biopsy a routine procedure for a doctor me suited up it all went fine and the patient went off to work by evening he was suffering severe stomach pains and an ambulance took him to a private hospital then he underwent surgery and in two days passed away if a patient dies he is or her relatives always want to get justice when someone's life is taken due to somebody else i think that some punishment must follow but what caused the person's death the biopsy the surgery or something else it took the investigators and the court for years to determine that for now the verdict is that this office will remain empty for two years. but some of russia's top hematology called the ruling nonsense while dr masood in this call leagues and former patients were simply stunned now i feel that a future is being taken away from the person who saved my life and lives of many

other yes that's unfair i am getting the michoud in. every scene medic understood that a person who fully deserved to be acquitted was being put behind bars and that means all of us doctors may end up in prison where all you learn the missing if we get punished just for following correct procedures then will be afraid to do our jobs as doctors the support campaign online is gathering pace with age just we starved hash tag and you me and me sued in the social network posts profile pictures being changed snape did it wish there was that it did you know that in the courtroom after she was already handcuffed the last thing she said to her husband was not about her child but about our patients she asked that they be taken care of so a doctor who was already convicted who should have been angry had not cared but was still thinking about her patient we've tried to get a comment from the private clinic that carried out the surgery following the biopsy

and the stomach pains but they are refusing to talk to journalists though in their online press statement the clinic stands by its doctors and their work the case is so controversial tragic and has grabbed so much attention the authorities are scratching their heads over what to do with that prosecutor's office request to overturn the court's decision the reason violations committed in the process of investigation. the prosecutor and initially had new doubts and found no basis for an additional investigation request and only after a public outcry the prosecution appealed citing violations of g. process the offices position cast doubts on the competency of its officers yeah i do not know all the details of that case i think it's the coolest business and if necessary there could be a follow up to find out if there's a link between the doctor's actions and the death of the patients the staff of this clinic they want justice to prevail so as the relatives of the patient who want the

person responsible punished we might never follow the truth but after talking to people who work at this clinic i believe there is little doubt that experts should be given another chance to look at this case. over to the u.s. now when the countdown begins on donald trump's decision over the release of a classified memo this friday the document allegedly details f.b.i. abuses regarding its surveillance powers the us president earlier said he was one hundred percent behind the memos release and has seen the agency and democratic party go on a verbal attack against the white house picks up the story the pending release of a classified government memo is shaking up washington d.c. if indeed the obama administration used the department of justice and the f.b.i. to spy on trump during the campaign this could be quite a scandal it would discredit the deal jay and the f.b.i.

as nonpartisan law enforcers and destroy the democrats now the democratic leadership doesn't want to be destroyed so here's a few of their last ditch efforts to keep their boat afloat. now adam schiff from the democratic side of the house intelligence committee says that he's preparing a counter memo he says the republicans edited the document to fit their political agenda he says he's preparing a memo of his own that will expose the misleading character of the documents. that the f.b.i. says that they haven't been given sufficient time to review the documents and they have grave concerns about the facts that have been removed from the memo. as expressed during our initial review we have grave concerns about material emissions a fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. the democrats say the document was altered before the president saw it they say that these changes were made without their knowledge so the vote to release it is

invalid. discovered late tonight the chairman noone has made material changes to the memo he sent to the white house changes not approved by the committee the white house therefore reviewing a document the committee has not approved for release however some of these changes came at the request of the democrats and the f.b.i. themselves others included minor edits and grammatical fixes. now leading house democrat nancy pelosi says that releasing the document poses a significant threat to national security intelligence is that it's the cia the d.n.a. the n.i.v. . national defense everybody has their element of it and sources and methods must be protected. if you absolutely cannot stand the message go after the messenger and it never hurts to throw russia into the mix is it possible that the republican chairman of the house intel committee has been compromised by the russians as

a possible nuclear threat or russia the agents running the house intel committee on the republican side i hope that's not the case i mean this is behavior speak of that i mean i'm not the first person who's raised this he's behaving like someone who's been compromised now keep in mind this whole big stir is over just for pieces of paper but those pieces of paper contain vital information information with potentially enough voltage to light up washington d.c. for months if not years. r.t. new york. a battle that turned the fortunes of allied forces both east and west during the second world war and took the alliance with over two million people this friday mark seventy five years since the soviet victory over the nazis that stalin after months of attrition.

do you have enough food. and right to. tell me everything i think about you. i hope to return. the history of stalingrad echoes across many parts of the world affected by the war in several cities in france including the capital streets and squares and named after the battle that's also the case in the belgian capital even in italy in the

ancient city of belonging a street has been named after the soviets victory. in modern russia stalingrad is now known as the city of volgograd special memorial ceremonies will be taking place over the course of today celebrating the bravery of the veterans who fought for the city. still to come the french city of calais is again proving to be a flashpoint in europe's migrant crisis off to violence breaks out that. after this break.

turkey's decision to invade northern syria has foreign policy implications far beyond the middle east what are anchor his objectives in syria and the region doesn't pursue a table in a final peace settlement to syria's proxy civil war and what is turkey's future in it to. the world is getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency a one road one bell policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every loss of trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says here's the treasury secretary we really try to make it look like oh it's our polls are for a lower dollar long or what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding the war and the weapons and

the poverty that they're trying to escape. welcome back to the program the outcome of italy's general election next month could put rome on a collision course with the european union the e.u. will be watching the election closely for three main reasons italy may have the third largest economy in the euro zone but it has crippling debt italian finance chief say a recent recovery could be de railed by the vote also the popularity of former prime minister silvio berlusconi hand his ascent to write for italia party is growing although he's banned from public office for tax fraud conviction and thirdly the rise of the euro skeptic five star movement could pose a threat to the e.u.

. is currently the single most popular party according to the recent polls and it's candidate. won twenty five percent of the vote in the twenty thirty general election we spoke exclusively with the leader of the five star movement his party's chances and the country's economy. everyone talks about european ism but when it comes to giving solidarity to other countries' support i hope the germans can retrace the steps to block migrants from greece and italy from seeking relocation because a few years ago we approved a new european parliament approved provided for the redistribution in other european countries parts of the migrants who are in italy and greece. but surely all the other countries have become skeptical towards the issues and aspects of the european union for this reason i think this is

a fruitful moment to start working on the revision of some european parameters especially those on the deficit allows us to make more investments last year the founder of the five star movement called for italy to leave the euro zone he supported legal changes for countries that wanted to remain a member but not have the road currency but the party leader again explains currency issues are not high on his agenda. no no no he never said we should leave the european union we had a referendum on the euro currency but right now this choice is an extreme ratio because we think there may be more dialogue european tables. of your it's obvious that if we do not have the majority after elections but we are the first political force in the country we will make a public call to other political forces proposing to converge on the issues ask the other political forces what are their priorities for italy. now violence has broken

out in the friend port city of callaway where migrants have been fighting at food banks at least five refugees have been shot and are in critical condition the city was once home to the infant a migrant and jungle camp process interior minister made a visit to cali calling the situation imaginable. i came to carry because what happened here is extremely serious we have reached a degree of violence not known until today the government will propose a bill in the coming weeks to try and help asylum an immigration problem. the fighting lasted for almost two hours and reportedly involved over one hundred afghan and eritrean refugees using improvised weapons the incident marks another low point in the migrant crisis after those seeking asylum in the u.k. remained in cali when the jungle camp was dismantled local organizations estimates that around eight hundred illegal migrants are still there.

late cuban revolutionary leader fidel castro's eldest son has committed suicide according to cuban state media fidel castro diaz balart was sixty eight and it's reported that he had been battling depression for some time he done the nickname fit alito or little fidel for his resemblance to his late father it's believed he had recently been receiving hospital treatment but was released as an outpatient at the time of his death he was serving as a scientific advisor to cuba state council and was a leading figure in the country's nuclear program. you can watch auntie's interview with the late cuban leader son talking about revolutionaries on r.t. dot com or are you tube channel because to firmly you're talking about to. be the. they were fighting for more than sixty years together that's nothing to do with the castro family. family as all families is that it one body

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welcome to sofia and co i'm sophie shevardnadze the u.s. is again threatening fresh sanctions against russia. cope with a comic pressure and what does a trade war mean for the global economy while today i talk to russia's one and minister of. another realm to the russian u.s. standoff sees washington release an extensive new blacklist of kremlin officials threatening to slap individuals with new sanctions will the measures really change the political dead in that russia or the u.s. is talking with you know making personal sanctions have the desired effect and how much longer will the two heavyweights continue to mirror each other in this financial conflict. against iran and russia's friend and finance minister with us here in the studio and against lancaster show on a welcome to our studio and your first interview with us great to have you here we have a lot to discuss first. if you're number sixty four in a so-called kremlin a stand i don't know whether to give you condolences on caret to let you let me at

least you're not in the top ten. at least i'm a good company at least for me quite good no one's been left out but yeah. so i don't know whether congratulations are in order. to doing our job you know someone doesn't like it and doesn't want us to keep on doing it because they want to put businessmen and politicians and government officials on so-called sanctions lists whether they want to make it difficult for the government to performance duties but i'm sure it will backfire on them these measures on stopping us from working as usual from business as usual so when someone wants to one russian anyway you know i think it's in our mentality to take it in stride so its presence into action mobilizes us on the contrary view. of it. yeah that's right now speaking of my area of work which is the economy where no on the contrary and stepping up our efforts to do for business what hasn't been done for business for years hasn't even been planned to be done for example we're not

going to liberalize our currency regulations when our existing currency laws are a holdover from soviet times and until recently we just haven't had the chance to change them so all the sanctions make it improve our domestic business climate to make it more attractive to russian investors and by extension to foreign investors as well. dozens of questions regarding that i promise you will come back to them later but what i want to do now is discuss to criminalize because i'm not even sure as to what it actually means when your counterparts from the us treasury presented it to the congress to quote it's just a list no need to worry about what was that all about does it mean that for instance when you apply for a loan in a bank when you there is no telling whether you will get it or not what are the questions. being on the list what does it all mean to you personally being on that list with some fun and. well as you observed the list itself was an

initiative by the u.s. treasury and the final decision is up to the u.s. congress not to say that the treasury hasn't expressed its own position on the matter now as for what the list means for our kind so speak for officials in the ministry agencies well at the end of the day so it doesn't really mean much really we don't have any foreign bank accounts or own any property abroad everything using russian technologies and russian banks are property we have in russia i didn't feel in any way limited or restricted after the list was published. and we heard the theory that because the confrontation between the trumpet ministration and the congress runs so deep r. and b. cost of congress pressured the treasury to put as many people on the list as possible the creators of the lease just include it the entire russian government almost as if they were mocking the congress. looks like she wants even trying you

know it is silly yeah i just listed all of the officials and all of the businesspeople with considerable assets both in russia and abroad she didn't really specify any criteria they used to persons of the list what could those crises be anyway frankly all these sanctions especially this latest initiative to look someone half hearted and then releasing i guess we'll just have to see what happens next but i don't think my colleagues or i will be affected in any significant way. but sanctions in general i mean this whole story has been unfolding for several years now with moscow never even considering backing down or making any concessions in other words sanctions failed to reach terrorist state it political goals and labor always never will moreover. when you ask people on the sanctions have affected them i mean you hear the standard answer all those who didn't buy parmesan

cheese before don't buy it now those that in fly abroad before hardly do that now could it be that the sanctions of actual novak on the russian economy and the other people's lives that's not possible right. of course on one hand these sanctions limit the deliveries of our military goods they restrict the ability of our country to attract investors loans naturally this affects our economy because we don't receive as much investment as we otherwise would for example we could have had higher rates of return on our securities and we have today we could have been obtaining more loans from western banks to develop our industry and production clearly there's an impact but on the other hand i believe we can always find a way out of a tricky situation. if they are imposing their sanctions we just start developing our domestic capabilities topping our internal resources member how if you're in

the previous u.s. administration they said that the russian economy will be in shambles pointing to falling oil prices and sanctions and all that stuff well are we in shambles now quite the opposite we have mobilized our economy we now have the lowest inflation rate in all of russia's history we have overcome the economic crisis very quickly and this gave us an additional push to undertake structural reforms mobilize our financial resources so you know really what did rather well and get out of this difficult period without any significant losses even credit rating agencies recognize this by upgrading our ratings are going to go against. we'll talk about that little later. yeah i do agree that there is nothing more stimulating them being in a hostile environment but let's remember to get in there after you said in an interview to the financial times i asked him if the u.s. were to employ scale sanctions against russia now the cold war would seem like

child's play would you agree with assessments. unless you know if we look at the record of sanctions used against other countries like iran can see that in their case sanctions run much deeper and include such steps as cutting the country off from the swift banking payment system and freezing its assets in western banks are basically a form of financial warfare it really is a horse i hope it won't come to that in russia so this. could i mean we've been hearing this idea of excluding russia from this with the system quite a lot recently a.j. have a back up plan in case it actually happens this would affect russia sure but also it would affect our foreign partners because they will force us all so use alternative less practical and less modern payment systems we know that this is a double edged sword this would hardly be a pleasant experience for russia but it will be just as bad for our foreign

counterparts you know what if you have a plan being case that has. of course we do we have first of all we have developed a proprietary technology for interbank message exchange that we can use in russia and we do use it already for domestic transactions it has already been tested and is now used by a number of banks so in terms of domestic transactions we have it covered as a banking operation involving foreign parties that's the area that will be affected but i believe will find a way out. and washed external that is decreasing and that is understandable since externally investments are shrinking and russia's internal debt is growing is and it's about one hundred twenty five billion u.s. dollars now what are their risks involved here. with. our internal debt which is really small littles only about fourteen percent of our g.d.p. if we look at other countries for example in europe it ranges from sixty percent to

one hundred percent of g.d.p. from country to country. in the united states exceeds one hundred percent of g.d.p. so russia's internal debt is not growing in relation to g.d.p. and that's what matters our goal is to have a state budget unaffected by oil price fluctuations or any sanctions what does it mean it means that our budget deficit should stay around the possible minimum and that we would generate the budget primarily from domestic investments so if we keep our budget deficit at the minimum are dead broke. internal and the projections for the next few years will stay within the range of fourteen to sixteen percent of g.d.p. so i cannot agree with you saying that internally that is cronus because it might be growing in terms of numbers more money but it's not growing in the relation to the g.d.p. . it's. there's also the you mentioned it before the russian diplomat and

succeeded in bringing a deal with saudi arabia and object and finally great to curb global oil production so all prices began to grow again it seems to me that whether we like it or not or oil is sometimes more important than politics geopolitics political statements so turns out that we see where it really matters russia does have a say russia does call shots is it really soured is it an illusion that if they do . in this case it is so yes we have indeed brokered an extension for the oil production cap deal and that played a role on the global oil price of course a growing global demand for oil has also been a contributing factor here and the fact of the demand is growing as a causative effect on the market in the prices so does bush's ability to negotiate because without russia major oil producer and exporter the opec are going to zation wouldn't have come through with a solution to cap production. our vision was that it is much. or if they have

a certain degree of predictability in the situation it strikes certain agreements that we can rely on that is why we made an effort and i think we'll continue down this path yeah so isolate russia are not sanctions are not moscow still has some influence on the world economy and certainly my question can you tell us actions of that russia's overproduction i'm guessing we as a lot of important equipment and technology for instance one drilling for oil in the arctic which he can we manage without them that you do we have to acknowledge is solve our own. well you know applying restrictions to our country will indeed stimulate development of our own technologies for example gazprom and russian oil giants used to import most of their equipment from abroad now they're revisiting their policies and beginning to develop technologies and solutions of course it will take a while but the bottom line here is that our industry is adjusting implementing the

so-called import substitution program so on the one hand sanctions do impose limitations on the other hand our industry can benefit from it. and then to be given at the gaidar economic forum you which proposed the idea that russia should become a new norway and that its economy should no longer depend on all the prices and this is all great but how is it possible that at least one third of russia's budget is generated by oil and gas sales. that is true yes but before it was sixty percent so almost two thirds immediate sales proceeds accounted for sixty percent of our budget and in two thousand and seventeen there were forty percent in our new budget allocated about one third of its oil and gas and that's our current goal to go down to one third and i think this is going to is close to what i'd consider normal if we talk about the so-called neulander deficit this is the figure you get by substracting oil and gas revenues from the total.