this hour's headlines if you're an expert on torture says julian assange has been subjected to treatment in recent years and that it's taken a striking toll on the whistleblowers mental health. all the. cultural personal. psychological. assessment on a song sees the british foreign secretary go on the offensive calling for the u.n. to stand down and refrain from making inflammatory remarks. also this hour fresh calls of impeachment fire at the u.s. democrats in washington could also give president trump increased ammunition to rally support for a 2nd term. malaysian prime minister calls the investigation into the downing of

flight m.h. 17 politicized as calls continue for stronger evidence to pin the blame for the 2014 tragedy on russia. and the united states rebranded shale gas as a product of freedom in an attempt to sway reluctant european countries into leaving its better than russian energy. they were headline news 247 this is r.t. international monitors calling right moscow news through friday may the 31st 8 pm here in moscow 6 pm in london that's where we're starting this hour the united nations expert on torture says julian assange and being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment and that several democratic states are trying to break the whistleblowers will the special visited the wiki leaks founder in london's belmarsh prison where he's currently being held and they said to be extremely unwell meltzer explains more in saturday's going on the ground here on r.t.

. julie sontag physical consequences clearly from not being able to access dental and medical care for several years the much more serious aspect is how he has been mentally and emotionally affected by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary and byron she has them exposed to for several years so here he really showed all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to prolong psychological torture. well with the u.n. official coming into criticism for his comments down hawkins looks at how deep the control to see 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 the 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 the detail to my formal letter to yusuf or u.k. courts of not shown the impartiality into objects to the 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 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 sergeant so really got response slowly 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 a side. logical 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 action or tansey 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 of war

for years and but what we do in these cases you can with a doctor if he's like a son should call which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was when we look clearer. in the sunshine and be exposed to several. forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment which surely we can only describe. as 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 views extradition case in the u.k. court was postponed view through ill health his lawyers stating he's unable to even hold

a functional conversation the swedish authorities on their part have refused to postpone a hearing ruling on his attention and he is at present here 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 to link the a prison sent. 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 control to see from all sides ranging from authorities legal experts and human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community whistleblower advocate and long time a song supporter niamey colvin who used to visit him in the ecuadorian embassy describe the wiki leaks founder as mental state is fragile. he 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's recognizably judean in the letters that i've seen but he is fragile and he experience 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 t.v. 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 all the stars who 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. 3 more presidential hopefuls in the us of joined the chorus 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 obstructed justice but as more and as 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 or well and preaching 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 shows 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 begin impeachment proceedings now strangely enough the more senior slightly wiser politicians aren't quite as nuts about bringing down the king over that probably love to but for now they seem content to merely dig deeper you don't bring an indictment where you don't put in an impeachment 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 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

non really sure democrats control the house of representatives but republicans run the senate they'll hardly vote against their own and 3rd the last time the president was impeached bill clinton his approval rating soared in the aftermath by 10 percent no less you see now why trump 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 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 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 told us that the democratic leadership understands they 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 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 now 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 what it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. another one says it will consider the dutch the malaysian prime minister's concerns over the investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 of

ukraine and 2014 tim ahmed says the international inquiry which alleged that russia was complicit in the atrocity was politicized and it's not found enough evidence to support its conclusions i also claim the malaysia has not been allowed to inspect the plane's flight recorders. the accusing the russians of planning. but what decent evidence you could even beat the ukrainian government because the 2 have disappeared. correspond to remind culture of joint you're nearly up with more details. 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 accepted to certain points 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 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 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 1900 did the investigation then when you believe 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 best in my

opinion as evidence and. we don't know why we screwed from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics in it the idea was not to find out how this happened with all that but seem to be consent. to being on rush or headed. by the examining and making conclusions we. are always willing to accept but here we have these who have some political interest in the matter. well there we go promise or malaysia say yes 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 scene 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 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 the fact that evidence parties including malaysia under russia have been excluded absolutely undermines the credibility of the inquiry the investigation itself because of course it raises the suspicion that evidence and parties have been excluded because it's not

convenient to the desired conclusion and that would suggest that a conclusion was arrived out before the investigation was even mounted as indeed the malaysian prime minister suggested actually was that the back of people's minds throughout the investigation that the purpose investigation was to pin the blame on russia more than actually establish what happened. germany's found itself went into the u.s. china trade dispute his visit to the e.u. nation america's secretary of state met with german chancellor angela merkel and other top officials and it appears that washington is trying to ramp up pressure on berlin over defense issues especially when it comes to the 5 g. network and energy matters. as the details from the german capital. well the message should the u.s. secretary of state mike compare brought to berlin on friday was quite clear china and its giant world's largest telecommunications equipment producer world's 2nd

largest smartphone producer that washington had recently accused of spying on the american government for b.g. and stealing intellectual property the company that america had also blacklisted threaten national security of not only america but also europe and western democracies all around the globe and america's mission. in front of the cameras is to make sure that the channels through which the information flows are trusted and that data is not going to end up in the hands of china's communist party my compiler was quite direct remember that hawaii is a company that is building right now 0 the fast 5 g. . 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 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 they'll make their own sovereign decisions and that is something really hard to believe given that america had repeatedly put pressure on the european countries asking to ban who are we here as well go in as far as threatening germany with consequences through its ambassador in berlin something that angered germany dramatically experts say they say as the country among many other is that where the band is very unlikely to be implemented anytime soon and that is make an american. ross of course so obviously my compare came to berlin seeking for support and putting more pressure on germany and other european countries 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 blacklist of companies and officials promoting her while we ban and also we hear that the american personnel of the company working throughout the country had been expelled from china and. the united states has found a new way to market it shale gas through reluctant european consumers they have labeled it as the gas of freedom correspondent he goes dobbs been sniffing out the reasons why. 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 if 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 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 allah kills 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 delivered for more 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 the wall becoming increasingly aggressive with time we are committed to securing your access to alternate sources

of energy so poland managed neighbors are never again held hostage to a single supplier of energy. so when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia. you're supposed to be guarding against russian security goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. we have not deployed the full sort of tools that could significantly undermine if not out right 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 chorus 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

they're quantum in our hands 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 ways is russia natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in our and the deposing german industry needs more room to to enhance and supply is 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 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 you agreed and he said ok we hate certain amount and the whole house would sell this so then this was a try to make. that a people that it is more expensive or the u.s. continuing to rail against europe's importing of russian gas sophie shevardnadze has been talking in depth to kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov he explains why in particular the north stream 2 gas pipeline project which is expected to come online next year has got washington worried the full interview has here on monday. huge

international project. that we've seen out of a large anything and they before it started it. well that is being performed for for the benefit of those countries supplying natural gas and receiving. the project there would be a very significant contribution for energy security 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 preferred to act like 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. social media's also come into focus

on capitol hill off the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi accused facebook of spreading russian misinformation here's why. madge told this to the room when she came in and made that statement when he walked in and i told this to the room when she came in and made that statement that he walked out. there is a tension here we work hard to find the right balance between encouraging free expression and promoting a safe and authentic community and we believe that reducing the distribution of content strikes that balance. when a something like facebook says i know this is false but it's

a lie but we're showing it anyway. to me it says 2 things one is that they probably i was giving them the benefit of the doubt on my show but clear the day i saw it it was on but clear as they say wittingly were accomplices in the enablers of false information to call because they spoke. with facebook race used to take down a fake video of nancy pelosi it wasn't even a close call the video is sexist trash. no nancy that's not before the election meddling on facebook sparked as for doctors or video or a public figure that sort of tomfoolery happens to public figures the lost. come on

now see get off this topic you have bigger things to do. she should thank them now she can show up absolutely habits and no one will buy. and that's your new so far this friday next to me the doctor doing the rounds in some of the world's toughest to rank. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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