we go to work you straight home. the main stories of the week here are not to your sky funny holes it's delayed world war 2 victory parade marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany we had correspondence of the very heart of the action when it comes to weaponry this machine is breathing. for instance it carries guided missiles you can see them over that. i don't see racism resolution by the un human rights council sparks anger from washington for hypocrisy but also from n.g.o.s for it to be failing to mention any direction in the problem and russia begins voting on constitutional reforms with 2 regions making people cast their ballots online only due to the coronavirus concerns it's.

a welcome the latest developments and a look back at events over the last 7 days to you what we can here and. now after being delayed by the global pandemic finally held its huge military parade on wednesday marking the 75th anniversary of the soviet victory over nazi germany red square echo the sound of thousands of marching feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland and hot on their heels quite literally was a procession of military vehicles and equipment before the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular flop. well

correspondent he goes down off to have the chance to travel to red square with some of the troops taking part. in the russian capital about 20 or so kilometers away from the red square it's about 5 o'clock in the morning and this is where it all begins this is where all the military hardware will all military machines park station before they rule towards the very heart of moscow and this beast is the one

that we are actually going to be riding in. this tank support unit actually has a catchy name and that's terminator 3 and these machines including this one were tested the hard way in 2017 that was sent to syria to take part in the war and that was how they and their permanent place in the russian armed forces. well when it comes to weaponry this machine is very tough for instance to carry. the tank missile you can see them over there for instance painted red the park.

from that it has 33 millimeter machine guns and you can see them from over there like over here and over they had street was a massacre in a village and all of this makes the terminator world live up to its name and its reputation because you can hear the sorts of things from infancy to tanks armored vehicles and people helicopters and other low flying talk it's. well one of the downsides of this particular machine is that it is very very expensive even by the military standards for instance somebody would suggest that to produce a think tank might be actually cheaper to produce this tank support unit but well right now it is in the best shape it can be because that's what it takes to roll

through the red square on a parade. you could have done a farewell this year we did launch the victory mail project offering you the chance to deliver your messages of thanks to world war 2 veterans letters to derive from all over the world to say thanks to those who contributed to the victory over now see germany and once they arrived at our offices we then sent them on to the war heroes to remind them of their acts of bravery had not been forgotten and it's nothing more touching to you than seeing some of these letters saying i can. put this.

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the boys were good when you have but you must be. very worthy project now as time does march on life from these world events so it does seem that history is not always being remembered the same way in may the white house paid tribute to the u.s. and the u.k. for delivering victory in the 2nd world war but completely ignored the soviet effort and its not be any example of airbrushing the past either is done hawkins now reports from victory park in moscow. parlors then 145 american great britain had victory over the nazi the us president came under fire for ignoring the part played by other allied nations in defeating fascism not least the soviet union which suffered over $25000000.00 casualties but recent events go beyond just one tweet on the 23rd of august 1939 the soviet union a nazi germany signed a treaty of nonaggression known as the molotov ribbentrop pact and its secret

protocols dividing europe and the territories of independent states between the 2 totalitarian regimes and grouping them into spheres of interest which paved the way for the outbreak of the 2nd world war history is a set of lies agreed upon according to napoleon but when former liberators are officially relabeled this occupants and victims as aggressors just with a few strokes of a pen then both truth and agreement become allusive rewriting history revisionism altering the past to fit with present political paradigms multiple states at the center of those tragic events have been mired in controversy but when it comes to russia controversy turned to something and forgivable all but equating the soviet union's role in world war 2 with that of nazi germany do you president putin heed her and stalin colluded to start world war 2 that is a fact poor and was a victim of this horrible conflict from the munich pact and partition of

czechoslovakia to western business interests in nazi germany many countries at the center of the wars outbreak have skeletons in the closet the key aim is to learn lessons what can be done today to maintain violet of peace the russian president has his own thoughts the historical revisionism where witnessing in the west particularly with regard to the subject of the 2nd world war and its outcome is dangerous because it grossly cynically distorts the understanding of the principles of peaceful development laid down in 1945 by the conferences in yalta and san francisco. the main historic achievement a few and other decisions of the time was the agreement to establish a mechanism that would allow the major powers to stay within a diplomatic framework when resolving their differences the response to russia's position such as passing its own historical laws is telling rather than a debate accusations of deliberate fortification and deceit to divide and conquer

in pursuit of nefarious motives historians and politicians may argue for years about blame and responsibility but as the memory of conflict fades so does the fear of such tragedy repeating itself they say history is the sum of all things that could have been avoided a vast early warning system and the response to the president's peace may have missed the main point. the way we understand history shapes the way we understand the present and shapes how we're going to act in the future if we have a distorted a corrupt titian of history then we're not going to be able to 1st of all know that a different future is possible but we see history being deployed for nationalistic propaganda stick for mythological for militaristic purposes all over the world and i mean russia's certainly guilty of that too to some extent i'm not saying that

russia is outside of that but on the issues world war 2 russia is much closer to the truth and to have a vision of the world based upon collaboration between the united states russia britain the french resistance forces china back to allow us to begin to reinvention a world in which we can begin to work together again. another niece the u.s. secretary of state as a key to the u.n. human rights council of hypocrisy after release the resolution through not in the wake of the killing of george floyd last month. also pointed his finger to keep china and iran where he thinks racial disparities disparities are truly systemic however the un document itself is also being criticised by activists creeps for being too soft when it counts the it has more. when the entire world gets

these agri this few reus something must be done rights groups and civil society have mobilized armies of activists and lawyers to make sure that it does it's now or never he is that to get rid of xenophobia and make this world a better place the undersigned family members of victims of police killings and civil society organizations from around the world call in member states of the un human rights council to urgently convene a special session on the situation of human rights in the united states in order to respond to the unfolding group human rights crisis born out of the repression of nationwide protests the a.c.l.u. when $600.00 organizations have written to the un human rights council to take action to do something new that the united states gets mentioned specifically for obvious reasons you watch my brother down there could have been me i hear people

you are but you're not in a sense are your brother the 1st let's keep on air america and you have the power to help get very far by. the un human rights council hears that it gets to work on un draft statements and says what the people wanted to say strongly condemns racism against african-americans and the structural racism built into the american government it says it will investigate abuses against african-americans in the united states this is far and stuff powerful and why it's us we believe the situation in the united states warrants and country specific intervention and that a thematic global investigation is also an idea what happened was a too harsh maybe an unacceptably strong stance against racism they call racism bad names because those righteous. words didn't make it into the final report they

were moved here is the watered down blub blub version that they agreed on the draft resolution now before the council requests the high commissioner for human rights with the assistance of resident relevant special mandate holders to prepare a report on systematic racism violations of international human rights law against africans and and people of african descent by law enforcement agencies especially as those incidents that resulted in the death of george floyd and other africans and of people of african descent here some of the parts that washington convinced them to remove no longer does america have a problem with a race is just a system now it's a common problem see no longer will the us government be shamed and called out for the murder of george florida now it's a google murder we all black and white and asian and arab we're all potentially responsible for american police murdering a black man the a.c.l.u.

said it best what a circus it is absurd that the final resolution passed by the united nations strips mention of the united states where police kill people particularly black people and alarmingly higher rates compared to other developed countries the united nations needs to do its job not get bullied out of doing it and hold the united states accountable the country must face independent global scrutiny for its oppression of black people witness the power of american diplomacy the ability to bully the african group predominantly made up of blacks into watering down a statement against racism the united states which itself pulled out of the human rights council asked its friends apparently to do a little arm twisting it looks like a back room arm twisting is going down the us which queer the human rights council was successful in. the u.n. missions of the u.k.

france and australia to work together and undermine this important text the efforts of the us to void consular attention only highlights why such security is needed and how far there is still to go to dismantle the pernicious structures of institutionalized racism just one thing if george floyd's murder had happened in syria or in iraq it would have been a war crime police officer knelt on a defenseless handcuffed man's neck as he slowly suffocated begging for his mother and all those american diplomats they would have been in the front ranks pretending to care screaming and frothing for justice only to deny that very same justice to anyone else were aghast if than that still to come the week of voting is underway in russia on amendments to the country's constitution we'll have a look at the details on this plus of the stories just tough to.

a minimum wage doesn't guarantee you a job guarantee news you that if you get a job you'll be paid that wage but it's precisely that guarantee that means you're less likely to get the job and so i would predict. the opera 1000000 people would lose their jobs if the minimum wage were doubled to 50 now they want to phase it in so maybe $800000.00. and that would be differentially in communities are a lot of black helping out of mississippi lower wage states. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development that

only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the weekly now or photon reforming the russian constitution kicked off on thursday and polls are open nationwide until the 1st of july the vote had been originally planned day for april the 22nd but that was delayed because of a coronavirus pandemic or to alleviate concerns about crowds polling stations are open for a whole week instead of a single day and there are there are around 200 amendments proposed to the constitution one of the changes would allow potentially fatema putin to run for president for another 2 terms critics have argued over the all or nothing approach

though to the vote because people can pick and choose which amendments they back and which they don't pay to support the changes in the speech in the state duma back in early march. it was january when president putin stunned russia by proposing changes to the country's foundational law the constitution within hours the entire government had resigned the current constitution dates back to $993.00 to western backed president boris yeltsin built from the debut of the communist soviet era since constitution created what would be criticized as a hyper presidential system the president called all the shots. and it was forged in bloodshed as a hostile communist control parliament tried to impeach yeltsin he resorted to the military to keep in power. 187 people were killed that autumn. one of the most important proposals today is to end that hyper presidential system while keeping the fundamentals of the constitution intact so what powers does the

president currently have only he alone can nominate the prime minister and other cabinet members parliament just gives a formal green light to the candidates the proposal would flip that giving parliament the final say on who serves in government and the president would not be able to reject the m.p.'s choices powers would be redistributed between various branches of government intended to lock in more checks and balances into russia's government system another big change would limit the president's tenure to only 2 terms in total as opposed to no more than 2 terms in a row as it is now. that means future leaders won't be able to serve for as long as putin has but it's not a member which has got western media excited putin's perceived trick to stay in power forever the existing rules say putin must stand aside in 4 years time after his 2nd consecutive term albeit his 4th mandate in total m.p.'s are pushing a proposal to 0 out his term count

a reset button for an updated constitution i propose to add to the new constitution that the current president like any other citizen would have the right to be elected to the post of head of the state that would mean putin could run again in 2024 and in 2030 if he wants to rewind back to january and why putin said he wanted to change the constitution he says it's to develop a welfare state and the reason for these amendments is to ensure the further development of russia as a state governed by the rule of law is to increase the efficiency of institutions in our country with that in mind the room more than $140.00 amendments one guarantees that the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures an annual adjustment to improve the real value of pensions and allowances that would also be tougher requirements for civil servants such as banning key officials from having foreign citizenship or foreign bank accounts the would also be a ban on giving away any russian territory and a priority to domestic law over international there are some controversial

proposals to marriage would be classified solely as a union between a man and a woman and god gets mentioned all the constitution will still say russia is officially a secular state it's an all or nothing vote russians won't be able to pick and choose which of the amendments they want to say it's simply a yes or no to the whole package and the changes will only be enacted if the russian people give it an unequivocal mandate. if people do not vote for the amendments they will not be added to the constitution. but online voting is being held for the 1st time in rushers he said regions are holding their vote electronically and it is another measure there to help quell fear is the online platform being used as promised as promised data encryption and also gives privacy guarantees and registration form line voting last week now while some of the proposed reforms are proving to be controversial analysts have argued that overall

change is needed for russian society but i think it's very important to note that the present constitution came out of violence came out of the time of deep uncertainty a time of very small just events after the collapse of the soviet system here we are 2027 years later and this document is a centralized power dramatically feels it needs to be changed opinion polls suggest a majority russians feel it should be changed as well while the western media is focusing on the putin term limits thing which by the way doesn't mean yes to go initially one day anyway who says he will respect me technically but you really didn't have to have this national vote at all i mean it was passed by every russian region all 85 federal something passed in the state parliament passed the national parliament he didn't have to have this vote he's chosen to do it because he obviously wants a public democratic legitimacy in fairness i think if that had been that many ballot papers were going to hell of lot more confusion than

a single ballot paper saying yes or no. black lives matter movement is having an impact on many sectors and one of the latest is the beauty industry the world's biggest cosmetics company l'oreal has said it will drop all references to white and fair in its skin care ranges it does come after many companies faced a backlash for marketing skin whitening products one of them the corporate giant unilever has also an exit is going to rename its product line which is currently called fair and lovely. we recognize that the use of the words fear white and light suggest a singular idea of beauty that we don't think is right and we want to address this the move comes after 2 petitions demanding a ban of the products attracted thousands of signatures the petitions to state that these whitening products were developed from internalized racism and promote anti black failings meanwhile the us giant johnson and johnson has said it is going to

pull its entire range of lightning products distributed in asia and also the middle east. you know i mean they pick. and. the light is used and what is your eyes without the more you could feel the conversations over the past few weeks highlighted that some product names or claims on air neutrogena and clean and clear dark spot reduce of products represent fairness or white as better than your own unique skin tone this was never our intention healthy skin is beautiful skin however there are a lot of people use the cream who are actually outraged at what is happening we put the issue up for debate. they're removing these products that are not used to correct issues of you know skin issues but they are used to create the fairest possible skin and such products should not exist they should not be marketed they

are result of white supremacy in colonialism i think if your were to remove white you can see what you are you have to also remove tanning solutions to mean lotions tanning oils so i think that we should make it completely legal still because it's everyone's choice to have you know whatever they want to do with their own bodies the difference between bleaching and tanning is this bleaching your skin comes from an ideology white supremacy and self-hatred is actually in my opinion a form of self mutilation where if you harm it really want to remove the melanin and the color in your skin because you want to appear as wide as possible i think it's up to people to decide what they want to do and for example if you say that women cannot no longer get breast implants because it's massaging a stick because men look at their breasts more that's like saying the same thing i mean every every day something is going to be coded as racist and i don't think that's right and i think that people are moving way too fast with this notion and i don't think that should be the case as right now there is never

a speed that's too fast to eradicate racism we have been for hundreds of years seeing the remnant of that. nation in the form of self-hatred and physically for china it's rooted in attempting to create parity with europeans who came in since signing back in the thirty's i think that china's case about why you know what incomes and whatever it's based on not by supremacy but spaced on and in the in the old days when workers used to be farmers they would take a lot and then it would be perceived as more poor if you go out and sun so it's not about where supremacy is about people's own thoughts and minds and cultures if a person who works in the sun is seen as a worker and a lower income person then that's. that's actually been used for hundreds of years in asia to discriminate against black people and people who are darker h h yet since this is a person saying i don't want to identify with my ethnicity either way it's people's

rights to their own body whatever they want to do i don't like how pale look i put 10 cream on every day and i think it's great i don't think it's white supremacy i don't think that i'm trying to be black and i don't think i'm trying to be darker it's just i think that that's why i like it suits my body well and i like that the status symbol of. the artist i think created in the minds of people around the world that if you are white you are better than it has been brainwashed. and unfortunately it was her face or not even in inspired and. in saints halle that michael jackson possess inside as well you know math i think what we should do is that we should educate people on the notion that that white isn't just oh it's beautiful you know other of stuff in the shelves to make that happen you could educate people you commit make a movement saying that i think that if you're movies when creams off the shelves people go to dangerous notions dangerous measures to make them see their skin away provide education for children for the future your future generation the current

nourish and say that hey whiter isn't beautiful and you are perfect just what you are and then it's up to them to decide what they want to do with their lives. to be much in the way to here not international not savvy company move from us in just a huff and. you cannot be both with us. you want. to.

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