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sources close to wiki leaks tell our story an embassy has blocked the sounders internet access to stop him tweeting about catalan issues his friend british designer be in westwood told us it's essential he gets back on. it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure that he manages to do also to kill me austrian foreign minister reveals that the country was pressured by the u.k. to expel russian diplomats over always an attack on the first arrests made in connection with the fire that killed sixty four people including forty one children in the russian siberian city of quetta as the city end says a third day of mourning.
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and i welcome you watching r.t. international it's just turned four pm here in moscow and we start breaking news this hour because sources close to wiki leaks have told r.t. why the ecuadorian embassy in london stopped doing the internet access he's also not allowed any visitors from the embassy and situ reports. according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police teluk tronic jammers inside the ecuadorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for over five and a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking we also understand that he's bet he's been banned from having visitors inside the embassy and apparently all of this comes following
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a publication in the equipe dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issue specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader a carlist which demand in germany earlier this week and our understanding according to this source close to wiki leaks is that julian assange would have to has to his team have been informed of having to delete a certain tweet that he had posted among others concerning the catalan issue in one thousand nine hundred eighty the elected president of catalonia louis compare this was captured by the gestapo at the request of spain delivered to them and executed today german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia karla's put to much at the request of spain to be extradited now julian assange did not delete this tweet and it's our understanding again according to these sources that are close to julian assange and wiki leaks is that dorian government has informed him and his team about their discomfort with his expressing his opinions about the
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catalan issue and following that information they did put those alec tronic jammers in place to have him stop communicating with the outside world and curiously all of this comes following a statement from a top official here in the u.k. describing julian assange as quote a miserable little worm let's take a look at this because of great regret that julian assange remains in the ecuador embassy it is people even deeper regret that even. last night he was teaching against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in salzburg it's about time that this miserable little worm walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice. well earlier we know that claims were made by the ecuadorian government who said that julian assange had signed some kind of agreement saying that he wouldn't eat or say anything about politics of ecuador as well as other countries but again according to this source close to wiki leaks
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those claims have been false. well the british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of a stanch and she gave him her support outside the embassy on thursday and also told us she's worried about his treatment. we're very concerned about the fact that she can't our visitors the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure manages to do he's a he's a war hero we aks he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know is is just my friend and he's really an arm a fashion designer called vivienne westwood and i see him quite regularly and supported whenever i can well this is not the first time she's had his communications cut in twenty six the me embassy suspended is internet access following wiki leaks release of e-mails of the democratic national committee and of
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hillary clinton's campaign advisor john podesta then last may ecuadorian officials issued yet another warning after a sign just remarks on the catalan independence vote let's get some views now from professor mark on the nurse who joins us good afternoon thanks for coming on what are your views here and she think the ecuadorian embassy was perhaps pressured by the u.k. or spanish authorities over this or was it all down to a supposed a document that was signed a few months ago saying that look you shouldn't make these sort of tweets. it's clear that a song is subject to very difficult conditions in them but it's not hard to. bear the responsibility if a lot. they're not here to leave them. there's a. saying that that's what the international law requires now the ecuadorian embassy has the. men's pressure in the violation of international diplomatic
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law. really gross violations of a long time. i have. is a direct consequence of pressure by the governments and. the u.k. government. who somehow manages to keep him that. reason stage as as as you know it was originally a question all. request from the swedish prosecution on and off for it is they want to do him extradited to sweden to. continue to investigate their accusations against him that request is no longer there has been withdrawn and there's no reason why they have been in the embassy and. and these limitations so all direct consequences of pressure primarily from the u.k.
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government to one point that the u.k. authorities say that we're not keeping him there is his choice not to come out alone if he does come out he's jumped by a once before and he'll get arrested. two to two point that the first is a cause that today is the no for you and ruling saying that you tell your partner by erecting and then i'm just stepped into the street. in part keeping him in this poll was there right in the. embassy there for door number on the second point is that there is no reason to pay any. situation like this from the u.k. of hard his. they is no criminal investigation again in sweden they did maintain that exhibition the quiet there it is what is on his team claiming that's what is the bot it's about keeping him in these conditions because
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they want to. keep him there or. dipping into the street that is. no charge against being extradited. to face the kind of which seems to have been divided again in that all. not completely against them though i'm against old the basic human rights provision principles in this field so what legal options going available then to achieving the basic point. it's to stay in that hole hold on and. wait. for. court courts. as a person. just sits rooting something in your margin.
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that was. very important. basically gave no real reasons a very firm decision but it's something you i expect i. just expect you. will make up for this. i'm caught off the u.s. ok good to talk to you appreciate your time this afternoon that was your professor mads on the nest thank you very much. what i found took refuge inside the embassy in twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case later dropped by stockholm authorities whistleblower phase leaving the embassies be said they're being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage but despite not being outside for more than two thousand days now he still made some powerful and slightly less powerful friends.
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i. feel bad. but the foreign secretary boris johnson has jokingly compared his country with
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russia in a foreign policy speech in london in a reference to the poisoning of double agent. well you need to know. about the difference between both in britain and the government to let him appear to. side seriously they make no bitch. we make lightsabers. one is a hideous weapon specifically designed for assassination the other is a implausible theatrical prop that with a mysterious bugs me would know anybody. it's rather like the beginning of crime and punishment the really crime and punishment. you know. the old man he was a tree full of hours at this point. where confidence about the identity of the culprit and then the question is whether he will first confess or be called.
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after the annexation of crimea the intervention in the dawn bassett darling of image seventeen the cyberattacks it tipped it through in montenegro to concealing of chemical weapons in syria chemical weapons attacks in syria the hacking the been destroyed interference in elections there are not too many countries who wrote the disruptive. of the russian state but this does come as the probe on the poisoning of the former double agent and his daughter unsolved spree still ongoing the latest statement from british investigators says that the highest concentrations of the suspected nerve agent are believed to be found at the front door of the skin of powell home the investigation is focusing on key locations the park bench where gay and his daughter were found unconscious their b.m.w. the place where they ate that day and also their home address while scotland yard
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detectives also reiterated that the probe could actually take months to complete however the fact the probe is far from over hasn't stopped the u.k. and allies expelling russian diplomats foreign ministry spokesperson marie is a cut of has just revealed that the u.s. and britain put colossal pressure on a new member states in fact only ten each state's abstained from taking action against moscow austria is among those countries with london now trying to get it on side artesian this is their thing takes a closer look at the development. k. has tried to put pressure on austria over that decision not to expel any russian diplomats now in a recent interview austria's foreign minister cameron can i still said that the british ambassador to austria tried to put pressure on the member states telling them to take specific measures this was not to ease summits last week let's take a listen to what the foreign minister had to say when the situation gets tough you have to keep channels open the u.k.
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ambassador to austria issued on wednesday in order to encourage us to take specific measures on saturday to 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 the austrian government has said it wants to be a neutral country a bridge between east and west the current can i still say said that the chemical weapons body who are analyzing agents it allegedly used in the attacks not provided any evidence of russia's involvement and therefore refused to take action against russia now russia and austria maintain a good relationship and the new austrian government is one of the few in europe that pushes to lift sanctions on russia and kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov has said that in this situation any role any voice that will spend british counterparts to be more adequate in the situation is needed he's been talking about whether
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a mediator is really needed in a situation like this but all strip is an outside most western country sided with the u.k. expelling over one hundred russian diplomats including the us canada and australia as well now this whole diplomatic standoff now it's been ongoing for about three weeks since his daughter were found and conscious on the bench in seoul three now it was later revealed by u.k. authorities that they suspected the never agent was allegedly a type produced in the savior teenie and in this. investigation though that is still ongoing of course every house repeatedly denied any involvement and repeatedly offered efficient in cooperation as well well in total twenty countries around the world have made a decision to force russian diplomats in a sign of solidarity with the u.k. but not everybody agrees with the move among them in neighboring island even though the country is also expelling diplomats you're asking us to trust paris johnson and
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dare i say this might not be the wisest course of action we spoke to people in the irish capital to get their views on the diplomatic expulsions. i think it's a needless threats to our sovereignty by a man who is thinking only of his legacy i've served look for the proof and i haven't heard any definition to wait until it was proven i mean it's there's some messed up things going on on of the outs take things with caution you know we're really a neutral country like what would we do i think if disgrace to neutral country and it's can be and it's just it's totally on his mo what they're telling. us chances assessments of always on the menu you know why would you trust first johnson that they're given their head on oh my god no i do think it's like a mouse getting into a pissing contest with a bear now and have got no reason to support the british security services or to
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take their word for what happened and saw three or four anything else personally speaking and i think it was just gave me a reason government would act as a puppet sort of. a puppet of the british security services but this tells us something about the drift of european politics and the just the irish politics along with their european partners at the moment i think it's a dangerous moment and it's making a step into. a conflict always in your to consider. making a step away from neutrality and that has got ominous implications for the future of foreign policy and indeed domestic policy of the republic of. moscow's call the expulsion of russian diplomats and based on this sanction judging by what the u.k. has offered as evidence so far the allegations are based not on proof but on what was deemed a highly likely assumption. he
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again they say but insists if kemet of a has entered a third day of mourning after a shopping center fire killed sixty four people including forty one children and with more facts about the blaze surfacing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of incredible courage to have also emerged. i heard and i were putting together a pairs of shoes or just plain i smelled smoke heard them i wanted to talk to someone saying that people are running out of the stop people rushing down just terrorists or there is an alarm. which we started to write you a people are employees of first of the day walk is the jury of the accident but i don't quite remember how i got out in this soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of the window from the third floor that.
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was. all our coworkers had already stated when we looked at the escalator it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a bad door at the end of the storage room was still just calling people to come to us and they knew there were disease to our guys lived there will cheer and help them to go downstairs everything i'm black clouds of smoke surrounding it we breathed heavily but waited till the end just host to save someone else steam some people ran upstairs in a panic 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 through so i can understand those people i wish my son would grow up the same be useful to humankind we don't consider ourselves rescuers we are ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the. good to.
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hear you know my mother was worried about me sure if it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to mass every day and leave flowers in place candles. the investigation into what course the fire is progressing to the year two main versions of the malfunction of the fire safety system and also arson five people have been arrested so far and among them two directors at the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the blaze is one of the deadliest in russia in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to put it out one section of the complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof also collapsed of the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children as the school holidays just begun. my mom my. mom was. by all mine and detainment joined netflix may be
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forced to pay dearly for a high profile new appointment custom is threatening to cancel their subscriptions after president obama's national security adviser susan rice joined the board of directors. explains why the move is facing such a backlash susan rice is a big name in washington she served under president clinton and obama and was a u.n. ambassador slowly but surely working her way up the white house ladder and during barack obama's second term in office it looked like rice would likely become his secretary of state until she was forced to withdraw her name following the ongoing controversy related to the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi rice had made inaccurate public claims that the attack wasn't premeditated. what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in benghazi it spun from there into something much much more violent
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rice was later forced to eat her words and admit they were in fact planned causing a massive backlash against her so she stepped back settling instead for national security adviser a tale as old as time really well if you're not secretary of state that's what i want that's all i wanted that's what i was promised and here i am and now it looks like rice is ready to netflix and chill with the streaming giant who announced that rice is coming on board on wednesday netflix co-founder and c.e.o. reed hastings put out a statement welcoming rice to the team saying that the company will benefit from her years of tackling complex global issues now netflix is the world's leading entertainment service and according to their site they have around one hundred seventeen million users and over one hundred ninety countries and are continuing to expand their reach which with rice's help could have a more political spin to it and while it's not yet clear. what a lifetime politician will bring to a media company the naysaying has begun already with many users calling for
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a boycott of the service hey netflix i've been a customer since they won that's just changed you must be absolutely insane to think that americans are ok with you adding susan rice as a board member whole prize the obama's into liberals can keep you in business if anybody wants to boycott something because of an individual's actions i suggest boycotting netflix if a crew from netflix is filming and comes under attack what is she going to blame it on a film just cancelled my netflix membership reason susan rice they can have her but not me. this is where our family takes a hard bass we're counseling netflix altogether our kid will be better off instead of watching him chilling he'll be reading and waking up but perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that rice is making the jump from politics to entertainment we've already seen her former boss appear as a guest on the netflix show and rumors have been running rampant that the obama's may be in talks to produce a series starring the dynamic duo raising concerns over where the company is headed
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clown of welcome to world apart in less than two weeks russia one from the highest of border enthusiasm which solve logic i put in a lot of for another term to the loss of grief and rage over the camera tragedy we sacrificed all of our four dozen children to level a ten cent correction to that the largest expulsion of russian diplomats from the west and the spread of a major military confrontation over syria and what ima put in its next term is off
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to a rocky start what is it likely to bring well to discuss that i'm now joined by you beginning mentioned prominent political consultant here in russia as i mentioned it's good to talk to i thank you very much for your time thank you now our input is a long stay in power russia has experience and number of large scale tragedies some of them weren't managed so well for example in the course of the disaster it was general perceived as a communication failure on put inside that there was trying to do which was used as a starting point point for a major administrative reform i wonder how do you think the camera tragedy is going to be remembered is it likely to prompt any policy changes there is no. specific on sequences which could be resumed after this tragedy and it's a descent ideas stick communication stuff these should be was shown to some politician in the local and regional level like the government of go look in
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the region for example was not very successful. i guess this kind of victim blaming. or. to find some kind of external only me is not very effective because that's a real drag to do i really want to pursue that angle of crisis communication a little bit later but let me ask you one question about which and specifically because i think the most difficult thing about this particular tragedy to process is that it was totally man made and putting himself said that this children died not because of terrorist attack not because of a gas explosion but because of a formalism corruption negligence and all of those things they have become archetype all trait of the russian state the state that he himself helped to create do you think is it fair to describe that tragedy as he's own personal moment of reckoning i can tell you that unfortunately there is no.

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