at least 12 people were killed and 10 injured in a mass shooting in the u.s. state of virginia the gunman died in a shootout with police. here an expert on torture say is julian a song has been subjected to inhumane treatment but it's taken a toll on the wiki leaks founder of the mental health. subcommittee. that u.n. assessments on a song stays the british foreign secretary go on the offensive calling for the u.n. to stand down and refrain from making inflammatory remarks. the u.s. 3 browns its shell girl says molecules of freedom and our attempts to persuade

european countries to switch from russian energy to american supplied was. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me wiki our. top story a gunman has killed at least 12 people and injured 10 others in the u.s. state of virginia the shooter opened fire inside a government building in virginia beach and was killed in a shootout with police more pain 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 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 the motivation is not really known

this is what we heard from the local police responding to the incident we've recovered a 45 caliber him gone. it was multiple extended magazines that were about the time the suspect was rewarding extended magazine and that handgun firing victim's throughout the building and other officers 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 if you've already sparks we need calls for tougher gun laws but sarah johnson a community organizer in michigan city indiana told us there are plenty of other factors at play. because we don't have all of the details of what took place earlier in virginia beach by i think like all mass shootings this is definitely not an isolated incident and this type of tragedy is directly linked to our deeply

violent culture that we have in the united states live in a society with a massive military and prison industrial complex and we also have an increasingly strong militarized police state. and on top of that we have news and television that are constantly bombarding us and messaging. giving us messaging that violence and vengeance are answers to our problems and really looking at things on an individual basis rather than at us also i think that all of the regular and ordinary people across the country in these communities that are constantly experience us in dealing with on a daily basis to come together and make those changes because our politicians are not just going to come up and make everything better for for everybody across this entire country. in other news now united nations experts on torture say is

julian a song which is being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment that several democratic states are trying to break his will the special rapporteur visited the wiki leaks founder in london's bell last prism it was meltzer explains more in going on the ground here in our city. julissa physical consequences clearly she will not be able to access medical care for several years the much more serious thing is how he has been mentally and emotionally feted by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary environment she has the next street for several years so here he really showed all the solutions that are typical for a person that has been exposed to. psychological torture with the u.n. official coming into criticism for his comments hawking's looks at how deep the contract as he could run. report on the remarks by the un special expert 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 rapporteur 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 of control proceed mr saunders case has drawn from all sides which you know follow t.'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 song that's already got response not 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 assad's 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 abuse 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 tanzi 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 the doctors the psychiatry assigned should call which is designed to examine potential victims of. these standards and use the evidence was well when we leave clear. jewel in the sunshine and be exposed to several. forms of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment which 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 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 case in the u.k. court was postponed viewed 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. hearing ruling on his attention 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 assad's as this has dragged on it's certainly drawn emotions and control to see from all sides ranging from

more forward tees legal experts and human rights organizations to of course the wider journalist community. tonight because sandra found banks told is the 7 years 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 nikkei has already spent $25000000.00 or more on surveilling the 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 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 had 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 market it shale gas to relax into european customers officials are now branding it molecules of freedom correspondent office been sniffing out the reasons . can you smell this scent of freedom where you can well check your pipes seriously you might have a gas leak and the intoxicating fumes could be all the more deadly for they come from the wrong place 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 and billions of dollars a year to russia. we have not deployed the full sort 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 or the car

industry or german banks or 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 places fresh natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in our and the deposing german industry needs nordstrom to to enhance and at the supply safety. saying morley kills 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 on the 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 then this was a try to make. it a people that it is more expensive with the u.s. continuing to rail against europe's imports of russian gas sophie shevardnadze has been talking in depth to kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov he explained why the north

stream 2 gas pipeline which is expected to come online next year and that washington why wait for the interview on monday. 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 said 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 an asian prime minister has questioned the findings of the dutch led investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 over ukraine in 2014 mahathir mohammad say is 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 has not been allowed to inspect the plane's flight recorders. accusing russians of bias. but what these are the evidence you could even be the ukrainian government because they do have disappeared. our correspondent rym on kozyrev has been covering the mh 17 tragedy since it happened earlier gave 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 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 way 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 leave 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's the 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 up by the examining and making conclusions we. 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 the same 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 sued and the

17 belongs to malaysia is the malaysian the airline however that country was not allowed to participate in the investigation of the black boxes so quite a few things there that raise eyebrows around the world 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 out before the investigation was even mounted old topps as indeed the 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 more than actually establish what happened. germany has found itself wedged into the u.s. china trade dispute often might pump a is a visit to the e.u. nation america's secretary of state met with german chancellor angela merkel and

other top officials that it appears washington is trying to ramp up pressure on defense issues especially when it comes to the new 5 g. mobile networks and energy masses but we're finished now 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 you remember that hawaii is 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 dramatically experts say they say as the country among many other is that where the ban is very unlikely to be implemented any time soon and that is making america cross of course so. obviously might compare 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 had been expelled from china. the united nations has condemned a decision by the cost of it all to expel a member of its mission in the breakaway balkan republic russian national mikhail cross the chevy ship off the shackles of was declared persona non grata on tuesday

following a nationwide down to crunch operation. the doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to or in respect of u.n. personnel we stand by the immunity of our personnel who are on duty and we have done so in this case and choose the kosovo police raided the territory 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 back by possible police intended to intimidate ethnic serbs still living in kosovo during the operation to you when 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 about refused to release him until pressure from the russian federation which expressed its outrage

as well as the un since then they 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'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 priest in his disdain for the u.n. and 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 to peace and stability un mission and has been active for decades facilitating the for. movement

of civilians between cost of 0 and serbia making sure that things don't come to a head again to outright war. they. will know. the full amount of the republic. well those are the headlines for you this hour we're back with the headlines in 30 minutes.

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