standing by for us in moscow emily the protests are now coming to moscow what can you tell us a bad situation there. well as you can see behind me a lot of people are assembling at the moment it's still early the protests are due to begin now and you had called for people to gather at any point on this main road that you see sort of further behind to be in moscow so it's hard to know how many people have come out so far but you can see there's a crowd assembling behind me what i also can tell you is that there is a huge police presence here there are a lot of police found standing at the ready police were already patrolling assembling i would say around i saw around sixty police officers including riot police ok we're looking now at live pictures of people gathering in moscow. there are dozens of cities in russia and they have also had protests how big word those protests. well that's that's hard to say at the moment there aren't any official figures about that yet but what i can tell you is that there are over one hundred protests planned across russia today and that's that's rather unusual

and sell my african friends are in moscow which it's their turn to try the russian way of life on for size but of this in the because they have no winter clothing we've had to buy them for jackets hats and gloves. plug now all the time all the lights come on little knowing my goodness you. reach up to the internet and the last from oh i'll be interested. it's completely i defend a lot of things and i feel i'm mad because most people would be. a lot like me is you really. cool the kid that's. cool. just like the. first. there is so cool knocks for. the first scene. no this is the biggest square and they're very proud of our red bull that they're likely to live with the musical in the flesh and that's what i mean if you just love cars because as they come in from oz a seat in zero is. usually it's a very special area is a touch of fresh air yet everybody focused on those russia as it going to moscow and going to see red square because of the most the most bibles place in russia and most folks saw in the police yeah to. her. us. s. s. s. s. s. ul the ok we have people that know people of

the authorities raided his moscow headquarters early on sunday. as a free for now you are watching news coming to you live from berlin as more of a top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our website that song for you dot com thanks for being with us. i. go grab the little succeeded in divining the shadow not succeed in taking people off the streets because we're tired of trying to show you. taking a stand. matters.

moscow russia's capital a growing metropolis with an expanding population. since the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the russian federation has become one of the most important immigrant destinations in the world second only to the united states and on a par with germany. unlike europe however the majority of people going to russia political refugees and asylum seekers fleeing conflict in syria iraq and central africa. economic migrants looking for work. most of the migrants from former soviet territories with central asia are at the forefront of this massive human flood tens of thousands leave the republics of kyrgyzstan and tajikistan every year to find seasonal employment in russia's main city. life far from home is not easy the most try to remain optimistic and positive migrant workers in russia face a cumbersome and often corrupt state bureaucracy that makes it a daunting task to regularize their presence in the country. police horse mint is not uncommon and a prolonged economic slump is adding to widespread anti imm

thank you for joining us police in moscow have forced their way into the office of all physicians had spoken kremlin critic alexei involving a spokesperson for the opposition said that the police were using the ruse of a bomb threat to question members of the opposition and this comes on a day that the opposition has announced russia wide protests in over one hundred cities in support of a boy cost of presidential elections in march which has called a farce. the fall in the south won't be allowed to actually run but he was a band previous fraud conviction which he says was trumped up and he has turned all his campaign offices into what he called protest offices we caught up with one of his volunteers and patients by work now. first of all we're going to cross over to law school and standing by there is an unfair when for the latest on the story and the russian police have entered the valleys office ahead of a protest this morning where is life in a valley right now. that's a good question we didn't know for a long time and then the staff in moscow the only thing we knew is that the st

way to recruit in the moscow screw -- in the moscow school is a circle in theg programmers military, which proclaims its goal is to train specialists for security agencies. there are stories about how it is great to work. this is how programmers begin to prepare in schools. it was organized by the teacher of computer sciences. he pointed out that the project was created in order to relieve of source -- all sorts s who support the american way of life. the other way in professional isection of hackers [indiscernible] in 2013, the russian defense minister spoke to the university directors at the meeting in moscow that he was on a head hunt. the defense minister published advertisement that looked like this. the defense minister published that contacted the most popular network in russia. one video -- can we put out the light please? thank you. advertisement video from the ministry of defense. ♪ caricature ofis a the image of the cyber soldier. i can translate some of the words from this video. graduated from college, if you're a technical specialist, if you're ready to use your knowl

this is the district in moscow where it one of russian hackers, [inaudible], was born here. she's a good example for hackers in russia and he got interested in website with was 13 in the early effect then this peter was two weeks to play video games and he needed to find something else to do. one of his classmates meanwhile had started creating websites and he heard the lessons was designed to write out the code by hand and this is was how inventive and then i got into the packing system that i was told. together they started hacking classmate sites and eventually they lost interest but the interest only grew. [inaudible] people discuss the vulnerabilities of cyber security news and this form has different levels and in this i got to know other young hackers and within a few years these individuals would become the best hackers in russia while other began earning money legally and illegally in some of the people whatever they learned in american prisons and they were offered a choice to go to jail or to walk. [inaudible] the hackers often hide and he was told that he knows a

emily sure when moscow thank you very much for being on the scene for us . in turkey says it has assurances from washington that the u.s. will no longer arm the kurdish y.p. g. militia in syria has also reiterated demands that the us pull out troops pull troops out of the northern region of the northern syrian town of monday's turkish n y p g forces clashed again on saturday and chorus pushing ahead with a military operation aimed at cleaning up the kurdish clearing scuse me the kurdish militia from the turkish border area. in other activists say saturday's fighting concentrated in the north west of the african region in this video could his fighters target took a small arms fire activists say turkey is making slow progress on the ground. president richard typepad rather just supporters just over a week into the campaign he claims turkey has inflicted heavy casualties on the chinese. three hundred ninety four terrorists have been neutralized. and we have twenty motss from the free syrian army and our military. the figures are disputed and cannot be verified

certainly are you have to realize that it was moscow that allowed this turkish operation to start in the first place they control syrian air space it appears that they are what they do are allowing turkish forces now to use airspace with impunity for now at least i think moscow is very happy to sit back and watch this deepening crisis between two key partners it's always been a long term goal of moscow to drive turkey away from later to drag its. influence this least for now appears to be succeeding and moscow will be very happy to sit on the sidelines and watch it all on fault although moscow will have the back of their minds be worried about turkey's growing influence in syria with that comes the prospect of turkey clashing with damascus which moscow is backing so it's a difficult game moscow's play but at the moment i think they're very content with the situation right daryn jones in istanbul thank you very much for that this article look at some other stories making news around the world at least three people have been killed and more than one hundred injured ten of them seriousl

one thousand nine hundred one in russia at the age of five he starts playing the piano he studies in moscow and the united states question off wins numerous piano competitions and has already released five albums his latest release is devoted to chopin. that is it doesn't have a full scale it's like every node. of course the wonderful is that. daniel different off lives in new york that he spends much of his time traveling the world he performs about one hundred sixty concerts a year. we kyle pletnev is a pianist conductor and composer since the early one nine hundred eighty s. he's recorded more than one hundred albums and won numerous awards in two thousand and five he won a grammy with martha argerich in one nine hundred ninety he founded the russian national orchestra and became its principal conductor he started composing at the age of twelve chamber music orchestral pieces vocal works and even janitors. of course you know the shop and was that much interest in the orchestra with us always called the poor twelve pm i love this music but as think of all the locals through nation if the

for the former soviet citizens moscow is their city it doesn't feel like a foreign country to them. in the u.s.s.r. you just have one passport regardless of what ethnic group you belong to or the knowledge that everyone was the same one these are these days you're always told. we only employ our own citizens with the governors in a state similar in kyrgyzstan's it's not that everywhere people don't like it. but it's. more than twenty million people live in greater moscow the tough reality is tangible in order to regulate the labor market and migration an extra hurdle has been created for foreigners employers have to pay eight hundred euros in fees for every guest worker as a result migrants are now no longer officially employed illegal job market is flourishing and with it exploitation the migrants are vulnerable because they're desperate to earn money. yet. it's no secret that a single migrant working here in russia can take care of up to three families back home. i knew i had to do work i preach keep my money. they need every cent i knew i had that's how they end up as slaves they

causing more alarm in washington on top of that moscow has been supporting quietly behind the scenes the same syrian kurdish militia because they see the syrian kurdish militia as a very potent and important force in the future outcome of syria so moscow hill will have in many ways to make a big choice if it does go ahead and log his operation in particular because there are russian forces in this area offering which is threatening to attack and on top of that will be looking for permission from moscow to let its planes cross into syria to carry out their support in any kind of operation up until now moscow has been very reluctant to do that moscow is facing a big choice here and will be trying to calm tensions so it will not be forced to choose one side or the alpha endured before we let you go i mean when you don't when you look at what's happening with turkey when you look at what we're hearing from russia and the palestinians to that do you get the sense that there is a a border sense of a willingness to challenge u.s. influence and supremacy in the middle east or in global geopo

fall in the well control in moscow the question embassy in london held an exclusive event where they presented the faithful woke up to the qualified nations and some of the world's biggest names even though i managed to get myself an invite the bank will show today has come to the russian embassy in central london why i decided to come in a beautiful new suit it's simple the world cup next year in russia is going to bring together thirty tonight in the ambassador has brought together the consul's for most of the thirty one along with the greats and the good every english football so i'm a little bit of a shindig and some of the look be on the sings. we're excited are you to have the world cup in your home nation it's been told by a lot of times when i was a kid i remember being told the players what levy i shared in the great soviet seems of your early sixty's it's the realisation of a dream for many people in russia true to dreams the first one for our people is that we built from this create eleven stadiums so and they are the world standard people's standard it means that that aft

the first step is to take the bus to moscow from dad their old travel back to their respective homes but many of these stories of exploitation happened to begin in moscow itself sasha's night mass started on komsomolskaya square a busy hub home to three railway stations rural migrants gather on the square looking for work zappa was one of them. and you see that they all have bags. and that's how he can spot the people who on from here that. traffickers approach the man with promises of a good jump off the books anyone wanting to work in moscow officially has to be registered in the city migrants from the former soviet republics but even rural russians don't stand a chance. this issue comes from a community just three hundred kilometers from moscow but without registration papers he wasn't allowed to work in the capital he was the perfect victim for a traffic and no money no education young and america sasha drank a beer with a stranger then everything went down and the next thing he knew he was in an illegal brickyard he'd been drugged and kidnapped. sasha had been enslaved like an e

this issue comes from a community just three hundred kilometers from moscow but without registration papers he wasn't allowed to work in the capital he was the perfect victim for a traffic and no money no education young and unmarried sasha drank a beer with the stranger then everything went down and the next thing he knew he was in an illegal brickyard he'd been drugged and kidnapped. zeshan had been enslaved like an estimated one million other people in the russian federation. yes that awful i was floored by was scared they'd kill me if i ran away when i arrived in the brick yard i realized there was no point trying to escape. their vehicle. there were mountains all around us yes most of the locals only know each other very well with other users i see there with the five star on the course as an outsider without knowledge of the area you can forget about escape us on his last me as a chuckle up to. doesn't have a fixed address he sleeps at friends' homes and is borderline homeless men like him are of such ideal targets for those wanting to exploit them they work without contracts a

and world bank do you agree with this assertion which is very popular in moscow maybe even in beijing that they i.m.f. the world bank are essentially. serving the probably western bias well i think the outcome certainly through the first sixty years of these intuitions is that they serve the interests of most of the world i don't think you could argue with that one i mean we've had you nervous economic growth unheard in the history of mankind most countries have benefited by it some where the know there is those who opened up more benefited more than those less i think that's unquestionable so i don't think that it's a question of that certainly the united states was very dominant it is creation it was after all the country the only country only large country that emerged reasonably prosperous right after the second world war and in that sense it had enormous role in setting up the system that worked as well as it did but in any event how long that will continue and how much it could be after all the u.s. evidence is going down i don't think is gone but it's certainly less than it was

other joins us from moscow and michele macneill is in the u.s. capital washington to both of you good evening yuri i want to start with you can we confirm what russia is saying i mean did it give turkey its blessing for this operation all of branch. hi brenda there was indeed a small russian contingent an african tinge and and to the chorus believed even the russians who was there would be more or less safe from turkish attacks experts say the kurds obviously believed that the turkish and forces wouldn't come because russia has a sort of agreement with the pentagon covering that part of syria but last week a turkish military the geisha came to moscow for talks with the russian minister of defense and the parent leaves they reached a deal the deal supposedly allowed turkish forces to go to a free mean while turkey for its part a lot of russian iranian and syrian forces so everyone fighting on the syrian government's side to bomb this here in the position into it so they have obviously been to operations going on at the same time on the ground as r

has a major player in this ongoing conflict but there will be concerns in moscow if turkey continues to expand its operation too far then that there will be the fear that turkey has too much influence and it brings the possibility of clashes with the damascus regime and even possibly iran will be unnerved by a growing presence of turkey in syria during films in istanbul thank you very much for that assessment. well tech is offensive in syria is having political repercussions here in berlin germany regularly since weapons including tanks to its need to ally and those weapons are being used in this offensive that some german will make us illegal contracts to upgrade the tanks are being now put on hold and. relentless heavy shelling in northwest syria turkish forces step up their offensive known as operation olive branch. the prepared german made leopard tanks to rule in two or three in. the german government had recently considered reinforcing these against mains but that seems to be off the table no. he gets to avoid the talk i know that turkey is violating international law with its

around a thousand people have been gathering here in moscow calling for the boycott of the upcoming this march presidential election they're saying that the vote is illegitimate since their candidate alexei navalny has not been allowed to run there is because he's still serving a five year long suspended criminal sentence after he had been found guilty of embezzlement and a person like that cannot hold public office in russia now the location of this demonstration has not been approved by the authorities they had no problem with the protest itself but they offered a different place for a but the valley supporters decided to carry on with this place with this location literally hundreds of meters away from the kremlin now the offices of his anticorruption fund have been raided by the police here in moscow as well but in terms of troubles with the lawyer here in the russian capital that has been it also this action is not just in moscow demonstrations have been held in farias russian cities we know some people or some protesters have been detained there as well but in general very peaceful

winter days are short in moscow no wonder people in russia's capital do everything possible to brighten things up at dusk some four thousand installations eliminate the city center with more than twenty million lights. like in this pedestrians or. piers but you're going to run across the street we have a six hundred meters stretch of starry sky made up of one hundred kilometers of string lawrence. no one knows exactly what the sea of lights cause officially is a city has spent about fourteen million euros including for electricity and private sponsors denatured as well the result is something to be proud of. truth in europe but the most good news lou that when the sun goes down this illumination makes us feel wonderful. it makes us feel secure calm and happy. that i was a star like it looks like snow or like stars like the northern lights it's a great rush of them with just the thought of it you feel happy the triggers the release of happiness hormones everyone smiles right. muscovites like to go out in the evening despite the cold it's time for something hot from the grill. for tea fro

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causing more alarm in washington on top of that moscow has been supporting quietly behind the scenes the same syrian kurdish militia because they see the syrian kurdish militia as a very potent and important force in the future outcome of syria so moscow will will have in many ways to make a big choice if it does go ahead and launch his operation in particular because there are russian forces in this area of aspirin which is threatening to attack and on top of that will be looking for permission from moscow to let its planes cross into syria to carry out air support in any kind of operation up until now moscow has been very reluctant to do that so moscow is facing a big choice here and will be trying to calm tensions so it will not be forced to choose one side or the alpha endured before we let you go i mean when you when you look at what's happening with turkey when you look at what we're hearing from russia and the palestinians to that do you get the sense that there is a a border sense of a willingness to challenge u.s. influence and supremacy in the middle east or in global geopo

international this thursday morning where it's just gone nine o'clock here in moscow now our top story this hour iran's military chief says the civil unrest which is blighted the country for a week is over but it's come at a cost of at least twenty one lives as protest repeatedly turned violent despite that though the were several reports of small protests overnight the unrest the region began as a working class protest against worsening living standards and unemployment is iran's economy continue stagnate but they widened and into anti-government rallies u.s. leaders. quick describe their support behind the protesters but is on a situation and i reports they downplayed the came reason behind them rest. when they ask for a better economy when they ask for the government to spend money on their own country as opposed to terror exploits overseas or in other countries sure we would certainly do when they say that to you i support mat i'm not going to go i'm not going to see that's why you're trying to trap me into something like that i'm not going to go there to try that is not that is no

moscow has become a tropical new york to become in moscow and then it's freezing up there it's warm over there is part of this vortex in new age you mentioned flipping of course that is a term that has been used in the cryptocurrency community everybody is waiting for ether or a theory and the other currencies to overtake bitcoin over the christmas and new year holidays. did as a share of the percentage of the overall cryptocurrency market fall to an all time low and that was on the news that a theory was working on the crypto rubel so this was one of the things that drove a theory i'm quite high crypto rule is coming and there will be a flipping but it will probably be ripped all ripple is the anti a bit coin it's everything that bitcoin isn't it's rip all it's the friend of jamie diamond coin it's a friend of big business coin it's centralization vs decentralization meanwhile over there in russia let me opposed and his team at the kremlin are thinking about taking the syrian block going to hard for it and doing the ruble calling is this important of course it is because they're go

defense industry in business but i think it really shows also because they've singled out moscow and beijing a reversion back to the cold war era. and also that the neo cons have won the won the day at least in the policy formulation arena i think that this is. this is their comfort zone they've been this was the this is what the intelligence community and the defense department did for more than fifty years that's what they're most content with i think it's going to be a diversion. of resources. to continue watching terrorism i think that remains a major major threat and yet the neo cons want to single out russia and china as the main adversaries and again i think that this is meant to and the timing is not is not coincidental maddest the secretary is really appealing to the n.s.c. quit seaquest ration of defense funds and boost military spending very very high at a time when the government u.s. government's about rate is shut down and there's major major differences between the republican and democratic parties over increased defense spending so this is really going to be a major t

does he have moscow's support. well that is a big question because moscow has been playing very much a double game here on the one hand it has been only too happy to see this deepening route between two nato allies and in fact on crimes being gravitating more more towards moscow causing more alarm in washington on top of that moscow has been supporting quietly behind the scenes the same syrian kurdish militia because they see the syrian kurdish militia as a very potent and important force in the future outcome of syria so moscow will will have in many ways to make a big choice if it does go ahead and launches operators in particular because there are russian forces in this area offering which is threatening to attack and on top of that will be looking for permission from moscow to let its planes cross into syria to carry out their support in any kind of operation up until now moscow has been very reluctant to do that so moscow is facing a big choice here and will be trying to calm tensions so it will not be forced

by good morning it's just gone nine o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now there's been a fiery exchange between russia and america at the u.n. over how chemical attacks in syria should be investigated russia wants to ensure all future probes require experts to visit the sites of alleged incidents however that proposal was strongly rejected by the u.s. . russia is complicit in the assad regime's atrocities you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives russia has the audacity to lecture this security council this is a long political spectacle for not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth we should at least have taken a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to identify those responsible q what do you need an investigative mechanism for before an investigation you haven't cuse the syrian government of using chemical weapons. well that came during a debate on how t

supporters have been detained here as organizers of this event and now this action also mentioning moscow also the offices of the volleys of the volleys anticorruption fund have been raided by the police but in terms of problems with the law this has been it here now this action is a russia wide thing it's not taking place just in moscow people have taken to the streets of various other cities and we know there have been some people have been detained there as well but we don't know how many just yet so we are still here we will be bringing you the latest if anything else develops in moscow trying to go with the latest that i thought if he goes down on the russia and the u.s. are once again divided in their opinions about chemical attacks in syria we've got the story and much more coming up after this short break. if i were a public opinion i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level the national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the realit

that they have got the green light what gave in exchange for that and what the parameters if any that moscow has insisted on remains unclear but moscow is very much seen as the person that is controlling the situation but was also issued a diplomatic warning saying that they are calling for restraint and they've said that they will back serious calls to protect its integrity they are expected to take this to the united nations and that if that is the case then it does appear that turkey's window of opportunity to strike could be very limited and what about the u.s. role in this crisis the kurdish fighters the turkish forces are targeting are backed by the u.s. at least some of them how much of a strain is this putting on relations between washington this is putting a massive strain already relations have been deeply strained in the run up to this crisis now it's a further escalation particularly as president one is indicating that they will plan to extend its operation all along the southern border areas where american forces are based we've syrian kurdish forces the risk of a confrontation

correspondent near drunk sorts joins us now from moscow mia drag you were at the protest so they wanted to say. well so i would i think it was remarkable of the children young people were there was a lot of police in the streets around to our square square and in pushkin square protesters knew their colleagues she not only was rescued in the afternoon but they did not they they showed no sign of fear do not only supporters have a chance of actually inflowing this upcoming influencing sees me this upcoming presidential election. where the bills were much what you mean by influence not only and it's just we'll be able to change the result we know that president putin is going to win the next christiane selections approximately seventy maybe eighty percent of russians are going to vote for him but corruption is a big issue here in russia that resonates very strong and you shouldn't forget that the vast majority of russians make now less money than a couple of years ago and if this is not going to change and we will have a discussion of the weeks to come but more sanctions coming from ameri

well make it looks like just over a thousand people have already gathered here in central moscow and morkie flocking in now they are calling for the boy code only twenty eight seen presidential election this march they are saying that the election of these elections are illegitimate since their candidate alexina volley has not been allowed to run now that's because he's still serving a five year long suspended sentence and you can see obviously there are people who are very passionate about their cause and they are trying to make their point as obvious as possible now as as i was saying alexina volleys serving a five year long suspended sentence after he had been found guilty of embezzlement and russian law prohibits a man like that a person with the sentence like that to hold public office now in terms of arrests there haven't been any here no rest no detentions although the most cool authorities the city authorities have not approved this location of the demonstration they had no problem with the protesters itself will be offered a different place for it but election of ali support

to today's event to know about russian hackers and as an expert with that journalist based in moscow with that russian independent website working for the biggest russian news website at the time. and with the publication and with that refugee problem with cybersecurity in the islamic state. getting an award in journalism and the stories have been cited in the new york times and other respected publications. those that are the most prestigious award. and also a fellow here at the moment we are pleased to have such a strong representation here. >> it is great to see you here. and then to get the news about russia. so now in december after three years to write these narrative stories about the asus influence and link to russia. and with those groups but the last two years reading the stories of the russian hackers. and for example this is an article from around the country for the russian cyberarmy. so then there were some stories. and over the last two years but sometimes with the company that provides services and in 2015 leaving russia. and the story about the russian cyberweapons.

moscow and that was the reason the russians joined the treaty in the first place that moscow because there would be intermediate range systems deployed here in europe but that was happening in the one nine hundred eighty s. would destroy the command and control systems in moscow so so at the time they said yes we have a strategic overarching reason to ban these systems and so that reason has not gone away it's in the physics of the missiles and the way they are able to reach their target so but you believe that they have violated that they have gone ahead absolutely absolutely and so we called them on it you're right we called them on it in two thousand and fourteen in the in the obama administration and we're working with them to try to get them back into compliance i was very glad to see that the trumpet ministration pick that up and have even upped the ante they talked about some of the response measures they are working on and would be willing to take if russia does not return to compliance with the treaty so that's a very important diplomatic steps they've taken and as far as i

could more or less believe that it can secure the black sea straits which has been an objective for moscow for generations i would say and generations of russian rulers i see very clear thank you pavel felgenhauer in moscow. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world clashes and fist fights broke out in germany over airport overnights during a demonstration against a to is military operation in syria protesters chanting fascist marched with sides and iraqi tribes down flags the situation was quickly brought under control. a tsunami warning issued for the west coast of the united states and canada has been lifted of the warning followed a seven point nine magnitude quake a two hundred fifty kilometers off alaska's kodiak island footage posted on twitter initially showed streams of cars leaving the island after residents were warned to move to higher ground and. officials in the philippines are warning us of violence eruption of the country's most active volcano could be imminent now it's my own has been spewing lava and ash prompting all thoughts is to e