criminals can never escape. maniacs and we've been. held. to top saudi officials are visiting a synagogue in paris and what's being seen as another sign that saudi arabia and israel bitter rivals might be maneuvering to secure regional power positions. hello to you this friday the twenty fourth of november it's eleven am here in moscow welcome to the news from r.t. and to national first off for you this hour germany's role in the main player is looking shaky squabbling over coalition terms continues to leave the country without a government for now a special panel is being set up just so the parliament can keep working but it's taking burned into attention away from its power house position of brussels top table and that could mean opportunities for others as our europe correspondent

explains it's not a game of jack beats a queen bullets in the game of e.u. power poker a money call may be trying to do just last and use. is the use leader not so long ago this would have been unthinkable as i was proclaimed foreign white as the leader of the free world. the chancellor's attention focused firmly on her failure to form a government following the breakdown of coalition talks means that crown looks decidedly steady and that's where the money will. steps forward the french

president is one of the youngest leaders in the world at thirty nine and he comes with some ambitious plans on how he says the european union needs to change just quickly i want a true european asylum office to be created we should progressively establish a european border police. a budget can only go hand in hand with strong political leadership led by a common finance minister europe must have a joint intervention force a common defense budget and a joint doctrine of action his plans are expansive and would result in more powers going to brussels germany isn't on side with all of his ideas but should that be a shift in the power dynamic between the two countries that might not matter as all france at the helm of europe exercising its dominance certainly rings a bell if you look back through the history books. than once welcomed another young french leader who had big ideas on how to change europe peter all of a r.t.

berlin on another win for president at the london based european banking or thora he will move to paris when britain exits the bloc political philosopher tom brooks from the darwin law school says that if mccrone strengthens his hand of the e.u. talks will get a whole lot tougher with the problems that the maze been having at home with a weak minority government we look across to europe with merkel having trouble other problems with other european countries make wrong looking strong it's not a good time to want to negotiate new things with europe when europe has many other things on its plate the real problem here the real headache for the british and theresa may with mccrone is that mccrone ran on a platform of being very pro european and he's very much you're a child support of greater coordination of europe europe coming closer together so i think again bad news for the prime minister. with uncertainty hanging over angle

of merkel's position and the possible snap election of two sophie shevardnadze to talk to the deputy leader of the alternative for germany party which made unprecedented gains of the expense of the german chancellor she believes merkel doesn't have the country's best interests at heart any other solution almost would be better than merkel so there's no reason to stick to her because she has damaged our country in a way no one ever did i don't want to have even germany influencing even there the european union with the visions of our chancellor we want to have someone in place who has visions who wants to change the this system of the european union how it works how it functions and then take a more responsible role she manages power this is what she is doing but she has not the interest of the country in her mind no one no one knows what these what she's thinking she's not coming with a vision she has not a vision for the country she's not taking any decision she's not sticking to values

she is not a program for her for our country the only program she has is the program to save her political power that's all. a special report for you now as we get a unique look inside one of the most highly secured locations in the world it's russia's black dolphin prison and it houses some of the women all. the facilities first mention in the history books back in the eighteenth century today it holds hundreds of inmates and it's known for its brutal rules more against

you have was given exclusive access to the site. in this provincial town at the edge of siberia is a prison but it's no ordinary prison this facility has spawned legends meets scandals and investigations the mere sight of this statue has broken the most so lists butches the black hole thing russia's highest security prison it is here but some of the country's worst maniacs serial killers terrorists and even cannibals i held in this cell a man who raped forty four miners and killed five children aged seven to eleven some of the people in this prison will never be allowed out so we dread for the things that they've done and then the man in a drunken killing frenzy killed six of his friends in this cell

a murderer killed eleven people. seven hundred inmates sentenced to life between them they've killed almost four thousand people everything is procedural everything intended to minimize risk from sleeping schedules to how inmates are a school that bend to the waist and blindfolded so they can't memorize the prisons layout. it may seem excessive humiliating even but do not forget what these people did to be here to that end every cell door has a description of the inmates crimes any sympathy the guards might feel disappears immediately. you ask me if i do it again i thought about it it would have been better if i died with them i probably wouldn't have done it it is better to die than sacrifice others eagle was just over twenty when he and his

father took on a rival gang after killing their enemies they attempted to get rid of witnesses ordinary civilians in a restaurant seven dead eight injured both he and his father and castrated here do see each other sometimes when he fell ill they transferred me to help him for a while the most important thing is to avoid becoming him bitted it is so easy to turn into an animal here but staying human that's harder that's why we try both with each other and with the administration to stay human some say a life sentence is worse than the death penalty. i've been here for seventeen years and i've never heard anyone say they don't regret it or they'd kill more i'm sorry but that's nonsense. and i regret it everything is lost the years go by your health worsens everything passes by i think there are

a few people left in here who think they did the right thing they are show you that you were wrong totally wrong you can't do that. dimitri saluted his family his father his mother and his brother he was twenty now he's forty five we want him because we watch t.v. we see people who have committed two or three murders get sentenced to seventeen or nineteen years that isn't so terrible yes we are guilty before the law yes we are guilty before the public but if they're left out after twenty years why are there fraid of letting us out who in their fifty's could be bothered to do anything all they would want is a normal life. the difference is that life sentences are mostly reserved for crimes of such brutality that they escape reason for individuals deemed a permanent danger to society one inmate released early from the black dolphin committed a murder on the very train that was taking him home most will never see release.

inmates can pick where to work in the wood shop or on the suing machines they earn money with which they can buy extra food personal items make calls and pay compensation to their victims they even have visits four times a year with one lasting up to three days i think that. if you take the period when we came into solvent and compare it to know the conditions are entirely different now we have to work a petition for self-improvement access to the media prisoners now have special terminals where they could review their cases complain about abuse or apply for work they have a library a small church which was built and painted by the inmates themselves was that

wasn't even the walls have to be painted in light colors so that they lessen the psychological stress on and mates and staff they can also take walks sort of. the exercise yard isn't anything to write home about but every prisoner has the right this bend an hour and out of here every day walking around exercising war just sitting still so long as they don't mind being watched a far cry from the infamous hell hole described a decade ago but control is total god's check on everyone every fifteen minutes in cell cameras and monitored twenty four seven and there's three doors to every cell this is a cell for those sentenced to life it's locked with a full metal door a cage door and another one for complete security we essentially have

a cell within a cell it's easy to see why no one has ever escaped from the black dolphin and for most the uni sure way out is in a coffin or i guess the of from solar let's russia. next the israeli prime minister has opened up about the country's covert operations with a number of arab nations and said tell of a finish looking to expand its work practice corporation with arab countries is usually coverts i believe that this relations will continue to develop and that they will be a fruit for the expansion of the peace orbit however some of that cooperation doesn't seem that covert at all and perhaps symbolic public display to saudi officials have been seen visiting a synagogue in paris with the media calling it a nod to israel it comes after the israeli defense forces chief said that they were ready to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia jacqueline virga next

explained why tell of even riyadh might be willing to overlook their differences. israel has been a thorn in the side of a number of middle eastern states for what feels like forever singled out and attacked it was just a fact of life. we are freezing all the forms and levels of communication between the israeli enemy and any arab countries while until israel is going ahead with its crimes against the arab people of palestine and lebanon taking advantage of the silence of countries worldwide. yes should i live in the world is witnessing the reality and the nature of the israeli occupation the cruelty and barbarism of this race is regime committing war crimes and crimes against humanity just a few years ago the idea of saudi arabia and israel getting into bed together would have been shocking to say the least but now they look to be on the same page or the times they are changing and whispers of growing ties between israel and the arab world are getting louder respect the other sides wish when ties are developing

whether it's we saudi arabia or with other arab countries we are willing to exchange information with moderate arab countries including intelligence information there are many common interests between us. a high ranking israeli military official has even been quoted as saying that he agreed with every word his saudi counterpart said at a conference in d.c. adding he felt like they could have been his own words being read by the saudi chief now there is a clear reason for this shift remember the old adage of the enemy of my enemy is my friend i think this is a wake up call for everyone when israelis and arabs and it's all the arabs and israelis i want to agree on one thing. people should pay attention we should stop the syrian takeover so the motivating factor for these unlikely bedfellows is iran's and the fear of tehran's growing influence in the region is so strong that it has even elbowed aside the question of palestine it's quite obvious that the saudis would consider today that the major threat in the area is the iranian and

that's why they were looking for any allies in the in the area also to be against iran in this matter differently that was absolutely israel which we're launching a huge campaign since ages since years against iran so definitely there will be a kind of a closeness between israel and saudi arabia thinking both that the major in the region is in iran and that's why we believe that you know this i would these are willing to negotiate even the arab initiative to start with the normalization with israel even before they are addressing the palestinian question and this is absolutely is not acceptable iran has even tried to bring palestine back into focus today the issue of palestine is the primary issue within the muslim world well it seems not anymore. let's get some live reaction now with us is professor come on

how much is the vice chair of the palestine solidarity campaign professor welcome to r.t. thanks for coming on how far do you expect this to go between israel and saudi arabia will it widen or is this just about iran. it is very much about iran at the moment. who has been for years as someone who spoke a new report said basically inciting against iran presenting it as the biggest threat in the region people may remember images of him showing that it was so close to the nuclear to having nuclear weapons that it must be stopped in its tracks repeatedly year after year the united nations general assembly it was just part of the misinformation that and yahoo likes to spread out and fortunately at the moment some of the arab countries have taken it and if they really think that any are will send jets to fly over to protect area from. threat then they are deluded. but of all the partnerships that could have sprung up israel and saudi arabia that

surprising to a number of people now the arabian even recognized israel as a country. indeed i mean i think people are surprised that events have moved so quickly but particularly that they are moving quickly under the new crown prince's leadership if you like. he seems to be moving from one conflict to another or rather almost creating them we know what's happening in yemen the boycott of qatar etc so it seems that this is the next thing. he wants to ensure is security against iran he's talking to trump trump is saying you know it would be good to see signs of. if you like pressure on the palestinians to come to a peace deal which will encourage both israel and us to work with you to protect

the reason from iran so the palestinians become a football being kicked around by all of these players the proxy war between iran and saudi arabia spreading around in different parts of the middle east isn't it do you expect there to be a direct confrontation between iran and saudi arabia at some point. i. am not sure that this is going to happen in the short term i mean i argued actually in an article that may be more chance or there's a chance that we'll see the israeli flag flying over riyadh in saudi arabia. the signs of conflict actually directly by the saudis striking iran or iran striking saudi arabia i think is an is unlikely this is only my personal assessment but i think the saudis with. israel to see that actually you get nothing in return from israel it will only sign. deals. with if there is an interest in

it getting this the same will happen at the moment through this pressure on the palestinians to concede even more of their rights when donald trump produces his magic. sort of deal of the century which counts as nothing but really the professor you have our thanks for your time. location of one of its submarines in the south all been awake now with numerous countries helping in the search operation rusher is among those hoping to recover the forty four missing crew members sent a research ship equipped with deep sea vehicles. the

situation is critical and we're getting a more worried today seventeen days that submarine has an oxygen supply and. we know that they will return we have faith we're waiting for them so well we'll continue fighting thinking praying they're actually professionals they will come back any moment we hope that there is a sign they can back to us that they return where they come back to us alive those are wishes that is why we are here.

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next muslim girls who wear hijab in england's primary schools are to be asked why they're wearing the religious head scarves is said to an angry reaction from parents who describe the education watchdogs move as wrong and dangerous for some of the people themselves though it's a question of choice and self-confidence i am a ten year old british four muslim girl who changed to wear the hijab and know that

when you look at me you instantly assume that my parents force me to either but you could not be more wrong you are doing office that is ruining my confidence and self-esteem is the young girl and the confidence of many other little girls school inspectors say the moves about monitoring whether wearing the hejab might be interpreted as the sexualization of young girls or more of the parents should speak out if they're concerned about fundamentalist groups influencing school policy a barrister in the islamic human rights campaigner we spoke to says children's clothes are not the government's business. this is something that should be a free choice between the parents and the children and it should be something personal and it's not for the state to intervene in such an issue well it's not necessarily them being made to wear it sometimes it's many girls choice choices i have young girls and my family who chose to wear the headscarf at the age of eight or nine i personally see this this is another reason for poor institution islam

a fairy via where where really as a muslim community first we heard about trojan horse now we're hearing about muslim young women being targeted when is this going to stop when are we just going to be accepted as being british as being part of this society being allowed to the freedom to practice our faith as long as we're not harming other other individuals . it was confirmed by police in london last week that the grenfell tower fire tragedy claimed seventy one lives devastating images of the blaze horrified the world and many rather to support victims' families and those who were left homeless in the shadow of the ruins stars from the worlds of showbiz and sport played a charity football match in front of a santa crowd r.t. stan collymore took to the pitch to show which as he had a few minutes he talks to the other star players. if. the tragedy and this i can't. even i don't.

think that she. was losing penalties so that's nothing new for me. it was important to me that we didn't forget and after the survivors over there i want to make sure they had a family here we community after a tragedy people forget and i want to make sure they knew that a family with a few smiles in their face and to know that we can. stand by for stand. next that's all for me for now though colin bright with your news this hour have your next world update in just over thirty minutes thanks for choosing on.

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