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general election. welcome to the. program with the top headlines of the day and of course. donald trump says he is open to accepting an invitation to moscow vladimir putin earlier this week the russian president had already accepted an invitation. to visit the united states now whether in washington all moscow next. will be the second official encounter between the two presidents the first held in helsinki two weeks ago led to a lot of criticism in the u.s. media over the way the meeting was accused of not defending his country's interests during that helsinki summit. now has national security adviser john bolton later

announced that a washington meeting would not happen until twenty nineteen when quote the russia which is of trump's encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing with the u.s. secretary of state my pompei i clashed with senators has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting in helsinki did you did he tell you did the president at this meeting call upon president putin to withdraw from crimea and eastern you where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria good do it took place you speak to the translator the president discuss relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats i understand senator i understand the game you're playing you know mr secretary you with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. meanwhile faces a major test of his presidency later this year during mitt elections in four months

the voters will elect new members of congress as well as senators governors and state judges are there it's widely seen as a vote of confidence in any administration that is ati's kaleb often explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if indeed the results don't quite go their way was so much did this isn't 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 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 it's overgaard its parastatal entities it is my go 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 we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that some of the intelligence community 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 much sense as 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's no reason that donald trump can't use it to his advantage ok with our t. washington d.c. . partridge austin legal and media analyst lionel and democratic political consultant richard goodstein why the allegations of russian meddling continue to prove so divisive liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well to believe that's the real cause of the problems in the u.s. still 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 it's the russians attacked the united states to mock or see in a way that they. meddled frankly makes you 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. fan of generally ira had said that what our actions 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 was dates whether it's racial bias or you know in inequality in terms of incomes that's not because of anybody from russia doing that our 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 not because your gal the other than mitt fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the

the this does not fanny as cabal did cram lang how to get in there with you there was some hall. 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 good 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 have me take something where you have a legitimate right to be upset but the. if you can read only turn it up if you could how old and scream if you can demand didn't 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 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's thinking there is a heightened everything today not 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. tempest here in moscow a palestinian teenager an activist had to me has been released after eight months in an israeli prison but what did you do if you were not even going to. do. these pictures show of our supporters i'm welcoming her checkpoint in the west bank. the seventeen year old together with her relatives was arrested in

december twenty seventh when she was filmed slapping and kicking i.d.f. soldiers in the village off to her cousin who was shot at close range during protests and the video of the incident went viral and was adopted as an image of palestine universe of stones. they're. not going to let. me was charged with assaulting an i.d.f. i.d.f. officer and taking part in violent riots the i.d.f. says its officers acted professionally now crowds are pro palestinian activists worldwide support it to me after she was detained israel's treatment of the case was widely condemned later the sunday i had to mimi is expected to address the media. facebook has shocked the art world by banning advertising featuring the works of the seventeenth

century flemish artist peter paul rubens. goes into the story. full centuries these works were considered priceless treasures and masterpieces and now that contentious well according to facebook it appears the platform's take box approach to ads means that console the difference between art and pornography annoying art galleries and museums all of about open lots of from visit flounders to mugs about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of art by a beloved peter paul rubens even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is making life rather difficult for us in the append that said to the facebook see they've even all suck a bag to discuss the matter. so who is the seventeenth century artist well his baroque style paintings of famously known to feature nudes and cherubs sometimes delicately draped with cloth but this artistic taste is

a big no no with the media giant strict advertising rules they call the flemish tourist company thinking if he's not appropriate for facebook he's not appropriate for you and if you have a social media account we have to take you away from the nudity thing to protect your good spirits even if autistic nature this includes paintings. such as not to speak cleavage story but it's just that we put your head in front of this painting we are searching. for. facebook has said it's open to discussion but there is no doubt this is great payoff spin by museum curators it is in fact possible to post artistic needs on facebook if it's part of an ad that is in the stricter guidelines and could be rejected but facebook might be playing it safe for different reasons back in two thousand and seventeen facebook came into fire for failing to may have sexual images of children and also

failing to stop leaks revenge porn photos all this part concerns of facebook's more than. ration system facebook's very baltic census flag posts but it appears it makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and autistic nudity but when it comes to exploitation though you can be sure as a facebook user you'll be protected from arts in the video you just saw visitors to the rubens house and jokingly prevented from seeing paintings by bar rock masters to protect them from nudity and the marketing director of visit flanders told us how people responded to the plank they were not always aware that this kind of artist or paintings are not able to be shown on the social media they were not aware of it and actually we were not aware of it either because we have learned a whole campaign by our facebook to make the world to aware of five from the cheers

of flemish masters actually it's an open invitation to facebook to make them rethink the rules that they have because we believe that not showing the new thing paintings is like covering up five hundred years of our art and western history i understand of course there need to be very clear little rules about what we think might be possible to make a clear distinction between new team paintings or new it in art which is completely different from from newt or pornographic knew it so for a short break we're back in a moment. what

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. want to. have to like to be close to see what the full spectrum of more can people get. interested always in the waters of our. first city. thank you joining us are a naughty emanuel has lashed out at france's media over its handling of

a scandal involving the president's top security aide who struck a protester while wearing a police uniform shouted to penske picks up the story over the last week france has been in the midst of a media frenzy over. a top security aide to president was caught on video during the may day protests beating protesters. i. was. well but now a has since being sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president much of course made of this of course laid blame at the press in the way that they covered this story essentially saying that the pricing commentate is acting like the judiciary we have media that no longer seeks the truth the images are they

showing with a desire to uncover the truth to present facts in a balanced manner no i see media powers who want to become judicial one we also know the president micron's approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged and it now seems that that boy and that criticism is extending out to media outlets in france emanuel micron also challenge the public to quote come and get him saying that he was responsible for the incident at the end of the announcement i certainly sent twitter into a frenzy to some other. generous she said thank you thank you thank you thank you. missed being responsible if. then else just to come and get in the case let's get mack. we arrived together and united more determined than ever.

before is on the ride to the president of the republic said that he's responsible to say it is one thing but in terms of the constitution he's held to answer before the people certain organizations called for us to gather here against macros behavior he also challenged us to come and get. here it's not that we denounce banally we denounce violence and repression exerted by the state and the president . every single demonstration across france sees police violence being the law was micron's a that's the same thing as macro it is the president of the reach of good governance in favor of the reach i mean. polls are closed in cambodia's general elections the southeast asian countries incumbent prime minister is set for a landslide victory he is

a one of the world's longest serving leaders in fact he and his party have rolled for more than three decades however the vote has been modded by scandal as any a trying to reports from phnom penh. the general election and it is so different from anywhere i've seen people vote this is a polling station by the way. doors here open at seven in the morning and close just after lunch time at three the party that came second to last on securing almost forty five percent has vanished from the ballots with no success are quite

a few things though are way too familiar for a minute into feet and cannot stand in cambodia democracy and. the prime minister's government simply wants to silence the opposition. collusion meddling cracking down on critics. that is so mainstream before changing the top level we need to our prove the low one we need to change the lower level first and the usa that has assisted me the osce me to take the model from yugoslavia. i have experts university professors in washington d.c. montreal canada hired by the americans in order to advise me on the strategy to change the leader this that was the year of come bodhi is national rescue party runners up and twenty third thing talking once about us backed regime change and so on charges of treason come so it was thrown behind bars last year

the government then went after the whole party for what it called conspiring with america so right now there is no such name of c.n. r.p. on that list uncle sam has been trying many tools to scheme and can both like n.g.o.s or foreign media so say local officials that's how they've just defied cracking down on a handful of american funded outlets in groups which include radio free asia or the national democratic institute you team up with the opposition to overthrow the man in charge you leave kimbo dia that's the gist but never stop theo's want to continue demolition to topple the government has to be a young boy and you are big boy how can you you're pushed out of the old boy and you're asking for democracy and human rights so prime minister whom sen who first took power more than three decades ago after once losing in ny in the combat ended

up running for parliament with no mighty enemies on the ballot box battlefield the most daring political opponents of his can vote in people's party have been silenced or jailed another option is to be banned from politics. like this former phnom penh city council member from the sea and r.p. to make ends meet he now has to endure the south asian heat driving a tilt. i don't care about losing power i'm sorry for not being able to serve the people who elected us democracy in cambodia was dead when the government got rid of the opposition party which represents almost half of the country i say it's time for a prime minister to step down. for peace and development country needs to keep going without any violence or war so we need to consider what happened in ukraine in the middle east in afghanistan where wars started by the us still not over. under the c.b.p. government cambodia shown steady year on year economic growth however it is still

among the three poorest countries in the region where the depleted and impoverished countryside only have a tranquil reporting from combat on election day r.t. . twenty six degrees and sunshine in russia's venice of the north the country are in its naval forces on a perfect day this their professional day special parades being held all across the country. national wrapping up this i was program but the weekly returns in about half an

hour with. join me every thursday. i'll be speaking to. i'm sure i'll see you then. it's a very rough terrain you so it's rough climates and you have to win fights to be able to them if. it was gunshots on top of them and so many friends they would have been going to have been and you did not. apply i don't think anything will back up for me you know i don't want to see it but

a body in the children is ready to participate in the good. old to new good wouldn't. you don't think about these three of these soldiers on no you got three teams played and you know those and other patients. for man are sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. there

. are a. ton of welcomes worlds apart politics as we know it was born in cities no one to think is especially big ones may feel entitled to calling the shots one other more empowers and disadvantaged communities but in two thousand and six the small towns and the countryside. dropped back. with the breakfast and then with the election of donald trump was this something that big thinks he had while he was the cosmopolitan and fail to grasp about the rest of the country's well to discuss that i'm now joined by far their professor at the university of toronto a bestselling author and professor of florida thank you very much for the time it's good to talk to you. now your book was the first book the rise of the creative

class was published more than fifteen years ago but it still causes a lot of heated debates especially here in russia and i heard some people describe it as a neo liberal manual for spreading homosexuality on to the guys. urbanism i'm sure it's not the case but i wonder how country specific your work is and how a play couple of the chance that you have highlighted to you other societies well first of all thank you it's a pleasure to be with you it's fantastic to be in this magnificent city in this mega unbelievable setting and i'm glad i'm glad people in russia are talking about because they'd be worse if they weren't. so on the one hand you have people who say it's a neo liberal manual for a gay agenda from the right if you will and from the left they say it's a neo liberal manual for gentrification in the colonization of cities by the elite on the one hand they say it's florida the creative class didn't exist and it

couldn't exist and there's no such thing in the other hand they say the creative question. i'm simply trying the best i can with my eyes in my years in my research teams to actually look at what's happening in cities is one thing we know is that cities there were open to the gay and lesbian population cities that had a larger to stick. music literary bohemian population those cities. tended to be the city where entrepreneur technological innovators settled into higher rates of innovation so that's what we're. supported absolutely but. this is not just your ideas you're based on a certain statistical data and i one day and again if that data is more specific to the united states than let's say you know the middle east or. you know for sure our data was born in the united states but there was a guy forget his name at the institute for international economics in washington

who kind of wanted to try to understand the middle east and he were in an analysis of the whole world no not at the city of level but at the national level and in this analysis he said i want to look at the role of openness to two gay and lesbian people in relation to things how globalized that economy was and how productive and how well it performed economically and he was shocked he was literally shocked to find that the openness to the gay and lesbian population had a lot to say about how globally oriented that economy was and how economically productive i assume i suppose there would be another correlation to how well that country's relations with the united states because the united states stands to export its countries its values rather on its allies so that would be a currency i just don't know but i think look i i have no agenda i truly interesting you know i grew up in a working class blue collar family in a very racist and homophobic environment so for me the disc.