when i look. at. this hour's top headlines. the u.s. president's national security adviser. which is over secretary of state. over the two leaders recent meeting. has the president told you what he and president putin discussed their two hour closed door meeting took place you speak to the translator you seen any of her know how should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back on likely election interference by russia. tries to weather a political storm fresh concerns of a possible russian interference and upcoming elections both democrats and

republicans however are sure that moscow will try to help opposing. despite the e.u. saying it would not negotiate with a gun to its head over u.s. european commission chief. agreed to work together towards eliminating trade tax. also the tenth annual brics. in south africa with american trade was high on the agenda. from moscow this international very warm welcome to you. 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. after the russia witch hunt is over that's after us secretary

of state mike pompei i was grilled in the senate over the recent meeting in helsinki between the two leaders of some air con reports 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 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 going to do what took place you speak to the translator do you seen any of her know 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 you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions my pompei of 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 the house thinking but

in general comes haile 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 made clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes and 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. easily 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 him of treason 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 or you 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 a scheduled testimony john bolen trumps national security advisor announced that the summit would be postponed john bolen 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 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 to and russia is an excuse for that meanwhile as trauma tries to weather a political storm home his presidency will face a test later this year in the guise of mid-term elections and these are widely seen as a vote of confidence in the sitting president and his party but as all of these killam often explains whether it's republicans or democrats us politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if indeed the results are un to par. it 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 thousand midterm 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 overgaard it's parastatal and it is my go along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the pending 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 tallies or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact on. 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 about sense as what the democrats it was true everybody wants to blame another country for the probably another 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 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 they're communism even though they're not communists anymore this is 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 muffin r.t. washington d.c. and despite trump accusing moscow of possible meddling in the midterms many in the us politics arena believe that he's somehow linked to the kremlin off muscovites what they would oscar trump if indeed he were russian agent.

if you. push me. i mean a finishing if you must go on them and so on so much i used to yell but most of the music was just. says deal so you get the feeling. emotion when he. says you know it you kind of don't agree but he slide music. you. hear. your voice. is my. own and the u.s. have agreed to work together towards cutting import tariffs in a bid to prevent a trade war between the two allies well the. place of course tweeted a picture of young kissing him on the cheek saying that the countries love each

other all the e.u. had previously said it would not negotiate with a gun to its head though it seems now to perhaps have softened its stance. we have identified a number of areas from which to work to go. work to work. on the dusty woods that was my main. trunk told me last week john floyd you want a brutal killer this is the first time that what somebody has become a threat to the united states of america remember everything is a computer even though it 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. would expand its imports of u.s. liquefied natural gas and certain food items in may the top administration slapped

hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum coming from european countries the e.u. responded with three billion dollars worth of tariffs on u.s. goods well as a host of artes the kaiser report says europe has bowed to u.s. pressure. the trial just rolled over john call younker and get concessions almost immediately the answer is yes. as a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and is going to aid he has to get used to this because this is going to happen every few months they going to have to surrender more and more and more us in the house america is back shocked a 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 nothing. the deal is not the ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal. meanwhile u.s. trade wars are on the agenda of this year's tenth anniversary brics summit let's across live now to johannesburg done off now joining us live here on the program a good to see you go to so what are we looking at expectations wise for this summit to achieve. well rory today's the main day of the break summit the wednesday was dominated wednesday's agenda was dominated by business and with putin's arrival today the leaders of the world's most with the world's leading economies are set to sit down together for the for this anniversary summit in less than an hour's time from now at least according to the show the word we hear from

the ground is that this year's gathering will be quite unlike compared to anything that we've seen previously and that's mainly because well you have to look basically out the goals that the brics countries are pursuing when they when the nations when the world's leading. developing economies were first kind of again bonding together and kind of you know speaking to each other they defined their goals as well first and foremost is of course accelerating their own economic growth and the past few years have shown that the countries are very much committed to that also they formed a new global bank under the name of the new development bank and also one of the main goals is of course being serving as sort of a counterbalance to the more traditional. economic powerhouses and mainly the united states well now since twenty sixteen in fact you have trump in charge in the white house and the past few years and even months have shown that he's very

trigger happy when it comes to launching trade wars i mean look at what's happening in the you it is being targeted by the tariffs china a core member of the breaks block is being targeted as well russia india south africa all of these countries have also felt the brunt of the u.s. trade policies of sanctions related to foreign trade and so now the brics nations are looking to kind of fill in the gaps left by the left by the tariffs for example in the you have a listen. the global trade war should be rejected because there can be no win an economic hit germany is even worse because it will undermine the interests of the international community or those that the see this course will only end up hurting themselves. so perhaps quite ironically if you like a decade ago when the brics nations first sat down together the word was from

skeptics that look they couldn't quite pinpoint the purpose of the block there were they viewed the united states as the jack of all trades maybe even quite literally now with trump and his trade war as well that washington could prove truly to be a master of none at least that is the. and that's why many developing many merging economies are looking towards bricks ironically enough in the realm of trade. and so it's just about a quarter past nine in the morning there in jo'burg where you are ego to day two of the summit we look forward to more imports. thank you. we spoke to a political consultant jamie mighty just a bit earlier in the program he thinks that the u.s. led trade wars are actually bringing brics countries closer together people have seen the vulnerability of just being in big trading relationships with only america only so i think 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 or turns its 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 where they're not being imposed upon in terms of values in terms of governance where they can solve to and america is beginning to look more and more like a police player in the trade market their american missteps on this trade war are really going to change the trade day that makes between breaks and the rest of africa are still to come here on the program on the german m.p.'s are angry that members of syria's white helmets a self proclaimed silent story in full in a much. it's

guaranteed returns that those being abused by the crooks are in the guarantee to shovel it a lot of toxic garbage that is ending up is a guaranteed bell because at the end of the day a lot of these pension accounts not be cut back people who think that they had a pension are being told there's been run out you're out of touch any more you're now flat broke you have to go out in the street and beg for money go get addicted to heroin we don't want you anymore drop dead.

just turning twenty past here in moscow germany's decision to take in members of the controversial syrian group the white helmets. among lawmakers who say but lynch should be offering asylum to those 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 so they are white helmets is a self-proclaimed a rescue group that's been operating in syria for the last six years it's received millions in funding from a u.s. and nato allies other groups concerned after about for example when they were filmed removing a body from a jihad is the execution on another video seen a waving al-qaeda flags there be numerous allegations of the white helmets working directly with al nusra terrorists and of staging rescue operations now as we just heard some german m.p.'s would rather offer asylum to julian assange is the founder or co-founder of wiki leaks now a songe took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london after a swedish court issued an arrest warrant for him over allegations of rape by the whistleblowers lawyers say the allegations are politically motivated the u.n. has described his confinement at the embassy as arbitrary detention now as for the

white helmets whether or not to grant them asylum in germany it's certainly a house divided opinion and david no act from the left party things it's odd 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 very many syrians part i'm from leaving turkey in order 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 to intrude into germany now and that's that's very strange they only operate in rebel held territories and they're only year old moderate rebels left and many of those territories are

dominated by islamist groups and 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 have that not a purely humanitarian organisation and while a songes future remains unclear ecuador is now reportedly considering withdrawing its asylum protection accounting fears he will face extradition to america where he faces prosecution over the leaking of classified documents let's recall some of those leaks. in the. in the.

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blast reportedly took place outside the u.s. embassy in beijing police say a man calls the explosion by lighting quote a suspected fireworks device and the man who was slightly hurt in the incident has been taken into custody and no one else was injured earlier there had been reports that someone tried to hold a homemade bomb into the gated compound. cricket star imran khan is on course to become pakistan's new prime minister that's according to initial returns data from wednesday's general election. today's victory comes after twenty two years of struggle. and today people have grown to. like him. really well.

everyone has promised to turn pakistan into a model islamic welfare state he's also valid to tackle rampant corruption in the country and to create millions of jobs meanwhile the final election results have been delayed by several officials cite technical issues though some candidates are alleging vote rigging we'll keep you posted on the outcome here on r.t. international right it is day two of the brics summit now in in south africa we'll keep you posted on how about some of his fairing for the meantime though your program often.

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this is from bus broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm part jones thanks for joining us we appreciate you hanging out with is coming up today we focus on inequality around the planet we'll be joined by professor richard wolfe and archie correspondent on your part and bill looks at a recent united nations report on poverty in the united states and some reactions at home and abroad plus the c.e.o. of straw market we're bored which looks at the wealthiest the poorest nations around the world and argue correspondent trinny child as goes to fisher island florida of the wealthiest zip code in the u.s. for a special report part of it from my yacht boss our to correspondent dan cohen looks at the more unfortunate the border areas in the nation including right here in the nation's capital the belly of the beast washington d.c. all that straight ahead but first let's get to the few headlines we seek to bring a global perspective to the issues we cover here boom bust so to get a real grasp on the problem of inequality we begin with

a report from the library of the british house of commons which is analogous to the library of congress here in the u.s. on what our world will look like in twenty thirty if trends continue the report finds that the richest one percent of humanity is on track to control sixty four percent of the planet's capital and wealth by two thousand and thirty up from the current fifty percent and measured in dollars that one percent will increase their huge holdings from the current hundred forty trillion dollars to three hundred five trillion dollars the labor party's m.p. lam byrne who requested the survey told the u.k. guardian that absent major reforms global policy makers are quote risking a new explosion instability corruption and poverty on the other side of the proverbial calling a november twenty seventh report from credit suisse found that people on the bottom fifty percent of the income scale only less than one percent of global wealth got that.