first for the. lebanon's prime minister and now says 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 evaporates 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 thought she. amazon will provide special data storage for u.s. intelligence becoming the latest in a long list of corporations to work hundred hand with the state. russian m.p.'s adopt their own foreign financed media law in direct response to

washington forcing r.t. america to register as a foreign agent. a very warm welcome you are watching r t international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and if you aren't going to have you with us the lebanese prime minister has announced he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the president asked him to reconsider. steve carlip. 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 tracing into the reasons behind it i completed it was a surprise but a relief things 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 his resignation in a televised speech while speaking from the capital of saudi arabia and it brought kind of crisis here to lebanon and today it's picking up to the official part of the independence day celebrations you can see now they are still continue here in beirut mr heriot has said that he agrees to put his decision on hauled up to be disgusted with the lebanese president and he stressed that the major goal right now is to get and keep lebanon away from any arab conflict he didn't give any further specific detail but adds here earlier mentioned the attempt by iranian backed military and political forces to meddle into affairs here in lebanon and throughout the arab region as the major reason behind his decision to resign his at today's speech was understood by many as the l.t. made him that this iranian influence should be diminished i have been 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 this cause his visit nation decision again so i guess this is the challenge that lebanon is now facing. with the tigers now slowly turned against islamic state in syria there's renewed hope that a political solution could finally bring peace to trying to report 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 in 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 he doesn't 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 i mean you know they already do it is quite different than we his role before and we are still leading right now this leadership that you're speaking of is of 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 company to provide it data storage they on line giants developed a special projects tenet exactly to the government's needs tackling ficca 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 clothes services are suited to us for a reason because we want to be like commercial would want to be like government we want to the best of breed it's well 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 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 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 it rise the recruitment it's 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 giants politicians and the government perhaps it's time to worry about our online freedoms getting tangled up in them. and should be mentioned the hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails that could have been doctored professor peers weapons and gave us his take on the situation. something to worry about. so notionally government and business supposed to function in a way that they're 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 it has 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 that are continued to be a good speech to the behest of the u.s. government i don't know increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence they are powers of the russian parliament has voted to adopt a law on foreign media operating investor medina carter never has the data out of. the upper house of the russian parliament this wednesday approved the law on foreign media working and russia now a 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 maid and response to the recent demand coming from the us department of justice that. brains working in america are t. america should register as a four agent now r.t. america followed that demand and registered last week but that happened after a month of pressure and being blamed for allegedly amount ling and the twenty sixteen us presidential elections however all that time there was no real abbot and provided that it didn't 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 so far failed to unite three parties that

was supposed to form a coalition government and science from the refugee influx of major stumbling block was said to have been climate change. well now and deliver his title as they climate chancellor is being brought into question her environmental policy has long depended on reducing coal burning emissions which were brought for the support of the green party but as times gone by merkel stance 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 where. the whole supply and lock doesn't starve and die just is not easy even for germany we have such targets for twenty twenty twenty thirty and subsequently it's twenty fifty now

at the end of twenty seven she still have a wider way to go. in the wake of japan's two thousand and eleven fukushima nuclear meltdown and germany has vowed to end the use of nuclear energy one of merkel's key plans was to shut down all nuclear plants in the country by twenty twenty two well that put pressure on the country's use of coal something she had vowed to reduce to win over the greens while merkel promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions forty percent by twenty twenty and 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 discuss this issue with bias joined 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 the whole political spectrum to left. and she is 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 chancellor of c.d.u. of the conservatives used to have she will definitely not be able to fulfill the promises and now we will see. the public will react on it. ahead of a general election in hungary the government claims billionaire george soros is meddling in its internal affairs his money seems to be leaving plenty of footprints

because of the details after this short break. the political crisis inflicted upon lebanon by saudi arabia appears to receive it least for now is this a sign of things to come as the saudi royal family changes so to saudi arabia and the region is it time to buckle up for a stream. good capitalist america and

a. good charge for colors don't be such a shy communist loving bootlicking stock insurance company's c.e.o. just take a cloudy willy nilly for making people hear what addicts do something constructive impose got insurance and stop the bloodshed. welcome back now the former bosnian serb military leader of roscoe millet has been sentenced to life in prison by the u.n. tribunal in the hague the seventy four year old was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the both me and war in the one nine hundred ninety s. the court convicted military of ten of the eleven charges he faced him. then he was found guilty of genocide in the village of neat that was when up to eight thousand bulls near muslims were slaughtered by forces under the general's control so b.-o.

well that condemning the killings he has never accepted the official definition of genocide. let's discuss this further now with political analyst john posner to both nations thank you for joining us on the program so is this a verdict that you had anticipated. this verdict was in to suppress even before the court was formed. during the civil war in bosnia the the european powers which were backing the them side and backing the crow outside were calling general. a war criminal even before the court was formed to try him he was never given a presumption of innocence even from the first day when are you surprised that the trial lasted as long as it did. well you know if you're going to try and fool the people it sometimes takes quite

a lot of time to do it so you draw the trial out he let both sides appear to have had a fair trial you let them present evidence you disregard the evidence that. shows that the accused party is innocent you refer only to the evidence that is proven in various documents to be untrue and then you convict him so what we have here is not the delivery of justice through a lengthy and detailed trial but a very complicated and purposely drawn out show trial to keep the name general in the news for the better part of a decade and to thereby demonize the entire serbian people. let me know that she was accused of crimes against humanity is a very high profile case are you confident that all of those who committed such crimes during the war in yugoslavia have been brought before the tribunal. well that's the that's the best question the the point is that the tribe you know was

a one sided let's say tool of the nato powers the purpose of the tribunal was to find one side guilty and that we knew that that was the serbian side because they were accused of being war criminals long before the court was even formed so the there's no surprise about the way it was done what is surprising is that anybody anywhere expected even the slightest chance the general might be acquitted that i'm sure no normal rational person could have expected and not because he's guilty but because he was determined to be found guilty even before the first witness presented any evidence so so long as the public knows that there was no other possible verdict even if the men were innocent then that's fine the nato powers have had their show trial we've had the media report up on it we know what the media are we know especially what the mainstream media who pushed this case are

they've been described by the us president as the lying mainstream media well chalk one more up to them another lie perpetrated through the instruments of the court and the lying media but i can tell you that here in downtown belgrade in the main central park in the city there are rows of stands for tourists to buy things and among the things they can buy are t. shirts with general blood of his face on them and generals hats that all of the type exactly worn by general and i can tell you that later today there's going to be a run on those stalls and you're going to see young children aged ten and twelve years old buying those t. shirts and buying those generals has the same generals hat that nato commander in chief wesley clark put on his head when he exchanged hats with general mudd each if wesley clark a fellow general was well it was willing to put. on the hat of general mudd it should be photographed arm in arm with him in the fellow general's hat doesn't that

tell us a little bit more about what the reality is here war is hell and it doesn't matter which side you're on you're going to be killing people the war was promoted by the west the west pushed the muslims into the war they provided them with weapons they backed them through the war and the lying media delivered the verdict now we're just doing the autopsy on death they're on the death of justice not on the conviction of gen but on the death of justice political analyst on bosnich thank you for speaking to us on r.t. international. but there are still six months to go until hungary goes to the polls in parliamentarian elections but things are already getting hated 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 a 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 swimming here in the water as the children's juices returns with murder employers george soros terms of money and international hell you're too little. but hungary's health care and education systems in distress and corruption in 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 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 rep which 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 courageous thing john kerry and people have resisted.

and corruption of the mafia state that all but as much 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 hungry 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 is always there when the time comes to overthrow a government you can count on i think there will be an immense amount of money that will be spent against prime minister or or bond and against his party while the feud between orbit and soros seems to be turning increasingly ugly as hungry as april general election edges even closer. well as always you can share your thoughts on all stories by following those on facebook and twitter and i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines join me that.

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