siskiyou. the syrian army breaks islamic states blockade of a key air base in. the operation to force the terrorists out of the city reaches its final playing. russia's new ambassador to the u.s. meets president we look at the challenges the diplomats will face. and germany's foreign minister tells our t.v. that sanctions against russia could be lifted if a truce in eastern ukraine is established.

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is arch international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now the syrian army says it has broken islamic states blockade of an air base in the city of. the syrian army minister break the siege over the military airports here in de desert but let me fantasize something that civilians and syrians all over syria are so had be and they consider it as a moment of triumph on the way to defeat as a leader over this the this soil of the country if you are talking about the military operations state run media reported today that the military operations started by the forces into cemetery in the south was the don't result link forces

holding the air pays of the airports. it's or to mention that this is of course the fairest meeting between these forces within nine months important information i have to mention that this comes only a few days off toward russia back forces managed to break the siege over the it was the initial areas here in their assault. some analysts and observers believe that this is would be and maintaining bones in the war against bolton's goal is to liberate all that is the initial areas that are just a few of his then szell areas and districts in the hands of the extremists so his goal is to achieve as a ration and to retake this there is then chill areas again. one last thing that liz let me say that civilians live is going to be much easier from now on and their suffering will and. the syrian military has been advancing rapidly in recent months

back in june islamic state controlled a quarter of the country three months later half of that territory has been retaken and now government forces are on the verge of fully liberating the city of zoar as one of the last ice strongholds in syria we heard from a syrian army commander. 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 morocco 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 their is all with other territories it has gained. meanwhile

a humanitarian convoy has reached of the city for the first time since i saw a three year siege was broken residents lined up for food water and other essential supplies. people in there is all 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 has now arrived. almost died from hunger thing god the humanitarian aid the right we thought we were going to die. but we cannot describe how relieved we are people were dying we would like to think the army and pay tribute to them for lifting the siege shah that will think god we have been safe from a terrible ordeal things will be different now but hide that we want to thank the syrian army for lifting the blockade and freeing us from islamic state. russia's involved in the aid effort sending supplies into newly liberated parts of the city for the past three years locals have depended on air drops and middle east analyst

on my walk off told us the latest advances could spell the end for islamic state in syria. the entire episode of the syrian army of reaching the city of daters or of breaking the scene and isis forces dias forces you know fleeing this space. you know no real resistance is a huge turning point in a sense because suddenly this sort of fearsome enemy is you know fleeing the battlefield and is not able to. you know. in a sense incredible. how do you say the sting operation the forces that have been separated from the main city about months ago are now liberated they've been through terrible ordeal themselves as well. forces are pretty much those that are the three major inside the city are pretty much trapped between the advancing syrian forces reaper and so liberating the city itself shouldn't really take much

from. russia's new ambassador to the u.s. has taken office at a time of strained relations between the countries on the tollway antonov presented his credentials to president trump in the white house so america reports on the challenges the new ambassador will face. 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 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 story russian federation. to improve relations between

the two countries to the relations between the united states and russia. over international peace and progress as well as strategic stability according to the diplomat the meeting took place in a war. 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 political analyst charles we're told told us the current tensions are harming both russia and america. it's really you know 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 not 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 federal election is just

a two weeks away and the foreign minister has overtaken chancellor merkel as the country's most popular politician even though he is not running for the leadership . i was close to being arrested in the wrong china turkey and 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. or about our goal. oh.

some are gabriel gave an exclusive interview to r t sharing his views on the upcoming election and sanctions against russia. the voice of i was very happy when two days ago the russian president vladimir putin or and publicly announced plans to request a u.n. mission of course the conditions proposed by russia are not the same as the one who wields ukrainians proposed what i consider is 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 its the troops at least the political process of reconstructing done bassman start then we can start lifting sanctions against russia and i was criticized just if you want decision on ukraine but i still believe it's correct and as ocean. yeah 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 running. i was on. i think russia was just as concerned about islamist terrorism. and russia like us is concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons cool if north korea continues down this path and other small countries follow us we will want the same thing as russia control nuclear disarmament and measures to ensure peace establish trust and defeat islamist terrorism that all countries have plenty of shared interests. it's which india is the middle east and now an attempt to end of the saudi led blockade of qatar appears to have broken down riyadh announced that all dialogue has been suspended after a phone call between the qatari leader and the saudi crown prince earlier donald trump offered to help resolve the dispute despite having accused qatar of sponsoring 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 u.s. president made those remarks back in june when four countries cut diplomatic ties and transport links with of the gulf nation saudi arabia egypt about rain and the u.a.e. accuse qatar the time of supporting terrorism and the u.s. has its largest air base in the middle east in qatar around eleven thousand american troops are stationed there just weeks after the blockade president trump approved a fighter jet deal with doha worth twelve billion dollars a professor of politics at the university of tehran told us arms sales are a top priority for the united states. trump really is completely discredited outside of the united states behaving in a provocative manner across the globe 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 objectives is to milk the countries in the persian gulf region there for saying that the kuwaitis to buy more weapons the. more weapons the about amy's and the emirates and the saudis supply more weapons from the united states millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in florida as hurricane earl approaches that story and much more still to come you're watching.

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and welcome back to watching our international live from moscow now russia has condemned poland's decision to remove a world war two memorial the foreign ministry described it as an outrageous incident and part of an anti russian policy the red army monument stood at the site of a mass grave. ah. ah . ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. warsaw recently barred moscow from a project to build a memorial at a former nazi death camp sobibor operated for a year during the war and a quarter of a million jews were murdered there the camp was closed after a large uprising led by a soviet officer when six hundred prisoners attempted to escape only a few dozen lived to tell the tale of the polish government recently

demanded a trillion dollars from germany and more reparations in poland is also demanding money from russia and. warsaw's deputy minister of justice wants moscow to pay compensation for the polish soviet war which ended in one nine hundred twenty one however it made no mention of the red army's liberation of poland from nazi germany in one thousand nine hundred five eastern europe analysts to burn gave us his take on the story after in one thousand eight hundred ninety eight destroyed quite a lot of monuments especially the monuments of general coney it. would surely be rated some monuments were left and now what i can say they've finished the joke if you ask people in under street didn't call it what they think about they think it's pure event alice but you know way media polish media and

government is working they don't talk about dural of this soviet army deliberation of poland the problem is with new generation because the new generation where growth of the schools where they teach history do way i told you in the fall and it would be very very tightly without. border soviet union helped build into house. at least a three hundred thousand rohingya muslims have fled to me and over the past two weeks according to the united nations refugee say the military has burned down their villages although the government denies this. please. cut. it with. the cursor to the. there was.

some i assessed see i was bleeding and could not even lift my hand i had to find a stick with support i walk slowly with the people who came here after breaching here i was taken to the hospital. the military crackdown has dealt a blow to the reputation of the country's de facto leader aung san suu kyi previously earned global respect for campaigning for democracy and won the nobel peace prize for her nonviolent struggle for human rights. now fish oils around the world have called for her to be stripped of that prize however no but i'll committee says it cannot be reviled there is a lot at how the prestigious award is sometimes accused of being 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 how our food 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 already 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 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 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 the terrorists and even at execution sites the white helmet reputation was also in question after it stays the fake risk video taking part in a so-called money can challenge. peace prize has you know historically sometimes been a political tool the committee that controls the nobel peace prize nominations and how 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 we 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 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. more than six million people have been forced to flee their homes in florida as hurricane makes landfall the edge of the storm is now battering the state's coastline there man has left a trail of devastation across the caribbean. as

the eye of the storm heads for florida highways have been jammed with vehicles and gas stations are running out of fuel the florida governor has urged everyone in arms path to flee but many people in miami are unwilling or unable to leave and are boarding up their windows to limit the damage nicholas sanchez o'donovan is in the city for us. in the morning we see anybody on the street. if something. is going to be. played we. will. sit with.

the top of the field and we. put a. pretty. big. construction so i. know you. all. well from the horrors of potential devastation we have to lighten things up a little bit to some celebration moscow is marking eight hundred seventy years since the city was founded celebrations have been held with special workshops exhibitions and sporting events city day ended with a fireworks display in the heart of the russian capital.

a riot of noise and color lit up in the night sky over the city more than thirteen thousand fireworks were used to mark moscow's big day and to entertain the thousands of revelers standing out in the city's streets to watch the specter. as part of the city day celebrations a new park has been opened. is the first in new park in moscow in fifty. years and it was a part of lot of mere putin's initiative and built on the site of a vast soviet era hotel that was pulled down in the early two thousand the president visited the new facility. go as been to see what is in store there take a look. would you believe that i'm in the middle of a typical russian forest well the trees around me will tell you that it is quite possible but actually i'm just two hundred meters away from the domes on red

square. and moscow's brand new that i had to park. in. the history of the place is really complicated for centuries this area was a bustling city water with narrow but busy streets until what is basically the poor of moscow's old town was completely demolished in the soviet times what the building here was a real lot on the city landscape hotel. which was basically a massive box of concrete and steel then finally in two thousand and four they realized the heart of moscow was no place for that kind of architecture and that the moscow government ten years to come up with the brilliant idea let's have

a park here. so what are the highlights of that ad which is the size of about thirteen full as you walk through the park you'll find yourself in four different washing climates so you've already seen the siberian forest there also the northern plains cold tundra plus one with warmer southern plains the steps in finally what's known as the wetlands and right now also you'll play stocks definitely the favored spot for most people here it's called the soaring bridge which ironically won't take you to the other side of the river but you'll find yourself at moscow's new selfie central. all right can't wait to go there myself now will be back with more news in about half an hour's time you're watching international stay with us.

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