some kind of motivation to keep growing and sports and success and sports is one of those aspects that people really what's a film and get a very positive feeling that yes i can do it for the production celebrate the minds of the american military. and as russians are dominated by hollywood i think there is a kind of a feeling among the government officials that there needs to be a response to that not only militarily in terms of you know kind of making new times but also from the point of view of filmmaking that we should come up with a story that also celebrates the russian army to get a stricter car skidded through it in the. crimean sports a reoccurring theme but the main vehicle for restoring national pride in putin is russia is world war two what they call the great patter of to win this soviet union found an official communist ideology was replaced with nothing grappling with this

void law to make putin has made patches and his watch what. she gave me at the accused. creates a common heritage for geographically vast and culturally diverse country evoking memories of russia as a great power and defeat or fascism a narrative that brushes service an inconvenient history like the non-aggression pact that stalin pragmatically made with hitler in one thousand that's not what the ethnic cleansing carried out within the u.s.s.r. . under russia's current minister of culture glad i'm a maiden ski himself the director of the military historical society that national ideal is being adapted for film in two thousand and fifteen the government issued a state decree encouraging the use of patch of text in a mine education and in february this year the ministry of defense announced it's only initiatives to produce films that are heroic and patriotic i think russia has

been. trying to find itself after. transitioning from the fall of the soviet union into a new country it's been trying to find its own identity again and push for patriotic movies and a kind of a russian identity is part of that but they are patchy tism is always called for in difficult times for any country and there's a need to both distract and unite people the theme of patrick is and was displayed constantly in soviet films the struggle against the counter revolutionaries enemies of the people as well as the depiction of grand socialist construction projects we don't like to dwell on our mistakes and failures we concentrate on victories this principle of making such state supported films is being resurrected in north. london supposedly called cinemas and circuses the most important arts for

attracting the masses. from the early days of the soviet union films needed to be socialist high quality and display soviet superiority the politburo both supported and censored artists and the innovations of soviet filmmakers names like eisenstein . became known and celebrated the world over these days films no longer hold the media monopoly they wanted but that has not stopped the kremlin from taking an interest in shaping the country fanatic out. what russians are calling keenness gun dolly cinema scandals have grown all too common. be on your guard girl you got through. the two thousand and fourteen russian film leviathan won both a golden globe and oscar nomination at home the film was criticized for painting an overly negative picture of russia eventually

a version with less explicit language was allowed to screen was. one that failed to get past the senses was a british film armando iannucci is two thousand and seventeen a satire of the death that started our general secretary is lying in a bottle of ingenue. who didn't make himself available for an interview with us because the film an insulting mockery of the entire soviet past and it never made it into russian theatres. this year just as the russian family at it was being released around the world is directed to deal stepanek was under house arrest and then on trial for four charges charges his supporters are calling a crackdown on the r. . and a few months ago the ministry of culture was granted unprecedented control over the direction of russia's film fund even in the film festivals have become a target the tally monkeys are docked first was hit by

a new licensing reform forcing both him and his festival to relocate to latvia. those issues do need the russian state subjugated all media outlets the press the main t.v. channels and even the single liberal cable channel dorst which now has a very limited audience. to cut this tendency and i started to cleanse the whole cultural landscape destroying everything that allowed the production of alternative content and naturally his attention fell on film festivals if you. think recently the government has cut off. try to use scandal and controversy as a tool on all levels in terms of domestic policy in terms of forming public opinion but also kind of international intervention he managed to use of the negative representations to the benefit so basically as long as they can remain in that spotlight and they can appear to be powerful and impactful i think they're quite

happy with up. patry tism is politically useful as a concept because it is malleable it can change shape to see patterns and if these but buses are anything to go by the meaning of patch it isn't for russia right now is when. and finally there are changes coming to the white house correspondents' dinner the annual black tie event in washington when journalists a mingle with the politicians they're supposed to cover and keep a safe distance from rather than having a comedian come in to roast the powers that be next year's event will feature and historian who will opine on the subject of free speech assuming the president trumps ok with that trump was clearly on the news that the last dinner one comedienne michelle wolf pulled no punches aimed his way who will get the last laugh this time will anyone laugh should the dinner at a time when trump calls the media the enemy of the people even be

a thing will leave you now with some of the highs and lows of past correspondents dinner and we'll see you next time you're at the listening post. and then of course there's donald trump. donald trump has been saying that he will run for president as a republican which is surprising since i just assumed he was running as a joke i. saw you hanging out with m.b.a. players like steph curry golden state warriors oh yeah you know it's got to make sense too because both of you like raining down bombs on people from long distances right and unlike me yes there can be sanders we are graced with there is a presence tonight everyone is there steps up to the podium i get excited because i'm not really sure what we're going to get you know a present briefing bunch of lives or divided into soft bugsy. it should since gans in this time don't research alone god.

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streaming online through the climate al-jazeera dot com and off to two years all disagreements disputes deliberations to. gulshan dire warnings finally a deal that the u.k. prime minister is a macy's been in brussels he has signed the divorce agreement and the leaders of the twenty seven e.u. states have two so if you're expecting to hear expressions of relief from across europe given the fear of a chaotic no deal break that and a den that i know that yet back in london the u.k. parliament still has to get on board and sign up to the agreement and that is far from a sure thing we're going to start in brussels though this sunday where the main players finally made some progress good deal. said do you not to do each other but that works it is the steps moment for you noon and i want to show you. into the future if we didn't move. this is to burst you could

still only deal of course. when people come to vote in the house of commons they would need to ask themselves about two aspects of this particularly the first is delivering backs it i think we have a judy as a house of commons as a parliament to deliver bracks it and the second question is about what it means for our constituents and as i've said the deal that we have to live that i believe delivers not just on what people want it when they vote it breaks it but also does it in a way that protects jobs protects our security and protects the united kingdom right let's get into it we're going to split this one right down the middle with our correspondents on your guy a go is in london we're going to speak to her in a while about the british side of things how and if to reason they can get enough of parliament to back her plan but first to brussels here is john a whole for all things european high jonah so in the end was this a rubber stamping from the europeans or what did it actually take some work from the younger from donald tusk to get all those european countries onside.

well not in the event not on the day on the day there were two agreed negotiated texts on the table the withdrawal agreement is incredibly detailed five hundred eighty five pages long text that deals with the sort of exit protocols of britain leaving the european union the bill that it will have to pay for its as yet unmet obligations financial obligations citizens' rights the much vaunted contentious backstop arrangement the northern ireland that keeps an open border on the island of ireland until the free trade arrangement is set once this text was negotiated the week before last it was never going to be reopened so there was no work to be done and that accompanying that was the political declaration towards a future relationship how the two sides see their getting along their future relations after brags that this is a non legally binding document as a set of sort of fairly basic vague ambitions and intentions if you like that was

fleshed out during the course of the last week and again no further negotiations entered into it took just thirty minutes come out to unanimously indorse these two texts and move on in what was a very symbolic and very important moment on the road to breaking other any potential hurdles left in europe join on thinking about in the last what we think things like gibraltar become an issue again. well that there are potential issues that lie in wait during what could be the years that it might take to negotiate a full free trade and security arrangement between britain and the united kingdom those were contained in an additional statement text issued by the leaders here accompanying the two main documents they dealt with gibraltar the way that that had been resolved on saturday with a final a last minute deal between britain and spain effectively handing spain

a direct say over the future of gibraltar a veto in the trade talks if you like over how gibraltar is dealt with in a future relationship but then there was this other really potentially extremely contentious moment to do with france pushing for reciprocal rights to britain's fishing waters and insisting that if they don't get that before twenty twenty will they could hold britain in the backstop as it were within the customs union arrangement preventing them from ever getting a free trade arrangement this is the sort of nightmare scenario for the extras and why they so strongly oppose the backstop so that the way has been laid yes for some very fraught very difficult trade relations in the years to come ok very much not over yet then thank you jonah how in brussels for now though as we say one hurdle has been cleared the big get tougher one still to come to resume a has to convince enough british m.p.'s to back the same plan which europe has because really her political future is riding on it she's also going all out on

social media to try to sway a skeptical and weary british public. the brakes it is explained in sixty seconds. and in free movement wants and through with a nice skills based immigration system. a free trade area with effect gets no tariffs which protects jobs. no more sending vast sums of money to the meaning we can spend it on an n.h.s. . the end of the jurisdiction of the european court of justice in the u.k. i mean we control our own little. protecting the rights of the citizens living in the u.k. and u.k. citizens living in the e.u. . the ability to strike trade deals with other countries. a close relationship going to friends tackling crime and terrorism to keep people safe. leaving the common agricultural policy and common fisheries policy and. leaving on

the twenty ninth of march twenty nine thousand the good deal of every part. now is the time to come together to devote a brighter future. makes it all sound so easy in a social video about toughness and then she followed it up on twitter with an open lesson to the nation to resume a talks about a deal that is in our national interest and one that works for the whole country whether you voted leave or remain she also talks about and this is where has to mention all of these things here all parts of the country england scotland wales northern ireland overseas territories like gibraltar and also the crown dependencies remember places like scotland and old law and these are the ones with big reservations about the deal which to reason may acknowledges a little further down when she says that leaving the e.u. will begin a new chapter in our national life i want it to be a moment of renewal and reconciliation for our whole country let's talk to some new gago about this in london. this is if it's

a reason why isn't it she's got to get everyone that is m.p.'s and the public on board what chance. well precisely and it's an enormous task that she has ahead of her and she knows that of course this is also why she's not just tackling trying to get some of those m.p.'s and people within her party on board as well but it's the whole country of course which has been completely divided and still remains bitterly divided over this issue so what she has to do now is trying get that past now she's working off this delicate victory that she's managed to work in brussels she's now going on a two week p.r. offensive as it were to try and convince the rest of the country of this of this deal also that is in the head of the actual parliamentary vote which she says will take place just before christmas but of course she has that fight on her hands it's

thought that perhaps the bulk of the three hundred fifteen or so members of her party will vote to get this through but she has other members within her party who will not vote sphericity all those are ranging from the arch remain as the anti bracks it is and the pro bracks it is but on the more extreme mental who are quite happy to crash out as it were also the opposition labor party leader jeremy corbin came out on sunday and said that he would not be voting that and his party would not be voting for this as well calling the deal a miserable failure of negotiation and also another important point to resume its partners in the government the deal.