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morning here in moscow this is international very well. u.s. president donald trump is now facing yet backlash softer claiming that he misspoke when saying that he saw no reason why russia would presidential elections he was already under intense pressure from the u.s. media over his performance at the helsinki summit with. reports from washington on latest remarks. the key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of what. 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. sent in 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 so it's not just politicians from both sides going absolutely nuts over the trumpet and summit it's the media as well and it's mostly just criticism of trump's willingness to talk to putin there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public why do we have putin pitch to shout 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 you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president who had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster now it's force trying to backtrack saying he misspoke which allowed him

to reiterate claims made by the u.s. intel community but they're still not convinced instead of 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 the president continues to take his word of russians to z.f. simply embracing. their excuses he is unable to confront russia on anything the highly controversial meeting has prompted calls to release transcripts apparently they want to know exactly what happened and what was said behind closed doors were worried about what the president said publicly were 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 tramp's 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 upon so we're just going to have to see if divestiture backlash hinders russia u.s. relations i think we have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turned tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's

going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after another so if he can actually take that and say you know what i retract the apology i wasn't wrong we need to put we need to put a leash on the american teligent service if he could do that that would be fantastic i don't see that happening though what i see is someone who's blustering a lot and showing any a lack of any kind of real backbone on this the summit vladimir putin offered u.s. investigators the opportunity to question russian intelligence officers saying put implicate him hiking democratic party service and. though he wants the u.s. to grant russian prosecutors similar access to certain u.s. nationals among them michael mcfaul the former u.s. ambassador to russia who was accused of quote actively participating in the destruction of bilateral relations on relentless lobbying in favor of

a campaign to pressure russia now as it was delivering remarks on his statements at the whole think the summit he try to shed some light on how he feels about the intelligence community have a full faith in our intelligence agencies works they just turned off the light most did intelligence a. very good yes ok. well not only trumps the statements of course an uproar in the american media russian president vladimir putin's claim that he wanted to win was seen as one of the big revelations of the summit but was it really but i guess the of takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you to write any of your officials to help him do that. yes i wanted him to because the

truth will bring us russian relations back to. you think it's a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandal us who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the reproducer yes he did around president trumka went yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred a certain candidate that's best for his country and no it isn't shocking because it's happened before here's what putin told us r.t. in two thousand and twelve about candid barack obama it's just

a sort of. feels nothing he's the only really wants to change much for the better but can he really. move the let him go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor why else would putin support him there's no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling calum open went out not just new yorkers anything he said about obama was not going to be. tried in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more sexy in you know. intriguing to the general public i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think the media is biased in a slants everything to give putin that evil russia long arm of the law type

personalities so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just strange president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy now standing example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that congratulated putin which is completely you wouldn't formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate lott amir putin's

explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who was threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so don't some call them up to say at a boy russia has made no secret of it once to be friends of course it does sanctions conflicts all of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times a different now you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody bad knuckled brule between the two presidents. but the russian meddling saw go once again dominating the us media agenda

a new character has appeared in the story the us department of justice has expired that is charges against the gun activist and russian citizen maria she's now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government. up and has been investigating what exactly can turn a lot be used into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media. well according to the affidavit 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 actually what 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 lattimer posner now the f.b.i.

goes on to describe the lattimer 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 a court. into 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 if 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 bhutto's 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 the office showed no interest in even speaking to. all the hype over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter where one journalist appeared to reveal that booth and had

visited trump in the oval office twitter users were quick to expose the truth.

as a trail of mob attacks and cited by fake news leaves dozens killed across india the country's highest court in the government to enact lynching laws. the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal in one of the latest cases indian police have arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching

of a man over a fake rumors spread that he was a child kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has failed what's up chats india has the most users of the messenger service by country apollo boyko picks up the story. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labeled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook pages faces on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following

one recent case alone but in the now those suspected of lynching was suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in cannot part of this footage shows the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends one of them atari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india porting to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of

the original video the little boy is returned the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners facebook to do something about it restructuring in education campaign in india on how to spot fake news and rumors. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is hard to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also well saps biggest market the company counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death i mean you know we do when there is the one who

can't speak and want to do the corner that is going on. charity online social media sources so we need to really lead the way and we need to also be disciplined some of these so he's free wireless these facts all these books and watson are reading the boston or you know google margaret in the corner and they're full. force as users are saying they should be more responsibly room to spend the almost so it's very important that you don't it is a coordination between the citizens and this to prevent these from snowballing so we need to look you straight to the internet governance of the different sovereignty i think there is and we. are still to come here when all of the international the wave of violence erupting at pakistan is just ahead of the country's general election so rights groups branding the violence an attempt to

meddle in the vote that story and much more after the break. what politicians do. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to be close this is what before three in the morning can people get. interested in the waters of. course it. seems wrong. just don't call. to say proud. educate and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. thanks for joining us here on a new wave of violence has hit pakistan where general elections are due to be held on the twenty fifth of a string of attacks as seen one hundred and seventy five people killed almost one hundred fifty of them in a single suicide blast at a pre-election run it was one of the worst terror attacks in the history of pakistan.

among the victims were some of the elections candidates pakistan's human rights commission has slammed the violence as an attempt to manipulate the result of the upcoming vote the election has been mobbed not just by violence but also by a corruption scandal one of the major parties there's the pakistan muslim league you can now lead by shahbaz sharif his brother is former pakistani prime minister now was shoddy we were used to head the party but was detained over corruption allegations a few days ago i should show you the main rival as a cricketer turned politician in iran he represents the center right pakistan movement for justice and we spoke to him.

it is probably the biggest crisis financial crisis that any government to do with charges will face a budgets that never was this such a fiscal deficit no was this such a huge deficit and never were the institutions in such a bad state as there are just the way forward is immediate reformation of students to sions regulators for financial regulators of the corruption ward watchdog corruption is one of the biggest problems we do not have enough money to pay for our expenditure and. cut corruption and tourism revenues we have to fix those state institutions. we need peace stability we need good relations and we certainly do need good relationship with the u.s. u.s. is a superpower cannot be ignored unfortunately our relationship has been very one sided

in the past the relationship has been whether you were us as used by this time as a hired gun so we are paid to do their work you know to to fight their war this has cost by just on over one hundred billion dollars lost to the economy over seventy thousand people pakistanis have died they are still dying today terrorism is still a lot. been being overcome so what we want is a relationship with the u.s. which is mutually benefit beneficial to both the u.s. has looked upon pakistan as an ally at once point and then as an enemy at the same time so it's the only time in history i can recall where an ally keeps bombing its ally i mean the drawings we're bombing killing pakistani pakistani people causing collateral damage and pakistan territory it's never happened i don't know of any

situation like that which is happened before and that's why the anti americanism grows in pakistan. elon musk america's hero of high tech innovation has suffered a bit of a fall from grace as of late the entrepreneurs under fire for his criticisms of the thai cave rescue operation and his political donations. everyone muskies tony stark is a hero superstar entrepreneurial and must go on the great fun of a long lost i love you you know i think he's a genius. just

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crosstalk in the helsinki summit i'm joined by my guest michael o'hanlon in washington he's a senior fellow at the brookings institution also in washington we have daniel ferrazzi he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in london we crossed to marry the chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and guardian aren't cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first in london i guess your most important takeaway impression of the of the summit in helsinki and what was accomplished two points go ahead mary. well i think the most important thing was that it happened to toll i was one of the people who was actually quite in favor of it happening and felt the to should have happened much closer to the beginning of donald trump's presidency and i'm sorry that it wasn't as to what it to changed i think that's probably best in

a phrase president that.