her consent another prince holds according to no i'm trying. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the. truth will switch rule is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. and the stories that shape the way karen r.t. 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 at russia's soft cheek in 2 days' time and around partially suspends the 25th the new clear agreements and gives the seat in the trees to 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington reiterate zits threat to hit the companies working there and the financial penalty and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and also ceremonies we're bringing you some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. and i welcome good afternoon just gone 1 o'clock here in moscow you watch in the weekly here on r.t. international. now russia is mourning the 41 people killed in last sunday's playing

tragedy at moscow's sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing. all the way to out. of it. where the plane took off at 6 pm local time was bound for the northwestern russian city of manske just under 20 minutes later though the pilots alerted air traffic control that they were returning to sheremeta 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 who were trapped in the side 78 people were on board at the time more than half of the victims were from the region manske is some of their stories. so she was very much. a very nice which you should suppose what is true for you if you wish to reduce the scope. if you both of those still really explode if you.

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the room with steve. thank you for the usually. what you say to give to each of us. flight attendant might seem oh say if he died trying to open the rear exit door to let passengers escapes been hailed a hero video agency ruptly interviewed his mother he still can't believe that her son will never return. bonds us dollars a game he'd already saved one person a man was drowned in crimea he was choking maxime was only 15 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 always 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 x. that none of us needed anything. else but they were sick but in years even now i

just don't believe he's not here i just don't believe it. every 2nd i think he'll come home soon he'll be with us. the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered and an investigation is underway at the wreckage of the plane has been removed for forensic examination investigators still looking at 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunctions and also bad weather. now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state might have held talks on the crisis in venezuela it happened on the sidelines of a meeting of the arctic council in finland and comes to you after alleged 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 is referred to as more. the number one diplomats of america and russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that moscow 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 barrows statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of cool said

intervening militarily when you start a loose. on some truths and 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 u.s. late an 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 aoe 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 the. fact still 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 their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday no sort of put it but oh we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace if the u.s. prefers the military part we're 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 with dural and the self-proclaimed president why do so 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 i'm see it 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 hit to iran's economy hard and also heightened international tensions with iran is now threatening to keep excess enriched uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them broad to iran has also given the pack signature in his team members to be sure they are upholding their side of the deal or will resume production production of hot 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

it in a superior 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 u.s. to redouble and ratchet up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap wolf. we have continued to say that 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 in there about 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. 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 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 their commitments all week well our rick sanchez discussed the rounds threats restart its nuclear program with mohammad marandi of the university of toronto helped 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 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 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 was even talk about trying to make iran as a nation collapse all together so to come on the weekly here on r.t. russia marks the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday and the end

of the war on the eastern front we'll have a look back at that just after the break. 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 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. one else seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become educated and gain from it equals

betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again now russia marks 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 the commemorations.

it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere here it's it's charged electric is intense but yet this super rich excitement up excitement just released during the parade itself. you hold the. beer for your rio. i. think knights this country more then the war it's all right jim it march every time i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's and.

the victory day does how the special place here in russia cheated the incredibly high price paid by the paper of the soviet union $26000000.00 died in the conflicts more than half of them were civilians and that meant that almost every soviet family lost somebody but one of the bloodiest battles of the conflicts and in fact throughout history too took place in southern russia and styling in what is now folded grab it lasted for 200 days between 942-1943 cost the red army i will 1000000 130000 soldiers. germany's losses refin higher on the losing battle the nazi leadership declared a day of national mourning many historians see the battle of stalingrad as a watershed moment and one that dramatically altered the course of the war even now

harrowing reminders of the trauma inflicted by the war are emerging. riseley 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 motherland. we will win no matter what.

the venture comrades. was. joe biden he was the u.s. vice president under the obama administration is already ahead of the pack in a contest for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination that's 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 too with hillary 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's the best choice for the democrats and this is a guy who doesn't have

a republican but 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 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. by 2020 years already. but they're me l y. l we know everyone there the leading candidate as they did offer well we with your eclipse it does not you know anyway obvious mean that that disappeared it was going but we don't all work. facebook has provoked another storm of controversy this time by banning in australia breast cancer campaign that it claims is violating its rules on nudity. everybody wants. the ads feature topless survivors of breast cancer they are

covering themselves with small cakes though the campaign was launched by the breast cancer network astray or together with the bakers delight chain last year it raised more than half a $1000000.00 the c.e.o. of breast cancer network australia said that facebook has previously approved the advertisement. we were so disappointed to hear that facebook had found that our very brave women and men who all had breast cancer were told that they were probably too real in 2 confronting to be able to have paid on facebook particularly in that 40 plus age group use facebook to tell their friends and family of things that are important to them so facebook has been important we have a plane trying to get in contact with facebook and still we have only heard through the made here in fact here in australia that they sent to us we needed to add educational messages this was very new news to us the only thing that we knew is

that all the ads were allowed to happen but then again the day that we launched facebook said these ads were no longer permissible a spokesperson for facebook australia has said that while she personally love the idea didn't follow the platforms guidelines the policy does allow for the posting of post msec to me photos for ordinary users of ties as rules are stricter here's how twitter users have been reacting to what happened. violated the platforms needed to policy facebook seriously but this is ok this is not to return facebook naked gardening day takes precedence over a fundraiser for a cancer survivors and sufferers this only illustrates the true agenda of the facebook mission statements so when a group use the facebook forum for a good cause they jump and it's been shifted down. you've been watching the weekly here not a thanks for your company a softer name but back again with more news at the top.

during the great depression which all must remember there was most of my family were working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively and day but there was an expectation the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solidarity engineer elections manufacture consent another prince holds

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hello and welcome to worlds apart where the book sells millions of copies and dozens of languages that 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 a joined by bestselling the region all 3 you know it's great to talk to thank you very much for being available and 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 show together a country with a prolific and very dark. list as yourselves do you have an answer to that.

no not really. sure. if your nationality. is that important i think we more than do or the extent i think we share a coach references cultural even cultural background because culture has become such an important part of well i would cultural. so you know i. i remember when i was travelling when i was around 19 i would spend all my money going to. and south america and i would meet people that it was actually a bit hard to communicate with. because we didn't shared through references i find nowadays it's meeting young people anywhere in the world we have read the same books listen to the same music see in the same movies 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 books i so you know very so. i actually think because i write it's local people are getting humor is. riders it 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 in and just trust that they will read the subtext i mean if you if you if you drop in on any conversation you who you will. quickly get what it's about you may even be the cutest by.