the. summit take to the white house announced is donald trump's inviting the russian president to the u.s. in the old. wild speculation britain security minister dismisses media reports that police have identified the russian perpetrators behind the script how poisoning attack. but. french president under pressure off to one of his aides is called beating a protester to the ground. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me thank you erin our top story this hour just days after

a summit between donald trump putin the white house has announced the u.s. president's invitingly his russian counterpart to washington in the autumn. and has the details. we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary announcing that john bolton has been instructed by donald trump to invite the russian president to the white house now this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world about the hysteria in the u.s. media and about you know forces that would push false narratives about the meeting in helsinki to advance their own political gain. there are forces in the us ready

to easily sacrifice russia u.s. relations for the political ambitions. once wrote about these sorts of people is pretty pathetic but these people who know the pitiful nor pathetic on the contrary they're pretty powerful if they can fool sfi such stories to millions of the citizens and they count in the aftermath of the helsinki meeting which took place on monday we've seen quite a bit of shifts and changes in how the us president has described that meeting is his explanation and assessment of the events seems to go back and forth it's not exactly consistent they have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. given i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. ok i think he would agree with us intelligence that. russia

meddled in the election twenty sixteen i would say that that is true but you haven't condemned putin specifically do you hold him personally responsible well i would because he's in charge of the country just. getting along with president putin getting along with russia is a positive not a negative if that doesn't work i'll be the worst enemies ever had the worst he's ever had so this new announcement that trump is indeed planning to invite the president of russia to the united states to the white house for another meeting it fits in with a recent tweet from from he said he was looking forward to a second meeting with the russian president but many people are wondering what will happen next as trump seems to have gone back and forth and as trump faces widespread media hysteria and criticism for the fact that he met with the russian head of state meanwhile the u.s. senate excuse me has unanimously not to allow moscow to interview u.s.

officials involved in criminal cases in russia vladimir putin has suggested the move at the joint press conference in helsinki on monday. but the u.s. director of national intelligence dan coats has given an interview in which the possibility was raised about an unusual way president trump could have been spied on during the health think you summits. is there a risk that rare putin could have recorded it. that risk is always there. is there a risk that the soccer ball could have been wired. was out of the world cup soccer ball or was that a yes. we have an ability to measure those kinds of things that determine whether or not i have a senior you did but every time i come home with you know there's a there's a limit to what they can give you if you meet with your port adversaries all that

has to go through the radar and process is is it less than twenty dollars or whatever so i'm sure that soccer balls but look at very carefully. let's cross lines now to investigative journalist rick sterling to discuss this further mr sterling lovely to have you on the program now just to recap first on monday we had trump saying that he could see no reason why trump would have met the old so very positive the day off the he said he meant to say wouldn't have met doda now he says he'd be vladimir putin's worst enemy if the u.s. that russia relationship didn't work out mr sterling can we believe anything that comes out of mr trump's mouth well it's definitely a roller coaster but that was in response is his reversal there was in response to a complete flood of negative criticism coming from even from hocks in the republican party so it was in response to that delusion of criticism so it's

a case that he's just trying to please everybody. i think. it's pretty remarkable that he even after making that statement he kind of reversed it by saying well it could have been anybody. so he he keeps with that in a sense it's in a sense it's good because that he is not completely caving in on that because there's been a real absence of object of investigation a course the the intelligence community assessment it admitted right in that fourteen page document that they had no that they did not have evidence and that that these were the accusations the assessment was just that it wasn't it wasn't persuasive proof the sad reality right now is any negative comment against russia and russia's president is being widely accepted without without evidence in

the united states senate has had chosen to refuse last goes off into question u.s. citizens in exchange for america interrogation of the twelve russians accused of election into fairing do you think trump would have been surprised by that at all. probably not but the media here has not presented it in a balanced way even if it's the same old double standard where the u.s. can charge russian officials and couldn't can effectively demand that or ask that russia extradite them to the u.s. but they don't want to allow any american officials to be be interviewed by by russians so even if it wasn't going to be an extradition and i don't think that was the proposal there is not in an extradition agreement but there is an agreement that would have allowed russians to come to the u.s. and interview americans who are who russia believes while aided russian law and at

the same time for for russians to come here and interview. for americans to go to russia and interview the russians who they've made these accusations accusations against sterling investigative journalist thank you for joining us on r.t. international we appreciate your time. the u.k. security minister has rejected his wild speculation media reports that police have identified russian perpetrators behind the net as agent poisoning at the script of the shit on thursday the press association citing a source close to the probe claims that he's behind the nerve agent attack had been tracked down the report said the media. police investigating this particular incident back in march believe that they do have the identity of two suspects press association says police believe they have identified those who

carried out the novel chocolate stark in salzburg police in britain are reported to have identified several people they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on the former russian spy sergei scruple and his daughter yulia. the media frenzy was sparked by just one tweet with the details his poly boy. a source with knowledge of the probe told press association investigators believe they have a dent to fight the suspected perpetrators behind the novacek attack on the scruples. well this is all allegedly come from a source close to the police investigation into the original attack against the script powells back in march and this source has spoken to the press association they're the ones reporting it and they've said that investigators are apparently closing in on the suspected perpetrators of the attack and the police have allegedly been looking at c.c.t.v. footage and they've been examining it and also looking at records of people who had

entered and left the country around the time of the attack against the script files in march because the bomb shell really in all these reports is that these suspects are allegedly russian it is important to note that these are unconfirmed reports as yet so far it's just come from this one article by the press association but it's done the rounds and it's pretty big headline news here in the u.k. even though we haven't had any updates from the police or the oath or a tease in regards to the investigation that hasn't stopped the press speculation though just to give you an example the sun newspaper has elaborated on the story saying that scotland yard apparently believes that it was a two man hit team that carried out the attack on the script files and that they did it on the orders of the kremlin and furthermore that the pair were thought to have left the u.k. for russia the morning after the attack and to quote the newspaper thought to be

under the protection of president vladimir putin so that's the source of reports that are in the press here right now. has consistently denied any claims of wrongdoing even though the british government pointed the finger squarely at the kremlin in the days after the attack saying that it's highly likely that russia ordered the poisoning and now following these new unconfirmed reports the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander yack event. has already responded take a lesson. you. know we see only leaks to british media and official statements from the interior ministry or scotland yard and nobody in this world has official information concerning what exactly happened in the u.k. . and in a way there you can see the russian diplomat really upping the ante saying well go on then give us these names if you're going to make these allegations we want to

see evidence of it and we've just got a line from the russian foreign ministry as well they've said that if the u.k. keeps these alleged russian suspects classified if this case becomes secret well then moscow will regard it as a cover up of the perpetrators so there's clearly a sense of increasing frustration here i would say from the russian side that the british media can sort of go on making these allegations almost indefinitely without a shred of evidence from the or thora season without any official statements from the police investigation to back it up. french president emmanuel mccrone is under huge pressure after a top aide was caught beating up a student protester the incident took place at an anti-government rally in may and was captured on camera by a lot to first. that. was

was. was. because i was shocked and very angry i would never have believed it wasn't a policeman and now anyone can wear a uniform interrogate me that won't these tensions between police and citizens and it raises the question over the legitimacy of law enforcement the most worrying thing is we know american has been aware of this for two and a half months from the very start so we see intent to cover this up and meanwhile a french police union has filed a lawsuit demanding to know how the crown say it was able to wear police equipment former presidential candidate. also says his party is putting forward a parliamentary vote of no confidence in the government challenged belsky reports.

well a shocking video that shocked many people in france what you see on the video is alexander her first of all he is grabbing woman and charging her down the street he passes the camera that filming him and then a little bit later we see him once again this time he is next to a male protester and what is clearly seen if you is him wrapping up male protesters neck hitting him on the head and then he appears to be stamping him on the stomach as he falls to the ground why was he that well he danced his forces his work release a palace he could see the c.r.s. the riot police during the may day protests to see how operations are carried out in regards to suit security now he wasn't on a working day he was on a day off and he was only there to. take part in the police action against the protesters and that itself has sparked

a huge backlash here in france i've watched the video and i'm shocked just like the whole world the media poses a number of questions to a man or mccrone we need a commission inquiry what is a private to doing among law enforcement officers this question must be posed to emmanuel macron i can't believe this guy is still in the service of the president of the republic so michael tolerates that the film scene is very violent. colleague usurps police insignia and hits a man to the ground you can't want to examine pillory republic and let people think that they can be double standards one justice for french citizens and one for presidential workers. if we accept that anyone can pretend to be a police officer we no longer live under state rule of law well who is alexander but what we know about him is that he has been politically active since his twenties now he was a security aide to some of france's previous ministers but he joined the markham

presidential campaign back in two thousand and sixteen he is an aide to mark or his chief of staff and he is normally the person in charge of security arrangements he's often seen with the president might call active vents just a few meters away it's plenty of video plenty of videos of the two together this is a man who really has the president right next to him almost all the time that he's on official duties now this is the official statement that these a palace has made this morning in regards to the situation he has been suspended for fifteen days without pay he has been relieved of his functions regarding the organization of security for the president's movements this sanction is punishment for unacceptable behavior and constitutes a final warning it is the most serious punishment ever administered to an aide working at the. well an investigation has been opened by the public prosecutor here in paris they are looking at

a number of aspects which could lead to formal charges of violence by a public official illegal use of the police in secret because he was wearing a police insignia at one point during that may day protests and also pretending to be a police officer now that charge alone if it's made if he's found guilty carries a sentence of up to a year in jail and a fifteen thousand euro fine. the french president meanwhile has attempted to dodge questions about the issue swinging a discussion back to marianne the symbol of. as you know more if you want to go from even to something this summer you know it's going to be ended up mostly for your perception of it as a no no not if you're ready you know to have it. the this is america rap song which storms the u.s. charts earlier this year and now has an iraqi rival find out more after this short break.

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critics say it essentially diminishes the state as if the country's arab citizens picks up the story. but it effectively does is it enshrined in the israel basic law the concept that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and they have exclusive right to national self-determination now supporters say that it equates jewish values with democratic values or puts them on an equal footing but critics and there are many say that it effectively discriminates against the country's arab population who make up some twenty percent and other minorities now you have for example now in law the fact that hebrew is the official language of the country arabic is given the status of special status and has effectively been downgraded there were hours of debate in the israeli knesset the israeli parliament prior to this contentious nation state bill being passed into law a particularly content part of the ball is the whole idea of israeli or jewish

settlements now there was a lot of debate about this in the past it was changed because the charge was put forward that it promotes secret geisha and that even with the change critics complain because now for example they say it promotes jewish only settlements it caused so much anger in the parliament that arab members of parliament actually ripped to shreds. yet this is an even more black flag covers over this is the law which harbors and works well. now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that this is a pivotal moment in the history of zionism and israel. and this is a historic moment in the history of zionism and the history of the state of israel israel is the national state of the jewish people and national state respects the rights of individuals the rights of all citizens and in the middle east only israel respects these rights so today we have written the law in stone now the ball was

first proposed back in two thousand and eleven and over the years controversial as it is it has seen and number of rewrites and parallel proposals the countries. why minister netanyahu has always supported it and for years he has vowed that eventually it will be passed into law and that's what we've seen happening now with a lot of reaction. on this law creates a lot of problems is very all the conflicts come from this law i'm totally against it will repeal this law and say it's a country forever all. of my life and it's about time to have this law which says we're the nation of the jews and the state of israel this is our country it's our language and think the arabs should not feel that there is racism they get privileges that there should be a jewish israeli nationality the state of israel the arabs cannot do things against jews in this state and they should be part of the place and not go against it.

this law has no meaning we will leave with the arabs another two thousand years we're leaving with them well and they have a good life here in fact there is no problem it's all talk which politicians not to do well. with and i can from the jerusalem center for public affairs told us he believes the law is not discriminatory. the shift in status merely allows israel to in shrine in the law that hebrew is the official language of the state arabic is a language with special status meaning any kind of institutional organization association will continue to have arabic as a special language and the islam as a culture the muslim religion as a religion as well as the arab national status of israel's arab minority will be preserved one hundred percent the only difference here is that the government and the knesset wanted to underscore the importance of having

a jewish emblem as the official emblem a jewish the jewish language of thirty seven hundred years which is hebrew as the official language jewish holidays is the official holidays just like scores of other countries around the world it is absolutely not discriminatory whatsoever about at the top of the hour with the latest to see that. since communicating with your embassy even here in the week even your did leave us with is a good idea but i think a lot of americans this winter stand being stupid which the ways in which we're here is to communicate for example where their military operations are in syria or even about the baltics lewdly as they do they are making. a bunch of misunderstandings at the end of which you could be in a catastrophic war which would be crazy for russia would be crazy for you

a. four man are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what. one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. u.s. president donald trump is repeatedly said he wants better relations with russia he did finally how his long sought summit with vladimir putin both presidents called it a success the american political class and corporate media describe the helsinki summit as a failure and probably worse. this

is phone boss broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part chillness thank you for watching coming up on today's program which one has busted that resistance level big on. it is trading in the seventy four hundred dollars range what's that about we get to it and much more crypto news with christiane jeffrey talker plus california is dealing with an important new privacy law argues the toss this week joins us from los angeles to discuss and we talked about the largest fine ever for google and about how health insurers are gobbling up your personal details with the c.e.o. of straw market will report all that ahead but first let's get to you as well the trade tariffs shootout may be heating up again as the trumpet ministration considers going after high value targets this time automobiles the u.s.

commerce secretary wilbur ross respond earlier today to reports about tariffs of twenty five percent on imported vehicles and parts mr ross said it was too early to guess on whether the truck of ministration can or will use a one nine hundred sixty two law to impose the tariff using justification based upon national security the united auto workers have no notably supported the president trump in his bluster on autos walk part company executives testified against the tariffs on capitol hill earlier today in the e.u. the european commission has officially war and they are willing to retaliate with tariffs of their own on three hundred billion dollars worth of u.s. imports if mr trump carries out his threat you competition commissioner cecilia malmstrom addressed the brewing battle earlier today a car can be bought in seattle assembled in detroit having been designed by a german built with a mexican chassis and chain adan engine parts this is how trait is when we're

trying to do so i'm do these links we hope to companies our consumers and the communities built around these industries it would do i'm told damage to our economies and it would damage friendship and create tension. in the meantime the rest of the world is not waiting around for mr trump to decide how far he wants to take. the fight on wednesday european union leaders and prime minister of japan signed a trade agreement that will scrap almost all tariffs between japan and the e.u. and a ceremony in tokyo the deal was agreed to last july and european commission president john claude juncker and european council president donald tusk joined japan's prime minister shinzo ave at the signing ceremony for a defacto display of international opposition to the u.s. positions on trade policy donald tossed also spoke at the conference and levelled his opinion on what the trade deal will mean politically. it's

a lie in the increasing konis of international politics. we have sending a clear message. that you can count on us we have predictable both japan and do you think the response to boot and to continue defending. based on rules on freedom transparency and. it's also notable that the day before the signing the trade deal the two you e.u. leaders met with chinese officials in beijing to talk trade. and we'll of talking about crypto currency is there is always more than we can get to today we pick just the very best news stories that are top of our list for discussion to do so we are once again joined by crew.