out here to the streets of the german capital to say you know challenge the semitism in this city go to anti semitism in all its forms. a public golf club in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has apologized to five black women for calling the police on them they were kicked off the ground so after the co owner of the club and his father complained that the women were playing too slowly the latest in a series of incidents where african-americans have been arrested or asked to leave a public facility in the u.s. . why. on sunday a black woman was arrested at a waffle house in alabama for refusing to pay for plastic utensils the video of her arrest talk shows officers wrestling head to the floor was another case a couple of weeks ago in a starbucks in philadelphia and stopped there were cold call police on two black men because they not placed an order but still wanted to use the restroom not spot the wave of anti-racism protest. i. just didn't want to die

that. i. be ok. a response to that the c.e.o. of starbucks hold it all restaurants to close for mandatory anti-racism training following a nationwide campaign against the coffee chain we got reaction from economist dave perkins and human rights activist running short. racism against the two sions is real and the were prejudices real that we need to care about america as well as an entire society and look after everyone if we don't do this we're going to have worse problems i have enormous difficulty accepting the idea that this young lady trying to run her starbucks in philadelphia spends time thinking about class and segregation and trying to target black beetle can't she's trying to run the restaurants and she's trying to do. order and keep the business working and not let people take advantage over you guys loitering and not purchasing products from

a store while using their facilities how do you stop that from happening again but i don't think that's a little girl running the starbucks as best she can reluctantly calling the police to sign saying saying loitering again he's thinking about using loitering laws against black people yes there are people that have a literate and businesses yes there are folks out of order some of them of black but i've worked with a lot of white drunks in my day and they. don't get handled quite the same way this is a fact i'm a going to last orderly a rattle and play another slowly than man and then five women together play very slowly and the entire culture is waiting for the fact that has nothing to do with it it's the fact that they are lol as along as people pretend that injustice and mistreatment of people is ok as long as it does not impact yeah that is the problem with the majority it they lack an understanding that it can be us today and it

could be them tomorrow now this is where i ask myself the question at what point do you treat black people like ordinary people and subject them to ordinary rules of society at what point do you stop taking every incident as racism and start evaluating them as human beings and how they're reacting that's my question you. american broke us to n.b.c. has joined the dots and discover the artes online series in case you missed it is in fact linked to. an exposé the journalists say that they looked at the registration date of the show's website and cross checked it against the registration for. we could save them the trouble though if they'd just gone to our website all to dot com clicked on shows and there it is that a found it right up there at the top a response to n.b.c. scoop the show's taken of us on a behind the scenes tour to blow the lid off its connection totty. so here we are first look offices although there is

a slight smell in the vodka and caviar. we're in so it was probably a spy keep an eye on it. but first glance it looks like any other office but take a look below the surface and something starts to seem off we spoke to i see why in my eyes members of staff. so tell me what's it like working for someone connected to r.t. well i always loved the topless game show tutti frutti when i was at school. here you could get our school right but that was that was on the sky channel r.t.l. this is this is r.t. this is this is funded by russia we're talking about well what do you mean r.t. is funded by russia. for the russians who are. yeah i mean if your parents is mainly just one is stuff over to poly and things like that to be honest i've never really had so much freedom at work no one tells you how to answer for

over and i'm just really happy but do you work alone i mean do not you know really something i like to talk about. i have total freedom to study looked at who was what was it talks to move to for example sort of it's fantastic for fuel. or limited supply. on a good can prove records for a long. and i just heard that the host of the show pony boy has just arrived at work so let's see if we can get a word with my boy. whose books are high you are aware that i see why my is funded by the russian state through aussie one. yeah hi yeah yeah i got the email yeah. i've just got to take this one site. so that we have it i see links to r.t.

you'd have to be pretty special to think it was a secret. on the way due for release on parole tomorrow the face of a notorious couple is splitting opinion in america the details when we come back. and. look at the blockade in the animosity fifty almost sixty years did it change the regime in cuba no the last administration realize that the majority of cuban americans wanted normalizations the normalised and when you normalize you can talk. and i want to tell you from my experience and to you but when the united states and you sugar. instead of a hammer things change in cuba in the way that the united states wanted to.

sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that are going. to do socks for the tell you that the because of the public by. author that doesn't tell you you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the walking. hello again there's controversy brewing over the imminent release of an american prisoner who spent more than four decades behind bars for the murder of two policeman and bell is due to walk free on friday but new york's police unions be making a desperate last ditch attempt to keep him locked up and has the story. herman bell the tourist for being a cop killer and

a member of the black liberation army will soon become a free man after spending nearly fifty years behind bars for shooting two policeman dead back in one nine hundred seventy one now the new york parole board's decision even had the support of a son of one of the slain officers it seems that individuals with no knowledge of ms to bellow the circumstances that led me to support his release many years ago have taken it upon themselves to drum up hate and then gins the parole board of new york might have shown sympathy and a willingness to forgive but not the policeman's union the patrolmen's benevolent association they're guilty then and they're guilty now and no copula should ever walk the face of the year now siding with the police's n.y.c. mayor bill de blasio who called for the decision to be reversed and for bell to stay behind bars the parole board received over three hundred sixty seven thousand letters urging them not to free herman bell despite his record as a model prisoner well not quite there and not actually that many individual

messages the associations website gave compliance the option of automatically sending a letter for each of the sixty two cop killers listed on the site that meant that fewer than six thousand objections to bell's release generated over three hundred sixty seven thousand messages completely distorting the level of the outcry in fact according to one poll eighty six percent of new yorkers support the parole board's decision we decided to talk with some former cops about the associations ethics i can't comprehend a man who openly admitted to killing three cops. i can't comprehend how that person would be allowed to walk the streets i could picture every cop out there being absolutely outraged the point of acting on their motion especially in today's climate where there should be used to do your government is trying their back on the police officers. i can absolutely picture not one cop out there not wanting six

hundred thousand plus letters being sent to the parole board to eb requesting this man's parole be denied manipulation you know i mean this very tragic incident actually to three people to put it is you know we have murders rape is awesome this . every single day and hell bent on if you kill a cop they want you just right and jail is supposed to be formed people now cops like to talk about the perilous situations they put themselves in and the public that they serve in order to do that but this incident will leave some in new york questioning their integrity. r.t. new york. and l g b t group has dropped american political journalist joy reid from its awards list the move comes after a scandal surrounding alleged homophobic posts on reid's blog in which for example she reportedly said she was disgusted by homosexuals scenes in movies to did

apologize in december for those called and more recent posts have swung the group to finally rescind the nomination. i regret the way i addressed the conflicts. with a mocking tone and. i hope that the side recognizes the pain caused. my family and. she lied about it she claims she never wrote those posts in the first place someone else did she said she had a sinister insurance frappe so. when

we reviewed the archives we found nothing to indicate tampering or of the way back machine version. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman has launched a withering attack on u.s. authorities after inspectors and to the russian consulate in seattle following its closure on tuesday assisting us that by making american actions have made the host

tell take over i have no other words for it even though u.s. authorities banned the. diversion mission in seattle it does not mean they don't have no property rights. security personnel reportedly broke the lock to gain access to the building and carry out checks on wednesday compound is now being patrolled by police u.s. officials decided to close the facility and expel sixty of moscow's diplomats following the poisoning of former double agent that is daughter in the u.k. last month the u.s. state department says that the building no longer enjoyed any privileges or immunities and that it inspectors actions were fully in line with the vienna convention on conscious relations. that's the way it looks for me at this hour i'll be back in just over thirty minutes to update you again from montana national in moscow see the. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in

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line of welcome to worlds apart cuba is one of those countries that's long been perceived and described in terms of ideological opposites known in the u.s.s.r. and later russia as the freedom island chains of capitalism it has long been seen in the west as one big freeze in a vault with an iron fist but when you spend almost half a century documenting the lives of its people as my guest today has done you'll find that the real. ality is different from the ideal eco ideological cliches one is cuba really like well to discuss that i'm now joined by john alpert the american journalist and documentary filmmaker so it's good to see you in our studios think you're much for coming thanks for inviting me i appreciate it now you are here in russia to promote your documentary called cuba and the cameramen which i think is a very straightforward and very honest title because you really show cuba as you've experienced it over what is it forty five forty five years on the film and i think this is very unusual for a western north american journalist because most of them believe that you need to

cover stories from the position of iron neutral observer and so often from a position of judgement rather than experience or immersion why did you break that tradition i wanted american people to really experience what the cuban revolution was like and it's complicated and i don't think you can understand this ninety second news report i don't think you can understand it in twenty ninety second news reports i spent forty five years following three families and fidel castro when you watch the revolution and you watch these people age and you learn a lot about cuba and i think it is also very obvious in your film that this kind of emotional involvement that you develop with your character has also allowed you not to not only gain trust but actually gain unprecedented access to some of them including fidel castro you go the extra mile to show him as a human being rather you know historical figure the way you show came up to really

how you remembered him. that's the way i remember him fredo trusted me. and with that he considered me to be a friend and. took a risk. in my camera into places that never been before into his bedroom into his kitchen. taking his shirt off for me. is not a bullet hole but it's this it's a feel that nobody had ever seen even the cubans had never seen a feel like this before but i've seen some reviews especially in the american press and they were very very critical of. the reviews that i saw i saw there were about three weeks after the really right wing people who obviously i don't think it even seen the film decided they didn't like it but up to that particular point of resetting the review was positive positive positive outlook and i think the accusation of the claims that some of the review writers made was that you were.

way too friendly and not critical enough but pam how did you i think there are some very very critical moments in this film special period in cuba when the economy collapse when the soviet union fell. and they withdrew their support in cuba the negative impact on the cuban economy was like an eighty five percent contraction of their economy no electricity no transportation food shortages and because the people trusted me the people who are suffering i film things that the cuban people never filmed and that nobody else is filmed in so. the room reviews that i saw understood that. more gratifying was it and i still get them today the hundreds and hundreds of e-mails from all over the world especially from cubans and because i think you cheated them really as a human being rather than you know a foreign they're coming into their country and passing judgments about how flawed

various systems really is and i think this is what many people experience in western journalists including in this country when somebody comes to your house to your country as flawed as it may be and tells you you know how flawed do you really are and i tried really hard to be honest. the. most gratification i get is when the cuban say that when their children ask them these are pro castro nandy castro when their kids say mommy daddy what was the revolution like they're going to take my film out and show them my film now to close this famous saying by a british historian lord acton that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and i'm not sure you would put it in quite those terms but. i think being in power for so long as fidel has been in power and being hunted for so long because i think he survived more than or around six hundred assess a nation at times that would change your personality have you noticed any character changes in him over time well i think i was the last journalist. the last american

to be with fidel before he died. and he was always very open and friendly with me i think in terms of his relationship to the united states. he had a he needed a strong defensive posture because the aggression focused on him was really really very severe i think it hurt the revolution i think that the revolution needed to be more flexible and he to be more flexible with the human rights that needed to be more flexible economically. and. to some degree pushed into inflexible position that he didn't come out of you saying it was a matter of. personality aging or was because of the pressure that his country was subjected to i think it's both. i think it's very very important to have a very very strong feedback loop when he was young was all over the island he was

playing baseball with everybody. you know he certainly could do that towards the end. but every country needs to be corrected my country really needs to be corrected and you know that's the that's our work that's the work of false reporters some people say we're not patriotic. i would like to say that maybe that's quite a high form of patriotism when you point out the things that are wrong with your country because you want your country to be better well i agree with you but i think it also depends on how you say it because i think sometimes and that's my personal issue of the day american journalism and american or western criticism in general is that sometimes critical things being said to put people in countries down the rod to. show them deficiencies in their systems and i heard you say in some of the other interviews that you believe that cuba was never really given

a fair chance to run its social experiment to the fullest do you still believe that i sure would have liked to seen that happen you know when the revolution began free health care free school housing guaranteed jobs literacy campaigns that taught everybody how to remove the we were fighting for these things in the united states at that time and the fact they were going on in cuba was very very exciting. but there was always tremendous pressure economically politically militarily against the regime you know would have been let the cubans experiment so we don't have to try this if it doesn't work we can look down there and all gosh it didn't work in cuba let's forget about having universal health care. but they never had the chance the problems that the communist systems in general is that while they are striving for bigger things they tend to forget about the little comforts of life and i think you put it well in one of your interviews when he said that

it's good to have free education and free healthcare it's also nice to have a hot shower shower in the morning if cuba hadn't been pressured so much if it hadn't been sanctioned so much do you think they would have figured out how to provide both to that population you know that they have the internal debates that are about the economy and sort of the individual is that i don't think they were resolved i think is one of the reasons why che guevara left the country because he was in conflict with some of the other people that have more power internally and the tragedies will never never know cuba is now in the process of having a piss full transition of power and the united states department of state has already described it in pretty derogatory terms. well they said it wasn't three it was unfair it was dictatorial in nature. they also believe that this is not really a change of power after all and you know just a change of a figure had but. there's no way of knowing what i'm going to ask you at this point

of time there's nothing in their way of making it an educated guess but i'm going to ask you still. how do you think the relationship it's been transamerica cuba ended this new president is going to develop over the next few years how do you see it i would like to see it continue on the path to normalization that was started in the previous administration i think that was healthy look at the blood. caden the animosity for fifty almost sixty years did it change the regime in cuba no it was a completely unsuccessful policy if you get in your car to go see your bush every day and you turn the key in the car doesn't go any place when you get in that same car every day for fifty years no you go to the metro you take some other route to this the united states had a talk about cuba's inflexibility we had a really inflexible policy too there was totally unsuccessful cause a lot of suffering on the united states can afford to be inflexible when it comes

to little neighbor now and then miles there's no point. that going. to the retrogressive miami community that is every day more and more a minority unfortunately that's back and forth again the last administration realize that the majority of cuban americans want to normalizations the normalised and when you normalize you can talk. and i want to tell you from my experience in cuba when the united states use sugar instead of a hammer things change in cuba in the way that the united states wanted them were like i can't go backwards fast enough in the future to show you what what what's going on in cuba now. it seems that in order to protect lection prospects in florida there is a little bit of a game that's being played with a very very very reactionary cubans who are disrespected more and more every day by

the cuban community since the western commentators compare this new president make l.d.s. now can now gorbachev and i know that you visited the soviet union during its reformist years of glasnost and perestroika reach as inspiring as they may be now in hindsight it ultimately led to the collapse of not only the system to the soviet system but also the collapse of the country do you think that's likely a likely scenario for cuba if the new president indeed pursues the reform agenda or if he doesn't so that was a question that i was asking myself and i was very very curious because of the half a century that i spent in cuba because of my love for the cuban people i wanted to observe this firsthand but i didn't want to observe it from the back of the pack and so i had. asked the cuban government to allow me to come inside as they were making their deliberations as they were passing the power in to observe this

basically like a fly. i'm going to have children and. they don't answer me i have the choice the to be in cuba or be here in moscow for some very important thing this past week and i chose to come here to moscow instead of going to cuba well we are very happy it's to welcome a year in this country but for the time being we have to take a very short break we'll be back in just a few moments statement. which . is a black hole and it is sucking folks from all walks of life and money from all points

of the globe and as it expands it just the wharfs the size of anything else think of peace with it that includes various money regimes it also includes very high level bankers and economists so christine legarde is just the latest to get. to the big calling black hole. los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. simple fact in no way use there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny home for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order.