this is. germany celebrates 30 years since the fall of the bird and when we look at just how united the country really is also. international criminal court at the hague convicts a congolese at rest will come armed of atrocities bought it reignites concerned that the i.c.c. only convicts were criminals from africa and. the relation between. them being you is always to hate him but they want to syrian president bashar al assad speaks on the mounting tensions between the e.u. and turkey in an exclusive interview to r.t. .

hello you're watching r.t. international i'm rosa welcome to the program. now 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 is high with major celebrations being held across the country in berlin thousands have been taking part in numerous events including exhibitions history his jacqueline du can now with a quick look at its rise and fall of. the berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a line 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 of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete fence with 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing

became all but impossible. imagine this a concrete wall 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide smooth still nerve running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watchtowers every 200 meters by 962 a 2nd wall was built around 100 meters and east berlin territory this buffer zone became known as the death strip that 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 1989 when thousands stormed the checkpoint on board homer street at 10 45 pm the head of the checkpoint overwhelmed by the crowd gave way and open the gate the other soon followed was germany celebrates reunification to some it seems the country is still

divided with an invisible line separating east and west auntie's evangelists explains. walking through the center. berlin one can see how much effort the german government has put for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall it almost seems that the country was never a divided it is difficult to identify characteristics of socialist architecture between the multi ethnic restaurants and bars but leaving the center you see in the west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor angela merkel admits it. the majority of east german citizens in today's germany feel like 2nd class citizens according to those less than 40 percent of the germans think that reunification was successful among those under 40 degrees around 20 percent less than hot a satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister thomas 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 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 $1000000.00 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 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 not. emergency any recent talk on synagogue in halle has shown that more than a quarter of germans hold anti semitic beliefs. i would like to point out once again that it's all those some don't want to admit this the threat of anti-semitism and rightwing terrorism is high in germany and one of the areas that we also classify as high that is islamist terror which remains you know field of view and we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon anti semitism right wing extremism it senator with the same intensity you could see why people are happy in your walt is down and everybody is for united but the rise of single 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. but 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 there were not enough luxury goods in the shops so that they had money to go to on vacation and so forth not everybody but a large number today many many people and especially children are suffering from a severe lack of money this is another problem which has taken place and makes me think after 30 years that as with many of the ents in the world history there's a good side and a bad side to everything and there were some bad sides to this makes me i should add still said that that experiment the g.d.r. a part of germany at least as it was only

a small part and the poor apart but at least one part of germany where they could really almost completely get rid of poverty this was an achievement which has rarely been it a reach any place in the world i think to a great extent the g.d.r. 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 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 secretary of state mike pompei also went on to commemorate the phone 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 free nations are in competition of values with those unfree nations today russia 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. is a former cia chief and did some of his military service patrolling the wall but his attendance at the ceremony was also greeted with criticism from one of germany's biggest news outlets was pondering over when u.s.

troops would finally leave the country there all currently almost 40000 u.s. military personnel in germany journalist and author thomas foss benda says washington fay's new using influence over. this is a a rather cheap effort. we kind ling cold war nostalgie are reported that way re kind ling german angst in the face of russia because the best way of course to do that the best way to develop a strong enemy image among german politicians and populations is to picture or to paint russia in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central fields of u.s. jews to the egypt 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 few of which the fact of which of the intention of which is mainly to keep 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. international criminal court at the hague handed down its highest ever sentence to congo these rebel warlord he joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity have artie's looks at why the i.c.c. seems to merely 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. and attempt to attempt it as a crime against humanity and there's a war crime he is for but a seclusion as a crime against a human at the said to us of imprisonment this is the convict congolese rebel commander bosco into ganda indeed he'll now serve 3 decades for everything he did during a nightmarish civil war in the heart of africa the crimes have been well documented by activists so probably no one will argue the man got what he deserved. it can't bring back his victims but the international criminal court's 30 year sentence for congolese rebel leader bosco into gumba signals that even those who once thought themselves untouchable could one day be brought to justice a signal for the untouchable 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 pings but very top officials former leaders but again nobody from other parts of the globe sure the african continent has witness countless civil wars there's no need for any additional explanation for just how much blood was spilled there but what about the ugly record by the rest of the world once the court was to get the atrocities of the israeli arab conflict under its microscope here's the message that instantly came from washington the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. we will not cooperate with the i.c.c.

we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. and we certainly will not join the i.c.c. we will let the i.c.c. die on its own after all for all intents and purposes the i.c.c. is already dead. so far no one's felt the strong i.c.c. hand when it comes to that middle east crisis earlier this year alleged american war crimes 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 dutch shores stick to the africans that someone say there's been a clear signal for the untouchable i believe that there are certain continents like africa and countries within that continent that are looked at with more scrutiny perhaps because they are less developed nations and have less power when it comes to their economies in the ability to shape world policy and so it's very easy to target those countries and to ignore some of the larger countries that might also be guilty of some of these things as well but have more influence the more slip sway globally the united. states sits in

a very interesting and powerful position worldwide where we are able to exert influence over international courts and to ignore those we want to ignore and to demand investigations we want to demand them u.s. government has a very simple policy which is that war crimes are never committed by the united states or by its military that it simply does not happen and when you take that view you immediately begin to turn around and say well we can punish anyone who thinks otherwise and quite candidly the united states government can punish countries that push against it economically and through sanctions where we have all the i.c.c. to comment and would of course preview any reply to give us. 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 r.t. it's the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year and you can watch it in full here on monday as well as on our website www

dot com but here's a quick preview. i don't know you're antagonistic with nato nation turkey but with gertie 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 doing is 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 terrorists egypt in many refugees from your country of many of them from syria some of them know they're coming from different areas in the world not only syria actually but the majority are syria not all of them are extremist not the measure 2 of them are actually muscled 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 they 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 1000000 is the measure of them are moderates and they have while you do you support

those theories 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 murder has sent shock waves through the russian city of st petersburg we'll be back with that story after this short break. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by the one percent of those great. dares thinks. we dare to ask. you a come back a top russian history professor is suspected of murdering one of his students

that's after he was plucked from a river in st petersburg with a pair of severed hands in his backpack saskia taylor joined my colleague neil harvey in the studio with the date. 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 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. of the body 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 him of plagiarism and afterwards it was alleged

that sokoloff that actually hired 2 men in order to rough up his accuser in the same year a female student at the university whom 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 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 is the whole city and that it's thoughts are of course with the victim's family. and other news this hour facebook has announced it's removing posts naming the belief to be a whistle blower who sounded the alarm 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 says its aim is 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 posts from the ultra conservative breitbart website have also been taken down despite the outlet being recently included on a list of facebook approved news publishers donald trump jr also cited by both article mentioning the whistleblowers name and during 124 hour period last week the cia officer's name was mentioned in more than 150000 tweets earlier us democrats failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul blocked the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the

amendment was designed to protect whistleblowers from retaliate in and acknowledge their contribution and it comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider journalist and writer dialers are filled 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 the sob which is now languishing in a british prison his health has deteriorated dramatically and the democrats couldn't care less that democrats want to see him in prison facebook c.n.n. washington post and must n.b.c.

published more than 8000 articles on the collusion thing until rather mueller issued its report saying there was no there was there was no collusion so facebook wouldn't dare try to censor that its obvious obvious like highly agreed to flee biased well that's your update finale i'm ours on a long good night will be back with more news from around the world in about 30 minutes time see them. when else seems wrong. just don't. get to see. this day. and in detroit equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves well it's a party we choose to look for common ground. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know told to shut up they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my arm and he write me with his birth. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen

women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended by hand and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave the sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. today there are good terrorists and bad that is the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good that it is those one in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding an army of death squads there's no. more because there's always a small. or really good. profit.

oh max kaiser this is the kaiser report i go to areas 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 see p.g. and e. utility trucks and they throw stuff at them or they're trying to drive them off the road they say this is a actually we're

a capitalism fails we have this debate about capitalism versus socialism it's very big in the cup 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 of p.g.a. they. they are a private corporation in the business of providing a utility electricity and whenever they get in trouble they've declared bankruptcy so it's an asymmetric warfare going on they extract wealth and when they get caught doing bad stuff they simply say oh we're going to go bankrupt and as a result you've got these enormous wildfires burning you've got the economy in danger you've got people's lives in danger because as private corporations they know how to game the system in a way to absolve them from any responsibility and.