for former. presidents like them if putin and donald trump have just held a telephone conversation the topics discussed included syria iran and north korea. openly to deal rank make making it harder for them to reach wide audiences despite the fact the tech giant itself previously admitted it found no violations when it investigated all t's popularity on you tube. and palestine freezes ties with the u.s. after the palestine liberation organization the office in washington loses its license. you want you all to international line from our studio with me an idiot you'd

welcome to the program the russian president vladimir putin has spoken over the phone with trump the conversation lasted almost an hour. reports on what was discussed. after quite a few reports some of them came from d.c. from across the atlantic some of them were from tsotsi we finally got the confirmation from kremlin which makes it official president putin and president trump have been on the phone the kremlin says that the two leaders were quite happy about how it went although we don't find out that much from the statement on mr putin's website but here's a couple of things they did bring up north korea syria also iran and mr putin told his american counterpart that russia still the nuclear deal to hold and absolutely no surprise syria and every time i talk about some sort of communication between the presidents of america and russia i always mention these names but let

me tell you why syria is most important at this point on monday vladimir putin welcomed the syrian president bashar al assad here and sought she it was a surprise trip he doesn't leave the country that often and mr putin and mr assad agreed that the anti-terrorist mission in the middle east country was nearing the end after all indeed islamic state only controls a few villages in the country they've almost been completely thrown out but it still leaves damascus and the opposition at war the civil war in syria is still ongoing as sad though told putin that he is ready for reforms and compromises and mr putin must have tried to send this message across and make it more convincing during that phone call also mr putin and mr trump have previously said

many times that they want the deescalation zones in syria to work so the two presidents could have talked about further. steps in that anyway as you can see there was loads go on and there was a chance that we will find out more very very soon saw that she is hosting the russia iran turkey summit on wednesday the three countries as you may remember are behind the syria peace starts an astronaut and we are expecting vladimir putin just speak here in sochi just after the talks conclude the white house has also issued an official statement on the cole saying both president stressed the importance of ensuring a stable and unified syria free of terrorism. the executive chairman of google the parent company alphabet has vowed to de rank alte and the news agencies but nick in order to make it harder for the outlets to reach

wider audiences his comments came at a security forum in canada when asked about use of google's out sense of. 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 programme no outlet and when i clicked on them they were monitoring that sense is it really necessary to monitor rise russian propaganda outlets would google it and so we're well aware of this one and we're working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again do you ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically artie and support network or 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 be in the sites . eric smith who you just heard there has a long time 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 later 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 the richer the tech mastermind behind the campaign of defeated democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton he has not confirmed any of these allegations artie's editor in chief has the remarks made by schmidt saying google's own congressional report found no evidence that channel had violated or manipulated its policies under pressure from u.s. authorities google launched an investigation into alleged russian meddling but it found no evidence altie had manipulated you tube in any way to get a status of the most viewed news network despite that google dropped us from its you tube prime ad list in the u.s. without any notice or explanation it only explained later at

a congress hearing where the firm was grilled on why it hadn't carried out the movie before. mr sell gado why did gould google get preferred status to russia today a russian propaganda arm on you tube. 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 or is a result of some of the drop in viewership not as a result of any action otherwise so there was there was nothing about our t.v. or its content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out ok.

media consultant neil wallis is certain google's actions against r.t. are politically motivated i do think it censorship you don't have to like the story that russia today coverage 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 a ball 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 our tree but tomorrow the same sort of pressure made you may make and 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 trade for what i do or do not believe i think this is extremely sinister as i say meanwhile eric schmidt's remarks have been contradicted by a google representative who said no concrete plans to deliver russian media including r.t. were in place and on the topic of google whistleblower julian assange has alleged on twitter that the firm gave the matter data of journalists working for wiki leaks to investigators and to his case back in twenty fifteen. now the palestinian national authority is freezing ties with the u.s. after it refused to renew the license of the palestine liberation organizations office in washington the palestinian presidential spokesman have slammed the u.s. decision. this u.s. measure is unprecedented in the history of u.s. palestinian relations it could have serious consequences it's going to serve as

a blow to peacemaking efforts and as a reward to israel. the palestine liberation organization was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty four since then it's been recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the people of palestine by some one hundred states it also enjoys observer status at the un we spoke to dimitri dillon e a fatah revolutionary council member who says the u.s. is backing israel's actions against palestine by not renewing the license. that is further assurance to the state of israel that the state of israel can continue to violate the human rights laws the international laws. and get away with it and on top of that get even more support the united states is given a green light to the state of israel to keep on committing the atrocities and the war crimes that it's been committing since the first day of occupation that was supposed to be ending after all small agreement in five years and that did not

happen and one of the reason why didn't happen because the united states' policies have been inconsistent with its own. set of expressed believes about equality and human rights. over to germany now it's been an unsettled start to the week after talks on forming a coalition government collapse chancellor angela merkel attempted to seek advice from the country's president however you seem to differ as merkel's decline he's ready to head back to the polls if necessary while the president urges the parties to reconsider their disagreements. if it isn't for time zone parties elected to the bundestag have a shared 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 come i should see that's not something i'm afraid of during the election campaign i fought 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 peter all of the breaks down the recent developments. the day after the bundestag election in september angela 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 lynn of the free democrats delivering the killer blow the event on 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 in 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 angela merkel

would be to rule over a minority government most likely with the green party. but a minority governor. it would be unstable at best and would certainly require a 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 branson and member of the f t he says merkel's time at the house is over with her migration policy having proved the last nail in the coffin. is definitely the beginning of the end merkel knows that this is the last time she will be chancellor in the next period or 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 without any cost it's ridiculous well that was the last nail in the coffin people were absolutely against not 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 what had to be done and now she is paying the price for. the lebanese army is prepared to counter any possible act of israeli aggression that according to an official statement by the army's chief it comes as arab nations led by saudi arabia need to crack down on lebanon's hezbollah militia the ongoing crisis began when the lebanese prime minister hariri in announced his resignation in saudi arabia he's since been to france and egypt

meeting with the country's president and is now on his way. up and. picks up 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 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 date we're 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 is expected to meet with lebanese president michel the whole country quite tense actually that's

the atmosphere here as they all wait to see what will the highest in a decade and report released. by the office i'd be surprised to learn that some people to victim must apply or complain is a place that has really been and then the 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 a staff 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 i think that the that the that the said whoever the perpetrator should be paying not the taxpayer. should pay for their own defense really and i 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 though at least know who's transgressions it is that they're funding up and r.t. washington d.c. . a controversial measure in the u.k. budget expected to be unveiled tomorrow has angered many in the british capital human rights associations and you have come out against a planned benefit scheme that could plunge over four hundred thousand vulnerable citizens into poverty they have to live in tons of food bank donations outside downing street as a symbolic gesture lewis smith explains. but this is a pretty rare sight we're in the horse of whitehall behind me you can see downing street and if we just turn the other way you can see that tons of food has been to

live a hit to white told and it will piled up and it's possible national day of action again by the people's assembly run by that and it's to highlight the fact that the rollout of a new benefit system will force thousands more people to rely on food banks this way to buy several things first of all as mentioned the danger of universal credit which is this a system that aims to roll the benefits into one it needs 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 at thirty percent increase in the use of food banks this winter is a figure that comes from the trussell trust to hold this food will be to live it once this demonstration it's finished and this is calling for the tories to use the budget to scrap universal credits either that the people's assembly is saying or

get out. around the phonies for now don't get checks out on social media around facebook twitter and you tube i'll be back at the top of the hour with more of the latest stories so don't go away. feeling like the fans and democrats they have a problem are putting all their efforts into chasing the fake rush again hoax and they're not there for they don't have the resources to go field new candidates that might have a chance of twenty so if they were to drop the rush. and focus on finding candidates running twenty eighteen they might have a chance but at this rate they don't have a chance which means that they probably want

a chance of twenty twenty on. the political crisis inflicted upon lebanon by saudi arabia appears to have receded at least for now is this a sign of things to come as a saudi royal family changes so to saudi arabia and the region is it time to buckle up for a stream. that image was quite controversial some people saw as irresponsible some people sort of dangerous threatening whereas other people including you store as a symbol of something very different what was it. powerful. protecting. this more freedom. that the people who criticize you want to base. a right wing lunatic.

eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun i witnessed the grim results of these weapons in hospital emergency rooms morgues in the confused of to mass of mass shooting spree. after each new massacre the newspaper headlines were always the side why did it happen here. since my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us. five hundred twenty seven thousand people dead and many more injured i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago to. understand was despite this death toll there is such fierce resistance to even moderate gun control laws in the us.

is there was a knock on the trigger that's not what the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he's trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family. my neighbors. zand. relaxing.

the thought that some people would want to take our guns away to me is so ludicrous because the bad guys thugs the murderous the ripest are always going to have guns and our you would be doing would be take them away from the good guys from the law abiding citizens people in this country handle in their houses and throw their dead belts but i want not succumb to this gown that is out there. we were at our church last sunday and our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had gun permits in i would say over two thirds of the members raised their hands. this is a thirty eight taurus and it. it's second sealed

hammer. and it is concealed so that way it does think it tangled or stuck on anything when you try to your pocket or your purse if a bad guy tried to. get to one of my family member is he would have better luck with that better now i think it's a grizzly bear than herding when i have my my babies. closer to go this did you would use in this neighborhood were i would venture a guess everybody in this very odd out anybody does not have a go. go. oh absolutely i can promise you that's the reason they're not coming it stay away from me and they were my home and we will have their problems.

well this is one of my favorite things to do. myself. with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other we can make this country one nation under god once again in the name of the phony for.