let me gossip the public bus files of the most important news today. while i'm off the bat telling me you are not cool enough and let's not fight their products. these are the hawks that we along with our audience will watch the. in the stories that shaped with close to being wiped out in syria the country's civil war rivals move towards finding a political solution to their own long standing conflict with peace talks in russia . we visited russia's toughest prison a rare visit to see what life really like for the country's most dangerous criminal . some of the country's worst. serial killers terrorists and. held. unsettling times for germany and chancellor merkel as coalition talks break down leaving more question marks

over her future as leader. of your watching welcome to your sunday. brain this is a thirty minute wrap up the biggest stories from the past seven days with the end game in sight for islamic state in syria tensions now turning to finding a political solution to the country's drawn out civil war peace talks and russia's result city of sochi sought to bring together the rival groups who spent more than six years in conflict on monday the syrian leader made his second visit to russia during four hours of talks with president putin but are said said he's ready to hold discussions with parties interested in resolving the crisis some of whom later arrived in sochi to. explained it looks like tsotsi 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. interested in advancing the political process of active fighting head. faster and talks from sochi have. pushed the power of the first things have shifted and changed talks will help pave the way for think that it looks good on paper but it i'm sure it's going to be very complicated 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 impeded 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 opinion. as a high security prison in the russian urals in which there are hundreds of inmates who are never likely to taste freedom again that's because they're among the

country's most dangerous offenders and many will probably see out their days inside a black dolphin which is arguably russians toffees jail and this week artie's more against you if 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 site the statue is broken the moved a soulless butchers the black gold 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 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 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. years 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 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 sure way out is in a coffin for i guess the odyssey from seoul in let's russia. germany's political future is up in the air after talks to form a three way coalition collapsed on monday i could mean a snap elections on the cards and went far right parties are predicted to make further ground against the more established ones and this all means the germany is now considering going back to square one and another four years of the grand

coalition all moves biggest lisa we should value possible talks with the social democrats of course we're prepared to have talks we have been in a grand coalition for the last four years and you have done a good job which you do a lot you have in you invited and of course the s.p.d. and the acting federal governments will continue to work together there is no other way only one thing is now completely clear the talks must be carried out though that in this way we can always depend always the fusions the members of our party would agree on that. all the preferred choice after september's election was the so-called jamaica coalition between i'm going to merkel's party the free democrats and the greens it was nicknamed due to the way each party's logo was colored that with merkel now struggling to find a way out our europe correspondent looks at the options that she's got left. 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 the every other one is 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 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 really fun for somebody has got to be responsible for that the federal chancellor created the 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 some of germany's political parties on the recent twists and turns in the bundestag and 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 to this is surprised but everybody is putting this to f.t.p. but in the end to to make a coalition agree the f.t.p. the c.s.u. the c.d.u. was a very very unlikely construct a very strange construct that of course cannot work and we can see that the country isn't some turmoil here and that this is indeed that 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 of the f.t.p. and probably also the ifi 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's once 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 still ahead on the

weekly the political merry go round in lebanon since a shock comeback for the pm and why there's been a rise in suicides among french police officers even a couple of. the war hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police. the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. for new socks for the tell you that would be gossip a couple of good. news to. tell you on. the hawks we all love walking. in the culture is good for the big picture but it's it's a business which we need to maintain we need to say i would but it's no all defects

all the profit so the more we go forward with a draw the. tractrix of the machines will have less and less people employed so the fact that we easily get the show business just shows how the rest of the world is getting rid of those. with it was eager. to get more of the week's headline news now with the lebanese prime minister absent and having said he'd quit the political crisis shaking lebanon took an unexpected twist on wednesday when the pm reversed his decision. b. and. i announce my resignation from the post of prime minister with my certainty that the will of the lebanese is stronger that they will be able to overcome the tutelage from inside or outside because i discussed my resignation with the

president of the republic he won't speak to wait before submitting it to put it on hold and to allow for more consultations into the reasons behind it are complied sug saad hariri announced his resignation while he was in saudi arabia but he then took a small detail before returning home to lebanon you can say visited the leaders in france egypt and cyprus is a recap of events. so prime minister saad hariri was forced the resignation was not his desire nor decision.

and i hope i am here in the kingdom as a free man. with . the lebanese prime minister was welcomed by supporters in the capital on tuesday but they say it's impossible to predict what's next. i hope that all the other

countries in the region will leave lebanon alone so the lebanese people can decide the future for themselves it's on president 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 once 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 riyadh's interference into lebanese 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 international relations professor jamal wakim believes saudi arabia used hariri to put more pressure on iran i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received severe blow specially the liberal news public think prime minister probably was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact

that. his father roughly how do you leave. for a long time representatives or saudi influence in lebanon under it is a widespread believe in lebanon and how do you was forced to designate a muslim so none at the time where the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. spike in suicides among french police officers this year has intensified concern about the stress caused by overwork and the country's high terror threat levels try to do bensky has been to me one officer who's made not one but two attempts to take her own life. i was considered as a trouble maker i also had problems in my private life and with my children i felt abandoned he spent your entire life to build your pest know and professional life

and one day you say to yourself everything would be better without me or holy not real name is an officer with moving two decades of experience having joined the police at nineteen she was very motivated and excited about the job but geez the pressure of her work through thirty two suicide attempts the latest just seven months ago. our ministrations taking decisions on the people's anger is tending against us we are suffering from the image our government created for us today many people are calling for policeman to be killed. the most important mission of the french police today is preventing terror attacks yet the offices themselves have become the primary targets of the hardest.

how much all of. an impact has the threat of terrorism hard to laplace. we suffered enormously physically and psychologically from the terror attacks we worked extremely hard but that was our duty what was really bad is that we were not given the tools to fight with terrorism some place men received new weapons some received training but not all of us the measures that they have introduced were minuscule. all highly tells me the suicides amongst police she'd by no means be as isolated cases. they always say that these the personal issues we will stop saying that police some

of the hits traumatised by their work they decide to commit suicide more easily than the others why not because they have weapons on them how many of them hang themselves throw themselves on the trains take pills my female colleague forty nine years old killed herself last week with a hunting rifle. is one of the lucky ones dozens of others have succumbed to the extreme pressures they face she says there was only one reason why she pulled through and that was her children. i realize that my child will come home that day and it saved my life but the lack of humanity in place nowadays leads to the situation when many of my colleagues prefer to die instead of fighting. ski. pants. that's how the week shaped up here on the. right thanks for tuning in this

sunday i'll see that alfalfa. scene years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think it's fair and hardy whenever my my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by far as in the us only had a thought to me as i did this is

a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. i says was it to americans by it is right is unfortunate the by financial support of some. contraries in there. for making unsafe. lexington in the central east of the united states it is within this city with

a population of three hundred thousand at the university of kentucky can be found. it is barely nine in the morning david and brandon two first year students are in the middle of a video game. jewel as a warm up before the first match of the season for their university's american football team the wildcats are going to drink a beer before you can start the race so you're waiting to hear cheers and while. these students have found themselves a great way of supporting their team since breakfast is a star. a large supply of strawberry banana flavored vodka david and brandon down four shots in less than two minutes on empty stomachs. cause good. for the students university sports events are a great chance to get away from the pressure of their studies but also a particularly good opportunity to party and dress. more. your

grandson isn't twenty one years old yet the legal age for drinking alcohol in the usa. but on campus circumventing the law has become a national sport. and other on the way to the stadium they get thirsty again and a competition has started. in the streets of lexington the behavior of these young men doesn't seem to shock anyone you go there. and these students even walk along with a bottle of vodka and there had however as is the case on many other american campuses alcohol is legal here the cops don't care that is there was a default down for you to hammer the larger as you want as long as you can spare. the gold rush or somebody on university man. stays anything goes or almost anything .

just outside the stadium the traditional parade has started. led by kerry their leader the cheerleaders galvanized the crowd. the eight parade announces the arrival of the uncontested stars of the campus. around fifty student football players accompanied by their team of staff. all eyes are on this group of players good enough to play for the big professional teams. in the usa the love of university sports goes much further than the campus supporters. in the stadium parking lot many supporters tents have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. is beyond me this weekend. but we will bring. it to. the fans are very loyal and also very generous. tickets sales related merchandise

supported donations last year the football team brought in more than thirty million dollars for the university a cash machine which contributes to its space. inside the stadium the great event of the sports business has begun. the brass band on the cheerleaders provided a great show. for the play it's a rifle. that cheered on by a crowd of sixty thousand supporters.