the pentagon rejects. keenly lied about america's longest war blades the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. a russian computer program arrested in greece of washington's request pleas for help claiming she's been. refused the most basic rights. in dramatic scenes the french president is rushed out of power states are under a hail of boos this furious protesters chanting bank resign trying to confront. russia 77 years since the breaking of the siege of leningrad one of the most

appalling humanitarian disasters. joining us this is r.t. internet. the pentagon insists that it. to washington's own watchdog for afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine law of the progress of america's longest war. and has details 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 for. really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost

require or for people to la there's 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 full goose newsham that would ruin the taking the 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 to 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 tonight. the 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. got it 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. r.t. new york. exposed to lucy watchdog's revelations come as no surprise we've been told so many times by now i am here on set with meryl byrne that we're there everything is going to get better and you can't stand that we've actually done in a circle. and explains

a lot of people who are. in the form of the stage here we know responsible who work. for progressives in their areas they're they don't want to jeopardize their career for 3 years it's not one will and 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 but the main 3 majority are afghan civilians who only want peace here and there for great something they really here. the inspector general is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secret were leaked those were the leaked after year after year after year of these same nonsense being repeated so it's possible for these things to build and steamrolled but 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 may come with every war every occupation and there's not even been a requirement that a victory be defiant nobody has any idea what it would be a victory is to continue losing for another year. a russian program or a rested on washington's request forms authorities are resorting to torture in an effort to break alexander vinick is being held in greece on u.s. cybercrime the money laundering challenges he's now written a plea for help they're trying to use torture and psychological pressure to bring. 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 in greece 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 he has 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 didn't 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 9 the right to see her son. when it was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of laundering billions of dollars through a digital currency exchange is also want to buy fronts which claims. when it carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell russia wants to question him as well athens as already approved his extradition to all 3 of those countries however russia's acting foreign minister has criticized procedures one in greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow another lawyer for the nic to start off told us why he should be extradited to russia. yes of but

elated over the cheer 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 in any field. ok this is the scene right now in paris where hundreds of people have gathered for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans in some parts of the french capital clashes have erupted between police and on the street. i was. a strike by public transport workers brought calles to the french capital for almost 2 months now despite the government's promise to compromise and bring to

drop some of the most controversial aspects of its reforms. french parliament is due to debate the pension bill next month. and on friday night the french president was rushed out of a paris theater amid a hail of boos furious protesters chanting bankroll resign tried to confront him some demonstrators got past the police and entered the hall to deliver the angry message. was. i was i. i i. i purchased followed michael's motorcades it had speed away the president was reportedly with his wife but he gets in a black car in the middle of the group of vehicles journalists and political activists who have managed to film in the theater audience just in front of him who

was reportedly arrested for doing so his arrest the spot outrage. under protest as in the french capital but the entrance to the iconic louvre museum people of joy and union calls to demand a complete withdrawal of my funds proposals that there are mixed public feelings about. the talk among the filmmaker to you i'm happy that they're defending culture i left at 7 in the morning from additional on where i'm from to see the an artist even checks a patient but it's not a big deal because if they do not strike their want to really be alone for as we know it so i don't mind the strike i'm actually happy i support them. if someone would lend manta i'm ready to break through the picket line because this situation is unacceptable i don't care about their pension issues restoring these their uniting and supporting each other reinforcing each other so that's why i'm

here please also call 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 visitors but 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 where you look at the support of the population of the strikers were very surprised to see the government maintains its position is of extremism that is unacceptable for democrats like me who voted for manual macro in the 2nd round of the presidential election against. exactly 77 years ago the where the army broke the nazi siege of leningrad for the

blockade being fully lifted a year later the vast majority of victims in the city died not from bombing but for . hunger and hypothermia on the grounds they may have changed thing petersburg but the horrific memories still run. was was. just was very it was over me and my friend went to a store with food stamps there was a huge field and suddenly we saw a plane it dropped a bomb we were told 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 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 a good thing we weren't too far away from home because we're. tied

up with her and you know 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 in 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 too young and don't cut your hair short after an hour she died. at the. shoe they're going out they always said the russians will win our pilot course was shot down i remember they carried him in sheets she was all brown his skin was brown from bruising and we prepared a warm bath for him with medicine they know it him into it and he exclaimed please save me i have to keep flying i have to keep fighting. but york during the series for many lives in the city were saved by the simple text of

a metronome. did you very. much know followed by sirens were broadcast on 1500 speakers cross leningrad slowly beats them and retreat. german bombers were on the way and became a symbol of resistance to the nazi a right and resistance to terms to stall people to death for national reports from the northern capital. leningrad knowing today's st petersburg was a main strategic targets for nazi germany and the fates they prepared for this beautiful city was still laid to waste by bohrman 8 and also starred in its almost 3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was how death became routine

when you walk down the street and then you 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 a law they simply stopped paying any attention to these horrific sights the appearance review and i remember the 1st time i saw a corpse on the street wrapped in some rags at 1st it was scary but then people got used to it and just walked by i can see the bodies were just randomly dumped in the streets eventually they took them away for the. kids their childhood was stolen by a merciless war gongs and hunger there was already too much for them there was something maybe even more terrifying as lack of food became too dramatic children as well as many adults often became a target not for enough to germany for hungry people so. the worst thing

was the hunger it was unimaginable at the factory they gave us just 200 grams of bread it was made from strange ingredients some a drop in the cabbage others burnt sugar i don't know how i survived i think god saved my life. people saw gold but even that's all good and very good anymore the water supply system froze and killed lots of people hungry people freezing people they now became thirsty people searching for walked everywhere including sewerage system. we went to get water on food with sledges it was very cold there was a severe frost the river had frozen 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 to citizens during delivery shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says this sign one of many similar across the city

these warnings became a symbol of things are faced by residents during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible day. was also taking part in commemoration events he laid flowers at the london march monument at the nevski path of the moral side it was a scene of fierce fighting for the liberation of learning brotherhood surroundings it's believed the russian president's father was also injured. phrases such as were you really from could not land you in trouble other leading u.k. university which is paying students to snitch on classmates deemed to commit racist microaggression details after the break.

america's built a prison called the world the president runs the prison and the cost of building that prison is 0 because it's all based on everyone in the world is still willing to accept dollars trade in dollars clear through the new york fed and worship the u.s. dollar wherever you go you'll find a.t.m.'s in countries where the local currency and dollar dollar is god no matter what religion you say you are around the world the fact is you pray to the u.s. dollar every day. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and

talk. stop making everything a race issue comments like that could now get you in hot water to a university which we're paying students to snitch on people who make what it calls racist micro aggressions sheffield university in northern england will hire 20 students as a race equality champions paying them 9 pounds an hour to report offenders that are examples of unacceptable questions 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're like maybe being mean with

someone and you don't even realize and i think it's important. to tell you about it people often ask. where they're from so if i say for example they say i'm aggressive mark on. a lot of people stopping you know your talent your dog or terrorist bug a lot i do get away you from because i know that i have a little accent and there was a oh i'm so sorry and i why are you apologizing because i don't take a as like a bad thing i think it is an air of ignorance really. i just not really being aware that someone might be offended by something. however 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 made student microaggression 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 microaggression 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. university claims that its main objectives are to facilitate healthy open discussion and give students the tools to think critically about race issues as micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host and columnist john gaunt feels the program could end of doing more harm than good. we need to obviously condemn racism but would crew cheating students to do it like it is if they're undercover i think it's horrible i think it's the sin end of them very very big wage and also not be very concerned about who does sorry it's what he's not allowed to he said it's another attack on freedom of speech and universities should be cathedrals or free speech these kids eventually going to go out into the real world

if they work in a factory if they were killed off if 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 full of the real world and tackle racism tackle six's tackle massaging and tackle homophobia of course and make sure your institution is inclusive but this is not the way to do it this is a retrograde step this is just some idiotic academic who's never lived in the real world themselves you need to get a life and get out of students' lives. take a look at some brief around the world now starting with hundreds of tractors packing into the streets of berlin farmers of the eco activists are protesting against the agricultural policies of germany and the demonstrators accuse the german government of prioritizing large scale farming at the expense of climate friendly organic methods actually descended on berlin from a number of regions across the pond. the. african migrants are starting fires

outside greece's morea refugee camp that follows the stabbing of a 20 year old and run to be held separately from illegal immigrants from. afghanistan after authorities arrested an afghan at the camp over the killing. thousands gathered in the battle for a 13th week a protest rally started over metro p.c.s. some friday to put water cannon to disperse crowds following demonstrations turning violent. forces in the philippines say that he told volcano remains life threatening after its sudden and spectacular eruption more than a week ago even now is continuing to cover surrounding areas in ankle deep ash and mud to around 20000 people have evacuated. the german foreign office has apologized after in a properly trying to tap into the viral hash tag c g someone in 4 words government

institutions around the world are trying their hand at humor in the latest twitter trace but for many uses their efforts aren't exactly love at 1st sight. x. x. . x. . x. x. . he always said court 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 this 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 it's very seriously . you shouldn't apologize the joke is actually good good now i am offended that you deleted the tweet because apparently offended someone with no sense of humor obviously. with updates on the top stories and headlines in 30 minutes see that.

you are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi else asked i'm aware of it. and leverage it all you like. and you can never forget maybe you can know auschwitz was really like to be inhaled because he would never believe it was a human again due to as an operating cost for 30 years of both and he could perfect it all seems so logical for i decided to make it right when i get out on loan the farm saw you don't want to take my songs word makes the also you can listen in the hope for the bless are heard screams. of. wisdom is the application of practical knowledge in

a rope or your ways in novel called but if you learn a particular scenario being a class could be a variance and you encounter that exact same scenario knowing what to do is just memory that's not wisdom that's not learning it's just memorizing some wisdom comes when you are facing a brain new context and you can draw upon tools in florida other contexts systematically to know what to do. with the. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know interestingly enough we live in an age when the plumbing of banking is becoming more transparent people.