Youre watching our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 3 pm welcome to the program. 30 years ago the berlin wall was torn down reuniting east and west berlin and held in the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high ahead of major celebrations across the country and berlin thousands are expected to take part in the west events including a variety of exhibitions on the walls history lets take a quick look at its rise and fall. The berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a line that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long its slice of this city and was erected on the night of august 13th 1981 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete fence with 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became all but impossible. Imagine this a concrete wall 3. 6 meters high and 1. 2 meters wide smooth still nerve running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watch towers every 2. 200 meters wide 962 a 2nd wall was built around 100 meters and east berlin territory this buffer zone became known as the death strip soft sand to show footprints floodlights tripwires and machine guns the guards had permission to shoot on sight and had vicious dogs the more elaborate the wall became the more creative for the ways to cross that 5000 people managed to get through climbing over climbing under through the sewers and even and hot air balloons more than 100 died trying the fearsome bear that emerged seemingly overnight and it just as rapidly on nov 9th 19891000 storm the checkpoint on board homer street at 10 45 pm the head of the checkpoint overwhelmed by the crowd gave way and open the gate the other soon followed as germany celebrates reunification to some it seems the country is still divided with an invisible line separating east and west. 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Walking through the center of berlin one can see how much effort the German Government has put for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall it almost seems that the country was never to fight it it is difficult to identify characteristics of socialist architecture between the multi ethnic restaurants and bars but leaving the center you see in all the reality west and east still remain intact 3 decades after the fall of the wall even chancellor Angela Merkel admits it runs the show that if youre into fool me hes german citizens in todays german nation if you like 2nd class citizens according to those less than 40 percent of the germans think that reunification was successful books and among those under 14 and even the figure is around 20 percent its not the lesson ha ha satisfied with democracy in germany former interior minister told us that his one said that for east germans everything has changed but for west germans only their postal cold and 30 years on his comments seem to be quite superficial a recent study shows the significant gap between the west and the east in terms of wages and unemployment and as a result of these inequalities fresh ration ends in a phobia seem to be taking over the people even after 30 years of their reunification germany still struggles to accept that the Country House multiple identities the berlin wall was put up to stop migration from east to west nile the idea seems to be life again since 2015 during the refugee crisis the country saw more than 1000000 Asylum Seekers in germany no theyre blaming them for decreasing the wages and taking advantage of their will 1st system its not a surprise that one in 2 germans believe that the country cannot handle anymore refugees saying it has reached its limits and its no surprise and nationalist sentiments are on the rise the city of that is that has. In the declared a state of nazi emergency in the recent talk on synagogue in halle has shown that more than a quarter of germans hold anti semitic beliefs. I would like to point out once again that its all those some dont want to admit this the threat of antisemitism and rightwing terrorism is high in germany and one of the areas that we also classify as high as that is islam is terror which remains you know field of view and we make no compromises there but we have to approach this phenomenon with anti semitism right wing extremism it is with the same intensity food you could see why people are happy to go up the wall is down and everybody is united but the rise of single phobia is bringing the increase of hate crimes all the chance of fight and marginalized communities should remind germany that reason if the kitchen is a process rather than just a Public Holiday we caught up with an american who defected to the soviet union in 1952 and then moved to east germany after grossman told r. T. What he thinks was better back then the old days a people almost most people seemed to have more money than they could spend because there were not enough luxury goods in the shops so that they had money to go to advocation and so forth not everybody but a large number today many many people and especially children are suffering from a severe lack of body this is another problem which has taken place and makes me think after 30 years that as with many of them in the World History theres a good side and a bad side to everything and there were some bad sides to this makes me i should add still said that that experiment the g. D. R. A part of germany at least as it was only a small part of the poor apart but at least one part of germany where they could really almost completely get rid of poverty this was an achievement which. Rarely but it reach any place in the world i think to a great extent the g. D. R. Reached that that nobody really feared suffering from poverty even 2 generations in germany could not get rid of fascist ideas and racist ideas in peoples heads but in east germany if they still had them. They kept to themselves they were they didnt voice them publicly they may have to voice them among the family in the family of Close Friends but not publicly now today and after the wall went down f. You saw it right near my home whole columns of really fascist thugs with swastikas if they can if they can somehow disguise them a little with fascist slogans and looking like just the same as the s. S. Man 80 years ago and this is one of the most frightening things about the fall of the wall. Us secretary of state mike pump i also went to berlin to commemorate the fall of the wall and use the occasion to take a jab at china and russia everyone in this room has a duty we must recognize the free nations are in competition of values with those unfree nations today russia led by a former k. G. B. Officer stationed in dresden invades its neighbors and. Slays political opponents the Chinese Communist party uses tactic as methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former east germans. Pump air as a former cia chief and did some of his military service patrolling the berlin wall but is attendance at the ceremony was also greeted with criticism from one of germanys biggest news outlets that of elah asked when u. S. Troops would finally leave germany there are currently almost 40000 u. S. Military personnel remaining in the country journalist and author Thomas Fassbender says washington fears losing influence over berlin this is a rather cheap effort. We kind ling cold war nostalgia reported that boy we kind ling german angst in the face of russia because the best way of course to do with that the best way to develop a strong enemy image among german politicians and populations is to picture or to paint brush in the mold as close as possible in the mold of the soviet union one of the central feeders of us jews d. G. Thinking as i see it is losing control over germany that germany might at one point early or later take her own fate into her own hands keeping large armies with tanks and soldiers along the russian border is from my point of view a few of which the fact of which of the intention of which is mainly to keep western europe within a status of things and fear of russia in order to stay close to the folds of the u. S. G. Used to egypt interests. The International Criminal court at the hague has made it out its highest ever penalty to make hungary as rebel warlord he joins a growing list of africans convicted by the court of crimes against humanity. Looks at why the i. C. C. Seems only to convict war criminals from africa. This. Its a very special court its out there only to rule on cases such as genocide crimes against humanity war crimes its called the International Criminal court or the i. C. C. And wont sort out lets say your cousins divorce heres its latest verdict for a murder and attempt to attempt it as a crime against humanity and theres a war crime. Or put a seclusion as a crime against humanity said to us of imprisonment. This is the convict congolese rebel commander bosco into ganda indeed hell now serve 3 decades for everything he did during a nightmarish civil war in the heart of africa the crimes have been well documented by activists so probably no one will argue the man got what he deserved it cant bring back his victims but the International Criminal courts 30 year sentence for congolese rebel leader bosco into gumba signals that even those who once thought themselves untouchable could one day be brought to justice a signal for the intelligible ok and the wait just a few minutes of research will show that all people whove ever been indicted by the i. C. C. Theres a few dozen have one thing in common theyre all from africa on the list not only rebel king pings but very top officials former leaders but again nobody from other parts of the globe sure the african continent has witnessed countless civil wars theres no need for any additional explanation for just how much blood was spilled there but what about the ugly record by the rest of the world once the court was to get the atrocities of the israeli arab conflict under its microscope heres the message that instantly came from washington the United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. We will not cooperate with the i. C. C. We will provide no assistance to the i. C. C. And we certainly will not join the i. C. C. We will let the i. C. C. Die on its own after all for all intents and purposes the i. C. C. Is already dead. So far no ones felt the strong i. C. C. Hand when it comes to that middle east crisis earlier this year alleged american war crimes in of ghana stan came into focus. If youre responsible for the proposed i. C. C. Investigation of u. S. Personnel in connection with the situation in afghanistan you should not assume that you will still have or will get a visa or that you will be permitted to enter the United States the case over the afghan intervention unanimously rejected even tony blair could have appeared before the judges in there but youve got it right its not something such a high at least seemed former u. K. V. I. P. Would go through they get a bit more into history and youll find out americas response to the very foundation of the i. C. C. Was Pay Attention to this one a law that authorizes the use of military force to liberate any american or a citizen of a u. S. Allied country being held by the court in the hague the message is clear if you dont want u. S. Marines storming dutch shores stick to the africans that someone say theres been a clear signal for the untouchable i believe that there are certain continents like africa and countries within that continent that are looked at with more scrutiny perhaps because they are less developed nations and have less power when it comes to their economies in the ability to shape world policy and so its very easy to target those countries and to ignore some of the larger countries that might also be guilty of some of these things as well but have more influence the more slip sway globally the united. States sits in a very interesting and powerful position worldwide where we are able to exert influence over International Courts and to ignore those we want to ignore and to demand investigations we want to demand them u. S. Government has a very simple policy which is that war crimes are never committed by the United States or by its military that it simply does not happen and when you take that view you immediately begin to turn around and say well we can punish anyone who thinks otherwise and quite candidly the United States government can punish countries that push against it economically and through sanctions. Weve asked the i. C. C. To comment on the issue but havent yet received a reply. They hate him but they want to thats how the syrian president bashar assad describes relations between europe and the turkish leader erda one and an exclusive interview with r. T. Its the 1st time hes spoken to an International Channel in more than a year you can watch it in full here on monday as well as on our website r. T. Dot com but for now heres a quick preview i know youre antagonistic with nato nation turkey but with dirty work and arguably yourself must be aware that western policy is liable for a blow back into the European Union would have you made of the European Union governments response to the possible. Outflow of british rises days freighters back into the European Union how dangerous is it to be in london today or paris or berlin. Actually the relation between her and the e. U. Is to always be hated him but they want him. They dont do that him to know that he is fanatic islamist they know that and theyre the bin or that is going to send them both. Extremist or maybe terrorists egypt in many refugees from your country of many of them from syria and some of them know theyre coming from different areas in the world not only syria actually but the majority of syria not all of them are extremist mob the measure 2 of them are just actually muscle they would have to look at that have to because all the terrorism in syria because of the bombardment of the tilt and so on. So they dont want him but the same. Fear him but from the other side lets hear that thing doing those. Syria and all those. Is dangerous the most dangerous on europe. Who is to support the terrorists in syria this is the most dangerous part so this is hypocrisy how can you fear those few medias the most ridicule of them all moderates and. Why do you you support those terrorists vertically in the hundreds in tens of thousands of police and maybe hundreds of thousands in syria and you dont feel that theyre going to go back to a country. Assad is not the only president weve been speaking to with the new president elect of argentina has been telling us about how the International Monetary fund has pushed his country into a deeper economic crisis details after the break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its Crazy Foundation let it be an arms race. Theory Dramatic Development only mostly im going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one the taxes are being misused theyre not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because theres a government failure number 2 Climate Change regardless of whether you believe its happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for Climate Change whether you believe it or not you know its still the price is still there. Welcome back the International Monetary fund says its ready to renegotiate the terms of a massive loan to argentina with its president elect or fernandez defeated in elections last month and made renegotiating the i. M. F. Loan central to his campaign argentina has a long and difficult history with the organization lets look back at. The latest loan from the i. M. F. Hasnt solved many problems the country is currently almost 300000000000. 00 in debt inflation thats here is approaching 55 percent poverty is also a major concern with the Unemployment Rate reaching a decade high our sister channel artist spanish was the 1st International Outlet to interview the president elect fernandez spoke with our host and former president of ecuador Rafael Correia and described how argentina found itself in this dire situation. You know we are now faced with problems that were previously unknown to us in 2015 argentina faced inflation and lack of foreign reserves of dollar peg but it didnt have excessive debt but off to my creek and he started to dent arguing it would have. To reduce Budget Surplus and the boring reached an all time record in one and a half years at some point the market told him no im not going to give you more because you wont give me anything back so what did machree do he asked the i. M. F. To help and after that the i. M. F. Loans him 57000000000. 00 which is 60 percent of the world debt to the i. M. F. In other words 60 percent of the amounts that the i. M. F. Has lent to the whole world falls on one country argentina why did they loan this money to support machree so that he can stay on as president the most expensive Political Campaign in Human History is the macra campaign it cost argentines 57000000000. 00 everyone knows that the International Monetary fund is an accomplice to whats happened everyone knows that european leaders who at that moment complained about loans granted by the i. M. F. Know that but everyone knows that i firmly believe that were going to go shave properly and we must tell them our truth because our goal is to pay off the debt and not to evade it. Brazils former president will lead to sell what free from prison on thursday and was greeted by chanting supporters. Was. All as Early Release was made possible by a new court ruling that allows convicted criminals to avoid prison if they have not exhausted their appeals hundreds of his supporters took to the streets of sao paolo to celebrate. What looks like emotional you cannot imagine what this day means to me this is the victory of democracy up and hope for brazil like louis freeh who is the hope of this country the president always cared for the poor who always look after poor people lula is free today lula forever. Its a very happy day. For me and many others because it was freed weve been waiting for justice to happen our country is a joke i believe we have a reason to celebrate and renew our energy to continue wishing for a better country a happier resilient people like you are we are here to celebrate hope will win over fear democracy will be reestablished in this country is free. Will of the silver was present from 2003 to 2012 years ago he was convicted of corruption and Money Laundering and sentenced to 12 years in prison himself denies any wrongdoing this summer there was a twist in his case at least conversation revealed that the prosecutor and the judge were privately discussing the case earlier harvey spoke with the chief editor of the brazilian news outlet opera monday. Now with out of jail does it will have a very has a very important tens because its going to be deleted off the opposition lula is going to be walking on the streets talking to the people i mean officially hes powerless new from participation in politics he took but hes much bigger than hes able to do that with this decision of the Supreme Court hes totally free to do what he wants to do including any kind of Political Action is part of the decision i remember from when i was in brazil for the 24 Team President lula was a standing but it was clear this man is greatly loved in brazil hes got a huge fan base a real presence know him just being out and about with the electorate does that put a lot of pressure on the the current president im sure it will because now the opposition is going to have a leader up to this time the amount after both are now to. The opposition of both not have a leader in brazil has no live in conditions to talk to people now with lula walking and talking on the street the opposition is going to have a very important leader that i think is going to change political situation in brazil im sure about that thats a global news wrap up for now but ill be back at the top the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. World is driven by a dream shaped by one person. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. Today there are good dentist and bad at it its the bad news in yemen the United States deems to be a threat the looked at those who are in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. Where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military windows funding an army death squads theres no post anymore because theres always a small people for a really good. Profit. Oh max kaiser this is the kaiser report i go to areas sense that things are not quite what they peer to be stacy in fact were going to look at california 1st and then were going to go to a town right here in new york and that is kingston new york where our guest in the 2nd half is from it is going to its a tale of 2 economic models over in california we know not only do we have forest fires going on all over the place huge fires thousands of people being evacuated from their homes but we see blackouts millions of people suffer and blackouts and p. G. And e. The multinational basically utility the giant Utility Company listed on the Stock Exchange they have declared bankruptcy to avoid all their obligations over you know over the last years disaster and it looks like we have a disaster again this year and people in california are not happy with the blackouts stop harassing p. G. And e. Workers Gavin Newsome says they didnt create this mass amid reports of pacific gas and Electric Company workers being threatened and run off the road governor gavin newsom urged californians to save their outrage for the utilities corporate owners and treat workers on the ground with respect over a 1000000 people and businesses have their blackouts essentially and people are getting angry and they see p. G. And e. Utility trucks and they throw stuff at them or theyre trying to drive them off the road this is this is a actually were a capitalism fails we have this debate about capitalism versus socialism its been very big in the coming election and in the areas of the economy like utilities you have a distinct preference for the role of government why in the case of the p. G. A. They are a private corporation in the business of providing a utility electricity and whenever they get in trouble they just declare bankruptcy. So its an asymmetric warfare going on they extract wealth and when they get caught doing bad stuff they simply so were going to go bankrupt and as a result youve got these enormous wildfires burning youve got the economy in danger youve got peoples lives in danger because as private corporations they know how to game the system in a way to absolve them from any responsibility and to not pay for what are called in economics the externalities of their Business Model it told he should not be in private hands transportation should not be in private hands education and medical Health Services should not be in private hands for this reason because youve got gouging and monopolization in the private sector its not appropriate for these basic core utilities of the economy our Corporate Structure today is one of private equity it extracts that equity and it leaves a carcass of debt that is indeed what you see here but the other thing you see especially in california is the woak progressives have basically enabled a tax regime whereby they always win so in california the property taxes for those who have ben there you know for the past 1020 years are extremely low and theyre not theyve passed laws long ago where they youre not allowed to raise taxes so the cost of maintaining the infrastructure in regards to the utilities