donald trump postpones a second summit with president putin while the u.s. secretary of state is grilled over donald trump's dealings with vladimir putin who . claims responsibility for a wave of terror in southern syria at least two hundred fifteen people have been killed according to local reports also ahead. but there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and families islamic state terror campaign in iraq a government security adviser admits. quiets only increased violence to prevent like. this.

the french president launches a tirade against the media over its handling of a scandal involving his top security. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neil welcome to the program or top story the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh is currently being grilled by senators over president trump's recent summit with here some of the most intense moments today. has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting in helsinki did you did he tell you did the president at this meeting call upon president putin to withdraw from crimea and eastern ukraine where

did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria good to what took place you speak to the translator do you seen any of her notes that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats or sanctions i understand senator i understand the game that you're playing now and you know mr secretary you with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. let's go to washington d.c. you know and seem you're a come from or similar i just see as i was speaking a little bit earlier mike pompei i was not wrapped up tell us more about his exchanges it must have been what three to four hours he was speaking for the senate foreign relations committee what was said. well mike pompei was faced with a tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee and he was essentially forced to reveal a secret deal made between trump and putin last week in helsinki but in general pump aoe held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice assuring

everybody that trump did not show any weakness but check out what else happened which has been the same to steadily raise the cost of aggression with aggression until vladimir putin chooses a less confrontational foreign policy otherwise the administration will continue imposing tough actions against russia in response to its malign activities and i personally make clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes in helsinki we sought to explore whether russia was interesting and we're proving our relationship made clear that the ball is in russia's court. pump air also reiterated that trump agrees with the intelligence community's assessment that russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election but last week his sentiments were completely different i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there was no collusion at all it was

a clean campaign i beat hillary clinton easily and frankly the summit resulted in total hysteria in the u.s. with accusations of treason thrown around and name calling like a traitor and a kremlin stooge stooge and putin's puppet but let's check out what else the media had to say about trump instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of putin it was a ho sale betrayal of the values and interests of this country president sided with the enemy and with the perpetrator of the election interference treacherous act is able to confront russia. after helsinki trump actually invited putin to d.c. for another summit and of course another wave of hysteria ensued however just an hour before pompei a scheduled testimony national security advisor john bolton and now says that the

meeting would be postponed saying it shouldn't take place until after the russia which hunt is over in twenty nineteen this notably comes after the highly publicized moller investigation into alleged russian meddling and it's also worth mentioning that the meeting has been postponed until after midterm elections which apparently will definitely be influenced by russia and believe it or not trump joined it. i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fact the new president has been tougher on russia the me he will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump. but is trump being genuine well it looks like he's trying to calm down his domestic critics but we'll have to see what this leads to yeah thanks for to all through busy afternoon in the senate some your account thank

you. ok will be returning to our top story in just a few moments but for now i want to bring you up to date with another of our headlines stories that money crawlin has lost start outfront is media over its humbling of the scandal involving the president's top security aide that's after the french leader said he was taking responsibility for his bodyguard attacking a protester picking up the story from friends sure. well in the last week french media has been in a complete frenzy over this scandal which emerged involving top security aide alexander. well but now a has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president

much more made of this of he said to a group of his deputies a lot of public amash the buck stops with him that he and only he was to blame but then he turned around and then laid the blame at the press in the way that they covered this story essentially saying that the press and commentators were acting like the judiciary and were not looking to seek out the truth we have media that no longer seeks the truth the images are they showing with the designs on cover the truth to present facts in a balanced manner no i see media powers he want to become judicial ones well we know the president might call on the president from the united states have been pretty chummy for a long time but it seems now that president michel might be taking a leaf out of donald trump's books in the way that he deals with the mainstream media we know that donald trump has been at war with the mainstream media since before he was even elected so you know that is fake news i don't take questions

from i'm against the people that make up stories the level of dishonesty is out of control very fake the fake news those who want to talk about a buzz feed which is a failing pile of garbage writing it i think they're going to suffer the consequences i'm not going to give you a question you are fake well some may think it's not the best idea for a president not going to follow in the footsteps of. president trump and we also know that president micron's approval ratings have dropped since this scandal now the russian media long been familiar with criticism and being under fire for the president not going but it now seems that that by and that criticism is extending out to all media outlets in france. and let's return to our top story u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe has just been questioned he's wrapped up there by senators over the recent trump putin summit and also about north korea and iran we

can cross live now to former u.s. congressman michael patrick flow again for his take michael patrick you're always welcome to the program yes so we had senators pressing my pump there to this slows the details of trump's private talks with putin in helsinki do you find that strange considering the pump it was not even in the room at the time it was the president's translators alone. with some time you know when we have a chance to talk together i'll explain to you the the contemptuous belief that the house representatives have for the senate some time but it's not growing ancient love hate relationship but senators behave in their own best interest always and in the interests of the country occasionally and there's a very large election coming up in november and they're all acutely aware of it and they're all trying to make noise that they think will be popular here at home i

think that the president is behaving in a way that no other american president has and the democrats would like to portray that as eccentric and dangerous and crazy and the republicans are defending him because it is you'll ding results there will be issues in which russia and the united states will not agree and we've always understood that and that's always been true president trump goes out of his way to find more issues that we can agree on. and then we can disagree on and focuses on those issues but ukraine i'm afraid is going to be one of those issues that we do disagree on and perhaps syria but i think there's more agreement than disagreement there and the senators tend to focus on what makes them more popular in their own states than actually the needs of the nation but the actual meeting today as a whole we had a secretary of state grilled over a summit with another world leader essentially how do how did normal is something i

thought to happen. not really it's not it's not ordinary at all. the media in the united states has a tendency to go to an egg and defend the democrats who continue to to big for this sort of of extended oversight of the white house which is very unusual republican and it's surprising that the republicans permitted it but again it's about the election and not about anything else and that's that's a shame to say but it's true yeah i was a going in a night and listening to parts of it it was around four hours a very long today one of the things i noticed was it was in a different issue altogether pump ale declined to answer a question on whether north korea is moving forward with denuclearization although he denied that the u.s. had been quote taken for writing said does that answer sign convincing your thoughts on that. difficult high level negotiations

between countries is a matter of some secrecy always a matter of delicacy and very a invariably comes in stages you do a little bit now a little bit later there's forward progress there's backward progress and they have the senate have to have a blow by blow moment by moment public discussion of the daily progress of what will be probably the most complicated denuclearization in the history of the world . it is ridiculous and i think unfair was right to reject the question and i think the process in north korea is moving very well and there is progress and i think the president is largely responsible for it a very busy news day and week in fact one of the other stories was that they don't trump will not postpone a second summit with vladimir putin until next year it was perhaps going to be towards the end of this year after as you say the midterms what could be behind.

i think the president understands that the united states and russia need to have a relationship and it would be best if it's a good one but we've gone a long time with just a diplomatic niceties being exchanged between tillerson than pump air and mr lavrov they have to have a meaningful relationship for the safety of europe for the safety of the world and the and the good progress of the world and the president has reached out to china in a similar way and but has been handicapped by domestic politics from doing the same thing with russia we have to be able to do this and i think trump is just tired of waiting for mohler to finish and for the democrats to finish and for the for the the reluctant republicans to back him in is just moving forward on the fall foreign policy that ited states by engaging mr putin and trying to work out some of these nettlesome issues it's the only way it's going to happen and i'm glad that he's finally moving forward president of flannigan consulting and former u.s.

congressman michael patrick flanagan always a pleasure sir. and the facts are. sitting on a series of islamic state attacks inside the west syria have killed at least two hundred and fifteen people off a ship rooney from r.t.r. epic sent us this report. but i learned that the security has been strengthened in some way to province after a series of terror attacks currently well on the square near the market where in the morning as you said bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people there are stalls all around people who are shopping we can still see the puddles of blood and the body parts not far from here there's a square and a residential area where two of the suicide bombers trying to blow themselves up at a small train is iceland carried out a massive offensive in the northeastern part of this way to prominence that they managed to take control of several villages in the syrian army that managed to free the territories with support from the locals but not before is still had killed and

taken several people hostage as well as two houses in the area. where the two suicide bombers the marketplace were shot dead by security forces and the third arrested before they could all detonated their expose of the places the string of attacks come as president assad's forces advance against that's an psuedo province near the frontier with the israeli controlled golan heights the mosque a space correspondent mohammed ali has more. if we look at the reasons behind such an attack at this time it's because the syrian army is launching an offensive against in particularly in the southern part of syria particularly inside the country side of this where the and also in valley northwest of better idea of the army has been carrying out military operations against us and recently there have been advances significant advances for the syrian government forces over there of course backed by russian air force all of the province is now secured except for

about less than six percent which is are now under the control of the action the army is aiming to secure there also some areas some small towns and villages that the army is working on securing whether militarily or via reconciliation the. director of gnosis so u.k. based think tank focusing on syria gave us his thoughts on the story. this is probably one of the last the last chapters that we are going to see of. this is not new the tactic isn't new we think this happened to pressure. the last include if you southern syria which is the. base southwest of southwest of syria so the point of the matter is alleviate pressure on the forces of it's a different tactic and now it's more of a they're trying to be clever and so on but again we have probably seen the last chapters of this particular. group. meanwhile in iraq

islamic state is waging a guerrilla campaign of kidnapping and killing seven months after the iraqi prime minister declared victory over the group a security advisor to the government told us the number of terror attacks in the country doubled from me to. and. in june the ice will militants stepped up their activity according to government data there were eighty three cases where the doctors and killed civilians that's twice the number in may when i saw had been devastated by the government military crackdown or we have asked the iraqi interior ministry for comment we are waiting to hear back from them rock us the of looks now at the changing nature of the terror threat in iraq. it took very neatly the entire world united to defeat isis caliphate didn't syria and iraq they did it they destroyed the caliph it albeit at a huge cost and proclaim victory some did more proclaiming than others

coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory will do a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis is absolutely obliterated isis in iraq a case of celebrating a little early isis was never beaten and they lost the battles but the war's far from over they've gone back to basics hidden run raids assassinations insurgency terror but. there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and slaughter entire families if you were there you probably know want to stay if i were to go back who would protect me or my family they would just come over and slaughter us and forces in the camp to protect their lives in iraq isis has gone on the ground this area of iraq has

colloquially become known as the triangle of death because of this new insurgency. they operate in small groups half a dozen jihad the most making it incredibly difficult to track them down. because remember there are still a few i saw sleeper cells hidden in places such as the desert the forests on the islands of the river and among civilians few sleeper cells doesn't do it justice kidnappings killings have sawed as much as ten fold in just a few months in iraq a government advisor told us they target officials plan. bombs set up fake roadblocks and murder will then vanish sometimes with prisoners. the families children of these soldiers that were kidnapped by isis begged the

government for help to find whoever kidnapped them to secure their release anything they got nothing. i mean those are the men who protected the prime minister the minister of health and many other things this is their reward for this service been dumped here on the floor some of the hostages were found dead in their bodies mutilated likely tortured before death and their corpses rigged with explosives and the government's afraid afraid of people finding out how bad it's becoming. iraqi state media is staying silent about the kidnapping also says not to spread panic can hinder the government's rescue the number of ice or kidnappings the surge since me now the special forces do not have enough resources to hundred militants down it is they're hiding out in remote mountainous areas i still have managed to find sources of funding in the so-called triangle of death they terrorize the

locals hundreds of villages in that area have been depopulated but now the terrorists use them as military bases jails and commando units iraq is that a crossroads it learned to level the cities to defeat isis caliph it but that doesn't work anymore isis is an idea of zealotry fanaticism it's also an outlet for desperation for violence for blood thirst and ideas of the hardest of all to kill europe and the us have struck a deal to avoid a trade war we've got that story and more in ninety seconds. it's. guaranteed

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e.u. will expand its imports of us that will fight natural gas on certain food items back in may the trump administration slapped taras on steel an olive minium coming from european countries the e.u. responded with counter measures with us before meeting president trump may have done well to seek advice from other european leaders who have met the u.s. president. thank you but there to speak if we can just rely on the superpower of the united states. for many decades the united states of america sees itself as a regulatory for the whole world. is no longer the truth in the future. i think you want to see if they can work something out there we do work it out that will be positive and if we don't it will be positive also if we don't know what

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