the pentagon reacts to accusations that washington has routinely lied about america's longest war made by the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. russian programmer alexander v. make a rest of it in greece on washington's work press writes a plea for help saying he has been tortured and refused the most basic right. to march. plus a dramatic scene the french president is rushed out of a paris theater under a hail of boos as furious protesters chanting resign tried to confront him.

and russia marks 77 years since the breaking of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 is a most appalling humanitarian crisis it's. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the pentagon insists it's been honest after washington's own watchdog for afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies over progress and america's longest war. has more. common cynicism aside most people would prefer that those responsible for leading the country tell the truth and this is most especially true when it comes to situations like war where the lives of the men and women in the armed forces are on the line well according to the special inspector for afghan reconstruction the pentagon has

been lying for years the problem is there's a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to law there is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce now the department of defense was quick to chime in and dispute this congressional testimony here is the response the idea that there was some efforts to hide the truth the reality on the ground just doesn't hold water this idea that they were somehow missed statements i don't think that really joe's it has been roughly a month since the washington post published the afghanistan papers this is a trove of documents from the office of the special inspector general showing a sensually among many revelations that the efforts of the usa against the taliban

have been completely ineffective america's top military brass were clueless about afghanistan and had no real understanding of what was happening on the ground and no real strategy this is how one of the top military generals under the administrations of both bush and obama explained it would trying to do here we didn't have the newsham who would ruin the taking the risk of fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary internally the pentagon knew that the situation was bleak however that is not what was told. the u.s. public for years americans have gotten a steady stream of information claiming that there was progress being made in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it

a chance to rebuild is within reach and we're doing a tremendous job. and as you know a big part of the job is. certainly the biggest. and we. we've got him down very low numbers wise lies and more lives the usa has been in afghanistan for 17 years now making it the longest military engagement in all of us history and despite the new revelations showing how bleak the situation is and that deception was part of the modus operandi for the pentagon it seems like top voices in washington still don't have an exit strategy they look up and r.t. new york experts told us the watchdogs revelations come as no surprise. we've been told so many times when i buy american journals that we mail burned them or their everything is going to get better and it can't stand that we've actually done in

a circle. here at explains in a moment here the people who are. in the form of this age to be held responsible for work. or progress in their areas there they don't want to jeopardize their career for 3 years it's not going well in fact we're not in progress i think it is definitely time for the united states to remove its troops we've been there 80 years so we have killed over a 150000 afghans some of whom are colophon some of whom are you know various militia groups in the great majority are afghan civilians who only want he's here in their 1st grade something they really are here for care and so on the inspector general is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secret were leaked those words leaked after year after year after year of this same nonsense being repeated so it's possible for these things to build and steamrolled but see the united

states has a has a president who campaigned on ending this war and is that out repeating the tired old lies that he's about to win it in a day which are not unique to this war they say they come with every war every occupation and there's not even been a requirement that a victory be defined that nobody has any idea what it would be a victory is to continue losing for another year. a russian programmer arrested on washington's requests warns authorities are resorting to torture and an effort to break him i'm sorry nic is being held in greece on u.s. cybercrime and money laundering charges and he has now written a plea for help. they're trying to use torture and psychological pressure to break me they do not allow me to breathe fresh air the last time they let me out for a walk for a few minutes was on new year's eve i'm a man without rights illegally imprisoned in greece for 30 months without charges

they want to destroy me for my knowledge they want my head on a block just because of what i know and my technological abilities the case of alexander vinick is a case of blatant violations of human rights it's an international disgrace this man is been imprisoned for 13 months without a charge and grace he's not being prosecuted in greece without a sanction without a penalty without a trial alexander is not a criminal alexander is someone who has extremely high skills technological skills in blocked chain technology is not targeted for any kind of criminal behavior because it's very clear that what he has done is not criminal however what he has done is very very annoying to those who wish to control the economic. exchanges of the people what is worse is that

during the last days the conditions of detention of alexander make amount to cruel and inhuman treatment which is a form of torture as we all know alexander is being denied the right to go outside his. hospital room he's been hospitalized during the last 12 months more than 12 months actually and today his mother who came to visit him from russia was the night of the right to see her son. when he was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of warming billions of $1.03 days. currency exchange is also wanted by france which claims being carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell and russia wants to question him as well now athens has already approved his extradition to all 3 of those countries however russia's acting foreign minister has criticised

the procedures going on warning that greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow another lawyer for a famous ought to have told us why he should be extradited to russia. i greece has not only decided to extradite alexander simultaneously to 3 countries but has also specified the order by which alexander should go to these countries the point is that the extradition of alexander to the united states cannot be fair as he has never been there and hasn't committed the crimes that the usa attributes to him work with new technologies cannot be a crime especially if at the time of the activity the legislation regulating these actions simply did not exist. concerning france they used only american evidence and investigators have never concealed it but today we know that france is not going to conduct any prosecution against him on its territory so the decision about the extradition of alexander vinick to france and then to the united states is

purely technical the so-called greek trick is this to send him to france where he's going to be rejected and then sent him to the usa. the best ending for both alexander vinick and for every other party to this case will be of course his extradition to russia because russia is the place of the alleged crimes and because russia has all the information it is capable of creating a joint inquiry commissions for conducting an investigation and any feel. for the french president was rushed out of a paris theater under a hail of bullets as furious protesters chanting resign tried to confront him some demonstrators against munyal across pension reforms got past police into the hall to deliver their angry message. wasn't sure what. was

the quick. question the what was the law of the. after that protesters fall across cortege as it tried to speed away the president was reportedly with his wife in a black car in the middle of the group of vehicles involved more than a 100 protesters in the french capital block the entrance to the people have joined union calls to demand a complete withdrawal of across puzzles despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the pension reforms the most controversial aspects the french parliament is due to debate the belt next month but there are currently mixed public feelings about the protests. the filmmaker to them i'm happy that they're defending culture i left at 7 in the morning from dish on where i'm from to see the an artist of the chicks of patience

but it's not a big deal because if they do not strike there won't really be a loser as we know it so i don't mind the strike i'm actually happy i supported the . cops. show if someone would lend my hand to i'm ready to break through the picket lines because this situation is unacceptable i don't care about their pension issues restoring these they're uniting and supporting each other reinforcing each other so that's why i'm here please also we are against it they should not be here picked in for an hour to strike to express their opinion very good but to piss off everyone all day long who comes to visit comes from far away that's shameful while . we understand the anger of the business is what this anger should be directed at the government who wants to force its pension reform project through we're not the ones that are standing in the way we're not blocking the public cultural service on the contrary we're fighting for a strong public cultural service when you look at the support of the population of

the strikers we're very surprised to see the government maintains its position is the phoenix dream is them that is unacceptable for democrats. like me who voted for my new micro in the 2nd round of the presidential election. exactly 77 years ago the red army broke the nazi siege of leningrad the blockade being fully lifted a year later the vast majority of victims in the city died not from bombing but from hunger and hypothermia undergrads name may have changed to st petersburg but the horrific memories still run deep. the r. was asked. was when it was me and my friend went to a store with food stamps there was a huge field and suddenly resort plane it dropped a bomb we were taught that if we see

a bomb flying towards us you have to run in the direction of the bomb because that way it'll pass over you but we ran away we got away and kept walking suddenly i realized i'd left her behind she walked towards a fence i came up to check on her and realized she was hanging on the fence already dead my friend what could i do i was barely alive myself some people helped me carry her home goods and we weren't too far away from home because i. got buck and i knew when my father died of hunger and we were going to bury him the weather was extremely cold it was about minus 36 or 38 degrees we owed thanks to our neighbor who constructed the casket for him and helped us to carry my father to the cemetery and the cemetery there was a chapel next to the chapel there was a pile of dead bodies higher than the chapel itself and every time i come to that

place i still can see this pile of dead bodies in my head i still have this picture in my head. was. already after i buried my father i signed up as a nurse at the military field hospital once in january i came home from the hospital and my mother was lying on the bed hall for life but she said to me zoya i think i'm about to pass away i bought meat patties at the market and i think they're made out of human don't leave the girls alone don't marry to. young and don't cut your head off to an hour she died.

they always said the russians will win our pilots course was shot down i remember they carried him in sheets he was all around his skin was brown from bruising and we prepared a warm bath for him with medicine they load him into it and he exclaimed please save me i have to keep flying i have to keep fighting. who put your. many lives in the city were saved by the ticks of a metro. never . did that it was. a metronome ticks followed by the sirens you just heard were broadcast on 1500 speakers throughout the city a slow beat meant retreat a fast one warned that german bombers were on their way and became a symbol of resistance to the nazi air raids and resistance to attempts to starve

people to death row for national reports from the northern capital. leningrad known today as st petersburg was a main strategic targets for nazi germany and the fates they prepared for this beautiful city were still laid to waste by bohrman a tide also starred in its almost 3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was hauled just became routine when you walk down the street many remember it or rather try to forget you come across dead bodies carried on sledders all the time or dead bodies lying on the streets and at some point those the law they simply stop paying any attention to these horrific saw its appearance really do i remember the 1st time i saw a corpse on the streets wrapped in some rags at 1st it was scary but then people got used to it and just walked by i can't say the bodies were just randomly dumped in the streets eventually they took them away with the kids their childhood was

stolen by a merciless war bombs and hunger there was already too much for them and there was something maybe even more terrifying as lack of food became too dramatic children as well as many adults often became a target also enough to germany $450.00 or so to the worst thing that was the hunger it was unimaginable at the factory they gave us just 200 grams of bread as a religion it was made from strange ingredients some a drop in the cabbage others burned sugar i don't know how i survived through i think god saved my life of more. people struggled but even so couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system froze had to lock. people hungry people freezing people * became less 2 people searching for everywhere including sewerage

system. we went to get water on. it was legis it was very cold there was a severe frost the river had rose in over but there was a hole and people were queuing to get water to drink people still wonder how we didn't die drinking this water citizens during the story shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says they saw in one of many similar across the city losing mornings became a symbol of dangers faced by residential living right during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible days. still to come phrases like a where are you really from could now land you in trouble at he leaving u.k. university we're just paying students to snitch on classmates can deem to commit racists micro gresham's details after this short break

america's built of prison called the world in its to prison if the run him runs the prism and the casa building not prison a 0 because it's all based on every war of the world the still willing to accept dollars trade in dollars of clear through the new york fed and worship the us dollar wherever you go you also find a.t.m. thing countries where as the local currency and dollar fright dollar is got no matter what religion he say you are around the world the fact is you pray to the us dollar every day to war we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy you going for him day shouldn't let it be an arms race in of his on often spearing dramatic do follow coup the only most elite i'm going to lose east i don't see how that strategy who will be successful very critical of guy i am timed to sit down and talk

to me welcome back stop making everything a race issue comments like that could not get you in hot water at a top u.k. university which will pay students to snitch on people making what it calls racist microaggression sheffield university in northern england will hire 20 students as race equality champions and pay them more than $9.00 pounds an hour to report a funders other examples of unacceptable questions are why are you searching for things to be offended about and where are you really from we ask people for their reaction. sometimes like you do you don't realize that you like

maybe being mean with someone and you don't even realize and i think it's important to tell them about it people often ask. what if so if i say for example based. on. a lot of people as well for you know you're tired of yo yo yo terrorist i do get it all where you're from because i know that i have a little accent and they always say i'm so sorry and i why are you apologizing because i didn't take a i was like a bad thing i think it is an hour of ignorance really. i just know really being aware that someone might be offended by something meanwhile there's been a significant online backlash to the university's initiative. the regime of the settled university have decided to police incidents of perceived rudeness with an army of bait student my group gresham detectors for police jobs at the university of sheffield how is this not illegal what the hell have i just read the author problematize is even benign curiosity is

a micro aggression and therefore is racist this is a recipe to create a climate of distrust and a breakdown of social relations these people do not speak for me the university for its part has defended the move saying its main objectives artifice is to facilitate healthy open discussion and give students the tools to think critically about race issues the statement goes on to claim that micro gresham's have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host and columnist john got told us that whatever the intentions the program could end up doing more harm than good. need to. racism but recruiting students to do it like is if they're undercover i think it's horrible i think it's the sin and of a very very big wage and also will be very concerned about who does so it's what he is not allowed to he said is another attack on freedom of speech and universities should be cathedrals of free speech each kids eventually going to go out into the

real world if they work in a factory if they work in an office they're going to hear the news they don't like . it's about challenging that of course and i just think this is not going to prepare them for the real world and tackle racism tackle 6 isn't tackled the surgery and tackle homophobia of course and make sure you institution is inclusive but this is not the way to do it this is a already true great step this huge of some idiotic academic who's never lived in the real world themselves you need to get a life and get out of students' lives. now do some world news in brief african migrants have started fires outside greece's morea refugee camp on the south wing of a 20 year old there they are demanding to be held separately from immigrants from afghanistan after authorities arrested an afghan at the camp. plus thousands have gathered in the tulane capital for

a 3rd week of protests rallies began over at metro fare increases weeks on friday to play water cannons to disperse crowds as demonstrations turned violent. and in the philippines the towel volcano remains a life threatening authorities warn after it suddenly and spectacularly erupted more than a week ago and continues to cover running areas and of the ash debris and mud $20000.00 people have evacuated their homes and the regional rains on the highest alert. the german foreign office has apologized after in appropriately trying to tap into the viral hash tag so do some one in 4 words government institutions around the world are trying their hand at humor and the latest twitter craze for many users their efforts aren't exactly love at 1st sight.

x. x. . x. . x. x. . your b. said go it approved. if your visa application process did not make people feel less than human it might have been funny but it does so this is gloating in your discretionary power laughing at people who are subjected to it not cool and quite out of touch this is not funny playing on people's feelings is inappropriate there are thousands of people who are waiting for their visas that's simply the real face of you guys period. being funny is apparently not always our strong suit we deleted it we've been there and apologized

to all who were offended by this we know that the surprise is complex and these are decisions can deep effect people's lives our colleagues take the decision theory seriously. you shouldn't apologize the joke is actually. good now. that you deleted the tweet because apparently offended someone with no sense of humor obviously. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. the

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age when the plumbing of banking is becoming more transparent people are now aware of how actually these big banks work in central banks and it's quite fascinating actually because it's the root of all fake news comes from fake money if you want to get rid of fake this you have to get rid of fake money more on that later stacy actually you said that many times over the past few years and i did see that ron paul recently tweeted something along that lines that it was the fake money from the fed that is creating fake news and fake asset prices and things like that but in terms of what's happening right now one thing that you and i always talk about report since we began over 10 years ago now is we talk about gold we talk about bitcoin and a lot of people say oh you can't eat bitcoin and you can't eat gold in and there's an argument against it but here we're going to look at some headlines guarding the individual economic sovereignty that is granted to you if you.