in r.t. the u.s. president's national security adviser confirmed that a second trumpington meeting will be pursued but didn't until quote after the rush of witch hunt is over that is state mike pompei was grilled in the senate over the two leaders recently in helsinki. has the president told you what he and president putin discussed there to our closed door meeting took place you speak to the translators are 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. and as donald trump tries to weather a political storm at home fresh concerns over possible russian interference in upcoming midterm elections are raised both democrats and republicans however assured that moscow will try to help you using pass a plan despite the saying it would not negotiate with a gun to its head u.s. tariffs european commission chief sean called young and donald trump agreed to work

together towards eliminating trade taxes and also to come the tenth annual bric summit of emerging economies underway in south africa with american trade war on the agenda. others could have a company watching at international where she's gone from pm here in moscow. now 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 that after the u.s. secretary of state might pompei i was grilled in the senate over the recent meeting in helsinki between the two leaders. as much as the president told you what he and president putin discussed there to our 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 good 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 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 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 and how thinking but in general come 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 lead to total hysteria in the u.s. the media called trump a trader 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. in the 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 and suit but just an hour before pompei is 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. price 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 that is kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance he was to blame if the results are in the pa 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 which overgaard its parastatal and it is my go 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. the impact that sort of the intelligence committee can't gauge the impact it had on the choices you

look through me 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 true 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 they're 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 caleb oppen r. t. washington d.c. . us trade rules romney agenda ten ton of bricks summit russian president vladimir putin's delivered his speech at the annual gathering of the world's top emerging economies comprising brazil russia india china and south africa you don't have sent this report 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 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 you it is being targeted by the tariffs china a cool 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 from the coach the 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 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 well see that. great naspers does think the coming together closer together of brics countries against the backdrop of those u.s. tariffs could see for like. i feel 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 unilateral as i'm appearing particularly from from the

united states i think it brings together or at least great growth nations to do to strengthen their targets 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 be come closer together and i think together it 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 block 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 terrorism currently still in place trump 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 his head it seems now to softened it starts we have identified a number of areas from which to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods that was my main intention. to trump told me last week john claude you are a brutal killer and this is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america remember i think as a complement you know even though i cannot be sure also if it gets 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 because i also do stupid we also have to be this stupid. well under the new agreement the two sides will seek to coerce who are eliminating port taxes trade berries and most subsidies and in addition to the you would expand its imports of u.s. liquefied natural gas and food items in made ministration slapped hefty tariffs on

steel and aluminum coming from european countries he responded we three billion dollars worth of tariffs on us good. my skies the house of artes the guys report says that europe has bagged to us pressure to try and just roll over john clarke younker and get a kind of saturn's almost immediately the answer is yes john clarke yoker is is a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and this guy has to get used to this because this is going to happen every few months these are going to have to surrender more and more and more the us is 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 it's not elected he will say anything but generally that means nothing. the dia all the

ink on the contract as to drive for us to say that there is a deal you're watching out international german m.p.'s around gree that members of series white helmets the self-proclaimed rescue group has been granted asylum we'll have a look at that story plus others to you just after the break. pleasure fund is guaranteed returns that is being abused by the crooks guaranteed to shovel

it a lot of toxic garbage that is ending up is a guaranteed job because at the end of the day a lot especially can be cut back people who think that they had a passion are being told is being run out you're out of touch any more you're now flat broke you have to go out in the street for money go get addicted to heroin we don't want you anymore drop. again now the british home secretary has commissioned a study into the profiles of child abuse is particularly those belonging to grooming gangs among the characteristics to be studied is the country of origin of the perpetrators so let's get more details now from london hawkins he joins us good

afternoon she done just going through them what actually prompted this study what's behind it. well it's a topic that's attracted huge emotion controversy and debates in the u.k. over the last few years multiple child grooming scandals across the country from rochdale to bristol and how to fax it seemed like. every year or couple of years there was a new case of outrage in the media and public discourse there have been previous investigations it has to be said on a local level local authorities the home office indeed launch investigation into failings as to why these children were failed by police by social services this is the first time though many would argue a government in office a home secretary in office has ordered an investigation that focuses on the importance of thoroughly investigating all cow touristic all aspects of the victims and perpetrators of volved including racial background and ethnicity. my fischer's

have been working with investigating officers in relevant cases to establish the particular characteristics and contexts associated with this type of offending we're looking at what this data set can tell us about characteristics of offenders victims and the way the context of abuse all of which have a critical bearing on the effective targeting of prevention activity now debates had raged back and forth for years about the paradigm let's call it that way of these discussions many politicians pundits activists perhaps on the right wing of the political spectrum had been very critical of perceived inaction by police by local authorities by social services failings to tackle these issues for fear of being perceived as racist political correctness as they call it for fear of rocking the boat or stoking tensions some of them have also been in the mainstream of politics though i think there was

a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community bode if i may put it like that. now many times police for example or force with agencies have felt their hands had also been tired one leaked police report described a fear a reluctance to speak to take any sort of farm going far reaching action because of those very fears of stoking community technicians of encouraging some sort of racial backlash more recently labor m.p. sarah champion in her article in the sun also faced a backlash indeed having to have a police protection increased security measures because of those views she expressed now it seems this debate or this investigation has gone mainstream especially given of course that sergeant javal himself has roots in pakistan has pakistani heritage it remains to be seen what reaction what response this will get

from both the public and pundits and analysts on both sides of the political spectrum ok thanks dan it was artie's there dan hawkins there for us in the u.k. . germany to take in members of the controversial syrian carry the white helmets is sparked anger among lawmakers who say that the in should be offering 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 we can whistle blowing platform julian a sandwich 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 amiss tara but on the other wants to bring in these members of

islamist terrorist militias to germany while the white house which has a self-proclaimed rescue group that's been operating in syria for the last six years has received millions in funding from the u.s. and from nato allies to you and the group did spark concern after being filmed removing a body from a jihadist execution and then also in another video waving al-qaeda flags there have been numerous allegations to the white helmets working directly with these are terrorists and staging rescue operations to well as we just heard some german m.p.'s would rather offer asylum to junior sanj the wiki leaks founder assigned to take refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london are for a swedish court rest issued an arrest warrant for him over accusations of rape there are still blows lawyers say the allegations are politically motivated in the u.n. has described his confinement at the embassy as arbitrary detention well as for the white house summit swear they were not to grant them asylum in germany has divided

opinion they have no where in the left party for example things it's old they've been given priority julian assange to being prosecuted wrote britain or maybe even to united states and the german government doesn't say anything about a new terrorist groups and that. wants to take in the refugees from syria i'm not against 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 helmets who are played a dubious role in the civil war and they are allowed into into germany now and that's that's very strange they only operate in rebel held territories and their only fueled moderate rebels left and many of those territories are dominated by islamist groups and the the white house notes 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 yet that not a purely humanitarian organization. now the former cricket star in marin county is on course to become like a standard new prime minister according to initial data from wednesday's general election. today's victory comes after twenty two years of struggle for iran com and today the people have granted him success. most often. going. really.

well run car has promised to turn pakistan into a model islamic welfare state and also vowed to tackle rampant corruption 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 rigging a claim rejected by the electoral commission of course we'll keep you updated. so that's how the news is looking so fast that i hear not a she's coming up to about three thirty pm we're back with more top of the. hill to. look at it is. my. nose if.

you. feel it's doing a little concrete. this is. nothing to do in the sinai you know we were. all forced once only about the looking out and the couldn't move forward to one of them i mean my colleagues on the. floor. you'll. see what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from duration let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic developments only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and

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wolfe and artie 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 strong market we're word which looks at the wealthiest and poorest nations around the world and r.t. correspondent trinny charges goes to fisher island florida of the wealthiest zip code in the u.s. for a special report part of it from i got plus r.t. correspondent dan cohen looks at the war on work at the poor 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 a few has what 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 twenty 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 coin a no. twenty seventeen report from credit suisse found that people on the bottom fifty percent of the income scale on less than one percent of global wealth got that fifty percent of lower income folks on less than one percent o.-m. g. . turning back to the u.s. for more granular view of the problem the pew research center noted late last year that the so-called.