in the week's top stories investigations continue into a plane crash in russia that killed 41 people airliner burst into flames whilst making an emergency landing in moscow. the top diplomats from russia and the u.s. put their heads together and attempt to find a way forward over the crisis in venezuela are set to meet again on tuesday. buzzing around partially suspends the $2015.00 nuclear agreement and gives it

signatories 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions it comes as washington reaffirms its threat just penalties on any companies that continue to work with tehran. and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies we'll bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. this is the weekly here on r.t. international welcome to our round up of the headlines that shape the week. investigations are continuing into what caused this last sunday's plane tragedy and moscow leaving 41 people dead the airliner burst into flames while making an emergency landing at sherman to the airport in the capital just to warn you the following clip contains some disturbing images.

to get out. the plane took off just after 6 pm local time and was heading for the city of mormons in northwest russia just under 20 minutes later the pilots alerted air traffic control they were turning to share mehta witnesses later said the aircraft had been struck by lightning at half past 6 it made 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 the plane 78 people were on board at the time of the crash more than half of the

victims were from the more months krege and here are some of their stories. to show the truth. is very nice atrocious those words to you for you. to miss good use to be. if you produce the really experts you.

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been hailed a hero after trying to open the rare exit door to let passengers a scape before driving them towards the front exit our video agency roughly interviewed his mother who still cannot believe her son will never return home. silence of the game i mean she'd already saved one pass and a man was drowning 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 spoke to people with respect he was simply kind to people on the radio he was did everything that he'd have enough money so that 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 are being analyzed the wreckage of the plane has been removed for forensic examination investigators are looking into 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunctions and bad weather. i. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state mike pump of hell talks on the crisis and then as well it happened on the sidelines of an arctic council meeting in finland and comes after an alleged coup attempt was thwarted in the latin american country. is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on may 14th to continue the discussion among the issues addressed during the finland talks was the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela. reports. 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 well but. well 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. comes into the saloon we tried not to concentrate on those stations which are publicly discussed because there's been the fact is going many factors that you don't have anything to do was real supposed to

exist we concentrated on the real 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 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 ale 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 but oh but what good is you know. already for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and the u.s. prefers the military we're ready to resist to have an army police awareness people and we're ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful witness 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 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 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 hit to iran'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 it will resume production of more highly enriched uranium the movement with a mixed reaction from europe and a new round of sanctions from washington d.c. . 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 ratcheting 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's 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 president has a wide range of options and they've made this up there should actually take place what we've been trying to do is to get iran to behave like a normal nation. state unfortunately this is typical of our american colleagues during my meeting with u.s. secretary of state might seem and 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 leave in the agreement there are new sanctions today from europe because iran has so far only resource back to the commitments

whole week artie's rick sanchez discuss iran's threat to restart its nuclear program with mohammad marandi of the university of tehran who 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 iran. 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 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 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. still to come on the weekly russian mark the 74th anniversary of the. nazi germany surrender on thursday that story and more after this short break.

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by the way ways of the flying here. 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. it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere here it's it's charge electric is intense but this super rich excitement up excitement just released during the break itself. you hold the

rope you run with. your real. you don't know you shows you where you can see you screw through. nothing unites this country more then the wall it's all right human march every time i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's and this. victory day holds a special place here in russia due to the incredibly high price paid by the people of the soviet union or $26000000.00 died in the conflict more than half of them

were civilians men that practically every family that lost someone. one of the most devastating chapters in the history of the great patriotic war it was the siege of leningrad it began on the 8th of september 941 when nazi forces surrounded the city severing routes in and out and a true testament of human resilience the presence of leningrad faced with crippling hunger and heavy bombardment. never faltered and the resistance. dressed in white on the ground is what you want to create a shadow sure. we have used that is on the wall was the bit that was in your eye was cut the tip of the was but it's about one quarter well fascistic on for. dinner but that is just in the bit already made to the leader in the fifties and should need to go through that i keep you supported for even the photo because i'm sure the music for us is so much of a local hospital to me just sort of the slowly. moving

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joe biden vice president under barack obama is leading the pack in the contest for the $2020.00 democratic presidential nomination that's according to the latest polls and it seems that much of the media and democratic leadership are throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did with hillary clinton help often 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 web for him and 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 also 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 and telling everyone they're the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with the other eclipse it does not you know anyway obvious mean that that is a candidate who's going to win an election. facebook has provoked another storm of controversy this time by banning an australian breast cancer advertising campaign for violating its rules on nudity. is there. everybody. the ads featuring topless survivors of breast cancer are there covering themselves with small cakes 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 dollars the chief executive of breast cancer network australia says that facebook 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 i would have on facebook particularly in that 40 plus age group use facebook to tell their friends and family of things that are important today so facebook has many wouldn't we have been trying to get in contact with facebook and still we have only heard through the maybe or 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 says that while she personally love the idea the ads didn't follow platform guidelines

a policy that does allow for the posting of post message to me photos by ordinary people but for advertisers or as are stricter here's healthy spoke users have been reacting. violated the platforms needed to policy facebook seriously but this is ok this is not to root for facebook naked garden indeed takes precedence over a fundraiser for a cancer survivors and sufferers this 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 bree she thinks that the band points water concerns with the social media giant 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 are seeing that america is 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 socio economically 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 thanks for tuning in.

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