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

its 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions it comes as washington reaffirms his threat to slap penalties on any e.u. companies they continue to work with trauma. to. a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories to shape the week. now top story investigations are continuing into war caused last sunday's plane tragedy in moscow leaving 41 people dead the aeroflot line a burst into flames whilst making an emergency landing at sheremetyevo airport in the capital just to warn you the following clip contains some disturbing images.

i am. the. education. the athlete it was the am. the plane took off just after 6 pm local time and was heading for the city of merman skin northwest russia just under 20 minutes later the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to share a metier when it is later that the aircraft had been struck by lightning at half past 6 it made an emergency landing but hit the runway hard bursting into flames as it bounced along the tarmac well it was quickly consumed by the fire which claimed the lives of dozens of people trapped inside 78 people were on board of the time of the crash more than half of the victims were from the months greeted here were some

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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 malfunction and bad weather. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o. have held talks in the on the crisis in venezuela it happened on the sidelines of an arctic council meeting in finland and it comes after the alleged coup attempt was thwarted in the latin american country pompei was 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 ilia trying to 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 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 poem barrow's 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 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 the sense from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved a 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 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 the lead. of the country and i can

tell you that the government in venezuela 1 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're ready to resist we have an army police in 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 one why do so or finally touch on this president donald trump how 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 it would no longer on the 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 2 rounds economy hard and heightened international tensions and iran is now threatening to keep access and rich to you raney and stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad to iran has also given the pact signatories 2 months to ensure they are polled in their side of the deal or it 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 it in a superior way in order to make a run left off in a 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 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 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. we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break that deal. nothing could be worse than iran leaving the agreement and there are no sanctions

today from europe because iran has so far all resource back to the commitments whole ideas rick sanchez discussed iran's threats to restart its nuclear program with side 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 from what we see. coming from bolton and impale 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. russian monk 74 years since the surrender of nazi germany we'll take a look at the commemorations off of this with a very short break stay with us.

what holds us do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president interim. or some want to be. actually going to be close to see what it looks like 3 of the more people. interested always in the waters of my. first city. 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 is all 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.

welcome back or russia marks the 74th on of the serie of nazi germany's surrender on thursday on 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 isn't tense but that the super rich excitement up excitement just released during

the parade itself. will you hold. your run of beer for sure rio are. you know you are serious hussein. 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 very special place here in russia due to the incredibly high price paid by the

people of the soviet union over 26000000 died in the conflict more than hauffe of them were civilians they're practically every family lost somebody. one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind took place in starling ground in southern russia also now known as that volgograd is a lawsuit for $200.00 days between 942940 3 and cost the red army more than $1100000.00 soldiers germany's losses were even higher on losing the battle the nazi leadership even declared a day of national mourning many historians see the battle of stalingrad as a watershed moment and that dramatically altered the course of the war even now harrowing remind us of the trauma inflicted by the war are emerging. riseley collaborates 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 mother like. my. you will win no matter what. my. eventual comrades. am. joe biden the vice president's hands or barack obama is leading the pack for 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 all throwing their weight behind the former senator as they once did with hillary clinton and have more pain 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 best chance of success is 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. 2020 years already gauged of what the media why some want to know we know everyone there the leading

candidate as they did overwhelmingly with your eclipse it does not you know anyway obvious mean that disappeared it was going but we don't all work. facebook has provoked another storm of controversy this time i barely got a stray in breast cancer advertising campaign for violating its rules on nudity. is there. the ads feature topless survivors of breast cancer there covering themselves with small cakes the campaign was launched by the breast cancer network australia together with the bakers delight's chain last year to raise 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 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 playing 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 says that while she personally loves the idea the ads didn't follow platform guidelines the policy does allow for the posting of posts must check to me photos by ordinary people but for advertisers 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 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 breed she thinks that the ban point to wind it 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 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 thanks for joining us on the international web back again in just over 30 minutes with either. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home

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a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today. inequality is really unprecedented and if you look at total inequality it's like the worst periods of american history. but if you're a find it more closely inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. there were periods like the gilded age in the twenty's and the early ninety's and so on when a situation of ill rather similar to this. now this period 6 trillion because if you look at their wealth distribution to inequality mostly comes from super.