in dramatic scenes the french president is rushed out of a paris there to under a hail of furious protesters chanting mccrone resign trying 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 russia mark 77 years since the end of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 his most appalling humanitarian disaster as.

you're watching international i'm whereas on the local thank you for joining us now in paris hundreds gathered on saturday for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans in some parts the french capital clashes erupted between police and demonstrators. it was a strike by public transport workers has brought chaos to the french capital for almost 2 months now and that's 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 makes money. president in man well mccall is under huge pressure over the culture version of reform on friday night he was booed as he left paris this time with people chanting mccall resigned and some demonstrators against micron's pension reform school calls police into the hole to

deliver the angry message. was was such. a protest as a full load of microphones made to kate as it tried to speed away the president was reportedly with his wife bridgette in a red no color school today by police motorbikes journalist and political activist who noticed mccraw in the theater and film tim saying the event evening might be eventful after that he was arrested for being part of a group formed with the purpose of committing acts of violence and his arrest has sparked outrage. meanwhile more than 100 protesters in the french capital blocked the entrance to the iconic museum people have joined unions call the union calls to demand the complete withdrawal of micron's proposals but there are mixed public

feelings about the protests going to come on that front i could you i'm happy that they're defending culture i left at 7 in the morning from dish on where i'm from to see the antarctic division chicks a patient but it's not a big deal because if they do not strike their want really be a lot for as we know it so i don't mind the strike i'm actually happy i supported them. if someone would lend me a hand i'm ready to break through the picket line because this situation is unacceptable i don't care about their pension issues. they are uniting and supporting each other reinforcing each other so that's why i'm here really is also called we are against it they should not be here. but this should be directed at 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 we're very surprised to see the government maintaining its position is of extremism that is unacceptable for democrats like me who voted for manual micro in the 2nd round of the presidential election against. a russian programmer arrested on washington's request once or thirty's 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 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 has 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 didn't 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. well vinick was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of laundering billions of dollars through do you took. currency exchange and he's also wanted by france which claims when it carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell russia wants to question him as well now athens has already approved his extradition to all 3 countries however russia's acting foreign minister has criticised procedures warning that greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow and another lawyer for vinnick him

a famous sort of told us why he should be extradited to russia. greece has not only decided to extradite alexander's 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 is specially 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. 7070 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 bombing but from hunger and hypothermia well any grad may have changed its name to st petersburg the horrific memories still run deep. was.

just. me and my friend went to school 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 throwing towards us you have to run in the direction of the bomb because that way it will pass over you but who ran away but got away and kept walking suddenly i realized i had left her behind she walked towards a sense i came up to check up on her and realise she was hanging on the fence over the debt my friend how could i say i was barely alive myself some people helped me carry her home he seen her warranty far away from her. pocket i knew. 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 decrease without saying

stella neighbor who constructed the casket from him and helped us to carry my father to the cemetery and the century 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't see this part of dead bodies in my head i still have this picture in my had. already you know 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 back half life she said to me zoya i think i'm a bad to pass away i bought me patti said the market i sing they're made out of the human don't leave the girls alone don't marry too young and don't cut issue. after an hour she died for you. at the.

very real way sad that the russians who were in our pilot course were shocked and i remember they carried him in sheets he was all brown and we prepared a warm bath for her with mats and they lowered him into it and he exclaimed please save me i have to keep flying i have to keep fighting i'll fight is where their patriotic why did they attack us what did we do to them or well during the war many lives in the city were saved by the simple ticks of a metronome. did . they did that. the metronome followed by sirens were broadcast on 1500 speakers throughout leningrad a slow beats meant for

a treat while the fast one german bombers were on their way it became a symbol of resistance to the nazi air raids and 2 attempts to stop people to death marie financial 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 8 and also starred in its almost 3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was hollow death 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 sledders all the time or dead bodies lying on the streets and at some point those the law they simply stop paying any attention to these horrific sights the appearance review and i remember the 1st time i saw a corpse on the street wrapped in some rags at 1st it was scary but then people got

used to it and just walked by i can see the bodies were just randomly dumped in the street eventually they took them away for. 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 germany for hungry people so the worst. it 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 burnt sugar i don't know how i survived and i think god saved my life more. people saw gold but even less so i couldn't bear it anymore the water supply system froze and killed lots of all people hungry people freezing

people they now became the 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 to sit as it was during jury shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says this sign one of many similar across the city these warnings became a symbol of dangers faced by residents of letting god during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible days a lot of men putin has also been taking part in commemoration of events he laid flowers at the landmark stone monument to the nearest p.p.s. to choke memorial site it was the scene of fierce fighting cheering world war 2 and

it's believed the russian president's father was also injured. questions like where are you really from could now land you in trouble a t u k university which is paying students to snitch on classmates teams to commit racist micro aggressions we have that story after this short break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. this is a story about what happens austria stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters and. the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in healing messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is

a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to plan this than him and what happens in course be the. shock shock as far officer i feel. we don't know just from. end of this trial unfortunately you. will still not know she'll just. let's take a look at some news in brief from around the world. tear

gas and rubber bullets flew towards angry protesters in beirut lebanon on friday at least $165.00 people were injured as police broke up crowds demonstrators are in their 3rd month of protests demanding economic reforms and of the elect. since the prime minister had been expected to announce a new 18 member cabinet on friday but failed to do so. hundreds of tractors have packed onto the streets of berlin farmers along with these co activists protesting against the agricultural policies of both germany and the e.u. the demonstrators accuse the german government of power ties in large scale farming at the expense of climate friendly organic methods attractively descended on berlin from a number of regions throughout the country. and efforts are underway to rescue animals survivors of the bushfires that have ravaged south australia's kangaroo island the

island is renowned for its relatively untouched nature and is home to many unique and endangered species experts fear the bushfires which have so far one 3rd of the island may have wiped out some of the other most entirety. stop making everything a race issue comments like that could not get you in hot water to 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 pounds an hour to investigate offenders other examples of unacceptable questions are why are you searching for things to be offended about and where you really from we asked people for their reaction to the move. sometimes like you do you don't realize that you're like maybe being mean with some women and you don't even realize and i think it's important to tell you about it people often ask us. what

their form so far say for example they say i'm aggressive mark on. a lot of people stopping you know your talent your know your terrorist bob a lot i do get asked all 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 something however there has been significant online back class 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 detractors thought police jobs at the university of sheffield how is this not illegal what the hell have i just read he also prevents him in benign t.v. or city as my trade question and therefore as racist this is a recipe to create a climate of distrust and 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 to give students the tools to think critically about race issues it says micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host economist john galt feels the program could actually 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 eats 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 even 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 has tackled the soldiery and tackle homophobia of course and make sure your institution is inclusive but this is not the way to do it this is a director a great step this is just some idiotic their academic who's never lived in the real world themselves they need to get a life and get out of students' lives. the german foreign office has apologized after in appropriately trying to tap into the viral hash tag seduce someone in 4 words government institutions around the world are trying to hand the humor in this latest twitter craze but for many uses their efforts aren't exactly love at 1st sight. x. x. . x.

. x. x. . your b. said god approved. 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 to be surprises

complex and these are decisions can deep effect people's lifes alcoholics 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. well do you approve of the wisecrack what he let us know in all social media pages at r.t. and that's your update for now i'm ours on a low could not be a bad kid with the rest of the team that's hope of a out will see that. wisdom is the application of rock the boat knowledge in

a rope or your ways in novel called why did you learn a particular scenario could be in 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 upon schools in florida other contexts systematically to know what to do. with. good food descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose just had 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 associate people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in

arthritis they have auto immune disorders that cat allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of tom's and all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets streets the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00. on it and there's no reason to do that research. the study just one magic bullet you could actually come up with some of the top of these baby bob 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 not using your money to do consult you're literally buying 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 all in there. you are no fan speed 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. and relieve the debt all your life. and you can never forget maybe you can now auschwitz was really like to be inhaled because you would never believe it wasn't a candle to as an operating cost for 30 years of both and the comparative it. seems so logical for why you decided to make it. when i get out on loan the farm saw you don't want to take my song to their next deal so he can listen in hopefully bless her experience.

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 now 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 kaiser 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 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 through 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.