and who runs the blood business. in the stories that shaped the week with islamic state on the verge of total collapse in syria russia and its regional allies lay out plans for a lasting peace in the country. also the sour unsettling times for germany and chancellor merkel coalition talks break down leaving question marks over her future as a leader. and exclusive access to russia's most notorious prison and bring you a look at the grueling regime life. six am here in moscow watching all the international live with me daniel hawkins thanks for choosing us today i would islamic state all but wiped out in syria the

prospect of a lasting 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 regions a 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. to launch 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 is 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 and tehran that is giving us a reason to say that things may be looking promising here. the politics professor say it might have been more and he told us the talks were a positive development but the faculty still do lie ahead. fastener fox as well as

the current parts of sochi have. pushed the part 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 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 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 a full life terms in prison this week r.t. is what i guess the if was given unique access to the high security facility known as the black dolphin arguably russia's toughest jail. 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 most soulless 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 full thousand people

everything is procedural everything intended to minimize risk from sleeping schedules to how inmates are in school that bend to the waist in 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. 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 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. i've been here for seventeen years and i've never heard anyone say they don't regret it's what they'd kill more. i regret it everything is lost the years go by your health worsens everything passes by the years 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'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 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 they did. 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 a small 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 a half here every day walking around exercising war just sitting still so long as they don't mind being watched the guards check on everyone every fifteen minutes in cell cameras and monitor 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 of r.t. from solar let's russia. uncertainty hangs over germany's political future after talks to form a three party coalition government collapsed on monday but it's all over examines what caused the negotiations the fail and what options remain for chance that amuck . 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 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 and 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 without 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 now 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 into the parliament a 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 it. well i'm going merkel has already indicated a readiness through renewed the so-called grand coalition with the social democrats that system of course has governed germany for the past four years the chancellor says the alliance has proved very effective the social democrats with martin schultz at the helm seem to have softened their position on the matter as well and previously refused to deal with merkel again. i would be surprised if we had fresh elections but apparently stated we are going to have them both 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 the country is. turmoil here and this is due to the unprecedented situation going to be new elections by british the f.t.p. and probably also the i.v. the opposition party will gain because this. is quite the silent significant part of the population that wants a change in the immigration policy of. the planes carrying vital supplies of food and medicine started arriving in the yemeni capital sana'a on saturday but this comes after the saudi led coalition ease this blockade of the country where twenty million people are reportedly in desperate need of medical assistance and before riyadh took the decision to allow help through thousands of people had been running in the yemeni port city of data it work using saudi arabia and its allies of genocide re it had been involved in yemen civil war since twenty fifteen as

supporting the ousted president against who thier rebels it's frequently been accused of war crimes and exacerbating the country's humanitarian crisis the coalition increased the pressure further when it closed all sea and land routes in early november after a missile was fired toward saudi territory but facing harsh criticism from rights organizations one week later it agreed to ease the restrictions although some aid is now getting through the u.n. still say more needs to be done to avert a humanitarian disaster. well the red cross for one is now warning that a million people a risk of a new cholera outbreak in three yemeni cities the roqueted means that clean water cannot be pumped to the people living in the.

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 civilian population on the day today we spoke earlier to the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian assistance he told us 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 had you know sensible pragmatic discussions about that we are asians to saudi arabia into the crowd protesters surrounded the offices of the punjab region law minister and all are demanding his resignation they accuse the minister of blasphemy after he also of 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. that's the previous day police reported making over one hundred arrests in the capital islamabad is the most party activists have brocaded roads for weeks the pakistani government has asked for troops to be deployed in order to quell any the sort.

of google has been secretly caught collecting location data from android phone users even if they turned off relevant settings and had no sim card in their devices and i'm open has more 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 and 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 closely 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 id codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of message delivery google claims that it hasn't done anything particular with this data and now it's going to turn it off. i don't find out entirely credible because some engineer or group of engineers had to spend time putting together this capability and they had to do it for a reason because someone told them to do it now google assures the end of america. no sir. it does not. not wittingly google says that android phones without their consent by the end of november that sounds like good new months caleb mop and r.t. washington d.c.

. to the issues of transgenderism has features a man who dresses as a woman his horse he wants to be a dog and we got reaction to the publication which some of branded dangerous propaganda. when your an adult when you're over eighteen you're in told to do what you want in the previous agree with that but propaganda who you know you can damage them in their natural development as boys and girls and this is a time when children really need to be in their identity is who they are too young is going to confuse people of life for all and what species it's about trying to flee into the male female roles and trying to tackle buoying 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 mon unicorns they may be pretending to be men and women as well but you have to separate imagination and

play from objective scientific facts 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 people who don't fit the stuff are teasing name causes grown sixfold the nuns prime minister suspended his resignation on wednesday his sudden announcement to step down made a rare two weeks before had plunged this country into turmoil regional power struggle between saudi arabia that the will of the lebanese is stronger that they will be able to overcome the tutelage from inside or outside the trial 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 after resigning in saudi arabia really took a small detour before returning home on tuesday it was it had france egypt and

cyprus so let's take a look at a quick recap of the events of recent. somebody 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 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 we asked people in the lebanese capital for their 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

a lot then we have to tell ourselves we want our country to. the regional conflicts when it comes to the saudis meddling i'm sure it will continue and it's not only riyadh's interference and to live in these affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure somebody wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong. 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 special leave the lebanese public think prime minister how did he was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact . his father of three hundred eighty where for. a long time to present the tubes all sold the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon that soft hearted he was forced to designation by

some of them so not at the time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon after they lost that influence in iraq. and syria has come up to six thirty am here in moscow watching all the international ondine hawkins win back next hour for more global headlines see that. rice is was it to buy down americans buy these right unfortunately the buy financial support of something because royal countries.

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