said she'll go as a freedom project to try and sway reluctant european countries and it's better russian. live from our international news center here in moscow this is r.t. my names you know neal and you're welcome to the program our top story the un's top official on torture sees julian assange has been subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment and it happened both during the years he spent in the ecuadorian embassy in london and in belmarsh prison where he's now currently incarcerated arties going underground spoke to needles melzer the full interview airs on saturday july 5th consequences clearly she will not be able to access medical care for several years the much more seriously is.

illusory leap of faith by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary she has the looks the street for several years so she really really shows all the solutions that are typical for a person that has been exposed. live in a program that was artie's daniela hawkins from paris down bring us up to speed on what else the u.n. expert had to say on the songes treatment and indeed one of those claims based on did he say. well milt meltzer is the united nations special operator on torture as a former red cross official human rights expert he's worked for about 20 years with victims of violence and political persecution he's now joined a chorus of concern regarding the case of julian assad submitting a report to the u.k. government as well as to swedish american ecuadorian all. authorities claiming that

assad has been subjected to that psychological torture now this comes shortly after julian assad's u.k. court hearing on his potential extradition to the united states was postponed due to his ill health lawyers stating he could hardly hold a functional conversation and missed them out so says this isn't just speculation he visited a songe in belmarsh high security prison where he's being held now spending several hours with him assessing him alongside medical professionals and his conclusions as to be said were quite scathing he slammed what he described as deliberate concerted and sustained abuse of raising concerns about assad's use and lack of access to lawyers and legal aid also slamming what he described as systemic systematic judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement referring of course the sergeant's time in the ecuadorian embassy in london now mr belton made those comments on r.t.

is going on the grounds of with the host option or times in which you can see the full interview at morro in the meantime though here is a quick preview of what the u.n. official had to say. whether it was but political prisoners prisoners of war for years and what will we do in these cases to convert a doctor she's like a son should call which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was well when we clear the jewel in the sunshine and been exposed to several. forms of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment which should lead to we can only describe. what was he shocked me with this particular case is that a single individual has been selected and see although i still are all democratic states and persecuted systematically as the story manner

to point to the brady. now wallace songes u.k. hearing was for suppose you to his ill health 1st we disabilities have refused to postpone a hearing to rule on his detention in absentee or despite calls from the lawyers and human rights organizations and not all people not all will follow it is the government share these concerns the australian government released a statement just a very short while ago denying any allegations they've been complicit in any form of psychological torture or a lack of support u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt similarly coming out with criticism of the un official describing his report his comments as inflammatory. slating his interference i'm stating that he should let the u.k. justice system the u.k. courts get on with their job and decide this case for themselves in the meantime here's how we can leaks representatives have described the sergeant's treatment over the last year. last year in the ecuadorian embassy it was extremely taxing

they caught his communications internet telephone calls and visits and they were spying on him they treated him in what in my opinion was an extremely sadistic manner and all of that waves on somebody is held naturally. a muslim else has also raised his concerns over a songes potential extradition to the united states where he now of course faces an additional 7 teams charges from the u.s. prosecutors relating to the charge of espionage a much more serious one to the previous charge of computer hacking this means he could potentially if extradited have tried and found guilty face decades if not life behind bars so this case really has no end in sight and as the cases the vellum of course as attracted increasingly strong controversy from all sides all floaty human rights organizations and of course the journalist community as well. thanks very much for bringing us right up to date on its artie's daniel hawkins and

a reminder the u.n. expert we heard from there at meals that melcher is a guest on our team is going on this week the full episode with him ers tomorrow saturday. moving on 3 more u.s. democratic hopefuls have joined the chorus of those calling for president trump's impeachment it comes after the retiring special counsel robert mueller said quote he could not exonerate trump of op struction of justice claims but senior correspondent goes the of explains impeachment isn't necessarily a recipe for a 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 but

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 texan 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 loved it but for now they seem content to merely dig deeper you don't bring an indictment where you don't put in a new page 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 that'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 and 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 looks that none really sure democrats control the house of representatives but republicans run the senate they'll hardly vote against their own 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 himself is slightly provoking his opponents and is he talking about impeachment they like to use 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 kanzi 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 t.v.

host and political commentator steve malzberg to list out the democratic leadership understands that it won't be able to get donald trump impeached. nancy pelosi knows that it's politically and unpopular and she would be the 1st to go it sure more 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 has 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 want 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 i don't trump. where do you stand on this next story patriotism might be a sign of extreme far right tendencies according to the british army a leaked document which dates back to 27 dean has exposed the guide used by senior officers to indicate quote signs of extreme and intolerant behavior in the ranks according to the document officers should look out for those who describe multicultural tollens last personal who involved colleagues in closed social media platforms the leaflet also calls to watch out for soldiers who make generalisations about muslims and jews however the controversial point which refers to pit creates raise the most questions in the british media we else people in

london whether they fund particular recommendation offensive or not. suspension. and. why would that sound is suspicious it shouldn't go but maybe it does maybe they think you are not sure soros is you know what why would that be suspicious i think is 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 that but patriots not a bad thing it's it's an old fashioned term that doesn't make you a bad person does it no not change it's a good thing it's good to be proud of depends be cheered on how do you define it as a lover for a country no absolutely not but yours is a miserable strain you know if you look at a lot of strong countries around the world you know the leading countries go patriots strong isn't it because then you are. because stop

person could be a normal person that you could be putting on the person into something that is not . well for their part the army's thing is that the leaflet does not suggest that all patriots are extremists the defense ministry said it was drawn up following the arrest of 4 soldiers who were accused of alignment with an extreme group. the united states has found a new way to market its shale gas to reluctant european customers they've labeled it the gas of freedom r t z e f picks up the story. and 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 if you. us 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 molecules from the us to europe is a heroic milestone akin to defeating nazis 75 years up to liberate in europe from nazi germany occupation the united states is again deliver a form of 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. when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia. you're supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays a $1000000000.00 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 is 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 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 now and the deposing german industry needs more room 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 now but well in the age of i phones and all our marketing they had to try the bird natural gas is more expensive than the gas from russia or the world market price for gas and they have to be cursed the u.s. made this agreement with john kirk to explore natural gas to europe and he agreed and he said ok we came certain amount and the whole house would sell this so then this was a try to make. that a people except that it is more expensive 20 minutes into the program a short break coming up but after that malaysia speak side over the probe into the

dye in flight m.h. 17 bin and all we'll bring you right up to date on that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see than. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to

stand losing business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. you're back with r t international prime minister sais not the dutch led probe into the dunning a flight m h 17 over ukraine back in 2014 for which russia has been accused of being complicit in was politicized from the start unlocks quote strong evidence he also states that his country has not been a lard to examine the black boxes parties for months rejoice in this studio to go

through some of the. the malaysian prime minister is not sitting on the fence it appears here what see how to say about the findings of the joint investigative team report the main parts of the well he's certainly not playing into the hands of the worldwide narrative as to what had actually happened he said that malaysia does accept the results of the investigation report but only up to a certain point and that's to a point where it says that it was a russian made missile however he said it can't be certain that the missile was actually launched by russia it's just so we have a listen to what he actually had to say about that. accusing the russians by any means but what decent every day you could even be the ukrainian government because they do have does. well joint investigation the

it is a geisha led by the netherlands the made a conclusion that there are certain point during those last 5 years of the investigation that the missile actually belonged to the russian army and it was a broad and taken out of ukraine without any support however moscow i believe it was back in september of last year they dismissed any of the claims that this book missile could have belonged to the army of the russian federation they said that that particular weapon was manufactured back in the 1980 s. during the soviet era and it was sent so ukraine at that time and this is where the trace of this weapon and you said that the tragedy happened just reminding us a little over 5 years ago you were one of the 1st people on the scene i remember speaking to you right from here enough to not tragic day what progress has been made in the interim in years indeed i remember that was horrified i was one of the

1st people at the side of the of the crash and we. heard so many stories about how the investigation is going. on in this nation team has come out with well plenty off information from after that and every time we heard something from the. it was along the lines of all we are convinced that it was russia who is responsible for they have come forward with the so that among the questions of the witnesses were who was part of that scene what instructions they were given who gave him those instructions so this shows that the investigation to find out who exactly was the culprit hasn't really made a lot. headway and actually from the get go the some of the inquiry methods raised eyebrows in malaysia as well because ukraine for example was allowed to work with sensitive materials ukraine a country which failed to close its airspace due to the ongoing conflict and it's

within its borders while i was in the plane belong to they weren't even allowed to investigate the black boxes of their own plane yeah that's what the prime minister said but do we know how involved kuala lumpur actually is in the investigation because it was there are lying a lot of their people on board as well of course how involved the are in this well judging from what we heard from the malaysian prime minister now on the 31st off of mains went and i had seen the country certainly would have been would have liked to be involved a lot more in an investigation the prime minister said that his country should have been involved in examining all of the black box but for some unknown reason it was not allowed to do so let's actually get another quote from him and hear from the prime minister himself we don't know why a screw from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much

politics in the the idea was not to find how did this happen when all that. seemed to be content. to be on russia headed mean a neutral but the examinee and making. a hole is reading through except may here we have but these who have some political interest in the met there are teams from monoculture of with the up to it speaking to me their life we are back at politicking in moments thoughts or news for make and 30 for all the latest global headlines as we approach the end of the working week this is our.

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that in both of us and i was. going to be in both innings of their history kind of to. be as good as you move to where you are more you would almost be. doing. some. 2 of the. robert muller speaks and makes it clear whether to impeach donald trump or not is completely and nancy pelosi is hands can she withstand the push from her party to pursue impeachment we're taking a look on this edition of politics. welcome

to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king on wednesday special counsel robert mueller broke his 2 year silence on the russia probe the major take away from his prepared remarks he declined to clear president trump of obstructing justice muller now makes nancy pelosi is job even harder can the house speaker resist her party's growing demands for impeachment proceedings against donald j. trump let's begin there with the political panel they are david brown democratic strategist he served as majority counsel to democratic senator patty murray on 2 congressional congressional committees and we have adolfo franco former member of the george w. bush administration he was also a spokesperson for the john mccain and mitt romney presidential campaigns they are both in washington d.c. welcome gentlemen thank you matthew and matthew so muller statement on wednesday is this a game changer on whether to proceed with.