in the stories it shaped the week here in r.t. donald trump who tried to be putin seek to straighten us russian relations is the american president says he's open to the offer of coming to moscow meanwhile donald trump claims that russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his rivals the democrats russia meddling remains a very divisive issue as we hear later. meddling in the way that osama bin laden handled with the world trade center. was. also become a symbol of palestinian resistance teenager head to mimi is released after eight months in jail in israel the polls have closed in cambodia in

a general election that's been marred by scandal and meddling allegations. hello there well can you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. now donald trump says he is open to accepting an invitation from flooding into 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 during the summit his national security adviser john bolton later announced that a washington meeting would not happen until twenty nineteen when quote the russia witch hunt is over trump's encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject

to have a heated senate hearing where the u.s. secretary of 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 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 donald trump meanwhile faces a major test of his presidency later this year with the midterm elections in full months is what i lacked new members of congress as well as senate is given is and state judges the midterms are widely seen as

a vote of confidence in any administration that is and that explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians do 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 front 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 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 oligarchs it's parastatal and 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 kelley's 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 a trope 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.

so the allegations of meddling men do continue to be hugely divisive poetry if used to be on this line and on the democratic political consultant richard good state 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 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 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 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 where the point you're russians buying facebook ads which brought down the entire election not because your gal the other than mad 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. 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 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 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 act reasonably and proportionate. now earlier today the palestinian teenager and activists i had to mean me was released after eight months in a prison in israel. but i was going to. do the judiciary was these pictures to show support is welcoming her at an i.d.f. checkpoint in the west bank. became an calling for the resistance and the symbol for resistance by young people who refused the procedures and existence of the occupation and challenge this occupation with their bare hands with a clash told little for the circumstances that should leave then cause her to

become a symbol for the difficult life israeli actions in the village day nights always mean her raise her voice and reach out to the world well 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. i didn't. know it was that. i'd just come right out well. thank god i mean he 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 on this 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 eight months in jail was too lean i will show you so is relax true mercifully with these types of terrorists israel should treat harshly those who hit its soldiers off we can't have a situation where there is no to terrorists lack of to tears leads to the reality we see now we must change that however israel's actions against the teenager have been condemned by many worldwide palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release one expression of this 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 the painting is illegal. thank.

you. cambodia's incumbent prime minister hun sen has won the general election the ruling party gained a majority to spike coming up against almost twenty rival parties however the campaign has been marred by an absolutely toxic atmosphere is unable trenker reports. 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. cannot stand in cambodia democracy and. the prime minister's government simply wants to silence the opposition. collusion and meddling cracking down on critics. that is so mainstream before changing the top level we need to operate the low one we need to change the lower level first and the us 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 bodie 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 to just never stop trios 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 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.n. r.p. to make ends meet he now has to endure the south asian heat driving it took took the initiative on me and i said 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 our 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 i still not over

which. 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 countryside to try and go reporting from combo on election day forty. now this week saw the french president hit back at the media handling of the scandal surrounding his top security aides will have a look at that in more detail just after the break. the idea of spending money to acquire region to acquire territory to acquire wealth is an oxymoron there no 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 king morkel so every dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted dollar that's a one thousand eight hundred seventeen sixteenth century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless. joined me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the weekly now donald trump has pulled back from north that trade war with brussels after hammering out

a last minute deal with the brussels chief sean claude younker the sides agreed to cut or get rid of kiem pour taxes trade barriers and subsidies. boost imports of u.s. food and also liquefied natural gas comes after the white house slapped he on european steel and aluminum in may but the cream and surprise many after younkers repeated criticism of us moves the stupid we have identified a number of areas. to work together. to work towards it was on the industrial goods that was my main intention. told me last week. you were a brutal killer but this is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america remember i think as a complement even though i cannot be sure. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do we can also do

stupid we also have to be this stupid trial just roll over john clarke younker and get concessions almost immediately the answer is yes. there's a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and he has to get used to this because this is going to happen every few months he's going to have to surrender more and more and more the us is in the house america is back which i thought younger obviously at the e.u. is used to being. kind of a very slow moving left barging bureaucrat with no accountability whatsoever he's not elected he will say anything but generally that means nothing. if the deal is not the ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal but the date is not the any sign of warming ties between washington and

brussels trump posted this tweet announcing love between the two sides however where nations may not be quite as raw you see as the u.s. presence and seemed to claim after that julie tonight was meant camera school young not taking. the mass to spike but having quite a reputation to pull enthusiastic great take.

me on his last act in france has made you over their handling of the scandal involving the president and security aide who struck protestors while wearing police insignia with more on this his show it to pinsky. over the last week france has been in the midst of a media frenzy ofter to merge a top security aide to president michael was caught on video during the may day protests beating protestors. that. was.

well but now has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president might call 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 who want to become judicial one we also know the president michael's 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 china devinsky their will in the same speech mccrone challenge the public to come and get him as he said he's responsible for the incident got plenty of reaction on twitter. she vanished she.

just thought it was. a girl that missed being responsible in the bad else us to come and get saved 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 cold for us to gather here against macro's behavior he also challenged us to come and get him here it's not that we denounce penhallow we denounce violence and repression exerted by the state and the president. every

single demonstration across france sees police violence being the law was mccrone say that's the same thing as macro it is the president of the reach of governance in favor of the reach i mean. finally it has been a naval forces day here in russia respect right have been held across the country so on that that was a. spectacular

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