a. subject. striking. the. person. british foreign secretary jeremy hunt. calling for. making inflammatory remarks. also ahead on the program fresh cold. in washington but also give. or take for a 2nd term. the prime minister of malaysia calls the investigation into

flight. 24. a product of. european countries into believing it's better. than 6 in the evening right here at this friday in moscow welcome to our to international i mean i know neal. a united nations expert on torture said that julian assange is being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment that quote several democratic states are trying to break the whistle blower as well. the

comments come after the special report tour visited the wiki leaks founder in london's belmarsh prison where he's currently incarcerated and reported the extremely unwell to parties going underground spoke to niles melzer the full interview with him urs this saturday. julie physical consequences clearly will not be able to access a little medical care for several years the much more serious thing is how he has been mentally and emotionally feted by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary environment she has the actual street for several years so here he really showed all the solutions that are typical for a person that has been exposed. and those comments came in for criticism from the u.n. official or without and minorities don't you hawkins has been looking at how deep the controversy could run 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 operators about the extent of his involvement in the legal battle surrounding judean 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 as someone sitting on the rubber boat in the shark pool as detailed in my formal letter to you so far you get caught some not shown the impartiality into objectivity required by the rule of law by this thread despite what some modicum of control proceed mr saunders case has drawn from all sides with you nor for eighty's human rights organizations and the

media community this all stemmed of course some reports released by mr meltzer to the british authorities as well as other countries documenting the treatment of a sergeant so ready got response 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 songs with all the assistance you require as mr meltzer though has insisted that these claims are not just speculation he visited the songs in 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 of busa judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement before and of course through his time in the ecuadorian embassy in

london he made those comments to add he's going on the ground 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 political prisoners of war for years and but what we do in these cases you come with a doctor. you sign should hold which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was well when we leave clear. jewel in the sunshine and be exposed to several. forms of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment which should be truly can only be described. well as ye shocked me with this particular case is that a single individual has been saluted and singled out by several democratic states

and persecuted systematically and it is still a manner which could 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 health. already is on their part have refused to postpone a hearing ruling on his attention is up sensitive despite calls from lawyers and human rights organizations so it's clear you faces mounting legal pressure here from all sides of else also expressed concerns about the potential for his extradition to the united states where you 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 will 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 hours this has dragged on it's certainly drawn emotions and controversy from all sides ranging

from all forward to these legal experts on human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community or whistleblower advocate a long time supporter new york colvin who used to visit the wiki leaks founder in the ecuadorian embassy has described to us his mental status roger. in notes in the letters that he's been writing that he's feeling unwell he knows that he's not as strong as he used to be he's feeling a bit fragile he is still trying to. actively be involved in his case and you know he. he did recognize the duty and in the letters that i've seen that he is fragile and he experienced an awful lot of harm in the ecuadorian embassy i went to see him quite a lot during that period i saw him decline a bit during that period and i think there's 2 aspects to this the 1st is that today has been living under unrelenting pressure for about a decade that's not healthy for anyone but on top of that i refer you to this final

period at the ecuadorian embassy where he was continually surveilled he was dealing with a very hostile environment they changed the water starts he would be to be horrible to him he went weekends without having any food he his visitation was very restricted and he knew that the deal had been done. and the ceiling was about to fall in on him. through an update on another big story malaysia's prime minister has called into question the findings of the dutch led investigation into the darling of flight m h 17 over ukraine in 2014. mohammed ses the international inquiry which i'll age that russia was complicit in the atrocity was politicized and has not find enough evidence to support its conclusions he also claimed malaysia has not been allowed to inspect the plane's black boxes. the accusing the russians by any means but what decent you could even be do you create

a new government because the 2 have disappeared and 5 years have passed but it only seems like it happened yesterday you know i was there one of the 1st reporters on the scene so we have. a prime minister who says malaysia accept the results of the investigation however they accept the certain points they accept that the plane was brought down by 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 there were claims that the missile 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 the soviet union but then it was routed to ukraine and this is where it 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 100-1900 did the investigation then when you look at 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 best in my opinion as having us and. we don'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 out how this happened when all that. seemed to be concentrated to be on russia headed mean a new troop by the examinee and making. only sweeping through

except may here we have but these who have some political interests in the met they're all very goal promiser malaysia say this and himself political reasons behind it 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 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 it and they 17

belongs to malaysia and 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. well for more insight on this i'm happy to say we're joined live on the program by security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles shu bridge hello charles why 5 years old do you think the dutch led probe has struggled really to find anything definitive. well it's very interesting this comment today from the malaysian prime minister actually yesterday but you've been reporting today of course it's highly significant that he's speaking out now it's almost as if he's speaking out of frustration and i think that comes back to the point you've made the investigation came out with a report that concluded in its mind not definitively necessarily but to

a relatively high degree of proof as far as they were concerned this is the dutch led investigation that russia of course was excluded from and what we're learning today are actually being confirmed today so even malaysia the owner of the plane itself the owner of the black boxes themselves remember. as well as of course the nation that last number of systems on that flight including crew that they themselves have at least partially been excluded from the investigation and that might suggest why it's not possible to come to some definitive conclusion also it's surprising that to at least some degree that information and evidence that parties have put into the investigation seems to have been executed unsatisfactorily that's to say not good grounds have been given or convincing grounds for exclude not information and i'm especially here thinking about the information that russia supplied i just i'm not sure i'll spelled out russia has given its own version of what happened but isn't exactly being listened to malaysia as you say claims it has

been sidelined in certain aspects of the investigation why then are these countries seemingly being left died when alighting evidence surely more is better getting all sides is. absolutely undermines the credibility of the inquiry the investigation itself because of course it raises the suspicion that evidence parties have been excluded because it's not convenient to the desired conclusion and that would suggest that a conclusion was a wife dots before the investigation was even mount. pops as indeed the malaysian prime minister suggested actually was a back of people's minds throughout the investigation that the purpose investigation was to pin the blame on russia and other nationals stablish what happens now whether that's true or not the fact that evidence and parties including malaysia and russia have been excluded tends to suggest that that may be true it gives the perception that it's true and of course perception is just as important

as the reality when it comes to the credibility acceptance of this report now so the fact that this report notchy relied upon outside external sources such as the investigative website belling kept provided the evidence that suggests that russian a missile came across the ocean border into ukraine and then the transporter went back out again but is the source the main source for that information but it got itself of course is many would suggest a highly dubious so spending mind at that time its funding was very unclear the fact that this website consistently has a long record of only investigating issues that the british and american governments were one investigated and always invariably coming to conclusions that support american and british law and and so therefore if that's the basis of that evidence then again drax into question the veracity of the credibility of their sort of port but what's interesting today especially is that this is not being reported these malaysian prime minister's comments by almost any western media and

i think that itself tells you that this is perhaps an unwelcome statement for protection american under the government's charles thank you security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles she bridge live on the program. ok short break here all r.t. international and back after this. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room sick.

this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key to economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's a vital issues. watch especially foreign coverage on r.t. . 3 more presidential hopefuls in the u.s. have joined the chorus of those calling for donald trump's impeachment it comes after the retiring special counsel robert mueller said he could not exonerate the

president over claims he did just this but as the of explains impeachment isn't necessarily a recipe for a democratic success every so often america goes crazy for impeachment that's like the flu someone gets it and before you know it everyone sneezing oh well and peaching they hoped and prayed. 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 the 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 pizza and 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 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 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 in a blue geisha 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 and 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 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 make 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 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 go in to impeach him for t.v. host them 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 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 dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. the united states has found a new way to market it she'll get us to reluctant european customers they have labeled it as the quote gas for freedom r.t.c. which is on off sniffed on the story for us. 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 to 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 yet 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 accuse from the us 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 delivered a form of freedom to the european continent and this genius freedom marketing 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 this goal 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 goes out and pays its hours a year to russia. we have not deployed the full set of tools yet

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 history or german banks or the german chemical industry and so on and so on a store and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom. on this same person that creates your economy our story 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 russia natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in our and the deposing german industry needs nordstrom to to enhance and just supplies safety. saying morlock use free them instead of natural gas is like calling or oil a liquid bomb magnet except the last is actually rooted in reality but 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 us made this agreement with john kirk to explore natural gas to europe and he agreed and he said ok we'll take a certain amount and the whole house with maybe some of this so then this was

a try to make up. that it people except that it is more expensive but with the u.s. continuing to reel against europe's importing of russian gas sophie shevardnadze caught up with the kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov he explained why in particular the north stream 2 gas pipeline project which is expected to come online next year washington worried the full interview urse on monday. huge international project. that we've seen out of the project is being and did before it started. well that is being performed for for the benefit of those countries supplying natural gas and receiving natural. the project there would be a very significant contribution for any of your and the project that is a huge competitor and very serious competitor for american gas producers and

suppliers. so instead that the main reason of course instead of fair. competition. they prefer to react by wild west time. so they just show the gun and they say that no no you guys here in europe you're going to buy our natural gas and we don't care that it is at least 30 percent more expensive than the gas coming from the russians. the pretty extraordinary story next of a doctor who's made some of the most inhospitable parts of the amazon his office but should modern medicine be playing a part out all in the lives of members of indigenous tribes are documentary jungle m.d. . dr

eric jennings from sun to room is considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. by the way this man with no clothes isn't don't or jennings he's a member of the indigenous zoe tribe who's helping the don't of put together a post long. as this is dr jennings people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some always on the move sailing yachts and flying aircraft a little like models dr strange of with a full set of working fingers this footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands on.