let's get more from teri schultz in helsinki. welcome, teri. that reads like a president trying to contain a backlash. teri: yeah. and it's a huge backlash and i don't think one tweet is exactly going to do it. as you mentioned earlier, much of the press conference focused on allegations that russia interfered in u.s. presidential elections and that president trump himself knew about this, may have acquiesced to some of it so this is not going to go away. it's interesting that president trump said he doesn't want to dwell on the past because of course there are investigations going on. those aren't going away, either. indictments continue and speculation is they will lead to the president. he may hope one tweet helps quell displeasure but it will take a lot more than that. phil: let's hear from the two men. here they are talking about the potential for cooperation in syria. president trump: as he discussed at length, the crisis in syria is a complex one. cooperation between our two countries has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of li

all with you in helsinki teri schultz you've covered plenty of these summits did anything substantive come out as of today. that's right i've been covering summits in the finnish capital since the cold war since president bush met mikhail gorbachev here as have plenty of other people here today and all of us agree we've never seen anything like this press conference before in one nine hundred ninety even when president bush wanted to kill gorbachev help on the iraq war you never could have imagined a press conference where he walked in and said their interests converge as president trump did today with president putin i think we we will be discussing later in this show the most substantive thing that came out of that and that's the shock in washington at the things president trump said the way that he rejected his own intelligence and in fact embraced president putin's denial of any interference what the europeans would have liked to hear was barely on the agenda at all ukraine the iran nuclear deal crimea these things a very significant significance to europeans didn't even come up l

correspondent teri schultz reporting from hell thinking many thanks indeed. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world and a group of women and children have been evacuated from two rescue ships stranded off the coast of italy some four hundred fifty migrants are on board but rome is not allowing the others to disembark until other states agree to take more of them in so far germany france and malta have agreed to take around fifty migrants each. a suicide bomber has killed at least seven people in the afghan capital kabul more than fifteen others were injured by the blast near a government ministry the u.n. says the number of civilians killed in afghanistan hit a record high in the first half of twenty teen most were killed by militant attacks and suicide bombings. turkey is marking the second anniversary of a failed coup attempt against president wretch of time to one thousands of his supporters converged on what's known as july the fifteenth martyrs bridge in istanbul which was renamed for the hundreds killed resisting the attempted

cross over to that live for us soon as it gets underway in the meantime electively indeed abuse teri schultz she is at nato headquarters terry are you there yet i live there she is terry great to see you what an extraordinary way to kick off this two day summit i mean that was just supposed to be a photo op when people are all smiles it's a meet and greet and chit chatting about the weather well the one thing everybody knows is that president trump is so unpredictable the he is obsessed with european defense spending the european defense budgets and especially germany's so this is the thing that stood out to me most in those comments is how uncomfortable secretary general stoltenberg must have been nato is absolutely insistent that trade and defense not be linked and president trump is ever more linking the two issues all right now you've been covering a nato for quite a long time terry it's your beat you own this story i have you ever experienced a nato summit this confrontational and an american a leader striking a tone that is so combative. no and in the four nato summit that i've attende

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s teri schultz at nato headquarters in brussels good evening to you terry you know you have covered nato for many years you've seen many of these summits i daresay you've never seen a summit with a u.s. president going from cold to hot back to cold all in one day tell us from where you are standing what did you see and hear today. well you're right the breakfast was quite a shocking way to start the day this was due to be just a simple photo op in fact i understand that it was the u.s. side who said there wouldn't be any remarks but you can never never guarantee that with with president trump and so nobody expected him to just hold forth against against germany and to be so specific in saying that you know germany's. deal is is unfair because then the u.s. is paying for it for german defense now this is something that nato has been very careful to try to keep separate they never want trade issues energy issues anything else to compromise security issues and they've done a pretty good job so far but after today that's all over the u.s. president speaking of nordstrom he said the germany i

policy just to make sure that he's not going to change a you asked a policy on ukraine and russia teri schultz mr trump has been in europe for the last few days making himself unpopular with the you know so the united kingdom was there anything in today's meeting to make them think more warmly about. i don't think they're thinking any more warmly about it but there are two ways to look at it from europe's perspective europe played very little role in today's in today's meeting it didn't come up in the press conference so in one sense maybe germany and france and the other european countries who've been the subject of president president trumps rants over the last week maybe got to take a breather he didn't say much about them he didn't talk about defense spending that gives them a break on the other hand the issues they really would have liked addressed they would have liked to see president putin push president trump not to completely pull out of the iran nuclear deal because russia is a party to that they would have very much like to see president trump reiterate u.s. policy on ukraine rejec

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or let's bring in data views teri schultz she's covering today's summit in helsinki for us hi terry good to see you so both leaders are meeting now any indication how this meeting is going. we know absolutely nothing about what's happening inside the presidential palace here in helsinki one thing about finland the finns don't leak so if president putin and president trump don't let things slip from out of the meeting we're not going to hear it from the finns and we don't know anything the two leaders were due to get underway with a one on one meeting and then we expect that it will move into a broader session but so far nothing out of the presidential palace dettori what do you make of the fact that both leader as the head of their talks were very big about what was on the agenda. that's right we heard both president trump and president putin just sort of give an overview but the things that were not said in that list of course will be disturbing for some people president trump mentioned china but he didn't mention ukraine he didn't mention syria he certainly didn't mention human rights

focus on the past as the world's two largest nuclear powers we must get a lot of good will from teri schultz a helsinki welcome terry reads like a president trying to contain a backlash. yeah and it's a huge backlash and i don't think one tweet is exactly going to do it as you mentioned earlier much of that press conference focused on allegations that russia interfered in u.s. presidential elections and that president trump himself knew about this may have actually acquiesced to some of it so this is not going to go away and it's interesting that president truck says he he doesn't want to dwell on the past because of course there are these investigations going on and those are not going to go away either in fashion indictments continued and you know speculation is that they will lead all the way to the president himself so he may hope one tweet helps quell the displeasure with his remarks is going to take a lot more than. let's hear more from but two men here they are talking about the potential for cooperation in syria. as we discussed at length the crisis in syria. is a complex one. cooper

trump basically gave in to president putin and that putin walks away with a stronger hand for sure teri schultz reporting from house sinky thank you for your continued coverage all right let's get you the perspective now from moscow and washington we have at least sure when in the russian capital and alexander for north america burch is standing by in washington d.c. alex i want to go to you first if i mean we often describe events as historic but what did we just witness to seventy two hours after the american department of justice accused russia of cruelly acting against its very democratic process the president standing next to russia and calling for closer cooperation. well i think what we have just witnessed to something that has not served the u.s. interest and that is being disquietude by many of us many analysts. and to start being just let's take one main issue here russian meddling in the you asked presidential election the russian president president was able to stand next to donald trump and once again to deny any involvement and the russian interference in the electoral process alt

on that again and not only that said all allies need to spend two percent immediately all right teri schultz and nato headquarters in brussels thank you very much for parents of the boys rescued from a flooded cave system in thailand have visited them in the hospital but they were only allowed to see their sons through a glass window the twelve members of the wild boars football team and their coach are said to be in good shape after their near three week brush with death but doctors say they still need time to recover. happy and relatively well after a two and a half week ordeal in a flooded cave now recovering in hospital the doctors say they'll be under observation for ten days and then resting at home for another month with only water from the caves walls to drink the boys are underweight and exhausted they're being kept in quarantine because there's still a danger of infection. the relief is overwhelming parents aren't yet allowed to hug their children but they're happy to see them alive. the time navy seals have published these astounding images of the rescue and explained in detail ho

string nato secretary general yes stoltenberg speaking there want to go to do we have correspondent teri schultz she is at nato headquarters she listened very carefully to that address that terry at nato as secretary general is stoltenberg reminding all involved about the importance of nato would that they need winding. the fact that he had such strong statements that he himself said he was reminding north america and europe that they needed each other is testament to the fact that strain ties have been strained and we shouldn't say ties with all of north america but the united states because of course canada is among those allies that the united states criticizes for low defense spending so we're really talking about the united states and the europeans here and yes i think he did feel that he needed to remind them of this message that they have to stick together and on on the defense burden sharing this is been a trend since twenty fourteen but there's been an increase even even more rapidly in the last year and secretary general stoltenberg is is happy to attribute that to president donald tru

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policy will change and tilt more towards the kremlin to be continued teri schultz reporting live from house inky thank you all right well let's get you now the view from washington and how that all went down in the perspective from moscow we have your shutter bureau chief in the russian capital and alexandra on nominee w.'s north america bur chief alexander when you give you the first word to put it crudely don't present some just throw his country's justice department under the bus. well that's the case many observers many commentators here say a we have seen so far predominantly very negative reactions we have the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer saying accusing the president of dangerous failure to step up to his russian counterpart the counterpart said in a statement the president who sides with the russian president against american law enforcement american defense officials and american intelligence agencies is weak dangerous and sulk less so very strong reactions here also among republicans. have we heard i believe you also heard from the house speaker some very harsh w

teri schultz reports the u.s. president and the german chancellor seem to be on a collision course i'm going to tell nato you got to see paying your bills donald trump has relentlessly attach nato allies and how much they spend on defense that is toward on american u.s. president has directed most of those i or the german chancellor was again in his sights at a recent rally and i said you know i'm going to. i can't guarantee. so we're protecting you and it means a lot more to you they're protecting us. how much for tech should we get by protecting you that guarantee of mutual defense is the bedrock of the nato alliance trump has hinted he might not honor the so-called article five principle for those countries that don't spend two percent of their g.d.p. on their militaries that new threats coming amid reports he's considering pulling out some of the thirty five thousand u.s. soldiers stationed in germany will be absolutely right be nervous i think sophia bet a fellow with the london based center for european refo

pipeline deal with moscow and says it should immediately increase its nato contributions did at least teri schultz reports now from brussels to tell nato he got his big bills donald trump has relentlessly attacked nato allies and how much they spend on defense but it's toward un-american u.s. president has directed most of his ire the german chancellor was again in his sights at a recent rally and i said you know. i can't get. so we're protecting you and it means a lot more to you they're protecting us because i don't know how much for texture we get by protecting you and that guarantee of mutual defense is the bedrock of the nato alliance trump has hinted he might not honor the so-called article five principle for those countries that don't spend two percent of their g.d.p. on their militaries that new threat coming amid reports he's considering pulling out some of the thirty five thousand u.s. soldiers stationed in germany well they are absolutely right the nervous i think sophia best fellow with the london based center for european reform says trump's attacks on merkel don't just damage her the

all right let's see if they manage to do that let's go straight to helsinki our correspondent teri schultz is on the scene terry. high lay low well it remains to be seen when as president said the national security council will work out what actually was agreed here what we heard from the press conference was both president sounding very conciliatory toward each other president putin did not think that russia ever has or ever will meddle in us elections and president trump seeming to take him at his word he said i don't see why russia would have meddled in our elections and then went off on a long spiel about it being the d.n.c. and hillary and hillary staffers that being hillary clinton of course his opponent in the u.s. presidential elections some of the other issues that people would have liked to hear more about would have been president trump reiterating u.s. policy nato policy european policy that crimea was illegally annexed by moscow president trump did not say that and president putin use the old line that you know crimea held an election and decided to be part of russia so it now

presence in that region so people are unclear what exactly will come out of this meeting and as teri schultz has pointed out to correctly two hours of talks a lot of topics could have been covered there so people here in brussels are holding their breath what came out of this meeting all right gary thank you and a call coming back to you to pick up on what gary was saying you know we have seen mixed messages from the white house from donald trump on where they stand on the annexation of crimea but what does europe take away from this in terms of foreign and security policy is there a real fear that what we're seeing is a reshuffling of this global order that we keep talking about that this alliance between the e.u. and the u.s. but also germany and the u.s. that has been so important to european security german security might no longer be a backdrop for europe where the german government pointed out again that you know the transatlantic relationship is longer than. you know maybe the time off for particular the president astray and. i'm pretty convinced that even what the german foreign mini

and take that win and take credit for it but he's already asking for four percent it which as teri schultz pointed out this is a goal that the united states itself is not meeting and this is not something that has been agreed to nato is a community of values it's an alliance of values and it's a consensus based organization the win from two thousand and fourteen after ukraine invasion after russia's aggression was to get all twenty eight than ours now it's twenty nine to agree to that two percent now what has to happen is they do have to deliver and that starts with germany all right well you mentioned russia that leads us nicely in my next question let's talk about timing because on monday president trump is meeting with the russian president vladimir putin he seems to be more comfortable to to go and discuss issues with him than coming to brussels and meet with his nato allies it's not controversial to say that the president has a stronger let's say affinity in some ways and reporter with strong men with autocrats with dictators like sometimes i can do alone or the leader of china. and h

on the story let me draw in our correspondents from the nato headquarters in brussels we have teri schultzand from london our correspondent bigot math welcome to both if you let me start with you too terry where we've had two very tumultuous day after the nato summit some highs some low as what was the key outcome do you think. if you believe nato officials and donald trump this summit was a huge success one of the best ever one of the most productive ever president trump did in fact at the end other countries budgets that we'll have to wait and see if they come come out to be true he said that canada would be spending two percent by two thousand and twenty four which may or may not be envisioned he also said germany is going to spend more and of course we don't know if chancellor merkel can get that through through parliament but what was important to nato is that is that donald trump came out and said that the united states supports the alliance and he supports european allies and that there is no threat to article five that's the principle of mutual defense and in fact he did that he al