tv Documentary RT June 30, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm EDT
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after journalists and course we know that trump has said that the press is the enemy of the people which is one of the most dangerous statements ever made by a us president the ramifications are vast right thank you that was marjorie cohen legal scholar and professor julian of songs a tradition thanks marc thank you chris.
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but a quick history lesson in economics you know people talk about socialism what is socialism business idea that labor as a value and that people want to take part and the means of production and the guest starting in the 1980 s. that became obsolete because all wealth was tied to money printing today in 2020 so that would be 40 years later than this common curse to call activists and labor rights activists and workers are they getting out that the problem is not about the means of production the problem is the money printers and they're taking action. the world is driven by shaped by from person.
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no dare's thinks. we dared to ask. the one guy up here he was a lay found him literally dead like this is standing up there a guard over here and his girlfriend they were found in their apartment that they just got. cuddled up and they were dead for like 3 days holding each other this wall so people who have lost their lifes early to addition yeah this is from akron. that crown is better known as the meth capital and i'm high and it's
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a city where the number of drug addicts keeps growing every year. i came up when i was 14 and my whole family were drug addicts. throughout much of the 1990 s. and beyond and the doctors were incursion in some cases incentivized to overprescribe. i mean that enough to sedate a small country why you should also hear about people by all that's that good stuff man we gotta go get dead i got crazy you need too much you know to go. down there succumbing you know one after the next.
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we go to work you straight home. trump is now said to him bark on his 1st foreign tour the 1st stop is of all countries saudi arabia. that coup aren't form becomes i way of life a mindset the banner of victory has been the most important symbol of our country the russian federation in memory of those killed in action defending their homeland and watched the live coverage on our t.v. growing up in america i was a child of the cold war and when i would hear soviet leader speak like an international event or watch a soviet war documentary the narrator's voice was almost always the same and very memorable for me little did i know way would meet this man one day his name is george watts and i've become very good close friends with him and i want you to
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learn something about him his life is an odyssey like none other it's. got to homelands. russia is a homeland of my parents and my grandparents and i honor them because every every person has a right to love their homeland. place where they were born. i love canada because i was born in canada. so i'm a rich man actually i have 2 home once. i guess i should begin with them but that's a beginning my father was russian. my mother was ukrainian they both lived in 2 neighboring villages in western ukraine they were service they told the land
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they worked for the landlords very poor and when to leave revolution broke out in 1917 my father a 16 year old boy at that time one teared. to join the red army that was the revolutionary army at that time to overthrow the czar or the king of the russian empire. at the end of the russian civil war because the resolder stephan was returns to his native village sydney but very soon after he receives an offer to work in canada stefan accept the offer he eventually flees from chaos hunger in typhus life in canada seems promising a new employer pays for the moving in guarantees a stable job 2 years after stefan moves his wife arrives in canada they settle in
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the small town of winnipeg across the border with the united states after a short while the couple have 2 children george and carl the great depression is in full swing. at the height of the great depression everyone was jobless everyone knows travelling around in box cars looking for jobs all right canada then the canadian government launched a program called homesteading the homesteading program. which is based on the following. the government of canada gave those who wanted to volunteers 'd free land absolutely free couple of horses a cow poultry my father while the interior for home setting and we moved. north in manitoba to a place called near swan lake and we have plenty of food in the day
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my father and his friends and relatives built the house we were there we started going to school there walking about 6 miles to a country school but there was no money no money no money was exchanged my mother made milk with the help of carl and myself we're churning i remember my childhood i was churning milk up and down. no one knows what a churn is and still no money exchanged were my dad only god who had all the potatoes vegetables chickens everything to eggs milk. all the food we needed. 1939 the beginning of world war 2 canada interest the war alongside great britain the hardships of the great depression and the challenges of world war 2 speed up the process of
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industrialization in canada the defense industry is rapidly developing family moved to the city of hamilton where stefan gets a job at a steel factory their sons george and carl enter the west still secondary school of hamilton and work with their father at the steel mill the future of the translators relations with language is challenge to say the least when i was studying french and latin it was still secondary school i was the worst french language student in my class. and they were c. sure handing out papers at the. half of the easter holidays christmas holidays and final exams and here to hand out the highest marks 1st and the lowest. marks last and i was the last one to get the my paper he is george.
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fantastic made 22 out of 100 but i've got i got his message of course and a nice or when the his handing of the papers after the easter exam he said george terrific progress you make you double your mark you've got 44 but you're still below 50 with a passing mark. and he says george you'll never pass french. finally in august. local local newspaper came hamilton spectator the results of the final exams in the west village secondary school by class george what's in brackets 8 i got it i got at. the end of the 1940 s. the world is recovering from the deadly war george's father was aggressively political though not a communist nonetheless aggressed as were suspect and often blacklisted it was his
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father's politics and love of the place of his birth at the time russia then the soviet union the drove him to return to help rebuild the country after the savage invasion in occupation by nazi germany. my father when we lived in canada the 2nd world war broke out and it was devastated by the war and after the war ended. my father worse followed the movements of the front least in front going east and command rolling back towards berlin. and me the reason we came to the country he said let's go to new my homeland and help the people rebuild them their homeland. i was 20 years old 1000 at the time. my brother was 20. and we upheld my father's initiative and we came to this country to help rebuild. the
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family waited for permission to enter the soviet union for several years and only in 1951 the soviet embassy in washington sent a positive response the wants family set off without having any idea how different life had become in the soviet union on april 3rd 1952 george wants to spend we return to the u.s.s.r. we got out of the train that brought us across the river from poland into belorussia to breast and my father was saw overwhelmed. by returning to his native homeland as cheers appeared in his eyes and. he one bowed down and kissed the ground. and i was very impressed i saw remember that. picture vividly in my mind my father.
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coming down on his knees and kissing the ground. since the inception of the soviet union western media had always viewed this country with suspicion and even hostility george was pleasantly surprised people were helpful in kind still recovering from the sufferings of the war the country were just rebuilding and people were lucky they felt lucky they were alive that. most important thing. because life was one time gift. and you have to live it the to the best of your ability and people were just happy they were alive they were helping each other. and. the primary purpose of history is to understand the cost as a guide to understanding the present and future history should not be is feeling
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goodness knows it because a lot of history is to eat fish so how should we find the right balance is that you suck the life. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me to be yet to shape out these days to come as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told
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a shot to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and. my arm and he raped me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tapping but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offender and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. 54
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jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this who really owns what china says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this. story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again.
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we arrived in the city of butter schill of god which is in the ukraine which is glasgow now called who. my parents are buried and when we arrived there. we were 1st of all we had no place till the day we rented a room and the people the local people never. seen anyone like that before came to us and proposed to help us in any way the could. list food with. books for my brother and i had never read a russian book before and they were very friendly and kind hearted this is one thing that i experienced right from the very 1st day and all through my 65 years here in this country and i experienced this every day even now another thing i noticed at that time there was no advertisement. no
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commercials anywhere there are there was only one thing i noticed on the. side of a whole huge building on brick there was. a sign in russian wish read ice cream is. very delicious and healthy for food what kind of ice cream did mention this to the woman foodies this struck me immediately i remember that. right from the ferny 1st day there we arrived in the city i'll tell you one thing when my brother and i started studying in moscow that was 1955 how we weren't hungry. we weren't starving. but we never turned down any thing that was offered to us to eat or drink and we i remember one thing we were living in the dormitory the foreign language
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institute not far from red square. and we could have forgone our meager stay penned which is kind of a scholarship that we cook we could buy black caviar. is used in store for. a little bit. higher price than the other food products but that's when we 1st tasted black caviar never had the black caviar in canada at all never not even red. how would you like to have your name changed by someone in a split 2nd a new name not of your own choosing well that is exactly what happened to george and his brother. they had a russian identity that was in version of god in 1952 within. i think was in 2 weeks we had to report to the local police station new it's called
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the militia. in the soviet union that time to go to the passport department and asked for them to fill out on the basis of what kind of document you have so my brother and i got on board and street car travel to you know the part of the show. and what do you want boys in little window on the door. who are speaking in russian who were shy because we couldn't speak very well. and sports cars what's your name. george is one. george i don't understand. to a hair's here's my birth certificate written george watts. that's not a russian name here going to be going to gordie says make no difference to me and my brother says what's your name is caro. after the war
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against nancy germany. no that's not a russian name you're going to be killed. so that made a lady at the passport desk just took like the click of the finger give me one name my brother another name and. the fact that george was a need a speaker of comedian english would be a priceless for a young man coming from the working class george's language skills would be the determining factor for the rest of his life when i came to the soviet union. i finally realized that my knowledge of english. my pronunciation of anguish knowledge of english grammar structure. and phonetics. was actually a boon and they borrowed some money from our neighbors to go to leningrad
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foreign language institute and we've got a reply from 11 grad here if you pass your exams you'll be given accommodations at the dharma tory local government and i was in laying grad a place called institute of noble ladies which was. called the here famous headquarters of the communist party when the revolution started but anyway with my brother and i went there replied we we finally managed to pass the entrance exams we were given. combinations in the dormitory we began studying everything seemed to be going to go good and then right after the new year we got called out to the principal really in in russia called the director directress lady together where they are from the titian actions you boys you 2 boys from canada will have to change your pronunciation of
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what because we here at our instead we teach king's english james came king james english. i said i can them. pretend i don't understand will you please pour me a cup of tea. be to be so kind as to pay for me a cup of tea. they didn't then anyway to day the long and short of the story was they transferred us to moscow with commendations which had a translator's department we were welcomed with open arms by the teachers of very good teaching staff in moscow the 1950 s. were a time of great change in the soviet union and on the world stage after joseph stalin died in 1983 to khrushchev would initiate a political fall with the west george was in the right place at the right time. to
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who should have came to power. there a hill and nurse invited business men flooded into the us asserts that simon hence the big demand for interpreters and translators here late january after the final of the christmas exams there was a correspondent from radio moscow. course your vishnu best ski later on i met we met him and spoken very wine boy he was saying interviews from. english speaking students and one of the students told him says why hey why don't you interviewed 2 canadian boys heres what canadian boy. that's how just my accidents cost of vishnu best pieces you give me an interview sure why not. and so we had a very fine interview decision a you boy speak very good english i'm saloons he is canadian english. and
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he says where would you come in if our management invites you to come to work for us. he's who i always thought i would just. passing later on we got a call contact from him and he says come on up to the radio station. and i was in the center of moscow where they interviewed us he says would you like to work for us as translators announcers who are we do really don't know the particulars of this because we never had done that before we confessed and unity but we had the makings of that in 1000 could be 7 moscow holds the world just full of youth and students the festival of trucks 34000 people from 130 countries a record breaking number for that time during the festival george and his brother were taking their 1st steps in their long career in radio and so moscow launched
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a program called come to moscow for the festival by carl and george. to us but they changed our name from watts to the igor. russian sounding and that's why how we ended up in radio moscow and later on when we finished studying at institute. we managed to get a job there. i translated interpreted in the kremlin crew shot of lenin brashness thing going i didn't translate not much of. because he never would finish a sentence never. but i have voiced him in the r t. 3 or 4 times sigh. he said i was voice again and he waved to me. and i waved back at him in a way i translated and then the kremlin and even song he sang.
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a very eloquent speaker i never i never translated and drop of. the editor going by never translated turning the made you wish something atrocious. he didn't know what he was talking about. translated can translate only what he understands. that's the basic and that's the bottom line. you can translate only what you understand. time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or a transition to sustainable transport sustainability spain over man not a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely
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hama's followed to see. it into something companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is something else this must be going to mean and i need money and since i moved in this and we didn't want anyone and i'm stunting then we understood it's a good. match geysers financial survival guide the liquid assets not those that you can convert into cas quite easily. to keep in mind though as a team into a place to watch guys record. the one guy up here he was a they found him literally dead like this standing. a guard appeared his girlfriend they were found in their apartment that they just got. cuddled up and
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they were dead for like 3 days holding each other to swallow so people who. have lost her life so early today she yet this is for america. that crown is better known as the myth capital of the it's a city where the number of drug addicts keeps growing every year. i came up when i was 14 and my whole family were drug addicts. throughout much of the 1990 s. and beyond and the doctors were incursion in some cases incentivized to overprescribe. believe it enough to sedate a small country where you should also hear about people by all that said good stuff man we gotta go to bed they go crazy too much you know what are you doing. and they're succumbing you know one of the next.
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act. of god. hello there i'm an english hand you're watching in question by casting from our to america's national news headquarters in washington d.c. i want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world there are tonight's top stories breaking news overseas the e.u. is now fani pakistan's entire national airline over a pilot exam cheating scandal we're going to get to the details straight ahead then several states nationwide are now bringing back restrictions due to a spike in the hope it infections coupled with a forthcoming and the new drug known to reduce recovery time for patients now costing thousands of dollars even though taxpayer money funded the development of that drug all right it's time to prove.
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