off in a similar legal situation i imagine are probably on top of the list now for being imprisoned for my views and what concerns me about tom ronson not people say well he was contempt of court he shouldn't be reporting now i understand all that i think the two key questions are where was the swift justice for the majority pakistani muslim paedophile gangs when tommy robertson was sentence in five hours to thirteen months and secondly i see it very much you have the scriptural case here or there was an alleged to have poisoned individuals on u.k. soil i don't see any difference between this cripple case with putin and what our government has done to tommy rope and they put him in prison he will not survive in prison one guard lets the most of gangs into his cell he's done so i think the british government is no better than putin in any regard because it silences political people that it doesn't like to hear just in the same way that it's alleged that putin did it so we are no better than russia if you are concerned that

you may be next is that going to change the way you know not at all your authority if i am imprisoned for my views that it seems to me it's not the truth teller that will be in the wrong it will be the all thora t. and i would hope that there will be a new legion of of the outspoken individuals like myself that will come and fill my shoes and i will write a new book group behind bars well. thank you very much for your time and encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and for me hope to see you again same place same time here in the worlds apart.

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in the stories that shaped the week tantamount to torture that is how russia describes the conditions in which the u.s. is holding accused kremlin agent of miranda. we speak to her lawyer. very difficult situation a bit particularly for someone like her someone who i don't think ever envision spending a day in jail or a life to be in you know it's a pretty tough. u.s. turkey tensions get worse. relations have almost come to a complete halt. and the syrian city of aleppo one of the worst hit by the war is undergoing extensive reconstruction after years of conflict. are broadcasting live in moscow this is r t international john thomas glad to have

you with us. right now this week there was another twist in the latest alleged russian spies scandal in the u.s. the russian embassy in washington says that maria is being subjected to conditions that are in town to mount to torture she. with being an unregistered foreign agent and was recently transferred to a different jail meanwhile a crowdfunding campaign has been launched to pay for her legal fees her lawyer updated us on her condition. i was unaware that she was transferred until last night at around midnight i received a collect call from her at home in the phone was disconnected before we could get through but i knew it was from alexandria jail so i drove down and tried to get in last night and could not but is able to get in this morning and visit her so she is in alexandria detention facility at least for now for this weekend it's a smaller facility than the d.c. jail as respected facility but it's hard to know why the move was made where there was made for medical or other reasons or in response to complaints about the

conditions in d.c. she does have arthritis in one of her legs kind of a history of problems with that leg so she sought treatment for that and so far has just received tylenol and nothing else and i think she has also been a little bit frustrated by policy when people are in protective custody they do bad checks every fifteen minutes at night to check on detainee safety and i think sometimes depending on who the guard is you know the lights are turned on every time there's a check and so it's very hard to get proper sleep when you're being woken up every fifteen minutes she's segregated from the general population of the prison facility you know no contact really with outside people besides her lawyers and occasional phone calls and when you're being held. in some isolation like that it's difficult because every everything i think you want to do is kind of a one off request there isn't a very set schedule and so it was very difficult to make sure she was getting her proper exercise and. trips to the library and things like that because everything

she did she had to do by yourself i'm not saying anyone would have an easy time in prison but in this is an accomplished student you know someone who i don't think ever envision spending a day in jail or a life to be in you know it's a pretty tough facility. it. was refused bail after pleading not guilty she is also accused of offering sex in an attempt to get a job with an unnamed special interest group if convicted put to faces up to fifteen years in prison no date has been set yet for the trial however her lawyer remains optimistic she's in very good shape she's helping actively with us to prepare the defense she's confident in her innocence there's no allegation of espionage there's no allegation of classified information style geishas she was paying anyone off there's no allegation she was recruiting spies none of the things you would typically see in an espionage case the allegations are fairly vanilla that she attended meetings of various groups that were public that she had dinners with various people and she took a lot of selfies as i think

a lot of people are twenty's do with with people she met and posted them on facebook so this is not the kind of a typical this is no comparison to what the allegations were against for example at a chapman or others where there was actual whether they were true or not their actual allegations about use of sophisticated equipment and payoffs and spy ring and things like that there's none of that here with some point maybe try to get her released pretrial again we're just looking through documents trying to find the proper evidence to do that i think we may be able to do that hopeful in the next couple of weeks. as the u.s. in turkey economic standoff goes from bad to worse with both sides slapping big tariffs on each other president has warned that ankara is ready to challenge washington. you know this is you know somebody they can threaten us with the economy sanctions exchange rates interest rates inflation is what we tell them

we've uncovered your skills and we challenge you or your tensions rose after our current detained an american pastor for alleged terror links washington then put new tariffs on turkish metals sending the lira to record lows against of the dollar and turn the rates on key american products including cars and alcohol the u.s. now insists its sanctions will stay even if the pastor is released. fortan this just one american to plea deal with financial stability at risk. u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally in line for the nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the churches just so you're saying this is our faults turkey is a financial situation has been in the works for quite some time and it dates prior to the imposition of sanctions on august i believe was august the first so this is

been in train for quite some time and you cannot blame the us government for that stepping in on turkey's side is qatar which will fifteen billion dollars into the country's economy artie's quarter looked at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey has come to this. she was built entire if the no leaving goes to great tree deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritages your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you. what countries could he mean are stealing could be turkey the country's lira shed a quarter of its value against the dollar in just one week after trump's tweet about doubling existing tariffs investors are running away screaming inflation surging and turkey's leadership is bracing for an all out trade war the reason for such a calamity against an old nato friend was ankara's refusal to release an american

pastor accused of both terrorism and espionage it's punishment time for a rebellious ally that tariffs that are in place on steel would not be removed with the release of pastor bronson and president her to one lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback this is coming through of doing things. to come more. and they want to use this for political purposes but turkey is just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some

protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the us president went and slapped tariffs on europe today i'm defending america's national security. by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum brussels tried to hit back with restrictions of its own tried to appeal to the transatlantic solidarity special relations bonds of friendship but to no avail and it begs the question with such a long list of enemies the us is currently fighting from iran to north korea russia china why can't your allies i think this has become a real tit for tat thing and i do not for a new york minute think that the pastor is really what is going on here now of course our washington strives with that are

a bit strained for some time ever since the coup attempt against terror go on i suspect there's something good going on with the regional politics maybe with regard to syria that is really the reason behind its competitors like beijing and moscow attempting to pack as much heat as the u.s. these days sanctioning and scaring everyone in view may be the only way for the u.s. to impose its will on friend and foe alike donald quarter r.t. well in protest against washington's actions some turks decided to destroy their i phones and posted this footage. no no no no no no no. i.

with the syrian army regaining control across the country efforts are underway to rebuild the shattered nation r.t.c. goes down i've traveled to the city of aleppo to see how locals are slowly picking up the pieces. much of the city of aleppo still lies in ruins reviving it to its former glory is a task of gargantuan proportions and of immense political and economic importance the citadel of aleppo has become the symbol of the city's resistance. but aleppo is much more than just a maze of antique streets and attractions from history books.