just become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. a positive step for the syrian peace process as top diplomats from russia or iran and turkey agree and work on constitutional changes for syria's future we'll tell you all about it coming up also.

rises of a nicaraguan president daniel ortega is cracking down on the major civil rights groups look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country but then turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring home during. one of the first journalists reporting the alleged trumped russia collusion now says the main claims made in the infamous still quote likely false and quote. evening eight pm choose to the eighteenth of december life martin to nationals news h.q. here in moscow is kevin there with you for the next thirty minutes company first in the news from us tonight seems this positive agreement on the fate of syria has been thrashed out in switzerland geneva at a meeting earlier hosted by the un special syria stephan de mistura top diplomats from russia iran and turkey have agreed to launch a committee for drafting

a new constitution early next year. of a very useful meeting was the secretary general special envoy agreed to efforts aimed at convening the first session of the constitutional community ingenue in the next year steps will lead to the launch of a viable and lasting syrian led syrian and un facilitate the political process in their closing statement the three foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey that they presented the positive results of their consultations on the formation of a syrian constitutional committee to either rewrite the syrian constitution or to amend it in order to allow for a wider pad syrian election presidential election part of a political resolution to this war that has raged on for so many years the ministers themselves from what we saw were smiling and laughing afterwards they

described their work as again positive and they have committed to seeing the syrian constitutional committee sit for its first session early next year early two thousand and nineteen we hoop of course to be able to do this because this trio that have been working together for several years now russia iran and turkey they've been able to produce results you need concrete results we've seen cease fires in syria established with their backing we've seen withdrawals other deals deescalation demilitarized zone is established over syria so there's a lot of optimism going forward that they'll be able to get the rebels the opposition and the syrian government to work together early on the turkish foreign minister though did remark that they had seen very little cooperation from the united states and the coalition that it leads the united states itself has shared

its goals has publicly stated that its aims. with regards to syria have shifted that it no longer sees unseating president bashar al assad or regime change in syria as a goal we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave we're asking for is a compromise settlement there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to get money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that their government is ready to compromise on us in our create yet another horror in the years ahead nevertheless the situation in syria remains volatile especially now with turkey threatening to intervene to invade northern syria out of security concerns as they see the white e.g. syrian kurds that control much of northern syria as a terrorist organization and they have threatened to act we're also seeing sporadic fighting in egypt with the jihad ists joined by rebels there and the syrian arab

army clashing from time to time so there is certainly motivation to get things done . focus next night on costa rica where several hundred exiled nicaraguans have been protesting against their country's president daniel ortega. the protests is demanding that our take a stop the repression of media and civil rights thousands of nicaraguans of fled to costa rica since the outbreak of anti-government protests more than three hundred people have been killed in half a year of civil unrest in september nicaragua made street protests illegal with bear in mind so human rights watch has criticized the raids on opposition media and the closure of rights organizations need to nicaragua's northern neighbor honduras is also accused of similar violations but this seems to be a big contrast in how the u.s.

treats the two central american countries one receives punishing sanctions the other intensive aid package. it's a tale of two central american countries 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 silent 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. to make that decision 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 doors cracks down on protesters after a sketchy election well that's a time for people to hold hands and sing whom by coming of the election.

the united states to it's very important that if you do come together we start to become inclusive and 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. that we're one of those two countries has been highly. distorted by the mainstream media by the u.s. government the united states is not concerned about human rights and democracy in

fact we know that the u.s. supports seventy three percent of the world's tator ships but uses human rights. arbitrarily and selectively in order to justify its own geopolitical ends up of course is a classic example where the us ordered the supposed dictatorship for decades and now when there was a popular or revolution by the sandinistas who worked for over ten years supporting culture terror against their 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. latest next a growing feud between democrats republicans in the states over plans for that war between the usa and mexico well that's led to threats of u.s. government shutdown donald trump lashed out after seeking five billion dollars for about wall to prevent illegal immigration or the democrats insist on less than two billion on a 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 so for those still it's still not clear exactly what's going to be built on the us mexico border that . 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 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 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 a 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 shutdown. continue to follow it next with him a potence castigated the u.s. for threatening to pull out of a crucial nuclear weapons treaty so you could balance world security washington announced its potential withdrawal from that cold war era intermediate range nuclear forces treaty in october the comments now from the russian leader come during a speech to the country's defense officials. so you were in this was a wide shot of. the u.s. leaving the i.m.f. a nuclear missile treaty could have serious negative consequences some weakening regional and global safety it could collapse the whole architecture of arms control

and the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. 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 well based on a false pretext of alyson. 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 in a putin this is hardly a probe. and 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 so according to glad i'm

a putin russia in that case will have no other choice but to respond and to respond swiftly he has said that. the school 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 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 as a defensive and not an offensive plan. it goes down to a full report of. the most good time thanks for watching one of your children around the world lot more to come including a death threat to

a toddler that sparked investigation into right wing groups and the german police interesting story ahead mongst others when we come back. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to be like to be close it's like the four korean people. interested in the logs. international not just for the break it's been revealed that a death threat against the two year old daughter of a german turkish lawyer last august prompted an investigation into police in frankfurt. heartsease in the german city suspect that a right wing extremist cell is operating within the forces ranks the probe has no

reportedly spread to other forces in the region to tell a bit more about this this letter was sent by fax and was supposedly signed by the national socialist underground a german neo nazi terrorist group uncovered in twenty eleven originally the ennis use responsible for ten murders mostly of immigrants the lawyer now says it's quite unusual for her to get threats but this time she says it was different i receive up to fifty written threats or insults 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 while the name is said this is she she is german lawyers or so turkish origin who represents the victims of violence she was involved in a five year long trial of an n s u member who was sentenced to life in prison in the end for multiple murders that happened in july this year the threats then soon

started afterwards in fact according to local media investigators already found evidence that an officer searched for information on the lawyer without having any reason to do so at all the mishal progress cover that a group of officers exchanged nazi symbols and remarks in chat rooms five of them have now been suspended the case is sparked outrage whoever shows right wing extremist i do propagate xenophobia threats and repulsive 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 trust the police enjoy in our country will be destroyed. so now an m.p. from germany's left party believes investigation should be checking all government bodies in the country. there was probably a right with. what he saw from truck. because i don't think that's right we were missing was only coming from. there are always parked off.

structures. as one of the streets rated a right wing i do a good job i think the government should do more of this should be no cover up on the issue and real investigation are all indications. are us about it. and there's a lot of cover up for the issues well one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trump russia dossier been talking next michael isikoff has said that it contains numerous claims that a likely folds and that interview is drawing praise from the us president michael isikoff was the first to report dorsey air allegations and now seriously doubts the dossier claims the whole russian collusion thing was a hoax but who is going to restore the good name of so many people whose reputations have been destroyed. but in use this is really put trunk as the

correspondent across this some stunning allegations in the dossier but now we're hearing maybe they're not true anywhere in any way is where is the proof this is the journalist that came up with this report the first place was out there sometimes it only takes one spark one report from one journalist or a handful of them from a big media outlet to really send the media world into overdrive one of the example was when this yahoo investigative reporter michael isikoff came out with this bombshell on the infamous steel dossier that was a big one as you remember the p. tape was in it and also all kinds of proof of the alleged russian collusion now this is what mr easy call of says in december twenty. when you actually get into the details of the steel dossier the specific allegations we have not seen the evidence to support them and in fact there's good

grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely false. so this is something we find out almost two years after the dossier came out but back in january two thousand and seven hours and hours of work mostly about the steel memos to tell everyone about this and also it is thanks to the dossier for one that the f.b.i. secured themselves a warrant to spy on one of donald trump's advisors and really you live in a breeze in this stuff every day as we all are in news organizations it's enough to make an average viewer as head spin the been so many details so many reports so many allegations that remind us what was in this initial report two years ago with some of the headlines that were in it there were various claims that could have been seen as proof of collusion most notably the dossier alleged that donald trump's former attorney michael cohen traveled physically to prague to coordinate

all this trump russia scheming that was allegedly done and as i said pete tate was in it that was perhaps the most bizarre claim about the possibility that the russian security services could have blackmailed donald trump with a recording of his of his darling. that we're hearing about yes two years ago now of course so donald trump another twist to this now is saying actually hillary clinton that was behind this. in the first place what was been said about what donald trump is saying he's only oh right yeah you don't know donald trump said the twitter but yeah originally the bombshell statement was actually made by the author of the dossier himself while he was taking questions in court christopher steele said i'm here i'm going to quote party such as the democratic national committee and also an organization known as hillary for america considers steps they would be

legally entitled to take the challenge the story to challenge the validity of the outcome of the election which basically means that. maybe the dossier wasn't paid for hillary clinton herself but at least the d.n.c. or other organizations affiliate to it only again to find some sort of legal ground to challenge the outcome of the election. all right speed on. the coming hours as well thank you for trying carol correspond on not one of us but it so far this always. kept in the loop on the breaking stories we got for you as they happen to know the from moscow as kevin zero in saying thanks for watching international.

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