she's ready for action if needed to the collapse of coalition leave germany country's modern history. openly. on the spot making it harder for them to reach wider audience is that's despite the fact the tech giant itself previously had no violations when it investigated popularity. the international criminal court its intention to probe u.s. involvement in alleged war crimes in afghanistan. headlines. from all of us here at r.t.

international very well welcome to you and we do start this hour with breaking news vladimir putin says the fight against terrorism in syria could soon be over he gave the comments as he met with president bashar assad in such just the last twenty four hours let's get details on this now in cross live just outside the kremlin nazis are. joining us here on the program this whole meeting was very much kept under wraps just being reported you know what else was said between the two leaders yes exactly it was a surprise visit and it looks like the main point of conversation between the two leaders was the idea that the military operation in syria really looks to be on its last legs let's take a listen to what they had to say. at this stage yes especially after victories against terrorism we are of course interested in advancing the political process. because you just mentioned the conclusion of the military operations i think that

the problem of terrorism is global we're far from defacing it globally when it comes to our operation against terrorists in syria it's a military operation is indeed concluding. now of course it's important to mention that iceland no longer controls any major cities or towns in syria just some smaller villages and the two allegedly reportedly already discussed the principles of a political process in syria with assad having said that he is ready to work with anyone and everyone who is looking for a goal of peace and settlement in his country now the syrian president also expressed his appreciation for russia's support in the fight against terrorism in syria namely their air support they of course came in at the request of the syrian government two years ago and started their military operation there and putin emphasized that russia is counting on the u.n. to also be an active participant in the final stages of the settlement of syria and announce that he will actually speak by phone today with president trump and other

regional leaders on the syrian peace process now of course the deescalation those that have been set up in syria were hailed as show as being sort of the first steps to really getting the opposition forces in the country to sit down and talk about the future of the country and of course important to know that russia tomorrow will be holding a summit with iran and turkey in sochi and that's likely to become a series of summits that we've already seen them in the past organizing peace talks between represent representatives of the opposition and the government a number of times this year already and those talks actually led to the creation of those very deescalation zones in syria which really have seen a significant drop in violence in the country so it looks like everything's going forward from here and we'll have to see what is said between putin and other leaders today. indeed as you say exactly in the next the next big meeting in the next twenty four hours and sort of representatives from russia iran and turkey of

course most of them just already had a summit last sunday in turkey so the meetings continue here to try and find some sort of peaceful resolution to the conflict in syria jacqueline thank you. it has been a whirlwind start to the week for germany after talks on forming a coalition government collapsed chancellor merkel was forced to seek the advice from the country's president and while he advised parties to rethink their disagreements merkel herself says she is ready to head back to the polls if necessary if it isn't but time will parties elected to the bundestag have a shared to serve their country i expect from all parties their willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future if you elections calm i should see that's not something i'm afraid of during the election campaign i fought for your mandate my point of view is that new elections would be a better path. but the president will now try to persuade the benefits of the

failed coalition to rethink their decision and return to talks peter all over in berlin breaks down developments. the day after the bundestag election in september angola merkel said that she was confident that by christmas she would have a ruling coalition government in place or fast forward through weeks of torture a sit times negotiations with the green party and the pro-business free democrats while the wheels of that coalition health fell off well and truly with christie and of the free democrats delivering the killer blow we have the other one is that we will not abandon our voters for a policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly ingrained differences between the parties on key issues such as climate change refugees and the budget saw the so-called jamaica coalition break down.

just hours after coalition talks with the free democrats and the greens collapsed under merkel was turned down by another coalition suitor this time the social democrats martin schultz saying there would be no return to a grand coalition if. on september the twenty fourth the grand coalition lost fourteen percent so it's clear we were shown the red card in view of the election results we are not available to join a grand coalition. without off the table one other option available to angola merkel would be to rule over

a minority government most likely with the green party. but a minority government would be unstable at best and would certainly require horse trading on gargantuan proportions with the other four parties in parliament if the government was to well pass anything more than just time in the chamber it's also worth noting that this would be a first in modern german history and wouldn't exactly fit the profile of the german voters who do love stabilises so where does this leave us the other option would be we go back to the polls for fresh elections. so back to the polls we go well step forward german president frank vaulted steinmeyer it's predominantly a ceremonial role but when it comes to installing a government that's where the german presidency has executive power it will be up

to mr steinmeier whether he decides that he accepts angle or merkel as the head of a minority government or whether he dissolves parliament triggering elections and for the long serving leader mrs merkel could well prove to be a storm she doesn't whether it's keep that's really fun for somebody has got to be responsible for that the federal chancellor created this situation she's been in power for what feels like a hundred years and now she should be asking ourselves maybe i have something to do with this situation. mrs merkel has failed it's time for now to take a step back. that night the end of the merkel era began europe's biggest economy is heading into uncharted territory with current polling suggesting that a new ballot wouldn't return any results too different from what we had in september it does seem that there is no immediate solution to the current instability germany is facing and of course the implications that has for the why

do european union peter all of a r.t. berlin we did speak to various political analysts about where germany could be heading next. she's between a rock and a hard place anywhere she going to go her days are numbered and it's becoming more and more apparent to other observers that her days are numbered. she will probably if she if they have to go through another election i would guess hazard a number something like twenty nine to thirty percent is about all that will do in other words it's she's going to be in even a weaker position than she is right now i mean ideally the c.d.u. before they go into election should have a new candidate and start out with a fresh face but they're not going to be able to do that very quickly i was surprised that she actually called for fresh elections because i think she will lose i mean i think she's lost her prime she should step aside she hasn't recognized the fall of the time and some time now or later the reality will hit

and i will resign she's probably for you. this is a this is the receipt for it in the end to to make a coalition agree the f.t.p. the c.s.u. the c.d.u. was a very very unlikely construct a very strange construct that of course cannot work and we've seen that this is from. the president because we don't know if it's going to be a new election but it's going to be new elections for the f.t.p. and probably also. the opposition party that came into the parliament with the two point six percent of the votes again because this. is quite a silent significant part of the population that's once a change in the immigration policy so i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but apparently a state that we are going to have the. executive chairman of google's parent

company alphabet as valid to d. rank and sputnik in order to make it harder for the outlets to reach wider audience is his comments came at a security forum in canada when asked about the use of google's ad sense this. i had a subscription for google alerts in germany thing rich getting them every day out of ten results between five and ten every day we have sputnik news which is some russian german programming outlet and when i clicked on them they wanted to rise to a sense this is really necessary to monitor the rise russian propaganda outlets would google its and so we're well aware of this one and we are working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically put net are the two and there's a whole bunch of coverage about what we're doing there but we're well aware of it

we're trying to engineer the systems to prevent it we don't want to ban the sites artie's editor in chief the move saying google's own congressional report found no evidence the channel violated or manipulated their policies good to have google in very good as defined all logic and reason facts aren't allowed if they come from r.t. because of russia even though we have google on congressional record thing they found no manipulation of their platform on policy violations by their team well under pressure from the u.s. authorities the tech giant lorton investigation into alleged russian meddling but it found no evidence that r.t. manipulated you tube in any way to get its status of the most viewed news network despite that google dropped us from its hue to prime list in the u.s. without any immediate notice or explanation that only came later at a congressional hearing but the firm was grilled on why it hadn't actually carried out the move earlier this year sell gado why did gould google get preferred status

to russia today a russian propaganda arm on youtube. there was a period of time where russia today qualified really because of algorithms to participate in a an advertising program why didn't you revert artie's preferred status after the i.c.a. came out in january two thousand and seventeen it took you to september of two thousand and seventeen to do it the removal of r t from the program was actually a result of the as as i understand it is a reason result of some of the drop in viewership not as a result of any action otherwise so there was there was nothing about r.t.e. or is its content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out. again none of these explanations were initially given to our channel when we were dropped from your troops prime list in america as you heard the reason given why

google's representative was a drop in viewership even though as mentioned earlier channel remains the most viewed news network on you tube. now the unprecedented pressure on our channel began after the us intel community mentioned us in its report on alleged russian meddling we've faced attacks from both the us authorities and tech giants and aside from google twitter and all of our votes on its platform that's despite earlier offering us the option of spending millions on political ads ahead of the us presidential election last week america was forced by the us justice department to register as a foreign agent to discuss the pressure on china was faced with a political commentator steve malzberg. there's been nothing found in the whole russian collusion investigation so far and there's really no meat here when it comes to our tea and nefarious doings in dealings but that doesn't stop them this

is all about the fact that russia is right now the enemy russia is been made the enemy by the left the democrats and by definition the media the media has been nonstop for a year now about evil russia and they want to concentrate on the real problem they certainly have every opportunity to look at what i call propaganda from the leftist mainstream news media you could go to outlets in my opinion like c.n.n. and m.s.n. b. c. and a.b.c. news and n.b.c. news and c.b.s. news and you could find what i consider to be fake news leave taking things out of context leaving out pertinent facts that misrepresent the stories happens all the time every day i see it russia is the corner of quo boogie man right now and this is all part of that deal more news in a moment. the

fans are democrats they have a problem are putting all their effort into chasing the fake rush again hoax and they're not therefore they don't have the resources to go field new candidates that might have a chance of twenty. if they were to drop the russia gate house and focus on just finding candidates running twenty eight they might have a chance but at this rate they don't have a chance which means that they probably won't have a chance of twenty one. it's

good to have you with us today for your new year's president trump has re designated north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism pyongyang had been removed from the list by george w. bush almost a decade ago in an attempt to salvage nuclear negotiations the change means one of the most sanctioned countries in the world will now face even more restrictions today the united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorists. should have happened a long time ago should happened years ago this designation will impose further sanctions and penalties on north korea and related persons and supports our maximum

pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime tomorrow the treasury department will be announcing that additional sanctions and a very large one on north korea and this will be going on over the next two weeks it will be the highest level of sanctions by the time it's finished over two week period north korea joins us iran sudan and syria on the u.s. black list of countries claim to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism it means an immediate ban on defense exports to the country along with limited aid and other economic restrictions although the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said it's really a symbolic move it does though and washington more power it's a punish third party countries for engaging in trade with pyongyang. it is very symbolical the one hand because it just points out that given what how what a rogue regime this is and how brutal this regime is the practical effect of it is

it on we already have many of these actions in place through the current sanctions that may go disrupt the dissuade third parties from undertaking certain activities with north korea. the co-founder of lawyers for peace and demilitarization in korea eric sevareid can believes new sanctions will be futile they banter about the term terrorism a lot because it gets people afraid it is the buzzword since the cold war to justify certain military actions and other actions but frankly the designation violates the very law that it's set to be based upon the united states is frustrated that it can't affect shoei to change it wants to see a north korea without military action that military action isn't an option and so it wants to appear like it's taking further actions but this idea of additional

sanctions now in place that i don't see it adding that much more to the debt to make a difference. and reports for almost a month now the u.s. public has been facing an avalanche of allegations of sexual harassment leveled against men in the public eye on an almost daily basis well it turns out that members of congress are no exception a person basically offered me. an opportunity to flirt with him in order to to excel in my career this member asked a staffer to bring them over some materials to their residence. and the young staffers a young woman went there and was greeted with a member in a towel and this talk it sort of happened over and over and over and finally one day i said you know what knock it off this is just not appropriate it's not right and it's not cool now there's actually a special body on capitol hill set up to deal with the allegations but you might be

surprised to learn that some people think this body is actually part of the problem we have a system in place that allows for the harasser to go unchecked doesn't pay for the settlement himself and is never identified so the office of compliance to which a victim must apply or complain is a place that has really been and then abler of sexual harassment it's the american taxpayers who end up footing the bill it's already cost them over seventeen million dollars in awards and settlements since the office of compliance was established in the one nine hundred ninety s. on top of that the us public doesn't even know what they're paying something the person behind the scheme has admitted needs to change if the taxpayer is basically being charged for the activities of someone stuff a person or a member of congress should be made available to the public so how does this scheme sit with the people who end up paying for it i don't want to pay for it and really

i don't think the economy taxpayer should pay for that they should pay their own way. so who says we have to pay i don't think they should be sued i think they should be prosecuted congress is attempting to rectify this situation with a bipartisan bill so in the future when taxpayers have to cough up the bill they'll at least know whose transgressions it is that they're funding up and r.t. washington d.c. . the international criminal courts requested judicial authorization to investigate alleged u.s. war crimes committed in the war in afghanistan but that could prove difficult as the u.s. has cut ties with the court so american reports. the international criminal court is developing a case on a legit war crimes in afghanistan and seeks a formal investigation the reasonable basis to believe walk why arms against humanity been committed in connection with the conflict in afghanistan the main

focus of the i.c.c. is cases the taliban the afghan government and the u.s. military as for the last of these the prosecutor's office has revealed dozens of instances of torture and ill treatment allegedly carried out by u.s. forces members of u.s. armed forces appeared to have subjected at least sixty one to two hundred persons to torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity one site notorious for abuse in afghanistan is the cia salt pit prison described by the media as a sadistic dungeon with barbaric conditions where torture reigns with little oversight while the evidence has been available to the public ever since secret cia documents were declassified by the u.s. government the cia actually referred to it as enhanced interrogation techniques which included sleep deprivation isolation cold showers and rough treatment but here's one case.

so what are the chances the i.c.c. will eventually bring the u.s. military u.s. officials or the cia to justice actually zero the i.c.c. was created in one nine hundred ninety eight by the rome statute with the us among signatories but in two thousand and two a year after the u.s. invaded afghanistan the bush administration with the true from the treaty senior

diplomat john bolton who finalized the withdrawal later described the move as his happiest moment in government service i signed a letter that removed america's signature from the rome statute but described it in my book is my happiest moment of government service in my life i think the court is fundamentally illegitimate so no matter what comes out of the i.c.c. is probe the international criminal court just doesn't have the jurisdiction to bring those responsible to justice in fact the law goes so far as to say that the u.s. would use military action to forcibly take americans who were arrested out of the hague if they were arrested by the i.c.c. so i think we can certainly predict that any real. all in prison mentor any remediation against americans for crimes against

humanity or crimes is probably unlikely but i still think the process of going through an indictment of attempting to try americans for these types of crimes is a great advance don't use returns and huff i know. we close out. the last. thing on. this. morning. when my host and i.

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a vote of two twenty seven to two o five what's next for tax reform we'll ask the money that is determined big data gets thrown around a lot in the business and the financial world what is it like that that will in the future last well into the past data wranglers in the world plus if someone searches for you on the world wide web what do they see what is your online existence and what more is there lurking beyond what people can easily check out west cyber security expert morgan right before we get to that bianca give us some of the business of financial headlines today well after a failed bad last month and worse an electric. car to buy a rockwell automation. and worse it is now offering twenty nine billion dollars or two hundred twenty five dollars a share of from its initial bit of twenty seven point six billion dollars rockwell which is based in milwaukee is a six billion dollar company with over twenty thousand employees worldwide and emerson which is located in st louis has been trying since august to make

a deal and the statement chief executive david far said we were main convinced there is a compelling strategic operational and financial merit.