there's a dramatic shift. here today following president surprise visit. after the failure to form a coalition government in germany we look at one issue that's proven. climate change critics say. as a country we think we can become. the way. this is not easy even for germany. the lebanese prime minister saad

hariri. foreign trip regional political crisis. wednesday worldwide news headlines live from moscow thanks for joining us. with the time now fully tunde against islamic state in syria there is renewed hope that a political solution could finally bring peace. to the russians. that could bring a long lasting conflict to an end we hope so standing by live not the first joint syria expectations for today perhaps cautious optimism. rory good morning well cautious optimism it is or let's say

a few promising opportunities outside she is shaping out as the new platform for dialogue on syria the resort has become the venue for the first major talks since eisel lost its last city in the country right now it is basically in control of only a few villages in syria and that is of course after joint after anti-terrorist efforts by the syrian government and the russian air force on the one hand and on the other hand the u.s. led coalition of kurds and some elements of the syrian opposition syrian president bashar assad was here and saw it on monday it was a surprise we didn't find out that his talks with latimer putin happened until yesterday morning then on tuesday mr putin had a long phone conversation with president trump and on wednesday mr putin is welcoming the presidents of turkey and iran and we can already say that the three

countries russia turkey and iran their contribution to the syria peace process has paid off they were behind the so-called asked peace talks and almost one year ago in moscow and crawl and tehran agreed to launch asked and then and january this year the talks to place finally bringing together the armed opposition and the syrian government and russia turkey and iran agreed to monitor the cease fire the sixth round of talks in september let's to a full agreement on the four deescalation zones in syria and the three countries became guarantors and this has proven to be an accomplishment significantly reducing the violence and finally allowing humanitarian aid to be the lever. delivered sorry to wear it it is needed most so this brings us though to the

issue of how much the u.s. is involved in this we know that astronaut began before donald trump came into office back then broke obama was still in power and officials from his administration were asked questions about that as you can he 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 u.s. is being sidelined if not excluded from what was something the u.s. is leading we are not excluded we are not being sidelined you know they already do it is quite different than 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 well this time as i've told you president vladimir putin gave a full update to donald trump on his talks with president bashar al assad lot of our putin also told his u.s. counterpart about the upcoming visit of mr aired on and mr rouhani were

a member of that and vietnam the presidents of russia and the u.s. agreed on a joint statement on syria so it's this kind of communication somehow involving washington damascus moscow ankara and to iran that is giving us a reason to say that things may be looking promising here and saw as well we will be checking in with you throughout the day live in sochi thank you. the german president so far failed to unite three parties that were supposed to form a coalition government aside from the refugee influx a major stumbling block was said to have been that of climate change policy and now title as the climate chancellor is being brought into question the environmental policy has long depended on reducing coal burning emissions which brought out the support of the green party but as time has gone by merkel's stance has been

shifting. we don't 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 japan's twenty eleven fukushima nuclear meltdown germany involved to end the use of nuclear energy on of moguls key plans was to shut down all nuclear plants in the country by twenty twenty two and that put pressure on the country's use of coal something she had vowed to reduce to win over the greens will promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions forty percent by two

thousand and twenty and more than a huff by twenty thirty because it now turns out the maximum reduction by twenty twenty may only reach thirty four percent and we discussed this issue with peter best drawn from the alternative for germany party he believes the promises made by angola merkel will be broken. there was no strategy behind it it was a complete nonsense to to leave the nuclear power you see all our neighbors are still using nuclear power this is a very clean energy this is a typical typical sign of america's policy. and that she is moving towards the whole political spectrum to left to ride and she is a one time serving the voters of the socialist and the other time the voters of the greens she has no. shape profile which are

all the other chancellor of former chancellors of c.d.u. of the conservatives used to have she will definitely not to be able to fulfill the promises and now we will see. how to public will react on it. there are still six months until the hungry goes to the polls in parliamentary elections but things are already getting heated and the government's claiming the billionaire george soros is trying to interfere in the country's internal policies with soros who was born in that country is fighting back as american proponents billionaire george soros versus hungary and prime minister viktor orban. well the two seem to be at war. much dish two large bodied predators swimming here in the water children's juice is the trans

one order import of george soros with tons of money and international help here to 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 foundations 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 orban dislike soros the billionaire has called on europe to accept a million refugees annually something the prime minister believes will only make

things worse organ's 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 rapporteurs 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 hungry and government. the courageous. john kerry and people have resisted. and car out. of the mafia state that odd but has. 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 rym in this interview ups darkest hours 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 the 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 amazon the company has announced a special project created especially for the government's needs jaclyn google explains the line between political business and commercial business is getting thinner by the day especially when it comes to internet. and tech giant 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 a commercial club services or c two s for a reason because we want to be like commercial would want to be like government we

want to the best of breed us while 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 us 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 emails 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 made tonight he's ready to fund advisor recruitment it says clearly wants to be had outside 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 discreet 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 states with such an intricate web of partnerships between internet giants politicians and the government perhaps it's time to worry about our online freedoms getting tangled up in them when they should be mentioned that hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails could have been doctored but refused to deny their authenticity professor peers robinson

told us the government interference in companies is a of a growing concern because there was. something to worry about. so the notion when a government and business is 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 it's not a new form collusion sense it's been there before historically with mainstream corporate media and government certainly new in terms of the global reach and i think that you have these corporations and a continued to be appear to be the behest of the u.s. government i don't know increasing drive people to to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence so u.s.

state department officials are accusing the secretary of state of violating laws on the use of child soldiers that story and much more after the break. either good capitalist american. good insurance or gun owners don't be such a shy communist loving bootlicking not insurance company c.e.o. just taken money willy nilly from a can people here want to alex do something constructive impulse got insurance and stop the blood. everybody. this is my buddy max. she's a little bit different. with all the drama in our country.

every day. to bridge the gap this is the. news that u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson violated a u.s. law on the use of child soldiers now that's according to a confidential memo by a group of state department officials tell us in his claim to have breached the child soldiers prevention act when he removed iraq afghanistan from a list of countries that use child soldiers in their militaries and the decision was taken despite the state department's own report acknowledging these countries

as users of children. although worth mentioning perhaps removal from the list allows the u.s. to provide the countries with military assistance in a memo the state department officials say the decision compromises u.s. credibility and undermines its work they claim the move also harms children the very thing the law was that to prevent nevertheless one state department spokesperson defended the move. the human rights report issued for two different women in the trafficking we've told. you that they do. we truly child soldiers so while you can be sexually not claimed. institution to who are 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. the belief was on the secretary's to part to not put those types of countries on this list too many. to that question that's a fair question rex tillerson has an obligation to listen to a new the lies that 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 nations 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. when he passed there and moscow after never ending hysteria over election hocking along with continued leaks of supposedly secure information it's no surprise cyber security has become a major issue in the united states nevertheless the positions in the department of defense to tackle this problem remain empty caleb maupin reports over the past year we've heard cybersecurity 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 empting 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 its kind of troubling we're just a slow system simple as. the bureaucracy of course i'm a lot of corporations. it's not a micro problem it's a macro problem it's kind of funny because a we're speculating that we got hired by roche and all that b.s. and 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 the two two databases not being sufficiently addressed by 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 tabletop and r.t. washington d.c. . the lebanese prime minister saad hariri has arrived 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 is expected to later make his official resignation from the presidential palace where if a national reports. 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 an

expectedly announced his resignation 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 after 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 he has promised that he will give more details and he will clarify everything while he is back home. and tweak purchase in a mosque or market it gave one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when she got her soviet camera home that you've made an interesting discovery. sixteen beautiful pictures black and white pictures which were all about a boy. which apparently an important moment of his life so i've got found find him to to give is photos 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. well he 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 he'd 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 the idea would be to use a camera as a literary camera which is it is a key object in order that 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. you know. i'm not looking for fame i just want to share this amazing story for other people so that others might realize that our life is not just about politics and death but includes room for small everyday pleasure. thanks for joining us here on the program we are back varies.

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