in the stories that shaped the week here in r.t. donald trump i'm glad he made hootin seek to straighten us russian relations is the american president says he is open to the offer of coming to moscow. also to come meanwhile donald trump claims russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his rivals the democrats russian meddling remains a very divisive issue as we hear later. it meddling in the way that on some a bit wider than. with the world trade center. and a symbol of palestinian resistance teenager i had to mean me is released after eight months in a jail in israel plus polls have closed in cambodia in the general election it's been marred by scandal

a medley allegations. are welcome the latest developments in the look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international. now donald trump says he is open to accepting an invitation from vladimir putin to visit moscow early this week the russian president agreed to visit the u.s. whether in washington d.c. all moscow the next trump 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 but his national security adviser john bolton plater announced that a washington meeting wouldn't happen until twenty nineteen when quote the russia

witch hunt is over trump's encounter with putin in helsinki all speak came the subject of a heated senate hearing today where the u.s. secretary of state mike 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 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 as i understand it i understand the game you're playing you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. trump meanwhile does face a major test of his presidency later the. elections in full months spoke his will elect a new members of congress as well the senate is governors and state judges the midterms

are widely seen as a vote of confidence in any administration but is artie's kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seems to know in advance he needs to blame if the results don't go that way with 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 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 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 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 defending 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 ways or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that. 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 kaleb up and r.t. washington d.c. well the allegations of meddling do continue to be very divisive. 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 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 it's 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. fan of generally. 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 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 our little holiday is that we're creating ourselves you didn't let me down. yet and i have parked i am my friend comparing osama bin ladden with the plunger 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 lead is this necessary as cabal did cram lang how to get in there with you there was some hall as i would call odd 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. if you can really turn it up if you can. weigh all and scream if you can demand it require a screaming room and a padding dog a vivid 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. now earlier today the palestinian teenager and activists i had to meet me was released after eight months in the prison in israel. but i was going to. do is it is was some of. these pictures show supporters welcoming her at an i.d.f. checkpoint in the west bank together with her relatives the seventeen year old was arrested in december she had been filmed slapping and kicking i.d.f. soldiers in their village after her cousin was shot at close range during protests

the video of the incident went viral and was adopted as an image of palestinian resistance. but because of that incident to me was charged with assaulting an i.d.f. officer and taking part of the violent riots she was sixteen when she was arrested and turned seventeen custody case focus the spotlight on the detention of palestinian minors by israel a practice that has been criticized by international rights groups however some israeli politicians do claim that eight months in jail is too lenient. israel acts true mercifully with these types of terrorists israel should treat harshly those who hit its soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no terrorists lack of deterrence leads to the reality we see now we must change that. however israel's actions against the teenager have

been condemned by many world wide and pro palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release one expression of this support has been a joint moral of the jar of the girl sari on the israeli west bank border however the artist behind the work was arrested by border police who say that the painting is illegal. i. give you the. polls have closed in cambodia's general election the southeast asian countries incumbent prime minister he set for a landslide victory today with the almost twenty rival party saying is less popular

however the election campaign has been conducted in an absolutely toxic atmosphere is the leap of trying to reports now from pumpkin the general alike shouldn't. it is so different from anywhere i've seen people vote this is a polling station by the way the. 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 successor quite a few things though are way too familiar foreign interference cannot stand in

cambodia democracy. 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 know one we need to change the lower level. in the us and. it has 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 a strategy to change the leader this that was a 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 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's the gist but 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 whom sen 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 it took took two and at the end i said i don't care about losing power i'm sorry for not being able to serve the people who are. democracy in cambodia it 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 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

countries i believe a train go reporting from combat on election day fourteen. now facebook has banned appetising featuring the works of the seventeenth century artist peter paul rubens will tell you why just after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only move really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 speer because of these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to be comfy morkel so every dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted dollar it's a nineteenth eighteenth seventeenth sixteenth century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless. welcome back to the week coronas lashed out at france's media over their handling of the scandal involving the president security protesters while wearing police insignia showed to be in ski picks up the story. over the last week front has been in the midst of a media frenzy over to merge that a top security aide to president was caught on video during the may day protests

beating protestors. was. well banal has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president mark or made of this of course laid blame at the press in the way that they covered this story essentially saying that the press and commentators were 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 he want to become judicial one we also know that president microns approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged it now seems that that boy and that criticism is extending out to media outlets in

france well in the same speech mccrone challenge the public to come and get him as he said he's responsible for the incident to send twitter into a frenzy. you can't she said you. know about. background admits to being responsible in the fair he asked us to come and get him in that case let's get mackerel. we arrive together and united more determined than ever. because on that 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 macro's 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. they don't every single demonstration across france sees police violence being the law was my gran's a says it's the same thing as macro and is the president of the reach of governance in favor of the reach of the measles. in other news this week facebook shocked the world by banning appetising teaches the work of the seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens and has the. 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 with even though we secretly have to laugh about it it's your cultural sense that ship is making life right the difficult for us in the append that head 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 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 kids nudity even if i just make sure this includes paintings individual bodies

such as not to speak cleavage story but it's. what we put your in front of this painting we are searching for. thank you 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 baltic censors posts 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 arts this is

a will in the video you just saw visitors to the rooms house in amped up were jokingly prevented from seeing paintings by marsters protect them from needed to the marketing director visit flanders told us how people responded to the prank 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 planned a whole campaign by our facebook to make the world aware of five hundred two years of flemish masters actually it's an open invitation to facebook to make them rethink the rules that they have because we believe they're not showing the new paintings it's 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 mute in paintings or art which is completely different from from newt or pornographic knew it. finally this out is naval forces day here in russia and special parades are being held across the country to honor their work. great weather for it so that's how the news is looking so fast and i hear not say we're back with more at the top of the.

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