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it. was. at least 11 people were killed and 6 injured in a mass shooting in the u.s. state of virginia the gunman died in a shootout with police. and you are an expert on torture stays julian a song has been subjected to a good few main treatments but it's taken a toll on the wiki leaks founder is a mental health. aide. looking through. that u.s.s. vincennes song sees the british foreign secretary go on an offensive calling for the u.n. to stand down and refrain from making inflammatory remarks. the u.s. really bruns it shale gas as molecules of freedom now attempts to persuade european countries to switch from russian energy to american supplied.
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a warm welcome this is r.t. international with your world news headlines i'm lucky. that we start with breaking news of a mass shooting in the u.s. state of virginia at least 11 people have been killed 6 others are injured after the attack opened fire inside a government building in virginia beach caleb moore has more details. well at this point we understand that the shooting began at roughly 4 pm local time the shooter who is at this point identified as a city utility worker was going from floor to floor in a municipal building in virginia beach shooting people seemingly at random now 11 of those individuals are dead when police arrived on the same the shooter then fired on police police fired back at him and he was then killed now at this point
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the motivation is not really known this is what we heard from the local police responding to the incident we have more questions really than we have the answers and we used the word if that's a call just devastating incident that happened that none of us want to be here talking about this devastating incident which is going to change the large number of families from our shooting now we also understand that federal officials the f.b.i. are on the scene trying to determine the cause of this incident the building has been evacuated witnesses are being interrogated to determine what exactly happened . let's bring in fiscal analyst and author gina louder now and. as you mentioned the gunman has been identified as a local public utilities employee we don't know the motive yet as a police officer is that in the video there's more questions than answers to the moment but how does this look to you. well i think that's exactly right this is very fresh and right now the whole city i'm sure is reeling
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this is a military town a very patriotic town right there on the beach it's a navy town and a very close knit community in a lot of ways i used to actually be on the radio there in virginia beach and so i know the town and its citizens well and i can tell you all of america and really all of the world that their hearts and prayers go out to these people as they try to sort through the details my guess is we will see as we usually do in these shootings sadly that this was someone who was disturbed and suicidal in his own right and then decided for whatever reason. many times inexplainable to take it out then on his coworkers and we see this far too often and around the world and how would you assess the police response from the information is coming so. well we always have to commend our 1st responders who immediately have to go right into the line of fire and do their jobs which is going into the line of fire while
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everyone else is running out of the building and it to me as an american it always reminds me of 911 and our 1st responders there and i think we have a new appreciation ever since 911 in america for those who are willing to do this job and to sacrifice and and sometimes to die frankly in the defense we don't know if any of the 11 are i'm now hearing 12 i hope that's wrong but we don't know if any of those who were killed may have been 1st responders and as these details fold we'll just have to keep these families in our prayers for sure indeed the state of virginia where this happens does have some of the most lax gun laws in the us and it's been described by the washington post in fact is the best state for illegal gun trafficking do you think this charge he could promise calls for tougher regulations that. well certainly border control is a major concern i mean we know that much of the illegal gun trafficking that
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happens happens among the illegal population which is you know profound also in that area gun control we've found again and again does not prevent crime and in fact in gun free zones which my guess is i don't know for sure but my guess is that this is probably another gun free zone which in my opinion is sort of a welcome mat for criminals to walk in and commit their crimes because they know that citizens are armed and so if it is a state that has a lot of freedom and a lot of citizens who are rightfully protected then if this was a specific hotspot where it is not protected by citizens being able for example to defend themselves then that would would likely shut some light on what happened here today but again we can't know yet i'm not even certain this was a gun free zone but i certainly hope it doesn't lead to reactionary politicization
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of a very sad situation that should not be politicized just looking back at the 5 deadly shootings in u.s. history 3 of them actually happened in the past 2 years there was las vegas in 270 that we had to orlando to in 16 and then 2017 what do you think is behind this trend. oh without a doubt it's the you know of a 1000000 illegals that are in the country and we have gun trafficking along those lines and i don't really think you can exclude the opioid abuse and the amount of drugs that comes across our border as well the general lawlessness that i've seen living on the border i lived on the border in san diego most people i knew there who by the way were legal immigrants reported that they had in fact been affected by legal immigration and the crime that takes place we know that for example building a wall cuts crime by 85 percent and yet we still have obstructionists in the
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democrat party who refuse to accept this and do what it takes to protect americans and that's why we have so many so called angel families that our president has reached out to and is working with to try to secure our borders so that we can prevent you know these types of outbursts but certainly hoping and guessing you know that this is unrelated but even if it is unrelated we will probably never know you know where exactly the weapons come from that lead to these shootings and not to mention the drugs and i want to say to a lot of times the overprescription sadly of drugs psychotropic drugs that seem to have a little bit of a pattern in some of these shootings as well again we hope none of this is the case here we just don't know yet it's too early to tell this kid on the list gina lauzon thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. in other news now united nations experts on torture say that giuliana song has been subjected to cruel and degrading
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treatment and that several democratic states are trying to break his will the special report a visit to the wiki leaks founder in london's belmarsh prison knows meltzer explains more in going on the ground here in r.t. . julie sunshine that physical consequences clearly from not being able to access medical care for several years the much more serious aspect is how he has been mentally and emotionally are they created by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary 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 psychological torture with a u.n. official coming into criticism for his comments daniel hoare conflicts with how deep they can travel secret run. reports on the remarks by the un special experts on torture has brought the media's attention but they've also drawn quite
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a stir online from officials in the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt for one trading tweets with united nations special operator about the extent of his involvement in the legal battle surrounding julian a son's. this is wrong assigns chose to hide in the embassy and was always free to leave and face justice the un special rapporteur should allow british courts to make their judgments without his interference or inflammatory accusations. with all due respect sir mr sons was about as free to leave as someone sitting in the rubber boat in the shark pool as detailed in my formal letter to you so far you get called some not shown the impartiality into objects to the required by the rule of law others through despite what some want to call the control proceed mr saunders case has drawn from all sides between all follow t.'s human rights organizations and the media community this all stemmed of course some reports released by mr
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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 fire much but far enough. 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
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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 can with a doctor. sign should call which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was well when we clear the jewel in the sunshine and be exposed to several. forms of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment which should lead to we can only describe psychologically koch well as he shocked me with this particular case is that a single individual has been saluted and singled out by several democratic states and persecuted the systematically as this is the manner which people point to the
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breaking of this comes shortly after julian assange his 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 his attention in is that percentage despite calls from lawyers and human rights organizations so it's clear he faces mounting legal pressure here from all sides mr meltzer also expressed concerns about the potential for his extradition to the united states where he of course faces 17 new charges from u.s. prosecutors relating to the more serious allegation of espionage as opposed to simply computer hacking these allegations would draw a month's link the a prison sentence we're talking many decades perhaps even life behind bars so really there is no end in sight for the case of julian assad that this has dragged on. you draw emotions on from troublous you from both sides ranging from all forward to these legal experts some people roger musicians to of course there was
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a journalist community journalist cassandra fat banks told us the 7 years that julian assange spent in the ecuadorian embassy amounted to torture. it seemed like he was losing weight. he was in good spirits and he was feisty and he was fighting but he he didn't seem necessarily like himself and i know that it's been kind of declining for a while now it is very very different than when i visited him the 1st time which was over a year ago and you can kind of see it progressively getting worse i think that the case has already spent $25000000.00 or more on surveilling that embassy and they wouldn't have done that if they didn't have intention of making sure that he was prosecuted i mean when i would visit him it was like living it was being in a fishbowl every move that he made was monitored there were cameras going down the hallway cameras outside the bathroom there were cameras in the meeting room where
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they forced him to have all its meetings i feel like that would take a huge toll on anyone about a year ago a group of doctors that went in and visited a songe and they determined that he needed to go to the hospital julien couldn't leave the embassy because the u.k. refused to allow him safe passage to a hospital you know this is a form of torture. united states has found a new way to marketed shell gas to reluctant to european customers officials are now branding get molecules of freedom correspondent a ghost on off has been sniffing out the reasons. how 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
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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 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 are getting 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
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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 where they're supposed to be guarding against russia 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 is something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions if you come up with sanctions or the couriers or german banks or the german chemical industry and so on and so on
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a store and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom. 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 places russia natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in our energy policy german industry needs more room to to enhance and the supply is safety. saying morlock use free them instead of
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natural gas is like calling. 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 a certain amount and the whole house will sell this so i think this was a try to make. that a people that it is more expensive but the u.s. continuing to rail against europe's imports of russian gas sophie shevardnadze has been talking in depth to kremlin spokesman dimitry peskov he explained why the nord
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stream 2 gas pipeline which is expected to come online next year has got washington worried full interview asked 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 any of your and the project that is a huge competitor and very serious competitor for american gas producers and suppliers. so in syria that's 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
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. than the gas coming from the russians. and lazio prime minister has questions the findings of the dutch led investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 78 over ukraine in 2040 maffia mohammad ses 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 claims malaysia has not been allowed to inspect the plane's flight recorders. the accusing the russians by any means but what decent you could even be doing ukrainian government because they do have does he have a correspondent among calls around he's been covering the mh 17 tragedy since it happened he gave you know neal more on the latest developments 5 years have passed but it only seems like it happened yesterday you know i was there one of the 1st
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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 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 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 russian defense ministry said that the type of weapon
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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 1000 lines and i remember how did the investigation then when you lay it out like that 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 do know way we excluded 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. seemed to be considered it didn't need to be need on russia headed mean a neutral but the examinee and making. the whole is meeting today except we have but these who have some political interest in the met they're.
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all very goal promise or malaysia say this and himself political reasons behind it are 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 the airline however that country was not
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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 malays are 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 old 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. to me has found itself wedged into the u.s. china trade dispute after my poem payors visit to the e.u. nation america's secretary of state met with german chancellor angela merkel and other top officials and it appears washington is trying to ramp up pressure on
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berlin over defense issues especially when it comes to the new 5 g. mobile networks and energy matters maria financial reports 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 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
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a company that is building right now 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 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
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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 making america cross of course so. obviously mike compare came to berlin seeking for support and putting more pressure on german and other european countries a 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 thanks to using off the international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest.
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