with islamic state on the back foot in syria the leaders of iran turkey and russia agreed to host all inclusive syrian talks to kick start the country's post-war political process. lebanon's prime minister now and says he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the president also him to reconsider the pm sponsored regional political crisis two weeks ago when he said he was stepping down. and the international olympic committee makes another ruling and the russian doping scandal banning full russian skeleton athletes for life.

you're watching out international live from our moscow studio with me in india today welcome to the program. with the tide now turned against islamic state in syria there's renewed hope that a political solution can finally bring peace speaking at a summit on syria tended by the leaders of iran turkey and russia vladimir putin said the syria now has a real chance to end its six year civil war at the summit in sochi it was also agreed to hold inclusive all syrian talks if the trunk has been following the trilateral talks. with syria becoming almost completely terrorist free or ice or free i should say we were all curious what is going to be decided and what was going to be said when the key regional players the leaders of turkey and iran on the house side wallie arrive and sought she we saw happy faces as they were me seeing the russian president vladimir putin all three leaders looked quite determined when the cameraman. asked to press their off buttons and leave the

room we heard the leaders confirm their assessment the syrian conflict has entered a new stage the era of active fighting is over and time has come for a new settlement opportunities that we used to. launch scale military actions against terrorist groups in syria are coming to an end i'd like to note that thanks to the efforts of russia iran and turkey we have managed to prevent the dissolution of syria stop it from being captured by international terrorists and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. if you want our joint efforts over the last eleven months of how 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 uk news to importance is the final stage in putting an end to the bloodshed in syria we have achieved

success thanks to the union of rand turkey and russia so after roughly one and a half hours of talks along with the foreign ministers and the heads of militaries when the three presidents came out to say a few words to the journalist we finally heard about the number one decision for the new stage the creation of the syrian national dialogue congress it will be an unprecedented platform for inclusive of all syria talks and all kinds of political ethnic religious groups are expected to be involved it is going to convene here and saw it she but the date and the specific list of participants hasn't been decided just yet the leaders say that it should pave the way for a new constitution in syria and new elections and it all looks good on paper i can tell you that. tehran and moscow or really genuinely looking forward for the plan

to work on the ground on monday we heard the president of syria bashar assad telling vladimir putin that he is ready for new rounds of dialogue reforms and the new elections that i mentioned mr putin tried to convey this message to the leaders of iran and turkey and when it comes to the syrian opposition they are always in close contact with anchor up so the hope is definitely there we discussed the importance of these talks messiah of mohammad marandi from the university of tehran he believes a syrian national congress would be a positive step forward though there are many questions regarding how it might work given this so many signs are involved. the very fact that for the first time. this process is being moved forward largely without the united states and its allies i think is one reason why it has achieved so much on

a fox as well as the current far from sochi. push to follow the process a great deal for the force things have shifted in change of enormously on the ground and hopefully these talks will help pave the way for. the the conflict to come to an end but i think that it looks good on paper but it i'm sure it's going to be very complicated in the weeks and months ahead one of the difficulties is what about those groups that align themselves and continue to be allies of al qaeda we know that many of these people have committed horrific crimes they continue to do this they continue to terrorize people in different parts of syria who is allowed to participate in who isn't allowed to participate in a very important and the world the united states to pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of the syrian

government this is a violation of sovereignty there's a lot to do and it's not clear if the americans and their allies are going to help this process move forward or whether they are going to improve competed but i think what is what is very positive is that these countries seem. to be determined obviously all three of them have their own opinions but i think the very fact that they're getting to get they're getting together and they're making the statements public show that there is a strong degree of determination. and 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 continued together. was. we shall stay together and we shall carry our interview.

we are a nation of moderation and mention of. the political crisis began when the lebanese prime minister and his resignation inside the arabia's capsule riyadh the decision was televised and he was met in beirut with disbelief with many suspecting he'd been pressured by the saudis then france's president mccrone invited her really and his family to paris where the french leader assured him of his political support off to paris hariri flew back to lebanon for independence day though not without paying lightning visits 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 from national brings us the latest from the lebanese capital 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 his resignation in a televised speech while speaking from the capital of saudi arabia and i draw a kind of crisis here to elaborate on and to die speaking after the official part of the independence day celebrations sheikh you see now there is to continue here in beirut mr heriot has said that he agrees to put his decision on hold after he discussed it with the lebanese president and he stressed that the major goal right now is to get and keep labrador away from any arab conflict he didn't give any further specific detail but i have here 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 a two by many as the l.t. makes 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 mr hariri made it clear that if it's not happening he might come back to this because he's very sick nation 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 how we as a tool to put more pressure on iran. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received. specially the liberal news public think prime minister probably was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit that. this father of three i really. a long time representative of soul the

influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and not how do you 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 after they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. the international olympic committee has handed a lifetime bans to four russians skeleton aspects. of also being stripped of their winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it disqualified the athletes for violating anti-doping rules at the twenty fourteen games as 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'd prepared for four years maybe longer and was still waiting for the outcome of the deliberations to know whether i'd be allowed to compete for what is after all i've times goal i mean it's unimaginably difficult for them you know in a properly run world probably so this should not happen but let's think of an analogy it's as if moscow city center for the past several saturday nights the high number of driving under the influence of alcohol arrests you would expect that the offenders would be tried individually 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 though probably will. the former bosnian serb army commander. has been handed a life sentence for his role in atrocities committed during the bosnian more melodic she was found guilty on ten out of eleven counts including war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity he was sentenced by un court in the hank. mullard it was in command of the bosnian serb army at the height of the bosnian conflict between one thousand nine hundred two and one thousand nine hundred six taking part in the siege of the bosnian capital. he was also found responsible for ordering a series of persecutions and exterminations across many other bosnian towns including where thousands of muslims mostly men and young boys were slaughtered by his chips many of the victims have not been identified to this day and serbia while. demene the cannings has never accepted the challenge of genocide we discuss the verdict

with political analysts john. 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 shoes 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 who doesn't that tell us a little bit more about what the reality is here. u.s. intelligence committees struck a deal with amazon for the company to provide data storage the online giants developed a special project time exactly to the government's needs 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 it commercial close services or so to us for a reason because we want to be like commercial would want to be our government we want to the best of breed as 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 meet tonight he's ready to fund advisor recruit talent 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 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. should be mentioned that hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails 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 don't 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 and a continued to be a get 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. there are still six months until hungary goes to the polls in parliamentarians actions 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 cyrus who was born in the country is fighting back so we're khan has the story 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 your trailer. 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 organ 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 organ's party has even accused soros of masterminding the e.u.'s entire refugee policy. 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. no it. was a courageous thing john kerry and people have to resist. and corruption of the mafia state that all but as 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 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 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 a 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. curtis in a moscow one friends from and more than symbolic and full it was only when she got has soviet camera that she made an interesting discussion.

sixteen beautiful pictures black and white pictures 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. 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 were 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.

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 was 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 a key object in order that story and use it as a character and really follow you know 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. that's our roundup of all our top stories and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more so do stay with us.

they call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots by expressing my opinions on r.t. there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the arc of what's next why stop there will be any from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the right i should be sent to the terrible one because i'm a traitor brick me although we'll put up with my lifetime of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me want to scare us and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak i am in good company i'm in good company who gives me you want leaders because we are free thinkers. 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 spring. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decades long debt. studying so hard it requires strong. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the u.s. . i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground of the day drazen means chancellor unveils the u.k. budget just days after the british medical journal published peer reviewed claims

that economic murder could have killed one hundred twenty thousand coming out of the show the man who run u.k. defense intelligence i will old west tells us what he wants from for the balanced budget and what he thinks of you defense secretary gavin williamson goaltender replace disgraced cabinet colleague michael fallon and three years to the day since the shooting of twelve year old timey arise we speak to black lives matter activist don that describes as you came into police commission aggressive addict is accused of calling for more black boys to be locked up plus in the headline is michael have smelt down on the british breck's of this weekend's goal is a more going up in today's episode of going underground for fifty years ago this month britain ceded power to the socialist. southern yemen today when it isn't attacking the zimbabwean government u.k. mainstream media covers yemen as if britain has no role in the slaughter charities like unicef are required by law to be impartial so i can just produce videos like

this in the past few days to educate nato nations about what is happening and. for the u.k. state mandated b.b.c. questions are raised with saudi arabia about the largest of a cholera outbreak of the twenty first century we are by far the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to yemen no country or combination of countries in the world has provided more heat to yemen and saudi arabia but of course despite u.k. media avoiding british responsibility for the con it one u.k. politician has been vocal about r.a.f. training and u.k. arms sales to saudi arabia to kill the people of yemen isn't it about time this

government suspended its arms sales to saudi arabia the u.k. prime minister responded almost exactly the same way as the saudi government that britain gives aid to yemen and this all cooperation with the saudis cooperation with us has help save lives in the u.k. but you can be sure that the issue of curbing arms sales to saudi arabia which killed civilians in yemen won't be in today's british autumn budget but joining me now is britain's former u.k. chief of intelligence and u.k. security and.