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they could do it but they don't dare to do it because they're afraid of the left wing media they would protest and their. so-called human rights organizations they protest against and they 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 this year we've seen a sharp rise in the number of people who've avoided deportation after they physically resisted reaper tree ation of people that don't have the right to be here in germany is on the list for angela merkel to 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
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that there is an effective system of crime prevention. and there is also an if in fact of a system in place of punishing committed crimes and not just coloring the situation beautiful only by a percentage in statistics that was done by interior minister posse all four claimed that the security situation was better ever since nine hundred ninety two but you 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 on behalf of the police. is exactly a week until sweden goes to the polls and it could prove to be a big electoral upset with right wing support on the rise crimes a big. actor in the campaigning especially since
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a wave of arson attacks and which gangs have tortured cars almost two thousand vehicles have been targeted in the country since january the motive behind the attacks still hasn't been officially established clearly infuriated the swedish prime minister it lashed out at the mass to use being blamed for the arson. most of the coast of the question has to be asked of those people. who are you doing what do you think you are born as you destroy the whole area of the neighborhood for the children on their way to greece you have to see turns out cause. they must be hard response from society to me it is so should artie's maria from the ocean of visited one troubled district but local journalist chang frank who witnessed multiple arson attacks himself. it. was. something that was the hollowness well of this noble source where we go.
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right now we're driving to the southern part of stockholm the swedish capital to one of the areas called by police as found the rebel area or especially vulnerable area or risk area how the refer to lead but in the media very often they call these neighborhoods right now around sixty one of them officially listed by police as no go so and he with me no swedish journalist tang three thank you so much for being my knight. no guns are in sweden seriously of course you can go dar. you will have problem if you go there with the camera or if you are. from here is swedish vulnerable areas have been grabbing headlines over she teen in car burnings the latter has nearly doubled every ten years why do they burn the car
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and i think it's like to show police that there were called for all of the area not the police to go. a. lot of people are going though because you know if you would want to because you have a parking lot with what the cause of all what a coral fire of course it will spread to the next door an extra. just a common thing that people leave those areas they are there to serve us they make some more money there they move away immediately from the good old water kids to go with the school year for others for. a spot but this caution is a true about the efforts of locals all of those are just a couple of two chicago so you give out for example a social. he called it no it's a go go also you know so you were. hollered i used to live there for a visit with the police never figure out why they got out the day out of course. charge of
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a police car so they had to call for what you call the. truck to get there where the police go when it will start to prove it's a go go so named for high criminality rate theories have also the amputation for drug trade. terrorists one place where there's a lot of drugs we see the people you kill literally just go out there are. people standing here and what are. you going to feel like you will see what they could dealing drugs it's not like they are hiding it maybe this is the people who have. to live with it which i don't violent that i thought of to go bush. on the good looking do they know the job market even the money no money ok but most of this issue than you may know put them by what we've seen across sweden's vulnerable aimee's looked quite tense just like the country's prime
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minister has described although he is smart he's never agreed many tend to blame the massive number of any goings on to see each nation. people think that it's related to these two thousand and fifteen immigration crisis the no this is because of immigration we are twenty years i've got a lot of these people are criminal of second generation immigrants the parents go through want to be viewed from arctic you could say that the worst is still ahead of us. social scientists adrian grow global believes that poverty is the root cause of sweden's problems. now you understand that look at how well it got it because he discovered what we have. not. found my grounds to get into the labor markets also that's that's a big brawl and here we are. in there making enough to change their political.
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party the first time he story. from being social democrats and getting into very very unhappy rights new york a not fair political. situation so also of course it's a little bit garbled to. the un's launched a blistering attack on myanmar is leaders accusing them of genocide against their will hinge on minority details when the weekly returns after this short break. you know world's big partners through things a 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
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stop slamming the door on the 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. make this manufactured consensus to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round the certainty that one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. the real news is really.
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welcome back on monday the united nations culture six top generals and myanmar's army to face genocide charges over the persecution of the row hinge of minority claims the government denies numbering around a million at the start of two thousand and seventeen the rohingya have been denied citizenship in the southeast asian country both human rights violations rape gang rape sexual slavery forced nudity and mutilation the greatest crimes under international law we didn't. any cooperation from the myanmar government we are deeply disappointed that state confidant suki has not used the position or moral authority to stem prevent don't condemn the unfolding events in. the un considers the real hinge or the most persecuted minority in the world and calls the situation a human rights catastrophe as a result of myanmar's military offensives at least three hundred ninety two of the
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minorities villages have been destroyed and thousands killed seven hundred thousand range of muslims have fled to bangladesh in the last year there and also stresses 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 used ethnic cleansing which i think is a little extreme i don't think there's ethnic cleansing going on i think ethnic cleansing is too strong of an expression to use for what's happening unsung suchi also blocked a u.n. fact finding mission from reaching the area in two thousand and seventeen despite that she is perceived by some as something of a hero in the west she has previously want a nobel peace prize and a u.s. congressional gold medal her life story was even turned into a hollywood film and leaders around the world have called her an inspiration. the power of your example which has been an inspiration to people all around the world including myself a fearless champion of human rights and democracy your example you'll
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perseverance in your beliefs is a huge inspiration to people across britain and people to read the world. clearly you will be playing a key role in your country's future 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 search to correspond to a quarter looks at the decision. 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 it's a noble prize was that in physics literature peace is awarded for some prize worth the effort or achievement of the past i'm certain you won the nobel prize for peace
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for who fight for democracy and freedom up until nine to ninety one the years she was awarded the prize well if we're to believe the committee only cares about recipient's 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 though but how about another nobel peace prize laureate henry kissinger. kissinger received the prize for negotiating a cease fire in the vietnam war he was set to share the nomination with north
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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. 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 as 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
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trying to do what exactly obama did in that previous year is a mystery to most people. the debate over independence and spain's restive catalonia region hit the news again on wednesday after a group of masked activists began tearing down the symbols of the movement the protesters say they've had enough a public space is being politicized and are cleaning up the streets. it's. just so. perfect
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to the white suit as a way of putting forward our demand 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 opponents should respect public places. finally we bring you some live pictures from here and moscow where the closing ceremony of the spa sky tower festival is taking place more than one hundred fifty teams from fifty countries participated in the international festival of military
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music. teacher. those are just some of the stories we brought to you throughout the week for the details on all the stories and more head to our website r.t. dot com thanks for watching the weekly. it was you know provision on my back when i wanted to. ask but i. just i go hide oh i lost his bus because i just got then you just gotta go with us you know just like anybody on a month on those in person but the best honest i don't think there's been any of them. so i says you know what i was you're not. you know just i mean what i most wanted i'm already but it was sped up out of me just
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a lot of the media and even i mean it was a lot because they don't. give it up as well i must say i mean that really feels i just don't get it or something similar is but those were the old vilest beatle songs those people are going to respect i'm one of those but i was just this but i was one of these i'm with. my family posse could a car bomb i just but that's already been said whiskey and he thought of getting up there calling cuisia you seem to mean to carry out my thought aloud problem you just gotta go. and leave. me not they would see. evil as a live alls from somewhere you. i came back to the community people we all be standing on the road lookouts me oh look at his own bible don't torture him.
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clone of welcome to worlds apart for decades russians have 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 that 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 sonde blue sky a beautiful beaches with friendly people who spent most of that time surfing and i
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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 contacts. the associations are probably not so positive are they. live they can be quite negative unfortunately we've been fed a diet of cliches about russia. sure it's still very much seen through a post soviet lens as the success of the state of the soviet union and somehow or other images of go leg and stuff in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of rudeness and these are 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
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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 years and i was an ambassador to poland but that we must postings i felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society. look we are being fed.
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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 no other 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 and loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them
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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 find even more troubling is that that's called thing that irritated russians a lot if you years back now it 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 repeat laws often enough they become the truth and when you've got people in in time media communities who constantly referencing each other with attitudes and opinions that really have no
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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 think 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 wanted to put it at the service 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
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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 produced very little in the way of south first selection to what extent this insistence on portraying russia as redeeming really ugly is predict a date on the needs of the west who sees itself 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 lead to 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 always in the wrong well yes although i'm not sure that i very many
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people would talk about being good and evil i mean that's a that's a moral concept in the west that it's become a many many of these speeches are forced in positions 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 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
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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's a lot of america not so much as a country that is sort of moral sense of itself but a country that believes in its own pragmatism we like to pretend that we are totally realistic when we're not we become prisoners who are on the lucian's now in your book here i think very eloquently explain the russians have this deeply ingrained fear of war which comes back to you 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. why do you think people in the west have lost out fear because they seem to beach treating all those into interventions especially in foreign lands very casually without any concern for the people there and
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for tel own. well being because you mentioned the issue of pragmatism 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 stood there 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 towards that brutal reality for them this this this wonderful new tradition of the much of the poke to
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russian 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 no war by a superior coalition of speaking about this affair superior outside coalition forces 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 a great cost for the kind of decisions that made in the ukrainian conflict there is also believed that. how to prevent
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a much bigger conflict between russia and they said 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 when the current dutch and russia drew a line and then 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.
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