time to sit down and talk. when he celebrates 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at just how united the country really is. the criminal court of the hague convicts a rebel commander of atrocities reignites concern the i.c.c. only convicts war criminals from for. former president lula da silva his release from prison as he appeals his corruption case he was greeted by cheering supporters who say charges against him up in the thickly motivated. very good evening thanks for joining us here on r.t. and. 30 years ago the berlin wall was reuniting

east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high with major celebrations being held today across the country in the thousands have been taking part in new roosevelts including exhibitions on the walls. with a quick look at the holes for. the berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a mine 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 on the night of 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 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 why. 100 meters in the east berlin territory this buffer zone became known as the death strip the 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 storm the 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. germany celebrates reunification to some it seems the country is to the volunteers with an invisible line separating us the west to see eventually success reporters. 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 the west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even child similar egeland vocal admits it. was shown that in georgia a full east german citizens in today's germany feel like 2nd class citizens but according to those less than 40 percent of east germans think that reunification was successful books and among those under 14 and even the figure is around 20 percent it's not less than hoffman satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister told us them is one said that for east germans everything has changed for west germans only their post local and 30 years on his comments seem to

be quite sure professional 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 $1000000.00 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 could not handle any more refugees saying it has reached its limits and it's no surprise a nationalist sentiments are on the rise of the city of those that has been

declared a state of nazi emergency in the recent talk on synagogue in how he has shown that more than a quarter of germans hold anti semitic beliefs. i would like to point out once again that 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 that is islam is terror which remains you know field of view we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon with anti semitism right wing extremism it with the same intensity you could see why people are happy here with the wall is down and everybody is 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. we caught up with an american who defected to the soviet union in 152 then moved to east germany back to grossman told auntie 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 they 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. 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 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. to state my pohnpei also went to. to commemorate the full of the wall and he is the occasion to take a job that 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. 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. compose a former cia chief and did some of his military service patrolling the berlin wall but his attendance at the ceremony was also create greeted with criticism from one of germany's biggest vela was pondering over when u.s. troops would finally leave the country. currently almost $40000.00 u.s. military personnel in germany journalist and author thomas fassbender says that washington is losing influence over belin. this is a

a rather cheap effort at we kind ling cold war nostalgia let me put it that way re kind ling german angst in face of russia goes 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 rush in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central feeders of us jews to 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 russian border is from my point of view a futile effort which the fact of which of the intention of which is mainly to keep

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. strategic interests. the international criminal court or the hague handed down its highest ever sentence to a congolese rebel warlord he joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity easily be trying to look at why the i.c.c. seems to many focus on criminals from that continent 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 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 untouchables. ok anyway 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 i.c.c. hand when it comes to that middle east crisis earlier this year alleged american war crimes and 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 the. 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 the 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 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 where 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. we have us the i.c.c. to comment on the issue will bring you any reply when we receive it. they hate him but they wanted that's how the syrian president bashar al assad describes relations between europe and the leader of turkey in an exclusive interview with our teeth the 1st time assad spoken to an international channel in more than a year you can watch the interview in full here monday as well as on our website r.t. dot com for now here's a preview. i

know you're antagonistic with nato nation turkey but with jurgen 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 doing is they hate him but they want him. they don't do that in the know that he's phanatic islamist they know this and they're the in or that is going to send them both. extremist or maybe terrorists egypt in many refugees from your country of many of them from syria and some of them know they're coming from different areas in the world not only syria actually but the majority are syrian up all of

them are extremist. the measure 2 of them are actually most of the turkey they'd have to because all the terrorism in syria because of the bombardment of the terrorists 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 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 medias the majority of them are moderates and they have while you do you support those theories there to clean 100 in tens of thousands. at least and maybe hundreds of thousands in syria and you don't want to hear that they're going to go back to a country.

facebook's announced it's removing posts naming the believed to be whistle blower who sounded the alarm over the who trump over the trump ukraine phone call the posts in which the supposed name of the whistleblower appeared were viewed several 100000 times before facebook removed them on wednesday the social media giant aimed to protect the individual from potential harm any mention of the potential whistleblowers name violates our co-ordinating home policy which prohibits content outing of witness informant or activist we're removing any and all mentions of the potential whistleblowers name and will revisit this decision should their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in the debate. of conservative breitbart website have also been taken down despite the being recently included on a list of facebook approved news publishers will trump jr also signed

a breitbart article mentioning the whistleblowers name during 124 hour period last week the cia officer's name was mentioned in more than 150000 tweets early us democrats failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret public and senator rand paul blocked the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the amendment was designed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and acknowledge their contribution comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider. to mike to daniel lizotte joins me on the line up for getting t. done. please and like me is today my basic understanding is that there is no law in the u.s. that prohibits the use of a whistleblower his name if that's the case then the i mean the facebook just made this decision on the run. well not entirely on their own because facebook is under intense pressure from the democrats to the specially the progressive so-called

progressive wing of the democrats alexandria ocasio cortez and others like her they're under intense pressure to censor views that democrats don't like the democrats are pushing them to us censor ad political ads which are which the democrats regard as false or mendacious and they're now under pressure to to. to censor anybody who mentions the name of erica traum. name is chairman of. the so-called whistleblower who alerted the congress to potential wrongdoing by trump in this july 25th phone call with the ukrainian president and so essentially that facebook is being pushed to 2 step 2 and into the role of censor and it is essentially balance to pressure. and an

undertaking that role. is if facebook is a sensor is it a is it a balanced one is there any suggestion that this is the political bias and if this was you know someone on trump's side of things with equal anonymity of course not now there's 'd there's an incredible i mean the essentially the the democrat pro-democratic corporate media like the new york times regards believes that fake news is only something a cover comes out of from trump and that everything they wish is the under lloyd truth but that's obvious nonsense i mean the new york times is filled with false statement pushing russia gate for example the idea that russia somehow russia colluded with trump to swing the 2016 election. facebook c.n.n. washington post m.s.n. b.c. published more than $8000.00 articles on the collusion scene until robert mueller

issued his report saying there was no there was there was no collusion so facebook wouldn't dare try to censor that and of facebook did it the new york times would be screaming bloody murder the new york times wants facebook to censor material that the new york times doesn't like so it's it's obvious obviously highly agree just biased there's always the argument that whistle blows need to be cat anonymous for their own safety fear of reprisal but what about the argument and how much reprisal is there really in terms of a threat but what about the argument that whistleblowers are often use now and a very convenient and often incentivized some people would say to come forward come forward with a story and they remain in the shadows and never really put themselves in any kind of risk and there's not even any reprisal if that they're not even telling the truth well i mean what's the blower is like no that's a that's

a neutral concept i mean some whistleblowers put out accurate news and some are some put out inaccurate. and of course the most the world's most important whistleblower join the stock which is now languishing up there and a british resident has his health was deteriorating dramatically and the democrats couldn't care less that democrats want to see. him president so you know so everybody now so i whistle blower is all you know can be good bad or indifferent and there's nothing special about that uttering their name i see nothing wrong with that. to me it's oh it's a matter of great public importance really appreciate your thoughts daniel journalists try to daniel is off thank you. so to brazil now a full president lula da silva has walked free from prison on friday greeted by a chorus of cheers from supporters i

got a little early release isn't possible by a new court ruling that allows convicted criminals to avoid prison if they've not exhausted all their appeals hundreds of supporters took to the streets of san paolo to celebrate clearly himself address those crowds on his release. i. don't know why the federal police i'm not heard anyone have a desire to prove that this country can be so much better when it doesn't have a government that lawyers as much will twitter as go signal realize that has the courage to treat people about solutions to the problems of the country and a little support to see his release as a sign of democracy in action. looks like most of the you cannot imagine what this day means to me this is the victory of democracy up and hope for brazil rule is free who is the hope of this country the president has always cared for the poor who always look after poor people 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 resilient people think i'm secure and we're here to celebrate hope will win over here democracy will be reestablished in this country is free. lula da silva was brazil's president from 2003 to 2012 years ago he was convicted of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in jail he denies any wrongdoing. this summer there was a twist in the case though a leaked conversation revealed the prosecutor and judge opin privately discussing the case i spoke with the chief editor of the brazilian news at the opera monday. now with out of jail decide to ation i have a very has a very important tens 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 he's much bigger than he is able to do that 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 presidential little 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 the current president i'm sure it's going to because now the opposition is going to have a leader up to this time to mount after both

a man who. the opposition of does not have a leader in brazil has merely the in conditions to 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 that. ok but you'd rather stay thanks staying with all to join me in half an hour. i.

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