in the week's top stories here in r.t. russia is still reeling from a plane crash killing 41 people when a passenger jet burst into flames on making an emergency landing at a moscow airport. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart might be grapple with the crisis in venezuela with follow up talks expected in russia in 2 days' time and iran partially suspends the 25th day

nuclear agreements and gives the signature east secret 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington reiterates its threat to hit companies working with iran with financial penalties and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies were bringing some of the highlights. good morning welcome you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international. now russia is mourning for the 41 people killed in last sunday's playing tragedy moscow sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing.

to be out. of the plane took off at around 6 pm local time was banned for the northwestern russian city of man's just under 20 minutes later though the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to share a mess of 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 that banged along the tarmac but it was quickly consumed by the fire which claimed the lives of dozens of people who were trapped inside 78 people were on board the plane at the time of the crash more than half of the victims were from

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door so that passengers escape has been hailed to iraq video agency ruptly interviewed his mother he still can't believe that her son will never return. ready saved one person a man was drawn in crimea he was chanting. 15 but he tried to shore it 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 to put them to see 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. the plane's flight data

and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered an investigation is underway the wreckage of the plane has been removed for forensic examination investigators are looking into 3 possible causes of the tragedy a pilot error system malfunction and also bad weather. now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o held talks on the crisis in venezuela on the sidelines of an arctic council meeting in finland it comes are from the alleged coup attempt was thwarted in the latin american country who is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on may the 14th to continue the discussion among the issues addressed during the finland talks was the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela. has more on the story. 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 moscow watching. 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 barrows 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. consent to do this and we tried not to concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because there's been the fact is going many factors that you don't have anything to do was real to

exist we concentrated on the politics in a sense to seclude it from my contacts with the us american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved to reaction immediately 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 worst case scenario just listen to what they are for. 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 i don't know if the u.s. prefers the military part we are ready to resist to have an army police or when 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 fly out of our pool 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 around announced it would no longer own or all of its commitments under the historic 2015 nuclear agreement that came precisely one year after the u.s. you know that really pulled out of the deal something that's hit the rounds economy hard and heightened international tensions with iran is now threatening to keep it access enrich uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad terrans also given the pack signature he's siemens to ensure they are upholding their side of the deal or it will regime production of more highly enriched uranium the move met with a 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 that sought 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 say actually 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 iran to be him like a normal nation. state unfortunately this is typical of our american colleagues during my meeting with u.s. secretary of state my company or instrument on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than you should dress when it comes to challenging situations. we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break that deal. nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement there are no sanctions

today from europe because iran has so far all respected the commitments all artists rick sanchez discussed iran's threat to restart the nuclear program with mohammad marandi at the university of tyranny 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. that's why i think the intelligence agencies knew exactly what was happening and i think that they knew quite well that the nuclear program was

peaceful 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 union of many. people in iran is not to limit the nuclear program but according to what we see. coming from bolton and i'm pale 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. to come in a week before you russia the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday and the end of the war on the eastern front we'll have a look at the pictures from that just after the break.

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. first 6. again i russia marks the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday and the end of the war on the eastern front is 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 run out of beer for your real reason you don't know or 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.

victory day does hold a special place here in russia doing gene to the incredibly high price paid by the people of the soviet union $26000000.00 died in the conflicts more than half of them were civilians not men almost every soviet family lost somebody. one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict and in fact throughout history took place in southern russia installing grad in what is now full grad lasted for 200 days between 198-1943 cos the red army. over 1000000 130000 soldiers germany's losses brief and higher on losing the battle the nazi leadership declared a day of national mourning many historians see the battle of stalingrad is a watershed moments and one that dramatically altered the course of the war even now during reminders of the trauma inflicted by the war. i was silly collaborates diggin the last one left i've been injured and will not last

long. but i will stay here i will die when i refused to give in to the enemy tell my wife that i was defending the mother. was i will win no matter what. was the eventual comrade's. was.

another news clashes have broken out in several french cities between yellow vests protesters in the police in what is the 26th consecutive weekend of demonstrations across the country. i. noticed just. meanwhile the rally in paris this aspect of course in the rain in many could be seen carrying on brothers to the government says. fewer than 20000 people turned out across the country which would make this weekend the weakest turnout since the

beginning of the movement protesting the process to organize this however that a few 7002. 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 according to the latest polls and it seems to me that much of the media and democratic leadership are throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did to you for hillary clinton. as more of the story 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 have a republican 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 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 general election even just who answers polls he's 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. joe biden 2020 has already engaged in of what the media like e someone and telling everyone there the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with the ellery clinton does not say you know any way obvious mean that that is a candidate who is going to win the election and that is how the weekend is looking at so fast that i hear not a good at the company but back again at the top of the. one

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