germany celebrates 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at just how united the country really is also to come. he's a national criminal court at the hague convicts a comb the rebel commander of the troll city's buses reignites concerned that the i.c.c. only convicts war criminals from africa and. the relation between. these stories they hate him but they wanted. syrian president bashar al assad speaks on mounting tensions between the e.u. and turkey in an exclusive interview to r.t. .

hello you're watching international i'm whereas on a lot could welcome to the program. 30 years ago the berlin wall was told down reuniting east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high with major celebrations being held of course germany in berlin thousands have been taking part numerous events including exhibitions on the walls history is jacqueline who can now with a quick look at its 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 on the night of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france with 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most no. today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing

became all but impossible. imagine this a concrete wall 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide a smooth still nerve running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watchtowers every 200 meters by 962 a 2nd wall was built around 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 or the 100 died trying the fearsome bear that emerged seemingly overnight and then just as rapidly on nov 9th 19091000 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. as

germany celebrates reunification to some it seems the country is still divided it with an invisible line separating east and west auntie's evangelists explains. 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 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 germans think that reunification was successful among those under 40 the figure is around 20 percent less than hoffman

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 has 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 of the city of theirs that has. it's been declared a state of 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 of those some don't want to admit this the threat of anti-semitism and right wing terrorism is high in germany we have 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 it centra with the same intensity you could see why people are happy to go with the wall is down and everybody is for united but the rise of single phobia is bringing the increase of hate crimes all the chanter fight and marginalized communities should remind germany that reunification is

a process rather than just a public holiday we caught up with an american who defected to the soviet union in 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 events in the world history there's a good side and a bad side to everything and there were some back 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 a family of close friends but not publicly now today and after the wall went down f. you saw it right near my home whole columns of really fascist thugs with swastikas if they can if they can somehow disguise them

a little with fascist slogans and looking like just the same as the s.s. man 80 years ago and this is one of the most frightening things about the fall of the wall. where u.s. secretary of state mike pompei i also went to bed in. commemorate the full of the war and he is the all 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 uses 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 berlin wall but his attendance at the ceremony was also greeted with criticism from one of germany's biggest news outlets the reach of bella was pondering over when u.s.

troops would finally leave the country there are currently almost 40000 u.s. military personnel in germany journalist and author thomas foss bunda says washington face new using influence over a limb. this is a rather cheap effort. we kind ling cold war nostalgie are reported that way re kind of thing 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 brush in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central feeders of us 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 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. the international criminal court at the hague has 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 have artie's looks at why the i.c.c. seems to merely focus on criminals from that continent this. it's 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 cousins 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 human at the said to us of imprisonment this is the convict congolese rebel commander bosco into ganda indeed he'll now serve 3 decades for everything he did during a nightmarish civil war in the heart of africa the crimes have been well documented by activists so probably no one will argue the man got what he deserved. it can't bring back his victims but the international criminal court's 30 year sentence for congolese rebel leader bosco into gumba signals that even those who once thought themselves untouchable could one day be brought to justice

a signal for the untouchables. ok 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 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 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 doug 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 we have all the i.c.c. to comment on this and we'll of course bring you any reply they give us. they hate him but they want him that's how the syrian president bashar al assad describes relations between europe and the leader of turkey 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 on t.v. dot com but here's a quick preview. i know you're antagonistic with nato nation turkey but with jurgen and arguably yourself must be aware that western policy is liable for blowback into the european union what have you made of a european union government's response to the possible. outflow of british ices days freighters back into the european union how dangerous is it to be in london today or paris or but live. 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 fanatic 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 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 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 medias the majority of them are moderates and they have while you've been you

supported those theories there to clean 100 in tens of thousands. at least and maybe hundreds or thousands in syria and you don't want to hear that they're going to go back to a country. now in other news this hour a top russian history professor is suspected of murdering one of his students and after he was plucked from a river in st petersburg with a pair of severed hands in his backpack earlier saskia tale of joy my colleague neil harvey in the studio with the details. history professor 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 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 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 who 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 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 its thoughts are of course with the victim's family. facebook has announced it's removing posts naming the believed to be a whistleblower who sounded the alarm over the trump ukraine phone call the posts in which the supposed name of the whistleblower appeared was viewed several $100000.00 times before facebook removed them on wednesday the social media giant says his 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 their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in the debate posts from the ultra conservative breitbart websites have also been taken down despite the outlet being recently included on

a list of facebook approved news publishers donald trump jr also cited breitbart article mentioning the whistleblowers name and during 124 hour period last week the cia officer's name was mentioned in more than 150000 tweets. us democrats failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers a secret republican senator rand paul blocked the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the amendment was designed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and acknowledge their contribution and it comes in the heat of the trial impeachment inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider journalist and writer daniel azhar feels 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 the democrats are pushing them to us censor and 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 joy in assad which is now languishing in a british prison has his health is deteriorating dramatically and the democrats couldn't care less the democrats want to see him in prison facebook c.n.n. washington post and most n.b.c. published more than 8000 articles on the collusion 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 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 last demonstrated by an updated version of the iconic tune baby it's cold outside and it's causing disdain for many the song that

tells a story of a man trying to persuade a woman in a flat he sort of pantry way to stay friend night and it's been blamed for promoting harassment and pulled off radio play lists a new version by american st john legend sends the woman home in a taxi. start to worry watch your my remark and. see. what's in this you're a have to be. a yard sure. no no no no i didn't write very clearly. say. he's made it more sexual with those words and i think what he's done is he's stealing the 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 lyrics it's a classic perfect song john legend and the toshiro through okoro to baby it's cold

outside for makes the doesn't make us want to get 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 much more enjoyable when we spoke with radio and t.v. host karen turk who thinks the new words do more harm than good to the song they took a song that was innocent flirtation and that was a beautiful classic christmas song about a relationship between a man and a woman and a harmless flirtation and may have actually made the song more sexual by what they've done it's really hard to believe if they strongly believe in a me too message that they would even add all the song the way that it is they made the song dirty and the song was in a dirty song i don't know if this is just

a really bad p.r. move or if they actually believe that the song should be changed which i think most of america would find very hard to believe most of the world would find it very hard to believe why don't you let us know what you think by heading to our twitter pages and our facebook page at all t. dot com and that's the news update armors on the low could not be back here with a roundup of the headlines in about 30 minutes time see them. when i was a child small seemed wrong all right old old just don't call. me old but yet to shape out of disdain to become agitated and engage an equal to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for

common ground. police today there are good tennis and bad at it it's the bad news in the end when the united states deems to be a threat the good of those who work in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding an army of death squads there's no posts anymore because there's always a small people or a really good this is a prophet. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those with. no

dares thinks. we dare to ask. thank. you oh well redacted this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. first let me sum up everything the mainstream media has covered for the past week. make a. donald trump is literally letting go all die due to a climate crisis exploiting average americans at every turn by that phone call to the ukrainians. beyond the pale. ok now on to important i

want to reveal how you know we're witnessing the death of truth just for people prove that we're seeing systematic persecution of those who reveal the truth in our society no one can deny this bill i've given you the truth have given us the truth so you have to ask yourself do i want the truth there and that's a serious question sometimes you don't want the truth. when you said your boyfriend did you hook up with my dog walker. my dog was watching. you don't want the truth you do not because you're told the truth you either have to murder the boyfriend or murder your dog. so let's get through the 4 people who prove we're witnessing the death of truth 1st we have whistleblowers we we've seen whistleblowers of all kinds crushed in the past few years chelsea manning edward snowden john kerry aka jeffrey starling the guy who revealed there were no go mad

chemicals in the subway sandwiches and. i mean i don't know that he was persecuted but i assume the subway people sweeney todd him into a meatball saw. but let's just say one name chelsea manning she revealed the war crimes of our empire she then torture in our prisons for years her sentence is then commuted she's released and now they have her. locked up again for nothing literally nothing i mean i mean i mean really nothing like that like the educational value of the bachelor nothing nothing so whistleblowers i'm going to mark them. persecuted i've got persecuted. let's move on the. move on the publishers last week to you tonight is nations special rapporteur tor on torture reiterated a warning that julian assange is life.