i would use that always in the waters of our. first ship. this morning with the islamic state essentially driven out of syria the leaders of iran turkey and russia move to help reconcile the remaining sides and bring an end to a six year long civil war that will tell you all about it. ahead to a shock reversal in lebanon's political crisis seize the country's prime minister you know his resignation his surprise decision to step down came almost three weeks ago now i mean regional uncertainty and heightened tension. may come as a shock to you google admits tracking android smartphones even when users have switched off their location settings a report coming up. there's a media backlash over a new children's book in sweden about a horse who claims to be a dog reaction over identifying as transgender and its legal status we gauge

reaction to this controversial issue about trying to burn young people who don't feel they fit neatly into the male female role you have to separate imagination fly from objective scientific fact and the fact is that your gender or your biological sex is defined by your anatomy and by your chromosomes. good morning this is r t it's nine am here in moscow this thursday one of the twenty third of november my name's kevin i will be with you for next thirty minutes for this live update and first the prospect of peace could be edging closer to syria the leaders of russia iran and turkey have been taking the initiative to try to bring the remaining parties in the conflict in the negotiating table with islamic state now of course largely out of the picture in a patrol has been following the talks in russia sudden resort of sochi. 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 any arrive and saw 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 of the syrian crisis has been our meeting today symbolizes the start of a new stage in this process. the trilateral meeting today has not most importance is the final stage including in and 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 journalists 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 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 and to try and curb

such a physical professor analysis mohammad marandi has told us the idea of them of this syrian national congress would be a positive move going forward though many questions remain over how it would actually function. 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 in sochi have. pushed 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 one of the difficulties is what about those groups that align themselves and continue to be allies of al qaeda will

be united states pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of this government this is a violation of sovereignty there's a lot to do and it's not clear that the americans and their allies are going to help this process move forward or whether they are going to improve impeded. the political crisis in lebanon has taken an expected twist of the country's prime minister put his surprise decision to quit on hold refreshen has got the story. b. and i and i that have now i announced my resignation from the post of prime minister as they thought i discussed my resignation with the president of the republic he won't speak to wait before submitting it to put it on hold until allow for more consultations into the reasons behind it i complied prime minister how

they may be back to lebanon but the questions his absence brought a still to be uncertain.

how did his comeback was met both with relief and confusion because his resignation proclaimed from another country and featuring threats to cut off arms in the region sounded a lot like saudi arabia iran is a long term rival. i hope that all the other countries in the region will leave lebanon alone so the. the lebanese people can decide their future for themselves it's unprecedented that saudi arabia held the lebanese prime minister by force and pushed him to resign while he was outside his country in that he said we have to tell ourselves we want our country to stay out of regional conflict when it comes to the saudis meddling i'm sure it will continue and it's not only riaz

interference into lebanese affairs many other countries are doing it too because i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country and number nine i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong but it's clear already these twenty days have shown just how dangerous the battle of the power between saudi arabia and iran could go and now this little middle eastern country that suffered a lot in wars and conflicts may be losing peace again. raise an ocean off from beirut lebanon so shoji professes to turkey explain to us how lebanon has become a battlefield for political standoff in the whole or in the wider region that. there are two alliances emerging in the area saudi arabia some gulf states without . pushing a game is iran and again this has become law on the other hand you have syria. news

person not the prime minister and hezbollah and iran again is this alliance and so you have this polarization the saudis feel that one way to manage or undermine the power of. hezbollah is to create a political crisis that could leave and push everybody inside libya known to put a lot of pressure on hezbollah economically at least lebanon depends a lot on. you know the money coming from saudi arabia you have many thousands of lebanese living in the gulf and they depend on them so by creating a crisis of legitimacy that hezbollah is meddling and intervening in this way you will be able to create havoc a storm inside the lebanese political system to clash with hezbollah or at least neutralize it for not intervening in syria again or doing anything and in this way you will be cutting the hand of iran. google has confirmed it's been

collecting location data from android phones even when users have disabled location services and remove the sim card practice was discovered by the news website quartz and google insists it be the stored no use the information and it's agreed to stop calum open explains how the tracking worked. now your cell phone will often ask you annoying questions like would you like to share your geo location data well if you answer the question no you would assume that your geo data is safe and well it turns out you're wrong cell phones operating on android are sharing information with google even if you take the sim card out the android phone will start gathering the addresses in any new year by cell phone towers i'm standing not far from one right now generally what you need is a few pieces of information you need the unique identity of the phone itself which every phone has and in this case they're using cell tower locations and so if you

have a single cell tower then that will only tell you something about a radius around which the phone is somewhere but if you have what say three cell towers that all have different distance locations then you can track and delayed pretty coldly to where the actual phone is so you're only referring to the phone's identity and the fact that it is on the a telephone network so what it's doing is it's pinging cell towers nearby and by the way all phones do that google admits that they've been keeping track of mobile phone i.d.'s and their location for over a year now but they insist their intentions are good. in january of this year we began looking into using cell i.d. codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance as message delivery google claims that it hasn't done anything particular with this

data and now it's going to turn it off i don't find out entirely credible because some engineer or group of engineers had to spend time putting together this capability and they had to do it for a reason because someone told them to do it google says that android phones will stop tracking the location. as of users without their consent by the end of november that sounds like good news unlike the fact that they have been doing it without consent for many months. r.t. washington d.c. meantime washington's moving to scrap so-called net neutrality which could significantly alter the web experience for millions of us around the world later in the program. a children's picture book published in sweden that promotes transgenderism has been widely criticized and even branded as dangerous propaganda the story features a man who dresses and who was as was

a woman and then his horse wants to be a dog well the author says it's meant to show that children can be whoever they want to be is some of the reaction we. when your an adult when you're over eighteen you're in told to do what you want in the privacy of your own home and i don't think anyone would disagree with that but propagandizing this kind of thing to children who can damage them in their natural development as boys and girls in nature is binary nature creates male and female there are boys and girls and we hear you know as well as the book moves to try and ban the words boys and girls men and women mothers and fathers in primary education and this is a time when children really need to be in their identity as who they are and this is just something that's far too much too young is going to confuse people it is part of the natural spectrum of life for all animal species human and non-human this book is not about promoting or encouraging transgenderism it's about

trying to affirm young people who don't feel they fit neatly into the male female roles and trying to tackle bullying and prejudice you know children are imaginative they play they pretend to be all kinds of things they pretend to be footballers they pretend to be aliens spacemen unicorns they may be pretend to be men and women as well but you have to separate imagination and play from objective scientific facts and the fact is that your gender or your biological sex is defined by your anatomy and by your chromosomes and that's the science that we need to be making sure that children know and the science that we need to be teaching children and affirm the been growing up in no one's going to change their mind just because they read a book it's something that comes from within and no amount of propaganda or proselytizing can make someone transgender i think our starting point has to be the welfare of the child and my concern is that we know in countries all across the world people

who don't fit the gender stereotypes who are trying. gender variant they suffer teasing namecalling threats and bullying and that is truly shameful that is not good for the child welfare so what we have to do is to create an atmosphere in understanding where it's ok to be different in britain it's in the last two years it's grown sixfold the number of children who have this gender confusion and it's because they're being exposed to these materials if they weren't they would just happily go on their own way being boys and girls yes there are differences in people who are boys and differences in girls in their temperaments and their behavior in their likes and dislikes but that doesn't mean that they're going to be transgender doesn't mean the whole idea of separating sex from gender is a new social construct. thanks so much you know it's international this thursday

morning hope your morning is going good and will continue to a lot more to come here with me kevin owen if you can hang around for at least the next ten minutes after the break millions of american web users will be surfing in the slow lane in the future we can report as washington moved to scrap rules safeguarding fairness with internet speeds tell you about that and a lot more ahead. was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. for new socks for the tell you the gossip the

public by. telling you all and i like. all the hawks that we all love walking. again from hollywood to westminster the flood of sexual assault allegations is seeing more and more victims feel they can finally speak out about widespread abuse but there are still big hurdles in the battle to be believed a smear a con explains. defending women's rights is surely a noble cause and those who defend them are upheld as moral eakins yet recently

some of these defenders have fallen from grace lena dunham a feminist icon is now being vilified as a hypocrite she's repeatedly argued that we should unconditionally believe women alleging harassment but when accusations were leveled against her co-author and friend she changed her tune while a first instinct is to listen to every woman's story the circulation is one of the three percent of assault cases that are misreported every year following a public backlash down of apologized but the damage had already been done someone else with the now damaged reputation is the los angeles attorney lisa bloom who made a name for herself advocating for women's rights but that didn't stop her from representing harvey weinstein when the storm of sexual harassment allegations broke i thought i had a chance to make a difference here on the other side he wanted to be respectful to women and he still wants to be respectful for two women bloom left weinstein in october amid

widespread outrage saying it had been a colossal mistake and then there's new york times reporter glenn thrush a self-proclaimed advocate for female journalists when harassment claims were leveled against prominent political journalist mark halperin thresh was vocal in his condemnation young people who come into a news room deserve to be taught our trade given our support and enlisted in our calling not betrayed by little men who believe they are bigger than the mission but now it turns out threshed himself stands accused of sexual misconduct so it seems that the higher your professed standards in public life are the further you risk falling in private all these celebrities are going to say what makes them popular and what makes them more progressive but in private and in their own life when their brothers got involved they're going to be like every other person on the ground here who realizes he wants matters in her case she said things women lie about their watch things women don't lie about wait i'm not uncertainly. if someone close to you they are accused of rape suddenly all that damage is and crap goes out

the window every single perfect daven is to use the. perfect progressive for saying you see no one there is no perfect hero all these people are hypocrites. the collapse of coalition talks has plunged germany into his worst political quagmire in years now the leader of the free democratic party whose walk out the rail the negotiations has ruled out resuming talks once again as well christian blames partner party she says of betraying their principles to secure power door exactly between the threat is going to take it personally when conservatives enter into false compromises with socialist and don't stay true to their core beliefs now the greens are no socialist and the christian democrats are no longer a conservative party but you've got to watch out regardless there is more optimism though from the party secretary general who says there is still a chance of further talks but only if merkel's christian democrats and the greens

change their stance that those three parties would have formed the jamaican coalition based on the logo colors of the parties it was seen as angela merkel's only viable chance to form a majority government now though germany's in limbo as it stands at the moment so waiting either a minority government or another election here's how a former german ambassador to russia describes the current impasse. 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 these. parties to which have been newly elected to the wooden 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 liberals in addition to that but as a matter of fact this has found it so now when has to look out for a new possibility and there are very serious discussions now going on in the social democratic party and they will announce originally immediately after the election results came out that they were not willing to continue in government but they wanted to go deep 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 no

talks between the social democrats and america's party will at least be started what will come out of it one cannot say yet. use next the telecom giants in the us a said for a major victory if washington goes ahead with its plan to repeal the so-called net neutrality. law it could have a direct impact on your web experience let me tell you about it here's how it works currently under net neutrality your internet provider has to give equal access to all online content if it scrapped the us federal communications commission though would allow connection speeds and access to web sites to be dictated by the tech companies themselves the f.c.c. chairman argues that the rules in place right now are preventing trillions of dollars being invested into web services by the private sector however if all this comes from the potential flaws for consumers the telecom giants can corner the market making it harder to access information about their competitors we discussed

the potential impact of the move with political activist george barda. under the current rules in the u.s. . internet access as a public utility i think most people given the huge significance of information travelling on the internet most lived more than lives it is very very important that the available to everybody freely you know just as much as access to energy to heat homes etc this is very much a crucial part of modern life what this means in practice of course is that if this moves ahead if you go to a web site there isn't favored that can't pay the huge fees to get faster access to the internet and then anyone who goes to a site and wants to watch a two minute video could end up sitting there for fifteen minutes and it's buffering and so they give up essential they move to another site that has paid the huge feelings so this does have enormous implications i think for the integrity of

the political conversation going forward when we hear more about it will tell you r.t. dot com or you tube channel facebook twitter lots of ways as ever to stay up to date with what we're doing here about international for now is kevin i would say good morning thanks for watching this bullet in the course of a great day. we've been cheated again and again and over yet again by what we can fully understand is that north korea has never failed the kind of pledge they said they would and their nuclear and missile development has come to a point. where we've got to pay the greatest man he because of the danger they pose.

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in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's old debt. studying so hard it requires trust. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and punching to death sometimes quite literally. wants other true colors of universities in the us. readings and salutation. life is a struggle a constant struggle from the lowliest subsurface to the highest of caves we will all face struggle struggle for shelter food dignity and respect the struggle for

wealth power fame and legacy. whether your shoes are old and tattered or brand new leather there will always be struggle but there is beauty in that struggle the city of baltimore is a city built on that struggle from the economic book cook book cooking and city hall to the shadow economy street justice that half the city lives under the struggle is won't woven into the very fabric of the city it's between every row house on every street corner and on every dock in the harbor and recent history we've seen the struggles the struggles of baltimore blazoned across our news feeds and newspapers with the killing of freddy gray and the black lives matter protests that followed. baltimore struggles represents a nation struggles with classism racism and a broken justice system but even in baltimore there is and always has been beauty and three examples of baltimore's beauty in the struggle is found in the lives and

work of de watkins aaron may have been and can one infidel a writer a painter and a poet all bore from streets that brought many asunder today hawk watchers we present to you their three stories in their own words so that hopefully through discovering how these three sons of baltimore found their beauty their artistry and their success we too can find our own beauty in the struggle as we start watching the hawks. at the bottom. that i got.

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