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army documents. should. get reaction from people. because. i don't agree with. why. it's not a good thing. and the prime minister of malaysia calls the investigation into the. calls continue. to pin the blame for the 20. 1 minutes past 4 pm here in moscow the last day of may a very warm welcome to the program. i mean an o'neil our top story

a united nations expert on torture said that julian assange is being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment and that several democratic states are trying to break their whistleblowers will the comments come after the special rapporteur were visited the wiki leaks founder in london's belmarsh prison where he's currently incarcerated and reportedly extremely on well going underground spoke to needles melzer and not full interview airs on saturday. july 5th spoken squads clearly shall not be able to access all medical care for several years the much more serious aspect is how does the mentally ill the most easily affected by the extremely hostile and increasingly are treated by it or not she has the looks the street for several years so sure he really shows all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed. to. or with the u.n.

official coming into criticism for his comments artie's done the ill hawkins has been looking deep the controversy could roll. reports on the remarks by the un special experts on torture has brought the media's attention but they've also drawn quite a stir online from officials in the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt for one trading tweets with united nations special operator about the extent of his involvement in the legal battle surrounding julian a son's. this is wrong assigns chose to hide in the embassy and was always free to leave and 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 sons 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 objects to the required by the rule of law others through despite as about some modicum of control proceed mr saunders case has drawn from all sides which we all follow ts human rights organizations and the media community this all stemmed of course from a 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 lolita 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 songs as a psychological torture describing a deliberate concerted and sustained abuse judicial persecution and of which we can farm and before in the. course through his time in the ecuadorian embassy in london he made those comments to add he's going on the ground 0 staff for tansy you can see the full interview as you mentioned that morrow here is a good preview of what the u.n. official said to us earlier. where it was but prisoners political prisoners prisoners of war for years and but what we do in these cases to convert a doctor she's like a century old to cold which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was well when we look clearer. in the sunshine and be exposed to several. forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment which

should relate to we can only describe. what was he shocked me with this particular case is that a single individual has been selected and singled out by several democratic states and persecuted systematically as a manner to point to the breaking of this comes shortly after julian assange his extradition case in the u.k. court was postponed view through 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 in is that 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 that this has dragged on. we draw emotions and control issue from all sides ranging from awful. legal experts and human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community . 3 more u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls have joined the chorus of those calling for president trump's impeachment it comes after the retiring special counsel robert muller said he could not exonerates mr trump of obstruction of justice claims but as rough goes the explains impeachment isn't necessarily a recipe for democratic success every so often in 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 mueller 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 peter 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 impeach my proceedings now strangely enough the more senior slightly wise the 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 each 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 looks that 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 as 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 is remind me what exactly these that

they're going to impeach him for. see of laying out the story very well t.v. host political commentator steve malzberg told us that the democratic leadership understands that it won't be able to get donald trump impeached. nancy pelosi knows that it's politically 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 dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. patriotism might be a sign of extreme far right tendencies according to the british army a leaked document which dates back to 2070 has exposed a galley used by senior officers to indicate quote signs of extreme and intolerant behavior in the ranks that's going through it according to the document officers should look out for those who describe multicultural tons of lost there's warnings as well for personnel who are involved colleagues and close social media platforms belief it also calls to watch are called for soldiers to make generalisations about

the muslims and jews however the controversial point which refers to patriots raise the most questions in the british media we asked people in london whether they found the particular recommendation offensive or no. suspension. there why would that sound suspicious but shouldn't. but maybe it might be that think you're over not just you know what why would that be suspicious offer because a great free. now i don't i don't agree with that so i don't quite understand why they would do that but patriots want to think 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 on how do you define it as a country no absolutely not it is the music of st you know if you look a lot of strong countries around the world you know the leading countries go

patriots strong isn't it because then you. because some 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's now 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. germany find itself wedged into the u.s. china trade dispute now after mike pompei was visit to the nation america's secretary of state met with german chancellor angela merkel and other top officials and this appears washington is trying to ramp up pressure on berlin over defense issues especially when it comes to 5 g. network and energy matters all are for you for national joins us live from the german capital with the details there has been tension over those subjects i just

mentioned this specially 5 g. tech of late and let's be hopping for quite a while but tell us what came of the meetings with america's top diplomat. well hi you know well the message should the u.s. secretary of state my compiler brought to berlin on friday was quite clear china and its giant who while we world's largest telecommunications equipment producer world's 2nd largest smartphone producer that washington had recently accused of spying on the american government and stealing intellectual property the company that america had also blacked leased it threaten national security of not only america but also europe and western democracies all around the globe and america's mission said in front of the cameras is to make sure that the channels through which the information flows are trusted and the data is not going to end up in the hands of china's communist party my compiler was quite direct you remember that her

law is a company that is building right now the fast 5 g. data network that america is so unhappy about but there was another mission mentioned by the u.s. secretary of state and that is to protect america's part in this world wide by opening their eyes on threats dangers and risks that cooperation with china and these companies may pose 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 new just ready 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 make their own sovereign decisions. and this latest thing the independent decisions is actually something very hard to believe given that america had repeatedly put pressure on the european countries asking for the same bend to be

implemented here to bend the company. and actually this is something that germany was very unhappy about because america went as far as threat. in this country with consequences through america's ambassador. lena so germany is not implementing this ban and experts say that this is one of many countries where this is very unlikely to be implemented anytime soon and that is making america cross of course so it's all very is that my pimp came here to berlin seeking for support but also putting more pressure on me and other european countries because germany's just one stall in his european tour but it's what quite clear it wasn't quite clear where he was able to find what he was looking for meanwhile we know that china is striking back we hear about the decision to create a list of. least of fish bowls and organizations promoting hawai'i ban

and also we hear that the american personnel of that company working at the offices throughout the country had been expelled from china ok thanks for bringing all the tone for us this hour live from berlin for the. malaysia speaks into the probe into dawn flight m h 17. we go through that story in seconds. the european governments especially the germans and the french and the britons they really want to help iran economically they have no control over their private sectors and their private sectors if they have to choose between the vani and

market forces the u.s. market again you don't have to be an economic genius to figure out that they would go with the u.s. markets. seemed wrong. to me. to stay active. and engaged because the trail. find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

20 minutes past 4 pm here in moscow welcome back malaysia's prime minister has called into question the findings of the dutch led investigation into the dunning flight m.h. 17 over ukraine and 2014 mahathir mohamad ses the international inquiry which alleged that russia was complicit in the atrocity was politicized does not find enough evidence to support its conclusions he also claim malaysia has not been allowed to inspect the plane's black boxes. the accusing the russians by any means but when. you could even be the ukrainian government because the need to have does he. get pretty direct words there from the malaysian prime minister well . joins us live to bring us up to speed on developments hi there ron the tragedy happened a little over 5 years ago and what progress is being made into the probe sort of 5

years have passed but it's only seems like it happened yesterday you know i was there one of the 1st reporters on the scene so your question so we have the. prime minister who says malaysia accepts the results of the investigation however they accept it's a certain point they accept that the plane was brought down by a russian missile but to this is that has not been concluded and this is what malaysia has a problem with the moment also there is absolutely nothing that supports the investigators claim that the weapon was actually smuggled from russia and after the d.d. was taken back from the korean territory which was a big claim and a lot of things were based on. on the premise you know absolutely or sin a sin is the incident occurred moments later all the headlines around the world work claiming that putin down the plane to a ridiculous russia right away without any investigation whatsoever however you want to get back to the accusations that were floating against russia over the

years well there were claims that the mist belongs to the russian military moscow obviously denied all those claims and what they did was actually trace its origin back to the soviet union the missile was manufactured in a soviet union but then it was routed to ukraine and this is where remained. for the rest of the time and also russian. defense ministry said that the type of weapon that the joint investigation committee claimed was used is not being utilized in the russian army in this 21st century the last time they used it was back in 1909 remote host did the investigation then when you leave it i'd like to actually come to such conclusions well we began this story with the malaysian prime minister is a saint so i think we should get back to him because he's explained it's best in my opinion as having us and. we didn't know way 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 concerned that it didn't need to be. headed mean a new true but the examinee and making. the whole is reading except we have but these who have some political interest in the met they're. all very goal promise or malaysia say yes and himself political reasons behind it and like i said again right from the get go from the very beginning everybody was accusing the russian federation of what had happened and also each time we heard some revelations from the investigation saying it was it was highly likely russia is highly likely russia that we are more than convinced that it was russia however there was never ever any undeniable proof that would say that this is exactly who

the culprit is and also from the from the very start of the inquiry methods themselves well they did raise a few eyebrows around the world 1st of all ukraine was allowed to participate in this to gauge and that's a country who did not close their airspace while there was an internal conflict going on in ukraine and also prime minister of malaysia was saying that suit and the 17 belongs to malaysia is the malaysian the airline however that country was not allowed to participate in the investigation of the black boxes so quite a few things there that raise eyebrows around the world and you have pretty big statement from the prime minister ramon koester it brings us right up to date on the thank you. will the tense game of brinkmanship between iran and the trump administration play it's got an expert on board to tell us more you're watching 247

r.t. . 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 journalism suffer the same. nobody could see coming that false confessions would. in this particular. book any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the uncomfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were to. say on the statement that

i would be home by the next day there's a culture of accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the. politicians to. be put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go on to be pros this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water.

sophie shevardnadze the united states has ordered a military buildup in the middle east rising threat. nations on a bring. out conflict. of the executive director of the center for strategic and diplomatic status at the university of south florida. with a new round of sanctions on iran by the united states the prospect of a working diplomatic solution to the question of iran's nukes is fading with american troops massing in the region tensions between tehran and washington are becoming more dangerous for everyone will try to push the president into an even tougher stance on iran what exactly is the u.s. hoping to achieve with this. republic and come the renewed american pressure really makes around. most an milani of the executive director of the center for strategic

and diplomatic studies at the university of south florida welcome to the show is rate great to have you with us mr maloney now you have been saying that chances of an all out war between united states and iran are very slim now as no side is really interested in an open conflict but recently pentagon has said and the u.s. u.s.s. aberdeen lincoln aircraft carrier and b. $52.00 strategic bombers to the persian gulf to prevent iranian miscalculation as u.s. defense secretary has put it so what possible miscalculation can there be on the part of iran what is there to prevent. thank you for having me on your program as i have said before i think the chances of a military confrontation or a full. fledged war between the united states and iran are very slim at this time i say that because of the states that have been made by the supreme leader ayatollah

khomeini as well as by to president of the united states donald trump recently donald trump has said very clearly very explicitly that he's not interested in getting engaged in another endless war in the middle east. that tangier however is a miscalculation by either iran or do u.s. war or an event instigated by some regional players and that iran has to respond and then the u.s. has to respond to iranian response and then this can get out of control and denby might have a limited military confrontation this is why it is very important for iran and the united states to open channels of communication between their top leadership or at least between the military leaderships of the 2 countries so that beacon prevent a.