he celebrates 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at just how united the country is. criminal court of the convicts a congolese rebel commander of atrocities but it's reignited the i.c.c. only convicted criminals from africa. brazil's former president lula da silva was released from prison as he appeals his corruption case he was greeted by cheering supporters who say the charges against him are.

very good evening and it's a pleasure to have you company this is. 30 years ago the berlin wall was told reuniting east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security's high today with major celebrations across the country and thousands of in taking part in numerous events including exhibitions on the walls. with a quick look at the walls 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 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. 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 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 more than 100 died trying the fearsome bear that emerged seemingly overnight and it just as rapidly on november 9th 1909 when thousands stormed the checkpoint on foreign home or street at 10 45 pm the head of the checkpoint overwhelmed by the crowd gave way and open the gate the other soon followed as jimmy celebrates reunification to some of the country's

still divides with an invisible line separating east and west defensive subsists reports. 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 reality west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor angela merkel admits it runs the show that if you're into fool me he's german citizens in today's germany and if you like 2nd class citizens you couldn't do those less than 40 percent of the germans think that reunification was successful books and among those under 14 anyone disagrees around 20 percent it's not the lesson ha ha satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister told us them is 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 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 asylum seekers in germany no they're blaming them for decreasing the wages and taking advantage of their will 1st 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 theirs that has. they declared a state of nazi 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 as 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 with anti semitism right wing extremism it's rhetoric with the same intensity food you could see why people are happy to go with the wall is down and everybody is united but the rise of see is bringing the increase of hate crimes all the chance to 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 1952 and then moved to east germany to 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 they were not enough luxury goods in the shops so that they had money to go to advocation and so forth not everybody but a large number today many many people and especially children are suffering from a severe lack of plotting 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 is 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 the family of close friends but not publicly now today and after the wall went down. 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. to state my pump i also went to berlin to commemorate the full of the wall and he is the occasion to take a jab at china and russia. everyone in this room has a duty we must recognize that freemasons 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 used this tactic as methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former east germans. the former cia chief and did some of his military service patrolling the berlin wall but his attendance at the ceremony was greeted with criticism for germany's biggest news outlets which pondered over when u.s. troops would finally leave germany. almost $40000.00 u.s. military personnel in the country journalist and author thomas fassbender says the

washington fizzing influence over berlin. this is a rather cheap effort at we kind ling cold war nostalgia let me put it that way kind ling german in 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 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

from 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 of 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. trying to look for why the i.c.c. seems the military is on criminals from that continent. this. it's 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 is

a war crime yes 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 intelligible 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 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. and when it comes to that middle east crisis earlier this year alleged american war crimes and of ghana's 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 and more slit 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 asked the i.c.c. to comment on the issue we await their reply. they hate him but they want him that's how the syrian president bashar al assad describes relations between europe and the turkish leader in an exclusive interview with our teeth the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year you can watch it in full here monday as well as on our website r.t. dot com here's a quick preview. i know you're antagonistic 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 a european union government's response to the possible. outflow of british eyes is they just 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 they know that he's phanatic islamist they know this and they're the bin or 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 most of 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 doing those. syria and other. is danger with 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 is the measure of them are moderate and they have while you do you support those dear is there to clean 100 in tens of thousands. i think i may be hundreds of thousands in syria and you don't feel that they're going to go back to a country. a

blood curdling murderous send shock waves through the russian city of st petersburg will bring you that story after this break. the financial. money laundering 1st visit this cash in the 3 different. this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up for something and you're something in america something over the cayman islands it will pull these banks are complicit in their tough talk or say we just have to get much bolder to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacey beautiful jewelry. again for max you know what money wondering highly illegal thank you so much guys.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from t.v. shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic developments only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back a top russian history professor suspected of murdering one of his students after he was plucked from a river in st petersburg with a pair of severed in a backpack. in the studio with me with more information on this story this is pretty gruesome sounding stuff for details that we have well definitely

a tragic story coming out of the russian city of st petersburg a history professor at some pizza bags state university has been arrested on suspicion of murder it's reported that 63 year old sokoloff was apprehended on saturday morning and he was actually dragged out of one of the city's canals is of course one of the famous waterways that gives the northern city the nickname the venice of the north and initially he'd thrown a backpack into the water in which transpired there were 2 separate hands but he seemingly panicked when he saw that the backpack was sinking so he threw himself in the canal after it he was taken into custody in which he remains and the police did such apologize for the gruesome that's what they found was decapitated female body ahead as well as a bloody awful. it's gruesome and i'm sure it will shock an awful lot of people in st petersburg and beyond that as well what information do we know about

a guy who presumably seemed pretty respectable to the people around him as a professor while exactly so. off was a respected academic and he was teaching at one of the highest ranking universities in the country in fact he'd been recognized for his walk back in 2003 he was given a distinguished award he was a professor of history but he was also a specialist in french military history he also had some extra curricular activities he had founded a historical reenactment movement but it is worth mentioning that he had not been without scandal because in 20000 during a lecture one of the members of the audience actually accused cycle of plagiarism he then later alleged that cycle of got 2 men touch me physically assault him also in the same year a female student who had been in a relationship with the professor. accused him of physical harassment and even attempted murder as for the victim of course we need to talk about how we know

she's a 24 year old female student called to say yes it's thought that she and sokoloff had only ever been in communications in relation to her studies as for the response the university of course has spoken out and said that it's very shaken by this horrific tragedy and as with us it's thoughts go out to the family. dog story indeed thank you for the details of. facebook. posts naming the believed to be whistle blower. the whistleblower who sounded the alarm over the phone call the post in which the supposed name of the whistleblower peer reviewed several 100000 times before facebook removed them wednesday social media giant is aiming to protect the individual from potential harm. any mention of the potential whistleblowers name

violates a coordinating 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 the name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in the debate. posts a little to conservative breitbart website have also been taken down despite the olive being recently included a list of facebook approved news publishes on from general society brought bots article mentioning the whistleblowers name during 124 hour period last week the cia officer's name was mentioned to more than 150000 tweets early democrats failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator ron paul block the proposal accusing the democrats suspending selective outrage the amendment was designed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and acknowledge their contributions comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by another was testimony from an insider journalist and writer daniel is

off his facebook doesn't treat all whistleblowers equally. facebook is under intense pressure from the democrats and especially the progressive so-called progressive wing of the democrats they democrats are pushing them to us censor ads political ads and they're now under pressure to censor anybody who mentions the name of the so-called whistleblower and of course the most the world's most important whistleblower join us our bush is now languishing in a british prison his health is deteriorating dramatically and the democrats couldn't care less that democrats want to see. him present facebook c.n.n. washington post and most n.b.c. published more than 8000 articles are on the collusion thing 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 it's obvious obviously highly agreed to flee

biased. old christmas songs it appears don't mix all too well with new politically correct lyrics as demonstrated by an updated version of the iconic june baby it's cold out. cites schools in distain for many a song that tells the story of a man trying to persuade a woman in a flirty banter to stay for a night has been blamed for promoting harassment was pulled off radio playlist new version by american singer john legend since the woman hope the taxi. will start to worry what's your might rather. soon. what then there's a very happy to be had out. there. a yard shot. right there are no known lines very clearly.

he's made it more sexual with those words and i think what he's done is he's stealing this sunday from frank loesser song and from my dad he should write his own song if he does not like this one but don't change the live aches it's a classic perfect song john legend and natasha rothwell co-wrote a baby it's cold outside for makes that doesn't make us want to wear out by the spray i thought nothing could be worse than the annual baby it's cold outside is problematic discourse but then i read the lyrics to john legend's baby it's cold outside remakes say what you want john legend version of baby it's cold outside is so wholesome and changing the lyrics made the song that much more enjoyable. for president lula da silva walked free from prison friday to be greeted by a chorus of cheers from supporters. was

elizabeth released my possible bunny court ruling allowing convicted criminals to avoid prison if they've exhausted their appeals 100 supporters took to the streets of sao paolo to celebrate their himself addressed the crowds. and the hurt by the federal police the job stuff i'm not heard by anyone i have a desire to prove that this country can be so much better when it doesn't have a government that law is as much on twitter as well so no realize that has the courage to true to its people about solutions to the problems of the country and in the support to see his release is a sign of democracy in action. looks like most of you cannot imagine what this day means to me this is the victory of democracy and hope for brazil louis freeh who is the hope of this country the president always cared for the poor who always look after poor people is free 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 like you and we are here to celebrate hope will win over here democracy will be reestablished in this country lula is free. religious civil was brazil's president from 2003 to 2012 years ago he was convicted of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years behind bars he denies any wrongdoing and you're up to that join me for more and how often are. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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time after time so we're going underground as saudi arabia takes the podium to conclude the u.n. general assembly just ahead of the one year anniversary of the killing of the washington post's jamal khashoggi a crime over which the u.n. once saudi arabia investigated coming up on the show as the united states senate debates a trade war with hong kong that could drag the global economy down amidst the president trumps existing sanctions against china we speak to a member of ongoings executive council preparing for tomorrow's 70th anniversary celebrations of the people's republic and on the day saudi arabia concludes the u.n. general assembly we go to the country with the largest number of u.s. troops in europe. germany to garrett's left body d. link at slam any possible i'm going to merkel plan to join donald trump's and boris johnson's soldiers against iran plus brecht's at the berlin wall and microwave meals with suede supporting autistic.