all over a hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love redacted tonight my president of the world bank though kate was really pretty seriously send us an e-mail. the syrian army says it is now breached islamic states blockade of dares or airport just a few districts remain to be liberated in the city siege by terrorists for years. russia's newly appointed ambassador to the u.s. meets the american president of washington we look at what challenges the diplomat is likely to face. and in an exclusive interview with r.t. germany's foreign minister suggested sanctions against russia could be lifted if a proper truce in eastern ukraine is established.

very good evening to you my name is the harvey your watching r.t. international. the syrian army says that it has broken islamic states blockade of the military airport in the city of dare resort here are the latest pictures we've been getting from the ground. as a result of this advance the syrian arab army was able to join forces with troops stationed at the airport for the first time in nine months the latest advance of the russian backed forces came days after they ended up missiles hold on a residential district in the city the end of the three year long siege of their resort is considered a major breakthrough in the recent anti eisel campaign in the country. of the syrian army's been advancing rampantly in recent months take a look at our map here and you can see in june islamic state controlled around

a quarter of the country that's changed the wind on three months around half that territory now lost government forces now on the verge of fully liberating the city of dairies or that's one of the last strongholds in syria we spoke to a syrian army commander about how this military success was possible. the has all 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 resort 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 palmira 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 a humanitarian convoy has reached the city for the first time since i saw three years siege was broken residents queued there for food water and other vital supplies we spoke to some of. people into arizona on 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 almost died from hunger thing god the humanitarian aid arrived we thought we were going to die. we cannot describe how relieved we are people were dying we would like to think the army and be a tribute to them for lifting the siege. or also join the humanitarian efforts by sending its convoys to the newly liberated parts of the city the past three years locals of depended on drops on a military airfield was controlled by one of the syrian army's brigades local

journalist john emerged caught up with the brigade which is now joined the major assault on myself i am a just a three kilometers away from the one hundred thirty seven of brigade i am it just less than one kilometer of all these little gatherings in this imaginary area be just behind that building now the residual area of datas or 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 polls i'm sure that you're hearing there are it's in the sky now this side of me that there is the military airport today result it's a just a few kilometers and also it is witnessing some juicy clashes between the syrian army and isel militants. there to the united states has taken

office it comes at a time of strained relations though between the countries and italy on top of all ready made as well with donald trump and during that meeting and bust the formally presented his credentials to the american president our washington correspondent samir a car next planes 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 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 russian. 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 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. lack of dialogue and the possibility of

a further escalation of tension would benefit neither russia nor america that's according to political analyst charles will tell you 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 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 and ignore a great opportunities you know i would try to teach them a lesson or two i'm not saying i'm 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 i could 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 gambrell has moved to the top of the latest

approval ratings in the country edging ahead of anglo-american despite the fact that he's expressed this reluctance to become chancellor after germany goes to the polls in two weeks' time is a quick look at the country's current favors. i was close to being arrested in the wrong china turkey saudi arabia as i visited those countries i like to think i'd be able to refrain from triggering any foreign policy crises of my words.

after becoming the country's foreign minister gabriele stepped down as leader of the social democratic party although he still remains one of his members the party is the closest rival to the ruling christian democrats who headed by chancellor merkel in an exclusive interview does his view on the upcoming elections. targeting russia. the voice of 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 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 and if we manage to implement the truce at least the political process of reconstructing done bass may start then we can start lifting sanctions against russia and i was criticized yesterday for my position on ukraine but i still believe it's correct. 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 that those who are turning against europe will weaken our country in the long run but. i think russia is just as concerned about islamist terrorism as we are 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. a tour of the

fee for football world cup trophy has begun at moscow's luzhniki stadium not out of the sport's biggest tournament itself next year the stadiums reopened after a massive overhaul and it's ready now to welcome in more than eighty thousand fans on his my girlfriend says santiago was the. stadium happens to be the main arena for the twenty eight hundred five world cup starting the cup with the first match as well as wrapping it up with the last match of the championship the lawyer i wish you shit on. me star studded champion i'm that. is a couple of guys to show us that you decided to. do that later irish poses that everything so diminish us if you see god by some of us i mean think about it this is the largest fee for world cup tour in the history of the fire just to give you the scope one in three russians will have the chance to actually see the trophy up close and i'll take a look at that this is the original show feet up close to mortal travel to cross no

you are the original trophies made from solid gold and weighs six kilos design is a composition of two humans holding the globe above them as the trophy travels through several stages of the thief a twenty thousand world cup tour it cannot be touched by anyone except politicians and of course previous and future champions the present afifa johnny in for tino is here as well is the state of. it is so. beautiful. dysfunctional these operations are safe. but it is also something that. every stadium has your few states that. choose love and energy a positive. repeat of what you are here including with the big sports arena nineteen new objects were opened including the rope way press center and training

field now the stadium is located in the center of moscow and can hold up to eighty one thousand people both lattimer puton and johnny and fifteen zero have made it clear that luzhniki stadiums past and future hold significance to all the football . around three hundred thousand people fled the country of myanmar as a result of violence against the country's persecuted religious minority there hanging we'll bring you all the details after the break. but now china has taken the bold step here the twenty first century and after they've built our economy on the backs of all american jobs all the american jobs were to china and they created a middle class out of church members like a hundred 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 eighty but now they're all fricken middle class but point mining because.

as long as you run support still the intel international community say to run this is not acceptable you should start fine on this into perspective basis ballots hamas. the place but this is something that i believe israel should see good or we draw. other states and say ok it's not just you know small easily problem. suspend it's all dialogue with count qatar the media were accused of mis reporting phone conversations between the emir of qatar and saudi arabia's defense minister

donald trump outage the gulf states to unite against iran and expressed his willingness to act as a mediator between. earlier the u.s. president elect's council was a sponsor of terrorism. if i can help mediate between creator and in particular the u.a.e. and saudi arabia i would be willing to do so the nation of qatar unfortunately has a storage leap in a funder of terrorism at a very high level a little drum 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 u.a.e. all accuse counts are of supporting terrorism the u.s. says largest air base in the middle east in qatar around eleven thousand u.s. troops are stationed there and just weeks after the blockade president trump approved a vast fighter jet deal with it's worth twelve billion dollars iran university

politics professor side mohammad marandi believes that the u.s. just wants to boost its arms sales to the region. trump really is completely discredited outside of the united states behaving in a provocative manner across the globe trump is very unpredictable so. therefore it's very difficult to say what he's up to and therefore what the position of the united states will be in the future but obviously one of his our objectives is to milk the countries in the persian gulf region they're there for seeing the kuwaitis to buy more weapons the perrys to buy more weapons the about a nice and the emirate and the saudis are buying more weapons from the united states. around three hundred thousand people have fled in the last two weeks is the result of violence against the country's persecuted religious minority there are hidden and that's according to new figures from the united nations will but he claims the die situation in the region is growing ever worse.

the reputation of the country's defacto leader is suffering because of the alleged genocide of the range of minority she's previously on global respect for campaigning for democracy in the country even won the nobel peace prize for nonviolent out because if a human rights but the situation over the range of minority escalating activists are calling for aung san suu kyi to be stripped of her nobel prize or the organization of the ward it says that under its rules it cannot be revoked is a look at other prestigious awards sometimes sick used to being politically motivated. the noble peace prize is supposed to honor those who have done the most

for fraternity between nations their bullish and of standing armies and the promotion of peace that's how alfred 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 a raid 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 there were might have hoped his passion in the u.s. another contentious choices 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 in measures the bloc had imposed the same year the syrian rescue group the white helmet was nominated for the award that is despite its members being alongside al nasra terrorists and even at execution sites the white helmet reputation was also in question after it stays to fake risk you video taking part in a so-called money can challenge. well peace prize has you know historically sometimes been a political tool or the committee that controls the nobel peace prize nominations and 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 of the people that chose one of the ones that you mentioned today on sun suchi the reason why she's deserve 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. here are pictures from florida showing the first signs of the arrival of hurricane officials are warning of a large scale catastrophe the storms we can somewhat to a category three but is expected to strengthen once again it's already been one of the most powerful atlantic ocean hurricanes in recorded history so in battering cuba we flies around four hundred kilometers south of miami leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.

all. the sort of gave him a heads towards the sudden us coast panic stricken citizens and started to flee the state months to maine in state highways have been clogged with thousands of vehicles and gas stations are running out of fuel the traffic nightmare began on wednesday and since then has only gotten worse. the florida governor has warned that people in his path should leave miami residents are choosing to stay

and taking precautions to scale damage including boarding up their windows correspondent 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 in 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 federal government said no one in florida has experienced a storm with the intensity of erma 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 through your hurricane or continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the united states and 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 key cranes also route 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 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 that. 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 everyone is being warned every hour that will be ferocious when she hits florida. eight hundred seventy years of being in the history books the widespread celebrations of events including workshops and even ballet on red square. it's part of the city day celebrations authorities of open the huge new pog is moscow's first major new pocking fiftieth is built on plenty of putin's initiative

on the site of the vast soviet era hotel of a city that was pulled down in two thousand the president himself this today nearly opened pog. ok that is all for this hour about the very latest news headlines. out of the two.

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as we don't is by no means a school but there's a lot while the city has tried desperately not to collapse all powerful corporations collect the profit of. it's a brutal brother global news don't coffee cup if you can only in the bushes a. couple suppose it's in the a. there. is a tourist feel free to own identity. time lindsay francis is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight credit foreign company 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 earl 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 by starts right now. it's a high tech heist at equifax that all powerful credit monitoring service so many of us use to buy a house it's been hacked and around and estimated one hundred forty three million consumers could be affected by this now let's put this into perspective for you for

the three hundred fifty million americans out there there are two hundred fifty million people over the age of eighteen in this country and knowing how americans spend most have credit this hack has likely affected half of them here to explain how this could have happened. to foretell the fall out please welcome morgan wright cyber security analyst and senior fellow at the center for digital government can you give us any hints how something like equifax something we depend on for so much of our very personal information could get hacked massive stupidity ok ok they say they had been warned by a government agency last year that their security practices were bad that they need to improve them and they were running software that back in march they were told as well as everybody who used this open source stuff software called struts that this stuff was it was vulnerable and they should patch it so the question is did they patch it or did they know it is i have predicted before and when you look at most.