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

democrats and republicans however. will try to help the. party. despite the e.u. saying it 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. and finally breaks. underway in south africa with american trade was very high on the agenda. on thursday july twenty sixth this is a. welcome to your new. 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 witch hunt is over that's after the u.s. secretary of state was grilled at the senate. over the recent meeting in helsinki between the two leaders a similar contra points 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 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 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 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 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 the summit lead to total hysteria in the u.s. the media called trump a trader a cry. 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 i was sacked 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 us on a permanent war footing and wasting trillions of dollars on wars and military equipment that we don't need to and rush is an excuse for that meanwhile tries to weather a political storm at home his presidency will face a test later this year in the guise of elections these are widely seen as a vote of confidence in the sitting president and his party but as aussies killam up and explains whether it's republicans or democrats us politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if indeed the results are on

a par with 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 front of 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 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. in 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 oligarchs its parastatal entities it is my go along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the spending 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 i'm just you know we have a new we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence community 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 trump 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 it was a trope everybody wants to blame another country for the problem you know the reason why thirty million americans don't have health care is 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 god 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 communists anymore this will all be 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 is no reason that donald trump can't use it to his advantage. r.t. washington d.c. and despite trump accusing moscow of possible meddling in the midterms many in u.s. politics believe that he is somehow linked to the kremlin so we asked muscovites what they would trump if indeed he were

a russian agent. if you were. with us at the municipal on the moon i mean you. know. most of the music was just. so you get the feeling. when you move. i mean this is the only you kind of. pretty slide music. and you. need your boy. is my. 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 two allies although. still in place between

a picture of young kissing him on the cheek saying that the country's love for each other you had previously said it would not negotiate with a gun to its head though it seems now to have somewhat softened its stance. we have identified a number of areas from which to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods was my main intention. told me last week. you are a brutal killer but it is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america. as a complement to. be sure. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it because i also do stupid we also have to be this stupid and 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 us to liquefied natural gas and various food items in may the trouble ministrations. on steel and coming from european countries and the e.u. responded with three billion dollars worth of tariffs on u.s. goods. keyser of course the host of r.t. is the kaiser report says europe has bowed to u.s. pressure. the trial just roll over john clarke younker and get a kind of actions almost immediately the answer is yes. there's a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and it's going to get used to this because this is going to happen every few months it's going to have to surrender more and more and more us in the house america is back younger obviously at the e.u.

is used to being kind of a very slow moving lafarge a bureaucrat and no accountability whatsoever it'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 the russian president vladimir putin has just arrived for the annual gathering of the world's top emerging economies comprising brazil russia india china and south africa reporting from johannesburg to use even to. 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 brics countries are pursuing the world's leading developing economies were of bonding together and they defined their goals 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 who 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 bloc 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 approach to 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 or 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 we spoke with bob van dijk sirico of internet media group naspers who thinks that the coming closer together of brics countries against a backdrop of u.s. tariffs may see some fruitful outcomes. if you look at our portfolio of businesses and we took a step back and we actually found out that ninety percent of our revenue comes from brics countries sort of more you know that for them appearing particularly from the

united states i think it brings together all of these great growth nations to do to strengthen their ties and as i mentioned before and president she said it so well yesterday most of the growth in the world comes from these markets still will be come closer together and i think together they can achieve so much and still to come in the program german m.p.'s are angry that members of syria's white helmets a self proclaimed rescue group have been granted asylum a full details on that 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 the right to make the first well.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars fine champion each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one just shows you can afford to miss the one and only. the headlines here on germany's decision to take in members of the controversial syrian group the white helmets has sparked anger among lawmakers who say should 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 is amiss 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 has been operating in syria for the last six years it has received millions in funding from the u.s. nato allies and the groups some concern after being filmed here for example

removing a body from a jihad execution and this video here where you can just about see them waving al qaeda flags now there are very numerous allegations of the white helmets working directly with al nusra terrorists and of staging the rescue operations as we just heard some german m.p.'s would rather offer asylum to julian assange the 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 accusations of rape that whistleblowers lawyers says the allegations are politically motivated and the u.n. has described his confinement at the embassy as quote arbitrary detention and now as for the white helmets whether or not to grant them asylum in germany it certainly has divided opinion and david no act from the left party thinks it's odd that the white helmets have 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 and not against saving 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 unfueled 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 has future remains unclear

ecuador is now reportedly considering withdrawing its asylum protection prompting fears he will be extradited to america where he faces prosecution over the leaking of classified documents just for a quick moment here let's recall some of those leaks. in the. in the. in the. car at. the foot of the.

does he say. millions of. wiki leaks walks like. a cold. 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 the chinese foreign minister has called this an isolated

case and praised the swiss police for. 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 years of struggle. and today people have granted him success. the most often. like i'm not. going to run the sun really well. as. you know. imran khan has promised to turn pakistan into

a model islamic welfare state he's also found to tackle corruption in the country and create millions of jobs meanwhile the final election results have been delayed by several hours officials cite technical issues though some kind of goods are alleging the vote rigging a claim rejected by the electoral commission international we will certainly keep you updated on the outcome. talk for the meantime though your thursday worldwide news headlines continue in about twenty five minutes. we'll. look at it is.

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string i don't rightly don't t.v. . kaiser this is the kaiser report well it's time once again to check in with stacey you know max you and i have been covering this story of private equity hollowing out some of the remaining businesses in america things like toys r us or all these retail outlets they hollow it out you know buy it with loaded debt load it up with debt deal the pensions and run away and hold the industrialization of america financialization well you know there have been one group of people kind of immune from this and that as the state workers the federal employees certain firefighters policemen they have some guaranteed pensions guaranteed by the state so if it if

the returns are not good enough of course the states just raise taxes and make sure that these guaranteed pensions are met well it turns out as looking pretty bad wall street managers have cost americans more than six hundred billion dollars over the past decade over the last decade fund managers who oversee the pensions of the nation's teachers firefighters police and other government workers have doubled down on an investment strategy that has cost us taxpayers at least six hundred billion dollars possibly more than a trillion investment data and calculations by yahoo finance found guess why who did they turn the money over to. private equity and hedge funds oh oh yeah well as if said many times on the show pensions fon are where risk goes to die in other words eye wall street to risk they make bad bets they put a lot of these bad trades into what's called an error account i haven't mentioned the error account in

a while but every brokerage firm out the error account or if you make a bad trade you something goes wrong you stick it in this error account where it's not accounted for on any financial statements officially and then eventually some pension fund somewhere and in getting that trade and they backdated and they stick it in with a lot of other garbage and the pension fund managers are typically kind of underpaid low level people that don't really know much and i'm a robber citroen famously was the manager and i think was orange county and it was a very famous case of somebody who was and complete idiot managing the shoot fund that that's generally the case in the industry they purposefully put people who are morons into these jobs so they can easily steal from these pension accounts but part of the problem has been that they charge huge fees to manage it and they they don't outperform the market so this is how they get sold seeking higher gains pension fund managers have upped their investment in so-called alternative

strategies that are costly and weighed down returns quote we find that some of the worst performing plans are those that went into alternatives late in the last decade said john pierre aubrey air research director at the center for retirement research at boston college we studied the impact of investing on into alternatives and public pension funds they don't outperform the market had they just invested in vanguard index fund that those munchie were the heirs of years the ever since john boggle invented the index fund over there vanguard it's been outperforming every manager in any significant time period five year ten year two. any air and this is an undisputed fact occasionally hedged on our private equity final opera for the market for a year or two but over five years ten years they never reform the market and a pension fund that's not invested in a passive index fund like a vanguard no fee fund is going to underperform the market and the.