we. know it's. your thirst for action. stories the shapes the week here in moscow finally holds is delayed world war 2 victory parade marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany. says a resolution by the un human rights council spock's anger from washington for its criticism although n.g.o.s complained it didn't go far enough. russia begins voting on constitutional reforms with 2 regions making people cast their ballots on line only chief concerns about the growing of.

other great to have you with us this is. 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. to the sound of thousands of feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland on the heels quite literally in a procession of military vehicles and equipment before the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular flight. our

correspondent was down 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 the street in that sound there are echoes of these people 75 years ago on red square sic she was celebrated but more importantly so with the people who have fought tooth and nail to bring it up out my grandmother for chachi for india 1000000 flautas independent women's battalion and it was an all female unit that was part of the fast polish army and that was part of the save you fool says and actually they fought out of battle in london which is

in the side of russia and they actually managed to break through to jump into france says take and hold talk to strategic area of the bridge that proved to be crucial and not the battle later on i could go up to any single person on the street what did you write it seems to join the war each would keep me 80 tell family story someone who fought and died starving cried someone who survived the blockade of leningrad so many fall with the partisans on so much who on the 24th of june 1945 walked on to that very splat right behind me which additionally the events held on may the 9th but the coronavirus prevented that from happening this year so wednesday was chosen for the jubilee instead wasn't just any old random date back in 1945 the 1st ever victory parade was held on june 24th for many soviet soldiers that made it back to the front lines and were able to share in the celebrations with the entire country. in commemoration of victory over germany and the great patrick wall for june 24th 1905 i'm scheduling

a parade of the active army the navy and moscow garrison the victory parade in moscow's red square. it was a long anticipated and unthink get civil date 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 contribution. well we're going to go around and greeting the troops i can 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. as time marches on from these world changing events it seems that history's not always being remembered in exactly the same way in may the white house paid tribute to the u.s. and u.k. for delivering victory in the 2nd world war completely ignoring the soviet effort and it's not the only example of air brushing the past year hawkins reports from victory park in moscow on this day 945 american great britain had victory over the nazis 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 casualties but recent events go beyond just want 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 for 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 controls you turn to something and forgivable all but equating the soviet union's role in world war 2 with that of nazi germany do your president put in his her 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 of 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 false for cation 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 to 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. the u.s. has slammed to the un for drawing up a resolution critical of racism in america follows the death of george floyd activist groups claim that the document didn't actually go far enough right as 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 he 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 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 imagine that in a sense are your brother the 1st escape on air america and you have the power to help we're get there 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 righteous we believe the situation in the united states warrants urgent 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 a 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 u.s. government be shamed and called out for the murder of george florida 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 back room arm twisting is going down the us which quit the 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 at 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. we can voting is underway in russia and amendments to the country's constitution will bring you full details after this

break. a minimum wage doesn't guarantee you a job. as you but if you get a job and be paid that wage precisely that guarantee that means you're less likely to get the job and so i would predict probably over a 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 people helping out at 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 on offense period dramatic to follow through the only thing i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back a vote on reforming the russian constitution kicked off on thursday polls are open nationwide until july 1st another vote had been originally planned for april 22nd it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic to alleviate concerns about crowds polling stations are open for an entire week instead of just the single day there are about $200.00 proposed amendments to the constitution in this vote one of the changes would allow plenty of putin's a run for president for another 2 terms but it's have argued over the all or

nothing approach to the vote of people have to say yes or no to the entire package and can't just pick and choose which amendments they want it is 40 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 foundation 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 but all to him. 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 of 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 there are 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 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. online voting is being held for the 1st time in russia 2 regions are holding their votes electronically it's another measure to help quell covert fears the online platform being used promises data encryption and privacy guarantees and registration for online voting closed last week while some of the proposed reforms are proving controversial list of argued that overall change is needed for russian society 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 he has to go mention one day anyway putin 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 jealousy in fairness i think if there had been that many ballot papers would been a hell of lot more confusion than a single ballot paper saying yes or no. but large amount of movement is having an

impact on many sectors some one of the latest is the beauty industry the world's biggest cosmetics company l'oreal has said that it will drop all references to white and fair and its skin care range is discovered after many companies face a backlash for marketing skin whitening products one of them the corporate giant unilever has also announced that it's going to rename its product line which is currently called fair a lovely. we recognize that the use of the words fear white and light suggest a singular ideal 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 petitions state that these wiping products were developed from internalized racism and that they promote anti black feelings meanwhile u.s. giant johnson and johnson has said it is going to pull its entire range of lightning products distributed in asia and the middle east. you know i mean they

pick. why did you raise your raises without the 4 years it feels 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. are a lot of consumer 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 and 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 committee would 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 pacifically 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 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 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 across 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 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 you are why you are better that has been brainwashed and equal and unfortunately it was not even inspired an. insane talent that michael jackson possessed inside of well you know mad 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 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 white provide education for children for the future your future generation the current generation is 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.

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