justice on. the new york times says received criticism from all sides mentioned in an article claiming russia paid in afghanistan to kill u.s. troops from russia and the taliban deny the allegations. and other stories in the week after a delay due to. finally holds its world war 2 victory parade marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany. racism resolution by the u.n. human rights council sparked anger from washington for its criticism of long governmental organizations complain it didn't go far enough.

thanks for joining us here on r.t. and. first this hour the new york times is facing widespread criticism of trip published an article saying that russia offered bounties in afghanistan to kill u.s. troops it also claimed that donald trump was briefed on the matter but there was no response however the director of national intelligence denies either the president or the vice president were ever briefed on this sometime self is labeled the piece fake news. the freak news new york times must release anonymous source but they can do it this person probably does not even exist. the article is being slammed by russia's foreign ministry which is called the peace deliberate decision from ation saturday also saw the taliban denying the new york times article artie's it is done off looks more closely now at the peace in question and asks who might benefit from

its publication. it's time to blow off the dust that circled around any smear tactics guidebooks since the last us election but as democrats are looking to wash away the humiliation of 2016 by trying to bring down trump this time they are resorting to the same auld narrative that failed them in the 1st place russia gate american intelligence officials have concluded that the russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to taliban linked militants for killing coalition forces in afghanistan the peace rests on the familiar pillars of pulitzer winning journalism anonymous sources that believed concluded and desist the claims are said to be based on interrogations of captured outgoing militants at least in part the article says well because less than in part well would be nothing at all really the alleged culprits is the same russian intelligence unit that is

accused of this elsberry poisoning western intelligence official say the unit which has operated for more than a decade has been charged by the kremlin with kerry knows a complaint to destabilize the west through subversion and the source of nation. the west in the middle east by bribing the taliban into something they are doing anyway comic book villains have more logic and motivation than russia in this article but as evil and sleazy as russia may be portrayed in this story it's still just collateral damage and not the actual target president trying to get briefed in march that russia is paying bounty money for dead american soldiers right well. and his response to that is nothing his entire presidency has been a gift to putin but it this is beyond the pale it's a betrayal of most sacred duty we bear as a nation to protect and equip our troops and reset them in the harms way. if trump

refuses to hold putin accountable for funding terrorism against u.s. troops in afghanistan then congress must again step up i expect the trumpet ministration to take such allegations seriously and inform congress immediately as to the reliability of these news reports the stories taking jabs at trump amid reports he's about to take another step towards ending the catastrophic 2 decades long invasion russia's foreign ministry has dismissed the allegations as fake pointing out that more school has all along been trying to mediate the conflict and have the united states and the taliban in fact sign a peace deal the simple this information clearly illustrates the intellectual abilities propagandists among american intelligence who have to come up with such nonsense instead of inventing something more reliable however what else can we expect from intelligence which miserably failed in the 20 year war in afghanistan

it's russia collusion 2.0 as if that has ever been worth anything more but a house impeachment but left trump unfazed by hey maybe at least robert mueller will have a 2nd shot around 2021. after being delayed by the global pandemic moscow finally held its huge military parade on wednesday marking the 75th anniversary of victory of a nazi germany. occurred to the sound of thousands of marching feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland and hot on their heels quite literally came a procession of military vehicles and equipment or the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular fly pass. if

it. hit. our correspondents it was down on red square for as she summed up the emotions of the day. to me out she 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 had fought tooth and nail to bring it up out my grandmother for chachi for india 1000000 not as independent women and it was an all female unit that was part of the fast polish army and that

was part of the soviet full says and actually they fought out a bottle in london which is in outside 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 also what did you write it seems 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 people with the partisans on so much who on the 24th of june 1945 walked on to that very scrap right behind me now traditionally this event is held on may the 9th but of course this year this was prevented by the coronavirus so wednesday was chosen for the jubilee instead wasn't just a randomly selected date back in 1945 the 1st ever victory parade was held on june 24th but many soviet soldiers actually made it back from the front lines and we had

to share the celebrations with the entire country. in commemoration of victory over germany and the great patrick wall for june 24th 1905 fine 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 gettable day 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 peace and my contribution.

going to go around and greeting the troops we 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. it was time marches on from these world changing events it seems that history is not always being remembered in the same way for example in may the white house paid tribute to the u.s. and the u.k. for delivering victory in the 2nd world war completely ignoring the soviet effort and it's not the only example of airbrushing the past he's done your whole reports from victory park in moscow planners then 145 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 one tweet. on the 23rd of august 1939 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 the podium 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 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 heatherton 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 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 laws is telling rather than a debate accusations of deliberate full sophistication 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 or 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 for 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 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 reinvent a more of them which we can begin to work together again. we can voting is underway here in russia on amendments to the country's constitution i'll bring you all the

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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. you i mean you're mad in a sense are your brother the 1st escape on air america and you have the power to help get very far barbara lowered the u.n.

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 writes us we believe the situation in the united states warrants 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 blah blah 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 minded 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 fraud 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. looks like arm twisting is golden down the us which quit the human rights council has successfully enlisted ek mission geneva and france and australia to work together and undermine this important text the efforts of the us to avoid a council attention on the highlights why such scrutiny 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 that 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. the voting process to reform the russian constitution began on thursday polls are open nationwide until the 1st of july voted been originally planned for april 22nd but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and to alleviate concerns about crowds polling stations are open for a whole week instead of just a single day there are about 200 proposed amendments in the constitutional voting

package one of the changes would allow put in to run for president for another 2 terms critics are arguing over the all or nothing approach or the vote people having to say yes or no to the entire package and you can't just pick and choose which amendments you want putin supported the changes in a speech made in the state duma 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. in 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 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. 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 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 i've been russian 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 of registration voting closed last

week now are some of the proposed reforms are proving controversial analysts have 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 a 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 putin feels it needs to be changed opinion poll suggests 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 mention one day anyway putin says he will respect the votes that mean technically by the way he didn't have to have this national vote at all i mean he was passed by every russian region all 85 federal something to pass the state parliament the duma passed it the national parliament he didn't have to have this vote he's chosen to do it because he wants the public democratic legitimacy and fairness i think if

that had been that many ballot papers were given a hell of lot more confusion than a single ballot paper saying yes or no. bridge right up to date don't forget you can check out plenty more stories if you had told website to go to the. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived within this 0 zone there were 2 view houses were. preserved was located and the only people had access to the story for investigators she held the uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you grated nor in. hockey seem a bit sore knee for. crying for justice on a. hot no team

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think that hollywood is a very. loyal what is actually. in the business on the other side isn't a. new brand of reward. you know very. hollywood is a place and an idea so you've got the movie studios television you've got the music industry sometimes as we know it's also a place where there's a lot of propaganda. or whatever part of the the u.s. government is committed you know you can be sure that hollywood will be following year we're hearing well. how would i define hollywood

is they caught between a manufacturer which are things true. but i think equally it's a propaganda factor. long after i 1st heard about it in the news i still couldn't believe this was this really how the united states sees the history of forward too but there it was the official white house on a social network and it clearly stated that it was american great britain that defeated the nazis during the 2nd world war without even a word about the soviet union and the version on the official carrigan website looks even more discouraging there it turns out that world war 2 was started by germany and the soviet union it wasn't russia but france that took the brunt of it and in fact the u.s.s.r. didn't liberate the europe from hitler but occupied it it feels like the author either knows no.