RT News - November 15, 2016 (12:00 MSK)

Vladimir Putin and the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump hold their first telephone conversation - in which they agree to improve bilateral ties, and discuss the Syrian crisis. A high-ranking arrest in Russia - the Minister of Economic Development's detained on accusations of bribery and extortion amid the country's ongoing fight against corruption. German police are carrying out raids across the country in a hunt for Islamic State sympathizers. We go live to our correspondent in Berlin. International Criminal Court prosecutors say there's a 'reasonable basis to believe' U.S. forces have committed war crimes during the intervention in Afghanistan.