the stories that shaped the week donald trump. to straighten us russia relations 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 meddling remains a very divisive issue as we'll hear later. meddling in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center. our. symbol of palestinian resistance teenager. 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. are joining us this is r.t. international. donald trump says he is open to accepting an invitation. to visit moscow earlier 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. weeks ago led to a lot of criticism in the u.s. media over the way trump handled 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 witchhunt is over james encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing where the u.s. to state my pump 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 you 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 that the president discussed 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. 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 the senate is governess and they just the midterms are widely seen as being a vote of confidence for any administration that is auntie's killam open explains whether it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who's to blame if 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 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 shutdown 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 which overgaard its parastatal entities it is my go 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 votes kelley's or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence committee can't gauge the impact it had on the choices that you look 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 has 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 kaleb up and r.t. washington d.c. allegations of meddling continue to be huge the divisive. use of legal and media analyst and 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 u.s. still 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 c. 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 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 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 oh a little holiday that we're creating ourselves you didn't let me down. yet and i have parked and my friends 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 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 me take something where you have a legitimate right to be upset but. if you can really turn it up if you could. 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. earlier today the palestinian teenager and i. was released after eight months in a prison in israel. but i was going to. do today was some of these pictures show supporters welcoming an i.d.f. checkpoint near qom 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 in the class.

the circumstances that should leave them caused her to become a symbol for the difficult life israeli actions in the village day night on this me her raise her voice and reach out to the world together with her relatives the seventeen year old was arrested in december she'd been filmed slapping and kicking i.d.f. soldiers after her cousin was shot at close range during a protest the video of that into it went viral and was adopted as an image of palestinian resistance. that. was god. to me was charged with assaulting that idea of taking part in violent riots she was sixteen when arrested and turned seventeen the day the case focused the spotlight on the detention of palestinian minors by israel a practice that has been criticized by international rights groups for some israeli

politicians claim eight months in jail was to leave. israel acts 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. and whether israel's actions against the teenager have been condemned by many world wide and pro palestinian activists to stage 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 however the didn't go down well with the israeli authorities.

cambodia's incumbent prime minister who has won a landslide victory in the country's general election he sort of a challenge from almost twenty rival parties reports from the country's capital. so prime minister who first took charge of combat thirty three years ago will rule the country for another five years final official results won't come out till mid august the only official number that we've received for now is the turnout eighty two percent plus it is still unclear if any of the other nine competing parties will really make it there and when at least if parliament seats well tim bodi and

politics just ahead of the campaign began to turn out salutes lead toxic on sunday i was all over polling stations in the capital have a look at that 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 or 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 meddling cracking down on critics. so mainstream before changing the top level we need to prove the low one we need to change. 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 year 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 the gist but never stop right there is one 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 the eye 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 c.n.n. r.p. to make ends meet he now has to endure the south asian heat driving it took to going 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 democracy in cambodia was dead when the government got rid of your. position 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 so we need to consider what happened in ukraine in the middle east in afghanistan where 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 with a depleted and impoverished countries i believe a train go reporting from combat on election day r.t. . now this week saw the french president hitting back at the media in his country over his handling of the scandal regarding his top security aide to bring the full story after this break. there is the most noble political deciders to have more clean energy but if

implemented in the wrong commercial way. it will over the next few years save was enough of the time frame of three full five years you will have such a mountain of subsidized projects and cetera that are unlikely to be able to stand on their own two feet. welcome back donald trump has pulled back from an all out trade war with brussels after hammering out a last minute deal with e.u. chiefs. he sides agreed to cut or remove key import taxes trade barriers and subsidies on the e.u. will boost imports of u.s. food and liquefied natural gas this comes after the white house slapped huge

tariffs on european our new medium and steel in may and his new walk towards trump is strikingly different from his earlier hostility we have identified a number of various blue ridge to work together. to work towards zero terrace on the industrial goods that was my main intention. told me last week claude you are a brutal killer and this is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america remember i think as a compliment 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 to try and just roll over john clarke 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 this guy 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 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 lafarge a bureaucrat 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 deal is not the only sign of warming between washington and brussels posted this tweet announcing love between the two sides relations may not be as rosy as the u.s. president claims after the joint announcement cameras caught not taking trump's

outstretched hand despite both having quite a reputation for enthusiastic greetings.

has lashed out at france's media rover their handling of the scandal involving the president's security aide who struck protesters for wearing police insignia show the deep in ski picks up the story. over the last week front's has been in the midst of a media frenzy over to merge that a top security aide to president michael was caught on video during the may day protests beating protestors. was. well banal and 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 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. you can't especially. because your. background admits to being responsible in the bed that the 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 certain organizations called for us to gather here against macro's behavior he also challenged us to come and get. 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 good governance in favor of the reach. its naval forces day here in russia

special parades are being held right across the country to on a. product that i do join me for the latest news headlines at half an hour.

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 feel 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 nineteenth eighteenth seventeenth sixteenth century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless.

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