jimmy celebrates 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at just how united the country really is. criminal court of the convicts a congolese rebel commander of atrocities reignites concern the i.c.c. only convicts war criminals from africa. the relation between. these stories. but they want to syrian president bashar al assad speaks of mounting tension between the e.u. and turkey in an exclusive interview with aren't.

good evening to you or this is our team's national appreciate you joining us. 30 years ago the berlin wall was torn down east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security has been with celebrations held across the country thousands of taking part in human including exhibitions on the walls. now with a quick look at its rawest simple. 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 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 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 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 ways to cross 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 nov 9th 19891000 stormed 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 was germany celebrates reunification 2 summits this seems the country is divided with an invisible line separating east and west indies evangelos sips us 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 those show the majority of east german citizens in today's germany feel like 2nd class citizens according to those less than 40 percent of these germans think that reunification was successful among those under 40 the figure is around 20 percent less than hoff are satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister told us them is a good one said the for east. 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 wealth for 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 and 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 some don't want to admit this the threat of anti-semitism and right wing terrorism is high in germany one of the area that we also classify as high that is islamist terror which remains you know field of view we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon anti semitism right wing extremism mid century with the same intensity you could see why people are happy here with the wall is down and everybody is for united but the rise of seen a phobia 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. we caught up in the merry. and he defected to the soviet union in

$152.00 and then they have to east germany victor grossman total to what he thinks was better than. the old days a people almost most people seem 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 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 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 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 fogs 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 secretary of state pompei it also went to the to commemorate the fall of the wall he used the occasion though to take a jab at china and russia. everyone in this room has a duty we must recognize the 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 uses tactic as methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former east germans. was 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 to which of ela pondered over when u.s. troops were finally to leave the country evidently almost 40000 u.s. military personnel in germany journalist and author thomas fassbender says that

washington is losing influence over a 1000000000. this is a rather cheap effort at re kind ling cold war nostalgie are reported 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 russia in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central feeders of us jews to the 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 angst 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 handed down its highest ever sentence to congolese rebel warlord he joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity over out easily potential looks and why the i.c.c. seems to merely 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.

the attempted as a crime against humanity and there's a war crime. or put a seclusion as a crime against humanity said to us of imprisonment this is the convict congolese rebel commander bosco into ganda indeed he'll now serve 3 decades for everything he did during a nightmarish civil war in the heart of africa the crimes have been well documented by activists so probably no one will argue the man got what he deserved. it can't bring back his victims but the international criminal court's 30 years 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 in touchable ok and the 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 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 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 judge is in there but you've 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. 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 have us 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 described relations between europe and turkey's leader in an exclusive interview given to r.t. its 1st on the spoken to an international channel in more than a year you can watch this interview in full hail monday as well as on our website r.t. dot com for now here's a preview. i

don't know you're antagonistic with nato nations 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 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 always they hate him but they want him. they don't do that in they know that he is phanatic 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 and 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 not 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 the fear him but from the other side let's hear that thing 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 the majority of them are moderates and they have while you do you support those theories there to clean 100 in tens of thousands. and maybe hundreds of thousands in syria and you don't fear that they're going to go to

a country. and blood curdling murderous sent shock waves through the russian city of st petersburg to bring you that story after this break. 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. the world is driven by

a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. a top russian history professor suspected of murdering one of his students after he was plucked from the river in st petersburg with a pair of said that in a backpack at least ask you taylor joins me in the studio with details. history professor at some peeps bug a state university has been arrested on suspicion of murder and again a quite bizarre what led to that moment

a grotesque and 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 notice 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 and that was a female hands he was taken into custody in which he remains and afterwards his flat was. what they found was very gruesome it was a decapitated female body head and a bloody sore. throat body parts into a river. the bottom of a list of things you would expect to come from

a respected prefer so what more do we know about him in particular 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 of plagiarism and afterwards it was alleged that sokoloff had actually hired 2 men in order to rough up his accuser in the same year a few mouse student at the university whom he had been in a relationship with accused him of physical harassment. and then 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 regard to our studies that 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 as the whole city and that it's thoughts are of course with the victim's family. facebook has announced that it's removing posts naming the believed to be whistle blower who sounded the alarm over the trump ukraine phone conversation the posts in which the supposed name of the whistleblower appeared viewed several $100000.00 times before facebook removed them on wednesday social media giants as it is a is to protect individual potential 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 their name be widely

published in the media or used by public figures in the debate. posts from the ultra conservative breitbart website have also been taken down despite the live being recently included on a list of facebook approved news publishes donald trump ginia also cited by bans on tickle mentioning the whistleblowers name during 124 hour period last week the cia officer's name was mentioned in more than 150000 tweets the us democrats failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senators rand paul blocked the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the amendment was designed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and knowledge their contribution comes in the heat of the jump impeachment inquiry that is split was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider journalist in russia daniel is our feels that facebook doesn't treat all whistle blows equally done. 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 $8000.00 articles on the cole lucian theme 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 of appreciated company this evening thanks staying with r.t.

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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 president trump's existing sanctions against china we speak to a member of on kong's executive council preparing for tomorrow's 70th anniversary celebration 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 hear its left body dealing slam any possible i'm going to merkel plan to join donald trump's and boris johnson's soldiers against iran breaks at the berlin wall and microwave meals with suede supporting artists funny how all this of all coming up in today's going underground a festival remarks the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china an event

covered in nato nations not so much for the lifting of $850000000.00 out of poverty as the triumph of a brutal state that today abuses human rights in on kong the chief villain appears to be hong kong chief executive kerry lam joining me now from the new people's party headquarters known. kong is one of our cabinet ministers regina thanks so much for coming on the show before we get to what's going on in on kong how is it how is the special administrative region going to be celebrating 70 years of china there will be flecked waiting ceremonies and celebrations as usual and the hong kong government will be sending a large delegation to beijing to attend the parade and various celebrations in the capital but no new fireworks because some people think that having no fireworks in on kong is a capitulation to the enemies of ongoings really it's a great pity but i think there are strong security considerations considering that

in the past 100 days there have been a lot of. outbreaks of violence attacks on in the ocean bystanders if you if you find somebody who would disagree with you you bash that person so in view of the potential for fights and the breakdown of law and order i thing the media of origins where rights too can sodhi to fireworks this year well as you know media here in britain is covering the protests we have pictures in the studio of the american flags and british flags being flown by the protesters media here says they are peaceful protesters and in fact british media sense thora g.'s are investigating c g n the chinese international channel for bias the western media coverage on the.