the fight against terrorism in syria might soon be over blood amir putin's assessment made during a meeting with president bashar assad in the past twenty four hours. google openly to be ranked r.t. and support make make it harder for them to reach wider audience and that's despite the fact the tech giant itself previously admitted it found no violations when it investigated artie's popularity on you tube. and day before the u.k. government unveiled its latest budget a protest to stage denouncing measures that could plunge nearly half a million people into poverty.

you're watching r t international live from our moscow studio with mean a day or two day welcome to the program the kremlin has revealed details of an announced meeting between the russian and syrian presidents on monday it took place in the black sea resort of sochi. now this meeting had been kept well under wraps and it was a quick one of the two leaders have plenty of time to talk business the two confirmed that the military operations in syria looks to be coming to an end which would of course be a historical turning point in the conflict in syria at this stage especially after victories against terrorism we are of course interested in advancing the political process because if you just mention the conclusion of the military operation i think that the problem of terrorism is global. globally when it comes to our

operation against terrorists in syria is a military operation is indeed concluding now just two years ago syria was overrun by eisel but at this point they've been outed from all major towns and cities and really are just clinging to a few small villages at this point and so the focus is really turning towards the future this was of course the second time that assad has visited russia to sit down and talk with putin about the conflict in the course of the country six year civil war now the first visit came in two thousand and fifteen just after russia was asked to help in the anti terror efforts in the country assad stated that he is now ready and willing to work with anyone and everyone whose goal in the country is peace and settlement the recent creation of deescalation zones in the country was again hailed as the first steps towards getting to beginning a conversation with the opposition groups and the country which of course is pivotal to ending the conflict but it also said that russia is counting on the want to actively participate in the final steps of settlement of the settlement of syria

and of course it's also important to know that the moscow will be hosting a syrian summit in sochi tomorrow with officials from both iran and turkey who of course spearheaded those ever more important deescalation zones in syria that's as moscow will continue to play a key figure in mediating a way forward in syria we asked middle east expert at the risk about what assad's visit means in the context of the situation in syria. by i think that the one important part fundamental part of the future of syria would be a role for president you know this this visit. reflects or indicates that president assad will continue to play a major role that's contrary to the expectations or the hopes of some certain other sides so i think it's so way to tell the president outside that he is a major player in the game that any consultations will have to take his perspective into consideration of other in other words rochelle recognizing the importance role

president assad will play especially at this phase as we see the degree they had that the defeat or the imminent defeat of ice or certainly a terrorist groups. executive chairman of google parent company alphabet has vowed to rank on the news agencies but nick in order to make it harder for the outlets to reach wider audiences his comments came at the security forum in canada when asked about a google ad sense service. i had a subscription for google alerts in german language and getting them every day out of ten results between five and ten every day we have sputnik news which is a russian german program no outlet and when i clicked on them they will monitor rise with google that since this is really necessary to monitor 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 artie and sputnik 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. eric schmidt who you just heard there has a longtime relationship with the democratic party leadership which lost last year's presidential election in the u.s. he was reportedly a donor and informal adviser to the obama campaign way to becoming an advisor to the a bomb administration according to documents revealed by wiki leaks schmidt also donated to the clinton foundation and he's believed to be that has not confirmed any of these allegations artie's editor in chief has the remarks by schmidt made where the firm was grilled on why it hadn't carried out the move before mr sell gado why did gould google give preferred status to russia

today a russian propaganda arm on you tube. there was a period of time where russia today qualified really being revert artie's preferred status after the i.c.a. came out 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 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 you or is content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out. media consultant neil wallace is certain google's actions against a politically motivated. i don't think it censorship you don't have to like the stories that russia today covers you don't have to want to read the material coming

from sputnik but i really do not believe it is in any way except of all that a bunch of politically correct. democratic party supporting people certainly in silicon valley should decide what i should or should not read i think it's the height of arrogance where does it start and where does it stop who decides that google today will attack r.t. but tomorrow the same sort of pressure may get may make them decide to attack the daily mail here in here in britain another political viewpoint they might not like this is suppression this is censorship i think that i am quite capable of watching r.t. reading sputnik and deciding what i do or do not want to take from it what i do or do not believe i think this is extremely sinister as i say. in an unsettled start to the week for germany after talks on forming

a coalition government collapse chancellor angela merkel attempted to seek advice from the country's president however there seem to differ as merkel's declared she is ready to head back to polls if necessary while the president urges the parties to reconsider their disagreements if it isn't for time and as a party is elected to the bundestag have a shared duty to serve their country i expect from all parties a willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future if you elections can i should see that's not something i'm afraid of during the election campaign i thought for a four year mandate my point of view is that new elections would be the better path . but merkel are struggling to find a way out r.t. as peter breaks down the recent 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 the event ones 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 schulze 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 voltage 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 that 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 herself maybe i have something to do with this situation. mrs merkel has failed it's time for her now to take a step back that night at 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 discussed the issue with hugh bronson and member of the f.t. he says matter of time at the helm is over with her migration policy having proved the last nail in the coffin this is definitely the beginning of the end merkel knows that this is the last time she will be chancellor and in the next period in

the next four years there will be a point when she resigns and a new person would take over she has no policies at all she is a woman without principles she betrayed so many conservative core values. abolishing subscription making putting the end to nuclear power abandoning the traditional schooling system she does all she can to stay in power it's not her lack of ability the it's not that she cannot compromise she has no principles the fault lies with the other parties who cannot agree on common grounds and it is no surprise the idea of open borders no borders no nation everything free to everybody for everyone and that without any cost is ridiculous well that was the last nail in the coffin people were absolutely against that you're looking at another one million one point five million people to come to this country the next year people are strongly opposed to that she got the worst result she had ever since she was in

power and her party also suffered heavy heavy blows this is because she did not listen to what people really wanted to do or wanted to be done and now she is paying the price. the u.k.'s budget has yet to be unveiled but some of it scientists a painted measures are already causing an uproar in the country or not story after this break. when i was sure seemed wrong when all along just don't hold. any belief you have to shape out these days to come out ahead and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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a benefit scheme that could plunge of a four hundred thousand vulnerable citizens into poverty they didn't have a tons of food bank donations outside downing street as a symbolic gesture laura smith explains. well this is a pretty rare sight we're in the heart of white wall behind me you can see downing street and that if we just turn the other way you can see that tons of food has been delivered hit to whitehall and it's all piled up and it's possible national day of action again by the people's assembly run by them and it's to highlight the fact that the rollout of a new benefits system will force thousands more people to rely on food banks this winter i spoke to from the people's assembly and he told me what it was all about he is. this is because we feel that the government's policies the driving people into poverty. meaning thousands and thousands of people that she million or more

are now relying on food banks on a regular basis the role of things like universal credit has already been widely criticized by by campaign is politicians in areas that it's been road they've seen a thirty percent increase already in food bank usage which just about hit the winter looks like food thank yous are going to be a lot higher and we think in one of the richest countries in the planet it's a disgrace that people are having to be forced to use the food to have to use food banks to feed their families isn't that this protest is being organized on the day before the budget is to highlight several things first of all as mentioned the danger of universal credit which is a system that aims to roll benefits into one it means to make the system simpler but the reality of it is that there's often a six week delay for families can claim any money and that's why they need to bridge that gap by using food banks thirty percent increase in the use of food banks this winter is the figure that comes from the trussell trust to hold this

food will be delivered once this demonstration it's finished this is calling for the tories to use the budget to scrap universal credit either that the people's assembly is saying or get out. loud. meath army is prepared to counter any possible act of israeli aggression that's according to an official statement by the army's chief compass the arab nations led by saudi arabia mean tech crackdown on lebanon's hezbollah militia easily has the story this announcement by joseph he's the head of the lebanese military telling the army to be full readiness along the border with israel saying that israel daily commits violations of lebanon's sovereignty and so the country must be ready to face any aggression from the southern neighbor and of course it all comes in the background of these increasing tensions in the region we've seen the head of the israeli defense force the chief of staff gul eyes in court saying very openly actually that he's ready to have

complete cooperation with the saudi arabia and to share intelligence with them on what they both see as their common foe iran and by extension iran's allies in the region groups like hezbollah course we've seen all of this coming in the wake of the arab league meeting over the weekend convened by saudi arabia to condemn iran and of course again there are allies like hezbollah like the who sees and other groups which are fighting in resisting against saudi arabia in yemen as well so all of that coming together in that sense that meeting didn't go exactly to plan there were several arab countries which didn't vote for saudis motion against iran and that day were expected to see the return of the lebanese prime minister saad hariri it follows his resignation live on when he was still in saudi arabia his

resignation as prime minister he then over the weekend went to paris and will return later today in time for lebanon's independence day celebrations but it remains to be seen exactly what will happen he's expect. to meet with the lebanese president show the whole country quite tense actually about the atmosphere here as they wait to see what will happen not just in the domestic politics of lebanon but also regionally. holist a million dollars of taxpayers' money has been paid out in harassment settlements by the u.s. congress this year as the highest in a decade a report released by the office of compliance reveals complaints ranged from sexual harassment to racial discrimination. has more details 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 access to excel in my career this member asked a staffer to bring them over some materials to the residents. and the young staffer who is a young woman went there and was greeted with a member in a towel 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 able or 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 u.s. 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 they have occupation that was supposed to be ending after all zero. five years and that did not happen and one of the reason why didn't happen because. he was the nation's leader thirty seven years the announcement was made as parliament was initiating an impeachment hearing

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