in the stories that shaped the week with islamic states on the verge of total collapse in syria russia and its regional allies plans for establishing a lasting peace in the country. on something times for germany and chancellor merkel was a coalition talks break down even question marks over her future leader. we gain access to russia's most notorious prison and bring you a look at the ruling regimes of its life long.

live from moscow with the main stories from the past seven days you're very welcome to the weekly here on r t international i'm you know with islamic states all but wiped on in syria the prospect of a lasting peace in the country is not finally on the horizon russia is attempting to help secure a political solution to the almost seven year long conflict on this week l talks with other key regional players are trying to break down how things currently stop 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. 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. john scale military action against terrorist groups in syria is coming to an end i'd like to note that thanks to the efforts of russia iran and turkey we have managed to prevent is the dissolution of syria stop it from

being captured by international terrorists and avoid the 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 the rand 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 and tehran that is giving us a reason to say that things may be looking promising here. politics professor sayed mohammad marandi told us the talks were a positive development but difficulties still lie ahead. dostana talks as well as the current talks from sochi. push to follow the process a great deal for the force things have shifted in change of enormously on the ground and hopefully these talks will help pave the way for. 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 and competed.

for over twenty years there's been a moratorium on the death penalty in russia the country's most dangerous criminals are sentenced to full life terms in prison and this week artie's murat gets the of was given unique access to the high security facility known as the black dolphin arguably rushes toughest. in the provincial town at the edge of siberia is a prison but it's no ordinary prison the mere sight of the statue is broken the most 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 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 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 that guards might feel disappears

immediately. who's missing is just better 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 dakota rival gangs and after killing their enemies they attempted to get rid of the witnesses. ordinary civilians in a restaurant seven dead and eight injured you move 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 embittered 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. i'm sorry but that's nonsense. i regret it and everything is lost in 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 looked at his family his father his mother and his brother he was twenty now he's forty five. he's only watch t.v. we see people who've 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 and of course 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 for 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 inmates released early from the black dolphin committed a murder on the very train that was taking loops will never see release 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. this is 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 no one has ever escaped from the black dolph and and for moves sure way out is in a coffin for i guess the odyssey from seoul in let's russia. uncertainty hangs over germany's political future after talks to form

a three party coalition government co-ops on monday peter all over examines what caused the negotiations to fail and what options remain for chancellor merkel. 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 available 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 break down.

just hours after coalition talks with the free democrats in the greens collapsed under merkel was turned down by another coalition suitor this time the social democrats martin schultz saying there would be no return to a grand coalition if. on september the twenty fourth the grand coalition lost fourteen percent so it's clear we were shown the red card in view of the election results we are not available to join a grand coalition is without off the table one other option available to angola 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. 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 one hundred years and now she should be asking ourselves

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. after it was announced the talks had failed the german president called on all parties to work towards producing a stable government this is the moment when all those involved should pause and reconsider their stance in all the parties voted in the parliament are committed to the common good they are serving our land i expect from everyone a willingness to talk in order to facilitate the formation of

a government in the near future at it. i'm going to already indicated her readiness to renew the so-called grand coalition with the social democrats the system that's governed germany for the past four years the chancellor sais the alliance has proved very effective on the social democrats with martin schultz out the helm seemed to have softened their position to they had previously refused to deal with merkel again we asked some members of germany's political parties about the recent twists and turns in the. i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but marcos apparently stated that we are going to have them both fall she has always clung to power and i thought she would have sought another negotiated solution so everybody is putting this to f.t.p. but in the end 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 in some turmoil here and that this is indeed to the unprecedented situation it's going to be new elections i'm pretty certain the f.t.p. and probably also the i.c.c. the opposition party that will gain because this. is quite a silent significant part of the population that's once a change in the immigration policies still ahead on the weekly google's parent company has been busy making changes to its search engines especially when it comes to russian media so you for that story and he said. level blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles still. to do socks trying to tell you to not be gossiping probably by falsehood to the point. i was.

pulling out by. the all the hawks that we along with all good fun. and the culture is good for the big picture but it's. a real business which we need to maintain we need to have it but it's no defect of the prospects at the moment go forward with the draw with the automotive g.p.s. driven tractor or some other machinist will have less and less people employed so the fact that we easily get a c.e.o. business just so the rest of the world is getting ready to lose business with it would they go. back with r.t.

international it emerged this week that google's parent company is working on ranking stories from r.t. and the sputnik news agency in web searches the move would make articles harder to find alphabet boss eric schmidt's comments came at a security forum in canada when he was asked about artie's use of google's since 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 a russian german program no outlet and when i clicked on them they will monitor rise to that sense is it really necessary to monitor the rise russian propaganda outlets would google it's and so we're well aware of this one and we're working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically our sputnik or 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. eric schmidt's who you heard there has a long time relationship with the leadership of the democratic party in the u.s. he was reportedly a donor to barack obama's campaign lead her becoming an advisor to the administration he's also believed to be the tech muster mind behind hillary clinton's presidential campaign although he's never confirmed that himself now under pressure from the u.s. authorities to go recently launched an investigation into alleged russian meddling but google's own report to congress say said find no evidence that r.t. had violated its policies or manipulated you tube in any way to get its status as the most viewed news network last month google dropped our channel from its prime list in the u.s. without notice or explanation it later cited a drop in viewership as the reason despite r.t. being the most watched t.v.

network on the platform i 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 the removal of r t from the program was actually a result of as as i understand it is a reason result of some of the drop in viewership there is nothing about r t or its content that. then thirty state interstate out. meanwhile eric schmidt's remarks being contradicted by a google representative who said the company doesn't change its algorithms to really rank individual sites media consultant need wallace is certain google's actions against r.t. are politically motivated. i don't think it censorship you don't have to like the story that russia today coverage you don't have to want to read the material coming

from sputnik but i really do not believe it in any way except to ball that a bunch of politically correct. democratic party supporting people certain solari should or should not read i think it's the height of arrogance i think that i am quite capable of watching r.t. reading doing. cases there is on them how many of them hang themselves throw themselves into trains take pills my female colleague forty nine years old killed herself last week with a hunting rifle first and not. only 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 the lack of humanity in police

nowadays leads to the situation when many of my colleagues professed to die instead of fighting. lebanon's prime minister suspended his resignation on wednesday after arriving back in beirut the sudden announcement to step down made in saudi arabia had plunged his country into turmoil seemed to expose a growing regional power struggle between riyadh and tehran. 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 that hall and 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 well after resigning in maria herrera took

a small detour before returning home visiting france egypt cyprus here's a quick recap of the events of recent days. somebody prime minister saad hariri was forced resignation it was not his desire nor decision.

on the whole i am here in the kingdom to as a free man. a reverie was met by crowds of supporters on his return to beirut some of them believe he was held against his will and forced to resign by the saudis we asked people in the lebanese situation. i hope that all the other country that we have to tell ourselves we want 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 liberties affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country up anon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong well international relations professor jamal wakim told us he believes the saudis are using hariri to advance their own and regional agenda. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot he had received as if he had blow special leave the lebanese public thinks the prime minister party was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact. his father ideally. a long time but it was not that the saudi influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and saw how did he was forced to designation by not at the time when the crown prince also the idea. is trying to

increase the tension with iran especially in lebanon after they lost that influence in iraq. and syria more r t program start in just a moment i'll see you and often with more. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love

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