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company our top story. it's received an official invitation for president putin to visit washington for a summit. it's ready to discuss the proposal. expressed willingness for further talks for the two leaders met in helsinki last week. second meeting potentially with liz what have you proved. 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 the fact is we got along very well i think i have a good relationship with you. we go live now to washington d.c. and our correspondents are mira comes samir a talk us through what we know. well from what we know so for the next time the two leaders will meet for sure is at the g twenty summit in argentina or provided all goes well president putin will

be meeting with trump right here in the nation's capital national security advisor john bull in will be working out logistics on his next trip to moscow but the last time the two leaders met of course was just last week in helsinki and the peace summit provoked a mass hysteria in the u.s. trump was universally condemned for meeting with putin and he was accused of treason and called a traitor a weak puppy a kremlin stooge putin's puppet and f.s.b. agent and even k.g.b. but despite the media frenzy a new poll showed that the majority of americans support the upcoming meeting between trump and putin and sixty one percent are in favor of better relations with russia let's check out what trump had to say about this. are i don't know which side is the bride and which side of the groom enters a bit or sort of feels like we're on

a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president why is president trump putting himself in this vulnerable high stakes an area and letting lattimer putin lead. a man that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down they said inviting him to washington so let's collude again like we did a 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 i think he. would you like to say you know sure you've heard of you and there's a campaign that getting along with russia is a good thing that

a bit. but not everyone shares the same enthusiasm when it comes to u.s. russia relations tensions still exist and even trumps own u.n. ambassador nikki haley contradicts trump's words after the summit we don't trust russia we don't trust we never well they're never going to be our friend that's just a fact but this friendship and trust to go hand in hand when it comes to bilateral relations well check out what the russian president had to say about it but regarding who can be trusted or not and if you can trust anyone it's who i'm telling you you can't trust anyone did you get this notion from the president trump trust me and i entirely trust him defends the interests of the united states of america that i defend the interests of the russian federation.

so besides the hysterical media reaction it looks like both sides agree that improve relations between the u.s. and russia would be a good thing so let's see what happens here thanks for taking us through all of your account live from washington d.c. this hour. ok moving on for the time being social media joined facebook has found itself under fire for removing the works of artist peter paul rubens from its operatives the flemish painter is best known for pieces that contain nudity and he should set takes a closer look at the full centuries these were considered priceless treasure as and masterpieces and now that contentious well according to facebook it appears the platforms take box approach to ads means that console the difference between art and pornography annoying art galleries and museums all of about open from visits to

mogs about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of offbeat to paul reubens even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is making life for all the difficult flaws in the append that head to the face but see they've even all suck a big to discuss the matter. so here is the seventeenth century artist well his baroque style paintings of famously known to feature nudes and cherubs sometimes delicately trite with cloth but this artistic taste is a big no no with the needed john strict advertising rules they call the flemish tourist company thinking if it's not appropriate for facebook he's not appropriate for you and if you have a social media account we have to take you away from the nudity thing to protect you against nudity even if artistic in nature this includes paintings. to the joint body such as a budget speech cleavage so. even if. we put you in front of this painting

for your own research. thank you very much facebook has said it's open to discussion but there is no doubt this is great p.r. spin by museum curators it is in fact possible to paste artistic needs on facebook if it's part of an ad that is in the stricter guidelines and could be rejected but facebook might be playing it safe for different reasons back in two thousand and seventeen facebook came into fire for failing to may have sexual images of children and also failing to stop leaks revenge porn is all this about consent in the facebook's moderation system facebook's very both take census posts but it appears that makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and autistic need to say but when it comes to exploitation you can be sure as a facebook you'll be protected from us. all right let's return to our

top story of the crime and having confirmed that they have received an invitation from washington for a second summit between the russian and american leaders to perhaps take place later this year we have on the program to give some meat on the bones of this independent journalist political commentator laureate joe always welcome to the program yeah so indeed there we have it the kremlin has confirmed that invitation for the second meeting with trump of course they met in helsinki last week but you know overall let's look at what else is being talked about here america's u.n. ambassador nicky healy saying the u.s. doesn't trust russia never will is rhetoric like going to achieve anything do you think in terms of relations between two superpowers. we know what side nikki haley's on she's on the side that's calling trump a traitor for going to the first summit in helsinki and she's posed to work for

president trump and her very first speech at the u.n. . she slammed russia over ukraine and this was just after trump and said in the campaign you want to better their relations with russia so she's been on this anti russian thing all along she did say in that interview that it's ok if they meet it's going to pay me i mean she has to say that but in essence the american people disagree with nikki haley and agree with trump as the poll that was your reporter mentioned indicates at least over sixty i think sixty four percent of the people in that poll said that they want to second meeting between trump and putin so they want better and they want better relations between the united states and russia and overall another poll said that of the things that american people are worried about another poll from last week russia was had a statistical insignificance it was below one percent that russia american religious relations with russia was what they were concerned about so this is quite clear that nikki haley's is carrying water here for those who are calling trump

a tree's a traitor of course she wouldn't say that and in a way. the american people are agreeing with maria this twenty nine year old russian has been arrested here in washington and her crime according to the f.b.i. affidavit is trying to build better relations with between the u.s. and russia that was what you her aim was here and it quotes documents in which she is saying that that's what she's doing that was her mission here to build better relations with russia between the united states and russia and that is considered a crime here because it goes against all the interests of powerful forces in the u.s. that are opposing trump to have bad relations with russia so while i think nikki haley's on their side you talk about the american people but what about the american media given the box in newspapers and television after the helsinki summit do you expect the same if this next summit actually does go ahead. no i expect to be even worse if that's possible but their heads will explode on the air

i mean what we saw after that was that it was the disgrace not the press conference or the summit but the media reaction to that i mean if you want to criticize trump you can do that in measured tones as a journalist these people are not journalists they're acting like assets of u.s. intelligence if they are just carrying mortar again for those who oppose this summit who try to stop it by those indictments two days before look i think the media here is got to be discounted i mean it should be discounted but it's having a huge effect in even so the american people responded that they don't think russia is any kind of threat or a big issue for them but they're going to go on with the same kind of absolute madness and the scenario he's in for that show why and why are the media political establishment so opposed to the idea of two leaders of those nations holding talks put it to you even at the height of the cold war bilateral talks still took place.

because hillary clinton was supposed to win and she lost and they want to deal with . the presidency and they also have an interest to the defense contractors intelligence agencies have an interest in stirring up and continuing tension with russia and also russia under putin as opposed to under yeltsin is standing in the way of american designs in the region they want to have the same kind of influence if not control over russian affairs that they did with yeltsin as a puppet of the united states who the united states helped get elected reelected so putin is standing up for his country and protecting his interest as any leader would and restored economic and political sovereignty to russia and that it cannot be tolerated by those powerful interests on wall street and going all the way down to the cia and the other agencies that putin is a man has to be opposed and we do not want to president who is speaking so nicely about him and who they are claiming in indictments that i'm never going to go to court so we'll never see evidence that the only reason he was elected is because of the interference of russia that russia is somehow disturbing and are stirring up

divisions in a country that's already wrought by divisions including the rich and poor that have wider than ever before racial divisions we don't need russia to help divide us here we are very divided already partisanship and that our all time high so blusher is an enemy it has to be portrayed as an enemy and the media just goes along with that and doesn't do its job independent journalist joe lauria thank you for your thoughts this hour on r.t. international. well donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several obama era intelligence officials the white house press secretary said they had politicized and in some cases monetize their access to sensitive information and made quote baseless claims about the president reporters were quick to question the implication of the threat. because he doesn't like and he wants to punish them for that no i think you are creating your own story there is the president doing exactly what you just said the president doesn't

want all these people doing a little size in matters of national security by going after his political enemies people are politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political and not meant to be monetized off of security plans are. ok but a little sketchy in this let's go through what we know six people were named including former heads of the cia the f.b.i. and the n.s.a. all of them have been critical of from said ministration on the president's policies on everyone where barack obama you're a oficial if it is believed to have them no longer have clearance but they themselves say if it's revoked it won't really change anything the security clearance has nothing to do with how i or any of us feel about the president i don't get briefings i don't have access to any classified information it's more of

a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings won't have any effect on what i say all right. well kaleb up and looks at whether the move is a necessity or donald trump simply seeking to clamp down on u.s. intelligence the former heads of u.s. intelligence agencies are now dabbling in politics the fired f.b.i. director james comey just advised the democrats to steer clear of socialism. democrats please please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left this president and his republican party accounts going to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet and which he said that the only way to support american values was to go democrat. all who believe in this country's values must vote for democrats this fall policy differences don't matter right now history has its sights on the us now james komi fits in with

a big cast of characters these are former intelligence officers who are now telling us what we should be thinking about politics i know we're not nazi germany all right but there is a commonality there and a fear on on my part that we have standards we have to live up to having some understanding of the levers of power that or available to a president if. he chooses to there to resize them from those. downright scary and disturbing there's a big question first of all in terms of those who are on mr trump's their security team whether they can continue to serve in good conscience an individual who basically portrayed his nation now it hasn't always been like this former cia top boss george tenet became a private investment banker he left the public eye after leaving office and former f.b.i. director louis freeh he launched

a private consulting firm here's why it's kind of a big deal it turns out that former intelligence officials usually keep their security clearance. he's john brennan monetizing his security clearance is john brennan making millions of dollars they volunteered secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on donald trump so even after leaving office they've still got power and connections that they could use to further their agenda on the intelligence. so whatever happened to a quiet retirement now in the air pockets around the new forces emerging former top spies were turning to political activism. r t new york well the editor of defense and foreign affairs magazine for agriculture police chase down in any other country such behavior would be considered treasonous but what we've seen lately and the last two years is. the situation with people like director of

national intelligence clapper and the like brennan. and so on making it stream. comments designed deliberately to undermine the current u.s. government now who says this would be treason of all the most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states' image to the united states' ability to function in national security sense from what we've seen from this range of officials commenting in the last eighteen months to two years. you're tuned into our to international we're back in ninety seconds time.

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boom bust. i hello again a proposed plaque on a statue commemorating a seventeenth century merchant is dividing locals in the english city of bristol edward colston was a prominent figure in the city's history but also in the slave trade much of his wealth was acquired through the royal african company which held a monopoly on the trade of gold ivory and slaves on some residents want to raise awareness of course the nz passed city authorities have announced plans to add a second inscription to the monument they propose including a part a graph explaining about the enslavement of africans around twenty thousand of whom are said to have died as a direct result of colston's involvement in the slave trade. while some locals are now calling the move pointless for the statue to be removed

altogether we spoke to racial equality campaign early just her and stephen morris from the english democrats. why are we got the statue of a man who sold millions of africans into bondage and slavery ripped operate them babies from their mothers breast separated families killed maimed and murdered millions of africans but he gave some money to charity so we should have a statue of him in our town square we have to look at the full history of the of the slave trade and this was going on for thousands of years before europeans arrived africans were enslaved africans and selling them to the arabs way before we got there and it's actually quite unfair to judge the past by today's standards and today's models so for me eight is part of the history but it really got to be showing the full history of what was going on at the time and not just to be

a scene until european issue against the slave trade when the slave trade was very predominant across the entire continents at that time so for me you look at the history of but we've got to put it into context julie the fifty million people is a lot or don't know about simple thing one could go on for what we know and redesign and find it that day historians of the tie are all consensual around that figure so i think it is you need to get your facts straight it all depends what the plot is going to be saying because you've got to put things into context of what was going now you all the gas is just going on a complete. whatever whatever point he was trying to put forward whatever argument he was trying to put forward is actually been lost in his actual rants now you all the guess is this man is a really nice dog run so that's what i. want to be trying to put forward i'm going to pluck there then you have to make sure that you put it into context of what was

happening around the world we shouldn't be imagining and celebrating colton it should be either bristol. siham of shame which he can go in and all the colonial aspects and really of the past can go in but i don't way it should be called textual ice as the most horrific period in bristol's history you cannot judge historical events by today's standards you have to look at what is going on a more blood was enslaved by blacks than there were by the europeans so he needs to tell us all to look at why when i walk eagle why why r t why do you subjecting me to the most ignorant one based race cease. rewrite of peace treaty a week early but obviously. to name call the white man who's got no idea now when all you can manage to becoming. more blood was enslaved by blacks than they were by the europeans so he needs to needs to actually look and stop being very

hypocritical. greek authorities say at least seventy four people have died in the country's worst wildfires in over a decade one hundred fifty people have also been injured in the inferno which is continuing to devastate several areas close to the capital offense. now a trillion dollars was pledged by the trump campaign for roads and other infrastructure projects in the u.s. but has the promise been realized boom bust explore is about next in the first of

a two part investigation this is art. people criticize us or they question us and they want to know why we're not more book critical 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 like america. would hold his hands to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president and you. want. to go on to be pros which is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of no. question. this is both broadcasting around the world as you can see from washington d.c. where important policy and money decisions are made there on capitol hill i'm bart chilton and thanks for joining us for what is the first installment of our

infrastructure deficit special we're glad you're on board what will focus on the u.s. this time we'll have a few comparisons with other places around the world there's so much to cover much of the things that you would expect like roads bridges airports and rail but we also take a more complete and comprehensive look at other important infrastructure critical to not only commerce but to national security will look at energy including pipelines and the electrical grid and communications including broadbent and even specifically how trucking fits into our deeply textured transportation network there's so much that we couldn't do it all justice in one program and i'm pleased that will be doing so with a little help from our friends some of the arctic correspondents and others who are lending their expertise to it for most of all i'm really looking forward to it and i hope you are too.

so we're going to jump right in and start with a bit of an infrastructure place setting and then look at rail for that we turn to our to correspondent manila chan. president truck campaign for months and months on repairing america's crumbling infrastructure from the roadways to waterways railways to the airways and has recently unveiled a plan to bring america up to speed we're here today to discuss the critical need to rebuild america's crumbling infrastructure. and one understands and the people in this room really understand better than most probably hopefully better than anybody that the problem of the state savard local leaders have with funding the infrastructure is horrendous and we will build we will maintain and the vast majority of americans want to see us take care of our infrastructure

infrastructure is the backbone of the us economy and a necessary input to every economic output those are the opening lines in the most recent report from the american society of civil engineers their study aptly called the failure to act a report minces no words in their frustration with the budget shortfalls in infrastructure and highlighted that america is consistently at about a two trillion dollar short ball when it comes to infrastructure according to the a.s.c. if this investment gap is not addressed by the year two thousand and twenty five the economy is expected to lose almost four trillion dollars in total g.d.p. which can result in a job loss of about two point five million people across the country u.s. railways once connected the entire country from sea to shining sea much of america's goods are still pulled along by rail millions of cargo loads of coal chemicals paper goods new cars agricultural goods all the.