it was. the make take to the white town sundown says donald trump student via to 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 power poisoning of. a french president friend of russia after one of his aides is called beating a protester to the ground.

a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me the key ally great to have you with us this hour now just days after a summit between donald trump putin the white house has announced the u.s. president's inviting his russian counterpart to washington in the autumn artie's caleb maupin 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. the sorts of people as beautiful and pathetic but these people who are 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 u.s. 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 you agree with u.s.

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 out 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 has unanimously donald trump and not to allow moscow to question u.s. officials involved in criminal cases in russia vladimir putin had suggested the move at a joint press conference in helsinki on monday i talked to investigative journalist rick sterling about just what's going on with u.s. russia relations. the media here has not presented it in a balanced way even it's the same old double standard where the u.s. can charge russian officials and couldn't can effectively demand that arrest that russia extradite them to the us 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 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 maddow to now he says he'd be vladimir putin's west 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 the dilution of criticism the u.s. directed director of national intelligence dan coats has given an interview in which the possibility was raised about an unusual way president trump just being spied on during the helsinki summit. is there a risk that very putin could have recorded it. that risk is always there. is there a risk that the soccer ball could have been wired. world cup soccer ball or was that you know. we have an ability to measure those kinds of

things that whether or not i have ever seen 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 europe or they have a serious all that has to go through the process is that less than twenty dollars or whatever so i'm sure that soccer balls but look at very carefully. u.k. secretary minister security minister has rejected as wild speculation media reports that police have identified russian perpetrators behind the nerve agent poisoning of the school pals earlier this year on thursday the press association citing a source close to the probe claims those behind the nerve agent attack have been tracked down the report said the media about 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 carried out the

novel chocolate's arc 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 well the media frenzy was sparked by just one tweet with the details his party boy. a source with knowledge of the probe told press association investigators believe they have a dentist fight the suspected perpetrators behind the novacek attack on the screen . 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

ended 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 there 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 or did 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. the french president emmanuel mcraney is under huge pressure after a top aide was called beating up a student protester the incident took place at an anti government rally in may and was captured on camera by an activist. that you were reading.

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 clones say it was able to wear police equipment former presidential candidate john newcombe ellen shon also says his party is pushing forward a parliamentary vote of no confidence in the government should the defense give

a pause. well a shocking video that shocked many people in france what you see on the video is alexander first of all he is grabbing a woman and charging her down a street he passes the camera that still mean him and then a little bit later we see him once again this time he emerges next to a male protester what is clearly seen is him wrapping up male protesters neck hitting him on the head and then he appears to be stomping 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 him and. 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 an exemplary 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 mark on

presidential campaign back in two thousand and sixteen he is an aide to my 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 his being 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 a police insignia 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 money on the similar fronts. but you know if you want to go from even to the summer you're going to get as a. result of it and. you read it you know because. it has to rap song that's had almost three hundred fifty million views on you tube and stormed straight to the top of the charts and it's released in may but this is america has a new rival and it's from iraq. some. guy just live another.

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example for always you know where it is and you know we're familiar with the subject that they want to move forward because they were too young at the time. when the invasion happens of this trick in just one person in a positive manner and sort of get a dialogue and the conversation going and sort of it's achieved at school and. then releasing the. israeli parliament has passed a controversial bill defining the country as the nation state of the jewish people critics say it essentially diminishes the status of 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 and puts them on an equal footing but critics and there are many say that it effectively discriminates against the country's arab

population. and 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 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 settlements it caused so much anger in the parliament that arab members of parliament actually ripped the bill to shreds. here this is an even more black flag hovers over it this is a law which harbors a black flag. now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that this

is a pivotal moment in the history of zionism and israel. 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 country's prime 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. creates a lot of problems it's very calm for example me i'm totally against it repeal this law and say it's a country for. my life with. it's about time to have this law which says we're the

nation of the jews in the state of israel this is our country it's our language and things of the arabs should not feel that the reserve that they get privileges there should be a jewish israeli mission and the state of israel the arabs cannot do things against jews in the state and they should be part of the place and not go against. this law has no meaning we will leave with the arabs and i will two thousand years we are leaving with them well and they have a good life here in fact there is no problem it's all talk which politician to do well it sounds like a from the jerusalem center for public affairs told us he believes the little it's 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 institution 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 as the official holidays just like scores of other countries around the world it is absolutely not discriminatory whatsoever. white farmers in south africa are increasingly looking at russia as a place to resettle amid a rising tide of violence against them at home. our

descendants of dutch speaking saddle errors at the eastern cape frontier in south africa during the eighteen and much of the one nine hundred century the people moved in the nineteenth century they tried to act in the way they were surveyed their joy to negotiate negotiate officially they tried to avoid conflict the land in this area for example was never taken of the taken by whites from the legs with violence or in an unjust leather. the expropriation of land occupied by settlers of the sixteenth century without compensation is in visitors one of the measures that we will use to exhilarate redistribution of land to black south africa. i

recently visited russia with my family to explore possibilities of recycling in the area and i know that the growth in agricultural production is immense in russia so i think it's the right time to buy in to a good cause or russia and i think there is a lot of to ensure. the reason our constituents are very immigration is honestly because i see a dark cloud. over a future that the reality is that we do fear for our lives and the reality is that a white farmer is a deck to every day and so that. my grandfather. was murdered on this form the government has said we're responsible for creating. of dagon the towards work for.

already have a plan for a settlement of roughly five hundred families with their own cattle near suburb. south african president meanwhile has said land reforms should not be seen as a threat and called on white farmers to stay. on wednesday internet giants revealed to the us house judiciary committee the amount of social media content has been linked to russia facebook said out of two billion post lived only a few thousand were found to be linked to russian entities you chip could connect only five thousand dollars worth of advertising sells to russia and one thousand videos on its platform meanwhile facebook boss mark zuckerberg has stated russia tried to interfere in the u.s. election via his platform berta at the congress hearing it appeared no one looked

to see if anyone else was involved. it seemed to me you were each a little bit vague about oh yes we found hundreds or whatever i'm asking specifically were any of those other countries besides russia that were using your platform in appropriately it should be a yes or no i don't have the details i know we definitely work to detect and repel it's how i know that but who are any of them foreign entities other than russia i would have to have my team follow up with you on that so you came prepared to help the democrats establish about russia but you can't point out any other country is there right congressman we've put public statements ok well let me go. you're not answering the question only go to ms downs about on google did you detect any other countries besides russia our security team is trained to protect our services from foreign enter we're going to get into my question i i my my guess would be that our

security team are you here to guess at reaching our security from other foreign governments as well about that information is held confidentially even internally you're only here to. to condemn the russians thank you how about you mr pickles are you prepared to identify any other foreign countries are just here to help the democrats blast russia after seventy years of russia helping democrats make these decisions based on. your very good at dodging that and refusing to answer the question. of conservative think tank the bowker think sooner or later questions will be raised over the way tech giants use stored data. well i think the real question with all of this is going to be while no digital solvency and the question is going to be at the door of companies like facebook twitter and google really be extent to which those companies have used the data of the

customers of their uses both for profit but also for political profiling and manipulation i think the the scandals that we've seen so far are the tip of the iceberg compared to what will come out over time when people realize the amount of information that these organizations hold on the average citizen it's surprising that facebook don't want to reveal that information because they know if that information comes out people will have a whole raft of questions about how their days are is being used and possibly misused. went back with the latest the top of the alethea that. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand links.

to the judges. that eight hundred sixty nonstop days of. the russian w.b. a champion. and a russian all to. show you how that crimea bridge was. witnessed the construction of a unique transport doughtery that will help the hands of crimea. as to what all those you know what go for more familiar put a big but. u.s. president donald trump is repeatedly said he wants better relations with russia he did finally have 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 worse. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and

i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. greetings and salutation. you know while opportunistic politicians lapdog journalists and intelligence community sheep continue to froth at the mouth the fall all over themselves and paranoia nationalism over trump and putin in the unbridled crazy that is russia gate there are actually real problems facing the citizens of the united states of america you know you do you do still remember them right the good those good folks do you help our corporations fleece those good folks who who ultimately pay all your salaries until you get that prime think tank

pundit gig you know the voters well i hope all you intelligence community bootlickers are sitting down because according to the voters your obsession over trump and russia is actually not what is most important to them in fact according to a recent gallup poll the situation with russia accounts for less than point five percent of what americans believe is the most important problem facing the country today. you know what was number one dissatisfaction with government and poor leadership this was followed by the economy unemployment the gap between the rich and the poor immigration and racism and speaking of stories that actually pose a bigger threat to american lives than hacked d.n.c. emails and vladimir putin let's take a trip over to los angeles in the neighborhood of watts were journalistic.