in the news that shaped the week the mainstream media is left almost hysterical after donald trump first. says and then invites russian counterpart for a second meeting in the altar of. the most disgraceful performances by an american president it's just not possible that the president of the united states is

inviting putin so let's colluded. with. the president has apparently doubled. least twenty people in india are reportedly killed in incidents of mob violence triggered by the spread of fake news. also the program israel evacuated members of the white helmets rescue groups and their families from syria siding and i may be a threat to their lives we look at the controversy behind them. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well the euro with the weekly an international i'm going and only.

so just as the dust settled on the putin summit in the finnish capital health sinking the white house shocked many people on thursday by announcing it was inviting the russian president to washington this source in an interview donald trump has since confirmed his intention to meet. again second meeting potentially with putin. 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 have a good relationship with you russia's ambassador to the u.n. sais the kremlin is open to such invitations moscow has yet to give an official response. followed the historic health think he talks for us. i'm 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 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. 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 you. to the twelve people i think that's an incredible. with an intelligence of the most self and i do know how compile it was however none of this seemed to convince american

journalists and while i was looking at them when they were leaving the room they seem to be even more frustrated then before the leaders met now where of course looking for any telltale signs from the leaders behavior during their meeting in finland and something their hunch exposed volumes we asked body language expert howard feldman what could be read into them. trump is coming from a very very highly critical domestic america so 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 it's with that that he enters the room and he faces faces what seems to be an opponent so you start off and he's very he's almost stretching both of them off they sit down they believe do we uncomfortable they look like a doubles an apple and then they reach out for their attention now what do you see

about that handshake is it is a distant handshake it is not one with da da da whole bodies are involved in it it's not one hand on top of the other trump is very very visual with the war with the pacing of his hand and he goes in very very evenly and that's how the handshake is is. executed donald trump tweeted once again that the meeting with putin was great the spy quote fake news using every bit of their energy to try and the spar idjit news of washington's invitation to the russian president sent many media outlets though into 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 he did last 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 works or is donald trump well trump has however altered his stance on a few things just a day after he had been maintaining his position on vladimir putin's noninvolvement concerning alleged election meddling. 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 of forty six i would say that that is true but you haven't specifically told him personally responsible well i would because he's in charge of the time. anyway is russia are getting. back to me when. i talk to the president he wasn't answering that question he was saying no he's not taking questions 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 just stop letting

them create imaginary enemies that waste money and waste lives on nonsense approaches alleged ties to moscow on controversy started circling around donald trump after his election victory in twenty six the president has admitted that he wanted trump to win some are seeing it as a scandalous revelation but is it really more up goes 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 he told us russian relations. you'd 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 yes he did run president trumka went yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret 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 in two thousand and twelve about candid it barack obama it just sort of. feels i think he's the only he really wants to change much for the better but can he really . move a little you go by today's logic the bomber must have been

a russian poor and why else would putin support him there's no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling kalib mo but went out not just new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better for the. well that's that's what putin said about a u.s. presidential candidate would he make that neither one of them honest. actually what putin said about obama. well i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is that honest man and 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 hot 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 had no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just cringe president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy an outstanding 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 it up to say at a boy russia has made no secret of it once to be friends of course it does sanctions conflict sort of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times a different now and 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.

well hours after they held sinky summit wrapped up a twenty nine year old russian woman was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent russia's foreign minister has the mom did her release call the accusations against her fabricated maria buthe is accused of conspiracy to defraud the u.s. on not registering as a foreign agent while promoting russia's state interests she has pleaded not guilty to the charges bitchiness lawyer said the special counsel's office was offered the opportunity to interview her but they showed no interest well investigators also claimed that boots and i was in contact with russian intelligence officials 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 fueled on twitter where one journalist find a part and visited trump in the oval office she's been plenty of other places to

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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 this is another example of of this connection between trump and potent 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 at it again even they don't know what the it is that they're adding it. all right moving on now the israeli prime minister has said that his country initiated the evacuation of the controversial white helmets group from syria at the request of donald trump and other western allies. contacted me as did the canadian prime minister. and request. hundreds of white helmets from syria these are people who saved lives and whose lives. proved the passage through israel to other countries is an impudent humanitarian

gesture with israel if i can we're going over four hundred members of the group and their families to neighboring jordan after count of the britain and germany reportedly agreed to accept least some of them as refugees syrian government forces have launched an offensive against militants in the south of the country where members of the group were locate it. upon request of the u.s. canada and european states israel has completed a humanitarian effort to rescue members of the syrian civil war going on is ation 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 us 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 are weighty came several weeks ago at this belonging to the white helmets consider themselves where school was who risked their lives to help save civilians but the organization

remains controversial particularly over where its funding comes most of its funding is from the waste 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 you may she stand far more artsy according to the information we have the one helmets convoy arrived in the town of and among a rival swer several chemical experts in the south the missile parts were also on low. that we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and looted by the white house will be used as intended art even when is the now is that this members of the white house have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the possibility of a large here provocation and pinning the blame for this purpose on the syrian government now with all these controversies surrounding the white helmets they certainly are risks and could be more risks of around the secular nation well in addition to be evacuation of the white helmets the area has seen hundreds of militants on their families move to the rebel held north the evacuation comes as

the syrian army advances along the country's southern border with jordan the area has long been held by western backed militants seeking to overthrow president assad the knesset billy who is an independent investigative journalist wonders why the white helmets are more privileged when it comes to evacuation than ordinary syrian civilians this is the next factional right here a shyness an exceptional evacuation for an exceptional organization created by the exceptional list regimes in the united states and in the u.k. and in the e.u. the nato member states but also supported by particularly qatar and saudi arabia we saw or. protest by the u.n. agencies or demands rather that the white home in fact. and given priority in fact over civilians and that's what we're seeing now is saying syrian civilians being left at the border of israel on the border of jordan while the white house

mates are again being given exceptional progress through those two countries and on to the countries that are supposed to play going to house them. the indian government is under pressure to take action over a wave of lynchings inspired by false obligations on the messaging the details after this. 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 was you know fall more graphic than anything i could include in a in a television. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. let you go on to be for us this is what before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. be. hello again up least twenty people have been reportedly lynched in the past two months across india after fake news about kidnappers taking using children were spread on social media there were also false accusations of organ harvesting and killing is considered to be sacred in the country calls for the government to take

argent auction are now growing. 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 when one of the latest cases more than two dozen people were arrested in connection with the lynching of a man over a fake rumors he was a child kidnapper since the beginning of may fake news about the child captors has filled the wats up child's here polly pocket with more. 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 fake news in your face book page or state who's on twitter 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 in another suspected 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 amand 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 but 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 we're stressing an education campaign in india on how to spot freak 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's 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 do you see how almost even before leaving them enough but the one used to be very very localized and that is not strictly on the body region but knowing what was wanted in a large sample and such things for the skill of these can be much bigger now it's much higher most people would be going to have this problem besides the raising of information there are large groups that it will explode because the centralization and create chaos and also the sense of mission that it can so the voices definitely is one of the. new phenomenon that is going to be it's a complex do not want to go to the east of say. you want to look at how much of government the country has and we need to also discipline some of these service providers the. french president among face buckel us this week after footage surfaced showing his aide assaulting

a protester the incident took place on a may day protests then was filmed by an activist. that. was was it 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 ease 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 alexander bennell though was arrested on friday with french prosecutor show pending an investigation into the case benelux house was then raided by police on saturday and

questions are now being raised over a possible cover up by top officials. simply put the government is buying time to arrange it statement we've seen the state override the covering up the lies of ministers i've watched the video and i'm shocked just like the whole world the media poses a number of questions to the manner mccrone we need a commission inquiry what is a private ellie's aide to doing among law enforcement officers this question must be posed to emmanuel macron if we accept that anyone can pretend to be a police officer we no longer live under state truly law the thing is that if the rule of law has been respected from the beginning. mr bin the last should have been fired because the fact that he has done. forbidden by the law of course and mr ation has. tell to the prosecutor that he has not

derived to hurt anybody i think working as a policeman with police violence the thing is that it's very astonishing that the president and the government i think a. minister of interior has decided in reality to give. more weak sanction to mr been a law that proves that he has been protected and it is in complete contradiction with the principle of the come today it's. more of the week's top stories when i'm back at the top of the hour stay with our to international nod for our documentary the bridge.