headlining with islamic states essentially driven out of syria the leaders of iran turkey and russia move to help reconcile the remaining sides and bring an end to the six year civil war. political crisis since the country's prime minister on his resignation his surprise decision to step down almost three weeks ago a regional uncertainty heightened tensions. google admits tracking android smartphones even when users have switched off their location settings. there's a media backlash over a new children's book in sweden and claims to be adult reaction over identifying as transgender and its legal status we gauge reaction to the controversial issue. about trying to. young people who don't feel they fit neatly into the male female

role but you have to separate your 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. you wherever you are watching thursday morning at eleven. welcome to the world news from r.t. international first off for you the prospect of peace edging closer to syria the syrian army in cooperation with the russian military continues to liberate villages pushing islamic state further towards the iraqi border meanwhile the leaders of russia iran and turkey have been taking the initiative to bring the remaining parties in the conflict to the negotiating table with lysol now largely out of the picture. has been following the talks in russia's black sea 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 e 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 so we. scale military actions against terrorist groups in syria 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 and 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 of the syrian crisis has in our meeting today symbolizes the start of a new stage in this process. the trilateral meeting today has uk news to importance through the final stage including eman to the bloodshed in syria and we have achieved success thanks to the union of the 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 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 a track of all analysts and politics professor science mohammad marandi told us the

idea of a syrian national congress would be a positive move but the questions over how it would function still need to be answered. 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 fun at fox as well the current path of. bush the father of the prophet a great deal for the for 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 our lives of our world the united states pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant

portions of syria without the permission of the 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 competed. the political crisis in lebanon has taken an unexpected twist after the country's prime minister put his surprise decision to quit on hold or if an option is in beirut following the shock reversal be. announced my resignation from the post of prime minister of the trial and i discussed my resignation with the president of the republic he won't speak to wait before submitting it to put it on hold and to allow for more consultations into the reasons behind it are a complete prime minister hariri maybe back to lebanon but the question is his absence brought a stool to be uncertain. how

did his comeback was made those who believe in confusing and goes whose resignation proclaims from another country and featuring threats to cut off the wrongs arms in the region sounded a lot like saudi arabia iran's long term rival. i hope that all the other countries in the region will leave lebanon alone so the lebanese people can decide their future for themselves it's on president that saudi arabia held the lebanese prime minister by force and pushed him to resign while he was outside his country and that is that we have to tell ourselves we want our country to stay out of regional conflicts when it comes to the saudis meddling i'm sure it will continue and it's not only riyadh's interference into lebanese affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way

saudi arabia treated him is very wrong but it's clear already these twenty days have so. just how dangerous the battle of the power between saudi arabia and iran would go and now this little middle eastern country that suffered a lot in wars and conflicts may be losing peace again. from beirut lebanon sociology professor cites a deck explain to us how lebanon has become a battlefield for a political standoff in the region there are two alliances emerging in the area saudi arabia some gulf states without. pushing a game is iran and again this has been law on the other hand you have syria. news person not the prime minister and hezbollah and iran again is this alliance and saw you have this polarization the saudis feel that one way. or on their mind the

power of. hezbollah is to create a political crisis in this way you will be able to create havoc a storm inside the 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 that 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 google insists it's neither stored nor used the information but it's agreed to stop kalam open explains how the tracking works. 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 nearby 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's a three cell towers that all have different distance locations then you can try and get a late pretty coldly to where the actual phone is so you're only referring to the phones identity and the fact that it is on the net

a telephone network so what it's doing is it's pinging cell towers nearby and by the way all phones do that you see way to suddenly come up with new rules that will take care of these things most of the time the bodies aren't as technologically savvy the silicon valley is so they don't even really understand what this stuff is doing some google says that android phones will stop tracking the locations 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 caleb moppin r t washington d.c. . meanwhile washington is moving to scrap. so-called net neutrality and that could significantly alter the web experience for millions of americans we'll have more on that for you later the program.

children's picture book published in sweden the promotes transgenderism has been widely criticized and even branded as dangerous propaganda the story features a man who dresses as a woman and his horse who wants to be a dog the author says it's meant to show children that they can be whoever they want to be here's some of the reaction we had. 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 and what 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 they just maybe pretend to be men and women as well but you have to separate your 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 pupils who don't fit the gender stereotypes who are. 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 want 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 and their temperaments and their behavior in their lives and dislikes but that doesn't mean they're going to be transgender it doesn't mean that the old idea of separating sex from gender

is a new social construct this is our students have been out in force in paris and so have the right place we'll tell you why when we come back. a play for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch or the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money. to spend spend be true to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game like great one more chance with. going to.

looking back hundreds of students have been protesting in central paris against educational reforms introduced by president police were forced to step in deploying tear gas to disperse the crowds. university and secondary school students shouted slogans and threw eggs at offices

protesters plan the march against higher education reforms that will change university admission will no injuries have been reported when the rally there so ongoing in the french capital will keep watch on it for you. the collapse of coalition talks has plunged germany into its worst political quagmire in years now the leader of the free democratic party whose walkout derailed the negotiations has ruled out regime in talks again christine blames partner parties of betraying their principles to secure power in the door exactly the threat is don't 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. who has more optimism from the party's secretary general who says there is a chance of further talks but only if merkel's christian democrats and the greens change their stance. those three parties would have formed what's described as

a jamaica coalition based on their logos colors and it was seen as angela merkel's only viable chance to form a majority government now though germany's in limbo awaiting either a minority government or another election here's how a former german ambassador to russia describes the 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 at is the 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 the 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 democratic party. we announced ritually immediately after the election result 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 those party will at least be started what will come out of it one cannot say it. from hollywood to westminster the flood of sexual assault allegations and 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 as american 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 the first instinct is to listen to every woman's story in this accusation 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 a 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 thrush 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 and 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 us more progressive by in private and in their own life when their private get 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 lunch things women don't lie of oh wait i'm not excited morning why. if someone close to you they are accused of rape suddenly all that done is a rap goes out the window every single perfect admin is to use the. perfect progressive person you see no there is no perfect we're all these people are hypocrites. telecom giants in the us for a major victory if washington goes ahead with its plan to repeal so-called net neutrality rules and is likely to have a direct impact on internet speeds in the united states as well here's how it works at the moment currently internet providers have to give equal access to all online content so that it all loads of the same speed of net neutrality is scrapped the us

federal communications commission will allow the telecom firms to prioritize connections to some companies more than others and the f.c.c. chairman argues that the rules in place right now are preventing trillions of dollars being invested in web services by the private sector but the downside for consumers is this it will mean that some websites and streaming services will load much faster than others essentially creating a digital slow lane for firms who can't afford to get their speed boosted. significance of information travelling on the interview just as much as homes etc this is very much a crucial part of modern life what this means in practice of course is if this moves ahead if you go to a website that isn't favored that can 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 ascension they move to another site that has paid the huge fields so this does have enormous implications i think for the integrity of

the political conversation going forward. well that's all for me the news to you michelle i'll be back to you again in about thirty five minutes on calling bright your watching all to you. we've been cheated again and again and over yet again only on what we can fully understand is that north korea has never fulfilled the kind of pledge they said they would and their nuclear and missile development has come to

a point where we got to pay the greatest amount of heat because of the danger they pose. a scene years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun bad guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think they are inheriting whenever my my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by phones in the u.s. how does the team yes we did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the paid. to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met in photo all those

years ago i don't know this but. we are not. beyond the fifteen e. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up it's a special dedicated to travel and retail we'll talk to you from the wings gary left about changing seating charts on airlines and we'll examine how online commerce is disrupting the retail industry. first while american united and delta all offer a basic economy southwest does not in fact the airline c.e.o. calls second class others call it third class for storage to get his take we sat down with gary left founder of you from the wing dot com when he first asked him

why some of the biggest airlines in the u.s. are doing this here's what he had to say what the airlines have done the three large largest airlines have done is there also fewer of the normal benefits the you expect as part of your travel on their cheapest fares you're not going to be able to change a ticket at all you're not going to get a seat assignment before you check in and in the case of american united you're not even going to be able to bring on your normal full size carry on bag if you're buying one of these fares the idea is to make the travel experience more difficult with these fares in hopes that you'll spend more money for the things that used to get included in your ticket. well basic economy fares from all accounts you know were essentially created to compete with these budget airlines spirit frontier. things of that nature they're offered a rapidly growing number of people use them especially young fliers i've noticed

when i'm on them anyway no frills carriers they basically call themselves if you look at the prices spirit airlines cost of fare per cent per mile is six frontier airlines up to nine express jet. about seven sky west it goes on up delta. american united those are some of the highest.