she. says. germany celebrates the years since the fall of the wall we look at just how united the country really comes out on the. international criminal court at the hague. revel command of atrocities but it does not concern the i.c.c. the only conflicts we have criminals from africa. brazil's president is released from prison as he appeals his corruption case he was greeted by cheering supporters who say the charges against him are politically.

hello there is midday here in moscow you're watching our international. was torn down and reuniting east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high ahead of major celebrations across the country today in berlin thousands are expected to take part in numerous events including a variety of exhibitions on the history books for those of you can't attend his. with a quick look at its rise and for. the berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a line that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long its slice of the city and was erected on the night of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france where 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were. 3 and crossing became

all but impossible. imagine this a concrete wall 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide 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 east berlin territory this buffer zone became known as the death strip the soft sand to 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 that 5000 people managed to get through climbing over climbing under through the sewers and even and hot air balloons or the 100 died trying the fearsome bear that emerged seemingly overnight and it just as rapidly on nov 9th 19891000 storm the checkpoint unborn homer street at 10 45 pm the head of the checkpoint overwhelmed by the crowd gave way and open the gate the others soon followed as germany to celebrate reunification to some of the countries still divided with an

invisible line separating east and west. 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 you see in all the reality west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor angela merkel admits it. was shown that in europe don't fool me he's german citizen today that you are malaysian if you like 2nd class citizens according to those less than 50 percent of the the germans think that reunification the most successful would send them on the 119 anyone disagrees around 20 percent instant lesson ha ha satisfied with democracy in germany former

interior minister told us that his good one said that for east 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 at 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 of the city of those that has. they declared a state of emergency in 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 all those some don't want to admit this the threat of anti-semitism and rightwing terrorism is high in germany and one of the areas that we also classify as high that is islam is terror which remains you know field of view and we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon anti semitism right wing extremism it with the same intensity you could see why people are happy to go up the wall and everybody is for it but the rise of single phobia is bringing the increase of hate crimes all the chanter fight and marginalized communities should remind germany that or even if the kitchen is a process rather than just

a public holiday. we caught up with an american who defected to the soviet union in 1952 and then moved to germany to grow some and 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 on vacation and so forth not everybody but a large number today many many people and especially children are suffering from a severe lack of money 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 has rarely been it 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 2 generations in germany could not get rid of fascist ideas and racist ideas in people's 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 voice them among the family in a family of close friends but not publicly now today and after the wall went down f. you 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. while the u.s. secretary of state also went to berlin to commemorate the fall of the wall and ease the occasion to you to take a jab at china and russia. everyone in this room has a duty we must recognize that free nations are in competition of values with those unfree nations today russian led by a former k.g.b. officer stationed in dresden invade his 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. there is a former cia chief and did some of his military service to patrolling the berlin wall but his attendance at the ceremony was also greeted with some criticism from one of the germany's biggest news outlets 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 fassbender says washington fear is losing influence over the. this is a a rather cheap effort that we kind ling cold war nostalgia reported that way re kind ling german in the face of russia because the best way of course to do with that the best way to develop a strong enemy image among german politicians and populations is to picture or to paint rush in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central feeders of us jews diedrich 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. that international criminal court at the hague is method that is highest ever penalty to a congolese rebel warlord he joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity however parties only betraying care now looks at why the i.c.c. seems only to convict war criminals from africa this. is a very special court it's out there only to rule in 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. the attempted as a crime against humanity and there's a war crime. or put 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 year sentence for congolese rebel leader bosco into gumba signals that even those who once thought themselves untouchable could one day be brought to justice

a signal for the untouchable ok and the wait just a few minutes of research will show that all people who've 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 witnessed 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 alleged american war crimes in of ghana stand 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've 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 dutch shores stick to the africans it's 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 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 and 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 we haven't received a reply. now they hate him but they want him as the syrian president bashar assad described the relations between europe and the turkish leader and in exclusive interview with our take this is the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel you know more than a year and a bit and what it will say in full here on monday as well as on our website at r.t.

dot com his quick treatment for your country i know you are and are going to stick with nato nation 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 rises they just back into the european union how dangerous is it to be in london today or paris or berlin. actually the relation between. and be you do with the hate him but they want him. they don't do that in the know that he is fanatic islamist they know this and they are the bin or that is going to send them both. extremist or maybe terrorist egypt in many refugees from

your country of 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 mob the measure 2 of them are actually muscle they would have to took a bit of to because all the terrorism in syria because of the bombardment of the tilt and so on. so they don't want him but the same time the fear him but from the other side let's hear that thing doing both. syria and all the. is danger with the most dangerous on europe is to support the terrorists and see. this is the most dangerous part so this is hypocrisy how can you fear those few medias the most realty of them all moderates and they have while you can you support those terrorists vertically in a 100 in tens of thousands at least and maybe hundreds or thousands in syria and

you don't fear that they're going to go back to a country. which artists out there is not the only president we've been speaking to the president elect of argentina has been telling us about how the international monetary fund that you can push to push his country into a deeper economic crisis story for starters on the way. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy own foundation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

the world is driven by shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. again now the international monetary fund says it is ready to renegotiate the terms

of a massive loan to argentina with its president elect. has defeated in elections last month from a negotiation be i'm ashleigh in central to his campaign argentina has had a long and difficult history with the organization here's 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 is 3 years approaching 55 percent of poverty is also a major concern but the unemployment rate reaching a decade high our sister channel r.t. spanish was the 1st international outlet to interview the president elect and spoke with our host and former president of ecuador i failed to describe how argentina and itself in this dire situation. 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 add 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 and 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 at 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 of the most expensive political campaign in human history is the macro campaign it crossed 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. wanted by the i.m.f. know that everyone knows that i firmly believe that we want to go shapes 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 to silver walked free from prison on thursday miscreated by chancing supporters. i. knew as early release was made possible by a new court ruling that does allow convicted criminals to avoid prison if they have not exhausted their appeals undersurface supporters took to the streets of sao paolo today to celebrate. the 2nd most of you cannot imagine what this day means to me this is the victory of democracy never been hoped for brazil rule is free rule is the hope of this country the president always cared for the poor who always look after poor people rule is free today forever. 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 a joke i believe we have a reason to celebrate and renew our energy to continue wishing for

a better country a happier brazilian people like your we're here to celebrate hope will win over fear democracy will be reestablished in this country is free. silver was brazilian president from 2003 until 2012 years ago though he was convicted of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in prison nearly himself denies any wrongdoing and this summer was also a twist in his case because a late conversation did reveal that the prosecutor and the judge were privately discussing the case earlier harvey spoke with the chief editor of the brazilian news outlet opera monday. now. out of jail. have a very very important tend because it is going to be deleted off the opposition is going to be walking on the streets though to the people i mean officially he's

bar this is new from participation in politics but bodies. much bigger than he's able to do. with this season of the supreme court he's totally free to do what he wants to do including any kind of political action spot. i remember from when i was in brazil for the 24 team presidential a little it was a standing but it was clear this man is greatly loved in brazil he's got a huge fan base a real presence now 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 to. the opposition of both not have a leader of you has millions in conditions you talk to people now with ruler

walking and talking on the street the opposition is going to have a very important leader that i think is going to chant political situation in brazil i'm sure about the. case and look at world news in brief starting in india where the country's supreme court has weighed in on a decades old dispute over a holy site did rule that a hindu temple can be built in a place where the remains of a muslim mosque currently lie a mosque was demolished by hindu hardliners in 1982 said the site it hosted an ancient. clashes in the iraqi cities of baghdad in bastrop have left 3 people dead security forces confronted anti-government protests there one of the victims was an elderly woman who died from inhaling take and fire is the restrainer had killed 2 people and injured dozens more over 100 active fires at the moment aggravated by strong gusts of wind and also severe hate around half the injured by.

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in the depths. aura maybe in the shallowness of. today there are good terrorists and bad evidence the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat to the good of 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 in our means and just was there's no any more because there's always a small income for a really good. profit. which .

i have interviewed women civilian world and rape is a very very traumatizing thing tap. happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma. i cannot remember how many times a young female marine that had been raped or sexually assaulted told me that she looked at these guys as your brother or the suspect as your brother it's a kin to what happens in a family with incest because you know in the military when we're functioning at our best a cohesive unit with brothers and sisters in of the band of brothers and sisters i mean we are family when that ball and of trust is violated. the wound penetrates to the very most inner part of one's soul one

psyche. i have this folder that i keep i have all my boot camp letters and if my mom and my sister and . people and. i was just going through some of this stuff and i'm like what's this you know and i open it up i'm like oh my god. my suicide letter. bomb i'm sorry for the grease that you must feel. just because i'm gone physically doesn't mean i will be there spiritually i truly feel that god will take me without question even though i took my own life. i've had the most broken thoughts of dreams and physical pain to remind me of the her if it acts upon me that happened while on duty.