new york times is criticised from all sides mentioned in its anonymous source based article claiming russia paid in afghanistan to kill american troops. stories in the week after a delay due to over 90 moscow finally holds its world war 2 victory parade marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany. and in other news russia begins voting on constitutional reforms with 2 regions making people cast their ballots online only because of concerns over the coronavirus.

by their very good evening to you this is r.t. international. the new york times is facing widespread criticism after it published an article that said russia offered bounties in afghanistan to kill u.s. troops but also claim donald trump was briefed on the matter however the director of national intelligence denies either the president or the vice president were ever briefed on this and trump himself labeled the piece they can use the free news new york times must release anonymous source they can do it this person probably does not even exist now it's going to be slammed by the russian foreign ministry which called the peace deliberate decision from ation saturday also so the taliban denying the new york times article. takes a closer look at the piece 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 u.s.

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 this c'est claims are said to be based on interrogations of captured afghan 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 ellsbury 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 the 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 now. 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 betrayal of most sacred duty we bear as a nation to protect and equip our troops in recent 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 story is 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 moscow 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. and joined in line mike's abrams fellow at the quintin institute for responsible state craft thanks for joining us max with her background to the story they're all parties accused of denied the claims so that leaves us with the question to what extent do we believe these anonymous sources what do you think. you are i mean this is the new york times. are saying. you know thin sources. it's horrible to know a lot of all this i mean by one this is the new york times response to be the record no of the other really and article doesn't really spells of. i how it gets into our was generated out so personally it was based at least somewhat on speaking

with criminals in afghanistan military taliban etc but that doesn't actually seem that reliable there can't be a leadership has denied the story of the russians have also tonight the story and also over the past 34 years we've seen no u.s. intelligence agencies have been highly politicized and so we don't necessarily have as much faith in their assertions as we did before of course there's an election coming up in this is a very you know tightrope story because it helps to promote your trope that he that trump is in cahoots with him because a lecture trump knew about these bounties but didn't try to punish russia in any way and so certainly there's a partisan impulse to promote this story even though we get it seems to rest on our

week in puregold basements understand the members of the mainstream media the likes of the wall street journal and c.n.n. of also backed up these allegations does that add any credibility to it or are other publishers just as likely to go on the negatives. i think it does add credibility because of course there's power in numbers and so when i 1st broke this story in the new york times i pointed out on twitter that it was weakly sourced and a number of people replied and they said yeah but we're you know it's been corroborated by you know the wall street journal sexual c.n.n. so the more mainstream media piles up on stories like this the more it takes on the impression of being true but again we can't really know that without knowing more about this how is the intel generated who is providing this into a home and is it pure or is it largely

a partisan trick well as you said you call it corroboration but how do we know that it's not just one newspaper saying well another one's published it let's do the same will be safe we'll all be together. that's particularly the case because the intel agencies how bad largely you know trot in so it's not horror per mainstream media to getting tied up in touch with the sort of another anonymous person to verify veracity of these stories even if they're not necessarily true or even if we're hearing all the you know a partial truth about it it's certainly trying to be spun in the way in a way that implicates trout in the worst manner to help push i get across the finish line. max thanks so much for coming on great to speak to max abrams my guest fellow at the quincy institute for responsible statecraft. in other news after

being delayed by the global pandemic moscow finally held its huge military parade on wednesday it marked the 75th anniversary of victory of a nazi germany but square record to the sound of thousands of marching feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland hot on their heels literally came a procession of military vehicles and equipment for the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular 5 past. the ng and the am i going to be at. me and me and i. i. me at.

my correspondent something you tell it was a red square and some. but 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 or i would i would rock and that's because i hear history 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 a 1000000 plots of independent women's battalion and it was an all female unit that was part of the fuss paper shaunie and that was part of the city get full says and actually they fought out of pottle in london which is and outside of russia and they actually managed to break through to judgment a friend says take back and hold taught 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 that what did you write it seems to join the war each would keep me 80 tell family story someone who fought and died at starting price so many survive 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 to live events held on may 9th the credit cards prevented this year so wednesday was chosen instead to run them dates back in 1945 the 1st ever victory parade was held on june 24th where many soviet soldiers managed to make it back on the frontlines in time to show the celebrations for the whole country in commemoration of victory over germany in the great patrick war for june 24th 945 i'm scheduling a parade of the active army the navy and moscow garrison the victory parade in moskos red square.

it was a long anticipated and unthink get civil day 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 to free the motherland bring back face my contributions so. we're going to get around to raising the troops we could see rain trickling from their camps but they spirits were too high to even notice it was a gloomy sunday red squares cobblestones were wet the bunches of flowers that we got off to 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 history is not always being remembered the same way imagine the white house pay tribute to the u.s. and u.k. for delivering victory in world war 2 completely ignoring the soviet effort and it's not the only example of brushing the past and hawkins reports from victory park in moscow. parlors 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 $25000000.00 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 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 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 we solving their differences the response to russia's position such as passing its own historical laws is telling rather than

a debate accusations of deliberate fools 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 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 propagandists think 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 in russia on amendments to the country's constitution details for you after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic developments only.

exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and. the world is driven by shaped by. the barriers thinks. we ask.

welcome back the voting process to reform the russian constitution began on polls are open nationwide until the 1st of july the vote 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 a single day there are around $200.00 proposed amendments to the constitution one of the changes would allow the david puton to run for president for another 2 terms critics of argued over the all or nothing approach to the vote people have to say yes or no to the whole package and can't just pick and choose which amendments they want putin 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 that would also be tougher requirements for civil servants such as banning key officials from having foreign citizenship all 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 see it 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 vote electronically so another measure to help quell the. is over covert the online platform being used promises day to encryption and previously guarantees registration for online voting closed last week and while some of the proposed reforms are proving controversial unless the log you 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 putin feels it needs to be changed opinion poll

suggests the 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 the vote and 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 obviously wants the public democratic legitimacy and fairness i think if there have been that many ballot papers would a hell of a lot more confusion than a single ballot paper saying yes or no and then bring your brother today appreciate staying with our team don't get to head to our website plenty more stories available if you go to.

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