the frequency of pathology. if i was in the money in the group and who runs the blood business. in the stories that shaped the week with his law makes states on the verge of total collapse in syria russia and its regional allies had plans for establishing a lasting peace in the country. on separating time for germany and chancellor merkel as coalition talks break down leaving question marks over her future leader . we gain access to russia's most notorious prison and bring you a look at the grueling regime it's a life long and make. live

from moscow with the main stories from the past seven days welcome to the weekly an r t international i'm you know me with islamic states all but wiped on to in syria the prospect of a lasting peace in the country is russia is attempting to help this week l. talks with other key regional players anybody trying to break things currently stand from southern russia. 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. 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 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 ankara that is giving us a reason to say that things may be looking promising here. ticks professor sayyid mohammad marandi told us the talks were

a positive development but difficulties still lie ahead. on a fox as well as the current part of. push the power of the prophet 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 damn 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 that 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 instead sentenced to full life terms in prison and this week artie's morocco's de it was given unique access to the high security facility known as the black

dolphin arguably russia's toughest. in these 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 mooched butchers 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 schedule saw has a description of the inmates crimes any sympathy the gods 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 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. when he fell ill they transferred me to help him for a while the most important thing is to avoid becoming him pitted it is so easy to

turn into an animal here but staying human that's harder some say a life sentence is worse than the death penalty. and i've been here for seventeen years and i've never heard anyone say they don't regret it or they'd kill more. than i regret it everything is lost the years go by your health worsens everything passes by they are show you that you were wrong totally wrong you can't do that. dimitri 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 good we are guilty before the public but if. one inmate where to work in the wood shop or on the suing machines they earn money with which they can buy extra food personal items make calls and pay compensation to their victims they even have visits four times

a year i think that. if you take the period when we came into solvent and compare it to know the conditions are entirely different 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 they can also take walks sort of. the exercise yard isn't anything to write home about but every prisoner has the right to spend an hour and out of here every day walking around exercising war just sitting still so long as they don't mind being watched god's check on everyone every fifteen minutes in cell cameras and monitors twenty four seven and there's three

doors to every cell it's easy to see why no one has ever escaped from the black dolphin and for most of the uni sure way out is in a coffin or i guess the of. from solar let's russia. uncertainty hangs over germany's political future after talks to form a three party coalition government collapsed on monday peter all over now examines what caused the negotiations to fail and what options remain for chancellor merkel . 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 lynn of the free democrats delivering the killer blow the evident 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. just hours but a minority government would be unstable at best and what's in the chamber it's also worth noting that this would be a first in modern fit the profile of the german voters so where does this little fresh elections. could well prove to be a storm she doesn't whether to 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 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 well after it was a ninth's 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 this in all the parties voted in the parliament are committed to the common good they are serving our land i expect from everyone your willingness to talk in order to facilitate the formation of a government in the near future that i'm going to markell has already indicated her

readiness to renew this so-called grand coalition with the social democrats this system that's governed germany for the past four years the chancellor saying is the alliance has proved very effective on the social democrats with martin shultz up the helm seem to have softened their position to they had previously refused to deal with merkel again. i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but marcos apparently stated that we are going to have them so far she has always clung to power and i thought she would have sought another negotiate a solution that everybody is supporting just f.t.p. but in the end to to make a 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 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.o.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 their review of one of the most extraordinary stories of the past month the all the story in the lebanese prime minister and all the topsy turvy is going on that's coming up after the break plus the rest of the week's big stories stay with our teachers to. make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the final merry go round

listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real need for. 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 that sentence is it really necessary to monitor the rise russian propaganda outlets would call it science 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 well eric schmidt's who you just heard there and that himself google recently launched an investment to congress stays at find no there's nothing about r.t.e. or it's well this comes as eric smith's remarks have being contradicted by a good eventual site's media content google's actions against r.t. are politically motivated i do think it censorship you don't have to like the stories that russia today covers you decide what i should or should not read and i think there are quite k.p. rabia under wraps come 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 be a where he took a small detour help of the events of those days. some of the prime ministers on how really it was forced the resignation was not his desire nor decision.

and i hope i am here in the kingdom as a free man. while harry was met by crowds of supporters on his return to beirut some of them like many of their country's politicians believe he was held against his will and forced to resign by the saudis now we asked people in the lebanese capital for the thing that he said let them have to tone i think that the way saudi officials are jamal wakim told us he believes the saudis are using hariri to advance their own regional

agenda. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot he had received as severe blow special leave the lebanese public thinks does from the police he was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact the saudi his father of three hundred eighty. for. a long time representatives all saudi influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and sought how d.d. was forced to designate by some of them so none at the time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon they lost that influence in iraq and and syria now if you happen to miss any of the week's big stories to join me again in just over half an hour's time to fill that gap this is our team more programs right

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