a lot of this morning calls for donald trump to be impeached fires up more democrats just as the president himself manages to rally support off the back of the very same issue to. the un's top official on torture says julian assange has been subjected to in humane and degrading treatment over the past few years i think that it's taken a toll on whistleblowers mental health. the really showing all those. of us 3 brands that shale gas is a freedom product to try and sway reluctant european countries it's better than russia and. british army document that people who describe themselves as troops

might in fact be extremists coming up we ask people if they found partridges and pushes them. you know what why would that be suspicious i think it's a great story. and i don't agree with that at all i don't quite understand why they would. take it's not a. pretty morning 11 am here in moscow good morning this is art international with me kevin though in life if for the next 30 minutes from h.q. without that even it will news update 3 more u.s. democratic hopefuls have joined the chorus of those calling for president trump's impeachment then after the retiring special counsel robert mueller said he could not exonerate trump of obstruction of justice claims but next this morning is our senior correspondent more girls if explains impeachment isn't necessarily a recipe for democratic success. every so often america goes crazy for

impeachment it's like the flu someone gets it and before you know it everyone sneezing all well and preaching they hoped and prayed mean you would get rid of the president that isn't how the law works he couldn't do it the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system. to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing it's up to congress representatives and senators to start impeachment proceedings in the media to rile up the mob q democratic presidential candidates tripping over one another to milk this impeachment frenzy for all it's worth when we talk about a process of impeachment it is about the texans prepare for impeachment that's what i've told my colleagues i believe that expungement proceedings will strengthen

congress's hand in getting the information and the responses that they need to come to a conclusion about ultimate peter and we took an oath to protect the cot and serve the constitution of the united states of america and the way we do that is we can impeachment proceedings now strangely enough the more senior slightly wiser politicians aren't quite as nuts about bringing down the king over that probably love to but for now they seem content to merely dig deeper you don't bring an indictment where you don't put in peach unless you have all the facts the strongest possible case. robert miller's assessment also makes clear that congress has a right we believe an obligation to continue our constitutionally mandated oversight without interference or stonewalling and follow the facts wherever they may lead odd our top democrats a happy to merely continue their investigations

their voters and colleagues want to impeachment now but this is politics it's a hell of a lot dirtier and more cynical than most people would believe in the smarter folk they know they're being played. hard to believe what does trump gain from impeachment then again think about it 1st according to latest polls most americans are overwhelmingly against impeaching trump 2nd the chances of trump being successfully removed from office are slim to none closer to non really sure democrats control the house of representatives but republicans run the senate they'll hardly vote against their own and 3rd the last time the president was impeached bill clinton his approval rating soared in the aftermath by

10 percent no less you see now why trump in self is slightly provoking his opponents and is he talking about impeachment they accused the impeach word impeached you can't impeach somebody that's doing a great job impeaching take it a preacher for any reason let's impeach him because the country is so successful we will update but i say how do you teach somebody the story great job do you impeach somebody because he created the greatest economic success in the history of our country right and wrong move things in politics approval and votes of what counts and this is why top democratic presidential candidates concent to shut out. about impeachment democrats voters 70 percent of them want impeachment the candidates want their votes the democrat leaders want to win the presidential election they know that if they rush an impeachment and fail it will hurt them like hell trump

he's playing the victim he wants to see his opponents fail and barris but as interesting as all of this is remind me what exactly these that they're going to impeach him for were ghastly of their will to be how some political commentator steve malzberg told us that the democratic leadership understands it won't be able to impeach trump in the. nancy pelosi knows that it's politically unpopular and she would be the 1st to go it sure in the senate he knows that even if the house peaches donald trump then it goes to the senate and they have to convict him and they need 2 thirds of the senate to convict him and schumer knows that's never going to happen it didn't happen with bill clinton when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia

nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you what it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. you as top official on torture has warned that the rights of wiki leaks out into julian the sons could be seriously violated if he's extradited to the u.s. the son who is supposed to have appeared in court in london via video link on thursday for an extradition hearing but you know if you watch this time yesterday it was postponed because of worries about the wiki leaks founder his health nils meltzer's the un's special report to own torture he shared his assessment of his son his condition with this with the he's going underground show.

blue sunshine that fiscal consequences clearly from not being able to access google and medical care for several years the much more serious aspect is how he has been mentioned earlier the most elite affected by these extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary byron she has them exposed street for several years for the doctors and psychiatrists as a scientific poll tool called which is designed to examine potential victims of torture and will treatment and severely write these standards and use the evidence was already clear. to the sun and been exposed to several. forms of crude human or degrading treatment which futile to believe can only be described psychological torture i've worked with britain's war and the battles for 20 years of work and worry areas and i've seen obviously the atrocities collectors'

forms of violence but 1000 levy shocked me that this particular case is that a single individual has been isolated and singled out by several democratic states and persecuted systematically as the stage manager but the point of breaking the. main tunnel ledge wiki leaks associate and friend appeared in the science with the ny bell by a judge in ecuador on wednesday is named all of benny's a swedish national he stands accused of hacking government computers in the south american nation the 37 year old cyber security expert was arrested last month while trying to leave ecuador on the very same day and for the sans was a victim from the country's london embassy he's been refusing to cooperate with investigators and has not yet been formally charged his lawyer told us but he's rights are being violated. this process is only taking place because my

client is a friend of julian assange there is no other explanation than. binney has been living here for more than 5 years and he has been developing special software designed to protect privacy in other words he has been working on the very opposite of what his stance of cues do of the way they're quick during government is treating my client is unconstitutional it violates his human rights from the beginning the reasons for his arrest have been unclear it is still unclear exactly what system was attacked when and how he did it as such the prosecutors have no grounds to prove this case any further. perpetrator's him as a son with streamers and according to the british army a leaked document dating back to 2017 as exposed to guide it used by senior officers to indicate signs of extreme and intolerant behavior in the ranks let me tell you more according to the document officers should look out for those who describe multicultural terms as lost personnel involved colleagues in closed social

media platforms the leaflet also calls to watch out for soldiers who make generalizations about muslims and jews but the controversial point which refers to the treats raised the most questions in the british media we went out to the streets of london asked people whether they found that particular recommendation offensive or not. the speech. and. why would it sound suspicious it shouldn't go but maybe it does maybe they think you're over not just you know what why would that be suspicious i think it's a great free. now i don't i don't agree with that at all so i don't quite understand why they would do the patriots not a bad thing it's it's an old fashioned term. it doesn't make you a bad person does it no 19 it's a good thing it's good to be proud of. and how do you define it as

a love for country no absolutely not patriotism is a good thing you know if you look at a lot of strong countries around the world you know the leading countries they're all patriots it's wrong isn't it because then you're. because the person could be a normal person that you could be putting on the person into something that is not a footnote to this part the army says that the leaflet does not suggest that all patridge are extremists the defense ministry said it was drawn up following the arrest of 4 soldiers who were accused of alignment with extreme group. you know just a society new way to market it shale gas to reluctant european customers another label here gas of freedom artie's egos done of picks up that story. can you smell this scent of freedom where you can well check your pipes seriously

you might have a gas leak and the intoxicating fumes could be all the more deadly for they come from the wrong place too with the u.s. in another year of record setting natural gas production i'm pleased that the department of energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of u.s. freedom to be exported to the world yep kids the next time i geography teacher asks you what's buried in that texan shale you can proudly old freedom and all mel gibson from braveheart on them and don't even think of wasting your money on the dirty desperate gas coming from the wrong places seriously for some exporting those freedom all a cue from the u.s. to europe is a heroic milestone akin to defeating nazis. 75 years of to liberate in europe from nazi germany occupation the united states is again deliver a formal freedom to the european continent and this genius freedom architecting is

only the latest fad in america's push to monopolize the european gas supply chain ever since donald trump got into office his administration has been pushing the wall becoming increasingly aggressive with time we are committed to securing your access to alternate sources of energy so poland and its neighbors are never again held hostage to a single supplier of energy. so when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia. you're supposed to be guarding against russia germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. we have not deployed the full sort of tools that could significantly undermine if not outright stop the project. we emphasize that

companies involved in russian energy exports are taking part in something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions if you come up with the same actions or the car industry or german banks or the german chemical industry and so on and so on and so on and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom. on this same person that creates your economy down and sorry this can't be honest ironically enough it seems that energy aside trump and co have done everything every possible thing to alienate europe from threats of a trade war to straight up trying to dictate policies to countries like germany so not only is it cheaper for the e.u. to get its gas from russia it naturally doesn't want to keep. all of its eggs in one basket. germany is entitled to secure its energy requirements in various ways

one of these places fresh natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in our energy policy german industry needs nordstrom to to enhance and to supply safety saying molecules of freedom instead of natural gas is like calling or oil a liquid bomb magnet except the latter is actually rooted in reality about well in the age of i phones and all out marketing they had to try. to get more expensive. rush of the well market price for gas and they have to tell us because the u.s. made this agreement with john kerr to explore natural gas to europe and he agreed and said ok we have a certain amount and the whole house will sell this so then this was a try to make. it

a people that it is more expensive well will try to convince you or to buy its gas washington hasn't taken its eye off the ball as far as iran goes mean times again war the e.u. but the launch of a new trade make of this with around saying it will lead to sanctions earlier the u.s. later the consequences in a letter obtained by bloomberg engage an exhibit to the ground or fall of u.s. sanctions can result in severe consequences including a loss of access to the u.s. financial system is called instead and its main purpose is to get previous u.s. sanctions on trading with iran it was established by france germany and the u.k. for non-dollar transactions with iran it enables countries to trade outside the u.s. dominated global financial system but it seems there are still surrounding the arrangement . yes there is american pressure strong very strong and very direct on this subject iran is constantly threatening to break the agreement and there doesn't facilitate the possibility of treat and terrans are the fuel to the fire to saying it's not

going away forever for the system to kick in we believe that the europeans must make long time efforts to fulfill their commitments to your liking behind and they should not imagine that these dummy republics will continue to wait for them i'm wondering how much time do europeans need to set up a preliminary mechanism but about ground here briefly last year the u.s. pulled out of the hard won iran nuclear deal that was struck back in 2050 washington then impose sanctions on iranian oil saying that any company doing business with iran will also be sanctioned political commentator thinks that the european move now shows that countries do want to reduce american dominance if you look at the charges of the united states against the hand is incredibly ridiculous for wanting this of nuclear weapons for once these live events and they are building if your weapons. in the world building nuclear weapons what would they be good for the u.s. things they can hunt the world and you know the europeans out the weak link of the

healing international community which is everything else angeline aged kids and more and more guarantees fresh obviously china you hand in other counties and tend to get out of the u.s. diminish and the hope ians because we do that they should be better horgan lies. levante moscow time friday morning thanks for watching coming up here for a short break r.t. host and former british m.p. george galloway gets a pretty rude awakening in kazakhstan by someone pretty surprising we'll tell you all about it when we come back. some in media and even some politicians are giving new look and it's no wonder a case can be made the u.s. crusade against assad is

a blueprint for criminalizing journalism what fate is in store for a song will journalism suffer the same. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see if. there's an 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 economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's abidal issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t. .

is one think a picture the scene of the middle and i suddenly someone is trying to break down your hotel door not exactly the setting for a restful night slate them but it apparently was exactly the bizarre situation that former british m.p. an odyssey house george galloway found himself in a gets worse with an egg cia director apparently who recently tried to buy into that hotel room during a conference in central asia here's the map. of the most part plex thing disturbing and frightening things are to happen to me in my life and those a lot happened to me in my life it's every hotel guests nightmare is someone trying to force their way into the busy room in the middle of the night my wife leapt out of bed 1st and began throwing furniture towards the door the individual kept on

pushing and then flooding his shoulder against the door it was a full blown attempt forced entry and after some minutes the security did arrive and arrested the interloper as soon as the security did that i opened the door seeking some kind of explanation to recognize very well the figure and to hear him say over and over again. james woolsey mentioned it was quite james woolsey was their head of the cia back in the 1990 s. you may recall he is famous for advocating interventions in the middle east countries and claimed indeed the right was a vote of the 911 terror attacks in the u.s. and he wanted an invasion of the country over a 2 miscible says he had to replied to our requests for comment about what may or may not have happened in that hotel but he's not so reticent when it comes to talking about other controversial issues like these. as in turn around and bashir

assad in syria if they are wringing their hands worried about demonstrations and i think we should be pleased about snowden i would give him the sentence and i would prefer to seem hanged by the neck until instead rather than merely electrocuted when i do that way don't mess around other people. i'm. only for a very good to do that i went to his session to hear him speak he showed no signs of a hangover no signs of illness of any kind and not fully expected them to come and give me an explanation and apology but mother was forthcoming not even a dr no and so i'm asking the cia know what this was all about was this attempt to harm me and if so why and what of the going to do about it or is this man not safe to be let alone beginning the title all of us on boston dog and former

head of the cia. so mr for the next story russia's foreign ministers commented on the recent detention of a russian u.n. employee in kosovo. that pristina is ignoring its commitments to international law right now so you'll have rove's comments were made in tokyo where he is right now on an official foreign minister visit to trenchard's covering it. the breakaway region of costs of 0 in south eastern europe was back in the headlines this week with an armed raid on areas in that region populated by ethnic serbs and that conflict took an extra twist when a un staff member from russia was 1st beaten up and then detained by a cost of our swat team well he was later released because of his diplomatic immunity but cos of our authorities now. one thing you went to strip him off that

status well while we're traveling with surrogate lavrov and japan we asked the russian foreign minister to weigh and on that situation and he was very critical of the authorities in pristina. as regards the kosovo authorities behave the they have clearly got out of hand those who approved tending to have control of the coasts of the e.u. and the us it's now clear they have not this kind of support coming from the west seems to instill the sense of impunity in kosovo that the riches cost of this treatment of the russian view and employees unjustifiable might will stand this and that tends to representative of his u.n. status and there is serious issues weeks made the u.n. to renew the russian top diplomat went on to say that kosovo has gone back on many of its commitments and trampled them under foot by creating their armed forces they violated a very important u.n. resolution on kosovo and according to search it just goes to show how dangerous it

is to turn a blind eye to have been chilled validations of international law russia insists that those in breach should be held accountable we already know that this request by the costs of our authorities will be handed over all the way to the u.n. headquarters however moscow believes that it won't change anything now this conflict with the many elements in it is potentially very explosive i'll just remind you that serbia put its forces on high alert after tuesday's operation in costs of 0 which he still considers to be part of its own territory belgrade warns that it will react swiftly if the costs of our serbs are threatened by local forces however the authorities in pristina claim that their raids were specifically aimed at tackling organized crime the region of costs of a split from serbia. after the nato intervention 20 years ago and it officially

declared independence in 2008 however some countries including most importantly russia refuse to recognize its sovereignty. troubles bubbling to the surface again by the looks of the innkeeper truck only stories as well. kevin i would hear our national h.q. studios this morning so far this friday 27 minutes past 11 more for me and about 33 minutes that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to stay in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw why not to give you the . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to do it. by the way what is it that slide here. because the slowness of the blue of them so moving. and good you exclude local was before. much of those who heard the preview live was few who do so soon we will. we will. move. move. move show you this new video of the liberal media to collectors who the. more misled most of his goals will be do films for good goofs. don't go to shows so

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a low in welcome to cross talk we're all things we considered i'm peter lavelle some in media and even some politicians are giving julian assange ingenue look and it's no wonder a case can be made the us crusade against assad is a blueprint for criminal eyes in journalism what fate is in store for a songe will journalism suffer the same. across talking julian assange which i'm joined by my guess under walker in london he is a new york observer columnist and in los angeles we crossed out rumple clone he is a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron regimen cross talk rules in effect

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