part of the way that most people get their news and they use those. social media you know or in order to educate themselves or find out what's going on nothing but it's being it is being the content is being censored by the corporations that own it. so it so so it it won't be free and it's not free now but it's and that they are targeting i wouldn't be surprised if i disappear. because man to wall all over the list was a bit of of nobody before giving man birth to his catalogue but as its popularity swells let the public shaming comments. such as on the german city of candidates between anti migrant protesters and rival groups have left eleven people injured and seeing multiple arrests there's been nonstop demonstrations and on rest that throughout the week is around about what's been happening i.

live. live live. this murder has affected us too even though we had nothing to do with it we're still having to pay the price even though we did nothing. live. live. live. if you seen this place you're behind me so 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 help people but now it is much.

to be onerous i'm ashamed of the city but these right wing extremists spread hate like that we should leave and piece together with the refugees live what we have seen in common it is something that has no place in a constitutional spades it's become a witch more of the spewing hate to miles treat these. has no place in our country . to where you want stream of stuff capitalized on this terrible pain a strike is tasteless and appalling and we reject it is not acceptable when people who look for are being attacked in the course of a spontaneous rally. to migron protesters have also been displaying photos of people who they claim of being assaulted by asylum seekers some think a contributing factor to the unrest the flaws in germany's own legal and of course

mr here's our europe correspondent peter oliver 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 at the bizarre end of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirmed to r.t. is how what ping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man who doesn't have a passport can't 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 biography 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 he 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 the system it's a failure of the government i think if the government really wanted to extradite people 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 organizations they protest against of they even tried 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 authorities turn up at the door address where somebody was supposed to live they're not there and they can't be found however that 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 that 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 a percentage in statistics that was done by the interior minister for claims that the security situation was better than ever since nine hundred ninety two but in

chess 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 here on behalf of the police. and next sunday's general election in sweden could see the country's biggest political shake up in decades we'll look at why next.

wrong. to shape our. worlds apart. to look for common ground. thank you welcome back a swedish parliamentary candidate claimed that he was attacked by

a migrant at an alternative to sweden party rally on thursday february fifth i think such was the tensions being flaring during campaigning for next sunday's general election that seen a surge in support for euro skeptic right wing parties and as maria from national reports the country is also seeing a spike in crime levels. we've gotten used to pictures 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 youth who attended a meeting and with screaming and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked two of them i tried to protect my friend and colleague i am this immigrant starting hating overall in the face also the few eggs at our vehicle when we left the scene they ran after and when we had to stop going to the red lights they kicked

the car. swedish police never confirmed the attackers ethnicity but the party member phoned 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 only connection was never established officially the old turn it to the party offers to sweden is sealed borders and immigrants send back to where they came from their past relation 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 over four and. see the need to be you know i liked. back in the old days you might leave that not really because if you look back in time three notes always take in

for injuries so if you didn't think in new people if when of course we are racist don't know what streets where race is still no street party saying they want to take down all the immigrants and the people is unhappy they don't like it 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 going to society police told us they are always invited to meet him he's like this one you many parties. have a lot of meeting so some porters. assaultive as. a lot of people did lie don't like. opinions that's why we call the police it's

always like this one it's on to two elections sweden will hold the general election in just ten days tensions are high ahead of the national vote and that could be historic the ruling left wing 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. french president said had a new strategic plan for europe on monday it seems emmanuel mccraw isn't counting solely on the united states anymore for security and is now looking for alternative partnerships. you open the europe can no longer rely soley on the united states for its security it is up to us today to take up our responsibilities and guarantee european security and consequently european sovereignty we must fully drawn the

consequences of the end of the cold war now mr michael went to outline a number of quite united states which are very similar to the european union with the united states and particularly the trump administration there things such as the trade wars that we've seen in recent months this is the high king of steel an element in tariffs with countries around the world also the fact that the trumpet ministration his withdrawal from the paris climate accord it's also withdrawn from the nuclear deal earned of course there has been doubts from the trumpet ministration particularly from president trump himself over a two week self which is the security force boeing's the us and europe now he's talked in the past saying that he thinks the u.s. is doing too much so all of these concerns have prompted me to say we can't now rely on the u.s. for security we have to do something about it ourselves what is that well he's talked about this defense cooperation europe but he's also said that europe needs

to look beyond its borders and to look to other countries such as russia in the future. for i think we need a total updates of our relationship with russia to further end the cold war we sometimes have continued reactions on both sides linked to mistakes and misunderstandings from the last two decades this has prevented us from fully reasoning as we should have done so it is my wish that i talked about it several times with president putin especially last spring in some petersburg comments here in terms of cyber security defense of the different terms of strategic partnership that we can envisage or rethink about the terms of the new common architecture between the european union and russia. so it seems that as the u.s. continues to isolate itself from little standing cause such as europe the european union that could be now paving the way to new relationships with other countries to manage. independence for spain's restive catalonia region was back in the news on

wednesday a group strongly against the session took direct action to get their point across in a night time right. liz . liz perle in a little talk to the white suit as a way of putting forward our demands we put on the suits to draw attention we also consider it to be a form of protest first of all we went there to get rid of those yellow ribbons and deliver the message that public places are neutral that they should be neutral our

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clone 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 theirs and when russia decided to hold a mirror to the west only 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 bonded out that's. well to discuss that i'm now joined by tony cabin a former astronomy and diplomat and the author of a book called return to moscow well mr cabin 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 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 yes. 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 as the successor to the soviet union and somehow or other images of go leg of the vision 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 an 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 go to chapter on the leg museum i've got a chapter on the jewish museum of tolerance and i talk 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 is and i was an ambassador to poland and again by dia 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 know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism its lobbying russia is 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 scalding 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 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 most good people will be stuffing better not get sick and must go 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 south 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 southwest fluxion to what extent this insistence on portraying russia as 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 over. in the wrong well yes although i'm not sure that

a 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 about the many many of the speeches of course implications you constantly hear these theme of moral superiority 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. 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 small satellite of america not so much as a country that is sort of morals and 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 and now in your book here i think very eloquently explain the 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 here because this intimate treating all those into interventions especially in foreign lands very. casually without any concern for the people there and for tel own.

well being because you mentioned the issue of pride much is but what is still pretty much 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 the bomb a jacket and like tom cruise but look at the way you package that i mean he was basically making a little woman. and so i think russians on the other hand towards that dreadful reality for them this this this wonderful new tradition of the much of the poke to

russians this business thing funny about war it is so 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 no 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 and made in the ukrainian conflict there is also believed that. 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 escaped a direct confrontation how much do you crave at that very much 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 that russia moved in with support for the local local governments local if the groups and drew a lot and that was a dress rehearsal if you like. ukraine became the real thing because for many years before the the overthrow of the in the case which government for many years before

two thousand and fourteen there was all kinds of encouragement being given to nationalistic elements in the crowd and the russian element by the united states and by certain european countries do you think they actually on distant the seriousness of encouraging those kind of forces and the kind of reaction that they may provoke in russia where they understood and simply didn't care i think the latter i think they didn't care i think it was you know whatever we can do to encourage the build up of of anti russian opinion in ukraine is worth doing whatever the risks because ukraine so important strategically so important economically and if we can prise it away from the russian world to the nato world it would be worth spilling some china breaking some china and spilling the sort of on the way so i think they underestimated the seriousness of the nazi.