yes we haven't seen any money nothing he took everything from us. militant street civilians and he's good termed as a bargaining chip making sure that if anyone flees they do it on the fighters terms the gloves were off from the start the russian defense ministry has reported that the path to safety were shelled almost religiously precisely to prevent anyone from fleeing to damascus trying to scape the house fire between the government forces and militant groups whose fighters far too often side with terrorists. who have all sorts of needs inside order today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with the people inside all day and food aid as well.

gov yolland the building block. for the. one that started this year. than ever secure a good in heaven are not lashing out of the. desert not even any used donors the sums are seen as. well political analyst i'm going to shape he thinks the best move for militants in eastern guta this point is to give up their weapons and negotiate terms for the for leaving the area. ideally it would be great if the the these terrorist groups and

their fighting forces would actually hand over their weapons because anyway there's no chance for them to actually continue to fight the battle on a military on a military level is this is this is over i mean the continuing helplessly this is ridiculous because it's putting all the civilians in danger there are safe passages now they are supposed to or disobedience are supposed to leave in thousands from these passages however of the fighters not to allowing the civilians to leave holding their hostages in some way. russia's defense ministry has released video footage showing tests of its latest missile systems among the new where this is the hypersonic he or dagger missile which can travel it ten times the speed of sound in the said to be capable of outsmarting all existing defense systems and then there's the rocket an intercontinental ballistic missile which has a vast range and can carry multiple nuclear warheads. was granted exclusive

access to russia's latest nuclear deterrent. meet satan as natives come to cool this the thirty six m. two hundred and nine tons of nuclear ged and it is a paradox if these things evolution in anger it likely mean the end of human civilization and yet. that very fact that guarantees that new sane man will lead the press the red button.

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then they might not see eye to eye on everything at the moment but when it comes to food and drink it does seem that angle merkel and vladimir putin can put any differences aside that after the russian president revealed the two leaders to stand united in their love of beer these are all of our reports. well it was the trade agreement between world leaders that if we bloody talking what did angle and merkel receive in return for sending putin a few bottles of his favorite german beer well during a press conference that was supposed to be about what was going to be going on in a new cabinet well she was asked the question and she gave the answer it's because it is known that the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can make exchanges i have also gotten very good smoked fish.

so russians smoked fish in exchange for german beer or the beer in question rather burger that it let me have putin said that i'm going to merkel sends in a few bottles of every now and again comes from parts of east germany where vladimir putin was stationed in the cold war as an intelligence officer with the with the soviet union intelligence services he probably developed a taste for that be a while he was stationed there is family went on a tour to the the village where the beer is brewed in fact and that prompted him to let mrs merkel people know that that would be what he would like if it was if it came down to a tipple of choice and certainly it seems that she prefers some of that smoked fish in return pay for all of the reporting are you watching r.t. still ahead for you this out tensions are still high in catalonia where thousands of protesters have rallied again to break away from spain we'll have a look at that and details just after the break.

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. zero again that is just under a week before russia goes to the polls in the presidential election and it marks the start of our special coverage. please you see. yes i will see jack top because i still mean that it's. really making everybody it doesn't seem like. much but with the good it was

there was a little rusty any what you did after you did it but. darned sure. which . we got on the chin that. you should teach them look at your. stupid look at. the problem go to sleep with me that was you know. we. would be. we spoke exclusively to one of those hopefuls pavel couldn't hear the candidate for the communist party he's a fifty seven year old director of and his left wing platform proposes nationalizing big industries and also banks critics accuse him of keeping his own

cash in foreign banks that's something that he denies. to me about some of the pressing issues facing russia at the moment and it's society. terrorism appears in places where people live in poverty and an environment for terror groups to develop first and foremost we must get rid of such environments people must be employed if a man has a job with a decent wage and cares for his family he won't become a terrorist if he has no job and has fallen for certain doctrines imposed on him he becomes easy prey for terror recruitment i'm talking about the domestic situation as for terror groups existing outside of the country we must fight them very hard the good guy should be strong and pull no punches. i think the european union pictures russia is

a threat in order to consider data its internal policies i'm getting the impression that the e.u. of thora t's present russia as the enemy to consolidate themselves while doing so they're lobbying for defense spending why would you unleash an arms race if you already have a lot more weapons than we have and your military budget is bigger than ours i believe someone wants to escalate an arms race even more and for that reason it must be shown that there is some sort of threat in existence. what we can put this issue to a referendum but psyching tell you ninety nine percent of russia's population will be against same sex marriage it's certain so why raise the issue it's like asking muslims whether they're legal pork they won't although in many other states people eat pork and there's nothing wrong with it but muslims won't be doing it in russia people have certain moral norms and we must consider this fact so as of today we

don't have any grounds even to propose the issue of same sex marriage to our nation well throughout the week we'll be introducing you to russia's presidential hopefuls and how they view the future of the country and also the world and then on sunday march the eighteenth to join us for our special coverage election night live here on r.t. international. catalonians independence movement shows no sign of giving up at the moment five months on from the referendum that was branded illegal by the spanish government. forty five thousand protesters attended a rally in barcelona on sunday calling for a new government that will work towards catalonia secession from spain people also chanted their support for the region's former president pushed him on when he and four other separatist leaders are currently out of the country and could face prosecution if they return home demonstrators also demanded the release of local

politicians jailed for their role in last october's vote after the referendum madrid imposed a direct role in catalonia but jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign says that the spanish government is failing to uphold basic democratic rights. i think what the spanish government is attempting to do is to claim people don't and of course it's still not the number one way it's done now is to send riot ships and. seems so doing it i thin them but always has been trying to strangle them and people are using b.d.s. administrate nukes to strangle the possibility of establishing an end and we have to look at this and actually start to question what democracy really means and the european context i have not seen and not internationally which i have proceeded piñon when it comes to what's going on in past what it means not only to get the situation on picture what you have in peace and you know you have championed us and

joined the sound chosen in who's been actually be annoying to this but we don't and that had one parliament even below to leave the jail on monday to attend the beat that's been ruled by the spanish supreme court so what democracy is under attack in very obvious ways and it's important that the international community the e.u. and protect your rights to stand up on the state of democratic rights and it's not doing so. a passenger plane has crashed while landing in katmandu airport in nepal killing around fifty a number of other passengers remain unaccounted for officials say the aircraft had been attempting to land when it veered off the airport's runway and crashed into a nearby football pitch the plane was carrying sixty seven passengers including two children as well as for crew. without international thanks speak on penny tonight don't forget we've got plenty stories for you to at our website at r.t. dot com.

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different speaking out because there are no other takers. to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. not after that year we're going underground in the last week of campaigning for this week's presidential election in the largest country on earth russia coming up in the show was the saudi crown prince in london this week telling to razorblade to go to war with iran the u.s. colonel who helped make colin powells case for war on iraq at the u.n. warns of a war that could kill even more than tony blair's shock and awe and. rise like lions after slumber we speak highly of young ridiculed by mainstream media for

predicting leave huge quake in british politics plus will tomorrow's u.k. spring financial statement do anything to make britain more equal we speak to grassroots activists fighting for equality and. working plus representation well there's more coming up in today's going underground and first it's not only post bricks it britain little need to look further afield for trade opportunities the trumpet ministration ascent former c.e.o. of exxon and current secretary of state rex tillerson on a tour of u.s. arguable proxies in africa firstly ethiopia infamous of how it was at war during the one nine hundred eighty s. live aid concerts national state of emergency has now been declared to me just one be after the i'm expected resignation of prime minister my real definition yes ethiopia after years of i.m.f. world bank policy and billions in u.s. military and civilian aid and weapons sales is in a state of flux tillerson destination the old british colony of kenya over which

the u.k. still stands in the dark about mass killing and torture during the momo uprising unprecedented times in kenya the only other kind expected to be on the ballot paper for the election rerun late in the month has pulled out yes reverberations are kenya's most recent general election could give you his party's alleged corruption of the vote this in a country crucial to u.s. military ambitions in the indian ocean world's longtime ally until this investigation oil rich nigeria continues to battle with oil shortages fuel shortages brought nigeria to a standstill that nigeria sold arms and given between four hundred and six hundred million dollars every year in so-called aid for at least the past decade by the us taxpayer as for chad in central africa tillerson will be visiting a country he knows well according to rachel maddow of m s n b c you referenced a book on the secretary of state's company steve cole points out in his book private empire that the total of u.s. aid in chad the total of american aid that we spend in that country foreign aid and

military aid the total less than twenty million dollars while exxon is paying them more than five hundred million dollars a year in oil revenue and that whole exxon move that all happened in two thousand and six that happened right after this guy took over as the head of access. yes rex tillerson allegedly enabled weapon sales by a oiled contract in chad but there's no need for anything like that in his other destination of djibouti where a quarter of the population lives in extreme poverty they were doing a category three qualification which involves quite a deal with stress and quite a deal of fundamental lot of weapons in the belief that you have to listen stop in djibouti no doubt referenced the u.s. top secret base at camp from where drones fly to kill people all around the world there will have been some tough talking as

a new superpower though has also moved that only red sea to a nation known for high rates of illiteracy unemployment and childhood malnutrition the chinese navy is setting up a base in djibouti to support has scored peacekeeping and humanitarian missions and ships carrying chinese military personnel left in southern china province on tuesday to sell for the country located in the horn of africa the base to be set up while provides support for operations in africa and west asia and china's people's liberation army said the decision to the days was reached after friendly negotiations between the two countries and allied with the interests of both sides whether to listens talks with african nations which end tomorrow or to the benefit of both sides of drug be little progress since the end of u.k. colonialism is another matter at least the former oil boss who says he felt helpless in the rush to tony blair's war on iraq now appears to realize it was a mistake the decision to go into iraq and change leadership in iraq upon

reflection. bush perhaps not did not achieve those objectives we do not have a more stable region in the world and our national security is not million. well joining me now from falls church virginia in the united states is someone who made the case for that iraq war he's a retired u.s. army colonel and former chief of staff. state colin powell welcome again larry wilkinson colonel even rex tillerson fully recognizes the failures of the iraq war you made the case for golan pyle you believe a similar rush to war against iran is currently underway i do not a good saw granted majorly by the fact that we have this almost obsequious sycophantic relationship with israel and particularly with its prime minister bibi netanyahu is willing to die to the last american to take on iran you know that

repeatedly the united states says they are the only democracy in the middle east which is why the us has that alerts i'll quote to you gideon levy of ha'aretz along with me and several others made speeches about the us israel relationship in gideon's said how can anyone call a state that has that code talent terry and brutal occupation going on in the west bank and he didn't even mention gaza a democracy i say get in detroit how is it always former top officials like yourself out of power that come up with these appear phonies about israeli power was not present when you were in the state department. absolutely it was in fact in the conversations that go in and i had secretary powell and i had with regard to the u.s. is are all issues ship we're not too less a service than the one i just gave you but the realities of power especially in

a republican administration but let me not hesitate to say democrats too like bachmann indias and chuck schumer from new york and so forth are as guilty the realities of that power at the highest levels in the united states is that as one individual said policies made intel of live not washington and i know you've been addressing this recently why if it is indeed israel that is forcing the u.s. hand here why isn't israel just attack iran. well we lost the connection with colonel larry wilkerson that subsequently we retrieved it colonel thanks for coming back after that brief blip we were talking about the attack on iran why doesn't israel which is never confirmed by the way that it has two hundred nuclear warheads why doesn't it just attack iran why does it need the help of washington i think there's a two part answer to that question wanted is they need great power over flight if

you will the united states doing jumping is quite different from israel doing something much selection and doing more concrete they also need the u.s. to do the real heavy war is your role has an extraordinary military capability but its capability that's pretty much confined to a very narrow range and it's been designed that way. it cannot project power to the extent that it would be able to eliminate or actually nuclear program and do other things that it would need to do in order to feel assured that it is its attack it but more that the only power really on the face of the earth that can do that is the united states multi carrier around the clock operations in terms of arab power massive strikes out of the huge air force base in gutter and so forth i know you

know you meant it rather than you know i know you mean iran there not iraq and of course israel did lose the war in lebanon against as a bull and i got to tell you though in britain i don't know whether you've been reading the news crown prince mohammed bin selma has been visiting the prime minister in the queen here i understand your knowledge and intelligence of. this region suggests that saudi arabia would also be part of a an alliance with israel and washington in this war on iran. and i think saudi arabia is in many respects a long pole in the tent especially with mohamed been so man as the heir apparent and really the king started already wants are on taken down and saudi arabia has an erstwhile alliance right now we are with riyadh in order to accomplish those and do you i mean of course we would be speculation but obviously he's here in london

you'd think that he'd be telling the british prime minister about these sorts of plans what do you think of the british just response straight from the requests from washington yeah i think it's a little bit of both but i also think prince bandar has demonstrated in the past how much a billion dollar bribes impacting both washington and london so it's not much doesn't make much of a stretch of imagination for me to imagine theresa may having some incredible leverage exerted on her so that she is at least neutral or not supportive because explicitly saudi has never threatened military action on terror ronit talks against iran all the time says it's a dangerous country but it's never ever it's never even said it's a big ally of israel you know it's a it's an alliance of convenience and the saudis even more than israel would like the united states to do the dirty work in iran the saudis simply do not have the

kind of power that would be necessary to invade iran invest it for some decade or so which is what it would really take if you wanted assuredness that the nuclear program was indeed stopped. and as to how we can stop this war as most people in the international community arguably would wish for. could beijing lower moscow or them together stop the war there has to be some remaining full conversation between moscow and washington moscow to bring power to bear on damascus and on terror on and washington on riyadh and israel and to a lesser extent turkey still a nato ally by the way and there has to be some good offices all for probably and some leverage offered by beijing beijing has significant interest in your on its

base road initiative has a whole segment that envisions pipelines running south and more south of the north in iran and on into europe and so forth china has a lot invested and a lot in prospect for investment so yes they have a great interest we forget that iran is in geographically speaking western asia the middle east nomenclature sort of throws us off western asia in other words china is more or less region of the world and so yes beijing washington moscow all need to be brought to bear on this to prevent the conflict in syria and the potential conflict with iran from leaping widening or even happening and becoming a more region wide conflict and even a global conflict going to larry wilkerson thank you after the break a millennial is officially tuned out of mainstream media parallels to explain the rise and rise of jeremy cool been ridiculed by every outlet of britain's and ahead

of tomorrow's spring statement the drays amaze universal credit policies lead to a thirty percent worries in the use of food bags in the u.k. the list of all coming up about to have going on to grow. this baby and. say this isn't much. teams vote with your remote. for special coverage of the russian presidential election exit polls opinions real time results monitoring much more. than one on ones up to. the finish.