in the stories that shape. close to being wiped out in syria the country's civil rights. longstanding conflict with peace talks in russia. we visited russia's prison for a rare visit to see what life really like inside the country's most dangerous of. some of the country's worst. serial killers terrorists. held. for germany and chancellor merkel as coalition talks break down leaving more questions future.

if you're watching welcome to your. thirty minute wrap of 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 in russia as a result city of seoul to bring together the rival groups who've spent more than six years locked in conflict a monday the syrian leader made his second visit to russia during four hours of talks with president putin said he's ready to hold discussions with parties interested in resolving the crisis some of whom later arrived in sochi to as he explained it looks like is shaping out as the new platform for dialogue on syria. 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. 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 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's 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 of 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 her trunk of politics professor mohammad marandi told us that the talks were a positive development but the tough days lie ahead. fastener fox as well as the current talks in sochi have. pushed the part of the process great deal for the force things have shifted in 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 if the americans and their allies are going to help

this process move forward or whether they are going to improve 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 new rules 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 a many will probably see out their days inside black dolphin which is arguably russia's toughest jail and this week r.t. is more against year was given unique access to see what it's like inside. in these provincial town the edge of siberia is a prison but it's no ordinary prison and me a sight the statue is broken the moved solace butches 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 and. 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. when you ask me if i do it again i've thought about it and 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 bettered it is so easy to turn into an animal here 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. 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 don't usually 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 the most unique 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 it could mean a snap elections on the cards in which 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 poll moves biggest leaser we should value possible talks with the social democrats of course we are prepared to have talks we have been in and around call issue for the last four years and you have done a good job which you did a lot. you have union invited and of course the s.b.c. and 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 defend that with the fusions the members of our party would agree on that. the preferred choice after september's election was

a so-called jamaica coalition between angela merkel's party the free democrats and the greens nicknamed that way due to the color of each party's logo and with merkel now struggling to find a way out to our europe correspondent looks at the options that she has left the day after the bundestag election in september angela 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 of the free democrats delivering the killer blow we have the other one is that 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.

which. 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 volta 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 angle or 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 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 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 my party has fright from the beginning said that we are guided by principles we have been elected because we. did 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 is it from 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 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 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. still to come how google's been tracking phones without permission and the saudi blockade that's making life unbearable for millions and we have a nice he went highest official on humanitarian assistance talked to r.t. told after the break. here. but stephen. wrote american interests george bush are the jews this is my buddy max bemis finance.

is. making us sick deleted. more of the week's main news now an urgent humanitarian aid started arriving in yemen on saturday after the saudi led coalition aid this blockade of the country first airplanes landed in the capital sanaa with life saving medicine and food before partially lifting the blockade thousands of people were out protesting in the port city of her data accusing riyadh and its allies of genocide the saudis have been supporting the ousted president against huth your position fighters for more than two years in yemen but events took a turn recently when a missile was fired towards the saudi capital is a reminder of what happened afterwards when two days after missile launched the

coalition closed all sea and land routes tightening an already existing blockade but under pressure from humanitarian organizations it was partially lifted a week later however the u.n. and aid groups still say that's not enough to improve the dire situation in the country. the red cross is now warning that a million people or risk of a renewed cholera outbreak in three yemeni cities after clean water supplies were cut to those cities. but. the city. 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 civil population on the day today on friday i talked to the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian assistance he told me that yemen's ongoing crisis could spark the worst famine the world has seen in decades be effective the blockade has been to make it much more difficult from the aid operation at the moment where feeding seven million people every month through the u.n. and our partners in yemen we are providing water services for four million people

and we are we made very good progress through the world health organization and 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 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 most successfully once we get the operation up and running again in the way it needs to be both into port and into the data ports and salif port. your goals because secretly collecting location data from undried phone users softer they've even turned off the relevant settings or have no sim card in their devices that explains 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 and 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 that any nearby cell phone towers i'm standing not far from one right now . 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 let's say three hours that all have different distance locations then you can try and get a late pretty cold clue to where the actual phone is 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 cell i.d. as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance message delivery google claims that it hasn't done anything particular with this data and now is going to turn it off. i don't find out entirely credible because some engineer or group of engineers had to spend time getting together this capability and they had to do it for recently google says that android phones will stop tracking the locations of users without their consent by dresses as a woman and his horse who wants to be a dog we've got reaction to the publication which has been branded dangerous propaganda. when your 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 you know 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 as who they are and this is just something that's far too much too young is going to confuse people it is part of the natural spectrum of life for all animal 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 moen unicorns they based maybe pretend to be men and women as well but you have to separate imagination and play from objective scientific facts 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 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. 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 it's 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 in their likes and dislikes but that doesn't mean that they're going to be transgender it doesn't mean the whole idea of separating sex from gender is a new social construct. and that's how the week shapes up here on all right thanks for tuning in this sunday the next edition of the week is with andrew pharma and just about half an hour. was. was.

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