headlines all naughty flotsam if you attend holds talks with germany's angela merkel just outside been and with the iran nuclear tale and syrian reconstruction on the agenda. also this hour we visit one of the city's worst test by the war in syria and that's a to witness the reconstruction process off t.v. is under attack by islamic states and other militants. the u.s. plans to spend up to fifteen million dollars on haunting soldiers physical performance and jewelry and the pentagon mourns future conflicts will require troops with a higher tolerance for extreme conditions. and summary abuse and they going to activist who's been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent tim u.s. has been transferred to another prison we hear from her lawyer about her health and

what to expect in the case. you're watching r t international good to have you with us russian president vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel have concluded talks that means a big palace near beilin there was several topics up for discussion including the rebuilding of syria and the iran nuclear agreement reporting from germany has stunned you holkins. here in schloss maze a burger about two hours' drive from talks have been ongoing between shots of marco and president putin in the government residence just behind me here now from the outset the german chancellor was realistic about what could be expected as an outcome from these talks saying it's working visit and nothing to spectacular should be expected nevertheless she did emphasize the importance of having

a relationship a functional dialogue and communication with russia as the two leaders came out of the building having signed the guestbook they did have points on which they could agree now the german countryside here behind me is peaceful and delic that's far from how you could describe the relationship of the two leaders though they have clashed on numerous occasions with mrs merkel being a fierce critic of putin on issues from human rights to ukraine they did today have points though on which they did agree syria being one of the key ones both of them agreeing that emphasis on humanitarian assistance and humanitarian help was the key to solving the conflict version number she would certainly should cities it's important to do move for the humanitarian situation in syria most importantly bring aid to its people and loses areas where a few jews can return from abroad in the year she says are going to use this for my

endo's this we have to do humanitarian catastrophe in syria there may be less fighting now but that doesn't mean we have peace and order the iran nuclear deal which of course the united states recently pulled out of was another point upon which they could agree with mr putin emphasizing the importance of maintaining that international deal sanctioned by the united nations security council. and. we will discuss a joint plan to rig the iran nuclear agreement it is extremely important to save this multilateral deal. proved the u.n. security council designed to strengthen global security and nuclear nonproliferation in the worst years of spinning despite their previous rocky relationship mrs merkel and mr putin have been pushed together into a sort of political marriage of convenience through to a rift with the united states both countries have been affected by u.s. tariffs russia has been affected by sanctions mrs merkel has been criticized for

being overly reliant on russian gas imports indeed the nords dream to part from project was also something that was discussed news headlines questioned what could really come out of these bilateral talks which side could gain watson who would come out on top in negotiations but as the day here draws to a close and the limousines pull up to take this back to their residences mrs merkel will take this as an opportunity to consolidate her position as a european leader capable of negotiating with russia and putin while the russian president will view this as a chance to take steps to bring russia out of its isolation through those sanctions and find common ground with one of his oldest political colleagues. but the but before meeting merkel ten paid a quick social visit to austria the russian president stopped off to attend the wedding of the country's foreign minister. who.

was there with. the ceremony took place at a venue art in austria steria state sun slams the foreign minister for inviting putin to the wedding but it seems the russian president had a great time even dancing with the prize many try to guess what president he'd give to the happy couple it was a painting an ancient oil press and a traditional russian some of our and here are the president's congratulations to the newlyweds. to the bride and groom i want to hold heartedly congratulate you on your wedding and forming a new family. in russia we have the custom of wishing the couple luck and love i gladly do that and wish you much luck and else in your common future. with the syrian army reestablishing control across the country the efforts underway

to rebuild a shattered nation in the latest in a series of reports igor she thought of travels to the city of aleppo to see how locals a slowly picking up the pieces. much of the city of aleppo is still seen ruins reviving it to its former glory is a task of gargantuan proportions and of immense political and economic importance the citadel of aleppo has become the symbol of the city's resistance. but aleppo is much more than just a maze of antique streets and attractions from history books.

the militants have stolen computer units with chips for the machines they destroyed the factory on purpose they wanted to damage syrian industry as a home and specifically in the street in aleppo reviving this that. would. see one river go over this area. and feet and basically very dysfunctional hunker. down want to be immense but now that the industrial hub is slowly getting back on track things are finally looking up for the people of aleppo. two years ago during the war we couldn't even open our shops the shelling snipers were everywhere you couldn't live under such circumstances we covered the roof of the building back then so that we could take

cover it was unbearable we took shelter for about half an hour whenever the shelling started we just locked ourselves in here thank god now we can work peacefully day and night we just hang around smile. just like the good old days joe a little the atmosphere is really good around here the weather is nice everybody is feeling safe and it's only getting better you can see getting better day by day. i was lucky enough not to leave my home the wind this is the district the rebels couldn't get to at the time there was a blockade once but it was firmly lifted now saying god things about or despite all the things we've been through we are no better but one woman we know it's safe you can return home if your house lies in ruins you can still fix it the main thing is it's safe now. just a couple of years ago these turned used to protect people in the street from falling shows and debris well now they're sheltering them from the sun historically

the city of aleppo has been the economic capital of syria and now with the world gone finally some traders are coming back to cheat. because dawn of reporting from aleppo in syria. meanwhile donald trump has tweeted that the u.s. has cut its development funding to syria asking other nations to pick up the tab and the u.s. state department says it will retire active stabilization money to syria to other foreign policy effets washington and sesto this will not affect its humanitarian assistance program it comes as saudi arabia pledges one hundred million dollars to syrian reconstruction projects however the money will only go to the northeast of the country the region under the control of u.s. backed kurdish forces. and while some hard ground a cuts others remain in place with the u.s. saying it will stay in syria for some time yet to fight against the last pockets of

terrorists. we are remaining in syria the focus is the ensuring defeat of isis we still have not launched the final phase two defeats the physical kind of fight this is actually being prepared now and that will come at a time via choosing but it is coming well we spoke to joshua landis head of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says america's interest in syria go beyond fighting terrorism the united states does not want assad to become too strong there are hoping to keep leverage in order to try to push iran out of the country to get a better deal for the kurds and and of course they're also worried about what's going to happen if they're province where there is very complex negotiations and and russia is at the heart of them so there are many competing agendas in washington and as long as president trump is not spending a lot of money there i think he's happy to keep

a few thousand troops if that increases america's leverage. the u.s. department of defense this planning to spend up to fifteen million dollars then halting the performance and insurance of it so to this bust says caleb maupin explains history shows there's a reason to be wary. actually does. hollywood science fiction often depicts the soldiers of the future with all the talk of a space force from donald trump fighting robots across the silver screen our imagination has plenty of places to go. now on the surface a new grant from the pentagon for extramural biomedical research and development doesn't sound so bad the object is to create soldiers who can withstand even the

harshest circumstances take a listen develop technologies to maximize the physiological performance of s.o.f. operators including enhanced in durance enhanced senses tolerance to environmental extremes and enhanced overall fitness in order to maintain operational posture ability in high stress scenarios without noticeable augmentation and without hampering personnel mobility additionally the ability to accelerate the effects of sleep through methods requiring less time a vivid picture i know the prototype. three piece. now let's give this a little context this won't be the first time that the u.s. military has engaged in this kind of research.

and. now at the time these grotesque experiments using american g.i.'s and civilians essentially as the lab rats at the time they were taking place the public knew nothing about it was all classified now the public documents indicate that these new experiments will not involve human beings only human simulators however anyone who is familiar with the not so well publicized but very well documented history of

u.s. military research will certainly raise an eyebrow kaleb up and r.t. new york. russia is at his again that's the claim by the us magazine the atlantic it says the kremlin has set its sights on meds and ng in the upcoming midterm elections to weaken america they ought to cocos on to explain moskos alleged three steps to break american democracy first unleashed russian hackers secondly by corrupt us politicians to support those who think favorably of pitted but it's not just the russian states that's come under suspicion the atlantico also claims this channel helps undermine democracy by inviting on guess who that question mainstream narratives the magazine names brunton struck as an example he's the founder of movement encouraging democrats to walk away from that policy that the atlantic fails to point out he talks to other media outlets to. well i i

myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberals for industry because spent years as a liberal he now says he's concerned by what the weft has become well before the election i was already starting to feel uncomfortable with where we were headed in terms of identity politics and p.c. culture. well political commentator lionel explains why he thinks such empty russian articles get written nobody ever calls these people to task they are paid for by volume or how many likes to do you get how many clicks hey that was a great article factually incorrect. factually based list and also the mentality just feeding frenzy of this this monster dysmorphia this monster that you

must feed constantly with us no russia no nato no bad guy no bogeymen so there's many reasons why the book even the strawman the specter the evil image of russia must be maintained. that cannot suggest he's being charged with acting as an imagist a russian agent in the us has been transferred to another prison without lawyers knowledge russian diplomats have compatibility mistreatment in custody and also the media hysteria around the case to which trials of the seventeenth century meanwhile the twenty nine year old has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for helical to france. on thursday russian diplomats visited buttin in prison and said she's been subjected to cruel treatment they claim she faces inhumane inspections throughout each night and this trip set off to each visitor maria's also being deprived of proper medical attention is claimed she

was suffering from swelling and had a leg but was only given painkillers furthermore she said also allowed to receive letters written in russian of affairs they might contain coded messages the russian embassy stress she is still a suspect not so convict grittiness lawyer updated us on the condition. i was unaware that she was transferred until last night at around midnight i received a collect call from her at home and the phone was disconnected before we could get through but i knew it was from alexandria jail so i drove down and tried to get in last night and could not but i was able to get in this morning and visit her so she is in alexandria detention facility at least for now for this weekend it's a smaller facility than the d.c. jail as respected facility but it's hard to know why the move was made where there was made for medical or other reasons or in response to complaints about the conditions in d.c. she does have arthritis in one of her legs kind of

a history of problems with that leg so she sought treatment for that and so far has just received tylenol and nothing else and i think she has also been a little bit frustrated by policy when people are in protective custody they do bad checks every fifteen minutes at night check on detainee safety and i think sometimes depending on who the guard is you know the lights are turned on every time there's a check and so it's very hard to get proper sleep when you're being woken up every fifteen minutes she's segregated from the general population of the prison facility you know no contact really with outside people besides her lawyers and occasional phone calls and when you're being held it's in some isolation like that it's difficult because every every thing she wanted to do is kind of a one off request there isn't a very set schedule and so it was very difficult to make sure she was getting a proper exercise and. trips to the library and things like that because everything she did she had to do by yourself i'm not saying anyone would have an easy time in prison but in this is an accomplished student you know someone who i don't think

ever envision spending a day in jail or a life to be in you know it's a pretty tough facility. the alleged russian agents was arrested every month the guy she was refused bail off to pay to not guilty two weeks ago she's also accused of offering saxena tends to get a job in an unnamed special interest group if convicted speer tina could face up to fifteen years in prison no date has been set for had a trial lawyer remains optimistic she's in very good shape she's helping actively with us to prepare the defense she's confident in her innocence there's no allegation of espionage there's no allegation of classified information style geishas she was paying anyone off there's no allegation she was recruiting spies none of the things you would typically see in an espionage case the allegations are fairly vanilla that she attended meetings of various groups that were public that she had dinners with various people and she took a lot of selfies as i think

a lot of people are twenty's do with with people she met and posted them on facebook so this is not the kind of a typical this is no comparison to what the allegations were against for example at a chapman or others where there was actual whether or not there are actual allegations about the use of sophisticated equipment and payoffs and spy ring and things like that there's none of that here with some point maybe try to get her released pretrial again we're just looking through documents trying to find the proper evidence to do that and i think we may be able to do that hopefully the next couple of weeks. david to the u.s. city of seattle where hundreds of people have attended a demonstration organized by the right wing group a trip the rally was held on to the slogan liberty or death. but.

the gathering attracted counter protesters from the last meeting some minor clashes between the two sides at least three people have been arrested but there's no information yet on possible charges the rally was against a proposed new law that would raise the age in washington state of buying semi automatic rifles dozens of police officers including some in riot gear with buttons with calls out to ensure the protests. occupy london appears to be the latest victim of facebook's recent spree of shutting down accounts the social justice movement how this page taken down for several hours the movement says this is not the first time facebook tried to censor is content ok pylons and was founded in two thousand and eleven as part of a global movement organizing hundreds of protests against financial elite the movement says its founding values are equality and diversity occupy london has a significant social media presence with around one hundred fifty thousand

followers on facebook some believe set in private palestine post. might be to blame for facebook site action we asked facebook to comments the social media giant to since apologized to occupy london saying it was all a mistake but it's one of the movement's activist george bozza isn't convinced. just you know sort of a blip a mistake of the blue it probably wouldn't mean very much at all but the problem is this is part of a massive rear guard action i think by the establishment you know anyone can go online and see the evidence this themselves chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist it's been one of those exposing most of the details of this but effectively what's happened is that in the name of dealing with can you use a many progressive websites that have been a major part of you know bernie sanders jeremy corbin etc. they found the traffic going down. websites like alter net truthdig that you know mainstream progressive

websites are seeing that traffic played down by seventy percent literally and these algorithms devised in private nobody can inspect and have a huge impact on what information the world gets to see about what's going on and that's a hugely significant issue going forward the relevant thing today in terms of discussion is still a very powerful force online and has millions of people engaging with its posts and so it's very important that they and others like them on not in the name if they can use effectively removed from most people's internet searches and i think this is a huge issue going forward bearing in mind that google and facebook are very very close to the american establishment you know the washington post is owned by jeff bezos he was and is an answer but not surprisingly he's very keen on using the washington post to make sure that the internet allows his articles to come up at the top of such as a no arms. ever to spain where graffiti has been impairing in the spanish

city of. encouraging holiday makers to jump off their hotel balconies some of it suggests that the potentially deadly practice known as balcony fun one of their graffiti message is mockingly claims that improves the quality of life for the locals. can recess either jumping into a pool from the balcony or climbing from one balcony to another the risk activity is growing in popularity with tourists some hotels have found sets and introduced finds. you. were. the balcony graffiti that sprung up in barcelona has sparked online anger this year alone six people have died performing the stunt most of them were

from britain or island the u.k. foreign office has warned against engaging in the practice in the met in the majority of accidents victims have been drunk and lost their balance while we got reaction from tourists in boston alaina thankfully it seems real we need to know so i am out of my state when there is no sir like many messages very violent like me against terrorists i guess the same in terms of the lies they want to have to sit for over and they know what's important to maintain jobs to make some money out of the worst word i think differently get some kind of tax why can't i have this many tourists from to go on that it's not comfortable for them having to fight for the same roles i think last night such a seat that's just so old and do so much. shit you know that the. story for

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