germany celebrates the years before all of the. just how united the country really it's. been for national criminal court at the hague convicts a congolese rebel commander of atrocities but it does and i can see the i.c.c. you know you can fix war criminals from africa and. brazil's next president his release from prison is to pay with his corruption case he's greeted by cheering supporters who say that the charges against him a political motive but.

nothing welcome you watching international 30 years ago the burly more was torn down reuniting east and west berlin and where we're going to the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high head of major celebrations across the country today. thousands are expend expected to take part in numerous events including a variety of exhibitions on the walls history for those of us who can't attend his . with a quick look at the rise and fall of. 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 1961 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 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 962 a 2nd wall was built around 100 meters and the east berlin territory this buffer zone became known as the death strip it's off sand to show footprints floodlights tripwires and machine guns the guards have permission to shoot on sight and have vicious dogs the more elaborate the wall became the more created 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 to fearsome bear that emerge seemingly overnight and it just as rapidly on nov 9th 1989 when thousands stormed the checkpoint on board 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. it is germany celebrates reunification to some it does seem the country

is 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 a divided 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 it's fun to show that if you're into fool me he's german citizen today the human reason if you like 2nd class citizens according to those people less than 40 percent of the germans think that reunification was successful books and among those under 14 anyone disagrees around 20 percent in student the 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 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. 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 islamist terror which remains you know field of view and we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon of anti semitism right wing extremism that with the same intensity food you could see why people are happy you are the wall and everybody is for united but the rise of see 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 an american who defected to the soviet union in 1952 and then moved to germany. things was better than. 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 and 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. reached that that nobody really feared suffering from poverty even 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 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 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. for the us secretary of state my pump i also went to the. commemorate the fall of the wall and lose the cage and 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 russia but by a former k.g.b. officer stationed in dresden invade his neighbors. slays political opponents the chinese communist party used this tactic as methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former east germans. is a former cia chief and did some of his military service patrolling the berlin wall but his attendance at the ceremony was also greeted with criticism from one of germany's biggest news outlets vella asked when u.s.

troops would finally leave germany there are currently almost 40000 u.s. military personnel remaining in the country journalist and author thomas fares bend says washington is losing influence over. this is a a rather cheap effort that we 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 brush in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central feeders of the us jews d.d.p. thinking as i see it is losing control over germany that germany might at one point early or later take her own fate into her own hands keeping large armies

with tanks and soldiers along the 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 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. now the international criminal court at the hague is a method that is highest ever penalty to a congress rebel warlord he joins you growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity however these are easily trained can i reports some are asking why the i.c.c. does seem only to convicted 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 a human at the 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 intelligible ok anyway 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 ping'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 dutch 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. well we did ask the i.c.c. to comment on this issue although so far we haven't received a reply. they hate him but they want him that's how the syrian president bashar assad describes relations between europe and the. exclusive interview with our take

in fact it is the. only international channel of it in with the new year you can watch it in full here on monday as well as on our website at r.t. dot com he's a pretty. i know you're antagonistic with nato nation turkey but with dirty work 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 day as freighters back into the european union how dangerous is it to be in london today or paris or berlin. actually the relation between her and the e.u. these 2 with the hate him but they want him. they don't debate him to know that he is fine i think islamist they know this and they're 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 mop the measure 2 of them are actually most of the took a bit of 2 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 to be feared him but from the other side let's hear that thing doing both syria and all the. 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 medias the most realty of them all moderates and they have few to while you but you support those terrorists vertically in

a 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 to account. for bashar al assad there is not the only president we've been speaking to 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 that story and a couple. join me every day. and i'll be speaking to us from the world of sports i'm sure i'll see you then.

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again you with the international monetary fund says it is ready to renegotiate the terms of the massive loan to argentina with its president elect albert if a mandate is defeated miniature machree in elections last month and made renegotiating the i.m.f. loan to central to his campaign argentina has a long and difficult history if you will deny zation is a recap. well

the latest loan from the i.m.f. has been sold to 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 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. and described how argentina found itself in this dire situation. you know polio we are 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 he asked 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 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 macro campaign it cost argentines $57000000000.00 everyone knows that the international monetary fund is an accomplice to what 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 shave 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 free from prison on thursday miscreated by chancing supporters. was theirs earlier release there was made possible by a new court ruling that allows convicted criminals to hold prison if they have not exhausted their appeal was hundreds of his supporters took to the streets of san paolo to to celebrate. the birth of emotion though you cannot imagine what this day means to me this is the victory of democracy and hope for brazil this freak who is the hope of this country the present. always cured for the poor who always look after poor people in the street today live 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 resilient people come back your we're here to celebrate hope will win over fear democracy will be reestablished in this country is free they did so was the brazilian president from 2003 until 2012 years ago he was convicted of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in prison denies any wrongdoing this summer there is also a twist in this case because the leaked conversation revealed that the prosecutor and the judge were preparing privately discussing the case you know harvey spoke with the chief editor of the brazilian news outlet opera monday. now we out of jail. have a very has a very important change because it's going to be deleted off the opposition

lulay is going to be walking on the streets talking to the people i mean officially he's powerless and different participation in politics but but he's much bigger than he is 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 now him just being out and about with the electorate does that put a lot of pressure on the the current president i'm sure it will because now the opposition is going to have a leader up to this time around after both a man to. the opposition of both not have

a leader in brazil has 1000000 in conditions to talk to people now with lula 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 that. from world news in brief dancing with india where the country supremes court has weighed in on a decades old dispute over a holy site it will the hindu temple can be built in a place where the remains of a muslim mosque currently live mosque was demolished by hindu hardliners in 1902 said then that the site it hosted an ancient temple elsewhere clashes in the iraqi cities of baghdad in bandra have left 3 people dead. forces confronted anti government protests one of the victims was an elderly woman who died from inhaling take us on fire as in the strike killed 2 people and injured dozens more are

already over 185. aggravated by strong gusts of winds and also severe hate around half of the injured. so that brings you out today you're watching international just coming up to half past 1 in the afternoon more from us at the top of. the world is driven by shaped by. snow day or thinks. we dare to ask.

today if there are good terrorists and bad the bad news in yemen or the united states deems to be a threat to the good of those who work in syria the cia and the u.s. 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. war because there's always a small people willing to cut this. profit.

this is book broadcasted around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century unbridgeable or not there i'm on to say ok in washington filling in and here's a look i will have on deck for you today you see how the recent tight to use digital technologies for all kinds of different things as technology continues to advance regulators may now be warming more to the idea of welcoming ai international regulatory attorney miles out of words is standing by to plug into the recent comments out of the e.u. regarding the speeding star technology plus that used to be one of the main concerns among citizens in both the u.s. and abroad but how does each nation stack up later today rick sanchez host of the news that rick sanchez and dr john dombrowski are both on here and to measure health care costs around the world we have a jam packed show today so let's get right to it. singapore and the european union announced

a free trade agreement between the 2 countries that will take effect later this month a trade deal has been in the works for almost a decade and it scheduled to take effect on november 21st singapore will remove all tariffs on the products that are entering the country while the e.u. will remove tariffs on 84 percent of all singapore products that are entering the e.u. within the 1st year and how the the additional 16 percent will be removed over a 3 to 5 year period singapore is the largest trading partner in asia southeast region with a total of bilateral trade of over $58000000.00 in goods and just over $56000000.00 worth of trade in services and the agreement includes sections on renewable energy investments e-commerce and even intellectual property theft president of the european commission john carr junkers. this is the european union's 1st bilateral trade agreement with a south east asian country a building block towards a closer relationship between europe and one of the most dynamic regions in the

world while european commissioner for trade cecilia mon strong said our trade agreement was seen.