the. newly appointed to. the american president in washington we look at what. other humanitarian aid convoy syria's. government forces are now fighting to retake the city. from the terrorists. with a few weeks to go before elections in germany the country's foreign minister. was an exclusive interview to r.t. discussing the. elections and russia relations.

all of us here at aussie international a very warm welcome to. a new russian taken office in washington as the rhetoric between the two countries seems to be cautiously easing and i totally has already met with the american president donald trump during the meeting the ambassador formally presented his credentials to the american president in washington correspondent and explains what challenges the new ambassador is 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 antonov predecessor was constantly targeted by the western media portrayed in a. egad of 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. to brief relations between the two countries to relations between the united states and russia. international peace and progress as well as a 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 right 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 started 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. because . the policy of containing russia seems to be the main focus of many western countries at the moment. crisis in international relations unveils the real nature

of some western governments openly trying to take their will. democratic values on others. it's. obvious that it is. up to washington now with how far are they willing to go to improve relations a lack of dialogue on 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 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 than you could come back and say well we have larger territory whatever but i mean this is really you know i have two children and occasionally

when they would fight over small problems great opportunities you know i would try to teach them. regarding the united states and russia but you know with all the problems we face around the world in particular our joint problem with radical islamic terrorism. and economy that seems to be still finding its full potential. 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 yet as effectively broken by government forces the aim was to retake the remaining parts of the city from the terrorists some of the latest pictures from the. break of the terrorist blockade of the city was made possible after a series of successful operations carried out by the syrian with the support of russian. with eisold losing ground in the city the full liberation of the area is

just a matter of time and that's according to one syrian army officer by the mechanic after the syrian forces lifted the blockade from the western side it became much easier to fire the terrorists. a soldier's advance to leave the blockade of the year god willing you will hear some good news meanwhile the humanitarian convoy has reached the city for the first time since i saw those three years was broken president securing oil for food water and other vital supplies and we spoke to some of them. are the people and there is war on the brink of starvation. food and water to reach the city that was really wanted to thank god help has now arrived. we cannot describe how relieved we are that people who are dying we would like to think their army and pay tribute to them for lifting the siege and the syrian army has made significant progress against i saw in just the past few months and that's

advance on do yet as all its gained around eight kilometers a day and the army has also succeeded in joining up with one of its brigades that's been trapped inside the city local journalists caught up with that brigade which has now joined the major assault on myself i am a just a three kilometers away from the one hundred thirty seven degree gate i am it just less than one kilometer of our little gatherings in the samantha reach area be just behind that building now the residual area of data storage is just about seven hundred meters it's more than she got 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. i'm sure that you're hearing the evidence in the sky now the side of me that there is the military airfield today result. it's a just

a few kilometers and also it is witnessing some juicy clashes between the syrian army and isel militants. germany's foreign minister. who is now the country's most liked politician edging ahead in the latest poll of the country's chancellor in two weeks germany holds federal elections is a quick look at germany's new favorite. i was close to being arrested in iran china turkey and saudi arabia because i visited those countries i like to think i'd be able to refrain from triggering any foreign policy crises of my words.

gabriele is not looking to become chancellor of the party to which he belongs the social democrats are the closest rival of the ruling christian democrats of course headed by muchel in an exclusive interview gabrielle told us his view on the upcoming federal elections on europe's ongoing migrant crisis. we need to recognize that as a nation we live exports not just to anywhere but to the rest of europe when we do well for european neighbors are doing well but i want people to vote these interests and in their own interests we want this country to prosper and that's possible only within the united europe those who are turning against europe will

weaken our country in the long run. i think russia is just as concerned about islamist terrorism as we'll and russia like us is concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons if north korea continues down this path and other small countries follow we will want the same thing as russia arms control nucular disarmament and measures to ensure peace establish trust and defeat islamist terrorism our countries have plenty of shared interests. but that europe should not limit itself to developing just from the inside because in reality there is 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 then what will they do with their families they will try to get to europe so i will

say this our life inside and our trade outside are now much more closely connected than thirty years ago a year of strategy must reflect this. that's why i said i was very happy when two days ago the russian president vladimir putin publicly announced plans to request a un mission of course the conditions proposed by russia are 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 stablish in 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 all of our conditions have been met but instead to talk openly with russia about the conditions of such a blue helmet mission i think russia's initiative for a peacekeeping mission is sensible even if ukraine or europe have a different vision of what this mission should look like it's always like i said

the beginning people don't immediately share the same opinion now we should start. looking to each other. joining us so far here on this program today on our international just a moment an update on a hurricane which is are slowly inching up words towards the southern coastline of florida one of the most powerful atlantic ocean hurricanes in recorded history we are back in a moment. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to going to be this is what before three of the people. interested in the water.

but now china's taking the bold step here in the twenty first century after they've built our economy on the backs of all american jobs all the american jobs to china and the trade the middle class out of. years ago fifty years ago thirty years ago before the world trade organization they were accepted into the average you know chinese person was surviving on dirt like they were nation eighty. middle class bitcoin mining. headlines here. a new york times article has claimed to reveal another technique used by the russians to sway american elections allegedly. creating fake

accounts to pay for political to spread clinton messages on twitter and facebook. to santiago takes a closer look. at your putin has an army of internet trolls a legions of trolls that they have spreading. their problems mission was to hurt the us democratic process to hurt hillary clinton and undermine her presidency. facebook and twitter were turned into engines of deception and propaganda. hundred thousands of fake. mr putin's denials of questions many have been caught. mr putin interfere in the twenty sixteen election put himself ordered the attacks gave his cyber experts broad

direction in the election. 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 kremlin bots turn into americans who influence the us presidential elections since ational plotline 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 plot line also has a hint of mission impossible to sway the elections for just one hundred thousand dollars compare that with the whopping clinton campaign budget and what was the impact of that mission well 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 to hollywood 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 i 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 that was clever. clearly this was an effort to influence donald trump they know he reads tweets so what exactly does that prove nada zilch zero zero zero well the title was so promising but it turned out to be the same old story with nothing proven and nothing tangible francis and thiago r.t.

facebook recently changed its view on alleged interference and influence leading some to question the credibility of its allegations or 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. you know personally i think the the idea that you know fake news is on facebook of which you know it's a very small amount of of the content. influence that what the election anyway i think is a pretty crazy idea right and it's. you know voters make decisions based on their lived experience facebook claimed it was unaware of any paid ads designed to meddle in the elections and then on wednesday the company said that it had found three thousand suspicious ads however the company refuses to release not

a single one they won't release any of the alleged russian ads that it reportedly found at the very same time google says it hasn't found any evidence of suspected targeted ad campaigns earlier we talked to historian edwards weiss who thinks that 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 schrade 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 at facebook or in the news media is 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 the allegations are so big the special counsel who's investigating to try to find a reason to have the president impeached is looking into everything. then we can. the state of me and maher is facing condemnation from most of us for its failure to stop violence against the country's persecuted religious minorities pakistan afghanistan russia and other countries with a large muslim population are among those protesting the years longer religious oppression in myanmar the country's government claims it's only trying to establish peace in the country by fighting terrorists or the reputation of the country's de facto leader unsung suchi is suffering because of the alleged genocide of the row hinge a minority she previously earned global respect for promoting democracy in the country

and even won the nobel peace prize for hard nonviolent advocacy of human rights and with the situation concerning me in a mass muslim minority escalating activists are now calling for uncensored cheney to be stripped off her nobel prize his own look at how the prestigious award can sometimes be politically motivated. the noble peace prize is supposed to honor those who have done the most for fraternity between nations their ballou should have standing armies and the promotion of peace that's now over at noble envisioned more than a century ago but the record of some prize winners and nominees has sometimes been jube use in two thousand and nine the newly elected u.s. 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 are really held in seven countries and in twenty sixteen alone over twenty six thousand

bombs were dropped by the us serve force years later the former noble prize circuitry even admitted to his frustration over obama's award the prize did not have the positive factor obama there were might have hoped his passion in the u.s. another contentious choices the european union the block. 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 source my can terror attacks two hundred nineteen happened in the e.u. member states also in twenty twelve some european countries were in govt in mass protests against the sterett images the blockade imposed the same year the syrian rescue group of white helmets was nominated for the award that's despite its members being a long time ago most are terrorists and even at execution sites the point home its

reputation was also in question after its those defeat risk you video taking part in a so-called money can challenge. peace prize has historically sometimes been a political tool or arm the committee that controls the nobel peace prize nominations and how they select sometimes do it because they are hope for 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 other people that chose one of the ones that you mentioned today on sun suit she the reason why she's d'oeuvre the prize as she says she worked for years and years in a nonviolent way to change that country i don't think her actions today today are that of a nobel peace prize winner but i certainly don't think that you should take the prize away. so these are satellite pictures of hurricane which is now made

landfall in cuba and is heading straight towards florida as one of the most powerful of atlantic ocean hurricanes in recorded history officials are warning of a larger scale catastrophe the storm has been battering the caribbean islands leaving a trail of devastation that has claimed at least twenty lives. the way the governor of florida has told everyone and. more than a million people to get out of the disaster zone aussie's more important. 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 opened 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 fill up quickly so you need to go over again it continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the united states either 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 kids cranes all. throughout 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 plus all of those people that are trying to evacuate many are succeeding many are failing we heard from some 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 please i have never experienced this in my life in my entire life so i just thought it might be you know safe for me to get out because i am never been in this before and 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 irma will be ferocious when she hits florida. meanwhile mexico was dealing with a tropical storm fear they'll be dangerous flash flooding and mudslides. mexico mexico is reeling from the most powerful earthquake it suffered in a century which claimed at least sixty one. mexico's president has declared three days of mourning to one 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 still trapped under collapsed buildings and we understand around two million people what temporary left without power. thanks for sharing your saturday with us here on international we are back with more of your weekend world headlines in about.

city is not coming from the trumpet ministration which is being victimized by this the imaginary hobgoblin of the russian collusion with the trump campaign is being used by enemies and adversaries to deal with those of. us. time after time jim we're going underground is off to bangladesh nepal india sierra leone and texas it's today florida's turn to face climate change coming up in the show on the anniversary of the creation of north korea we ask the chair of the u.k.

all party parliamentary group on north korea who has the right strategy for peace jinping or donald trump and the fab the missiles and would stormont to be better used to how is oldsters homeless it's not being used for much else of the moment we ask for the european fame it's the end of the line for the northern ireland peace process but it's the first pm queues of the season but history's i'm a child willing to do you know she's bung them a billion to be prime minister ninety percent of deaths in the troubles were caused by terrorists and not by the city's golden civil coming up in today's going underground reversed while the effects of manmade climate change manifested themselves in a caribbean already scarred by the monroe doctrine a syria making gains against isis was bombed by israel that while small square which has been at the forefront of the battle against isis cautioned against self defeating nature nation policies against north korea and in south korean schools were injured in protests again.