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it's just a trigger place with respect. to the degree of hospital every told him it's there's always a story but most of the experienced travelers will believe you do that sort of thing that would be exciting. sells newspapers with relation to reality i'm here in the middle of the great river vulgar in an around the arena here i've come across something of a familiar sight on one of the yachts. not just an english flag but also in english money. permission. granted let's. end up in the war you've been doing a little bit something special for the world cup tell us about the. area took us thirty six days to get away from the crimea in the eyes of say we travelled under the crimea bridge. one day before mr putin but you've provided a bit of something for those like myself who are even if the first time yeah we've written a small guide called the english. there's
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a few more now. it's just the top five of everything around from my own perspective that's the stadium right there what do you think what is your take for england taking place right there what's going to. three. zero. in volgograd a far cry from the picture some british media outlets were pointing out of the world cup. and. some of the scary. thing around. i'm here at wembley stadium the home of english football now if you are thinking of visiting russia for the wild card a quick look at some of the u.k. newspaper headlines over the past few weeks and months would be enough to make you think twice.
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that put people off going to vote for me it was a put me off yet still function just why should all the like to volunteer off the one i meet in sos friends and his friends hoping that singled out the fight he will be using not russian fogg's try to go their own training camps apparently when it's all getting the. full don't break well when i got well look up bring it on bring the ultras yes bring on. shots come to this neighborhood in moscow and right now i'm going to add to a local football pitch where fans often get together for a kick around in the evening so let's get them to have a listen and hear what they have to say and his friends. singled out don't go for any go at least not russian flags try to go their own training camps apparently
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when it's all good english and for male fear. for having to mean so much for. bringing on from the ultras yet begun. to think that it's not checked that for a start no one listens to the media. not the troops are rushing studs everyone no one. likes to play and to make it the space these are most likely some rare occasions triggered by gold and emotions running through the high but it happens everywhere not just in the run. we see this in other european countries too but even if a single man gets hurt because of this it would be enough. i think we'll have a very good security cheering the world cup progressiveness is not our main point but for. so long.
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now recently england fans will claim for a p.c. that i'm still in their national team played against the netherlands the question being lost all being the fans go to wash up looking to cause trouble again do you feel like sometimes all the english trying to get into trouble is well it's not really what i did they just following suit on it that's the english they're trying to beat us put it down i get that they got that come you look for yourself if you find any of you can still move if you're going to going to get anywhere the media is the media the studio it is really that that what it is but i do not get any we agree that we should put me off offer to anyone else for me to watch it no. and while all fans have shown incredible passion for their teams one set of supporters have charmed the world with their devotion. oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh. oh. oh we spoke to the vice president of i five national football federation going to an assistant about the country's fans in the team's chances in russia. when you enter a tournament you always go into every match to win so how far do we want to go of course we want to go all the way. and if our team plays maxes and we saw it at the euro that we could go we went to the quarterfinals we can do everything we want to do that's the beauty of the football they have a great support from the icelandic population just the nation everyone is wearing blue and this is a big thing for us football our football team has is in our hearts i hope to stay longer in russia just three matzos i've been here now for a week and i really like your school it's really nice to be here i'm looking
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forward to go to the griped because it's correct. yeah on a wednesday still i'm happy to see your country it's really beautiful and. the people here are so nice so i've never been to russia before so i'm so happy that i had the chance to be here just thank you for your hospitality. we continue off special coverage and we'll be bringing you all the highlights from the upcoming games with all three. thank. you. show seemed wrong all wrong just don't call. me.
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just to say proud just to become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with. good politicians to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so we want to be president and should. want to be rich. but you'd like to be for us this is what it looks like three of them or can people get. interested always in the logs of my colleagues. they should.
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welcome back to the program in other news now the me too controversy has raised many questions for example how long can you stare at a coworker before being accused of sexual harassment online t.v. show provided that flicks apparently has the answer alice to see a choker explains. oh sorry i didn't mean to sexually harass you netflix have reportedly introduced a policy advise in their employees not to stare at each other for longer than five seconds this has neither been confirmed nor denied by the company but the general idea is allegedly inspired by the me too movement to avoid sexual harassment in the workplace according to netflix employees quoted by the press this five second staring back as part of a package of no lingering hugs no asking for phone numbers and no flirting we're
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proud of the end to your usman training we offer to our productions we want every netflix production to be a safe and respectful working environment but do you think about when you think about the five second rule i have no idea what five second rule if you were to take a guess would you think it would be about i can eat something after i fall after after i drop it on the floor but only before it's placed there for five seconds so we have a three second rule in norway so we have what you have to have three seconds between your car and the next car. in time yes oh really you guys were talking today urging people about netflix you know never play again ok so they have reportedly introduced this new policy where they're after people who work with them to not stare at each other for longer than five seconds. told point sexual harassment really taking a company by the. nonsense that you want to try it sounds like small amount of time but it's actually longer really it.
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seems ok let's start each other let's do that. like the next miley we could do whatever it can. seem somewhat counterproductive in every single way seems a bit stupid really. just looking at people isn't sexual harassment if you and i work together we. can't look at each other for longer than five seconds because then it creates like an uncomfortable environment apparently where you don't have to look at me i'm all right there i don't front and constables i think it sounds a little bit odd that you can't have corporation with anybody and then be afraid of sexual harassment i mean that would just be weird i think you stupid people work together. look at each other. back to strict new border control plan in a last minute bid to stop a coalition fall apart from july the first germany may return turn away migrants
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registered in other e.u. countries if there's no block agreement on the issue. so you didn't. even as the studio supports the interior minister supplant to launch a master plan for integration however i am interested in finding the solution in good compilation with our european neighbors the decision should be bilateral not union lateral and should not create problems for third party countries this city you and the c.s.u. have a common goal to better organize and control the migration issue and to reduce the number of people entering the situation of two thousand and fifteen will not and cannot happen again. we support the chancellor in seeking bilateral deals with other countries but we have to reject refugees who applied for asylum who have been registered as an asylum seeker in other e.u. countries it's not only possible it's necessary i've been asked whether the plan contradicts european law and that is if we can achieve the same result in. law
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we'll be happy to do so if the chancellor can't reach agreement with we must implement the plan anyway refugee crisis threatens to derail merkel's fragile coalition and put her on a collision course with the man behind the strict new rules interior minister horst c hoffer the key cabinet member has even been quoted as saying he can no longer work with her merkel has been heavily criticised for implementing an open door policy which has seen over a million people pouring into germany since the start of the my current crisis in twenty fifteen she's faced tough opposition from within her cabinet and a recent poll doesn't bode well for the chancellor either as a growing number of germans say they oppose receiving migrants sixty two percent of those surveyed agree with the interior minister's plan to turn away undocumented by france at the border while nearly ninety percent say they want faster deportations
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of rejected asylum seekers we gauge reaction on the streets of berlin. i hope they find a way to resolve this because it doesn't make any sense. the interior minister is trying to stuff the populace wave of the mike in crisis but angle of merkel stance on this issue has been very courageous and she shouldn't back down now. we could see more elections so the coalition partners need to find a way of preventing it right now they are too far apart. that. the minister for the. pursue his ideas and his proposals immediately we don't have months or years to come to look for solution of this imminent causes what. america is it's not so question of weeks or months is a question of days all was how long she my we translate as
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a federal public what she did in. two thousand and fifteen opening up the german borders. creating an influx of my governance this was a situation which was unbelievable and since then we have more than two million people in the country and we don't know who is in the country for hundreds of thousands so this is a blow to. the federal republic and to your peace and security as. fire and up about top new stories and world cup highlights for now i'll be back at the top of the next hour with more. disease says harlan kentucky. the oldest moved the
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places you go to st fanny's leave. a co money since he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal miners are said. that it was a drive to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. for a world cup twenty eighteen coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you on the us he's
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a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure come out you have to go meet the center of the beach with all we with you and we will show the great game the grid to get you out of the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball in going let's go. a low as i want to you know and i'm really happy to draw and out to him for the thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one come all the ultimately share needs to just take the rio biagi team's lay just a. bigger certainly better just a good. time afshin rattansi on bloomsday we're going underground on day three of russia twenty
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eighteen in the day british trade unionists rally to mark the battle of all grieve between workers and police coming up on the show ahead of tomorrow's u.n. meeting in geneva arbitrary detention of julian assange we ask his lawyer jennifer robinson of australia will rescue its citizens as this week marks six years of his incarceration in the ecuadorian embassy in london and forty eight hours ahead of world refugee day two award winning scientist explain how the mass movement of people exacerbated by nature wars has precipitated a global we ordering of life on a dollar symbol coming up in today's going on the ground but first england plays today is here today in russia's volgograd arena in the english imagination john is here still conjures up images of horror when three years ago nearly to the day thirty eight people thirty of them british were killed in a resort in sousse. extraordinary footage of the attack as it took place no less confusion and horror some cold and what was left unfolding in british media
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was the rise in terrorism arguably catalyzed by the british war on neighboring libya supported by u.k. prime minister theresa may but britain has other connections to the recent history of tunisia the north african nation only recently overthrew its u.s. backed dictatorship the spark well one lately credited was this man seen here on our t.v. interviewing to his years post coup leader mohamed was yuki what do you say about the united states and its role. once a leading human rights. torture committee as president went on to talk about torture and the nato backed dictator previous sort of course many people believe wiki leaks publication of classified u.s. cables detailing the crimes of washington's arab proxies helped to begin the arab spring but today it is not the people of tunisia being so tortured it is julian assange himself who still remains on the rubber tree detention by tourism is
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government un here now is pushing for the release of wiki leaks founder julian assange he has been claiming asylum in london the ecuadorian embassy has twenty twelve well tomorrow marks six years of a songes confinement in london the wiki leaks founder arguably did so much to free the people of england's football opponents today to his ear is him self arbitrarily detained by the british government joining me now is a lawyer for julian assange and jennifer robinson of dottie st chambers jennifer thanks for coming back why is julian. arbitrarily detained six years to more this case is and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states to face prosecution for his publishing activities with wiki leaks he walked into the embassy six years ago tomorrow to seek asylum on the basis that the u.k. and sweden refused to give assurances against extradition to the u.s. now that risk has only got worse we've seen since the trumpet ministration come to power the former director of the cia now secretary of state pompei or say wiki leaks is
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a hostile non-state intelligence agency and that they would take them down and that he should not benefit from the constitutional protections under the first amendment soon after jeff sessions the attorney general said that prosecuting wiki leaks was a priority so his concern about being extradited to the u.s. remains and that is why he stays inside the embassy is normally do it is just the british government won't give that guarantee that's right this we didn't even some go to the british government will not give any guarantees so the swedish case was dropped which was the purported basis for arresting him in the first place was dropped in may of last year still he remains. the embassy so anyone who suggested that he was hiding from swedish extradition simply got it wrong it was always about the united states and the british government continues to refuse to give the assurance that we need and that ecuador needs in line with the protection that was granted him in granting him asylum to ensure that he could leave the embassy but the moment was given he could leave so if we move on from jerry's ways record the country of which is julian so i'm just a citizen of australia not much better there
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a good unfortunately the australian government did absolutely nothing to assist julian in the early years i'm a fellow a straight in citizen and in those early days when he was first arrested and we were concerned about the risk of extradition we were continually asking the australian government to engage and to ask the us for sure for an assurance that he would not be sent there and shunts from sweden that he wouldn't be sent there and the israeli government refused to do it and it was because of the israeli government's failure to step up and protect its citizen that he was forced to seek asylum from ecuador now just this week last week actually there was the first visit that joined us heard from un didn't have the embassy with him by commission for australia i was there because in the past three months julian has been cut off from the internet and from visitors at the moment he is prevented from accessing the internet telephone calls visitors other than arse's his legal ticking he's effectively in solitary confinement no calls no phone calls nothing so he's completely cut off and that's been going on for a number of months now which was an already difficult situation so it's the first
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time that he's reached out to the australian government to seek assistance what we would like to see is the australian government step forward and assisting quid or by trying to mediate a resolution to this case because he's been there six years in breach of a un ruling finding that he's obviously detained calling for him to be released and given compensation and it's costing the british taxpayer millions of pounds twenty two million pounds it's estimated this cost to police the embassy since he's been in there while you were there so the australians going to get their own citizen back and look after well it's a very diplomatic. situation there was legal confidentiality to us but their request has been a request has been made and it remains to be same what the australian government will do but in circumstances where australia has a seat on the human rights council that a human a un special mechanism has found that he ought to be released but they have an obligation to provide diplomatic protection to a citizen it's time for australia to step forward ok you mentioned pay a former head of the cia the secretary of state who's famously trump said that he
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loved wiki leaks it's no guarantee as well as you see the prospects for your clients really that's right tom did say i love wiki leaks during the election of course wiki leaks released material that showed corruption within the d.n.c. party that suited him at the particular time but it's the administration the d.o.j. of the cia and the deep state intelligence agencies who have been embarrassed by wiki leaks publications and embarrassed by the work that joined us on has done and we believe that that's why they are pushing for his prosecution the new president record all of them or email or say about this cutting of communication that the conditions of his prevent him from speaking about politics of countries and he's breached that they're in there it's in their right to do so because as as as a refugee nevertheless and a citizen of ecuador in fact he has the right to free speech he is effectively being cut off from the internet because they didn't like the tweets he was making about catalonia now that you've got one of the most famous free speech activists
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and editors and publishers inside of your embassy it's of course you must expect that he's going to exercise his free speech and in breach of the ecuadorian constitution he's been cut off but would it not be entirely within their rights to curtail his freedom because perhaps they were negotiating cia facilities atlanta are basing their door which after all my. previous position he ran the cia i know nobody's free speech should be cut off without legal remedy and without legal recourse ok so. names of visitors mine included not his legal team strangely were leaked to papers it was all over the british papers here what was behind that we've that come from people who visited and met with julian assange well we understand that the material has been late by a security company that had been contracted by ecuador to provide security to the embassy it's hard to know why it's coming out now but there are course many conspiracy theories that are trying to connect wiki leaks to russia connect wiki
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leaks to the trump administration and the publications during the election and that list is being used towards that end but of course even the f.b.i. director said in his evidence to the house committee that there is no direct evidence of any connection so i think it's an interesting timing that this material is coming out and certainly what the logs show and what the video footage and video still shows the extent of surveillance that join us and has been under for this entire six years that he's been inside that embassy you know i want to get to the legal case with separate to. investigation do you see this i mean you're a human rights barrister do you see this is very at its core the politicize ation of human rights because rafael correa said washington would have to ecuador open a door in intelligence ways or weber's base in miami before you're going to allow the cia into ecuador things changed because of the politics of ecuador things have definitely changed the political position taken by the new government under president but in your eyes significantly difficult to for president correa of course there have signed a security deal with the united states in the g.o.p.
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politics of the region have shifted significantly but let's not forget the ecuador is a small country that took a very principled decision and the right decision to grant join us and asylum when they did and they have come under significant political pressure for having done so and no turning to this bizarre case when it was first released people that look at it twice donald trump russia the russian federation and during the songes organization and named in this lawsuit by the dns for left. what is the state of the case and is entering discovery phase are we going to get documents out of hillary clinton's camp the proceedings have been filed but they haven't been as we understand served or any active steps have been taken but what's extraordinary about this case is the democratic national party a political party that says it stands for free speech is pursuing a case in particular in relation to wiki leaks that has widespread ramifications for free speech what this would mean if they're successful in this suit is the
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d.n.c. all the republicans or any other political party could sue any media organization whether it's wiki leaks the new york times or any other for publishing internal material that's late during the course of an election they say it's trade secrets now this is a fundamental assault not just on free speech but on democracy as we understand it and that the d.n.c. would pursue this kind of case is unthinkable and demonstrates the political climate in the united states at the moment but in good news this committee to protect journalists and a number of free speech organizations have come out in support of wiki leaks positions saying that if this suit goes forward it sets a terrible precedent for all media and in fact i think it's it's surprising that the d.n.c. would take this position it could at least with respect to wiki leaks so they could in this case then overturn a supreme court decision a prior one that publishers are not liable for the illegal acts of their sources well it remains to be seen whether the case will go forward at all it's very unlikely that a civil case of this nature will go forward in circumstances where there's
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a criminal investigation of miller investigation is of course ongoing many are speculating as to whether this is a legitimate case or whether it's simply a political document than a political move as part of the d.n.c. is efforts to place the blame of the loss of the election the u.s. election at the feet of others rather than the fact that they didn't run a good campaign and so it remains the same what will happen but if it does go forward it poses a serious threat to free speech and i should say president trump denies the allegations president vladimir putin denies. allegations your club does as well presumably and it's still following if we keep leaks itself had a view about hillary clinton when they went about its work in the investigating or publishing evidence of perhaps illegality on the part of d.n.c. we can exert authority policy is such that they publish what they receive provided it's verified the political views of any particular person working for wiki leaks doesn't matter the fact is it's
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a transparency organization had they received material about president trump they would have published it and to have made that very clear and when he discussed discuss the lakes we've seen them publish material about syria about russia about the united states about saudi arabia their publications of cut across the political spectrum to say that wiki leaks is in any way politicized is i think just wrong it's a they can't they can't determine what they were safe and so what is your client what does or does he want from to raise a may that some sort of guarantee. i mean there have been previous extradition proceedings that haven't gone through the united states wants that kind of guarantee it is perfectly acceptable under international law and under common extradition arrangements for the british government to give an assurance against extradition so if he were to leave ecuadorian. effectively ecuadorian territory the diplomat in and in the embassy where he is and has himself over to the u.k. it is perfectly possible for the british government to give an extradition and assurance against extradition to the united states and that's what could have
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resolved this case in two thousand and ten and can certainly resolve this case in two thousand and eighteen there's a demonstration war between six and eight in london there are other demonstrations to mark the six years what is the mental health state of your blood really it's an incredibly difficult situation we've had doctors assess him and say that there is an extreme risk to his physical or mental health that calling on the british medical association to put pressure on the british government to ensure that he can have the health care that he needs obviously as being inside the embassy he's not been able to leave to go to hospital or to seek any formative medical treatment and the british government refuses to allow him to leave for that purpose and they say arrest him if he does so it's a very serious situation it's causing him permanent damage and it's time that this is ended and it's within the power of the british government to do so it always has been and i could end tomorrow if i wanted to jennifer robinson thank you thank you after the break as new figures show that i'm talk to.

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