the first presidential summit between the us and russia in eight years has provoked a storm of criticismk in the united states. after talks between president trump and president putin, the us leader hailed what he called a new constructive dialogue with russia and greater cooperation between the two nations. president trump then went on to choose president putin's denial that russia had interfered with the us election over repeated assertions from us intelligence that he did. that has prompted outrage from, unusually, many senior republicans, who've criticised the president's comments, calling them shocking and disgraceful. our north america editorjon sopel reports from where the meeting took place in the finnish capital helsinki. as befitting two self—proclaimed strongmen, there was a power—play from the off. vladimir putin arriving almost rudely late into finland... it was a bit late... ..leaving donald trump kicking his heels for nearly an hour. but then, against the constant whirr of camera shutters, they sat down at the presidential palace in helsinki to start their discussion. i th

mr trump has said again that he really does accept the conclusion of us intelligence agencies that russiaresponsible. he was speaking to cbs tv news. the group of boys from thailand who spent two weeks trapped in a flooded cave have paid tribute to the team who found them, describing their rescue as a miracle. and they honoured saman kunan, the former thai navy seal who died preparing their escape route. the european commission has fined google a record $5 billion over the use of its android operating system. the commission says the tech giant illegally used the technology to cement its dominant position in searches. google plans to appeal.

sean hannity he is doubling down claiming the special counsel is the biggest wedge driving the us and russia apart. john barrasso is fourth ranking member of the senate republican leadership who joins us live shortly and the exclusive history making interview with vladimir putin, we will air this in its entirety. exclusive interview with two pres.s at the center of a global firestorm of controversy. let's get started with the latest on helsinki from john roberts. good morning to you, john. >> reporter: good morning from helsinki where it is 6:00 in the morning and another beautiful day, donald trump back in the united states after his summit with p income of a been back in moscow, the president came here to reset the russian relationship with the united states, the obama administration tried to didn't get far, the president believes he has set this relationship on a new course but the big headline of the day came when donald trump after saying twice last week he was going to be very direct, frank and tough with vladimir putin about allegations of meddling in the 2016 election the president b

the first summit between the us and russia in eight yea rs has provoked a storm of criticism. ter talks with president putin, the us leader hailed what he called a new constructive dialogue and greater cooperation with russia. mr trump then went on, publicly, to choose president putin's denial that russia had interfered with the 2016 american election, against the unanimous conclusion of us intelligence agencies that russia did. that has prompted outrage from, unusually, many senior republicans, who've called mr trump's comments shocking and disgraceful. jon sopel reports from the summit venue, the finnish capital helsinki. as befitting two self—proclaimed strongmen, there was a power—play from the off. vladimir putin arriving almost rudely late into finland... it was a bit late... ..leaving donald trump kicking his heels for nearly an hour. but then, against the constant whirr of camera shutters, they sat down at the presidential palace in helsinki to start their discussion. i think we have great opportunities together, as two countries that, frankly, we have not been getting

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the american president says he has no reason to believe russia meddled in the us election. mr trump says he asked mr putin about it, and he takes the russian leader's denial at face value. all i can do is ask the question. president putin, hejust said, it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. the us president met vladimir putin one—on—one, with no staff, for over two hours — we may never know exactly what was said. mr putin is asked if he has compromising material on donald trump, and denies it. well, sort of. also on the programme: theresa may caves in to pressure over her brexit bill and helps neutralise a potential rebellion — for now, at least. and, it's party time in paris. french football supporters pack the champs elysees to honour their squad after a stunning world cup win. get in touch with us using the hashtag #beyond1000ays. hello, and welcome. i'm katty kay in washington, and christian fraser is in helsinki. president trump has just sided with russia in the debate over interference in the us election. he has blamed america for the

russia has a lot of gasty. i'm sure they're with us right now. his first time i was read into what they can do wait astonishing to me and when we lived in russia, i had to assume that every e-mail, every phone call, that i made, every movement i made, was recorded. and if you're at any hotel in russia, to think about where -- you should assume everything is recorded. we even had a special room -- i think this is in the book, i hope it's not confidential. should i say it or not? i don't think it's confidential. they told you and you're -- you didn't have a security clearance. when they -- yeah. [inaudible] >> donna is always urging on the side of caution. but they briefed us. going through our briefing and super excited -- we lived in this fabulous house. if you get the chance to be ambassador anywhere, do it. but we lived in this fabulous house, look it up on the web and i want to make clear -- i've been on the negative stuff but some of thing of being ambassador, it was awesome. i'm going to come back to my wife in a minute. going to make sure i

donald trump is being widely criticised by many powerful figures in the us for defending russia over ms of interference in the 2016 us presidential election. us house speaker paul ryan said mr trump must appreciate that russia is not our ally. we'll have all the reaction from here in helsinki. i'm rebecca jones in london with the rest of the day's headlines. the government bows to the demands of conservative leave supporters and accepts four amendments to its brexit trade bill. a very good evening. welcome to a beautiful night here in helsinki. the two leaders... the two leaders donald trump and vladimir putin have left already. the two have hailed a new constructive dialogue between their countries following the first us—russia summit in eight years. the two men pledged to improve relations and to cooperate on arms control. president putin denied he had interfered in the us election though admitted he had wanted donald trump to win. he said he did not believe russia has been involved in interference in the election in 2016 despite all the evidence presented to him. and president trum

put pressure on putin and russia and trump should use this summit to demand progress. io senator rob portman is chiming in with this to say i hope the president take this opportunity to make clear to president putin that russia's efforts to interfere are unacceptable and that russia's major must change if it hopes to haveimproved relations with the us election meddling is the one thing that all these tweets mention . a lot of our viewer comments say the key issue for them is nationalsecurity . >> jillian: a lot of people chiming in there and hillary clinton also chiming in. >> carley: she talked to twitter saying great rope, tough question for putin, do you know what which team you play for? you know that to is going to get a lot of reaction online and the president's supporters not letting her get away with that one. debra says he plays for america. that's more than we can say for you and another twitter user writes this. he works for our side, what site didyou work for when you sold uranium to russia? a lot of people attacking hillary clinton over this . >> rob: thank

vladimir putin have hailed a new constructive dialogue between their countries following the first us—russiat in eight years. the two men pledged to improve relations and to cooperate on arms control. president putin denied he had interfered in the us election, though admitted he had wanted donald trump to win. and president trump pointedly refused to back repeated allegations by us intelligence that mr putin did interfere. our north america editor, jon sopel, reports from where the meeting took place — in the finnish capital, helsinki. as befitting two self—proclaimed strongmen, there was a power play from the off, vladimir putin arriving almost rudely late into finland, leaving donald trump kicking his heels for nearly an hour. but then, against the constant whirr of camera shutters, they sat down at the presidential palace in helsinki to start their discussion. i think we have great opportunities together, as two countries that, frankly, we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years. i've been here not too long, but it's getting close to two years. but i think we w

that the president of the united states represent the interest of the american people and not russia. let us be clear -- russia has been meddling not only in u.s. elections but in the elections of other democracies, united kingdom, france, germany, to name just a few. russia's goal is to advance its own interests by weakening the transatlantic alliances of democracy -- of democracies that arose after world war ii while also inflaming internal divisions in each of these countries. we should also be clear that this interference is directed from the very highest levels of the russian government. last week, special counsel robert mueller announced a set of indictments of 12 members of russia's military intelligence service, the g.r.u. there can be no doubt that, given the nature of russian government, vladimir putin was directly involved in this effort. but our concern is not only what has already happened. it is what could happen in the future. last week, director of national intelligence dan coats, a former republican senator, raised the alarm on growing cyber attack threats against the u.s. i

russia. mr trump's us homeland security secretary is clear on the message. prepare for russia to interfere again, this time in the midterm elections later this year. here she is, speaking in colorado. i don't think there's any doubt that they did it. i think we should all be prepared, given their capability and will, that they will do it again. i think we should absolutely be prepared. you assume they will try to interfere in all 50 states. so what are us lawmakers doing about it? well, democrats introduced a bill today to increase funding for election security measures. it was blocked by house republicans. here's democrat steny hoyer. congress must, it should come at the american people expect us to adopt a bipartisan and unambiguous strategy to counter russia's destabilising activity. now, the white house has tried to put out another fire from the helsinki press conference — a proposal by mr putin to allow russian officials to interrogate american citizens. on monday, mr trump called it an "incredible offer". in the last few hours, his press secretary sarah

syria the supplies will be carried by a russian plane it's the first time a western countries used russia's help to deliver material to government controlled areas in syria government forces read to peace in groups or from rebels in april after a seized lasting several years about five hundred thousand people live there but very little aid has made it in since april. rebels who gave up their fight in southwest syria are arriving in opposition held areas in the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached hama province fighters and their families have been given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian armed forces have now entered the city of can a trial it's a big victory for president bashar al assad whose troops have retaken much of the side. a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean plans to file manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard they say a woman and a child died after they and another woman were left stranded and their boat deliberately damaged catchin lopez wanted on his more. desperate rus

us the same thing. our critical infrastructure is under attack by foreign powers, russia being the leader. the question for us is what do we do about it? i'm hoping next week that the president will call the congress together in a bipartisan fashion to come up with some preventative measures to protect our infrastructure when it comes to the november election, and that we as a nation try to figure out what the rules of engagement are going to be. not just defend ourselves from aggression, but punish the aggressor. i don't have all the answers. i'm not suggesting this is my area of expertise 'cause it is not. but i am smart enough to know that what russia did in 2016, they're going to continue until somebody makes them pay a heavy price. and it's just not russia. it could be iran, china, north korea, other bad actors. i don't know how as a body we can live with ourselves if we don't try to heed dan coates' warnings. they're not just given by him they're given by those who work for him who are nonpolitical, who made it their life's work to protect this nation. so, mr. president, you have a ch

transparency and corruption russia was closer to nigeria than norway so the first priority was to build the institutions before trying to be norway and by god khujand proved us wrong because they brought the nonsense they were all to propaganda that the russian was closer to nigeria you know than norway no in fact russia is closer to norway and they've got the stabilization fund and the economy you know who took the economy from under two hundred billion g.d.p. to close to two trillion in g.d.p. want to take it to four chilean in g.d.p. how do you get there through trade not through anything that rachel maddow or the hollywood elite are suggesting that he is all paranoid lee scheming to do he's done doing any of that he just wants to grow the economy it's like remember america is to be a growth situation people used to like to grow the economy and be honest and trustworthy and that's what russia is now it's like america in the fifty's and america's become the sylvia you know the fifty's it's complete role reversal actually you mentioned nigeria and this guy had mentioned nigeria and we did ask during that time because newsnight did not want to cover nigeria

that i intend to advance and that john bolton amongst the most militant who keeps us politicians who said that russia's alleged meddling in the us elections was an act of war look at it this way if trump's a russian agent he just blew his cover if he isn't the russian spy he just pulled the entire world and is likely to get all his misbehaving at. lies back in live. also in headlines in the last seven days the european migrant crisis was making big news leaders of the blog gathered in brussels hoping to patch up relations to try to find a solution some of the founding members of the union have been locked in a busy dispute over migration. and sr to trace his response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a cynicism and a lack of responsibility on behalf of the italian government when faced with this dramatic humanitarian disaster. my duty is to defend the borders this country has pledged to not become a refugee camp you know you those have the right to enter it's legal and it's there are the police they can go to spain france malta and the netherlands. and was done it's going to be a very long nig

he's since said he misspoke, and today suggested that no other us president has ever been tougher on russiayou agree with us intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. yes, and i've said that before. i have said that numerous times before, and i would say that that is true, yeah. but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? well, iwould, because he's in charge of the country, just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. so certainly, as the leader of the country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. what did you say to him? look, i am very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling. we can't have any of that. look, we're also living in a grownup world. willa strong statement — you know, president obama supposedly made a strong statement. nobody heard it. what they did hear is the statement he made to putin's very close friend, and that statement was not acceptable. it didn't get very much play, relatively speaking, but that said, it was not acceptable. but i let him know we can't hav

crisis in syria talk north korea but you have there we depend very depend on their actions against us russia gets no less one hundred percent right more than one house cannot let these votes around ninety two let's talk about its dependence on russia guests but we work on the versity and what what i. what actually happened i saw collapse a little bit more about our guest the place we stopped our stream and some of the member states developed on our streets to solve. ai and then it was we are what we are we will be dependent on russian turkey at the same time because if we stop supplies to north at the same time and you know same time will be scrapped once a multi blend we think that it's important for bulgaria to have only to develop on routes of gas supply. where are you one of my ok or goal to build your own projects to build a nuclear power plant with russia rosenthal it makes you even more dependent from russia we start building but now we pay a billions for two reactors that are like monuments and we want to develop this project as private projects without the finances so we look for pr

from number eleven to thirteen but russia is important because to steal it and co-opt the phrase it's all about the nukes there's really no comparison outside the us and russia each with more than sixty five hundred nuclear weapons russia by the way has about three hundred more than the united states when we look at some of the other economic powers around the globe china with less than three hundred nukes in the end pakistan with just over one hundred change france with three hundred and the u.k. with just over two hundred it makes all the sense in the world to have an ongoing dialogue between russia and the united states but mr trump has reached an unprecedented level of hostility and after money from a right white a ray of people regarding his handling of the meeting with russian president putin related to tampering with u.s. elections notably mr trump did not condemn the election tampering and has derided u.s. intelligence reports about the matter that despite mr trump's own director of national intelligence former senator dan coats saying after the joint press conference in helsinki yesterday quote we had. been clear in our assessment of russ

confrontation anymore that's a matter of the past and the dissipation the voters change just shows the us russia . confronted with a completely new challenges. the dangerous international security. situation regional crisis and also the proliferation of the threat of terrorism. and you probably transnational crime we also have for global economic problems ecological problems and other ones it is only possible to come to terms with these challenges if we get together. and we have found the same opinion. expressed by american colleagues today how we have said we would like me to come to terms with i was going to negative situation in international relations are now a bilateral relations but we'd like to take the first steps in order to return to the cooperation that we used to have of the mantra you know regarding your questions of mutual interests we specially handled nuclear dangers now we have a special responsibility to meet with for the international security and that is why it is important to renew it's the really shocking city chiggers weapons and that is the question of usually issuing a v

russia. he joins us from irvine. eard president trump not ,efuting russians involvement not denouncing russia's involvement in the 2016 election, saying both sides both were believable. should he have stuck with the intelligence community, the united states intelligence community when there is ample evidence russia has been meddling with elections? rep. rohrabacher: first let us understand that as the president tried to point out, we are both .ations that have our interests the united states has its interests and so does russia. the push toward conflict we have seen toward the idea that russia is trying to watch out for its natural -- nationalnatural -- n, the same as united states, and how to that play in this issue. or the russians involved in meddling with our last election? and they foundre it in their interests to metal and our elections. the point is we meddle in their elections. we meddle all over the world at a much higher rate than what moscow does. maybe it is all wrong, but we helped overthrow the governmen

happening where you are because seventy two hours after the american department of justice it's used russia criminally acting against the democratic process in the u.s. the president called for closer cooperation with russia. well and from my perspective we have to say that to this summit the hells and keane has not served us interest was a full wing some of russian experts i normally talk to on twitter and they were quite outspoken about the triumphs performance of this summit saying that it was a disgrace no it's worse than an american president and we really have to say that it was unbelievable how putin was able standing next to the u.s. presidents to once again deny that russia has interfered in the you asked election although all u.s. intelligence agency are convinced that that was the case they are saying that they have enough evidence that that was state case and did not contradict putin instead he sort of trashed his own intelligence agencies saying that the s.e.'s he has confidence in the u.s. intelligence said that putin's denial was very paul worldful so that's really remarkable

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 adv

you know, blaming the united states for the state of the united states for the state of the us— russiaite bizarre to many american ears, particularly only a few days after the us justice department, donald trump's on justice ministry, has indicted 12 russians for trying to manipulate the us presidential election. so, this is quite an unprecedented moment in us — russian relations. and, frankly, in the history of us foreign policy. well, we do know that president putin prepares for a well. we know in fact that he has pulled up different tools in his tool box, different tricks when he deals with foreign leaders about to get the best of him. i mean, he's really a master at this. but barbara plett usher, president trump has his own tool box that he brings to these sort of spectacle that he seems to like so much. he's very confident about his tool box, which is himself, right?! he has a very strong ability —— belief in his ability to make policies, meeting in the same room with an adversary and using the power of his personality and what he believes is his deal—making and what he believes i

the rhetoric between the two countries recently have been very uneasy we've even been here in russia and us accusing each other there of destabilizing the situation and even warning. that certain steps could be dangerous in certain reaction. so it's quite tense and now we hear that russia's president vladimir putin says that they too can trees coordinate in syria very well and we heard trump saying that. actually the military gets alone very well and they've even gotten along better than any political leader let's take a listen. actually have gotten along probably better than our political leaders for years but our militaries do get along very well and they do coordinate. and other places. so still yet to come and see what follows is definitely a positive and to see it i guess what's important understand is what is currently going on in syria right now well the war has been raging there for more than seven years already as you noted cetacean remain buried to the code on the ground but recently the focus has been on the region in syria border in. syria and israel the confrontation between th

i was saying to myself, russia really helped us. i'm not pro-russia, pro-anybody, i just want to have this country be safe, i don't want nuclear weapons -- even people thinking about it. russia and the united states control 90% of the nuclear weapons in the world. getting along with russia and not only for that reason, it's a good thing. >> tucker: are they our chief adversary? >> president trump: strong military but there economy is smaller than china. i don't want to use the word adversary, we can work together, everybody can do well and we can live in peace. i think it's very important and i've watched your show a lot and i see how you're talking about the magnificent size of china, you look at what they've done in a fairly short period of time, that's because of a lot of bad leadership on behalf of the united states, we allowed it to happen we allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars. right now as you see and you've probably noticed things are happening -- we have to level the playing field between the united states a

russia. sort of a double negative. it was very with us intelligence that. russia meddled in your actions or that i would say that that is true but you haven't from whom specifically you told him personally responsible well i would because he's in charge of the time. anyway is russia still starting. right away and you know. i talked to the president he wasn't answering that question he was saying no he's not taking questions it looks like a schoolboy apologizing for something he shouldn't be apologizing for the intelligence community in america has been giving primarily bad intel like in two thousand and three with weapons of mass destruction has been turning its surveillance apparatus on the american people trump was right to call them into question we have seventeen redundant spy agencies that need to be slammed into a box we need to fire most of the people who work there and we didn't stop letting them create magine ery enemies that waste money and waste lives on nonsense approaches. after the helsinki summit wrapped up a u.s. court ordered the arrest of m

russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so look at it then you can work with us. you'll see this as a quite by effort of the effort by the west in recent years to isolate russia. we see that these efforts do not see any success and they could never have seen it given the size and the values of russia on the scale of global security and in economics and i mean energy costs are part of the world's economics in the understanding of what is uniting us and on what we have to work together at all is leading us to the idea that it is necessary to stop the attempts to fight each other and on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and problems i think it is a good start. to start. behind the u.s. media speculation of whether donald trump is in fact a russian agent or not saturday's summit in helsinki did in fact see some impressive diplomacy one of the issues where leaders seem to have common ground was syria and russia's defense ministry says it is ready to implement any deals agreed well arty's maria financial and joins me now in the studio t

also not clear what steps we may expect from both sides in syria but what is clear is that both russia and us are not interested in making this strategic information public but what is clear that that the dialogue that mr trump and mr putin had in mandarin how to nikki and planes by russia's military is definitely a positive sign for syria both sides also stress that they are interested in. ending the humanitarian crisis in syria and they said that they are going to focus their efforts on how pain people in syria that you but i would i think there is plenty to work on a crucial thing is there are many refugees in streets bordering syria in turkey. if we move back to their homes this will ease the migration pressure on european countries i think that is extremely important if we can do something to help the people of syria get back into some form of shelter. on a humanitarian basis and that's what the world was really a humanitarian basis that the both of us would be very interested in doing that and we are we will do the right what is the current situation in syria right now so as for the mil

yes i did because he talked about bringing the right us russia relationship back to normal i've lost count of the number of times over the last eighteen months that i've described comments by president trump as extraordinary but this what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world was taking things to a new level the president may have been trying to robustly make his case about the twenty sixteen election but there seems little doubt that he's only made matters worse for himself james al-jazeera helsinki now it's been a century since south african anti-apartheid icon nelson mandela was born in a ceremony is taking place in johannesburg to honor his vision for democracy and social inclusion back obama america's first african-american president has delivered the annual lecture to mark the occasion it's his most high profile speech since leaving office cross over to our correspondent there i'm a tacit of course it's not just president obama but presidents and leaders past and present turn many civil society leaders to also in attendance i mean what h

if he gives us a hard time here that's a worry. it's important to talk to russiag international law, it's impossible for us to go on with. will big international law, it's impossible for us to go on withm president trump that europe has to do more to share in this what's called the burden sharing? every nato ally agrees on that. we need to do something with the burden sharing president, president obama said the same. the language is different. they communicate on different platforms but the message is the same. what is the biggest danger for nato itself at the moment? if we can't gain the unity we need. some are describing this could be the most divisive summit in nato history. it could be the most important summit in decades because the situation is difficult, but we need... we have to... because of president trump's kind of policy? the primary reason is the security situation around us. russia on your border? yeah. and on the baltic seat. the situation has changed. russia sees herself as a superpower and we need to be prepared and we need to build the collective

that exact point both britain and trump agree they both stress that it would be wrong to make the us russia relationship hostage to domestic politics in the united states but i think the argument could also be made by having such a core deal meeting that they actually add it up making it even worse given the very negative coverage in the united states isn't it going to be even more difficult for the trumpet minutes. to do anything remotely constructive on the issue of russia it's a very very good point and i think unfortunately the issue of russia and russia gate and russia interference in the american election and allegations of russia. trump collusion which is a separate point have all got so intend gold in the imagery that they're handicapping a relationship which is vital for both parties so there are two separate issues one is did the russian government interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election the answer to that is yes almost certainly i've talked to jim clapper who was the head of national intelligence at the time he said ninety nine percent plus yes and that's this indic

election, its editor in chief telling us russia and the u.s. now mt as equals. >> every president has had to have a chance to con ader hims winner. let's give president trump that chance and let's give president putin the same chance. >> reporter: president trump gave him that chance despite those new indictments for election meddling. indictments so specific they listed names, even addresses. we tveled to o of them in moscow. this imposing building is officially a military university. the indictment says insi of it was the headquarters of unit 26165, the unit charged with primarily responsibility for the hacks on the democratic party. it's located in a high securita of military buildings. the army's general command is just a few blocks away. but russian officials dismiss the american evidence. >> maybe they did it, maybe not. i don't know. by cannot trust your organizations like cia and so o and so forth. >> reporter: for putin, this was more than just a good meeting. it was amoment. as a kgb agent he watched the coapse of the soviet union and

politicians who said that russia's alleged meddling in the us elections was an act of war look at it this way if trump's a russian agent he just blew his cover if he isn't the russian spy he just pulled the entire world and is likely to get all his misbehaving allies back in line. in other headlines of the week just gone the european migrant crisis has been in the headlines again leaders of the bloc gathered in brussels in the hope of trying to patch up relations with each other and find a solution itself to some of the founding members of the union found themselves locked in a bitter dispute over migration. it's interesting this is his response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a cynicism and a lack of responsibility on behalf of the italian government when faced with this dramatic humanitarian disaster. my duty is to defend the borders of this country which cannot become a refugee camp he only those who have the right to enter its will and its their other post they can go see spain and france malta and the netherlands. and it's going to be a very long night we should have

administration's middle east peace plan or of a secret deal that's already been done between the us russia and israel over syria james bays al jazeera the united nations. more than one hundred million people are eligible to vote and one says parliamentary elections in pakistan so choose candidates from three main parties in what some are describing as the dirtiest election the country's ever seen a summer binge of it is in the city of lahore sent us this report. on election day pakistan's military will make its presence felt it will be responsible for security at polling stations across the country on the request of the election commission the pakistan more than three hundred seventy thousand troops are involved in the operation. this election campaign was more bitter than most and some say the dirtiest ever in pakistan. yesterday. is full of the party that defeated in the elections. they're going to be totally leggo if not full particularly lead out before the election is something that has happened to stand. in the way the big. draws me then is you know.

and british intelligence agencies are concerned russia will ramp up its aggression once again. a u.s. intel official tells us that russia did not want any high-profile incidents to mar the prestige of hosting the world's biggest sporting event. >>> former president barack obama in south africa this morning, just about an hour from now he gives a town hall speech and takes questions from students at the african leadership academy in johannesburg. yesterday, giving the nelson mandela annual lecture, mr. obama did not mention donald trump by name, but he did lament the loss of shame in political leaders and repudiate the politics of fear and resentment. >> strongman politics are ascendant, suddenly, whereby elections in some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning. don't you get a sense sometimes by -- again, i'm ad-libbing here -- that these people who are so intent on putting people down and pumping themselves up, that they're small-hearted, that there's something, something they're just afraid of. >> pre

from what you say why worsen the relations between our countries from russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so you could. use the as a calling point by efforts of the by the west in recent years to isolate russia. we see that these efforts do not see any success and they could never have seen it given the size of the violence in russia and the scale of global security and in economics and i mean energy critical part of the world's economic system in that the understanding of what is uniting us and on what we have to work together is leading us to the idea that it is necessary to stop the attempts to fight each other and on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and problems i think it is a good start. to start. in their news conference the president also raised the issue of their energy rivalry with america and russia competing to supply gas to europe following those comments the energy ministers of russia the e.u. and ukraine have met in berlin the sides agreed to work towards meeting the growing demands of you are paying consumers and discuss difficulties associated with gas t

us allegations against you? >> mostly that comes from russia. ave up my us citizenship 29 years ago to the united kingdom, i lived in london, i'm a british citizen and there's nothing wrong with that. have given up my citizenship to join iran or anything like that. >> where do we go from here? we have renunciation by thn where do you go from here? >> this is a moment of truth. everybody says is trump under the influence of vladimir putin, if he gives in and allows vladimir putin to come to the united states and interrogate a bunch of senior government officials in the united states something is seriously wrong. this is the key moment that will tell us everything. >> the state department spokeswoman called it absolutely absurd, we heard that for many other folks across the spectrum stay in touch. other top story tonight fbi director christopher ray speaking at the aspen security forum breaking from the president's rhetoric on robert mueller's russia investigation. >> i get asked this a lot. is on a witch hunt, it is a professional investigation co

firstly that russia was a state that has never meddled in the internal affairs of the us and in particular has never meddled in its elections secondly but wait just wait just let me have some patience if you're just going to be we think that it was possible to meddle in the us elections in the territory of russia and to influence the choice of millions of american instant people you know it's ridiculous. at the prosperous mission but i'm not asking whether they influenced i'm asking whether they try i will answer now what. the hackers about whom everyone was talking about i will turn to it do not worry. emails as they told us and there was information that inside the democratic party but there were manipulations in favor of one of the candidates and that is all and that the leadership of the executive body of the party resigned this fact and that was the most important thing in all of it that the manipulations of the us public opinion must be stopped and they had to apologize to the voters what now mr miller mr president. if you don't like miles will tell you then and i will stay silent bu

coming away this summer, we have unfriended: dark web, the sequel to the us/russia co—production which film, slender man, it was an internet meme in 2009, caused moral panic in 2014 following the slender man stabbing, and was the subject of a documentary, beware the slender man in 2016. from slender man tojourneyman, this heartfelt boxing picture comes to dvd at the end ofjuly. it's one of a number of pictures which shows the oft—malgiend uk film industry is in rude health, certainly from a creative point of view. home—grown highlights released in the uk have also included a comedian finding her feet in northern club circuit co—starred the ubiquitous paddy consadine. how very nice it is to be here this evening. but then again i'm from rotherham, so it's nice to be anywhere. i don't know how to see this. i think i want to have an affair. what? at the end of august we have the uk release of the children act. the story concerns a high courtjudge called upon to rule in the case of a minor refusing a conclusion on religious grounds. it's based on the book by the author ian mcewan. his work

the us secretary of state — mike pompeo — has reaffirmed that washington rejects russia's annexationcrimea from ukraine. there've been indications recently from president trump that he might be close to accepting it. mr pompeo has been giving evidence to the senate foreign relations committee. russia's foreign ministry then dismissed his statement — pointing out other recent reversals in american foreign policy. a series of measures to try to avert an all—out trade war have been agreed by the united states and the european union. after talks at the white house with the eu commission president — jean—claude juncker — mr trump claimed a new phase in their trade relations had begun. 80 people are now known to have died in the wildfires around athens — they are the deadliest ever recorded in greece. and dozens of people are still missing. survivors have been describing their desperate battles to escape now on bbc news — it's hardtalk. to talk with me it zeinab badawi. my guest is the outgoing united nations human rights commissioner zeid al hussein. he tell us why he is stepping down in

administration's middle east peace plan all of a secret deal that's already been done between the us russia and israel over syria james bays al-jazeera the united nations israel says it's partially reopening its only commercial crossing with the besieged gaza strip and had been closed on july the ninth with only goods that israel considered for humanitarian use allowed to enter following the closer they are interested to supply the palestinians had been cut from eight hours to just six hours a day which are stratford has more from the crossing. so trucks now have started taking this vital fuel this this oil this petrol and this cooking gas from the israeli side they the trucks arrive from gaza they fill up and then go back across the border there's great relief here in gaza there was a a press statement released by the palestinian healthful thora to the smalling saying that unless this fuel starts to be delivered at mediately then health services were a risk of actually having to be closed down and we understand that the power station is still not operating that stopped yesterday there were

administration's middle east peace plan or of a secret deal that's already been done between the us russia and israel over syria jamesburg al-jazeera the united nations israel says it's partially reopening its only commercial crossing with the besieged gaza strip it having closed on july the ninth israel has only allowed in goods that it decided were for humanitarian use following the closure of the electricity supply to palestinians had been cut from eight hours to just six hours a day just trafford has more from the crossing. so trucks now have started taking this vital fuel this this oil this petrol and this cooking gas from the israeli side they the trucks arrive from gaza they fill up and then go back across the border there's great relief here in gaza there was a a press statement released by the palestinian healthful thora to the smalling saying that unless this fuel starts to be delivered immediately then health services were risk of actually having to be closed down and we understand that the power station is still not operating that stopped yesterday there were only one of full t