want other true colors of universities in the u.s. . in the stories that shaped this week islamic state is on the verge of total collapse in syria russia and its regional allies lay out plans for a lasting peace in the country. unsettling times for germany and chancellor merkel coalition talks break down leaving question marks over her future as leader. we gain access to russia's most notorious prison and bring you a look at the ruling regime to stop its lifelong. welcome to our team to match the life from moscow just on three am here in the russian capital hawkins wherever you are welcome to the program now islamic state

is all but wiped out in syria the prospect of a last thing peace in the country is now finally on the horizon russia is attempting to help secure a political solution to the almost seven year long conflict and this week held talks with other key regional players in a patron go has this report 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.

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. launch scale military action against terrorist groups in syria 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 uk news to importance 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 politics professor

mohammad marandi told us the talks or a positive development but difficult to still do lie ahead. faster than a fox as well as the current path from sochi. pushed the power of the process a great deal for the force things have shifted in change 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 and competed. now for over twenty years there's been a moratorium on the death penalty in russia the country's most dangerous criminals are sentenced the full life is in prison this week as the earth was given unique

access to the high security facility known as the black dolphin arguably russia's toughest jail. 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 most so lists butchers the black hole for 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 schooled 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 gods might feel disappears immediately. who is missing his judgment as to when you ask me if i do it again i thought about it and it would have been better for died with them eagle was just over twenty when he and his father took on a rival gang after killing that 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 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's what they took you more. and 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. 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 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. inmates can pick 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 if you do that. if you take the period when we came into solved. 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 or just sitting still so long as they don't mind being watched the guards 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 for i guess the r t from solar let's russia. in germany uncertainty hangs over the country's political future of the talks to form a three party coalition government collapsed on monday but it's all over examines what caused the negotiations the fail what options remain for charts on america. 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 the event ones 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 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 with that off the table 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. 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 and 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 the willingness to talk in order to facilitate the formation of a government in the near future at it. so i'm glad markel has already indicated her readiness to renew the so-called grand coalition with the social democrats that's the system of course that's governed germany for the past four years the chancellor says the alliance has proved very effective and the social democrats led by martin schultz seem to have softened their position as well had previously refused to deal with merkel again i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but apparently stated that we are going to have them for far she has always clung to power and i

thought she would have sought another negotiated solution for everybody it's just f.t.p. but in the end the jamaica 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 president of the situation it's going to be new elections i'm pretty certain the f.t.p. and probably also the ifi the opposition party will gain because this. is quite a silent significant part of the population that wants a change in the immigration policy. still ahead on the weekly google's parent company has been busy making some changes to its search engines especially when it comes to russian media and that story in ninety seconds.

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welcome back to the weekly i would emerge this week that google's parent companies working on stories from r.t. on the sputnik 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 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 when sputnik news which isn't russian german programme no outlet and when i clicked on them they were monitoring 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're working on detecting this kind of

scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically. 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 we just heard from eric schmidt there he's 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 becoming an advisor to that administration he's also believed to be the tech mastermind behind hillary clinton's campaign although he's never confirmed that himself now under pressure from u.s. authorities google has launched an investigation into that alleged russian meddling with google's own report to congress said it found no evidence that r.t. had violated its policies or manipulated youtube in any way to get its status as the most viewed news that worked last month google dropped our channel from its you

tube list in the u.s. without any notice or explanation it later cited a drop in viewership as the reason that the spike t.v. being the most watched t.v. network on the platform. 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 there was nothing about r.t.e. or its content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out. i mean while eric schmidt's remarks have been contradicted by a google representative he said the company doesn't change its algorithms to rewrite individual sites media consultant neil wallace is certain of google's actions against r.t. are politically motivated. i don't think it censorship you don't have to like the

stories that russia today covers you don't have to want to read the material coming from sputnik but i really do not believe it in any way except a ball that a bunch of politically correct. democratic party supporting people certainly in silicon valley should decide what i should or should not read i think it's the height of arrogance i think that i am quite capable of watching r.t. readings and deciding what i do or do not want to take from it what i do or do not believe i think it is extremely sinister as i see. thousands of islam as the protestors have faced off with pakistani police on sunday he responded by firing tear gas into the crowd protesters surrounded the offices of the punjab regional law minister run arsenal are demanding his resignation accuse the minister of blasphemy after altering the electoral oath to remove

a reference to the prophet muhammad at least six people were killed and hundreds including police officers were wounded during the violence the previous day police reported making over one hundred arrests in the capital islamabad islamist party activists have located roads for weeks pakistani government has asked for troops to be deployed in order to quell any further disorder. lebanon's prime minister suspended his resignation on wednesday and sudden announcement to step down made in riyadh two weeks before had plunged his country into turmoil many saw it as evidence of a growing regional power struggle between saudi arabia and iran. 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 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 and after resigning in saudi arabia i really took a small detail before returning home on tuesday it was it had frantz egypt. as a quick recap of the events of recent days. so the 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. he was met by crowds of supporters on his return to buy some of them like many of the country's politicians believe he was held against his will and forced to resign by the saudis we asked people in the lebanese capital for vet thoughts on the situation. i hope that all the other countries in the region will leave lebanon

alone so the lebanese people can decide their 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 and that is we have to tell ourselves we ones our country to stay out of the region. conflict when it comes to the saudis meddling should continue and it's not only riyadh's interference and celebrities affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure sign how you read wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong. and international relations professor 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 here received as severe blow specially the lebanese public thinks prime minister prodi was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact. that

he and his father of the ideally where. a long time representatives or sold the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and how did he was forced to his ignition by a muslim so man at a time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon after they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. well that's all for me for now about holkins or what's in the weekly all of the international to join us again at the top of next hour for more headlines see that one. home.

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these students have found themselves a great way of supporting that since breakfast is a saw. a large supply of strawberry banana flavored vodka. david and brandon down four shots in less than two minutes on empty stomachs good images of cause good. for the students university sport events are a great chance to get away from the pressure of their studies but also a particularly good opportunity to party and that is there on. 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. by the other on the way to the stadium they get thirsty again their competition has started. in the streets of lexington

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