donald trump and bloody near putin look ahead to a second summers as they seek to mend their country's troubled relations. but 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 we made a fiercely contested issue. meddling 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. in cambodia as prime minister was reelected in a poll overshadowed by

a security crackdown and claims of ballot rigging. thank you for joining us for the weekly news roundup of r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate poetry. donald trump invited me putin have set their sights on a second meeting after that 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 same 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 handling of the first summit. well national security adviser john bolton went as far as calling it a russia witchhunt and said the while washington meeting will not happen until next year when he was secretary of state might pump

a zero 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 the president discuss relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats i understand senator 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. in just over three months donald trump will face a major test of his presidency with the mean time elections and caleb maupin explains one predictable theme is already starting to emerge with 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 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 russia are all set up by congress we're going to pursue russia's energy and financial sectors which oligarchs it's parastatal and it is my goal along with senator graham to make sure the. 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 ways or needs a new that's work i mean you know we had a new we don't know where you gauging. the impact that some of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact it had on the choices 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 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 came up and r.t. washington d.c. . when the meddling story continues to be hugely divisive and i garnered the views of legal the media analyst lionel and political consultant richard goodstein liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well to believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us are there are other divisions what

do you think richard. 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 democracy 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 our little holiday is 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 mitt fashion east lost a rigged election. but because the nefarious russians and the lead is this necessary as cabal did cram lang how dare 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 could. scream if you can demand and 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 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 at reasonably and proportionately.

palestinian teenage girl and political activists had to mimi has been released after eight months in an israeli prison but what he was going to. do to. supporters welcomed her at a military checkpoint in the west bank. but 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 interpretation. of the clash told little for the circumstances that should leave then 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 as well a 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

a symbol of the palestinian resistance. so there. was a clue that i'm not going to come right out right with you but i heard it was god not well a case turned the global spotlight on the detention of palestinian children by israel a practice that has been criticized by ryan skloot however some israeli politicians claim eight months in jail was too lenient. i'm sure you saw early is relax 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 world wide and pro palestinian activists have staged protests demanding her release one expression of support has been

a giant mural of the girl which appeared on the israeli west bank border that the art work didn't go down well with the israeli authorities. cambodia's incumbent prime minister who in sen has won a landslide victory in the country's general election he saw off a challenge from almost twenty rival parties artie's any of the trunk oh 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 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 for a minute into feet and 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 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. 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 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 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 push down a little boy and you are 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 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 marcos 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 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 party. europe and the u.s. have struck a deal to avoid a trade war more on that after the break. what

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

call come back the european commission chief young has reached a deal with donald trump to avoid a trade war they agreed to cuts or remove key import taxes and subsidies while the e.u. will boost imports of u.s. food and liquefied natural gas that comes out of the white house impose tariffs on european union and steel in may and young because new approach to trump is strikingly different from his earlier hostility. we have identified a number of areas in which to work together. work to work zero to use on the industrial goods that was my main intention. trump told me last week john claude you are 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 it we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid trump just roll over john clarke younker and get concessions almost immediately the answer is yes well 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 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 with john clarke 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 us president claims after their joint announcement the cameras caught young refusing to take stretched and that's despite best having quite a reputation for enthusiastic greetings. thank

you it was president emanuel micro has lashed out at the french media over the handling of a scandal involving his security aide. has the story over the last week france has been in the midst of a media frenzy over to marriage that a top security aide to president michel was caught on video during the may day protests and beating protest us to our. was much.

was. very well but now has since being sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president might of course made all of this a fat lot of corn to lay the blame at the press in the way that they covered this story essentially saying that the press and commentators were acting like the judiciary but we have media that no longer seeks the truth the images all they show . with the desire to uncover the truth to present facts in a balanced manner no i see media powers who want to become judicial one we also know the president lachlan's approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged and it now seems that that by and that criticism is extending out to all media outlets in france when the same speech man challenge the public to come and get him which had plenty of reaction on twitter. you can

see this if you look at your. background admits to being responsible in the fair else us to come and get in the case let's get macro. we arrive together and united more determined than ever. if we sit on the right the president of the republic said that he is 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 macros 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 when the law was microns that's the same thing macron is the president of the reach of governance in favor of the rich and. now a stunning fireworks show has rounded off navy day in some pages back her aides who are also held across russia on sunday.

i'll be back with the last of this week's round ups in just over half an hour but for more news in the meantime. politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for some one of the groups. that you do like to be close to see what the full story of the more people that are interested in the waters of our. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand colored prime stamping

each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the culture rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only gloom but. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now

for watching closely watching the hawks. play. some full compliment on. indigenous people i see no way that they paid in. the trees. just for the sunset that's the only thing but the. hand out of a sudden a man just banging. ok. i will. give you they will not allow. you to they will shoot week.

long million me indeed i'm definitely not the enemy between that you could have been killed by that you do not know that i mean you don't look like i mean you got . a little in welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle tromso imitation to putin to visit the white house is postponed putin turns around inviting trump to moscow does trump have a grand plan regarding russia or is he merely keeping a campaign promise this and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

cross talking trump's agenda i'm joined by my guest here in moscow erich krauss he's an independent political risk analysis we also have the bobbit she's a political analyst with sputnik international and in london across the charles schumer bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate charles let me go to you first in london here we had after the afterglow of helsinki trump appeared to have want to have another bite at the apple and then he changed his mind we can talk about why that happened and then potent turns around and invites trump to moscow the same kind of perilous jeopardy or is it a different gambit in play go ahead charles in london what i think presidents can show.