with islamic states 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 announces he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the president asked him to reconsider the p.m.'s regional political prices two weeks ago when he said he was stepping down. and the international olympic committee makes another ruling in the russian doping scandal russian skeleton athletes for life.

you're watching out international live from our moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program with the tide turned against islamic state in syria there's renewed hope that a political solution can finally bring peace speaking at a summit on syria attended by the leaders of iran turkey and russia vladimir putin said that 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 he has been following the tried battle talks. with syria becoming almost completely terrorist free or eyesore 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 type word on the house or on e arrive and saw archie we saw happy faces as they were meeting the russian president vladimir putin all three leaders looked quite determined and when the

cameramen were asked active fighting is over and time has come for a new settlement opportunities much that we. do not 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 have helped to prepare the ground for a political settlement to the syrian crisis and our meeting today symbolizes the start of a new stage in this process. the trilateral meeting today has uk most important 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 all 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 file a 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 the. sided 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 ankara tehran and moscow are 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 there we discussed the importance of these talks with science mohammad marandi from the university of tehran he believes the syrian national congress would be a positive step forward though there are many questions regarding how it might work given that so many scientists 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 faster than the talks as well as the current talks from sochi have. pushed the part of 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

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. we know that many of these people have committed horrific crimes they continue to exist they continue to terrorize people in different parts of syria who is allowed to participate and 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 and 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 these statements public show that there is a strong passion in saudi arabia's capital riyadh decision was televised in this matter and disbelief with many suspecting he'd been pressured by the sound is then france's president mccrone invited ten really and his family to paris. where the french leader assured him of his political support off to paris who flew back to lebanon for independence day that means shore from the capital kind of crisis here and to elaborate on this day celebrations you can see now that an iranian backed military and political forces to meddle into furries here in lebanon and throughout the arab region as the major reason behind his decision to resign his 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 decision again so i guess this is the challenge that lebanon is now facing a professor of history and international relations jamal wakim believe society's a using hariri as a tool to put more pressure on iran. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received as severe blow specially the lebanese public think prime minister probably was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit that. his father ideally. for. a long time but it isn't that of saudi

influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and how did he was forced to designate by the man at the time when 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 to the athletes have also been stripped of their winter olympic medals. and disqualified the athletes from violate 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 that 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 he was sentenced by you know was anticipated even has done what is surprising slightest chance to general or 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 protection witness. scented 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 hats 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 amazon for the company to provide data storage the online giants developed a special project exactly to the government. 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 like 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 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 it rise the recruitment etc 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 the time to worry about our online freedoms getting tangled up in them it should be mentioned that hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails could have been doctored professor pairs robinson gave us his take on the situation there is

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 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 a continued to be appear to be 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. there are still six

months until hungry 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 the cyrus who was born in the country is fighting back so here can 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 a children's juice is the trans one order import of george soros tons of money and international hellier chile 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 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 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 organs 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 holds 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. all of that courageously john kerry and people have resisted. 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 orbán 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. and. one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when she got it camera that she made an interesting discovery.

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. who were part of the i was at the airport or my friend sent me a photo of a little boy who looks very much like me with a caption saying looking for a russian boy you know there are so many questions where's these photos come from and why is someone looking for me or who is this elizabeth and how did you get these photos of your picture that you. found me really. i got a what sub base age from dimitri saying i was

a russian boy you are looking for like. in the end i decided to color 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 it to market we had forgotten to remove the film. with a. pretty bloody elizabeth responding to come here in february to visit all these places and photos of his written amazing film script for the story that's going to be turned into a documentary i'll do my best over there. is the idea would be to use a camera so later in camera which is it is a key object in order story and use it as a character and really photo in 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 gently but includes room for small everyday pleasures. and that's our roundup of all our top stories for now sean thomas will be here at the top of the hour with more so do stay with us. good ruth well she's a little bit different for the over the course just daniel to actually compete she would use a future how do you write your initial. order to more than kind of some that's it

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the political crisis inflicted upon lebanon by saudi arabia appears to receded at 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 and brace for impact. across talking saudi arabia and the region i'm joined by my guest. and washington he's a saudi commentator in beirut we have charmaine now one the she is a journalist as well as a middle east geo political analyst and in toronto we cross the mohammad marandi he is an associate professor at the university of toronto are across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much appreciate jamal let me go to you first in washington as we saw this situation play out in lebanon and i don't think it's done yet we'll see what the next move is here but looking at

what's going on in saudi arabia critics can make the claim that the the lebanon episode was to deflect from what was going on in saudi arabia and vice versa i mean how are they connected or they're just very different things happening at the same time go ahead in washington no. two different things happening and. just admit that you used to make a complaint of. activities. issue. such an impulsive ventry like saudi arabia claim it's making reforms considering it's a in the ta crissy religious to talk recy and it's reaching out to the west saying it's reforming and it wants to reorder the middle east i mean. that's destabilizing in itself because we don't know what the outcomes are at home and we certainly know what the outcomes are abroad ok go ahead in beirut. the saudis are in a very precarious situation i mean. you know if you're going to take an aggressive

stance in your neighborhood or at home one of the things you have to do is make sure you have cover so if you're going to move forward with an aggressive foreign policy you have to make sure you have stability and cohesion and. home. mohamad been on the crown prince or we often call him m.b.'s is in a dangerous position for himself because at home he's he's taken on the purging of the religious establishment and the royal family and.