one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. the kremlin reveals that it's laying the groundwork for possible talks between the team a putin and america's top diplomat. european commission president scoops as leader of the year awards and confesses he made a mistake by not interfering in the q. case one hundred sixty referendum. and russia mourns the victims of sunday's plane crash in moscow killed forty one people including a twelve year old go. from

in a team in the moscow newsroom international my name's colin bright welcome to news update this out first for that i had lined news meeting face to face the u.s. secretary of state might bump 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 in a cost of a house more on a possible step forward in the u.s. russia relations. i'm eating 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 city of saatchi 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 in finland 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 advocates 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. the root is a russian national transport on story we is a coastal state acting in full compliance with international law all 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. and we heard from the director of the oxford crisis research institute who told us that the u.s. doesn't actually stand to benefit much from the control the sea over the arctic route. 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 or it could be that the americans are saying well it'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. key outcomes but not for everyone's eyes apparently the united states state department is published and then quickly deleted a report allegedly detailing washington's pressure tactics to bring down the venezuelan president nicolas maduro the document 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 more than three billion dollars worth of venezuelan assets frozen and oil production cut drastically and the u.s.

government allegedly highlights announcing himself as interim president as a key outcome but the publication did apparently suggest that the united states a move 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 the trump administration 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 job 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 we asked the u.s. state department to comment on their deleted report we've not heard anything back as yet but we have spoken to max blumenthal he's investigated journalist and editor of gray zone dot com which is the web site the publish the deleted report in full. really reveals the pride in the state department and 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 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 tain 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. he used most powerful officials on 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 he was booked well 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 a sward meant they've clearly done a good job booked not everybody was pleased to see received this gong the exit newspaper in the united kingdom the sun well they poked light at this award 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.

young cool step down as european commission president but the first there's a lot to go on between now and then he certainly ruffled a fair few feathers on the brakes it 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 in the european union hadn't gotten 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. a political risk analyst klinsmann morality told me earlier that many will be unhappy with remarks about meddling in brics it. the key word that some people may take on bridge to is interfering i think they all have an agreement with their common beforehand that they were stateside and that the u.k. take care of its own of this hoping that you know the truth will come out of the end of fortune that wasn't the case and now he's coming up with these words perhaps you know as regret as you mention but it's ok you can do about that his legacy will be determined by what happens with briggs said he saw his team maintaining a solid position throughout this last time and he's made his decision very clear he's representing the you and a position so that now it's up to the u.k. to get their act together to really come up with something that is agreeable by all sides i think. this is our take up next the u.s.

admiral who is getting tough on the government for apparently going soft on russia . ts khalid al hunt international memorial awards twenty nine seat are now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you're a freelance journalist to work for alternative media or part of a global news club participate send us your published works and video or written to go to war dot dot com and enter now.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. a retired american admiral thinks the u.s. has been too soft on russia for its alleged interference in his country's affairs and an opinion piece for time magazine's website he calls for the ramping up of pressure on moscow including banning russians from traveling to the u.s. the u.s. should also consider sanctions on public entities sports teams international symphonies academic institutions diplomatic delegations we can impose travel

restrictions more broadly on russian citizens who seek to come to the united states for any purpose or we could reduce our willingness to cooperate in other russian initiatives globally from reconstruction in syria to price support for oil prices. bit of background on james stavridis he retired from the navy in twenty thirty eight after thirty seven years of service he served as the supremes allied commander of nato forces the second highest military position within that alliance back in twenty seventeen though following donald trump's decision to indefinitely suspend the resettlement of syrian refugees to frieda's had a totally different view on excluding people based on their nationality or do not agree with decisions that simply close off any migration here from a particular nation no matter the situation or background of the individual plying for a visa or refugee status. ok let's bring in comedian and political commentator jimi dog host of the jimmy dog show welcome back to our let's talk about the three this is a position that it seems to have changed over the years doesn't it from opposing bans

on immigration to syrians now openly suggesting travel restrictions on russians what's with his change of heart do you think. well what i think it's what's obvious is that he's he's wrapping up a cold war because he works for the carlyle group which makes a lot of money off of the cold war and so that's why he don't don't look for consistency and someone who's opinion is bought and paid for so that's what this is all about you know this whole russia gate is this is why i warn people who consider themselves on the left in the united states from pushing russia gate because it's going to be used to ramp up a cold war it's got it's been used as expand the security state inside the united states to use the security state's control over social media so the reason why this keeps going is because even though the moeller report came out and he said there was no collusion or conspiracy between the drum campaign and russia to influence

the election and the reason why this keeps going is because it serves so many different interests one is people like the carlyle group who he's a mouthpiece for they make a lot of money off of the budget that we're spending or we're spending seven hundred fifteen billion dollars a year on our military which is a two hundred billion dollar increase since the height of the iraq war we never had a debate about this there was never no there is no town hall meetings about this this just happens because our government has been captured by corporations if you want to see the people who are really influencing our elections well it would be the corporate state in the united states right so we don't have a democracy here anymore we actually live in an oligarch a that's been proven through studies at princeton university everybody ignores it why because the people who are supposed to be telling us about it are the news media and they are bought and funded by the same people so it's one big capitalist gangbang in the united states and that's why you can never get the truth and that's why

a clown like this guy writes an article like that in time magazine time magazine by the way was the former editor. said that the government of the united states is. doing propaganda on its own people is a good thing so the corporate media in the united states has been totally discredited through russia gate but now they're just doing that thing where they hop on another horse and just keep writing it as hard as they can so that's why you're seeing articles like this that's why you see him being so wildly inconsistent it's because these are actual opinions about security of the united states or who's meddling in our elections we know it's meddling in our elections this is about ripping up the security state this is about another cold war this is about trillions of dollars to me how much impact this going to have time magazine it's a venerable publication no and also though for its very critical line towards moscow saying that has had mr putin on the cover many many times how much weight you think this piece is really going to carry especially with policymakers. you know they live in i can't really tell you that i mean i i i'm surprised that this kind of

stuff gets floated all the time i'm surprised there's a new cold war over just a few years ago the united states was doing what they called a russian reset and everybody was investing in russian everybody or our friend again and so it whenever this serves a powerful interest in the united states they'll just ramp this back up so what will this article have a big influence it may what's crazy is that this is even being talked about you know if you want to see a country that tries to meddle in the policymaking of the united states there was a there was a prime minister of a foreign country who came and gave a speech in front of congress because he was opposing the president of the united states' policy that was benjamin netanyahu that was israel and nobody ever said a word about that if you want to talk about a government that's trying to meddle in the united states politics it would be israel not russia there's been no shortage of voices especially at the top table and capitol hill calling for more strict to sanctions on the banks energy companies

so people high up in government why would stuff readers want to punish ordinary russians he named athletes artists academics you know and again did you just try to overreach try to go for as much as you can you try to scare the people so what did that what that article was doing was just fear mongering i mean that's basically and it's xenophobia and right now it's ok to be xenophobia gk. it's ok to be xenophobia against russia. it's just if you look like for instance if you just just instituted a different nationality if you said mexicans were he puts russians in that article people would be screaming about it so. yeah he went over the top that's what this guy does he's paid to scare people so they can make trillions of dollars off investing in the war machine in the united states ok thanks for your thoughts on that comedian amp and as a commentator said to me joe thanks for your time. great thank you. ok next to the

news we first brought you just over an hour ago a school shooting is being reported in a suburb of denver in the u.s. state of colorado now believe that at least seven people were injured in the gunfire no fatalities have been reported though as yet the school is reportedly attended by more than eighteen hundred fifty students and police have arrested two people in a searching for a possible third if forces are evacuating the school although some students are apparently still inside the local sheriff's office describes the situation as unstable other schools in the area have been placed on lockdown. russia is mourning the forty one people who lost their lives after an aeroflot flight crash landed in moscow on sunday one of the victims was twenty two year old flight attendant maxine most of many of hailed a hero for sacrificing himself in order to get others to safety maxime's mother has spoken to our video agency about the moment she found out the tragic news. you know it to me because i know i found out from my husband he called me and said that it

was all over the t.v. and internet that a plane had caught fire we immediately matt and went to look for much steam and hospital and we went around all the hospitals but he wasn't anywhere. and the aeroflot so hory superjet got into difficulties shortly after taking off and was forced to return to moscow sheremetyevo airport the plane had to run my heart burst into flames as it bounced along the tarmac it was quickly consumed by the fire many of those who died were from amounts to much more western russian city that the flight was bound for many of the thirty seven survivors have spoken about their ordeal and placed the flight attendant for saving their lives. in the middle of. that means that. i do not dream which began in our school we lost it up until that day.

will always see at the end and them was a very responsible and goal oriented person who was always ready to take it see that's exactly what you showed on that day. to little nuggets he was expected to be at the front of the plane but he switched places with the stewardess perhaps he expected something bad would happen if you took the heat himself. he stayed inside the aircraft to push the surviving people along the way to move around he was inhaling smoke and then lost consciousness. considering you always smile own ways he wanted conflict he was the kindest person he is looking out for the photo but he can't say a word and i constantly being

a team. i'm actually my mother told us her son's heroic actions were not out of character. stolidly game i mean he'd already saved one person a man was drowned in crimea he was choking was only fifteen but he dragged him to shore that he didn't consider it a big deal it was just a thing you have to do he always thought the people should help others do good deeds he didn't offend anyone he was spoke to people with respect he was simply kind to people. he always did everything that he'd have enough money so the family would have enough that none of us needed anything. else but there were six but new years even now i just don't believe he's not here i just don't believe it. every second i think he'll come home soon he'll be with us. next overcounts the

stories of some of the other people who lost their lives on sunday. this is. a businesswoman and single mother she was returning from a business trip back to more months back to her ten year old son she was raising on her own somewhere in the same boarding queue with well being are you guinea 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 they tiana welcomed beano you've guinea sophia and all of the 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 this seats belts fastened the sukhoi superjet 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 ball to widening the plane and a brand like mean 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 line 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 axes fuel there's no definitive answer why but the most likely theory so far is the didn't

want to risk circling around a bus. aerial hub with only sporadic contact with the ground so weighty the 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 up out she literally shoves out of the door herself i'm alive only thinks 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 by ti-anna i helped a total of thirty seven people survive the mayhem. you've gainey and so fear were not among them. aboard the boat to be found the. senior once a 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 tatiana 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 entered by the forty one she couldn't help. or that's all from the moscow newsroom for this hour sean thomas has your next r.t. world news after we've learned about tackling the planet's plastic problem the company that sells four thousand bottles per se can. but.

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