mostly in the cities where locations like here in moscow. approved by the authorities as well the most all we saw is some people being detained by the police to mostly those who are trying to block the street. the german political theorist karl marx was born exactly two hundred years ago and his ideas on revolutionary socialism are still a source of fierce debate across the world our europe correspondent peter oliver went to the city where marx grew up. 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 literally 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 has 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 young has been a closeted calm rate of marks all these years marks comics is not responsible for

all the atrocities carried out by his followers his writings does capital and the communist manifesto change the world as we know it so marx's name an image has appeared all over the place from a major street here in the german capital to this t. shirt you can even save your capitalist penny just inside the heads of one of communisms founding think is marx has also appeared in more than a fair. a share of t.v. shows and advertisements as well. oh come on now have sweetie a dad. my son is a con list. but

. 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 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 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 that my idea is good and important but it's night did a utopia in reality things in that 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. you heard from philosopher and cultural critic. about how marx and his works are

understood in the modern world. as with all heroes heroes this same east very ambiguous you become a cult figure which means people don't really start the you don't really review and so on and so on marx to present him as an ideal not only doesn't take marx seriously but also avoids confronting what is problematic in marx his description of the movement of a global copy of the policy the growing between the poor and the reach and so on and so on it's very actuality but the context is those early different he was as if you had a right in the wrong way marx obviously didn't care as well elaborated theory of state power he thought state is such a fact just

a second daddy superstructure thinks really happened in economy already in the soviet union it was proven that things don't work like d.s. states place a much stronger role so that sort of stuff today. to be a critical marxist is to focus on problems which are neglected by marx like the role of state power in economy itself activists in scotland are calling for a second referendum on independence that's very much why after a short break stay with us. global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings produce to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that still need. to do socks credit tell you that so be gossip and tabloid but i fell for the most important news today . off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough and that's why their products. are the hawks that we along with our audience

will watch. by two things by his emotion and he is. in that long teaching he places a very long lead he says so to speak a. long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimate him. all right welcome back this is our team international thousands of people took to the streets in glasgow on saturday demanding

a second referendum on scottish independence from the u.k. . the march was led by a movement called under one banner which held a similar event last year around eighty thousand people showed up which is twice the number of the organizers were expecting in september two thousand and fourteen scotland voted to remain in the united kingdom with the better together ten pain winning by fifty five percent to forty five but according to jonathan the shafi from the radical independents campaign support for independents has risen dramatically since then. what's fascinating about today's statement station is that there was no organized by. no organized by. the style

bush organization. it was a grassroots something from the communities the length and breadth of school days the goblets to march through was a good day so that tells you something that gives you an indication of the feeling in the country no only for the referendum and making their support for the referendum but actually being will you be willing to teach the streets to make their point to raise their voices in favor of referendum i think just so you know it's a change the saying of things to come. the senate in the u.s. state of illinois has approved a plan to require schools to teach children about the contributions of l g b t people to american history now the bill which needs the approval of the lower house to become state law is proving to be highly controversial. 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 media commentator gina loudon and human

rights activist peter tatchell gave us their views on the story. 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 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 agendas right we don't want to be typecast about the fact that we're jewish all day all 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's 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. soviet war heroes who fought against nazi germany are being remembered around the world. ahead of the may ninth victory day celebrations in mortal regiment marches give people the chance to honor their family members who took part in that victory and whose killam up and went to march in new york. so we're here to our city and we're walking along the new york harbor as you can see all around me we have a gathering this is gathering people to commemorate the victory over fascism during the second world war as much as people might view this is a russian gathering this is really a celebration of some of the good things about america as well let's remember that i mean during the second world war the usa came together with russia and defeated the fascist menace and it's interesting this is kind of a family affair we're seeing a lot of you know couples with children we're seeing grandparents with their younger generation a lot of folks out here now the folks are carrying placards with the image of their

relatives who died or fought in the second world war family affair it looks like a flower you know green great parents and this is your relative yes this is my gram fire he was a pilot this is my grandpa grand grandfather he was dissipated in the world war two he died on his way to berlin well i'm originally from kazakhstan and i'm here to commemorate his memory it's really important to thank them for what they have done for each of these faces has a story a story about the battle to defeat fascism a story about you know kind of the goodness the kind of brings the american people in the russian people together and gives us kind of a common bond in history why a gatherings like this are so important i think just to show the camaraderie between americans and the russians. were so much alike and i'm here as an american because i think the collaboration between the united states and russia is important for mankind there's

a beautiful history of russians and americans not being at each other's throats not hating each other but actually being friends now listen they're singing some of these songs. that of the economy you know even bring the culture this is the second world war anthem we're hearing about singing now as you can see a lot of russian americans we've got some folks from here in the u.s. a native born american folks who want to memorise the victory we've also got some chinese americans we've got some folks from central asia places like kazakstan coming together to commemorate the victory over fascism caleb mop and r.t. new york. teenager in the u.s. state of utah recently found herself at the center of a twitter storm after she worried chinese dress to her school prom parties online series in case you missed it try to figure out what is behind the concept of cultural appropriation a young. oh you are. a young girl just enjoying high school prom no thank 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 only really going to believe that innocent young traditional chinese dress just so she could look nice when i'm angry guy on twitter who had never met a teenager and probably shouldn't be looking at strangers social media feeds smirk when he said my culture is no goddamn problem for us 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 where we're like as he is of this world stop we will start to eat chinese food as if it 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 loved blondes 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 to 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 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 hyping it computes that's russia's. really there's only one option that will make us happy segregate cultures build walls and stop sharing ideas or just drink a cappuccino in a camera know and see if that can take it. for me you know be back with her blinds in about thirty three minutes throughout the.

thank. you guys or financial survival does liquid those that you can convert music past quite easily. because of my know as a tremendous pleasure. to welcome to worlds apart of the recent series of a bounce on the north korean track has attended many diplomatic conventions but

only have the south koreans become the unlikely messengers between pyongyang and washington they've also become spokespeople for both kendall chum supposedly acceptance of kim jong un suppose that invitation photogs break these decades old stalemate well to discuss that i'm now joined by a. professor at the university insult professor blank of it's good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you very much and he says now we've just witnessed a major turnaround in how north korea. and the united states approach one another just a few weeks ago the world feared to break out of a nuclear war now we are discussing the potentiality of the first ever face to face meeting between the two leaders since the korean war what do you think accounts for these dramatic shifts of well i would say cynically blackmail. because or was a last year u.s. administration or pretty well it's a more there's a be

a more precise president himself has evoked a very heart to create an impression that huge is seriously considering a military operation against north korea nobody but president trump himself can possibly nor was he he was really going to strike north korea or perhaps it was all bluff bluffing to create such an impression and to get you to go diplomatic results reza sincere or not this policy of pressure has finally walked. or will september suddenly change of its edgy heute to send chills it in or study it historically was remarkably reluctant to fort really tough sanctions against north korea bought from august of september jan they probably and somebody got tougher than the united states saw try to shore they're working very hard so

essentially what you're saying is that donald trump managed to change the calculus of not only the north koreans but also other parties to this conflict but the north koreans do not have a reputation of being particularly feeble minded in fact i think they have a reputation of being very tough negotiators and trying to get as much as possible for as little as possible and yet all of a sudden they show this openness for one sided concessions agreeing to suspend military and ballistic. last while not asking the americans to suspend their military exercises is that a measure of how frightened they are or perhaps a calculation on their part that they may get more in return later on. bridges sure that in the long run as the north koreans the smart america. because you know i've been studying is a history and this is you see a history of how well kim jong il and his father and the specially his grandfather

many people ate it changes russians selves americans jeff and they always vo vigorous but right now they are still frightened because i mentioned essential their yet to produce impact but in due time situation is likely to deteriorate and of course the dorm for to be shot at as they understand in case of war they can then freak a great deal of damage on the us and their allies by they also understand that in the end of the day they're going to suffer much more so the dorms want a shooting war and even the his you were that this is was going to happen if they don't stop well they decided to stop is a methyl fact exit action is they introduce them on their missile tests a nuclear launches not now now they just confirmed it for all practical purposes they did it in late november and they also floated

a possibility of being open to discuss the so-called denuclearization of the peninsula now i know from your own writing that it sounds big but it doesn't carry much at least in your view but do you think there is anything that could actually prompt young young to take this issue seriously and consider it i don't see any so that here. veatch would probably make to seriously consider. their current statement. basically just service many people forget by the according to the nine hundred sixty eight treaties signed by all major nuclear powers including tonight the states russia and share that and france and united kingdom all this countries are under obligation to eventually surrender the nuclear weapons. i think show american or russian or chinese documents you see that this is not exactly was the of working hard to achieve so it just really observers north

korea's can easily do the same they can isn't it do what they're american so russians have been doing for decades just to see in van putin will point in a very distant future probably they will surrender nuclear weapons not know versus a link of you mentioned the believe service and i think it's also become a bit of a diplomatic ritual to indoors the denuclearization of the peninsula but if we look at it through politic lances do you think regional powers like russia like china actually want pyongyang to fully disarm absolutely because it's very often is under stuart budget russian government has always been deadly against nuclear north korea and this say or even more is a political bow to china you know or russia is now flooded visit and tamika feelings so many people say vowels their gears elided strays they're good guys they have supported them not because in the end of the day first of all russia be

a commie vice the cousin ours a nuclear countries needs nuclear superiority even more and it has no interest in emergence or for new nuclear powers because that i view because because it's now it's last year tomorrow it may be scary if they're discussing as seriously as vietnam and then more nuclear power with iran on their list military significant russia becomes and it's only part of the story and as a part of the story is. just all good proliferation. norm to be part of her rate as well but the counter-argument to that would be that the north korean partial nuclear arsenal provides security guarantees not only to the regime itself but also to its neighbors against a military intervention the breakout of a major war on their borders and as you pointed out in one of your recent articles nobody wants to see a replay of the libyan events in east asia so my question to you is whether they're

north korea having a short nuclear stick not a fully developed but some some blunts of a nuclear weapon doesn't dod provide a certain guarantee to both russia and china that the united states would not intervene that recklessly on their borders no security guarantees for russia provided by the russia nuclear and missile force or spirit all countries if they develop nuclear weapons they create into the long run increase instability i'm not saying that we can do anything about north korea nuclear weapons i'm just saying that from the point of view of the russian the national interest it's not a good news look now it's more scary but if north korea becomes nuclear it will become all you logical for south korea to warn your korea as well because yes now say and probably believe they need nuclear weapons for defense but the as far as i get it was in north korea invaded in one hundred fifty. official line is.

does not exist so our study is in the u.s. occupied territory to be eventually liberate it's ruled my sheep period but if according to the north. this is a situation sort of what should not do probably develop nukes and if that happens what about japan what about what about vietnam all this countries have a lot of money is australia well of nukes by the way most cases against. china and this is it is owned by chinese so i'm happy about north korean nuclear program russia is a bit unhappy chad is seriously unhappy because if it's not stopped in ten feet twenty s. time channel you'll find itself surrounded by small really hostile countries and beatrice reason to hate cherry now going back to many centuries and each country has a nuclear weapons wrestling i heard you say that the north korean regime is likely

to be accommodating as long as it believes that the us administration could be reckless enough to launch a strike against said despite all the potential ramifications for south korea as well as for the region in general how much mileage do you think the trombetta ministration can get out of it what's the maximum that they can potentially extort from pyongyang by using these scare tactics. would say a lot of what they heard the last of the blogs it's basically is that they can get much more then i expect because. the north koreans a century except it is a good military exercises will behalves is the same situation i just discussed and you're talking about does of the nuclear program because if they have basically is a noise they can do nothing about joint military exercises non-sale is for the last few months it did look like that the future deal if you include it just something

about this scale or continuation of pregnancy of the joint exercises and recently at north scary as essential a set military exercises cavies us we don't care we don't worry about it the she is was a pretty mess of concessions so i would say that say about a year ago three years ago i used to say and many of us said well soon or later north koreans probably they will see it and start talking but they're going to extract a lot. every scene from the united states all but is now it seems a. major condition is just to make sure that americans will not start shooting second to have some of their reason socials lifted as soon as possible before it will strike the economy and they're not going to port much more demands for the time being now professor link of there is a lot of discussion in the united states especially among those who do not support

the idea of the presidential summit that it would be encouraging north korea for its bad behavior but i think the relevant question here is also whether it would encourage trump for his bad behavior because you mentioned that he's policy of essentially blackmail has worked so far if that summit indeed takes place. wouldn't that make bellicosity on them eric and a more acceptable form of foreign policy i know that for the time being both russia and china are endorsing the idea of the meeting between kim and trun but i suppose they would be just as happy to have trump threatened in the same manner i lost them my share of russia and china has much more force and much war they're much more capable or biting back and nobody would. have a sore.