a key moment in the syrian peace process top diplomats from russia iran turkey to shore up details of the war torn countries. also ahead. did not support the general assembly calling on both states to take actions it is

yet another violation. of the u.s. and e.u. countries are playing along with. confrontational. u.n. resolution as a provocation after russia is their pride for the militarized. also coming up. president. on the media rights groups we look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country turns out to violations in neighboring countries. investment bank goldman sachs faces criminal charges in malaysia over the loss of billions of dollars from a government. possible consequences for the wall street. two

pm here in moscow this choose they the september the eighteenth welcome wherever you're tuning in from our top story. the fate of syria is being thrashed out in the swiss city of geneva a meeting hosted by the u.n. special syria envoy stuff on de mistura top diplomats from russian iran turkey are putting their weight behind political efforts to ease years of turmoil in the region our senior correspondent is in geneva for us joins us live on the program route as far as i'm aware the meeting is in progress on the stage do we know what's come out of it. well nothing yet it's been quiet but the foreign ministers of iran russia and turkey huddled together

behind closed doors we expect a statement in a press conference later to see what indeed if anything they've agreed to just just to get this out the way the talks negotiations on this new constitutional reform have been very difficult because the different sides have such deferring views nevertheless the main sticking point is about the makeup of this constitutional new constitutional committee because it may have to either rewrite the syrian constitution entirely or amend certain parts of the to provide for an all inclusive and syrian election going into the future there are of course other things that they're going to be discussing but that is the main topic and we're going to find out any hour now what they've achieved nevertheless these three countries russia iran and turkey they've been working together over recent years and their cooperation partnership has yielded concrete results we've seen demilitarize zunes

established in syria we've seen. deescalation is and ceasefire is guaranteed by these three countries the turkish foreign minister the did remark that they've had very little corporation from the united states and its coalition that they haven't been involved in any sort of talks negotiations with regards to this constitutional reform but what we can say about the united states is they made they new policies very clear and that isn't getting rid of assad we want to see a regime that is fundamentally different it's not regime change we're not trying to get rid of assad we just want to see a regime again that does not produce the kind of horrors that we have seen there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to ante up money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that the government is ready to compromise and thus not create yet another horror in the years ahead. nevertheless

there is a lot of motivation to get things done because the situation in syria while nowhere near as volatile as it was even a year ago it is still remarkably tense for example turkey's threatening intervention invasion of northern syria against the kurds there who. abuses terrorists there have been clashes in the evening as well where there are rebels as well as islamists geodes terrorists clashing with the syrian arab army so as i say a lot of drive to get things done and we're going to find out whether they've agreed to anything imminently it does feel as if syria needs something to come out of this meeting. of life in geneva switzerland thank you. the u.n. general assembly the ukraine sponsored resolution blaming russia for what it calls the militarization of crimea the resolution accuses russia of restricting navigation in the block and sees sixty six countries voted for the resolution one

thousand and. seventy two abstained from the vote that's nearly half of the member states moscow blasted the document as one sided saying it gives kiev a permit to scapegoat russia here the assembly session on fold it. support the general assembly calling on both states to take actions when the russian federation is the sole member state to have repeatedly and shamelessly engage in aggressive activities directed against ukraine that you know because i'm . here of his getting signals that everything is allowed to and everything will be forgiven and that all its sins and crimes will be pardoned and russia will be made a scapegoat it is yet another violation by the russian federation of the un charter and deliberate attack by the russian military forces against ukraine in the neutral waters of the black sea this is young it was optional it was said the incident

happened in neutral territorial waters but the ukrainian representative has just said a week ago that happened in ukrainian waters the essence of this issue is a common belief that states must not use force in their international relations including to acquire territory or change borders inconsistent with the un charter we underscored of the e.u. were dismayed at this use of force by russia and us alone we mean zealots we are facing a carefully thought out and well planned provocation that is continuing here in the assembly before our eyes the u.s. and some e.u. countries are playing along with ukrainian authorities confrontational course most countries are co-sponsors of this resolution now this follows an incident in which you had a ukrainian naval vessel trying to cross the current strait now when this happened at that point there were ukrainian navy boats trying to cross this courage straight

and they ignored instructions from maritime control at that point russian border guards had to intervene and detained the violators but regardless that we also have recently heard the united states promising to send more weapons to kiev and furthermore we did see another resolution voted on now the united states voted in favor of the resolution. condemning russia however they voted against a resolution put forward by russia to condemn naziism in fact the united states and ukraine were the only two countries to vote against that resolution opposing nazis so pretty clear differences in the international community displayed in the debate and passing of resolutions today at the un general assembly while moscow sees the move is part of russian campaign while legal analysts we spoke to believes u.n. resolutions are all about blocs allies and political games. not only are we seeing a lot of animosity and feelings coming up but we're also seeing

a lot of political moves as you can see with some of these other resolutions that seem to be kind of general blanket statements that universally would be rejected that would just go against just because russia passed this so we are seeing a lot of these sentiments going through and so a lot of countries abstain we're looking at when we talk about the general assembly specifically with resolutions passing we're looking at one hundred percent geo political factions here this is all a political game and it's all whose side is on him that's why the u.n. general assembly is filled with blocks allies and other things like that for the u.s. to want russia on board because the u.s. already knows u.s. allies will be on board with that the same way or russia knows that russian allies will be on board an arab snow that arab allies will be on board with certain resolutions and it's a lot of the political game and what publicly should be the the position or strategy of the people in the u.n. general assembly. to central america costa rica where several hundred exiled nicaraguans have protested against their country's president done you know ortega.

and protesters are demanding that her two guests stall the repression of media and civil rights nicaraguans have fled to costa rica since the outbreak of government protests more than three hundred people killed in fear of civil unrest in september nicaragua made street protests illegal human rights watch has criticised the raids on opposition media and the closure of rights organizations in the northern neighbor of honduras is also accused of similar violations but the result tom freston how the u.s. treats the central american countries one receives punishing sanctions the other an extensive aid package it's a tale of two central american country. both plagued with somewhat similar problems

corruption violence and government crackdowns. the. rule of law has not fared so well in either country with one door us and nicaragua both sinking towards the bottom of the list ponderosa in nicaragua both exemplify a recent regional trend of suppressing the right to protest and using excessive force against demonstrators however hunder us is the only one out of the two that the us seems to have a soft side for don't just take my word for it nicaragua was one of the us is tyrannical trio the spread of tyranny follows a predictable pattern media and opposition parties are silenced the regime unleashes its militants to kidnap torture and execute dissidents but one doris well they're of valuable ally especially after they voted with the us to legitimize to

roussillon as israel's capital to people of honduras and stood with us indeed to make that decision for ourselves and decide we're we've got our embassy and that's right and we greatly appreciate not just disappeared on them but on so many. united nations now both nicaragua and honduras crackdown on anti-government protests this year but they've evoked quite different reactions from the u.s. what nicaragua does it it's a threat to the legitimacy of the current administration every does not victim of this violence and intimidation campaign further undermine its or take its legitimacy and one hundred s. cracks down on protesters after a sketchy election well that's a time for people to hold hands and sing coom by running the election. regime united states to egypt. if you. want to become inclusive

we find success but that's words now what about the money the u.s. is shoveling military and economic aid honduras is way sixty eight million tax dollars worth and at the very same time nicaragua is about to be slapped with further sanctions just last week congress passed the nneka act over the latin american countries corruption and human rights violations so two countries with very similar problems but two very different approaches. the view of those two countries has been highly. distorted by the mainstream media and by the us government united states is not concerned about human rights and democracy in fact we know that the us supports seventy three percent of the world's tator ships but uses human rights they are very. arbitrarily and selectively in order to justify its own geo political ends up of course is

a classic example where the us and ordered the supposed a dictatorship for decades and now when there was a popular all revolution by the sandinistas worked for over ten years supporting culture of terror against that country people forget about that you know and those things need to be remembered in the context of the of the situations we're talking about today. a feud between democrats and republicans over plans for a wall between the united states and mexico has led to threats of a us government shutdown donald trump last died after seeking five billion dollars for a wall to prevent illegal immigration while the democrats insist on less than two billion and a simpler border fence. anytime you hear a democrat saying that you can have good border security without it will write them off as just another politician following the party line fine for us to save

billions of dollars a year and have the same time far greater safety and control well for now it's still not clear what exactly will be built on the us mexico border. border security to the people of our country very important the wall is a big factor in border security number one we are for strong border security. speaking for myself consider the wall and moral walls can be scaled over walls can

be tunneled under the wall doesn't stop any bad things from happening it just makes it impossible for the folks on our side to see what's developing and makes it more difficult for them. the president through executive order one three seven six seven directed us to build the wall on the southwest border the wall that we're going to put in here is vance a wall that we're going to put in here you may be wondering why are we choosing the type of fence that we're choosing the bollard wall that we're going to be putting in place excuse me to safety aspects that a wall provides this type of fence be this type of ball of walls. if we don't get what we want one way or the other whether it's through you through a military through anything you want to call i will shut down the guy who can have it or not this temper tantrum that he seems to throw will not get him his wall and

it will hurt a lot of people because he will cause a shut down. investment bank goldman sachs is facing criminal charges in malaysia over the loss of billions of dollars from estate investment fund the firm say as the former government in kuala lumpur is to blame claiming it's a lie to the bank bushell investigates whether the company will now face any real consequences. the indictment states goldman sachs not only got ridiculously inflated fees of six hundred million dollars for helping start malaysia's corrupt national wealth fund were in coalition leader and what abraham says the wall street bank must be complicit in the whole affair probably the most stunning financial scandal of the decade is the failure of governance and you allow the leaders to build this one is much a bottom up and they were. complicit to the. international

financial. sector of course and instead of investing it in the nation prosecutors say the funds cash was blown on a five year spending spree from beverly hills mansions to a rare twenty two carat pink diamond seethrough grand piano gift to australian supermodel miranda kerr a quarter of a billion dollars on this three hundred foot mega yacht called the equity and bankrolling hollywood hit the wolf of wall street about oh the irony but in crimes on an industrial scale the real question is this was this legal. absent the. defendants deny the claims and goldman blames those malaysia crimes on a few rogue individuals notably goldman's then celebrated star partners in life but at the end of that six five years spending spree in twenty fourteen indictment points out goldman actually promoted him worse liason his guilty plea notes others

at the bank helped him conceal bribes what he did even quote very much in line with the culture of goldman sachs that culture thrives thanks to what's called the revolving door where goldman chiefs worldwide made law makers and regulators and vice versa to get elected donald trump railed against goldman as a villain a symbol of the corrupt us establishment but as soon as he got in he filled his team with goldman exacts like gary cohn as chief economic advisor goldman gave cone a living presence free bribe. senator elizabeth warren dubs it's a quarter of a billion dollars and comparably brought in tax breaks that earned goldman if it is the right word more than that within three months according to senate's a warrant carrie cohen picks out the sacks full of money goes into government and rewrites the tax laws marriages to cram it through and pointed called once again show savvy investor u.s. senate has railed at goldman selling ordinary american products they knew would

fail them betting on their failure practices that contributed to the two thousand and eight world economic crash then treasury secretary hank paulson nevertheless handed goldman a ten billion dollar bailout paulson just happened to have been yes you guessed it goldman sachs chief the evidence shows that goldman repeatedly put its own interests and profits ahead of the interests of its clients and our communities when the system finally collapsed under the weight of those toxic mortgages goldman profited from the collapse using a fictitious exchange rate in two thousand and one gold magically disappeared greece's debt so it could cheat its way into the e.u. the bank is said to have trials at an eye watering three hundred million dollar fee in fact greece's debt actually rose and was handed to its citizens suffering to this day the great trick was arranged by this man who infamously said the bank is doing god's work promoted to goldman boss blankfein reportedly met privately with

the disgraced merchant at the head of goldman malaysia malays whole scandal is now spawned a best selling board game clip hopefully to goldman sachs is one of these high level finance capital companies in the us that is very close knit group close to the leaders of power on both sides of the political aisle if they can get away with what they get away united states they can certainly get away with it elsewhere what's going on in malaysia is just the tip of the nice bird schoolyard everywhere they just haven't been caught. in the other places it's criminal is the biggest criminal why what color criminal love event i think. over the last century maybe even greater we are on the verge of a of another crisis here financial crisis that will make the last one pill in comparison and the goldman sachs and people and businesses like them are at the center of the cause of this the news continues this choose the n ninety seconds.

elysia all movement is going. bankers are now rightfully see. the enemy call stop. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to

shape out these days attitude. and engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again a judge in the u.k. has blocked the deportation of a convicted rapist after he confirmed it to christianity known only as am the man originally from iran was granted u.k. residency in two thousand and nine for five years however after he was jailed for raping a seventeen year old girl the british government said he was a threat to society and should be deported that was three years ago and after looking through his hundreds of twitter posts quoting the bible christian theology

an appeals court ruled that he was at risk of persecution if returned to iraq. in only the circumstances i am satisfied that the appellant has established that there is a real risk that only his return he would be questioned about the details of his asylum claim even though the judge admitted he thought the man's religious conversion was an attempt to avoid deportation he still funded likely his human rights would be breached we got the opinion of kate betts the former chief executive of the immigration advisory service and david coburn a member of the european parliament for scotland. what we are applying is a british act of parliament which had got to the european convention but you are not only in the european you eleven on human rights act if we start discriminating against people for reasons of their faith or their sexual propensity or whatever then we are on very serious crimes britain should be setting an example around the

world of actually maintaining the rights of individuals and once we start slipping from that we fall into the error of many other countries which are far less liberal and that's a very serious decline in civilization now those countries those sovereign nations beat their own decisions and i don't think it's for you to tell them what to do i deplore what they're very but it's their decision now as regards a criminal who comes here and commits a heinous crime of rape quite frankly he has no right to stay in this country and should be removed and we should make it very clear and i would remove us from that particular act so that we can make our own decisions about keeping people in the country or having them removed for as i'm concerned once he'd serve to sectors which he didn't serve by the way it was a part of it is feet wouldn't touch the ground the the fundamental human rights

apply universally their plight or everybody and just because you don't like particular people or because they've committed certain crimes you can start to distinguish otherwise you end up like the nazis in germany and i don't want to live in that kind of society. it's been revealed her to death threats against the two year old daughter of a german turkish lawyer last august prompted an investigation into police in frankfurt authorities in the german city suspect that a right wing extremist cell is operating within the forces ranks that probe has not . reportedly spread to other forces in the region a letter was sent by fox and was supposedly signed by being national socialist undergrown a german neo nazi terrorist group uncovered in twenty eleven the n.s.u. is responsible for ten murders mostly of immigrants the lawyer says it's quite usual for her to get threats but this time it was different i receive up to fifty

written threats or insults on every day and usually i don't care but this time they mentioned my daughter by name and knew her age and my address was also in the fax my personal data is not publicly accessible it can only be obtained by the authorities or this is. a german lawyer of turkish origin who represents the victims of far right by lynch she was involved in a five year long trial of an n.s.u. member who was sentenced to life in prison for multiple murders in july this year the threats started soon after that well according to local media investigators have already found evidence that an officer search for information on the laura with a any real reason to do so the initial probe discovered that a group of officers have exchanged nothe c. symbols and remarks in chop rooms five of them have now been suspended the case has

sparked outrage whoever shows right wing extremist ideas propagate xenophobia threats and riposte of violence and uses police instruments for exactions has no business in our police which is firmly grounded in the constitution radicals have no business with the police and they must not be given a pass otherwise the chance of the police enjoying our country will be destroyed when m.p. from germany's left party believes the investigation should be checking all government bodies in the country. there are probably a ride where you can sell in what is a frontrunner. and this is very worrying i don't see that right we are missing as all of you coming from who are also there are always. those tapes of those structures. as one of the true traitor to the right wing ideology i think the government should do more about is not cover up or the issue was and real

investigation are all indications that state structures are as a lot of. there's a lot of cover up of for the issues lie from moscow this is r.t. international stay with us because we're back watching the hawks in moments. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population

sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. instance and this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easy. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you than. just manufacture consent sixteen tough.