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taken off in washington as the rhetoric between the two countries seems to be cautiously easing and. has already met with the american president. formally presented his credentials to the american president. explains what. he's likely to face. well a much anticipated meeting between russia's recently appointed ambassador to the u.s. and u.s. president donald trump has taken place and to nobs predecessor was constantly targeted by the western media portrayed in a negative light over

a number of allegations given the controversy surrounding the previous diplomat there are now many speculations around the new figure and as with all u.s. russia meetings this one also attracted media attention especially amid rising diplomatic tensions antonov in particular expressed russia's eagerness to normalize relations with washington and russia for your nation. in brief relations between the two countries to relations between the united states and russia. international peace and progress as well as strategic stability according to the diplomat the meeting took place in a warm and constructive atmosphere commenting on the meeting the ambassador said that moscow is ready to take concrete steps to improve relations with washington and despite the ongoing diplomatic spat between the countries that saw us russia relations sink to one of the lowest points in history and said he believes the

situation is mendable provided there's enough well to cast aside political differences and work together now this is all quite a positive shift from the rhetoric we've been hearing from both sides lately and it seems that improve relations between the two countries seems even more promising considering the new russian ambassador was actually a key member of the team that worked on the two thousand and ten new start bilateral nuclear arms reduction agreement we did what we could to improve our relations with the u.s. unfortunately we still haven't reached a consensus on many issues. i need to because the when the policy of containing russia seems to be the main focus of many western countries at the moment the current crisis in international

relations unveils the real nature of some western governments which openly try to dictate their will and force the pseudo democratic values on others. it's high time to stop playing the bit that we have to humanity and i will find the games. it's up to washington now with how far are they willing to go to improve relations . on the lack of dialogue and the possibility of a further escalation in tensions would benefit neither russia nor america that's according to political analyst charles alltel. it's really you know difficult for me to understand why are either side is going down this path i mean you know we could quibble and say you know in terms of our population we have a larger population that you could come back and say well we have larger territory whatever but i mean this is really you know i have two children in the case

occasionally when they would fight over small problems or great opportunities you know i would try to teach them a lesson or to try to regard the united states and russia as children but you know with all the problems we face around the world in particular our joint problem with radical islamic terrorism. an economy that seems to be still that finding its full potential like you go on and on and on with all those problems with with so many shared interests i fail to see the wisdom of going down this path. with islamic states three year blockade of syria's do yet as zorra effectively broken by government forces the aim now was to retake the remaining parts of the city from the terrorists some of the latest pictures from the ground. the break of the terrorists blockade of the city was made possible after a series of successful operations carried out by the syrian army with the support

of russian airpower with ice so losing ground in the city the full liberation of the area is just a matter of time that's according to a syrian army officer. to mckinnon after the syrian forces lifted the blockade from the western side it became much easier to fight the terrorists. a soldier's advance to leave the blockade of the airport. you will hear some good news meanwhile a humanitarian convoy has reached the city for the first time since i was those three years siege was broken residents queued up for food and water and all those vital supplies we spoke to some of. the people individually or in the brink of starvation we were. desperate for food and water to reach the city that was all we wanted and thank god help is now arrived. we cannot describe how relieved we are that people were dying we would like to think the army and pay tribute to them for lifting the siege and the syrian army has made significant progress against i saw

in the just the past few months in advance on to yet as zoar again around eight kilometers a day the army has also succeeded in joining up with one of its brigades that had been trapped inside that city and local journalists caught up with that brigade which has now joined the major assault on i saw. i am a just a three kilometers away from the one hundred thirty seven degree gate i am a just less than one kilometer of all these little gatherings in this imaginary area big just behind that building you know the residual area of data store is just a belt seven hundred meters it's worth mentioning that some medical equipment and other food supplies have just entered the city here i was again the next time i did meet is the military all posts on show that you're hearing the evidence in the sky now the side of me that there is the military and believe today result it's

a just a few kilometers and also it is witnessing some juicy clashes between the syrian on me and i as the militants. germany's foreign minister. is the country's most liked politician that's according to a new survey in germany go to the polls in two weeks is a quick look at the country's new favorite. close to the residence. as i visited those countries i like to think i'd be able to refrain from triggering any foreign policy crises with my words.

we spoke exclusively to. the german foreign minister believes cooperation on numerous levels is key to a successful europe. by here we need to recognize that as a nation we live off our exports not just to anywhere but to the rest of europe and when we do well for european neighbors it does i want people to those interests and in their own interests we want this country to crossroads and that's possible only within the united years those who are turning against us while we can our country in the long run. wasn't always had good no i think russia was just as concerned

about islamist terrorism as we are and russia like us is concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons arkell if north korea continues down this path and other small countries follow we will want the same thing as russia actually arms control nucular to some of the races and measures to ensure peace establish trust and defeat islamist terrorists and our countries have plenty of shared interests. and that europe should not limit itself to developing just from the inside because in reality there's no real distinction anymore between internal and external if we do nothing in africa if we fail to fight hunger and poverty what will happen next the influx of refugees will continue we can build high walls and send as many ships to the mediterranean as we want but if people only face hunger and poverty in africa and what will they do with their families they will try to get to europe so i will say this our life inside in our trade outside now much more closely

connected and thirteen is good so you're stressed and must reflect this. disfigured by self i was very happy when two days ago the russian president vladimir putin publicly announced plans to request a u.n. mission of course the conditions proposed by russia and not the same as the ones we all ukrainians proposed but i consider it a good first step and what we need to do now is negotiate with the goal of the. a cease fire and pulling back heavy weaponry and now we have an opportunity to do that my advice to all those involved would be not to refuse a deal because not one of our conditions have been met but instead to talk openly about the conditions of such a blue helmet mission i think russia's initiative for a peacekeeping mission is sensible even if you crane or europe have a different vision of what this mission should look like mentioning it's always like this is the beginning people don't immediately share the same opinion now we should start talking to each other there is still

a lot of stories coming your way here on the program on r.t. international today there are still reportedly a million people stuck in the path of hurricane in america's state of florida an update as moments away.

but china has taken the bold step here in the twenty first century and after they've built our economy on the backs of all american jobs all the american jobs will to china and the trade of the middle class out of church members like hundred years ago fifty years ago thirty years ago before the world trade organization they were accepted into the average you know person was surviving on dirt like they were eighty. middle class pinpoint mining. could have you with us today for your news hurricane which is expected to make landfall in florida in just a few hours time has been upgraded now to the maximum level of category five officials are warning of a launch scale catastrophe the storm has been battering the caribbean islands leaving a trail of devastation at least twenty lives have been lost. i

. think the governor of florida has told everyone in. more than a million people to get out of the disaster zone marina has the latest. this storm is being taken very seriously and as each hour passes everybody in the state is not being allowed to forget the dangers that can bring when she approaches and hits land in florida six hundred sixty thousand people have been instructed to leave their homes in miami dade county that is the largest evacuation this county

has ever seen a total of forty three shelters in miami dade will be open but with enough collective space to accommodate one hundred thousand people the federal government said no one in florida has experienced a storm with the intensity of urging all those in evacuation zones to get out now if you're told to evacuate leave get out quickly. the roads will philip quickly so you need to go hurricane or continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the united states or florida or some of the southeastern states i'm located in one of the zones that was instructed to evacuate i'm in a neighborhood called brickell this neighborhood has a lot of high rise buildings and a lot of buildings under construction one of the many reasons residents here were told to evacuate is because of the construction sites and the construction cranes these key cranes also out miami that litter the skyline are actually being left up

they have not been taken down despite the fact that city officials knew irma was on her way more than a week ago it is not clear why they have not been taken down by they oppose danger to any building around it so all those that live around a back. construction cranes have been told to evacuate burkle is one of those neighborhoods but it's all of those people that are trying to evacuate many are succeeding many are failing. we heard from some that were at the fort lauderdale international airport fortunately i was able to buy a one way ticket to memphis all the tickets were sold out i kept trying all week over and over again and lucked out now. i have never experienced this in my life in my entire family so i just thought it might be you know it's safe for me to get out because i have never been in this one i just want to get out. one hundred

eighty five mile per hour winds these are strong winds that florida has never experienced before everyone is being warned every hour that will be ferocious when she hits florida. meanwhile mexico is bracing itself for a category two hurricane is expected to be dangerous flash flooding a potential mudslides on top of that mexico was dealing with the aftermath of the most powerful earthquake it suffered in a century which claimed at least sixty one lives mexico's president has declared three days of mourning to all of the victims of the devastating earthquake the eight point two magnitude shock was felt by fifty million people and flattened large areas in the south of the country the mexican army has been mobilized for a massive rescue operation with an unknown number of people trapped under collapsed buildings around two million people with temporary left without. supplies.

the state of me in ma is facing condemnation from muslims over its failure to stop violence against the country's persecuted religious minority pakistan afghanistan russia and other countries with a significant muslim population are among those protesting the years long religious oppression in me and ma the country's government claims it's only trying to establish peace in the country by fighting terrorists. now the reputation of the country's are de facto leader unsung suits. she is suffering because of the alleged genocide towards the rohingya noureddine she previously earned a global respect for promoting democracy in the country and even won the nobel peace prize for her nonviolent advocacy for human rights but with the situation concerning me and miles most of the minority escalating activists are now calling for suchi to be stripped noble prize is

a look at how the prestigious award can sometimes be motivated politically. the nobel peace prize is supposed to honor those who have done the most for fraternity between nations the abolition of standing armies and the promotion of peace that's how our first noble envisioned it more than a century ago but the record of some prize winners and nominees has sometimes been juby as in two thousand and nine the newly elected us president barack obama won the award despite his campaign promises the american military were actually at war for every year of his eight year term airstrikes or raids were held in seven countries and in twenty sixteen alone over twenty six thousand bombs were dropped by the u.s. air force years later a former noble prize secretary even admitted to his frustration over obama's award the prize did not have the positive effect for obama they were might have hoped his passion in the u.s.

another contentious choice is the european union the bloc was rewarded with a nobel prize in twenty twelve for quote six decades of contributions to the advancement of peace and reconciliation democracy and human rights in europe the same year europe saw spike in terror attacks two hundred nineteen happened that year in the e.u. member states also in twenty twelve some european countries were engulfed in mass protests against the sterett images the bloc had imposed the same year the syrian rescue group the white helmet was nominated for the award that's despite its members being alongside almost a terrorist and even execution sites the white helmet reputation was also in question after it's those the fake risk you video taking part in a so-called money can challenge. i think any time you have. a prize around peace. and that is going to be political about peace prize has you

know historically sometimes a band of political top armed that. committee that controls the nobel peace prize nominations and they select sometimes do it because they are hopeful or they are trying to push an agenda so with obama for example it was only about ten months into his presidency when they gave him the nobel peace prize he hasn't had a chance to even set up as desk at that point if you look at some of the people that chose one of the ones that you mentioned today on sun suit she the reason why she's d'oeuvre the prize is she says she worked for years and years in a nonviolent way to change a country i don't think her actions to today are that of a nobel peace prize winner but i certainly don't think that you should take the prize away. the new york times article has claimed to reveal another technique used by the russians to sway american elections allegedly russian balts were creating fake accounts to pay for political adverts and to spread anti clinton

messages on twitter and facebook. friends of santiago takes a closer. blood you're putin has an army of internet trolls a legions of trolls that they have spreading program like messaging their problems mission was to her through us democratic process to hurt hillary clinton and to undermine her presidency. facebook and twitter were turned into action stars deception and propaganda. plain sound hundred thousands of fake. mr clinton's denials of questions meddling have been poor. mr putin interfere in the twenty sixteen election put him self ordered the attacks gave his cyber experts

broad direction. wow you might think this looks like a new t.v. show that's about your screens but no it's actually a new york times article use your imagination now kremlin bots turn into americans who influence the u.s. presidential elections since ational plot line the script must be amazing well here's a spoiler it was inspired by a post by facebook's security chief which said they had discovered hundreds of bots purchasing space for political ads our analysis suggests these accounts and pages were affiliated with one another and likely oprah rated out of russia this plotline also has a hint of mission impossible to sway the elections for just a hundred thousand dollars compare that with the whopping clinton campaign budget and what was the impact of that mission while facebook estimates that out of all the election related content posted on the platforms only one tenth of one percent

resulted from information attacks like the alleged kremlin pain they'll need to do better than that if they want to sell this dollywood but ok what about the main villain i think you know what i'm talking about ip addresses can simply be made up mr putin said referring to internet protocol addresses well showing the striking familiarity with how cyber attackers might cover their tracks president putin mentioned that ip addresses can be masked and anyone can pretend to be someone else seems he knows way too much about how it all works there's even a spin off on twitter it turns out the russian bots reply directly to trump on twitter oh those clever russians clearly this was an effort to influence donald trump they know he reads tweets so what exactly does that prove. zilch zero zero well the title was so promising but it turned out to be the same old story with nothing proven and nothing tangible we got fastened jago r.t.

. and a facebook's position has changed earlier it claimed it was a unaware of any paid ads designed to meddle in the elections and right after the us elections c.e.o. mark zuckerberg said it was crazy to think that fake news could have influenced the outcome of the presidential vote well also of concern is the fact that the company refuses to release any of the alleged russian ads it found the same time google says it hasn't found any evidence of suspected targeted ad campaigns and we talked to historian arabs' weiss who thinks these allegations are ridiculous. facebook earned sixty six billion dollars from advertising just last year alone and be a legit campaign is it true your campaign with one hundred thousand dollars obviously that could not have swayed an election anywhere except maybe in

a small town in an presidential campaign there are hundreds of millions of dollars that are spent no one in the government or it takes work or in the news media presenting even a single one of the alleged three thousand on line advertisements the lack of true shipley shows their intent i mean that they would present this garbage to the other like it's not even worth presenting at all all of the allegations are so brave the special counsel who's investigating to try to find a reason to have the president impeached is looking into everything that he can either joining us so far here on r.t. international today about a nine twenty six saturday morning and we are back with the weekend world news in about thirty three. minutes.

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