when we celebrate 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at just how united the country really is. the international criminal court or they convict say congolese rebel commander of atrocities but reignites concerned the i.c.c. only convicts criminals from africa. as former president lula da silva there is release from prison see appeals this corruption case was greeted by cheering supporters who say charges against him often that include vote.

good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. 30 years ago the berlin wall was torn down real east and west berlin and her building the beginning of the end of the cold war security today has been high with major celebrations taking place across the country berlin thousands have been taking part in numerous events including exhibitions on the walls history. now with a quick look at his 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 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 but checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became impossible. my. isn't this

a concrete wall 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide smooth filner running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watchtowers every 200 meters by 962 a 2nd wall was built around 100 meters and the 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 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 10891000 storm the checkpoint unborn homer st at 10 45 pm the head of the checkpoint jogger overwhelmed by the crowd gave way and open the gate the other soon followed with germany celebrates reunification to some assumes the country is still divided with an invisible line separating us than west obsessed 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 as you see in the west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor angela merkel admits it. was show the jury to fool 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 less than hoffman satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister told us that his get one said that for east germans everything hast. change 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 now 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 the city of that is 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 and right wing 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 we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon with anti semitism right wing extremism its rhetoric with the same intensity you could see why people are happy to go up the wall is down and everybody is united but the rise of scene is bringing the increase of hate crimes all the gentrified and marginalized communities should remind germany that reunification is a process rather than just a public holiday because with an american who defected to the soviet union in one

to 52 and then move to east germany grossman told r.t. what he thinks was better about that. 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 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 the good side and a bad side to everything and there were some bad sides to this makes me i should add still sad 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. us 60 states might bump a also went to berlin to commemorate the fall of the wall and he used the occasion 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 used this tactic as methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former east germans propose 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 the vela the over when u.s. troops might finally leave germany germany almost 40000 u.s. military personnel are inside the country journalist and author thomas fassbender says that what she did fear is losing influence of a 1000000000. this is

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. used to d.g. interests. the international criminal court at the hague underdone its highest ever sentence to a congolese rebel warlord he joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity however out easily by trying to look for why the i.c.c. seem to focus on criminals from that particular 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. 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 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 and you wait just a few minutes of research will show that all people who have ever been indicted by the i.c.c. there's a few dozen have one thing in common they're all from africa on the list not only

rebel king pings but there we 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 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 a 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. for come until we await the reply. they hate him but they want him that sour the syrian president bashar al assad to describes relations between europe and the turkish leader he said so in an exclusive interview given to r.t. it's the 1st time the decider spoke into an international t.v. channel for more than a year you can watch this in full here on monday also it's available on our website r.t. dot com here's a preview. i

don't know your and i 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 would have you made of say european union government's response to the possible. outflow of british rises days freighters 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 always they hate him but they want him. they don't do that in they know that he is phonetic 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 but the majority are syrian up all of them are extremist. the measure 2 of them are actually muscle the turkey that 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 thin being those. syrian and other. is dangerous the most dangerous on europe is to support the terrorists in syria this is the most dangerous part so this is hypocrisy how can you fear those few medias the majority of them are moderates and they have while you do you support those dear is there to clean 100 in tens of thousands. and maybe hundreds of thousands in syria and you don't feel that they're going to go back to

a country. bloodcurdling murderous send shock waves through the russian city of st petersburg will bring you that story after this break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we dare to ask.

nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one the taxes are being misused they're not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because there's a government failure number 2 climate change regardless of whether you believe it's happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for climate change whether you believe it or not you know it's still the price is still there. a top russian history professor suspected of murdering one of his students he was plucked from the river in st petersburg with a pair of said that in a backpack so to get to the gym. now in the studio with more it's a gruesome story in equal parts it's bizarre proving once again the facts could be

stranger than fiction. while a really tragic story coming out of the russian city of st petersburg today a history professor at some people state university has been arrested on suspicion of murder and again a quite bizarre what led to that moment a grotesque on bizarre series of events 63 year old. was apprehended on saturday morning he'd been walking along the embankment of a canal drunk and he had tried to throw his backpack into the water but in doing so he slipped and so fell himself into the water a passing taxi noticed called the police in order to save him which they did and in doing so and this is really the only reason that this crime has come to light they discovered what was in the backpack the cycle of was trying to dispose of him out was a pair of hands he was taken into custody in which he remains and

afterwards his flat was. what they found was very gruesome it was a decapitation body a head and a bloody. drunk thrown body parts into a river is absolutely right down the bottom of a list of things you would expect to come from a respected professor what more do we know about him in particular what exactly he was a distinguished academic he was teaching at one of the highest ranking universities in the country he'd been recognized for his work he'd been given awards and he was a specialist in french military history specifically in napoleonic wars and he even founded a movement of historical reenactments but it is worth mentioning that despite his distinction he had been plagued by scandal because back in 2018 whilst he was giving a lecture a member of the. audience accused. and afterwards it was alleged that sokoloff had

actually hired 2 man in order to rough up his accuser in the same year a female student at the university he had been in a relationship with accused him of physical harassment and even of attempted murder just for a 2nd of course to turn to his victim we do know that she was a 24 year old female student at the university called anastasio yes. and other than the fact that she'd been in communication with him with regards to her studies they've had no real relationship the university has spoken out saying of course that it's shaken by this horrific turn of events as i'm sure is the whole city and that it's thoughts are of course with the victim's family ok many things bring is that today. in the studio with me with all the details. because a facebook now which is announced that it is removing posts naming the believed to be a whistleblower who sounded the alarm over the trump ukraine phone conversation the

posts in which the supposed name of the whistleblower appeared where they were viewed several $100000.00 times before facebook got around to removing them or ones that social media giant says it's a miss to protect the individual from potential harm. any mention of the potential whistleblowers name violates our co-ordinating home policy which prohibits content and 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 will post from the ultra conservative breitbart website have also been taken down despite valid being recently included on a list of facebook approved news publishes on the term genius cited brought balance article mentioning the whistleblowers name during 124 hour period last week the cia officer's name was mentioned in more than 150000 tweets earlier u.s. democrats said fail to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul

block the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the moment was designed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and acknowledge their contributions comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by a non amiss testimony from an insider genista right to daniel is off is that facebook doesn't treat all whistleblowers equally though. 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 m.s.m. b.c. published more than 8000 articles on the cole lucian theme until rather mueller issued his report saying there was no. there was there was no collusion so facebook wouldn't dare try to censor that i was obvious like highly agree just way biased. brazil's former president lula da silva walked free from prison on friday greeted by a chorus of cheese from supporters i. released my possible buy new court ruling that allows convicted criminals to avoid prison if they have not exhausted all their appeals hundreds of supporters as you can see here took to the streets of sao paolo to celebrate nearly himself addressed the crowds on his release i was. on the hook by the federal police the joe 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 also no realize that has the courage to true to its people about solutions to the problems of the country. religious civil was brazilian president from 2003 to 2012 years ago he was convicted of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in jail lula denies any wrongdoing. appreciate it again this evening this is r.t. international and our top stories in half an hour. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and come on you know we've all pots. you ready for a. pretty

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. oh max kaiser this is the kaiser report i've got an eerie sense that things are not

quite what the appear to be states in fact we're going to look at california 1st and then we're going to go to a town right here in new york and that is kingston new york where our guest in the 2nd half is from it is going to it's a tale of 2 economic models over in california we know not only do we have forest fires going on all over the place huge fires thousands of people being evacuated from their homes but we see blackouts millions of people suffer and blackouts and p.g. and e. the multinational basically utility the giant utility company listed on the stock exchange they have declared bankruptcy to avoid all their obligations over you know over the last years disaster and it looks like we have a disaster again this year and people in california are not happy with the blackouts stop harassing p.g. and e. workers gavin newsome says they didn't create this mass amid reports of pacific gas and electric company workers being threatened and run off the road governor gavin

newsom urged californians to save their outrage for the utilities corporate owners and treat workers on the ground with respect over a 1000000 people and businesses have their blackouts essentially and people are getting angry and they c.p.g. any and they throw stuff at them or they're trying to drive them off the road this is this is a actually we're a capitalism fails we have this debate about capitalism versus socialism it's been very big in the coming election and in the areas of the economy like utilities you have a distinct preference for the role of government why in the case p.g. and a they. they are a private corporation in the business of providing a utility electricity and whenever they get in trouble they just declare bankruptcy so it's an asymmetric warfare going on they extract wealth and when they get caught .