ever have two coal mines here and that it will become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. in r.t. the u.s. president's national security adviser confirms that a second trump meeting will be perspiring that until quote after the russia witch hunt is over his secretary of state might pompei was grilled in the senate over that city leaders recent meeting in helsinki. has the president told you what the president from the sky to our closed door meeting took place you speak to the translator seen any of her no more should we be doing as you put it everything to push back the likely election interference by russia. and as donald trump tries to weather a political storm at home fresh concerns over possible russian interference in the upcoming midterm elections are raised both democrats and republicans however

assured that moscow will try to help the opposing party despite the you saying it would not negotiate with a gun to its head over u.s. tyrus european commission chief sean called young and donald trump agree to work together towards eliminating trade taxes plus the tenth annual bric summits of emerging economies is underway in south africa at the moment with american trade. on the. well i welcome you watching r.t. international is just going to pm here in the russian capital now our top story to the 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 after u.s. secretary of state might be. we screwed in the senate over the recent meeting in

house thinking between the two leaders see america as. 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 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 that 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 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 peo 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. 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 treacherous act he 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 the trump tries to weather a political storm at home his presidency will face a test later this year in the guise of mid-term elections these are widely seen as a vote of confidence in the sitting president and his party but as artie's kind of explains whether it is it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians do seem to know in advance who's to blame if the results are in the park 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 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 that move. ok we've just story short because we can go live now to johannesburg in south africa where the bric summit is underway and russian president vladimir putin is speaking. and i'd like to touch my school too to. remember this once again remind us once again that these days we are celebrating together since there is no anniversary of front of the outstanding statesmen of a south african nelson mandela showing his entire life he has been called in and protecting the principles of a quality and fairness i feel that we have a right to state that mr mandela legacy is reflected in the activities of bricks will take you through it so that these principles are the basis of the cooperation

between the rich member states and the character of the real strategic partnerships that the membership will do with them. reacting to jointly. counter challenges of. stability we are cooperating in fighting terrorism extremism drug trafficking trans border organized crime candy and greeks has a unique play in the global economy this is the largest market in the world and the joint g.d.p. . forty two percent of the global g.d.p. and keeps growing at the twenty two point three percent economic sphere the brics countries are collectively solving problems related to modernization of the industry development of modern technology right acknowledges compared development

of our competitive edge and improvement of the will. to live a life of our population those are the priorities for the south african chairmanship in the briefs and these priorities the brics members of the states to continue count in their work during this year and this work has been successful here we are talking about the team early show has been proposed for a discussion at this meeting the office. fourth industrial revolution or the so-called digital revolution. affects the development of four countries of the world and including brics member countries the digitalisation process covers almost all spheres of our lives creates new economic centers reduces costs and increase the productiveness and efficient efficiency of. the labor our task is create comfortable environment in order to attract

investments into the state of the art economic sectors to stimulate the creation of new technologies and their introduction to the economy the detroit ditched causation easter one of the priorities of the economic policy of my country russia we've adopted a national technological initiative it's a set of measures to guarantee the technological development of russia till twenty thirty five we've launched the digital economy of russia program we expect that this program will allow us to increase the labor productivity by twenty twenty four did but thirty percent and new sectors of fashion economy will generate ten percent more than ten percent of freshman g.d.p. in the environment for digital realities it's very important to guarantee the safety and security of business and our citizens we take necessary measures

legislative and other measures in order to. achieve the situation when the creation of a safe and reliable internet environment. go hand in hand with the. protection of personal data and private life in digital sphere who are we that close a partnership of brics countries in the area of the digital economy will allow us. get better court different quantity of indicators of iraq operation for russia consolidation of our trade and investment. owings with bring sparseness is of high priority twenty seventeen the trade with our brics countries has grown thirty percent which was more than one hundred ten one hundred million dollars. we add further developing this kind of partnership we play pay

special attention to these direct contacts between our business men i support new initiatives of business council of breaks in the area of e-commerce has them east and proposals to simplify administratively there is in order to stimulate trade between our countries we await positively in the activities of the council for implementation of joint multi rental multilateral cortex this should golinger have the count we think it is of new development bank completeness should be involved in filling up credit part of all of the bank recently the after rate effectivity of the new development bank bank and expanded notably board of directors of the bank has approved twenty round projects out of this number five projects will be implemented in russia with the budget of five billion of dollars we support the. support creation of regional branches of the bank the negotiations are going now

with brazil we call that when they will when these negotiations are all one we start to analyze the possibility to open national office in russia we have a way to positively of the contingent creation the contingent reserves range ment which is a very important tool for the father of the financing or for banking. for collecting and processing statistical data of brazil russia india china and south africa in two thousand and seventeen in semin the decision has been taken by asked to create a font of national carrier and says it's very important for the development of financial and currency systems of countries practical launch of this farm in twenty nineteen car corresponds to the brics interest we are grateful to our

british partners for their support of russian idea to create brics energy research center i'm sure that from the quality point of view. reviews and forecasts it will be able to compete as equals. equal with a world energy analytical agencies i'd like to track the attention to the russian beach to organize world expo twenty twenty five. he could there are groups we do not compete here with cities from brazil india china or south africa difference will it come to your support at the end of my presentation i'd like to thank our south african france the president of south africa mr rem of course an. enormous contribution into practical interaction in the framework of bricks and thank you for. paying attention to our idea to expand our cooperation in

the community or in sectors sport. etc thank you for for your attention. that was the russian president vladimir putin speaking live there in johannesburg at me so i mean he did highlight didn't need the importance of the digital revolution in developing and improving bricks economy she also said that they would work to try and cut red tape to stick. trade between brics countries also when we are u.s. trade wars are on the agenda today of this year's tenth anniversary bric summit the russian president vladimir putin is just delivered that speech to be saw at the annual gathering the world's top emerging economies comprising of brazil russia india china and also south africa you know he's done a reports now for us from the summit in johannesburg in south africa 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 when 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 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 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 those have to see this course will only end up hurting themselves a decade ago when the brics nations first sat down together the word was from skip . 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 well bob van dyke c. of internet and media group naspers does think that the coming together or coming closer together or brics countries against a backdrop of u.s. tariffs could see fruitful kemp's 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 unilateralism appearing particularly from from the united states i think it brings together at 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 they'll become closer together and i think to go to can achieve so much what i did see in the last few days is a huge excitement and willingness from both business leaders and political leaders to to work closer together to make this this walk as a whole is to strengthen ties better cooperate on trade and become have become a force for good and i think definitely it's going to a step change compared to before. meanwhile 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 tariffs are currently still in place trump or tweeted a picture of young kissing him on the cheek saying that the country's love each other you had previously said it would not negotiate with a gun to its head although it seems now softened its stance we have identified a number of areas from which to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on industrial goods up. it was my main intention. trump told me last week john claude you are a brutal killer and this is the first time that what somebody has become a threat to the united states of america remember i think as a complement 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 you can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid well under the new agreement the two sides will seek to cut or eliminate import taxes trade berries and most subsidies to in

addition the you will expand its imports of u.s. liquefied natural gas and certain food items in may the trumpet ministrations slapped hefty tariffs on steel and alimony i'm coming from european countries he responded with three billion dollars worth of tariffs on u.s. goods or max kaiser the kaiser report says that europe has bagged two u.s. pressure. trial just rolled over john called younker and get concessions almost immediately the answer is yes well john claus younker is is 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 he's 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 john claude juncker 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. international still to come. that members of syria's white house the self-proclaimed rescue group has been granted asylum we'll have a look at that story present this to you just after the break. 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 are 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.

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asylum to others instead. i have decided that germany will tear 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 weekly whistle blowing platform julian a science instead of accepting members of the controversial white helmets group from syria it is completely contradictory their dean terry minister on the one hand wants to find is a mystery but on the other wants to bring in these members of islamist terrorist militias to germany while the white helmet is a self-proclaimed rescue group that's been operating in syria for the last six years it's received millions in funding too from the u.s. and from nato allies the group sparked concern after being filmed removing

a body from a jihadist execution and in another video to you waving al-qaeda flags there 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 silent accusing the sanj the wiki leaks founder with arms took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london after a swedish court issued an arrest warrant for him over accusations of rape whistleblowers lawyers say the allegations are politically motivated the u.n. has described his confinement at the embassy is arbitrary detention well as for the white helmets whether or not to grant them asylum in germany has divided opinion david novak from the left party thinks it's old they've been given priority julian assange to being prosecuted in great britain or maybe even to united states and the german government doesn't say anything about a terrorist who was in that area of wants to take in the refugees from syria i'm

not against the refugees from syria about why the syrians and. why not others because very many syrians part i'm from leaving turkey 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 there are only a few of moderate rebels left and many of those territories are dominated by islamist groups and the the white house votes are not impartial and that's a conflict they are clearly a part of a faction of a moderate faction in the syrian civil war and you know they're not a purely humanitarian organization. for the cricket star amount carney's on cost to become pakistan's new prime minister according to initial data for wednesday's

general election. already today's victory comes after twenty two years of struggle for iran can today or the people have granted him six cents to. the most awesome pakistani like i'm not. going to. start really well the one. they're saying if they think of it. in their name. there are little. they are saying. well among garn has promised to turn pakistan into a model islamic welfare state and it'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 hours officials to cite technical issues although some candidates are alleging vote rigging a claim rejected by the electoral commission and will keep you updated on the act.

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