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on the media and civil rights groups. the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country. neighboring. global security in the balance. if washington goes ahead with. around the clock across the world. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story the fates of syria. being trashed aren't

in geneva a meeting hosted by the un special syria envoy stuff on to mr a top diplomats from russia iran turkey are attempting to put together a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution which would then hopefully pave the way for elections in the war torn country our senior correspondent rutgers day of reports now from the swiss city 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 all amend certain parts of the to provide for an all inclusive pan 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 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 zooms at stablished in syria we've seen deescalation and ceasefire guaranteed by these three countries the turkish foreign minister though did remark that they've had very little cooperation 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 a new priorities very clear and that isn't getting rid of asset 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 me

for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that the government is ready to compromise a notion are created yet another horror 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 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 islamist jihadist terrorists clashing with the syrian arab army so as i say a lot of drive to get things done. or we got the thoughts of security and political analyst he is of the view that washington is shifting priorities for syria because the situation is out of the. this shows a weakness on several fronts and therefore the united states is repositioning itself the united states doesn't wish to really move the i said lee she. actually

puts all the conditions that it needs to have a fundamental change in the policy of syria and that fundamental change i think. i don't think it's possible at this point nor did they would have to they would have to take what's there on the table mr mr james jeffrey thing he's also in his words between the lines you can see a threat he's saying that the assad regime did not win the war yet well. what does he mean by that does he mean that the united states is ready to reengage by supporting terrorist organizations and by creating chaos in syria and trying again on this failed and destructive kind of a move towards i'm not sure but he's not in a position to make any conditions. let's turn attention to costa rica where several hundred exile nicaraguans have protested against their country's president.

the protesters are demanding that ortega start the repression of media and civil rights since the nicaraguans have fled to costa rica since the outbreak of anti-government protests more than three hundred people have been killed in a year of civil unrest in september nicaragua made street protests illegal human rights watch has criticized the raids on the opposition media and the closure of rights organizations. meanwhile nicaragua's neighbor to the north and tourists is also accused of similar violations but there is a contrast in how the u.s. treats the two central american countries one receives punishing sanctions the other extensive aid package. it's a tale of two central american countries both plagued with somewhat similar problems corruption violence and government crackdowns.

and. the rule of law has not fared so well in either country with nicaragua both sinking towards the bottom of the list honduras and nicaragua both exemplify a recent regional trend of suppressing the right to protest and using excessive force against demonstrators however one hundred s. 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 salant the regime unleashes its militants to kidnap torture and execute dissidents but one duress well they're of valuable ally especially after they voted with the us to legitimize to roussillon as israel's capital to. people of hundred and stood with us in being

able to make that decision for ourselves and decide we're we want our embassy and that's right and so we greatly appreciate not just the support on that 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 take its legitimacy and one hundred doors cracks down on protesters after a sketchy election well that's a time for people to hold hands and sing whom by coming off of the elections. in. the united states think it's very important that the people come together we start to become inclusive and we find success in hundreds 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 geopolitical ends up of course is

a classic example where the us and or to the supposed dictatorship for decades and now when there was a popular or revolution by the sandinistas really worked for over ten years supporting counter terror against their country people forget about that you know and those things need to be remembered in the context of the of the situation 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 u.s. government shutdown that will trump blush died after seeking five billion dollars for a wall to prevent illegal immigration while the democrats insist on less than two billion on the simpler border fence anytime you hear a democrat saying that you can have good border security without a wall write them off as just another politician following the party line time for us to save billions of dollars

a year and have at the same time far greater safety and control. likely 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 a wall in the southwest border the wall that we're going to put in here is 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 or 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't 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 shutdown. as promised earlier return to our top story in the mutual efforts of iran turkey and syria to creates a syrian constitutional committee there speaking in geneva as you can see at russia's foreign minister has just begun speaking on the wrap up of the meeting that's listening. thank you very much for your approach. but not tends to happen from time to time we just crossed over sergey lavrov wrapping up just speaking really on the. on what came out of that meeting in geneva as i said the heads of the foreign ministries of iran at russia and turkey coming together to trying to get some fulfilling on lasting settlement so that i lections can take place the constitution was to be written they want to iron we will try and

go back to the foreign minister see what he had to say we'll get some snippets some cuts from his speech to be very interesting what comes out of that as we approach the end of stuff mr at the u.n. special envoy to syria at the end of his term after four four and a half years to see what comes out of that ok moving on for the. investment bank goldman sachs is facing criminal charges in malaysia over the loss of billions of dollars from a state investment fund while a financial services giant seized a former government in kuala lumpur is to blame claiming it light to the bank bushell investigates whether the company will face any consequences and if they do last thing will be. 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 i mean you allow. this one is much a bottom up and they're. complicit in the. international financial. sector course and then 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 see through a 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. absolutely the.

defendants deny the claims and goldman blames those malaysia crimes on a few rogue individuals notably goldman's then celebrated star partner in life now 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 conan a living presence pre bribe. senator elizabeth warren dubs it's a quarter of a billion dollars carrie cohen picks out these sacks full of money goes into

government and rewrites the tax laws marriages to cram it through and pointed called once again and show savvy investor us in its israel that 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 very 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 white white collar criminal 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 in people and businesses like them are at the center of the cause of this is world security in the balance president putin slums the us where threats to leave a major nuclear weapons treaty we've got the details i'm reaction to all that's coming up. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. as you lazy all movement is going all bankers are now all right please

see. the enemy call stop. seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out the attic. and engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. twenty minutes past six pm here in moscow welcome back president putin has custody at the u.s. for threatening to pull out of

a crucial nuclear weapons treaty saying it could unbalance world security washington announced its potential withdrawal from the cold war era intermediate range nuclear forces treaty back in october the comments from a lot of near putin came during a speech to russian defense officials. so you were in this was the way it is you in your social sort of community or the u.s. leave the i.n.f. nuclear missile treaty could have serious negative consequences is weakening regional and global safety it could collapse the whole architecture of arms control and the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction because. putin has focused a lot on this deal and his position has remained unchanged the united states pulling out of it unilaterally will do a lot of harm and no good really and in fact i should say this correlates with what many other nations have been saying as world because see back in the day when this deal was signed between the united states and then the soviet union essentially and

did the arms race so the world could breathe freely for once and nowadays its main purpose is viewed as this crucial tool of deterrence as this tool of containment of not allowing this called war this arms race to restart this is why we've heard so much concern coming out of europe just a few months ago when the united states only announced their intentions to pull out of the deal because after all europe would then find itself between a rock and a hard place the united states and russia well putin also says that in fact the united states intentions to pull out of the deal are well based on a false pretext of a listen. look. as a reason for the unilateral withdrawal from the i.m.f. the us use the familiar trivial way unsubstantiated accusations of russia violating its obligations under the treaty or the us already violated it themselves and did it

a long time ago another reason why washington wants out of the deal is because it binds only the united states and russia and so as washington puts it other nations all other nations in the world are free to pursue their military ambitions and goals. but according to blood i'm a putin this is hardly a problem. because he doesn't see an issue with inviting other nations to join the deal instead of killing a good document instead of killing a good treaty that works but right now of course it looks like that washington is on its way out and sort of courting to glad i'm a putin russia in that case will have no other choice but to respond to respond swiftly he said that if that moscow won't spend much time developing countermeasures for whatever the united states will have in store for russia then but the deal is a deal that aside it wasn't the only thing of course that lattimer putin talked about in front of all of those generals he once again reiterated the importance of combating terrorism in syria he also said that developing

a nuclear capabilities of russia's military will remain a top priority has well as such things as developing military technology and unmanned warfare capabilities that is in store that is planned this is prioritized for twenty nineteen but all of that russia's president has stressed is only as a deterrent so that is a defensive and not an offensive plan. it's been revealed that a 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 force's ranks the probe reportedly spread to other forces in the region well the lever was sent by fux and was supposedly signed by the national socialist underground german neo nazi

terrorist group on covered 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 every day and usually at 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 well so does say is a german lawyer of turkish origin who represents victims of far right violence 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 about an officer search for information on the floor without having any reason to do so the initial probe discovered that

a group of officers had exchanged nazi symbols remarks in shot rooms five of them have been suspended the case sparked outrage whoever shows right wing extremist ideas propagate xenophobia threats and repulsive violence and uses police instruments for these actions 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 trust the police enjoy in our country will be destroyed and is there more to this than this one incident while an m.p. from germany's left party believes the investigation should be checking all government bodies in the country. there was probably a right. front. i don't see that right for ms i was only coming from there always.

struck. as one of the troops really did. i do a good job i think the government should do more of this stuff should be not cover up all the issues and really investigation are all indications that. there's a lot of. there's a lot of cover up on the issues. ok to update on the story we've been watching throughout the day a sixteen thousand ton russian cargo ship has been rescued off the scythe coast of england the operation included a helicopter tug boats to assist the vessel the eighteen crew members on board a cruise minute run aground in the early hours of choose the morning prompting the coast guard to take action it's reported a dragging anchor and strong winds put the ship off course and into shore but in

the last there what half hour or so and we heard that it's a bit as high tide the ship is now back re floating so i could end to end to a long day for all involved there in the south coast of england it's. all right time to go watch the hawks again in moments and then do join me again for the latest global news updates in thirty minutes live from moscow this is r.t. international. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it

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