most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. 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 from mike pompei or grappled with the crisis in venezuela with the follow up talks expected in russia's sochi in 2 days. plus iran partially suspend the $2015.00 nuclear agreement and gives the signatories to it 60 days to

shield the country from u.s. sanctions that as washington reiterate 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 we'll bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. if you're watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour . 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.

to get on. the plane took off at 6 pm local time and was bound for the northwestern russian city of more months just under 20 minutes later the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to share much of a witness is later said the aircraft had been struck by lightning at half past 7 it made an emergency landing but hit the runway hard arcing into flames as it bounced along the tarmac now it was quickly consumed by the fire which claimed the lives of dozens of people trapped inside $78.00 people were on board at the time of the crash more than half of the victims were from the more months krege and hear some of their stories.

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a hero our video agency ruptly interviewed his mother who still cannot believe that her son will never return home. he'd already saved one pass and a man was drawn 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 with respect he was simply kind to people. he was did everything that he'd have enough money so the family would have enough x. that none of us needed anything. else because they had to see what meters 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 the

wreckage of the plane has been removed for forensic examination and investigators are looking at really possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunctions and bad weather. i. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart secretary of state mike pompei oh have held talks on the crisis and venezuela it happened on the sidelines of a meeting of the arctic council in finland and comes after an alleged coup attempt was thwarted in the lot an american country is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on may the 14th to continue the discussion among the issues addressed during the following talks was the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela. reports on how they went. the number 1 diplomats 3 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. 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 incentives from my contacts with the u.s.

american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose this move 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 their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday don't put it but oh but what good is you know we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and then give the u.s. prefers the military we're ready to resist to have an army police people and we're 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 why do our finally touch on this president donald trump has spoken to president fly out of our pollutant 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 announced it would no longer honor all of its commitments under the

historic $2015.00 nuclear agreement it came precisely one year after the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the deal something that's hit tehran's economy hard and international tensions iran is now threatening to keep access enrich uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad tehran has also given the pact signatories 2 months to ensure they are upholding their side of the deal or will resume 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 u.s. to redouble and ratchet up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap wolf. 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 then at this up there should actually take place what we've been trying to do is to get around to behave 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 like . we 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. we are to is rick sanchez discuss iran's threat to restart its nuclear program with mohammad marandi

of the university of tehran who helps negotiate 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 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 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 to what we see. coming from bolton and 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. still to come on the weekly russia marks the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday that story and more after the break. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted

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welcome back to the weekly 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. the for. the 1st. it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere it's it's charged electric is intense but that the super rich excitement excitement just released during the break itself. you hold that. you run with.

nothing unites this country more then the war it's all right jim it marched every time i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop its endless. victory day hold a special place here and russia to the incredibly high price paid by the people of the soviet union over $26000000.00 died in the conflict more than half of them civilians but almost every soviet family that lost someone. one of the most of the same chapters in the history of the great patriotic war was that of the siege of leningrad began on the 8th of september 1941 when nothing forces

surrounded the city severing the last roads in and out and a true testament to human resilience the presence of want to face with crippling hunger and heavy bombardment never faltered and the resistance. that's the way out of my program is what you do at the creator's heart to assure. them that it's all them all was the put it that was in your heart was kept but it probably was but it's about them. well fascistic time for. dinner cooked as this in the but i was even made to believe they were in the fifty's and should need to go through with it i think this would be for you in the part of the there's an interest in the music for us is so much of a local hospital to me just live in the study it's a. huge .

push the world as you said. motioning the values of little. joe biden who was us vice president under barack obama is already ahead of the pack in the contest for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination that's according to the latest polls and it seems much of the media and democratic leadership are

throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did with hillary clinton him up and has 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 low 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. joe biden 2020 has already engaged in of what the media like someone telling everyone they're the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with you know every clinton does not

any way obvious mean that that is the candidate who's going to win the election. facebook has provoked another storm of controversy this time by banning an australian breast cancer campaign that claims it was violating its rules on nudity . is that. the ads featured topless survivors of breast cancer they're covering themselves with cupcakes the campaign was launched by the breast cancer network australia 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 had previously approved the advertisements. we were so disappointed to hear that facebook had found that very brave women and men who all had breast cancer we're told that they were probably too real into confronting to be able to have 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 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 said that while she personally i love the idea the ads didn't follow the platforms guidelines the policy does allow for the posting a post to me photos for ordinary users but for advertisers rules are stricter here's how twitter users have been reacting to what happened violated the class

policy facebook seriously but this is ok this is not to return facebook naked garden indeed takes precedence over a fundraiser for cancer survivors and sufferers only illustrates the true agenda of the facebook mission statement so when a group use the facebook forum for a good cause they jump and it's been shifted down we spoke to human rights attorney jennifer britton she thinks that facebook needs to avoid selectively enforcing its rules. facebook right now say that it has a consistent policy if you just look at the language of its policy but it is not consistent and how it in forces its policy is targeting in campaigns like this with breast cancer research or awareness but it's also targeting different political groups in certain things so it needs to look at how it targets so that it chooses to enforce its ban under because there are many people who have far more explicit ads that are not banned we're seeing that america has a silence prominent conservative voices were seen that is they silence other things

other ads and they target these people they target those that they want to silence that differ with them politically or socioeconomically and that is not ok we need to have consistency and we need to have platforms that allow the freedom of speech to come out rather than silencing the freedom of speech and using it under the guise of violating policies. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest and up to the remit minute report for us on twitter or facebook as always thanks for tuning it. is easy folks go through a period of sort of the i suppose it's just 1st but if. you're doing what you know

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