after twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea this means that the five countries can move ahead with sharing out the resource rich inland body of water which is the largest in the world ari chalons has the details from moscow. with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because we have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the tight cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that he has some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of

was russia played as intermediary three saudi arabia and iran. in the last deal in june come saudi arabia energy minister said -- negotiated himself. arabia and russia are dominant in opec, which diminishes the importance of the cartel itself. it becomes redundant. they do the dictating. the question was, why would you run with the saudi arabians? they do not have an option. they want prices to be more than $65, especially given the upcoming sanctions. what we have seen right after tweeted anden trump started pressuring saudi arabia, there was response from saudi arabia. they are ready to cooperate with the u.s. to supply more oil to the market. redundanthe deal seem because there was an agreement made on june 22 and a couple days later, the u.s. interferes and saudi arabia agrees to break the deal. of this becoming less and less important but for the last few years and for the first half of 2019, this deal is in place. it's a very vague and abstract mechanism to regulated -- to regulate it. opec, it's basically that entity or institution that is

was, russia played as intermediary between saudi arabia and iran. in the last deal which happen in june saudi arabia energy minister and iranian energy minister negotiated between themselves. but overall i think yes, saudi arabia and russia are the dominant in the opec, which actually diminishes the importance of the cartel itself, becomes idle i think or redundant. but yes, they do the dictating. then the question was why would iranians agree with the saudi arabians? because they don't have any other option. they want prices to be more than 65, $70, especially given the upcoming sanctions. it's in their best interest as well. what we should seem right after the deal went trump started pressuring saudi arabia and there was response and saudi arabia that they are ready to cooperate with the united states to supply more oil to the market, it makes the deal seem redundant because there was an agreement that was made on june 22 and then a couple days later the united states interferes and saudi arabia agrees to break the deal. these guys are showing opec

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after twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan have scientific we meant on the legal status of the caspian sea it means the five countries can now move ahead with sharing out the resource rich in land body of water which is the largest in the world or a challenge has this report from moscow. with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because you have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that he has some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of

shores of the world's largest inland body of water have agreed on how to divide its vast resources russia iran kazakstan turkmenistan and as advised on will open the way for the exploration of the caspian is vast gas and oil resources were a challenge for them with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that peace be how fast the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that in some admonish we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of fairness although we did not determine the borderlines we mark that the countries with the coast of particula

program of the twenty two years of negotiations iran says edition agreements will be needed in a territorial dispute over the caspian sea the leaders of russia kazakhstan iran turkmenistan and azerbaijan which border the caspian sea are meeting in the port city of a town where they're making speeches right now open to the media well the caspian sea is landlocked which raises the question whether it is indeed a sea or a lake five countries share its coastline russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan and that's led to the dispute over which country lays claim over the caspian and how much now if an agreement is reached to legally designate the caspian a lake it would see it divided up equally between the five nations with twenty percent each if it remains c. though the territory would be split between those countries according to how much coastline they share iran and therefore receive the smallest claim and that's been the major sticking point in these negotiations because the caspian lies above one of the world's largest collections of oil and gas some forty eight billion barrels of oil will reach islands is following the story fro

that leaves russia. iran does not have anywhere to turn except russia and possibly china and while china may give it money, it cannot give it the political and military support it needs against the west. therefore, russia is in a position, or so it believes, to deliver, if i may use that term, iran in some sense, but it is not strong enough or willing to enforce the situation where a -- iranian gets kicked out of syria altogether because it cannot do that and knows it would simply further destabilized syria and undermine everything moscow has accomplished. so it is in a strategically fortunate decision. -- position. it is now the primary interlocutor between israel and iran and the united states has been forced to accept russia on its terms. which is the way the russians saw the helsinki summit. it is also the primary interlocutor between syria and jordan, as the recent agreement shows, and also, it is, as we will discuss later today, fully active in north africa and the gulf, and using that springboard to go

oceans so the surface will largely be open for joint use whereas the floor will be divided between russia iran turkmenistan azerbaijan and kazakstan though the exact size of each country's lot is still to be agreed. at stake are several trillion dollars worth of oil gas and pipelines for years the full economic potential of this has been blocked by the lack of a settlement the u.s. government estimates caspian gas could boost global production by twenty seven percent over the coming decade but it's not just about energy. which it which to security is very important and this is what underpins our agreement this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east this really affects the basic interests of our states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and transparent criminality this summer it's also makes the caspian sea a lockout zone these leaders don't want anyone else meddling in their water is no country that doesn't share the shoreline will be allowed a military presence there rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the turkish lira has plunged to another record l

a come to the program our top story off to twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan and menaced on have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means the five countries can move ahead with sharing out the resource rich in a body of water the largest in the world or a challenge reports now from moscow. with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakhstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because you have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that he has some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to

leaders of russia iran and three former soviet states of signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources. counting is underway in mali to the presidential runoff vote president abraham but kater is pitted against opposition leaders. the opposition accuse the ruling party of fraud during the first round on sunday they claimed further violations. u.s. president donald trump's decision to reimpose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor iraq it shares a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran with goods and people crossing the. any attention of the name reports now from the border district of pens when in iraq . each day trucks slowly wind around treacherous roads in the zagg gross mountains carrying goods from iran to iraq since the u.s. announced it was reimposing sanctions against iran rumors and uncertainty are also traveling back and forth across the border iranian bus driver rahman a bella is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will disappear. as a

shores of the world's largest inland body of water have agreed on how to divide its vast resources russia iran kazakstan turkmenistan and as a version will open the way for exploration of the caspian vast gas and oil resources where a challenge affords them with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the dispute over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successor states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because we have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for resolving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that in some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of fairness although we did not determine the borderlines we mark that the countries with the coast of pa

the leaders of russia iran can extend as a by john and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources. counting is underway in mali after the presidential runoff vote president. is pitted against opposition leader so male a c.c. . our hospitals in have run out of vital drugs for treating cancer patients israel's land air and sea blockade has delayed medical supplies from reaching the coastal strip before but the u.n. says international funding cuts and the rift between palestinian groups have made the situation worse than ever char strafford reports from gaza one. hundred was diagnosed with breast cancer five months ago. has come to this gaza hospital for the seven to eight potentially life saving chemotherapy sessions but the drugs she needs have run out and they aren't available in any of the hospitals in gaza either. the treatment for this kind of disease cannot be delayed i blame anyone who is in any way responsible for this i've pain in my neck my shoulders i have trouble breathi

around the sanctions that are going to are designed to hurt it so making sure that iran has good relations with russia turkmenistan with us are very john is going to be important for iran stopping this country's progress with regard to their legitimate rights that they have as independent countries is not going to be in iran's benefit it's going to be in iran's benefit to be friendly towards its neighbors especially given the fact that you don't have serious enemies and making sure that the resources that the caspian sea has is going to provide benefits for all countries. is at the end of the day is going to be more important for iran because there are countries back to the united states to choke the country and you know have a regime change so at the end of the day i think iran is benefiting from this and the final resolution on exactly what percentage of. the caspian sea belongs to each country is not finalized the final draft is. sort of. providing some guidelines but the final percentage is not final a so if iran decides to. make a point out of the percentage issue later on and you don't has the r

president that iran's and russia's interests were aligned in syria but removing iran entirely from syria was beyond russian capabilities perhaps there could be something the u.s. and russia could do together although he didn't elaborate on that he will be going directly from here to geneva for talks with his russian opposite number he also spoke about what had taken place overnight the u.s. president donald trump at a rally in west virginia saying that after he had taken jerusalem off the table for that in terms of the negotiations between israelis and palestinians that the palestinians could now expect to be next in turn to get something bolton said that that was only natural for a deal maker like donald trump to expect to hear from the palestinians what they would want having lost out on that front although the palestinian position remains entirely unchanged we heard from one of our show me a senior p.l.o. member this morning that there was no coming back from what she called the theft of jerusalem and that it was one of the key constituent elements in any future palestinian state and

benefit iran as about i think the third point is the relationship that you're seeing between iran and russia. as you describe then of the day interest in this statement for some years there or not but now the interest that. iran. the issue of the nuclear actually made after the u.s. sanctions and after the fact that the europeans are not really going to be able to do much with regard to them if it actually meant is looking towards iran is looking towards not russia and these other countries are for and i'm sorry for it i'm sorry interrupt you but let me let me let me just for it sorry to interrupt you but let me just pick up another point because after the agreement was reached iranian president rouhani called it a very important step but he also added that we should recognize there are more important issues that need to be addressed what specifically is he alluding to when he says that. i think you're talking about geopolitics the fact that. iran is. so your sanctions you don't need to make sure that its relations with its neighbors are normal and advancing. iran is looking at ways of going

i think that those things don't get the attention they should and they're wider interest with russia and iran and iraq that the u.s. and turkey where they could easily car i mean on the basis of their will to do so either exist in the middle east the point that i was that i was making is that you know turkey is not only a new no member but turkey to his schemes turkey is not a backwater anymore turkey's economies grow and it is a number of the g twenty if you know it when you actually take a look at the relationship between turkey and not it's the it's not between a century turkey depended on u.s. aid to prop up its economy that is no longer true the largest trading partner that turkey has to date is the european union that trade is worth eighty four point seven billion dollars with the united states it's only nine dollars and if you're actually keeping a look at what we're turkey's interests lie. why is much more are we not only you got countries that have been pouring a lot of investments and business into turkey i totally agree that the united states entered the new she needs other turkey

russia iran kazakstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means they can share out the results rich in the end body of water the largest in the world. a polling station official has been killed in an attack by an on group in northern mali this is mali and vote in a presidential runoff likely to return the incumbent to bramble because to power. a more than one hundred people are demonstrating against racism in the u.s. city of charlottesville a year after a white supremacist rally turned deadly. when other stories we're following the israeli prime minister has reacted angrily to a mass protest in tel aviv against the nation state law tens of thousands of people took part in the protests led by israel's palestinian minority laura fishley affirms israel's jewish character but critics believe it tuns non jewish minorities into second class citizens who took particular aim at the presence of palestinian flags among crowds. why don't more of their lives are so full of billy bush and we saw the palestine liberation organization flags

around the sanctions that are going to are designed to hurt it so making sure that iran has good relations with russia to talk about it does a region is going to be important for iran stopping these countries progress with regard to their legitimate rights that they have as independent countries is not going to be in iran's benefit it's going to be in iran's benefit to be friendly towards its neighbors especially given the fact that you don't have serious enemies and making sure that the resources that the caspian sea has is going to provide benefits for all countries that. is at the end of the day is going to be more important for to iran because there are countries back to the united states to choke the country and you know have a regime change so i'd end of the day i think iran is benefiting from this and the final resolution on exactly what percentage of. the caspian sea belongs to each country is not finalized the final draft is. sort of. providing some guidelines but the final percentage is not final a so if iran decides to. make a point out of the percentage issue later on you don't has the roo

the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan. and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea that means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources and vote counting is underway in mali's presidential runoff election the choosing between current president of the home. and opposition leader . now u.s. president donald trump's decision to re-impose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor of rock a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran with goods as people crossing daily and going to reports from the border district. in iraq. each day trucks slowly wind around treacherous roads in the. goods from iran to iraq says the u.s. announced it was reimposing sanctions against iran rumors and uncertainty are also traveling back and forth across the border iranian bus driver. is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will disappear. really i don't know because you can expect anything here the politicians have made any agreements if they

bordering the caspian sea have signed a historic agreement after more than two decades of talks russia iran. turkmenistan and the countries surrounding the world's largest body of law unlock water reached a diplomatic breakthrough on trade security and environmental issues while they were putin called the summit a milestone event adding that the accord limits military presence in the caspian sea only to certain agreed upon areas close to the shore the end of the summit the leaders release the baby sturgeon into the water mark of friendship and solid aren't. lots of stories for but trumps wall as seen from both sides next in our documentary you're watching r.t. international. when lawmakers manufactured him sentenced him to public wells. when the room in closest project themselves. with the famous merry go round lives only the one percent. nor middle of the room sick. the real news is really. serious.

the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea that means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources and counting is underway in mali after the presidential runoff president. is president opposition leader. let's get more on our top story now of race relations in the u.s. the first anniversary of that violence and charlottesville we're joined by mary frances berry professor of history at the university of pennsylvania and she's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what did you make of today's events and the fact that as we mentioned the white supremacists was so greatly outnumbered by the anti-racism protesters. well i think it was a great day it was but there was a great day because it showed you didn't have to have the violence that took place in charlottesville that if the police will do their job you can hear lots and lots of anti-racist people come out to express their point of view and you can have the few little people showed up who are n

energy who came here to meet his russian current counterpart so then the relationship between russia and iran can you put it into a little bit of historical context context for us because it sounds like these are quite deep ties between the countries. well actually the relationship between russia and iran was primarily a political and military one certainly we've seen it unfold for example in syria over the past few years trade was quite limited up to ten billion dollars that was until now now these are two countries are actually both facing sanctions they both need each other and they both see that they they have a strategic allies now you have to remember that just after the two thousand and fifteen deal well iran at that time had preferred to make deals with the european companies so somehow russia was the plan b. i think iran has become more proud pragmatic now knowing that its only way way out is really to look a bit more eastward so is russia and china is a food sorry for goods program that has been going on since two thousand and seventeen we heard from the russian minister of energy a

oceans so the surface will largely be open for joint use whereas the floor will be divided between russia iran turkmenistan azerbaijan and kazakstan though the exact size of each country's lot is still to be agreed. at stake are several trillion dollars worth of oil gas and pipelines for years the full economic potential of this has been blocked by the lack of a settlement the u.s. government estimates caspian gas could boost global production by twenty seven percent over the coming decade but it's not just about energy. which it which to security is very important and this is what underpins our agreement this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east this really affects the basic interests of our states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and transponder criminality this summer it's also makes the caspian sea a lock out zone these leaders don't want anyone else meddling in their waters no country that doesn't share the shoreline will be allowed a military presence there will reach allan's al-jazeera moscow a polling station worker has been killed in

bordering the caspian sea have signed a historic agreement after more than two decades of talks russia iran kazakstan turkmenistan the five countries surrounding the world's largest body of water reached a diplomatic breakthrough on trade security and environmental issues like the mirror putin called the summit a milestone if it the accord limits military presence in the caspian sea only to certain agreed upon is close to the shore of the end of the summit the leaders released baby sturgeon into the water as a mark of friendship solid dorrit. all right more of the week's top news stories with me in just over thirty minutes hope to see you then but do you stay tonight for some great art program right ahead. this is. the church secret indeed just like priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this a do graphic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest says is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard is not the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused

facebook bans hundreds of pages of groups and accounts linked to the iran and russia for lead to political meddling. broadcasting live directress it is a moscow this is r t international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the u.s. national security advisor and his russian counterpart have held more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much away to reporters at a short news briefing afterwards. i think we made a lot of progress we identified certain areas where lines of communication could be restored there were some where the areas of disagreement remain we didn't see. much utility in resuming discussions there are going to be some things where we're going to consider inside the united states government consider more fully what our position is and then decide to proceed from there well this meeting of national security advisors was well the groundwork was laid for it when the president's met in helsinki last month today they cover the whole range of pretty much what had been touched upon a in helsinki they talked about nuclear nonproliferation they

on top of that, it's trumps strategy on the rent and russia. -- iran and russia.urkey to join him as they are importing most of thee oil. sending the turkish there are further down. it is just collateral damage that trumped assad care about. -- trump does not care about. what do people -- >> what do people on wall street make of the behavior of the president? >> i would say that they consider it is pretty effective. china and russia are suffering. their financial markets are not as well as their economies. the moscow stock exchange. into a fair market. russia's gdp growth hovers between 1.8% in 2.6%. in the absence of any serious restructuring of the economy, russia is doing to steadily fall behind the rest of the world whose economies are growing at it we higher rate. looking over to china, the trade or cannot have come at a worse time for the country which is attempting to fix its debt situation because of the growth of the country has been seeing what the uncredited. it is really bad time for these countries. >> thank you. now, at the bit of the holiday season,

iran and saudia arabia. they're arch enemies to each other. no one expected them to get along and come up with a solution or a deal. well, russia managed to play between these two powers and actually convince iran -- russia was very instrumental. now we had the deal for almost two years. actually we have three separate deals. because every time these countries come together, it's a weird group of intrastates that are driven by the notion that, you know, we have to stabilize these prices. because if we don't, you know, this regime or these countries will basically fail. but at the same time they're competing each other. there's also many other interests as well. but russia's role was mitigation role in this create an important role to bring these countries together and achieve the stabilization. as a result, the oil prices have increased from $44 -- average $44 in 2016 to now we are in mid 70s. and just to put it in perspective, in 2017, the average prices were around $64. and russian -- according to russian management, russia has gained additional $36 billion for that $10 price increase. just to put it into context, overall exp

russia in the past. now we are looking at iran. how widespread is this? max: it's kind of hard to say.th k anybody who saw that russia was attempting this kindv of divinauthentic activity on facebook probably could have guessed there were a number ofnt other governwho had the resources, the desire, and ideological commitments to do it. given that it can't, on the one , hand, be surprising at iran has undertaken the same kind of things. it doesn't mean we have a good sense of who else is trying to do thi both state and nonstate actors. it'les difficult to get a ha on. jane: it has been an extraordinary two days, with microsoft, twitter, facebook, and reports now that the democratic party suffered another attempted hack. just how vulnerable are we? max: i would say fairly vulnerable. i think that you have to divida w different things. the recent attack on the democratic national committee referred to the fbi is aqu estion of vulnerability of internal technological services. is your email safe?ma is the e hackable of people who work at the dnc? then there is

it has taken twenty two years but it's looking like russia iran john turkmenistan and cousin don are close to settling their differences over the caspian sea their leaders signed a convention in port city in because a court city of act how it establishes rules for declaring each country's territorial waters and fishing zones but the issue of carving up the resorts rich seabed will be negotiated later nonetheless the russian president vladimir putin says the agreements a good start and will be crucial to regional security and beyond. species is up us this to the u.n. security is very important and this is what underpins our agreements which is this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east so this really affects the basic interests states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and trans boundary criminality while iran's leader hailed steps towards sharing the caspian's natural resources adding it was a good sign of their support of the iran nuclear deal but he falls into as bad a jumble involved in the five countries efforts to support the iran

bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status a convention signed by russia iran as a by john kazakstan and. decades of dispute over the world's largest and close body of water and its huge oil and gas reserves iran says dividing up the seabed will require additional agreements. jordanian security forces have pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their collapsed hideout following a deadly shootout four soldiers were also killed when the assailants opened fire at a set of explosions late on saturday the clash west of the capital amman is one of the deadliest in recent years. voters in mali excuse me voters in mali went to the polls on sunday in a presidential runoff marred by reports of violence security sources say an election official was shot and killed by jihadists in the north of the country incumbent ibrahim. cast his vote in the capital bamako and he's up against so my let's just say one small loss to kate in twenty thirteen claims the west african state has become even more insecure indicators rule extremists killed three polling

also this our facebook fans hundreds of pages groups and the counseling to iran and russia for alleged political meddling also this hour. video of a british policeman slapping a teenage girl during an arrest causes outrage and triggers to bait about what constitutes reasonable force to grown police officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them i'll tell you what he's a soulless fourteen year old girls just like anybody else. this is our to international bring you your live news update this hour welcome to the program. the u.s. national security adviser and his russian counterpart have held more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much away to reporters a short news briefing afterwards. i think we made a lot of progress we identified certain areas where lines of communication could be restored there were some where the areas of disagreement remain we didn't see. much utility in resuming discussions there are going to be some things where we're going to consider inside the united states government consider more fully what our positi

after twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan have signed agreements on the legal status of the caspian sea this means that the five countries can move ahead with sharing out the resource rich inland body of water which is the largest in the world already chalons has this report from moscow . with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that peace is not for us the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the tight cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that he has some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of

china, russia, iran? what role do they play?atthew: the big picture is whether erdogan wants to move turkey from west to east. toward more authoritarian regimes like russia, iran, and china. that is what he wants the world to think he is willing to do. he is willing to sacrifice his military and economic alliance with the west and traded for closer deal with russia and china. what do those three countries have to offer? it is not clear. turkey will need financial assistance. the russian economy is not in good shape. the chinese have on their books a long history of bad loans, whether to the venezuelans or brazilians. it is not clear that is a solution, either. iran is a longtime rival of turkey in the middle east. they have found some common ground around the conflict in syria, but again, it is not clear that is a natural alliance and the question is whether erdogan thinks there is more to be gained by moving toward those countries and beyond -- countries. jason: beyond those three, it seems erdogan would be looking elsewhere fo

to switch from trading in dollars to the national currencies turkey imports energy from both russia and iran and that cost constitutes almost half of its trade deficit that's why economics warn trading in national currencies with these countries is not feasible experts say market dynamics should be the priority what we need to do is that to say ok we are slowing down the economy and we are the one ready to get into a very recession in a very small period of time and we first of all hike rates and we fall problems with the with the u.s. but president are drawn as adamant raising interest rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo's al-jazeera the stumble the crisis in turkey is frightening to other emerging markets in india the roof years fall into a wreck hold low hitting seventy against the us dollar for the first time ever currencies in argentina south africa and mexico have also been hit. an explosive new report has accused more than three hundred catholic priests in the u.s. state of pennsylvania of sexual abuse details allega

the caspian sea the leaders of russia kazakhstan iran turkmenistan and azerbaijan which border the caspian sea are meeting in the cousin port city of act how they've signed a convention on the legal status of the sea but so far no details on what they decided have been released it's all over now much of the caspian sea country can claim as their. russian president vladimir putin said an agreement was crucial to regional security and beyond. bizarre brussels to the un security is very important and this is what underpins our agreement which is this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east so this really affects the basic interests states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and trans boundary criminality. iran's president said support from the caspian sea countries for the iran nuclear deal was a good sign for an agreement on sharing the areas natural resources here for isn't as bad a drum borne of honor the five countries efforts to support the iran nuclear deal is a good step towards expanding regional cooperation and the betterment of relations

that leaves russia. iran does not have anywhere to turn except russia and possibly china and will china might give that money they can't give it the political and military support it needs against the west. therefore rushes in a position, or so it believes to deliver iran in some sense but is not strong enough or willing to force a situation where iran is kicked out of syria altogether because they know it will further destabilize syria and undermine everything they have accomplished. the u.s. has been forced to accept russia on the terms. it is also the primary between syria and jordan as the recent agreement shows and also it is, as we discussed later fully active in north africa and the gulf and using that springboard to go into sub-saharan africa although tactically it's in a delicate position because as the war winds down and has to change gears from being primarily a military actor to an actor who now builds a durable and legitimate status quo, am the jury is still out as to whether or not i can happen.

bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status the convention signed by russia iran as a by kazakhstan a man's son and decades of dispute over the world's largest enclosed body of water and its huge oil and reserves iran says dividing up the seabed will require additional agreements. voters in mali went to the polls on sunday in a presidential runoff maad by reports of violence security sources say an election official was shot and killed by jihadists in the north of the country incumbent ibrahim keita cast his vote in the capital bamako and he's up against some majlis just so wants small loss took eighteen twenty thirteen say claims the west african state has become even more insecure and the case has room extremists killed polling station workers and seized voting materials in the first round of the election last month. so let's now bring in journalist from posthumus who is joining us from capital bamako brown we've had reports of a polling station chief being killed today has there been widespread violence and if so did it affect voting. record including european

and in september seventh made the comment as the latest round of talks brokered by russia iran and turkey wrapped up in sochi and choose to turkey which has been battling kurdish groups within syria rejects any attempt to turn the country into a federal state the afghan army says it's taking control of the eastern city of jalalabad after a series of attacks that have killed dozens of people the government decided to replace police with the military after an attack on a government refugee office in tuesday fifteen people were killed in the past three months one hundred sixty civilians have been killed in the province by eisel or taliban attacks and the afghan army says more than one hundred fifty i saw fighters who surrendered on tuesday after a heavy gun battle between eisel and the taliban in the northern joe son province the government says more than one hundred fifty us all fighters were killed and one hundred were wounded california's governor is pledging to spend whatever it takes to contain the wildfires sweeping the u.s. state eight people have been killed in the past week and tens

bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status the convention signed by russia iran azerbaijan kazakhstan and turkmenistan ends decades of dispute over the walls of largest enclosed body of water and its huge oil and gas reserves. dividing up the seabed would require additional agreements. both have closed in mali in west africa in the second round of presidential elections incumbent. is expected to win security was tight after violence overshadowed the first round of voting. the celebrated british also serbia sniper all has died at the age of eighty five ball was born in trinidad in one thousand nine hundred to two parents of indian origin you know dozens of books many of which dealt with colonialism and its legacy and won many of the pictures most prestigious awards including the nobel prize. and also has launched a groundbreaking mission to unlock the secrets of ahsan after twenty four due to a late technical problem in the pocket solar probe finally lifted off from cape canaveral in florida this spacecraft is named after physicist eugene paca who predicted the ex

question do i wish that russia had leverage over trump president shop i guess what i would say is this i remember a time not so long ago when i was working on afghanistan pakistan iran in the obama administration that we were able to compartmentalize our agreements and disagreements with russia so there were some areas where we had a very serious decision. joining us in the weekly on r.t. international sorry to interrupt that program just breaking out of that show to bring you some breaking news coming out of florida united states where police are responding to reports of a mass shooting now right now the reports we have is up to four people may have been killed there are other injuries of course as well the incident comes during a video game tournament inside and to tame a complex in jacksonville in that state we're going to bring you more on that developing story of course as that comes in minute by minute so let's go back to our weekly stories now facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's gone on another buying spree in a bid to stop about the phenomenon and thereby limit efforts to sway political opinion in a patrol has more. thanks for jo

battle for control the city is the rebels large major stronghold in syria they restore a call on russia iran and turkey to delay any campaign there until civilians can be evacuated. rescuers in myanmar are struggling to reach thousands of people stranded after yesterday's dam failure in the boggo region state media say waters unleashed by the dam have blocked a major highway and driven more than sixty thousand people from their homes the incident has highlighted safety concerns about throughout the region. well for centuries the caste system in nepal has discriminated against members of the lowest hindu caste known as dali it's their access to jobs and education is limited and they're often treated by as inferior by members of the upper castes now and n.g.o.s hoping to improve the fate of one group of women by teaching them to farm as d.w. skillion shoots the reports from nepal the hope is that this will also lead to bigger changes. sobel saw me has never had it easy she lives in a tiny hut with her husband and son near kathmandu every now and then she works as a day laborer a construction s