in the stories that showed the week just gone with i saw now close to being wiped out in syria the country's civil war rivals move towards trying to find a political solution to their own longstanding conflict with peace talks here in russia we'll tell you all about. also visited rush's toughest prison in the week for a rare visit to see what life really like for the country's most dangerous criminals . it is here that some of the country's worst maniac serial killers terrorists in the woods cannibal held. unsettling times for germany and chancellor merkel as coalition talks break down leaving more question marks than over her future is leading.

a lot of this sunday morning from artie's main street to h.q. moscow it's covered when we can with a weekly or thirty minute round of the big stories of the past week and first with the end game in sight for islamic state in syria tensions now turning to trying to find a political solution to the country's drawn out civil war peace talks in russia's resort city of sochi the sort to bring together the rival groups who've spent more than six years locked in conflict or monday the syrian leader made his second visit to russia during four hours of talks with president putin bashar assad said he's ready to hold discussions with parties interested in resolving the crisis some of whom arrived in sochi to a little later as trying to rick's play. it looks like saudi is shaping out as the new platform for dialogue on syria the resort has become the venue for the first major round of talks on the syrian crisis the syrian president bashar assad

was here on monday. at this stage especially after victories against terrorism we are of course interested in advancing the political process then mr putin had a long phone conversation with donald trump. blatt of our putin gave donald trump a full update on the talks with syrian president bashar assad mr putin also told mr trump about the upcoming summit with the presidents of iran and turkey. it was these three countries that were behind the so-called astronaut talks in the first place and with the terrorists now almost gone this format could prove to be more crucial than ever. 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 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 the trilateral meeting today has not most important is the final stage in putting an end to the bloodshed in syria we have achieved success thanks to the union of iran turkey and russia after roughly one and a half hours of talks 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 all syria talks and all kinds of

political ethnic religious groups are expected to be involved in the leaders say that it should pave the way for a new constitution in syria and new elections it's this kind of communication somehow involving different sides like washington moscow damascus ankara that is giving us a reason to say that things may be looking promising here in the reporting politics professor said mohammad marandi told this indeed the talks were a positive development but they also said tough days lie ahead. faster than a fox as well as the current parts of sochi have. pushed 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 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 there's a lot to do and it's not clear what the americans and their allies are going to help this process move forward or whether they are going to improve and competed but i think what is what is very positive is that these countries seem. to be determined obviously all three of them have their own opinions. there's a high security prison in the russian you rules in which there are hundreds of inmates who are never likely to taste freedom again that's because they are among the country's most dangerous offenders and many will probably see at their days inside a black dolphin arguably russia's toughest jail this last week artie's murders it was given unique access to see what it's like inside. in the provincial town at the edge of siberia is a prison but it's no ordinary prison the mere sight of the statue has broken the

moved a soulless butchers the black doll thing 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 with 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 don't 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'd do it again i thought about it and it would have been better for 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 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 bettered it is so easy to turn into an animal here 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 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. 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 control is total god's check on everyone every fifteen minutes in cell cameras i'm one of the 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 sure way out is in a coffin for i guess the odyssey from seoul in let's russia. germany's political futures up in the air after talks on the way to form a three way coalition. in collapse those on monday it could mean a snap elections on the cards then a in which far right parties are predicted to make further ground against the more established ones and this all means germany is now considering going straight to square one again and another four years of the grand coalition poll moves biggest lisa we should value possible talks with the social democrats of course we're prepared to have talks that have been in a grand coalition for the last four years and have done a good job which you did a lot. of union invited and of course the s.p.d.m. the acting federal governments will continue to work together the reason there are

the way only one thing is now completely clear the talks must be carried out though that in this way we can always depend on institutions the members of our party would agree on that. the preferred choice after the election was the so-called jamaica coalition between anger moguls party also the free democrats and the green as it's called that because of the color of each party logo now with merkel now them struggling to find a way out our europe correspondent looks at the options she's got left or not. the day after the bundestag election in september angola merkel said that she was confident that by christmas she would have a ruling coalition government in place or fast forward through weeks of torture a sit times negotiations with the green party and the pro-business free democrats while the wheels of that coalition health fell off well and truly with christie and lynn of the free democrats delivering the killer blow you have a other ones we will not abandon our voters for

a policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly ingrained differences between the parties on key issues such as climate change refugees and the budget saw the so-called jamaica coalition breakdown. one other option available to angela merkel would be to rule over a minority government most likely with the green party.

but a minority government would be unstable at best and would certainly require a horse trading on gargantuan proportions with the other four parties in parliament if the government was to well pass anything more than just time in the chamber it's also worth noting that this would be a first in modern german history and wouldn't exactly fit the profile of the german voters who do love stabilises so where does this leave us the other option would be we go back to the polls for fresh elections. so back to the polls we go well step forward german president frank vaulted steinmeyer it's predominantly a ceremonial role but when it comes to installing a government that's where the german presidency has executive power it will be up to mr steinmeier whether he decides that he accepts angola merkel as the head of a minority government or whether he dissolves parliament triggering elections and

for the long serving leader mrs merkel that could well prove to be a storm she doesn't whether it's keep that's really fun for somebody has got to be responsible for that the federal chancellor created this situation she's been in power for what feels like a hundred years and now she should be asking herself maybe i have something to do with this situation. mrs merkel has failed it's time for her now to take a step back that night at the end of the merkel era began europe's biggest economy is heading into uncharted territory with current polling suggesting that a new ballot wouldn't return any results too different from what we had in september it does seem that there is no immediate solution to the current instability germany is facing and of course the implications that has for the why do european union peter all of a r.t. berlin we spoke to members from germany's political parties on these recent twists

and turns in the bundestag vent on who's to blame for the breakdown in talks. my party has fraud from the beginning said that we are guided by principles we have been elected because we met it to modernize the country we entered into these negotiations with good faith and things went well in the first phase of the coalition talks we then ran into difficulties and the main obstacle was caused by the greens my party i think would be willing to resume talks if there is a meaningful outcome well this is very surprising to me so far she has always clung to power and i thought she would have sought another negotiate a solution so this is a surprise but everybody is putting this to f.t.p. but in the end the jamaica coalition agree the f.t.p. the c.s.u. the c.d.o. was a very very unlikely construct

a very strange construct that of course cannot work and we can see that the country is it from turmoil here and that this is indeed to the unprecedented situation we don't know if there's going to be new elections but if there are going to be new elections i'm pretty certain the f.t.p. and probably also the i.f.b. the opposition party that came into the parliament with thirteen point six percent of the votes will gain because this. is quite a silent significant part of the population that wants a change in the immigration policy so i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but apparently stated that we are going to have them. frankly with this is we can still lot more to come in a review of the way kid google's plans that the rank in web searches and the saudi blockade that's making my phone bearable for millions of yemen is the un's highest official on humanitarian assistance talk to us will tell you that this.

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a financial supporter of some. sort of contraries. for making unsafe. monday that google's parent company is working on d. ranking stories from the sputnik news agency and web searches the move of my god tickles basically harder to find alphabet boss eric smith's comments came at a security forum in canada when he was asked about r t's use of google's ad sense service. i had a subscription for google alerts in german language and getting them every day out of ten results between five and ten every day we have sputnik news which is some russian german programming outlet and when i clicked on them they were monitor rise to sense this is really necessary to monitor rose russian propaganda outlets would

google it and so we're well aware of this one and we are working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically artie and sputnik are the two and there's a whole bunch of coverage about what we're doing there but we're well aware of it we're trying to engineer the systems to prevent it we don't want to ban the sites nice to hear now eric smith he just heard there's got a long time relationship with bear in this in mind but the democratic party leadership in the u.s. it was reportedly a donor to barack obama's campaign later becoming an advise it is ministration it's also believed that he was the high tech mastermind behind hillary clinton's presidential campaign although he never confirmed that himself under pressure from the u.s. authorities google recently launched an investigation into alleged russian meddling but its own report to congress says it found no evidence that our violated its policies or did that mean it related you tube in any way to get its status as the

most viewed news network something we were very proud of despite that google dropped our channel from its you tube prime out list in the u.s. without any notice or explanation then explained later at a hong congress hearing when grilled on why the hadn't carried out this move before this or sell gado why did cool google get preferred status to russia today a russian propaganda arm on youtube. there was a period of time where russia today qualified really because of algorithms to participate in a an advertising program why didn't you revert artie's preferred status after the i.c.a. came out in january two thousand and seventeen it took you to september of two thousand and seventeen to do it the removal of r t from the program was actually a result of the as as i understand it is a reason result of some of the drop in viewership not as

a result of any action otherwise so there was there was nothing about our t.v. or its content that. meant that it stayed interstate out. meanwhile our experience for mugs have been contradicted by a google representative who said there are no concrete plans to deal rank russian media including r.t. we discussed the developments with human rights lawyer down kofi lick it is a form of censorship in the idea is to lead readers away from r t content and it will have an impact on the discourse in this country google's already started the process against north american alternative media sources in august there was a report that they've already been done ranking twelve different north american alternative media sources all of these sources have now reported a huge decrease in readership think the attack on our t.v.

which has a very different view of those things. is an attack on those alternative narratives of issues that are very important to the american people. and to humanitarian aid started arriving in yemen last weekend three days after the saudi led coalition eased its full blockade of a country the first planes landed in the capital sanaa with lifesaving medicine and food before the blow. was lifted thousands of people were rope protesting in the port city of who they were carrying banners accusing riyadh and its allies of genocide it's now more than two years since the saudi led incursion in that country supporting the president against who for your position fighters but events are taking a turn recently to do three militias for the missile towards the saudi capital is a reminder of what happened after a vat two days after the missile launch the coalition closed all sea and land routes tightening an already existing blockade but under pressure from her

humanitarian organizations it was partially lifted a week later but the u.n. and aid groups still say that's not enough to improve the dire situation in the country in fact the red cross is now warning a million people are at risk over a new cholera outbreak in three cities because of the saudi arabian blockade that's after clean water supplies to the cities were cut.

actually i'm here since already one year and i can tell you i could see the situation deteriorates every day more and more the public health system is almost collapsing the water and sewage system is to having the same thing people are not getting the most basic things like having bread or having cooking gas to make something to eat and to put on the table. the two years and a half almost of this conflict is really bringing a lot on yemenis and the civilian population on the day to day on friday we told the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian assistance he told us that yemen's own going crisis could spark the worst farm in the world seen in decades. the effect of the blockade has been to make it much more difficult around the aid operation at the moment feeding seven million people every month through the un 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 own 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 few and the medicines get back in there we won't be able to sustain those operations in the way we have been doing we have had you know sensible pragmatic discussions about that we are expecting to send two missions to saudi arabia to look at the detail the arrangements for getting aid in more successfully one sweet get the operation up and running again in the way it needs to be both interested in our airport and into whose data ports and sallies port. we'll continue to follow this story it's nine twenty five in the morning here in moscow they're just some of the big stories from our team that helped shape the week just gone thanks for watching this edition my name's kevin zero in for me and the rest of the team here in moscow this sunday morning have a great weekend. in

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