he added moscow will be intensifying its role in the peace process. negotiations on the cease-fire resumed today in geneva. we are going to talk about turkey now and last night car bombing that triggered reprisals by the turkish military. warplanes struck camps in northern iraq and 11 people have an arrested in connection with the last. it is almost certain the separatist kurdistan workers carried out the bombing that left 37 people dead. reporter: sorrow and fear mounting with civilians at a busy transport hub. the city's residents look ahead with unease. there is no guarantee of safety. these will do whatever they want. if they can set off a bomb in the middle of the city, how can you not be worried? but security is what the president cross party pledged to win elections last year. people have grown angry and distrustful at the failure to provide it. >> he can arrest me but he cannot give me back my nephew. i will insult him to his face if he comes here. he wanted the presidency and many people lost their children here. reporter: investigators are b

i spoke with steve rosenberg in moscow a short time ago. and moscow, is this being seen as a victory for president putin? steve: i think the russians are projecting this as a major success. vladimir putin is the master of surprise. he surprised the world in september by launching this operation in syria, and he has taken the world by surprise again by announcing the withdrawal of a large part of the russian contingent. i think the one thing russia didn't want to do in syria was get bogged down in a protracted operation. it didn't want syria to become a second afghanistan. kremlin seems to be calculating that now with a cessation of hostilities in and the start of some kind of peace process that to scale back,nt to bring back troops, and to declare this operation a success, but the caveat is numbers. we don't know how many troops are going to come back. we don't know how many troops are going to be staying there. we know some will in the russian latakia.ear katty: it's interesting, isn't it? when russia went in in september, there was an int

kerry again, that patience, he is the one who goes to moscow. they haven't come to the u.s.sia still calls the shots. russia said if you don't start backing up the ceasefire in syria, we'll act. so it will be interesting. >> yes, it will. >>> attorney general loretta lynch announced one of the highest profile indictments ever against people working for a foreign country. >> we have unsealed an indictment against seven alleged hackers working on behalf of the iranian government including seven individuals conspired together and with others to conduct a series of cyber attacks. >> the charges were for attacks that happened in 2012 and 2013. one of the suspects is also charged with hacking into the control system of a dam in new york. >>> it is now believed that two pieces of plane debris found in mozambique are from malaysian flight that went missing. the plane vanished two years ago now. there were 239 people on board. >>> up next, a look at how the republican presidential nomination could come down to the often-ignored california primary. >>> plus spring storms bring parts o

correspondent is in moscow. one of the things he mentioned during the news conference is the role of russia and timing of discussions that have been happening like john kerry and sergei fedorov that is going on as the talks conclude. >> reporter: yes, indeed. actually as he was talking john kerry and sergei fedorov and vladimir putin are meeting and we understand that is a meeting that will last about two hours. and i have to say that just as there was a photo op that was broad casted on russian channels and both vladimir putin and sergei fedorov reflected what staffan de mistura said in the sense that it's going to be a month for the -- since the cessation and a significant reduction in violence and john kerry also saying yes there has been humanitarian aid reaching some communities but it's not enough but hopefully they can continue building on that. i think also you had the feeling here in moscow that really the talks are focusing on the next phase meaning let's get to talk about the political process, about

so he thinks moscow minister is a good source. the second reason is that we need some short case, if some person from the west comes to moscow and he asks where is the freedom of broadcasting of the world, they can answer kommersant. and the third reason it seems to me very important reason, radio has no meaning as a social propaganda. with our elections in russia, you can see the people the our politics on any channel. but if you will listen, there are also people from opposition and they didn't have enough audience to get their voices for voting. it will be not true if i say that there is no freedom of media in russia. there is freedom of media, but sometimes this media company a very narrow audience because there are some internet media as daily journal that are now forbidden in russia. there was one small detail. in 1975, for instance, if somebody accused the person of spreading public mailing information, he would prove it in the court. and now they came close, they can restrict the ability to fight this media without any sen

i don't think they can. >> and i'm speaking to you now from moscow. i spoke to you when you are in washington d.c. how do you think the u.s. government will receive this news. >> well, there has been positive statements, if not many, because it's been - it's only been a few hours that i've heard. i think from a military strategy point of view, i don't think the pentagon or n.a.t.o. will be very happy. from a diplomatic point of view, from what the state department and secretary kerry is trying to achieve, that can be supportive temporarily. they would probably not criticize it >>> director from the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute. thank you >>> meanwhile, the united nations in new york has been holding a closed consultation on syria, which has now ended, the u.n. social envoy was speaking via video link, where he held talks with the syrian government delegation. daniel lack was at the headquarters in new york. it was a closed meeting, we don't officially know what is going on inside. have we heard through other means wha

. >> reporter: it is often one of the first things newcomers notice in moscow hammers and sickles andrywhere and communism is a part of history and collective psychology too and resent polls suggest half of all russians still think they were actually better off under the soviet system. moscow exhibition of stalin era art they told me the pride people fear in the past grows. >> translator: interest in stalin is increasing and it's understandable and celebrated the 70th anniversary of world war ii and should not forget who was at the helm of the country and whose leadership the victory was achieved. >> by definition nostalgia is a longing for the past and the days of the soviet union are gone but the communist party never went away as a political force and in the 21st century they consistently are second in parliamentary elections. putin's kremlin always thought that was a manageable situation but with elections approaching again there are signs the kremlin is worried about the possible communist resurging. united russia headed by prime minister is putin's parliamentary party, at the 20

a 6 third anniversary of joseph stalin's death has been marked in moscow.e communist party joined with stalin loyalists to mark the passing of the former soviet leader and takes place each year at the red square and led the soviet union from the 20s to his death in 1953. some russians say a worsening economy has left them feeling nostalgic for the soviet days and the communist party is starting to worry the kremlin as we report from moscow. >> reporter: it's often one of the first things newcomers notice in moscow hammers sickles, stars everywhere communism is a part of russia's history and the collective psychology too and polls say half of russians think they were better off under the soviet system and at a moscow exhibition of stalin era art the curator told me the pride that people feel for the past. >> translator: interest in joseph stalin is increasing and it's understandable, we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of world war ii and should not forget who was at the helm of the country and under whose leadership the victory was achieved. >> by defin

syria meeting in moscow. john kerry is call for the reduction in violence and more humanitarian assistance. bosnian serb war time leader awaits his verdict on war crimes >> reporter: i'm in this refugee camp where these refugees are going back home. i am be talking to them about their fears and hopes as they start a new journey to rebuild their lives in somalia >>> there is fear an anger in brussels after tuesday's attack which killed 31 people and injured hundreds others. people are being frisked before entering the metro stations and the airport is due to remain closed at least until friday. >> i was very sad at first. now we feel anger. we cannot understand why necessity did the. everybody really feels anger and some people even revenge which is not so good feeling >>> there are now reports that a second man may have been involved in the bombing at the brussels metro station and the hunt is still on to find suspected bomber who was seen at the brussels air part. there appears to have been three bombers at

he is pressing his russian counterpart for a political transition in syria as the two meet in moscow right now. the u.n. court at hague is expected to issue a verdict in the case of the war time leader of bosnian seb serbs. in an email interview he expects to walk away a free man. >> reporter: it is not so long ago that a european capital city echoed to the sounds of war. in the countryside people were herded into camps and in one town thousands of men and boys were massacred. they're still digging up bones today. this man, president of the bosnian serbs in the early 90s is accused of responsibly for these crimes. the siege of sarajevo, ethnic cleansing and a massacre. a psychiatrist, poet ee kolgs, the roll of water time leader didn't always seem a natural fit. after the war he disappeared. nato forces looked for him all over bosnia, but he was in neighboring serbia, not hiding in secret, but disguised in public as an mystic healer. when he was caught and taken to the hague, his trial lasted five years. defiant he defended himself. >> translation: my conscience is clear. i expect an

is that both the russians and the americans have been flying out trial balloons in washington and moscowe heard about part b and federation and the head of the negotiations are saying with the federation is what worked for syria so these fantasies coming out from washington and moscow being projected on the situation of syria before the syrians even meet is certainly not helpful to staffan de mistura and not helpful to the syrians but as mr. staffan de mistura said the court chairman of the u.n. nesh tif are the russians and americans. >> there are no willingness to the talks and will take it to the united states and u.n. security council and has emphasis on the external players there. >> that is what he did last time, last time he basically called off negotiations early and went back to russians and americans and happened before when he was trying to initiate something except the last time around when the ceasefire was called in order to pave the way for this negotiations back on the 27 of february it was announced then it didn't happen even for you know as a result of a meeting between

and the 6 third anniversary of joseph stalin's death is marked in moscow and communist party joined withyalists to mark the passing of the soviet leader and it takes place each year in red square. some russian say a worsening economy left them feeling nastalgic but with the parliamentary election looming prospect of a resurging communist party is starting to worry the kremlin and rory challenge reports from moscow. >> reporter: they notice in moscow, hammers and stars everywhere, communism is a part of russia's history and collective psychology too. resent polls suggest half of all russians still think they were actually better off under the soviet system and they told me the pride people feel for the past. >> translator: interest in stalin is increasing and it's understandable and celebrated 70 anniversary of world war ii and don't forget who was at the helm of the country and whose leadership the victory was achieved. >> nastalgia is longing for the past and the days of the soviet union are again but the communist party never went away as a political force and in the centuries it comes

we are following developments out of moscow. tell us what we expect to come out of the meetings that kerry is holding in moscow, and also you heard the report on the situation in palmyra. what are the russians saying about their involvement in the strikes there and what's going on. >> for the past few days, the russians have been saying that they were carrying out airstrikes in and around palmyra. we also saw russian television reporters reporting from the hills surrounding palmyra. they have been announcing for a few days that soon the syrian government forces will be able to enter palmyra. now that news broke out to us a few hours ago. however, it is very possible that when john kerry met with sergey lavrov earlier today, they viewed two men that already knew that piece of information. we don't know what they were discussing during that meeting. what we do know from the spokeswoman of the foreign ministry the meeting lasted for hours as they discussed also ukraine, a very important issue for the rigses, at least. probably john

moscow has carried out an estimated 9,000 bombing raids over syria.ys these have helped to evict isil areas. but activists say many russian air strikes were in fact directed against syrian rebel groups that the western powers regard as moderate. and it is estimated that around a thousand civilians have been killed in russian bombings. our senior political analyst joins me now. well, putin is always a man to pull off a surprise. how big of surprise is this in the big scheme of things? >> look, for the last five years we have had two mind sets, two styles of action in syria. there is putin's and obama. there's the commando, and the commander in chief. the commando, mr. put tin he plans, he supported assad with arms and every possible way to block any attempts at undermining assad at the united nations. and when the came last summer, he stepped in to save the assad regime from breaking down. on the other hand, we have president obama, the commander in chief who deliberates, who p procrastina procrastinates, who even vegetates in the process, and weighs a

but today he is in moscow, pressing his russian counterpart.e told lavrov the current pause in fighting isn't enough. >> many people are very hopeful, sergei, our counterparts, our hopeful that these meetings here in moscow here today have an ability to be able to further define and chart the road ahead so that we can bring this conflict in syria to a close, as fast as possible. >>> and in syrian today russian air strikes have helped syrian government forces re-enter the ancient city of palmyra. hoda abdel hamid has more. >> reporter: the russians have been saying that they were carrying out air strikes in and around palmyra, we also saw on russian television reporters reporting from the hills surrounding palmyra. they have been announcing for a few days that soon the syrian government forces will be able to enter palmyra. now that news broke out to us a few hours ago. however, it is very possible that when john kerry met with sergei lavrov earlier today, they -- the two men already knew that piece of information. probably john kerry would want

moscow. >> we came to moscow to look, to ask questions and perhaps learn a bit. >> he is a father. >> so am i. >> budapest. >> the population is down and the life expectancy for men is only 66 years >> reporter: port-au-prince. >> we understand that the family was not inside >> reporter: rome. >> there is white smoke. we have a new pope >> reporter: constantly pushing himself and others. >> that's impressive. you dot dishes. >> what do you do? >> in terms of what? >> reporter: bruce can be tough, honest but he is fair and honorable. he is one in a million. he is our bruce. >> bruce told me before, not one man could have done all of that. >> that's good point. good point. >> reporter: that's the first thing you told me when i met you. we invite you to go to wusa9 facebook page. >> i need another trip out of the country. >> yeah, i do. >> after. cuba would be nice right about now. >> help me, help me. talk to the boss. >> you have to get stories. >> he was actually very nice. >> you need a lot of help. >> yeah, i still do. >> uh-huh. >> thank you, thank you so much. >> but we so appreci

the kurds and the regime because in so many ways most of the position has been aligned with either moscow or the bashar al-assad regime. what the coalition is saying, stop talking about these things. let's focus on the main issue. the kurds are more than welcome to come in to the syrian coalition umbrella and discuss it in terms of not decentralising and defying syria but as a one united syria that would be represented on the table in geneva >>> thank you for that. moving on to other world news now. the united arab emrates says it cannot find one of its planes. a coalition of arab states started fighting against houthi rebels over a year ago in yemen. the heart of the turkish capital has come under attack with a powerful car bomb leaving 34 dead and 100 injured. it took place in a busy transport hubs in the center of the city. >> reporter: the second car bomb to hit the heart of the capital in less than a month. the blast ripped through the square, a densely populated transport hubs when early evening crowds had gathered >> translation: there was a be that as it may sitting behind me. her

the fact this group, moscow/cairo group is in geneva is a positive thing. this is at the beginning and it is hard to know which way to go. one diplomat i talked to yesterday said we are not clear of russia's intention is creating a better atmosphere. >>> thank you, nic. >> u.s. sanctions over north korea. the freeze of north korean property in the united states. it expands black lists of anyone not dealing with north korea. >>> so will violence erupt if donald trump doesn't win the republican nomination for president? a new reaction to the frontrunner's warning next. >>> new reaction this morning to a warning from donald trump that there could be violence at the republican convention if he is somehow blocked on his way to the nomination. >>> in hours, president obama supreme court nominee heads to capitol hill, but does merrick garland has any chance? >>> deadly flooding in the south. damage done and the forecast that doesn't look good. welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour. it is st. patrick

live to our correspondent who is in our bureau in moscow. what else do we know? >> reporter: it's still early to get the full picture of what happened, but what we do know is that the crash happened at 3.50 in the morning, moscow, 0350 g.m. t. the plane first attempted to land and then it had to pick up altitude again and then stayed up there in the air for about two hours. it circled that airport ten times during those two hours before attempting a second landing. when it attempted that second landing, it and it failed and was trying to pick up altitude again because the position where it crashed between 50 to 100 metres to the left of the unway. it appears according to the initial statement by the investigators here in russia while it was trying to land the second time, the tail end of the plane clipped the ground and that's when it crashed and you see that big explosion that was caught on that cctv camera. investigators are on the site right now. they're cysting through the-- sifting through the debris. it spreads over 1 kilometer. we will get more throughout

let's take a look at moscow's military operation in the country.carried out an estimated 9,000 bombing raids over syria. spanning 10,000 square kilometers. but activists say many russian air strikes were in fact directed against syrian rebel groups that the western powers regard to as moderate, a it's estimated that around a thousand civilians have been killed in russian bombing. a senior associate at the middle east center in beirut joins us live via skype. very good to have you with us. let me begin by asking you what sort of impact do you think this move by russia will have on negotiations? >> well, i'll flip that around. i think the real question is why has russia now ended its intervention? and my sense is there is only one of two plausible explanations. the first and most takt one is that putin has come to the conclusion that he will not be able to engineer a political deal in association with any u.s., et cetera, for whatever reason, probably because the positions are too far apart between the opposition, saudi arabia, et cetera on the one s

the secretary will leave for moscow after returning from a trip to cuba on tuesday. >>> breaking overnight the city

would like to see russia put its weight again putting pressure on president bashar al-assad. >> in moscowu courtney is live in the studio to talk about this who has the upper hand? >> russia had the upper hand for quite a while and could say throughout the whole syrian war. a long time former cold war ally with syria with a strong relationship and u.s. had to react to what russia does. many years going into this as the war went on syria russia was part of the vetoing u.n. security resolutions but right now the u.n. and russia are really working together, it's quite extraordinary. they need each other. secretary of state kerry has met many, many times with sergei fedorov. what you will see here now as you are looking at the granular bit is a progression of the meetings they had in new york in december. you will be hearing about more humanitarian aid corridors opening up. they want the fragile ceasefire, the fragile partial truce to be upheld and strengthened and here a little about political transition now and what they set up in december when russia agreed to help pass that unanimous vote

but is moscow now too reliant on seeking military success?we have gone from a country of prosperity to country of war. a country of permanent mobilization. the authority needs new targets and new causes for the rally. steve: if russia is now in a state of permanent mobilization, you can expect more patriotism at home and possibly more tension with the west. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. ♪ katty: other news around the world -- the office of the attorney general in switzerland says it's conducting criminal proceedings against the former fifa secretary general. proceedings for criminal mismanagement follow an investigation carried out by the fifa ethics committee. the prosecutor said on thursday they have conducted searches and interviews, but no arrests have been made. two people in guinea tested positive for the ebola virus. the news comes hours after the who said the latest flare-up in sierra leone had ended, raising hopes that there were no concerned cases of ebola in west africa. the disease killed over 11 happened people --11,000 peop

it should be not so far away from moscow because we are a news media and we -- we are working on moscow time. and so i think portugal is a nice country. and there is room and not so expansive but we can start our work at 5:00 in the morning. so, it's nice to make media, but not in such terms. so, port guiugal, bye-bye. living costs. we have -- we had 20 editors. we needed to move them to another country. we need to pay them salaries. and if we move them, for example, to israel, it's warm too, but -- yeah, likes israel. me, too. but it's really expensive country, so we understood that we can't afford it, so our budget is too big and we can't afford this country. so, bye-bye, israel. >> i think you underestimate the warm thing. >> me, too. >> i underestimate many things, actually. then immigration law. because if you have, as i said, 20 editors and i need to build a company in another country and hire too much foreign -- foreign employees, there is not so much countries in the world who like this process. so, ukraine, lithuania, bye-bye, netherlands, so these are our choices. we saw we're

now the 6 third anniversary of joseph stalin's death has been marked in moscow.f the communist party joined with loyalests to mark the passing of the leader and the ceremony takes place each year at the grave in red square and led the soviet union from the late 20s until his death in 1953. some russians say that a worsening economy has left them feeling somewhat nostalgic for the soviet days and with apparel menry election moving prospect or resurging the party is starting to worry the kremlin and rory challenge reports from moscow. >> reporter: it's often one of the first things newcomers notice in moscow hammers, sickles, stars everywhere communist is a part of russia's history and the collective psychology too. resent polls suggest half of all russians still think they were actually better off under the soviet system. and moscow exhibition of stalin era art the curator told me the pride people feel for past glor glorys. >> translator: interest in stalin is increasing. it is understandable. we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of world war ii and we should n

there have been suggestions that maybe damascus and tehran and damascus and moscow are not all on thepage about the future here, and that maybe the russians came in at some point to assist damascus from being dominated by iran. a lot of speculation, as you would expect, from these kind of closed door relationships and meetings. but breaking that door wide open here is a very clear signal from moscow and that says we're leaving. now, it may not be tonight and it will take a long time and they may leave some kind of presence behind. like for example they had in ukraine. but this is a key moment, wolf. >> it certainly is, nick paton walsh with the breaking news. we will stay all over it. nick paton walsh and clarissa ward, excellent reporting. thanks for watching. the news continues next on cnn. >>> hi there, everyone, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me on this monday. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world as we're going to continue on this significant breaking news here we're learning. russian president vladimir putin has ordered some troop

she's a host of moscow radio and columnist for the newspaper.she's also currently working on a project at international support for movement in historical perspective and contemporary context. and to her left we have stanisl stanislav kucher. editor in chief of multimedia projects around the world. editor in chief. 2002 he produced the documentary "russian rank" which received a number of awards and was shown in kiev. it was not shown on russian tv. a host of "the 25th hour." which was suspended eventually. he served as political advisor and one of the founders of the platform committee. currently a member to presidential society to human rights. been associated with a variety of top institutions and served as a go between the american policy and academic community focussed on russia and well published in english and russ n russian. he serves, i think, as an interpreter of american culture society in politics for russian audience, which is an important role. with that, i'll turn it over to nikolai. >> thank you. i think we'll have three of them

and we are all mortal. >> kennedy and his people waited for any reaction from moscow at all.y got the teletype saying that for the first and only time a speech of an american president covered a complete page of pravda, the party newspaper. >> khrushchev decided to change his world policy. the strategy of creating tension all around the american empire was dropped. and he said to his colleagues, you know what? let's give him the test ban treaty. >> the united states, the soviet union and great britain promise to end all nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. >> big deal soviet union, the same as united states. and khrushchev was very proud that they stopped testing and poisoned atmosphere. >> man's long hopeful quest for peace will cease to be only a dream and will begin to acquire solid reality. >> the nuclear test ban treaty is one of the truly great achievements of the kennedy presidency. >> we shall not regret that we have made this clear and honorable national commitment to the cause of man's survival. for under this treaty, we can and mus

al jazeera is live in moscow.ou heard the secretary of state saying he's focused on charting a path healed to end the syrian conflict. are there details coming out of his meeting with lavrov about what that exactly means? >> not yet, and i don't think there will be any details until much later on in the day after actually john kerry and sergey lavrov head to the kremlin to meet with vladimir putin and then they will hold their press conference. one can imagine what they're talking about. the geneva talks have reached some sort of a stumbling block at this point. the u.n. envoy, staffan de mistura complaining about the fact that the syrian delegation, the government delegation procrastinating, not want be to tackle the core issue of these talks, which is how about this interim government, how are we going to set up this transitional government that will actually after that lead to new elections and obviously a stumbling block being the future of bashar al assad himself. now, when it comes to the two sides, u.s. and

but for one lucky bride in moscow, that was the cost of her dress alone.s has more on what's being called the most expensive wedding ever ♪ >> reporter: it's hard to ignore the irony, the woman who once sang "love don't cost a thing" performing at what they're calling a billion dollar wedding. said gutseriev an oxford educated heir to a russian got married over the weekend. while nobody knows the total cost, the bride said i do in a $25,000 haute couture gown weighing i at a whopping 25 pounds. purported 600 guests entered through a walkway that could have rivaled cinderella's castle. the venue was pretty much carpeted in flowers and the entertainment, along with the aforementioned j.lo -- ♪ >> reporter: sting sang his classic "every breath you take," oh and enrique iglesias was there too. the night ended with a bang as wedding the couple is rumored to be heading to london soon to have another ceremony. dan harris, abc news, new york. >>> that's all good and well and nice. i always believe you judge a wedding based on the wedding cake. how good was the cak

hoda abdel-hamid in moscow. >> still to come, brazil's political crisis deepens, as thousands protest against the government. government. >>> welcome back. our top stories. at least five people have been killed in an explosion at a popular shopping district in istanbul. 36 have been injured, the blast coming less than a week after suicide bombers killed 37 in turkey's capital ankara >>> france starts the protest of extraditing the main suspect from the attacks in paris. salah abdeslam was wounded and arrested in a raid in brussels on friday, after four months on the run >>> all 62 passengers on a plane to dubai are dead. investigate juniors are trying determine what caused the crash. >> more on the explosion in ankara. we are joined on skype. give us a sense of what you - your reaction to what happened? >> well, this is a colossal failure, for sure. this is the attack since last year. the second in less than a week. if you look to the places that are subject to a tremendous attack. crawling with the heavy police presence in the heart of the city. in both places, and the only way you c

even heavy by the standards of moscow. >> reporter: yes. that's right moscow and snow go hand-in-hand you think, but by those standards it was huge. the most in 50 years. huge amounts coming down. 20 centimeters of snow. it is never easy getting around in these conditions. over a hundred flights cancelled because of this very significant snow fall. i think we will see more in the next couple of days, but it will start to ease as we go on through the next few days or so. there we go with our line of snow there across the eastern side. a little window of dryer weather there. then this murky weather across the balance cans-- balkans. wet weather coming in here. snow around the alps towards austria. snow not too far from moscow as we go on through thursday. the remainder of thursday and we see more of that just pushing up as we head towards the weekend. still quite a few showers into the balkans, some wet weather into greece, turkey, athens. more snow making its way in across a good part of france and germany. cold air in behind back home. we w

reporter: but this is likely to only happen after an official pardon in moscow from present vladimir from president vladimir putin. brent: our reporter is here. >> hedge funds in the u.s. want their money back. barack obama is visiting argentinian president macri. itself america's second-biggest economy. reporter: in argentina, they are known as vulture funds, u.s. hedge funds that many blame for taking a toll on their finances, and there are frequent protests. people here are worried about their future. the country's economy continues to struggle. in 2014, the deked dispute triggered a new crisis. -- the debt dispute triggered a new crisis. since then, the country has been cut off from international credit markets. the impact is clear to see in the numbers. in 2013, the economy grew almost 3%, but in the two years after that, it posted minimal growth. this year, it is expected to contract. to make matters worse, inflation has surged over 20%. imports and exports have seen a double-digit decline, and that frightened potential investors. president mauricio macri is making plans to pay

the first thing in the morning here in moscow.ck from their base in syria back to the permanent base in russia. it really does appear now to be happening. it comes at a crucial time. putin is eventually declaring victory. he has wins to point to. he has secured his ally bashar al assad. he brought the warring parties to the negotiates table. more importantly, he bolstered russian's standing on the international stage. especially is taking notice of what moscow says and does. >> matth matthew chance, thank . >> and this surprise move is coming among the peace talks to resolve the conflict. we have international editor nic robertson with the latest from geneva. >> reporter: the man heading the talks, chief negotiator here says this is a significant development. he hopes it will have a positive impact on the talks here. until yesterday, he met with the syrian government and their red line is they would not back down on bashar al assad. he had to stay in power. today he will meet with the opposition. they say assad has to go. this is

secretary of state met in moscow, and discussed what a political transition could look like in syria. >> if russia is fully engaged in the efrt, and all of us try to get bashar al-assad to make the right decision, to engage in a political process, that results in a transition and peace for syria >>> al jazeera's hoda abdel-hamid has been following the talks in moscow. >> it was a long meeting between danielle derry and vladimir putin, lasting about four hours. coming out of that, john kerry said they discussed ways to make sure that the ceasefire holds. they said that they had decided that a new constitution should we written by next august, and the issue of detainees is one that is important, to be resolved as soon as possible. this is something that the opposition has been asking for. those in the hands of the syrian government and opposition. it was said that he found that vladimir putin was committed to the process, and how vladimir putin pulled his weight on bashar al-assad to make him dick to his part of the deal. probably we had an answer to that. he said tackling the issue of

let's go to cnn's matthew chance in moscow. matthew, that came as a surprise to the u.s.n. >> reporter: not just to them, but everybody else. it was classic putin. it was unpredictable. the russian president gave the order for the military operation in syria to come to an end. today, the russian defense minister has announced the planes carrying out more than 9,000 air strikes are being prepared to make the long flight back to the permanent bases in russia. it does seem that russia declared victory and it is pulling out. it has victories it can point to. the bashar al assad issue where it gained 10,000 square miles of territory. it brought the warring parties to the table. they are in geneva now starting the peace process. that would not have happened if it weren't for the russian intervention and pressure on the opposition forces. this bolstered the reputation overseas. russia is seen as a global player who should be taken seriously. >> matthew chance, thank you. >>> we mentioned the surprise move by russia comes among peace talks. we have our editor nic robertson with t

. >> four years ago today, the area had the severely weather date on record. and moscow, ohio, dayton, indiana, took direct hits. ef 3 tornado that ripped through moscow was quarter mile wide at one point. >> you know what i remember about that? working the weekend with you before it happened and >> leading to that time, we knew it would be bad. i remember the first block of news we did together, was entirely not about tornadoes. it was the biggest day of my career. the first thing, was remembering those who we lost. i don't even like talking about march 2nd, 2012. it upsets me. it's a day we lost 11 people. all the people listed here. many coming from piner, holton, other communities. all the deaths were terrible. we remember them for a moment. i'm glad the sun is out. for a moment, those people were lost. many remember march 2nd, 2012, i was there that night and many remember april 3rd, 1974. thankfully we have sun. that will keep rain and snow and storms away for the short term but we have rain and snow showers coming tomorrow. we have windchill now in cincinnati. atop of the radso

he's a russian activist who joins us here today from moscow. he's the deputy chairman of the freedom party. he's continued his work exposing mr. putin's intentions in ukraine and now with his new report, putin's close relationship with the chechen leader ramzan kadyrov. this is not the first time we've ilya at the atlantic council. last year he was here to present his report which was started but unfinished by nemtsov on russia's war in ukraine, titled "putin war." this report we present alongside our own report, hiding in plain sight, putin's war in ukraine, exposes the hidden death of the russian soldiers killed in eastern ukraine. and the report that ilya is presenting here today was released in moscow just last month to mark the one-year anniversary of boris nemtsov's murder. in the years leading up to this event, ilya and other opponents of cad officer received threats from despite these threats and even a bomb threat, ilya continued on with the presentation. facing increasing pressure many opposition leaders, journalists, activists have b

still >> the trees in moscow still show signs of the storm, four years later. debris remains clinging to the branches, like the ugly reminder, of the recollection of the night. >> it was like a war zone, almost. trees laying everywhere. my mom's garage was gone. the outside garage was gone. we just seen -- i mean we couldn't really get too far because of the debris and stuff, you know around us. >> the twister jumped across the river, flattening houses and bringing one home lethally down a village resident. even today, some of the old bureau hows remain empty with their scars easy to see. many have the shadows of the evening buried in the foundations. green space growing in its and it came here in 52. as our photographer and i were walking up here. this place literally looked like there was a bomb. and the joaquin introduced us to shell-shocked neighbors. james tullen survived the storm in their house. others didn't fair nearly as well. >> i miss the houses, and a lot of people we used to know moved out. moved to different places. i think we missed that. this is one of the towns, ever

the two black box flight recorders are in moscow undergoing further examination. giving an update earlier, the flight check chief executive from due bay gave this report. >> we now have our own specialist, a team both on the ground in ostrov and in dubai. we must not be drawn into speculation. we are asked that authorities are given the time, space they need to report definitely on the case of what happened in the accident. >> we'll explore the u.s. and cubed tumultuous past ahead of president obama's historic visit. >>> we speak to rural brazilians who have lost hope and faith in their warring politicians.v >>> hello, again, turkey said the suicide bomber behind the blast in istanbul on saturday is a suspected isil member. five arrests have been made in connection with the attack which killed five people. iraqi forces launched an operation against isil fighters throughout western anbar. at least 24 soldiers have been killed by isil in two separate attacks on the central province. a suicide bombers have killed eight soldiers in the central town. >>> greece has beg

a second group of russian warplanes flew out of syria today in line with moscow's decision to withdraw most of its forces. the full significance is not clear, but it comes as secretary of state john kerry gets set to make a rare trip to moscow to discuss the conflict. that russian pullout from syria is expected to continue as well after several planes flew home from syria both yesterday, and now again today. the u.n. envoy to syria hopes the ongoing move will help the peace talks in geneva. he calls them a significant development toward resolving the conflict. but the withdrawal's full significance is still not clear. russia is keeping an airbase in syria, and some jets have still been in action. documents to the afterct over syria -- being handed demands from the syrian government and the main opposition group behind negotiations committee ohm c. the first meeting with the make, the agency made two -- made two main points. have presented the paper generalizing the goals that might reach political transition. >> to call to release thousands of prisoners is central. executes an regime u

this is in moscow. i want you to talk about the .mpact [video clip] advantage is we allowed you to show yourselves. we are not making you do anything, you are free in your work. we give you the opportunity to have fun, to enjoy your work. we can see the result of it. the result is awesome, great. i want to say happy anniversary, this is a great today, 10 years. you have managed to achieve a lot of things. you know all of that, but i want to repeat myself. six information channels have been created, and also global video agency. today, russia today is great. number one news channel on youtube [applause] brian: so when you watch that, an american public television station that carries a here in the station, what is your action -- what is your reaction? peter: it is a state-funded television operation that is meant to translate to the west basically the kremlin's point of , view. their view is because cnn, c-span, and washington post are not giving them a fair shake, they have to counter. it is an informat

john kerry will have arrived in moscow on wednesday. they say the main focus of the trip is to discuss how to resolve the syrian conflict. russia said that it hopes that the visit will contribute to the normalization of relations with the united states. >> 17-year-old palestinian has been shot dead by israeli forces in the west bank. the palestinian ministry of health say that the victim was killed in a mosque in hebron. the man tried to stab an israeli soldier. there have been continuing violence since october. 204 palestinians and 29 israelis have been killed. >>> a dark day for humanity. that's how they've described the reducing refugee coming to europe. those who do not qualified for asylum will be sent back to turkey. neave barker from bruce else. >> it's a deal that will effect the lives of hundreds of stranded refugees and migrants. a game changer that shakes the very foundation of the european union. turkey has agreed to pay a crucial part in stemming the flow of refugees in europe. >> turkey will be getting all those who are cr

. >> live to hoda abdel-hamid, in the moscow bureau. they need to get to the black flight box recorders, and they need to hear the conversations between the pilots in the last minutes of the flight. >> yes, absolutely. and they did find both black boxes - the voice recorder and a data recorder. from there the investigators will look at what exactly happened or at least try to understand, and i think that's the question. both the families of the victims of this crash, and probably the officials by dubai would like to know why did the pilot decide to keep in that holding pattern over the airport of ros tov, for two hours, rather than head to a nearby airport that is only 300km away. that would have been a short flight, and that's where most of the other flights - all of the other flights scheduled to land went to. so that is one question fly dubai will have to answer to the relatives of the victims of the crash. >> thank you, hoda. >> still to come. lots more coverage of the breaking news coming out of istanbul. plus, brazil's political c

on monday we have the government side here, before the announcement from moscow meeting with staffanmistura, and in one hour's time, the parallel meeting, it will be the opposition who will be meeting with staffan de mistura. he has already put out a statement, the u.n. mediator, saying he is pleased by this development. he says it is constructive development for the talks, the news coming out of moscow. >> that is our james bayes on the ground for us in geneva. >>> when we come back, making the connection. the nfl acknowledging for the first time that there is a link between concussions and the brain disease cte. also -- ♪ >> reporter: the creator of hamilton making a trip to the rose garden. >>> for the first time an official of the national football league is admitting that there is a link between the game and traumatic brain injuries. that is a major change from what the league has been maintaining all along. >> reporter: on capitol hill a round table discussion on concussions was playing out as a routine affair until it became anything but when the attention turned specifically

president vladimir putin made the surprise announcement yesterday, saying moscow will pull most of its forces from the country. five months of air support have helped the syrian army regroup and go on the offensive, but that this stage -- but at this stage it remains unclear what the kremlin's plan involves. claire williams reports. claire: our task has largely in a koppers, the words of vladimir putin as he announced most russian troops would be withdrawn from syria. vladimir putin: i hope today's decision will signal to all will increase the the peacell sides in process and solve the syrian question using peaceful means. claire: another round of un-sponsored peace talks in geneva monday. the opposition negotiations committee responded to russia's move cautiously. despite kremlin denials, it is believed russian troops have targeted not just islamic state targets but moderate opposition once, too. when they remove all russian the othersyria, positives that should be taken by mr. putin by saying that he is standing beside the syrian people, besides the dictators of syria. claire: putin

he's pro-moscow, and he has been helping the russians do deals like this across the province.e is not only will respected here, he is well armed. he has a private army. in syria, the difference between war and peace isn't always clear. thanks to the russians, there is a truce in syria. and now they are helping us achieve reconciliation. deal done, the residents are given humanitarian aide and the chance for a checkup with the russian army doctor. >> how do you end a civil war which has left a quarter of a million people dead and destroy the country? >> in small steps. village by village. >> on a russian military plane, we are taken to the syrian capital to experience reconciliation there. as we approach central damascus, we see destruction, but no fighting. today the u.n. said the cessation of hostilities in syria was holding, but only just. success, it said, was not guaranteed. syria says europe should be praying for peace here. >> if it fails, maybe there will be more terrorists and they may bomb here. reporter: we're brought to another district. they charge as soon as we ge

a russian analyst in moscow joins us by skype. thank you for joining us. any insight that you can give us about what the statement means, the forces in syria just explain to us what you see that to mean. >> well, the most important part of it is, it is being announced by the kremlin that russia will retain its bases in syria including the air base near latakia. if you have an air base you can always deploy combat aircraft or withdraw them. planes can fly back to russia, right now that would make practical military sense because after the ceasefire has begun the number of sorties, have been decreasing. they can fly back to russia or back again. >> this statement doesn't necessarily mean an end of russian air strikes in syria? >> well, they have been cut down but not -- since we are going to retain the air base, and that is absolutely sure, that's official, we retain the air base. and that means some aircraft are going to stay. but the number of aircraft will be cut down. that's obvious. maybe something else will be cut down. but the entire airborne, this is