in dramatic scenes the french president is rushed out of a paris theater under a hail of boos as various protesters chanting knock on resign try to confront him. a russian computer program not arrested in greece had washington's requests pleas for help claiming he's been tortured and did not write his basic rights. the pentagon rejects nike's ations washington routinely lied about america's longest war made by the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. and russia marks 77

years since the end of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 is most of all a humanitarian disaster. a very well welcome you're watching aussie international with me nicky aaron. but 1st we go to paris where hundreds have 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. a strike by public transport workers as board chaos to the french capital almost 2 months now despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its reforms the french parliament is due to debate the pension bill next month. while president of money mccrone is under huge

pressure over the controversial reform on friday night he was booed as he left a paris theater with people chanting mark long resigned from demonstrators against mccraw pension reforms got past police into the hole to deliver their angry message . was. was. was. part of this followed mccracken's motorcade as it tried to speed away the president was reportedly with his wife regime it in a regular car escorted by police most of mike's journalist and political activist who havs noticed mccrone in the theater and filmed him saying that the evening may be eventful after that he was arrested for being part of a group formed with the purpose of committing acts of violence his arrest has

sparked outrage meanwhile more than $100.00 protesters in the french capital blocked the entrance to the iconic museum people have joined union calls to demand the complete withdrawal of micron's proposals but there are mixed public feelings about the protests. and 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 leonarda . 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. if someone would learn man to i'm ready to break through the picket lines because the 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

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. the anger of the roots is what these things should be done. 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 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 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 all their stuff to washington's own watchdog for afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies ever progress in america's longest war. 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 through 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. 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 answer it seems like top voices in washington still don't have an exit strategy. r.t. new york analyst told us the will come as no surprise. we've been told so many times when i buy american journals that we've now burned them or they're everything is going to get better and or 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 we know responsible who work. for progressives there are errors there they don't want to jeopardize their career our theory is 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 men great majority are afghan civilians who only want peace here and there for free something they really here for so long 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 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 that 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 a rested on washington's request ones with origins all resorting to torture in an

effort to break came and examined a vinick is being held in greece the 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 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 it was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of laundering billions of dollars through a digital current. the egg strange is also wanted by france which claims of it carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell russia also wants to question him. already approved his extradition to all 3 countries however russia's acting foreign minister has criticised procedures when the greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow and another lawyer for vinnick to move they 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 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 nazis the age of leningrad with the blockade and in and the ending a year later the vast majority of victims in the city died not from bombing but from hunger and hypothermia while leningrad may have changed its name to some petersburg the horrific memories still run deep. 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 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 a few cars were. tied up bucket 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. 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. they always said the russians will win our pilot course was shot down i remember they carried him in sheets he 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 with you during the

war many lives in the city was saved by the simple takes off a metronome. through . the metronome followed by sirens were broadcast on 1500 speeches throughout leningrad as slow beats meant to retreat while a fast one want to german bombers were on their way it became a symbol of resistance to the nazi air raids and 2 attempts to starve people to death row if a 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 8 and also starred in its almost

3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was hollow dest 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 a lawyer they simply stop paying any attention to these horrific saw its appearance read to 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. from kids their childhood was stolen by a merciless war bonds and hunger there was already too much for them but there was something maybe even more terrifying as lack of food became too dramatic children

as well as many adults often became a target 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 burnt sugar there i don't know how i survived and i think god saved my life of more. people struggled but even that's all couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system froze and collaged people hungry people freezing people they now became the 1st 2 people searching for war to everywhere including sewerage system. and we went to get water on. food is ledges 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 tillery 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 the dangers faced by residents of let it grow during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible days that a person has also been taking part in commemoration events he laid flowers at the landmark stone monument at the nevski pass a chop memorial site it was the scene of fierce fighting during world war 2 as beneath the russian president's father was also injured. now questions like where are you really from could now land you in trouble as a u.k. university which is paying students to snitch on klaus made steam to commit racist microaggression this story as well coming up after the break.

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election cycle one self every week will sticks student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on. welcome back stop making everything a race issue comments like fact could now line get you in hot water at a u.k. university which will pay students to snitch on people making what it calls racist micro 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 people for their

reaction to the move sometimes like you do you don't realise that you're like maybe being mean with some women and you don't even realise 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 a grocer it was a mark on. a lot of people stopping you know your talent your know your terrorist problem lot i do get i was like oh where you're from because i know that i have a little accent and there was a are so sorry and i why are you apologizing because i didn't take a i was like a bad thing i think is an air of ignorance really. 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 shuttled 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 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. well the university claims its main objectives are to facilitate healthy open discussion and give students the tools to think critically about race issues it says micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host down columnist john goal and fills 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 sin and of a very very big wedge and also will be very concerned about who does so each 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 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 track ormus or g. and tackle homophobia of course and make sure your institution is inclusive but this is not the way to do it this is a orator 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. take a look at some news imbrie from around the world now hundreds of tractors are packed on to the streets of berlin farmers along with a car and service some protesting against the agricultural policies of both germany and the u. the demonstrators accuse the german government of prioritizing large scale farming

at the expense of climate friendly organic methods but tractor fleet descended on berlin from a number of regions throughout the country. african migrants have started fires outside greece's morea refugee camp following the stabbing of a 20 year old they're demanding to be held separately from immigrants from afghanistan after authorities arrested an afghan at the camp over the killing. thousands have gathered in the to lay in capital for 134 week of protests rallies began over metro fare increases police on friday deployed water cannon to disperse crowds after demonstrations turn. forty's in the philippines say the tolls volcano remains life threatening as laughter and sudden and spectacular eruption more than a week ago even now is continuing to cover surrounding areas in ankle deep ash and mud around 20000 people have been evacuated from their homes. and 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 in the latest twitter craze but for many users their efforts aren't exactly love at 1st sight. x. x. . x. x. . x. x. . he or she 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 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 taken a decision is very seriously. you shouldn't apologize the joke is actually. good now i am i think that you deleted the tweet because apparently offended someone with no sense of humor obviously. thanks for joining us here on r.t.

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