with islamic state essentially driven out of syria the leaders of iran turkey and russia moved to help reconcile the remaining. political crisis since the country's prime minister on his resignation weeks after he stepped down. google tracking android smartphones. and the media backlash over a new children's book. who claims to be a. controversial identifying. trying to. young people who feel. you have to separate your imagination from objective scientific facts and the fact that your.

brain this is the world news from. the prospect of peace could be edging closer for 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 largely out of the picture has been following the talks in russia's black sea resort. 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 launch our joint efforts over the last eleven

months of how to prepare the ground for a political settlement of the syrian crisis has he in 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 and 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 that 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

klein tagged with anchor up so the hope is definitely there. well analyst and politics professor side mohammad marandi told us that 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 faster than the fox as well as the current talks in sochi have. pushed the process a great deal for the force things have shifted in changed 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 al qaeda will be united states pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of the government because of the violation of sovereignty there is 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 unexpected twist after the country's prime minister put his surprise decision to quit on the whole rif an orphanage in beirut following the shock reversal. me and i and i that i have now announced my resignation from the post of prime minister of state how 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 joy 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 the wrongs 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. 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 riaz interference into lebanese affairs many other countries are doing it too because i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country never known 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 east country that suffered a lot in wars and conflicts may be losing peace again gratian are shut off from beirut lebanon social a g professor saeed sadec explained to us how lebanon has become a battlefield for a political standoff in the wider region there are two alliances emerging in 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 again is this alliance and so you have this polarization the saudis feel that one way. or the mind the power of. hezbollah is to create a political crisis in this way you will be able to. have a storm inside the political system to commercialize 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 off iran. google's confirmed that it's been collecting location data from android phones even when users have disabled location services and removed the sim card the practice was discovered by the news website quartz and the google insists it's neither stored nor use the information but it's agreed to stop anyway it 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 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 try and

get laid pretty closely 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 is 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 now google assures us that we have

nothing to worry about that they never store or share our data with anyone well we've heard that song and dance before. does the n.s.a. collect any type of data and a millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly that technology really is moving faster than the regulatory apparatus so there's not any easy way to suddenly come up with new rules that will take care of these things most of the time. the their political bodies are technologically savvy. so i can value 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 mop and

r.t. washington d.c. meanwhile washington's moving to scrap so-called net neutrality which could significantly alter the web experience for millions of americans we'll have more on that for you later in the program. now though a 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 officer says it's meant to show children how they can be whoever they want to be in some of the reaction we've been hearing. 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 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 pupils who don't who are trans or gender variant they suffer teasing name calling threat 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 gender is a new social construct. students have been out in force in paris this morning and so have the riot police we'll tell you why when we come back.

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hundreds of students have been protesting in central paris against education reforms being proposed by president mccrone 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 test doesn't plan a march against higher education reforms that will change the university admissions no injuries have been reported out the up. 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 resuming talks again christian lindner blames partner parties of betraying their principles just to secure power in the door exactly 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. but there's more optimism from the party's secretary general who says there is a chance of further talks but only if angle of merkel's christian democrats and the greens change their stance or those three parties would have formed what's described as a jamaica coalition based on their logos colors and it was seen as angle merkel's only viable chance to form a majority government now though germany is 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 these. parties which have been newly elected to the wooden is our 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 democratic party and they will 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 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. every new way 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 yet. telecom giants in the us a set 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 speed in the united states but 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 scrapped the us federal communications commission will allow the telecoms firms to prioritize connections to some companies more than others the f.c.c. chairman argues that the rules in place now are preventing trillions of dollars being invested into web services by the private sector but the downside for consumers in all this is it'll 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 expect to see a lot more of that we discussed the potential impact with political activist george barda under the current rules in the u.s. . internet access is framed as a public utility and i think most people given the huge significance of information travelling on the internet to most live to more than lives it is very very

important that the available to everybody freely you know just as much as all 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 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 a century and they move to another site that has paid the huge fees so this does have enormous implications i think for the integrity of the political conversation going forward. now we're up to date breaking news alerts twenty four seven dot com and throw up full speed for now i'm calling bright back here in thirty five minutes with your next world news.

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hello and welcome to all it's a part of an old japanese pro or posited that a talented hawk would hide its claws that may well be a guiding strategy for japan under prime minister shinzo who so far have been far more assertive in foreign policy than any of his predecessors but who prefers to keep it relatively amicable even if it runs contrary to the international public opinion has this approach bore any fruit gadgets well to discuss that i'm now joined by dr tomei he could to make

a special adviser to prime minister abbott cabinet dr today which is great to talk to you thank you very much for being available. thank you very much for having me now about a year ago you wrote an article on japanese childhood g.v. xavier russia and in that article you referred to president putin as the west's public enemy number one i wonder if president putin still can claim that title or has he perhaps yielded to his american counterpart well if you look at the public opinion in countries such as the united states the united kingdom the fear factor with regard to. is still visible and even has gained more strength so i think it's still it's still holds. what i what i what i what i used in rather derogative terms i'm afraid well i think when it comes to negative press present putin now has some competition from president trump who is also

strongly disliked in some quarters which makes prime minister's abbé treatment of both of this man a very respectful very friendly treatment quite can speak here this it stands out in comparison to how countries conduct their diplomacy with both russia and the united states was the calculus behind. before paying huge amount of attention to what the media say of these two individuals. on one hand on the other hand he is the one that wishes to see them in person and that's the approach that he has taken prior to donald trump taking office if you remember about a year ago then president elect donald trump met in the. mansion in new york and then with. the house met i don't know more than twenty

times and those meetings. almost all the time with. slots inserted so wishes and wants to develop his own ties with these two people now prime ministers team is also quite creative about how it goes about creating that personal of four with mr trump it was it in burgers and playing golf with bush and it was about jumping into hot springs and you know here in russia mr putin perhaps because of he's k.g.b. experience has a reputation of a pretty reserved person what made the japanese think that getting him to take off his clothes and jump into hot water would predispose him to more dialogue well i was the one who wished that. the diplomacy that you're now talking about would

be the one between the two middle aged and naked people but it didn't work that way precisely we're talking about the december two thousand and sixteen meeting between the putin and in one of the hot spring resorts west of. a western part of japan but they didn't bathe together they dined and talked with each other for a long time but unfortunately they didn't both together overtures to both putin and trump have the same straight she'd.