the legislation prohibits references to war time nazi death camps in the countries being polish those in violation of the law face up to three years in prison the law though has faced a backlash in particular from israel and the us 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 guards there and this should be. the standard everywhere in every museum or memorial and this claim that guides

should only be natives. is really for big hits against foreigners it has nothing to do with some effort to make the the museum better informed. the deliberate killing of animals and nature is in the netherlands a spot range park officials that you claim culling is actually in line with nature itself and she said thing takes a closer look russia screen pastured spend gold in hate blue skies and funny valley a flock of wild animals scattered across the federal and you probably conjured up half facts wildlife preservation.

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 and cattle which were roaming free had been reproducing too much last summer and when winter came there wasn't enough food for the hungry mouth and the weakest started to die local animal lovers try to come to the rescue and feed the animals but tend to livestock control orthe illegal. 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 processes as much as possible the critics say there's nothing natural about taking guns to living beings and this touch plan to let nature take its course has spectacularly backfired i think it's abuse and it's pretty sad i mean how could you do that soon animal who doesn't have a voice i understand the want to see. those animals are but it's also fair to joe's sure i think that we just need to review those animals or place them on places where do not be harmed and another opportunity is to just castrate the male or morals that's a pretty expensive thing to do but it's the right thing to do. international

still to come for you this hour the u.s. is urging countries to intensify pressure on venezuela saying its upcoming election will be a fraud and the sham of the critics to say that is election interference. just off the back. shows seem wrong when all roads just don't all. get to shape out these days because the ticket and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

i believe facebook's market share is increasing despite all the concerning surveillance technology that they sell better including foreign governments but yet multi-trillion dollar market cap of these companies is a testament to the nature of the platform platform. superceded the nation state facebook's two billion users that's bigger than china so it's the biggest kind of entity there is in the world or has ever been in the world probably ever be in the . people in new york have taken part in a march called the immortal regiment the tradition first began in russia a few years ago to commemorate soviet war heroes however since spread around the world or during the march families held aloft pictures of their relatives who fought in world war two but for one couple it was an occasion about the past and

the future. to the iraq iran. girl. who are so very happy looking couple there and it was the march in fact that brought them together because rob has been taking part in more wins for ten years now and tricia has been helping him with his research they are both part of a group which is dedicated to a soviet division which forty against the nazis and starving we caught up with them to him more about their story. i wanted to be really something memorable it was an important event something that tricia and i really think is very important to be out and participate in i wasn't

expecting that what happened was he completely caught me off guard it was great because you know given statism are just something that we both feel very strongly about that's definitely something that will live on forever. when we go through 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 of 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 going to talk their history that the soviet union was not an enemy in world war two and not until the beginning of the cold war or to our two nations become rivals. i prefer the women in world war two and russia that fought and that's not something that we 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 than what we know it helps kind of educate you give you other ways to kind of you everything that happened. so as you mentioned there are mortal regiment marches are taking place all over the world and our paris correspondent charlotte been ski went to the event that was being held in the french capital hundreds of people have come to paris to take part in this year's march for the regiment and to remember their relatives who participated in the second world war many have been sharing some of the stories about their relatives the bravery. that they showed in doing that conflict one woman telling me that

thirteen year old. was just thirteen when she joined the resistance working communicating intercepting communications during the war another woman told me about her father a russian pilot and the plane that was shot down trashed he moved survived and then after his recovery he went straight back to the frontline to fight for his country to fight for freedom stories like that everyone here has more to tell a father a mother parent or even a cousin a brother or sister important stories that people don't want to forget the grave three the courage to her room the system their relatives who participated in the setting local today you marking it's seventy three years since the end of that war which is here in europe victory in you that day and people say that they will never

forget the bravery and the sacrifice of their relatives to ensure their freedom today shot at the reporting there from paris where tomorrow russia marks victory day commemorating the seventy third anniversary of the soviet union's victory over nazi germany the day is significant to you for many at r.t. whose grandparents fought in world war two.

now the u.s. is mounting pressure on venezuela at the moment imposing new sanctions on three individuals and also twenty companies u.s. vice president mike pence called for other nations to to step up their own measures against caracas he also slammed the country's upcoming presidential election as illegitimate the so-called elections in venezuela scheduled for may that for you. will be nothing more than a fraud and there will be no real election in venezuela on may twentieth and the world knows that it will be a very good match with think oh well the u.s. has been calling on venezuela to delay its presidential election since february saying there's no guarantee of a free or fair result washington is also accused into a row of causing food shortages and sparking a flood of migrants into neighboring countries where you robinson though

a professor of latin american studies says the sanctions are a blatant form of election meddling intended to bring about 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 cold and in fact he's creasing in the polls who knows he might win these elections but the u.s. strategy and the majority of the right far right wing opposition interests which is aligned with the u.s. policy of overthrowing the revolution is boycotting these elections this is a boycott strategy because it does not want the venezuelan government would just have made it quite another or another election that it wouldn't since well the government is going to ignore that demand it's absolutely absurd and outrageous demands so. you give me your government system a very fickle beginning it's not going to succumb to this u.s.

intervention but neither is going to take such such interventionist demands seriously. elsewhere opposition leader nicole passion yan has been confirmed as the new prime minister of armenia and with supporters celebrating across the country i was. thousands here gathered in the central square van armenia's capital to greet the newly elected premier parliament voted in favor of passion and following weeks of public protests demanding that he gets the country's top job his candidacy had initially been rejected by parliament last week sparking intensified demonstrations now safely in his position you start to see formal congratulations from foreign leaders. i'm gonna. finally football's biggest event kicks off in russia in just over a month's time and host nation is already getting into the spirit of the world cup between march in the beginning of the tournament the fee for world cup football

park here is touring the host cities and visitors can take part in master classes attend the old autograph session. and also practice their penalty taking skills that they could stop off on the tour is the russian city because than among the visitors there was the former spanish defender guardo he played for for over a decade and during his career he earned more than fifty caps for his country and became well known to tough tackling well he shared his impressions of his than with r.t. . recently i took part in the opening of a new parking khazan that i think will become popular and tracked 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 park all this will create a great football atmosphere that's 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 right size from a fee for heads view points and in general it's amazing stadium everyone will like it so because then for me is one of the cities to enjoy the world cup just like in some petersburg old moscow. just thirty seven days to go before it all kicks off here in moscow that's how the news is looking so far we're back again at the top of the. ministries police forces in the city administrations of many countries depend on one corporation that does my microsoft want to or doesn't want the president out of

this domicile the guns. with their on into the sea it's enough to live in the proprietary software you don't know the source code isn't that is such a security risk when you have a black box operating the public id microsoft dependency puts governments under a cyber threat and not only that. it's. going to warm them all. only through. these two. things that. the reason this is the. most i can done deal of this was stopping there was a student who was a fun is up in these kinds of the fun. reading

and sal you take a shit. i tell you hard watchers it is truly an up and down and left right sideways ride when it comes to covering the military industrial complex there are subservient politicians and their journalists cheerleaders because right when you think you've got things pretty well figured out they throw you that left hook you never quite saw come and can't quite believe like lasers yes laser. right when we are finally seeing the possibility of peace on the korean peninsula the syrian war finally winding down and the only actual physical threat to the united states taking the form of our own political leaders an aptitude u.s. navy and our good friends at lockheed martin bring us laser. battleships no less.

very dr evil of them yes it was recently discovered by journalists attending the twenty eighteen c. air space expo at the national harbor in maryland that lockheed martin's high energy laser and integrated optical dazzler with surveillance or helio's for short will very soon be making its way on to u.s. navy warships complementing or even downright replacing the current battleship the systems the our i am one sixteen and balance systems according to a long time supporter of all things laser defense systems mark gunn zinger of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments believes that this is clear evidence of progress telling the media quote we are talking about lasers that now have the power and beam quality needed to defend against you a unmanned aerial vehicles small boat threats and possibly some weapons like incoming missiles all over short ranges. you see this this is why

peace in our time is so darn near impossible little boys and their deadly little toy. let's start watching the hawks. like you know that i got. clinic so. well the watching dark side arms i robot are and on top of the tests lasers. laser oh ok so. here. we would need lasers to match

they had at least two accidents that killed seventeen naval reserves and infantry and enlisted men and women and i'm kind of wondering when we went in to reach a release and they were all avoidable access because they weren't getting enough training because our people are not taking their jobs seriously those people at the top so maybe when you learn to drive them then you get to have lasers on them this is a bit like a team that's losing getting a new stadium right it's good point you know. thinking that that's going to turn everything around right now you know it's absolutely ridiculous to me that we're we're looking at lasers and i think like the messed up mindset that a lot of military people have because the frame this way pentagon leaders will join us for all that is that while you fight you achieve peace through fire superiority meaning the bigger and better weaponry that we have means we're untouchable so no one messes with us therefore peace but that you know can you do that job in your

opinion can we find peace through virus a period. no. no. it doesn't work because this is what we learn someone just makes a bigger and bigger weapon you get a bigger stick and a bigger second a bigger gun and a bigger this and you think oh well this idea that well if we just mutually assured destruction will somehow keep us safe it's not going to it's still going to kill people just because you're not put you know mushroom clouds over major cities doesn't mean you're not poisoning people killing people during these things with regular warfare you don't need lasers well apparently they do need lasers because let me see let me well and here's what you two are going to talk about like kind of that idea of escalation that one country gets something that everybody is never going to get a problem with nuclear weapons it's what we learn from the batman movies you know the u.s. military is formally complained to china after blinding lazer. were used on u.s. aircraft coming in the land at the american air base of djibouti in africa in two

thousand and sixteen apparently this is great china built its first overseas military base just a couple of muscles down the road from the u.s. base and now as these guys are these guys are flying c. one thirty s in their complaint with our get a laser eye like we've seen heard reports of you know drunken college kids apparently that's that's what china's using their labor lasers to do i know you can figure out a print for the kid a letter well there's a reason well here's the part about why did they complain because they're not supposed to be using them as a u.s. . protocol blinding a laser weapons i swear literally it's the thing blinding wherever you once protocol blinding laser weapons the u.s. and china are signatories to that so the protocol bans use on humans except for what they call incidental or collateral facts of the legitimate military employment of laser systems so where is this protocol why they all think that while they are

patting each other on the back about how great they were joy is what they said is pretty much like well i mean if we're doing our grouse only happen on lag behind some civilians of our layers or who just how we're this all goes back to military industrial complex stuff because back in january of this year just so you understand the money behind this the lockheed was awarded the contract to build just like two prototypes of the scenarios weapons systems laser defense system and but that that was for about one hundred fifty million right but that came with the option to potentially build more which puts them about nine hundred forty two forty three million putting them close probably with everything out of together a billion dollar weapons system well that's just a lucky does just lucky tell you this is going to say everybody has got plenty of the venues that are the power of those lucky plays about five hundred kilowatts of power. everybody's got a loser graham i want to navy contract to build almost as big laser as one the

lockheed distinguishes one hundred fifty laser system demonstrator raytheon is one that's twenty five kilowatt laser that small enough to put on the top of a humvee and not to be left out of boeing has built a ten kilowatt laser that can be carried by soldiers on the ground or laser it's taking care of it's great laser. laser war. last april the forty fifth president united states told the press quote north korea best not make any more threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen what has unfolded over the twelve months since has been a cornucopia of juvenile retorts from trump and from insinuating mental health disease to comparing the size of their respective nuclear buttons the leaders have put their own ego ahead of their nation's safety and yet when north korean leader kim jong un met with south korean president for a legitimate peace talks that have led to the dismantling of equipment at the

demilitarized zone and the possibility of a complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula many gave trump the credit some even calling for him to win the nobel peace prize how very obama him but one has to wonder if an american is the right person to be given credit for bringing peace to a deed nuclearization of the korean peninsula considering nine states kind of the reason north korea even exists and has a nuclear program in the first place between one hundred fifty and one hundred fifty three of the united states dropped over six hundred thirty five thousand tons of bombs and over thirty two thousand tons of napalm on north korea they destroyed eighty seven hundred factories five thousand schools one hundred house spittles and close to six hundred thousand homes in the end the u.s. is estimated to have killed three million north koreans a full ten to fifteen percent of the population with these military action and here's the thing he says something. be rewarded with a prize it's what happens when the rights and wrongs of enemies are forged into

faith then faith and forgiveness but should trump for the united states take credit for the end of a conflict we started in the first place. no the provisions degrade it was eight years we're very sorry restart of this conflict we're very sorry that we divided the crew were very sore that all this happened in the past let us make amends now to do better in the future but no we shouldn't we shouldn't be taking credit for theirs and in my opinion well will pin you because you know yes we played a role but ultimately i would turn on a little girl but ultimately it's the two neighbors that have to find you know they have to be the ones to decide peace it's their neighborhood it's their region and all that it shouldn't be our job to roll with. you know north korea south korea its neighbors who actually are involved in that process i just don't think quite frankly we have enough to deal with at home i don't think our president and all of these of these people that have a million other things they should be working on the stars diplomacy if you are sticking their nose about as far as i'm concerned you let china and north korea and

south korea deal with this on their own that's that's my personal opinion if they need something from us as allies that's fine but i think there is a point where you can't go to the table making me think that the north korean new service actually had released a statement from a north korean official that stated that quote the u.s. is deliberately provoking north korea at the time the situation on the korean peninsula is moving toward peace and reconciliation thanks to the historic north south summit and the. operation so even they're saying like this is getting ridiculous like why are you taking credit why are you now again now it and this is that on both sides left and right i have seen in the media both on your fox news and your c.n.n. both of opinion pieces about how it's all a trick it's all a trap north korea trap president they were doing a lot of star wars where yes it's true that a bit of a war we are solid too and i'm going to wait a minute shouldn't we. give peace

a chance then of someone who started up there anyways they're going to say oh it screwed up but to me it's like you see the warmonger that imperialism you know take hold so now the. a little bit more we can't let him do this it's interesting because john de lorean expert of north korean affairs at seoul's gone to university told. i do give one third of the credit to the trumpet ministration the strategic patience and ramped up saying shit then they ramped up the military threat because we all thought he was crazy to take us to war that essentially made you know. force them to the table that's the idea being put out there that you know trump kind of did that mix only crazy nixon always crazy enough to start a war so we better please clearly the south koreans this and china realize that our for even if president united states was more terrifying if you know whether they can draw. that siri. i think it's i think it's more about them a law that i think they're less if you're worrying about all of this stuff i think

what came to the table was it was a story was something that was really needed and as you said eventually you're going to get to a point where you look and you realize there came to an end as it was through this whole dynasty of living up in the city sees people starving you see is that you know there's only so much you can do and you you top you brought up a really interesting point about the economics of all this up to me that you know brought up to me to be you know how about actually driving the peace process more outside threats united states yeah i mean on the one hand no i don't think that you should give a prize for threatening that you know oh you you just threaten hundreds of thousands of lives here you are the prize for peace i don't but now on that one i do think this is something that should be thought of so south korean leader moon had can was concerned about the threat of an american military action and i think he was more concerned a lot of people are saying then came down who was concerned about it and that's what brought him to the table but it was at that table when we saw the meeting that

the south korean president gave a u.s.b. drive to. and on the. u.s.b. drive was a plan. to implement an economic structure to take place after denuclearization that full power forward to making. what he called sort of. a wealthy north east asian country and this was in the part of that and so the roadmap is based on three economic belts on the current korean peninsula and connecting them with the chinese and russian economy is developing difficult in economic community of some sort in northeast asia so if the korean peninsula can unify and they can be running and this is there's a lot of projects railroads energy these are all things in there that say look it's time for us to go to the u.s. . and then china and russia and its north korea's neighbors are doing the. freedom it's always about all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to lower.