the stories that shape the week donald trump and putin seek to straighten us special relations is the american president says he's open to the offer of coming to moscow. claims russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his rivals the democrats question meddling remains a very divisive issue as we'll hear later it's meddling in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center. i. symbol of palestinian resistance teenager tell me me is released after eight months in jail in israel. prime minister wins the country's general election according to the chief government spokesman but the campaigning

has been marred by scandal and meddling allegations. as joining as you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. donald trump says that he is open to accepting an invitation from vladimir putin to visit moscow live this week the russian president agreed to visit the u.s. whether in washington d.c. or moscow the next summits 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 of the way trump handled the meeting was accused of not defending his country's interests the summit. his national security adviser john bolton later announced that a washington meeting would not happen until two thousand and nineteen when quote the russia which antes over trumps encounter with putin in helsinki also became the

subject of a heated senate hearing where the u.s. secretary of state clashed with senate. 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 they were going to change our force structure in syria good what took place you speak to the translator that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats as i understand it i understand the game that you're playing now and you know mr secretary you with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. well talk meanwhile faces a major test of his presidency later this year with the midterm elections in four months voters will elect a new members of congress as well as senators governors and state judges the midterms are widely seen as a vote of confidence in

a new administration but the saudis could have open explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if the results don't go their way with so much division 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 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 mid-term 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 raw. are all set up by congress we're going to pursue russia's energy and financial sectors its oligarchs its parastatal entities it is my goal along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the spending 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 of these or anything of that sort because you know we had knew we had no way of gauging. the impact that some of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact it had on the choices that you look through 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 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 guard 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 they're communism even though they're not communists anymore this will all be cleared up after the election whichever side lose. 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 artsy washington d.c.

well the allegations of meddling continue to be hugely divisive the views of legal a media analyst lionel the democratic political consultant richard goodstein 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 the which is 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 . off and generally ira had said that what our actions did was an act leak was of war against united states so so again i but i think we should

segment that out i think i think what happened was dates 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 on the head 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 this business fannius cabal did cram lang how to get in there with you there were times. 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 how. old and scream if you can demand and require a screaming room and of padding 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. a little the palestinian teenager an activist to mimi was released after eight months in a prison in israel. he was. was to show supporters welcoming her at an idea checkpoints 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 class. the circumstances that she leave then cause her to become a symbol for the difficult life of israeli actions in the same night obviously 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. was shot at close range during protest the video of the incident went viral was adopted as an image of palestinian resistance. 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 the case focused the spotlight on the detention of palin minors by israel a practice that has been criticized by international rights groups that some israeli politicians claim eight months in jail was too lenient. is relaxed to 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 terror lack of deterrence leads to the reality we see now we must change that. every sales actions against the teenager have been condemned by benny worldwide palestinian activists have staged protests demanding release. one expression of this support is john picture of the girl which appeared on the israeli west bank border and whether the artwork didn't go down well with the israeli authorities.

cambodia's incumbent prime minister hun sen has won the country's general election that's according to the chief government spokesman the sort of the challenge from almost twenty rival parties but the campaign has been marred by a toxic atmosphere it's not easily pertaining to reports from the country's capital . 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 for an interfering cannot stand in cambodia democracy and. the prime minister's government simply wants to silence the opposition by. collusion meddling cracking down on critics. that is so mainstream before changing the top level we need to prove the low one we need to change the lower level. and the us say that his assisted me the ask me to take the more than 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 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 in 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 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'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 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 to go in at the bottom and i said i don't care about losing power i'm sorry for not being able to serve the people who elected us that 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 country needs to keep going without any violence a war so we need to consider what happened in ukraine in the middle east on

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 whether depleted and impoverished countries i believe a tranquil reporting from combat on election day or r.t. . this week saw the french president hit back at the media over its handling of the scandal surrounding his top security aide who bring in details after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport i'm sure business i'll see you then.

the idea 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 sphere feasibly these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to become a more people so every dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted dollar it's a one thousand eight hundred seventeen sixteenth century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless. donald trump has pulled back from an all out trade war with brussels after how

wring out a last minute deal with the u. chiefs. the sides agreed to cut or remove key import taxes trade barriers and subsidies will boost imports of u.s. food and liquefied natural gas this comes after the white house slapped huge tariffs on european union and steel in may but the agreement surprised many coming after some pretty harsh rhetoric from young. we have identified a number of areas the rich to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods that was my main intention. from told me last week 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. 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 trump just roll over john claude younker and

get concessions almost immediately and the answer is yes always on top of 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 he'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 what no accountability whatsoever is 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 warming between washington and

brussels posted a tweet announcing love between the two sides however relations may not be as rosy as the u.s. president claims the joint announcement cameras quote not taking outstretched hand and that despite both having quite a reputation for enthusiastic greeting. a. man

who has lashed out at france's media over their handling of the scandal involving the president's security aides who struck protesters while wearing police insignia has more. 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 the president micron's 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 and in the same speech mark truong challenge the public to come and get him as he said he's responsible for the incident and i got plenty of reaction on twitter. either the general shape of.

the. background admits to being responsible if the plane i love that the else us to come and get saved in that case let's get macro. we arrive together and unite it more determined than ever. because on the right 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 macros 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 plans to take on every single demonstration across from this season police violence it's

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