that i am you talking about i mean you can't you know you. are the stories that shaped the week here in r.t. donald trump and putin seek to straighten us russian relations as the american president says he is open to the offer of coming to moscow. 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 osama bin laden meddled with the world trade center. how also this symbol of palestinian resistance teenager i had to meet is released after eight months in jail in israel and the polls have closed in cambodia in a general election that has been marred by scandal and meddling allegations.

are they welcome the latest developments in a look back what's been happening over the last seven days to watch in the weekly here on r.t. international. 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. or moscow the next putin summit will be the second official encounter between the two presidents the first held in helsinki two weeks ago did lead 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 cheering the summit his national security adviser john bolton later announced that a washington meeting would not happen though when told. nine hundred nineteen when

quote the russia witch hunt is over trump's encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing where the u.s. tanks have state. 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 to what took place you speak to the translator the president to discuss relax relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats i understand senator i understand the game you're playing you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions donald trump meanwhile faces a major test of his presidency later this year but the mid-term elections in four months voters will elect a new members of congress as well as senators governors and state judges the midst

of widely seen as a vote of confidence in any administration but is are these kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance 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 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 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 too real.

we 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 oligarchs it's parastatal entities it is 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 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 ways 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 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 pen. 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's no reason that donald

trump can't use it to his advantage ok with mop and r.t. washington d.c. well the allegations of meddling do you continue to be hugely divisive. if you use 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. 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 far 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 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 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 were times. 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 can really turn it up if you can how. old and scream if you can demand didn't require a screaming room and a padding 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 users people 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 add reasonably and proportionately. now the news polls have now closed in cambodia's general election the southeast asian countries incumbent prime minister who is set for a landslide victory today with the almost twenty rival parties seen as less popular however the election campaign has been conducted in an absolutely talks you can't miss fair he reports the general election 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 or what a few things though are way too familiar for an interference cannot stand in cambodia democracy. the prime minister's government simply wants to silence the opposition it's 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 first and the usa 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 the leader of come bodi is national rescue party runners up in 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 just a fide planking down on the 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 it 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 pushed down a little boy and you are asking for democracy and human rights so prime minister hussein who for. 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.n. 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 of a country needs to keep going without any violence or war i was so we need to consider what happened in ukraine in the middle east so let's get it started with 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 tranquil reporting from composed on a like should day for our team. today the palestinian teenager and activist i had to mamie was released after eight months in a prison in israel. but i was going to.

say that it was the pictures to show supporters welcoming her at an i.d.f. checkpoint in the west bank. became an icon for the resistance and the symbol for resistance by young people who refused the procedure and existence of the occupation and challenge this occupation there that was the clash. the circumstances that she laid then cause her to become a symbol for the difficult life israeli actions in this day night always mean her raise her voice and reach out to the world 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 protest the video of the incident went viral and was adopted as an image of palestinian resistance. i don't. know. that. i had just come out that well.

thank god after that incident to me was charged with assaulting an i.d.f. officer and taking part in violent riots she was sixteen when she was arrested and turned seventeen in custody the case focused 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 her eight months in jail forced to leave. the show you saw him is relax true mercifully with these types of terrorists israel should treat harshly those who hate its soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no terrible lack of deterrence leads to the reality we see now we must change that however israel's actions against say nature have been condemned by many world wide and probably palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release one expression of the support has been a giant picture of the girl 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. i. you know. so to come on the weekly facebook is banned advertising featuring the works of the seventeenth century artist peter paul rubens to tell you why just after the break. that's. what holds us do something to. put themselves on the law. to get accepted or

rejected. so when one of the first century. or somehow want to. consider like to be for us this is what before the story of the morning can people get. interested always in the logs in the. first six.

welcome back no money crawling has lashed out at france's media over the handling of the scandal involving the president's security aide who struck protesters while wearing police insignia showed it to be unscathed 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 michel was caught on video during the may day protests beating protestors. well but now a has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president might call made this of course made blame 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. i see media powers who want to become judicial one we also know the president microns approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged and it now seems that that boy in that criticism is extending out to media outlets in france celinda been there when the same speech mccrone challenge the public to come and get him if he said he's responsible for the incident and they got plenty of reaction to you on twitter did. you give a shit ok thank you. micron admits to being responsible it be fair he also asked to come and get in the case let's get macro. we arrive together and united more determined than ever.

it was on the head to the president of the republic said that he's responsible is to say it is wrong but in terms of the constitution he's held to answer before the people. in organizations called for us to gather here against macros behavior he also challenged us to come and get so we hear it's not that we denounce but now we denounce violence and repression exerted by the state and the president. every single demonstration across bronze sees police violence being the law was my gran's eight years it's the same thing smacks wrong is the president of the reach of governance in favor of the rich i mean that. in other news this week facebook shocked at the art world by banning advertising that features the work of the

seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens and he said i think it has more to its full centuries these works were considered priceless treasures 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 letter from visit flanders to mark zuckerberg 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 to the facebook thing they've even also to discuss the matter over a beer 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 this the flemish tourist company thinking if it'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 new. i think you need to protect your good spirits even if artistic in the nature of this includes paintings understanding individual bodies such as the budget speech leverage story but it's not just that we put your gear in front of this painting it's for your own protection. it works. thank you very much facebook has said it's open to discussion but there is no doubt this is great pay off spin by museum curators as it is in fact possible to paste artistic needs on facebook if it's part of an ad that fulls in the strict 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 feta is all this spot concerns in the facebook's moderation system facebook's very both take census flag up posts but it appears that makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and autistic need to say but when it comes to exploitation though you can be sure as a facebook user you'll be protected from all those. second and i finally this is how it is naval forces day here in russia and special parades are being held across the country to on that with. and and. and and.

by. that wraps up the news back with more in about thirty five minutes time forget that you can keep yourself updated on our social media pages and. the idea of spending money to acquire region to acquire territory to acquire wealth is an oxymoron there's 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 these are b. these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to be come in more people 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. still. it will cost the. most. to. do it a little he. doesn't even know it easily and i.

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own and welcome to worlds apart politics as we know it was born in cities no wonder cities especially big ones may feel entitled to calling the shots for other more empowered and disadvantaged communities but in two thousand and sixteen most towns in the countryside drive back. with the bronx in and down with the election of donald trump was this something that the big city dwellers the cosmopolitan elite fail to grasp of all of the rest of that country to discuss that i'm now joined by creatures for their professor at the university of toronto a bestselling author a 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's 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 that'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 so 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 me 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 and the colonization of cities by the elite on the one hand they say florida the creative class didn't exist and it couldn't exist and there's no such thing and the other hand they say the creative question fighter cities look 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 but one thing we know is that cities there were open to the gay and lesbian population cities that had

a larger to stick design music literary bohemian population those city tended to be the cities where entrepreneur technological innovators settled into higher rates of innovation so that's what we reported 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 if you're you know for sure our data was born in the united states but there were 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 ran an analysis of the whole world now not at the city 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.