because i. was in my room at. the u.s. president's national security adviser confirms a second trumpington summit has been postponed until quote after the russia witch hunt is over comes as the secretary of state is grilled in the senate over the two leaders recently in helsinki. has the president told you what he and president putin discussed their two hour closed door meeting took place to speak to the translator 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 meanwhile fresh concerns are raised over a possible russian interference in the upcoming midterm elections democrats some republicans however are convinced moscow will try to help the opposing party despite the saying it wouldn't negotiate with

a gun to its head the european commission chief. and donald trump agreed to work together towards eliminating trade tariffs plus the ten bric summits of emerging economies is underway in south africa with america's trade balls high on the agenda . there is four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. now the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has confirmed a second meeting between donald trump and. me take place after the end of what he called the russia witch hunt it comes after the secretary of state was grilled in the senate over the recent meeting in helsinki between the us has the president told you what he and president putin. soon there too our 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 relax relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia 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 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 and how secure 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 u.s. the media called trump a traitor a crime one stooge putin's puppet and some even accused him of treason instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic. symbols president trump cowered in

the presence of putin it was a ho sale betrayal of the values and interests of this country president sided with the enemy and with the perpetrator of the election interference or a treacherous act he 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 a scheduled testimony john bolen trumps national security advisor announced that the summit would be postponed john bull and 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 does face a major test of his presidency later this year in the guise of mid-term elections because they are widely seen as a vote of confidence in any administration but as always he's kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to need funds he's to blame if the results don't go that way 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

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 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 oligarchs its parastatal and it is my goal along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the pending united states folks in washington d.c. are manning their battle stations all prepared to face an on coming on slot but what are they worried about well it could be the twenty sixteen presidential elections let's not forget that james clapper the former director of national intelligence said that in the twenty sixteen supposed intervention none of the vote tallies were in any way affected they did not change any kelley's or anything of that sort at all we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact.

you can't gauge the impact it had on the choices you looked 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 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 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 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 ok with mop and r t washington d.c. . now us trade wars are high on the agenda of this year's tent on the brink summits russian president vladimir putin has delivered his speech today at the annual gathering of the world's top emerging economies comprising of russia brazil india china and south africa so let's cross live now to what you call she done at the scene. john is the force following the summit good afternoon she just take us through the end some of the key points that have been made so. well and they were kind of midway through the main day of the summit that is of course today

the leaders of the world's leading developing economies have signed already a joint declaration of the summit and now well basically the talks between them is in full swing now you are very right in pointing out the trade wars are definitely in focus here in johannesburg rule breaks were created to with the idea of being a counterbalance to traditional powerhouses economic powerhouses mainly the united states now trumps policy on trade has been very offensive he's been imposing tariffs and threatening with tariffs and he has become sort of a tool a diplomatic tool in his hands so now we've already seen brics nations kind of bonding even closer together in the face of this new challenge that they're facing and the experts that we've talked to that i've talked to at the summit at this point as a smaller markets we thought we started to actually be the most hurt in these trade wars and it's actually quite put an end that we consider what what will the brics

become we have had moments where the united states was the protection of multilateralism and now it's actually the countries that have emerged protecting a rules based international order and there has been a bit of a fragment of cooperation between the brics countries and the w t o and this is a an opportune moment for the pix countries to actually come together put their heads together and the strategic about how they will actually corporates and i do expect a bit of coordination with just not the picture countries but in expansion the small economies 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 a peer in particular from from the united states i think it brings together at these great growth nations and i think together we can achieve so much. well so you can clearly see the politics and. business is that they go in business they go hand in hand together and america's aggressive stance on trade is scaring

off some companies and some investors to a so ironically enough world some skeptics even a decade ago couldn't really pinpoint the purpose or breaks well now the a lot of people are rallying around the block around the idea of trade. ok thank you hugo that was you know she done for us there at the bric summit in johannesburg thank you. so the e.u. and the u.s. have agreed to work together towards cutting import tariffs in a bid to prevent a trade war although terrorists are currently still in place trump tweeted a picture of junker kissing him on the cheek saying the allies still love each other but the e.u. had previously said it wouldn't negotiate with a gun to its head although it since 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 it is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america remember i think as a complement even though i cannot be sure it was very good 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 we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid well under the agreement the two sides will seek to cut or eliminate altogether import taxes trade berries and most subsidies in addition will expand imports of u.s. liquefied natural gas and certain food items in the trumpet ministrations flap hefty tariffs on steel and on the minium coming from european countries being them responded with three billion dollars worth of tariffs on u.s. goods when it's kaiser host of artes the kaiser report says that europe has bagged the u.s. pressure. did trump just roll over john claude younker and get

a 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 is going to aid he 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 u.s. is in the house america is back as young claude juncker obviously at the e.u. is used to being kind of a very slow moving bureaucrat with no accountability whatsoever he's not elected he will say anything but generally that means nothing. if the deal is not the ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal you will see i see international be back with more news in a couple minutes. it's

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welcome back now us republican lawmaker has resigned after being chewed into appearing on the on the satirical show he was america created by the british comedian sacha baron cohen during his appearance on the program georgia state representative jason spencer thought he was being taught how to behave in a terrorist situation he was instructed by cohen he was pretending to be and he's ready defense expert to draw attention to himself by repeatedly shy saying the n word. you have two seconds to attack the pension go. crazy in

a world that is normally well after the episode today had hundreds of people online called on spencer to resign and he left his post on tuesday and another divisive incident this week to that strong huge media attention concerned a texan waiter he posted an image on facebook of a hundred dollar restaurant receipt with no tip given on the receipt was a scrawled message we don't to terrorists the way to kill had been called there the post went viral and attracted national media attention but on monday the restaurant released a statement saying that in fact the story had been fabricated however it does seem what's really bothering the us is the trumpington summit in russia alleged meddling at least if you're following the mainstream media guess debated the real roots of divisions in american society liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well to believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us that there are other divisions why do you think richard. look i don't think people

are blaming russia for anything that happens in the united states other than what our intelligence community concluded unanimously which with the which is the russians attacked the united states to mock recy in the way that they. meddled frankly makes it look kind of pity. kind of really kind of piddly. it's meddling in the way that osama bin laden meddled with the world trade center that was an attack dick cheney. are a fan of generally our head said that what are the russians did was an act leak was of war against united states so so again but i think we should segment that out i think i think what happened i'd states whether it's racial bias or you know in inequality in terms of incomes that's not because of anybody from russia doing that oh a little holiday that we're creating ourselves you didn't let me down. yet and i have

parked i am my friend comparing osama bin ladden where the point you're russians buying facebook ads which brought down the entire election now because your gal the other than mad fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the lead is this necessary as cabal did cram lang how to get in there with you there was some hall as. well listen to me let me say yeah there was a whole thing out yesterday that by fifty four to forty one percent americans across the board think that donald trump is not standing up for u.s. interests most people in the united states think that putin has the goods some dirt on trump so it's not just me this is what the public thinks look we live in an era right now where we love to. me take something where you have

a legitimate right to be upset but if you can really turn it up if you could. scream if you can demand and require a screaming room and a petting dog a vivid how led and show this absolute out of control histrionics maybe somebody will pick up on that so i think that there are segments of this country that used to be the majority that see what they feel was their country slipping away from them the country you know within a few decades is going to be majority nonwhite and i do think that people here more so than was true ten or twenty years ago read and talk to and watch on television points of view that are just like they're so when they are exposed to something that's different they take offense because they think everybody that they deal with

things like they do and when they hear something that's different it puts them off do we have to remind folks what this country was like in the fifty's with lynchings with separate bathrooms with african-americans who couldn't even sit at a lunch counter civil rights violations this is peaches and grain compared to what this country sad to say was in the past so if you think things are worse now than it was fifty years ago sixty years ago you need to review your history. well again i don't disagree i don't i don't compare people taking offense at flight today to lynchings why do people feel slighted by something that maybe they would have let go. you know i think that there is again so much awareness in a way that today there was the there used to be decades ago when we didn't have the

mass media people can kind of aggregate to themselves and basically decide well we're right and that person who acted in a way that we don't approve of is wrong and that somehow or other that if users people thinking there is a heightened everything get a nod to not to say that people don't have a right in many cases to be upset but everything is overdone because you're not going to get media attention if you act reasonably and proportionately. so that you had now the british home secretary has commissioned a study into the profiles of child abuse is among the characteristics to be considered as the country of origin of the perpetrators were let's get more details now from a downhole constituencies from our london office good afternoon dan just run through them what was the the reasoning behind this study. well it's a topic that has certainly caused a lot of emotion outrage controller sea and indeed debate in the u.k. political and media discourse rather on brushtail halifax peter all these scandals

have rung out across the country in the past few years for the first time though many would argue a government in office a home secretary in office has agreed on the importance of studying all the characteristics all the background factors of perpetrators and victims including crucially their ethnic background. my fishers have been working with investigating officers in relevant cases to establish the particular characteristics and contexts associated with this type of the sending 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 it's not the first time of course the she's been raised in mainstream political discourse in fact just last year labor m.p. and minister sarah champion published an article in a newspaper calling out pakistani child grooming gangs she received

a lot of criticism a large backlash from that eventually leading to death threats and even her resigning from her post then receiving extra police protection just for coming up with that controversial what many regarded as controversial point of view what strikes me about this whole debate is that we've reached a point in this country and possibly in the west where we can't really talk in a relaxed way about race so this would write something which a lot of people would say is a statement of the bleeding obvious and ends up losing a job or a lot of the media and public outcry stemmed from the perception that so-called political correctness fear of stoking ethnic tensions offending communities prevented law enforcement prevented local government prevented social services from acting in a way to protect these children to prevent this sort of thing happening and bringing offenders to justice one of those was former labor m.p. dennis macshane i think there was

a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community bode if i may put it like that. off the mainstream politics as well though many pundits activists on the right wing ukip as a political party have often called out what they described as labor in activity labor's knowing ignorance of tackling these issues most notably in a leaflet campaign before a local election and indeed a while back when actually three labor m.p.'s were accused of ukip of doing this subsequently ukip were ordered to pay damages for liable to these labor m.p.'s nonetheless that's something they had called out quite a few years ago though it came from the horse's mouth released police reports released under the freedom of information act described the police reluctance and hesitation to crack down fully on these abuse scandals across the country for that

exact fear for being perceived as being racist for encouraging community tensions and backlash against the wider pakistani community now it seems with job is the solution this has gone mainstream even more so given the home secretary himself has pakistani roots it remains to be seen what the reaction to that decision will be from the public and indeed from media and pundits on both sides of the political spectrum ok thanks said dan that was dan hawkins there with the details in our u.k. office thank you. thank you too for watching and we're going to be back in the back thirty five mins.

or. come on welcome to worlds apart from western europe has long been the birthplace of both the most dangerous and the most in life and ideas that 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 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 diet differences and you see the european union which are meant 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 carried 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 the u.k. still part of this story and. he is 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 about their car exports but that all of this can be discussed in a kind of civilized a 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 she'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 a 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 and 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 we reach is based on laws it's all very simple deliberations slow motion decision making and the what i would call the old american way you know get it done and 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 your of can learn anything from donald trump well first of all i don't think international politics is about liking our not liking it's about asking whether parties can.