This russian mob 77 years since the breaking of the seizure leningrad one of the most appalling humanitarian. Welcome great to have you with. The pentagon insisted its being to washingtons own watchdog afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies over progress in americas longest war. And has details. Common cynicism aside most people would prefer that those responsible for leading the country tell the truth and this is most especially true when it comes to situations like war where the lives of the men and women in the armed forces are on the line well according to the special inspector for afghan reconstruction the pentagon. Has been lying for years the problem is theres a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive so almost require or for people to la theres an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce now the department of defense was quick to chime in and dispute this congressional testimony here is the response the idea that there was some efforts to hide the truth the reality on the ground just doesnt hold water this idea that they were somehow missed statements i dont think that really joes it has been roughly a month since the Washington Post published the afghanistan papers this is a trove of documents from the office of the special Inspector General showing a sensually among many revelations that the efforts of the usa against the taliban have been completely ineffective americas top military brass were clueless about afghanistan and had no real understanding of what was happening on the ground and no real strategy this is how one of the top military generals under the administrations of both bush and obama explained it would trying to do here we didnt have the full goose newsham the would ruin the taking through the fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. In the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary internally the pentagon knew that the situation was bleak however that is not what was told to the u. S. Public for years americans have gotten a steady stream of information claiming that there was progress being made in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. That i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and were doing a tremendous job. And as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest. And we. Weve got him down very low numbers wise lies and more lives the usa has been in afghanistan for 17 years now making it the longest military engagement in all of us history and despite the new revelations showing how bleak the situation is and that deception was part of the modus operandi for the pentagon it seems like top voices in washington still dont have an exit strategy they look mop and r. T. New york. Experts told us the whats dogs revelations come as no surprise. Weve been told so many times by by american journalists that weve now learned that were there everything is going to get better in your stand that weve actually done in a circle. Explains a lot of people who are. Informal its a juror b o responsible who work. For progressives there are errors there they dont want to jeopardize their career very very. Its not going well and were not in progress i think it is definitely time for the United States to remove its troops weve been there 80 years we have killed over 150000 afghans some of whom are colophon some of whom are you know various militia groups for the great majority are afghan civilians who only want peace here in their current 3 something they really here. The Inspector General is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secret word leaked those words leaked after year after year after year of this same nonsense being repeated so its possible for these things to build and steamrolled but the United States has a has a president who campaigned on ending this war and is that out repeating the tired old lies that hes about to win it in a day which are not unique to this war they say they come with every war every occupation and theres not even been a requirement that a victory be defiant nobody has any idea what it would be a victory is to continue losing for another year. The Russian Program rested on washingtons request refusal resulting to cheer in an effort to break Alexander Vinokourov being held in greece and u. S. Cyber crime and Money Laundering challenges hes now written a plea for help. Theyre trying to use torture and psychological pressure to break me they do not allow me to breathe fresh air the last time they let me out for a walk for a few minutes was on new years eve im a man without rights illegally imprisoned in greece for 30 months without charges they want to destroy me for my knowledge they want my head on a block just because of what i know and my technological abilities the case of alexander vinick is a case of blatant violations of human rights its an International Disgrace this man is been imprisoned for 13 months without a charge in greece hes not being prosecuted in greece without a sanction without a penalty without a trial alexander is not a criminal alexander is someone who has extremely high skills technological skills in blocked Chain Technology he has not targeted for any kind of criminal behavior because its very clear that what he has done is not criminal however what he has done is very very annoying to those who wish to control the economic. Exchanges of the people what is worse is that during the last days the conditions of detention of alexander didnt make amount to cruel and inhuman treatment which is a form of torture as we all know alexander is being denied the right to go outside his. Hospital room hes been hospitalized during the last 12 months more than 12 months actually and today his mother who came to visit him from russia was the night the right to see her son. I think was arrested in 27. 00 the u. S. Accuses him of injuring billions of dollars through. A Digital Currency exchange shes also want to buy friends which klinsmann it carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell russia wants to question him as well athens has already approved his extradition to all 3 countries however russias acting foreign minister has criticised the procedures warning that greece has completely failed to examine the evidence presented by moscow and another lawyer for victim a famous sort of told us why he should be extradited to russia. I greece has not only decided to extradite alexander simultaneously to 3 countries but has also specified the order by which alexander should go to these countries the point is that the extradition of alexander to the United States cannot be fair as he has never been there and hasnt committed the crimes that the usa attributes to him work with new technologies cannot be a crime especially if at the time of the activity the legislation regulating these actions simply did not exist. Concerning france they used only american evidence and investigators have never concealed it but today we know that france is not going to conduct any prosecution against him on its territory so the decision about the extradition of alexander vinick to france and then to the United States is purely technical the socalled greek trick is this to send him to france where hes going to be rejected and then sent him to the usa. The best ending for both alexander vinick and for every other party to this case will be of course his extradition to russia because russia is the place of the alleged crimes and because russia has all the information it is capable of creating joint inquiry commissions for conducting an investigation and any field. French president is being rushed out of a parish sit under a hail of boos is furious protest as theyre chanted man is silent tried to confront him and demonstrate as against the money spent in the past police into the hole to deliver the angry message. Was the who was it was was the i quote who who was. I protestors followed clones motorcades tried to speed away the president was able to be with his wife bridgette in a black car in the middle of the group of vehicles journalists simplicio activists. Managed to film on trial in the theater audience just in front of him and was reportedly arrested for doing so is arrest has sparked outrage. Meanwhile more than 100 protesters in the french capital block the entrance to the iconic Louvre Museum people have joined. The complete withdrawal of microns proposals that sparked the governments promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the Pension Reforms most controversial aspect of it is due to debate the bill next month but there are mixed public feelings about protests. Tom calma the filmmaker to them im happy that theyre defending culture i left at 7 in the morning from additional on where im from to see the an artist eventually exhibit but its not a big deal because if they do not strike there want to really be a law for as we know it so i dont mind the strike im actually happy i support the. Cops. If someone would lend my hand im ready to break through the picket line because this situation is unacceptable i dont care about their pension issues restoring these theyre uniting and supporting each other reinforcing each other so thats why im here please also call we are against it they should not be here picked in for an hour to strike to express their opinion very good but to piss off everyone all day long who comes to visit comes from far away thats shameful what. We understand the anger of the business is what this anger should be directed at the government who wants to force its pension reform project through we are not the ones that are standing in the way were not blocking the public Cultural Service on the contrary were fighting for a strong public Cultural Service where you look at the support of the population of the strikers were very surprised to see the government maintains its position is of extremism that is unacceptable for democrats like me who voted for manual macro in the 2nd round of the president ial election against marine the exact. 7 years ago the red army broke the nazi siege of leningrad with the blockade being fully lifted a year later and the vast majority of victims in the city died not from bombing but from hunger and hypothermia and in gods name may have changed to St Petersburg but the horrific memories they still run deep. There are was. Just as when it was over me and my friend went to a store with food stamps there was a huge field and suddenly we saw a plane it dropped a bomb we were taught that if we see a bomb flying towards us you have to run in the direction of the bomb because that way itll pass over you but we ran away we got away and kept walking suddenly i realized id left her behind she walked towards a fence i came up to check on her realized she was hanging on the fence already dead my friend what could i do i was barely alive myself some people helped me carry her home a good thing we werent too far away from home because were. Like uk i knew when my father died of hunger and we were going to bury him the weather was extremely cold it was about minus 36 or 38 degrees we owed thanks to our neighbor who constructed the casket for him and helped us to carry my father to the cemetery and the cemetery there was a chapel next to the chapel there was a pile of dead bodies higher than the chapel itself and every time i come to that place i still can see this pile of dead bodies in my head i still have this picture in my head. Was. Right after i buried my father i signed up as a nurse at the military Field Hospital once in january i came home from the hospital and my mother was lying on the bed hall for life but she said to me zoya i think im about to pass away i bought meat patties at the market and i think theyre made out of human dont leave the girls alone dont marry to. And dont cut your hair short after an hour she died. They always said the russians will win our pilot course was shot down i remember they carried him in sheets he was all around his skin was brown from bruising and we compared to after him with medicine they know it him into it and he exclaimed please save me i have to keep flying i have to keep fighting. Bloody him if it is also to get part in commemoration events who has laid flowers at the stone monument at the nevski prayer the chalk memorial site weve seen the fierce fighting world war 2 this believe the russian president s father was also injured. During the war many lives in the city was saved by the simple tricks of a metronome. Did you. Did that. Metronome followed by charlatans were broadcast on one and a half 1000 speakers throughout leningrad so slow be retrained. The german bombers were on their way became a symbol of resistance to the nazi air raids and resistance to terms starve people to death if a National Reports from the northern capital. Leningrad known today as St Petersburg was a main strategic targets for nazi germany and the fates they prepared for this beautiful city was still laid to waste by bohrman 8 and also starving its almost 3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was how death became routine when you walk down the street and then you remember it or rather try to forget you come across dead bodies carried on sledges all the time or dead bodies lying on the streets and at some point there was a law they simply stopped paying any attention to these horrific sights peerless review and i remember the 1st time i saw a corpse on the street wrapped in some rags at 1st it was scary but then people got used to it and just walked by i can see the bodies were just randomly dumped in the street eventually they took them away. Their childhood was stolen by merciless war gongs and hunger there was already too much for them there was something maybe even more terrifying as lack of food became too dramatic children as well as many adults often became a target. Enough to germany 400 people so the worst thing was the hunger it was unimaginable at the factory they gave us just 200 grams of bread it was made from strange and gradients some a drop in the cabbage others ate burnt sugar i dont know how i survived and i think god saved my life. People saw gold but even less so couldnt bear it anymore the water supply system for all these magical obst of all people hungry people freezing people they now became 1st super bowl searching for war to everywhere including sewerage system. And we went to get water on food with sledges it was very cold there was a severe frost the river had frozen over but there was a hole and people were queuing to get water to drink people still wonder how we didnt die drinking this water the citizens during the tillery shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous says this sign one of many similar across the city these warnings became a symbol of dangers faced by residents of letting god during the siege and still today they stay as silent reminders of those terrible days. Phrases like where are you really from could land you in trouble of the leaving you to university which is paying students to snitch on classmates think you could make racist micro aggressions full story after this break. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. Dares thinks. We fear him to ask. You know world big part of the law and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. Come back stop making everything a race issue comments such as that can now get you in hot water just the u. K. University which will pay students to snitch on people making what it calls racist micro aggressions university in Northern England will hire 20 students as race equality champions and will pay them more than 9. 00 pounds an hour to report offenders examples of acceptable questions are why are you searching for things to be offended about and where are you really from we ask people for their reaction to the. Sometimes like you do you dont realize a year like maybe being mean with someone and you dont even realize and i think its important to tell you about it people often ask. What theyre from so if i say for example base your mark on. A lot of people stopping you know your talent your dog or terrorist bug a lot i do get where youre from because i know that i have a little accent and there was a oh im so sorry and i know why you apologizing because i dont take a i was like a bad thing i think it is an air of ignorance really. I just not really being aware that someone might be offended by subway. However theres been a significant online bank lashed to the universitys initiative the regime of the shuttled university have decided to Police Incidents of perceived rudeness with an army of made student my Group Russian detectors for police jobs at the university of sheffield how is this not illegal what the hell have i just read the author problematize is even benign curiosity is a micro aggression and therefore as racist this is a recipe to create a climate of distrust and a breakdown of social relations these people do not speak for me the university claims its main objectives are to facilitate healthy open discussion and give students the tools to think critically about race issues this statement goes on to say micro aggressions have a real impact on minority groups talk radio host and columnist john galt feels that the Program Current end up though doing more harm than good. We need to obviously condemn racism but recruiting students to do it like it is if theyre undercover are think its horrible i think its the sin and of a very very big wedge and also to be very concerned about who does sorry its what he is not allowed to he said its another attack on freedom of speech and universities should be cathedrals of free speec