with islamic state on the back foot in syria the leaders of iran turkey and russia agree to host a all inclusive syrian talks to kick start the country's post-war political process . lebanon's prime minister suspends his resignation following a request by the country's president the pm sparked a regional political crisis two weeks ago when he said that he was stepping down. the international olympic committee makes another ruling in the russian doping scandal banning for russian skeleton athletes for life. or broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is hard to international glad

to have you with us but. now the tide turned against islamic state in syria there is 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 has been following the trial lateral 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 and ronnie 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 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 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 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 important 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 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 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 definitely there to discuss the importance of these talks with 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 so many sides 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 the talks as well as

the current path 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 aligned 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 and who isn't allowed to participate is very important and the world the united states has 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 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 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 on to get. the economy we are nation of

moderation a nation of stability political crisis began when the lebanese prime minister announced that his resignation in saudi arabia is capital riyadh now the decision was televised and was met in beirut with a display from many suspecting it in pressured by the saudis then france's president kron invited her riri and his family to paris of all places where the french leader assured him of his political support after paris where he flew back to lebanon for independence day though not without paying lightning visits to the president of egypt and then to the leader of cyprus on his way and now he is back in beirut having made his surprise announcement artie's more if notion brings us 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 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 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 at 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 they should 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 as severe blow specially the lebanese public thinks the prime minister how did he was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact . his father murphy ideally. a long time representatives or saudi influence in lebanon and that is

a widespread belief in lebanon and not 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 after they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. international olympic committee has handed a lifetime ban for russian skeleton athletes to the athletes have also been stripped of their swords the winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it disqualified the athletes for violating anti-doping rules at the two thousand and fourteen games was cashmore professor of sociology at aston 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 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 they probably will. the former bosnian serb

army commander. has been handed a life sentence for his role in atrocities committed during the bosnian war a lot of it was found guilty on ten eleven counts including war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity he was sentenced by a un court in. moderates 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 persecution exterminations across many other towns including show benita where thousands of muslims mostly men and young boys were slaughtered by his troops and the of 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 a political analyst 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 a 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 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 heads doesn't that tell us

a little bit more about what the reality is here online giant amazon has announced they are teaming up with u.s. intelligence details on that and much more coming up after a short break this is r.t. and. apply to many plebs over the years so i know the guy even so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch with the funnel school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the superman it just kill you to spend because you're getting twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else going to because i want to show what i think what i know but. great so it will all chance with. the police it's going to.

welcome back this is our t. international now the u.s. has carried out an airstrike in northeast somalia targeting al shabaab militants in coordination with the federal government of somalia u.s. forces conducted an air strike in somalia against the camp killing more than one hundred militants al-shabaab is an al qaeda affiliate it has been fighting the somali federal government and is comprised of around eight thousand militants u.s.

is conducting military operations across africa to be exact in eleven countries more than six thousand troops are currently stationed there however it seems some american politicians are confused about the exact extent of america's military presence on the continent. but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger this is an endless war without band boundaries no limitation on time of geography you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops uneasier did you know i did not discuss the issue with me i think he way editor of the pan african newswire he told us that the u.s. got in goal in africa rather is to control areas of high military and economic importance this clearly as a means of justifying these airstrikes if it is mentioned by the trumpet ministration that al shabaab is affiliated with isis or al qaeda then in many cases people just block out any further thought about what the u.s.

military is actually doing on the ground there are the areas in which they are stationed strategic for example in djibouti where you have the camp limone there which is the largest concentrated presence of u.s. troops right next door to somalia it's clearly in the range of the gulf of aden with the short distance from the southern arabian peninsula leads into the indian ocean which is one of the largest shipping lanes internationally we could also look at nazir. is the world's fourth largest producer of uranium all of the presence of u.s. troops in africa is clearly related to economic and military interests. u.s. intelligence community has struck a deal with amazon for the company to provide data storage giant has developed a special project tailored exactly to the government's needs are to jack involved

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 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 us while 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 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 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 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 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 pierce robinson gave us his take on the situation. there's something to worry about. so notionally government and business is 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 it's been there for historically with mainstream corporate media and government certainly knew in terms of the global reach and i think that these corporations continue to be appear to be ahead of the u.s. government don't know increasing drive people to to leave them go to other platforms which are under the same kind of influence. spain's national intelligence center has concluded that spanish government websites were not hacked by the kremlin 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 are accusing russia of meddling in last month's catalan independence referendum and here you can see some examples spain's largest newspaper elop accuses russia of aggravating the catalan crisis another article from stated that russian hackers helped to keep the referendum web site

active and one more spanish outlet a.b.c.'s by mia alleged the influence of put in a propaganda spanish foreign minister of funds or dusty was one of those who accuse russia of interfere. right now i am not sure what the total percentage was but yes fifty percent was from russia and thirty percent from venezuela all the accounts that have been detected it seems to me that only three of them were authentic the rest were fake accounts that had been put up with the objective of multiplying and exact information. is focused thomas harrington professor of liberian studies at trinity college for his thoughts he says it is all about sabotaging relations between europe and moscow fortunately i think one of the objects of this entire campaign to talk about russian influence in both the us and in europe is about that 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 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 some of these more outrageous theories of russian influence. germany is in the grip of a political crisis after failure to form a coalition government president frank walter steinmeier has called for further

talks while the german chancellor has said she would prefer a snap election to forming a minority government earlier ernst your students 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 back to is the parties to which have been newly elected to the wooden a stock 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 is why it was a triangular negotiation period with the liberals in addition to that but as

a matter of fact this has found it so now one has to look out for a new possibility and there are very serious discussions now going on in the is social democratic party and they really now instead of ritually immediately after the election result came out that they were not willing to continue in government but they wanted to go into opposition and 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 will of negotiations between the christian democrats and the social democrats as i am convinced that in the end no talks between the social democrats and those party will at least be started what

will come out of it one cannot say that. the russian senator who stands accused of tax evasion and money laundering has been allowed to remain out of jail by french prosecutors so we managed care mof. has it been told to surrender his passport though and post five billion euros bail carom off was arrested on monday at the airport a nice following which was taken to court and charged a french judicial sources said the case centered on the alleged purchase of several luxury residence on the french riviera through shell companies russia's foreign affairs ministry has said that as a senator kerry might possesses immunity and that they are working to protect his legal rights. all right that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty three minutes with a look at your news that you are watching are two international glad to have you with us.

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 a saudi royal family changes so to saudi arabia and the region is it time to buckle up for a stream. everybody i'm steven both on the task hollywood guy suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we're just a little bit different on this day. no one knows up with all the drama happening in

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