stories that shaped the week donald trump. to straighten us russian relations is the american president says he's open to the offer of coming to moscow. russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his rivals the democrats battling remains a very divisive issue as we'll hear later. in the way that osama bin laden. with the world trade center. symbol of palestinian resistance. he is released after eight months in jail in israel. cambodia's prime minister wins the country's general election according to the chief government spokesman for the campaigning has been marred by scandal and

meddling allegations. great to have you with us you're watching our international. says he is open to accepting an invitation from vladimir putin to visit moscow earlier this week the russian president agreed to visit the u.s. whether in washington d.c. or moscow the next from putin summit will be the second official encounter between the two presidents first held in helsinki two weeks ago led to a lot of criticism in the u.s. media over the way. that meeting was accused of not defending his country's interests during the summit. if national security advisor john bolton later announced that a washington meeting would not happen until two thousand and nineteen when quote the russia which hunt is over something counter with putin in helsinki also became

the subject of a heated senate hearing for the us state might bump 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 and eastern europe where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria going to do what took place you speak to the translator that the president discussed relax relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats as i understand it i understand the game you're playing now you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. meanwhile faces a major test of his presidency later this year with the midterm elections in four months voters will elect new members of congress as well the senate is governors and state judges and midterms are widely seen as being

a vote of confidence for any administration but is artie's kellam open explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who is to blame if results don't go that way. it was 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 tax 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 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 russia are all set up by congress we're going to pursue russia's energy and financial sectors which overgaard its parastatal and 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 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 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 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 much sense as 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 that our economy is that in war 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 indications of meddling continue to be hugely divisive. views of legal and media analyst lionel and the democratic political consultant richard could stick. liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well if you believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us of there are other divisions what do you think richard. look i don't think people are blaming russia it's 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. are a fan of generally are said that what our obligations to it 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 are little holidays that we're creating ourselves you didn't let me down. yet 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 the business fannius cabal get crammed lang how dare with you there were times 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 how way all in scream if you can demand didn't require a screening room and a padding go i gave you did 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 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. earlier today the palestinian teenager an activist maybe was released after eight months in a prison in israel but what he was going to. support as well coming forward an idea of checkpoint to calm in the west bank. became the resistance and the symbol for resistance by young people who refused the procedures and existence of the occupation and challenged this occupation. with a clash. the circumstances that should leave that 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 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. god. i mean he was charged with assaulting an i.d.f. officer and taking part in violent riots you were sixteen when she was arrested and turned seventeen in custody that case focus the spotlight on the detention of palestinian minors by israel a practice that has been criticized by international rights groups some israeli politicians claim or eight months in jail is too lenient to show you so israel acts

true mercifully with these types of terrorists israel should treat harshly those who hate the soldiers so we can't have a situation where there is no terror and lack of to tears leads to the reality we see now we must change the. course of all however israel's actions against the teenager have been condemned by many worldwide and pro palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release. one expression of this support has been a giant picture of the girl which appeared on the israeli west bank border but the artwork didn't go down well with these radio authorities.

cambodia's incumbent prime minister hun sen has won the country's general election according to the chief government spokesman the source the challenge of force twenty rival parties but the campaign has been marred by a toxic atmosphere as are easily trying 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 foreign interference cannot stand in cambodia democracy. the prime minister's government simply wants to silence the opposition that. collusion meddling cracking down on critics. that is so mainstream before changing the top level we need to our low one we need to change the lower level first and the u.s. 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 lead to this that was the 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 they 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 held it 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 the gist but never stop it three zero one two continued a mission 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 that took took going to think about mandates and 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 country needs to keep

going without any violence or war either 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 composer on election day for r.t. . and i'll be back with more news for you after the short break. we are going through a dramatic economic and social and cultural transformation that women want to participate in gay and lesbian people want immigrants want rights in many cities are saying that's my way but there are more traditional parts of society that are saying no i don't want that i live in a more of

a world community i believe we should have one national policy i believe in a country that's divided as much as any in the world we actually have to localise our government. with more make this manufactured consensus stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round be the one percent. nor middle of the room six. million. little trump has pulled back from an all out trade war with brussels after

hammering out a last minute deal with the chief. the sides agreed to cut a move key import taxes trade barriers and subsidies while the e.u. will boost imports of u.s. food and they provide natural gas this comes after the white house slapped huge tariffs on european allium anyone steel in may and you knew warmth towards trump is strikingly different from his earlier hostility we have identified a number of areas from which to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods that was my main. times. trump 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 that's a compliment even though it 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 claude younker and get concessions almost immediately the answer is yes john clarke younker is is a surrender monkey it came to d.c. and he surrendered the white flag was waved and he gets nothing and it's going 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 u.s. is in the house america is back shocked a lot younger obviously at the e.u. is used to being kind of a very slow moving the far bureaucrat with no accountability whatsoever it'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 field is not the only sign of warming times between washington and

brussels posted this tweet announcing love between the sides however relations may not be as rosy as the u.s. president claims to the joint announcement cameras caught not taking trump's outstretched hand and that's the spine both having quite a reputation for enthusiastic greetings.

emanuel mccomas lashed out of france's me here over the handling of the scandal that involved the president's security aide who struck protests this while wearing police insignia shelagh dubin ski has a story. over the last week front has been in the midst of a media frenzy of terrorism merge that a top security aide to president was caught on video during the may day protests beating protestors. have. well been allah has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time

what president mark or made of 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 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 it now seems that that boy and that criticism is extending out to media outlets in france. in the same speech maicon 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 you can achieve this it was your.

background admits to being responsible in the band that else us to come and get saved in that case let's get mackerel. 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 being the law was mccrone

say that's the same thing as macro it is the president of the reach of good governance in favor of the reach i mean. its naval forces day here in russia and special parades are being held across the country to on that work. next day with auntie updates coming your way at the top of the hour.

four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. long

. i want to welcome to worlds apart politics as we know it was born in thirty's. 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 the

small towns of the countryside drug back. with the braxton and downs with the election of donald trump was this something that big big city dwellers the cosmopolitan elite fail to grasp about the rest of the country to discuss that i'm now joined by far their professor at the university of toronto a bestselling author 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 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 guise of. i'm sure it'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 to 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 in 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 in the other hand they say the creative class jet fighter cities look i'm simply trying the best i can with my eyes in my years in my research team to actually look at what's happening in cities but one thing we know is that cities that were open to the gay and lesbian population cities that have a larger to stick design music literary bohemian population those cities. 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 are 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 how globalized that economy was and how productive and how well it performed economically and he was shocked he was literally shocked to find that the openness to the gay and lesbian population had a lot to say about how globally oriented that economy.