Thanks for joining as youre watching the weekly here are not. 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 it also claimed donald trump had been briefed on the matter but the director of National Intelligence denied that either the president or the Vice President today ever been briefed on this and trump himself labeled the piece fake news the free news New York Times must release anonymous source they can do it this person probably does not even exist. The articles being slammed by Russias Foreign Ministry which called the peace deliberate decision for mation saturday also saw the taliban denying the New York Times article r. T. If you could start a closer look at the piece in question and ask who might benefit from its publication. Its time to blow off the dust that circled on any smear tactics guide books 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 MilitaryIntelligence 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 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 in 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 its 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. But it this is beyond the pale its betrayal of most sacred duty we bear as a nation to protect and equip our troops and resell them into 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 hes about to take another step towards ending the catastrophic 2 decades long invasion Russias 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 low 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 its russia collusion 2. 0 as if that has ever been worth anything more but a house impeachment that left trump unfazed by hey maybe at least Robert Mueller will have a 2nd shot around 2021. I spoke to max abrams a fellow at the Quincy Institute for responsible state craft over in the u. S. He says adonis Intelligence Data is always questionable when i 1st read this story in the New York Times i pointed out the twitter that it was weekly source to know a number of people replied to me said yeah but were you know its been corroborated by you know the wall street journal it section on c. N. N. And so the more Mainstream Media empire also up on a story like this the more it takes on the impression of being true but again we cant really know that well without knowing more about this how is the intel generated out who is providing this into the home and is it pure or is it largely partisan driven the intel egypt sees how very largely trouble and so its not hard for Mainstream Media to get entire got in touch with the sort of it or not there are anonymous intel the person who turn to verify the veracity of these stories even if theyre not necessarily true or even if were hearing all the you know a partial truth about it its certainly trying to be spun in the way in a way that implicates trot in the worst manner to help push by going across the finish line. Of to being delayed by the Global Pandemic moscow finally held its huge military parade of minds like the 75th anniversary of victory of a nazi germany red square to the sound of thousands of marching feet and those tasked with protecting them up and hot on the heels literally came a procession of military vehicles and equipment before the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular fly past. Lead. It hit. Its. Own correspondents ask you to lose down the red square 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 a 1000000 lot is independent womens battalion and it was an all female unit that was part of the suspect or shawnee and that was part of the soviet full says a nazi 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 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 fall with the partisans on someone who on the 24th of june 1945 walked into that very square right behind me judicially the ventus held on may the 9th but the coronavirus prevented this year so wednesday was chosen for the true believers that and it was not just the raw. And then date i think 945 the 1st ever victory parade was held on june 24th for many soviet soldiers that made it back from the front line and could share the celebrations for the whole country. In commemoration of victory over germany and the great patrick war for june 24th 1905 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 unthink gettable day some people strongly believed it would come. We were looking at the pile of dirty looks 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 doesnt believe in those memories the 24th of june 1945 has become a part of my life it was the most cheerful and sunny day. Time marches on from these a world changing events it seems 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 i saw the only example of airbrushing the past and hawkins reports from victory park in moscow promised then 145 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 casualties but recent events go beyond just one 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 former liberators are officially relabeled this occupants and 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 dear president putin hitler 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 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 russias position such as passing its own historical laws is telling rather than a debate accusations of deliberate falsified 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 were going to act in the future if we have a distorted or 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 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 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 have 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 reinvent a more of them which we can begin to Work Together again. A week of voting is underway mushroom amendments to the countrys constitution details for you after this break. A minimum wage doesnt guarantee you a job. But if you get a job and be paid that wage precisely that. Means youre was likely to get the job and so i would predict probably over a 1000000 people would lose their jobs if the minimum wage were doubled to 50 now they want to phase it in so maybe. That would be differentially in communities are a lot of black mississippi lower wage states. What is the. History why are there are those so determined to destroy cultural artifacts and rewrite history and so the understanding of history a true and dispassionate understanding of history is really about 2 things reverend warning the culture side we are witnessing rejects. The voting process to reform the russian constitution began polls are open nationwide until july the 1st the votes have been originally planned for april 22nd but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic to alleviate concerns about crowds polling stations of being opened for an entire week instead of a single day there are about 200. 00 proposed amendments to the constitution one of the changes would allow Vladimir Putin to run for president for another 2 terms critics have argued over the all or nothing approach about the vote but people have to say yes or no to an entire package and cant pick and choose which amendments they. Supported the changes and a speech in the state duma back in early march. It was january when president putin stuff. In 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 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 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 its not 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 or Foreign Bank Accounts that 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. Online voting is being held for the 1st time in russia 2 regions are holding their vote electronically another measure to help quell covert fears the platform being used promises day to ring corruption and privacy guarantees registration for online voting close last week now up some of the proposed reforms approving controversial lists of argued that overall change is needed for Russian Society i think its very important to note that the present constitution came out of violence came out of the time of deep uncertainty a time a very small chance 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 polls suggest 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 doesnt mean he has to go mention one day anyway putin says he will respect me technically by the way he didnt have to have this National Vote at all i mean it was passed by every russian region all 85 federal something passed in the state parliament the duma passed it the National Parliament he didnt have to have this vote hes chosen to do it because he obviously wants the public democratic legitimacy and fairness i think if there had been that many ballot papers it wouldve been a hell of a lot more confusing than a single ballot paper saying yes or no. After months of Lockdown People around the world have been enjoying their 1st taste of freedom in recent weeks following the easing of many coronavirus restrictions but those thinking the fight against the virus has been won the World Health Organization is warning its only just begun. Globally the primary if you still accelerating. It took more than 3 months for the 1st 1000000. 00 cases to be reported. The last 1000000 cases were reported in just. Use among those whove already felt the 2nd wave china a recent outbreak there was traced to a local wholesale food market which supplies more than 80 percent of Agricultural Products to the Capital Beijing the government acted quickly shutting it down and farming up its Testing Program was planned to test an entire area in just 3 days thats more than 60000. 00 people we asked locals how the process went. I thought it would be fast to take such a test but in fact i spent 3 hours queuing up for the test but when i saw the doctors my heart sank because their protective goggles were all folks and their sweat was running all down their faces. Meanwhile in germany new cases of the coronavirus have continued popping up in various regions leading local authorities to impose Counter Measures which have differed from city to city after outbreaks at Meat Processing plants the german food and agricultural minister has called for price increases to help create a safer working environment into all of our ports. Dealing with coronavirus here in germany has moved away from sweeping National Measures with restrictions being lifted or imposed based on regional factors. Here in berlin authorities have lifted restrictions that had limited get togethers to a maximum of 5 people from 2 different households earlier the same movies being made in the states of brandenburg. Its a very different picture in north rhinewestphalia an outbreak centered around a meat packing plant in the city of beirut is law the scene over 1500 people test positive and a Strict Lockdown until the end of the month has been imposed on the area. Undoes we will order a lockdown for the whole district of killer slow the purpose is to calm the situation to expand testing to establish whether or not the virus has spread beyond the employees of tonys and we will get a better picture of the situation there intensive testing and can then see more clearly within 7 days what the situation is we want to bring about this lockdown which will stay in place until june 30th and bring us more cleared of all those long queues have formed as tests of being made available to everyone in the affected regions the military being drafted in to help with the large scale testing Operation Health professionals suggest that a large number of symptomless code would carry is a behind this spike the largest localized outbreak in germany. It is already the idea of these tests because we know that there are symptoms people who dont have a high fever who carry the virus and then unfortunately spread it today weve counted around 402600 people waiting and we will also be setting up a hotline in the next few days to help with the registration. Locals queuing for tests arent at all happy with the slaughterhouse at the center of this spike all the state authorities they say should have done more. Akin 45 but dont want to be careful and take the test i dont have symptoms and what should i say im a bit angry with the slaughterhouse that they didnt react sooner and now our region is headed into another log down we have to go through it. Often fine definitely the politicians in their thirtys should have reacted and then completely convinced that the 1st kind of those infected were faked and then not taking any responsibility. Away from north rhinewestphalia theres also a localized lockdown in the city of my whip workers and is being seen bringing water and supplies to some of the 800 also families who are being taught. To quarantine. Around 700 people remain in an apartment complex and get again a forced quarantine which turned violent last weekend and remember i said restrictions were being lifted in berlin well not for old berlin as in the friedrich china area of the german capital almost 40 households of being put on lockdown those living nearby a concerned about the risk posed a not too happy with those who faulted social distancing the policy in the summer. And i have a feeling the fear can you explain why because i belong to the risk group and i have medical conditions. Were doing this for weeks and months we dont do visits anymore mostly we sit on the balcony apart from Grocery Shopping or a walk pharmacy or the doctor thats it. If pushed if you dont understand why some have clauses in the box and in the compounds we dont understand this. Off the back of those regional covert 19 spikes authorities here in berlin have said that they will be enforcing fines against those law wearing face coverings on public transport or in shops as we try to get back to his normal a life as possible while still remembering that corona virus is infectious today as it was a few months ago all over all see it. And ive enjoyed it today thanks for staying with me throughout the evening here on our team to national to stick around if you can michael to join thomas will be here with updates for you. Have been to National Memorial awards has extended its deadline for submissions. All media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or a part of a global news. You can submit to your published works in either video or format go toward doughty dot com and it and. The. 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