making them unsafe. 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 the plans for establishing the last in peace in the country. unsettling times for germany and chancellor merkel as coalition talks break down leaving question marks over her future as leader. we gain access to russia's most notorious prison where you look at the grueling regime obviously lifelong inmates. just on seven am here in moscow you're watching all the international live with me they know who it is thanks for joining us this hour now with islamic state on the

verge of being 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 regional players. as this report it looks like sought 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 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 missed

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 now politics professor say it mohammad marandi told us the talks were

a positive development but difficulties still lie ahead. fastener fox as well as the current path of. push the power of the process a 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 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 competing. now for over twenty years there's been a moratorium on the death penalty in russia the country's most dangerous criminals are sentence the full life is in prison this week r.t. is what i was given exclusive 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 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 guards might feel disappears immediately. who is missing is just meant to be you ask me if i do it again i thought about it and it would have been better five 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 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 that q. more. 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. dmitri slaughtered 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 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 i think 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 or i guess the of. from solar let's russia. our uncertainty hangs over germany's political future after talks to form a three party coalition government collapsed on monday peter all of our examines what exactly caused the negotiations to fail and what options remain for charts and amuck. 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 of the other 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 they 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 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 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 offer was announced the talks have 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 expect from everyone a willingness to talk in order to facilitate the formation of a government in the near future at it. has already indicated a readiness to renew the so-called grand coalition with the social democrats that's the system that's governed germany for the past four years the chancellor says the alliance had proved very effective and that the social democrats in turn with martin schultz at the helm seem to have softened their position as well 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 here for was to power and i thought you would have sought another negotiated solution for everybody 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 could see the country. turmoil here and the. president of the situation is going to be new elections by british. probably also the eye of the opposition party will gain because this. is quite a silent significant part of the population that wants a change in the immigration policy. planes carrying vital supplies of food and medicine started arriving in the yemeni capital sana'a on saturday this comes after the saudi led coalition ease that brocade of the country where twenty million people are reportedly in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and before riyadh took the decision to allow help through thousands of people have been rallying in the yemeni or city of data it work using saudi arabia

as of genocide riyadh has been involved in yemen civil war since twenty fifteen supporting the ousted president against the 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 facing harsh criticism from rights organizations one week later agreed to ease the restrictions although some aid is now getting through the u.n. still says more needs to be done to avert a humanitarian disaster and the red cross is just one organization warning that a million people or risk of a new cholera outbreak in the yemeni three yemeni cities the blockade means that clean water cannot be pumped to the people living.

but. 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. to two years and a half almost of this conflict is really putting a lot on yemenis and the civilian population on the day to day and we spoke to the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian assistance who 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 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 to missions. saudi arabia to look at the detail the arrangements for getting aid in more successfully once we get the operation up and running again in the way it needs to be both interest in our airports and into the

day to ports and sally port. thousands of is the most approaches this of faced off with pakistani police on sunday he responded by firing tear gas into the crowd approaches the surrounded the offices of the punjab region organise the run a sudden are demanding his resignation accuse the minister of blasphemy after you alter 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 violence the previous day police reported making over one hundred arrests in the capital islamabad is the most party activists have blocked roads for several weeks the pakistani government has asked for troops to be deployed in order to quell any further disorder. when other news google has been caught secretly collecting location data from android phone users even after they turned off relevant settings and even had no sim card in their devices kaleb more print 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 address is it any nearby cell phone towers i'm standing not far from one right now. if you have a single cell tower then there will only tell you something about a radius around which the phone is somewhere but if you have what say three hours that all have different distance locations then you. can try and get a late pretty call 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 us that we have nothing to worry about but they never store or share our data with anyone well we've heard that song and dance before does the n.s.a. collect any type of data. on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly google says that android phones will stop tracking the locations of users without their consent by the end of november that sounds like a good new is unlike the fact that they have been doing it without consent for many

months caleb mop and r.t. washington d.c. . children's picture book dealing with the issue of transgenderism has been published in sweden the story features a man who dresses as a woman and his horse wants to become a dog the reaction to the publication of which some have branded as 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 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 and what 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 mountain unicorns they they said maybe pretend to be men and women as well but you have to separate your 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 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 trans or gender variant they suffer teasing namecalling threats and bullying and that is truly shameful 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 in their temperaments and their behavior in their likes and dislikes. but that doesn't mean that they're going to be transgender doesn't mean the whole idea of separating sex from gender is a new social construct. and lebanon's prime minister suspended his resignation on wednesday is sudden announcement to step down that was made in riyadh two weeks before had plans this country into turmoil when he saw it as evidence of a growing regional power struggle between a saudi arabia and iran b. and a look now 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 the car like 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 hariri took a small detail before returning home on tuesday it was it had france egypt and cyprus is a quick recap of the lengths of recent days. somebody prime minister saad hariri was forced the resignation was not his desire nor decision.

i am here in the kingdom as a free man. hariri was met by crowds of supporters on his return to beirut 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 spoke to people in the lebanese capital for their thoughts on the situation. but i hope that all the other countries in the region believe 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 in that he said let that we have to tell ourselves we want our country to stay out of regional conflict when it comes. the saudis meddling should continue and it's not only riyadh's interference into lebanese affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure sign how you really wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong but. 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 how do you he was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact that. his father actually ideally. for. a long time representatives or sold the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon that sort how did he was forced to his ignition by ahmed and so man at a time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in with iran especially in lebanon after they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. sunrise coming up soon here in moscow mike kelly and michael and kevin own will be taking over for you next hour you're what you want the international thanks thanks to you.

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