the mainstream media is left almost hysterical after trump first hailed this week's summit with put in a success and then invites a russian counterpart for a second meeting and the. most disgraceful performances by an american president it's a disaster the possible that the president of united states is inviting so let's pollute again like. the president has apparently doubled down. also at least twenty people in india are reportedly killed in incidents of mob violence triggered by the spread of fake news. plus israel evacuates members of the white house rescue group and their families from syria citing an immediate threat to their lives we'll look at the controversy behind the movie.

a very warm welcome to the program you're watching the weekly here on our to international with all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shaped the week. just as the dust settled on the truck putin summit in the finnish capital helsinki the white house shocked many people on thursday by announcing it was inviting the russian president to washington this autumn and then interview donald trump has since confirmed his intention to meet thought amir putin again. second meeting potentially. to be approved. is that in the works is it planned has it been you know i would say it's in the works look we had a tremendous discussion on many things but fact is we got along very well i think i have a good relationship with you russia's ambassador to the u.s.

says the kremlin is open to such invitations although moscow has yet to give an official response and they are trying to was following the historic helsinki talks for us. i am standing right outside the modestly looking presidential palace in the capital of finland where everything happened first two hours of a head to head togs between donald trump and a lot of our putin with all the the translators allowed inside the room that was then followed by a lunch where the leaders were joined by some of the most senior officials from the two countries then came the first ever joint press conference by donald trump and vladimir putin i looked into the faces of donald trump who was standing right here by the way with a bigger microphone and vladimir putin here with a smaller microphone and i saw two men who were genuinely enjoying talking together but today first of all their message to the journalists was that they want this

kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track and our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago but guess what still worries the entire u.s. presidential poll allegations of meddling and collusion there were sitting right here and almost all the questions from this part of the room were about that and it was rather fascinating to see how the two leaders almost teamed up to dodge these kind of questions do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference or twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did who do you believe president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today he offered to have the

people working on the case come and work with their investigators with real. back to the twelve people i think that's an incredible of if it was you i was an intelligence officer myself and i do know how those years are compiled however none of this seemed to convince american journalists and while i was looking at them when they were leaving the room they seemed to be even more for straighted then before the leaders met analysts were of course looking for any telltale signs from the leaders behavior during their meeting in finland and some think their handshake speaks volumes we asked analyst and body language expert howard feldman what we can read into. from his coming from a very very highly critical domestic america so he's he's he's very aware that his whole country is looking at him and trying to interpret what is really

going on between these two leaders and this with that that he enters the room and he faces he faces what seems to be an opponent so you start off and he's very he's almost strutting both of them off they sit down they very very uncomfortable they look like a divorcing couples and then they reach out for their attention now what do you see about that handshake is it is a very distant handshake it is not one with their whole bodies are involved in it it's not one hand on top of the other trump is very very visual with a war with of pasting of his hand and he goes in very very evenly and that's how the handshake is is. executed even so trump keeps adding fuel to the fire he's tweeted once again that the meeting with putin was great despite despite quote fake news using its energy to prove the opposite on news of washington's imitations of the russian president sent mean stream media into a meltdown. he went on to attack his own

people and institutions while standing next to the russian president i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom anderson but as there were sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in this case when it comes to putin the president's taking a pass. they stand by having him to washington so let's collude again that we did that top spy in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works or is donald trump. despite the finding put in on questions about alleged election meddling a day later he wasn't so sure about his statements have president putin he just

said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. and should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. he would greet with u.s. intelligence that. russia meddled in the election what is it i would say that that is true but you haven't proven specifically you hold him personally responsible when i look because he's in charge of the time. anyway his russian troops are getting ready for the right way and you know. i talked to the president he wasn't answering that question he was saying no he's not taking questions it looks like a schoolboy apologizing for something he shouldn't be apologizing for the intelligence community in america has been giving primarily bad intel like in two thousand and three with weapons of mass destruction has been turning its surveillance apparatus

on the american people trump was right to call them into question we have seventeen redundant spy agencies that need to be slammed into a box we need to fire most of the people who work there and we need to stop letting them create imaginary enemies that waste money and waste lives on nonsense approaches alleged ties to moscow and the controversy surrounding donald trump began one president couldn't admit it he wanted trump to win the two thousand and sixteen election many saw that as a scandalous revelation but was it really 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 direct any of your officials to help him do that you're such a loser yes i wanted him to win because the truth will bring us russian relations back to normal 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 scandalous 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 putin 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 our team in two thousand and twelve about candid barack obama it just sort of you know my partner feels i think he's only he really wants to change much for the better but

can he really achievements movie let's him you 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 kalam open went out not just new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better. that's that's what putin said about the u.s. presidential candidate what you make of that neither one of them honest. actually what putin said about obama. i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is that honest man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama it's not going to be. you know caught in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more. you know intriguing to the

general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make a big deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged tagging no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just framed president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his recent 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 whether 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 called up to say as a boy russia has made no secret of it once to be friends of course it does sanctions called sort of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times are different now and you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is

a brutal bloody bed now called brule between the two presidents hours after the helsinki summit wrapped up in twenty nine year old russian woman was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent russia's foreign minister has demanded her release and called the accusations against her fabricated maria which in a is accused of conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and not registering as a foreign agent or promoting russia state interests she has pleaded not guilty to the charges wooden floor says the special counsel's office was offered to interview her but they showed no interest. investigators also claim that bush in there was in contact with russian intelligence officials and that she offered sex in exchange for a job at a u.s. special interest organization the hype over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was filled on twitter where one journalist seemingly found out that she had visited trump in the oval office and she's been put on plenty of other places as well.

let me just say this here in the united states among the media who despise the president they look today at what happened as trump absolutely being own as they say by vladimir putin barris. that it was horrible it was terrible calling into question his own intelligence agencies it was a desaster this is what they are say what you might see as having occurred is common poll different than what they're saying now meanwhile they're forgetting that the most important aspect of today's visit was what happened outside of the view and the air of the cameras that's what's important that's what's critical nobody is talking about that because frankly they don't know

anything. but what they're saying is you know this is another example of all of this kind of sion between trump and bowden and what this is going to do is resonate through some kind of weird pavlovian connection some obey sense that they have to this idea that the russians they're added again even they don't know what the it is that they're adding more news after the break. to prepare the program i had to look at a lot of material listened to a lot of material and also read a lot of material that that was appalling. and not only that when you get these images into your head and of course the images that i use to foam graphic than anything i could include in a in a television. people criticize us or they question us and they want to know why we're not more book for

nichole of russia and the real question is how come we're not tooting russia's horn more because they are been genius during this crisis but that would be i think a little bit you know over the top to simply point out all the good things that they're constantly doing so we just try to take a more balanced middle of the road approach that's you know the fact is that they're making all these other economies look stupid by comparison. welcome back israel says it has evacuated eight hundred members of the controversy a white helmets group and their families to neighboring jordan after canada britain and germany reportedly agreed to accept at least some of them as refugees that's after syrian government forces launch an offensive against militants in the south

of the country or members of the group are located upon request of the u.s. canada and european states israel has completed a humanitarian effort to rescue members of the syrian civil organization the white helmets and families they were evacuated from the war zone in southern syria to a neighboring country. now the idea of has caught this to quote an exceptional humanitarian gesture it has said that it carried out this evacuation at the request of the united states and several european countries and that the requests away became several weeks ago at this belonging to the white helmets consider themselves risky was who risked their lives to hold state civilians but the organization remains controversial particularly over where its funding comes most of its funding is from the waist and as such it is criticized as being an organization that promotes a waste an interventionist agenda for example more than thirty two million dollars

comes from the united states it also receives funding from the netherlands from denmark germany canada and new zealand. but. now we're still waiting for russian reaction but when the first reports emerged a few days ago over this planned evacuation the russian foreign ministry said that there was concern over so-called provocations that could happen during such a move but we may shoot in far more artsy according to the information we have the white helmets convoy arrived in the town of adlib and among the end rivals were

several chemical experts in the south the missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and loaded by the white helmets will be used as intended art even when is the now is that these members of the white helmets have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the possibility of a large provocation and pinning the blame for. this procreation and the syrian government now with all these controversies surrounding the watch helmets they certainly are risks and could be more risks around the sea of accusation. a powerful explosion has rocked the afghan capital of kabul with reports saying as many as nine people are dead and dozens more injured as a result the blast occurred close to the city's airport and is thought to have targeted the vice president after he had just landed there it's believed a suicide bomber blew himself up in crowds there to get to the vice president is unharmed but sources say some security staff as well as civilians including children could be among those who are killed or wounded no group has so far claimed

responsibility i'll bring you any developments to that incident as we get confirmation. at least twenty people have been reportedly lynch in the past two months across india after fake news about kidnappers taking and abusing children were spread on social media there were also false accusations of organ harvesting and killing cows considered to be sacred in the country there are now costs the government to take urgent action the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the lure of the land recurrent packing the violence kemah be allowed to become the new normal and one of the latest cases more than a more than two dozen men were arrested as they were involved in the lynching of a man over a fake rumors he was a child kidnapper since the start of may the fake news about child captors has filled what's up chats reports. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labelled 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 page or state who's on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but you know now those suspected of lynching was suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. 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 qatari 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 to 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 adverts 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 that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source

of each reema is near impossible india is also what 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 these days how almost even before leaving them enough but the one used to be the leader lives did not spread we are reporting the region but knowing what was wanted in a large sandbox and things of the scale of these can be much bigger than the damages much higher most people would be going through have this problem also be said to raise enough information there are large groups that it is decentralization and create chaos and also the sense of mission that it can so your voice is definitely one of the victims of this news phenomenon that as long as it's gone it's not going to go to the same these you are looking at those you want to look at

how much of government the country has and we need to also discipline some of these service providers these. that's our news wrap up for this hour thanks for tuning in . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy glue foundation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful it's very critical time time to sit down and talk. with whole existence to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want

to be rich. to going to be for us this is what before three in the morning can people that i'm interested always in the waters of my. first sit. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm show business i'll see you then. roughly once they showed some lead for the. future into videos with the broken eastern. we don't mean on string you don't really don't t.v. .

long welcome to worlds apart even for those who've seen the war up close the conflict in syria set a new benchmark for cruelty and impunity more than any other war it capitalized on the public's repulsion of violence and produce death and suffering not only as an inhabitant of result of hostilities but also deliberately for political and media back can these kinds of crimes be ever educated in a court of law while to discuss that i'm now joined by katrina markey had of the un international impartial and independent mechanism on investigation and prosecution

of persons responsible for the most serious crimes under international law committed in syria since march two thousand and eleven when the marquis girl it's great talking to you thank you very much for your time and now i've been interviewing people in positions of power for quite some time but i have to say this is the longest title i've ever come across twenty one awards not counting articles and propositions all to express the idea that this is not exactly the tribe you know but it may lead to one is that accurate. what is accurate is that it's not a tribunal. and it is indeed to assist in investigating investigation and prosecution of those crimes and of the person that may be found responsible for it but as it is not a tribunals indeed this mechanism has only a sense if it can turn its files or its evidence to tribunals now you call it

impartial and independent despite the fact that the key actors in the in the syrian the war like the syrian arab republic or russia. don't even recognize the legitimacy of this mechanism don't you think that these terms impartial independent require the support of everybody in order to be a clickable. they are extremely important terms in the in the title i don't call it it was named this way by the by the general assembly which decided to adopt establish this mechanism. one hundred five states voted in favor of this mechanism but indeed fifteen including russia and the syrian arab republic decided to vote against and they have explained reasons why they do that fifty two states decided to abstain so if the question is whether that. those modalities of the adoption actually renders this mechanism less

legitimate or whether it's impossible for us to be independent and impartial my answer is no i think being independent impartial is not just. not just terms in the name of the mechanism that our principle that i but also my entire team are extremely committed to but the legitimacy of our war but when you speak about impartiality the united states was one of the driving forces behind the creation of this mechanism. and american ambassador to the united nations nikki haley's specifically stated that she sees the truth why a valuable tool to quote hold the assad regime accountable for the atrocities including its repeated and i'm going to use of chemical weapons now i understand that that may sound as impartial in washington maybe even in geneva but in moscow or in damascus is that.