a figure in russia now at the beginning of the approaches we do know that there have been some scuffles between the supporters and the opponents over latina volley but so far larger view this event has been peaceful now right now the police are trying to clear out of the city center they are kind of breaking up the crowd into smaller chunks of people and and trying to disperse them one of the reasons the reason as to why they're doing this is this location for the protest has not been approved by the most school authorities. in sr himself and his supporters want a gathering here on post disco square while instagram suffered a different location on soccer ave now it's just a few thousand meters a few kilometers away from here it is also said in central most boys story districts somewhat of a traditional what has become a traditional sport for all position rallies and in most school one of those i'll show you to a place that literally a few days ago organized by different people and it was in support of the internet

freedom in russia in the wake of the russian government banning a very popular a messaging service messenger telegram am it's one of only himself did not shy away from appearing at basle rally which did raise some questions as to why he chose time i know what troops to denounce that location south or about avenues for his rally and so no problem appearing that he did at a rally organized by different people also this has been this the protests have not been contained to just more school it has been a russia wide thing some two thousand people we know have been protesting in st petersburg and in other russian cities as well we have reports of arrests in some of those cities too mostly in the cities where locations like here in moscow. nor approved by the authorities as well and most all we saw some people being do. st by the police sue mostly those who are trying to block the streets.

big date on the calendar it's the two hundred birthday of pioneering german philosopher cole marks people across the world have been celebrating and debating the legacy of his words which should portray capitalism as an exploitative and unsustainable system our europe correspondent peter oliver explores why it is that the iconic thinkers still captures the imagination of so many so far on. germany is commemorating one of its most famous and controversial think it is saturday is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the author of the communist manifesto karl marx to say that his ideas of class struggle and the overthrow of the ruling classes by the workers were under a main divisive here well that is beyond understatement marx's ideas were truly at the root of the ideological division between east and west germany post world war

two but that's not stopping his place of birth tree in the south west from hosting a series of events to mark his big birthday bash. it surprised many when it was announced that the guest of honor at the big party in tria would be showing claude younker the e.u. commission president hardly house proletariats credentials in fact the former prime minister of luxembourg has been accused in the past of exuding the worst excesses of the bush was he so perhaps mr younger has been

a closeted common rate of marx all these years marxist con marx is not responsible for all the atrocities carried out by his followers and his writings does capital and the communist manifesto change the world as we know it so marx's name and image has appeared all over the place from a major street here in the german capital to these t. shirts you can even save your capitalist penny inside the head of one of communisms founding think is marx has also appeared in more than east. share of t.v. shows on the advertisements as well. oh come on the bad dad. mars summers are calling the list.

if. it is. the ideas put forward by moxie alongside frederick angles haven't been consigned to the nineteenth hole for that matter the twentieth centuries a recent poll of people from twenty eight different nations showed that hall for them said to get a better society we should follow socialist ideals however it is worth noting that in the same poll around the same number said that political system is based on the writings of these two were far more likely to be oppressive the people of what they thought those mosques have a place in today's society and politics so when it comes to politics like maybe you

use it to get votes but it's now very early like that ideology and it has never been practiced so it doesn't exist and not only like about. economic inequalities but also other types of inequalities that could be used like they could use marxist theory to be examined in today's culture capitalism. steals labor from people from the workers. from from our point of view. it's still important to you that my dear is not good but it's nice that you take in reality things in the differently at marx's funeral in london in one thousand eight hundred three angles said his friend the greatest living thinker has ceased to think well that may well have been but two hundred years after his birth the ideas put forward by marx continue to inspire others to think peter all of us.

we have to philosopher and cultural critic but how come oxen his works are understood in the modern world is that we are all heroes here almost this fame is very ambiguous you become a cult figure a week means people don't really starve you don't preach review and so on and so on marx to prevent him as an idol not only doesn't take mark seriously but also avoid confronting bookies problematic in mosques his description of the movement of global copied over the growing between the poor and varied and so on and so on need to very act but the context is totally different he was. in the wrong way marx obviously big. well elaborate a field of state power he thought state is such effect just

a second diety superstructure thinks really in economy already in the soviet union it was prudent if things don't work like peace state place a much stronger so different stuff today. to be a critical marxist to focus on problems which are going to get that by marx like their own state power economy itself. this is us international thanks to be with us tonight still to come a lot more i can promise you that including a well connected afghan drug lords recently walked free from a u.s. prison but no one knows why because some clues for you coming up. seem wrong. just don't. get to shape out. active. and engaged equals betrayal.

when some find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. the global economy is so tightly wound that these sanctions don't work but that is because the supply chains are completely overlapping the what is sanction in one country drives economic problems that another country that you're not trying to suffer get sanctions to spell longer walkable than the global economy has to come to integrate. its two. interdependent.

hello again the arrest of a tourist drug lord a decade ago was heralded at the time as a devastating blow to the taliban on narcotics trafficking in afghanistan but now the very same man is callie walked free from american prison and has been looking into the possible reasons behind his release. here at this correctional facility in manhattan you've got some very dangerous criminals you've got the mexican drug kingpin knocking el chapo guzman furthermore you've got the terrorist suspected of driving his truck into pedestrians here in manhattan back in two thousand and seventeen but one rather famous inmate the afghan drug lord haji juma khan recently checked out and no one knows why khan was first arrested back in two thousand and one as the usa began its operations in afghanistan however he was almost immediately released and from there he went on to set up

a criminal empire known as the khan organization he was watched very closely by the u.s. drug enforcement agency the khan organization arranged to sell more than bass note them durable to that can be processed into heroin in quantities his launches for two tons enough to supply the entire united states heroin market for more than to use now it's also important to note that in afghanistan he became friends with the d.e.a.'s top man in kabul he described their friendship as crucial and getting information he was a major player in the global herin trade and our aim was to console the supply of money from open kingpins like him to the taliban and terrorists such as oh kind he was an unofficial spiny and he gave us useful information that we passed on to the military at one point in two thousand and six the da chief in kabul got so close to his drug lord buddy that he was worried he may have cancer he arranged a trip for him to the united states in order to get treatment one day i notice is that he had

a growth on his chest i thought it might be cancerous as i previously had a melanoma consonants and showed in my scones i offered him treatments in d.c. and we went all the it was a full i was hoping friend bruce who is way of building trust the friendship soured in two thousand and eight when he was learned to indonesia arrested by interpol and then extradited to new york city once he was locked up ten. trial of the d.a. then publicly linked him to terrorists proceeds from hundreds of mcconnell global drug trafficking organization funded the terrorist activities of the taliban he's arrest significant line of credit to the taliban that will shake the foundations of his drug network that has moved message quantities of harim to world by drug markets ever since that time everything related to khan's case has been completely sealed in two thousand and ten the new york times wrote about his long standing friendship with both the da and the cia prior to capture at the time neither agency would confirm or deny it unlike his lawyer several law enforcement agencies from

the united states approaching people in afghanistan including mr khan and requesting assistance and assigned to stand it payments made services requests from my client and others but now com is free no criminal charges no trial and no explanation why now at this point perhaps we can assume that the law enforcement agencies know what's best for the public and just don't feel a need to share their secret collaboration with the worst of the underworld kept secret so you can sleep better at night. r.t. new york well i could tell your request a comment from the us federal bureau of prisons concerning khan's release if we get an update we'll of course keep you posted straight away. schools in the u.s. state of illinois might soon have to change the curriculum to teach more about the contributions made by the l.g.b. to communities in american history the workability beattie figures will be given

more focus in subjects ranging from science to sport california made a similar move last year it was the first the bill still has to be given the go ahead by the states house of representatives but it's got plenty of people talking it will promote acceptance and a more accurate portrayal of history it is in direct contradiction to the clear judeo christian beliefs of many in illinois. got people talking the studio here to discuss it further we invited media commentator gina lowden and also human rights activist peter tatchell to offer their views. it's very important people understand the contribution that gay people have made i think is about informing straight kids so they understand bt issues they their prejudice is broken down if a history book or any book whatever write about me personally i wouldn't want them to leave with my religious background my ethnicity and certainly not my sexual orientation fantastic extraordinary people from tchaikovsky to richard

the lionhearted their gayness or their bisexuality is not the major factor but it's just about acknowledging that l.g. people have existed throughout history and have made a very important contribution to the sciences the arts sport and culture well i think in an effort perhaps to be inclusive we've made a mistake a miss estimation if you will and what's happened is that a lot of groups have been taken advantage of by politicians who are willing to prey on people based on those identities i think that. identity politics has been a response to exclusion because of decades of exclusion and marginalization some communities of how to organize it hasn't worked and what it's done instead is it's divided us up into little groups that then can be taken advantage of by politicians agendas right we don't want to be typecast about the fact that we're jewish old guy

or black those are just one aspects of who we are but in some cases those are the aspects of who we are which other people target for hatred and discrimination my concern begins and ends where government gets involved in deciding who is relevant who is not relevant who is more relevant and then dividing us into little groups because when government has enough power to do that they also have enough power to take that away. over another talking point next where the clothes are adopting the traditions of the culture is now. often seem more offensive than flattering specially if relations and reactions on social media are going to go by so one recent cultural appropriation backlash we were reporting this when they were on this week targeted a teenager who posted a photo of herself in a chinese dress caused a lot of fuss artie's online series in case you missed it got to grips with what's going down.

oh you are. a young girl just enjoying high school prom no in case you missed this picture is the moment that civilization went just too far. cultural appropriation or appreciating stuff from other cultures may seem like a completely made up problem the kind of thing it's not worth. but are we really going to believe that innocent young the traditional chinese dress just so she could look nice when i'm grey guy on twitter who had never met me and probably shouldn't be looking at strangers social media feeds her cross when he said my culture is no goddamn problem for us but mr angry is a chinese american named jeremy lamb who one would expect would know a thing or two about mixing culture is if we don't all pretend to be outraged right

now then where will this world stop we will start to eat chinese food as if it is a new thing when they start using goods made in china in everyday life china's culture is not your god damn i thought what about indian aptitude from the simpsons he's going under the radar for thirty years but is now finally being criticized by one guy who can't just take someone from another culture and affectionately turn them into a much lower body of the most successful show of all time groundskeeper willie scotland how are they getting away with that so how do we stop this before we end up in the nightmare scenario where different cultures learn about appreciate and accept one another start with your say no to inappropriate appropriated styles cut it all off shore boldness risk but honest but what are they going to do speak your grandma speaks snoop dogg's grandma fancy dress ball. it's just not worth the

risk yo girl stop it if you're no indian you stole it i'm gonna have democracy and elections and stuff like that tough the greeks want it back tracking a computer that's russia's back off comrade really there's only one option that will make us all happy segregate cultures and build walls and stop sharing ideas or just drink a cappuccino and see if they can take it. much more police on line finally for a go one of the story few tonight a one screening area close to paris is now on the terms of a legal waste clearing up the problem is proving difficult for the authorities the more frustrating for the locals.

let me show you how concrete blocks wooden plates had to drag a little east check up speed i would remind you all of that land these private property public authorities cannot interfere with a private job. thanks.

for the easy we vote for politicians to do the job so they protect the lines today though we can't say that it's a. mass of your said all the stories out see dog call that's the update so far as how far i'm kevin i would hear a moscow but with more in just over thirty. when

the make this manufacture consensus instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round the sun be the one percent told. to ignore middle of the room sick. rooms the real news is really. put in lives by two things by his emotion and he is. in the long confusion he places a very long need he says so to speak of long distance rather than politics and that's the way the underestimates.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world i'm barred chilton coming up today a former colleague of mine jenny lead who worked as an enforcement attorney at the consumer financial protection bureau joins us what's being done at the c.s. t.v. which is being run by its fellow who opposed its very existence plus there are national security concerns at a busy u.s. court r t correspondent matushka sweet reports and after the break the april jobs report is out from a commerce department and we have an impressive panel on tap to dig into the numbers all that ahead but first let's hit a few headlines. the former chief executive officer of bolt's wagon ag has been charged with fraud by u.s. prosecutors justice department prosecutors allege that martin winterkorn approved

plans to conceal the installation on b. double use diesel engines of so-called defeat devices those are illegal software that kept emissions artificially low during tests the grand jury indictment in detroit's federal district court was unsealed just hours after the end of the annual shareholders meeting in berlin the deception of vaults wagon was revealed in september of twenty fifteen resulting in a global scandal payment of fines and civil damage payments totaling twenty six billion dollars and last year a corporate guilty plea by both wagon on charges of conspiring to violate the flagship us air quality law the clean air act what your current personal legal troubles could have a heavy implications for a bolt way which is still official which they still officially blame the emissions a separation on only low level engineers winterkorn is now the six and highest ranking v.w. manager to be charged in the scandal some shareholders have filed

a lawsuit alleging that the german automaker has still not come clean about executive wrongdoing and are seeking ten billion dollars in damages from the carmaker. amazon is getting rough with elected officials in their hometown of seattle the seattle city council is considering a seventy five million dollars plan to increase the supply of affordable housing in the city and a tax on major local importers a so-called head tax to finance it five of the nine council members have now co-sponsored or expressed support for the bill arguing that the influx of high wage jobs has also pushed up rents and home prices seattle has been declared a state of emergency on almost this for two years now amazon the largest local employer has responded by announcing that they will suspend all current building projects in the city. ending the outcome of the city council vote on the affordable housing measure social council member show must some one accuse amazon of blackmail

amazon recently announced a one point six billion dollars and quarterly profits and c.e.o. jeff bezos is the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of over one hundred billion dollars. another labor action by us teachers has ended with the teachers declaring victory teachers the state of arizona returned to work today after a six day walkout compelled which compelled governor doug doocy to sign a bill that would finance a twenty percent raise for teachers by twenty twenty an additional investment of one hundred thirty eight million dollars in education spending while the settlement fell somewhat short of the teacher's full list of demand which included an immediate twenty percent pay raise and a rollback of recent education cuts the leaders of the arizona education as say they will redirect their members energy toward voter approval of a ballot referendum on an income tax increase for educational funding in the november election.

i cannot tell you how pleased i am that we're going to turn to the consumer financial protection bureau the c.f.p. b. and that's because a former colleague of mine is with us now that that agency is being run by congress former congressman mick mulvaney who is also president trump's o.m.b. office of management and budget director who is doing double duty as he heads a c.f. p.b. and o.m.b. and interestingly as a congressman mr mulvaney actually opposed the creation of the agencies and to some he has blue forward on the radical agenda to scale back consumer protection or to get discrete scoop right now with jenny lee was a partner at the law firm of dorsey and whitney boy am i pleased to have you here thank you so much for doing that thanks so much for having me. ok so is it the case the enforcement is being stopped the nothing's going on right now that's what some

would contend you know you've been there you were an important attorney there that's correct it's a great question i'm glad you asked well the fact of the matter is even though there is a lot of extraordinary news coverage and press reporting on the bureau the c.f.p. the fact is that enforcement is alive and well so the horsemen attorneys they're still doing i mean they've got a law they've got regulations are supposed to do it now you know you've been i both worked at a regulatory agency and when you're there when you're there you do take some direction from either the chair or the director in the case of the c s p b what sorts of things can they do to actually govern either enforcement or regulations at sea of people specifically yeah absolutely well yes i used to work in the bureau's office of enforcement and after mulvaney was appointed last november the thanksgiving weekend i was very interested to know because i still have that

intellectual curiosity as a former investigator let's see what the court dockets say and let's see what the proof in the pudding which show and the fact of the matter is that there are an extraordinary large number of cases so a hundred fifty plus maybe two hundred nonpublic and public and for some actions twenty plus litigate no matter or some of these sort of residual from before the thanksgiving weekend these would be the status quo point in snapshot today so those that accumulated under director quarters tenure as well so if we say going forward you know it's either after thanksgiving or just take counter you're twenty eighteen do we have a bunch of nude foresman actions since then actually what's really interesting when i review the court dockets in my line of work cases i'll. over the country there is a lot of enforcement activity and we can talk about those as well but what's pretty

interesting is this dichotomy between how much of a means to scribing the new direction of the bureau which is really aspirational in terms of future hopes of change versus what's actually going on in the court docket well i mean it might be aspirational for him jenny but i mean if you know his testimony was a couple of weeks ago i thought said a pretty low bar he said i'm there almost every day boy if i could almost be here every day i think they'd fire be pretty quickly and then the other thing is he said as i haven't burned the place down that bar is below the ground it's so low so his aspiration seems to be talking about putting companies and we all need we need companies companies our economy but i think it seemed to me like he's prying to put companies back into consumer financial protection bureau i mean it was consumer not company financial protection bureau now as you know he's going to be a.