oppressive. i want to so many people legal battle began with a video that shocked the world classified footage of u.s. apache attack helicopters killing iraqi civilians and journalists released by a song. or shape an understanding of what the past 6 years of war is being why. the u.s. accused him and wiki leaks of being enemy combatants for the past decade through thick and thin asuncion always maintained he was a journalist. the saga is not over yet the u.s. government said it will appeal today's decision. well we're joined now by neil smell so he's the united nations special report on torture and has visited julian assange in prison he says the past 10 years have effectively been psychological torture for that we can leaks founder mr meltzer what's your take on today's ruling . well thank you very much for having me and yes clearly this document is

a barry important 1st step in the right direction i think it is to be celebrated that the judge has recognized that the new conditions of detention does you know fans would be facing in the us are oppressive in my view and view of many human rights organizations they would actually amount to torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment and that therefore for medical reasons also he cannot be extradited to the u.s. so that is a very important 1st battle to the one interest in this fight and a battle that is also for the prohibition of torture to recognition of the profession on the other hand we have to see to recognize that most of the judgment actually goes barry far fortunately income farming and sustaining the rationale underlying the u.s. prosecution of during the fund which could be setting a precedent by which other journalists could be prosecuted and extradited to the

united states for espionage charges if they were to publish secret information so why did mr 1000 case in particular catch your attention. to be called honest with you and to begin in the beginning i refused to actually get into this case because i was very much marked by the same prejudices that the broader public have been affected by through the mainstream press reporting on 'd this for us on for 10 years it was only when i started to actually look into pieces of evidence to see that that whole narrative that has been spread about him for so long. was not supported by evidence and that's what triggered my interest in this case and i've been visited him together with a medical team in belmarsh prison and we found that he showed all the symptoms that are typical for persons that have been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time can you get into bit more detail on that he an expert in

torture so in which way has been tortured and what's your assessment of his condition right now. yes i think thank you for the question it's important to clarify that obviously modern forms of torture. cannot be compared to the kind of medieval forms of physical torture it is very much a cumulative process of destabilizing people through isolation. and really a sion. judicial harassment which and i mean by this judicial proceedings that are not based on law but they're being conducted for political purposes where profit dural rights are systematically being violated and so the person is being destabilized systematically we see that in many countries in the world many regime used to try to use torture methods that don't the physical process and in the end it breaks a person and we actually have a confirmation of that precise process in today's judgment because it confirms that

children are found mental health is so fragile today that he cannot even be extradited to the u.s. without risking his suicide and that actually confirms that his mental health has deteriorated dramatically and that's also what we have observed together with my medical p. thank you very much news mel for the un special rapporteur on torture and of some of the other stories making headlines around the world today iran says it has resumed enriching uranium up to 20 percent that goes well beyond the threshold set by 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers decision coincides with increasing tensions between iran and the u.s. and is expected to complicate efforts by u.s. president elect joe biden to rescue that field. there's a 7th body has been found after

a hillside collapsed in the norwegian town of ask on wednesday search mission for 10 missing people has been underway for days after the earth gave way and several homes slid into a pit the queen of norway this is to the side on sunday. scotland's will be spending the rest of january in a complete nationwide lockdown the decision made by a 1st minister nicola sturgeon comes a new strain of coronavirus is putting immense pressure on the health services in the country and if the reach of increase in case numbers that we have seen in the past 2 weeks was to continue unchecked there would be a real risk over any chance being overwhelmed even with contingency plans in place in fact or more doing suggest that without further intervention we could be inpatient capacity within 3 or 4 weeks 1st minister nicola sturgeon is speaking there on the same day the 1st immunizations with a newly approved astra zeneca covered 9 $1000.00 in began across the united kingdom

it's developers have hailed the vaccine as a cheaper product that will that they say will also be easier to distribute the shot was developed in cooperation with oxford university and multinational pharmaceutical company astra zeneca for. a milestone for britain as it became the 1st country to administer the oxford astra zeneca vaccine more than half a 1000000 doses have been made available for the 1st 24 hours alone it comes as britain struggles with a surgeon corona virus infections including a highly contagious variant this 82 year old was 1st in the queue for the jab. go. to more and more into. normal. this forces turn. and it was

a proud moment for this oxford alumnus who was next in line. but it's wonderful and it's good to be able to tell. all the people. that it's good. preclears as quick as you can. britain has called it a scientific triumph the shot is less expensive and is easier to store than other covert 19 vaccines. but some are proceeding with caution it has yet to be approved in the e.u. and france's data for the jab is insufficient you spoke with a viral just in the u.k. who said the information has not been made and the level. of debt at that media group for this vaccine is only belong to the government that is not publicly available and according to the government is like this that if the 1st nose is given the person there is around 70 percent efficacy and then if it is the 2nd those given that it would be around 80 percent efficacy. at 3 months but that is

something that we haven't seen the debt as so therefore all is in error and we don't really know how ethical issues would it be particularly after the 1st dose. the european medicines agency has said it is unlikely that the astra zeneca vaccine will be approved for the e.u. in january. the e.u. is being forced to defend its comparably slow rollout of a covert 19 vaccine member states started nakul ations on the summit was 27 with the biotech pfizer packs in progress has been much slower meant in the united states or britain france has only vaccinated $500.00 people commission has vowed to speed up the rollout and there's an urgent negotiations to secure more doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine european medicines agency is expected to make a decision on whether to approve the u.s. development done a vaccine this week. let's

discuss this criticism with our correspondent marina strands in brussels marina the german government said that the rollout was a european decision and that it was always clear there wouldn't be so many of those available in the beginning what does the e.u. have to say in its defense. but your commission defended itself today again this they have been doing so in the last couple of days it's books that you commission spokesman said it's obvious that such a complex and over is always going to bring with it difficulties and your commission also said that they wanted to diversify risks at the beginning because no one could be sure which company would come out 1st which. could have been rolled out 1st so they ordered 2000000000 doses from different companies and the problem with the buy on top prize of one is as we've heard before it's quite expensive

comparatively and also it has to be transported at minus 70 degrees so that's why many member states shied away from buying a lot and then we also heard that the main bottleneck at the moment is the protection capacity. i want to bring in a graphic to give our viewers an overview of the current global vaccine rollout the company that administers the most dose is $100.00 people israel it's already vaccinated nearly 13 percent of the population that's followed by bahrain and the u.k. with united states of denmark rounding out the top 5 germany however has vaccinated less than 0.3 percent of its population making it only 9 on that list. why are you countries like germany so low down on that list. well interesting the the c.e.o. of biotech has said that companies leave trying to boost the out good but it's not

going as quick and as straightforward in europe as it is in other countries and there are many reasons for that and one of the main reasons is that the european medical agency that is not as quick in approving vixens as is the u.k. for example or the or the united states and the reason for that is that the u.k. and the united states for example are pushing through emergency authorization that you just want to do that because they say we want our population to really trust in the vaccines and that's why it's just takes a little bit longer and that's one reason another reason we also heard that in france for example just a couple of 100 people have been vaccinated so far so very low number what's going wrong there apparently have not set up a mass exodus centers as not the countryside just takes too long and some people also say it's just a huge bureaucratic ford and the french government is not up for it at the moment

our correspondent or even strong talking to us from brussels thank you very much. a state heads will discuss how long the lockdown should be extended for and whether the current measures should be adjusted states with low infection numbers want to shorten lock down while those harder hit want measures toughened. your daughter we need to act in those areas that are most affected in this case that saxony and the region so we'll be toughening measures for our schools and childcare facilities in tow january 31st just as will be done with public life will be increasing restrictions even more chilling. a key topic on the agenda is where the nurseries and primary schools should be closed some argue that young children struggle with online learning but germany central government remains skeptical about where the physical teaching in schools is a good idea. german police have chased

daytrippers off the slopes of a closed ski resort of the hundreds of people flocked to enjoy the snow defying a coronavirus but meanwhile ski lifts in countries like switzerland and austria have remained open over the christmas holiday by germany's previous push for a europe wide ban on state tourism is not the whole is here with me and she's researched the story goes up to speed with what's happened so over the past few days there have been thousands of people flocking to the slopes of the resort town of winter burg it's created a huge traffic jams over crowding in car parks and local police said that there were also several breaches of anti corona regulations as you can see here police did chase these data from the slopes earlier in the day they have actually brought in ways to block off access to the resorts but as you can see it has not been very successful there's been regulations in place across germany since december 16th to

try and tackle the pandemic and that's what police are trying to force there but as you see it's didn't really pay off very well no nobody listening. in germany ski resorts are closed as what countries have rejected closing down their ski lifts and one absolutely so essentially european countries are very much split on how to tackle the ski season we saw in austria switzerland and spain what they did is they actually reopened their ski slopes but actually switzerland never really didn't even brought in a ban on the ski slopes if you can see here and that was actually erected between the border between italy and switzerland that was to stop people accent skiing from switzerland which but slopes are open into its lee where the resorts are closed now austria taken a middle ground in the standoff between its neighboring countries what they found is that they had reopened desk over the christmas season but. then they closed they

kept their hotels and tourists a station tourist accommodation places closed essentially what that meant is people only living nearby the ski resorts only those could reach reach the ski resorts but austria's president the president of the austrian school says they should said that they felt that weird chairs that had been demonized and held responsible for the wider political failings in handling the pandemic but of course of course you're opposed to sions want to avoid a repeat of what we saw last march that was in the austrian region of tirol and what we saw there was. basically what was seen as a ground 0 for current affairs outbreaks and you had a terrorist parting there being on the ski slopes and then bringing the virus back to their home countries. thank you. the prime minister of malaysia at least $100.00 people have been killed in attacks on 2 villages in the country's west the 2 villages are in the bury region which also

includes the capital nyama no group so far claimed responsibility for the massacre but the west african country suffered with peter the times budget hardass near its border with mali booking a fossil. these dusty graves are where some of the 100 victims of saturday's attacks have been laid to rest the latest casualties of islamist terror that has ravaged this desolate border land in recent years. prime minister refugee visited the remote region bringing the surviving villagers promises of justice. in. this situation is simply horrible he said committed by unidentified individuals. diligent investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished.

officials believe the militants responsible traveled over the porous border from mali after villagers killed 2 of their fighters. despite a hefty peacekeeping presence attacks have been on the rise in this a hell driven by poverty religious extremism and climate change and there's locals here mourn the dead they can only pray it will be the last. venezuelan is preparing to swear in the country's new parliament following a controversial election last month's official results a present because murderous ruling socialist bloc won 91 percent of the seats in the previously been controlled by the opposition which declared the vote illegitimate and extended its current political deadlock is taking an additional toll on the venezuelan public also grappling with a growing humanitarian crisis and the covert. the

december 6th election to choose a new congress in venezuela sora very low turnout an initiative organized by the venezuelan opposition rejecting the parliamentary elections drew slightly more support but across the board many venezuelans are simply fed up with politics. i'm not keeping up with politics anymore i'm tired of listening to politicians i've stopped believing either side and i love you so much that you're going to i honestly think that there's a lot of apathy and that shows that people are worn out of politicking and rhetoric . it's all just rubbish. and following the disputed election opposition lawmakers who were voted in 5 years ago passed a statute temporarily extending their term they hoped it would ensure a fighting chance for political change in venezuela although it's since been

rejected by the supreme court many in caracas appeared u.v.'s that it would change anything anyway elaboration had by the decisions made so far haven't benefited anyone we're starting the year with a radical quarantine because of covert 19 that will worsen the economic crisis prices are already through the roof god will have to wait and see what the government will do and how the opposition will respond to it and the political situation is so bad we live like prisoners inside venezuela and solutions are nowhere in sight. meanwhile nicholas materials government has accused the opposition of planning to attack the nearly elected national assembly the administration alleges the attack was due to be carried out on the day of this wiring in there is a lot of speculation about how or even when the new national assembly will be sworn in here in caracas as the opposition ready said self to renew their mandate of congress chevy said government has issued

a reward leading to information about an alleged plan to boycott the swearing in of the new national assembly and mother himself has said that the opposition leaders involved well be swiftly arrested. in the bundesliga on sunday by a munich avoided embarrassment against the 17th place team in the league after trailing at half time the bavarians rallied against mines to regain the top spot. on paper it should have been a routine victory for the reigning champions who faced a mine side that had won just one so far this season but for the 8th time in a row by and conceded 1st unit on book cards netting in the 32nd minute i jerome boa tang felt he had been fouled in the build up but the goal stood and just before half time mind doubled the lead as alex on the hock was left

and mocked and noted in to send by an inside the break to nail down but the record champions bounced back a us were kimmie header got by him back in the game and then leroy sent a levelled the scores up to drifting inside from the wing with the mind's defenders allowing him time to set up his shot. 3 more byan goals followed the pick of which was robert levin dusty's effort to seal the $52.00 and result. by and reclaim top spot while mines still 2nd from bottom were left to rue their wasted lead. terry must the british singer from liverpool who popularized the song you'll never walk alone has died at the age of 70 eight's the song became a major hit stand there and some for his hometown football team at anfield stadium maston 1st performed his with his fans gerry and the pacemakers byrd stuck with the

fans then and. my where. was. i of the. who actually did of ian use his amount of the top story we're following for you because he's a syllable. chanelle side along in the courthouse off to the judge rejected a u.s. request to extradite julian the songs to the u.s. the judge said the wiki leaks founder would have been a suicide risk if he were handed over to u.s. authorities to face a spam charges. that's it from me on the news stream coming up next all science magazine tomorrow today and a look at whether we could have a future without animal testing god alpha's in berlin thanks for the for.

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