appearing at that rally which did raise some questions as to why he chose time i know which groups to denounce that location south or about avenues for his rally and saw no problem appearing there at the at a rally by different people also this has been this the protests have not been contained to just more school it has been a russian white 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 to mostly the cities where locations like here in moscow. approved by the authorities as well and most all we saw some people being detained by the police to mostly those who are trying to block the streets. big day on the calendar for story in this this weekend saturday marks the two hundredth birthday pioneering german philosopher karl marx people across the world been celebrating and debating the legacy of his works which portrayed capitalism as an exploitive

and unsustainable system our europe correspondent peter all of our explores why it is though that the iconic think is still captures the imagination of so many people to this day. 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 trio would be sean 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 calm 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 pennies inside the heads of one of communisms founding think is a marxist also appeared in more than east. share of t.v. shows and advertisements as well. oh come on that dad. mars scientists are calling the list.

if. it is. the ideas put forward by moxy 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 systems based on the writings of these two were far more likely to be oppressive i asked the people of what they thought those mosques have a place in today 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 to be examined in today's culture capitalism. seals labor from people or 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 a. philosopher and cultural critic about how marks on his works are understood in the modern world these days is that all heroes but heroes 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 ideal not only doesn't take marx seriously but also avoid confronting what you see problematic in marx 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 conflict is totally different he was. right in the wrong way marx obviously big. well elaborate a field of state power he thought state is such as take just a second diety superstructure thinks really happened in economy already in the soviet union it was true and if things don't work like this state place a much stronger so different stuff today. to be

a critique of marxist is to focus on problems which are going to get that by marx like their own state power economy itself. coming up a well connected afghan drug lords recently walked free from a u.s. prison but no one knows why we do have some clues for you though after the break. with manufactured. public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the roots to.

put in lives by two things by his emotion and he. in the long he plays a very long game he's so to speak of long distance runner in politics and that's the way the underestimating. i guess thanks for watching this weekend to me i was pretty sure to hear it out now but that story i was talking about for the break the arrest of a tourist drug lord a decade ago was heralded as a devastating blow at the time to the taliban and narcotics trafficking industry in

afghanistan but now the very same man is quietly walk free from an american prison caleb maupin 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 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 arrange to sell more than base nuke them durable to the pro system to heroin and wanted to says 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 in getting information he was a major player in the global herin trade and the ring was the counsel for the supply of money from king pins 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 concent and showed in my scones i offered him treatments in d.c. and we went well that was a false alarm 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 is a significant line of credit to the taleban that will shake the foundations of his drug network that has moved message quantities of harim to worldwide 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. to request a comment from the us federal bureau of prisons concerning cannes release so we'll update you fear anything but so far nothing. schools in your state of illinois might soon have to change their curriculum to teach more about the contributions made by the communities in american history the work of the figures will be given more focus on subjects ranging from science to sport under the plan in fact california's already done the same thing the bill still has to be given the go ahead though by the states house of representatives and it's already got a lot of people talking to 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 going to the studio here to we voted media commentator gina lowden and human rights activist peta touch will to offer their views it's very important that people understand the contributions of gay people have made i think is about informing straight kids so they understand l g b t 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 is just about acknowledging that l g b t 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 and this 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 you know 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 gene is right we don't want to be typecast about the fact that we're jewish or gay 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 and. little groups

because when government has enough power to do that they also have enough power to take that away. one son of the times to another now wearing the clothes or adopting the traditions of another culture is now it seems often seen as offensive more than flattering especially if reactions in social media are to go by of late with the story of the week one recent cultural appropriation backlash them targeted teenager who posted a photo of herself in a chinese dress artie's online series in case you missed it got to grips with what's go into. a young. oh you are. so. young girl just enjoying high school prom no i guess 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 only 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 a teenager and probably shouldn't be looking at strangers social media feeds her for us 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 pretend to be outraged right now then we'll look as he is of this world stop we will start to eat chinese food as if it ain't no thing when they start using gets made in china in everyday life china's culture is not your god damn i thought what about indian children a aptitude for 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 loved blondes of the most successful show of old sign 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 you or half say no to inappropriate appropriated styles cut it all off shore boldness risk ernest's but what are they going to do. like your grandma speaks snoop dogg's grandma front you dress. it's just not worth the risk yeah you gotta 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 it comes here that's russia back off calm right really there's only one option that will make us all happy segregate coaches build walls and stop sharing ideas or just

drink a cappuccino in a can marry no and see if that can take it. be a great show check probably show it online if you already don't call me right said twenty minutes past eleven mosco time folks watching what's the update this fall with more in just thirty two minutes that i'm kevin owen and that we would appreciate you watching a program set out to talk about which is more of them right after this break.

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of the region the cold the toxins to spread out from the palm oil plantations and they end up in local rivers which means the water isn't safe to drink so the best interests of the local population have been sacrificed to the meteoric growth in palm oil production and profit for the companies that make it. ok ok you know i was outta me. yeah you need any. sexy he said you do need

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