russia's therefore strikes the last remaining islamic state positions in eastern syria as the terror group's self-proclaimed color furter is all but wiped out in the country meanwhile the leaders of iran and russia take the chance to try and kick start the syrian peace process and bring to an end almost seven years of conflict also this hour an artsy google admits tracking android smartphones even when users have switched off the location settings. can you watching r.t. international this is the evening which just nine o'clock here in the russian capital now our top story this hour russia's defense ministry says its air force

has successfully carried out a series of surgical strikes against islamic state positions in syria it states that terrorist fighters ammunition depos and armored vehicles were destroyed in the attacks they are being carried out to support the syrian military in its push to liberate the remaining eisel held villages in the east of the country with the terror group self-proclaimed caliphate in tatters the leaders of russia iran and turkey have been meeting to lay the groundwork for series postwar future. has been following the talks in 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 and ronnie 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 when we. do large 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 how to prepare the ground for a political settlement of the syrian crisis and their meeting today symbolizes the start of a new stage in this process. the trilateral meeting today has darkness to importance is the final stage in putting an end to the bloodshed in syria we have achieved

success thanks to the union of duran 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 in prank reporting on politics professor side mohammad marandi told us that the idea of a syrian national congress would be a positive mood although he did that there are still questions i've read saxony i would 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 on the talks as well as the current talks in

sochi. pushed the process forward of course things have shifted and 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 but one of the difficulties is what about those groups that align themselves and continue to be allies. will be united states pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of the syrian government this is a violation of state 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.

google has been caught secretly collecting location data from android phone users even after they had turned off location settings and had no you seem card in their devices and one insisting it is neither stored nor use the information it collected google has nonetheless agreed to stop it expects 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 an android are sharing information with google even if you take the sim card out the android phone will start gathering the address is it any nearby cell phone towers i'm stan. 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 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 is 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 id 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 but 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 at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir it does not. not wittingly. the technology really is moving faster than the regulatory out rose there's not any if you were to suddenly come up with new rules that will create fear of these things both try and. the political bodies are technological.

so i can barely even really understand what this stock is doing so google says that android phones will start 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. r.t. washington d.c. meanwhile telecom giants in the us are set for a major victory if washington goes ahead with its plan to repeal the so-called net neutrality rules it's likely to have a direct impact on internet speed in the united states so this is how it works then currently internet providers do have to treat all online traffic equally at the moment and that means they can't block or slow down any particular content or the authority behind the push though to end net neutrality the f.c.c. says it could allow the trillions of dollars to be invested into web services by

the private sector which it sounds good so far but that may not be good news for consumers and that's because it could allow telecom companies to create fast lanes for traffic and prioritize certain sites over of those two and internet users may be forced to pay more to access content at the speeds they're currently used to where kim dot com the founder of maker upload has weighed in on this controversy surrounding the u.s. government's plan to overturn net neutrality the entrepreneur who's wanted in america for alleged widespread illegal file sharing has vowed to build an alternative internet to combat privacy and freedom problems online we can talk more about this with dmitri klein he joins us he's a previously activist and software developer and dmitri you're very welcome to r.t. firstly what are your thoughts there on kim dot coms idea why is there a need do you think for this alternative internet. well the current internet as it exists right now is you know suffers from a lot of privacy concerns and

a lot of those privacy concerns actually i mean some of them are inherent to the architecture of the platforms but a lot of them are actually related more to the business models of a lot of the of a lot of the kind of companies that make money on the internet companies like google and facebook you know make their money by targeting advertising and targeting advertising is of course you know requires to know a lot more about you than than one targeted advertising so the more they know about you the more they can sell these ads for so i mean kim dot com proposal is not something that i've seen too many details about although he has been mentioning magonet for a few years now i think as early as two thousand and fifteen he's already has already mentioned magonet and there's a lot of things that sound pretty good about what he's proposing especially the idea of you know using mobile devices more actively it's not clear what he means by that whether he's whether he means that it will be an overlay network on top of the kind of ip internet that adds anonymity along the lines of something like tor and

talks talks rather or whether he plans to use the you know bluetooth or n.f.c. or direct wife i capabilities of the mobile phones themselves to create a so-called mesh network along the lines of briar or other applications but any case you know more development in this area would certainly be good the board the better platforms that consumers have that deliver privacy and anonymity. you know the better than the more we have the better that one necessarily affect the actual concerns of data being collected by the likes of google and facebook and another ice we've sort of been mentioning this evening is the speed at which people can use the internet with these net neutrality rules being realm back is kim dot coms idea way of circumventing the. rules that are going to come into force. so we need to do a little know more about the architecture to actually make a claim either way if it if it is planning if it is planning to use the kind of

radio capabilities of mobile phones themselves in the bluetooth then of c. and wife i hear ability as those phones have to create some of the mesh network then you could have you could have an advantage that it's much more difficult to block that and then centralize things so net neutrality wouldn't affect it as much directly however it still may be a slower service to what people are used to right now giving given a neutral internet any drawbacks you can think of of having an alternative internet despite some people might say there's too much anonymity there and perhaps it will be sort of you know fair game for criminals and the like what what's your response to that argument well it's a it seems to me that criminals are having a terrible amount of difficulty operating on the internet as it is today and and having a more alternative internet that's more controlled by its users gives us better options in order in order to protect ourselves we can have like collaborative moderation in collaborative block list and stuff like that that the could make they

could make user driven ways to defend against this stuff more effective rather than being completely in the hands of facebook and google and twitter and only being able to access the protections that they provide and can you see the public taking to this alternative internet quickly or would it be problems that will for them to connect to mean what he will fill it with math and on its accessibility. well i think there's a lot of questions there's a lot of questions need to be looked at there one is of course you know how user friendly and usable this kind of stuff is we know without a clear business model like advertising that facebook and google has got the question where are the investments going to come from to create the kind of you know rich user experience that users are used to to market it to promote it to support it and all that kind of stuff so i mean given the right given the right support i definitely think that the alternative could be made and it could be very popular however it's not clear what where that support could come from you know short of public institutions because because as a private as

a private entrepreneur only has you know can only spend money that he can earn back and it's not clear how he would earn money on such a thing given that given the advertising and surveillance would not be would not be used to make sure that we'll leave it abbott said when you get to get your insights on this i was to meet you kalina fifty activists and also a software developer thank you thank you very much he still had few the phone because food again on lebanon has its prime minister says he's not quite seeing through we'll have that story press. after the break. what politicians do you think to. put themselves on the law. to get accepted or

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welcome back now a picture book for children that's been published in sweden is stirring up controversy over transgender issues not because it features a man who dresses as a woman whose pet horse believes it is a dog well the office says it's meant to teach children they can be whoever they want to be although others to say it's not appropriate we got some reaction from both sides of the debate. 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 because 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 alien space mind unicorns they 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 well 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 trans or 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 and their temperaments

and their behavior and their likes and dislikes but that doesn't mean that they're going to be transgender it doesn't mean the whole idea of separating sex from gender is a new social construct. discussion we had here a little earlier now that the political crisis in lebanon has taken an expected twist after the country's prime minister put his surprise decision to quit on hold . we are now and i gotta look i now is my resignation from the post of prime minister that harlot i discussed my resignation with the president of the republic he wants me to wait before submitting it to put it on hold and to allow for more consultations into the reasons behind it i complied. well after harry and i am says resignation in saudi arabia he took a small date all before returning home to lebanon visiting leaders in france age it and also cypress so here's a quick recap then of events over the last few days. saudia

prime minister saad hariri was forced the resignation was not his desire nor decision him. and i hugged him and let you know i am here in the kingdom as a as a free man. while

on the lebanese prime minister's return a number of his supporters. on the streets in the capital beirut but while some of them didn't believe he was kept against his will by the saudis they still can't predict what is next their leader. 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 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 liberties 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 so i feel that he professes side today explain to us how lebanon has become ground zero for a political standoff in the 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 to pop in on the 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. international thanks being with us tonight our programs continue after the break. to. see the good capitalist american and min davis doesn't charge for gun owners don't be such a shot communist loving bootlicking shot insurance company's c.e.o.

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welcome to the alex sound and sure we have another great show lined up for you today this time it's a mixture of politics and sport i'll be talking to the living legend the man they call the flying scotsman sub jackie stewart a grumpy what all champion three times over and still one of the most famous sportsman on the planet yet jackie can't say the alphabet due to his chronic dislikes we spoke about his fabulous career his campaign on dyslexia and his latest cause the struggle against dementia plus joining me in the studio to state his case will be done on the streets greatest ever spent all that i was of campbell but exodus where he has you and he cites and we'll be hearing from to be damaged telling us why the after is the new center of the world but first let's hear from you the shores the sea of the many mountain of tweets and messages and e-mails let's have a look at some of them well first from peter joseph i passionately when of no one

the show had it not been for the u.k. media so i'd like to add my things and so see all of us peter so see all of us at bunco boy says alec why are you not the first minister of scotland because i was even buncombe boy. i've always followed the how to wilson adage it's better to leave from the asking how you're doing not when asking why you're still there please i'm a should never think about that. as in and said i'm expecting alec interest me not to be taken off air after having l g b t so prominent on an r.t. show well according to u.k. media that's what happens well we'll just see isn't and won't we but this is our exam and show and we decide on the content robin leslie sixty nine says is it true that cares dog bill is going on the alec salmon show to talk about the decision to go on i'm a celebrity this is casey a drug deal the former labor leader in scotland she's going into the jungle that's

a great rumor robert let's just say it's true that it's a rumor. and that's two side of three says tallies put him on in that front of you now examine show why haven't the mainstream media not done this before he was b.b.c. news i.t.v. news of channel four news was it deemed not to be newsworthy also said i thought the interesting thing about into a car was beautiful it was that he was allowed the opportunity an english has for flying ways to explain his case in a way that i haven't seen on any other media outlet i thought that was the point but not everybody agrees we have nigel who's emailed in from under the sea here and nigel says the question is do the catalan separatists have the right to seize independence drive a coach and horses through normal parliamentary procedures or can vastly the spain have the right to defend its constitution the answer to the first is no and i suggest to the second is yes well nigel it wasn't the spain had the right to defend

this constitution it interested me it was the manner in which they were doing it and the prime minister of oil was to take up the offer to defend that position in the chair in the exam and show that i'll be delighted to accommodate them. this week i caught up with the flying scotsman subject to stuart in geneva where we discussed his glittering career his global activism on the sly and his current campaign the race against dementia subject first i want to take you back to your boy who'd been done by after you having a rough time at school you're a bit of a wild child how close were you to your life going off the rails before you found anything you were successful at i was more alex a feeling of complete loss of my own abilities because school i was a severe.