breaking news here on r.t. international lebanon's prime minister announced as he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the president asked him to reconsider the pm sparked a regional political crisis two weeks ago when he said he was stepping down. as i saw his grip on syria all but about parades there's a dramatic shift from a military to a political solution to the war as new peace talks start today in russia following president assad's surprise visit to sochi. amazon will provide special data storage for u.s. intelligence becoming the latest in a long list of corporations to work hand in hand with the state. russian m.p.'s adopts their own foreign financed media law in direct response to

washington forcing r.t. america to register as a foreign agent. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and the care and we start this hour with breaking news from lebanon the country's prime minister has announced he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the president asked him to reconsider. i looked. i discussed today my resignation with the president of the republic who wants me to wait before submitting it to put it on hold and to allow for me comes to trace him into the reasons behind it i comply with. less cost live to beirut to get the latest from marty's marissa national who's that for us now maria seems like this announcement caught everybody by the same surprise that his resignation did two weeks ago what exactly is going on.

well yes it was a surprise but a relief this time prime minister hariri has been speaking from beirut for the first time on the lebanese soil in the last twenty days that has been a very turbulent time for lebanon more than two weeks ago mr hariri left the country and he announced about his resignation in a televised speech was speaking from the capital of saudi arabia and brought kind of a crisis here and to lebanon on and today it's picking up to the official part of the independence day celebrations he can see now there still continue here in beirut mr hillary has said that he agrees to put his decision on hauled off to be disgusted with the lebanese president and he stressed that the major goal right now is to get and keep never got away from any arab conflict he didn't give any further specific detail but here earlier mentioned the attempt by some iranian

backed military and political forces to meddle into affairs here in lebanon and throughout the arab range and as the major reason behind his decision to resign his at today's speech was understood by many as the l.t. made to him that this iranian influence should be diminished one hundred able to speak to people here on the ground and they have told me that given how influential iran bag forces are this could be a difficult thing to do but it is also clear and mr hariri made it clear that if it's not. happening he might come back to discuss his resignation resignation decision again so i guess this is the challenge that lebanon is now playing thing ok with the latest there's artie's the national live from beirut thanks maria. what the tide turned against islamic state in syria there's renewed hope that

a political solution could finally bring peace. to reports from the russian city of sochi which is hosting talks that could bring the long lasting conflict to an end. it looks like tsotsi is shaping out as the new platform for dialogue on syria the resort has become the venue for the first major round of talks on the syrian crisis since i so lost its last city and the country basically the terrorist organization is now in control of only a few villages and some part of the desert in syria that is of course after two years of joint efforts by the syrian government and the russian air force against the terrorists on the one hand and on the other hand the efforts by some kurdish groups along with elements of the syrian opposition backed by the u.s. the syrian president bashar assad was here on monday it was a surprise we didn't find out that his talks with vladimir putin happened until

yesterday morning then mr putin had a long phone conversation with donald trump and on wednesday mr putin is welcoming the presidents of turkey and iran here and saw it was these three countries russia turkey and iran that were behind the so-called astronaut talks and the first place and with the terrorists now almost gone this format could prove to be more crucial than ever.

as a result of the talks in the kazakh capital ankara. moscow into iran became the guarantors of the four deescalation zones and syria and the fact that these zones came into being was actually the first major step towards the point where we could perhaps a civil war in syria no more in years and these areas finally violence has been significantly reduced and humanitarian aid could finally be delivered to areas of syria where it was needed most and this brings us to the issue of the u.s. being involved in all this or not being involved in all this at all of course the aster talks began when president barack obama was still in office and back then officials in his administration were asked questions about the american involvement

in this as you can see it in the. know the secretary to see this as a snub at all does he not at least feel the u.s. is being sidelined if not excluded from what was something the u.s. has leading we are not excluded we are not being sidelined you know they already do it is quite different than we his role before and we are still leaving 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 vladimir putin gave donald trump a full update on the talks with syrian president bashar assad mr putin also told mr trump about the upcoming summit with the presidents of iran and turkey mr air dawn and mr ron e. as we remember in vietnam mr putin and mr trump produced a joint statement on syria so it's this kind of communication somehow involving different sides like washington moscow damascus ankara and to iran that is giving

us a reason to say that things may be looking promising here. the u.s. intelligence community has struck a deal with armisen for the companies who provide data storage the on line giants developed a special project tailored exactly to the government's means jacqueline vica explains. 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 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 would want to be our government we want the best of breed outs were reported 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 their rich meet tonight he's ready to fund advisor recruit talent it's clearly wants to be had out 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 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 state 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 and she mentions that hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails that could have been doctored professor piers robinson gave us his take on the situation there's something to worry about. notionally government and business

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 that is a real danger this is not a new form collusion sense it has been there before historically with mainstream corporate media and government certainly knew in terms of the global reach and i think that you have these corporations that are continued to be a good speed in the behest of the u.s. government don't know increasing drive people to to leave them go to other platforms which are under the same kind of influence the upper house of the russian parliament has voted to adopt a law on foreign media operating in russia medina carton of the has the details. the upper house of the russian parliament this wednesday approved the law on

foreign media working and russia now is under this new piece of legislation any foreign media which receives funding from abroad could be asked to register as a foreign agent and as soon as this media is given this new status the status of a foreign agent should use a special disclaimer and its work and it will also be obliged to file reports on its funding to the russian government now next step for this new law is that it should be signed by the russian president now this particular move to introduce this new piece of legislation was the made in response to the recent demand coming from the us department of justice that our. brains working in america r.t. america should register as a foreign agent now r.t. america followed that demand and register it last week but that happened after months of pressure and being blamed for allegedly amanda ling and the twenty

sixteen us presidential elections however all that time there was no real avodah provided that it did take place and now this demand coming from the us parked a lot of debate within the russian government and the government said that there will be some reciprocal a measures introduced very soon and this is exactly what we see at the moment. the german president's 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 climate change policy we're now into the merkel's title as the climate's chancellor is being brought into question her environmental policy has long depended on reducing emissions which brought it to the door to the support of the green party but as time has gone by. has been shifting. we don't as a country 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 decarbonise into the global economy. growth called very energy supply doesn't starve and die just is not easy even for germany we have such a target for twenty twenty twenty thirty and subsequently twenty fifty now at the end of twenty seven still have wider way to go. and the wake of japan's two thousand and eleven fukushima nuclear meltdown germany valid to enter the use of the nuclear energy one of merkel's key plans was to shut down all nuclear plants by the in the country by twenty twenty two that put pressure on the country's use of coal something she had vowed to reduce to win over the greens well merkel promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions forty percent by twenty twenty any more than by hauff by twenty thirty but as it now turns out the maximum reduction by twenty

twenty may only reach thirty four percent we discussed this issue with peter by strength from the alternative for germany party he believes the promises made by angela 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 to hold 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 that head of a general election in hungary the government claims billionaire george soros is meddling in its internal a fan as his money seems to be leaving plenty of things with that story and more after this short break. our.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president. or something want to. get it right. this is what. you keep the. interest it was a. welcome back now there are still six months to go until hungary goes to the polls in parliamentarian elections but things are already getting heated the government's

claiming the billionaire george soros is trying to interfere in the country's internal policies but soros who was born in the country is fighting back so america has the story 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 water as the children's juices the trans one order employers george soros wrangle with tons of money and international help your truly is. what hunger is 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 urban 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 accuse soros of masterminding the e.u.'s entire refugee policy disease before a recent immigration decision in the european parliament shuras was meeting with a regular 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. no it. was a religious leader john kerry and people have to resist. and car out. of the mafia state. as is. 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 room in this interview 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 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 a prime minister or bond and against his party while the feud between orban and soros seems to be turning increasingly ugly as hungry as april general election edges even closer. now an antique purchase in a moscow markets gave one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when she got herself yet to come home that she made an interesting discovery.

sixteen beautiful pictures black and white picture which were all about a boy. apparently an important moment of his life so i've got found it find him to to give is photos back to him. 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 a what's up message from dimitri saying i am the russian boy you are looking for.

in the end i decided to call her by skype and 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 had 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 the idea would be to use a camera or a literary camera which is a key object in order story and use it as a character and really follow the past 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 the same age. easing story of the people so that others might realize that all life is not just about politics and death but includes room for small everyday pleasures. one of the things story of paradox he would love take your thoughts on the day's story said to get in touch by following us on facebook and twitter and join me again with the latest headlines at about that he. hears what people have been saying about redacted in the night with your possession just full on author of the only show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packed a punch out of this league yampa is the john oliver of our three americas do the same thing we are apparently better than bluegrass to see people you never heard of

love redacted tonight not the president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an e-mail. with cole make its manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room. hey everybody i'm stephen ball. task hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.

to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different. here. going on there well no one knows about it with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have fun meet everyday americans home. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. we. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin my body gets and some bodies that i cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity and does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that it helped this applies more burning people put their money

on your car immediately after you get done half of all plasma based drugs today come from private companies and are produced from paid plasma as well as comparable to the role of a motor car and. one of the risks of pay donations in it then is proof that the frequency of pathologies is much higher in paid donations a minute. if i was lying when i. moved over two years old he will go in the money using the for drugs and who runs the blood business.

when not in the literally but in michel the only moral sword in the medicaid you're labeled listing but the conqueror. you made a. lot of good lesson but because he lied i'm only important other i got important lucille senilis big dark little. i. was. the last bit so innocent in. this she'd get standing in the policy but.

i guess. we know where you're gonna see the a when you go for your ideas on using. to the loo to is still remember. the labyrinths rule goes on to say that they can. but all. she will know is he may even worry a millionaire yet a man of miami will remember. mega-star said my limit was like the let him get me or the jail we had one hundred go to go and. see the hint that made me or the army merrill have gone folding clothes or gave up because of me it's because he sees it when i when i look.

yes. i suppose they. did last. week my husband.