well. in the week's top stories investigations continue into a plane crash in russia they killed 41 people the aerosols airliner burst into flames whilst making an emergency landing in moscow. the 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 that is meet again on the cheese day. and iran actually suspends the 2050 nuclear agreement and gives its signatories its

60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions it comes as washington reaffirms its threat to the penalties on any companies that continue to work its will. to. warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and around the stories that shape the week but 1st investigations are continuing into what caused last sunday's plane tragedy in moscow which left 41 people dead the aeroflot airliner burst into flames while making an emergency landing at sheremetyevo airport in the capital just to warn you the following clip contains some upsetting images.

the booth. the education the beauty it would carry. 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 metoo for witnesses later said the aircraft had been struck by lightning at half past 6 it made an emergency landing but hit the runway hard to 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 those 78 people on board at the time of the crash more than half of the victims were from the moment 6 region here are some

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a hero after trying to open the very exit. daughter let passengers a skate before driving them towards the frontier exhibit our video agency ruptly interviewed his mother who still cannot believe her son will never return home. stolidly him when she'd already saved one person a man was drowning in crimea he was choking was only 15 but he dragged him to shore that 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 who we 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 x. that none of us needed anything. else that they received but the readers even now i just don't believe he's not here i just don't believe it. every 2nd i think it will come home soon he'll be with us on. the plane's flight data and

cockpit voice recorders have been recovered and are being our allies to the wreckage of the plane has also been removed for forensic examination investigators are looking into very possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and u.s. secretary of state like pompei or have held talks on the crisis in venezuela it happened on the sidelines of an arctic council meeting in finland and comes after the alleged killer attempt was thwarted in the latin american country pair 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 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 these photos. 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

concentrators and real politics and sounds from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved 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 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're ready to resist we 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 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 honor all of its commitments under the historic 2050 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 iran is now threatening to keep access and rich to raney of stocks in the country rather than sell them are brought to wrong as also given the pact signatories to months to ensure they're opposing their side of the deal or it will 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 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 us to redouble and ratchet up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap. 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 iran 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 computer in finland on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than issue threats when it comes to challenging situations. we urged 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 research specter the commitments.

rick sanchez discussed iran's threats to restart its nuclear program with side mohammad marandi of the university of tehran who helps 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. that's why 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 iraq 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 iran is not to limit the nuclear program but according to what we see from 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. russia marks the 74th anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday and 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 job electric. tents but yeah the super rich site up excitement just released during the parade itself. will you hold. your run of beer for sure rio are. you know you are serious crusading. nothing unites this country more then the boy it's all right jimmy march every time i see this i just don't understand where the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's and this.

day holds a special place here in russia due to the incredibly high price paid by the people of the soviet union of a $26000000.00 died in the conflict that's more than half and more and more than half of them was the villian that meant that practically every family lost somebody . one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind took place installing ground in southern russia now known as volgograd a lawsuit for $200.00 days between 942-1943 cost the red army more than 1100000 soldiers germany's losses were even higher. on losing the battle the nazi leadership even declared a day of national mourning when historians 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 are emerging. i was still in

the collab each dig in 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. am.

turbine to and vice president under barack obama is leading 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 full must answer as they once did with hillary clinton killable 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 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 also did poll likely democratic voters which is not the same thing as who actually ends up voting in a generalization even in jest 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 there the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with your equipment 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 control obviously this time by banning an australian breast cancer advertising campaign for violating its rules are needed to. the last 30 years there. everybody. the ads featured 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 it raised more

than half a 1000000 dollars the chief executive of breast cancer network australia says their 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 were 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 been 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 loved the idea the earth didn't follow platform guidelines policy does allow for the posting of post mastectomy 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 root for facebook naked garden indeed takes precedence over a fundraiser for a 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 brady she thinks that the ban points to why do 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 and 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 we're seeing 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 we're back with more the top of the hour we see that.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle donald trump's foreign policy is on steroids and the game is called forced regime change and like a flu that won't go away russia gate appears to have a life even after down. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri but he's a political analyst we spoke nick international and in france we have john laughlin he is a lecturer in political philosophy at i says the catholic university. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want let me go to john 1st in france i came across a wonderful article most of his articles are wonderful. by pat buchanan titled all of the world's problems ours to solve question mark and he says it and i think it's

quite artfully written here after an exhausting 2 weeks one is tempted to ask how many quarrels clashes and conflicts can even a superpower manage at once and is it not time for the united states preoccupied with so many crises to begin asking why is this our problem john this that this administration this white house seems to think that it is god ordained that they must solve these problems oh by the way problems that they've created themselves what's going on here go ahead jim. well i think this idea that. the superpower is responsible for every country in the world is obviously ridiculous but it's even more ridiculous in view of the fact that trump under trump has indeed under under it minutes other administrations but under trump these various attempts to as it were solve problems have failed we've seen the failure only last week as well or where of course the americans wanted to have a military coup and effect room to regime change by

a coup which they would have supported if it had succeeded but it didn't succeed and this failure to effect regime change in venezuela comes on the heels of other faith as where the wizards of oz in washington have similarly not managed to achieve the outcome that they wanted the most obvious other examples being syria where of course regime change was the initial goal but where that goal has now been abandoned some time ago and more recently ukraine where their candidate for regime change in 2014 was as we all know roundly beat in the elections by a joker and this shows that this determination to run the affairs of the world is in direct proportion to the inability to do it and so we're in this crazy situation where people keep on thinking that they can manage the world but keep failing to do it and you know i remember once in 2004 in iran a very intelligent iranian minister say.