lebanese prime minister saad hariri arrives home in beirut following his resignation. president vladimir putin and donald trump have held a telephone conversation the topics discussed include syria iran and north korea. google openly vows to do you rank r.t.m. sputnik making it harder for them to reach wide audiences that's just by the fact the tech giant itself previously admitted it found no violations when he investigated artie's popularity on you to. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team trash launch on thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start our program with breaking

news lebanese prime minister saad hariri has just arrived at the airport in beirut this is the first time he has been in the country since his resignation announced in saudi arabia on november fourth is reportedly going to the presidential palace to deliver his official resignation as prime minister to the lebanese president. as details on the story. this is a long awaited to return lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has returned to beirut after he spent more than two weeks outside the country and i have to say that these were really hard and turbulent twenty days for lebanon it started as a normal official visit to saudi arabia but already next day mr hariri unexpectedly announced about his resignation in a televised address speaking from the saudi arabian capital he then explained that the major reason behind this to station is the influence and the attempts by

military and political forces backed by iran to meddle into the policy politics here in lebanon and throughout the region mr hariri also mentioned that he fears for his life and warres te's family's safety it immediately sparked speculation that mr hariri was held in saudi arabia against his will and that he was poorest to resign that was the opinion shared by many politicians i have to say including here in lebanon and including the country's president he did not accept this so-called remote resignation mr relief in several days left saudi arabia going to france france's president. reiterated many times that he considers mr hariri prime minister of lebanon and this is exactly the status he's accepting and inviting mr harry. to france in after france mr hariri

went to high road many there were some stops in between and now he's back to lebanon he is expected to take part in the independence day celebrations that are going to take place here in beirut but of course everybody is waiting for explanations over he's resignation. and he has promised that he will give more details and he will clarify everything while he is back home so let's let's wait and see what how it will be progressing. meanwhile the lebanese army is prepared to counter any possible act of israeli aggression that's according to an official statement by the army's chief it comes as arab nations that led by saudi arabia moved to crack down on lebanon's hezbollah militia picks up the story for us . this announcement by joseph he's the head of the lebanese military telling the army to be in 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 their 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 poll country quite tense actually that's the atmosphere here as they all wait to see what will happen not just in the domestic politics of lebanon but also regionally. the russian president vladimir putin has spoken over the phone with donald trump the conversation lasted almost an hour or two using the potential reports and 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 copy 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 and 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 is loads going on and there was a chance that we will find out more very very soon sot she is hosting the russia iran turkey summit on wednesday but three countries as you may remember are behind the syria peace talks and asked enough and we are expecting vladimir putin to speak here in sochi just after the talks conclude the white house has also issued an

official statement on the call saying both president stressed the importance of ensuring a stable and unified syria free of terrorism. the executive chairman of google's parent company alphabet has vowed to do you rank r t and the news agencies put nick in an order to make it harder for the outlets to reach wider audience says his comments came at a security forum in canada when asked about r t's use of google's ad sense service . i had a subscription for google alerts in germany being rich and getting them every day out of ten results between five and ten every day when sputnik news which is a russian german program know that and when i clicked on them they wanted to rise to it since this is really necessary to monitor the 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 do you ranking the

ranking those kinds of sites it's basically put nick 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 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 obama administration according to documents revealed by we can make sure it also donated to the clinton foundation and it is believed he was the tech mastermind behind the campaign defeated democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton has not confirmed any of these allegations now artie's editor in chief has slammed the remarks made by schmidt saying google's own congressional report found no evidence that the channel had violated or manipulated its policies now under pressure from

the u.s. authorities google launched an investigation into alleged russian meddling but it found no evidence r t had manipulated you tube in any way to achieve its status as the most viewed news network now 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 congressional hearing where the firm was grilled on why it had not carried out the movie before. mr sal 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 by 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 r t or its content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out the media consultant neil wallace in certain google's actions against r.t. are 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 simple 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 this start and where does it stop who

decides that google today will attack r.t. but tomorrow the same sort of pressure made it 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 meanwhile eric schmidt's the remarks have been contradicted by a google representative who said no concrete plans to deal rank russian media including our t.v. were in place and on the topic of google was a blower join a science has alleged to on twitter that the firm gave the method data of journalists working for wiki leaks to investigators in his case back in two thousand and fifteen. switching gears now the palestinian national authority is

freezing ties with the u.s. after it refused to renew the license of the palestinian liberation organization's office in washington the palestinian presidential spokesman slammed the us 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 blue to peacemaking efforts and as a reward to israel. the palace down a liberation organization was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty four since then it has been recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the people of palestine by some hundred states and also enjoys observer status at the un we spoke to dimitri delani 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 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 the u.s. secretary of state is facing allegations he violated a u.s. law against the countries using child soldiers that story much more after a short break you are watching our two international.

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are welcome back this is aren't an international a group of u.s. state department officials has accused the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson of breaching a u.s. law on child soldiers according to a confidential memo killer say tillerson violated the act in june when he removed iraq afghanistan and meehan maher from the list of countries that enroll child soldiers in their armies and the decision it was taken despite of the department acknowledging those countries as users of children in the armed forces according to reuters taking the country's off the list facilitates providing them with u.s. military assistance or to correspond to give them up and as commentary. every year the u.s. state department publishes a list of countries that have violated their rules around child soldiers they're

considered child soldier offenders well in twenty seventeen iraq man maher and afghanistan were removed from that list now we know according to a report from reuters that there were twelve different state department officials who signed a letter protesting that decision by rex tillerson so today at the u.s. state department the spokesperson was pressed on why this decision was made why is it that these three countries were removed from the list what changed their designation this is what happened when pressed on the issue do you mean rights report is completely different in the traffic we. do use we always try to keep interest to the security. institutions to. create ability in this regard there are countries that use lots and lots of children there are countries where maybe one source might say that they

heard a child had been a border guard i'm just making that up we can't back up that information if it is a report that only lists you know one or two of the belief was on the secretary's to part to not put those types of countries on this list too many. so the question that's a fair question now at this point reports indicate that iraq still uses children and its popular mobilization forces furthermore man mars has laws on the books still that allow for the recruitment of children human rights watch spoke up about the changing of the designations voicing strong objections to this decision that was made by rex tillerson but at the moment it appears to be the fact that these three countries have been removed from the u.s. state department's child soldiers offenders list and the reasons for that decision is really not clear as you just heard as the spokesperson for the u.s.

state department was pressed on the issue and couldn't quite explain why this decision had been made. it has been an unsettling start to the week in germany after talks on forming a coalition government collapsed chancellor angela merkel sought advice from the country's president however their views seem to differ and merkel has declared she is ready to head back to the polls if necessary while the presidential president has urged political parties to recommit to hammering out a coalition if you put it isn't it time in his own party is elected to the bundestag have a show to serve the 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 say that's not something i'm afraid of during the election campaign i thought for four year mandate my point of view is that new elections would be the better path if merkel

now struggling to find a way out our t.p.r. oliver 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 available ones 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 they 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 with that 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 volta 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 ourselves maybe i have something to do with this situation for americans mrs merkel has failed us it's time for 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 a member of the f.t.

he says merkel's 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 machall knows that this is the last time she will be chancellor and in the next period of 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 it's ridiculous well that was the last nail in the coffin people were absolutely against going to be 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 results 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. that does it for me i'll be back in about twenty four minutes with a full look at your news you are watching aren't international glad to have you with us. here's what people have been saying about redacted in disasters full on are some of

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