Follow their latest developments and look back at whats been happening over the last 7 days to watch the weekly here and r. T. International. Now after being delayed by the Global Pandemic moscow finally held its huge military parade on wednesday marking the 75th anniversary of the soviet victory over nazi germany red square echo to the sound of thousands of marching feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland and hot on their heels quite literally was a procession of military vehicles and equipment before the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular fly past. Please this is. 0. 00. It. Is. It well correspondents tell you there was than red square watching the parade and summed up the emotions of the day. To me actually the most moving part of the day is all to the present spoken and they say in unison. And thats because i hear history in that sound there are echoes of those people 75 years ago on red square the sick she was celebrated but more importantly so with the people who had fought tooth and nail to bring about my grandmother for chachi for india 1000000 lost his independent womens battalion and it was an all female unit that was part of the suspect shaunie and that was part of the city it still says a nazi they fought out of a bottle in london which is that of russia and they actually managed to break through the jump into france says take and hold top the 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 a detail from the story someone who fought and died starving cried someone who survived the blockade of leningrad so many people with the partisans on someone who on the 24th of june 1945 walked on to that very square right the high. Me Saskia Taylor there were traditionally the event is held on by the 9th but be corona virus to prevent that from happening to share say wednesday was chosen for the jubilee instead and it was not just a random day t. That because back in 1905 1st of a victory parade was held on june the 24th when many soviet soldiers had made it back from the front lines and could share the celebrations with the whole country. In commemoration of victory over germany and the great patrick war for june 24th 945 im scheduling a parade of the active army the navy and moscow garrison the victory parade in moscows red square. It was a long anticipated and unfit gettable people strongly believed it would come. We were looking at the pile of wet cloths and. The long expected victory had come and we the worries that helped our people to free the motherland bring back peace as my contribution. To your rounds in reaching 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 doesnt believe in those memories the 24th of june 945 has become a part of my life it was the most cheerful and sunny day. Plus time does march on from these world changing events it does seem that history is not always being remembered 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 its not the any example either of brushing the past down hawkins the reports from fiction park in moscow on those then 944 american Great Britain had victory over the nazis but us president came under fire for ignoring the part played by other nations in defeating fascism not least the soviet union which suffered over 25000000. 00 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 controversy turned to something and forgivable all but equating the soviet unions 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 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 resolving their differences the response to russias 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 were going to act in the future if we have a distorted a corrupt titian of history then were 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 too to some extent im 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 StatesRussia Britain the French Resistance forces china back to allow us to begin to reinvention a world in which we can begin to Work Together to get. The u. S. Secretary of state is a key to the u. N. Human Rights Council of hypocrisy after release the resolution for on up in the wake of the killing of george for. Last month mike also pointed his finger at cuba china and iran where he thinks Racial Disparity to be systemic however un document itself has also been criticised by activists creeps who being too mild is more against the reports when the entire world gets these agri this view reus something must be done Rights Groups and Civil Society have mobilized armies of activists the lawyers to make sure that it does its now or never hears 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 growth 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 youre mad in a sense are your brother the 1st keep on air america and you have the power to help get those from. The un human Rights Council hears that it gets to work and draft statements it says what the people wanted to say strongly condemns racism against africanamericans and the Structural Racism built into the American Government it says it will investigate abuses against africanamericans in the United States this is feyerick stuff powerful and righteous we believe the situation in the United States warrants country specific intervention and then 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 didnt 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 resident relevant special mandate holders to prepare a report on systematic racism i lay sions 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 of 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 its a common problem see no longer will the u. S. Government be shamed and called out for the murder of george florida now its a global murder we all black and white and asian and arab were 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 market 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 Floyds murder had happened in. Syria or in iraq it would have been a war crime. Knelt on a defenseless handcuffed mans 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. Ghastly of their company this hour a week of voting is underway in russia at the moment on amendments to the countrys constitution but have a look at the details on that. Just after the problem. Is you will be a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. 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Welcome back to the way clean our vote on reforming the russian constitution kicked off on thursday and polls are open nationwide until the 1st of july the vote had been originally planned for april the 22nd but was delayed by the coronavirus a pandemic and to alleviate concerns about crowds polling stations are open for a whole week now instead of a single day there are around 200 amendments to the proposed to the constitution one of the changes would allow Vladimir Putin to run for president for another ting terms critics have argued over the all or nothing approach to the vote and people can pick and choose which amendments they battle and which they dont but payton added his support to the changes in a speech in a state duma back in early march. It was january when president putin stunned russia by proposing changes to the countrys 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 yeltsins constitution created what would be criticized as a hyper president ial 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. 00 people were killed that autumn one of the most important proposals today is to end that hyper president ial 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 russias 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 wont be able to serve for as long as putin has but it isnt that a member which has got western media excited putins 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 its 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 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 its an all or nothing vote russians wont be able to pick and choose which of the amendments they want to say its 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. Well mind though seeing is being held for the 1st time in russia 2 regions are holding their votes electronically and it is another measure to help quell covert theory is the Online Platform being used promises data encryption and also gives prison guarantees registration for online voting closed last week now are some of the proposed reforms are proving to be controversial analysts have argued that overall change is needed for Russian Society russia is now in a situation is a difficult situation since the whole world situation is bad the economy good situation political situation and so on so in a certain sense its useful for to really do. Institutions before. The crises that will happen to the World Economic goals roselands that will happen to give some. To do suicide due to the Russian SocietyRussian Society now is a very big row you stick society its not a monolithic society so it to a certain extent the idea to have so many amendments. Isnt now is. To create Something Like a national compromise. Now the black lives Matter Movement is having an impact on many sectors at the moment and one of the latest is the p. C. Industry the worlds biggest Cosmetics Company loreal has said it will drop all references to white and fair in its skin care ranges it does come after Many Companies faced a backlash for marketing skin whitening products one of them the Corporate Giant has also announced it is going to rename its product line which is currently called fair and lovely. We recognize that the use of the words fear white and light suggest a singular idea of beauty that we dont 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 the petitions state these whitening products were developed from internalized racism and promoted anti black feelings meanwhile the us giant johnson and johnson has said its going to pull its entire range of lightning products distributed in asia and the middle east to start in only made their. Land didnt seem relieved why did you raise your eyes without the audience get real 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 however a lot of people who do use these products are outraged at what is happening we put the issue up for debate. Theyre 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 are you have to also remove tanning solutions to mean lotions tanning oils so i think that we should make it completely legal still because its everyones 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 selfhatred 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 its 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 its massaging a stick because men look at their breasts more thats like saying the same thing i mean every every day something is going to be quoted as racist and i dont think thats right and i think that people are moving way too fast with this notion and i dont think that should be the case as right now there is never a speed thats too fast to eradicate racism we have been for hundreds of years seeing the remnant of that. In the form of selfhatred and physically for china its rooted in attempting to create parity with europeans who came in sign a back in the thirtys i think that chinas case about why you know what incomes and whatever its 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 its not about why supremacy is about peoples 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 thats. So thats 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 dont want to identify with my ethnicity either way its peoples rights to their own body whatever they want to do i dont like how payola look i put 10 cream on every day and i think its great i dont think its White Supremacy i dont think that im trying to be black and i dont think im trying to be darker its just i think that thats why i like it suits my body well and i like that the status symbol of white the artist i think created in the minds of people around the world that if you are white margret or that has been brainwashed and then its equal and unfortunately it was her face or not even inspired an. Insane talent that Michael Jackson possess in spite of his wealth of math i think what we should do is that we should educate people on the notion that that white isnt just so most beautiful you dont hear of stuff in the shelves to make that happen and you could educate people you commit make a movement saying that i think that if youre movies when creams off the shelves people go to dangerous notions dangerous measures to make them see their skin away provide education for children for the future your future generation the current generations to say that hey whiter isnt beautiful and you are perfect just what you are and then its up to them to decide what they want to do with their lives. Debate we had here this week an r. T. So that side of things looking on the way through were back with more stories for you from the last 7 days and about half. The world is driven by dream shaped by one person. Or dares thinks. We dare to ask. Secrets prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however he even the most prosperous can be deceived within the 0 song there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave prison was located and only see you can paul had access to the story for investigators sure hell they uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean there you go read it nor in. Hockey see maybe a sore knee yes or no for. Crying for justice on r. T. Tom. Parker. On welcome to world the part we often hear in that a human life is. Priceless speech may sound search or is a political statement but simply not true in the chronometry economists have loans at taj a price tax base human live like Everything Else in the market is to stop symbols to fluctuations with what is the cost of food inc human lives above Everything Else while to discuss that im now joined by david handlers and a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University professor henderson its good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and your show now one of the things that has been possible in the us throughout the call this 19 pandemic is that in many countries its economists spread merrily liberally minded economists who are very much in favor of the