you an expert on torture says julian assange has been subjected to inhumane treatment in recent years and that it's taken a striking toll on the whistleblowers mental health. all those troops that are looking for a person in the. u.n. 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. malaysian prime minister calls the investigation into the downing of flight m.h. 17 politicised those calls continue for stronger evidence to pin the blame on the 2014 tragedy on russia. and the u.s. 3 brands it's a shell gas is

a product of freedom and an attempt to sway reluctant european countries into believing it's better than russian energy. though there were a few cheering in welcome to r.t. international my name's colin brain in moscow newsroom with the world headlines this hour a 1st for you a united nations expert on the torture says julian assange is being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment and that several diplomatic states are trying to break the whistleblowers will the special rapporteur visited the wiki leaks founder and london's belmarsh prison ways currently being held and is said to be extremely unwell. explains more in saturday's going underground here on r.t. . julie son she had physical consequences clearly from not being able to access a little in 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 byron she has that exposed you 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 or the u.n. official coming into criticism for his comments and hawkins looks at how deep the controller thing 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 you so far you get called some 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 t's 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 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 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 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 of war for years and but what we do in these cases you can with a doctor see psychiatry assigned should call which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was well when we are. doing in the sunshine and be exposed to several. forms of

cruel inhuman and degrading treatment which she will do we can only describe. what was he shocked me with this particular case is that a single individual has been saluted and singled out by similar all democratic states and persecuted systematically as this is just 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 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 sensitive 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. certainly drawn emotions and controversy from all sides ranging from more forward tees legal experts on human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community. whistleblower advocate and long time a strong supporter know me colvin who used to visit him in the ecuadorian embassy described the wiki leaks founder as mental state as fragile 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's recognized the judean in the letters that i've seen but 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. germany's found itself wedged in the u.s. china trade dispute after my proposed visit to the e.u. nations 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 new 5 g.

mobile networks and then the g. matters if a national reporter from berlin. well the message should the u.s. secretary of state might compare 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 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 the 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 might compare was quite direct you remember that hawaii is a company that is building right now 0 the fast 5 g. data network that america is so. unhappy 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 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 decision and that is something really hard to believe given that america had repeatedly put pressure on the european countries asking to bend who are we here as well go in as far as threatening germany with consequences through its ambassador in berlin something that germany dramatically experts say they say is that country among many other is that it where the band is very

unlikely to be implemented anytime soon and that is making america cross of course so obviously my composure came to berlin seeking for support and putting more pressure on german and other european countries but it is not quite clear whether he was able to find what he was looking for meanwhile china's striking back and we hear about the decision to create a blacklist of companies and officials promoting while we ban and also we hear that the american personnel of the company working throughout the country had been expelled from china. united states has found a new way to market it show gas to reluctant european customers they've labeled it as the gas of freedom correspondent it goes down of sniffing out the reasons why. can you smell this scent of freedom or 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. we're supposed to be guarding against russia germany goes out and pays a $1000000000.00 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 for the carriers for german banks for the german chemical industry and so on and so on and so on and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom rely on this same person that creates your economy are sound 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 energy policy german industry needs nordstrom to

to enhance and to supply safety. saying molecules of freedom instead of natural gas is like calling or oil a liquid bomb magnet except the latter is actually rooted in reality but well in the age of i phones and all out marketing they had to try. to get more expensive. well market price for gas and they have to because the u.s. made this agreement with john kirk to explore natural gas to europe and he agreed and he said ok we'll take certain amount and the whole house will be a service so i think this was a try to make. that the people that it is more expensive with the u.s. continuing to rail against europe's importing of russian gas sophie shevardnadze

has been talking in depth to kremlin spokesman dmitri pascoe off he explained 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 airs right here on monday. but huge international project. that we've seen other projects 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 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 and 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. lazio's prime ministers called into question the findings of the dutch led investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 over ukraine in 2014 motto here mohamed says the international inquiry which alleged that russia was complicit in the atrocity was politicized and has not found enough evidence to support its conclusions he also claimed malaysia's not been allowed to inspect the plane's flight recorders. accusing the russians by any means but what decent you could even be the ukrainian government because they do have does. a correspondent on call sort of who's been covering the mh 17 tragedy since it happened earlier gave you know neal more of the latest

developments. 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 we have the. prime minister who says malaysia accept 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 deed it 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 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 that was back in 1001900 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's the best in my opinion as evidence and. we don't know why a screw from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics in the the idea was not to find no how would this happen when all that but you seem to be concerned that it didn't need to be need on russia headed mean a new troop by the examinee and making. a hole is reading through

except may here we have but these who have some political interests in the mid. all very goal promise or malaysia say this and himself political reasons to 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 is the malaysian airline however that country was not allowed to participate in this to gauge and 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 has 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 at before the investigation was even mounted all perhaps 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 rather than actually establish what happened. united nations has condemned a decision by the cost of an authority is to expel a member of its mission in the breakaway balkan republic russian national michael

krasny shackled was declared persona non grata on cheese day following a nationwide anti crime operation. the doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to or in respect of un personnel we stand by the immunity of our personnel who are on duty and we have done so in this case. i correspond america steps across more others quite a lot to unpack here why exactly has cost of our decided to expel a russian u.n. staff member well it all began on the 28th of may when kosovo police special police they raided a serb majority town in the north of course allegedly in anti organized crime operation to stop smuggling according to according to police they arrested more than 20 people among them. police officers ethnic serbs as well as those 2 un mission workers one of them being russian he was very seriously beaten pictures showed him in

a hospital bed badly bruised in very poor condition but after he was beaten he was also detained he was virtually released after russia express that outrage after the u.n. intervened but again his transportation to a hospital in serbia. to belgrade was delayed by a day until course of authorities agreed to release him again under incredible pressure those 2 those 2 u.n. workers had been there for a while they got diplomatic status and kosovo is now demanding that their diplomatic diplomatic status be revoked that they're persona non-grata that they will be allowed back into into kosovo which all runs against u.n. u.n. rules since the u.n. mission work as they should be granted diplomatic privileges russia is of course expressing its outrage. we consider the cost of an authority's actions to be a continuation of an undisguised increase into ethnic tensions in the region and

the short contempt for international norms of diplomatic communication in fact it is a demonstration of priscilla's disdain for the u.n. a precedent that will have far reaching consequences. because of a justified did decision label him a persona non-grata by saying that what he did apparently he tried to eat tried to stop the will prevent the kosovo police from carrying out this operation and they said what he did goes against the constitutional order of course allude to against those against humanitarian values against peace and against stability but the u.n. mission impossible has been going on running for decades now and that. allowing the free movement of civilians between kosovo and serbia making sure that things don't come to a head again in 2008 kosovo declared independence from serbia in at the

turn of the decade the there was a very big war between serbia and kosovo where ethnic albanians in kosovo tried to tried to break away from serbia and since then the un mission has been there to guarantee that things wouldn't come to a head again. of it. are. the parliament of the republic. ok because if thanks very much for that. next when the cia knocks on your door during the middle of the night and cannot be a good thing especially when it's a former director of the agency calling in on your hotel room in cassocks done well

r.t. host george galloway claims he found himself after he'd been at a conference in the city of el monte. of the most part plex saying disturbing and frightening things are to happen to me in my life when those a lot happened to me in my life it's every hotel guests nightmare is someone trying to force their way into the busy room in the middle of the night my wife leapt out of bed 1st and began throwing furniture towards the door the individual kept on pushing and then flooding his shoulder against the door it was a full blown attempt forced entry and after some minutes the security did arrive and arrested the interloper as soon as the security did i opened the door seeking some kind of explanation to recognize very well the figure and to hear him say over and over busy again. james woolsey james woolsey was head of the

cia back in the mid ninety's he's famous for advocating interventions in middle eastern countries and claimed that iraq was involved in the 911 terror attacks in the us and heavily supported the subsequent invasion of the country i was told he had to reply to our request for comment about the hotel incidents but he's not so reticent when it comes to talking about other controversial issues like these. bullets and tear on and bashar assad in syria and if they are wringing their hands worried about demonstrations and i think we should be pleased about snowden i would give him the sentence and i would prefer to seem hang by the neck until instead rather than merely electrocuted when i do that i don't mess around other people. and i'm not. only for a very good idea that i went to his session to hear him speak he showed no signs of a hangover no signs of illness of any kind and i fully expected him to come and

give me an explanation and apology but neither was for. coming not even a dry not so i'm asking the cia know what this was all about was this an attempt to harm me and if so why and what are they going to do about it or is this man not safe to be let alone being the title of u.s. ambassador or and former head of the cia. online comedy clips are no laughing matter in washington right now with u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi accusing facebook of spreading russian misinformation his wife. madge told this to the room when she came in and made that statement when he walked out 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 that they willingly were accomplices in the enablers of false information to call because they spoke. with facebook re souse to take down a fake video of nancy pelosi it wasn't even

a close call the video is sexist trash. 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 no longer. come on now see general this talk like you have bigger things to do. she should thank them now she can show up absolutely have it and no one will buy it. so if you're watching thanks for choosing r.t. and to national your next update from moscow newsroom follows watching the whole.

some in media and even some politicians are giving julian assange as a 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 his son will journalism suffer the same. greetings and salutations in a twitter thread this week started by comic book writer amanda deburred she asked women what do you use when you go out running the answers or things like pepper spray dogs tactical knives alarm necklaces and even ring with ridges to make sure you get some d.n.a. from your assailant these are just some of the things women carry.