there should. germany celebrates the years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at just how united the country really is also to come this hour announcing. the international criminal court of the hague convicts a congolese rebel commander of atrocities but it does reaganite concern that the i.c.c. only convicts war criminals from africa and. brazil is next president lula da silva is released from prison as he appeals his corruption case was greeted by cheering supporters who say the charges against him are politically motivated. are you watching r.t. international where it's just going 11 in the morning here more. than 30 years ago

the berlin wall was torn down reigniting east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war well security is high head of major celebrations across the country today him berlin thousands are expected to take part in numerous events including a variety of exhibitions on the walls history for those who can't attend his. the quick look at his history. the berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a mind that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long at slice of the city and was erected in the night august 13th 1981 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france with 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became all but impossible. imagine this a cause. wall 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide

a smooth still nerve running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watchtowers every 200 meters by 962 a 2nd wall was built around 100 meters and in east berlin territory this buffer zone became known as the death strip that soft sand show footprints floodlights tripwires and machine guns the guards had permission to shoot on sight and had vicious dogs the more elaborate the wall became the more creative for the waste across it 5000 people managed to get through climbing over climbing under through the sewers and even and hot air balloons more than 100 died trying the fearsome bear that emerged seemingly overnight and it just as rapidly on nov 9th 10891000 stormed a checkpoint unborn homer street at 10 45 pm the head of the checkpoint jagger overwhelmed by the crowd gave way and open the gate the other soon followed but as jimmy celebrates reunification to some it does seem that the country is still before i did with an invisible line separating east and west. this explains

walking through the center of berlin one can see how much effort the german government has put for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall it almost seems that the country was never to fight it it is difficult to identify characteristics of socialist architecture between the multi ethnic restaurants and bars but leaving the center as you see in the west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor angela merkel admits it's been on those shows that if you're into a full east german citizens in today's german nation if you like 2nd class citizens according to those less than 40 percent of germans think that reunification was successful books and among those under 14 and even the figure is the wrong 20 percent less than holocaust satisfies with democracy in germany former interior minister told us that his get once it tougher. germans everything has changed but

for west germans only their postal cold and 30 years on his comments seem to be quite superficial a recent study shows the significant gap between the west and the east in terms of wages and unemployment and as a result of these inequalities fresh ration ends in a phobia seem to be taking over the people even after 30 years of their reunification germany still struggles to accept that the country house multiple identities the berlin wall was put up to stop migration from east to west nile the idea seems to be life again since 2015 during the refugee crisis the country saw more than 1000000 asylum seekers in germany now they're blaming them for decreasing the wages and taking advantage of their welfare system it's not a surprise that one in 2 germans believe that the country cannot handle anymore refugees saying it has reached its limits and it's no surprise and nationalist

sentiments are on the rise the city of that is that has been declared a state of nazi emergency and the recent talk on synagogue in halle has shown that more than a quarter of germans hold anti semitic beliefs. i would like to point out once again that it's so low some don't want to admit this the threat of anti-semitism in rightwing terrorism is high in germany and one of the areas that we also classify as high as that is islam is terror which remains an open field of view and we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon with anti semitism right wing extremism that is with the same usage as if you could see why people are happy here with the wall is down and everybody is for united but the rise of seen a phobia is bringing the increase of hate crimes all the chanter fight and marginalized communities should remind germany that reunification is a process rather than just a public holiday. but we caught up with the. american he defected to the soviet

union in 1952 and then moved to east germany because grossman told r.t. what he thinks was better back then. the old days a people almost most people seemed to have more money than they could spend because there were not enough luxury goods in the shops so that they had money to go to out of occasion and so forth not everybody but a large number today many many people and especially children are suffering from a severe lack of bloody this is another problem which has taken place and makes me think after 30 years that as with many of the ents in the world history there's a good side and a bad side to everything and there were some bad sides to this makes me i should add still said that that experiment the g.d.r. a part of germany at least as it was only a small part of the poor apart but at least one part of germany where they could

really almost completely get rid of poverty this was an achievement which is rarely been in a reach any place in the world i think to a great extent the g.d.r. reach that that nobody really feared suffering from poverty even in 2 generations in germany could not get rid of fascist ideas and racist ideas in peoples heads but in east germany if they still had them. they kept to themselves they were they didn't voice them publicly they may have to force them among the family in the family of close friends but not publicly now today and after the wall went down. you just saw it right near my home whole columns of really fascist thugs with swastikas if they can if they can somehow disguise them a little with this fascist slogans and looking like just the same as the s.s. man. 80 years ago and this is one of the most frightening things about the fall of

the wall. where the u.s. sector state might bump i also went to berlin to commemorate before the wall and he needs to to take a jab at china and russia everyone in this room has a duty we must recognize the free nations are in competition of values with those unfree nations today russia led by a former k.g.b. officer stationed in dresden invades its neighbors and slays political opponents the chinese communist party uses tactic as methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former east germans. oh is a former cia chief and did some of his military service to patrolling the berlin wall that is attendance at the ceremony was greeted with criticism from one of germany's biggest news outlets for developer asked when u.s. troops would finally leave germany there are currently almost $40000.00 u.s.

military personnel remaining in the country journalist and author thomas bender says washington theory is losing influence over burley. this is a rather cheap effort at kind ling cold war nostalgia reported that way kind ling german in the face of russia because the best way of course to do that the best way to develop a strong enemy image among german politicians and populations is to picture or to paint russia in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central fields of the us jews deeded thinking as i see it is losing control over germany that germany might at one point early or later take her own fate into own hands keeping large armies with tanks and soldiers along the russian border is from my point of view

a few of which the fact of which of the intention of which is mainly to keep for the western europe within a status of things and fear of russia in order to stay close to the folds of the u.s.g. used to d.g. interests. the international criminal court at the hague has method that is highest ever penalty to a congress rebel warlord who joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity however. now looks at why the i.c.c. does seem only to convict war criminals from africa. this is a very special court it's out there only to rule on cases such as genocide crimes against humanity war crimes it's called the international criminal court or the i.c.c. and won't sort out let's say your cousin's divorce here's its latest verdict for

a murder that attempted as a crime against humanity and there's a war crime he is for but a seclusion as a crime against humanity said to us of imprisonment. this is the convict congolese rebel commander bosco into ganda indeed he'll now serve 3 decades for everything he did during a nightmarish civil war in the heart of africa the crimes have been well documented by activists so probably no one will argue the man got what he deserved it can't bring back his victims but the international criminal court's 30 years sentence for congolese rebel leader bust go into gumba signals that even those who once thought themselves untouchable could one day be brought to justice a signal for the in touchable. ok and the wait just a few minutes of research will show that all people who have ever been indicted by

the i.c.c. there's a few dozen have one thing in common they're all from africa on the list not only rebel king peng's but very top officials former leaders but again nobody from other parts of the globe sure the african continent has witness countless civil wars there's no need for any additional explanation for just how much blood was spilled there but what about the ugly record by the rest of the world once the court was to get the atrocities of the israeli arab conflict under its microscope here's the message that instantly came from washington the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c.

and we certainly will not join the i.c.c. we will let the i.c.c. die on its own after all for all intents and purposes the i.c.c. is already dead. so far no one's felt the strong i.c.c. hand when it comes to that middle east crisis earlier this year alleged american war crimes in of ghana stan came into focus. if you're responsible for the proposed i.c.c. investigation of u.s. personnel in connection with the situation in afghanistan you should not assume that you will still have or will get a visa or that you will be permitted to enter the united states the case over the afghan intervention unanimously rejected even tony blair could have appeared before the judges in there but you got it right it's not something such a high at least seemed former u.k. v.i.p. would go through they get a bit more into history and you'll find out america's response to the very

foundation of the i.c.c. was pay attention to this one a law that authorizes the use of military force to liberate any american or a citizen of a u.s. allied country being held by the court in the hague the message is clear if you don't want u.s. marines storming the shores stick to the africans that someone say there's been a clear signal for the untouchable i believe that there are certain continents like africa and countries within that continent that are looked at with more scrutiny perhaps because they are less developed nations and have less power when it comes to their economies in the ability to shape world policy and so it's very easy to target those countries and to ignore some of the larger countries that might also be guilty of some of these things as well but have more influence the more slip sway globally the united. states sits in a very interesting and powerful position worldwide where we are able to exert

influence over international courts and to ignore those we want to ignore and to demand investigations we want to demand them u.s. government has a very simple policy which is that war crimes are never committed by the united states or by its military that it simply does not happen and when you take that view you immediately begin to turn around and say well we can punish anyone who thinks otherwise and quite candidly the united states government can punish countries that push against it economically and through sanctions but we did ask the i.c.c. to comment on this issue although so far we haven't received a reply. now they hate him but they want him that's how the syrian president bashar assad described the relations between europe and the turkish leader and in an exclusive interview with r.t. it is in fact the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year you can watch the interview in full on monday as well as on our website at r.t. dot com but is a quick preview. i know you're antagonistic with nato nations turkey but with.

and arguably yourself must be aware that western policy is liable for blowback into the european union what have you made of the european union government's response to the possible. outflow of british ises day as fighters back into the european union how dangerous is it to be in london today or paris or berlin. actually the relation between. the e.u. is to ease the hate him but they want him. they don't do that in the know that he's phonetic islamist they know this and they're the no that is going to send them both . extremist or maybe terrorists egypt in many refugees from your country many of them from syria some of them know they're coming from different areas in the world

not only syria actually but the majority are syria not all of them are extremist. the measure 2 of them are actually muscled the turkey they'd have to because of the terrorism in syria because of the bombardment of the terrorists and so on. so they don't want him but the same time they fear him but from the other side let's hear that thin being those. syrian and other. is dangerous the most dangerous on europe is to support the terrorists in syria this is the most dangerous part so this is hypocrisy how can you fear those few 1000000 the majority of them are moderates and they have while you do you support those dear is there to clean 100 in tens of thousands at least and maybe hundreds of thousands in syria and you don't fear that they're going to go back to

a country. well bashar assad is not the only president we've been speaking to recently the new president elect of argentina has been telling us about how the international monetary fund has pushed his country into a deep economic crisis people the details in a couple of. the world is driven by shaped by one person.

the day or thinks. we dare to ask. nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one the taxes are being misused and they're not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because there's a government failure number 2 climate change regardless of whether you believe it's happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for climate change whether you believe it or not you know it's still the price is still there. welcome back the international monetary fund says it's ready to renegotiate the terms of a massive learn to walk. container with its president elect a bird if

a man days defeated made it shiamak korean elections last month and made renegotiating the i.m.f. loan central to his campaign argentina has a long and difficult history that if you organization is a recap. well the latest loan from the i.m.f. hasn't solved many problems the country is currently almost $300000000000.00 in

debt inflation this year is approaching 55 percent and poverty is also a major concern with the unemployment rate reaching a decade high osas a channel r.t. spanish was the 1st international outlet to interview the president elect and anticipate with our host and former president of ecuador rafael carrier and described how argentina found itself in this dire situation. yet upwardly or we are now faced with problems that were previously unknown to us in 2015 argentina faced inflation a lack of foreign reserves a dollar peg but it didn't have excessive debt but after machree came he started to debt arguing it would help to reduce budget surplus and the boring reached an all time record in one and a half years at some point the market told him no i'm not going to give you more because you won't give me anything back so what did machree do you ask the i.m.f.

to help. after that the i.m.f. loans him $57000000000.00 which is 60 percent of the world debt to the i.m.f. in other words 60 percent of the amounts that the i.m.f. has lent to the whole world falls on one country argentina why did they loan this money to support machree so that he can stay on as president the most expensive political campaign in human history is the metric campaign it cost argentines $57000000000.00 everyone knows that the international monetary fund is an accomplice to what's happened everyone knows that european leaders who at that moment complained about loans granted by the i.m.f. know that everyone knows that i firmly believe that we are going to go shape properly and we must tell them our truth because our goal is to pay off the debt and not to evade it.

meanwhile brazil's former president lula da silva walked free from prison on thursday and was greeted by chanting supporters was. clearly as early release was made possible by a new court ruling that allows convicted criminals to avoid prison if they have not exhausted their payrolls hundreds of his supporters took to the streets. to celebrate. possible 2nd version of you cannot imagine what this day means to me this is the victory of democracy of it and hope for brazil that louis freeh who is the hope of this country the president has always cared for the poor who always look after poor people lula is free today lula forever would i think that it's a very happy day for me and many others because lolo was freed we've been waiting for justice to happen our country is joke i believe we have a reason to celebrate and renew our energy to continue wishing for a better country a happier brazilian people. i think your we're here to celebrate hope over fear

democracy will be reestablished in this country is free. it's the silver's brazilian president from 2003 to 2012 years ago he was convicted of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in prison little himself denies any wrongdoing this summer it was also a twist in this case because the lead conversation did reveal that the prosecutor and the judge were privately discussing the case harvey did speak with the chief editor of the brazilian news outlet a prominent. now with out of jail. have a very important tend because it's going to be deleted off the opposition is going to be walking on the streets talking to the people i mean officially he's powerless new from participation in politics but he's much bigger than he's able to

do. with this decision of the supreme court he's totally free to do what he wants to do including any kind of political action is part of the decision i remember from when i was in brazil for the 24 team president lula was a standing but it was clear this man is greatly loved in brazil he's got a huge fan base a real presence know him just being out and about with the electorate does that put a lot of pressure on the current president i'm sure it will because now the opposition is going to have a leader up to this time after both a man to. the opposition of both not have a leader improve you has merely the conditions to talk to people now with ruler walking and talking on the street. there is going to have

a very important leader that i think is going to chant political situation in brazil i'm sure about that ok before we go let's have a look at some world news in brief 1st starting in india where the country supreme court has weighed in on a decades old dispute over a holy site indeed ruled that a hindu temple can be built in the place where the remains of a muslim mosque currently lie the mosque was demolished by hindu hardliners in 1902 he said the site hosted in the temple square clashes in the iraqi cities in baghdad and basra have left 3 people dead security forces confronted anti-government protests one of the victims was an elderly woman who died from inhaling tear gas and fires in the east to restrain killed 2 people and injured dozens there are currently over 100 active fires aggravated by strong gusts of wind and also severe heat around half of the injured firefighters.

so that's how things are looking so far today here in r.t. don't forget there you can always keep yourself updated to on our website you can find that at r.t. . seem wrong. just don't. get to shape out this day. and indeed it was a trail. find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know world a big part of the 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 bathroom and 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. there are good terrorists and bad debt it's the bad debt and those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the looked at those who work in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding and arming death squads there's no phones anymore because there's always a small people for a really good this is a profit. oh

max kaiser this is the kaiser report i go to areas sense that things are not quite what they peer to be stacy in fact we're going to look out at california 1st and then we're going to go to a town right here in new york and that is kingston new york where our guest in the 2nd half is from it is going to it's a tale of 2 economic models over in california we know not only do we have forest fires going on all over the place huge fires thousands of people being evacuated from their homes but we see blackouts millions of people suffer and blackouts and p.g. and e. the multinational basically utility the giant utility company listed on the stock

exchange they have declared bankruptcy to avoid all their obligations over you know over the last years disaster and it looks like we have a disaster again this year and people in california are not happy with the blackouts stop harassing p.g. and e. workers gavin newsome says they didn't create this mass amid reports of pacific gas and electric company workers being threatened and run off the road governor gavin newsom urged californians to save their outrage for the utilities corporate owners and treat workers on the ground with respect over a 1000000 people and businesses have their blackouts essentially and people are getting angry and they see p.g. any sharks and they throw stuff at them or they're trying to drive them off the road they say this is a actually we're a capitalism fails we have this debate about capitalism versus socialism it's very big in the cup coming election and.