if you see this place you're behind me a lot of crime said deal with drugs and so on to steal everything and so on and it's too much and i think we must tell people now it's too much. to be honest i'm ashamed of this city with these right wing extremists spread hate like that we should leave and piece together with the refugees. what we have seen and calmness is something that has no place in a constitutional spades it's become a witch mob spewing hate announce treats these has no place in our country. do what you want when you stream is tough capitalized on this terrible heinous crime

is tasteless time to. be rejected there's not acceptable when people who look for it are being attacked in the course of a spontaneous rally. and the migrant protesters have also been displaying photos of people who they claim of being assaulted by asylum seekers something a contributing factor to the unrest a force in germany's own legal and enforcement systems is our europe correspondent peter all of the. migration policy in germany is firmly in focus right now but what to do when it's been decided that the person doesn't have the right to be here and should be deported well the bizarre and all of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirmed to see is how what ping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man who doesn't have a passport conk be deported because the authorities can't prove which nation. he

originally comes from oh and by the way this has been going on since ninety ninety eight over the last twenty years most of his offenses have involved drug charges driving offenses driving without a license and violations of the residency act but who year is remains a mystery we have a loose spy or graffiti that suggests that he was born in one nine hundred fifty nine in north africa in the past he said that he was from morocco and also from his from algeria it could be that he is from one of those two countries or it could be from somewhere entirely different opposition figures say that this case shows the flaws in the current system in germany but i'm not surprised this is the most extraordinary case the most ridiculous case so to speak it's a failure of system it's a failure of the government i think if the government really wanted to extradite people so they could do it but they don't dare to do it because they're afraid of

the left wing media. protest and their. so-called human rights organisations they protest against be even try to prevent physically the extradition of people the most recent statistics for this year show that more than half of deportation orders were carried out the most common reason for this is that when the authorities turn up at the door address where somebody was supposed to live they're not there and they can't be found however at this year we've seen a sharp rise in the number of people who've avoided deportation after they physically resisted reaper three ation of people that don't have the right to be here in germany is on the list for angela merkel on the tour around africa we have a situation now where not all problems have been solved especially deporting are still a big problem the security system also the judicial system has to make clear . there there is an effective system of crime prevention and there is also an

effective system in place of punishing committed crimes and not just coloring the situation beautiful lead by presenting statistics as that was done by interior minister posse home for claims that the security situation was better than ever since nine hundred ninety two but it just took some statistics which did not really reflect the situation on the streets he left out all those cases that were reported to the police but were never really taken further because of lack of capacity and on behalf of the police. swedish parliamentary candidate claimed that he was attacked by a migrant as an alternative to sweden party rally in a town in the west of the country on thursday february. fourteenth. tensions been flaring during campaigning for next sunday's general election would

seem to support a surge in support for euro skeptic right wing parties and as maria from washington now reports the country is also seeing a spike in crime numbers. we've gotten used to be cures of shootings and car burnings from sweden called vulnerable neighborhoods but the upcoming swedish elections has brought violence to an every day street one of my colleagues from alternative for sweden being attacked by an immigrant you who attended the meeting and with grieving and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked two of them i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting both of us in the face both of the few eggs at our vehicle when we left the scene they ran after and when we had to stop at the red light they kicked the car. so we did police never confirmed the attackers ethnicity but the party member for it to him as an immigrant. but that is not all they blame immigrants for an overall high

criminality rate and low security across the country although the connection was never established officially the alternative the party offers to sweden is sealed borders and immigrants sent back to where they came from their past creation instead of immigration they say and also a toff a police and a stronger army the meeting gathered some supporters but the majority came to voice their discontent because he was saying that we need to clean sweden we need to get every foreigner of here and we need to be you know like back in the old days you might leave that not really because if you look back in time three notes always taking four hundred so if you didn't think in new people if when of course we are racist on our streets we are racist who knows streets party saying they want to

take down all the immigrants and then the people is unhappy they don't like to as long as we can integrate them to swedish society may become they become a swedish says me because i'm also an immigrant from belgium as the as long as they become swedish and they work and they do a normal swedish things it's absolutely no problem as long as they they can keep their religion they can keep their culture but they should speak swedish and they should work miniger immigrants here feel like they're they're not included in the society police told us they are always invited to meetings like this one many parties. have a lot of meetings so some part is. about the facade. a lot of people don't lie don't like. opinions that's why they call the police it's always like this when it's time to elections sweden will hold the general election in just ten days. tensions are high ahead of the national of eighty two that could

be historic the rolling left tween social democrats the oldest and largest party in sweden could see its worst result in the last one hundred years as rightwing ideas are gaining more and more popularity. from sweden or watching the weekly from r.t. this sunday the united nations has launched a blistering attack on me a muslim leaders accusing them of genocide against the range of minority the details on that offer the right. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting

past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when lawmakers manufacture consents to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round if suddenly the one percent. nor middle of the room signal. the real news is.

more of the week's biggest news now and at a news briefing on monday the united nations laid out accusations of genocide committed by men miles army against the range of minority claims the government denies numbering around a million of the staff of twenty seventeen the ranger not regarded as citizens in the southeast asian country both human rights violations rape gang rape sexual slavery forced nudity and mutilation of the greatest crimes under international law we didn't. receive any cooperation from the myanmar government we are deeply disappointed that state concert down suki san suu kyi has not used to position the moral authority just ten prevent or condemn the unfolding events in iraq. and. the un considers the range of the most persecuted minority in the world and calls the situation a human rights catastrophe as a result of a military offensive at least three hundred ninety two of the minorities villages have been destroyed thousands have been killed the un also stresses the cases of

women being gang raped and children assaulted but over the years. the country's de facto leader has repeatedly denied any ethnic cleansing has taken place when you use terms like ethnic cleansing which i think is a little extreme i don't think this ethnic cleansing going on i think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use what's happening or you heard earlier on sun suchi also blocked a u.n. fact finding mission from accessing the area in twenty seventeen despite that she's seen as something of a hero in the west she previously want to nobel peace prize and a u.s. congressional gold medal a lot of stories even go bawly would treatment and also top world leaders have called her an inspiration. the power of your example which has been inspiration to people all around the world including myself a fearless champion of human rights and democracy your example you'll perseverance in your beliefs is a huge inspiration to people across britain and people around the world. clearly

you will be playing a key role in your country your for many years to come thank you for your inspiring message. despite the damning u.n. report the nobel committee has defended its decision not to retract the peace prize from the prime minister and stomach explained the un report demands myanmar's top generals be investigated for crimes against humanity and also accuses misty of turning a blind eye to it all but that's alright because the nobel committee says it's only concerned with what happened in the past. it's important to remember that's a noble prize whether in physics literature peace is awarded for some prize worth the effort or achievement of the past i'm certain he won the nobel prize for peace for who fight for democracy and freedom up until ninety ninety one the year she was awarded the prize well if we're to believe the committee only cares about

recipients pasts they're going to have some explaining to do here. yasser arafat received the peace prize for brokering a middle east accord securing palestinian rule in gaza and the west bank at the same time he was the chair of the palestinian liberation organization responsible for violence against israeli civilians who they consider to be part of an illegal occupation arafat did renounce the violence before receiving the award but how about another nobel peace prize laureate henry kissinger. this. received the prize for negotiating a ceasefire in the vietnam war it was set to share the nomination with north vietnamese diplomat late dr except the vietnamese responded with a big no thank you and to no one's amazement that's because kissinger had been

secretly bombing cambodia throughout the nineteen seventies as disclosed in a pentagon report he approved almost four thousand bombing raids in just the first two years of the campaign. and last but not least as barack obama many were left puzzled as to what obama had exactly done to receive his peace prize but just like the others the nobel committee said it had something to do with his past only very rarely has a person to the same extent as obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future we are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future but for what he has done in the previous year we hope this will enhance what he is trying to do what exactly obama did in that previous year is a mystery to most people. the united states says it shifting its focus from fighting terrorism to entering an arms race with other major powers but is it

playing catch up all going into overdrive to boost its own arms industry. great power competition not terrorism is no the primary focus should do it through the tragedy of it for. six. six six. six six. six. it's. six. six you mentioned the navy for example and we have fewer ships than we did in one

nine hundred sixty governor we also have a few horses and bayonets the nature of our military is changed. the world changed right russia and china appear competitors and we have to think about our defense different ways and we have in the past when you look at the three major superpowers china russia and the united states all three directly china and russia really upgraded their forces in the worst five years so now the united states is playing catch up a little bit on some of those people who are deprived limb isn't we spend more money than the rest of the world on military equipment and manpower this is about big business these country companies make billions off the united states plus the illegal arms shipment state they send around the world the united states is in a constant buildup of weaponry and in

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of welcome to worlds apart for decades russians house both left and despair that the inadequacies of their system while also struggling to accept this same kind of criticism. from foreign there's and when russia decided to hold a mirror to the west own imperfections including by setting up this child it turned out western tolerance to criticism is even more why is it so difficult to communicate pointing out what's wrong with one another well to discuss that i'm now joined by tony cab and a former diplomat and the author of a book called return to moscow well mr cavanaugh it's great to have you in the studio thank you very much for your time and happiest charlie a day thank you very much. now when you say australia in the russian context it

conjures up an image of a beautiful faraway land with bright sun blue sky beautiful beaches with friendly people who spent most of that time surfing and i know it's a typical but i think it's a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russian there's trial and context. the associations are probably not so positive are they. they can be quite negative unfortunately we've been fed a diet of cliches about russia. russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. of success the strike to the soviet union and somehow or other . stuff in the country of extreme cold discomfort of rudeness of the kinds of things that unfortunately still linger on

and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for a western or former western diplomat. when it comes to russia because. i think there's a lot of understanding there's also a lot of compassion in your book and i really appreciate that but i will want to ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country and. easy pass i don't think so i think that the majority of the content of my book deals with the sometimes very disagreeable parts of russia's history i've got a chapter on the leg museum i've got a chapter on the jewish museum of tolerance and i and i talked very frankly in those two chapters of some of the black spots in russia's history and i think what i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland

and to gamble idea that was my last postings. i felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what we're being told about. i want to go and i want to see what it's like and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you knowing experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian

patriotism it's loving russia's it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but what i thought find even more troubling is that scolding that irritated russians a lot if you years back now seems acceptable because it essentially dick rest into the open bigotry why do you think this lack of compassion not even the lack of basic decency towards this country has become so does your mental conditioning and mutual propagandizing to the point where people come to believe each other if they keep telling each other that's good you know if you if you repeat laws often enough they become the truth and when you've got people in in time media communities who

are constantly. prince and each other with attitudes and opinions that really have no basis in fact unfortunately fulfill turn to will to fulfill certain reality takes hold and i found when i decided to come to russia i was confronted by my friends and my colleagues in canberra which is the government center of australia with all sorts of illusions once you get outside moscow people will be stuffing better not get sick in moscow you in russia you won't be looked after properly all rubbish but the point is these have become general beliefs and i felt as a former ambassador whatever authority i still had and whatever credibility i still had. i want to put it at the service of of writing a book that would encourage a better understanding of russia now i wonder. whether this issue of portraying

russia always in a very negative light is also connected to the west own self perception because in your book you're afraid. liberal interventionist as a driving force behind many of the west or america's adventures and we i think it's impossible not to agree that many of those adventures created more harm than good and yet they also produce very little in the way of south reflection to what extent this insistence on portraying russia as redeeming really ugly is predicted on the need of the west to see the south as invariably good despite all its recent policy blunders yes i think you're absolutely right. it's very important for the west and i late however you define that military diplomatic political media that does. believe in their own objectivity they have to believe in it but it's not just objectivity it's some sort of eternal goodness. the other side being

all away. in the wrong well yes although i'm not sure that i very many people would talk about being good and evil i mean that's that's a moral concept in the west that it's become many many of the speeches of western positions you constantly hear these theme of moral superiority on this drawing you know making i think this is a recurring theme in many of the present obama statements and in many of the statements by british politicians that they could be no moral equivalency between for example russia and the west where in fact why would you even think about equating anyone morally everybody makes mistakes everybody has his own or her own difficulties why would you need to compare anyone on the moral basis yes well i find that really very strange and limited thinking on that because to me russia is one of the most morally conscious countries in the world i mean the country that

produced the story if. it's all about morality it's all about what is good what is evil this is something that preoccupies russians in a very noble very noble sort of way on the other hand i see the west my own country australia which is the most that a lot of america not so much as a country that is sort of moral sense itself but a country that believes in its own pragmatism we we we like to pretend that we are totally realistic when we're not we become prisoners were an illusion in your book here i think it very eloquently explain that russians have this deeply ingrained fear of war which comes back to our losses in world war two and perhaps even before that and i think you can easily make a case that russians sometimes overplay those fears those insecurities or security concerns but i wonder why do you think people in the west have lost out fear because they seem to bitch treating all those in interventions especially in

foreign lands very. casually without any concern for the people there for tell own. wellbeing because you mentioned the issue of pride much is but what is still pretty much about going into libya or syria well i think that's a very good question because to my mind war and entertainment have become good in our culture and we've children grow up playing playing war games on their computer this war has somehow been domesticated as entertainment. the major hollywood film industry. films about war. remember the way george bush when he wanted to declare victory. over saddam hussein's iraq he went to an aircraft carrier and put on a boat much eckert and like tom cruise but look at the way he package that i mean

he was basically making a little woman. and so i think russians on the other hand war is a dreadful reality for them this this this wonderful new tradition of the much of the poke to russians this because nothing funny about it is serious and i'm sure that russia will be there to extend your question little bit i'm sure that russia will be the last country in the world to abandon its nuclear deterrent i think russia will be the last to give up nuclear weapons because russia regards nuclear weapons as the bow walk against invasion or war by a superior coalition of speaking about this affair superior outside coalition force as those tensions that we've been discussing came to had in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and in your book here try to explain both russian and western thinking in great detail and there is this popular view in moscow that as painful as the ukrainian rupture was and it certainly was and is for russia russia is playing it

as a great cost for the kind of decisions that made in the ukrainian conflict there is also believed that the rapture. how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and nato that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen that the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way to escape that direct confrontation how much do you crave at that oh very much so i mean there was a sort of a rehearsal for crimea some years beforehand and in georgia of course went under a lot of american encouragement of the saakashvili government but very provocatively towards russia and a couple of ethnic parts of georgia and iran and i think i forget the name of that number one the current dutch and russia drew a line and then russia moved in with support for the local.