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. also to come russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart grapple with the crisis in venezuela with follow up talks expected in russia. in 2 days' time and iran partially suspend the 2050 nuclear

agreements and gives the signatories to its 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington research threat to hit in you companies working with iran with financial penalties. and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies we'll bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. good morning welcome just gone 10 o'clock here in moscow it's the latest developments and a look back to what's been happening over the last 7 days you're 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.

all the way to be out. of the playing took office 6 pm local time was bound for the northwestern russian city of mans just under 20 minutes later though the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to share a metaverse witnesses later said that the 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 it was quickly consumed by the fire which claimed the lives of dozens of people trapped inside in fact 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 it's those lawyers who do for you too much good reduce emissions. if you produce good reviews but if you.

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teach us. flight attendant might seem more safe here he died trying to open the rear exit door so that passengers escape has been hailed a hero video agency ruptly hints of youth his mother he still cannot believe that a son will never return. stolidly. ready saved one person a man was drowned in crimea he was chanting. only 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 here we spoke to people with respect he 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 it will come home soon he'll be with us all the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered and an investigation is underway the wreckage 2 of the plane seen here 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 u.s. secretary of state might pompei i held talks on the crisis in venezuela on the sidelines of the arctic council meeting in finland it comes after an alleged killer attempt was thwarted in the latin american country is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on may the 14th to continue the discussion well among the issues addressed during the finland talks was the possibility of u.s.

military action in venezuela you prefer and care ports now on how they were. the number one diplomats of america in russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that mop. and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well off 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 to salute 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 the real politics in a sense from my contacts with the us american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved to 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. the worst case scenario just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday no sort o. put it but oh well we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and if the u.s. prefers the military path we are ready to resist we have an army police were on 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 has spoken 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. this week iran and would no longer own or all of its commitments under the historic 2050 nuclear agreement it came precisely one year after the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the deal something that's hit surrounds economy hard and heightened international tensions well iran is now threatening to keep access enrich uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad saran is also given the pact signatories 2 months to ensure they are upholding their side of the deal 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 a run 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 computer instrument on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than you should address when it comes to challenging situations.

we the iranians to think very long and hard before they break that deal. nothing could be worse than iran leaving the agreement and there are no sanctions today from europe because iran has so far all research back to the commitments. rick sanchez discussed iran's threat to restart its nuclear program with management and they at the university of tehran who held negotiate the iran nuclear deal. even insiders here in washington with think tanks representing organizations like the 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 so. 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. gave 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 that 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 a court. from what we see. coming from bolton and i'm paying 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. you're watching the weekly here not international still to come for you this hour russia marks the 74th anniversary if nazi germany surrender on thursday and the end of the war on the eastern front we'll have a look at some pictures from that place of the stories to tell you just. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think.

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and the end of the war on the eastern front here's a look back at the commemorations. it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere here it's it's charged electric is intense but that the super rich excitement up excitement just released during the parade itself. you hold. your run of beer for your rio are. no do. i. know nothing nice 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. does hold a special place here in russia to the you credit pretty 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 sylvia family lost somebody. this year to mark the 9th of may he decided to launch a special project called les is think in this part of that all colleagues have been telling their relatives stories through the nights and their families that they

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have broken out in several french cities between yellow vest protests example a similar it is the 26th consecutive weekend of demonstrations across the country. i. heard of using the procedures all. the. while the rally in paris there are this saturday got caught in the rain and many could be seen carrying on brothers to the government says fewer than $20000.00 people turned out across the country which would make this weekend the weakest night since the beginning of the movement protest organizers they do claim that

over 37 percent took pops. joe biden he was the u.s. vice president under the obama administration is already ahead of the pack in the contest for the 2020 democrat presidential nomination that's according to the latest polls and it seems that much of the media to you and democratic leadership are throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did also for hillary clinton. reports. 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 c 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 and this is. the guy who doesn't hate

republicans like you see some of the folks on the website you meant for joe biden is that he's the most electable candidate for democrats to beat donald trump i think joe biden is a 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 and

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 esau what ellie never iwan there the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with the other eclipse it does not say you know any way obvious mean that that is the candidate who is going to win the election. and you've been watching the weekly here not international thanks me company this morning we're back again at the top there.

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