double chandan vladimir putin look ahead to a second summers as they seek to mend their country's troubled relations. meanwhile the u.s. president claims the kremlin might try to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help the democrats as allegations of meddling in the rain a fiercely contested issue. it's meddling in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center. all. palestinian teenage girls seen as a symbol of the resistance against israel is released after eight months behind bars. and cambodia as prime minister is reelected in

a poll overshadowed by a security crackdown and claims of ballot rigging. this is the weekly news roundup at r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. donald trump and vladimir putin have set their sights on a second meeting after that lon monk summit in helsinki earlier this month on friday the russian leaders 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 i made intense criticism within the u.s. over trump's handling of the first summit. national security advisor john bolton went as far as calling it a russia witch hunt and said the washington meeting will not happen until next year

meanwhile secretary of state my pump aoe 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 and 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 the president discuss 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 and i just hope the three months donald trump will face a major test of his presidency with the midterm elections and open explains one predictable theme is already starting to emerge 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 midterm 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 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 its oligarchs its parastatal entities it is my goal along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states defending 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 kelley's or anything of that sort we had no we have 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 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's no reason that donald trump can't use it to his advantage ok with mop and artsy washington d.c. . well meddling story continues to be hugely defies if i gone at the views of eagle and media analyst lionel and political consultant we should. never politicians

frequently blame russia for various things as well to believe that's the real cause of the problems in the u.s. still there are other divisions what do you think rich and. 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 it's 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 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 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 made 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 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 have me 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 didn't require a screaming roman 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 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. palestinian teenage girl and political activists head to mimi has been released after eight months in an israeli prison but what she was going to. do the judiciary. supporters welcomed her at 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 occupation. to the class. 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'd been filmed 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 liked the look of the clue that i'm not going to come or not right with you but i heard it was not the case turns the global spotlight on the detention of palestinian children by israel a practice that has been criticized by rights groups however some israeli politicians play a high it's eight months in jail was too lenient. to show you suddenly is relaxed 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 to terribles 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 and pray palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release or an expression of support has been a giant mural of the girl which appeared on the israeli west bank border that the art works didn't go down well with the israeli authorities. i. cut. cambodia's incumbent prime minister who then has won

a landslide victory in the country's general election he saw off a challenge from almost twenty rival parties artie's in the upper trying to reports from the capital phnom penh. so prime minister who. charge of combo 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 nineteen competing parties will really make it there and when at least if parliament seats well bodhi and politics just ahead of the campaign began to turn absolutely 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 any where 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 low end of the 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. 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 to just 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'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 said 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. 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. the french president has hit back at the media over its coverage of a scandal involving his top security aide that he tells on last after the break.

if. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something wanted. to go right to be this is what it looks like. the people. interested in the logs. should.

call come back the european commission chief. has reached a deal with donald trump to avoid a trade war they agree to cuts or remove key import taxes and subsidies while the e.u. will boost imports of u.s. food and liquefied natural gas it comes after the white house impose tariffs on european union and steel in may and young because new approach to trump is strikingly different from his hostility. we have identified a number of scenarios for the rich to work together. to work towards zero terrorists on the industrial goods that was my main intention. trump told me last

week john clude you are a brutal killer but this is the first time that look somebody 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 because i 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 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 aig 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 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. off of the dale posted this tweet expressing love between the two sides yet relations may not be as right as the as the u.s. president claims after the joint announcement the cameras caught younker refusing to take trump's outstretched that's despite but having quite a reputation for insouciance to routings.

president a man your macro has lashed out at the french media over the handling of a scandal involving his security aide. has the story. over the last week front has been in the midst of a media frenzy over three to merge that 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 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 michael'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. when in the same speech macro challenge the public to come and get him which had plenty of reaction on twitter. it's other stuff it doesn't do you get especially not just the cut that was. on admits to being responsible in the bend i love 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

. in organizations called for us to gather here against macros behavior he also challenged us to come and get him here it's not that we denounce penhallow we denounce violence and repression exerted by the state and the president plans they don't every single demonstration across france sees police violence being the law was mccrone say that's the same thing as macro is the president of the reach of good governance in favor of the reach i mean it's. a stunning file it show has rounded off navy day in st petersburg parades were held across russia on sunday.

well all the week's top stories in just about half an hour and then. max ties are plentiful survival guide. looking forward to. this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for them to shouldn't let it be an arms race through this on all sides very dramatic

developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i want to welcome two worlds apart politics as we know it was born in cities no one to 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 and the countryside drive back. with the bronx and down with the election of

donald trump was this something that the big city dwellers the cosmopolitan elite fail to grasp about the rest of their countries to discuss that i'm now joined by creatures for 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's 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 guys. urbanism i'm sure it's not the case but i wonder how country specific your work is and how a play couple the chance that you have highlighted to you of a society. 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 that i'm glad people in russia are talking

about 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 and 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 and the other hand they say the creative question fighter cities look i'm i'm simply trying the best i can with my eyes in my years in my research teams 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. tend 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 second statistical data and i one day and dan if that data is more specific to the united states than let's say you know the middle east or if you're 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 was and how economically productive last i suppose there would be another correlation to you.