donald trump and flooding me putin look ahead to a second summit is they seek to mend that country's troubled relations. meanwhile the u.s. president claims the kremlin whites tried to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help the democrats as allegations of meddling remain a fiercely contested issue. in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center. our. palestinian teenage girl seen as a symbol of the resistance against israel is released after eight months behind bars. and cambodia's prime minister is reelected in

a poll overshadowed by a security crackdown and claims of ballot rigging. thank you for joining us for the weekly news roundup at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. donald trump and flirting with putin have set their sights on a second meeting after their landmark summit in helsinki earlier this month on friday the russian leader said the u.s. president has been invited to moscow and the white house responded saying trump is open to the idea earlier putin's planned trip to washington was postponed amid intense criticism within the u.s. over trump's humbling of the first summit. on national security advisor john bolton went as far as calling you to russia which hummed and said the washington meeting will not happen until next year meanwhile secretary of state mike pompei

a was grilled by senators over what exactly trump said to putin in helsinki. 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 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 now you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions but i just over three months donald trump will face a major test of his presidency with the midterm elections and as artie's caleb maupin explains one predictable theme is already starting to emerge. 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 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 torrie sanctions to be imposed on russia are all set up by congress we're going to pursue russia's energy and financial sectors its overgaard its parastatal and it is my go along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the friend in the 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 kelley's or anything of that sort i mean you know we had a new we had 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 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 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 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 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 kaleb up and r.t. washington d.c. . well the meddling story continues to be hugely defined so if i don and the views of legal and media analyst lionel and political consultant we should 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 u.s.

still there are other divisions what do you think richard. 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 leak was of war against united states so so again but i think we should segment that out i think i think what happened 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 oven mitt fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the the this this necessary as cabal did cram lang how to get in there with you there was a hall. 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 goods 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. you can really turn it up if you could. scream if you can demand and require a screaming room and a petting 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 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 teenage girl and political activist to head to mimi has been released after eight months in an israeli prison but what she was going to. do judiciary. supporters welcomed her to a military checkpoint in the west bank. became an icon for the resistance and a symbol for resistance by young people who refused the procedures and existence of the occupation and challenged this acute patient with their hands with a clash. of the circumstances that should leave them 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. the seventeen year old was arrested in december along with several of her relatives she had been film slapping and kicking israeli soldiers after her cousin was shot at close range during

protests a video of the incident went viral making ahead a symbol of the palestinian resistance. that was going to her. god. the case turned the global spotlight on the detention of palestinian children by israel a practice that has been criticized by rights groups however some israeli politicians claim ahead 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. however israel's actions against the teenager have been condemned by many world wide and appropriate us t.v. and activists have staged protests demanding her release. one expression of support

has been a giant picture of the girl which appeared on the israeli west bank border that the art work didn't go down well with the israeli also it is. cambodia's incumbent prime minister who has said and has won a landslide victory in the country's general election he's sore often challenge from almost twenty rival parties trying to reports from the capital phnom penh. so

prime minister who first charge of commodious 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 and any of the other nineteen competing parties will really make it there and win at least a few parliament seats well bodhi 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. 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 osce me to take the

model from yugoslavia serbia 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 km 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 it called conspiring with america so right now there is no such name of c.n.n. r.p. on that list. 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 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 kimbo dia that's the gist but never stop 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 push down a little boy and you are 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 vote 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 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 where the depleted and impoverished countries i believe a tranquil reporting from composed on election day party. europe and the u.s. have struck a deal to appoint a trade war war not after the break. there is the most noble political deciders to have more green energy but if implemented

in the wrong commercial way. it will over the next few years say with enough time to move three full five years you will have such a melanson all subsidized project states address that unlikely to be able to stand on their own two feet. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some people want to be preached. to the right to be press this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the why. you. should.

call come back the european commission change you show include young has reached a deal with donald trump to avoid a trade war they agreed to console remove key import taxes and subsidies while the e.u. will boost imports of u.s. food and make a five natural gas it comes out of the white house impose tariffs on european union and steel in may and yonkers new approach to trump is strikingly different from the saudia hostility. we have identified a number of various for the rich to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods that was my main intention. from told me last week john claude you are a brutal killer but this is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america he meant i think as

a compliment 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 it you can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid trump just roll over john claude younker and get concessions almost immediately the answer is yes well john clause 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 u.s. is in the house america is back john clarke younker 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. if the deal is not the

ink on the contract has to drive for us to say that there is a deal well after the deal posted this tweet expressing love between the two sides yet relations may not be as rosy as the u.s. president claims. off to bed george announcement the cameras courtney are encouraged fusing to take outstretched that's just fine but is having quite a reputation for enthusiastic greeting this.

president emanuel not cruel has lashed out at the french media over the handling of a scandal involving his security aide to do and ski has the story. over the last week front's has been in the midst of a media frenzy over to merge a top security aide to president michael 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 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 the designs on cover 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 microns 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 when the same speech mccrone challenge the public to come and get him which had plenty of reaction on twitter. just some other stuff it doesn't do you get

especially since it was you that was. on admits to being responsible in the band i love that the else us to come and get saved in the 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 . in 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 banally we denounce violence and repression exerted by the state and the president plans that

they don't 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 rich i mean. stunning flower show has rounded up maybe day in st petersburg and parades who held across russia on sunday. i.

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