in dramatic scenes the french president is rushed out of paris under a hail of boos as furious protesters chanting not resign try to confront him. a russian computer programmer arrested in greece at washington's request pleas for help claiming he's been tortured and denied his basic rights. and russian marxist 77 years since the end of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 was most appalling humanitarian disasters.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me if you aaron. we saw it in paris where hundreds of gathered for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans and some parts of the french capital clashes erupted between police and demonstrators. the is. a strike by public transport workers has brought chaos to the french capital for 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. the presence of money mccrone is under huge pressure over the controversial reform on friday night he was booed as he left the

paris there's a with people chanting look wrong resign from demonstrators against micron's pension reforms got past police into the hole to deliver their angry message. the was. the was. the was. just as for level clowns motorcade as it tried to speed away the president was reportedly with his wife proceed to call escorted by police motorbikes journalist and political activist bo haas notice 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 or sparks outrage meanwhile more than 100 protesters in the french capital blocked the

entrance to the iconic new museum people have joined union calls to demand the complete withdrawal of mccracken's pot proposals but there were 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 additional on where i'm from to see the an artist of intrigue submission 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 the. cops. show if someone would lend me 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 really is also we are against it they should not be here. and the anger of the business is what this anger should be directed at the government who wants to fields its pension reform projects 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 when 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 my new micro in the 2nd round of the presidential election against. a russian programmer arrested on washington's request all the authorities are resorting to torture in an effort to break him and xander 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 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 eggs change he's also wanted by france which came when it carried out fiber forward from his prison cell russia also wants to question him as well well athens has already approved his extradition to all 3 countries however

russia is the acting foreign minister has criticised procedures warning that greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by mosco and another lawyer for the nic to a famous are tough 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 ending a year later the vast majority of victims in the city died not from bowling but from hunger and hypothermia while leningrad may have changed its name to some pages but the horrific memories still run deep. 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 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 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 you couple it i. got fuck around 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. it 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 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 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. group i took or during the war many lives in the city were saved by the simple takes of a metronome. did .

a metronome followed by foreigners were broadcast on 1500 speakers throughout leningrad a slow beat meant retreat while a foster one warned german bombers were on their way and became a symbol of resistance to the nazi air raids and to attempts to starve people to death or 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 was 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 many remember it or rather try to forget you come across dead but is carried on sledges 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 reason 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 not for enough to germany for hungry people so the. the worst thing was the hunger it was unimaginable at the factory they gave us just 200 grams of bread to the world and it was made from strange ingredients some a drop in the cabbage others burnt sugar i don't know how i survived it through i

think god saved my life. people saw gold but even that's it couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system froze and collaged of all people hungry people freezing people they now became this super bowl searching for war to everywhere including sewerage system. and 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 tillery shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says this side one of many a civil war 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 but every

person has also been taking part in commemoration of benefit laid flowers at the landmark start monument to the nevski path to chalk memorial size it was the scene of fierce fighting during the 2nd world war it is believed the russian president's father was also injured. those are common questions like where are you really from could no longer in trouble at a u.k. university which is paying students to snit song classmates didn't commit to racist microaggression was their story on more after the break. america's built a prison called the world in it's the prison it's the run it runs the prison and the cost of building the 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 to let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really. 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 bats could now get you in hot water at a u.k. university which will pay students to snitch on people making what it calls racist microaggression sheffield university in northern england will hire 20 students as race a quality champions and pay them more the 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 will people for their reaction to the move. sometimes a 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 based. on. a lot of people stopping you know your talent your or your terrorists by a 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 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 shuttled university have decided to police incidents of perceived rudeness with an army of bade student my group gresham to talk to. 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 the university claims it's made objectives are to facilitate healthy open discussion and gives students the tools to think critically about race issues it's

a micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host and columnist john gordon feels the program could end up doing more harm than good. we need to obviously condemn the 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 concealed 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 track all 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 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. well take a look at the news in brief from around the world now 1st to hundreds of tractors a punt on to the streets of berlin farmers along with eco activists are protesting against the agricultural policies of both germany and the e.u. but demonstrators accuse the german government of prioritizing large scale farming at the expense of climate friendly organic methods the tractor fleet descended on berlin from a number of regions throughout the country. looking like winds of started fires outside greece's morea refugee camp following the stopping of a 20 year old bear by demanding to be held separately from immigrants from afghanistan after all parities arrested an afghan at the camp over the killing. and thousands of gathered in the capital for 13th week of protest rallies began

over metro fat increases police on friday deployed water cannon to disperse crowds . the demonstrations turn violent. sorties in the philippines they were told volcano remains life threatening us afterwards sudden and spectacular eruption more than a week ago even now is continuing to cover surrounding areas in ankle deep ash dave and mud around 20000 people have evacuated their homes. the german foreign office has apologized after in appropriately trying to tap into the viral hashtags to 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 the exactly love at 1st sight.

x. x. . x. . x. x. . your b. said go it proved. when i had barely graduated from underground i was offered an internship at the un in bonn germany after an extensive visa application process delays and uncertainty i was informed 2 days prior to the beginning of my internship that my visa application was rejected dunker this is not funny playing on people's feelings is inappropriate there are thousands of people waiting for their visas that's simply the real face of you guys period. acting

out and being funny is apparently not always our strong suit we deleted it we both know and apologized to all who were offended by this we know the surprise is complex and these are decisions can deeply affect people's lives our colleagues take the decision severely seriously. you shouldn't apologize the joke is actually good good now i am offended that you deleted that wheat because apparently offended someone with no sense of humor obviously. want to let us know your thoughts on this story and anything else by following us our social media and join us again at the top of the hour for the latest.

wisdom is the application of the bold 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 the thought learning it's just memorizing some wisdom comes when you are facing a brain new context and you can draw on walls and learn the other contexts systematically to know what to do. these are. 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 is really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out and may not be yourself the best people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in our stratos they have auto immune disorders 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 less treats a 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. 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. all you like. you can never forget maybe you can now auschwitz was really like to be in hell because you would never believe that one. can do to as a copy of a course for 30 years and the birth of it it all seems so logical for my family to make it right when i get out on the farm saw you don't want to take my son to their next meal so he can listen in hopefully bless her experience. the stud just one magic bullet you could actually come up with something to top with his baby bond talking about ways we get access capital and capitalism couples important so we could actually have programs that actually help folks who want to do that but when you give everybody a $1000.00 i'm a poor person i'm going to consume that and then you're rich you're going to invest

that equity the wealth the spirit is going to grow because you're you're not using your money to do it can so you're literally buy more crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a $1000.00 and you just go raise my writ so then you get your inflation going on and there. 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 are now aware of how actually these big banks work in central banks and it's quite fascinating actually because it's the root of all fake news comes from fake money if you want to get rid of fake news you have to get rid of fake money more on that later stacy actually you said that many times over the past few years and i did see that ron

paul recently tweeted something along that lines that it was the fake money from the fed that is creating fake news and fake asset prices and things like that but in terms of what's happening right now one thing that you and i always talk about report since we began over 10 years ago now is we talk about gold we talk about bitcoin and a lot of people say oh you can't eat bitcoin and you can't eat gold in and there's an argument against it but here we're going to look at some headlines guarding the individual economic sovereignty that is granted to you if you own your own wealth if you own your own assets and their real assets because not your settlements layer not your money and this is responding to a wall street journal scoop u.s. officials warned iraq that it risks losing access to its account at the new york fed where international oil sale revenue is kept if it moves to expel u.s. troops so iraq is theoretically an independent sovereign nation and they should be

able to invite other militaries in to help them fight somebody or whatever and they should be able to expel foreign military troops should they wish them not to be there while the u.s. is saying should you choose to expel our military bases we will seize your assets at the new york fed you know i mean this is a fascinating and people are starting to see we're. really how the world works and how the american empire works and how the empire of debt some of called it works it all clears to the new york fed and so these countries in the middle east can throw a hissy fit and throw themselves on the ground and cry and scream and they can do all kinds of stuff but it doesn't really matter because everything goes through the new york fed and member the 2008 crisis was resolved through the new york fed when timothy geithner was in charge and every time there's a crisis anywhere in the world pretty much it's all resolved through the new york fed the new york fed has the ability to censor if you want to that they want to cut you off from the global economy they can do so at the flick of

a switch because sense the 1940 s. all commodities are settled in dollars ever ever since the 1970 s. and the emergence of the petro dollar everything all oil all energy is settled in u.s. dollars all commodities are priced in dollars and settled in dollars and all happens at the new york fed and everyone around new york gets a lot of money because they are in proximity to the new york fed and that's the way the world works of course the new york fed is the one in charge of the repo interventions at the moment they do say now that that's going to last through the tax season because they have another new excuse it was supposed to last for 24 hours and then 48 hours and then 72 hours then a few weeks and then a few months and now it's going to last until at least april they say and we also covered back in may remember representative brad sherman of california he's a congressman from out there he said about bitcoin that big point we must stop it now because what they're trying to do is replace the new york fed for exactly this sort of thing is what he was forecasting is.