in the stories that shaped the week the mainstream media goes into a cold war frenzy. and unveils russia's new strategic also in his state of the nation address. the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning that first reason in the west in particular not to mess with russia and he says he's not bluffing. one week on the humanitarian corridor in syria's eastern go to aimed at giving civilians a chance to escape continues to come under heavy shelling as of now only two children have managed to also ahead. when i went to the interrogation place i heard people shouting and getting beaten and there were little kids there the

officer started shouting at them to confess and also shouting at me they hit me while they were interrogating me. a palestinian teenager allegedly hit by an israeli rubber bullet tells altie he was beaten until he tends to story that was following his arrest and interrogation by israeli soldiers. it's the weekly here on our national life from all studio in moscow with me in a day or two to round up the last seven days and up to date stories welcome to the program. that demit putin delivered to his annual state of the nation address to parliament on thursday sharing his vision of the country's future during the speech the president also unveiled russia's nuclear arsenal which he said can maneuver all existing missile defenses with more now his r.t.

senior correspondent robert garcia. if you aren't russian the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption and science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast. with russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush hooted unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before me as. far as the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered

cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with a nuclear payload it can reportedly underwater for months and months silent and needy undetectable next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely fost rockets that can actively dog and the vaid anti missile defenses you would see it is heading for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these

a serious way. designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it. we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive in russia is in harm's military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet for it preserve restore parity in the world sure that there's no point in engaging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a century and spokesperson for the us state department claimed the visual shown during flight of may have putin speech depicted a nuclear attack on the us has anality even snapped a russian reporter questioned her views on it and it's something now it has previously done for making things very clear when it comes to russia's media.

if you're small to take in the united states it was all sent to different directions so i had to say that they are going to tell you the reaction there shit yeah ok ok and upside down i'll move on. what is funny if it turns out they're not. a fish because of the russian government there's a question about i don't really know correct. corrected by the russian government the fact that you were here as a representative of the russian government so-called news organizations russian news if you will. misread of any great joke on you i just knew some of.

you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i have no money money. money. because it was going to go weak but. i will talk to you after the know your body part that's. stable for your rock each performance should. present. parts of the media into a frenzy accusing russia of rewinding to the cold war he was also pressed about it in an interview with america's n.b.c. network. the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning he's first risen in the west in particular not to mess with russia computer graphics of missiles flying over mountains and heading over oceans and he says he's not bluffing several analysts in the west have said this is the declaration of a new cold war are we in a new arms race right now my point of view is the individuals who have said that

a new cold war has started are not really analysts they do propaganda if you were to speak about arms race then an arms race began at exactly the time in moment when the u.s. opted out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty and back up his point that the new weapon serve only to balance. it and pointed out that the u.s. has already deployed missile defense systems in alaska and california natives also expanding into eastern europe with two sites set up in romania and poland and new locations assumed to be established in japan and south korea. we spoke to several defense on this who think the russian president's speech wasn't intended as a threat. thank you. these are not designed for war fighting these are designed to send a very clear message that president putin said quite clearly which is that these these systems are basically if you mess with us we will nuke you and we will not

hold back now that is a strategic statement it's not a statement about escalating to deescalating which is what the russians are often accused of and were accused of officially by the american government through. the decades after the cold war the usa really ruled the world and that balance of power is now shifting with russia coming in with many other major players from what putin is saying and i hope he's absolutely right that this is a deterrent against the american led defense system and that's a very important effective tool to. i don't see an intensification of hostile talk or scheming and planning has in the cards so it's very reasonable to expect in the short term they will be. calling upon moscow to reenter into overall full and scape arms to go shushan talks that is certainly the greatest likelihood and certainly what for dinner putin. is

looking for. the russian reconsideration sense of a serious as just two children have managed to leave syria's eastern guten the past five days since humanitarian corridor was initiated by russia was set up to allow civilians out of the besieged areas of the city militants have also imposed a curfew during humanitarian causes all efforts to help people trapped there have proven fruitless. militants are not allowing civilians to leave they're opening fire at anyone trying to use the humanitarian routes set up by russia the un security council early adopted a resolution establishing a thirty day nationwide ceasefire with five hour daily humanitarian causes the situation on the ground is complex as the syrian army carries out a military operation against the terrorists in control of the area we spoke to

people outside go to who are waiting to provide help to the civilians and that's why i'm here with the syrian army and i'm ready to help leaving eastern ghouta we have ambulances here. just around the clock to provide first aid to people from eastern america also work twenty four hours have provided the equipped with all modern facilities medical workers also ready but. there was some people who wanted to leave eastern but all of a sudden we only saw a gunman opening fire using mortars to intimidate civilians. isn't going to is located. just outside the syrian capital of damascus and has been occupied by various rebel and terror groups for years violence there recently escalated again with both sides accusing each other of targeting civilians russians set up the humanitarian cargo to the north of the region heading towards a checkpoint and camp efforts to provide safe passage for those desperate to escape

are being coordinated with the syrian red crescent buses and ambulances are on standby and people inside the rebel enclave are being notified about the location of the card or via leaflets text alerts on loudspeakers first eight points of also been set up near the exit help those in need of urgent medical assistance and the failed truce efforts provoked heated debate at the un security council. the fighting has not stopped opposition groups operating in eastern good to have made clear their commitment to the ceasefire on the very first day the militants use the declared paused to start an onslaught on the second day the same mortar shelling has continued including of the humanitarian corridor but a single person has left the danger zone. there were reports that the assad regime once again used chlorine gas as

a weapon i'm tired of asking this but do you understand how pointless it would be to damascus to use chemical weapons both from a military and political standpoint whereas for the militants it would make perfect sense i think you understand this perfectly well but you persistently look for a pretext for an armed intervention. russia does not get you know laterally rewrite the terms of the resolution if russia is able to deliver a five hour pause let it deliver a twenty four hour one you wouldn't need to me because you're our western partners are portraying the situation as if the resolution applies only to damascus and to russia as if it all depends almost exclusively on the will of our country may i ask you what you have done to implement the resolution would have any of you lifted a finger if you use your influence on those who you consider the moderate opposition have you persuaded them to lay down their weapons and release hostages.

i'm joined by out there the syrian author and political analyst thanks for coming into the studio to talk about this situation here let's start with the the mainstream media's reaction seems like an overreaction to russia's attempts to set up this humanitarian corridor what are your thoughts on that. i believe if you recall if you recall the. situation. to bring it out of whack. again this alignment aligning with the american and nato policies hostile policies against syria is not is not new especially when russia got involved and the situation started getting better and better in syria so we don't rely on the on the media in the west to tell about the truth because they have their special agenda that is aligning with the own. hostile and illegal

presence of countries and. mercenaries and proxies in syria. so we don't really rely on. practically they don't stable syria they don't want a stable syria they don't want a united. strong syria. in service of the. imperialist agenda well we've obviously discussed this issue a lot about the legitimate partners who are going in and out of syria but if we stick to the situation on the ground at the moment the un security council has not backed the times you need to set up this humanitarian corridor at least alleviate some of the trauma that the civilians are experiencing right now why do you think they haven't backed them and almost shifted the blame back on russia for the problems that are going on what are your thoughts about that they should be working together exactly. to be honest with don't rely on the on the united nations

position here because it has proven and since its inception it has proven not to side not to side by justice and not to side by the truth or the rights of people to exist and right of those of levity of nations so this is this is now a proven fact. the memory the memory of still holds them because if you go back to alabama it was a real success for the syrian state and for the russian help in early april when. doors were opened also the opposition or be a terrorist the best to stop people from fleeing to the government side but this didn't show when when alipore was liberated. eighty percent to eighty five percent of the people remained and are happily living after that. date until now they don't

want this to happen to our water i mean remember here i may recall here that the mask is the capital and being able to hurt and to. intimidate the capital would be like high court for the. hostile countries and regimes against our state in syria and definitely against the russian . empowerment and the russian in your standing in the world politics this is a real threat for their own idea about the monopole the of the world i believe you are an aside in. the united states as a done always and really calls for a reversion. and to go back to the basics of the you and charter of the human charter and all the international laws. in power. ok so.

if we look at the humanitarian corridor at the moment only two children have managed to to leave the area house six it's not a great number of people managing sleep how successful just very briefly after do you think that this humanitarian corridor is going to be there is that the statistics that humanitarian corridors shows the good intention and the humanitarian intention of the syrian government and russian the russian mediator here. whether it is successful or not from our side with the with human duty the syrians the human duty of opening and accepting the people who wants to flee the battles on the other hand the so-called moderate rebels. they issued a statement a very strong statement. warning anybody who would leave and this like this morning

this was done this morning and as well unfortunately for us that the united nations adopted this statement as an official statement that was given by a member state of the united nations so at the end of the day we rely on ourselves on our allies in syria definitely we rely on the truth and justice to prevail at the ok up there have been our time syrian author and political analyst thank you very much for coming in thank you this. month of deadlock seemed to be over in germany with a grand coalition formed between the social democrats and angle america's conservatives i'll have that story and plenty more after this short break. i would still like to be for this because everyone in it for the sake of peace and

stability that with it's aggression though the americans or the pakistanis or the indians although month by and large will be our objective is the theme we just peace and stability within the region knowing that is the board then clearly we're there to be the no one has done or for the beach in the presence of all foreign troops inside of one is founded speak in modern board bit while the region or for a one month. focus on ending the war and that's not intermingled fisherman a tearing concern which is falling apart schools of all of civilians but the shelling of damascus by rebel groups that's not enough for the bombing by the us as mentioned earlier there's some mix of that with the political objectives which some people may still have.

welcome back to the weekly staying with the european elections it could be a pivotal sunday for the european union as italy the block's third largest economy takes to the polls voting got under way earlier this morning it's being called a wide open general election campaigning has been fierce over two main issues the economy and immigration hoping to head up the biggest party in parliament us a major candidates outside the current political mainstream the leader of the five star movement luigi de milo is the young face of the anti establishment and populist party the anti immigration league party's leader matteo salvini is also expected to gain a lot of support and a blast from the past four time prime minister silvio berlusconi from go italy is

banned from holding the top job due to a fraud conviction however is center right coalition with three other parties acted to gather substantial support polls close at eleven pm local time with official results due in the early hours of monday. now a palestinian teenager allegedly hit in the head by an israeli rubber bullet in december says he felt pressured to change his statement on his injury to avoid longer detention mohammed to mimi he was still receiving treatment was arrested on monday in a dorm raid on a palestinian village in which nine other people were also detained for taking part in anti israel demonstrations the day after his release israeli authorities published an official facebook post claiming the boy's injury happened when he fell off a bike and was self inflicted it went on to say that there is a culture of lies and incitement within the time in the family his muhammad's accounts of what happened at the police station. they arrested

me at my home at three am they put handcuffs on me and my brother then they took us to their camp when i was arrested i felt like i was going to be sentenced and they made me afraid when we arrived and they took us to the interrogation and they hit me while they were interrogating me. when i went to the interrogation place i heard people shouting and getting beaten and there were little kids there the officer started shouting at them to confess and also shouting at me. they started asking me why my face is like this and saying you look funny and said many things about me i told them i fell off my bicycle. when i was injured i climbed the wall thinking they were gone and as soon as i looked over i was shot right here. and then i passed out and i don't know what happened in response mohammed's family released medical records of the power is shows

a bullet lodged in the back of his head that documents show he underwent surgery in train which part of his skull this remain mohammad is currently waiting for another operation. just an hour after mohammed was first injured his cousin lashed out at an israeli soldier she said was responsible images of the incident went viral and propelled her to international recognition as a symbol of palestinian resistance i had to mean it is currently awaiting trial for the assault on the soldier. five months of political uncertainty in germany is finally over after a grand coalition was confirmed as the new but same government the social democrats have officially confirmed a deal with angela merkel's christian democrats the same partnership that has ruled since twenty thirteen means chancellor merkel will enter her thirteenth year in power a major issue remains though how will the parties cooperate given their opposing views on migration ati's europe correspondent peter reports when germany finally

gets round to having a government again one of the main issues it's going to face is the number of small towns and cities that have slum the drill in the face of migrants flat out saying they're not going to take any more foreigners the latest is promotions in the southwest close to the french border the term took in more than a thousand asylum applicants most of whom were successful their margins have been a center for footwear manufacturing but with those jobs long it slipped into steady economic decline now the mayor's office has said they simply don't have the money to take anyone else in the state government has agreed with them for now anyway we are ready to provide short term help to promotions as the town is in a unique situation the mayor has come out this week in fact the government for giving us a breather but local say they simply have to happen we really don't have enough

money and i think i mean especially the city here i know that it's abruptly in school in their kindergarten. too because they have not enough teachers also there are poor people in germany and in peanuts and there are a lot of poor people and so the people here since i don't don't take saw a lot of refugees if you're my sons had more money then they could take more refugees but that must be paid. by the cup i'm and this summer it will be three years since i opened journey to refugees and migrants and the decision is weighing heavy still on the country small towns peter all of altie berlin. may be watching the week here on out international i'll be back at the top of the up with another random side to stay with us. join me every thursday on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to guest of

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a lot of welcome to well to part the concept of geopolitics as the grand chessboard the region aided in asia. and it is also in asia where that vision is unraveling most rapidly the united states still maintains a military foothold in afghanistan but all around the country said b.c. building new networks of trade and diplomacy is the region at defining and perhaps redefining its own imperatives its goal to discuss that i'm now joined by him that read body har former foreign minister of pakistan madame hard's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now pakistan's foreign policy has made a very dramatic shift over the last decade or so. and it's interesting that while your successive governments may have disagreements on internal politics there is a quite a bit of consistency when it comes to foreign policy in terms of putting regional agenda regional relations and had those geopolitical interests what do you think

spurred that change and how sustainable it is it's not true change i think it is perfectly i would even want to argue that it is in any way unsustainable because as i said it is natural to change french speaking to something that he should've had imbedded within the foreign policy paradigm of pakistan from the divi got our independence and own fourteen focus nine hundred forty seven because in many ways if you look at pakistan's bust foreign policy management you see this uncomfortableness with your geography so you see a pakistan which is trying to reach out to countries which are far away which are sometimes oceans and seas. and try to really have very strong strategic ties with countries which of far far far away and ignore the countries which are very within the region which are right in the neighborhood which are right within the region so i would say i would go there i would only argue that when you say that this

government has been able to take what we created forward the region the pivotal pakistan foreign policy i think it could have done a better job because. i think invested very gritty it just didn't obviously taking that forward but i think we invested very gritty in our immediate neighbors and then of course the region as now i think you're putting it very diplomatically in terms of saying that pakistan was trying to reach out to. certain countries oceans away because i heard you say in other interviews that you believe that your country actually serves as a proxy to the united states during the time of the soviet intervention in afghanistan serving. training ground for. you also recognize that your country paid a high price for that i say that. allow terrorism and extremism take root in pakistan and change the fabric of your own society wouldn't that have happened anyway regardless of your corporation with the.