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. market. and 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 whistleblowers mental health. all those. that are the culture of person in the. sun. and assessment on the song sees the british foreign secretary go on the offensive calling for the u.n. to stand down and refrain from making inflammatory remarks and. 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 24th tragedy on russia. and the united states rebranded shale gas as a product of freedom in an attempt to sway reluctant european countries into

believing better than russian energy. friday night and here in the russian capital money welcome to world news this hour a united nations expert on torture says julian assange is being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment and that several democratic states are trying to break the whistleblowers will special visited the wiki leaks founder in london's belmarsh prison wings being held and is said to be extremely unwell explains more in saturday's going underground here on r.t. . julissa physical consequences clearly she will not be able to access a little medical care for several years the much more seriousness of it is how he has been mentally and emotionally affected by the extremely hostile and

increasingly arbitrary environment she has the next street for several years so here he really showed all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to. psychological torture with the u.n. official coming into criticism for his comments down hawkins looks 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 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 sunshine 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 u.k. courts of not shown the impartiality into objectivity required by the rule of law by this thread despite what some modicum the controversy 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 songe it's already 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 described being 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 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. and to 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 lead to 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 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 views extradition pace 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 is that the. n. is a percentage despite calls from lawyers and human rights organizations so it's clear he faces mounting legal pressure here from all sides mr meltzer also expressed concerns about the potential for his extradition to the united states where he of

course faces 17 new charges from u.s. prosecutors relating to the more serious allegation of espionage as opposed to simply computer hacking these allegations would draw a month's link the a prison sentence we're talking many decades perhaps even life behind bars so really there is no end in sight for the case of julian asylums as this has dragged on it's certainly drawn emotions and control to see from all sides ranging from the florida keys legal experts and human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community whistleblower advocate niamey colvin who's a long time supporter of julian assange to visit him in the ecuadorian embassy described the wiki leaks found his mental state as fragile. you know it's 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

as 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 into the u.s. china trade dispute after my proposed visit to the nation america's secretary of state met with german chancellor angela merkel and other top officials and it appears washington's trying to ramp up pressure on berlin over defense issues especially when it comes to the new 5 g. mobile networks and energy matters reformation reports next from berlin. well the

message should the u.s. secretary of state mike compare brought to berlin on friday was quite clear china and its giant who while we were is 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 black leased it threaten national security of not only america but also europe and western democracies all around the globe and america's mission sat in front of the cameras is to make sure that the channels through which the information. close 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 while we 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 and 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 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 angered germany dramatically experts say they say as the 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 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 have been expelled from china. the united states has found a new way to market to shale gas to reluctant european customers they've labeled it as the gas of freedom correspondent it goes donald's been 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 too 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 deliver 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 the wall 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. so when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia. you're supposed to be going against russia and germany goes out and pays billions of dollars a year to russia. we have not deployed the full set of tools that could significantly undermine if not outright stop the project. we emphasize that companies involved in russian energy exports are taking part in something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions if you come up with the same actions for the car

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. on this same person that creates your economy are 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 place is russian natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in now and the deposing german industry needs more room

to to enhance and and to supply safety. saying molecules of freedom instead of natural gas is like calling oil a liquid bomb magnet except the latter is actually rooted in reality about well in the age of i phones and all out marketing they had to try. to get more expensive. russell 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'll take certain amount and the whole house will sell this so then this was a try to make. that a people that it is more expensive for the us continuing to rail against europe's importing of russian gas sophie shevardnadze has been talking in depth to kremlin

spokesman dmitri peskov 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 as here 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 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 prefer to react 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. and the prime minister is called into question the findings of the dutch led investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 over ukraine and 2014 mohammad 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. the accusing the russians by any means but what decent you could even be the ukrainian government because they do have does. responded to my call sort of who's been covering the mh 17 tragedy since it happened you know neal more on 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 at 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 or 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 it remained. for the rest of the time and also. 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 lay 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 go back to him because he's explained it's best in my opinion as evidence and. we do know way we excluded from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics in the idea was not to find no how did this happen when all that. seemed to be concerned that it didn't need to be need on russia headed mean a new troop by the examinee and making. a wholly sweeping through except we have but these who have some political interests in the mid 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 again 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 the airline however that country was not allowed to participate in this to gauge of the black boxes so quite a few things there that raise eyebrows around the world the fact that evidence and 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 at before the investigation was even mounted or perhaps as indeed a malaysian prime minister suggested actually was the back of people's minds throughout the investigation that the purpose investigation was to pin the blame on russia while the national stablish what happened. united nations has condemned the decision by the cost of an authority is to expel a member of its mission in the breakaway balkan republic russian national mikhail cross to shake off was declared persona non-grata mancini's 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 and choose the course of a police raided a territory a majority ethnic territory in the north of course of a allegedly carrying out an organized crime 90 smuggling operation during which more than 20 people were arrested locals ethnic serbs maintain that this was just another actor heavy handed act by course of a police intended to intimidate ethnic serbs still living in kosovo during the operation to un mission workers were also detained one of them a russian was very badly beaten pictures emerged showing him bruised and in very poor condition in hospital he was also detained in the course of ours but refused to release him until pressure from the russian federation which express that

outrage as well as the us since then they've declared them a persona non-grata called for his for his diplomatic status to be revoked all of this further angering moscow and russia has reacted they're now demanding an investigation we consider the cost of an authority actions to be a continuation of an undisguised increase into ethnic tensions in the region and assure contempt for international norms of diplomatic communication in fact it is a demonstration of priest in his disdain for the un a precedent that will have far reaching consequences. possible justified its decision to label him a persona non grata by saying that the diplomat who allegedly participated in the protest against the operation that he acted in a way that busy runs contrary to the constitutional order of course a world that what he did runs contrary to humanitarian values the peace and stability un mission in those been active for decades facilitating the free

movement of civilians between kosovo and serbia making sure that things don't come to a head again to outright war. of it though you. will know that. are. the parliament of the republic. and when the cia knocks on your door in the middle of the night it can be a good thing especially when it's a former director of the agency calling in on your hotel room in kazakstan r.t. host george galloway claims that's what happened to him after he'd been at a conference in the city of our mattie. of the most part lexing disturbing and frightening things are to happen to me in my life and 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 that i opened the door seeking some kind of busy 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 the middle east countries and claim that iraq was involved in the

$911.00 terror attacks in the us also heavily supported the subsequent invasion of a country. mr bowles he had to reply to all requests for comments about the hotel incident but he's also a resident when it comes to talking about other controversial issues like the. mole is in turn ron and bashar assad in syria if they are wringing their hands worried about demonstrations and i think we should be pleased about snowden i would give him the sun sun i would prefer to seem hang by the neck until instead rather than merely electrocuted we don't do that we don't mess around other people. only for the very good to see that i went to his session to hear him speak he showed no signs of a hangover no signs of illness of any kind i'm not fully expected them to come and give me an explanation and apology but neither was forthcoming nor even a dr no and so i'm asking the cia know what this was all about was this

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 beginning the title all of us on boston dog former head of the cia. online comedy club said i laughing matter in some washington courses right now with the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi accusing facebook of spreading russian misinformation his wife. to room. came in and made that statement many. nights held this to the room when she came in and made that statement that it was. there is a tension here hard to find the right balance between card freaks pression and

promoting a safe and authentic community and we believe that refusing the distribution of enough contents. writes that balance. when a something like facebook says i know this is false but it's a lie but show me any way. to me it says 2 things one is that they can't i was giving them the benefit of the doubt on the issue but clearly they thought it was on but some of them say winningly were accomplices in the enablers of false information to call because they spoke. with facebook chris hughes 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 you're a public figure that sort of tomfoolery happens to public figures along. come on now see get off 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. ok that's the way it looks from moscow this hour so if it goes next assessing what's really at risk in the simmering tension between iran and the united. 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 us all journalism suffer the same.

united states has ordered a military build up in the middle east siding rising threat. nations on a bring all 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 and with american troops massing in the region tensions between tehran and washington are becoming more dangerous for everyone will. push the president into an even tougher stance on iran what exactly is the u.s. hoping to achieve with this march hostility towards the islamic republic and can the renewed american pressure really make to around budge most an milani of the executive director.