in the stories that shaped the week here in r.t. donald trump on friday may seek to straighten us russian relations 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 meddling remains a very divisive issue as we hear later. meddling in the way that osama bin laden meddled with the world trade center. 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 the general election

that's been marred by scandal and meddling allegations. hello there welcome you're watching a 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 summit 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 this summit is national security advisor 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 subject to

a heated senate hearing where the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei 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 or in eastern europe where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria good do it 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 you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions don't trust me well faces a major test of his presidency later this year with the midterm elections in four months voters will elect members of congress as well as senators governors and state judges the midterms are widely seen as a vote of confidence in any administration but is aussie's kind of explains whether

it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance he's 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 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 overgaard it's parastatal and it isn't 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 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 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 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 communist 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 that meddling continues to be heechee divisive. the views of legal media and this line all the democratic political consultant that you could stick liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well to believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us too 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 of 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 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 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 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 other than mad fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the lead is this nefarious 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 proportionately. palestinian teenager and activists are had to meet was released after eight months in a prison in israel. but it was that he was going to. do judiciary. these pictures show supporters welcoming her in an i.d.f. check points near in the west bank. became an icon 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 of the clash. the circumstances that she leave then cause her to become a symbol for the difficult life israeli actions in the village 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 did go viral and was adopted as an image of palestinian resistance. i'd like to know. that i'm. just coming out well thank god god. 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 case focus the spotlight on the detention of palestinian minus by israel a practice that has been criticized by international rights groups however some israeli politicians decrying that eight months in jail. i. relax

true mercifully with these types of terrorists israel should treat harshly those who hate the soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no terence 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 worldwide impro palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release one expression of this support has been a joint picture to the girl on the israeli west bank border however the artist behind this work was arrested by border police say the painting is illegal.

that cambodia's incumbent prime minister hun sen has won the general election the ruling party gained a majority despite coming up against almost twenty rival parties however the campaign has been marred by an absolutely toxic atmosphere as a labor franca reports. the general election and 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 success are quite a few things though are way too familiar put on into feet 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 usa that 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 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 is to just never stop made clear as 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 in the 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 sea and 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 all 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 which 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 combat on election day forty. now this week did see the french president hit back at the media over its handling of the scandal surrounding his top security aide well have a look at the details just after the break. i think camera. roughly once they showed some was made for them. to. shoot your own cool videos and someone with the broccoli string abs. going down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. . i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be rich eight point six percent market so thirty percent is what is your thumb with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit for shock and mourning rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only. welcome back to the way. has pulled back from the last trade war with brussels off the hammering at a last minute deal with the chief junk. the saudis agreed to cut or remove came

pour taxes trade barriers and subsidies while the e.u. will boost imports of u.s. food and also they qualified natural gas comes off the white house steps huge terrace in europe a now the minium and steel in may but the greenman surprised many coming off to some pretty harsh rhetoric from young. we have identified a number of areas. to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on industrial goods. that was my main intention. from told me last week john clued you were a brutal killer but it is the first time that look somebody has become a threat to the united states of america he meant i think as a complement even though i cannot be sure those who think it's 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 to try and just roll over john claude younker

and get concessions almost immediately and the answer is yes always on club younker is as a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and is going to eat he has to get used to this because this is going to happen every few months there's going to have to surrender more and more and more the us is in the house america is back shock lot younger obviously at the e.u. is used to being kind of a very slow moving lafarge a bureaucrat with no accountability whatsoever he's not elected he will say anything but generally that means nothing. the deal is not the ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal. but the deal is not the only sign of forming ties between washington and brussels. love between the two sides however relations may not be news rosy as the

u.s. president claims because after their announcement. not taking trump's stretched hand if you look and that's despite both having quite a reputation for enthusiastic. media

over the handling of the scandal involving the president security protesters while wearing police insignia. 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 has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what

president might call made 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. i see media powers who want to become judicial one we also know the president might cause approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged and 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 is he said he's responsible for the incident got plenty of reaction on twitter. so. you get this she said thank you thank you thank you. missed being responsible in the fair to come and get in the case let's get macro.

we arrive together and united more determined than ever. it was 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 . in organizations called 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 banally we denounce violence and repression exerted by the state and the president. every single demonstration across france sees police violence when the law was mccrone say that's the same thing as macro is the president of the reach of good governance

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