those who did as they were found and they are going to be responsible for the bad and we need to find a solution a resolution the we the county is whose nation has died in this crash and we need to discuss the consequences an implication so of such a tragedy that still needs to be investigated that it was truly. tragic event. and as for iraq we're going to put all our efforts to fight terrorism. and to downgrade the tension in the region as far as it's possible we have also discussed the normandy forum in normandy and kerry's side would say at least partially it was successful the meeting that we had we didn't manage to result although each is but by the end of the here we exchange the detainees the hostages and now we are trying to implement the cease fire regime and these are good things and we're going to continue working sold that at the next psammead we could achieve further progress

according to the main sca chords and we have these bases we have this fundamental and we need to continue working and there is certain there is certain complication theory but we are firm in our desire to continue working so we have a very meaningful meeting we exchanged our opinions hopefully we are going to continue meeting russian and german represented davis and the representatives from other contraries to work. on the benefit of diplomatic solutions and to support the un resolutions on all this issues 2 questions from each side so let's start with german media outlets it's. a further question from the deutschland company and they correspond and. moscow i would like to talk about libya. president couple of days to go sad bad you

know the in libya the read 2000 show code nursed scenarios all of the wagner's or back and kompany it's a driver truncheon company of wagner's are and the question to president putin bach can you confirm this number which the if this a mound any if you can't switch was the ben how many mercenary russian marie scenario is from the wagner a company our station been libya ok and you well aved their raw a new russian nationalists in libya they do not represent rusher they did not receive any money from the russian government in any col think there is a lot of mercenaries and according to the dated that we have a lot of nurseries it were moved from the ably it was owen to levy year with that has a very dangerous pro says any yes today we discussed it worth mr we

hope that after reaching day agreement with them and he this sides in syria would abide by these agreement and d.c. say should of us to would his or will hold this same time no you know you mercenaries well be transferred to lead be a from syria it was the used of those when the and tests agency pavol min a cough please against him for hello and for a fax agency question to both leaders. and we can't help but asking about can we believe there are sanctions in if we can bear and. how long will it take for berlin going to help russia to go the north situation. were posed a question from washington to leave the sanctions. i. think here. we are of course capable of completing the production our own without

involving any foreign partners as for the timeline. well that is a question. that will have to extend the timeline for a couple of months but by the end of this year or in her early next year the work will be finished. and the pipeline will be up and running. after his.

point. so the project will be implemented no matter what because it's an economical issue not a political issue and we think that the sanctions are wrong way to go so when the future we are going to support the project as we did in the past and once again actually that's an economical thing about it's not a political thing. company. shot a lot to my health or t.n.x. to oil and the question to in the years chancellor we have talked we have heard that. you had a pretty urgent that you needed to be a scab but now we also heard that so you have been answering guarding many have been inspired of american opinions so can we expect that there will be a bigger copper ration between russian the european union and maybe even against

the united states yes i have to say that the bad one example because there is some differences in that americans have been there will be our allies and we have the same opinion regarding many issues with them. but. first of all we represent. russia has its interests and we need to to see where we have a common ground where we have a common interest in this approach have disk bad all the difficulties and we have managed to find common interests in our bilateral relations. and. it concerns the j.c.b. away agreement with the rand so we have common interests and we have some difference in our opinions the best thing is to talk with each other not about each other and then we can get a better understanding of the other sides arguments and they were talking about libya syria iran the military to. of course the can

in certain term but still the. only way the situation can bridge ult is by diplomatic tools and we have discussed how can we find this diplomatic solutions and there are also different opinions regarding that but we also coincide in certain ways and the last question. checco i've got a question to build leaders i would like to talk about libya because it's very important now as miss chancellor mentioned that we are going to have a big conference the regarding cleveland berlin so what are its goals what are its staff sgt what the results can be achieved and maybe you are setting some maximal goals and could you please tell take into consideration their reaction will believe b.n. part is on memorandum on the agreements that were achieved during your visit to turkey are there any chances that the. peace treaty is going to be achieved in the

timeline that you have a green and i'm in more general way about the middle east in the last few days so in the highlight of the world news even taking into consideration about the escalation of the situation between iran and the united states we have heard this a mistake a sas man's maybe even the that the world is on the brink of war so what are the ways to normalize the situation in the middle east in general why do you think. considering the situation in general. i don't think this situation will end up in the life scale military conflict where there were. of small little intensity there people are dying that's a fact but of course we would like to avoid any large scale has stuart that would be echoed tast a fee for the middle east and for the whole world in which we do understand the

consequences that will. trigger a massive ags that is people from their homes that would start another influx of people to europe and to other regions that would be a humanitarian catastrophe a religious catastrophe and an economic catastrophe as well that would lead to. the car the me what global economy would have a blow we need to night our efforts and together meeting like. this. we should discuss. and make necessary steps to avoid search ramifications. with you as for the conflict in libya i do hold today just a couple of hours but if. i'm right as we talk to the to

be with president of the warring parties in the beer would stop hostilities and the cease fire would be installed we would hold additional consultations and i said that already that we support germany's initiative to hold a conference and believe. that some things should be coordinated and some a deleterious should be saddled with it but it's the right step and that's the step in the right direction to avoid any. possible negative consequences that would lay the 1st brick into finding it tasteful solution to the conflict by political means. i am very glad that today we have managed to. the russian party and that has already been present they are. to get the

information that soon we can have a conference like this in berlin and with the other potential participants we are going to talk with them and hopefully be afeard solve the russian side especially regarding all the cease fire agreement and leave they will be a successful we have agreed that we're going to suborder with stay in contact regarding that we talked we've been party to and the european union to the foreign ministers are supporting this hour for its. and the gyptian foreign minister and all the other contraries the are also participating and there's pros and we know that seoul happening on the to the edges of the un and the work of the secretary general and the special envoy is salam. and we are going to support their alfred's and this conference can only be a starting point for these protests and the most important thing to the libyan

interests. in the front so we need to take into consideration the lead been entranced. as a lot of countries want to influence on libya and we don't want to have been in trade seen in the background. and if we talk about the neighbors of police that today. the 1st of. the country that suffered from the terrorism our country is. the art of the african countries so we need to support deeply who would have libya to prevent the spread of that terrorism should hopefully your work will help was to achieve progress in that direction. to get some reaction to that press conference listening in i hope i believe it was thomas

fassbender journalist very good afternoon to you thomas so we heard in there saying that both russia and germany well the iran nuclear deal back on track and america will agree with that echoed his sentiment just how likely do you think that is. well let me let me start with with the background of the meeting as such because we must not forget the last time that miss america was in moscow was in may 2015 that is almost 5 years ago and was in a completely different world that was before breakfast that was before trump was before the russian military engagement in syria and from my point of view it is clear that ms merkel returns with a much weaker hand today to moscow. only mechs and one have more years to go she is sort of a lame duck in international politics and germany over those 5 years has they have

seriously lost cloud and influence and strength in foreign politics the way that mr putin state the results reminded me a bit of the underlying question or the message taught germany told mrs america hey germany what do you think what do you want to contribute what do you bring want to bring to the table of course the nuclear deal is highly important in particular for for the germans as much as for the french and less so for the english because. if they if the other partners the non-u.s. partners to this nuclear agreement have any chance to bring their opinion. in this. growing conflict about this agreement towards the us then only jointly and here i think lies the whole the issue of the

root of the problem in that russia germany and france france understood it earlier mr cohen distillate all already last year that if western europe does not come to some sort of terms with russia european position in the international theater with the rivalries usa china less so russia iran its cetera will have no chance to be heard i believe michael said that germany and russia have good economic relations despite sanctions and i've lost count of all the sanctions that there are in place these days on russia and we're getting to a point maybe sanctions not that significant. that they have not been for quite a while i should say that russia in those 5 years has come to terms with the same. they got used to the whole confrontation to the whole conflict because the sanctions are largely seen in economic circles as

a political issue so the general mood also in a monk germany cannot businessman is let the politicians take care of their sanctions among themselves and we do business and that's the mood which works on both sides so indeed for the last 23 years the trade exchange the trade volumes have been growing between germany and russia and the mood has been growing that the of course the decision by mr trump to sign the north stream to. sanctions. late last year was sort of the blow the way both participants at the press conference commented on north stream to signal that they seem to be very confident that with a certain delay of some months or maybe maximum a year they will manage to get this project closed i think i would interpret this whole effort this coming back of miss miss miss america after almost 5 years

as well i wouldn't go as far as say an admission of failure but in a way the fact is that over those 5 years the whole foreign policy international foreign policy philosophy has returned to a sort of riyad politic to the taking care of the really realisation of physical geographical economic own interests and it is germany that sort of has not been has has been allowing herself to be put in a corner in a niche of where they still believe in multilateralism they still believe in the win win scenario so say let me say they have not managed to come out of the niceties of the ninety's to put it that way and now they are struggling to. make up for that and i think that mrs merkel clearly understood that she's been allowing this to go too far because occupying the moral grounds is nice but if you have no

tools in your hand to get any more of mileage on the road you are not not really in a favorite position you talked about the stream to the project levitical said it must be completed that it will be completed i think he said at the very latest early next year and both of them said that this is an economic issue not a political one that seemed openly defiant to us wishes they were in that project shut down they don't want europe involved it was open defiance from europe to the u.s. perhaps saying you can't. control is on this i would say from i would say from europe it is a defiance from germany and it is not new this stance of mrs merkel has been around for quite a while i've personally i personally have been astonished for the last years how fervently she has been taking part in favor of this of this project in spite of the fact that not only the us but

a large part of the european union union in particular the poles who are usually or somebody whose opinion mrs merkel takes very seriously they are strictly and they have been strictly against this this project probably it's not of a county coincidence that today german media publish an interview with the polish prime minister in which he basically repeats. the the known lamentable end time north stream to trust in mr putin and try resetting of relations with russia so there is open campaigning against mrs merkel here but again she repeated her position which clearly coincides with mr putin's that 1st of all this is largely an economic project the she understands the political considerations but in fact she probably also understands or sees as anybody else

that the. opposition by the poles and the baltic countries are largely also being instrumentalists by you as geo strategists who really do not want. our porch more between russia and germany between russia and western europe as a whole because for of for washing for a certain part of the political factions in washington it's very important to keep the rift between russia and western europe in order to shore up support for the us when the us while the us are concentrating on completely different international theaters of conflict. in terms of u.s. influence it's made it clear its opposition to the north stream to project can it do anything about the fact that germany is thinking of itself quite understandably can't count can they exert any influence that would change germany's mind well i say i'd say the influence they. if acted with the recent decision before

christmas which led immediately. to the pull out of the swiss company who provides the 3 or 4. playing ships is quite effect for all and now russia the plan is as people know door to bring a similar. much smaller boat which is current currently in the in the pacific to the baltic sea this is the reaction let's see so far there are some analysts who predict that the u.s. really do not want this project to be concluded that they really will come up with new things and that this is more than just symbolic acts so this will continue to be of quite some interest this is you. ok many thanks to the journalist and former businessman is my guest appreciated times. and you thank you. in other news

cerner their protest against pension reform plans in france becoming live pictures now from the french capital rallies in paris and other cities have also been joined by members of the yellow vest protest movement. in some parts of the capital the process turned violent with police there resorting to tear gas yes people are angry about government plans to hike the retirement age and to unify the pension system on friday the government introduced its bill but said that it was open to alternative ideas the union so carrying on with their strike action over the. phone from his claim that the u.s. is doing a good job in venezuela he was speaking almost a year after the white house recognized opposition leader wango i doze the country's president despite the fact nicolas maduro is still in power. we have

a good strategy but we're taking care of people helping people colombia's helping a lot of people some of the nation surrounding it helping people but we are i think we're doing a good they have a system that right there is very broken we'll see what happens stay tuned. in ma the u.s. sector state has called for a swift negotiated transition to democracy in venezuela like pompei said that the government and opposition need to form a transitional government and hold free and fair elections on tuesday quote over sworn in for a new term as leader of the national assembly that was after a standoff with soldiers who tried to prevent him from entering the building i don't declare himself the country's interim leader last year after he branded the madeira presidency illegitimate madeira meanwhile has refused to resign. jonas paul dobson believes that the u.s. doesn't seem to have any clear plan for venezuela. it's very difficult to out here understand the u.s. strategy in venezuela if it is very clear that their political goals in the country

in 2019 were not achieved they did not achieve regime change they did not achieve ousting with or from power and the comments coming out of the white house in the last few days seem to suggest that there is some computer in about the current u.s. strategy on both that we saw secretary of state might be talking about a dialogue transition which is a significant step down in the rhetoric regarding venezuela however only today we saw earlier abrams a special u.s. envoy to announce whaler bringing the issue of military intervention back onto the table so these 2 comments taken nearly 24 hours apart really show that there is a process a revision of the u.s. strategy in venezuela going on behind closed doors in washington and there are certainly different things of opinion as to what the way forward to achieve these strategic objectives which is very much centered around getting nicholas miller out of power. the u.s.

aviation authority has proposed finding i make a boeing $5400000.00 start as punishment for putting defective parts into its now grounded 737 max passenger jet a trove of newly released internal messages suggest boeing staff were aware of numerous problems with the aircraft but failed to alert inspectors i still haven't been forgiven by god for the covering up i did last year would you put your family on a mag simulated trained aircraft i wouldn't know the blues designed by gloams who supervised by monkeys. more than 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to congressional investigators as part of a probe into how the boeing 737 max jet was certified safe before 2 major plane crashes planes when you factor released a statement expressing regret over the content of the communications between its employees boeing also gave assurances it had made significant changes to enhance

its safety procedures the manufacturer had its entire 737 max fleet grounded last year after being involved in 2 deadly crashes with ethiopian airlines and indian easy's lion 346 people were killed in those tragedies problems with automated flight control systems are thought to have contributed to the fatal crashes. and some of the memos suggests that boeing limited pilot training on simulators as a cost cutting measure efficient safety advocates getting us believe that was a serious mistake. most flight conversion training happens in simulators even if even new conversion to a type it will only derivative of a given type so that's not unusual i think one of the problems that browning painted themselves into a corner of the bed with the 737 months pregnant was trying to make it cheaper for airlines to to operate in terms of

a common pilot pool with the earlier models of 737 specifically the astoundingly successful and g. family of 7 series as people in flight safety committee certainly sink safety is expensive try an accident and i think this is a the ultimate infestation of that particular mantra that the cost to growing. of the problems with the 737 max program i don't think anyone people have tried to calculate it but i think i think it's beyond calculation to be honest. i guess i can take a very short break about couple of minutes and i'll be back with a vase on our top story. this footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands are normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's lived so is personal don't.

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around the mitts that it unintentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane mistaking it for a cruise missile the country's president of the school the incident an unforgiving mistake. surrounds foreign minister blames washington's adventurism for tensions that led to the downing of u.s. secretary of state his drill by reporters who did run the justification for the killing of the round. and the german chancellor employed him a person who just finished addressing the media after holding talks in moscow will take you through the key points. thing. on their vehicles.