when i get out. this in hopefully bless. i. i think seize the french president. from. washington routinely lied about america's longest war made by the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. machine computer program arrested in greece at washington's request pleas for help claiming he's been tortured and denied his basic rights. of the siege of leningrad one of the most of all humanitarian.

other thanks for joining us this is. in paris hundreds have gathered for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans in some parts of the capital clashes erupted between police and demonstrators. it was. a strike by public transport workers payoffs to the french capital for almost 2 months now that despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of the reforms france parliament stuti debate the pension bill next month the. president among about runs under huge pressure over the controversial reform on friday night he was booed to see left

a power theater if people they're chanting back from reside some demonstrators against macros pension reform school passed police into the hole to deliver that angry message was it was. was i guess. it was a protest this followed micron's motorcade as it tried to speed away the president was reportedly with his wife brigade to rent a car out of school to buy police motorbikes. journalist and political activist or film who was just in front of him in the theater with the rest of the doing so his arrest respond outrage $100.00 protesters in the french capital blocked the entrance to the iconic louvre museum people have joined union calls to demand the complete withdrawal of proposals but there are mixed feelings about the protests.

going to come on that front i could 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 eventually exhibit but it's not a big deal because if they do not strike there want to really be a lot for as we know it so i don't mind the strike i'm actually happy i supported them. if someone would lend me a hand i'm ready to break through the picket line because this situation is unacceptable i don't care about their pension issues. they are 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 what. the anger of the

business is about this anger should be directed at the government who wants to force its pension reform project through we are 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 we're very surprised to see the government maintaining its position is of extremism that is unacceptable for a democrat like me who voted for manual macro in the 2nd round of the presidential election against. the pentagon insists it's been nothing but honest after washington's own watchdog for afghan reconstruct. and accuse the military leadership of routine lies progress in america's longest war. and ripples . 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 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 there is a fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. in the military and the lack of funds. the resources. 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 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 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. told us the watchdogs revelations come as no surprise. we've been

told so many times by by american generals that we now earn the order where everything is going to get better and stand that we've actually done in a circle and so on their merit explains a lot of people who are. informal and say sure oh responsible who work. for progressives center and stare they don't want to jeopardize their careers are saying. it's not going well and we're not in progress i think it is definitely time for the united states to remove its troops we've been there 18 years we have killed over 150000 afghans some of whom are colophon some of whom are you know various militia groups the great majority are afghan civilians who only want peace here and there for free something they really haven't cared and so while the inspector general is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secret

or 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 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 nobody has any idea what it would be a victory is to continue losing for another year. rushing programa rested on washington's request ones who authorities are resorting to torture in an effort to bring can always on the vinnick is being held in greece on u.s. soil but on the money laundering charges is now written a plea for help. they're trying to use torture and psychological pressure to break me they do also managed to breathe fresh air the last time they let me out through

. 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 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 in 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. infant was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of laundering billions of dollars through a digital currency exchange which also want to buy front claims when it carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell and russia wants to question him as well as

already approved sex addition to all 3 countries however russia's foreign ministers criticize procedures warning greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by both script another law of a victim famous sort of told us why he should be extradited to russia. we are supposed to 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 just sent him to france where he's going to be rejected and then sent him to the usa. is 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 joint inquiry commissions for conducting an investigation in any field. 77 years ago today the red army broke the nazi siege of leningrad with the blockade ended a year later the vast majority of victims in the city died not from bombing but from hunger and. may have changed to st petersburg the horrific memories still run

. was. yes. me and my friend went to a store with food stash. there was a huge field and suddenly we saw a 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 and 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 or work was. 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. 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 too young and

don't cut your hair short after an hour she died while i'm out here. 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 lowered him into it and he exclaimed please save me i have to keep flying i have to keep fighting. but even putin has also been taking part in commemoration events he laid flowers at the landmarks monument at the chalk memorial site the scene of fierce fighting in world war 2 it's believed the russian president's father was also injured. during the war but

he lives in the city was saved by the simple techniques of a metronome. did . followed by sirens was broadcast on $1500.00 speakers throughout leningrad the slow be that meant to retreat a fast warm warm german bombers were on their way became a symbol of resistance to the nazi raids and 2 attempts to starve the people to death with an option 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 it and also starving its almost

3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was how just became routine when you walk down the street many remember it or rather try to forget you come across dead bodies carried on sledges all the time or dead bodies lying on the streets and at some point there was a law and they simply stopped paying any attention to these horrific sights the appearance read 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 street eventually they took them away. from kids their childhood was stolen by merciless war bombs 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 burned sugar i don't know how i survived and i think god saved my life more. people saw gold but even less so couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system froze and collaged people hungry people freezing people they now * became this new people searching for war to 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 and people still wonder how we

didn't die drinking this water the citizens during jury 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 thing jurors faced by residential letting go during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible day. questions like where every relief from could learn if you are in trouble or you came to university which is paying students to snitch on classmates team to commit racist microaggression studios after the break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we dare to ask. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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.

welcome back stop making everything of race issue comments such as that could now get when hot water actually u.k. university which will pay students to snitch on people making what he calls racist micro aggressions schaeffer university 'd know the new england 20 students is race equality champions and will pay the more than $9.00 pounds an hour to investigate offenders other examples of unacceptable questions why are you searching for things to be offended about and where are you really from we asked people for their reaction. sometimes like you do you don't realize that you're like maybe being mean with some women and you don't even realize and i think it's important to tell you about it people often ask. what if i'm so if i say for example. that mark on. a lot of people stopping you know your talent your dog or

terrorist bug a lot i do you get asked like oh where you're 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 i was 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 how they. were that there's been a significant online backlash to the university's initiative. the regime of the shuffled university have decided to police incidents of perceived rudeness with an army of made student my group gresham to talk to for police jobs at the university of sheffield how is this not illegal what the hell have i just read the also 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. the university claims its main objectives are to facilitate healthy open discussion and give

students the tools to think critically about racial issues says micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host and columnist john galt life feels the program could end up doing more harm than good. we need to obviously condemn racism but recruiting students to do it like as if they're undercover are think it's horrible i think it's the thin end of a very very big wedge and also will be very concerned about who decides what is not allowed to be said is another attack on freedom of speech and universities should be cathedrals of free speech these kids eventually are 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 sexism 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 or 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. german foreign office has apologized after an appropriately trying to tap into the viral hashtags the juice someone in 4 words government institutions around the world are trying to hand here in the latest twitter craze but for many it is their efforts on exactly love at 1st sight. x. x. . x. x. . he always said god 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 we've been there and apologized to all who were offended by this we know the surprise is complex and these are decisions can deep effect people's lives our colleagues take the decisions very seriously. you shouldn't apologize the

joke is actually. good now i am offended that you deleted the tweet because apparently offended someone with no sense of humor obviously. up about with a place where you would help out see the. good food descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose the pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than what's necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be the best people belief we have animals that have you know diabetes in

arthritis they have auto immune disorders they've got allergies we are actually creating these problems and it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets last treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. right ok consternation very small. worth. so have a seat at these 2 our cars the green and the blue and then we'll do a quick sound check with them so you know where these headphones but they're just small here the size of its target so make sure that one is going to make sure that your hair is ok and open tomorrow. it's. all right and you hear

in there. you know minute change of all you. can't hear anything in there so she can't she can't yes good. knew he. there may well be way i mean when you're. so new ish asking lives in kansas city her granddaughter leah is a seattle based filmmaker and she's making a documentary about her grandmother's past and more recent past hello sonja you know oh are you good i'm curious how do you think those experiences of your use those experiences that are so hard to imagine for most of us how how they shaped this woman that you are 7 decades later. well. never. and it's really a story to tell you how i made. it so that was a minute at the. house.

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