private meeting to determine what was specifically discussed and agreed to on the united states behalf now this all comes at despite agreement reached a pond so we're just going to have to see if the vested backlash hinders russia u.s. relations. let's discuss this further with our guests now john griffin media contribute to to do a little deeper mr griffin but i thank you for joining us on r.t.

international what do you read into trump's latest statement to you buying his claims that misspoke take. well first of all thanks for having me on trump always misspeaks he's he's a boy all of us the morons tronson tireder approach to communication is double standards so of course trump has said two things at the same time that's his that's his routine that is schtick is they would say in show business trump has a habit of giving this two different answers simultaneously it has taken such a bar of criticism since yesterday's press conference with vladimir putin to think he's been treated fairly. i think he was very magnanimous in the breast reference when with russian president vladimir putin i was breast you're going to admit the surer comings of our intelligence agencies it's not it's

you know not that many years since iraq when the same intelligence agencies deceived the entire world so i'm happy that he made those statements i'm very very frustrated that he has no backpedal there but that's troubling that that's what he does he's done media for years long before he became a politician well even though trump has backtracked on what he said or rather not said at the press conference democrats are still continuing their attacks against him do you think there's anything they're trying to do now to calm the situation well nothing seems to stick to trump i mean he's he's practically teflon nothing sticks i would be surprised if he emerges unscathed from this latest so those are actually more on president well this is this is just going from strength to strength with the democrat party members now wanting trumps the

security service and translate says to testify and provide some transcripts of what was actually said during that meeting with putin to think that's going to help anything. it's going to help the democrats get a case because they've been operating unconstitutionally any legally without even basic basic substance that you would be would need to prove probable cause trump has not and to the date in any short legal conspiratorial or a federal crime involving russia the whole thing is nonsense and what is quite interesting we notice when champ says he has full trust in his intelligence services he underlines that the what has intelligence can we read into that is still well i mean you have to understand that you have to actually read obama's. january sixth assessment that's the assessment there by is referring to the end

there were seventeen agencies in agreement there were three and the n.s.a. which actually becomes russian signals ok said they were not haven't at all that there was any russian involvement president obama himself so that there was no tampering there thirteen votes or that in fact the integrity of the election let's be honest the u.s. and russia tamper and each other's politics and intervene all the time so to call out this particular election because of its can lenience to hillary clinton is a bit a bit short sighted to some graphing me to contribute to thank you for your time thank you. and 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 that. buried for faith in our intelligence agencies webster

just turned off the way that most of the intelligence are. very good it's ok there's ok. behind the us media speculation of whether donald trump is actually a russian agent or not the hell think you summits didn't 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 deals agreed artie's maria financial joins 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 a great in health 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 london house 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 helping 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 states bordering syria in turkey lebanon jordan 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 is that the both of us would be very interested in doing that

and we are we will do the right and 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 putin and trying mentioned the security. of israel in that space is following the a long meeting behind closed doors just shortly after the meeting. we heard reports that the syrian government managed to regain control of a strategic point in that region so it's not a secret that the u.s. has an influence. we may say that that could be. a reaction to what the two presidents have agreed but again like it's really hard to speculate right now executive editor of twenty first century wanted dot com

patrick henningsen believes if the u.s. and russia manage to cooperate ovah syria a meaningful cease fire might be possible possible the situation is drastically improved hundreds of thousands of people have returned to east aleppo formerly. terrorist held east aleppo they've returned they're coming back they are returning from europe in some cases this is been documented so this is already this trend is already happening the fact that the united states and russia are going to cooperate in this way means that we could actually see a meaningful cease fire hold what you have to look out for is in the past when this was threatening to take place we had all the sudden some incident on the ground and also in the white helmets would arrive with their cameras to film i'm talking about the u.n. aid convoy in the fall of two thousand and seventeen that's or twenty sixteen those are the sort of incidents you can be aware of that would sort of sculptor any

international multilateral cease fire effort that's been getting in the way in the past i'm hoping many people are hoping that this is something that will be resolved by the united states and russia cooperating in this way when it is off this break. you know world the big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

i think this catastrophe are falling in britain for the past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have the tele currency and yet passport rights into the e.u. you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the u.k. on mercer plate and drive into bankruptcy. welcome back now it's only been a day since the u.s. department of justice revealed it's arrested and charged with spying maria patino a gun i suggest and russian citizen but some western media outlets are already jumping to radical conclusions artie's caleb maupin explains. well according to the

affidavit published by the f.b.i. they allege that essentially 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 in 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 actual we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest

but 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 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 alledge a geisha is that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it'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 latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe as a lot of your posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the disinform 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 her attorney made a statement denying she's an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but they all face that showed no interest in speaking to her we brought up the issue with legal and media analyst leinil. 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 are when american media say agent they think secret agent.

espionage agent or 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. three giants of social media facebook google and twitter have once again faced u.s. lawmakers this time and in attempts to defend how they felt content they addressed accusations of bias claiming their platforms do not discriminate for political reasons when it comes as facebook admits that it sounds good rhythm labeled thousands of russian users as interested in trades that supposedly for after times

in purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target those users artie's more of galatea 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 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 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 try to use our tool to sow distrust what they did is room 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 sell distrust in russia abs five until you get caught well r.t. has sent a request to a number of human rights and journalists 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 requests so far saying they are not in a position to comment to the list and radio host john gaunt believes facebook's power and influence has become overwhelming if this was americans who were being

targeted there would be absolute outrage 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's scary on every level whether you're living in russia america or indeed in western europe. and that's all from me but hey with the latest at the top of the hour my colleague medina cotton.

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kaiser and of this is stacy herbert. well you know what in the second half we're still in the u.k. where 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 breaks the 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 you 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 the problem with them we solved in two words to work problem solve raise wages raise wages. you know what is a productivity is g.d.p. per man hour raise wages and now 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 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 of the surf the subject of the british crown is considered to be expendable and they get nothing i think that could be more of it than just wages because if you look at it you know i posit that it's you know it's been a lot to do with the demoralization that follows the precarious introduction of neo liberalism and the the end of there is no such thing as this. the fact that you're not part of anything you're just one job bag and donuts up against these nameless faceless shareholder corporations that it's you against them and i margaret thatcher your prime minister aren't going to fight for you it's you against them and to put this into international context by the way of just how bad the situation is in the united kingdom let's look at their arch rival france to put it into

international context it takes a british worker of five days to produce what a french worker produces and less than four growth in output per hour has yet to recover to its pre-crisis trend and many economists fear that leaving the european union could see britain fall further behind by depriving the economy of productivity enhancing foreign innovation and investment and i bring up france because not only did they bring a founts and that basically the french can work one less day a week and still produce as much g.d.p. as the ordinary british worker but the last time that productivity was so bad in the united kingdom was seven hundred ninety four and when i looked up the history of seven hundred ninety four in great britain it does say that not only did the rebuilt theatre royal jory lane open but british troops captured a march of so.