was. it was. the u.s. president postpones a second summit with president putin while the u.s. secretary of state is grilled over donald trump's dealings with the russian leader . on donald trump and john called younger strike a deal to avert a trade war which we in the u.s. and the e.u. . and islamic state claims responsibility for a wave of terror in southern syria which is reportedly claimed the lives of at least two hundred fifteen people. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for

joining us. the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has been grilled by senators over president trump's recent summit with vladimir putin here are some of the highlights. 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 relax 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 with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions my pump a a face some tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee he was essentially forced into revealing a secret deal made between trump and putin just last week in helsinki but in

general pump a i held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice to assure everyone that trump did not show any weakness but let's check out what else happened are purchased by the same 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 in reproving our relationship but made clear that the ball is in russia's court pump a also reiterated that trump does agree with the intelligence community that russia did hack a b. twenty sixteen election but his sentiments last week were a bit 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 led to total hysteria in the u.s. the media called trump a trader a crime one stooge putin's puppet and. some even accused him of treason let's take a look at what other politicians 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 unable to confront russia after helsinki trump invited putin to d.c. for another summit however another wave of hysteria ensued but just an hour before pompei is scheduled testimony john bolen trumps national security advisor announced that the summit would be postponed and this comes after the highly publicized moller investigation into alleged russian meddling and it's also worth mentioning

that it's been postponed until after midterm elections which apparently will definitely be influenced by russia and believe it or not trump joined in i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fight the new president has been tough from russia to me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump but is trump being genuine while it looks like he's just trying to calm the domestic storm but we'll just have to see what happens human rights and labor lawyer couple of things time postponed his second summit with putin due to pressure from the senate well i mean to me it's clear that the pressure has worked i mean all this these claims about treason and being traitorous worked to pressure him to back off normalizing relations with russia. i believe this is being done in the interest of continuing the u.s.

on a permanent war footing and wasting trillions of dollars on wars and military equipment that we don't need it and russia is an excuse for that meanwhile i do want to point out though while pundits and politicians have criticized for the meeting here actually got a bit a bit of a bump in the polls after a meeting with. a series of islamic state attacks in southwest syria have killed at least two hundred fifteen people r.t. arabic reports. that loughner the third security has been strengthened in some way to province after a series of terror attacks that currently were on the square near the market where in the morning a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people there are stalls all around people were 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 are the suicide bombers tried to blow themselves up at some alternate iceland carried out

a massive offensive in the northeastern part of this way to prominence they managed to take control of several villages but 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 like two houses in the area. where the two suicide bombers in the marketplace were shot dead by security forces a third was arrested before they could detonate their explosive devices the string of attacks comes as president assad's forces advance against arsenal that's in psuedo province near the frontier with the israeli controlled golan heights damascus based correspondent mohammed early as 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 him particularly in the southern part of syria particularly inside the country side of this where there are also in a valley northwest of better idea 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 deals with syria analysts believes despite the surgeon i selected the group is almost defeated this is probably one of the last last chapters that we're going to see of. this is not new that the tactic isn't new we think this happened to alleviate pressure on the last in cleveland southern syria which is the. base of southwest of dar southwest of syria so the point of the matter is alleviate pressure on the on the forces of die in the basin it's a different tactic now it's more of

a they're trying to be clever and so on but again we're probably seeing the last chapters of this particular. group. well meanwhile in iraq islamic state is waging a guerrilla campaign of kidnapping and killing this comes seven months after the iraqi prime minister declared victory over the extremist group government security advisor he. says the number of terror attacks in iraq doubled from may to june. and. in june lee i saw 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. we asked the iraqi interior ministry for comment and are waiting to hear from them artes more i guess here now looks 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

caliphate albeit at a huge cost and proclaim victory some did more proclaiming than others because to defeat us has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the terror but done a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis just 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 hit and 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 then they come to protect

their lives in iraq isis has gone on the ground this area of iraq is colloquially become known as the triangle of death because of this new insurgency. they operate in small groups half a dozen jarvis that moves 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 think 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 on those are the men who protected the prime minister the minister of health and many other things source this is their reward for this service been dumped here on the floor. some of the hostages were found dead and their bodies mutilated likely tortured before death and their corpses rigged with explosives and the government's afraid that fraid of people finding out how bad it's becoming you know how the. 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 search since may be another special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the militants down and that is they're hiding out some 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 harvest the wall to kill. the e.u. and the u.s. have agreed to work together to cut tariffs and avoid a trade war that was announced after a meeting between european commission chief shaun claude young and don't trump in washington we have identified

a number of areas in which to work together work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods that was my main intention but we agreed today first of all to work together towards zero tariffs zero non-tariff barriers and zero subsidies. on auto industrial goods. well under the agreements the two sides will seek to cut or eliminate import taxes trade barriers and most subsidies in addition the un expand its imports of u.s. liquefied natural gas and certain food items in may the trumpet ministration slap tariffs on steel and many and coming from european countries and the e.u. responded with counter measures well before meeting president juncker might have done well to seek advice from other european leaders who met the u.s. president.

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you. thank you. thank you . thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. an american politician has resigned after being tricked into appearing on a comedy show that story coming out.

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welcome back to us politician has resigned after being introduced into appearing on the comedy show who is america starring bush comedian sacha baron cohen here's a brief clip involving georgia state representative jason spencer now i'm going to teach you how to use your butt the kes they made they i see ok go america. good one more time. well sponsor apparently believed he was taking part in a self-defense exercise with a former mossad agent in the show the politician bad parts of his body and repeatedly used the n. word he stepped down on cheers day after the episode was

a. and there was another scandal over a hoax incident earlier this month a way to from texas posted an image on facebook showing a one hundred eight dollars bill with no tip it displayed it scrolled message we don't have terrorists the way to name that was circled the post went viral and attracted national media attention but on monday the restaurant released a statement saying that the story was fabricated after receiving a fountain dollars in donations to an online crowd funding platform the waiter admitted that he wrote the message himself. well for more on these issues that is now ring in richard goodstein forward advisor to the hillary clinton presidential campaign and also lionel legal and media analyst that start with spencer's resignation then after you've heard all these stories that was some story longer what do you think about it well i think that we in the country are oh mr cohen

a debt of gratitude for ferret out anybody stupid enough to fall for this in the first place and while i'm supposed to be saying that what mr cohen did was are horrible in a sick way i kind of admire his ability to basically plumb the depths of people's stupidity so he he received the gold medal for that effort and richard how do you respond to this. he's been doing this for several years recall he had a show called bore out where he did this you the exact same kind of episodes and i would even go one further than the line and i agree with what he said there was another episode where you had politicians some still in office and some who used to be senators and house members house of representatives members who are endorsing the idea of three year olds using handguns to protect themselves and their little classmates in schools and these people did it was a straight face looking into

a camera you know i so i think what he's doing is frankly teasing out of people things that they would feel otherwise embarrassed to say in mixed company but somehow thanks to his encouragement they see they say things that are just preposterous and yet presumably they believe it and that's gary well i think this is a case of is it perhaps to sense the pain or sense of pain which is different is this something that's across the pond or is it a case of the taking it just a little bit to say this is what he thinks. well i think look his particular act i must admit i like it because i also like train wrecks and car accidents and we have jerry springer shows and we have eggs a bishop of the worst forms of humanity ever so i'm i'm. sadistically voyeuristic i'm sorry to say but what he does though is to show you

a couple of days just how mesmerized people become when there's a camera whether it's of somebody looking at selfies or taking a picture of something it's through to some particular reason some kind of neurological avenge happens when people lose all sense of right and wrong so again i will watch this i love this whenever he humiliates any politician a part of me seems well which it is not a point to spencer thought the interview was actually genuine i mean why did he not the way that he did. well you know it's this you know ally and i are usually on your air like cats and dogs absolutely agreeing on nothing but tonight we're going on everything i look i think this is how many the question is it's not today but i don't mind that it's not just. it says it's not just mr spencer who showed abominable judgment to be able to do what he did in

front of a t.v. camera and lionel's right people do crazy things when they're captured on camera thinking they can somehow or other mind escapes them the question is how many other people in the state legislature in georgia or elsewhere would do something crazy how many other members of congress if approached would say yes having a three year old with a handgun that kind of looks like a teddy bear it makes sense that's the scary part of it just skirts the surface but it makes you wonder what's underneath how many other people share those frankly horrifying views that to me is the main takeaway but there's also the thought that's the some of the other people he's been on the show with his dick cheney he was on sarah palin's little site being on they've also made a few remarks and they probably looking back wouldn't have wished that they decide to just appropriate to set public figures up this way or is it is satire perhaps the best way to hoping to get to what happened. well if if if i

could say something one of the feel this might be not really a subject of this agreement and by the way i do marvel is the fact that we are in cons of the answers to this but the only person of note that i can recall who basically got up and walked out and recognized it immediately was donald trump when he was just a citizen from i don't know what you can draw from that but there's something about it listen we live in a society again with the advent of social media cameras momentary stardom were people will commit crimes and appear on facebook showing the money that was received from a bank robbery or will tell people look i'm torturing somebody or committing suicide god forbid something happens the camera fame attention combinations thereof seems to potentiate this self destructive insanity in us and the best part

about it is that these are people who are not necessarily any different than anybody else there's nothing better or different than dick cheney dick cheney doesn't recognize the all on filey or his own folly at having somebody autograph a water boarding kit i mean come on is it that he's that demented maybe he's so infirm with old age or maybe maybe insanity is the new normal well richard is it is insanity the new normal let's look at the story of the whites have and i mean that course absolute outrage what's it say about society that a hoax and it was a hoax and later proved to be a hoax can get that kind of reaction what does have a society which is about people. well i'll tell you what is so has to me the fact is there are a lot of people in this country who because they have a waiter that either to them looks like he's arabic or muslim whatever that might be obvious that there are people look like me who are muslim but i mean the

fact is there are plenty of people who would take offense at that and in fact zero out a tip that he could capitalize on that so to a certain extent he was perpetuating i mean he frankly should have profited from it but it would have been frankly legitimate for him to make a point like look. because he's he's identifying something that is undeniable which isn't there a lot of people out there who have ranked by applying prejudice whether sort of people of color right so so that's what he's capitalizing on and tapping into should again should have made a thousand dollars on some crowdsourcing well no but but he did it to make a point someone even making a point that he can't tend to that then so this is where we disagree ok then why not say what he what he's saying now this is where we disagree that's that's balderdash this is where we disagree finally you know this is a thief this is a con and you're shill who came up with this but i got to tell you something that

happens and you see it in reverse. you'll see there was a while a spate of these these stories where somebody what you are go to a bar restaurant or a takeaway place and out right in your name and type in some horrible racial stereotypical identifier now this is the institution commenting on the patron in reverse and as soon as it was shown in the newspaper another one did it and another one did it it spun in front of people say whoa i better stop doing this no it actually through this demented logic of attention it actually inspired people to do it and get fired it's just like recently we had this shaming that one week we had sara how come the sanders thrown out of our restaurant and then this one thrown out of a referee and then this trump member thrown out and then because we have the attention span of a gnat and they got kind of old we forgot about it so add to this mentality and

this idiocy and lunacy this weird sense of this is a fad a fad that actually hurts us that could even get us fired but we will do it like lemmings because we are all collectively insane but let's also look at another five that's risen for a start in terms of a collective view and that brings us that let's look at russia then liberal politicians frequently play russia for various things as well if you believe that's the real cause of the problems in the u.s. still there are other divisions what do you think richard. look i don't think people are blaming russia for anything that happens the united states other than what our intelligence community concluded unanimously which was which of the russians attacked the united states to mock recy in the way that they. meddled frankly makes it look kind of pity. kind of really kind of piddly. it's meddling in

the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center that was an attack dick cheney. oh fan i've generally. said that what russians did was an act the act of war against united states so so again i but i think we should segment that out i think i think what happened i'd say it's whether it's racial bias or you know inequality in terms of incomes that's not because of anybody from russia doing that i don't hala sees that we're creating ourselves. i think you can probably gather but i don't think that i can say i think that is the one but last thing you probably do disagree i can say that now i know would you like a final comment on that yes. you didn't let me down. yet it out of parked and my friends comparing osama bin laden with a bunch or russians buying facebook ads which brought down the entire election not

because your gal the oven mitt fashionista lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the the this nefarious cabal did cram lang look i knew we'd get into that one how and i love it don't get me wrong but here is the bottom line the bottom line is that isn't it wonderful forget for it forget borax forget such a board this esteemed gentleman can say what he just said and men in white coats aren't coming in and immediately giving him a sedative and taking him to the nearest home now that's a testament to our free speech so remember sasha baron cohen if you think that was funny just play this little piece back again play the part again about the osama bin laden this is going viral tomorrow to shave my friend toshi a i don't i want to

finally get the big joke line or you may think it's a big joke to have a foreign government basically i think you have blood of little aspects of our democracy you take more like if you're like states i don't think you're a fraud well and i think you're a clown gets what how dare with you there was some hall as. well listen to me let me say yeah it was all going out yesterday that by fifty four to forty one percent americans across the board think that donald trump is not standing up for u.s. interests most people in the united states think that putin has the goods some dirt on trump so it's not just me this is what the public thinks though normally here is our doesn't compare to that if you were a terrorist my god where is your i'm going to be contrary i respect you and you know i know i'm really sorry we can carry on this debate a little bit later but the time being i'm afraid i have to leave it that is just how far i'm not so gentlemen thank you very much indeed.