because. headlines here with the u.s. president's national security adviser confirm that a second meeting will be postponed until quote russia which is over. now continued to try weathering a political storm at home with fresh concerns of a possible russian interference in the upcoming elections are raised by democrats and republicans however short of trying to help the party. despite the e.u. saying he would not negotiate with a gun to its head over u.s. tariffs european commission chief. donald trump agreed to work together towards eliminating trade taxes. also the tenth annual brics summit of emerging economies

is underway in south africa with american trade was very high on the agenda. live from moscow this is international now one minute past nine o'clock on thursday . u.s. national security advisor john bolton has confirmed that a second meeting between donald trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin will only take place quote after the russia which is of. reports from washington john bull and explained the decision citing the current political climate as the main reason saying that the meeting should take place after the quote russia witch hunt is over so this decision appears to be a move to calm down his. domestic critics now this is an announcement also comes as

mike pompei o secretary of state faced 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 has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting and did you did he tell you or should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back on likely election interference by russia 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 know that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia and i understand senator i understand the game that you're playing now i know you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions in general calm pale held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice to assure everyone that trump did not show any weakness

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 in reproving 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 the summit lead to total hysteria in the u.s. the media called trump a traitor. 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 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 treacherous act is unable to confront russia to me it's clear that the pressure is 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 us on a permanent war footing and wasting trillions of dollars on wars and military equipment that we don't need to and russia is an excuse for that meanwhile as trump tries to weather a political storm at home his presidency will face a test later this year in the guise of mitt elections now these are widely seen as

a vote of confidence in the sitting president and his party but as a he's been explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if indeed the results are. was so much division on capitol hill the democrats and republicans have finally found something that they can agree on both parties now agree that the russians are coming more specifically they're coming to interfere in the twenty eight teen mid-term elections this is president trump i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact in 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 and this is his old arch nemesis there are some checks experts in silicon valley valley with whom i have met who say that you know maybe what they'll do this next time is to really disrupt the actual

election shut down the servers that you send results to interfere with the operation of voting machines because still too many of them are linked to the internet so there we are still very vulnerable russia's meddling in the midterm elections may just be a hypothesis at this point but the trumpet ministration from the department of homeland security to the secretary of state are ready to fight the two thousand and eighteen midterm elections remain a potential target for russian cyber and influence operations i think we should be absolutely prepared to assume that they will try to interfere in all fifty states we will not tolerate russian interference in our two thousand and eighteen elections we are planning and preparing as if they'll try again this fall and beyond now it hasn't happened yet but the retaliate tory sanctions to be imposed on russia are all set up by congress we're going to pursue russia's energy and financial sectors it's oligarchs it's parastatal and it is my goal along with

senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the friend in the united states folks in washington d.c. are manning their battle stations all prepared to face an on coming on slot but what are they worried about well it could be the twenty sixteen presidential elections let's not forget that james clapper the former director of national intelligence said that in the twenty sixteen supposed intervention none of the vote tallies were in any way affected they did not change any kelley's or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. impact. sort of the intelligence committee can't gauge the impact it had on the choices the electorate made furthermore it's not exactly clear who russia is supposedly going to be supporting now the democrats say that russia is going to be supporting donald trump but tom says that the pending kremlin subversion will be in support of the

democrats why would he say that well because it makes just as what sense is what the democrats say. everybody wants to blame another country for the problem you know the reason why thirty million americans don't have health care has nothing to do with russia that has everything to do with the enemies of america which by the way are in america acts on the military industrial complex these are the enemies of america are tired government is bought it's legal bribery and they steal and cheat right out in the open americans car gobbling this up it's amazing you know we used to be afraid of russia because they had a communist ideology they're just kind of pressing that button on americans because we've been conditioned to be afraid of russia and their communism even though they're not communist anymore says all the cleared up after the election whichever side loses can blame russia for it and after all it worked in the twenty sixteen presidential election for hillary clinton there's no reason that donald trump can't

use it to his advantage than. washington d.c. meanwhile the e.u. and the u.s. have agreed to work together towards cutting him pull tariffs in a bid to prevent a trade war between the two allies of the agreement was reached the meeting between european commission chief jungle young and o'donnell trump in washington although of course the tire of the still in place trump tweeted a picture of kissing him on the cheek saying that the countries love each other that the meeting promised not to impose taxes on e.u. cars is something he had previously threatened and in response to wish to block had vowed to implement retaliatory measures with twenty billion dollars the e.u. had previously said it would not negotiate with a gun to its head though it seems now to have softened its stance. we have identified a number of areas in which to work together. work to work. on the industrial goods that was my main intention trump told me last week. you want

a brutal killer it is the first time that work somewhere has become a threat to the united states of america remember i think as a complement even though i cannot be sure. we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we could also do stupid we also have to be this stupid under the new agreement the two sides will seek to cut or eliminate import taxes trade barriers and most subsidies in addition the e.u. will expand its imports of u.s. liquefied natural gas and certain food items in may the ministration slapped hefty tariffs on steel coming from european countries and the e.u. responded with three billion dollars worth of tariffs on u.s. goods well max keiser the host of the kaiser report says europe has bowed to u.s. pressure. did trump just roll over john claude younker and get concessions

almost immediately the answer is yes well john clause younker is is a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and is going to aig he has to get used to this because this is going to happen every few months he's going to have to surrender more and more and more the u.s. is in the house america is back with junk lot younger obviously at the e.u. is used to being kind of a very slow moving lafarge a bureaucrat with no accountability whatsoever he's not elected he will say anything but generally that means not getting. the deal is not the ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal. meanwhile the u.s. trade wars are all new gender of this year's tenth anniversary bricks summit each year the world's emerging economies comprising of brazil russia india china and

south africa got there for three days and not a correspondent you could have done a report from johannesburg south africa where the summit is now on day too. heightened security swarms of journalists and lots of vehicles with diplomatic license plates this is pretty much the city of johannesburg right now the south african host city for the twenty teen breaks summit one breaks was formed like about a decade ago it was formed with the goal of the member states accelerating their own economic growth which are they are already implementing secondly they created that the new development bank but also its main purpose has been to serve as a counterbalance to more traditional economic powerhouses mainly the united states now with the president don't will trump in charge in the white house he's been quite trigger happy when it comes to starting trade wars so now it is believed the brics nations they will be first and foremost they will be bonding they will be

banding together so to speak to support each other in these times of when well basically they cannot rely on the united states anymore and secondly they will be trying to fill in the gaps for example in the you that have been worldwide and the u.s. trade policies the coach a global trade war should be rejected because there can be no win the economic hit germany is even worse because it will undermine the interests of the international community of those of the see this course will only end up hurting themselves. now again looking back some ten years from now a lot of skeptics will looking at the brics bloc and saying well they couldn't quite exactly pinpoint the purpose of it unless they saw the united states as the will quite literal jack of all trades now with the trumps trade wars. washington could prove to truly become a master of none with emerging economies looking more towards brics perhaps an

ironic lead mainly in terms of trade down of from south africa for r.t. . things u.s. led trade wars are bringing brics countries closer together. people have seen the vulnerability of just being in big trading relationships with only america only one thing that the law is now going to look at further strengthening their trade relationships that they have i think the belligerence of the trump administration has exposed you know what happens when america just goes left on you back on you in relation with trade so a lot of african countries are beginning to look at the trade agreements that they have with america and south africa in particular so people are looking for a place where they can trade with their not being imposed upon in terms of values in terms of governance. and america is beginning to look more and more like

a bleak place in the trade market that american missteps on this trade war are really going to change the trade mix between breaks and the rest of africa. and still to come on the program here on our judgment m.p.'s are angry that members of syria's white helmets a self proclaimed rescue group have been granted asylum that story in just. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to make that first move and here we are in an age where men a scared to make the first move don't know how to make the first move don't know what's right to make the first move. but hopes as. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to express an injury. you somehow want to be rushed. to the right place this is what. three of the people that. i'm interested in the house. there should. thank you joining us for the program today germany's decision to take in members of the controversial syrian group the white helmets has sparked anger among lawmakers who say but should be offering asylum to others instead. i have decided that

germany will tick in eight members of the white helmets aid group and their families and grant them protection the continuing military offensive on the territorial gain the syrian regime is making in southern syria presents an acute danger for the group. the federal government must offer asylum to the journalist and founder of the we can whistle blowing platform julian a songe instead of accepting members of the controversial white helmets group from syria it is completely contradictory the dean terry minister on the one hand wants to find is amiss tara but on the other wants to bring in these members of islamist terrorist militias to germany the white helmet is a self proclaimed rescue group that's been operating in syria for the last six years it has received millions in funding from the u.s. and from nato allies the group spot concern after being filmed removing a body from asia hottest execution and in another video waving al-qaeda flags they

have been numerous allegations of the white helmets working directly with al nusra terrorists and of staging rescue operations and as we just heard some german m.p.'s would rather offer asylum to julian assange the founder of wiki leaks of course a song that took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london after a swedish court issued an arrest warrant for him over accusations of rape the whistleblowers lawyers say the allegations are politically motivated the u.n. has described his confinement at the embassy as arbitrary detention and with ecuador now reportedly considering withdrawing its asylum protection there are fears a songe will face extradition to the united states now as for the white helmets whether or not to grant them asylum in germany it certainly has divided opinion david no out from the left party thinks that's all they've been given priority. julian assange faces to being prosecuted in great britain or maybe even in the united states and the german government doesn't say anything about it and the

tyrion issues in that case that it wants to take in the refugees from syria i'm not against taking in the refugees from syria but why those syrians and why not others because there are many syrians bart and from leaving turkey and not have to come to europe and they are not allowed to but those white house moves who played a dubious role in the civil war and they are allowed into into germany now and that's and it's very strange they only operate in rebel held territories and they're only few of moderate rebels left and many of those territories are dominated by islamist groups and the the white house votes are not impartial in that conflict there are clearly a part of the faction not of a moderate faction in the syrian civil war and you know that not a purely humanitarian organization meanwhile assad is future remains unclear but a spike reports there has been no official ecuadorian statement on his possible if

victualling from the london embassy if he is affected is likely to be detained by british authorities who could then had them over to the u.s. where he faces prosecution over the leaking of classified documents let's recall some of those leaks. in the. in the rest. of the in the you. are on the air.

does the. millions of. wiki leaks walks like a. hawk. because. this is international three days of national mourning have been declared in greece where fires have killed eighty one people several villages have been destroyed in the region surrounding athens thousands of people are missing and over one hundred have

been hospitalized. for any more survivors the fire started on monday and have been spreading rapidly with gale force winds frequently changing direction and. it's unclear how the fire started but officials do suspect. cricket star imran khan is on course to become pakistan's new prime minister according to initial returns data from wednesday's general election. today's victory comes after twenty two years of struggle. and today people have granted him. the most.

well imran khan has promised to turn pakistan into a model islamic welfare state he's also vowed to tackle rampant corruption in the country and to create millions of jobs in the meantime the final election results have been delayed by several was officials cite technical issues though some candidates are alleging vote rigging. the outcome here on this program. or before we go to a break here on r t reports are coming in over an explosion near the u.s. embassy in the chinese capital of these are live pictures from the scene right now it's believed that someone tried to hold a homemade bomb into the gate to compound however this information has not been confirmed officially there are reports a number of people have been injured with some damage to property and we understand

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four men are sitting in a car when the feds get shot and they have. four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. welcome to the alex salmond show from scotland and today we're here in the fifty of

ed back where behind me you'll see the iconic image of edinburgh castle but we're not here to discuss in the brave scotland the browns last week we discussed the importance of soft power and how the u.k. uses it internationally today we're going to talk about the importance of a brand to a nation and how that image can contribute to the success of an economy but first here treats your messages and your e-mails. now shows on gibraltar generated a lot of interest in advance of that when they made the announcement puna graham said while this would be really interesting the show was covering so many interesting issues that others are not well thank you very much been we want to continue to do that john says creasy it is on gibraltar and we heads up the t.v. so it automatically generate subtitles they need to be broadcast with the show thanks very much sean for correcting me on that we are definitely going to continue subtitles susan says another corporate issue of alex salmond first of three and lightening the place to both took place in the pricks circus again thank goodness tad and he are set in the political commentary place with the inspired production

what shite and watch it when says alex salmon what a fascinating series and you brought her lovely funny place where she turned out what we can ask him and finally for my new he says if you watch this relative to the travolta shows you think you're both it's actually fun but mind you if you can put it into say it really is that thanks for your comment anyway now the labeling of scottish projects has been the subject of some controversy over recent months and has been the campaign keep scotland the brand alex i speak to martin hannan was a journalist involved in meeting that campaign. for mark holland columnist for the national newspaper but for the purposes of the campaign for the scotland the brand concept both writing about the controversy sweeping the country and also campaigning to instigate even more it does seem to the observer the likely issue to be starting up so much political controversy well so let me just explain what

happened was the leadership of the national. who at the same tame a lovely woman called with warts and was starting her campaign keeps cope with the brands readers were sending in examples of what happened. is local shops and in the supermarkets where things were starting to be. in there with the union flag rather than the saltire. so being the flag assault having the flag of scotland and pockets of food would say things like made in button and then underneath it would see it go in and angus and so on as anger spot a scar on the skull in this part of britain well the problem problem is that by not accepting the unique scottish blinds the supermarkets and the retailers in general about actually rican the product because scotland is seen with many many pools many some of these of showing that scotland food and drink in particular is seen as high

quality very high quality and the problem with recall the union jackie is that you diminish the scottishness of it and in turn that diminishes the attractiveness of the food and drink they want to be possible for people to put more flags on the projects assault time one side of the union flag and the other one below zero actually that is happening with quite a few companies and that's not a bad thing. it just actually the big problem is but exit no one had them but certainly a fair thing for companies speculate on the projects any particular that is a real problem for scotland because scotland high's several items. which have. what is called protected geographical indication not a member of us when i was first minister campaigning for whisky to get one agreed by the chinese well good for you we won not.