HAMBURG: US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin engaged in a “very robust exchange” over claims Moscow meddled in America’s elections, during their first face-to-face talks Friday at a fractious G20 summit marred by violent street protests. Clearly she failed!”Growing riftOn the presidential election campaign trail last year, Trump said he hoped relations with Putin could be rebuilt after Russia’s acrimonious ties with his predecessor Barack Obama. In the talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit, Trump pressed Putin on the issue, “and then… felt like at this point, let’s talk about how do we go forward,” said Tillerson. Not given up hopeMeanwhile, North Korea’s successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile this week also casts a dark shadow over the US leader’s first G20 summit. The violence forced Hamburg police to call in reinforcements from other German states, and G20 organizers to drastically curtail an official program for spouses of visiting dignitaries.

Source: Manila Times July 08, 2017 04:48 UTC