breaks down you become a casualty. oh you are free from debate over no woodward who did your homework for him. as a humanitarian aid convoy and serious terror is still for the first time since islamic states three a blockade was broken government forces are now fighting terror retake the cities from ending districts from the terrorists. brushes newly appointed ambassador to the u.s. meets the american president in washington we look at what challenges the diplomats might have to face. and german foreign minister. in an exclusive interview with r.t. suggest sanctions against russia could be lifted if a prompt

a truce in east ukraine is a stop list. you're watching live from almost no studio with me in a duty to welcome to the program with islamic states three blockade of syria's there is so perfect and broken by government forces the aim now is to retake the remaining parts of the city from the terrorists here with the latest pictures from the ground. the break of the terrorist blockade of the city happened after a series of successful operations carried out by the syrian army with the support of russian air power we spoke to one of the syrian army's commanders about how his military success was possible. the syrian air force played the main role in locating the terrorist forces known as i saw their identify their ammunition

warehouses and listened in to meetings in which the terrorists planned attacks inside and around their result with the help of russian airpower the syrian air force struck these places ahead of the arrival of syrian government troops this weekend isis ability to attack and to call in reinforcements from raca and pow mira syrian forces fought fierce battles the terrorists had planted improvised explosive devices and car bombs all around trying to prevent the army from entering the city in the end the syrian army gained a great deal of momentum and was able to connect there is or with other territories it has gained. meanwhile humanitarian convoys reach the city for the first time since. his bike and residents queued up the food water and other vital supplies we spoke to some of them. people in there is all on the brink of starvation we would separate for food and water to reach the city that was all we wanted to thank god help is now arrived. we almost died from harder thing god the humanitarian aid the

right we thought we were going to die. but 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 russia also join the humanitarian efforts by sending more conveys to nearly liberated areas of the city for the past the blockade locals but depending on our drops on a military airfield controlled by one of the syrian army's brigades local journalists nortec caught up with that the gate which has allowed join the major assault on myself. i am a just three kilometers away from the one hundred thirty seven degree gate i am it just less than one kilometer of all these little gatherings in this imaginary area just behind that building now the residual area of data store is just about 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

the military. i'm sure that you remain. in the sky now the side of me that there is the military and believe today result it's just a few kilometers also it is witnessing some juicy clashes between the syrian army and i will militants. in the russian ambassador has taken office in washington as the rhetoric between the two countries seems to be cautiously easing anatoly on tunnels has already met with donald trump during the meeting them busta formally presented his credentials to the american president a washington correspondent samir khan 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 and to nobs predecessor was constantly

targeted by the western media portrayed in a negative light over in number of allegations given the controversy surrounding the previous diplomat they 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 our two countries to the good relations between the united states and russia. international peace and rigorous 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 russia

relations sink to one of the lowest points in history and said he believes the situation is mendable provided there is enough will 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. a lack of dialogue on the possibility of a further escalation would benefit neither russia nor america that's according to political analysts. it's really difficult for me to understand why our 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 then you could come back and say well we have larger territory and whatever but i mean this is really you know i have two children and a case that occasionally when they would fight over small problems or great

opportunities you know i would try to teach them a lesson or two i'm not saying upright 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. and i caught i mean it 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. germany's foreign minister. is now the country's most likely politician edging ahead of the country's. federal elections has a quick look at favorites. i

was close to being arrested in the wrong 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. above our goal to go. capitalism looking to become chancellor but the party to which he belongs the social democrats are the closest rival of the ruling christian democrats had by anglo-american in an exclusive interview gabrielle tells us his on the upcoming federal elections and on sanctions targeting russia. by self i was very happy when two days ago the russian president vladimir putin or publicly

announced plans to request a u.n. mission of course the conditions proposed by russia and not the same as the ones we'll do crane's proposed 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 and if we manage to implement the troops at least the political process of reconstructing done bassman start then we can start lifting sanctions against russia and i was criticized for my position on ukraine but i still believe it's correct position. by i want people to vote in germany's interests and in their own interests we want this country to prosper and that's possible only with a new united europe but 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 will 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 saudi arabia has decided to spend all dialogue with qatar details on that story after the short break. but now china has taken the bold step here in the twenty first century after they built our economy on the backs of all american jobs all the american jobs went to china and the dreaded middle class out of church members like other 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 but now they're all fucking middle class but point mining because

only there. as long as you run support still the intel international community say to run this is not acceptable you should stop financing still from our perspective baseless ballots hamas. doing the place but this is something that i believe israel should see to good or withdraw of course we do all night it states the states and to say ok it's not just you know a small easily problem. welcome back to the program saudi arabia has decided to suspend or dialogue with qatar soft of the qatari media was accused of misreporting on phone conversations between the

qatar and saudi arabia's defense minister previously the us president urged the gulf states to unite against iran and expressed his willingness to act as a mediator between dohan riyadh. and i said qatar was a sponsor of terrorism if i can help mediate between cutter and in particular the u.a.e. and saudi arabia i would be willing to do so the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. at a very high level donald trump made those remarks back in june when four countries in the region first cut diplomatic and transport links with the gulf nation saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the accused qatar of supporting terrorism. you ass has its largest air base in the middle east and qatar around eleven thousand american troops are stationed there just weeks after welcoming the blockade president trump approved a fighter jet deal with the gulf kingdom worth twelve billion dollars. well let's

bring in the mohammad marandi a professor of politics university welcome to the program. first let's look at what president trump has been claiming claims the tall crisis is easy to solve let's have a quick listen to him. i can help mediate between carter and in particular the u.s. and saudi arabia i would be willing to do so and i think you'd have a deal worked out very quickly i think it's up to the school to get solved fairly easily ok so you have a quick listen to that why do you think that it's so difficult to get the sides because aren't saudi arabia to the negotiating table. i think the most important problem is the saudi family itself and mohamed bin saddam on in person to killer he's very young he was born

a billionaire he has yes men surrounding him and he's created a mess it's not just in we're in we're in his relationship with the tab that we see this problem he invaded yemen he's been killing the yemeni people his air force has been bombing hospitals funerals weddings schools and innocent civilians for almost three years now with western support with u.s. support both under obama and trump and to no avail he's he's lost the war effectively he's been spreading wahhabi extremism he is and his father and. the regime before his father had been spreading extremism in syria in iraq and across the board that wahhabism is something that the saudis export but what is extraordinary is that the saudi regime has become so erratic and so unpredictable that now it's turned against one of the one of the few regimes that has an

identical ideology i tagged along with saudi arabia is these these are the two countries that explicitly declare themselves to be wahhabi to the large mosque in doha is called the mohammad they're now up to one hundred mosques so the saudis are it's not just an x. issue of sectarianism they are even turning against what hobbies like themselves so i don't take the united states will have an easy task in bringing these countries together even if they do i don't think that we're going to trust the saudis in future and trump himself is not considered to be a very reliable partner himself as the republican party has just discovered themselves as. if we break down the crisis it's down to alleged terrorist links with iran all there are any new developments on that front.

while the iranian kateri relationship has never been severed and despite saudi pressure and in fact the saudis have failed to disrupt the relationship between iran and other countries such as on mine the saudis on the other hand are putting enormous pressure on kuwait to distance itself from iran but in the case of i think it backfired they went way too far by trying to humiliate the country and take away its sovereignty so that batteries which were banned from using they were blockaded by not only saudi arabia but its allies like the emirates and rain. from the land and the sea and air they were there was an effective blockade they were preventing food from getting in and the only way forward was to turn to iran and of course the iranians felt that they had an obligation to support that. and this is something that the saudis have been doing for

a long time the iranian relationship with the people of yemen has evolved and improved and they've grown closer to each other because of the saudi invasion of the country the same is true with what the saudis and their allies did in syria and iraq they basically brought these countries closer to iran because these saw these countries saw the saudi ideology the wahhabi extremist ideology which. had arm and others are are linked to they saw this extremist and this ideology as a threat to their existence and they moved to iran which they saw as a very reliable partner so it's basically the saudis who've been shooting themselves in the feet time after time ok well we've run out of time professor of politics not to run university sideline atlanta thanks very. coming into the program. these are all pictures from the international space station of hurrican which has now made landfall at cuba its winds are currently playing into south florida weakened to

a category four passing north korea but it's still one of the most powerful atlantic ocean hurricanes in recorded history officials are warning of a large scale catastrophe the storm has been battering the caravan islands leaving a trail of devastation and has claimed at least twenty three lives. the earth. is now under three hundred kilometers from miami the governor of florida has told everyone on this path lots more than a million people to get out of the disaster zone marina port has the latest 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 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 are told to evacuate we get out quickly. the roads will fill up quickly so you need to go. 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 zone. it 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 pose a danger to any building around it 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 where generally 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 life so i just thought it might be you know for me to get out because i am never been in this before and i just want to get out everyone is being

warned every hour that will be ferocious when she hits florida on its way to florida a tool through the bahamas where locals are dealing with the aftermath of storm didn't affect major population centers because flooding and damage in the southeast of the islands resulting in the power cuts. in new york times article is claimed to reveal another technique used by the russians to sway american elections allegedly russian creating fake accounts to pay for political adverts and spread into messages on twitter and facebook. takes a closer look. what you're proving has an army of internet trolls a legions of trolls that they have spreading program one message saying their

problems mission was to hurt the us democratic process to hurt hillary clinton and undermine the presidency. facebook and twitter were turned into action and deception and propaganda fingerprints or even the thousands of fake. mr bush's denials of questions many have been cool. 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 as 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 this 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 nada 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 francis and thiago r.t. . facebook recently changed his view on a less interference influence leading some to question the credibility of its allegations right after the us elections the amongst the books 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 on facebook of which you know it's a very small amount 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 and exclaimed it was aware of any paid as designed to meddle in elections than on wednesday the company said that it is found three thousand suspicious odds however the company refuses to release any of the alleged russian ads it found at the same time google says it hasn't found any evidence of suspected targeting ad campaigns earlier we talked to historian eric is us who thinks that these allegations are ridiculous facebook earned sixty six billion dollars from advertising just last year alone and be a legit campaign to your campaign with one hundred thousand dollars obviously that

could not have weighed an election anywhere except maybe in a small transformer in a presidential campaign there are hundreds of millions of dollars that are spent no one in the government or a trace or in the news media presenting even a single one of luggage three thousand on line advertisements the lack of true shipley shows their intent i mean that they would present this garbage should be all of the work it's not even worth presenting at all all 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 that's all around the need to make sure you check us out on social media world i've read where on facebook twitter. that softens up com this is . back at the top of the hour.

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time lindsay francis and boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight credit scoring company equifax gets hacked nearly a million and a half people are affected and on top of that executives made some quick money before the announcement was made and hurricane barrels through the caribbean and right into florida we take you straight to miami and it's an odd couple top democrats united with president donald trump to keep the government running and it's got his party crashing a tad my guest says there's much more time to buy them by starts right now.