in the week's top stories investigations continue into a plane crash in russia that killed 41 people air flow airliner burst into flames making an emergency landing in moscow. the top diplomats from russia and the u.s. put their heads together and then attempt to find a way forward of the crisis and that as well they are set to meet again on tuesday . around partially suspend the $2015.00 nuclear agreement and gives it signatories

60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions it comes as washington reaffirms a threat to slap penalties on any companies that continue to work with tehran. and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany but military parades and ceremonies will bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. this is the weekly here on r t international welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shaped the past week investigations are continuing into what caused last sunday's plane tragedy in moscow leaving 41 people dead there a full 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 the northwest of russia just under 20 minutes later the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to show that meant of a witnesses later said the aircraft had been struck by lightning at half past 6 it mean emergency landing but hit the runway hard bursting into flames as it bounced along the turnpike it was quickly consumed by the flames 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 here are

some of their stories. so she was very much food. is very nice atrocious those what to do for you to go to the studio and use the. if you produce t.v. news but it's you.

must. choose. this is the end of. the rule steve thank you for the usually is. what you seem to give to each of us a. flight attendant like seymour see if it was one of those who perished he's been

hailed a hero after trying to open the rear exit door to let passengers the scape before driving them toward the front exit our video agency ruptly interviewed his mother is still cannot believe her son will never return home. the stars of the game i mean she's already saved one person 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. he always did everything that he'd have enough money so the family would have enough that none of us needed anything. else because they had the city but the readers 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 and the wreckage of the plane has been removed for forensic examination investigators are looking into 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system or function and bad weather. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart secretary of state mike pump ale have held talks on the crisis and venezuela it happened on the sidelines of an arctic council meeting and finland and comes after an alleged could tempt 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 and they are trying to 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 off well like but didn't speak to journalists at all after this here in finland but when. you talk 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. intervening militarily in these photos. 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. american and european colleagues i don't see any support 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 missile to open it but oh but what good is it we are ready for an area since the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and if the u.s. prefers the military we're ready to resist we have an army police our 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 in 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 has hit economy hard and heightened international tensions iran is now threatening to keep access enriched uranium. stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad they're on has also given the pax signatories 2 months to ensure that they are up holding their side of the deal or will resume production of more highly enriched uranium the movement 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 i phone in order to make iran withdraw from the deal the day after so the u.s. 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 ratcheting up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap wolf. we have continued to see 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 around 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 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 own research back to the commitments whole art is

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 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 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. still to come on the weekly russia marks the 74 years since the surrender of nothing germany and the victory day parade in moscow alone comprised more than $13000.00 troops and dozens of armored vehicles we'll take a look at the camera commemorations after the short break. seemed

wrong. but i. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because educated and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race in his own spirit dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

welcome back russia mark 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 it's it's charged electric is intense but that the 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 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 over $26000000.00 died in the conflict one than half of them

were civilians that meant that practically every family at last someone. one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind took place installed in southern russia now known as volgograd lasted for $200.00 days between 19021943 cost the red army more than 1300000 soldiers germany's losses were even higher a losing the battle the nazi leadership even declared a day of no. the morning many historians see the black battle of stalingrad as a watershed moment as it dramatically alter the course of the war even now harrowing reminders of the trauma inflicted by the war are merging. with silly me collab each diggin and 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. eventually comrades. joe biden vice president under barack obama is leading 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 and democratic leadership are throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did with hillary clinton come off and has

more. but 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'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 mean for joe biden is that he's the most electable candidate for democrats to beat donald trump i think joe biden 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 central 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 general election 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 hillary clinton 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. this is. the ads feature top with survivors of breast cancer they're covering themselves with small cakes the campaign was launched by the breast cancer network australia together with 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 ads. 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 that 40 plus i use facebook to tell their friends and family

of things that are important today so facebook has many wouldn't have 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 said 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 didn't follow platform guidelines the policy does allow for the posting of post photos by ordinary people but for advertisers the rules are stricter here's how facebook users have been reacting. violated the platforms needed to policy facebook seriously but this is ok this is not to rude to 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 braden she thinks that the band points to wider concerns with the social media giant. facebook right now say that it has 5 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 helped shape the world these last 7 days are all the latest and up to the minute reports and to our t.v. . when lawmakers manufactured sentenced to public wells. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final

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thank you 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 such as say such or put together a country would produce a prolific and very dark crime novelist as yourself do you have an answer to that. no not really. sure. if your nationality. is that important thing that we more of them do or the extent i think we share a cultural references cultural even cultural background because culture has become such an important part of our cultural background so you know i remember when i was travelling when i was around 19 i would spend all my money going to. south america

and i would meet people that it was hard to communicate with. because we didn't shared through references i find nowadays it's getting young people anywhere in the world we have read the same books listen to the same music see the same yes but your books i think are also very in the region i mean there are lots of graphical references you write them about your own community and i think any grade book is in some way a reflection on the writer's personality his national and cultural experience why do you think your books are so you know 1st so. i actually think because i write it's local people getting humor is. writers who doesn't necessarily come from the old country i trust my readers through imagination and intelligence so so i can just focus on writing about all slow about the people i know.