when i get out. this in hopefully bless. i. president. resign and try to confront. rejects accusations washington routinely lies about america's longest war the top u.s. official afghanistan's reconstruction. computer program. washington's request please for. 77 years since the end of the siege of leningrad.

in paris hundreds of gathered for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans in some parts of the french capital clashes erupted between police and demonstrators. i was i a strike by public transport workers has brought chaos city french capital for almost 2 months now despite the government's promised to compromise going to drop some of the most controversial aspects of his reforms the french parliament is due to debate the pension bill next month. prison under huge pressure over the

controversial reform and on friday night he was booed as he left a paris there too with people they're chanting macro resign some demonstrators against bankrolls pension reforms got passed police into the hall and delivered their angry message. was. it was. us i i. i. i protest is full of veterans motorcades it's hard to speak the way the president's was reportedly with his wife but he did in a rental car school to buy police motorbikes. journalist and political activist who half noticed matter in the theater and film tim saying that the evening may be eventful and after that he was arrested the quote being part of a group formed with the purpose of committing acts of violence is the rest of the

sponsor outrage. 100 protesters in the french capital block the entrance to the iconic louvre museum people have joined union calls to demand the complete withdrawal of micron's proposals but still there are mixed public feelings about the protests. caught on camera 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 eventually exhibit but it's not a big deal because if they do not strike there won't 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're 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 he 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 reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies over progress in america's longest war on the

scale of more pain reports. 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 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 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 why is 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. the watchdogs revelations come as no surprise. we've been told so many times by by american generals that we've earned the order where everything is going to get better and or stand that we've actually done in a circle and so on there are explains a lot of people who are. informal and say sure oh responsible we're. for progress center and stare they don't want to jeopardize their career. 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 so 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 in their current 3 something they really haven't cared and so while the inspector general is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secrets 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 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. the russian program in a restroom washington's request warns the authorities are resorting to sure enough of the broken links on the vinnick he's being held in greece and us so my book

crime and money laundering charges 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 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 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 laundering billions of dollars through a digital. currency exchange is also ordered by france which claims when it carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell russia wants to question him well. over the approve his extradition to all 3 of those countries however russia's acting foreign minister has criticized pussy just warning that greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow and the lawyer for vinnick timofeyevna sort of told us why he should be extradited to russia. 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 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 i prefer via while leningrad may have changed his name to st petersburg the horrific memories still run deep. there are. just as when it was 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 taught that if we see a bomb flying towards us you have to run in the direction of the bomb because that way it will 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

a good thing we weren't too far away from home how quick. buck 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. 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 half her 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. it will all. go away that 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. for their putin has also been taking part in commemoration events he laid flowers of the landmarks stone

monument at the nevski pier the chaka memorial site that was the scene of fierce fighting during world war 2 it's believed the russian president's father was also injured. during the war many lives in the city were saved by the simple ticks of a metronome. did . the metronome followed by sirens was broadcast on 1500 speakers across the graph a slow big retreat while a fast wall more german bombers were on the way became a symbol of resistance to the nazi raids and 2 attempts to starve people to the roof and more 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 hollow just 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 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. 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. their childhood was

stolen by 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 and it was made from strange ingredients some a drop in cabbage others ate burnt sugar i don't know how i survived and i think god saved my life. people saw gold but even that's it couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system for all these medical ops people hungry people freezing people they now * became thirst sick 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 people still wonder how we didn't die drinking this water the citizens during the tillery shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says this side one of many similar across the city these warnings became a symbol of dangers faced by residents of letting go during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible days. for things like where you really from learn to you in trouble that one you can university that's paying students to snitch on classmates deemed to commit racist microaggression will bring it a story of more after the break. in

the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one self big every week wealth tax student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on r.t. . what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go right to be close to what the 3 of them or people. interested in the why.

they should. stop making everything a race issue comments such as that could now get you in hot water at a u.k. university which will pay students to snitch on people making what he calls racist micro aggressions sheffield university in northern england 20 students as race equality champions and pay them more than 9 pounds an hour to investigate offenders other examples of unacceptable questions are why are you searching for things to be offended about and where are you really from we asked people for their reaction. sometimes a you do you don't realize that your leg 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 am so if i say for example base your mark on. a lot of people stop you know your talent your dog your terrorist bob a lot i do get where you're from because i know that i have a little accent and there was a oh i'm so sorry and i know why 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 subway 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 bait student my group russian detractors 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 micro aggression and therefore as 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 race issues he says micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups the talk radio host and columnist john gaunt feels the program could end up doing more harm than good. we need to obviously condemn racism but recruiting students to do it like it is if they're undercover are think it's horrible i think it's the sin end of them 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 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 already too great 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. ok the focus on will be in brief now hundreds of tractors are packed the streets of berlin farmers along with eco activists are protesting against the agricultural policies of germany and the demonstrators accuse the german government of ties in large scale farming at the expense of climate friendly organic methods trying to flee descended on berlin from a number of regions across the country. african migrants are started fires house side greece's morea refugee camp that follows the stabbing of a 20 year old they're demanding to be held separately from immigrants from

afghanistan for authorities arrested an afghan at the camp over the killing. thousands of gathered in the capital for a 13th week of protests rallies began over metro fare increases police on friday deployed water cannon to disperse the crowds after demonstrations turned violent. and the forces in the philippines said that the to. the volcano remains a 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 debris and mud 20000 people have evacuated. finally this hour the german foreign office has apologized after an appropriately trying to tap into the viral hash tag c do some one in 4 words government institutions around the world are trying their hand at humor in the latest twitter craze but for many users their efforts are exactly love at 1st sight.

x. x. . x. . x. x. . your every 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 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 deeply affect people's lives our colleagues take the decision theory 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. appreciate you coming here a large international stay with us but with updates on our top stories and offered up by.

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soldiers during the troubles we talked to the do you ps ian paisley jr and shin feigns fronting malloy about putting irish before english told us more coming up in today's going on the ground a 1st you gave labor leader jeremy corben defended his election manifesto against boris johnson the prime minister's questions on wednesday almost seeming unaware it is being rejected by the british people but while his party in fights over its pro israel leadership candidates the subject of democracy itself was raised by this scottish m.p. the prime minister said in the letter to the 1st minister of scotland. the. right of the people of scotland to have a choice over their own future mr speaker this was not a surprise the prime minister not as a democracy prime minister boris johnson denied that allegation before later being asked about defacto democracy in syria a country johnson voted to bomb my constituent resigned i came to the.