protesters take to the streets of the austrian capital vienna are after a far right party takes key posts in the new coalition government. the afghan branch of islamic state attacks an intelligence training center in kabul as the terrorists are trying to trace their presence in the region. and boris johnson faces a raft of fears unfounded fears about russia's potential perils ahead of the british foreign secretary the first official trip to moscow. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for

joining us. austria is making headlines across europe amid concerns over its new coalition government that says the conservatives joined forces with the anti immigration freedom party while the new government was being sworn in at vienna's historic hofburg palace and t.v. and other left wing activists protested outside a heavy police presence to stop demonstrators from entering the building. well protesters have been marching through the streets carrying placards saying don't let nazis govern many are concerned that the right wing group. positions in the government including the foreign interior and defense ministries.

there's been widespread condemnation of this agreement across many european media outlets lots of fears that this will lead to the fall right side of the coalition having more and more say over politics in australia but we can look at what the well the coalition of put out themselves of what they say their policies will be we can expect that they'll be an increase in direct democracy along the switch small of putting big votes to the people in order to get their opinions on which direction the country goes in next but one decision that won't be put into the people's hands like that it's been confirmed that austria has no intention on holding in a bragg's that s.k.u. referendum any time soon we can also expect tougher immigration controls we could also expect the austrian government to push for an end to turkey's accession to the talks we can also expect to see this austrian government pushing more for an end to

e.u. sanctions against moscow. regarding the sanctions against russia yes we would like for those to be lifted we will try to play a part in this is a mediator to find a solution in the interests of yours so europe and russia can overcome the differences when you talk to people on the streets of vienna opinion still very split over the direction the country is headed in that. big things so i think we have sinned is before it was triumphant brags that in england and i think that i was taking it i really don't think it's going to get. throughout europe there's a return to the far right you can see this in germany as world with the f.t. got a lot of votes and if someone speaks about the refugee crisis you get the impression that this could have been handled better. on the good norman i think the far right are correct they're working for the people doing what people who wants them to do so i'm in favor i am happy with the situation well twenty seventeen hour c.

in the far right rise to prominence in european politics if we look right at the beginning of the year of course we saw builders pushing hard for the the dutch prime ministerial race and their elections there we also saw marine le pen in france be the number one challenger to align your crown in the french presidential elections where is here in germany where i'm talking to you from the alternative for germany party they took up seats for the first time in the bundestag in germany's parliament well while. denies that he has any truck with the far right the fact that it had to go into coalition with the with the austrian freedom party has seen him heavily criticized. german political scientist vernon pat's believes the e.u. will have to reconcile itself to austria's new coalition west european governments

take any significant actions against this new or strong government because on the one hand right wing populism has been growing in all these countries in the self-confidence of europe centrist left discover meant has been shattered by this rise of right wing populism and on the other hand the former coalition between the p. and the. did not hard to europe nor to austria law any policies taken which are a contradiction of stool humanitarian. rule of law standards of the european union fearful european governments don't see any reason for horse restrictions and even saying chills right now. that he may putin has called donald trump to thank the cia for vital intelligence which helped prevent a series of terrorist attacks in st petersburg r.t. jaclyn vigor join me in the studio earlier with more details. into both the white

house and the kremlin are to part from the cia allowed russian afterwards to arrest a number of people in st petersburg over the weekend who are planning a series of terrorist attacks throughout the city the white house also released a statement on the situation calling an example of how there can be positive cooperation between the two countries let's take a listen. but he told me information the united states provided russian authorities were able to capture the terrorists just prior to an attack that could have killed large numbers of people no russian lives were lost in the terrorist attack as well course and now incarcerated so quick and called to extend his thanks and congratulations to the cia and its director mike pump a.o. and trump in turn passed on that appreciation complimenting the entire intelligence community in the u.s. and that warning from the cia led to a series of arrests happening a series of raids happening last week by the russian security services during which seven people were arrested and they found large amounts of explosives and weapons

and even a bomb making workshop and so it's believed that that thwarted a suspected series of attacks from taking place in st petersburg number of public places which of course there can be tons of turkey in those areas and then the call putin also promised to react in kind with the united states that if the russian intelligence services heard some sort of whispers of any attacks being planned in the united states they would also turn over that information well great news in the fact that they managed to stop attacks but also is it good news in the fact that it seems that there is what trump is probably just storing in u.s. russia relations well i would say that might be a bit premature at this point in time donald trump is in fact today expected to roll up his first national security strategy and one of his top officials when briefing reporters on the speech said that while ties between washington and moscow how picked up a bit after the real low that they had a few months ago it's still often seen that the two countries their interest just don't align and sometimes is still directly conflict with one another meanwhile

trump's national security adviser general mcmaster has hinted that term strategy really is going to resemble his predecessors and many ways mean that russia will likely remain on that top list of challenges to american security as they would put it so this hint of cooperation really might not be the light at the end of the tunnel just yet. we discussed donald trump's new national security plan with strategy analyst gregory copley he believes political pressure is keeping russia among the perceived threats. the national security paper reemphasize russia strategic threat well unfortunately yes it will largely because of the media and opposition pressure which which has always claimed that he did a deal with moscow in order to help his election campaign so he has to appear to be sure to even handedly against russia and to raise russia as

a potential adversary once again yes there are points of difference between the united states and russia but the reality is that the president trump will need to and does want to work with moscow on some global issues particularly the middle east but most importantly against the people's republic of china. islamic state has reportedly claimed responsibility for an attack on an afghan intelligence training center in kabul armed militants stormed a partially constructed building on the complex triggering intense fighting with security forces. reports one car bomb has exploded is another one that the attackers had brought in with them it's quite an embarrassment to say the least because these areas should be protected these are areas where afghan intelligence trains its members in new recruits and next year it

is another facility that starts with providing security to other installations in kabul in all across the country what we see these days is that militants targeting kabul in other major cities which is almost a new front line for them in the last few months we've also seen americans and other nato countries. pounding board says as well as taliban positions and afghan special forces have been carrying out regular operations it could be a retaliation but certainly what we see more and more that the afghan government and its international law is failed to prevent these attacks from taking place in kabul when as mentioned their islamic state has recently carried out a number of attacks in the region on sunday i saw willett sense killed nine people in neighboring and last month two died after his and last month two died after an

islamic state attack on a kabul t.v. station and in late october seventy two people were killed by islamists in two separate afghan mosque attacks during friday prayers. the u.n. security council is set to vote within a few hours on a draft resolution to reject don't want trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the move continues to cause wide scale anger across the middle east. the. palestinians have been involved in protests and clashes with israeli forces for almost two weeks it follows trance decision to end u.s. neutrality on one of the issues in the region honest indians and israelis laying claim to the ancient city has been followed by a wave of condemnation from european and muslim leaders. and the turkish president has been one of the loudest voices he's now announced plans to open an embassy in

east jerusalem or if an ocean has more on how the jerusalem movies being confronted . here we are in is jury still in the part of the state to considered by palestinians to be their territory so in this status may be supported by turkey now and korea has a dental consulate here but the country's president is now saying he wants to open an embassy here. we've already declared east jerusalem as the capital of the palestinian state but we haven't been able to open our embassy there because jerusalem is currently under occupation god willing we will open our embassy there . but turkish leader has been reacting fiercely to donald trump's controversial recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel slamming other nations for a weak response mr aragon appeared to be speaking home behalf of the muslim world when he claimed if we lose jerusalem then we won't be able to protect me dina if we lose medina we will lose mecca and caba the organization of islamic cooperation

held an emergency meeting in istanbul wait hold on the international community to commit to making east jerusalem the palestinian capital. the us decision on your rousseau them because of its great piracy against the historical and permanent rights to palestine. jerusalem not see the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process boil yet as i may or all every possible step must be taken to prevent the implementation of this illegal action by the us administration however there is one question that sticks out here what's factors and no limits made it possible for the us presidents to take such an outrageous act and it's not just moved nations reacting to the u.s. recognition of jerusalem with violent protest all over the globe the u.n. security council is now reportedly considering

a draft resolution to abolish trumps decision that's following an emergency session requested by eight out of the. fifteen member states it is highly unlikely that the resolution like this could pass through the security council with america of course one of five permanent members with veto powers refinish r.t. from jerusalem. well it could be difficult for a day when to carry out the moves the entire city is controlled by israel which calls jerusalem its indivisible capital it doesn't currently host any foreign embassies international relations professor hussain bank chief believes erdogan has moved has a lot to do with domestic ambitions and his promises to other muslim states. technically turkey can do it rather once again. israel has permitted this i do not expect that turkey can do it in the foreseeable future but that dance that month is given to him as such for domestic consumption first of all the under

second one he's promises to the islamic organization conference that he wants to get of course more controversial could and should recognize east jerusalem as the capital city of the palestinian state but it is not easy it is just a promise the moment to satisfy probably. turkish. waters. also give some hope for the conference organisation but i do not expect that turkey can do it without understanding of israel. an unexpected presidential bid from a famous name in libya we'll tell you who after the break. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want. to go right. this is what. creates more people. interested always in the why. we should. all make this manufactured consensus public well. when the right wing plus isn't protect themselves. with the famous larry. king or middle of the room.

welcome back the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi is planning a political comeback according to a family spokesperson saif al islam gadhafi will run for president in the country's election next year well the second of the feast ten children saif was one of the most powerful figures cheering them on of his father who was brutally killed by western backed insurgents in two thousand and eleven where saif faced the death penalty for crimes against humanity during the uprising but was released after six years in jail. well this comes amid a power struggle between two rival governments the western backed government of national accord in tripoli and the party went into broke on sunday the national army commander said to the tripoli government's mandate had expired he added tripoli as government bodies are no longer legitimate but the country has been in turmoil ever since the war in two thousand and eleven.

and to discuss this further mark almond from the director of the crisis research institute joins me now marc thank you very much indeed for joining me well do you think that saif stands a chance do you think you know he would get the opportunity to be elected president . well the question is will there be elections and then will they be acknowledged as you mentioned earlier we have the problem that we have rival governments of the west to support each of these at different times the us has sanctified each different times and basically the government decides what happens in libya now saif al islam has supporters has powerful friends including people who are going to his father in two thousand and eleven that's why he has been extradited to the hague to face trial there that sort of fall into a bones but on the other hand there will be drive ins to the thermal so playing

field marshal huffed already at least. through that office for the back of the night and eighty's there are various wards from gains in the center of the country looting islamic terrorist groups the mayor of misrata one of the big centers of i take it off he was distancing in two thousand who was murdered in the last twenty four hours so it's a very chaotic situation where the idea of elections which could in any sense be a free and fair reflection of the will of all libyans i think is highly probable glittering in saying out there i mean we know that libya is deeply divided there are tribal divisions rival divisions and he's explained all the murders opposition and everything else that's going on is it possible to unify the country and to make it base for once again. well we must hope there's a possibility i think the risk is that we could see two or three libya's creative one in the east one in the west where but perhaps saif al islam gadhafi will play a role and then other parts of the country too it is however difficult to imagine the whole country brought back together without violence because there are powerful

vested interests who have lots of weapons and outside support because i think it's worth saying even if in some ways for the west the british french americans who intervened in two thousand level this has been a fiasco of other embarrassing on casting doubt upon the whole agenda of so-called unitarian intervention there are of course still foreign powers played a role egypt in the united arab emirates support half probably east but there are also powerful financial interests interests of people with the oil and gas libya who may be looking on a friendly way on. because after all that often vast years before his fall had very good relations with powerful western interests who wanted to develop his energy resources and since the chaos of two thousand and eleven only with a lot of those people have not been able to realize the investment so that maybe people with influence in the west to look for a return to power of the gadhafi the problems could office powerful in the west would be all the gas is largely east. going into it as well as also you know as you

say looking at geopolitics there billets also let's look at the mandate of the un backed government that's now expired as we heard i mean what next for them and also do we expect the broader involvement of other international organizations for example the u.n. . well the u.s. has tried to broker deals but these deals have had to be worth the paper they're written on and the deal that was brokered two years ago was supposed to have for brought about a consensus election and government by now and obviously failed the other problem is that. of migration of course libya since the fall of gadhafi has been one of the major route for mass migration to your from west africa and so there are powerful again wards who control what is effectively a kind of revival of the old slave trade that used to go through the turks three hundred years ago has now been revived as a form of people smuggling and so you have to hope that the u.s. would like to resolve from the pan north african scale the problem of people smuggling and mass migration european union wants that but there are people course

who don't want to see a solution and we have seen all the grizzly pictures because effectively a slave trade going on in places like misrata and other libyan cities in the last few. days martin probably going to have to leave their mark almond director of the crisis research institute thank you for your thoughts thank you. russia is back to cold war era hostility towards the west according to british foreign secretary boris johnson he's been speaking ahead of this week's meeting with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov here in moscow arctics anastasio churkin or has more of this so first visit by u.k. foreign minister to russia in five years boris johnson has certainly been making some curious comments in his typical manner for starters he has drawn some comparisons between russia and sparta i was reading few cities history of the peloponnesian war it was obvious to me that athens and its democracy its openness its culture and civilization was the analogue of united states in the west russia

for me was closed no asti militaristic and democratic like spots are well worth it johnson has also said that russia has not been. so hostile to the u.k. or western interests since the end of the cold war end quote now was speaking to the sunday times on the oh so popular issue of russian meddling he said again that he see no evidence of russian influence when it comes to the bracks it referendum if you remember in the past he's even used the words not a sausage of evidence but he has said that there is some evidence that there has been russian trolling on facebook this might be in reference to some of the numbers released by facebook that have said that only two hundred people in britain had seen any adverts which cost just over seventy p. these numbers are certainly quite curious given all the endless talk about this alleged russian meddling and facebook influence when it came to that referendum now

also ahead of this visit it's curious that some apparently here in westminster are nervous about what is going to happen when boris johnson finally gets to moscow for talks with his counterparts we have seen the chair of the parliamentary group on russia and labor m.p. chris bryant publish an open letter to boris johnson warning him of certain things that could come including things such as his food potentially being spiked some kind of influence to not let boris johnson get enough sleep things like honey traps why beautiful kremlin agents as well as maybe his phones being hacked or bugged he's also been warning to stay away from any drinking games and has been letting boris johnson to be weary of being alone in an elevator and making faces so that this doesn't get used against him in the future but that said boris johnson has made it clear by sort of repeating his mantra of beware but engage that he does plan to have serious talks when it comes to the situation in syria and specifically

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a neutral banner how different will the twenty eight hundred championship be from previous i talked to five times stanley cup winner and olympic bronze medalist corey. dillon big part of hockey is ultimate international pride is just weeks away but with the game's best players locked out by the n.h.l. and the russian team's participation in jeopardy will the olympic playoffs be as thrilling as stanley cup finals the new unknown masters rise in the absence of the usual suspects of hockey or will the lack of star power reduce the competition to a second great show. eric henri it's really great to have you on our program thanks for being with us welcome to moscow thank you we want to be here. let's start with the olympics and what's happening there so this year and the. players will not participate in the olympic games to use thing their absence will actually make their race for the olympic gold like maybe sort of a second rate contest.