with islamic state on the back foot in syria the leaders crisis two weeks ago when he said he would step in finally bring peace speaking out of some in sochi it was also agreed to hold inclusive all syrian talks trilateral trilateral talks for us. 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 me seeing the russian president vladimir putin all three leaders looked quite determined and when the camera men were 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 much so we. launched 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 launch our joint efforts over the last eleven months of help 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 not most importance is the final stage in putting an end to the bloodshed in syria we have achieved success thanks to the union of grand 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 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 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 new rounds of dialogue reforms and the new elections that are 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 discuss the importance of these talks with sayed 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 that there are so many sides 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 the talks as well as the current talks from sochi. push to follow the process a great deal for the force things have shifted and changed 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 but 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 exist 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 it world the united states to pull out of syria americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of the syrian government this is a violation of sovereignty and 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 the statements public show that there is a strong degree of determination. the lebanese prime minister has announced he is putting his surprise resignation on hold after countries president ask him to reconsider. i'm staying with you and we continued together. was we shall stay together and we shall carry on together. 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 in the decision was a televised and was met in beirut with a disbelief with many suspecting he had been pressured by the saudis then france's

president invited every and his family to paris for the french leader short him of his political support after paris hariri 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 is back in beirut having made his surprise announcement artie's more of an osha has the latest from the lebanese capital. pool is a surprise but a relief time prime minister really 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 the kind of crisis here to lebanon and today is speaking after the official part of the independence day celebrations he can see now they are still can see 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 is a fairy tale lebanon and throughout the arab region as the major reason behind his decision to resign he's at today's speech wasn't a two by many as the l.t. makes him the iranian influence 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 soon believe 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 as severe blow specially the lebanese public thinks the prime minister really was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit that. his father of three i really. a long time representatives all sold the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and not how did he was forced to his ignition by man at a time when 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 out life bans it to

four russian skeleton athletes two of the athletes have also been stripped of their such winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it disqualified the athletes for violating anti-doping rules and the two thousand and fourteen games and was cashmore professor of sociology and asked and university says there is 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 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 moscow city center for the past several saturday nights the in a 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 that probably will. former bosnian serb army commander. has been handed a life sentence for his role in atrocities committed during the bosnian war lot of it was found guilty on ten counts of eleven or ten of eleven counts rather excuse me including war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity he was sentenced to by un court in the hague and a lot of it was in command of the bosnian serb army all of the height of the bosnian conflict between one thousand nine hundred two in one thousand nine hundred six taking part in this siege of the bosnian capital sarajevo he was also found

responsible for ordering a series of persecutions and exterminations across many other bosnian towns including srebrenica where thousands of muslims mostly men and young boys were slaughtered by his troops and you the victims have not been identified to this day and serbia while condemning the killings has never accepted the charge of genocide we discussed the verdict with political analyst john bosnich. this verdict was anticipated 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's 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 that all of the type. of local blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that. you stopped by to tell you that because of the public record today. that. you are not cool enough like. me along with all the walking. what about his art international live from moscow now the u.s. intelligence community has struck a deal with al assad for the company to provide data storage of the online giant has developed a special project tailored exactly to the government's needs artie's jacqueline volga 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's chief information officer couldn't be more excited about the partnership now we named it commercial cloud services or c two s 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 we partner 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 enable digital transformation meanwhile a treasure trove of connections were uncovered between us politics and internet and 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 and should be mentioned that hillary clinton's former campaign chair suggested some of the leaked e-mails that could have been doctored professor peers robinson gives his take on the situation. there is 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 exercise and this is a problem it'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 it's not a new form collusion sense it's 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 are continued to be appear to be ahead 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. spain's international intelligence center has concluded that spanish government websites were not hacked by russia their research stated that seventy cyber attacks were recorded on government sites but that none of them were authorized by foreign states nevertheless spanish officials and media have accused russia of meddling in colonial independence referendum last month. right now i am not sure what the total percentage was but yes fifty percent was from russia and thirty percent from venezuela of all the fake accounts that have been detected it seems to me that only three of them were authentic and the rest were fake accounts that had been put up with the objective of multiplying in exact information. we spoke with

thomas harrington professor of iberian studies at trinity college for his thoughts on this he says this is all about sabotaging relations between europe in moscow. unfortunately i think one of the objects of this entire campaign to talk about russian influence in both the u.s. and in europe is a very strategic goal of making sure that moscow and europe do not have good relationships the degree to which the importance to which it is that is being given to the russian president is simply laughably out of proportion there is no way and people in the know know this that there could be anywhere near the amount of russian influence that is alleged to be taking place in spain or in the united states hence the creation of this idea of the russian threat which apparently they're telling us is in every part of our lives but of course it isn't it is being

blown up to make people think that way and unfortunately our state of civic education isn't strong enough for many people to do the discerning work to get some of these more outrageous theories of russian influence. germany is in the grip of a political crisis after on the merkel's failure to form a coalition government president frank walter steinmeier hasn't called for further talks while the german chancellor has said that she would prefer a snap election to forming a minority government earlier. a veteran german diplomat and former ambassador to russia commented on the political climate in the country. this is a situation which we didn't have so far any time in post-war german history we always had a stable government and now we have to look that is the poppies the which

have been newly elected to the goodness of federal parliament in september they have somehow to sit down and hammer out a new government and that can only be a coalition government because there is no party which has an absolute majority. with the greens alone she couldn't do it and this really now nst ritually immediately after the election result came out that they were not willing to new in government but they wanted to go into opposition now they're a strong voices within the social democratic party that they should reconsider and that is the option of the grand coalition is not off the table. presently the game is open to for every new way of negotiations between the

christian democrats and the social democrats as i'm convinced that in the end new talks between the social democrats and get america's party will at least beast what would come out of it one cannot say that. an antique purchase in a moscow market gave one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when she got her soviet camera home and she made the 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 find him to to give is photos back to him. yeah we were part of the i was at the airport when 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 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 she get these photos over here. well he found me really. i got her what's up this age from dimitri saying i was a russian boy you are looking for. 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 at the market we had forgotten to remove the film. pretty wordy for elizabeth this planning to come here in february to visit all these places and photos she's written an amazing film script for the story that's

going to be turned into a documentary i'll do my best to help or. the idea would be to use a camera as a literary camera which is a key object in order story and use it as a character to really follow in those of 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 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. and. i bet there's a from l.c. in about thirty minutes later today.

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