in the stories that shaped the week here on r.t. donald trump i'm glad to meet putin seek to straighten us russian relations is the american president says he is ready to accept an invite to moscow but that is amid claims from trump that russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his rivals the democrats russian meddling is still a very divisive issue as we hear later. it's meddling in the way that osama bin laden meddled with the world trade center. and a symbol of palestinian resistance teenager had to mean he has been released after eight months in an israeli jail. person also to come holds a close southeast asian country cambodia in a general election that's been marred by scandals and meddling allegations.

whether they welcome the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. now donald trump says he is open to accepting an invitation to moscow from vladimir putin earlier this week the russian president had already accepted an invitation from his american counterpart to visit the united states whether in washington d.c. or moscow the next summit will be the second official encounter between the two presidents the first held in helsinki two weeks ago led to an onslaught though criticism in the u.s. media over the way trump handled the meeting trump was accused of not defending his country's interests during this summit and his national security adviser john bolton later announced that a washington meeting wouldn't happen until twenty nineteen when quote the russia

which is over trumps encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing where the u.s. secretary of state might bump 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 what took place you speak to the translator that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats as i understand it i understand the game you're playing now you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions don't trump meanwhile to us face a major test of his presidency to the huge during midterm elections in four months voters will elect new members of congress as well as senate is governors and state

judges the midterms are white anything is a vote of confidence in any administration but as if he's kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats us politicians do seem to know in advance who he can 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 five 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 and 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 mid-term 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 entities 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 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 kelley's or anything of that sort because they are we have a new we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact it had on the choices that 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 guard 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 kaleb up and r.t. washington d.c. well the allegations of meddling do you continue to be very divisive the views of illegal media and disloyal and also the democratic political consultant which is good state liberal politicians frequently by russia for various things as well if you believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us though there are other divisions what do you think rich and. 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 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. fan of generally ira had said that what our actions did

was an act of war against united states so so again ah 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 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 oven mitt fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the the this does necessary as cabal get crammed lang how to get in there with you there was some hall. by fifty four to forty one percent of 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 if you. you can really turn it up if you could and wail and scream if you can demand it 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 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. and i was really a today palestinian teenager and activist i had to mean he was released after eight months now israeli prison. both was going to. do this it was these pictures show her supporters welcoming her at an i.d.f. checkpoint near told in the west bank the seventeen year old together with her relatives was arrested in december of twenty seventeen she was filmed slapping and kicking i.d.f. soldiers in their village after her cousin was shot at close range during protest

the video of the incident went viral and was adopted as an image of palestinian resistance was. just. that. thank god. to me that i was charged with assaulting an i.d.f. officer and taking part in violent riots the i.d.f. says its officers acted professionally crowds of pro palestinian activists worldwide supported to me after she was detained with israel's treatment of the case was widely condemned meanwhile later this sunday to me is expected to speak to the media. polls are closing cambodia's general election southeast asian countries incumbent prime minister hun sen is set for a landslide victory he's one of the world's longest serving leaders he and his party have ruled for more than three decades however the vote has been marred by

scandal is only portraying can i 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 foreign interference 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 pretty low one we need to change the lower level first and the u.s. say that his assisted me the ask 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 leader of km bodi as 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 and 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 cambodia that is to just never stop right there is one to continue demolition to topple the government has to be a young boy and you are big boy how can you. push down a little boy and you are asking for democracy and human rights so prime minister hussein who first took power more than three decades ago after once losing in ny and combat ended up running for parliament with no mighty enemies on the ballot box battlefield the most daring political opponents of his can bodie 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 c.n.r. p. to make ends meet he now has to endure the south asian heat driving it took to going at the minute 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 said 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 and afghanistan where wars started by the us still not over so. under the c.b.p. government has shown steady year on year economic growth however it is still among the three poorest countries in the region with a depleted and impoverished countryside to try and go reporting from combat on

election day forty six come here on the weekly facebook is banned appetising featuring the works of the seventeenth century art is paid to pull ribbons i will tell you why just after the break. the idea of spending money to acquire region to acquire territory to acquire wealth is an oxymoron there is no more wealth to acquire the ecosystem is collapsing the economy is flooded with worthless paper and the species is migrating over to the digital sphere feasibly these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to become immortal so every dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted dollar that's a nineteenth eighteenth seventeenth sixteenth century mindset it's completely

antiquated and it's utterly worthless. welcome back to the week he now facebook has shocked the art world by banning advertising featuring the works of the seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens. delved into the controversy. full centuries these works were considered priceless treasure as and masterpieces and now that contentious well according to facebook it appears the platforms 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 pizza pool even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is making life rather difficult for us in the append that to the facebook see they've even also a big to discuss the matter. so here 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 john 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 and to protect your

good spirits even if autistic nature this includes paintings individual bodies such as not to speak cleavage story but it's not. that we put your head in front of this painting we are actually. like you 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 full 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 spot concerns of facebook's more than. ration system facebook's very particular census flagged up pace but it appears that makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and artistic nudity

but when it comes to exploitation though you can be sure as a facebook user you'll be protected from art. ecuadorian president len marino confirmed this friday that wiki leaks chief gina sands will have to leave the country's embassy in the u.k. at some point he was responding to a question from a journalist but this situation cannot go on forever a surge will eventually have to go all right it will suit yes indeed yes but his departure should come about through dialogue this week was plenty of speculation in the media that assigned his time in the embassy is coming to an end with rumors abound in that ecuador is in negotiations with the u.k. over the whistleblower his fate and indeed it was later confirmed that the two states are currently in talks regarding a stanch they are here or in president has reportedly said that the australian activist is quote a stone in my shoe sanj was granted political asylum back in two thousand and twelve by ecuador then president rafael correia he spoke to r.t.

about the latest twist in the case. songes actions were absolutely unlawful the states has a right to keep secrets assigned was granted asylum not as an apology for his actions it was because there were no guarantees that the investigation would be held in the proper manner and now marina's says dialogue is needed ecuadorans know what that means is total hypocrisy. no talks about dialogue or making deals behind the scenes he already has an agreement with us on what will happen to the science and now he is just trying to sweeten the pill by talking about dialogue but i'm afraid and i said it's a few months ago that the days of his songes presence in an embassy almost over. well forty four year old junior sanchez been in the spotlight for the past decade it is project wiki leaks show. add light on state crimes and international corruption here's a quick recap of his case. the

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how things are looking safe today here on r.t. thanks for watching the weekly will be back kat with more for you in thirty five minutes. who has a lot and conspiracy it's time to wade to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the past and shouting past each other it's time for

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