oh. the u.s. president's national security adviser. to the. secretary of state. over the recent meeting in helsinki. has the president told you what he and president putin discussed in their two hour closed door meeting took place you speak to the translator do you seen any of her should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back likely election interference by russia. tries to weather a political. fresh concerns of a possible russian interference in upcoming elections are raised

a both democrats and republicans however. will be trying to help the opposing party . also despite the e.u. saying it would not negotiate with a gun to its head over u.s. tariffs european commission chief. agreed to work together towards trade. also the tenth annual summit of emerging economies is underway in south africa with american trade. a very warm welcome to you all of us here international in moscow was just off the . u.s. national security advisor john bolton has confirmed at the second meeting between donald. and his russian counterpart vladimir putin will only take place quote after

the russia witch hunt is over that's after the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o was grilled in the senate over the recent meeting in helsinki between the two leaders samir khan 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 why 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 relaxing 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 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 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 led to total hysteria in the us media culture trader 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 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 bowen 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 tries to weather a political storm at home his presidency will face a test later this year in the guise of midterm elections these are widely seen as a vote of confidence in the sitting president and his party but as ati's caleb maupin explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if the results are under. was so

much did there's an 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 that no 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 tax 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 its overgaard its parastatal and it is my goal along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states defending 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 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 of a. 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 with 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 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 muffin r.t. washington d.c. and despite trump accusing moscow of possible meddling in the midterms many in u.s. politics believe that he's somehow linked to the kremlin so we asked muscovites what they would ask of trump if he was

a russian page. you. push me. around the. most in the music. with. this is the aren't you kind of. produce loud music. you. need your boy. is my special. this is art international the e.u. and the u.s. have agreed to work together towards cutting import tariffs in a bid to prevent a trade war between the allies although tariffs of course are currently still in

place tweeted a picture of young kissing him on the cheek saying that the countries love each other the e.u. had previously said it would not negotiate with a gun to its head though it does seem to have softened it starts. we have identified a number of areas from which to work together. who work towards it was on the industrial goods that was my main intention. to trump told me last week. you were a brutal killer and it is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america i think as a complement to even though i cannot be sure. so now 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 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 a hefty tariffs on steel coming from european countries the e.u. responded with three billion dollars worth of tariffs on u.s. goods. well max kaiser the host of oxys the kaiser report says europe has bowed to u.s. pressure. to trump just rolled over john claude younker and get a 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 these 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 nothing. the deal is not the ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal. in the meantime u.s. trade wars are on the agenda of this year's tenth anniversary of brics summit and russian president vladimir putin has just arrived for the annual gathering of the world's top emoting economies comprising brazil russia india china and south africa on seeds down of reports from johannesburg. this year's gathering will be quite unlike compared to anything that we've seen previously and that's mainly because you have to look basically out the goals that the brakes countries are pursuing on the world's leading developing economies were of bonding together and they defined their goals as celebrating 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 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 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 e.u. it is being targeted by the tariffs china a core member of the brics 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 fill in the gaps left by the tariffs of the coach 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 of the see this course will only end up hurting themselves a decade ago when the brics nations first sat down together the word was from skeptics they couldn't quite pinpoint the purpose of the block they viewed the united states as the jack of all trades maybe even quite literally now with trump and his trade wars washington could prove truly to be a master of none at least that is the fear and that's why many developing many emerging economies are looking towards brics ironically enough in the realm of trade short time ago i spoke with political consultant jamie mighty things u.s. led trade wars are pushing 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 brics lock is now going to look at further strengthening their

trade relationships that they have i think the political rants 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 determine and america is beginning to look more and more like a police player in the trade market the american missteps on this trade war are really going to change the trade dynamics between breaks and the rest of africa on a busy day for worldwide headlines when r.t. international program returns in just. the pleasure fund has guaranteed returns that those being abused by the crooks are

using the guarantee to shovel it a lot of toxic garbage that is ending up is it guaranteed no because at the end of the day a lot of these pension accounts not being cut back people who think that they had a pension are being told it's been run out you don't have a patch anymore 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. politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to listen. to going to be press to see what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. course.

thanks for joining us here on out germany's decision to take in members of the controversial syrian group the white helmets. among lawmakers who say but in should perhaps be offering asylum to somebody else instead. i have decided that germany will take 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 leaks 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 islam missed tara but on the other wants to bring in these members of islamist terrorist militias to germany the white helmet says a self-proclaimed rescue group that's been operating in syria for the last six years with received millions in funding from the u.s. and nato of the group spoke concern after being filmed removing a body right there after a she hardest execution on another video where they're actually tough to see but they are waving and al qaeda flag and there are numerous allegations of the white helmets working directly with al nusra terrorists and of staging a rescue operations now as we just heard some german m.p.'s would rather offer asylum to julian assange just out of the founder of wiki leaks now a songe took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london after a swedish quarter seared in a rest warrant for him over accusations of rape that was a blow as lawyers say the allegations are politically motivated and the u.n. has described his confinement at the embassy as arbitrary detention pass for the

white helmets whether or not to grant them asylum in germany certainly has divided opinion and david no act from the left party things it's odd that 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 who are 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 a few of moderate rebels left and many of those territories are dominated by

islamist groups and the white house votes are not impartial and that's 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 organization or meanwhile assad has future remains unclear ecuador is now reportedly considering withdrawing its asylum protection something fears he'll be extradited to america where he faces prosecution over the leaking of classified documents that's a flashback for a moment and to recall some of those leaks. much.

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international for you said day a man has been arrested after letting off a suspected firework outside the u.s. embassy in beijing initial reports suggested someone had tried to hold a homemade bomb into the gated compound the suspect was slightly hurt in the incident nobody else was injured the chinese foreign minister has called this an isolated case and praised the swift police response. cricket star imran khan is on course to become pakistan's new prime minister that's according to initial returns from wednesday's general election. today's victory comes after twenty two years of struggle for iran come and today people have granted him. the most awesome stuff. like i'm not. going.

really well. imran khan has promised to turn pakistan into a quote model islamic welfare state is also valid to tackle corruption in the country and to create millions of jobs meanwhile the final election results have been delayed by several hours officials cite technical issues though some kind of it's are alleging the vote rigging a claim reject with the elections in pakistan i will thanks for sharing your time with us here on r.t. international many more of your worldwide headlines for this thursday in about twenty five minutes.

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you'll lose. all. come on welcome to worlds apart western europe has long been the birthplace of both the most dangerous and the most enlightened ideas. it almost burned the planet alive with the two world wars and came up with the european union as a prevention strategy against the third is the euro centric way the only strategy of saving the world from a new disaster or is it perhaps the surest way of bringing it about well to discuss

that i'm now joined by collapse and he collide is director of the center for international studies at oxford university professor nickell it is it's an honor talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you now i know that for much of your khadem a career you've been focusing on how people collectively negotiate differences and you see the european union pretty much within that framework not only as an experiment in governance but also an experiment in settling and negotiating differences among the peoples as we're recording this conversation john clarke ian kerridge the president of the european commission and the quintessential european bureaucrat is supposed to be meeting with donald trump in many ways a remarkable american leader how do you think the two are likely to proceed well i think we can are great that it's not going to be an easy conversation will it indeed you encourage goes to washington in the name of still twenty eight countries

that u.k. still part of this story and. bringing with him on content a message of multilateralism the idea that we are still a world governed by rules and institutions that well the u.s. may have some issues with trade deficit with the e.u. in general with germany in particular say about their car exports but that all of this can be discussed in a kind of civilized way in the context of now bilateral dispute resolution or in the context of multilateral. discussions in the w t o. and should we do this and of course he's going to face a president which i don't need to tell you doesn't really agree with this way of doing things and where with the bill coming to all this with a belief that institutions are not just kind of ineffective but they're very often

bad for which he calls america first so how are those two going to talk to one another what do we think well i think this is actually a very interesting question to ponder because as you said these two represent two very different archetypes of governance the new york european the way which is based on laws it's very small deliberations slow motion decision making and the what i would call the old american way you know get it done get it done very quickly and it's not that donald trump doesn't respect institutions i'm not sure about that but i think he definitely has a certain disregard for for the dialogue for the sake of dialogue i think he may believe that the european union is using it to its advantage to keep the benefits as much as you may dislike him i'm sure that that is the case for most european intellectuals do you think.