for how. this murder has affected us to even though we had nothing to do with it we're still having to pay the price even though we did nothing. for how to cut it. if you seen this place you're me it's out of crime said deal with drugs and so on to steal every seeing and so on and it's too much and i think we must tell people 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 might have seen in common it is something that has no place in a constitutional spades it's become a witch mom spewing hate to mount st these have no place in our country. the way you want stream is tough capitalized on this terrible heinous crime is tasteless to poland and we reject it is not acceptable when people who look for and are being attacked in the course of a spontaneous rally. around protesters have also been displaying photos of people who they claim have been assaulted by asylum seekers blaming flaws in germany's own legal and enforcement systems with more details our europe correspondent peter all . 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. its how a whopping 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 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 system it's a failure of the government i think if the government really wanted to extradite people who. could do it but they don't dare to do it because they're afraid of the left wing media. protest and their n.g.o.s and so-called human rights organisations they protest against of 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 authorities turn up at the door address where somebody was supposed to live. if 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 angle of 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 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 interior minister. claimed 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. next sunday sweden goes to the polls and it could prove to be a big electoral upset with right wing support on the rise the country has seen a wave of cars set on fire by youth gangs making crime a big factor in the campaign almost two thousand vehicles have been targeted since january but the motive has been behind the attacks has still not been officially established sweden's prime minister has strongly denounced the perpetrators. programme most of the cost of the question has to be asked of those. who are you doing what you think you are born if you destroy the whole area of the neighborhood for the children on their way to preschool you have to see the cards that are going to be hard response from society any other social parties more if national visited one troubled district with a local journalist trying frick who witnessed multiple arson attacks himself. or.

was. there something or was the hollowness one of this noble source where we go. 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 it but in the media very often they call these neighborhoods right now around sixty one of them officially listed by police as no goes out and he with me no swedish journalist chang free thank you so much for being my knight. no go zone in sweden seriously of course you can go dark. you will have problem if you go to with the camera or if you're.

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 and i think it's like to show police that there were called for all of the area not the police to go. lots of people angry and all because you know if you could what if you have a parking lot with what the cost of or only put one 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 to make some more money that they move away immediately definitely you don't want your kids to go into school here for other for. a spark that discussion is a true a lot if it's a little girl saw. this as

a politician under so you give up for example a source. he called it no it's a go go also you know so he went to holland i used to live there are over he said with the police never figure out why they got out the day out of course. after the police car so they had to call for what you call the. truck to get there where the police got when he was stuck to prove it's a go go so known for high criminality rate theories have also a reputation for drug trade. terrorists place where there's a lot of drugs obviously people up there are just go out there are. people standing here and for whatever and then one for you even if you're blind you will see what they could dealing drugs it's not like they are hiding it. to the few people who have. to live with it which i don't violent they would have thought

of to. know on the route told not to do jail you know good job over. even the money no money. was tempted to shoot it down you may know. that but what we've seen across sweden's vulnerable areas looked quite tense just like the country's prime minister has described although the authorities never agreed many tend to blame the massive number of immigrants for the situation. people think that it's related to his two thousand and fifteen immigration crisis with no this is because of immigration we had twenty years i got a lot of these people are criminal the second generation immigrants the parents came to sweden if you want to be a bit dramatic you can say that the worst is still ahead of us. and social scientist adrian groklaw believes that poverty is the root cause of sweden's problems. now you understand that look i let it go at that because it pisco what we

have. not allowing. my grounds to get into the labor market so that's not to be brought them here we are. in there we can innovate to. lead to. the first time in the story. from be social democrats who. get into very very. rights new kind of. situation. of course easily and we've got to conduct way. c.n.n. is under fire after refusing to retract a breaking news story on the collusion between donald trump and russia despite the news channels or one of the news channel sources rather publicly withdrawing a significant claim that the whole story was based on marty's way of trying to go reports. a quick look at some of the nuts and bolts of russia collusion

storytelling we've gotten rather used to the media running sensational headlines because a number of anonymous sources said this or that well what if the anonymous source reveals his identity and says the story's not true or that he's made a mistake perhaps you'd expect the outlet to take a step back consider some skepticism possibly make a correction or take the story down altogether not if you're c.n.n. we stand by our story and are confident in our reporting of it and here's their original bombshell story from a month ago sources with knowledge tell myself and carl that michael cohen claims then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june two thousand and sixteen meeting in trump tower crucially the sources tell us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel why. so the sensation was that the

president's former lawyer would tell investigators mr trauma had known about the infamous trump tower sit down featuring his son and the russians sure that counts as a sensation as many would take it as proof there had been collusion well a few weeks later a man called lanny davis michael cohen's own attorney comes out and says he was the source for c n n a b he's made a mistake and c. is inside into this complicated matter has been misinterpreted mr davis eventually even appeared on c.n.n. several times to reiterate just that the reporting of the story got mixed up so michael does not have information that president trump knew about the from tower meeting with the russians beforehand or you know does not is it your understanding now that the senate has been told no michael cohen stands by his testimony he did

not know of the trump tower meeting beforehand that's correct and the reporting was a bit garbled but c.n.n. did nothing to warn its audience the story could have been false in fact it even began attacking the man who it once used as a source blaming him for changing his mind as often as the wind however when c.n.n. first broke the news based on a tip off from sources it mentioned that attorney davis declined to comment on the matter and now we know that mr davis and the source are the same person unlike these guys other influential outlets the likes of the washington post came up with follow up reports or included corrections they weren't saying the original story was false for sure but at least casts some doubt this was the time when journalists went to c.n.n. but c.n.n. only answer to their. question was we stand by our story it's still right because

we had multiple sources did c.n.n. name many of these sources know this is out sometimes work and there could be a much bigger issue behind this kind of news climate one congressman from the republican party has claimed serious people from the likes of the justice department could leak sensitive stuff to the media on purpose he says this could be a tactic to trigger endless rounds of probes we know that some people at the department of justice and f.b.i. actually gave information to the media then the stories were reported then they used those reports to justify further investigations could that point to some other form of collusion don't you dare even think that russia gate is the coin of the realm here if you have a story no matter how false you're out with it before anybody pays any attention to the sourcing we have

a sleazy bunch of lawyers and i'd have to. pundits and reporters who now are caught in this web of misinformation. speaking at all kinds of euphemisms for lying i would suggest that if they do have another source. to defend what's left of their reputation they need to serve up some information about this source or but as i say they have no imperative to do that because i'm not c.n.n. on and miss n.b.c. on the cable and also the other outlets this story will kind of peter out and what people will remember is the first impression namely come to light again. french president set out a new strategic plan for europe on monday it seems emanuel micron is no longer counting soley on the united states for security and is now looking for alternative

partnerships. lot 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 points to the united states which are very similar to the european union where 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 and 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 aren't of course there has been doubts from the trumpet ministration particularly from the president 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 update of our relationship with russia to further end the cold war we sometimes have continued reactions on both sides linked to mistakes so 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 and petersburg so much that in terms of cybersecurity defense in terms of strategic partnership we can envisage a 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 the long standing partners such as europe the european union that could be no paving the way to new relationships with other countries to manage. u.k. as minister for women has been criticized by rights activists after expressing concern over the rising number of children wishing to change their gender i read in the paper recently there has been a large increase in the number of teenagers who are identifying a search and i think we need to get down to the reasons why this is happening it may simply be a case of greater awareness it may be that they see it as an answer to questions they are perhaps not asking themselves. well transgender issues are increasingly being raised in the u.k. with initiatives being launched or to recognize the communities rights one recent example is the edinburgh university where new students are being encouraged to wear

badges with the words he she or they are indicating how they want to be referred to in the students' union the campaign is part of an effort to avoid misjudging however it says students should not use the term preferred emphasizing it is not a preference but of necessity we debated the issue with human rights activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host john gaunt trans people do not choose to be trans they don't make this decision about gender reassignment really very very serious long protracted thoughts and devious often agonizing they face often rejection by their parents being thrown out of home and very high rates of suicide and attempted suicide so this is not a decision that a young person takes lightly and if they make the decision but they feel that

they're one gender or another i think we should respect that i don't think it's a big deal too it's about common decency just about being kind and compassionate to other people so i don't i agree with that but bought a same token they should respect our rights to have a different view and when you talk about this this is always brought the thing about trans in serious sides it isn't because they're struggling with the fact they think they're in the wrong body that leads generally to the suicide it's asked when they realize they've made a dreadful mistake which is why the woman's minister or the education minister is right to say we need to look out why more and more young people are trying to go through this if somebody feels they are you know being assigned the wrong gender they're in the wrong body i have enormous sympathy for them but we shouldn't. be kind of i don't really want to use this word but encouraging it which is why edinburgh university is doing well no one is encouraging them and nor should anyone encourage them this is

a call that's coming from the young people themselves but if the purpose of these badges is just to raise awareness and in particular to make transfusions and their friends and allies feel comfortable safe and accepted i don't think that's a terrible thing i think it's just a common human decency to be current i know that's perfectly reasonable have made this decision what's not reasonable and how down a minute there are universes are trying to tell lecturers it's happened at university of toronto of course famously with jordan peterson where they told him he had no use things like hello ladies and gentlemen hello boys and girls they had to fit into these new pronouns if they want to say today i'm a man tomorrow am a boy the next hour my fridge freezer so that but i don't have to fainter i don't want to get into a situation where i have to change pronouns i have to change the english language trans people are reality they have existed since time immemorial who are throughout history i think the fact that there are more people coming forward is because there

is greater social understanding and acceptance the stigma and guilt is fading away that issue has been discussed more openly and that is why more people are coming forward to dent violence trans but it's still a tiny tiny minority of a dozen for me or more weekly and about all just called thirty minutes stay with us . four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the owners did

not shoot around a corner. backscatter survival guide took stacy just eyeball to start to travel the surface. be sure it's still there are you going to get it back. oh heck no. repatriations look at the rest of seventy years. bill of the separate kaiser report . there. are a. ton of welcome to worlds apart for decades russians have both laughed and despair that

the inadequacies of their system while also struggling to accept the 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 volar 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 a 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 beautiful beaches with friendly people who spent most of that time surfing and i know it's turn 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 russia in their struggle and contacts. the associations are probably not so positive are they. live they can be quite negative unfortunately we have been fed a diet of cliches about russia. russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. of success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other images of go leg of stuff. in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of rudeness 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 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 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 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 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 no other easy country it's a very complex society is that 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 it's loving 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. each other with attitudes and opinions that really have no basis in fact unfortunately fulfill turn to will to fulfill to 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 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 produced very little in the way of southwest selection 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 laid however you define that military diplomatic political media that. believe in their own objectivity they have to believe in it but it's not just objectivity it's some sort of internal goodness. the other side being always. 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 a many many of the speeches are for simple titian's you constantly hear these theme

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