the u.s. president's national security adviser confirms the second trumpington summit has been postponed until quote after the russia witch hunt is over. meanwhile donald trump claims russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his rivals the democrats russian meddling remains a divisive an issue as we hear. it meddling in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center. towers. and the ten thousand you'll break some to the merging economies is on the way in south africa with america's trade was high on the agenda.

well i welcome you watching r.t. international this is the evening which just come six pm here in moscow. now the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has confirmed the second meeting between donald trump in fact anything to maloney 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 with the recent meeting in helsinki between the us has the president told you what he and president putin discussed there to our closed door meeting and did you did he tell you should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back likely election interference by russia where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria what took place you speak to the translator seen any of her know that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia and. understand senator i understand the game that you're

playing now and oh 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 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 and we're proving 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 song that 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 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 or you 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 pump a. schedule testimony john bolton 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. reporting will trump mean well this face a major test of his presidency. in the guise of mid to elections because they are widely seen as a vote of confidence in any administration but as

a kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats us politicians saying tonight we need phones who's to blame if the results don't go their way 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 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 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 it's overgaard it's parastatal and it isn't 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 oncoming onslaught but what are they worried about well it could be the twenty sixteen presidential elections let's not forget that james clapper the former director of national intelligence said that in the twenty sixteen supposed intervention none of the vote tallies were in any way affected they did not change any tallies or anything of that sort at all we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact. 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 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 car gobbling this up it's amazing you know we used to be afraid of russia because they had a communist ideology they're just kind of pressing that button on americans because we've been conditioned to be afraid of russia and their communism even though they're not communist war 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 kaleb up an r. t. washington d.c.

. media analysts lionel who also democratic political consultant richard goodstein why the russian meddling is proving to be so divisive the liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well to believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us though there are other divisions what do you think. 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 which of the russians attacked the united states to mock or see 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 are bad said that what our obligations 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 say it's whether it's racial bias or you know in inequality in terms of incomes that's not because of anybody from russia doing that or are little holidays 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 not because your gal the other than mitt fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the lead is this necessary as cabal did cram lang. get in there with you there was a. whole lot well listen to me let me say yeah there was a holding 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. out 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 god gave you good how lead 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 there are 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 the 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 lynching 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 uses people thinking there is a high wind 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. the baby had. the u.s. trade war so high on the agenda of this year's tenth anniversary bricks summit russian president vladimir putin has delivered his speech at the annual gathering

of the world's top emerging economies comprising of russia brazil india china and also south africa as you've done of his following the summit in johannesburg. we're 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 the trade wars are definitely in focus here in johannesburg us rule breaks were created 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 this summit at this

point as a smaller market 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 figment 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 were actually corporate and i do expect a bit of cord nation with just not the pic's 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 hearing particularly from from the united states i think it brings together these great growth nations and i think together it can achieve so much so here in south

africa it's business and politics going together hand in hand somewhat a decade ago skeptics were looking at the brakes and they couldn't really pinpoint the purpose of the book as they viewed the you know. it states the sort of a nation that would bring smaller economies together well now what is happening to be aggressive stance toward trade in washington is scaring and is causing concern among businesses and among emerging markets and so why running clean now they turn towards breaks. down off there in johannesburg now still to come this hour a controversial study into the profiles of child abuse is being commissioned in the u.k. which among other factors will consider the country of origin of the perpetrators but have the details just off 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

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welcome back nabby british home secretary has commissioned a study into the private files of child abuse is among the characteristics to be considered is the country of origin of the perpetrators my fishes 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 wider context of abuse all of which have a critical bearing on the effect of targeting of prevention activity. child grooming scandals that are a topic that have attracted a great deal of emotion controversy and debates in the u.k. public and media as well rather on rossdale bristol peterborough the list is endless and will be familiar to many here in the u.k. this is the first time though that many would say a government in office indeed the home secretary in office has ordered an investigation specifically into the ethnicity the racial background of both the

victims and the perpetrators involved in these crimes it's not the first time investigations of happened it's not the first time the issue's been raised just last year in fact a labor m.p. and former minister sarah champion wrote an article in a paper in which she unequivocally condemned pakistani grooming gangs and said the issue must be debated openly and honestly the backlash she received the criticism she received from many quarters in the end caused her to resign from her position and indeed received death threats after which she had to receive extra police protection 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 the job now the media and public outcry has stemmed from the understanding that a sense of misplaced political correctness of fear of offending of racial backlash

of stoking ethnic and community tensions had previously prevented law enforcement social services and local government from taking the necessary action to stop and prevent these horrific crimes i think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat if i may put it like that this has also come from the horse's mouth just quite a number of years ago there was a police report released under the freedom of information act in which the police themselves had said often there was a very lucky that it's a hesitancy to take the necessary action because precisely of the stone. of racial or ethnic tensions over the years the discussion about the racial ethnic background of perpetrators and victims of these crimes and that specific link has been quite to boom it's been discussed with a great hesitancy or been confined perhaps to the margins of the political spectrum now though with the home secretary's investigation given of course sergeant javal himself has pakistani roots that discussion seems to be going more mainstream.

and hawkins there now officials in the syrian province of so waders say that more than two hundred people have been killed in i saw a suicide blast it's said to be the worst violence to hit the area since the country's war began on wednesday another group of suicide bombers attacked the city in the south of the country two were shot be dead before they could strike however several other militants managed to set off their explosives i saw has claimed responsibility party arabic correspondent. reports. that up to that kind of people were left out or injured by the bloody islamic state attack in a province last way that it was there in the market this year an army had with the help of the residents of this region were able to regain full control of the villages in the north eastern part of last week of province where i saw the terrorists had taken hold. just as ahmed hassan are sitting on the rooftop of their

house in the northeastern part of the province through a gun sights of their rifles they're watching how do i still terrorists in the round of these and other villages nearby had been liberated from i saw the atmosphere stands at local troops and civilians came to protect pleas from possible new i saw attacks and they are all of them with their stance and the eastern side near that house they were on twenty isolated near the school twenty or more they came down to the village square we liquidated as many as we could then they came to the east no just the village and stay. to kill the hostages around sixty of our people were killed by terrorists into the houses and set them on fire so i do want . to mention syrian air forces supporting the ground troops pushed a terrorist to retreat sure it's a mountain and after that if they continue with the airstrikes that the terrorists first big losses as a result. locals like women the elderly children

entire families were killed giovanna not measure what else we could do we have to take up arms we need to stop them before they come here what we miss is attack an inert eastern part of us wait a province coincided with this series of suicide bombings in the lead security measures cabinet increased the search for potential terrorist still in progress civilian life is far from back to normal openings the city remains on edge due to fears that there are many still be terrorist bombers hiding in the area but no one from sweden marketplace square brioni r.t. . the computer game shop in berlin has been branded a purveyor of nazi toys the controversy concerns a range of toy tanks replicas of world war two even back to combat vehicles the tangs were marketed as merchandise as they also feature in a computer gang they have been removed from site.

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did me reach out to the makers of the toys they told us no offense was meant adding that the tanks were simply part of a larger historical replica range could be toys also reject the claim that nazi symbols were displayed on its products. so that brings you up to date that's how things are looking so far today about what you know at the top of the next hour. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round if suddenly the woman said oh. it's time to ignore middle of the room sick. leave the room dream real new things

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