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international now after being delayed by the global pandemic moscow finally held its huge military parade on wednesday marking the 75th anniversary of victory over nazi germany square echoed to the sound of thousands of marching feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland and hot on their heels quite literally it was a procession of a few vehicles and equipment before the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular. please click. click. click. click click click.

it. it. well our correspondents tell you there was the red square and summed up the emotions of the day. to me actually the most moving part of the day it's all to the present spoken and they say in unison. and that's because i hear history in that sound there are echoes of these people 75 years ago on red square i think she was celebrated but more importantly so with the people who have fought tooth and nail to bring about my grandmother for chachi for india a 1000000 a lot is independent women's battalion and it was an all female unit that was part of the fust post shaunie and that was part of the soviet full says and actually they fought out of battle in london which is in outside of russia and they actually managed to break through to judgment a friend says take and hold talk

a strategic area of the bridge that proved to be crucial and not the battle later on i could go up to any single pass on the street also what did you write it it's to join the war each would keep me 80 tell from the story someone who fought and died at starting price someone who survived the blockade of leningrad so many filled with the partisans on so much who on the 24th of june 1945 walked on to that very swag right behind me. traditionally the event is held on may the 9th but the coronavirus to prevent that from happening this year so wednesday was chosen for the jubilee instead and it wasn't just a random date either because back in 1905 the 1st 7 that 3 parade was held on june the 24th when many soviet soldiers had made it back from the front line and could share the celebrations with the whole country. in commemoration of victory over germany in the great patrick war for june 24th 945 find scheduling

a parade of the active army for the navy and moscow garrison the victory parade in moscow's red square. it was a long anticipated and unfit get civil date some people strongly believed it would come.

we were looking at the pile of wet cloths and thinking that the long expected victory had come and we the war is that how people to free the motherland bring back face my contributions so. well winding around and reading the troops i could see rain trickling from their camps but this periods were too high to even notice it was

a gloomy sunday red squares cobblestones were wet the bunches of flowers that we got after the parade were away but years on my heart doesn't believe in those memories the 24th of june 1945 has become a part of my life it was the most cheerful and sunny day. but as time marches on from these world changing events 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 u.k. delivering victory in the 2nd world for completely ignoring the soviet effort and it's not the any example leave the river airbrushing the past is down hawkins now reports from fake free park in moscow parlors then 945 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 $939.00 the soviet union and 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 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 walled war to with that of nazi germany do you president putin hitler and stalin colluded to start world war 2 that is a fact part of 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 to fuel 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 rules is telling rather than a debate accusations of deliberate false if occasion 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 is certainly guilty of that too to some extent i'm not saying that russia is outside of that but on the issues of world war 2 russia is much closer to the truth and to 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. now the u.s. to slam the u.n. security up a resolution critical of racism in america following the death of george floyd. however activists creep steve claimed the documents don't actually go far enough

more against the reports. 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 here is that chance 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 growth 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 that there could have been me i hear. you i met your man in a sense are your brother the 1st escape on air america and you have the power to help work get this from. the u.n. human rights council hears that it gets to work and draft statements it 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 writes us we believe the situation in the united states warrants country specific intervention and that a thematic global investigation is also in order 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 of 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 the system now it's a common problem see no longer will the u.s. government be shamed and called out for the murder of george fraud now it's a global 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 backroom arm twisting is going down the us which quickly human rights council has

successfully enlisted the un missions of the u.k. france and australia to work together and undermine this important text the efforts of the us to board consular tension 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 cry i put the self 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. but i guess if the coming week of a missing is underway in russia on amendments to the country's constitution we'll

have a look at that. just after this from. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the waking hour vote on reforming the russian constitution kicked off on thursday and polls are open nationwide until the 1st of july the vote had been planned originally a for the 22nd but was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic or to alleviate concerns about crowds polling stations are open for a whole week instead of a single day and there are about 200 proposed amendments to the constitution one of

the changes would allow but had to be a potent potentially to run for president for another to terms critics have argued over the all or nothing approach to the vote where people have to say yes or no to the whole package and can't just pick and choose which amendments they want picked and they've supported the changes in a 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 yeltsin's 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 trying 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. 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 there 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 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 or 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. now online voting is being held for the 1st time in russia 2 regions are holding their electronically it's another measure to help quell fear is the online platform being used as promised data encryption and privacy guarantees and registration form line voting the last

week now while some of the proposed reforms are proving 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 chance 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 does 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 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 and fairness i think if that had been that many ballot papers would a hell of a lot more confusion than a single ballot paper saying yes or no. black lives matter movement is having an impact on many sectors at the moment and is one of them 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 and it does come after many companies face a backlash from marketing skin whitening products one of them the corporate giant unilever has also announced it 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 petition state these

whitening products were developed from internalized racism and promote anti black feeling meanwhile the us giant johnson and johnson has said it is going to pull its entire range of lightening products distributed in asia and the middle east to start you know i mean they pick. and the same. what is new and what is your eyes without them or you get real 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 a lot of people who do use the creams are 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 in such products should not exist they should not be marketed they are result of white supremacy and colonialism i think if your were to remove whitening creams you would 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. in the form of self-hatred and physically for china it's rooted in attempting to create parity with europeans who came in sign a 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 it's based 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 in the sun so it's not about why 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

a star said 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 i 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 white the artist i think created in the minds of people around the world that if you are white you are better than his brainwashed and equal and unfortunately it was her face or not even inspired an. insane talent that michael jackson possessed inside of his wealth of math i think what we should do is that we should educate people on the notion that that white isn't just the most beautiful you know your 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 remove these 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 generations to 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 and that was the weekly hair nazis just coming up to ha possible in the afternoon ever more sky more from us to the top of the. you cannot be both with the yeah you.

train reaction process in the reactor be a tremendous heat which scientists have learned out of control. was really a patriotic theme to harness the. i was so excited about nuclear engineering because i thought it would solve the world's energy crisis is exciting science to realize you've got the power of the sun in the side that reactor may or so all you squire when everything works. really have to work for when making energy the

problem is that everything does work japan's nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed their reactors exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they're teetering on the edge of a meltdown i mean you need to say. there was. no heat. thank you in. a more serious one concerning that situation in japan. and i'm now joined live from vermont by all going to some now we're reporting at the moment that that all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is now underway this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has started sort of sorts of interrupt but you see.