the meeting with. the kremlin reveals that it's laying the groundwork for possible talks between putin and america's top diplomat. european commission president leader of the year awards and confesses he made a mistake by not interfering in the q. case twenty six the referendum. russia mourns the victims of sunday's plane crash in moscow which killed forty one people including a twelve year old girl.

good evening from moscow is to say a thing as an eleven here in the russian capital money welcome to world news from us this hour first off for you meeting face to face the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o could be set for talks with russian president vladimir putin that's according to the kremlin spokesman who says it could happen in the next few weeks but he has more on a possible step forward in u.s. russia relations. i meeting between the russian president and the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo may happen as early as this month in may washington's top diplomat plans to meet with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the resort. and now the kremlin says a parallel meeting with the president could take place there too now this will be pumped first visit to russia as the u.s. secretary of state lavrov did however just to meet with him at the arctic summit and fenlon sound that the meeting showed that the two countries are still struggling to find common ground on

a range of issues not only on van as well but the use of the arctic as well concerned about russia's claim over the international waters of the northern sea route including its newly announced plans to connect it with china's maritime so gross. in the northern sea route moscow already illegally demands other nations request permission to pass the u.s. secretary of state also added that partly in response to russia's so-called destabilizing activities they are hosting military exercises and rebuilding their eyes braker fleet now moscow believes that there are no grounds for any conflicts and the arctic region and also adds that it remains open for international cooperation. to move the sea route is a russian national transport on story we as a coastal state acting in full compliance with international law are responsible for the safe operation over this route just as canadians are responsible for the

functioning of the northwest passage. and the past several months diplomacy seems to still prevail in the relations between the two countries both sides were seen in contact more often than usual with the u.s. and the russian president recent telephone conversation that lasted over an hour an example of that so it does seem that the timing for the u.s. secretary of state to visit at least follows this new trend as moscow and washington continue to be at loggerheads over a number of global issues we heard from the director of the oxford crisis research institute who told us the u.s. doesn't actually stand to benefit much from the controversy over the arctic river. i find it difficult to see why my point has made such a big issue of this octave group question because it seems to me that potentially creates more trouble than it benefits the united states after all it's unlikely that it's going to change either the climate changes which make this route open

more likely to be open and also the chinese russian policy it could be a bargaining chip it could be that the americans are saying let's throw down a gauntlet in fact we're not really so concerned so that we can say to the russians and by extension the chinese if you can see if we can see this to you you should give us some help somewhere else in a different part of the world's. most powerful officials including her has been named the european leader of the year by international news channel euro news the european business summit is perhaps not the most anticipated awards ceremony on the calendar but that hasn't stopped her from enjoying his moment as peter all of the reports. well in picking up his awards at the bash in brussels the president of the european commission was full of jokes that he was very happy to receive the water of course but that it had come so late in his career that it was almost at the point of autopsy he also went on to praise the work that the european commission had been doing under his leadership of course saying that the fact you've been

given this award meant they've clearly done a good job booked not everybody was pleased to see you receive this go on the brakes that newspaper in the united kingdom the sun well they poked lights at they so ward and also the rumor that mr young is partial to a brandy or two also the british m.p. kevin holland rake described it as an april fool's joke but he's never been a shrinking violet and he's certainly provided us with plenty of entertainment through the years especially while he's been in charge of the european commission.

claude young cool stepped down as european commission president on november the first there's a lot to go on between now and then he certainly ruffled a fair few feathers on the brakes at supporting side of the divide in the united kingdom during breaks that negotiations on tuesday he got a little bit further saying that he deeply regretted that himself and the european union hadn't got more involved in the break that referendum campaign back in two thousand and sixteen. then prime minister asked me not to interfere not to intervene in the referendum campaign it was a mistake not to intervene and not to interfere because we would have been the only

ones to destroy the lies that was circulated around i was wrong to be silent at an important moment those comments of course i'm sure will go down really well with those breaks that supporting any peace that are going to be standing in european elections they never thought they were going to have to take part in in just a few weeks time at the end of the month. ok well i've now to close my morality who's the director of the risk analysis group pangea why are political risk being one of the key focus areas for their welcome back so r.t. so flawed younker named best politician of the year despite all the crises that of the you during his tenure is it fair though his critics of him getting this award all of the issues flaws on him i mean some of them are inherited like greece. well that's a good question and as i said it's lower going to look at it he sings i think his legacy will be determined by what happens with briggs it is to maintain a salute position throughout this long time and he's made his decision very clear

he's represented the you and a position so that not up to the u.k. to get their act together to really come up with something that is agreeable by all sides. but given that the e.u. is seen by many as a beacon of democracy values by many of its supporters why is the commission president you getting this award regretting not interfering in the brics it's referendum in twenty sixteen i think that's a good point and i think the key word that some people may think are bridge too is interfering i think they had an agreement that they were coming before they were stateside and that the u.k. take care of its own of this hoping that you know the truth will come out oh yes well for sure that wasn't the case and now he's coming out with these words perhaps you know as a regret as you mention but as only you can do about that that's in the past and what we can hope for now is that you can come with some sort of united front to put to bed this is chaos it's difficult for people to stand aside from this especially

if you're in the in especially the british where mr york has been portrayed as public enemy number one the son in political circles but as you say his job after that referendum was to represent the other twenty seven would you say he's done that while not. well you need to get the consideration all twenty seven member states and it's hard to align everyone together on the one plan but as we can see so far they've managed to come with us with some sort of united voice it's strange that the u.k. being the part of the player that is you know broken the chain of the e.u. has now said we want to leave but we don't have a united voice ourselves you know it seems as if it's easy to get twenty something either as it is the one you know it came together. last year with us awarded to taken over the french president emanuel mccrone who got it this year mr yoga was exactly up against most of us feel either he was up against whether a commission is going to be next on. we have to wait and see about the against regulating of these kinds of things doesn't does no one know good what we can do go

right now is see what river fish has left as the current commissioner and whoever comes in next i think of the big big part the play big shoes that also put the bed this chaos of the braves in and also look beyond previous into how they can unify your group as a whole we see many fracturing throughout europe not only with the u.k. but also other parts of the you they need to be put together we have the balkan nations so we can to join the e.u. such as not being in kosovo and serbia so there's many issues upon for rates that the new commission need to come in and unify the countries for his role so a lot to do. politicians winning awards for doing that job is always going to split opinion isn't it depending on which side of the fanshawe what you think about what that particular politician stands for but the failures are always amplified over their achievements let's be honest and how much of these awards really should be down to what the public think of these politicians and their track record or

whether it should be they need rewarding to hold but at least getting that feedback like the rest of us do in our jobs i think rewards when that issue is something that isn't too popular i don't really look at what has awards being something that people should focus on really upping the results of what they do in the policies that they put into place should be the things that people should focus on mostly awards are arse about things that really are fun for as long as they're there but no one wins anything for them you know you win an award what else is there really you see so it's what they do during their time in office that really dictates their legs in that case the future of the areas in which they have control over as far as breaks and you is concerned i think that you has a lot to do in fixing itself and in unifying itself over many different issues not only princeton as i mentioned before so it's the policies that are going to place that really matter on the political risks that come as a result of these things that you know organizations like on. need to look at look at musician's ok for clues memorising from the risk analyst group thanks for coming

on r.t. this evening you watch. russia is mourning the forty one people who lost their lives after an aeroflot flight crash landed in moscow on sunday the national carriers a horse superjet got into difficulty shortly after taking off and was forced to return to show matthew the airport the plane hit the runway hard and burst into flames that it bounced along the tarmac was quickly consumed by the fire many of those who died were from a monthly northwestern russian city with a flight would bound for. so she was really truly. a very nice picture ships' does what you do for me to eat you wish to. use it still . if you produce theory needs but if you see. the rules to come for you can't be sure it'll. put you through something to get teach it was. my first. choice.

if this is even to the left or an order. to. survive some of the survivors have returned to my mom's to be with their families and they've been recounting the how doing details of the crash and recalling the bravery of the crew taking a flight attendant maxime or so you have as being hailed a hero he died trying to open the rear exit door in order to evacuate passengers trapped at the back of the plane. to visit the head of the. damage that i do like a dream which began in our school last it up until that day. at

the end and them she was a very responsible and goal oriented person that she was always ready to take a hit but see that's exactly what you showed on that day. on the wooden boom the credits she was expected to be at the front of the plane but she switched places with the stewardess perhaps he expected something bad would happen she took the heat himself. he stayed inside the. to push this abiding people along the way to go around who is inhaling smoke and then lost consciousness. it is very few always smiled only he would conflict he was the kindest person he is looking out for a little too but he can't see it and i constantly until. he

goes down over counts the stories of some of the other people who lost their lives on sunday. this is. a business woman and single mother she was returning from a business trip back two more months back to her ten year old son she was raising on her own somewhere in the same boarding queue will be in a huge gagne and twelve year old sofia the surgeon had been giving his daughter and escape from their gloomy northern home town to enjoy a few days in the warmth of the moscow sun now that tiana welcomed albina you've guinea sophia and all other passengers on board the flight attendant was getting ready for yet another takeoff now three minutes past six in the evening the aircraft lifted into the skies from sheremetyevo airport a few minutes later than the first seventeen minutes of the flight went smoothly passengers in the seats belts fastened the super jet ascended approaching

a storm and then everything went from ok to bad and then straight to hell literally in a flash to call from the boat to hit the plane an apparent lightning strike hits the jet now more than aircraft have safety systems to protect themselves from situations exactly like these but this time the lightning sends all communications systems on board of flying. the pilots send a distress signal make a u. turn and head back to moscow apparently they go in almost blind with limited communications they can barely get any aid from the ground they aim for an emergency landing on one of the runways but the aircraft is too heavy minutes ago we've had been filled to the brim and the pilots decided not to dump access fuel there's no definitive answer to why but the most likely theory so far is they

didn't want to risk circling around a bustling aerial hub with only sporadic contact with the ground so weighty jets wheels slam into the runway and bounce right off it another attempt and the plane crash lands its tail hits the tarmac with such force it ruptures the tanks and all that fuel instantly catches fire and as the blazing jet slides along the runway the passengers helpless. the jet finally comes to a stop and the evacuation kicks off by that moment the fire had already devoured the back and the middle emergency exits so there's only one way forward from the

nose of the jet tiana the flight attendant helps people through and down the chutes those who can walk those who can't and are passed out she literally shoves out of the door herself i'm alive only thanks to the stewardesses the girls stood there in the smoke it was dark extremely hot but they pulled people out and helped them get down the chutes now tiana helped a total of thirty seven people survive the mayhem. you've gagne and sophia were not among them. the bride to be our. senior one c. happy wife and mother in an instant is widowed and left childless for her tragedy has come calling again she had already lost a nice alina in a school shooting last year and now it's her husband and daughter and the

unconditional hero she may have survived herself but she's still to make it through the day after day after day of survivor's guilt or into it by the forty one she couldn't help. the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered and a far reaching investigation is now underway the wreckage of the plane has also been removed or forensic examination. key outcomes but not for everyone's eyes apparently the u.s. state department published and then quickly deleted the report allegedly detailing washington's pressure tactics to bring down the venezuelan president nicolas maduro the documents reportedly outlines a number of u.s. goals in a bid to topple the official government in caracas that included creating the grounds for economic ruin through sanctions with over three billion dollars worth of venezuelan assets frozen and oil production cut and the u.s.

government allegedly highlights one point zero announcing himself as interim president as a key outcome but the publication did apparently suggest that the united states aim was to get the latin american country back on its feet one outcome highlight it was bringing prosperity to the people of venezuela but that comes as a drop of ministration continues to mull over a possible military intervention in the country. what would make you use the u.s. military in venezuela it's an option we continue to say and we always will all options are on the day but all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table because they always are ok well we've asked the u.s. state department to comment on that deleted report we've had nothing yet so we'll ask my explains how instead he's the investigative journalist and editor of gray zone dot com the web site the publish the deleted report in full welcome to the program again max why do you think this document was whipped off line so quickly what the state department not want people to see. well this document was obtained by our reporter on

e of pahrump hill who right now is in the embedded reporter inside the venezuelan embassy in d.c. which is surrounded by pro crew venezuelan mobs and a kind of micro cause of the siege that this document describes and what the document details are essentially clear violations of article thirty three of the geneva conventions which is the collective punishment of an entire population i mean aside from the key outcome that it lists that you mentioned up top of basically puppets hearing the venezuelan opposition which pretty much puts to bed any sense that one guy do as an independent actor it boasts that three point two billion dollars of venezuelans overseas assets have been frozen it boasts that they us through sanctions has plummeted venezuelan oil production to seven hundred thirty six thousand barrels per day which is a massive reduction and when you consider that when these assets are blocked from

the government in means that the government can't purchase medicine or food for its own population venezuela imports most of it for food so it literally means that the state department is boasting of killing people in order to achieve a political goal of regime change the u.s. doesn't rolling out a military intervention does this document that you're saying show the getting any closer to the house. well the document definitely shows that the us is determined to exact a price on the civilian population of venezuela regardless of the political leanings of those civilians and as mark weisbrot and jeffrey sachs recently showed at a center for economic policy and research study in this really bracing report over forty thousand venezuelans already been killed by u.s. sanctions twenty seventeen to twenty eight hundred so the u.s. is using sanctions in the place of conventional war we just heard about twenty minutes ago vice president mike pence at the oil in arms industry front council on

the americas in d.c. declare once again that all options are on the table it does appear however that president donald trump is not particularly interested in the military option and neither are the joint chiefs in the pentagon. the u.s. doesn't have a head in its support of. donald trump and is in a cycle of been tweeting now from the center about to what extent what does this report really reveal. well it really reveals the pride in the state department in harming venezuela's economy and the contradiction. it contradicts the public messaging of the state department through. spokespeople like kimberly brier who tweeted several days ago that one. and his fake government is administration have delivered tangible results for the people of venezuela and she mentioned the delivery of seven thousand two hundred packets of toilet paper to venezuelan

families compare that to preventing three point two billion dollars of assets that could be used to buy food from being accessed by the government and it's just unbelievable the contradiction is extreme and that's one reason why they deleted this document that our reporter on your part until obtained only in many ways it's quite naive to think that anybody who puts anything online just deleting it seems to take it away from the public's faith given it to get hold of a copy of this report to expected to see the light of day again maybe with some corrections well that was interesting that the really sadistic. boasting that was contained in this hit list of what i would call it a hit list that was obtained by on your partner bill did not feature in mike pence's beach today at the council on the americas which is really this ministration signature speech on venezuela and they are trying to create the impression among the american public that the sanctions are only targeting the

duros inner circle but this state department document that we have attained makes it clear that they are targeting the civilian population in venezuela just as they're doing in iran and that is their clear intention to cause pain on people regardless of their political leanings to achieve a political goal of regime change ok so my people say it again but with the glee doll down a bit ok much benefit i think of journalist and editor of grey's and dot com thanks for joining us thanks for having me. but it seems his mo the american media than the u.s. government the sea intervention to be an option on the table many reports claim that leading u.s. media demonstrate a clear bias in the coverage of the crisis in venezuela has a look at the findings of the media watchdog fairness and accuracy in reporting. al .

what would make you use the u.s. military and it's well what's in it well i think you're saying that but certainly it's something that's on the it's an option and the national assembly has determined that the election of president was or missouri was illegitimate there needs to be a new the government. why

so allergic to the word coup if you look at the definition because they recognize that these words have a meaning so long as you don't say what it is you can ally about just from the media point of view don't you think one of the first question anybody should ask is by what authority do you establish or does mr why those say i have the ability to supplant this person they ask no questions i find it fascinating. that the media not known for being poor trump is salo dare i say willing to

support the position of the tribe of ministration regarding the majority of ministration being removeable so where is the balance. and we've asked a number of us media outlets for their reaction to the watchdog findings on the allegations of bias if we hear anything back from any of them we'll let you know what they say ok that is your sea world news for the next how to tackle the planet's plastic problem with a company that sells for five thousand bottles per second. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is all off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

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