the european governments especially the germans and the french and the britons. really want to help iran economically they have no control over their private sector and their private sectors if they have to choose between the market. u.s. market again you don't have to be an economic genius to figure out that they would go with the u.s. market. the u.s. official on. julian being subjected to treatment in recent years. on the mental health. we really should all the citizens of the.

british foreign secretary jeremy hunt go on the offensive calling for the u.n. to stop. and refrain from inflammatory remarks. the u.s. democrats in washington but also give president plenty of ammunition to rally support for a 2nd term in office. a leaked british army document warns that people who describe themselves as patriots might find themselves labeled as right wing extremists we asked people in london if. suspicious. you know what would be suspicious i think is a great story. i don't agree with that at all i don't quite understand why the other 2 the patriots want to thank you. for coming up on the program the prime minister of malaysia calls the investigation. m h 7. dean politicized house

calls continued for stronger evidence to pin the blame for the 2014 tragedy on moscow. from moscow to the world this is our t.v. international my names you know neal good to have your company in our top story the un's top official on torture safe julian a son chance 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 he's now incarcerated there artie's going underground spoke to neil's melzer the full interview on saturday julie cisco consequences clearly she will not be able to access medical care for several years the much more seriously this family has been mentally looseleaf the faith that extremely hostile and increasingly

arbitrary but she has the looks the street for several years so here she really shows all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed. to live now authorities daniel hawkins who's following this story down the u.n. expert there not holding back i'm interested how's there been any reaction yet. certainly the reports on the remarks by the u.n. special experts on torture has brought the media's attention but they've also drawn quite a stir online from officials so the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt for one trading tweets with united nations special rapporteur about the extent of his involvement in the legal battle surrounding julian a son. this is wrong assigns chose to hide in the embassy and was always free to. leave in face justice the un special rapporteur should allow

british courts to make their judgments without his interference or inflammatory accusations. with all due respect sir mr sun she was about as free to leave was someone sitting in the rubber boat in the shark pool as detailed in my formal letter to you so far you get called some not shown the impartiality into objectivity required by the rule of law. others through despite what some modicum of control proceed mr saunders case has drawn from all sides which we all follow t.'s human rights organizations and the media community this all stemmed of course in my report released by mr meltzer to the british authorities as well as other countries documenting the treatment of a song that's already got response not only not only from the u.k. foreign secretary but also from australian authorities who issued a statement just earlier today strongly denying rejecting any claims they've been complicit in any form of psychological torture saying they have provided mr sands

with all the assistance you require as mr meltzer though has insisted that these claims are not just speculation he visited to sanjian belmarsh high security prison where he's now being held alongside medical experts spent several hours evaluating him and his concerns has to be said that didn't pull any punches he's described the treatment of our sons' as psychological torture describing a deliberate concerted and sustained abuse judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement before and of course through his time in the ecuadorian embassy in london he made those comments to our to use going on the ground host optionor tanzi you can see the full interview as you mentioned there tomorrow here is a good preview of what the u.n. official said to us earlier. what it was but political prisoner of war for years and what we do in these cases to the hundreds.

son should call which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was when we were. doing in the sun to be exposed to several. forms of shooters and degrading treatment which she literally could only be described. as he shocked me with this particular case is that a single individual has been selected and singled out by several democratic states . in the system i think really as is the story manner which could point to the breaking. of this comes shortly after julian assange has extradition case in the u.k. court was postponed due to ill health his lawyers stating he is unable to even hold a functional conversation the swedish authorities on their part have refused to postpone a hearing ruling on his attention is

a percentage despite calls from lawyers and human rights organizations so it's clear he faces mounting legal pressure here from all sides mr meltzer also expressed concerns about the potential for his extradition to the united states where he of course faces 17 new charges from u.s. prosecutors relating to the more serious allegation of espionage as opposed to simply computer hacking these allegations would draw a month's link the a prison sentence we're talking many decades perhaps even life behind bars so really there is no end in sight for the case of julian assad's that this has dragged on it's certainly drawn emotions and controversy from all sides ranging from authorities legal experts and human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community yet fleshing out those remarks on the reaction to the special rapporteur from the un daniel hawkins thank you. a reminder the u.n. expert we heard from their kneels melcher was speaking on our tease going

underground that full episodes ers tomorrow here on air saturday. moving on 3 more u.s. democratic hopefuls have joined the chorus of those calling for president from peach mint it comes after the retiring special counsel robert miller who said he could not exonerate mr trump of abstraction of justice claims but as our senior correspondent goes the of 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 peaching 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 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 impeachment we took an oath to protect the car 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 wise that 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 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 closer to none 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 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 can see him 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 and trump he's playing the victim he wants to see his opponents fail and barris but as interesting as all of this sees remind me what exactly these that they're going to impeach him for. the of for t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg told us that the democratic leadership understands that it won't be able to get done won't trump impeached.

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 impeach is 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 and 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 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 trump. taylor bring attention to another story being talked a lot about this week pick critism might be a sign of extreme far right tendencies that's according to the. british army a leaked document which dates back to 2017 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 personnel who are involved colleagues and close social media platforms the leaflet also calls to watch out for soldiers who make generalisations about muslims jews however the controversial point which refers to patriots raised the most questions in the british media we asked people in london whether they find the particular recommendation no fences or not on.

the bench. why would it sound. good but maybe it might be that. you know what why would that be suspicious offer because a great read. i don't i don't agree with that or don't know i don't quite understand why they would do the patriots want to think it's it's an old fashioned term that doesn't make you a bad person that's you know not change it's a good thing it's good to be proud of depends how you define it as a country no absolutely not says it was a good thing you know if you look a lot of strong countries around the world you know the leading countries patriots it's wrong isn't it because then you. because the 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 say is not the leaflet does not suggest that all

patriots are extremist the defense ministry said it was drawn up following the arrest of 4 soldiers who were accused of alignment with extreme. moving on malaysia's prime minister say they dutch laid a probe into the dining of flight m.h. 17 over ukraine and 2014 which russia has been accused of being complicit in was politicized from the start unlike strong evidence. in the accusing russians by any name. but what decent evidence you could even beat the ukrainian government because the 2 have does he. joins me now in the studio to bring us up to speed on developments hi there rome the tragedy happens a little under 5 years ago incidentally you were one of the 1st people on the ground remember that i was sitting right here covering a tragic story but tell us what progress has been made in an intermittent period

well we just heard the prime minister of malaysia who says that his country accept the results of the investigation but they accept that only to a certain point they said that the. plane was brought down by a missile which was made in russia there's absolutely no evidence to. support the accusation who had actually done it there is also no evidence to support the dutch investigators claim that the missile was smuggled from the territory of the russian federation into the territory of ukraine and then smuggled back to and also moscow dismissed. any claims whatsoever that this weapon could have belonged to the army all the russian federation they actually traced the roots of this weapon system back ukraine where it was standing right out there was manufactured

back in the 19 eighties and moreover a russian minutes or is said that this type of weapon has not even been used in the russian military in this 21st century it does beg the question about where that kind of conclusion comes from if you say that evidence is very sketchy on the ground and how does seemingly become the default position. well. i think the prime minister of malaysia who we just heard from a little bit earlier i think the he explained it best so let's have a listen. we don't know why we excluded from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics indeed the idea was not to find how did this happen when all that. seemed to be considered it didn't need to be need on russia headed mean

a new troop but the examinee and making. a little hole is reading through except may here we have but these who have some political interests in the middle. well just heard there from the malaysian prime minister and i remember. 5 years ago only moments after the tragedy took place of everyone was in on the internet plans find out what happened and plenty of western publication mainstream media in the west they were accusing russia in unison off this accident taking place. and also from the get go as soon as we heard something from the team of investigators it was a highly likely russia was involved we're convinced that russia was involved however there was never ever any hard evidence which could determine who the real

culprits actually are well an example just from a year ago actually it was in maine when it was announced that investigators confirmed that it was a russian missile that downed flight m h 17 but if you dug a little bit beyond that particular headline you would have found out that the dutch investigators were actually looking for witnesses who could support their claim their version another version of a story of what had actually happened what they wanted to know is who was part of this team what instructions were given when and by whom. so judging from what they wanted to find out just last year this investigation hasn't really made a lot of the headway plus the inquiry methods from the start well they also raise quite a few eyebrows the ukraine who failed to close their own airspace because of the internal conflict that was going on they were allowed to come close to sensitive

material meanwhile malaysia whose plane. it was in the incidents they weren't even allowed to check out the black boxes to investigate what was happening in the black boxes so quite a few things that were well not kosher if you will and you know this was happening from the very beginning yeah point the prime minister was making thanks very much for that all right we're having a short break here on our 2 international. you know world's big partners. and conspirators 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. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the find. the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

like germany has found itself waged into the us china trade war after mike pump a visit to the nation the american secretary of state meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and other top officials it seems washington is trying to ramp up pressure in berlin over defense issues especially when it comes to the 5 g. network we've heard a lot but out on the energy as well arty's maria financial joins us live from the german capital with the details could this syria what has come do we know of the meetings with america's top diplomat what are we learning. haiyan and well it's not quite clear whether china dominate. at the talks between the u.s. secretary of state and his german counterpart here in berlin and later with german chancellor but what is clear definitely entirely preoccupied. and he take minutes in front of the cameras america's top diplomat has come here to believe and made

towards as you just mentioned many call a trade war between the u.s. and china and just weeks off to america china's giant who are way world's largest telecommunications equipment producer world's 2nd largest smartphone maker or the trade black least huge company very controversial decision explaining it by national security concerns accusing the company of trying to steal intellectual property and spy on the american government among other things all these despite the fact that hallway the company had repeatedly denied its connection with the chinese government praising its independence so quite controversial decision that didn't see much of support worldwide including here in germany so the massive impact has brought here to berlin on friday it was quite clear that china threatens national security not only us but also europe and quotation western democracies

worldwide and america's mission 1st mission. is to ensure that the channels through which information flows and you know who always building a fast 5 g. data and that work trust and to ensure the mission is that. this data does not end up in the hands of chinese communist party my compiler was quite direct but there was another mission mentioned by the u.s. security secretary of state and that is quotation to educate america's partners about the dangers and risks and threats that corporation china and its companies may let's take a listen. national security risk to the states of america we think to europe and western democracies around the world and so we are laying out a nature strategy a series of courses of action 2nd mission which is to make sure that we have to get

our friends about these risks as well that we talk to them plainly openly they'll make their own sovereign decisions. while speaking about america and its partners and friends worldwide to take independent decisions it's very hard to believe given that the u.s. had repeatedly put pressure on the european countries asking to ban who always go in as far as threatening day with the consequences through its ambassador here in berlin and angered germany very dramatically germany x. per se is among the countries where the similar ban is very unlikely to be implemented and that is making america cross of course so my compact has come here to berlin seeking support and of course putting more pressure on germany on you're a pain general but it is not quite clear whether he was able to find what he was looking for and meanwhile china is striking back and we hear about the decision to create a black least of officials and companies promoting who are way banned and also we

hear that the hallway american personnel working at the offices throughout the country had been expelled back to you yet a final decision by germany sure to be an interesting lot of whichever way they go to life in the german capital thank you. we know performance enhancing drugs are very much a no go in professional sports but are they soon to be made a requirement for u.s. soldiers watching the hawks delve deeper into that that's coming next. some in media and even some politicians are giving julian a solid 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.

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a twitter thread this week started by comic book writer amanda de burgh she asked women what do you use when you go out running the answers were things like pepper spray dogs tactical knives alarm necklaces and even ring that i was with ridges to make sure you get some d.n.a. from your assailant these are just some of the things women carry with them to feel safe while doing normal everyday things alone in the world you see we can't just send our daughters to school we must equip them apparently with rape whistles and brass knuckles in the shape of kids get numerous mental health studies have shown that more than half of all women have experienced some kind of traumatic abuse or event in their allies and that the effects to women are similar to those experienced by male combat veterans it makes me wonder how many weapons will women have to carry before they're deemed safe enough to exist without supervision and then a report from nature magazine a new database called request a woman scientists.