oh. the. cross is there for strikes the last remaining islamic state positions in eastern syria as the terror group self-proclaimed caliphate is all but wiped out in the country meanwhile the leaders of iran turkey in russia take the chance to try and kick start the syrian peace process and bring to an end almost seven years of conflicts also this hour google admits tracking android smartphones even after users have switched off their location settings. hello there thanks being with r.t. international tonight where it's just gone ten o'clock here in moscow. now russia's

defense ministry says its air force has successfully carried out a series of surgical strikes against islamic state positions in syria and it states that terrorist fighters. pose and armored vehicles were destroyed in the attacks they are being carried out support the syrian military in its push to liberate the remaining i still held villages in the east of the country and with the terror group self-proclaimed caliphate in tatters the leaders of russia iran and turkey have been meeting to lay the groundwork for a series postwar future frank has been following the talks in softy. 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 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 how to prepare the ground for a political settlement of the syrian crisis has 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 including in-an 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 was a neighbor tranquil politics professor side mohammad marandi told us that the idea of a syrian national congress would be a positive mood although he did add there are still questions over exactly how it 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 faster than a fox as well as the current parts of the. push the power of 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 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 ours 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 competed.

now google has been secretly collecting location data from android phone users even after they had turned off location settings and had no sim card in their devices and while insisting to it is neither stored nor use the information collected google has no molests agreed to stop is more pain 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 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 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 satellite the 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 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 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 apparatus so there's not any easy way to suddenly come up with new rules that will take care of these things both try and. the political bodies are technologically.

so i can barely even really understand what this stock is doing some 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 the telecom giants in the us are set for a major victory if washington goes ahead with its plans to repeal so-called net neutrality rules and it's likely to have a direct impact to on internet speeds in the united states so this is how it works and currently internet providers have to treat all online traffic equally that's at the moment and that means they can't block or slow down any particular web content the authority behind the push there to end net neutrality the f.c.c. does say it could allow trillions of dollars to be invested into their web services

by the private sector so it does perhaps sound like good news but it might 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 others and internet users may also be forced to to pay more to access content at the speeds they are currently used to well kim dotcom 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 while i discuss this idea with dmitri kleiner a previously activist and software developer. no more development in this area would certainly be good the board the better platforms that consumers have that deliver privacy and anonymity the more we have the better the relationship between these giant internet monopolies like facebook and and google and the state

department of the u.s. and the advertisers and the big industry and business interest in the u.s. certainly makes it more difficult. you know for other voices to gain access and that's going to only become worse so obviously in that sense a more neutral and maybe internationally neutral internet that is less dependent on big central monopolies like amazon google facebook etc would be much better so i mean kim dot com proposal a lot of things that sound pretty good about specially the idea of you know using mobile devices more actively if it is planning to use the kind of radio capabilities of mobile phones themselves in the bluetooth n.f.c. and wife by the creation of a mesh network you could have an advantage that it's much more difficult to block that and then centralize things however 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 given the right support i definitely

think that an 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 kim dotcom 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 that advertising and surveillance would not be would not be used. a picture book for children that's been published in sweden is staring up control of the sea every transgender issue because it is a man who dresses as a woman his pet horse believes it's a dog the author says it's meant to teach children they can be whoever they want to be on this ninety say it's not appropriate but we got some reaction from both sides of the debate. or 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 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 is 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 and unicorns they they may be pretend to be men and

women as well but you have to separate your imagination and play from objective scientific fact 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 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 doesn't mean that the whole idea of separating sex from gender is a new social construct. that the new says even the political crisis in lebanon has taken an unexpected twist after the country's prime minister put on hold his surprise decision to quit we had a look i now it's my resignation from the post of prime minister 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 and to the reasons behind it i complied. well after her nearly there announced his resignation in saudi arabia he took a small detail before returning home to lebanon visiting they did in france egypt and also cypress 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 a limb. and

a hard look at you i am here in the kingdom as of him as a free man. well on the lebanese prime minister's return a number of his supporters were out on the streets in the capital beirut but while some of them believe had a he was kept against his will by the saudis they still can't predict what's next for 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 side. he's meddling i'm sure it will continue and star only reality interference into a live news affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure sound how he really wants to help this country number nine i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong sociology professor sides 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. or 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 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. now 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 is samir account 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 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 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 blew 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 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 get involved they're going to be like every other person on the ground here who realizes who wants matters in her case she said things women lie about their watch things women don't lie of oh wait i'm not and suddenly. when if someone close to you they are accused of rape suddenly all that brahmanism goes out

the window every single perfect cabin as you see on t.v. that perfect progressive person you see no there is no perfect hero all these people are hypocrites. america's relations with turkey have been described as a marriage at the latest press briefing by the u.s. state department but things have been going through a rocky patch especially after the failed coup in turkey last year and was furious that its main suspect in the uprising was resident in the u.s. . the marriage you have a good day and sometimes you have a bad day right. which was not a decision we took lightly. and it's a decision we took with great sadness. this decision is really struggling for us.

who is responsible. on term but. he's living in the united states you know. we always voice our concerns over america's policy you know region they use the fines against terrorism to redesign the middle east. somebody may say something that later they regret saying that. he watching us a thanks been with us tonight don't forget you can keep cross all the stories of this day on our social media pages and you cheap channel on back with mornings at the top of the.

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welcome to worlds apart and old japanese pro or posit 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 yeah well to discuss that i'm now joined by dr it to me he could to make special adviser to prime minister obvious cabinet dr to the good he's 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 t.v. xavier russia and in that article you know first to president putin as the west's public enemy number one i wonder if president putin still can claim the 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 which 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 it stands out in comparison to how other countries conduct their diplomacy with both russia and the united states one of 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. 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 minister's team is also quite creative about how it goes about creating that personal of for with mr

trump it was it in burgers and playing golf with putin it was about jobs being 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 strategic denominator and this is a concern over a rising china and it's a merry time growing maritime ambitions and yet i also heard you say that you hold chinese president xi you would visit japan next year as your countries as going to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the diplomatic relationship do you have any idea what kind of reception could make xi jinping more receptive to japanese concerns in the wishes i don't know. the challenge is that japan. must live. next door to china now ten years from now one hundred years from now three hundred years from

now so it's always important for japan to manage its relationships with china and if you look at the trade and investment connections that japan's economy has developed with china that's awesome so the challenge is there japan must maintain a good enough relationship with china but at the same. i am they must we must pay huge attention to what's going on in the east china sea and in the south china sea yeah i understand what you're saying is that the you should try to improve the relationship but also be mindful of the of the challenges you have but what i guess i'm asking your bodies whether you seeing the relationship in china would also benefit from that kind of a personal approach that prime minister tried to establish with other leaders because with russia for example that in that relationship is also pretty challenging isn't it but obviously he pursues that line of personal of report with

mr putin do you think. mr abbate would be well advised to push.