been fleeing the war torn country for a year now for years now can finally come back then some of the things that mr erred on said he once again said that the efforts by the three countries need to be stepped up so more things can actually be done together including those to set up an ultimate ceasefire and the forty escalation zones of syria he also paid special attention to coordinating according aiding the efforts by the three countries because of course that requires more meetings more summits on the very highest level and also by other officials as well the leaders were talking about the critical role of the three countries the founding fathers of the past in our process and there was something else very important that came out from taipei dawn he once again reiterated that the terrorists will not involved in this new chapter of the syrian peace process so just before the talks happened we saw mr putin

mr on the and mr aired on at one big round table they were smiling and they were looking very determined they were accompanied by the foreign ministers the ministers of defense so there you have it we got to the point when i saw has almost been completely erased from the map of syria and two of the biggest regional neighbors for syria along with russia whose role in wiping out the terrorists with its air force was very important they're now getting together to determine what are the next to the next steps and the this actually means that soft she the name can actually be associated with the syrian peace process with this congress of national dialogue which still hasn't been they haven't still decided when it's actually going to happen but definitely we know that this is the next step and all of three countries are working on that so. and i said the word

determined but let's just once again listen to what the leaders were saying before the talks about how they praised the new opportunities that are now opening up with much trouble we have large scale military activities against militants and terrorists in syria are coming to an end i'd like to know that thanks to the activities of russia iran and turkey we managed to prevent the dissolution of syria prevented being captured by international terrorists we avoided a humanitarian catastrophe that. our joint efforts over the last eleven months have helped to prepare the ground for a political settlement to the syrian crisis has their meeting today symbolizes the start of a new stage in this process. the trilateral meeting today has acknowledged importance is the final stage in putting an end to the bloodshed in syria we have achieved

success thanks to the union of the rand turkey and russia. well despite the smiles of the three of the leaders despite the dirt a determination i believe we still have to be cautious with the optimism because damascus and groups of the syrian opposition are still at war and we know that cease fires are fragile so the question is really will we get to this point and how soon will we get to the point when we will be able to say that thanks to the efforts by and karate iran and moscow will be able to say that the war in syria is now over but one year of working together does give hope after all the three countries were able to start the astronaut talks and then agree on the four deescalation zones that was eleven months of joint efforts and let's just take a look back at these eleven months and the efforts that i was talking about that i was telling you about.

many many things to digest here so as a means of the syrian opposition another question that you might ask is what is the u.s. role and this peace process are they being sidelined here while i can tell you that on tuesday mr putin had a phone conversation with his american counterpart donald trump and i believe he was able to send a message across and tell him about the upcoming talks with dawn and hassan rouhani

and also about. talks with assad were over on monday so these are the main things that we learned from these three very important days for the syria peace process here in the russian black sea resort of sochi. thank you so much for condensing everything for is that key words the you mentioned cautious optimism but for now it thank you very much let's discuss this further now let's cross live to our guest mr in my ear devon down the father who is an iranian born israeli middle east commentator mr jevons and for welcome to r.t. international it's good to have you on the program now maybe you can tell us just how crucial are today's trilateral talks for the future of syria. only good two days a very important day in terms of. setting the road for stability in syria but i think this is the start of a very long journey i think. yes the victors have decided to meet it was mr putin

the mr rouhani and mr gone but. that's the beginning it seems the beginning of a new future in syria but. let's not forget that there's still opposition to the assad regime in syria just still many people in syria who may be made homeless who have left their country they're living in neighboring states such as lebanon in jordan some of them are hard to go to europe that they don't agree with with what is happy with the rule of rule of bashar assad so yes today is the start of a very long process but i think it's important that some voices the voice of bashar al assad is obviously his voice is taking into consideration as well as the countries that are involved in syria about what is a very strong risk to the longevity of trying to find stability there is the question of the opposition and the many people in syria who showed that they are against bashar assad yeah like you say

a lot of reasons to be optimistic after these talks but still a lot of roadblocks in the way isn't that so how difficult will it be to implement what was agreed on today. i think it's very it's going to be very difficult to try to bring all the opposition together it's very it's going to be very difficult to convince. to convince them to believe in in a process that's going to work also you know it's a kind of like a rubik's cube when you when you dealing with so many countries that are involved in the conflict in syria trying to satisfy old their concerns also going to be very difficult it's going to be very difficult to convince syrians to come back to syria it's going to be difficult to attract investment and also making you know who is going to pay for the rebuilding of syria that's a three hundred five hundred billion dollars that's just the top of my head who is going to pay for that to rebuild syria and also all the skilled people that have left this this is a very very for the very beginning people who are unarmed of bashar assad

especially after against his very own people someone such great damage to his all confidence in his promises that he's going to hold free elections and this is going to be inclusive of the many syrians of civil amounts of syrian refugees that are gone outside so i think all eyes are on bashar assad but not many people trying his credibility specially when it comes to giving people in syria free choice do you think these talks have at least boosted the prospects of stability in syria. i think we have boost the prospects of stability in syria yes foremost the bashar al assad for people who support mr bashar al assad inside syria and for people who support him from outside of the countries let's not forget outside countries let's not forget two countries that are determining the future of syria today do not even our border with syria one of them is russia and the other is iran i know they have

those strategic considerations but in terms of stability yes stability for mr arsalan all those supporting but you don't need to be talking to from tel aviv there's also concern i was not going to leave iran is iran going to be able to get too close to the halls of the state of israel that could that is a recipe in itself for the instability you know we have to wait and see how our allies in moscow you know the present prime minister netanyahu has met many times of president putin we have close relations with with and with the government of president putin and we have to make sure that that line of communication between israel and television moscow jerusalem or school remains open because we have a lot of shared concerns regarding what happens to our border between israel and syria have been down for an iranian born israeli middle east commentator thank you for your time sir. the lebanese prime minister has announced he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the country's president asked him to reconsider

. i'm staying with you we continue together. i. say we should stay together and we shall carry our interview was of that we are a nation of moderation a nation of stability. the political crisis began when the lebanese prime minister announced his resignation in saudi arabia's capital riyadh the decision was televised and met in beirut with disbelief with many suspecting he had been pressured by the saudis then france's president invited to reorient his family to paris where the french leader assured him of his political support after paris where we flew back to lebanon for independence day though not without paying lightning visit to the president of egypt and then the leader of cyprus on his way and now he's back in beirut having made his surprise announcement artie's maria financial brings as the latest from the lebanese capital. pool is a surprise but

a relief space 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 his televised speech while speaking from the capital of saudi arabia and i draw the kind of crisis here to lebanon and today is speaking off to the official part of the independence day celebrations he can see now they are still continue here in beirut mr harry 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 gas and keep lead out away from any arab conflict he didn't give any further specific detail but as he earlier mentioned the attempt by some iranian backed military and political forces to

meddle into fairytale lebanon and throughout the arab region as the major reason behind his decision to resign his today's speech wasn't this true by many as the l.t. makes him the iranian angel and to 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 mr hariri made it clear that if it's not happening he might come back to this because he's there's ignatius' a decision again so i guess this is the challenge that lebanon is now facing a professor of history and international relations jamal wakim believes the saudis are using hariri as a tool to put more pressure on iran. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received a severe blow specially the liberal news public thinks the prime minister probably

was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the. thought how do you read his father if we are really. a long time representative of soldi influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and how did he was forced to designate by a muslim so the man at the time where the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. the international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russians skeleton athletes two of the athletes have also been stripped of their salt she winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it disqualified the athletes for violating violating anti doping rules at the twenty fourteen games and is cashmore professor of sociology at aston university

says there's an atmosphere of fear among russian athletes still hoping to compete. i mean it must be dreadful i can't even get myself into the mind of an athlete to imagine that it's if i prepared for four years maybe longer still waiting for the outcome of the deliberations to know whether i'd be allowed to compete for what is after all a lifetime's goal i mean it's unimaginably difficult for them you know in a properly run world probably so this should not happen let's think of an analogy it's as if in moscow city center for the past several saturday nights the been a high number of driving under the influence of alcohol arrests you would expect that the offenders would be tried individually their cases evaluated and they would be punished accordingly we wouldn't expect that everyone who holds a driving license in moscow to be banned but that is effectively what is being

contemplated at the moment. in these new cases should not really material impact the material impact the decision on whether to disqualify russia as a nation but i think in the real world there probably will monies does come after this break. here's what people have been saying about redacted in ny this year was actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packed a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than boobs that i see people you never heard of love right back to the night i'm president of the world bank hey i'm going to. send us an email. apply for many clubs over the years so

i know the guy i mean so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill you narrowness and spending to do the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great to one more chance with. the base going to. my. welcome back the former bosnian serb army commander ratko miller did charles been handed a life sentence for his role in a trial cities committed during the bosnian war millet it was found guilty on ten out of eleven counts including war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity he

was sentenced by un cause in the hague was in command of the bosnian serb army at the height of the bosnian conflict between one thousand nine hundred two and ninety six taking part in the siege of the bulls the in capital sarajevo it was also found responsible for ordering a series of persecutions and exterminations across many other bosnian towns including fairbairn eats where over eight thousand muslims mostly men and young boys were slaughtered by his troops many of the victims have not been identified to this day and serbia while condemning the killings has never accepted the charge of genocide we discuss the political the verdict with political analyst john bosnich. this verdict was in to support it even before the court was formed 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 is guilty but because he was determined to be found guilty even before the first witness presented any evidence 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 of the type exactly worn by gen 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 doesn't that tell us a little bit more about what the reality is here. the u.s. intelligence community has struck a deal with armisen for the company to provide data storage the online giants

developed special projects tell it exactly to the governments need. to explain. 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 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 that's what we partner with amazon and they aren't alone just last month microsoft announced a similar partnership over a dedicated cloud of 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 advisor recruitment etc 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 they should be mentioned that hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails could have been doctored it professor pairs robinson 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 that's a problem for democracy both platforms and 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 has been there for 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 appear to be acting in the behest of the u.s. government don't know increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence. thank you for choosing r.t. international on a key aaron and also from me but do join my colleague to for the latest headlines at the top. of this.

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