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because you. are your chiming in from right or wrong the world. view with our top story a top aide confirmed that president putin has received an official invitation to visit washington for a summit. in the autumn. it's ready to discuss the proposal expressed willingness for a second round of talks after the two leaders met in helsinki last week. second meeting potentially with with a lot of people. 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'd have a good relationship with but you. can let's go live now to senior a come in washington d.c. so mary give us the background to this well from what we know so far the next time the two leaders meet could be at the g twenty summit in argentina or right here in d.c. in the nation's capital and apparently john bolton national security advisor will be working out all the logistics the next time he's in moscow but the last meeting the helsinki summit that took place last week a provoked a total hysteria here in the u.s. of the media accuse trump of treason just for talking to putin a calling him names like a trader a week poppy a kremlin stooge putin's puppet and even accused him of being affiliated with the

f.s.b. and the k.g.b. so it was totally outlandish but let's check out what else they have to say. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom enters a bit sort of feels like we're in 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 flat in their 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 months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump. despite media frenzy a new poll showed that the majority of americans support the upcoming meeting between trump and putin and about sixty one percent of americans are in favor of improved relations with russia so trump and the american people seem to be on the same page i think we have a. good thing i've been saying and i'm sure you've heard of. and there's a campaign that is getting along with russia is a good thing that. now when it comes to u.s. russia relations and not everyone shares the same enthusiasm nikki haley contradicts her own boss on the topic 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 so it appears that nikki haley thinks that human concepts like friendship and trust are necessary to build bilateral ties between two nations states but president putin's take was a little bit different. 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 is that i defend the interests of the russian federation. so domestic reaction aside it looks like both sides agree that diplomacy will improve the ties between the two superpowers so we're just going to have to see how this plays out yeah we are indeed thanks for bringing us up to date right now though senior account live from washington d.c.

well i spoke to independent journalist julie loria who sees that nikki haley is undermining trump's efforts any chance of improving relations with moscow over you know what side to caylee'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 trumpet said in the campaign we want to better 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 us good if they meet i mean she has to say that and then 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 name was here in the quotes documents and what she is saying 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 why i think nikki haley's on their side. living on social media giant facebook because fund itself under fire for removing the works of art is peter paul rubens from it's on for it's the flemish painter is best known for pieces that contain new to see and the society takes a closer look at the story. full centuries these works were considered priceless treasures 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 one does to mark zuckerberg about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of art by peter paul rubens even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is make your life for all

the difficult lost in the append that head to the face but see they've even also a big to discuss the matter. so who is the seventeenth century artist well his baroque style paintings of famously known to feature nudes of cherubs sometimes delicately trite with cloth but this artistic taste is a big no no with the media giant strict advertising rules they call the flemish tourist company thinking if he'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 and to protect your good spirits even if autistic nature this includes paintings individually such as not to speak cleavage story but it's not just that we put you in front of this painting we are. thank you for. facebook has said it's open to discussion but there is no doubt this is great payoff spin by museum

curators it is in fact possible to post 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 fake all this spot concerns in the face. moderation system facebook's very both expenses. but it appears that makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and artistic nudity but when it comes to exploitation though you can be sure as a facebook user you'll be protected from. another story we're closely following today donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several obama era intelligence officials the white house press secretary said politicized in some cases monetize their access to sensitive information made quote

baseless claims about the president reporters who are quick to question the implications of the threat because he doesn't like it he wants to punish them for you know 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 just 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 concerns. right here some of the details six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and a all of them have been critical of trump's of ministration the president's policies on everyone where barack obama era officials it's believed two of them no longer have clearance but they themselves say having it is a revolution 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 the classified information it's more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings want to have any effect on what i say all right. well caleb maupin now looks at whether the move is a necessity or trump simply seeking to come 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 no need 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 eyes on 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 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 nasty 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 brown and 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 of emerging former top spies were turning to political activism. march the new york you know there's

been plenty of reaction to this story including from the editor of defense and foreign affairs magazine gregory copley who say it's not in any other country such behavior would be considered. 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 this is this would be treasonable the most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states in. to the united states' ability to function. in national security sense from what we've seen from this range of officials commonly in the last eighteen months to two years.

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 and also the slave trade much of his wealth was acquired through the royal african company which held a monopoly on the trade of goal die every enslaves some residents want to raise awareness of course the nz past city authorities have announced plans to add a second inscription to the monument they propose including a parra graphics learning 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. well some locals are now calling the move pointless and indeed for the statue to be removed all together we spoke to racial equality campaign early just one stephen morris representative

of 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 mother's breast separated families killed maimed and murdered millions of africans but he gave 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 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 from a 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 seen and to your opinion. against the slave trade when the slave trade was very

predominant across the entire continents at that time so for me look at the history of but we've got to put it into context julie the fifty million people who are not a ransom. for what we call a redesign 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 all depends what the plots going to be saying because you've got to put things into context of what was going now you're the guest 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 and he's actually runts now you all the guesses to this man is a racial issue and all the ground so that's what i. wanted before i move trying to put forth. i would go 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

a bristol museum of shame which you can go in and all the order of colonial aspects and relics of the past can go in but i don't way it should be called textual eyes as the most horrific period in bristol's history you cannot george historical events by today's standards you have to look at what was going on at the time more blacks was enslaved by blacks than they were by the europeans so it needs to. be where i was a critical why why r t why are you subjecting me to the most ignorant one based racist. rewrite of the street a week early but obviously. the name of the white man who's got no idea now on any image to comment on with girls later meant more blacks was enslaved by blacks than they were by the europeans so he needs to needs to actually look and stop being very hypocritical. the theme of alleged russian meddling seems to

have touched a multitude of areas in recent times from presidential elections in the us to the independence persian spain's breakaway region catalonia and witnesses celebrating its sixtieth anniversary it's a partly gone into orbit. looks like that fifty two american astronauts launched by the russians what's interesting is not a single one of them has been african-american none of our african-american astronauts have ever been launched by the russians and so i mean since two thousand and eleven no african-american astronauts from nasa have been in space and had the opportunity it does raise the question what's going on are the russians were using to launch after american astronaut. if that is the case i have never heard that. certainly i will start asking that question now that

you meant that but i have not heard that and i am unaware of that. little. little i seriously do not believe that the russians are russian colleagues partly because i've been through the training with them and i think. i was able to develop a really good working relationship with everyone there and. you are a testament to that it was that i think some of the people there may have known that nasa the speaking of doing this but they were adamant that i had to complete all of the training little.

well we in fact heard from an aerospace engineering professor who explained it was likely medical restrictions that prevented jeannette eps from taking part in the expedition. you know i wasn't there to hear the statement but i can tell you that i have african i have i've been accepted quite well by my colleagues from russia like people from our ross cosmos and the killed this sort of applied mathematics and i personally as an african-american of never experienced any sort of discrimination from any of my russian colleagues if nasa decided to pull astronauts . you know from from slight i don't we assume that there is some sort of physical reason. you know why that happened not i'm not privy to her medical. information. the european union has given more details about how it plans to help

member states deal with the influx of migrants to the continent as it attempts to quell munting discord over the crisis here charlotte dubinsky with more. we suggesting could pay up to six thousand. migrant to host them in secure migrant centers here in europe the e.u. as we know has been searching for a political solution for some time now to deal with the tens of thousands of migrants that have been coming across the mediterranean european shores for the last three years already in two thousand and eighteen we've seen around eighteen thousand people rifle over the mets tearing in c. in two thousand and seventeen that was one hundred and twenty thousand people and in two thousand and sixteen it was even more around one hundred eighty one thousand people making that crossing and landing in europe and as we know that many

countries on the mediterranean have dealt with that and so the e.u. has been looking for this political solution to try and ease some of the tensions within the block particularly by italy who recently talked about the fact that it would close its ports to my quince. but i want to put an end to this human trafficking which puts thousands of lives at risk in the same way that we raise the issue for the aquarius who are the brussels that follow. there are other countries i'm hinting at from but instead of accepting the report of the migrants are objects of the same one as north korea to protect the external borders a few rip leaves one of them we have had a little bit of a row back from italy in the last few days it's now said that while this new idea is on the table and it's being thrashed out it will allow us to dog who the next five weeks or so and those centers the idea would be to be able to process more efficiently asylum claims for those who reach european song from mediterranean

countries well the european commission white paper which just suggested this idea says it will come out of the european budget now as we know the european budget is paid as a percentage of g.d.p. by the members of the european union so logic countries with large a t d p's pay more such as germany for example that might cause some anger and annoyance in germany where we know that there has been some resistance to the tens of thousands of migrants who've come into the country over the last three years. europe is facing existential challenges if we do establish an effective border patrol in germany and europe we will experience a meltdown in europe and germany and i don't want. we have to solve a problem and the problem is called to avoid the repetition of the year twenty fifteen so people unhappy with the fact that they feel their mood is secure and happy with paying for this so what we'll see is this logic countries possibly

contributing more to this new plan which may appease the smaller countries making the much more happy to receive migrants but at the end of the day will people be questioning whether countries like germany are essentially now going to be buying themselves out of this crisis. to one of those talked about stories of the week now a football player of turkish origin has quit the german national team saying here. abuse for a photo with the turkish president used as a scapegoat for germany's per twenty eighteen world cup performance. has given his backing to the player and as a result. such races treatment to the young man for his religious beliefs is unacceptable he has given his hool to the german national team well it was a photo with eartha one back in may that resulted in anger from politicians the german football association and the media alike all leveled out

a little. you know if you just can't tell a national anthem cools adelong he's president and that's himself before to ground in front of pictures of muslim congress someone that is not german and someone who does that should not play football for the german national team such a photograph has a symbolic value and it is definitely not what is needed at the moment it is clear when you play for germany you represent the country and the german values. the photo of also without a plan was a mistake it is still a mistake to say the reason as it also gave did not convince me at all he speaks of respect but that raises the question of how it is respectful for the victims of crimes policy has respect for journalists who are in prison because they have done

their job. what what we have seen here in the german team is basically a current also a reflection of what is going on in. their government that the german politics we have we have to lift the case on the impact. as much as almost basically the. elements of the media the green party all students step

this. social good to be on this is with the ring the way it is getting sent in sent to. clear himself took to twitter accusing the team's management of discrimination the german football association has emphatically rejected claims made by ozil that they had been racist disrespectful to him but the footballing body did accept that it could have done more to protect him now that the top player has quit some voices are continuing to criticize the midfielder while others are sympathizing with him as you know the chancellor holds most with us still in high esteem and so does feel is a great footballer who has done a lot for the national football team he has now made a decision that nothing respects to us if you find it so and in any case of the truth on the teach the fact that the germans were knocked out of the won't cop has little to do with his picture taken with president. well former manchester united are strictly a goalkeeper mark bosnich sais he understands very well who ozil feels as

a son of an immigrant himself but you do have immigration there are going to be issues it is understandable when you are either a son little grandson will second generation immigrant into the country to have feelings towards you so what's the country that you're originally from and also for the contrie where you're at heart so i can understand where he's probably played very well on those very unfit i mean germany had a very. pleasant i was a i mean he wasn't any better or any worse than wise if you look at the time so you every think you know he was actually quite ok i mean a wonderful germany over the years he won the world cup twenty four years from now . being the on several occasions before him and for yourself a wonderful career. mark bosnich speaking to r.t. ok we're back watching the hawks in a moment and i'm here with more of the choose the news headlines in thirty stay

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