in the week's top stories russia is still reeling from a plane crash killing 41 people when a passenger jet burst into flames while making an emergency landing at a moscow airport. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart grapple with the crisis in venezuela the follow up talks expected in saw cheat in 2 days' time and iran's ashley suspends the 2015 nuclear

agreements and gives the signatories to 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington research threat to hit a new companies working with iran with financial penalties. and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies will bring you some of the highlights. hello there good morning the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now russia is mourning the 41 people killed in last sunday's plane tragedy at moscow's sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing. i.

am. going to be out. on the plane took off at 6 pm local time was bound for the northwestern russian city of moments just under 20 minutes later though the pilots alerted air traffic control that they were returning to share a matter of up witnesses later said that he aircraft had been struck by lightning at half past 7 it made an emergency landing but hit the runway hard bursting into flames as it bounced along the tarmac was quickly consumed by the fire which claimed the lives of dozens of people who were trapped inside 78 people were on

board at the time of the crash more than half of the victims were from the manske region here's some of their stories. so she was very much. a very nice which you should suppose what you do for you. to reduce emissions. if you produce to reuse but if you.

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flight attendant maxine must say of here he died trying to open the rear exit door to let passengers escape is being hailed a hero video agency corruptly interviewed his mother he still can't believe that a son will never return. stolidly. ready saved one person a man was drowned in crimea he was choking. and 15 but he dragged him to shore 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 we spoke to people to respect us it was simply kind to people on. huey's did everything that he has enough money so the family would have enough x. that none of us needed anything. else but there were 6 britney spears even now i just don't believe he's not here i just don't believe that. every

2nd i think there will come home soon he'll be with us for the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered in an investigation is underway the wreckage here of the plane has been removed for forensic examination investigators are looking at 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and also bad weather. now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and here as secretary of state mike pompei were held talks on the crisis in venezuela on the sidelines of the arctic council meeting in finland it comes after an alleged attempt was thwarted in the latin american country is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on march the 14th to continue the discussion but among the issues addressed during the fillin talks was the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela. porks reports now and how they went.

with. the number one diplomats of america in russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least sought. chance that moscow and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well of well it's like the pale didn't speak to journalists at all after this here in finland but when. i talked to the media he thought it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about mike poem barrow's statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of cool sam intervening militarily when his father loose. comes into the saloon we tried not to

concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was real politics we concentrated on real politics incentives from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved a reaction and media at the after this i asked the russian foreign minister if that included american diplomats and to that he simply answered yes but the real question right now is though whether that is really the case because many times we've heard from the most high ranking officials in america the phrase all options are on the table including the military one and when secretary of state pump air was heading to europe the journalists were reporting that on the plane he said that nicolas maduro can no longer be in charge of this country he believes he is

simply not able to do that even though he is de facto the leader of the country and i can tell you that the government in venezuela understands that they could end up having to brace. for the worse case scenario just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday no sort of put it but oh well we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace if the u.s. prefers the military path we are ready to resist we have an army police our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government at any cost dural and the self-proclaimed president one quite go are finally in touch on this president donald trump house spokesman to president vladimir putin the top diplomats have met but it is unclear whether that would still lead to

a peaceful resolution of this longstanding venezuelan crisis. now this week iran and would no longer own or all of its commitments under the historic 2050 nuclear agreement became resized one year after the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the deal something this hit to iran's economy hard and heightened international tensions around is now threatening to keep access enrich uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad terrans also given the pack signatories to members to be sure they are holding their side of the deal or it will resume production of more highly enriched uranium the move met with mixed reaction from europe and a new round of sanctions from washington. the united states wanted to pull out of the g c p a way in order to make iran withdraw from the deal the day after so the us would be

able to refer the case to the un security council to ease the burden on the shoulders of the us to redouble and ratchet up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap. we have continued to see every that leads us to believe that there is escalation that may be taking place and so we're taking all the appropriate actions both from a security perspective and well as. our ability to make sure that the present has a wide range of options and they made this up there should actually take place what we've been trying to do is to get around to be him like a normal nation. unfortunately this is typical of our american colleagues during my meeting with u.s. secretary of state my company or in finland on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than issues threats when it comes to challenging situations. we urged the iranians to think very long and hard before they break that deal.

today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement so there are no sanctions today from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments we will artie's rick sanchez discussed iran's threat to restart its nuclear program with mohammad marandi at the university of tehran who helped negotiate the iran nuclear deal. even insiders here in washington with think tanks representing organizations like carnegie endowment are now saying the troubled ministration is being quote deliberately provocative but we ask the question tonight is iran acting in a manner deserving of u.s. and israeli condemnation or are both countries simply trying to provoke busy the iranians into a war much like our invasion of iraq some are criticizing the 1st question why is

president rouhani threatening to restart the iranian your rating and richmond program. well i think it's pretty obvious the iranians negotiated the nuclear deal after many years of negotiations and the iranians made. significant concessions they were flexible in order to show the international community that its nuclear program never was anything but peaceful and that iran contrary to what we constantly heard in the western media was not looking to create tension i'm going to back you up on this actually 14 reports by the international nuclear energy agency 14 are confirming that iran has not violated the agreement at is not building a nuclear program why didn't the obama administration the trumpet ministration or the netanyahu administration buy that why did they believe it why do they say

differently. and i think the intelligence agencies knew exactly what was happening and i think that they knew quite well that the nuclear program was peaceful and they knew that for example the so-called law that your viewers may or may not remember was a fabrication that was created by israeli intelligence people at the not at the top knew this. but the belief is that the problem with iran was not simply the nuclear program the united states government and the political establishment really never forgave iran after the revolution and the fact that iran chose an independent foreign policy but right now what trump is after in the opinion of many people in iran is not to limit the nuclear program but according from what we see from coming from bolton and peo it is basically to not just overthrow the political

establishment but there is even talk about trying to make iran as a nation collapse all together. so to come for you here on the way to russia the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday the end of the war on the eastern front we'll have a look at the pictures from of the stories to just off. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for

watching closely watching the hawks. when we all make this manufactured consensus public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room the real news is really. alive again i russia marked the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday and the end of the war on the eastern front here's

a look back at some of the commemorations. it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere here it's it's jaj electric is intense but that the super rich excitement up excitement just released during the parade itself. you hold the world through your run with. your rio. now or do. i. thing night this country more

then the war it's all right jim it every time i see this i just don't understand where the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's and this. victory day does hold a special place here in russia gita the incredibly high price paid by the people of the soviet union over $26000000.00 died in the conflicts more than half of them were civilians not meant that almost every soviet family lost somebody. but one of the most devastating chapters in the history of the great part. of the siege of leningrad began in the 8th of september $941.00 when nazi forces

surrounded the city severing the last routes in and out in a true testament to human resilience the residents of leningrad faced with crippling hunger and heavy bombardment never faltered in their resistance. that's the way of never going to work a clear struggle sure i'm going to be. the engine of this although i was the 5th i was in europe i was cut budget by the us but it's about the office has kicked on for. was. in a book that is just in the but it was even made to me though i mean if these images need to go through with that idea this would be for the even the part of the there's an interest in their music or their losses switchable goldbach must have ultimate just in the slightly it's. fun to play. you play.

it'll. teach. me. to feel. comfortable. to. push through all of these so. well actually a better use up of them. now the news the balkan nation of albania has been rocked by a mass protest in the cap for tirana this saturday opposition parties they're staging an anti-government rally against what they call widespread corruption.

was. well activists they're also demonstrating against organized crime and the geishas the government denies there's a heavy security presence at the scene which has seen sporadic fire. as opposition figures could be heard chanting anti-government slogans from a makeshift podium in the cracked. joe biden he was the us vice president under the obama administration is already ahead of the pack in the contest for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination that's according to the latest poll and it does seem to that much of the media and

democratic leadership are throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did head to be clinton. as more a new poll shows that joe biden has surged ahead in the race for the democratic nomination in 2020 the poll shows that 46 percent of democrats are backing joe biden as the potential nominee with only 14 percent backing bernie sanders and despite a lot of other polls telling a very different story the media has jumped on this one voices are now telling us why he is the best choice for the democrats this is a guy who doesn't hate republicans like you see some of the folks on our website you mean for joe biden is that he's the most electable candidate for democrats to beat donald trump i think joe biden is our best chance of success does this sudden coronation remind you of anything. hillary clinton is the best candidate democrats can put forward a take on donald trump voters in wisconsin think hillary clinton is the best candidate hillary clinton is the best candidate the media tells us that joe biden

is the most experienced candidate furthermore it stresses the point that biden is a centrist he's actually kind of a centrist which is one of the reasons why i think republicans fear him more than the other hillary clinton is not threatened in terms of the nomination because she is a pretty moderate centrist democrat and in fact biden's 1st campaign fundraiser happened at the home of the exact same guy his name is david cohen he's the chief lobbyist for the media conglomerate known as comcast now both biden and clinton voted for the iraq war both biden and clinton have lots of wall street donors and both biden and clinton screamed to lock him up in the 1990 s. driving america's incarceration rate sky high trumps a victory in the 26th election was interpreted largely as a rebuke of a failing political establishment now hillary clinton's husband got some interesting advice years ago my wife gave me a psychology book several months ago in which the author defined insanity is doing

the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result perhaps it's time to revisit that book polls are often a reflection of media coverage and the corporate media in the united states love suman gives him lots of coverage and that can give him support in polls and they often poll likely democratic voters which is not the same thing as who actually ends up voting in a generalization even just who answers polls is not the same thing as who votes clinton she was the most experienced and the most right wing of the democrats the media loves turbot he didn't mean she could get elected in fact the polls were overwhelmingly clear time and time again b.d. of appreciate them if there are massive purchases of advertise. yes joe biden 2020 has already engaged in of what the media like someone and telling everyone they're the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with hillary clinton does not say

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raise. their. mona welcome to worlds apart where the book sells millions of copies and dozens of languages it must have picked up on something that's both current and eternal

cultural specific and universal that's a huge challenge to all wants but how does one do it with every book for here is a noun to discuss that i'm now joined by bestselling the region all 3. it's great to talk to thank you very much for being available thank you now. i've never heard anyone question why would russia produce for the state of scale why would an american produce mark twain but i know i know a lot of book lovers who are puzzled by why norway is such a safe side put together a country with a prolific and very dark crime novelist as yourself do you have an answer to that. no not really. sure. if your nationality is. is that important i think we more of them do or the extent i think we share a cultural references cultural even cultural background because culture has become

such an important part of well i would cultural so you know i remember when i was travelling when i was wrong 19 i would spend all my money going to. and south america and i would meet people that it was hard to communicate with. because we didn't shared through references i find nowadays getting young people anywhere in the world we have read the same books listen to the same music since yes but your books i think are also very in the region i mean there are lots of. at least your graphical references you write them about your own community and i think any great book is in some way a reflection on the writer's personality his national and cultural experience why do you think your book says so you know 1st so. i actually think because i write it's local people getting humor is. writers who doesn't necessarily come from their

own country i trust my readers trust through imagination and intelligence so so i can just focus on writing about all slow about the people i know about the things that i'm interested and just trust that they will. read the subtext i mean if you if you if you drop in any conversation you who you will. quickly get what it's about you may even be the cutest bubble to talk involved so in we do feel in the blank spaces that. distance now is that it's now i heard you say that the your how they're perfectly cloudless in their region child will arrive before your father revealed the biggest drama of his life he.