well poland's new holocaust speech law bans claims the country collaborated with nazi germany during world war two specifically the legislation prohibits references to wartime nazi death camps in the country as being polish those in violation of the law face up to three years behind bars and since being passed in february the law has met with a backlash in particular from israel and the united states why the polish government has seen fit to come up with this legislation for beating people to have an opinion about the guilt or lack thereof of the polish nation it is bad for governments to try and regulate culture and history and literature. one no one can understand what why they would like to have some control over the narrative but it is all in all a bad practice the history of auschwitz no matter whether they are polish or

foreign should be the guides there and this should be. the standard everywhere in every museum or memorial and disclaim that guides should only be natives. it is really easy be keats against foreigners it has nothing to do with some effort to make the the museum better informed. in the netherlands where animals are being culled at a local nature reserve defenders of the move say it's more in line with nature and he said he takes a closer look. the russian screen pastures bundles of gold and hey blue skies and sunny valleys picture a flock of wild animals scattered across these meadows and you've probably conjured up a perfect wildlife preservation park. but

in one park in the netherlands something clearly went wrong to the point where the park authority started to shoot some of the animals yes you had it right. the reason all the ponies deer and cattle which were roaming free had been reproducing too much last summer and when winter came there wasn't enough food for all the hungry mouths and the weakest started to die local animal lovers try to come to the rescue and feed the animals but tend to livestock control laws and legal. you see according to the ranges the more animal fats the faster they will reproduce

the less food there will be and the more that will eventually die to minimize suffering they began shooting the weaker ones more than three thousand animals were either killed or starved to death within the last few months this is how it works in nature and here we try to follow natural process is as much as possible but critics say there's nothing natural about taking guns to living beings and this stuff to let nature take its course spectacularly backfires i think it's abuse and it's pretty sad i mean how could you do that soon animal doesn't have a voice i understand but want to see. those animals are but a. it's also very. sure that i think that we just need to read those animals are they start places where do not be harmed friends and another opportunity is

to just castrate the male animals that's a pretty expensive thing to do but it's the right thing to do. still to come here on the program on the late and election interference with just a bit of meddling and actions the us has slapped venezuela with a new round of sanctions and denouncing the upcoming election as a total sham i'll give you details after a short. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

like for many plops over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money billionaire owners and spend be true to the twenty million and one player. it's experience like nothing else want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game like great so we'll all transfer. thinks it's going to. why just one in quarter past the hour here in the russian capital thousands in new york of taken part in an immortal regiment macia tradition started a few years ago here in russia to commemorate soviet war heroes that has since

spread all around the world and during the march families carried pictures of relatives who for whom world war two but for two of the participants in new york it was a special occasion that looks to the future as well. thank you to. be . thyroid. was. or were for the happy couple robot and trisha the immortal regiment macho is actually what united them rob has been taking part in the event for ten years while trisha has been helping him with his related historical research and they are both part of the one hundred ninety third rifle division re-enactment group which is dedicated to one soviet division that bravely fought against the nazis at stalin grad and we caught up with a couple who told us more about what brought them together.

i wanted to be really something memorable it was an important event something that tricia and i really think is very important to participate in i wasn't expecting it what happened was just completely caught me off guard it was great because you know given statism are just something that we both feel very strongly about it's definitely something that will live on forever. when we go to what's called a living history event where regular people will come out to our shows and a lot of them well ask me why i am portraying the bad guys in the war and then i have to explain to them how the soviet union was not an axis power and world war two so what this tells me is that most people here today don't remember they were never taught their history that the soviet union was not an enemy in world war two

and not until the beginning of the cold yours are two nations become rivals. i pray for women and world war two and russia that fought and that's just not something that you know here that's actually how i ended up getting into the hobby because i found out that over eight hundred thousand women fought and it wasn't just you know working in factories at the tanker crews snipers they were everywhere and it helps to be able to kind of bring that light and help somebody realize you know there's more to the story than what and what we know it helps kind of educate and give you other ways to kind of you everything that happened. i know tomorrow wednesday russia marks victory day celebrating the seventy third anniversary of the soviet union's victory over nazi germany in the great patch we'll talk more the day is important to many here in the yachtie family as the grandparents of many of our

colleagues for him world war two hope you can stay tuned for our special coverage. more. nearly twenty past here in moscow the u.s. is mounting pressure on venezuela where a presidential election is looming some are calling it election meddling old blatant interference as washington is sanctioning three venezuelans on twenty

companies and the u.s. vice president mike pence called for other nations to increase pressure on venezuela he also slammed the country's upcoming election as illegitimate. the so-called elections in venezuela scheduled for may twentieth. will be nothing more the for one and there will be no real election in venezuela on may twentieth and the world knows that it will be you think of the action we think . the u.s. has been calling on venezuela to delay its presidential elections since february saying there's no guarantee of a free fair and internationally validated result washington has also accused my daughter of causing food shortages and sparking a flood of micron's in the neighboring countries and william robinson a professor of latin american studies says the new sanctions are a blatant form of election meddling intended to bring around regime change. these

new sanctions have absolutely nothing to do with drug trafficking and they have nothing to do with the lack of democracy or electoral fraud in venezuela the united states specifically targeting out venezuela because it's trying to overthrow their government the u.s. strategy for these elections coming up in venice well it's very important to note this there is an opposition candidate running and we found home and in fact he's increasing in the polls who knows he might win these elections but the u.s. strategy and of a jar to the right far right wing opposition intensely a left which is aligned with the u.s. policy of always going to go to lucian is boycotting these elections this is a boycott strategy because it does not want the venezuelan government to just have made it but another on another election that we haven't seen since from the government is going to ignore that demand is absolutely absurd and outrageous demands so. you give me a dual government has made very clear beginning it's not going to succumb to this u.s. intervention but neither is going to take such such interventionist demands seriously . football's biggest event the kicks off in russia are in just over

a month's time and the host nation is getting well into the spirit of the world cup between march and at the beginning of the tournament the fifo world cup football park is touring the host cities of visitors can take part in master classes tend to autograph sessions in the penalty taking skills and of course pick up souvenirs the latest stop on his tour is the russian's city of. how among the visitors there was former spanish defend michel salgado he played for real madrid for over a decade and during his career he earned more than fifty caps for his country and he also became well known for his a tough tackling style michelle is all gado showed his impressions of cars on with r.t. but i. recently i took part in the opening of a new parking that i think will become popular and treat lots of people from all over the country for those who won't be able to get to the stadium there will be big screens for world cup matches in this part. well this will create

a great football atmosphere. because and it's one of the oldest russian cities but at the same time it has the most modern stadiums and they have already been tested i visit because and the arena stadium and really likes it i think it has everything that can make the fans happy it's a quality stadium with all necessary infrastructure as a player i can say that the sound is very powerful the pitch is fantastic and just the right size for a fee for heads viewpoints and in general it's amazing stadium everyone will like it so it is and for me is one of the cities to enjoy the world cup just like in some petersburg old moscow. and one of the many house cities in russia for the world cup of this year which kicks off on the fourteenth of june i think in the states stay with us for our special coverage.

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the white. and in the middle of the sixty's there were thirteen million students enrolled in higher education in two thousand and fifteen there were two hundred million in less than fifteen years they're expected to be four hundred million to. hold. leverage. while the demand keeps growing university tuition fees skyrocket the world over the cost of education is high increasing. their. work harder is more.

i don't understand how can a school be a scam. in the name of so-called economic pragmatism and as a result of international competition university is a turning into a huge money making machine it's. none of my family members went universe i think i wanted to be i wanted to be got one. from shanghai to new york paris to go and countries around the world reflect trying different moves each remodelling its system in its own way but at what price and who profits from it. really are at the starting point of a story which begins at the end of the ninety's. at that time you have this financial izing itself all the while expanding many intellectuals european

university presidents and expert groups engage in a vast reflection on how to build a more complete more ambitious europe. how to strengthen its intellectual scientific and technological influence. what is the secret of the united states and its economic power. the answer lies in higher education and research. a realm that has become undeniably strategic. at the end of the twentieth century american universities prevail and rule europe is afraid afraid of finding itself on the sidelines it needs

a strategy and so european gauges in a series of reforms to make its higher education more competitive so it can serve europe's economy its productivity its job market and its liberal project england will quickly set the tone before anyone else and to get straight to the point. after the second world war we had a system where local education authorities around the country were responsible for providing a grant to students and giving of covering tuitions fees. and that was at a time when roughly three percent of eighteen year olds went to university around twenty thousand. all science students will. be required to attend lectures on physics chemistry mathematics and biology it will also be possible for science students to major in philosophy knowledge is not bullshit look at what a huge mit world one in one and covering all sides of all all places.

in the one nine hundred eighty s. and nine hundred ninety s. there was a funding crisis amongst universities lots of vice chancellors complaining that they didn't have enough money to cover the amount of students are now coming through the system so the government commissioned a report and this was called the deering report and that came up with a number of recommendations almost one hundred recommendations roughly half for the government about how it could. maintain sustain and improve higher education in the u.k. and one of the most controversial parts of that report was the introduction of was i in one thousand nine hundred seventy the british left led by its young charismatic candidate tony blair wins the elections after eighteen long years of conservative rule. at the age of forty three the head of the labor

party takes charge of the country with a program whose foundation is to apply private sector management models to public services so as to make them more efficient more productive and higher education will be no exception. right. we need to widen access to universities get more money into universities and the best and fairest way to do it is a balance between the state and the graduate. face became reality and nine hundred ninety eight and it was a key landmark in the history of higher education in the u.k. because of that moment the principle of free education free higher education in the u.k. finished. for this historic reform tony blair introduces the yearly one thousand pound tuition fee a smooth way to start five years later prompted by his second term election tony blair authorizes universities to charge tuition fees up to three thousand three

hundred pounds yearly and tony blair. head of britain's labor party successfully passed a reform that the conservatives would never have dared bring forward. in two thousand and ten the labor party rallies the opposition the coalition made of liberal democrats and conservatives led by david cameron take charge of the country very rapidly the debate over jewish and fees arises on the political scene again this time the government intends to authorize tuition fees up to nine thousand pounds yearly all the while reducing the portion of public funding and it catered to universities this new reform violently divides both members of parliament and public opinion that have been very difficult choices to make we have opted for a such a policy is that provides a strong base for university funding which makes a major contribution to reducing the deficit and introducing a significantly more progressive system of graduate paper and stuff we inherited

and i'm proud to put forward that magic so this. order. there is nothing a bank that tiny benefit to the lowest income graduates that justifies doubling or tripling the debt of the vast majority of brides isn't it credible that the party opposite who actually introduced the principle of graduates paying and fainted for two jewish in fee increases is able to drum up quite so much fake anger on the issues out there was any young person ask any young person in any poor communities in our country what is your prospect what is your what do you want to do many would say i want to study i want to qualify i want to go to university i want to achieve something invite. them.

less they are very poor or they're going to borrow money to survive to get through university they simply will not do it this decision matters so much to so many people. i'd say to the house if you don't believe in it vote against it. is to the right three hundred and twenty three you know most of the last three hundred true. god. was. was when the church was really from three thousand that it became one thousand pounds i was up to the university if they wanted to introduce nine thousand pounds a maximum face or anything between six thousand and nine thousand and one

surprisingly most university decided to set nine thousand pounds most students we have now half a million students going through every year most of those will be paying a minimum nine thousand pounds a year and that's stuns. over the course of fifteen years british politicians are ruling class that enjoyed free access to education inflicted of paying system on the new generation. british students along with a european fellows now have to deal with these new rulings that's the way it is. they're young they long for a solid future death thirsty for knowledge and dream of climbing the social ladder all that has a price tag and they'd better get used to him. and if i grew up in a working class family in the south of poland a young woman could have enrolled in

a university in cracow in copenhagen or even obs today. it would have been free in england and it was granted a student loan to pay for her nine thousand pounds tuition fee. i knew i was going to go abroad to study and i think well for a little while i thought it was going to be scotland but then. i think i decided it was england you know like way back and it just stuck with me and i and i came here and it was it was scary it was so scary because i was away from home i was here alone i didn't have anywhere to turn to and look at me now i study chinese of all the crises that i could have chosen i can't wait for you know what the future holds and what i'm going to do i have so many ideas but we'll see. i talked to my grandfather once and we're talking about everything else and then

kind of started talking about university and how much money that costs and everything and i had many thoughts about ok maybe maybe i'll quit maybe i'll you know it's too much maybe it's not worth it and then i realized well how my going to pay it back but that's one of the reasons why i stayed and other reason bigger even is that i like what i do i think i'm not quite sure where that came from my need to go to university i think is because. none none of my family members went to university i think i wanted to be i wanted to be that one first person who did that and my mom my mom really wanted me to do that as well she did encourage me strongly i don't know what i would do with her if i fail i would i would feel like i failed her and i never want to do that ever. because being here and doing

what i do and being university is my way of paying her back problem that she's to me i think that. yeah i'm good it's my way of paying back for everything. and. will be in students be forced one day to get into debt were should education become a syllable good. must didn't speak um self-made finance he has to earn an education . northern european countries do things a bit differently. for

a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all the time but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous is a huge tournaments and the huge amount of pressure the camera you have to go i mean eighty percent of the poll we are with you and we will show the all the great game the grid the game you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down going let's go. along and does that worry you and i'm really happy to join that to get him for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet the special one come on top of . me to just read the review p.r.t. teams latest edition to make up a bigger certainly better jersey but. highlands was as part of core time. on starting to understand sex standing stop or no.

idea of a virus. to beat on the floor sleep on a ballpark so please try to give me a quarter to one of your stuff to put us out of you're going to see they go get out of the open but see that. there's a little me out for you up close just right from where crews could all go. you know they go. on you so. let's throw low. course plus we'll turn our back on the target. ok when she sees her fall in the routine. you can become a scene. in time for event. across

europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to keep our disposable simple song alone even if i company elsewhere they invite private companies to take over their utilities anybody tell us drop us a laxness you guys you've got to be well on the going to be cool. i've been this is . just because i'm out of political office and for you man but the left bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution of. words and their debt downwards do you want to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there.