today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets the world of business community members attend the forum to address today's vital issues. for just a short foreign coverage on the. swedish prosecutors say they will reopen an investigation into a rape allegation made against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange and will seek his extradition from the u.k. . the u.s. secretary of state canceled a visit to moscow and heads to brussels instead to discuss iran's threat to renege on its nuclear deal commitments. the next stop will be russia or tehran will also feature high on the agenda. i mean growing concerns over civilian deaths from u.s.

drone strikes the pentagon develops what's been dubbed the ninja missile it's a weapon not with spinning blades and supposedly more accurate than existing technology. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at q. and moscow thanks for joining us this hour prosecutors in sweden have reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against wiki leaks co founder julian assange swedish authorities had dropped the case in 2017 but they now say they're seeking an extradition warrant against us and once he serves his current 15 week prison term in the u.k. playboy reports. well these allegations date back to 2010 and the investigation into them was dropped in 2017 swedish prosecutors were unable to go

ahead with the investigation while assad was essentially stuck inside london's ecuadorian embassy but when swedish prosecutors dropped the investigation they said that it could be reopened if the situation allowed so when a songe was dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month the woman had made the allegations against him said that she would like the case to be reopened and that's precisely what has happened stockholm has requested julian a songes extradition to sweden take a listen to what the prosecutor had to say at a press conference a little bit earlier on my new circumstances have brought about the need to revise or previous decision after reviewing the current state of diploma near investigation my assessment is that there are still grounds to suspect the mysterious songe committed rape and now the statute of limitations on this case expires in august 2020 so there isn't much time for the swedish authorities to act

of course a songe also has a u.s. extradition request hanging over his head at the moment so there is kind of a legal model in place here and a pity is that only the home secretary is able to decide which of these cases should take precedence and sort of potentially allow the more pressing swedish case to be prioritized and it looks now that it's going to be a political decision as to where a song potentially is extradited to fast technically he can be sent to sweden and the u.s. can then sort of update his extradition request and request that he be extradited over to the u.s. from sweden but. the u.k. would have to give sweden permission to extradite assange to the u.s. as songes legal team would be able to challenge every one of those moves said we're looking once again down the barrel of

a very lengthy legal battle with 3 different jurisdictions in place now a songe has always rejected all the allegations the swedish allegations against him he's always said that he sought refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy not because he was afraid of being questioned in sweden but because he was always concerned that the swedish case was simply a pretext for a more serious u.s. extradition request where he could face serious charges for his publishing activities and we keep leaks published the iraq war logs which there is no government sort of diplomatic and military files they were deeply embarrassing to washington there's now that. video. collateral damage which shows appears to show u.s. soldiers killing iraqi civilians the news today now means that we have 3 different jurisdictions 3 different countries involved in this

a songe legal saga he's wanted in washington he's wanted in stockholm and in the meantime he's in prison here in the u.k. serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping bail back in 2012 we spoke exclusively to wiki leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson he believes that sweden was pressured into pursuing this case against islam. julian assange has always been ready and willing to cooperate with the swedish investigation throughout the years and i assume that he will welcome this opportunity to clear his name and and get this matter over and done with there are many of the normal ts in this highly recruited by politicized crosas with the change of julian. world ready light. the crown prosecution service in the u.k. was in the driver's seat in this case it seems according to the e-mails that were obtained sort of see the information requests everything that pertains to julian as

well as these days is politicized it is very hard to see that the opportunity to install a fair trial in sweden in the u.k. or in the united states especially because that is exactly what all pertains to an almost extraditions face to face trial for publishing the truth. u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe has arrived in brussels for talks on the ram with his counterparts just minutes before his flight he canceled what was to be an informal visit to moscow though he intends to go on to russia on tuesday press council meeting with president vladimir putin a change of plan comes after tehran threatened to renege on its commitments under the iran nuclear deal before setting off for brussels impel gave an interview in which he outlined the u.s. position towards the country. iran is the major destabilizing in influence in the middle east and we aim to fix that our aim is not war our aim is

a change in the behavior of the iranian leadership we hope the iranian people will get what they finally want what they did so richly deserved it wasn't expected boaties picked the right day to change these plans at the last minute because in brussels the foreign affairs council of the european union a meeting that means that all 28 member states foreign ministers. going to be in one place in one room as well as federica mockery the high representative for foreign affairs of the e.u. basically the e.u. foreign minister all going to be in the same place at the same time we will be here all day with a busy agenda so we'll see julian day and if we manage to arrange a meeting he's always welcome obviously but that i'm not precise planted at the moment as we continue to fully support the nuclear deal with iran as full implementation of it we agree with other e.u. states the nuclear deal is necessary for us security and its goal is to prevent

iran from obtaining nuclear weapons well last week iran announced that it would not honor all of the aspects of the $2015.00 nuclear deal it came a year after the united states unilaterally pulled itself out of the deal in wealth wholeheartedly now following the u.s. is pull out of the agreement well the european union castigated them absolutely slammed washington for doing this saying that put at risk all of these months and months of work that went into getting the deal over the line back in 25th thing of course when iran announced last week that they were intending to pull out of some parts of the deal that also prompted well some discord within parts of the european union with some members then turning on iran and launching criticism at them iran has agreed to vital compliance measures if they break that deal then there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we urge the iranians to

think very long and hard before they break. the end of today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement that their new sanctions today from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments it has undertaken is this commitments are not respected the question of do we consider it the decision last week by to put. the european union in a pretty difficult position because they've been so strong in their backing for iran since the united states pulled out but what we've been hearing since that decision was made by iran what we've been hearing from the iranian president hassan rouhani is that they don't want to pull out of the deal in total because that would essentially play into washington's hands the united states wanted to pull out of the way in order to make iran withdraw from a deal the day after so the u.s. would be able to refer the case to the u.n. security council to ease the burden on the shoulders of the u.s.

to redouble and ratcheting up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap so my pompei o heads to brussels the secretary of state will hold meetings we expect with the foreign affairs council of the european union to discuss iran further spare a thought though for those journalists that do travel with mr pompei oh this is the 2nd last minute change of destination they face that is many weeks last week he was supposed to be heading here to berlin for a talk with angela merkel they took off from helsinki at the last minute well the journalists were told you not going to they ended up in baghdad to talk about iran last week this week he's heading to brussels for more talks on iran on tuesday though he will head to russia he'll be meeting president vladimir putin the foreign minister sergey lavrov in sochi i think we can just about expect that iran will be on the schedule for talks there is in brussels on monday though we're expecting some information to come out throughout the day we'll be keeping you updated as

information comes out of brussels of course here at r.t. . the pentagon is then to have developed a secret weapon it's a missile with spinning blade nicknamed the ninja bomb intended to reduce civilian casualties and drone strikes it's designed to be more accurate than explosives ideas come up and reports. wrong warfare has long been part of the u.s. government that war. on terror and it's gotten ugly on more than one occasion. killing people by these drones basically sitting on a screen and eliminating people. dehumanizing them treating them.

as if you know from some other planet not giving them a basic right of proving their innocence i mean it it violates one norms of justice on top of that it's all classified so leaking the methodology behind what human rights groups have called a method for extrajudicial executions can get you in a lot of trouble for daniel hale an n.s.a. officer and now suspected whistleblower that could mean up to 15 years in jail that echoes chelsea manning say she's just recently been released from jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury but she could return soon as she's already got another subpoena now to be fair u.s. leaders have long talked about their deep conviction over civilian deaths the architecture of the legal architecture around to the use of drone strikes or other kinetic strikes wasn't as precise as it should have been and there's no doubt that civilians were killed but shouldn't have but. i think that over the last several

years we have worked very hard to aboard and prevent those kinds of. tragedies from taking place apparently it was u.s. president barack obama who ordered the creation of a new missile device that would increase the percentage and accuracy of these predator drone strikes and minimize civilian casualties it's apparently called the new. now it may be the pentagon's worst kept secret they have not officially confirmed it but so far several military officials have said that it's being used it's argued that the new missile might enhance the image of the united states in the countries that are already subject to u.s. military drone strike operations unlike a regular missile it doesn't explode instead it deploys 6 blades that fan out of its casing moments before impact blades are so sharp they can cut through vehicles and slice their target into pieces so we've got blades flinging through the air in order to reduce civilian casualties sounds plausible enough apparently the new

ninja bomb has already been used in iraq libya syria somalia and yemen now the mastermind behind the suicide bombing on the u.s.s. cole back in the year 2000 was apparently taken out by a ninja bomb in january according to pentagon reports so is this new missile the answer will it improve the image of the drone strike program in the eyes of the american public what do you think of the drone strike program. ok with it i know nothing about it it's pretty awful actually we have this thing now called the ninja bomb and what it is is it and when it detonates it sends blades through the air and the idea is this will minimize civilian casualties we can pick the terrorist we want to kill send the ninja bomb and fewer civilians will be killed you know that the blades kill the. terrorists and not the civilians it doesn't seem like that you can target maybe specific people with that seems like you'll just. spread out

a lot of. a lot of damage i think that's also did a pretty good program them limit civilian casualties are going to do not that's not happening i think if somebody suggested that that. i don't think that is even real i don't think it really busy. will reduce civilian casualties i think that this is a. very sickly propaganda weapon if you want to put it that way to make people feel that there is a kinder gentler way of showing people what in fact is through assassination which . you want a declaration of human rights i think this is some way of trying to placate the public in the united states and probably remorse or around the world with the technology it's their hands right now the kind of precision that they're talking about. this essentially you know possible and the notion of assassination whether precise or generalized is still totally unacceptable we've asked the pentagon to

comment on the reports and we'll let you know when we get a reply still to come in the program donald trump once the frontrunner for the democratic presidential nomination and joe biden to be investigated over his alleged political meddling in ukraine that after the break. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like a relay before there were 2 when people were dying but in the morning and there was no and the school board you know the 2 so the boy it was through to the right of the world. as a medic and the widespread simplicity is good code of people today. in many

diseases because of this would you call me broke up that is. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somebody wanted. to go right to beatrice to see what the full 3 of them will be good. interested always in the white house. should. welcome back to the program u.s. president told trump once attorney general william barr to begin investigating the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination joe biden that's over his alleged meddling and ukrainian political affairs something biden denies democrats

say trump is just trying to get rid of a strong opponent your style of picks up the story. he is an american politician of such scale that he might even get a holywood produced bio pic appearing in theaters his son is an entrepreneur doing business with other countries and some people suspect that the father of political shotgun is using his reputation of fire power to make sure his sons business doesn't sail into choppy waters this is what you may have heard in the news for years about donald trump and his son trump jr yet now it's the story about trump's 2020 democratic rival joe biden and his son he has already got a trump trademarked nickname and in fact has been on the president's mind for a while one of the democrats. said that he he sleepy

person. said that he heard from a lot of foreign leaders and they want him to be president of course they do so they could continue to rip of the united states as. i said general community because. i felt like joe biden to but this time it's more than just a junior school style name calling because trump suspects biden pulled quite a number of diplomatic leavers to have a prosecutor who was making his son's business difficult fired outrageous behavior if it had happened in america and perhaps even worse though since all of the above allegedly happened in another country in ukraine in fact before announcing his presidential ambitions biden gave plenty of reason for speculation. a commitment from poroshenko they would take action against the state prosecutor and

they did you not get the you go as i said you know i guess. a 1000000000 i'm going to be leaving here i think it was about 6 hours i look as and leave in 6 hours if the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money oh son of a. house fire trump almost sent his lawyer rudy giuliani to ukraine to investigate but giuliani canceled this trip because the fallout was ferocious explain to me why biden shouldn't be investigated if his son got millions from a russian loving crooked ukrainian only gold while he was vice president and point man for ukraine ukrainians are investigating and your fellow dems are interfering election is 70 months away let's unser it now and when i say ferocious i mean for roche us. it is highly unethical for the

president's personal lawyer to tell me what fish oils from a foreign government to see if they can influence somehow the upcoming presidential election we've had enough of that we will do everything we can up to the breaking of the wall it's a very it's a but trail of democracy to work with other countries to affect our elections it's just a flat out betrayal. donald trump and his ties his campaign's ties to the russians are the only 2 investigations i mean an investigation with a special prosecutor donald trump is either going to be impeached by the congress or impeached at the ballot box the fact that you may not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt occurred criminal conspiracy doesn't mean there's an absence of evidence of a crime seriously mr president or jew horses stop this persecution it's funny though the democrats never seem to like it when the tables turn even if there

is hard you know hard feeling of it and that something could be very foul here after all they conducted this. false investigation for the last 2 years costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars really just abusing this president has family why would the democrats not now say that if there's an allegation of a possible president out in front of an election why would the democrats not want that followed through on why would they even want to nominate somebody who looked this suspicious to me they should be the ones calling for the investigation and the scandals sure as the turn city of america's political desire for justice world trump must go down boy you can get a pass after all is a bruins favorite grown bar. the french left wing leader. has denounced the entire russian and pro nato hysteria of the e.u.

it comes after he was featured in a video game released by ammonia ormoc runs youth movement as a russian insect are to give the game a try as almost fight tooth and nail in the forthcoming european elections it seems that they've got a new weapon to utilize it's this video game now it's similar to one that we've known since the $1980.00 s. so it does feel a little bit retro and this is the main character here the idea is clear this is meant to represent natalie who is top of the list for all march in those elections and she is the heroine. so if natalie was who is the heroine of this game who are the baddies well it's pretty clear on the right it's a marquee in the pen with the national rally and on the left it's usual nuke militia with france about this even a bit of donald trump thrown in there for good mics.

no collusion no obstruction so the aim of the game is pretty simple no clue was trying to find the missing stars from the european flag and that's because they've been stolen by those baddies so let's find those stars. come on. it's. well the idea of using a video game to perhaps try and boost the youth vote isn't something new in fact it was done by from back in 2017 election this is of course the 1st big test that matt cohen has been through since he was elected president back in 2017 so if he wants to avoid game over then perhaps he needs to do more

than produce a tutti game to fend off that mounting pressure from the left the right and the center and of course to race those gloomy for. paris. news update for this hour but don't forget you can always have to our website our to dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets the world thousands of business community members attend the forum to address today's vital issues. watch our special forum coverage on r.t.

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president recalls the events of 2014. those who took part in this today over 5000000000 dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. you know world of big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the alex simon show

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