that. was an. interim antic scenes the french president is rushed out of a parish fears and hail of boos furious protesters chanting chants mccrum the crowd resigned trying to confront him. russian computer program arrested in greece at washington's request pleas for help claiming he's been tortured and denied his basic rights. to go on rejects accusations washington routinely lied about america's longest war made by the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. and russian mark 77

years since the end of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 his most appalling humanitarian disasters. a very warm welcome you're watching altie international with me the key aaron. first to paris where hundreds have gathered for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans in some parts of the french campus all clashes erupted between police and demonstrators. the is. the is. a strike by public transport workers as board chaos to the french capital for almost 2 months now that's despite the government's promise to compromise the green to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its with all its french parliament is due to debate the pension bill next month. president

emanuel mccrone is under huge pressure over the controversial reform on friday night he was booed as he left the paris there with people chanting mccrum resigned from demonstrators against mccraw pension reforms compost police into the hole to deliver that angry message. it was. the was . protesters followed the crimes motorcade as it tried to speed away the president was reportedly with his wife. caught escorted by police motorbikes journalist and political activist both of us noticed mccraw in the theater and filmed him saying that they may be eventful after that he was arrested for being possibly a group formed with the purpose of committing acts of violence is unrest has

sparked outrage meanwhile more than 100 protesters in the french capital blocks the entrance to the iconic new 0 people have joined unions calls to demolish the complete withdrawal of micron's proposals but there are mixed public feelings about the protests. the filmmaker to whom 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 each exhibit but it's not a big deal because if they do not strike there won't really be a liver as we know it so i don't mind the strike i'm actually happy i supported the . cops. show if someone would lend manta i'm ready to break through the picket line because the situation is unacceptable i don't care about their pension issues the stories they are uniting and supporting each other reinforcing each other so that's why i'm here really is 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 he comes from far away that's shameful. we understand the anger of the business is what this should be direct. that 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 were very surprised to see the government maintains 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 there's been nothing but all this stuff to washington's only watch top afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routinely lies over progress in america's longest war.

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 gap in distancing of the front and the stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources. internally the pentagon

knew that the situation was bleak however that is not what was told to. u.s. public bring 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 she cure 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 kaleb mop on r.t. new york analysts told us the watchdogs revelations come as no surprise. we've been told so many times but i. don't see that we earned them or their everything is going to get better and can't stand that we've actually done in a circle. that explains why. people are. informal it's a sure the responsible who work. for progressives in or in a stand 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 80 years we have killed over 150000 afghans. more you know various militia groups in the 3 little. already are

afghan civilians who only want peace here and there for something they really are and so what the inspector general is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secret or leaked those 40 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 is that how repeating the tired old lies that he's about to win it in a day which are not unique to this war that 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 program i rested on washington's request scenes are resorting to torture in an effort to

break him alexander vinick is being held in greece on u.s. cyber crime and money laundering charges he's 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 from my knowledge they want my head on the block just because of what i know and my technological abilities the case of alexander v make 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 his 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 on xander 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

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 wanted by france which claims vinick carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell russia wants to question him as well athens has already approved his extradition to all of 3 countries however russia's acting foreign minister has criticized procedure is warning that greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow and another lawyer for victim a famous deval. told us why he should be extradited to russia. yes. greece has not only decided to extradite alexander simultaneously to 3 countries but has also specify 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 in ending a year later the vast majority of victims in the city died not from boming but from hunger and hypothermia while leningrad may have changed its name to some pages but the horrific memories still randy. it was was. yes that's what 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 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 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 buck 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.

right 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 to you. and don't cut your hair short after an hour she died. very well they always said the russians will win our pilot course was shot down i remember they carried him in sheet 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. group or during the war many lives in the city was saved by the simple ticks of the metrodome. did you. did. a metronome followed by sirens were broadcast on 1500 speakers through around leningrad a slow beats mentor traits while a false one warns german bombers one way became a symbol of resistance to the nazi air raids and 2 attempts to starve people to death or if an ocean reports from the northern tapazole. leningrad known today as 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 hollow just became routine when you walk down the street many remembered 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 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 streets eventually they took them away. he needs 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 for enough to german poor 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. people struggled but even less so it couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system froze and collaged of all people hungry people freezing people they now became 1st 2 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 jury shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says this on 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 whether a person has also been taking part in commemoration immense his lifestyle was a bit long walks down monument at the nevski memorial site it was the scene of fierce fighting during world war 2 as beneath the russian president's father was also enjoyed that. questions like why are you really from god now and you're in trouble or do you care university which is paying students to snitch on classmates deemed to commit racist waikoloa gresham's this story and small after the break.

you know world big. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that made street refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. in. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with.

thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back stop making everything a race issue comments like bats could now gets you in hot more than you can university which will pay students to snitch on people making what it calls racist m one club aggressions sheffield university in northern england will hire 20 students as race equality champions and pay them more than $9.00 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 well as

people for their reaction to the news. 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. what if i'm so if i say for example based. on. a lot of people stopping you know your talent your know your terrorists by a lot i do get a slight oh where you from because i know that i have a little accent and there was i am 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 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 gresham detractors thought 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 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 in a vast acclaimed as main objectives are to facilitate healthy open discussion and give students the tools to think critically about race issues is theys micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host don columnist jungleland there was a 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 under cover art includes horrible i think it's the sin and 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 conceded rules 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 track or 6 isn't track or miss or gee 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 true great step this should use some idiotic academic who's never lived in the real world themselves you need to get a life and get out of students' lives. yes i think the news in brief from around the world now hundreds of tractors have packed on to the streets of berlin farmers along with the eco activists are protesting against the agricultural policies of both germany and the new demonstrators accuse the german government of prioritizing large scale farming at the expense of climate friendly organic methods attractively

descended on berlin from a number of regions throughout the country. african migrants have started fires outside greece's loria refugee camp following the stabbing of a 20 year old bear led to manning to be held separately from emigrants from afghanistan after parties arrested an afghan at the camp over the killing. thousands of fatima to lay in campus all for a 13th week of protest rallies began as a metro fact increases police on friday to poured water cannon to disperse crowds after demonstrations tons islands. in the philippines say he told volcano remains a life threatening and it's afterward sudden and spectacular eruption more than a week ago even now is continuing to cover surrounding areas in ankle deep ash dave barry and moat around 20000 people have evacuated their homes.

but the german foreign office has apologized after an appropriately trying to tap into the viral hashtags to do so more in 4 words government institutions around the world are trying backhanded humor in the latest twitter craze but for many years those efforts aren't exactly love at 1st sight. x. x. . x. . x. x. . he already 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 this 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 decisions very seriously. you shouldn't apologize the joke is actually. good now i am offended that you deleted that tweet because apparently offended someone with no sense of humor obviously. get in touch and let us know what you think about that by following us also show

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