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was. the u.s. president postpones a second summit with president putin while the u.s. secretary of state she's grilled over donald trump's dealings with the russian leader. and donald trump regime called youngest strike a deal to avert a trade war between the u.s. and the e.u. . and islamic state claims responsibility for a wave of terror in southern russia syria which has reportedly claimed the lives of at least two hundred fifteen people. thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. 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 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 i understand senator i understand the game that you're playing now you know mr secretary thank you 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 calm pale 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 or approach 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 but made clear that the ball is in russia's court pompei 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 traitor a crime one stooge putin's puppet and some even accused to. 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 chump coward in the presence of putin it was a ho sale betrayal of the values and interests of this country president sided with the enemy with the perpetrator of the election interference a treacherous act is able 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 a scheduled testimony john bolton trump's national security adviser announced that the summit would be postponed and this comes after the highly publicized moeller 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 fact the new president has been tougher on russia than me they 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 just trying to calm the domestic storm but we'll just have to see what happens human and labor rights lawyer done a couple of things trying to postpone his second summit with poussin due to pressure from the senate. well i mean to me it's clear that the pressure is worked i mean all this these claims about treason him being traitorous worked to pressure him to back off normalizing relations with russia i believe this is being done in the interest of continue. the u.s.

on a permanent war footing and wasting trillions of dollars on wars and military equipment that we don't need in that 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 bit of a bump in the polls after meeting with pose. a serious of islamic state attacks in southwest syria have killed at least two hundred fifteen people r.t. arabic swash a brutal report. that the 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 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 are the suicide bombers trying to blow themselves up at some alternate 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 who support from the locals but not before is still had killed and taken several people hostage as well as flight two hundred as in the area. where the two suicide bombers at 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 advanced against isis or that's in psuedo province and near the frontier with the israeli controlled golan heights damascus 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 there and also in any valley northwest of thread that are there 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 that are problems 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. in syria analyst believes despite the surgeon i still activity the group is almost defeated this is probably one of the last last chapters that we're going to see of die this is not new the tactic isn't new we think this happened to alleviate pressure on the last in cleveland southern syria which is the. base in the southwest of dar southwest of syria so the point of the matter is alleviate pressure 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. when we were in iraq islamic state is also 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 adviser hisham me says the number of terror attacks in iraq doubled from may to june. and. in julie 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 awaiting to hear from them artes what i guess do you have 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 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 terror but done a great job with those as we had just absolutely decimated i was 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 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 and my family they would just come over and slaughter us and forces in the camp to protect their

lives in iraq isis has gone underground 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 jihad the most making it incredibly difficult to track them down. because remember there are still a few i saw a 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. i mean those are the men who protected the prime minister the minister of health and many other things this is their reward for the 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 afraid of people finding out how bad it's becoming you could hear iraqi state media staying silent about the kidnapping of so as not to spread panic can hinder the government's rescue the number of ice all kidnappings the surge since me now the special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the 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 u.s. have struck a deal to avoid a trade war more on that after the break. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to

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welcome by the e.u. and the u.s. have agreed to work together to qataris and avoid a trade war that was announced after a meeting with train european commission chief sean claude young and donald 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. or no auto industrial goods well under the agreements the two sides will seek to cuts or eliminate import taxes trade barriers and those subsidies in addition the e.u. will expand its imports of u.s.

liquefied natural gas and certain food items in may the trumpet ministrations slap tariffs on steel and any minium coming from european countries while the e.u. responded with counter measures well before meeting president trump young cut much have done well to seek advice from other european leaders who met the u.s. president. thank you but the speech was just too long a few paltry united states. natural man to take the united states of america so you don't write poetry for the whole world. is no longer the truth in the future of. the treaty you want to see if they can work something out here we do work it out that will be positive and if we don't it will be far short of also if we don't know what you're thinking about those cars are already here we'll go shopping.

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lots of handshakes and kisses that look at the financial deals and financial guru monks coy is the host of the cause or report here on our team joins us now mike thanks very much for joining us let's have a look at this what they've said then trump and young agreed to work together towards zero char if barry is in subsidies but no timeframe is given i mean is this likely to happen all these just empty words. well first of all it's great to see claude youngcare looking in better health and he was during the nato summit apparently he's able to walk now without somebody helping him get across the stage but putting that aside for a second i cade i think what we have to understand putting this in the broader context is what trump is doing is that he is assuring in

a new era of mercantile ism that means every country for themselves and we haven't seen this really sense the end of world war two when we were introduced to the idea of globalization and global institutions like the i.m.f. and like the world trade organizations like the united nations like nato trump is saying let's rip all that apart let's go back to mercantile ism we've got natural gas we've got soybeans we're open for business and every nation for themselves i think it's brilliant i think it's just what america needs at this time in its history and trumpets put the world on notice rightness have a look at some of the particulars of the deal that i mean these are using greed to buy more liquefied natural gas and food items from the u.s. i mean how much from the from that point of view of a concession is it. well you know they're going to buy more

natural gas and for the u.s. this is a big deal because up until recently it was illegal to export natural gas from the u.s. now under obama the laws were changed now the u.s. can export natural gas but russia is a big gas exploiter cutter's a big gas export or trump was in the middle east cutting deals trump is in finland meeting with putin to cut deals he's talking to younger about cutting deals trump is looking the board like a giant monopoly board he's got natural gas for sale soybeans for sale and it's mark until isn't you want to make sure that you are selling more to other countries than they are selling to you and the only thing missing is a return to the gold standard and in the ensuing chaos in the currency markets which i anticipate will start to develop pretty soon there's going to be a lot of talk about returning to the gold standard and of course now we have the big going standard to consider as well but the particulars of the deal i don't think are really that important katie because it's minutia and what people need to

understand whether it's younger or other players in the global economy is that trump is is introducing a huge paradigm shift in twenty eighteen it's a shift from globalization back to mark into lism and that is a huge economic global shift and i don't think of the other countries are quite up to speed on this yet but. they he will get them up to speed quickly and as one is getting up to speed this is a look at some of the words that he says well i mean he's twisted i mean we're not surprised that as look at some of those was trying to claim that tariffs of the greatest and has repeatedly claimed that the u.s. could win any trade war that should arise i mean is that actually true. well what trump is saying he is he wants what he's talking to younger he's saying he wants to rip up all tariffs he wants to go back to just competing mano a mano he saying let's rip up nato let's rip up the world trade organization let's

rip up the united nations let's let's go back to pre world war two globalized institutions and less compete on a equal footing let's level the playing field he doesn't like younger yorkers a nominal lect of bureaucrat who would have to have to go back to his other bureaucrats to get anything approved anyway your career is not really a factor in trump's world view he meets with putin because putin is a factor in trump's world view because he's sitting on enormous energy reserves and he's going to be competing with russia in the natural gas business as well as cutter that's where the u.s. is going to make a lot of money in the next few years natural gas and soybeans and the u.s. is going to hopefully accumulate huge you know a trading reserves and trading positive trade coming to the u.s. and that's the way trump is approaching this global economy he's not

a bureaucrat he's not a typical politician he's not barack obama who looks great in a suit but is absolutely ineffective has no policy whatsoever he's financially illiterate barack obama trungpa saying this is the art of the deal i'm over open for business and let's do business so doing brilliantly the united kingdom however i think is. really positioning themselves poorly in this environment with what's going on there but in terms of the united states' position here i think the united states is holding a very strong hand i am i think trump is brilliantly brilliantly playing the global economy right now and i'm not that dennis haven't is something else that he said today before the summit with the uncut trump claimed that we are but that's being robbed partly referring to the i mean what does he mean by that. what i mean by that is that since world war two we are in

a narrow monetizes monetarism and keynesianism and globalized institutions that are all working together the central banks all work together with the bank of international settlements and they all were lined currency manipulation and they all rely on subsidies and they all rely on backroom deals at the g. twenty the g. seven s. and there's a huge banking infrastructure the dark market there's twenty one trillion dollars in the dark mark in the dark banking system and somehow for some reason the american worker is not getting any of this the american farmers not getting any of this trump sees this and he's like you know what we're going to break up all your cozy little code arrays of backroom deals and we're going to introduce a new paradigm here and the risk of course is that it will open the floodgates of inflation so prices will start going up we're seeing us already in natural gas and the problem from faces is that if wages don't don't start rising along with prices

then that could be a problem but i think to support that wages will rise along with prices as you get into an inflationary cycle who gets hurt the bondholders get hurt wall street potentially gets hurt the bond market that's been a multi decade bull market could see some serious downside action like we saw in one nine hundred ninety four in previous periods it could be a kind of a bond market slaughter not to put too fine a point on it but that's that would be the loser in this game but trump is playing to his constituency farmers workers the average joe and this plays great for them and this sets him up for twenty twenty reelection brilliantly. interesting stuff and on that note we'll leave it thank you very much indeed mike kaiser thank you can influence not about the latest headlines in just a hop a nod meanwhile for more on or about stories go to our.

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