well. in the week's top stories investigations continue into a plane crash in russia that killed 41 people. in a burst into flames while making an emergency landing in moscow. the top diplomats from russia in the united states put their heads together in an attempt to find a way forward over the crisis in venezuela they're set to meet again on tuesday. partially suspend the $2015.00 nuclear agreement and gives it signatories 60 days

to shield the country from u.s. sanctions becomes washington reaffirms its threat to slap penalties on any e.u. companies that threaten stories that continue to work with tehran. 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. and for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. investigations are continuing into what caused last sunday's plane tragedy in moscow leaving 40 born people that their flight burst into flames or making an emergency landing sheremeta airport in the capital just warn you the following clip contains some disturbing images.

to get out. of the plane took off just after 6 pm local time and was headed for the city of more than skin northwest russia just under 20 minutes later the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to this is later said the actress and then struck by lightning 6 it made an emergency landing but hit the runway hard bursting into flames as it bounced along the tarmac it was quickly consumed by fire which claimed the lives of dozens of people trapped inside 78 people were on board at the time of the crash more than half the victims were from the moments equation here

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he's been hailed a hero after trying to open the rear exit door to the passengers escape before driving them towards the front exit on video i see roughly interviewed his mother who still cannot believe some will never return. stylishly game ready saved one person a man was drowned in crimea he was choking. on a 15 but he tried to assure us 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 on. huey's did everything that he has enough money so the family would have enough that none of us needed anything. else. but in the interest even now i just don't believe he's not here i just don't believe that. 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 they're being analyzed the wreckage of the plane has been removed for forensic examination investigators looking at 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction about the weather. russia's foreign minister sergey laffer offered us secretary of state. talks on the crisis in venezuela and on the sidelines of an arctic council meeting in finland and comes after an alleged coup attempt was thwarted in the latin american country from both expected to visit the russian city of sorts on may 14th to continue that discussion among issues addressed during the finland talks of the possibility of a u.s. military action in venezuela. reports. 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 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 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 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 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. we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and if the u.s. prefers the military part we are 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 door and the self-proclaimed president one quite go 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 announced that it would no longer honor all of its commitments under the historic 2015 new clear agreement that came precisely one year after the u.s. you know literally pulled out of the deal something that has hit tehran's economy hard and international tensions runs now threatening to keep access and rich to rein in stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad to run has also given the bank signatories 2 months in which to ensure their upholding their side of the deal or it will resume production of more highly enriched uranium be 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 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 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. unfortunately this is typical of our american colleagues during my meeting with u.s. secretary of state my computer in finland on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than issues threats 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 no sanctions today from europe because iran has so far all respected their commitments all artes

rick sanchez discuss the rounds threat to restart its nuclear program with side mohammad marandi from the university of tehran who helped to negotiate that 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 too. provoke busy iranians into a war much like our invasion of iraq or 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. 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 bolt and 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. 74 years since these. surrender of non-si germany we'll take a look at the commemorations after this short break.

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welcome back russia marks the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday and then to of the war on the eastern front in the back of the commemorations. the feel. the feel. 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 know. you hold the world are. you run out of fear for your real reason you don't know or do you see i see where you can see you through 3. nothing unites this country more then the more 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 it's endless. i. think today holds a special place here in russia due to the incredibly high price paid by the people

of the soviet union of the $26000000.00 died in conflicts more than half of them civilians men practically every family lost somebody. one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind took place installing drought in southern russia now this fall good grounds lasted for 200 days 94243 of course the red all the more than 1100000 soldiers germany's losses were even higher than the losing the battle the nazi leadership declared the day of national mourning and historian see the battle of stalingrad as a watershed moment as it dramatically altered the course of the war even now harrowing reminders of the trauma inflicted by the war even though. i was still in the collab each day and the last one left i've been injured and will not last long.

when 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's life. we will win no matter what. the venture comrades. joe biden vice president on the brink of there is leading the pack in the contest

for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination according to the latest polls and this seems most of the media and democratic leadership throwing their weight behind the for the senate as they once did with hillary clinton in limited reports. 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 hate republicans like 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 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 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 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 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. by 2020 years already. but there me l y. l we know if we want there the leading candidate as

well we with your eclipse it does not you know anyway obvious mean that disappeared it was going to be the knowledge. facebook has provoked in of the storm of controversy this time by banning on australian breast cancer advertising campaign for violating its rules on nudity. is this. move out. of the ounce feature topless survivors of breast cancer they're covering themselves up with small cakes the campaign was launched by the breast cancer network australia together with the bakers delight chain last year they raised more than half a $1000000.00 chief executive of breast cancer network australia says facebook previously had approved the ads. 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 into confronting to be able to have paid ads 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. for facebook or that while she personally loved the idea the others didn't follow the platform's guidelines the policy does allow for the posting of post must think to me photos by ordinary

people but for thais as rules to stick to is our facebook users reacted. violated the platforms needed to 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 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 and we spoke to human rights attorney jennifer breed she thinks that the ban points to why do 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'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. ok. for the. 1 what is it calling the coin is magic internet

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