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

hello welcome the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watch the week here on r.t. international. says he is open to accepting an invitation to moscow from vladimir putin early 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 it will be the second official encounter between the two presidents the first held in helsinki two weeks ago led to an onslaught of criticism in the u.s. media over the way trump handled the meeting trump was accused of not defending his country's interests during the summit with his national security adviser john bolton later announced that a washington meeting with. in happen until twenty nineteen when quote the russia

which. trumps encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing to where the u.s. secretary of state might pompei i clashed with senator. 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 europe where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria good what 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 now i know you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions or donald trump meanwhile does face a major test of his presidency later this year during midterm elections in four months voters will elect

a new members of congress as well as sentences governors and state judges the midterms are widely seen as a vote of confidence and they need ministration but artie's kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to you know when it vons who is to blame if the results don't go their way was so much did there's an 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 midterm 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 that no 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 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 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 overgaard its parastatal and to take it is my goal along with

senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states defending 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 votes tallies or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact it had on the choices of the electorate made 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 with 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 caleb oppen r. t. washington d.c. well the allegations of meddling to continue to be very divisive the views of illegal media and this line and also the democratic political consultant. liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well if you believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us how 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 the which is 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 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 not fanny as kabyle did cram 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 take something where you have a legitimate right to be upset but. if you can really turn it up if you could. weigh all 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. now earlier today the palestinian teenager and activist i had to mimi was released after eight months news right in prison. but was he was going to. these pictures show her supporters welcoming her an i.d.f. checkpoint in the west bank the seventeen year old together with her relatives was released was arrested sorry in december twenty seventh 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. which. was. to me 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 proper listing in activists worldwide supported to me after she was detained while israel's treatment of the case why did the day and later this sunday had to me is expected to address. or just before the year just before she was being released a huge portrait of her did appear on the israeli west bank barrier the artist behind the work that was arrested by border police who say the painting is illegal . elsewhere polls have closed in cambodia's general election with the southeast

asian countries incumbent prime minister set for a landslide victory he's one of the world's longest serving leaders in his party have ruled for more than three decades however the vote has been marred by scandal is illegal franken a report from phnom penh. the general alike shouldn't and it is so different from any where 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 interfere 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 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 come 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 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's the just they 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 you're pushed out of the old boy and you're asking for democracy and human rights so prime minister who send who first

took power more than three decades ago after once losing in ny in 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.n. r.p. to make ends meet he now has to endure the south asian heat driving a took took on it 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 somebody 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 country side of a train go reporting from combo on election day fourteen still to come the week before you facebook has been that the ties in featuring the works of the seventeenth century artist peter paul rubens will have a look at why just off the. you know world big partisan law and conspiracy it's time to wake up 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. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. game camera. roll three once they showed some leave for them. to. suit your own cool videos and so on with the broken string. pulling down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . welcome back the way clay 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 can into

the control. full centuries these works were considered priceless treasures and masterpieces and now that contentious well according to facebook it appears the platform's take books 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 mark zuckerberg 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 so your cultural censorship is making life right the difficult for us in the append that to the facebook see they've even also a big to discuss the matter. so who is the seventeenth century artist well his baroque style paintings the 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 this 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 kids your kids even if autistic teenager this includes paintings individually such as budget speech cleavage story but it's. what 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 p.r. spin by museum curators it is in fact possible to post artistic needs on facebook if it's part of an ad that fools 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 a facebook small. aeration system facebook's very both expenses flagged up posts but it appears that 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 ours. the president of ecuador let him or a know you confirm this friday that we kill each chief june the sanj will have to leave the country's embassy in the u.k. at some point is responding to a question from a journalist but this situation cannot go on forever a surge will eventually have to go right. yes indeed yes but his departure should come about through dialogue. well this week there was speculation in the media that the songes time in the embassy is coming to an end but the room is a banding that ecuador is in the go she ations with the u.k. over the whistleblowers fate indeed it was later confirmed that the two states are

currently in talks for guarding a sanch the ecuadorian president is reportedly said that the strain activist is quote a stone in my shoe where sanjay was granted political asylum back in two thousand and twelve by ecuador's then president. he spoke to r.t. about the latest twist in the case. that 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 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 sandwich 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 our embassy almost over. forty four year old union sanchez been in the spotlight for the past decade is his

project we kill each shed light on state crimes and also international corruption here's a quick recap of his case. i . i. i. i. i. i i. i. the government particularly loyalty is traditionally protecting the safety of terrorism so i want to be diplomatic mission decided to give the message the so either you.

live awfully slow down. her or our. lead police. are listening as ation was punted on the phone on december tenth seventy or in government is empowered to crown national interests to protect her. because of great regret that you didn't assign remains in the ecuador embassy it's about time with this miserable little child in the embassy you gave yourself up the bridge is just a little. rushers honoring its naval forces this sunday on their professional days it's not a special price of being held across the country.

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