oh look. i. the headlines this hour sources close to wiki leaks tell r.t. that the ecuadorian embassy has blocked june songes internet access to stop him tweeting about cattle an issue also offering foreign minister reveals that the country was pressured by the u.k. to expel russian diplomats over the seoul sprit poison attack and tens of thousands of brazilians have joined a silent march in honor of a murdered holocaust survivor who was recently stabbed to death. over good afternoon welcome you're watching r.t.

international where it's just turned two pm here in moscow and we start with breaking news because sources close to wiki leaks have told r.t. why the growing embassy has blocked internet access and. joins us live now from london. nasty good afternoon just talk us through there and the reasons for this ban. well andrew there have been some concerns circulating on twitter recently about whether or not julian assange had lost access to internet inside the ecuadorian embassy where he's been holed up for five and a half years now and we are indeed learning from sources indeed close to weiqi leaks there are telling us that the equipe dorrian government had placed some sort of electronic jammers at the ecuadorian embassy on tuesday night specifically to prevent julian assange from being able to tweet communicate generally use the internet or make telephone calls and it's also being said that he is now being refused any kinds of visitors now these measures from what we're being told by

these sources close to week uniques suggest that this comes after publication was made in the ecuadorian press about julian the songes opinions on the developments in catalonia now it has to be understood that apparently julian a songe was informed that he must stop tweeting about the catalan issue and delete this tweet that he had made recently and this is not the first time the issue of him expressing his opinion on the catalan issue comes into the spotlight now the tweets in question was this one in one thousand nine hundred eighty the elected president of catalonia luis companies was captured by gestapo at the request of spain delivered to them and executed today german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia carlist which demands at the request of spain to be extradited of course this is in regards to the arrest of the catalan

independence leader in germany earlier this week and what happened was julian assange the wiki leaks editor did not delete this tweet and as we understand from our sources this is causing quote strong discomfort and concern to the ecuadorian government in relation to these. gateman is being made about catalonia and it's understood that following informing. apparently julian a songe through his communications team these signal jammers were indeed installed some hours later and the idea was to disrupt him from being able to communicate with the outside world and we're being told that this was done by the order of the ecuadorian president and just keep in mind of course all of this comes after the u.k. foreign affairs minister here in london had called julian a songe a miserable little worm so certainly lots of developments coming in so we're going

to be watching what happens including at the ecuadorian embassy where i'll be going to right after this to get more details on what exactly is going on. ok thanks national becoming bats us throughout the afternoon no doubt that was a to see children are there in london for us. well earlier we did speak to the human rights activist peter tatchell about what is happening with the son. does appear to be disquiet in ecuador over the fact that julius r. and that a number of tweets about the issue of cattle independence i suspect that the spanish are you know threatening all or. putting some undue pressure on a good or that has forced us into this position after all. was granted political asylum by god or he was granted citizenship and a diplomatic passport and as a citizen of a could or he is entitled to the same freedom of expression as every other

ecuadorian citizen affectively he is now being held in isolation and unjustified and very draconian response to a handful of tweets. now the austrian foreign minister has said that vienna was pressured by the u.k. to expel russian diplomats in solidarity with britain more than twenty countries kicked out russian diplomats over the country's alleged role in the seoul sprit poison attack let's get more details now from our business is sethi he joins me live now. and this is her just tell us then what else did the austrian foreign minister have to say. well it appears that the u.k. is trying to put pressure on austria over their decision not to expel any russian diplomats over the script case now in a recent interview austria's foreign minister cameron can i saw said that the british ambassador ambassador to austria tried to encourage the e.u. member states to take specific measures during the e.u. summit last wednesday let's first of all take

a listen to what austria's foreign minister had to say. when the situation gets tough you have to keep channels open the u.k. ambassador to austria issued a demolished on wednesday in order to encourage us to take specific measures on saturday they demolish was repeated on monday while i was in kosovo the chancellor and i spoke over the phone about our position which is now public it's our tradition to bring people together especially in difficult situations but austria strongly believes that maintaining an open dialogue is the best way to maintain diplomatic relations and austrian government has said it wants to be a neutral country a bridge between the east and west now coming feisal also said that the chemical weapons body analyzing the agent used in the attack has not provided any evidence of russia's involvement so that full austria refused to take action against russia now russia and austria maintain a rather good relationship the new austrian government is one of the few in europe

that pushes to lift sanctions imposed on russia kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov has said that in this situation any role and a voice that will be especially to british counterparts to take a more adequate situation in this matter is in the mountains he's been talking about whether a mediator is needed in this situation but all strip is an outside most of the western countries of course sided with the u.k. an expulsion of a one hundred russian diplomats including the u.s. canada france and australia now this whole diplomatic standoff has been ongoing now for a few weeks since a case crippled or was found unconscious on a park bench in seoul on march the fourth and it was later revealed by u.k. authorities that they were subjected to and the agents allegedly a type produced in the save it union but in this investigation that is still ongoing of course and russia has repeatedly denied any involvement and repeatedly offered assistance in the investigation. ok thanks to an issue that was r.t.

this is sethi there with the latest for moscow house call the expulsion of russian diplomats a baseless sanction and judging by what the u.k. has offered up as evidence the allegations were based not on proof but on what was deemed a highly likely assumption. now following last week's brutal killing of an elderly holocaust survivor the jewish

community in france is sounding the alarm over the rise of anti-semitism in the country tens of thousands of brazilians took part in the silent march in honor of the murdered eighty five year old jewish woman who was stabbed eleven times in her apartment this case is the latest in a string of violent attacks against the jewish community some say they don't feel say. there are lots of reasons one being hate anti-semitism another being the rise of islamic fundamentalists who greed growing hatred you feel it gives the impression that this state can't cope and. it's why i'm here with this was not an ordinary criminal it was inspired by anti-semitism and the weak are intact children . this is starting to make relist here she was jewish this issue is really serious . well figures from both sides of the political spectrum and senior government officials join the demonstration here some are saying the hostile welcome from the

crowd leading to scuffles leftwinger shown. and right winger marine le pen defied organized request not to attend the event but parties have denied accusations of anti semitism in the past year a no with an eighty five year old holocaust survivor. she narrowly escaped an artsy ordered roundup of jews in the french capital in one nine hundred forty two last week she was stabbed multiple times before a paris apartment was set on fire two men have been arrested and charged a religious motive has been cited by authorities now old son daniel has been left utterly shocked by her murder. it's. unbelievable. listen. to a cold room. into from you parkinson she can move she has no money. why you kill. her you can do that.

i have no answer. for france is home to europe's largest jewish community and has seen a surge in anti-semitic violence reported incidents jumped by state when he six percent last year there's also been a significant in the desecration of jewish places of worship and burial sites around forty thousand jews are estimated to have left the country since two thousand and six with many blaming the growing hostility jewish community advise a hell of a half of each believes the government has failed to address the situation again and again the government runs institutions of course trained to open to assist the jewish community as undercover will really to provide. security to women to men to kids who gather because of the policeman b. and every jew in france many jews are asking what will be the future because they cannot continue to march in paris and to get. on to get flowers.

from the government because it's not enough it's not the bringing back to life. nor the level obviously the limmy or so many young jews has been killed in the last years. the russian siberian city of ken met of a enters the third day of mourning after a fire at a local shopping center killed sixty four people including forty one children and with more facts about the tragedy surfacing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of unbelievable courage of also an. i might and i were putting together pairs of shoes it is when i smelled smoke heard them i wanted to talk to someone thing that people are running out of the study people rushing down the stairs to say there is an alarm which we started to write

you a people are employees of vs the walk is the doors of the exit i don't quite remember how i got out in the soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of a window from the third floor yeah. yeah no i am. my. coworkers had already stated when we looked at the escalator that it was full of people they started helping to get out of there we have a baggage or at the end of the storage room was still just calling people to come to us when there were disease and help to buy the our guys lived out there will cheers and help them to go downstairs everything i'm glad is that clouds of smoke surrounding yes we breeze that heavily but why is it still be ends we just hose to save someone else do some people run upstairs in panics did you feel panic deep inside too of course we did there was no way to escape i don't know what would have

happened to me not them i'm a father a son and a brother too so i can understand those people i wish once some would grow up the same be useful to human kind don't consider ourselves rescuers will ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the loss of men were burnt to death there was a hero you know my mother was worried about me sure if it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to mock every day and leave flowers and place candles. meanwhile the in. to gauge into what caused the tragedies advancing to maine version two main versions the malfunction of the fire safety system and also arson five people have been arrested among them two directors of the mall and the developer of the fire safety system the blaze in is one of the deadliest in decades

it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted in large sections of the roof or so collapsed in this we mentioned earlier the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children as the school holidays just begun. was. told to. put themselves on the. big get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go to be worse this is what. three of them or to get. interested in the water is a. question.

i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the superman kill the narrowness and spending stupidity twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game great chance for. the next minute. thank. welcome back you may say now washington's anti russian rhetoric has now resorted to metaphorical expression the state department spokesperson said that

russia was a big east from the same went on to the streets of new york to gauge reaction. in her recent comments to the media state department spokesperson heather nauert had some interesting words to describe the largest country in the world russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations elections as well. arms and how to do this right what acquitted and like and you just said that just one of the bees from the deep sea yes russia has tentacles all over the world it's a beast from the deep sea it's rather creative now with metaphors like that you think that heather nauert was on par with herman melville and jules verne but she didn't think of it herself take a look at these old propaganda posters inciting americans to be afraid of the soviet union it turns out heather was just beating an old dead mccarthyist horse we

decided to ask americans if they think that russia is really a deadly octopus what country do you think they were referring to. since if it ireland ireland years later that isn't what country you think it is no idea they called it the med learn. england. have no idea right there so what is that poster right if we lose octopus right what country do you think that's supposed to represent. well it's in red so this means a communist country is a. good guess russia what makes you think that because it's red do you think that russia might be like a like an octopus yes you don't think of russia's as a as a big octopus you know strangling and spreading out across the planet no i think america's more like octopus donald trump assured us during his campaign that he wanted to improve ties with russia it's a good thing if we have great relationships or at least good relationships with

russia that's very important and i believe someday that will happen well nothing paves the way to peace better than comparing other countries to why. oceanic beasts . are to see new york. now taking a stand against a preordained future has led to tragedy for a teenager in the u.s. texas police to keep the parents of a sixteen year old muslim girl of torturing their daughter the saying no to an arranged marriage with a man who is offering the family twenty thousand dollars presumably he was accused by the wrong body to speak broomsticks it used to when he was choked almost forty five years in it's really heartbreaking you. know where he was fifteen when her parents decided to marry her off to a man from another city after her refuse your refusal they allegedly tried to persuade her with force she ran away before the wedding and was reported missing at

the end of january this year disappearing after she left school in san antonio we found image march her parents were arrested last friday and charged with abuse of a family member however they were released on bail to next with the case and her five siblings age five to fifteen have been placed with child protection services. well the parents deny any wrongdoing instated money to possible husband to be is also innocent the father said all they wanted to do was help the young couple build a family together we spoke to the head of an organization for preventing child marriages she told us that some us states which allow early wedlock are not helping matters unfortunately if you look at the data that exists currently the u.s. has a federal structure where states of different ages not marry and unfortunately in the u. quest like the u.k. like and that do allow marriage of girls under the age of eighteen if in the world

today six hundred fifty million women where married as children then you know that they all didn't run but of course that all cases where girls are being empowered where they are not yet rights and that it will to run unfortunately not as many girls are able to make it to safety as we would like to see i think it is the problem if the boy is eighteen because then you're talking about issues of. i would say statutory rape because she's a minor but i think more children are becoming more aware there are more services available. can get help and support. that thousands of protesters have marched in the streets of garner's capital denouncing u.s. military expansion in the west african nation. oh. that

was the when i controversial military cooperation deal was approved by parliament last week some of its members will tax in disapproval the u.s. will invest twenty million dollars in equipment and training for the country's army seven clinched joint exercises on the right to use the nation's radio frequencies and runways some like course think that you can train g.'s i'm gonna stuff went. up to the big house got me and citizens to demonstrate against the decision by our president so i can eat my side and i can mentor the u.s. government to bring down between. the countries the. dog has been good for my country to be so. i decided to call fritz mondale just to be president is the most recent. august told us why they think isn't getting a good deal but the question here is that the canadian military be allowed to use

united states radio frequencies the united states of america the answer would be flatly no doubt this is a one sided deal a one sided arrangement keep in mind as well that us oil giants have been exploring all show or from god and reportedly have discovered many fines in terms of petroleum and i dare say that these u.s. oil giants are also concerned about protecting their investments in west africa and therefore they would also demand and desire and enhanced an increased u.s. military role. or scene ten really is that shrunk from its responsibilities in the world. instead of helping african countries develop their economic power. by investing in infrastructure development energy ports. united states is increasingly reliant on military kinetic warfare

to try to terrorists and this doesn't work because the reason these terrorists are able to recruit is because of the poor economic conditions. the young people into the hands of terrorists small amount of money. that the dollar is facing any threat china has just launched un backed off each is which will challenge the global used petro dollar china is the world's largest oil importer and until now it's been paying for its oil in dollars the newly launched shanghai oil exchange they will allow china and other countries to bypass the standard petro dollar it comes the same week as donald trump unveils billions of dollars of tariffs against china or economist mamdouh salim a says the broader implications of the petro un could be a game changer over the long term. it

will change it a lot because by definition the better you one is challenging the dominance of the petro dollar and in doing that it will impact adversely on the petro dollar and of course by the finish and on the american economy itself. or currently the petro dollar is the only currency used to prahus and sell oil china knows that and it wants to get the same benefit first by as stablish ing the yuan as an international currency at. home. of course. it will and unseat the

petrodollar suddenly it will take time but it certainly poses a challenge to the petrodollar for the first time since nine hundred seventy three where the petrodollar was launched. ok let's go back to our breaking news this hour because sources close to weekly leaks have revealed to r.t. that the ecuadorian embassy blocked junior songes internet access using electronic jammers ecuador demands that the whistleblower stops waiting on cattle and issues and that's why they did it but we can get some reaction now to from a close friend of tuna sandwiches the british fashion designer vivienne westwood and she joins us now and she's outside the ecuadorian embassy to say good afternoon to you thank you very much for coming on to r.t. i hope you can hear us just tell us why have you decided to let him down today i can't draw it out because i can't hear you and i just want to make a statement this is about freedom of speech your leader sanjay is one of the

greatest heroes in the world and. we're very concerned about the fact that she can't have visitors the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure that he manages to do he's a weasel war hero he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know this is just my friend a nice brilliant arm a fashion designer called vivienne westwood and i see him quite regularly and a supporter whenever i can thank you thank you ok thank you that was the name given westwood outside the crew an embassy there in london in full support of a close friend to. have his internet cut off at the ecuadorian embassy.

greetings and sal you to me should you don't there's one thing the united states knows really well it's drugs and if there's one thing we know even better it's greed so when you put the two together drugs and greed you get big pharma yes those wonderful legalized drug dealers have been at it again mark watchers this time and one of their oldest go to swindles raking old folks over the coals with exorbitant drug prices thanks to the number crunching of us senator claire mccaskill's internals the top ranking democrat on the homeland security and governmental affairs committee has released a new report showing that from two thousand and twelve to twenty seventeen the cost of popular brand name commonly used drugs for senior citizens here in the united states increased at nearly ten times the cost of inflation with the release of the

multi year long investigation macaskill summed up the big pharma price gouging quite beautifully stating can you imagine if you went to an auto dealership in last year's exact model was being sold at a twenty percent markup and then you went back the next year and it happened again that's exactly what's happening in the prescription drug industry where the cost of identical drugs skyrockets a year after year after year the report also highlights that despite big drug companies seeing profits increase by eight point five billion over those five years the actual number of prescriptions during that time decreased by forty eight million julia johnson a spokesman for p. little h r m a r criticized the report telling the media that this is yet another misleading report that ignores the robust negotiation that occurs between medicare part d. plans middlemen and bio pharmaceutical companies. i feel your juliet i feel

you that's a thankless job being a spokesperson for a big pharma company as top and i feel that you're right it is misleading i mean big pharma would never dream of inflating costs lying about their products or buying up doctors to overprescribe pain killers to the country they would they would yeah they would do that all right. but they wouldn't do it as well if we were all truly watching the hawks. get the. real deal. as it takes to produce it. but it looks like you know that i got. six. weeks ahead.