with germany still without a government and setting up a temporary fix just to keep parliament ticking over we look at how the french president might seize the chance to become. a high security facility from which russia's most dangerous criminals. get unique access to see what life is like inside the country. but some of the country's. serial killers. held. two 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 a regional power position. on

this friday the twenty fourth. this is the news from international welcome to the program first for you germany's role as the main player is looking a bit shaky at the moment squabbling over coalition terms continues to leave the country without a government for now a special panel has been set up just so the parliament can keep working but it's taking attention away from its powerhouse position at brussels top table and that could mean opportunities for others as our europe correspondent now explains. it's not often in a game of cards that a joke beats a queen but in the game of e.u. power poker a money call may be trying to do just last and use her coal is the use de facto 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 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 because 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 at all . at the helm of europe exercising its dominance certainly rings a bell if you look back through the history books. and once welcomed another young french leader who had big ideas on how to change europe. well with uncertainty hanging over angular merkel's position on the possible snap election later this hour sophie shevardnadze goes head to head with the deputy leader of the alternative germany party which made unprecedented gains at 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 it 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 for sure 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 the far country the only program she has is the program to save her political power that's all.

you. knew that the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs some of local is in moscow right now to discuss the world's biggest humanitarian issues with russian officials mark joins us live now at a busy trip for you thank you very much for coming on and spending the time talking to us a couple of key points we want to try and get your opinion on here the saudi led coalition maintaining its blockade of yemen despite calls for lifesaving aid to provide farm in the spread of cholera now. the saudis say they've partially lifted that blockade humanitarian groups say it's not enough what can the u.n. do to help the suffering of the many yemenis there. where of course this blockade was put into place because of the missile attack on riyadh but the effects of the blockade has been to make it much more difficult from the aid operation we are hopeful that the blockade will start to be lifted tomorrow with a. lighting system then at the moment where feeding seven million people every month

through the u.n. and our partners in yemen we are providing water services to four million people and we are we made very good progress through the world health organization the children's fund the red cross and others in bringing this terrible cholera epidemic under control but the point is until the food and the fuel and the medicines get back in there we won't be able to sustain those operations in the way we have been doing and how difficult is it to get that aid in because the bombing campaign has been tense there's been large scale destruction and many deaths where. well we have been very successful notwithstanding the conflict in getting food and medicines and other essential supplies in but the problem we've been facing. for some time now but especially since the blockade was put in place in a much tighter way on the sixth of november has been the closing down of the

airport in sanaa and the main port through which we reach the bulk of the people who are just a step away from starvation to date are on the red sea so we need those we need those facilities open again otherwise we will run out of supplies and we won't be able to do the lifesaving work we have been doing but as i say i am hopeful that as from tomorrow we will start to see progress on that and how difficult has it been to try and get the saudis to help open those humanitarian corridors. well we've had lots of discussions with i you know i think we understand why they took the decision they took after the missile attack on riyadh bar i think they also recognize that it's in their own interests for this humanitarian situation in yemen to be kept under control and we have had you know sensible pragmatic discussions about that we are expecting to send two missions to rabea to look at

the detail the arrangements for getting aid in more successfully once we get the operation up and running again in the way it needs to be both interest in our airport and into the day to ports and sally port ok what about when it comes to syria millions there of course in desperate need of humanitarian aid they've enjoyed more than six years of conflict from just about all quarters really come the u.n. work independently on getting humanitarian aid into that part of the world or do you need the likes of the u.s. and russia to help make that happen. well the first thing i want to say about the situation in syria right now is i'm very very concerned about the fate of four hundred thousand people in eastern. outside damascus we're getting very worrying reports of high levels of malnutrition i was pleased to be able to discuss with my russian hosts here over the last twenty four hours the scope for us

to collaborate maybe in getting several hundred people to medical evacuation out of these things to say they can get lifesaving treatment and the scope for getting more convoys of urgently needed. food and medicines into. what i would say is i've been encouraged by the. the the messages that came out of the emphasis placed on humanitarian assistance that for me is very important and we've had constructive discussions which now need to be turned into real progress on the ground about how we get more aid into the people whose lives are still right on the line and how does that happen because if you meant it salty that was the turning point it feels like out this is all but routed from there the conflict is not over though but things seem to be moving in the right direction those people in syria though need action now who is actually on the front line getting that aid in

while the u.n. working with the red cross and red crescent are currently reaching seven million people every month across the whole of syria with lifesaving assistance the problem we have is that there are parts of the country we can't get to and that is my top priority at the moment especially. it's not easy and certainly not safe to rain separately according to u.n. reports children of the age of fifteen in syria sometimes even younger have been engaged in combat there is anything that the u.n. can do in order to try and prevent child soldiers becoming a key part of this war that's still ongoing. well you know my colleague they said general special representative produced a very important report on this subject just a month or so ago and everyone everywhere needs to take their responsibilities and international humanitarian law seriously and that includes not listing or forcing

children to be party to the terrible conflict in the u.n. of course compulsory huge number of reports on humanitarian catastrophes especially when it comes to africa we report on what's here on t.v. but what are the main obstacles that you face in trying to solve these problems or at least trying to ease suffering in the worst trouble spots. and what i would say to you and your viewers is there every year that global humanitarian system the u.n. the red cross and the n.g.o.s reaches tens of millions of people in need of lifesaving assistance and we unquestionably say millions of lives so it's an effective system. that the world has to reduce this suffering but the main problems we have typically arise from either conflict and how the belligerence in conflicts behave too and which has the effect of reducing the

assistance we can provide people will make it hard for us to to to protect people all the growing thing we're seeing about the impact of natural disasters some of which pretty clearly have their origin in in climate change so those two things conflict and natural disasters are the main under the underlying causes of the problems we're trying to tackle but we have a system that is effective in reducing suffering and saving lives because of all the public sympathy and we wish you all the best with it i know you've got lots of people have to talk to on your trip here but for now those u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian aid thank you very much for joining us on r.t. . next to the israeli prime minister has opened up about the country's covert operations with a number of arab nations and says tel of eve is looking to expand its work. active cooperation with arab countries is usually covert 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 comes after the israeli defense forces chief said they were ready to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia gatlinburg annex explains why television 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 that we are freezing all the forums and while most of communication between the israeli enemy and any arab countries well 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 at that island the world is witnessing the reality and the nature of the israeli occupation and 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 side's wish when times 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 arms and

israel 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 there would be a kind of a closeness between israel and saudi arabia thinking both that the major enemy 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 . issue of palestine is the primary issue within the muslim world that while it seems not anymore. this is a on the way a rare look inside russia's toughest prison and the school inspectors quoting young girls about why they were taps told ahead. here's what people have been saying about reject. the night of the sixth is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch a lot of the really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of marty americans do the same thing we are apparently better than that and see people you never heard of love redacted the next president of the world bank takes it. seriously send us an

e-mail. seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just to come after. and in gainesville equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back the special report i was we got 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 country's toughest most

violent criminals. with facilities first mentioned in the history books back in the eighteenth century today though it holds hundreds of inmates and it's known for its brutal rules. gusty it was given exclusive access to the site. in these 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 the statue has broken the most solace butches the black golfing russia's highest security prison it is here that 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 and the sympathy the gods might feel disappears immediately. you asked me if i'd do it again i thought about it and it would have been better if i died with them i probably wouldn't have done it but it's better to die than sacrifice others eagle was just over twenty when he and his father to go to 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 bettered 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. but 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. i regret it everything is lost and 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. to me treat saluted his family his father his mother and his brother he was twenty now he's forty five. 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 here 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 the murder on the very train that was taking him home most will never see release. the inmates can pick where to work in the wood shop on the suing machine they earn money with which they can buy extra food personal items make calls and pay compensation to the victims they even have visits four times a year with one last thing 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 work puts unity 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 school church which was built and painted by the inmates themselves i'm certain wasn't even the walls have to be painted in light colors so that they lessen the psychological stress on and mates and staff so 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 and there are enough 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 a monitored twenty four seven and there is 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 where it gets the of r.t. from solar leds russia. muslim girls who wear a hijab in england primary schools are to be asked why they're wearing the religious head scarves it's led to an angry reaction from parents who describe the

education watchdogs move as wrong and dangerous for some of the peoples themselves though it's a question of choice and self-confidence i am a ten year old british born muslim girl who chose to wear the hijab and know that when you look at me you instantly assume that my parents was me to wear the hijab but you could not be more wrong you are doing us that is ruining my confidence and self-esteem of the young girl and the confidence of many other little girls school inspectors say the move is about monitoring whether wearing a hijab might be interpreted as the sexualization of young girls or more is that parents should speak out if their concern 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 in 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 vs 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 the 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 that blaze horrified the world and many rallied to support victims' families those who were left homeless in the shadow of the ruins stars for the worlds of showbiz and sport played a charity football match in front of a sellout crowd r.t. stan collymore took to the pitch to and in his show today he talks to the other star players. the tragedy

and if i can. give it i don't. think i should. rather. it 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. call them on in a few hours that's all from. news this hour but you know and we'll have your next world update in just over thirty minutes thanks for watching all to international.

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did require a. go he through humiliation to enter society. sometimes quite literally. want of the true colors of universities in the u.s. . hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle serious years long catastrophe is coming to a close foreign backing of opposition and terrorist forces are in retreat in face eradication but the struggle is far from over the war is essentially won the

winning a lasting peace will be no easy task. across talking syria i'm joined by my guest adel darwish in london he is a political commentator and author of the book the edge of war in beirut we have come a was a he is a political analyst and founder of the center of american troops the chick side he's in beirut and in damascus we have danny makki he is a syria commentator and co-founder of syrian digital media group all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate adele let me go to you the best dressed man in television love the bow tie of course adele you know we over the last few days we've seen a. whole series of diplomatic activity trying to bring some kind of closure to this .