of the true colors of universities in the u.s. . headlines on the international. grip on syria. there is a dramatic shift. to a political solution to the war. today in russia following president the surprise visit just. after the failure to form a coalition government in germany we look at one issue that's proving. negotiations of climate change and what critics say has been all told and no action. as a country we think we can become pioneers on the way to creating the. this is not easy even for germany to have. lebanese prime minister saad

hariri finally arrives home from a foreign trip which political crisis it's off to hear his surprise resignation in saudi arabia now more than two weeks ago. eight o'clock wednesday morning here in the russian capital you're watching international a very warm welcome to you and with the tide now fully against the islamic state in syria there's a renewed hope that a political solution could finally bring peace let's cross live now to the russian city of sochi which is hosting told to bring around the end of the long lasting call that good morning to you there's been plenty of talks before but is there no reason to be optimistic this time. we're

a good morning well i'd be very cautious with the word optimism let's say that there are now promising opportunities i want to put it this way has sought she is shaping out as the platform for the syria dialogue the resort city has become the venue for the first major round of talks on syria after eisel lost its last city in the country right now it's only in control of a few villages in syria that's after two years of joint efforts anti-terrorist efforts by the syrian government and also the russian air force and besides this coalition of kurds some elements of the syrian opposition backed by the u.s. syrian president bashar assad was here and saw it she on monday it was a surprise visit but we didn't find out about his talks with a lot of our putin until yesterday morning then on tuesday mr putin had

a lone phone call over sation with donald trump and on wednesday mr putin is welcoming the presidents of turkey and iran here and saudi that's coming up and we can already say that the three countries russia turkey and iran come on their contribution and somehow somehow it's already paid off when it comes to the syria pace process and they were behind the house to not talks initially and almost one year ago ron sorry to run ankara and moscow agreed to launch the talks in january this year the first talks to place and the three countries agreed that the are going to monitor the cease fire that agreed on and subject there was the six round of talks and that was when there was a final agreement on the four deescalation zones in syria and the three countries agreed to. become guarantors to that and really this has proven to be a true

a complement accomplishment because it led to a significant reduction of violence and also humanitarian aid being delivered to places where it was needed most but as the astronaut process unraveled there was speculation that the u.s. was being left out in the syrian peace process and previously under the obama administration's u.s. officials were even asked questions about that. as you can doesn't see it in the. know the secretary didn't see this as a sign of it all and just you know at least feel the us is being sidelined if not excluded from what was something the us was leading and we are not excluded we are not being sidelined you know they already do it is quite different and we israel before and we are still right now this leadership that you're speaking of is all past tense is that not true i would disagree but warre as i've said the russian

president vladimir putin has given donald trump a full update on his talks with boss or assad and then he also spoke about the upcoming talks with mr abbott on and mr audley remember that in vietnam the leaders of russia and the us produced a joint statement on syria where they did agree to work together so that's why this can be looking promising right now when it comes to efforts by so many players here russia the u.s. and turkey and iran. trying to live in sochi thank you. the german president's fail to unite three parties that were supposed to form a coalition government aside from the refugee influx a major stumbling block was said to be that of the climate crisis and now a title of course was the climate chancellor is being brought into question our environmental policy is long depended on reducing coal burning emissions which

brought the support of the green party but as time has gone by merkel stance has been rapidly shifting. as a country and we think we can become pioneers on the way to creating the age of renewable energy we need deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions and therefore we have committed ourselves to de carbonized seen in the global economy the home where complaining call free energy supply and our doesn't starve and die just is not easy even for germany we have set targets for twenty twenty twenty thirty and subsequently twenty fifty years from now at the end of twenty seven c. you still have quite a way to go in the wake of the fukushima nuclear incident in japan and germany valve too when the use of nuclear energy one of those key plans was to shut down all nuclear plants in the country by twenty twenty two that put pressure on the country's use of coal something she's valve to reduce to win over the greens but

it's all threatening now to leave germany rather palos merkel promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by forty percent by twenty twenty and by more than a half by twenty thirty as it turns out now the maximum reduction by twenty twenty may only reach thirty four percent we discuss this issue with peter brookes drawn from the alternative for germany party he believes the promises made by goal on the climate crisis will be broken. there was no strategy behind it it was a complete nonsense to leave. nuclear power you see all our neighbors feel using nuclear power this is a very clean energy this is a typical typical sign of policy and that she is moving towards the whole political spectrum. two. years

one time serving the voters of the socialist and the other time to voters of the greens she has no. shape profile which all the other chancellor of the former chancellor of c. view of the conservatives used to have she will definitely not to be able to fulfill the promises and now we will see. the public will react on. as a still six months until the hungry go to the polls and parliamentary elections but things are already getting heated and the government claiming the billionaire george soros is trying to interfere in the country's internal policies but soros who was born there is fighting back samir a convert points billionaire george soros versus hungary and prime minister viktor orban while the two seem to be at war.

much dish to large bodied predators are swimming here in the waters children's juices the trans border employers george soros language terms of money and international hell you're too little. with hungary's health care and education systems in distress and corruption rife the current government has sought to create an outside enemy to distract citizens the government selected george soros for this purpose. well orban once received a soros grant to study at oxford so what made him turn against the billionaire and why can't the open society foundation's founder and the hungry and leader stand each other. first soros funded n.g.o.s in two thousand and sixteen alone his organization spent three point six million dollars on forty six different groups in hungary and here are the findings of a few of those groups stated quite clearly in their reports now the refugee crisis

is another reason why organ dislike soros the billionaire has called on europe to accept a million refugees annually something the prime minister believes will only make things worse organs party has even accused soros of masterminding the e.u.'s entire refugee policy disease before a recent immigration decision in the european parliament soros was meeting with the rap on the subject as well as five different e.u. commission is i'm not a conspiracy theorist but this hold some clues now soros denies the allegation calling it a deliberate lie and the third reason soros has been very outspoken in his criticism of the hungarian government. courageously john kerry and people have resisted. and corruption of the mafia state that odd but has established.

because of all that orbit has a personal battle against soros launching a nationwide television and billboard campaign against him back in july and his opponent was quick to respond accusing the hungary and prime minister of anti-semitism. the campaign is remiss interviewer ups darkest hour as the n.g.o.s there are some good ones but there are very many of them that act as a fifth column to undermine the stability and integrity of the countries they act as sort of an internal intelligence agency that it is always there when the time comes to overthrow

a government you can count on it that there will be an immense amount of money that will be spent against prime minister or bond and against his party well the feud between orban and soros seems to be turning increasingly ugly as hungry as april general election edges even closer to. the u.s. intelligence community is now able to store data on imus on the company has announced a special project created especially for the government's needs this latest deal well it's still the latest that is linking u.s. corporations with washington officials a look at an explanation now his oxys jacqueline foca. the line between political business and commercial business is getting thinner by the day especially when it comes to internet and tech giants let's start with amazon which has just announced a new deal to provide a tailored cloud service to the u.s. intelligence community this secret region yes that's really its name comes on top

of amazon's existing six hundred million dollar contract with the cia and other agencies and the cia's chief information officer couldn't be more excited about the partnership that we named commercial club services or to us for a reason because we want to be like commercial we want to be like government we want to the best of breed that's what we partner with amazon and they aren't alone just last month microsoft announced a similar partnership over a dedicated cloud for the u.s. government and their partners microsoft is partnering with the u.s. government in the journey to the cloud providing both infrastructure and platform offerings to digital transformation meanwhile a treasure trove of connections were uncovered between u.s. politics and internet heavyweights after last year's presidential election in which some of them seem to have sided with hillary clinton now take google clinton's campaign chair john podesta had his email hacked and published at the end of two thousand and sixteen they contain several references to eric schmidt the executive chairman of alphabet google's parent company and schmidt seemed eager to help with

that which meet tonight he's ready to fund advisor recruitment etc clearly wants to be had i would side advisor but didn't seem like he wanted to push others out one of clinton's digital advisors noted that schmidt had a team working on important products for the campaign and a memo which also mentioned that discrete conversations had been initiated with google facebook and apple to understand their priorities when it came to the election and their priorities were quickly made obvious especially when it comes to facebook there was a sense of deja vu when facebook's chief operating officer was also revealed to be in communication with protest expressing her hope and willingness to assist clinton in the race for the presidency i still want hillary clinton to win badly i'm still here to help us i can. look forward to working with you to elect the first woman president of the united state with such an intricate web of partnerships between internet giant politicians and the government perhaps it's time to worry about our

online freedoms getting tangled up in them there is something to worry about. so notionally government and business a supposed to function in a way that independent of each other. i think the reality is that there are overlapping interests and influence is exercised and this is a problem it's a problem for democracy those platforms then become extremely useful tools for governments to try to exercise influence and power and it is a real danger this is not a new form collusion sense that it's been there before historically with mainstream corporate media and government is certainly new in terms of the global reach and i think that you have these corporations continue to be appear to be acting on the behest of the u.s. government then no increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence. quarter past the hour here in moscow

despite security being a major issue in the u.s. key positions in the u.s. department of defense remain empty. and investigates over the past year we've heard cyber security touted time and time again as a top priority for the united states democrats and republicans must work together and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyber attacks counterterrorism and cyber security must be top priorities in keeping our home once a d.o.j. has made cyber security a top priority i'd like to take this opportunity emphasize the importance of improving cybersecurity and working related issues across public and private sectors now given how much importance has been attached to this issue it seems like very little is actually being done key vacancies such as department of homeland security cyber security chief or department of defense chief of information as well

as numerous low level positions remain empty so why is the united states failing to appoint these oh so important cyber security chiefs. it's not an intentional into news today not an intentional decision to keep those empty going forward it's more stacking up the nominations and clearing the decks of the senior most leaders and ambassadors we've got to get through so the white house has been complaining that one key dimension of government is missing key appointments is it a health care b. trade c. military or d. cyber security is pretty easy. health care health care cybersecurity what do you make of that that i mean it's been a year since the presidential election we still don't have all these key appointments in cybersecurity mostly because congress is blocking most of the appointments i know that there are other powers pretty heavy in the fact that the white house hasn't done anything about it's kind of troubling we're just

a slow system simple is that. the bureaucracy of course. a lot of corporations you know it's it's it's not a micro problem it's a macro problem it's kind of funny because there were speculating that we had by russia all that b.s. and still you having got nobody to take care of. now the white house seems to be filling the positions at a rather slow pace it's been over a year since the u.s. presidential election and so far we only have two hundred forty nine out of the four hundred sixty nine posts that have been filled they tend to react when a threat has become evident as we saw with the snowden hacking the wiki leaks there's no question that politically because of the divisive nature of politics in washington today that cybersecurity and the threat to databases not being sufficiently addressed the the priorities are on other pressing political issues such as the preservation of political positions now both democrats and

republicans as well as the president agree that cyber security is a top priority it's just not a priority that you actually do something about. r.t. washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson violated the u.s. lower on the use of child soldiers that's according to a confidential memo by a group of state department officials that say listen his claim to have breached the child soldiers prevention act when he removed iraq afghanistan and me and the list of countries that use child soldiers in their militaries and the decision was taken despite the state of. happens on report of knowledge of these countries as users of children fighters removal from the list allows the u.s. though to provide the countries with military assistance and a member state department officials say the decision compromises u.s. credibility and undermines as well

a claim the move also harvest children at the very thing that always that prevent nevertheless a state department spokesperson defended tell us in its decision do you mean the rights report issued by the city to prove that in the trafficking we've. told you that they do you know we've always tried shooters to do what i can to secure the oil and the soon institution to words lacking credibility 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 isn't too many. so the question that's a fair question rex tillerson has an obligation to listen to

a noodle as the people within the state department that have been there and to adhere to their reports and to what they've said so unfortunately it seems like he's kind of going rogue on this and just thinks he can do better you know this is a guy who was a businessman he works for exxon and he's done all kinds of deals with nation so if rex tillerson is somebody who's only looking at money and who cares more about money whether that be u.s. military contracts or other things with these countries then human rights children that are being forced to become child soldiers to take part in these violent battles then we have a real problem when the leader of foreign policy cares more about these military or financial deals than he does the human rights of these people. lebanese prime minister saad hariri has touched down in beirut it is the first time he's been in the country since he resigned on november the fourth while in saudi arabia he will reportedly make his way to the presidential palace to officially deliver his resignation emerge for us to. 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 capital 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 and expectedly announced his resignation in a televised address while 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 about t's family's safety it immediately sparked speculation that mr hariri was held in saudi arabia against his will and that he

was forced to resign that was the opinion shared by many politicians i have to say including here in lebanon including the country's president he did not accept this so called remote resignation mr hariri in several days left saudi arabia go into france off to france mr hariri went to cairo many there were some stops in between and now he's back to lebanon he is expecting to take part in the independence day celebrations here in beirut but of course everybody's waiting for explanations. for his resignation he has promised that he will give more details and he will clarify everything while he is back home. and until the purchase of a moscow market gave one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when

she got her soviet camera home that she made a startling discovery. sixteen beautiful pictures. black and white pictures which were all about of boy. which. apparently an important moment of his life so i've got found it find him to a to give is for toes back to him. yeah i was at the airport when my friend sent me a photo of a little boy who looked very much like me with a caption saying looking for a russian boy there are so many questions where do these photos come from and why is someone looking for me who is this elizabeth and how did she get those photos.

found me really. i got her what's a message from dimitri saying i am the russian boy you are looking for but in the end i decided to call her by skype we talked for two hours about everything she turned out to be a very nice woman. but it turned out that my uncle had given it to his friend to sell at the market but you've forgotten to remove the film. elizabeth is planning to come here in february to visit all those places in the photos she has written an amazing film script for the story that's going to be turned into a documentary i will do my best to help or is the idea would be to use a camera as a literary camera which is it is a key object in order story and use it as a character and really follow in those of us of the camera and go back to the

places where the picture was taken. i'm not looking for fame i just want to share this amazing story with other people so that others might realize that our life is not just about politics and death but includes room for small everyday pleasures. this is also international thanks for joining us so far we were talking with your world headlines in half an hour.

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